Mephiles stopped, awe struck peridot which glowed in the dark shadow, locked onto frightened velvet garnet and the whole word seem to have frozen.
Pale purple lips curled up at its edges. "Well, well, well…what do we have here?"
The boy's eyes widened, crimson garnets reflecting pools of fear and shock. Mephiles wasted no time grabbing his wrist and pulling him up, hypnotized by his gaze, a smile running over his lips. "I knew you were mischief. Did you let Sonic out?"
The hedgehog gasped and narrowed his eyes as Mephiles moved his face closer. The Ring Master felt the hot quickened breath of the significantly younger hedgehog upon his face, resisting the urge to mould his lips the panting maw of the one in his grip. The other hissed, ripping his wrist out of the grip of the older male, stepping back to create space between them.
"I did," he responded, glaring hatefully at the other Mobians. "The poor creature was being punished for no adequate reason!" He began to walk backward, his gaze shifting from each of the three Mobians. "His freedom was required."
Mephiles walked forward, moving closer and closer to the boy, trapping him in between the cage and his own body mass. "So your wish was to unleash a vicious beast to kill its master?" The crystalline furred male spoke, grabbing the wrist of the ebony hedgehog yet again, pulling him closer and lifting his arms above his head.
"Ah…Sir…" the quivering voice of the white hedgehog murmured, "What are you-"
"Silver!" Mephiles hissed, adjusting his grip on the boy's wrist, making it tighter. "Let the boy speak…"
The ebony hedgehog looked up at him, growling, attempting to pull his arms from Mephiles' death grip. "I did not intend for the beast trainer's death," He showed a malice grin, "But it was a great addition to my success."
Mephiles raised an eyebrow with a sarcastic expression imprinted on his facial features. The violet hedgehog flashed him a grin before one hand clutched the hip tightly before lifting him up and throwing him over his shoulder.
Everyone, with the exclusion of Mephiles, gasped in shock.
"Put me DOWN! Put me DOWN NOW!" the ebony furred shouted, attempting to tug out of the older males grasp.
"Sir, what are you doing?!" Silver shouted, running up to them.
"You two," Mephiles said in a dark, commanding tone. "Put Sonic on the train, we'll see how long Scourge's successor can last." He pointed for the two to take the cage.
"Sir I must object-" The cat girl, Blaze began, but Mephiles' icy stare stopped her in her tracks. "Yes sir," She murmured walking over to the cage and pulling it out the door.
"Silver," Mephiles hissed at the hesitating boy, nodding off in Blazes direction. He looked at the man with fear in his eyes before scampering off behind her.
"Who do you think you are?! Put me down! I will not be your stupid lion tamer, now let me up!" The distressed boy slung upon his shoulder shouted.
"Oh no, my sweet child…" Mephiles sung, trying his very best for his voice not to come out deep and lustful. "I'm afraid your fate is inevitable." He couldn't help but let out a low seductive purr, his fingers sliding under his pants line.
He heard a gasp from his coal captive as he began wriggling and shifting in his grasp. The hedgehog hissed scrunching and digging his fingers into his shoulder blade. "Let me go!" he yelped, clawing at his back.
By this point, Mephiles had walked over to a large table, covered in various whips and chains. The older male's hands gripped the fabric of his desired tightly, his fingers trailed down to clench the cloth either side of his tail to keep him still. He picked up a pair of copper cuffs; using his unoccupied hand, he wrapped them around his socked ankles. He heard an audible yowl from his captive and a grin pursed his lips.
"What are you doing?!" the boy yelped, kicking his legs as far as they'd go with the restriction of the barely 15 centimetre long chain.
"Testing you," He replied, stroking the arched back of the boy. He moved forward, walking out of the tent. There, the two acrobats stood, pressing their bodies against the large wooden cart door. "Step aside," Mephiles growled.
"Sir please!" the silverly white hedgehog cried, "I beg of you, he'll get torn to shreds!"
The boy in his grasp yelped.
"Oh shush. If he's going to become the next beast tamer he must bond with the lycanthrope." Mephiles approached the cage, snarling at the two as they stepped aside.
The older man dropped his grip on the boy, making him slide off his shoulder and catch his waist. He strongly thwarted the urge to press him against the wooden bench and slide his tongue into the other maw. Instead, he caressed the cheek of the young boy.
"There, there," He purred. He grabbed the boys chin and brought his face close to the other's. "If you got hurt, my love, I would never be able to live with myself." The boy looked away and let out a low whimper. His grip on Mephiles was weakly held as his body shook violently. His eyes were half cast and avoiding contact with peridot irises.
Mephiles sighed. He reached in and grabbed a thick chain. "Goodnight, my colleague." He said with a smile, latching the chain onto his cuffs. The boy gulped followed by a yelp as Mephiles threw him into the beast's cart. He looked dominantly down upon the younger boy, grasping the door and its frame.
"If you are really worth my time— my money, my reputation, my lust and if my instincts are correct, you will survive one night." He said to the frightened boy, before slamming the door tight.
