Here comes Chapter 4! Enjoy! Note: parts where it switches between bold and regular font is what's happening at the school (bold) and at Starr's house (regular).

Note: if anyone had caught on with the dates, they're kinda out of line (I looked at a calendar). Imagine that Mobius has no regular days... Use your imagination.

October 14th

Ever since that day Starr took the Freedom Fighters through her past, they all became closer friends. Ever since Starr and Shadow kissed, things haven't been the same; they help each other with homework, they walk down the hallway together and they eat lunch beside each other. They weren't 'dating' dating, they were just very close; none of them wanted to ruin a friendship, not to mention they were ready to take that step.

This day however, Starr was uneasy for it was the day before Doom Mist would wake from his slumber for twenty-four hours. She was fidgety all day and Shadow knew it. He made up in his mind that he would help her.

At the end of the day, Shadow went to Starr's locker and found her filling her bag there. When he got close enough, he put his hand on the small of her back causing her to flinch, but relaxing when she saw who it was.

"Shadow," she aired out.

"You ready to go?"

"What do you mean?"

"To your house. I'm taking you home and staying with you tomorrow."

"Shadow," she was shaking her head. "You don't have to, I mean I'll be fine. I've been through this before, right before I came here to school."

"It was your first time and you didn't know what to do," Starr was getting teary as she closed the door of her locker. Shadow grabbed gently on her hand and walked her outside where no one could bother them. "I know you're scared."

She finally broke down when he said this and pressed her head into his white fur. He hugged her back, stroking her head to comfort her and sweetly hushing her. She was shaking in his arms now. She raised her head up to speak.

"Last time I hit my arm off something and it bled. I'm scared that because it was the first, he was being gentle on me. What if it's worse this time?"

"I'll be right there with you. I promise. Every step, every hour, every attack. Let's go home."

They walked to Starr's townhouse and during the walk, Shadow told her that he did research during his free period on seizures. He said he knew what to do when it happened which comforted Starr. They got to Starr's home and prepared themselves for the long day tomorrow.

Starr had a modern day living room with chocolate brown furniture. A red kitchen to match her red appliances, but her bedroom was the most interesting. Shadow walked in and smiled: a light blue wall colour, posters of Adele and a guy named David C. on the wall, a tall cabinet with stuffed animals and a big mirror to complete the ensemble of the room.

"I... I wouldn't expect anything less," Shadow chuckled.

"You should be flattered. Not many people of my opposite sex are invited in my zone. To tell the truth, I promised my parents that I would stay a virgin until my honeymoon. You saved me that day with Scrouge. But really... It's a promise to myself. I always thought that I'd never fall in love or a guy wouldn't love me for who I was."

Shadow walked over to her and grabbed her hands and moved them close to his chest, still holding them, and said, "I'm not going anywhere." They hugged each other, feeling the other breathing. Starr broke the hug to ask Shadow something.

"Shadow? If it's alright... You see I want to feel affection but not do anything that I'll regret if you know what I mean. I want to stay pure but... I guess I'm asking... Will you make out with me? I like it when I'm with you, I feel safe and I want to feel you close to me."

"Oh Starr," Shadow said as he slipped his hands around her lower back and pulled her in closer. He pressed his lips on hers and she responded to his affection. Soon after he was sticking his tongue out hoping for her to open her mouth and she complied. She reached her hands through his back quills which caused him to moan in her mouth (she knew this was his sensitive spot). Keeping one hand on her back, Shadow used the other hand to massage through Starr's quills, causing her to gasp in delight. She fell into Shadow's chest causing him to fall on her bed with her on top of him. Shadow felt Starr's young, plump breasts against his chest and her rubbing her chest on him was driving his hormones crazy, as if she was doing it on purpose. Wanting her to feel the same way he was, he rolled them over so where he was on top of her. Shadow rubbed in hands all over her body, which almost sent her over the edge. She moaned in pleasure with every move Shadow was doing on her. He was now kissing her collarbone and neck, sucking softly at the sensitive skin he felt every goose bump on her rise at his touch. She rubbed Shadow's head and back hoping for more pleasure; he gave it.

"Oh Shadow," she said catching her breath. "If we marry, I can only imagine what kind of lover you'll be."

Shadow was controlling himself; he wanted to take her now and show her what he had, but he wanted to still be her friend and not ruin a friendship because of sex, so he looked up to her and said, "you're such a tease. When the day comes when we do become one flesh, you'll be begging me to take my rings off."

