Hurray! An update from me! I was hoping I could break from my laziness soon...

Shadow: ...the only reason why it happened was because you got suspended from that shit site of DeviantArt.

I thought it was funny.

Shadow: ....of course you did.

Teehee! Well I would like to thank those assholes that reported me for writing 'porno' on that site! You guys got me through my laziness!

Sonic: Shouldn't she be pissed at them for reporting her?

Shadow: I have no idea...

I'm blessed with a sunny disposition, most people seem to like it.

Shadow: I just think that maybe you should take those people more seriously.

Hell no! Enjoy the chapter! I'm really glad you guys are enjoying the fic! You make me feel warm and fuzzy inside XD

Sins Punishment

Chapter Ten.

It was just as Shadow had suspected.

When he arrived home after his mission, Knuckles stood in front of his apartment door with his arms folded casually over his chest, staring off into the distance. Once Knuckles heard Shadow stop just before him, his gaze drifted off towards Shadow.

"I kind of figured you would be waiting for me here," Shadow spoke as he placed a hand to his waist, "I'm not interested in fighting with you."

Knuckles chuckled and pushed his body from the wall, "you hurt Sonic, are you aware of that?" Shadow's expression changed into a one of question, "of course, you wouldn't know that now would you? It sounds like you to fuck someone, get them pregnant, and just ditch them at the scene."

Wait a minute...Knuckles had this all wrong.

"Hurt Sonic? I never hurt him."

"Then why is it that his arm has a bruise and a deep cut on it?"

Shadow struggled to find a way to explain himself, but Knuckles wouldn't allow it. Instead, Knuckles threw a punch to the wall of the building and glared at Shadow.

"Anyone who HURTS Sonic, they have to pay."

Once again, Shadow was right. Knuckles only came all the way out here just to start a fight with him. There was no 'discussing this,' all Knuckles wanted was to state to Shadow that Sonic was HIS and no one else's. Shadow couldn't accept that. If it was a fight that Knuckles wanted, then, Shadow would be glad to give him a fight. Sonic wasn't any one's territory, you couldn't just claim him as yours. Who Sonic picked was his business and his only.

'But because of the baby...he might just pick me.'

The baby wasn't Knuckles and if Sonic was the type to only come to the father of the child for help, then, it was clearly obvious that Shadow was the one Sonic wanted.

"Because of you, Sonic's pissed at me! He hates me now! He wont even look at me!"

"How the hell am I the reason why Sonic is pissed at YOU?!" Shadow snapped and glared harshly at the echidna, "it sounds to me that you're just trying to find someone to place all your misery on because you're not strong enough to handle it all yourself," Knuckles growled, "you're nothing but a big baby. No wonder Sonic doesn't love you back!"

Knuckles's body tensed and Shadow chuckled.

"You might not like what I have to say, red, but I love Sonic. It took me some time to come into terms with that, but I grew to accept the feelings that I have for him. I wish for nothing, but his safety. I would never do anything that would put him and the baby in danger. In fact, I would willing take that baby as well since it is MINE. I just never told Sonic that or my feelings for him because I never wanted to believe what I was feeling for him nor did I feel that I was even worthy enough to take in the baby."

Knuckles was enraged, "that's enough out of you!" he shouted and dashed towards Shadow with a punch ready.

"I knew there was no talking it out with you," Shadow spoke as he jumped over the punch and landed behind Knuckles before throwing a kick at his back, causing him to to be tossed back into the apartments.

Knuckles stood up and wiped away the blood from his mouth, then, spat, "arrogant pest."

"That's a cute one," the ebony hedgehog sarcastically spoke.

"Your cockiness is really starting to piss me off!" Knuckles shouted as he quickly launched at Shadow with another attack.

Just barely, Shadow managed to dodge the attack by throwing a punch in himself, hitting Knuckles in the stomach.

Knuckles let out a muffle of pain as he fell to his knees and held his stomach, "d-damn you..." he hissed under his wheezy, the punch was enough to take his breath away for a few seconds and he struggled to get his breathing at a normal pace. Slowly, he stood back up to his feet, and gripped his stomach.

Shadow chuckled again, "my cockiness? It isn't the idea that I'm 'cocky,' it's the fact that you're so enraged that you can hardly focus on a strategy to fight me," Knuckles opened his mouth in protest, but Shadow cut him off, "enough of this, in normal cases I would use all of my chaos abilities to defeat your ass, but you're a hopeless target, not to mention, a weak and pathetic imbecile. Wasting such an ability on you would be utterly pointless. This fight is finished."

The echidna snarled, "don't you DARE mock me, hedgehog!" he nearly screamed, "you took Sonic from! You even stoop so low as to even take his virginity from me!"

Shadow flinched as his eyes widened, this fight wasn't because Knuckles was pissed at him because Sonic was mad at him, this fight was because Knuckles wanted to HAVE sex with him. He tightened his hands into fists and shook with anger, "you pig..." he spoke so low that Knuckles hardly understood, "and here I am thinking that you had a better excuse why you wanted to fight me, but all you're pissed off about is that you can't even fuck him! Sonic doesn't deserve a friend like you! Nobody uses Sonic as a toy! Do you hear me, touch one spine on his head and I'll make sure that you'll regret it."

Knuckles knew Shadow's threat was to be taken into consideration.

"You don't deserve him, even as a friend. I'll be sure to tell Sonic about this, I'll be sure to have Tails keep an eye on you. Touch him in any way, be it attempted rape or a friendly hug, it's your ass."

Turning his back on the fairly pissed, yet shocked, echidna, he opened the door to his apartment and slammed it shut.

Knuckles punched the wall, "fuck him....I'm going to kill you, Shadow, you can count on that. Sonic's mine and mine alone," he grumbled to no one, "I'm going to kill that damn baby...then Sonic wont even dare come to you any more."

To be continued...

Ummm, wow....Knuckles is really really pissed, isn't he?

Sonic: He's going to try and kill my baby?!

Shadow: I thought I gave him a warning?

It's Knuckles...he never uses his head.

Sonic: *hides behind Shadow*

Wow.....Knuckles kind of lost it....R&R....

Sonic: Save me....

Shadow: working on it.