Halloween Special

Sonic looked up at the pink hedgehog as she walked around in her witch costume.

"Miss Amy? What are you wearing? It's pretty but it doesn't look comfortable." Sonic said, referring to the green plastic mask strapped to Amy's face.

"It's Halloween. Don't you celebrate Halloween at Eggman's base?" Amy asked, confused.

She'd seen Eggman's robots wear costumes before. She seemed to remember Orbot and Cubot dressing up as a vampire and frankenstein.

"Well, yeah. We know of All Hallow's Eve but Ivo never said anything about it being Halloween."

"Well! Halloween is when we get dressed up as silly or scary monsters and go out trick or treating to get candy. It's really fun for kids." Amy explained. "But since we're old enough to not go trick or treating, we just have a party. All of our friends are coming. You wanna help me make the food?"

"Of course!" Sonic exclaimed, standing up and rushing to help her.

She did say she would teach him how to cook.

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After the several hours of baking and setting up, Sonic plopped down on the couch, exhausted from all the hard work. Amy giggled as she went to get the door. Silver and Blaze walked in in their costumes. Blaze looked normal while Silver has red paint all over his face.

"What are you dressed up as?" Sonic asked, leaning his head on his arms against the back on his chair.

"A zombie" Silver said, pridefully.

"What's a zombie?" Sonic asked, confused.

"A zombie is a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions" Blaze answered, crossing her arms.

Both Amy and Silver looked at her with slight confusion but Sonic nodded.

"That makes sense" he said with a finger to his chin.

Over time, each of their friends showed up one by one before all but one of them had arrived. Amy sat next to Rouge at the bar.

"Where's Shadow? Sonic was really excited to see him" Amy said, looking over at Sonic, who kept looking out the window expectantly.

"He doesn't really like parties. I tried to get him to come and it usually works when I try but he refused." Rouge said, drinking from her glass. "He told me he'd come tomorrow after he'd taken care of something. He wouldn't make Sonic this upset if he didn't have something really important to take care of."

As they watched, the blue hedgehog's ears drooped as he turned away from the window. Knuckles, dressed like a mummy, draped his arm around his friend, being careful of the quills.

"Come on, Sonic. Have a piece of candy and enjoy the party! Shadow doesn't usually like coming to parties or things with a lot of people but he usually does when there's someone important to him. I know he wouldn't leave you hanging without having something important to take care of." He said.

Sonic nodded slightly before taking a candy bar and nibbling on it. Knuckles smiled softly, a look that was very rare to see towards the blue hedgehog, and led him toward where the others were sitting. Cheese sat on Sonic's head and he smiled sadly as he hugged the chao. Amy faced the window.

"Dammit Shadow... Where are you?" she muttered.

Sonic came out and sat on the porch. All this waiting was getting tiring. Each of his friends had told him to enjoy the party but he didn't want to have fun without Shadow there to enjoy it too. It was Halloween but Shadow was out saving the world again. Sonic sighed and leaned his head against his hands, shivering slightly in the cold air. A sudden warmth on his arms caused him to reach up to find a blanket had been cloaked over him. He looked around to find he was still alone but he knew he wasn't. Shadow had trained him better than that.

"Shadow?" He stood and looked over the banister of the patio to see Shadow knelt down on the ground.

Sonic's eyes grew wide and he jumped off the patio and into Shadow's arms.

"How did you know I was here?" Shadow asked.

"It was pretty obvious." Sonic smiled. "I could see the tip of you top quill."

Shadow smirked and crossed his arms while Sonic simply held his hands behind his back. The dark hedgehog looked over his counterpart and frowned.

"How come you're not wearing a costume?" Shadow asked.

"I was busy with helping Miss Amy set up for the party so I kinda learned about it and then watched as everyone else came dressed up. It didn't really occur to me" Sonic explained, smiling shyly and scratching the back of his neck.

Shadow nodded, noting the fact that Sonic hadn't known anything about Halloween, before setting a hat on the blue hedgehog's head. It looked like the top of his own quills that a fan store had made for those few of his fans.

Sonic pulled off the hat before looking it over and putting it back on. His eyes widened in excitement and he clapped his hands excitedly before a cloth covered his head. He pulled it back to reveal it was a jacket that was fashioned to look like Shadow's torso. Another thing he had got at that store.

"Put that on. This cold doesn't affect me but you're more sensitive to it so put that on. It'll help your costume too" Shadow said, crossing his arms and looking away.

Sonic smiled.

"Happy Halloween, Shadow" He said, leading the black hedgehog inside.

DaWWW! So cute! Anyways, Happy Halloween, everyone! More is to come!