Shadow and Nebula having a moment time with each other. All of a sudden, Nebula's ears starts to twitch rapidly which Shadow noticed this too.

"What is it?" Shadow asked her.

"I sense trouble here. Let's go home" Nebula said with worry.

"Let me guess, robbers?" Shadow guessed, but Nebula shook her head no. Shadow understood and the two walked away from the carnival.

But Nebula still sensed the danger as she and Shadow began to run far away from the carnival and the park.

"Shadow, I have a feeling like we're being watched" Nebula said.

"Don't worry Nebula, we'll go together or we fight whoever it is" Shadow said, cracking his knuckles.

They both stand close together and had their fists up in the air.

"Come out here!" Shadow shouted.

"Show yourself!" Nebula yelled. Then the stranger showed to be Fiona the fox.

"What are you doing here Fiona?!" Shadow snarled with an angry glare at the red fox.

"Didn't I tell you to stay away from her?!" Fiona said angrily.

"She's not dangerous and mean, Fiona. You are the one who is going too far!" Shadow said.

"Why the hell are you following us, Fiona?" Nebula asked.

"To make you stay away from him!" Fiona said.

Shadow stands in front of Nebula with bravery, "You're not touching her! Now just back away!" he said angrily.

"Fine! But I won't give up!" Fiona growls and walks away with angry steps.

"Finally. But what is she really up to?" Nebula wondered.

"I suppose she wants me back or that she knows what's gonna happen" Shadow said, holding Nebula close.

She hides her face in Shadow's chest fur, "You and her were once a couple?" she asked.

"Yeah, but she dumped me for that green asshole. I left her group and became friends with the good guys, the ones you met" Shadow said.

"That's the right thing you did, Shadow. She didn't listen to her heart" Nebula looked up on Shadow.

"I know. Now she wants me back but I am not gonna let that happen" Shadow said.

"I guess so. But now I got to get back home" Nebula said and is about to leave until Shadow did something to her surprise. He kissed her on the lips. Nebula's eyes widen but then closed them and kissed back.

Shadow wraps his arms around her waist while Nebula cups his face. Then they pulled from the kiss for air.

".....Aaahh........" Nebula sighs dreamily from the kiss which really stunned her.

"My god that felt good" Shadow said with a blush on his face.

"I have to admit I had weird feelings for you since you supported me" Nebula said.

"Same here. There's something called love comes from the heart" Shadow said.

"I thought the same too. You just read my mind" Nebula smiled.

"Really? Then let's go back home now shall we?" Shadow said, holding her hand.

"Sure" she nods as they walked down the street.

Once they arrived to Nebula's house, the blue-violet hedgehog was too happy that she found her true lover. She gladly accepts to be Shadow's girlfriend.

"I'm very glad that we hanged out today Shadow" Nebula said and hugged him.

"Me too, Nebs" Shadow said and hugged her back.

They soon pulled apart and looked at each other's eyes. Nebula's was like diamonds for Shadow's crimson eyes.

"You are beautiful, Nebula" Shadow said with a smooth voice.

"Thanks Shadow, I love you" Nebula hugged him again.

"I love you too Nebs" Shadow said. As they hugged, their tails wagged.

"Oh, your tail is wagging" Nebula giggled.

Shadow then gets shocked for what she said, "It is?" he asked.

"Yup. Don't worry, its normal" Nebula said.

Shadow smiled sweetly and they eskimo-kissed each other with their noses.

"Well uh, I got to go home now Nebula. See you tomorrow" Shadow said.

"See you too. Bye Shads" she said and closes the door.

Shadow hover-skates back home; never in his entire life had he felt so happy to have the true girl be the one in his heart.

"I can't believe it, I just confessed my love for real" Shadow said to himself, he looked back at Nebula's house but didn't see where he was going. He crashed onto Silver!

*THUD*

"Ugh! How many times are you gonna bump into me, Shadow?" Silver groaned from the impact. He gets really annoyed like the last time when Shadow bumped into him a few times last year.

"None, I was looking back at Nebula's house. Nebula and I were at the carnival today" Shadow said and got up.

Silver got up too, dusting himself off, "Really? Did you kiss? Please tell me you did!" he got too excited, in a girly reaction way when girls squeal in happiness.

Shadow looked at both sides to make sure no one was there. He then spoke out, "Yes, we just confessed our love. I can still feel the taste of her lips" Shadow said.

Silver smirked, "I knew you had feelings for her. So cute!" he squealed like a girl.

"Silver, you're acting girly again!" Shadow got really annoyed.

"Damn it!" Silver shuts himself up, "I really gotta stop acting so girly" he grumbles.

Shadow chuckled, "I can see why Blaze says that you're naïve" he crossed his arms.

Silver rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Yeah, I know. But that's what she likes about me"

"Really? Good. Well I got to head back home now, Silver. Bye" Shadow said as he continues to hover-skate back home. Silver shook his head while snickering, he then walks back home.

When Shadow arrived back home he walked upstairs to his room. He laid down on his bed thinking of Nebula again.

"Now I have to think what to do with her at Wednesday school dance. I got time to think of something during Monday and Tuesday" Shadow said to himself.

"But I got to protect her from my enemies" he added.

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The next day it was Monday morning, Shadow was skateboarding to school again and sees his friends on the way.

