Sonic looked all around for Ms. Rose, but he could not find her. There were some places that she could have gone in the school that he could not follow because they were accessed by flying. So he sent her a voicemail and left for home.


Amy cried into her knees as silently as she could. Some bats that were hanging from the rafters cocked their heads to the side. They took flight and landed on her shoulders and her crossed arms to see what was going on and started to rub their heads against her. The pink vampire hedgehog lifted her head from her knees and wiped her eyes to see what was rubbing up against her. When she saw the little bats trying to comfort her she sighed and looked at their cute little faces. She started to pet them gently.

Suddenly her phone lit up with a notification that she had a new voicemail and a new text from Sonic. The sudden light spooked the bats laying on her and they scattered.

"Shhh, shhh it's okay." She tried to soothe them. "I just got a text message."

Some of the bats came back to their places where they were laying, but not all of them. One curious bat looked with Amy at her phone. The text message read:

"Amy, are you okay?"

Amy looked at the text but didn't reply. She went to the voicemail and looked at the bats.

"This is my, friend Sonic talking, please don't be afraid." She then played the voicemail.

"Hey Amy, I was trying to find you since you ran off crying. I looked everywhere I could, but you must have turned into a bat and flown up somewhere that I can't go. I'm thinking that maybe I somehow did something to upset you. If I did I'm very sorry, and maybe you could call me back so we could talk…Bye…Tails! How do you stop recordi-"

The voicemail abruptly ended. Amy stared at her phone, she wasn't sure if she should call him back right now. She looked at what time it was on her phone and noticed that it was almost time for the sun to rise. Her heart would have felt like it had stopped if it was beating. She shooed the bats off of her and stood up quickly.

"I'm so sorry. I have to leave right now!" Amy changed into her bat form and flew down from the belfry. She few to the entrance of the school and changed forme back into a hedgehog. She pulled out her parasol and made a run for it as the sun started to rise over the horizon. The pink hedgehog was almost invisible as she sped home, trying not to let the morning suns' deadly rays touch her. Her phone started to go off. Most likely from her mother wondering where the Hell she was, since she wasn't home yet.

"I can't answer that right now!" Amy huffed, but as Soon as she spoke her skin in her arms, and her face started to burn.

"AaIEEE!" Amy screeched and pushed herself to go faster. She started to catch flame as she rushed into her house. She slammed the door behind her.

"Huh, huh, huh…" Amy took deep breaths, she could still feel her skin sizzling and part of her was on fire.

"AMY!" Lily ran to her daughter. "Where were you?! I was texting and calling you! I was about to file a missing person's report!"

Amy started to cry from the pain she was in. "I just stayed late at school and I lost track of time!"

"Amy you could have DIED!"

"I know!" Amy exclaimed. "I was trying to get home as fast as I could! But the Sun! And it was out! And it hurts!"

Lily was already trying to put out the little fires on her daughter. "Shhh…It's okay, come into the bathroom so mommy can treat these burns."

Amy sniffled and walked with her mom to the master bathroom. She sat down on the edge of her mother and father's bathtub while her mom got out the First-Aid kit. She looked at her clothes, now that also had burn damage from the fire that had started on her. And the bow was burnt off of her headband. She took it off and started to cry again.

Lily applied cold water to and put ice on Amy's burns. "Don't cry, the salt will get into the burns and make the burning worse." She wiped her face with a cold washcloth.

"I'm sorry…"

"I just don't want it to hurt any more than it already does."

"It already does hurt more than it has to…" Amy thought to herself.

Lily dug through the First-Aid kit and took out some burn healing cream that was in a plastic tube. She squirted some out on her fingers and started to apply it onto the burns. "I was worried sick, you could have called me and I would have teleported to you and teleported us back home."

Amy shook her head. "I panicked. I wasn't thinking straight, I…" She stopped talking.

"You what?"

"I…Had other things in my mind."

The mother stared at her daughter for what seemed like forever. She hadn't seen the life-drained look that her daughter had on her face before. "Amy, is something wrong? You look…Lifeless."

"Mom, I'm a vampire, I'm supposed to look lifeless, I'm DEAD." She replied with zero percent sass.

"Usually you're more "alive" than most vampires."

The young vampiress stood up from the bathtub ledge. "Maybe I'm just, growing out of my 'nice' phase, and, you know, becoming a 'real' vampire. She walked out of the master bathroom and went upstairs to her room. She changed into her Monster High pajama set. She placed her phone face down on her desk and grabbed a random book off her shelf without paying attention to what it was. She just needed a distraction from her phone, Sonic, and her own thoughts.


The next evening Amy woke up exhausted even though she did manage to sleep through the rest of the day. She sat up and winced; the burns on her seemed to hurt even worse than they did a few hours ago. She carefully climbed out of her coffin and limped to her bathroom. She got out the enchanted mirror again and took a look at herself. The burns on her face and head made her look horrible; the burnt flesh had wrinkled up and turned a brownish pink color, and her hair (Messy from sleeping already) was mostly singed on the tips and edges.