"Now who's being the big tease now?"

October 14th, 11:58pm

Starr stared at her alarm clock: two minutes before she has the worst day of her life. Shadow had already laid her down on her side with her head laying on a pillow. He petted her quills to comfort her.

"It's going to be okay," he whispered. "You should get some sleep soon."

"How can I sleep at a time like this?" It was one minute to.

"You will. Trust me."

What seemed like hours suddenly came midnight. Nothing happened right away which caused Starr to shiver but Shadow was there comforting her saying, "I'm right here."

Then it started; Shadow saw Starr having a seizure. He moved his hand off her head so she wouldn't think she was being attacked. Shadow was there to make sure she didn't hurt herself. He could only sit there and watch Starr's body spaz on her bed. He wondered what was going on in her mind, what was she thinking? What was Doom Mist doing inside of her? After the five minutes, Starr recovered from the seizure. She looked around the room in a panic, her vision blurry but Shadow reminded her where she was.

"Shadow," she said in tears. "I don't know if I can do this."

"That's why I'm here, so we can do this together. Get some sleep, you'll need it."

Eventually Starr fell asleep. She continued to have seizures while sleeping but was glad that she didn't remember them. Shadow stayed up the whole night, he was use to staying up all the time so this time would be no different.

October 15th, 8:50am

It was right before school when Shadow called Sonic to let him know that he was going to stay with Starr that day because of the curse.

"Okay Shadow," Sonic said on his cell. "If anything happens, call me. You know when." He hung up; the others were there.

"What happened?" Tails asked.

"Starr was having seizures all night last night and she's gonna have them all day today until midnight."

"Is there anything we can do?" Blaze asked.

"I don't think so. Just go to school and get an education."

"Hey," Silver said having an idea. "Why don't we send them their homework from today so they won't have to miss it? I know it sounds cruel, but they won't miss school and they can keep up on their studies."

"That's actually a really nice idea Silver," Blaze said smiling at her old friend.

"Alright then, I'll do Math for them both," Sonic said.

"I'll help with their science class," Tails said.

"I'll give Starr English," Amy said.

"I'll let Shadow know about our Geography class," Rouge said. "He has a free period before lunch."

"Alright then," Knuckles said punching his one hand into the other. "Let's get to school, if that Scrouge tries something..."

10:15am

Starr finally woke up after having her last episode. Shadow was there in a chair, as if he hadn't gone to sleep at all.

"Sh-Shadow?" She said in a sleepy haze.

"Hey you," he said. "Did you sleep well?"

"As well as anyone does having spaz attacks. Did you sleep."

"No."

"You must be tired."

"I'll sleep when I'm dead. Are you thirsty? I can get you some ice to chew on."

"Sure please."

Shadow left the room, leaving the door open to hear if something happened when he left. Shadow put some ice in a small glass and brought it back to Starr. He hand fed her a block and she sucked it, hoping to chew it soon.

"So..." Shadow said. "If we're going to be here all day, might as well pass the time."

"What did you want to do then?" Starr said trying not to drop the ice cube in her mouth. "It's not like I can do anything exotic."

"I was thinking of just talking, getting to know each other better."

"Anything in particular you want to know?"

"I guess... You're life before this one. I know you're a princess but any interesting or embarrassing stories to share? But first, how did you get those inhibitor rings?"

"Is that what these are? No wonder I never get tired! Ugh...," she thought out loud. "They were a gift from the future. Some scientist was a time traveler and a good friend of the family. He went to the future and came back with these rings. He said they were special and I should never take them off. He gave them to me for my fifteenth birthday."

"They are powerful. When you do take them off, all your power is released."

"So what about you? What's behind that serious, good looking hedgehog?"

They continued to talk, back and forth about stories and adventures they had before they met.

11:30 am

It was lunchtime for Mobius High and the day seemed to go normal. The Freedom Fighters sat together, as usual, but what was strange was that the mean group, that included Scrouge and Fiona, decided to sit near the FF that day.

"After I eat, I'm gonna call Shadow and check in," Sonic said to the group.

"I hope the darling's doing okay," Rouge said.

"She'll be okay," Silver said optimistically. "She's tough, I can feel it."

Meanwhile at the other table, they were having a conversation of their own. They were talking loud enough for the FF to hear.

