The next night Amy woke up to see her own blood on her pillow. At first, she was shocked, but then realized she must have rubbed her nose too hard on the pillow that day while crying herself to sleep. She also noticed that her face now burned because of the salt in her tears that had dried on her face. The pink vampire hedgehog sighed and emerged from her coffin by floating out of it with her arms crossed across her chest, as vampires sleep that way as if they are an inanimate corpse.

She did not stop floating and floated her way to the bathroom. Amy then finally stopped floating and looked in the bathroom mirror. Of course, there was no reflection. She sighed tiredly and rummaged around in her beauty drawer, searching for her enchanted handheld mirror that she was actually able to see herself in.

The vampire found the black enchanted mirror and held it up to look at herself. What stared back at her was a tired, messy-haired pink hedgehog with tear-stained cheeks and bags under her eyes. She had also forgotten to take off her eyeliner and mascara, so it ran down her face due to her crying. Amy washed her face off with face cleaner with a bath cloth and conditioned and brushed her hair in order to look relatively normal, and hide her emotional state. She then re-applied her eyeliner and mascara.

"Amy? Are you up yet? It's 7:30!" Her mother called from down the stairs.

Amy built up what little energy she had to respond. Her voice came out exhausted sounding and hoarse. "I'm awake Mom! I'll be down in a second!"

She went to her room to find some clothes to wear and picked out her usual attire: A dark red dress with matching boots, black gloves, a black headband with a small bow on it and a black velvet choker that had a red gem hanging from it. Amy changed clothes and floated down the stairs to where her mom was making a cheese omelet for her.

"Good evening Honey-Bat." Lily greeted her, but she didn't get a response from her daughter. Amy sat down at the island in the kitchen without a word.

"…What's wrong sweetie?" Her mother asked, visibly concerned.

Amy lifted her head up and tried to mask herself. "I didn't get a whole lot of sleep today, but I'm fine. I can go to school." She smiled to let her mother know everything was presumably okay.

"Okay." Lily replied and gave her a plate with the omelet on it and a glass of A+ blood. "You know that if you don't feel good you can go to the nurse."

"I know, Nurse Vanilla is very nice." Amy said as she ate her breakfast. When she was done she said goodbye to her mother and headed out to school.

That night it wasn't raining, but it was just cold, but not to her, so she could fly to school without any problems, so she did. When she got there, she saw Sonic talking to Tails in the schoolyard. The pink hedgehog started to walk over to them, but she stopped when she remembered what Sonic had said to her.

"It's okay, I'll see him later, besides, I have Student Council to go to…Yeah…" She thought and turned to go into the school. The only thing was, she wasn't on the Student Council.


"YAAAAAAWWWWwwwwnnnn." Shadow yawned deeply. He was in his bat form hanging from a tree in the corner of the schoolyard where there weren't any people around. He figured he could get a little extra sleep in so he wouldn't fall asleep in class.

He was dozing off before something started poking his little bat body.

"Ugnnn…Huh?" Shadow opened his eyes and looked around while his vision focused. He didn't see anything at first but then he got poked again. He turned his head around as a yellow furry blob came into his focus.

"Hey, Shadow." He got poked again, but this time it was more like a push. "Wakey, wakey. It's time for mother's milk."

"Mama…?"

The yellow blob started to snicker as Shadow shook his head to wake himself up. The yellow blob turned into a banana yellow bat with brown spiky hair and dark red eyes.

"Ky!" Shadow squeaked angrily.

Ky started to push him again and this time Shadow pushed back, and this escalated into a bat fight up in the tree. They crawled all over each other trying to bite, and scratch each other with their thumb claws. Unfortunately, both lost their hold on the tree and fell. They both changed back into their hedgehog forms as they hit the ground and they still continued to fight with punches and claws.

"Don't push me you fucker!" Shadow exclaimed.

"You're the one who got all pissy! You started it!" Ky replied

"No I didn't!" Shadow pushed the yellow hedgehog down and pinned him to the ground.

Ky tried to get up but his struggle was for nothing as Shadow was stronger than him, and in better shape than he was.

"Okay, okay, I give! Let me up!"

Shadow's snarl turned into a mean smirk. He released Ky from the ground and got up. He brushed off his black jeans. Ky sat up and winced.

