I went inside the castle with Shadow, thinking about so many different things at once, it was giving me a royal headache as the questions raced around my mind like a rabid wolf. How do I tell him I might be carrying his or Mephiles's baby, about the dark emerald if I cant even go near it; and chaos control wouldn't be a breeze on me either im sure. But now the collar, I admit I like it cause its more comfortable and doesn't choke me like the old one, but he said he claimed me, did he do that cause he wanted to be my first or something? He didnt before and after he found out Mephiles did that to me, its like he was being more protective around me and didnt want anyone else 'using' me. But right now I had problems he didnt even know about, I mean, how was I going to find out who the father was? Mephiles was the first to do that to me but than again Shadow got a full session on me and eh, came in me so that could mean something. But I still had a long time before I could figure out the true answer. I was so lost in thought that I hadn't noticed we had made it back to our room and I just went to brush my fur, it was all oily, sticky and mangled, I had better time managing it in the forest.
"So you think you found the dark emerald in the castle while you were in your dark form?" Shadow asked from his desk while I was yanking the brush down to try and fix what about 5 or 6 days had caused on me but it was straight up hopeless.
"I dont think, I know. But if we do find it, keep it away from me. When my dark form found it, it had caused me great pain." I said, yanking the brush down and winced as it was pulling my skull with it. He noticed and looked at me, he could see the oil made my fur sticky and prickly already but its his own fault for covering me in oil in the first place.
"You need something other than that brush if you want your hair fixed." He said, I went wide-eyed as I knew and tried to think of a way out of it.
"Fine, ill clean myself like a wolf if it'll make you happy for me to be less sharp." I said but he stopped me and sighed.
"You know thats not what I mean. You need to get clean by a bath or you dont sleep in the bed. Your fur is so stuck together and sharp its like I was sleeping with a porcupine." He said as I rolled my eyes.
"First off, your a hedgehog so sleeping with those spines often hitting my back isn't paradise either. Second, your the one that covered my body and fur in oil." I pointed out to him with a smirk but he wasn't close to giving up.
"Doesn't matter, your getting a bath if you dont want to sleep on the stone floor instead of the bed." He said, putting the leash on me but I smirked at him.
"You just want me to take a bath so you wont have to sleep alone huh?" I joked as he just rolled his eyes but I saw a blush on his tan muzzle. He yanked the leash and I followed him down the halls, we passed many doors until he stopped in front of one and inside it was huge.
It was a bathroom and in the center was a round pool sized bath with stairs like a real pool, counters and shelves with towels, bottles of soap, and boxes of bath salts, soap or other things. I looked around and noticed it was all made out of stone, reminding me of my other home in the mountains on Mobius while Shadow was filling it with hot water.
I had to undress, which of course caught glances from Shadow and made me smirk, he so liked me now. Knowing how he was acting, I sensed he had feelings for me that wasn't just a master and his slave feelings but something more, so I started playing with him to get him to say it. I would never admit or say I had fallen for this guy but I really did.
After the pool sized tub was filled with hot water, some soap and bath salts too for extra or something, Shadow turned to me while I was basically naked and covered my upper and lower parts with my wings and tail but earned a blush from him.
"Get in." He ordered but I shook my head no. "Why?" He asked as he crossed his arms, all I had to do was flick my wings up for him to get the picture. He sighed and leaned against the wall for a minute or two before he started taking off his jewelry and rings, than his gloves, skates and socks until he was completely naked in front of me which made me blush hard. "Um w-what are you doing?" I asked, embarrassed cause my voice sounded a little high and squeaky as just shook it off. He didnt answer and just walked down the stone stairs into the warm water below and stopped when the water was at his waist before turning back to me. "Give me your hands." He ordered, I was wondering what he was doing and walks over to the top dry step and didnt go in any further as Shadow just sighed again.
"Luna, you have to trust me in order for this to work. Just trust me." He said as I closed my eyes and held out my hand to his, he gripped it lightly and then the other as I felt him going backwards in the water and me slowly entering. First my back paws, then my knees, thighs and finally stopped at the waist while my wings perked up as high as they could above the water, opening my eyes slowly I saw I was still and he was in front of me, those sparkling ruby eyes looking back into mine.
"So what now?" I asked, unsure about where to go about this while he just grabbed a bar of soap from the rim of the pool and came back to me, I took the soap while he just leaned against the rim, propping his arms up behind his head with his eyes closed. I just started washing my body and thought he would look but he never did which made me growl. 'Im practically naked and he's not even looking!' My thoughts screamed as I just huffed and cleaned my body, delicately washing my wings my way without water. I had to admit this was better, the oil was out of my fur and was now silky as began washing my hair and upper body.
Shadow
As I just leaned against the tub wall, my thoughts were yelling two things at once.
'Look for gods sake! She wont notice if you just glance for a second!' and the other was screaming 'Dont or she'll maul you apart and wont trust you!' as I just shook my head and opened one eye at her. She was washing her upper part of her body now with the bar of soap, white foam was still around her body and her black and pink fur looked silky smooth with the water and soap scrubbed on. I quickly closed it before she saw I was looking at her doing that but heard a splash sound and then a furry paw touch my shoulder. I opened one eye at her again while now the soap was washed off completely and now her hair was washed too.
"Im done now." She said, sounding a bit disappointed about something but shook it off as she looked at me with a smile.
"Fine, lets go." I said, picking her up bridal-style for some reason and took her out of the water, setting her down while she smiled at me and grabbed a towel from the sink counter. I drained out the water and dried myself off as well, then I put my shoes, gloves, socks and other accessories on while Luna was dried off already and dressed.
"So about the dark emerald, when do you want to go in and where?" I asked, walking with her down the hall while this time she was on two legs and walking beside me, smiling all the while but in her eyes she was still disappointed at something. Could it be me possibly not looking at her in the tub? I dont know but what I do know is that she figured out where the dark emerald was, meaning I needed her this time to get home.
"We should go at night. The only thing I really know or saw in that room was that it was dark, and not just from the night, and had a king sized bed nearby, meaning that has to be BlackDooms room. So we'll go tonight when he's asleep, but we cant stay long or were both screwed for breaking into his room." She said, I nodded and agreed with her on that.
By tonight we would be able to get home, and thats when I have to tell Luna how I feel about her. If I dont chances are I might never see her again, based one her being a lone wolf barely seen by humans on the entire world of Mobius. But if I told her, maybe we could make that vision come true. But while I looked at her silky, fluffy body I saw her waist was different, I dont know how exactly but I felt something near it, making me wonder. Is my vision unfolding into reality already?