The next night the yellow vampire hedgehog with brown hair actually remembered that he has school to go to. When he got there everyone was surprised that he was alive-dead-alive.

"Ky where have you been?" Sonic asked him as they walked down the hallway. "It's almost the middle of October."

"Uhh…Sleeping…" He answered. "To tell you the truth I forgot school was a thing. Please don't tell Kris what I've been doing."

"Oh, I'm telling her." Sonic gave an evil chuckle.

"DON'T!"

"Ky what have you been doing?!" A disembodied voice echoed from behind them. They both stopped in their tracks.

"Dammit." Ky whispered.

Kris appeared behind them in her hedgehog form and spun Ky around to face her. She did not look happy.

"Kris! I wasn't doing anything. I swear." Ky stumbled out.

"How come you haven't been here since school started?" Kris asked.

"I forgot!"

Kris was dumfounded. "How do you just 'forget' about school?" She put her hands on her hips.

"I don't know, but I did!" Ky answered.

Kris threw her hands up. "Only YOU would forget about something like this and remember about it one month in!"

Some kids stopped to see what was going on and started to quietly laugh. Ky was getting yelled at by a girl that was a year younger than he was. Shadow saw this from his spot hanging from the ceiling and decided to come down to have a look-see at what was going on. He transformed back into his hedgehog form and gracefully landed on the ground.

"Hey, hey, what's going on here?" Shadow coolly walked up to the both of them with his hands in his pockets.

Ky frowned. "Shadow." He said flatly.

Shadow looked the yellow hedgehog over. He was wearing his normal white t-shirt, stone-washed jeans and black leather jacket, his hair was a bit messed up though and it was obvious he didn't put gel in his hair to spike it like he normally did.

"What's your excuse this time?" The black and red hedgehog asked.

"None of your business." Ky poked him with his pointer finger on the chest. "What's your excuse for being around my little sister? I thought I told you before to stay away from her."

Shadow started to smirk. "Oh, you haven't heard?"

"Heard what?" Ky asked.

"Heard that Kris and I are dating now."

"What?!" Ky's eyes widened.

"Yep."

Ky pulled his sister away from Shadow. "What is wrong with you? I told you to stay away from him!"

The ghost's expression turned sour. "Ky, just because you hate him doesn't mean I do. I happen to like him and you can't change that."

"Well then, what if he's using you?" Ky replied to her. "What then?"

Shadow got an offended look on his face. "I would never use her. I know how fragile and socially awkward she is and I would NEVER hurt her."

Kris looked at the black and red hedgehog with a hurt look on her face. "You don't have to announce my issues to the public Shadow!"

Shadow's face showed the realization of what he just said. "Oh shit…I'm sorry. I didn't mean-"

Kris started to walk away. "I'll see you at lunch…"

Ky and Shadow watched her walk away.

"Smooth move Shadow." A nasally voice said from the shadows.

"Shut up Jet…" Shadow grumbled under his breath. "Or else I'll push you into a volcano."

Jet stepped out of the shadows and laughed. "If you do that you won't kill me this time, you'll just start the apocalypse."

"Yeah right, you're not that powerful."

"Yeah I am, try me."

Shadow gave an evil smile. "I don't think you'd want to do that. I'll beat the absolute shit out of you."

Jet cocked an eyebrow. "Oh really? Is this a challenge I smell?" Jet snapped his fingers and Storm and Wave emerged from the shadows behind him.

Shadow kept his evil smile. "Yeah, I'll take it, but your two lackeys aren't invited. It's you and me, fight. 3:00 am tomorrow. On the football field."

Jet mimicked Shadow's smile and held his hand out to make a deal. Shadow shook his hand.

Jet spoke in a demonic voice. "Be careful, you just made a deal with the devil."

"Ooh I'm so scared. I'm already a demonic creature you idiot." Shadow ripped his hand away from the hawk's and started to walk away from him. "See you tomorrow, loser."

Jet tried to look confident. "Well, see you tomorrow too, you…Uh…Uh."