-*People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.*-
-*Daniel Radcliffe*-
Shadow's frame froze, his muscles no longer responded to the messages sent by his brain. His arms and legs shook uncontrollably and his body was growing weaker by the second. He could feel the presence of the beast behind him, yet his body still refused to obey him. He still faced the door, his whole body quivering. The wolf shuffled, his chains clinked and clattered as it moved.
Shadow's body finally registered with him, reaching up and wrapping at the door. "Hello? Are you still there? Please let me out!" He grabbed the sliding door and attempted to pull it open. Nothing. Instead, he shook it violently. "Hello? Anybody? Please! I beg of you, let me out!" He whimpered and dropped his hand. It was hopeless.
He heard the wolf shuffle again, his ears pivoted at the sound, no more. It wasn't until the wolf's hot breath flushed down his back that his mind fully disclosed what he was doing. His body stiffened, the nose shifted down to sniff around his lower back and tail. Shadow crushed his eyelids down upon each other and his body completely broke out in shivers of fear.
He knew he was going to become dog meat. This was it for him.
Shadow lowered his head, tears threatened to spill from his eyes and a low whimper escaped his throat. The best responded oddly. The hedgehog gasped as he was suddenly pushed to the ground. The curious nose continued to explore his vulnerable body. It buried its long muzzle deep in between Shadow's neck and shoulder blade, inhaling the dark fur before licking over it with a long pink tongue.
Garnet eyes widened at the feeling and instantly crushed his shoulder onto his cheek. The beast didn't seem to mind and began to lick over the back of his neck and in between his two back quills. Shadow's body began to shiver more violently. The beast towered over him, its large clawed hands either side of his head and his shaggy tail dusting the back of his legs. He swallowed dryly. The curious nose dropped further down, back to his tail.
It began to sniff about, dropping a bit further to sniff at the soft cavity hiding under his small back tail. Shadow let out a stifled gasp. That was normal for canines, right? Sniffing down there was like a hand shake. Despite the fact he was indeed clothed, having someone sniff your butt was certainly unpleasant. The wolf then clutched the shoulder of his shirt in between its maw and dragged him over, flipping him onto his back.
Shadow again, let out a short gasp, pools of garnet met a somewhat friendly-looking emerald, a large pink tongue hanging from its toothy maw. Despite what his friendly eyes told, blood of its pervious master still coated its muzzle and its long fangs. The ebony hedgehog shivered and gulped as that same flat tongue came out and lick him over his face.
Shadows body refused to stop shivering as the tongue licked again, this time, dropping down further and licking over his vest and neck. The nose returned to sniffing down again, drifting down further occasionally stopping to nip at his clothing.
The nose stopped just above his pants line, Shadows chest heaved up and down, fearing the worst. The nose sniffed the area continuously from afar, before sticking itself directly in between Shadows legs. A sharp intake of breath came from the boy, his somewhat calm body out breaking into quivers again. The tongue came out again and licked over the area, despite it being clothed; Shadow yelped and drew up his knees, his own restrictions clattering.
The best took no heed of it and shifted his nose from the spot, now eye-to-eye with the boy pinned under him. Shadow winced as yet another sloppy dog kiss delivered onto his face. Shadow, now seeing the beast was but a puppy, went to push the mass off of him when it shuffled and opened its maw.
The beast yawned, giving its captive a direct sight of the wolf's long blood-stained fangs. The hedgehog froze and averted his eyes. The wolf shifted off of him only to curl up around him, its long arm cradling him in quite a snuggly manner.
The puzzled Shadow gasped at the sudden gentleness and affection the beast was showing him. The soft, thick, navy fur and body mass provide warmth against the cold November air and Shadows eyelids grew heavy.
He could tell the wolf had long since drifted into slumber, its body a complete dead weight on his own. Shadows eyes finally closed, his body hazily shifted and move towards the source of the heat and sleep claimed his small frame.
-*Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!*-
-*William Shakespeare*-
Sonic growled. Chaos, he hated transforming, it killed his body. Groaning, he rolled over and snuggled into the form bellow him. The form was surprisingly warm and fluffy. Sonic buried his muzzle into the crook of its neck and inhales. The form smelt spicy, like nutmeg. It reminded him of Christmas Eve, with punch bowls full of eggnog, cookies baking in the oven and walnuts roasting on an open fire. The form purred happily.
Sonic's eyes snapped open. Wait…
The hedgehog slowly sat up, spying a thick black pelt. Soon, a black hedgehog that had oddly placed quills with red streaks registered in his brain. The hedgehog was fully clothed, vest, pants, undershirt, high socks and loafers. He did look rather cute there…
Sonic froze.
The boy below him purred again, thumping a little black tail against his abdomen. His rear was perfectly placed against Sonic's crotch, his body positioned in a 145 degree angle. From what he could remember, he was curled up around the other in like a spooning position.
He paled.
Slowly he went to remove the boy, to see if he had caused any damage, but had a quick intake of breath at the sight of his arm and shoulder. Completely and utterly coated in blood. He screamed. Legs kicked away from the other, noticing the lots of blood and the restricting, over-grown collar on his neck.