"Heads up guys!" Shadow yelled and jumps over his friends while they dodged him.

"WHOA!" they all gasped.

"Ha, you missed!" Sonic smirked.

"I know" Shadow smirked back, getting of his skateboard and decides to walk with them to school.

"Hey Shadow, how did it go for you and Nebula?" Sonic asked Shadow.

"Pretty well, we were at the carnival yesterday and had fun" Shadow replied.

"Uh huh? Did you two try the water glide? I'm afraid of water you know" Sonic guessed.

"Yup and we also tried out the strength machine" Shadow said.

"I see. Tails and I were spending time on playing with our PS3" Sonic said; Tails nodded at this.

"Interesting. Now let's get to class, guys. We don't want to get marked tardy again" Shadow said.

"Yeah, let's go guys" they walked to the entrance and goes to their classroom where Vanilla awaited them. She checked the clock and they were in good time.

"I'm glad you are all in time for class, cause today we are gonna watch a documentary about history" Vanilla said, bringing in the projector.

Amy reaches up her hand for a question, "What kind of documentary?" she asked.

"About the 30,000-10,000 B.C when cave men and ancient animals roamed around the world" Vanilla explained and turned on the projector, the class and her watched when ancient animals like the cave bear attacked some deer for food.

It then showed how mammoths could have lived in herds like modern day elephants and defending their calves from prehistoric lions. Amy was herself drawing herself and Sonic as a pink and blue mammoth pair holding each other's trunks like holding hands. Sonic notices this and smiled sweetly, but they had to focus on the video. The narrator of the video tells them about how a saber-toothed cat could have attacked their prey.

"This large cat could have used their long fangs to stab their enemies like a dagger in the neck. Their jaws could open their jaws 65 degrees" the narrator said and showed a skull of a Smilodon opening the jaws that way.

"Wow, I would not meet those" Silver said quietly to himself.

Soon, class was done and they all go to their next class. Shadow had gym class and he sure was gonna be happy to see Nebula in gym class, but still a little worried that his enemies will be there. He goes in the boys' locker room to get changed into his sports outfit.

"Hey, Shads. Ready to get your legs pumping?" Sonic said, referring to that they're going to do a race at the track.

"Yep, I'm always ready" Shadow said. After the guys were done dressing up they got out to the track field with the girls.

Shadow saw Fiona and Sally arguing with the violet-blue hedgehog and he sure wasn't too happy to see his two enemies bothering his girlfriend.

"Hmph, I don't need to listen to your mouth, foxy and chipmunk! And brush your teeth next time! You two smell like cigarettes" Nebula scoffed and walks away.

"Uh do I?" Sally got confused and smells her own breath, to which she did a disgusted face.

"Yes, now we better outsmart her in the race Sal" Fiona scoffs in anger. The class got in position at the tracks as the coach approaches.

"Alright class, we warm up by running 3 rounds around the tracks!" the coach said and takes out the whistle pipe.

"Get ready...set...GO!" the coach blew the whistle pipe and the whole class began to run at the tracks, Shadow and Sonic where the fastest ones along with Scourge, though that they are using 1/4 of their speed.

The others were behind them and Nebula was very close to her true friends to not get in trouble with her rivals, but Fiona got closer and pushes her out in the way, making Nebula almost lost her balance. But the blue-violet hedgehog didn't give up and continues to run. The coach was keeping an eye on them and checked the timer; one round passed.

Shadow was making sure that Scourge or the bad girls Fiona and Sally won't do anything harmful on Nebula.

"Alright, Nebula sure is alright now and the coach sees everything so they won't get her" Shadow said in his thoughts. Sonic ran past him and Scourge followed soon after.

"Come on, Shads! Is that all you got?!" Sonic laughed.

"Hmph!" Shadow scoffs and began to run faster, running up to Scourge and Sonic with an evil grin on his face.

"I'm just getting warmed up" Shadow grinned.

After doing all the rounds the class took a break.

"Phew, that was a tough run" Rouge wipes her forehead, she then drinks from her water bottle.

"Yeah, I'm pretty warmed up, literally" Blaze panted out. Amy was drinking from her water bottle while staring at Sonic. Anime hearts was hovering over her head.

Nebula was sitting on the bleachers with Shadow, "Man, you and Sonic are really fast"

"Yup, we are almost equals, Scourge is a bit slower" Shadow said.

"I see, but you are only fast with these shoes on?" Nebula guessed, referring to the hover-shoes.

"Exactly, without them I would stumble" Shadow said.

Nearby Knuckles did some stretching with the coach.

"Good job Knuckles, keeping going" the coach said to him.

Knuckles then did push-ups 30 times until Rouge steps in front of him with a sly smirk on her face. Knuckles looked up and got distracted so he loses his balance on the ground, crashing his nose on the concrete.

"Rouge, don't bother him please" the coach said.

"Sorry, coach" Rouge chuckled seductively.

Knuckles got up with a glare; holding his nose since it was bleeding.

"Rouge, you broke my nose again!" Knuckles growled.

"It's not my fault. You could not stop staring at my hourglass figure" Rouge said.

Knuckles' muzzle blushed red, "You're batty!"

But Rouge simply chuckled at his reaction and walks away to join the other girls. Knuckles was still glaring at her for distracting him.