Ch 4 Anniversary
A day had passed and Shadow had insisted that Sonic get some rest. The dark hog took diligent care of his love, almost too much. Sonic had complied for the most part, once his friends gave their impute. Sonic did ask however, were Knuckles had gone. To which Amy had responded,
"Him and Espio are meeting with our forces in the west, why?"
Sonic rolled his eyes,
"Because I don't feel like dealing with him right now."
Shadow entered a room with bunk beds lined up military style. He sat at the edge one of the occupied ones and pet a lump under the covers. The lump stirred and beautiful emerald eyes emerged from the blanket. The grumpy hog was about to cuss out who ever had awoken him from his slumber, but stopped once he realized who the culprit was,
"Shadow, what time is it?"
"Almost dinner, you had a very good nap," Shadow said kissing the top of the hero's head, "come on, I want to show you something."
Shadow lead Sonic down a hallway and stopped once he reached a specific door. Sonic looked at the door then back to Shadow,
"You wanted to show me a supply closet?"
Shadow opened the door with a key and stepped inside. Sonic soon fallowed and his jaw dropped. In the middle of the secluded space was a makeshift table, adorned with one large candle. The typical rations, that they would have had on their plates, had been replaced by two chili dogs.
"how?" sonic muttered, "and why?"
"The chili dogs and room are because I have connections, the reason is because today marks our one-year anniversary."
Sonic turned around to shadow with tears in his eyes,
"I forgot…"
Shadow only chuckled and pulled a seat out for Sonic. The blue hero sat down allowing himself to be doted over. Shadow lit the candle in the center of the crate covered with a red table cloth. The blue one began to devour his meal causing Shadow to go wide eyed at the veracious display,
"Are… Are you all right? I mean I know it's your favorite but…"
Shadow stopped mid thought and realized that maybe Sonic had not been eating well. He had been locked up but he didn't look malnourished. Shadow took a look at Sonics face and examined his fat percentage. The hero's normally round, chubby cheeks were now slightly sunken in and thin. Shadow frowned, how had he not noticed sooner,
"Sonic, was Eggman not feeding you?"
Sonic still confused by his boyfriend's sudden inquiry answered with nervousness to his voice,
"What? No no, he fed me. I um… just ate eggs every day. It was egghead's weird way of making fun of me. honestly I'm surprised that my cholesterol isn't through the roof."
Sonic laughed at his own joke but Shadow wasn't completely convinced. He knew that if Sonic didn't want to talk about something he would lie through his teeth. The truth was that the hog was fed every so often and he did not get the luxury of eggs. He was given a mystery slop that a lot of time the male couldn't hold down. Shadow shoved his chilly dog to the other side of the table,
"Well still. Have mine too."
Sonic took the offer,
"Well, if you insist."
Shadow did most of the talking through there dinner date, since Sonic didn't have much to talk about besides captivity and he definitely wasn't doing that. The dark hog captivated the blue one with his tales of his adventures and how he had gotten his uniform and relayed the message to the Mobians. Sonic rested one his head on his folded hand and made goo goo eyes at his love. It took Shadow a moment to realize that Sonic was staring,
"Sonic are you… listening?"
"Hmm sorry. I was just distracted by this really hot guy."
Shadow leaned on his hand as well,
"Oh really? should I be jealous?"
"Nah. You are ten times sexier."
Shadow got up from his seat and rounded the crate that they were seated at. He took Sonic by the hand and lifted him to his feet. Sonic kissed Shadow's cheek softly teasing his lover,
"I hope you know that next time I want to see that uniform."
The blue hero wiggled his brow then proceeded to kick off his shoes and pull off his gloves with his teeth. Shadow grinned at the suggestive display as he took off his own clothes. Sonic felt up Shadow's crotch to which the recipient replied with a groan. The younger of the two kissed the elder's lips a few times before locking lust filled eyes with him. Shadow backed Sonic against the wall like he did the other day in the streets. This time however it was rougher and with purpose. Shadow crashed his lips against Sonic's as the blue male moaned out. Shadow placed his hands on each side of sonic head boxing the hero in. the dark male grinded his hips against the others pelvis causing Sonic to buck. Shadow then took one of his hands and ushered Sonic's member from its sheath. Shadow tugged and pulled at the sensitive organ as he continued to make out with the lips below him. Sonic took the hands that were pressed against the wall and grabbed on to the mass of black quills on Shadow's head. He pulled and scratched. Sonic let out a gasp when Shadow pulled from the kiss only to attack the hog's ear. The hand that had been playing with the pink organ had moved on to the hole bellow Sonic's tail. Pre cum dribbled down Sonic's member and pooled at the ring. The blue one's lip was quivering as he began to sob,
"Shadow I- I need you right now. Please I m-missed you so much."
