"Where are we going?" Sonic asked Shadow as they were walking downtown one night.

"You'll find out." He answered while looking forward in the direction that they were going.

Sonic looked around to maybe figure out where they were going. "Shadow, I swear if it's another gay club I will-"

"It's not. I just want to show you around town, without having the ladies around. Like a guy's night."

Sonic frowned and looked at him. "This is a date isn't it?"

Shadow looked back at him with a smirk on his face and quickly pinned Sonic against a building in the shadows of an alley. The blue hedgehog glared at him.

"Correct." Shadow answered and leaned closer into Sonic's face and smiled to where his fangs showed.

"Shadow I'm not afraid of you and I'm already a vampire-"

Shadow moved forward, keeping his eyes on Sonic's.

"Shadow I don't-" Sonic started but was silenced by the black and red vampire's lips touching his. His eyes widened in surprise. He shrank back to get away from him. "Shadow this is WAY too soon. I'm sorry but I don't feel comfortable kissing anyone!"

Shadow started to laugh. "Ha ha ha, I was just fucking with you." He backed off. "I do that with all of my boyfriends on the first date. It's amusing to watch them squirm."

Sonic got time to breathe. "Boyfriend? I don't remember ever saying that I liked you back."

The black and red hedgehog smirked. "Oh I can tell when someone likes me, even a little bit, and your thoughts are the opposite of your speech."

Sonic backed up against the building. "My thoughts are exactly what I say!" He lied. "How are you getting that?"

"Two words: Mind. Reading."

"Mind reading? But how could I be attracted to you? All you are is mean to me."

Shadow shrugged. "Maybe you are into being put down and humiliated. Fetishes are subconscious until you realize them."

"I don't have a fetish for that!"

"You're either lying or you haven't discovered it yet. Let me see…"

The blue vampire covered his temples. "No you are not! Get out of my head!"

"Oh I already know." He replied. "I'm just waiting for you to admit it. The good little Christian boy is actually attracted to guys and has a fetish for being put down, like a sinner." He taunted.

"I am not a sinner!" Sonic said loudly.

Shadow smirked again. "Oh yes you are. You're a vampire, a demonic creature that walks the night preying upon the innocent for their blood. If you're still in denial, try going to a church and standing in front of a crucifix. All you will feel is pain and you will be dying to get away from it."

Sonic grit his teeth. "I am not!" He sped away from his tormentor and into the night. He got out of town and turned into his bat form. He tried to fly and not fall but he kept dipping down towards the ground. He flew into some trees and hung from a branch and went over the thoughts in his head. I don't want to be a demon. I just want to be me. But…I don't know what I feel! I always thought I was straight! But, why am I thinking about him? When he called me an idiot, something just… Maybe I am a sinner…

Sonic hung there until a rock flew at him from below. The bat panicked and screeched and fell to the ground. Sonic changed back just as a dark figure loomed over him. He rubbed his head and his eyes and looked up at his attacker.

"Hello there, Hybrid."

Sonic's vision finally focused. He could see perfectly in the dark as if it were daylight with his vampiric vision. The same purple hedgehog with the red and yellow heterochromia that hit on him in the club from the other night two weeks ago was standing in front of him with a sinister fanged smile on his face.

"It's you!" Sonic exclaimed. "What do you want?"

"How rude, my name isn't "You"." He replied. His smile faded as he watched Sonic get up off the ground. "Stay down!" The dark purple hedgehog hit him in the chest and knocked him down again.

"Ow!"

"My name is Draven, Draven the Hedgehog."

Sonic tried to get his wind back into him. "Well it's very nice to meet you." He replied sarcastically and coughed. "What do you want with me?"

Draven smiled again. "Nothing, it's just nice to meet another VampWolf like myself."

Sonic gasped. "You're a hybrid too?"

Draven nodded.

"And VampWolf? Is that what we're called?"

"To tell ya the truth, I don't really know what our official name is, but that's just a word I made up." The purple hedgehog looked down at the poor hybrid. "You seem very weak though, for a hybrid."

"Well I'm sorry. I've only been one for like, three weeks."

"Oh, so you're just a pup."

"I was a werewolf first!"

Draven circled him with his hands behind his back. "I saw you and your boyfriend in that alleyway. It looked like things were going to get sexy, before you two got into a lover's quarrel."

Sonic's face turned red in embarrassment. "It wasn't a lover's quarrel, and he's not my boyfriend!"

Draven's lids drooped and he gave a slight smile. "Oh, yeah, right. You keep telling yourself that, but we ALL know what that was."

"It wasn't!"

