Ky stepped backwards towards his house.
"How did you know where I was?" He asked. "Did my sister tell you?"
Shadow moved to where the sprinklers wouldn't hit him.
"She didn't know where you were when I asked her so I came looking for you. I can fly remember?"
Ky changed into a bat and tried to fly away but Shadow grabbed his wing.
"Hey! Let me go!" Ky flapped his other wing franticly while screeching.
Shadow didn't obey.
"Do you like being in high school or something? You could not graduate for this."
Ky stopped flapping his wings.
"No I don't." He said in a small voice.
"Then follow me to the school so you can help clean so all of us can go home." Shadow said.
Ky looked down at the ground. "Okay…"
Shadow let go of Ky's wing and transformed again. He started to fly towards the school with Ky following him. They flew through the window just as everyone was almost finished cleaning.
"Ky why didn't you come earlier?" Kris asked, annoyed.
"Because I didn't feel like it right then, we're on break." Ky answered.
Kris sighed. "Not Yet. We're already in enough trouble as it is." She continued to clean the blackboard. "Help me clean the chalkboard please."
Ky shrugged and started to spray the chalkboard with cleaner.
"Why does this place even have chalkboards anymore? Whiteboards exist and they're much easier to clean." He grumbled and sprayed some more cleaner before wiping it down. He noticed the erasers and picked them up. He looked around and saw Sonic glare at him, warning him to not even think about it. Ky put the erasers down and kicked the trash can.
Shadow sat at his desk reading a book, waiting for everyone to finish. He yawned.
"I think we're done!" Sonic said later as he put down a giant feather duster. He looked around the room to see everything almost spotless. Blaze and Tails were sitting at desks reading. He went over to Shadow who was fast asleep and shook his shoulder.
"Are you awake?" Sonic asked. "Hey, we're done. Do you want us to go to your other classroom?"
Shadow yawned again and nodded. "Everyone follow me." Shadow got up and looked all around the room.
"Nice work…" Shadow bent down and picked up the trash can that Ky had kicked. "Except this."
Ky folded his arms and scratched himself.
Shadow picked up his book and coffee mug and snapped his fingers.
"Everyone, come on, wake up! It's not my fault you broke my walking stick." He started walking out the door. "Follow the leader!"
The group lined up in single-file and followed the vampire to his other equally dark room. Shadow turned on the light by snapping his fingers. The other room looked like the first one except there wasn't a painting of Shadow in the back and the back of the classroom was floored with tile.
"He's not really that much of a decorator is he?" Tails asked quietly.
"I don't decorate because I don't care." Shadow said from his other desk. He set the mug and book he was holding down and cleared off some loose leaf notebook paper from his desk.
'What I want you to do here is clean the tile floor in the back. I've decided to give you less work here because it's the holidays. Merry Thanksgiving."
The group cheered at the news.
"But-" Shadow added. "When you come back next week you still have detention."
The cheering stopped and turned into groans.
"I'm sorry, you still have to pay."
Sonic, Blaze and Tails got mops and started cleaning the floor as fast as they could. Kris, Ky and Tails hung out, sitting on top of the desks.
Kris looked over at Shadow who was reading his book again. She opened her mouth to say something but then closed it. Shadow noticed her and put down his book.
"You want to ask me if I'm rich or not don't you?' He asked.
Kris hissed at herself and mustered up enough courage to speak.
"W-well yeah, I read on the internet that vampires can be super wealthy because they've had enough time to accumulate a lot of money since they live forever." She explained.
Shadow laughed a bit.
"Oh I wish I was." He said dreamily.
"I'm sorry I asked." Kris apologized. Her tail lost it's fluff.
"Don't be sad." Shadow took a sip from his mug. "Did you think I would leave? I would If I could but they won't let me. I'm about the best teacher here. And they won't fire me. So I'll be here for a long time."
"I have a really hard time believing that." Sonic mumbled to himself.
"I am." Shadow replied.
Sonic and Blaze walked over with the mops and handed them to Shadow.
"Can we go now?" Sonic asked impatiently. "I wanna play football."
Shadow got up and walked over to the back to inspect the werewolf, cat and fox's work. Ky looked at his phone to check the time. "Come on, hurry up already." He thought.
Blaze made a little fireball and started to play with it as Shadow walked back up to the front of the room.
"Looks good, not perfect, but good. You are free to go now." He looked at Blaze and extinguished the fireball.
'Don't make the fire alarm go off again."
Blaze nodded and put her hands in her pockets.
Kris made an ice pathway and slid out the hallway and out of the school with the others following close by. They all said goodbye to each other and soon all of them were at home for a true break.