"Did you hear that freaky girl skipped school today?" Fiona said

"Yeah, but what's more juicy is that emo hedgehog skipped too," Scrouge said. "My guess they skipped so they could have some 'quality time' together if you know what I mean." He laughed cruelly.

"You!" Amy said standing up from her seat. "Who do you think you are saying stuff like that about someone you don't even know?"

"Calm down there pretty girl. Just statin' facts."

"Don't you dare talk to my girl like that!" Sonic said standing up. Everyone was staring now.

"You wanna do something about it?" Scrouge said standing up now, face to face with Sonic.

"You, me, after school in the soccer field."

"You're on."

By now the cafeteria teachers came over and broke the two up and told them to either cool their shoes off or one of them leaves. They both sat down and finished their lunch.

"That female hedgehog," Scrouge said to Fiona. "She thinks she SOOO better than us cause she's royalty. How do we even now that? She could've made that up for all we know. I want her to pay!"

Fiona, being just a cruel said, "then make her pay. Do what you want, just let me know when you're gonna do it. I want to watch."

"As you wish," Scrouge smiled wickedly.

Like Sonic promised before, he called Shadow. The phone rang but there was an answer.

"Hello?"

"Hey Shadow. It's Sonic."

"Hey. Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I just wanted to check up on you guys. Is everything okay? How is she?"

"We're doing great actually. I learned a lot about Starr that I didn't know before. She's a tough girl, she'll be fine. Are you sure you're okay? You seem tense."

"I'm fine," Sonic lied. "Oh yeah, we decided to give you the homework that you missed today so you guys wont fall behind."

"You're too kind. Thank you."

"No problem! Now take care of her."

"I will. You take care of yourself." Dial tone.

Shadow hung up his cell and was ready to put it away when he got a text. It was from Tails and it read:

SCROUGE WAS SAYING MEAN THINGS ABOUT YOU AND STARR SO HE AND SONIC ARE GOING TO HAVE A FIGHT AFTER SCHOOL. -T

Shadow stared at his phone absorbing the message he just got.

"Shadow what is it?" Starr asked.

"N-Nothing," he lied. "Everything's alright."

"No it's not. Now tell me truth Shadow the Hedgehog!"

"Sonic and Scrouge are going to have a fight after school," he sighed out.

"Why are they fighting?"

"Us. Apparently Scrouge was saying some t hints about us so Sonic decided to take matters into his own hands."

"Well we got to stop them."

"It's not that simple Starr. Sonic is very passionate about doing right for others, he won't back down from something that's right."

"Then we'll have to help him," she said starting to get up from the bed.

"Whoa, whoa there. You're not going anywhere, not in your condition."

"Listen you can either take off my rings for me or we can go peacefully. Besides I need a stretch."

Shadow knew he couldn't fight her. "Well can you wait at least til 3? School doesn't end til 3:30."

She nodded and laid back down until three pm.

3:30 pm

Sonic was staring the clock down ever since lunch was over. He wanted to shut Scrouge's potty mouth for good.

RING!

The time came. He packed up his books so fast that he ran fast down the hallway to his locker. He got there and Amy was already there.

"You can't do this Sonic," she said trying talk him out of it.

"I have to. No one says anything crude about my friends, especially my girl."

Amy was flattered at what he said about her, so much that she almost didn't notice that he had run off to the field.

"SONIC WAIT!" She yelled.

Sonic got to the field and saw no one. He watched himself, knowing Scrouge was a dirty fighter. He heard the breeze whistle in the air, the wind flowing through his quills. Just then he felt a blunt pain on his back quills which caused him to fall face down. On the ground he turned around and saw Scrouge standing over him with an evil smirk on his face; he had kicked him from behind.

"I see you came," Scrouge said. "Ready to lose?"

"In your dreams Faker!" Sonic said as he jumped up from the ground and started to fight. Sonic knew that this would be tough: fighting someone who's just like him. Sonic's friends came to either cheer him on or fear for his safety.

"Tough it out Sonic!" Knuckles loudly encouraged Sonic.

The two hedgehogs continued to fight, but Scrouge was playing dirty which gave him the upper hand. He eventually knocked Sonic to the ground so hard that Sonic could barely move. Scrouge picked up Sonic by the throat and held him up high.

"SONIC!" Amy yelled. She started to run over to him but Sonic raised his hand telling her to stop; she did and she was scared, sobbing her heart out.

