The next evening Sonic caught Shadow sitting under a tree with his Nintendo 3DS playing Pokémon Platinum version. The werehog squatted down next to him and looked.

"You play Pokémon?" He asked and startled the vampire hedgehog.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Shadow asked loudly after his mini heart attack. He kept a firm grip on his DS so that it wouldn't fall out of his hands.

Sonic jumped. "Whoah, I didn't mean to startle you. I just saw you playing Pokémon and I just-"

Shadow glared at him. "You just what?"

Sonic started to realize he was going in the wrong direction. "Nothing. Nevermind. What I really wanted to ask you is if you can call off the fight with Jet."

"Why?"

"Because I don't want you killing him again." Sonic answered. "You know how you get when you fight."

Shadow put down his 3DS. "Why do you care? You don't like him either."

"Shadow, this school doesn't need any more problems."

"It's you ALWAYS trying to keep the peace." The vampire pushed him. "That hawk is just getting a little lesson in DON'T FUCKING MESS WITH ME!" He quickly turned into a bat and flew off into the school.

Amy walked up next to Sonic. "This is about something more isn't it?"

"How do you know-"

"Rumors, I am the gossip queen and I run the school newspaper!"

Sonic picked up Shadow's 3DS. "He left his 3DS." He turned to Amy. "I can give him it at gym today."

"What exactly happened between them?" Amy asked as they both walked into the school.

Sonic held the 3DS while walking. "Apparently it was something that happened in Middle School. Shadow pushed him into a hole full of fire and damned souls."

Amy gasped. "That's horrible!"

The werewolf nodded. "So, Jet must have done something to him, I don't know what it is though."

"It must have been something awful since Shadow did that to him."

"Yeah," Sonic replied to her. "But we can only wonder. I tried to get his royal jerkiness to call off the fight but he just yelled at me and flew off."

"Oh…Maybe I can get him to-"

Sonic held up his hand. "Don't bother, you won't change his mind one bit. We'll just have to hope something happens. It's all we can do."

Amy nodded and they separated so that they could go to class.

In Sonic's gym class Sonic had just walked out onto the gym floor when he saw Shadow trying to do a Hula Hoop. The hoop kept falling to the floor and it only irritated the hedgehog. He wasn't very good at it.

"Hey Shadow." Sonic greeted as he walked up to him.

"What? Are you here to bug me some more about the fight?" Shadow asked, annoyed partly at the werehog but partly at his inability to do Hula Hoop.

The werewolf shook his head no and handed him the 3DS. "You left it. I hope you saved because it was shut off when I picked it up."

Shadow took the 3DS, looked at it and dropped the Hula Hoop. "I had JUST caught Garitina you fuckface!"

Sonic folded his arms. "Well, if I had known that's how you would react to getting your $120+ game system plus the $35 Pokémon Platinum costs I wouldn't have been so nice as to give it back."

Shadow sighed loudly. "Okay thank you for giving me my 3DS back. But don't you DARE tell ANYONE I was playing Pokémon."

Sonic cocked his head to the side. "Why? Nobody's gonna make fun of you for liking Pokémon."

Shadow put his 3DS in his pocket. "Pokémon is for nerds and I am not a nerd."

"Then why are you playing it?"

"…Guilty pleasure…"

"Hey, I bet Kris likes Pokémon, why don't you tell her?" Sonic asked.

Shadow's face fell. "Well, she's still mad at me from yesterday…" He mumbled.

Sonic shook his head. "Dude, you can't be doing things like that. Apologize to her."

"I did, she just told me she wants me to leave her alone."

"Welp." Sonic replied. "You'll just have to give her some space for a few days, then work things out."

"I know."

At lunch Shadow sat staring at Kris who was sitting with Ky in the corner of the lunchroom. Amy sat looking at him sadly.

"Shadow, you can try to go over there and talk to her." She finally said. "It wouldn't hurt to try."

Shadow wiped some blood off of his mouth. "I can't, Ky's over there."

"What's he going to do to you? Just go."

Shadow looked at her and sighed. "Okay, fine." He got up out of his seat and walked over to the sibling's table. When he got there Ky gave him a nasty look.

"What do you want?" He asked.

"I just came over here to see my girlfriend, not you." Shadow replied.

"She's still upset if that's what you want to know."

Kris wouldn't look at him.

"Com'on Kris!"

No answer.

Ky pointed his fork at him. "Why don't you go back to your table and leave us alone?"

Shadow glared at the yellow hedgehog. "Maybe I will." He walked away from them back to his table.

"It didn't work Amy. She didn't even look at me."

Amy frowned. "I'm sorry." She put her hand over his. "But I'm sure you two will make up soon, before the dance, and then you can go."

Shadow just looked at her sadly. "I know, there's only so many ways I can say sorry though."

"Give her a few days. She'll come back to you. I know her."

"It's probably because of her stupid brother though. I could see it in her eyes that she really wanted to talk. Ky just doesn't want her to be around me for some reason. I have to get her when he's not around." He replied and looked into his blood-filled Styrofoam cup.

"Yeah…" Amy replied. She looked around. "Hey, have you seen Sonic?"

"I saw him in Gym this morning."

"No, I mean, he's not here for lunch. I wonder where he is."

Shadow looked around the cafeteria for the blue werehog. He found him by the door talking to Blaze.

"He's over there talking to Blaze." The male vampire pointed at the two.

Amy looked over and narrowed her eyes. "He better not be doing what I think he's doing."

"So, Blaze, I wanted to ask you if you wanted to go to the dance with me." Sonic asked the witch cat. Sonic could feel two pairs of eyes burning into him as he said it. Before the cat could say anything, Amy had rushed over and was squeezing his arm.

"Remember, you're taking ME to the dance. Silver is going to ask her out." She said in that fake happy-angry tone of voice.

"Oh! That, uh I just remembered that I'm taking Amy to the dance. I'm sorry Blaze. Sorry to bother you."

Amy dragged Sonic to her and Shadow's table. "What did you think you were doing?"

Sonic whined like a dog. "But I like Blaze…"

"You told me you were going to the dance with ME. Don't be a cheater!"

Shadow sat there chuckling under his breath at the two.

"But I didn't-"

"Yes you did!"

Later 3:00 am had arrived. Shadow and Jet made their way to the football field for the fight. A small crowd of people had bunched up there to watch shit go down. The hedgehog and the hawk got ready as people started to cheer.

"Are you ready?" Jet asked Shadow.

"Prepare to die you chicken." He replied and a dark aura manifested itself around him.

It started to rain as clouds rolled in. Lightning struck the ground.

FIGHT!