"Jet you gonna die." Sonic told the hawk at lunch. He was sitting at the table next to the Babylon Rouges.

"No I won't die again. I can take him on." Jet replied and bit into his sandwich.

Wave shook her head. "Jet, I hate do agree with the dog, but I've heard things about Shadow that I don't think you can handle."

Jet looked at her and swallowed his bite. "Why are all of you so scared of him?"

Sonic laughed. "Well, Shadow's very vicious, for one thing, and when he fights, he fights to kill. I for one almost haven't seen a monster he's taken down that's lived."

"Then why aren't you dead?" The hawk asked.

"I didn't say I lost against him, even if I did, he couldn't kill me. I'm the hero of the world. And he knows what could happen to him if he killed me." Sonic flipped his hand. "Also I'm totally better than he is. Werewolves rock! Vampires suck."

"I HEARD THAT!"

Amy picked up the last part all the way across the cafeteria from her vampire depression table with her vampire hearing.

Sonic sank down in his chair. "I mean, except Amy Rose! She's the most non-sucky vampire I've ever met! And I'd totally take her to the Halloween dance!" He started to hit himself.

"THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT YOU SAID! I love you Honey!" She waved and blew a kiss at him. Sonic sat back up again and sighed.

"What have I gotten myself into…" He mumbled.

Tails took a sip of his juice box. "You know you don't HAVE to take her, you could just say no and that you have other plans."

Sonic put his arm on the table. "I know, but I REALLY don't want to upset her, and…I kinda wanted to ask Blaze if she wanted to go with me…"

"Blaze?" Tails asked, surprised. "You like Blaze?"

Sonic looked at his feet. "Yeah…"

"NO NO NO NONONO NO!" Silver suddenly yelled in everyone's ear. He pointed rigidly at Sonic. "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STEAL MY KITTY! TAKE SOMEONE ELSE!" He stated breathing heavily and he rubbed his throat.

Sonic removed his hands from his ears. "But you haven't even asked her yet. She's fair game."

Silver gave him an angry look, if he had a heartbeat it would be going a mile a minute. "I am going to, I just have to find the right moment."

"Well you better hurry up before someone else asks her, it's almost the middle of October and the dance is soon." Sonic told him.

Shadow appeared from the cafeteria kitchen with a few blood bags on his tray, Type AB+. Jet quickly turned around to make it look like he wasn't conversing with Sonic and the others.

"Sup mah homies." Shadow greeted as he sat down at their table next to Sonic. The rest of the table just stared at him.

"Please don't ever say that again." Sonic finally said.

Shadow's frown got deeper. "What?"

Sonic shook his head. "Did you just realize that you're old as shit and you have to attempt to be hip with the young crowd?"

"I'm 16."

"Suuure…"

"I mean it!"

Sonic rolled his eyes and took a bite of his chilidog. "We were just talking about that fight that you and Jet are going to have tomorrow and what size coffin we should get."

Shadow started to laugh. "You hear that Jet? Everyone thinks that you're no match for me! Just give up!"

Jet turned around angrily. "I won't just 'give up'! I'll show you what I'm made of!"

"Yeah, chicken." Shadow said quietly.

"MMMPH"

Ky came marching up to their table, angry. "I don't like you Shadow, but my sister does. So go make things right with her and apologize for what you said earlier."

Shadow's ears went down.

"Wow Shadow, everyone's pissed at you today."

After school Shadow approached Kris in snow leopard form who was sitting outside the school on the brick wall. She glared at him and turned away. "What do you want?" She irritatedly asked.

Shadow sat down on the brick wall next to her. "I came, because I wanted to say I'm sorry for what I said this evening. I didn't mean to make you mad or anything. I didn't think about what I was saying before I said it.

"You should have…"

"I know I should've, but can you please forgive me?" He put his hand on her shoulder as best he could.

Kris turned to look at him. Her expression was dark. "I don't know." She replied.

"Can you at least try?"

"…"

"…Oh."

"…I'll try…Just…Leave me alone right now."

He took his hand off her shoulder. "Ok."

Shadow got up and left her alone as he was told and went home.