"Sonic. But I haven't…" Shadow tried to get out but was interrupted by a swift bite to the lip.
"Please." Sonic whispered into shadow's ear.
Shadow lost all self-control. He picked Sonic up by the hips with ease and angled his own throbbing erection to line up with Sonic entrance. Sonic's eyes went wide at being lifted off the ground and honestly, he was even more turned on then before. Shadow pushed the hog down onto himself and the blue male threw his head back, wincing a little when his quills hit the wall. Sonic's only saving grace was that his own secretions were acting as a lube… somewhat. Once seated fully inside, Shadow stepped back and Sonic caught Shadow's piercing crimson eyes,
"What are you g-going to…" Sonic uttered out excited.
"Just tell me if you need to stop."
Shadow lifted sonic almost all the way to the head of his member and then slammed his lover back down to the base. Sonic screamed out and wrapped his legs around Shadow. The dark hog repeated the action, gaining more speed and momentum each time. Sonic who was holding on by Shadow's shoulders, twitching and crying and moaning, was amazed by his partner's own strength. Sonic felt Shadow's muscles shudder under the dark male's fur. Shadow kept going like that for a while but Sonic's arms and legs began to give,
"Shadow I, huff, can't, huff."
Shadow took the hint and moved his lover to the crates they had been eating on moments ago. He laid Sonic down on his stomach, bending him over the wood. Sonic blinked at being so easily man handled. Shadow then roughly resumed his previous actions and the blue hero howled in sudden pleasure. The stripped male had become very good at finding Sonic's sweet spot. He pounded into it over and over causing Sonic to scream with every thrust,
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Shadow then sunk his teeth into the fawn flesh of Sonic's shoulder. The blue male breathed out heavily against the crates that he was being plowed into. Shadow softly kissed the hogs fresh wound over and over in stark contrast from what he was doing to the rest of Sonic's body. The hedgehog on the bottom screamed out in pleasure again,
"Oh, god's! Shadow, I love you!"
Sonic came all over the side of the box and Shadow grunted releasing himself inside of Sonic. At that moment Knuckles burst into the room, fists raised ready to fight,
"Sonic I heard you yell, what's wrong?"
The unfortunate echidna stopped when he was presented with a full view of exactly what Sonic was yelling about. And he could see everything. Knuckles face went completely red, but not just out of embarrassment,
"What the hell is he doing here!?"
Sonic quickly pushed Shadow out of him and attempted to hide behind the crate. Shadow however did not care that he was showing his goods for the world to see, he looked like he was about to commit a murder. Sonic attempted, to no avail, to pull the hog away from line of sight,
"Knuckles, get out!"
The echidna snarled unmoving,
"No! Not until I see this traitor in chains!"
"You are making Sonic uncomfortable, leave!" Shadow growled taking a step forward.
Knuckles stepped forward as well,
"I'm going to get him as far away from you as possible!"
Shadow's eye twitched and he made a guttural noise with his throat,
"Put your hands on him. Go ahead. If you do, you won't be called Knuckles anymore."
Suddenly Rouge popped her head in,
"Hey, what's all the yelling about in here?"
The bat stepped forward and caught full view of the ultimate life forms naked frame,
"Ooh my..."
Shadow spoke to Rouge but made deliberate eye contact with Knuckles,
"It's not like you haven't seen it before."
The bat shot her hands straight up in the air in defense, looking nervously between the two. Knuckles shouted,
"What?!"
"Stop yelling! Everyone." Sonic said standing up from his hiding spot accidentally revealing himself as well. Everyone was staring at the nude hog and all eyes went wide when something white dribbled down his leg. Sonic s face went red as he tried to cover himself with his hands,
"I just want everyone to stop... I just want...," Sonic felt something wet roll down his cheeks, and it wasn't the tears of pleasure from before, "... I... please don't look at me."
