Bryan was finally arrested by the police and GUN thanks to Rouge and school was out for the week due to the messy destruction that they made and of course both Shadow had to deal with it. But Shadow was able to get off easy with some help from Rouge who helped him donate enough money to pay off for the destruction. Shadow promised Rouge that he'll pay her back but Rouge didn't mind. Well she literally had built herself her very own boutique so giving some to Shadow won't be a problem for her.

"Yay! No school for a month!" Fleetway cheered as he flew around.

They were all hanging out together at Shadow's place to relax after what happened.

"Hey, if you guys haven't noticed, Fleetway updated the news about us yesterday." Sonic said as he showed his phone.

"For real?! Wait, let me check." Silver said from his spot beside Mephiles.

They all took out their phones and checked the school blog the Fleetway runs. They didn't know how it happened but he managed to get a picture from behind the group and one pic shows Shadow in golden form with Bryan on the ground.

The caption says: 'A fight with the bastard' and it recieved a huge amount of reactions and comments.

The last one was when Shadow was holding Sonic in his arms which also got a huge amount of reactions and a massive amount of comments.

"The hell? Fleetway, why did you post this?" Shadow asked him with an unamused look.

"Well, I thought that it's probably time for everyone to know that you already have a special someone! You're still not planning on keeping it a secret, are you?" Fleetway asked.

"Yeah, since we're all here." Blaze agreed.

Shadow sighed and placed a hand on his forehead.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." He gave in.

The school might as well know that he's already taken.

"Don't worry, Shadow. People will learn to accept it. If they don't, then they're just greedy jerks." Tails said.

"But I still don't understand how you got your powers. Are you born with it or you've trained to have it?" Amy asked as Shadow shrugged. He never knew.

"I don't really know either. All I know is because I have Chaos Energy inside me like Fleetway." Shadow said as he say next to Sonic.

"But I've been like this since I was born. I never even get to have a normal form." Fleetway said as he sat down next to Scourge.

"So why is Shadow a lot stronger?" Mephiles questioned.

"Well, clearly there's a biological explanation for that but maybe we just don't know about it yet." Tails explained.

"So what if someone who has Chaos Energy like Shadow, that someone can transform too?" Sonic wondered.

"Maybe. Maybe not." Knuckles shrugged.

"Or maybe if someone has Chaos Energy inside them, Shadow could just transfer his own energy and they both can turn golden." Amy said but Shadow was getting annoyed.

"Guys, please stop talking about this." Shadow said as he was really tired from their theories.

Rouge then remembered something and turned to the purple cat.

"Wait, your name is Blaze, right?" Rouge asked as Blaze nodded in confusion.

"Guys, yesterday when I was talking to the commander, I saw Bryan got a chance to talk to her." She smirked teasingly.

That made everyone gasp and turn to Blaze who began to blush and went to shut Rouge's mouth but Silver stopped her.

"Quick, tell us, Rouge!" Sonic yelled.

"Well, I quietly sneaked in to hear the conversation better and here's how it went." Rouge began.

Flashback starts: Yesterday...

Blaze was watching from under the tree as Bryan was handcuffed by the authorities. He woke up and was shocked to see that the authorities had arrived and tried to arrest him. He was struggling but two soldiers grabbed him by his shoulders to stop him and forced him to walk. When he passed Blaze, he told them to stop for a moment as he turned to her.

"Hey, what's your name?" He suddenly asked.

Blaze was confused on why he's asking about her name when he literally tried to kill them earlier.

"Blaze." She simply said.

"Blaze, I have something to tell you." He said.

"What?" She asked in confusion.

"If there's a mouse and you're in the way, I'd rather chase you." He smirked as Blaze's eyes widened.

Bryan was then pushed to walk again as Blaze was left stunned in silence before Amy called her from behind.

Flashback ends;

"Ooh." They all said teasingly as Silver was giggling.

Silver finally let her go as Blaze was blushing in embarrassment but had a disgusted face.

"Guys, shut up! I don't even like him and he nearly killed these three, remember?" Blaze reminded them.

"Yeah, but still. That was romantic of him to say that to you." Amy teased while nudging her arm.

"Just shut up..." Blaze groaned.

About a month later, since it took that long for the school to get repaired and a trial was held against Bryan, school was finally back in session. All damages were now fixed and gone and the students can finally return to studying without any construction to disturb them.

Sonic entered the school with Tails and Knuckles, the same thing from last month happened again as all of the other students were looking at him. This made Sonic gulp as he continued to walk with his two friends, trying to get by unnoticed which didn't work.

"Look! It's Sonic! The student that almost died!" One student noticed him immediately.

Sonic's ears perked up at that and turned around only to be swarmed by a huge crowd who tried to ask him random stuff.

"Hey, you're dating Shadow aren't you?"

"Did Bryan get angry because he wants to be with you?"

"Since when are you and Shadow a thing?"

Sonic was really confused and he didn't know who to answer first but it looks like he can't answer all of them.

"Really? This again?" Knuckles groaned in annoyance.

But the crowd suddenly went quiet and parted ways and made a path from the entrance. Tails, Knuckles and Sonic were confused on why they made a path when they didn't want to go to the entrance but saw the reason why.

Shadow and the others are on the other side of the path and they're looking confused as well. Fleetway told the crowd to go away but they didn't want to and they just stood between the crowd.

Shadow finally noticed Sonic who was looking at him. He smiled and made his way towards his boyfriend. Sonic started to think that they didn't make any way for Sonic cause they all wanted to see Shadow's response to Sonic in the morning since they only discovered about the relationship a month ago.

Shadow took his hand in his and pulled him in for a light kiss before pulling away as Shadow smirked.

"Morning." He greeted him.

Sonic blushed hard and covered his face with his book.

"S-Shadow, people are watching!" Sonic squeaked.

"I don't care. Let me take you to your class." Shadow said before he carried Sonic in his arms.

The crowd made another path as Tails and Knuckles stood there but had grins on their faces as their other friends just laughed in amusement as Shade took Sonic away to his class.

Some students were jealous of the two but just let it go and were happy for the two lovebirds.

"Put me down, Shadow! I can walk! Shadow! Oh my Chaos, Shadow, I swear I'm gonna pull your tail when I get down!" Sonic whined in embarrassment as Shadow chuckled and looked at him.

Sonic pouted at him before Shadow kissed his cheek as Sonic blinked and smiled shyly at him.

"I love you too." Shadow smiled at him.

~Fin~