The boy in turn pulled up abruptly, scampering backward, body alert, ears pivoting around and red eyes wide. The hyperventilating hedgehog stopped and rich garnet met sparkling emerald. "Wh-who, what- the wolf-" the boy began kicking backwards with his back pressed against the cart walls, this was when Sonic noticed the copper cuffs wrapped around his thin ankles.
"Calm down, okay. I'm not going to-" Sonic began, crawling forward.
"Wolf- you're a- you're a…" the quivering voice of the boy spoke, his form shaking as he desperately kicked away.
"A werewolf, I know. Just stay calm."
The ebony hedgehog squealed. "Werewolf?!"
Sonic jerked upwards at the sudden noise. "Yes, now did I hurt you? Is this blood yours?" The boy shook his head.
Sonic sighed in relief, it must have been his. Scourge must have whipped him black and blue, well, till he bled excessively. He reached up and undid his collar, letting it fall to the ground with a thud, "Alright, I'll undo your shackles and then you can tell me how you got in here, okay?"
The boy nodded slowly, a blush creeping on to his face.
Sonic sighed again, hands dropping down to the others feet and putting in the code that Mephiles used in all his restraints. The cuffs fell right off.
"Now," Sonic began, but when he looked up, the boy's face was blushed a bright red and his eyes flicked around the cell nervously. "What-"
Garnet eyes flicked down to his lower body before flicking back up to look him in eye. A heavy blush coated his face when he realised he was currently stark naked. Nothing was showing, of course, but all the more he was nude in front if a complete stranger.
"Ahh…" he said nervously, now sifting through the lots of hay around him, finding a spare pair of shorts before quickly sliding them on. "Sorry about that," He gushed. "We should, y'know, leave." The boy nodded before moving out after Sonic motion for him to follow.
He opened the doors and let the light shine in, it was early morning still, and the air was thick. "Look who survived." A perky voice came from beside them and a white hedgehog with amber eyes known as Silver walked up to the both of them. "No one wanted to go in to make you two up," He said, gesturing to the blood-covered Sonic.
The said hedgehog put a hand to his face, "Oh yeah, that reminds me, WHY AM I COVERED IN BLOOD?!" He shouted before pointing a finger at the black furred hedgehog beside him, "AND WHO IS HE?!"
Silver sighed. "Look, why don't you two get cleaned off back at your cabin, gets some new clothes and take a shower, then take it up with Sir, since he said he wanted to talk to you first thing."
Sonic put a hand to his face and rubbed his eyes, successfully spreading the blood more so over this face and hands. "Of course he had something to do with this…" He groaned. Sonic turned to face the boy. "Looks like you're my bunk buddy for now, you're a bit thin, but you could fit into some of my clothes." The boy remained silent, but nodded. "My cart is over there and the shower carts are up the other end." He gestured to each cart as he spoke.
"Before we go any further, we haven't been formally introduced. I'm Olgilvie Amalberti, but my show name is Sonic, and what I'm often addressed as." He offered out his hand to shake.
The boy took his hand hesitantly, shaking it quickly before drawing back. "Why are you called-" Before the boy could finish, a blue blur formed a circle around him, before stopping in a spray of dirt. "That answer your question?"
The boy nodded and a murmured "Show off." came from the white hedgehog beside them. "I'm off. Sir's in Vanilla's cart getting his suit touched up, so you can just walk right in." Silver flicked a hand off his forehead and walked off.
"Wonderful." Sonic said sarcastically. "The shady bastard…Did Signor say anything to you?" He said, looking to the other.
"Mephiles? Not really… we just had a lot of stare downs." The boy sighed, rubbing his neck.
"Of course…" Sonic groaned looking out over across the hills towards the morning sun. "That reminds me, I don't know your name."
"Huh?" The boy was also caught up in the sight, and snapped his head back up to look at the blue hedgehog. "Oh yeah, it's Shadow."
"Shadow, nice. Not made up?"
"No…my father was always weird with names."
"Hm, got a last name?"
"Black."
"Shadow Black? Geez he was weird."
Shadow chuckled. "It's said with the surname first."
"Black Shadow? Looks like you don't need a show name." He joined in on Shadow's small laughter. "But Black Shadow…where have I heard that name before…"
Shadow looked frightened for a few seconds, "It doesn't matter, I'm currently covered in your wolf slobber and you're covered in blood. We need to clean it off."
Sonic laughed. "Alright. This way." He motioned for Shadow to follow him yet again. Black Shadow… he thought. This is going to annoy me…
A/N: HAI FOLKS.
LOVELY. SONADOW HAS SURFACED.
WONDERFUL.
BLACK SHADOW. LAME, I KNOW.
THANK YAOITROUBLE1213 FOR BETA READING THIS CHAPTER AND THE OTHER TWO WERE DONE BY SONICATHEHEDGEHOG000.
I LIKE CAPS.
XXSHADOWFALLXX OUT.