Sonic gasped. "What?"

The hedgehog leaned back up and walked away like nothing had happened. Amy looked at Sonic's face which was paler than normal. "Sonic, what's wrong?" She asked.

"He knows that I'm…You know."

"What?"

"He said-"

"I heard."

Sonic looked in the direction that the dark purple hedgehog had gone. "Who was that guy?" He asked.

"I don't know." Amy replied. "Shadow have you seen him before?"

"No."

"Hm."

Amy sat her drink down on the counter and looked in the direction that Sonic was looking. "I think it's time for us to go home." She said.

"But Amy I want to stay." Sonic whined.

Amy shook her head. "The sun is going to rise soon. We need to get home. And I also think that it isn't safe for you or us here with him walking around."

Sonic pouted again. "You guys are vampires! How could he be a danger to you?" He asked.

Blaze and Shadow looked at him and shook their heads at his ignorance.

Sonic gave them a look back. "What?"

Amy grabbed his arm. "We need to go home, now."

Amy dragged him out of the cub while Shadow and Blaze followed. Once they were out Amy turned to Sonic. "Okay, I'm going to warn you about what we're about to do."

Sonic looked at her in confusion. "What are you about to do?" He asked.

"We're about to turn into bats, just stay calm and let your body change."

"What?"

Blaze, Shadow and Amy swiftly turned into their bat forms that mostly looked the same, brownish-black fur except for their eye color being the same as their anthro forms. Sonic changed too and soon he was flapping his wings in the air with a panicked expression on his cute little bat face.

"Wha-? What the Hell?!" Sonic shouted in squeaks that only the rest of them and other bats could understand. "AHHH!"

"Stay calm." Amy squeaked she flew over to Sonic and rubbed up against him to calm him. "Just relax, and flying will be easier. You aren't falling."

Shadow and Blaze were laughing at the panicked bat while flying back and forth in the air.

"Just stay calm." Amy told Sonic. He nodded and tried to breathe steadily. The flapping of his wings changed from sporadic to steady.

"I think I'm okay." He squeaked. Amy nodded and got away from him. "Now let's go home. Sonic, you stay close to me so I can make sure you're safe when you fly."

"Okay." Sonic replied and got closer to her.

Blaze tried not to notice as She flew home beside Shadow.

One they got back home Shadow, Blaze and Amy turned back to normal. Sonic just flew there in the living room not knowing what to do to change back,

"Um, guys, what do I do to change back?" He asked in squeaks that the other vampires could still understand.

"Just think about your normal form and it will come to you." Amy replied to him. She stepped back to give him enough room to change back. Sonic frowned, thinking that it wasn't going to work but he tried it anyway. Thoughts of his normal form entered his brain. He focused on those thoughts before noticing that he was shifting back.

"You got it." The pink hedgehog praised him.

Sonic shifted quietly into his anthro form and landed on his feet. "Wow!"

She smiled. "You'll get used to doing it and you won't even have to think very hard soon."

Sonic nodded, sat down on the carpet with his legs criss cross applesauce and looked at Shadow and Blaze. "I want to know why you wouldn't answer me at the gay club about why you couldn't handle him.

Shadow and Blaze looked at each other and back at him. Amy frowned and sighed. "Okay, Sonic, we have to tell you something about what you are." She sat down in the big red velvet chair. "Come over here, it's story time."

Sonic crawled over to the chair and sat down. Shadow and Blaze got on the sides of the chair to be backup storytellers. Amy breathed in before starting her story. She spoke:

"Long ago there were wars between vampires and werewolves all around the world. Vampires and werewolves hated each other and were always accusing each other of stealing one another's territory, which is the most common reason for the wars. Also vampires had more power than the werewolves as a whole and would use the wolves as slaves, if they were lucky enough some would acquire the job of being a servant to them instead of a slave."

Sonic's ears went back as she told of the werewolves being slaves to vampires. He started to growl. Shadow gave him a "Watch it" look.

She continued. "The head of the vampire council was very brutal and wouldn't hesitate to give orders to kill any werewolf the vampire's forces came across. The bloody wars went on and on, and people tired of the fight on both sides began to form. Angry with the wars, those people began making their own soldiers. Those were the first vampire-werewolf hybrids created, for the purpose of being a third militia to wipe out both armies. The vampire side and the werewolf side both hated these hybrids as they were stronger than both types of monster and it was wiping out their troops. The two sides fought hard against each other and the hybrids but in the end, it looked like the vampires were going to win and they did. But the Council was still afraid that the hybrids would attack again so they banned vampire-werewolf relationships and the creation of new hybrids."