"You know I'll win" Scrouge said choking Sonic. "So why fight me?"

"Because it's right!" Sonic choked out. His breathing was getting harder and harder, Scrouge kept squeezing his neck while Sonic was kicking and trying to fight to let loose.

"If you can't protect that little 'darling', I guess no one can."

What seemed like a hopeless situation had a turning table. Scrouge let go of Sonic and he gasped deeply for air. Rouge was holding Amy back from her running over to the injured blue hedgehog. However, Scrouge didn't let go by choice, something had hit him in the face. It felt like someone had thrown a water balloon in his eyes without the balloon. He rubbed his eyes to try and get the water out of them.

"Who did that?" He snarled. "Don't be a coward now."

Then Scrouge was submerged in a ball of water. He tried to get out but the current inside it was too strong. Everyone wondering what it could be, then they showed themselves. Starr and Shadow were at the edge of the field and Starr was coming out of her water form. Her arms were out controlling the ball, she smiled knowing that she had complete control.

"Starr! Shadow!" Tails welcomed them.

"You didn't think we'd miss the party, did you?" Starr said as she let go of the ball and Scrouge was choking and catching his breath.

"But you can't be out today," Blaze said. "Not with-"

"It's okay Blaze. I'm just going to be careful. After this I'm going to go home."

"So how was your day together?" Scrouge coughed up. "You guys needed a break from your fun alone?"

"If you want to call 'staying in bed all day' fun, then yeah I needed a break." Everyone, with the exception of Scrouge, knew what she was talking about.

"What'd I tell ya? They were at it!"

"Again, if you want to call 'a friend making sure that I don't hurt myself' going at it, then yeah we were going wild. Get real Faker!"

"No woman talks to me like that!" He shouted as he hurled towards the two ebony hedgehogs. Just as Scrouge was about to hit them, Starr put out her hands and a water wall came in front of them. Scrouge hit the wall and bounced back, hitting the grass below. Just then, Tails' watch started beeping, he looked at it said: 4:00 pm.

"Starr you have to stop! It's four!"

"No!" She started to feel her body getting weaker from the attack coming soon. "He needs to be put in his place!"

She took off her inhibitor rings and went at Scrouge with everything she had. The others joined up with her: Amy and her Piko Piko hammer, Rouge and her Screw Kick, Knuckles and his Shovel Claws, Silver and his telekinesis, Blaze and her fire, Shadow and his Chaos Spears and Sonic with his homing attacks. With all of them working together, Scrouge finally surrendered and ran off yelling, "I'll get you hedgehogs! Just you wait!"

Everyone smiled at the triumph and congratulated themselves. During the phrase, Starr got shaky and fell to the ground; she was having another seizure. Tails, prepared and knowledgeable, pulled out a syringe and jabbed it in Starr's thigh. She eventually stopped seizing and was breathing heavily.

"What was that?" Sonic asked. He'd never seen Tails do something like that before.

"It's lorazepam, it stops seizures, well at least this attack."

Starr stirred as she woke up and saw everyone staring at her. "Wha-what happened?"

"Your attack didn't last as long thanks to Tails," Shadow said petting her head.

"Please tell me you don't have to do that again every hour for a whole day! That really hurt!"

"Sorry," Tails felt bad about stabbing her in the leg. "But the quickest way for the drug to work via needle is in the thigh, it has the most veins."

"What about putting one of those IVs in your arm before the attack happens so when it does happen, you just push it?" Knuckles asked.

"That's a brilliant idea hon," Rouge said. "But shouldn't a nurse or a professional do it?"

"I'll learn," Shadow popped up. "I'll push the drug to make sure she doesn't suffer. But is there a way for the drug to last all day?"

"Yeah," Starr said. "I want it have a normal day without this blasted curse taking over my life."

"Well you could take bigger dosages, but that might lead to more problems, even to death," Tails informed them. "Give me a month to enhance it."

"Thanks Tails."

"Wait a minute!" Sonic said. "I've been thinking about this. Tails, how did you get your hand on a controlled substance? "

"I bought a year supply of it. I'll multiply it and test it to see how long it'll last."

"Good old Tails, always doing it the right way!"

"I do my best!"

I'd like to point out: some of you may say "Someone who has that many seizures would get brain damage! That's unrealistic." But this is a FANTASY so anything's possible. Thank you EVERYONE for reading! Next: Halloween!