"Hmph." The purple hybrid hedgehog suddenly picked him up off the ground by the scruff of his neck and punched him square in the jaw which sent him flying into the tree. "My bosses want you dead. Dead, dead."

Sonic rubbed his jaw and shakily got up. "What for?!" Who are you?!" He ran towards the purple hedgehog with his hands fully clawed with the intent to cut him.

Draven teleported at the last second and Sonic missed. The hedgehog went back for a second round but got decked.

"I'm the guy that's going to end you!" Draven answered. "Com'on you gotta be better than that!" He transformed into a colony of bats and attacked again.

Sonic swatted at the bats and tried to get away. He stumbled over but then tried a homing attack on him once he transformed back.

Draven was too close to him to doge in time and got hit in the stomach. Sonic's quills slashed at his jacket and tore his white shirt to pieces.

"MY JACKET!" He exclaimed. "Do you know how much fucking money that this cost me?!" He flew up in the air and threw his right arm back. "CHAOS…SPEAR!" He launched several chaos spears at Sonic in a frenzy. Sonic dodged most of hem but was caught by one of them. He covered the burn mark with his hand and spit out blood from his mouth. He smiled slightly, trying to find some playful banter in him like he always did in fights against other people.

"You think that will put me six feet under? I don't die that easily!" He said this even though Amy had killed him to make him a vampire, easily. It was embarrassing.

Draven flew down and caught him by the arm and began spinning him around to throw him. Sonic slashed his face with his claws to get him to let go, which he did and still sent him flying. Sonic fixed himself, fell on his feet and skidded on the grass, tearing it up, but the force of the throw made the fall even harder. And the impact to the ground sent a sharp pain from Sonic's left ankle up into his leg.

"You think that'll stop me?" Sonic asked as he got up, but when he put weight on his left foot the pain got worse. "Ow! I'm just getting started. Ouch!" Sonic quickly realized that something was wrong with his ankle, and he couldn't stand up. He kneeled on the other leg. "I can still take you on." He winced.

"Oh really? Say goodnight blue hedgehog!" Draven aimed at him and prepared his killing blow. Sonic closed his eyes, he was hurt, but he didn't want to admit that he was defeated.

Draven raced toward him.

A blur of black and red appeared and intercepted the purple hedgehog. Bashing him away from his path to the hurt hedgehog. Draven skidded on the dirt. "What the Hell?"

Shadow stood in a violent stance, ready to fight. "Don't you DARE touch him!" He hissed.

"Oh, so the hybrid's boyfriend is here to save the day! How sweet." Draven carefully got up. "It's a shame I'll have to kill both of you though. I wanted to minimize the death toll."

"Shut up and fight." Shadow growled.

"Alright." Draven popped his shoulder back into place. "I'm ready."

Shadow took a step forward and watched the purple hedgehog's movements. They both suddenly shot off towards each other in spin dashes. They both bounced off of each other and uncurled in the air, both launched off chaos spears that exploded upon collision. Sonic sat there watching the fight.

Shadow saw that Draven was already worn out a bit from fighting with Sonic and when he hit him from the side, so he could use that to his advantage. He pulled back his fist as it surrounded itself with Chaos energy. This would put him down.

"The fucking queer's gonna get it!" Draven surrounded himself with darkness. "NOW YOU'LL SEE MY ULTIMATE POWER! HA HA HA HA! He started to laugh maniacally, but in the middle of his crazy laughter Shadow had disappeared. Shadow reappeared behind him and punched him with his chaos energy infused fist right in the back of the head.

"Oof!" Draven fell to the ground and made a crater. He couldn't see anything, and he couldn't think. He lay there in a daze.

Shadow came back down to the earth. "You were too busy laughing to figure out where your opponent was, and that was your downfall. You boast about having "The Ultimate Power" Do you know who I am?"

"No, and frankly I don't give a shit."

Shadow turned to Sonic who was sitting in the grass holding his foot in a way that minimized the pain. The black hedgehog kneeled down to look at it.

"Are you okay?" He asked. "What's wrong with your foot?"

Sonic winced. "I can't stand up. I think my ankle is broken."

"Oh."

"It really hurts."

"I'll take you back to the house. Maybe Amy has something that could help." Shadow picked him up and held him in his arms.

"You aren't going to take me to the hospital?"

The hedgehog shook his head. "No, we can't risk mortals finding out that we're…"

"Vampires?" Sonic asked.

"Yes, and I'm pretty sure you don't want to be staked."

"Uh huh."

Shadow held Sonic's head under his chin. "Hold on."

Sonic quietly blushed.

They teleported back to the house.