"Shadow, why do you have to be so rough?" He asked.

"Get in shape." Shadow replied and walked away towards the entrance of the school.

Some kids just stared at Ky from far away.


As soon as Shadow got to his locker he knew something was off; his locker sat wide open with the combination lock hanging from it, broken! The hedgehog gasped and rushed over to it to see if anything of his had been stolen. Textbooks, library books, the sack lunch that he forgot to take home over the weekend. A Polaroid picture of him and Rouge taken with a special camera the summer before starting high school, a can of AXE, the pictures of…

"Hey who took my-?!" He shouted.

"I'm sorry…" a sad sounding, female, disembodied voice replied.

The black and red hedgehog turned towards the direction that he heard the voice. Next to him the ghostly hedgehog figure of Kristina manifested. Shadow softened his scowl.

"Kris, did you break into my locker? What the Hell do you think you are doing?" He said, trying not to sound too angry.

"I, um, I was looking at myself in those pictures we took in the photo booth at the Halloween Dance, to see how ugly I looked." Kris said quietly.

Shadow noticed that she was holding the strip of pictures in her right hand. How she got it to stay there, he didn't know.

"So you broke into my locker, to look at pictures of us? Don't you have your own copy?" He asked.

"I lost it…"

"How did you get into it anyway? Did you phase through it?"

Kris shook her head. "No, Sonic did his locker trick thing and opened it for me."

Shadow looked away. "I'm going to get him for this."

Kris handed the picture strip to him. "I'm done looking, you can have them back now."

Shadow took the pictures and took a look at them, he looked up from them at Kris. "You really think that you're ugly in these pictures?" He asked her in a concerned voice.

"Yes…" The spirit started to disappear again.

Shadow started to grab at her arm to make her stay but his hand phased through it. "Wait! No, no, no, nononono! Stay here!"

Kris stopped fading away and came back into view a bit. "What? Why?" She asked, her voice now more other worldly and spirit like.

Shadow showed her the pictures again. "Look at these, you were cute in your leopard costume. Don't you remember?"

"Yeah, but…"

"But what? You. Are. Cute. I don't know what I have to do to get you to believe me."

"I'm sorry."

"Stop apologizing, you didn't do anything wrong, besides break into my locker, but nothing really was stolen." He put his hand on his chin to think. "So, your punishment is…" He looked over at his broken combination lock. "You have to…Buy me a new lock."

The red hedgehog ghost nodded. "I understand, but how are you going to keep your things from being stolen in the time between?" She asked.

Shadow smiled sinisterly. "I'm pretty sure there's some cursed object around here somewhere that I can "borrow" off of some kid."

"Shadow, don't steal somebody's property-"

"Shhh!" Shadow shushed her and teleported away.

"Hmph." Kris disappeared.


Nobody saw each other again until lunch where Sonic was talking about his favorite dog toy getting lost.

"And then, I looked under the couch, but I didn't find it there and…" Sonic went on.

Nobody at the table was listening to him. Tails was looking at his Physics homework. Kris was staring out the window, Shadow was just tired, so he was trying not to fall asleep and Amy was still trying to mask her sadness by pretending to eat. The blue werewolf finally noticed after a while that he wasn't being listened to and stopped. He noticed Amy hadn't eaten any of her food yet.

"Amy, are you okay? You haven't eaten anything ye-"

"Hey you guys!" Ky's voice came echoing through the cafeteria.

"Ohhhhh…" Shadow opened his eyes a bit. "Ugh."

The yellow vampire hedgehog walked over to their table and sat next to him. "What's going on?"

"Nothing, you're just being LOUD AS HELL!" Shadow complained.

Ky smiled and took a sandwich out of his sack lunch bag. He looked over at Amy and his smile faded. "Hey, what's wrong with her?" He asked.

"Nothing is wrong with me! I'm just not hungry!" Amy replied, suddenly yelling.

"I was just asking…"

"You were being rude!"

"How was I being rude?!"

"CAN EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP?!" Shadow yelled. He banged his fists on the table and accidentally knocked over his can of O-. He grit his teeth. "God dammit!" The blood was running off the table and dripping onto his pants and the floor. He got up to go get paper towels.

