(A/N Hello, me again. Chapter seven, YAY! I'm going to be changing the point of view now. I was concentrating too much on what was going on with Knuckles, Rouge, and Drake. I'll be focusing on three characters including a new one. I would like to say Kyra does not belong to me; she belongs to Kyra the Hedgehog. Enjoy the story!)

It was late at night and everybody was still sleeping. There was a breeze out in the courtyard that had traveled through the entire castle extinguishing every single torch so everybody was left in pitch black darkness.

Nightmares where still dancing around in people's heads.

-Amy's Nightmare-

Amy was sitting on a couch watching TV, just flipping with one leg crossed over the other.

"There's nothing on!" she groaned as she turned off the TV.

Amy stood up and walked over to the kitchen of her apartment to get a glass of water. Just as she finished drinking it, the power went out.

"Oh no, a blackout!" she cried.

Amy felt around for a flashlight and found one in a drawer. She flicked it on and looked around. The door to her bedroom shut abruptly by itself.

Amy walked up to the door shivering like crazy. She turned the knob and opened up the door to see a dark figure kneeling on her bed. When Amy shined the light on her bed, she recognized the figure as Sonic.

"Oh, Sonic! What are you doing here?" she said in a flirty kind of way.

"Come Amy……..come sit with me….." whispered Sonic.

Amy walked over to the bed and sat next to Sonic. Sonic put his arm around Amy's shoulder and Amy looked up at him. Before she knew it, sonic was kissing her hand and moving up her arm until he reached her neck. Amy felt a sharp tinge in her neck.

She then realized that it wasn't Sonic. It was a vampire!

ballroom-

Amy woke with a start yelling "Sonic!" out loud waking up everybody in the room.

Everybody woke up and somebody turned on a flashlight, it was Tails who obviously had his under his pillow because he pulled it out so fast.

"What's wrong Amy?" asked Tails wearily.

"Yeah" said Sonic yawning. "What was the deal with my name?"

Amy looked around.

"Sonic smile!" said Amy.

Sonic raised an eyebrow.

"Say what?"

"I said smile, I want to see something." replied Amy.

Sonic looked to Tails who shrugged.

"Oooooooookay then." said Sonic.

He smiled revealing all of his teeth.

"Whew, no fangs!" she said with relief.

"Do we really want to know?" asked Knuckles.

"Did you have a nightmare Amy?" asked Cream.

"Never mind, I just had a bad dream that's all." replied Amy.

"Okay, can we all go to sleep now?" asked Knuckles.

"Well nobody is telling you not to." said Amy firmly.

Knuckles shrugged and pulled the covers over his head once again.

Tails looked around the ballroom.

"That's weird….." said Tails.

"What's weird?" replied Sonic as everybody else went back to sleep.

"Rouge is out of bed. Do you know where she went?" asked Tails.

"Nope, I haven't seen her much since dinner." replied Sonic.

Tails stared at the ceiling hard, thinking deeply.

"Something up Tails?" asked Sonic.

Tails didn't answer.

"Don't tell me you have a thing for Rouge too!" whispered Sonic.

"Ew, NO! Do you?" whispered Tails.

"No, its……..somebody else." he replied flickering his eyes towards Knuckles for a second.

Tails shrugged his shoulders and yawned.

"I'm going to sleep, night ,Sonic."

"Night, Tails."

The next morning everybody woke up without any problems except for Amy, who had dark circles under her eyes and spent ten minutes brushing the same part of her hair without noticing.

When everybody went down to breakfast, Lucius and Veronica weren't there.

This time, everybody noticed.

"They weren't here at dinner yesterday either." said Tails.

"They weren't where they? I never noticed because I was too busy wondering where Knuckles went." said Cream.

"I don't think anybody but Tails noticed." said Sonic.

"I noticed." said Shadow.

Everybody looked at Shadow, he had said something!

"You did too, Shadow?" said Tails.

"Yeah, I also noticed a few other things about them too. Their servants never know where they are; they refuse to eat when we are around. Have you ever notice how they don't eat during dinner they just talk to each other in low voices. You can't even hear what they say. That Drake guy is weird too. He mysteriously disappears along with Rouge! There is something definitely weird going on here. The problem is that nobody else wants to stop and leave their everyday dreamlands to notice what's going on here." said Shadow.

Everybody was looking down at their food dwelling on what Shadow just said.

"So, what is going on here?" asked Knuckles.

Shadow looked at the floor and closed his eyes.

"I don't know yet. Right now, it's just one big mystery."

Tails was looking at Shadow as if he was about to tell them what to do, but Shadow remained silent.

"Ok then, I have a plan, but we-" Tails began. He was interrupted by the arrival of Lucius and Veronica.

They were being followed by a dark gray hedgehog. Her flaming red eyes looked around at everybody at the table politely; one of her eyes were covered by a strip of brown hair. She was wearing a white tank top with a red skirt and gray boots.

"Everybody, I would like you to meet the runner up in our contest, Miss Kyra. She will be staying with you in the castle, but after our second bonfire weekend, she will have to leave." said Lucius.

"But we do hope she enjoys her stay here while she can." added Veronica.

A servant put an extra chair up to the table and Kyra took a seat in it. She gave a polite smile and said "Hi everybody."

Everybody smiled and said hi. Tails looked around; he couldn't say anything in front of Lucius and Veronica. Tails suddenly got an idea. He pulled a pencil from behind his ear and wrote on his napkin to meet him in the cellar and to pass the note to everybody except Lucius, Veronica, or Drake. He didn't know why he should put down Drake since he wasn't there, but he decided that it was good for everybody to know who not to tell.

After dinner, everybody was walking towards the cellar area, including Kyra who had no idea what was going on.

When they got inside, they checked to make sure the coast was clear before they started explaining everything to Kyra.

When they were done explaining everything weird that was going on, Kyra looked at Shadow, then the floor.

"Well then, I guess I'm gonna help you guys." she said.

"Thanks a lot, we need all the help we can get!" said Sonic giving Kyra a thumbs up.

Tails was inspecting the entire place looking for any weak points. He was hoping there weren't any places where people could spy on them in the area.

"So Kyra, tell us about yourself." said Sonic.

Kyra sat down on a crate.

"Well, there isn't much to say. I don't like that Eggman weirdo I always hear about most of you fighting. I'm not bad at fighting either, I'm pretty good actually."

"How good?" asked Knuckles.

"Let's just say you don't want to mess with me." she replied.

Shadow looked at the door and walked to look outside.

"Someone's coming…….." he whispered.

"Who?" they all said in unison.

"Rouge and Drake." he answered.

Knuckles ran up to the door and looked outside.

(A/N I hope you liked the chapter, I also hope Kyra wasn't too out of character even though she didn't say much. If she was, COMPLAIN! Thanks for the requests and please review some more. You all have been so nice this far into the story, so thanks.)