Amy was too tired to react properly to the disaster that was her face and hair. She brushed her teeth and limped down the stairs.

"Good EV-" She almost fell down the stairs, but hung into the railing. "Evening Mom…"

Lily was at the stairs, trying to help her down them. "You almost fell Honey-Bat."

"Thank you…" Amy limped over to the couch and lay down on it. "Uhhhhhhhh…"

"I don't think it's a good idea for you to go to school tonight…Or the rest of the week." Her mother said as she examined her daughter's dreadful condition.

"Wha? But I have to go. What if-"

"Amy, you've gotten hurt pretty badly. I saw the way you were limping, and you almost fell down the stairs, and your burns."

"I can go."

"No, you are not. You are going to stay home and heal. You won't be missing anything as important as your health at school." Lily put a pillow under Amy's head, set up a tray next to her and gave her a small glass of B- blood. "You should try to eat."

Amy looked at the glass filled with the warm, red liquid. It was so tempting, but she didn't really want to eat anything yet, so she placed it on the tray.

Lily frowned. "Not hungry? Well, if you do get hungry there's that, and there's more of it. There's also some solid mortal food in the pantry."

Amy nodded.

"And I'll be here if you need me to get you anything."

"Uh huh."

Her mother handed her the remote for the TV. "Watch whatever you want to watch. I'll be in my room folding clothes."

"Okay." Amy sat up ever so slightly and flipped through the cable channels.


"Tails, Amy didn't answer my texts or call back." Sonic told Tails as they were walking down the hallway to their first classes. He started to whine and put his ears down.

"Sonic, I'm sure she's fine." Tails replied.

"But she ran away crying when I said hi to her. Why would she do that? She usually loves it when I acknowledge her existence."

"I don't know, maybe it's her time of the month or something."

Sonic looked straight at him. "She isn't a werewolf Tails."

The fox smiled strangely at him. "No…You know, the thing with girls that happens once a month…"

"What?"

"You know, blood comes out of them…"

Sonic gave him a surprised and disgusted look. "Tails! How the heck do you know about that? You're like, 9!"

"Well…I've had girlfriends before and, sometimes I search random things on the internet…"

Sonic shook his head violently. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear you."

"Alright."

They arrived at Sonic's Health class and Tails bid Sonic farewell. The blue werehog walked into the classroom and sighed when he didn't see any sign of the pink vampiress.

"She must have stayed home." He thought as he sat down in his seat. More people were arriving and filling up the classroom. None of them were the person Sonic was hoping to see, except-

Sonic's ears perked and he became alert as he saw purple cat ears through the clump of students around the door. His tail started to wag as he saw Blaze emerge from the clump.

"Ow. Please, excuse me, let me through, please." The lilac female cat got through and repositioned her dark brown messenger bag on her hip. She fixed her tortoiseshell print glasses and walked to her seat quietly.

"Hi Blaze. You got better, I see?" Sonic greeted her with a smile.

Blaze looked at him. "Hi Sonic, I did get better. My mother made a healing potion that really helped.

He nodded. "It must be really cool having your whole family be magic."

"It is, isn't it?"

The Blue werehog suddenly remembered the work she had missed. He dug into his bag and pulled out a folder that had her missed work inside it. "Here, I uh, collected all of the work you missed from your classes." He handed the cat the folder. "It isn't much, but I would have felt horrible if you got behind."

Blaze took the folder and smiled a bit. "Thank you."

"N-no problem."


"I can't believe we have to do a food diary!" Sonic complained to Blaze after they got out of the class.

"Sonic, all we have to do is log whatever we eat and how many calories it has. It's not that hard of an assignment." She told him as they walked down the hall.

Sonic whined like a dog. "Yeah but I eat a lot, and most of it is unhealthy, and it has a lot of calories…I don't want people thinking I'm a fat slob."

She laughed a bit. "The teacher won't show it to everyone, and it is a good thing if you ate a little healthier. You'll feel better and more energized, and that'll help you with sports, and running."

"I do like running and sports…"

Blaze smiled and hugged him. "You'll do fine. I'll help you out."

"Thank you…"


Shadow sat outside in the cold air at the back of the school, hidden away in the shadows near an exit door that had been boarded up since nobody used it anymore. He sat on the concrete ground with his shoulders slumped and his forearms propped up on his knees. He held a lit cigarette in his left hand between his pointer and middle finger. He brought it to his lips and inhaled. He could feel the tobacco in his lungs. Undead organs could take it better than live ones. The black and red hedgehog breathed out; letting the smoke escape his body.

"Shadow?" A light brown bat with turquoise eyes flew down and squeaked.

"What is it?" He asked from the shadows.

The bat morphed into a snow-white anthropomorphic bat in black leggings a dark magenta flow top and shiny black strapped dress shoes that showed off her hot pink painted toe claws that matched her finger claws. She put her hand on her hip and leaned to the side.

"So, I heard you're dating Ky's sister, are you?" She asked.

"Yes, I am. Ever since last October, about four months. What about it?" He replied.

Rouge gave a sneaky smile. "I may, have some information about Kyle that you might want to know about."