Sonic opened his eyes and raised his ears. "Why does everyone seem to be in a bad mood today?" He looked over at his best friend. "Hey Tails, do you know when the next full moon is?"

"It's next week. You should check your lunar calendar more often." Tails replied, looking up from his homework.

"Oh."

"Sonic, you're a werewolf, you should pay more attention to the phases of the moon and when they are." Ky told him and took a bite of his sandwich.

"I know, I just forget sometimes." Sonic rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "But I'm really good at controlling myself, so I think I don't really have to worry as much as other werewolves." He started to pant like a happy puppy and made his eyes big and adorable.

Amy took a glance over at him making that face and smiled a bit. "Awwww…" She cooed quietly.

"You know I can do that too, I'm a-" Ky started.

"Shhh!" Sonic shushed and reached across the table. "Shadow's coming back with the paper towels, if he hears you, it's gonna set him off and he's going to bitch all night about it."

"About what?" Kris asked. "…Ohhhhhh."

Shadow came back with an entire roll of paper towels. He ripped a sheet off and started to clean up the table and the floor. Sonic looked at him.

"Shadow, you aren't supposed to take the whole roll…"

"Shut up! I don't want to talk to you!"


Later, Sonic, Amy and Ky were outside on the track surrounding the Football field. Sonic was running, running as fast as he could on all fours. He was fast, almost the average speed for a well in shape lycanthrope in wolf form.

"I'm SO glad all this training is getting me back up to speed!" He said as he huffed and growled.

A few vampire Junior girls were watching him run, and swooning over him as they did so. "You're doing great Sonic!"

"Sonic! Hi!"

"He's SO dreamy!"

The werewolf noticed them checking him out as he ran around the track and gave them a sexy smile.

"Oh my gosh he smiled at me!"

Sonic started to hoooOOOWWWLLL as he ran. He stopped in the middle of the field and let out a loud howl.

"Ar ar AWOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Oh my God!" The girls changed into their wolf forms and galloped to him. Sonic put his muscular arms around them.

"Why hello there~" He greeted them.

"Hissss!"

Amy stood across the field over by the gate looking at Sonic and those girls. Her claws dug into her hands and her fangs had elongated in her anger. Her eyes glew a vivid scarlet.

"Amy, do you want to come over here by the fence?" Ky asked. He took a swig of blood from his water bottle. It was warm, perfect for the cold weather outside.

Amy looked over at him and looked to Sonic, and back at him. "It's just-! He- Grhrhrrr!" A dark aura started to form around her.

"Amy, calm down."

"This day cannot get any worse!"

"Oh yeah? Well no shit, my week can't get any worse." Shadow appeared leaning on the wire fence next to Ky. He was wearing a different outfit than at Lunch. His shirt was the same but…

"Are those women's jeans?" Amy asked.

"Shut up!" He snarled. "They were the only ones in my size that the nurse had and I'd advise you to keep your mouth shut!"

The pink vampire hedgehog smirked. "Maybe that has something to do with that cursed ancient Egyptian amulet that you took from somebody earlier this evening. Serves you right."

He rolled his eyes. "Blah, blah, blah! It wasn't my fault that my locker got broken into and my lock got crushed."

"You really had it coming though." She replied.

Shadow hissed. "Whatever." He went to put his hand into his pocket to take out his smokes and his lighter. "What the-? Damn these jeans, they don't have pockets." He felt around for any other place the cigarettes would be. "Ugh, I left them in my other pants, which I shoved in my backpack…"

Amy smirked at him. "Also serves you right for smoking. Smoking is a nasty habit." She glanced back at Sonic; the girls were gone, now he was just hanging around. He looked over at the pink hedgehog and smiled at her. "Hey Amy!" He waved. She wanted to go over to him, but something inside her kept her from moving.

"Amy?" His voice lowered in volume and one of his ears went down.

Amy was looking at the ground, tears started to form in her eyes and began to fall onto the track. She then proceeded to run out the gate and back into the school while crying her eyes out.

"Amy!" Sonic ran after her. He looked everywhere in the gym, in the Commons area, but he couldn't find her.

Amy sat up in the belfry with her face in her knees.