Chapter Seven

When they got back to the castle, Sonic was to be punished for removing his collar despite saving Sally's life and for making the werewolves back off. He stood between two poles with his wrists chained to them about to be flogged. All the Lycan slaves and the vampire soldiers and council members stood to watch.

Maximillum stepped forward and began his sentence "For removing the collar!" he barked, "30 lashes!" he stepped forward and faced Sonic. "You have stung me Lycan!" he snarled "with your betrayal, you were like a son; I gave you your life" "You gave me chains" Sonic replied looking Maximillum in the eyes.

"I would have thought, after all these years, you would have known" said Maximillum "you cannot have one without the other" Sonic glared at him "DO IT!" Maximillum snapped at Nack who walked up behind Sonic holding a whip with three sharp metal blades on the end. The other Lycans looked on in horror.

The purple weasel walked up to Sonic and growled mockingly into his ear "I told you I would be there when you fell!" he smirked. Sonic took a deep breath readying himself for the punishment; he could hear the metal blades from the whip drag along the ground. He looked up towards Sally's window, hoping that looking at her window would distract him from the pain of the bladed whips.

Up in the bedroom Sally sat there with her handmaiden, Bunnie, a young sandy coloured rabbit with blonde hair. She had been sitting by her window when she heard Sonic's punishment was beginning. For defying her father she had been banished to her room, but Bunnie had decided to keep her company. She ran to the window to watch her lover's undeserved punishment for saving her life from the werewolves.

Sonic clutched his chains and gritted his teeth against the pain of the whips, Nack still continued to strike him, harder and harder and every time they struck him, he would yell in agony and cuts appeared on his back. The two Lycans that had admired Sonic after he stood up to the Vampires, the purple chameleon and the red Armadillo couldn't stand any more of their friend's torture and the purple Chameleon tried to intervene but was knocked back by a Vampire soldier.

Maximillum turned to watch as the solider beat up the chameleon and another threatened the armadillo with a crossbow, warning him he would face severe punishment if he stepped out of line. Nack continued to strike Sonic more and more, and as the wounds got deeper it got more painful and Sonic couldn't hold in his screams of agony yet he still tried to keep his eyes on Sally's bedroom window he could see her shadow as she was watching him.

Maximillum then turned to walk back to the castle, throughout Sonic's punishment he had seen Monkey Khan looking on disapprovingly. The Vampire Monkey had not approved of Sonic being punished for removing his collar; after all even though he had disobeyed he had made the werewolves back away.

"What?" Maximillum demanded to the solemn Vampire Monkey "Stop this" said Monkey Khan "He is one of our protectors" "they are but beasts themselves" snapped Maximillum "This could stir up the others!" said Monkey Khan in a worried voice. "Let them stir" snarled Maximillum "do your fear them? Believe me; it will be worse if we do not punish them"

He turned to the Monkey "Do you see now Monkey Khan? You would trust them outside the wall? We cannot even trust them inside!" he then looked up to Nack who was still flogging Sonic "By my count that's Twenty-one!" he barked "continue!" he then walked back into the castle, the other Council Members following him.

Finally after Sonic's torture was over, a couple of vampires dragged him from the flogging posts to the cells, "Bloody stink!" said one, they then got to an empty cell and threw the half dead hedgehog inside, they then locked the cell door and walked away.

The red echidna who was in the cell next door, saw Sonic on the floor and leaned over onto the bars of his cell to see if he was ok, "Stay away from him!" said a frightened prisoner from the cell across "or they'll punish you too!" the red echidna ignored him and held up a sponge filled with water and squeezed it over Sonic's mouth, Sonic stuck out his tongue trying to catch the drips, the other prisoners watched as he coughed, waking up from his tortured state.

Poor Sonic, flogged and for what? protecting Sally and making the Werewolves back off. Hardly fair huh?

Hope you enjoyed it!