In one of the media rooms Amy and Ky were setting up a presentation that they had set up for Amy's vampire depression movement that she had planned to show the people to be recruited.
"Hey, how do you set up the projection thingy?" Ky asked while fiddling with the projector.
"You just sync it to the computer and confirm the settings, then you just flip the switch on it to turn it on." Amy went over to the computer and made sure the projector was all right.
"Okay." Ky got some chairs and set them up towards the white board. "Have you put up signs or something to make sure people even know about this?"
Amy nodded from behind the computer. "Yep! I got it done yesterday."
"Yesterday was Sunday."
"I know."
"You're really committed."
After they were done they left the room to go to class. The presentation would start after school.
In Shadow's World History room, they were learning about the different wars that went on between vampires and werewolves.
He yawned. "Boring."
"And the war between the therianthropes of Russia and the vampires of the Third Reich ended with Russia defeating the vampires due to poor preparation for the weather."
Shadow stared at the clock. It was almost time to leave. "Come on." He said quietly.
"Don't forget to do the reading of Chapter 5. There will be a quiz on the material."
The bell rang and Shadow got up to leave. When he was outside he was stopped by Amy.
"Shadow, I need to ask you something." She told him.
"What is it?" He asked, adjusting his backpack.
"Will you come to my vampire presentation after school? I would really like you to be there." She replied and smiled.
"Amy there is a quiz I have to study for and I have to do some reading."
Amy put her hands on her hips. "Since when have you cared about that kind of stuff? Com'on it won't be that long. I want you there, you were the reason why I started it all in the first place."
Shadow sighed. "But I don't want to."
Amy looked at him with sad eyes. The perfect thing to get him to go. Shadow tried to look away.
"Com'on Amy. I don't-"
She started to whine pitifully.
Shadow looked back at her. "…Alright fine! If it will stop you from doing that!"
Amy jumped up in victory. "Yes! It always works! I'll be happy to see you after school." She hugged him tight as a thank you. "Thank you!"
Shadow just stood there glaring at her. "Please let me go."
The pink hedgehog let go of him. "Alright." She turned into a bat and flew off down the hallway. There were a lot of people in the hall and Shadow was squished up against the lockers now. The wolf would fix that. He turned into his wolf form and used his strength to push people away. He growled and bared his fangs to get people to move. As he had expected it, people moved and some girls even petted him, to his annoyance. He ran down the hall.
Sonic and Tails were walking down the hall when a black wolf ran straight into them.
"Shadow, watch where you're going!" Sonic shouted and helped Tails up off the ground.
Shadow stared at them and turned around and ran away.
"What is with him?" Sonic asked.
"He's probably just agitated about something." Tails answered.
Amy found the two and landed on top of Sonic's head in bat form.
"Hello Amy." Sonic greeted her and took her off of his head. The bat flew up and Amy changed back to normal. "Hi you guys. I wanted to invite you to my vampire depression presentation after school, maybe you two can learn something about vampires."
Sonic nodded. "That sounds fun. You think so Tails?"
Tails nodded. "Yeah, I guess."
"You guess? There will be food."
Sonic licked his lips. "Well we have to go now. We'll be there."
"Okay. I'll see you there." Amy waved goodbye and disappeared down the hallway.
"But Sonic-" Tails complained.
Sonic stopped him. "Tails, this is part of your lessons on how good vampires are. Maybe if you know why they do some of the things they do you'll learn that they're not that bad."
After school the people that were coming to the presentation were piling into the media room. Amy was at the door handing out brochures. There wasn't really that many but there were enough to fill up about half the chairs. When everyone was inside, including Shadow, Sonic and Tails, Amy stood in the dark at the front of the room. The only thing you could see were here brilliant green eyes glowing.
"Hello everyone! Thank you for coming to my presentation on vampires." She pulled down the screen and turned on the projector and a power point presentation appeared on screen. She smiled and got out of the way so that everyone could see. "And I would like to thank Shadow for being here because he's the reason why I had this idea in the first place."
Everyone turned to look at Shadow fondly or to scowl at him. Kris sat next to him, still hugging the pillow he made for her. Shadow just sat there with one of his legs laid across his knee. He yawned.
"So to start the presentation we'll go back to the early history of vampires…"
Tails sat, taking in knowledge about the species. As it turned out vampires originated from three angels that rebelled against the Lord named Molorch, Ba'al and Balial. The Lord sent an army of angels lead by the Archangel Michael to combat them and the army of angels won. The bodies of the three were burned and sent to Earth. Worshippers found their ashes and revived them, but they awoke with a thirst for blood so they attacked the tribes of worshippers. They parted ways afterwards but they made up a rule of three that stated the vampires had the ability to make more of their own kind. Then she went on to the classic to modern history of vampires. Tails raised his hand.
"Yes Tails?" Amy called on him.
"So vampires are just fallen angels then?"
"You could say that, it certainly supports the reasons why holy objects repel us."
"Uh huh."
She went on to name some famous vampires in history and to name some you wouldn't have guessed were vampires like William Shakespeare and Napoleon Bonaparte. Then she went on to their powers and abilities like turning into different animals and other powers like hypnotism. But the real good part was towards the end where she went on to tell about the good things that vampires have done like, becoming doctors and Olympic winners and even software company owners.
"And here is why I gather you all here. I wanted to talk about depression within the vampire community. We all know that some vampires can be real jerks, but maybe there's a reason behind their negativity." She stopped the power point and stood in front of the screen. "Let's face it, living forever sucks, doesn't it?"
"Yeah." Shadow put up his hand quickly and put it back down.
"It does, and living forever and seeing your friends die is heartbreaking, which the heartbreak could lead to depressed feelings and thoughts of suicide."
"Yep."
"Which is why I have started a movement to fight vampire depression and just depression in general! We need to support each other and be nice to each other, because we never know when someone is headed down a dark path."
Tails looked at Amy and felt a guilty feeling in his stomach. He stood up. "I'll help." He said. "I don't want anybody to kill themselves because of something I have done. I'm sorry." He started to tear up and cry.
Sonic pulled him back down. "Don't cry Tails. It's okay."
The fox put his face in Sonic's arm fur.
"Is this over yet?" Shadow asked.
"Almost." Amy answered. "We need to make a pledge to stop bullying too, that could drive someone down the wrong road."
"I promise!" Tails shouted.
Amy nodded. "Alright. The food is in the corner on the tables if you want some."
Everyone in the room got up and headed for some food. Amy turned off the computer and Sonic walked over to her.
"Great job on the presentation Amy. We learned a lot. Didn't we Tails?" He slapped his friend on the back.
"Yeah. I'm so sorry about what I did to you and Shadow."
"We accept just as long as you be nice."
Shadow walked over with a cookie in his mouth. "Yeah it was good. Now I just gotta get home and study."
"Okay. See you tomorrow then."
"Whatever." He walked out of the room.
Tails put his hand over his heart. "I promise."
Sonic leaned in so that Tails couldn't hear him whisper to Amy. "Nice job on changing his mind."
"All in a day's work. 😊 Amy smiled and said.