Sonic nodded. "What about the werewolves?" He asked. "How do they feel about it?"

"They just hate vampires because of the slavery they were put into. Hybrids are forbidden in their society too." Amy answered. "Didn't you learn this from your parents?"

"No."

Shadow spoke. "That's why I was yelling that Amy had done something illegal and that the Vampire Council will be up our asses and we might get fucking ARRESTED, OR WORSE!" He finished his sentence through his teeth while shooting eye daggers at Amy.

"You don't think I knew what the risk was when I turned him?!" Amy replied. "I already told you that Sonic is my best friend and I would do ANYTHING for him!"

"You two, do not get into another fight about this!" Blaze shouted. She pushed their faces apart and held onto Amy's shoulder. "Calm down. Arguing won't solve anything."

"If Shadow wouldn't keep bringing it up I wouldn't have to yell at him!"

Shadow frowned. "I keep bringing it up because you could get us in loads of trouble!"

"STOP!" Blaze pushed Shadow and Amy away from each other. She was a bit too strong as Shadow got pushed back to the door that led into the kitchen and Amy fell out of the chair.

Shadow glared at her. "BLAZE!"

Blaze helped Amy off of the floor and dusted her off. "I'm so sorry Amy." She apologized.

"Why did you push me?" Amy asked annoyed.

"I just wanted you two to stop arguing. You two are always fighting about something and I've about had enough of it."

"Well we aren't going to stop just because of you!"

"Shadow, maybe we should stop." Amy replied to him, sighing. "I'm tired." She felt her throat. "And my throat hurts from yelling."

"Well then if you're tired then go to bed." Blaze told her calmly while holding her hand.

"Right…" The pink vampire got up from the chair. "I'm going to bed." She hugged Blaze and Sonic and went to her room and closed the door.

Shadow stomped over to Sonic and Blaze. "Blaze I swear if you push me into the wall EVER again I will-"

Blaze grabbed his hand and twisted his arm around his back. She got close to his ear and whispered with venom in her voice. "Listen here, you may be the oldest but I AM the strongest vampire in this house. Don't you DARE think that you can threaten me when I can beat you down within an inch of your undead life. When I say to stop doing something, you stop doing it. Do I make myself clear?"

Shadow nodded and breathed out the air he was holding in. The purple cat let him go. He relocated his shoulder and popped it back into place. "I understand. I will go now." He walked away into the dark hallway and disappeared.

Sonic sat there in awe and fear of what just happened. He needed to remember not to mess with Blaze.

"What are you staring at?" Blaze asked in an frusterated voice.

"Nothing." Sonic looked away from her and started to whistle a tune.

"Good." The cat sat down in another chair that wasn't the big red one and began trying to calm herself down. Sonic quickly got out of there and ran to his room. He shut the door and slid down it.

"I am so dead, not vampire dead, but dead, dead."

Shadow was sitting in a bean bag in his room trying to clear his mind, but Sonic kept coming back to it. He was just so goddamn annoying. But why was that hot? He looked at the door and sighed. He got up and left the room and headed towards Sonic's room just to check on him, to see if he was okay. He grabbed the door handle and opened the door to Sonic's room.

"Sonic?"

"I'm in here." Sonic's voice came from inside his coffin. Shadow entered the room and sat down next to it.

"What do you want?" Sonic asked, a bit rudely.

Shadow sighed. "I wanted to say that, I'm sorry for arguing with Amy."

Sonic opened the lid slightly. "Why are you apologizing to me, you should be apologizing to her."

"I know but, you were the subject."

"You're so mean to me when I didn't even do anything to you."

"Being a vampire kind of makes you a bit meaner."

"But why?"

"Because it's something natural within us, we can't help it."

"No I mean why are you so offended by my existence?"

Shadow looked at him like he was stupid. "Didn't you hear the story? Your kind is forbidden."

"But I didn't choose to be this way."

Something hit Shadow in the heart, he had said the same thing but for a different reason. He had to tell him.

"Um Sonic, I have something to tell you before it rips me to shreds."

Sonic pushed the coffin lid open and sat up. "What is it?" He asked.

Shadow looked at the floor and back to Sonic. "Sonic…I'm gay."

A ripple of awkwardness went through the blue hedgehog. "Why are you telling me this?"

Shadow opened his mouth to speak but then closed it again. He didn't look at the blue hedgehog.

"What?"

He looked at him and opened his mouth again. "I'm telling you this…Because…"

"…You have a crush on me?" Sonic asked. He didn't respond. "Shadow-"

Suddenly Shadow was gone, the door was open.

"Shadow."