Sonic sobbed loudly and fell to his knees. Rouge shot both the males responsible a glare,
"Get out, both of you."
Knuckles couldn't take his eyes off of the crumbling form on the floor. He had never seen Sonic so much as frown let alone cry. He felt a pang of guilt rush though him. And on another more inappropriate note, Knuckles noticed Sonic's body. How had the echidna never noticed how attractive the hedgehog was? Now he felt even worse because of course that's were his head went. Shadow turned to the red one who was still stunned,
"Well?"
With that Shadow disappeared in a flash of light and Knuckles promptly left out the way he came in.
After they were gone Rouge grabbed a towel from one of the crates and wrapped it around the male on the floor. Sonic's erection had resided back into himself, but the mess left behind was still present and his matted fur was exposing his sheath. Rouge sat next to the hero,
"I'm sorry big Blue, you know what they are like."
"I know. I... I've just been through a lot, you know?" Sonic whispered out, "gods listen to me. I sound like a whiny little bitch."
The female hugged Sonic's shoulders,
"No blue, you don't. It's okay to cry."
A few minutes later Knuckles was still standing outside the door to the storage room, wishing there was something he could do. Suddenly another flash and Shadow was standing next to the red male, descent this time. Shadow grabbed one of the confused echidna's dreads and pulled him down the hall,
"Ow, hey let me go, ass hole!"
"Shut your fucking mouth."
Knuckles felt fear run through him with Shadow's tone. The dark hog would occasionally cuss but nothing more than Damn or hell. He was more articulate than dropping F bombs left and right, no Shadow was pissed. He wasn't even yelling anymore. They made their way into another, room this time a tiny broom closet. Shadow closed the door behind them and clicked on the tie that connected to the light. Knuckles was about to defend himself and give Shadow a piece of his mind, but the alien hybrid interrupted,
"Listen. We don't get along, that it just a fact. Our personalities don't mix no matter how hard we try. But for Sonic's sake, can we just pretend that we do or at least ignore each other. Look I'll start. Knuckles, in sorry."
Shadow held his hand out for the other to take it but it was pushed away,
"Don't think I've just glossed over the fact that you are a traitor and that you should not even be here."
"Gods why are you so dense," Shadow rubbed his face, "all I did was leave to find Sonic on my own. Could you blame me. everyone thought I was a spy."
"You were! You were working with Eggman! we saw you!"
"Silence your voice. Do you want Sonic to hear you? Those attacks were not done by me. Eggmans new power allows him some sort of cloning ability. They were fake. You can ask Sonic about it later if you don't believe me. He saw it for himself."
Knuckles looked down in defeat. Had he really misjudged the whole situation; he was supposed to be the commander; a leader; yet he was so blind.
"Sonic has been through a lot. Hell, he has been locked away for the past six months enduring god's know what that he won't talk about because he doesn't like to cause problems and he doesn't show it because he is very good at pretending. The last thing he needs is this. So please..."
shadow held his hand out once more,
"I apologize for the misunderstanding and for pushing your buttons."
Knuckles returned the favor this time,
"Well it is for sonic... I'm sorry for jumping the gun and miss judging you."
Shadow nodded. They were finally getting somewhere. Knuckles made a face as he remembered,
"Wait were lying about rouge seeing you... you know?"
"Knuckles I don't lie. But you don't need to worry. it was a long time ago and an accident. You forget that I lived at club rouge."
Knuckles turned away a little relieved. Shadow turned to the door as well taking in the silence for a moment. The red male nodded to himself and sighed,
"I get it. it's all right."
"Good." Shadow reassured, still looking at the door in the enclosed space. Knuckles absent mindly shook his head,
"Yeah. I mean, I just realized that I might also like guys because Sonic's got a smokin' body, so yeah, it's cool."
Shadow turned his head sharply at the red dimwit.
Sonic had finally stopped crying and decided to leave the room with his towel wrapped around his neck covering his bite mark. So much for a happy anniversary. Sonic thought about what he had said earlier.
God's shadow, I love you.
He knew he meant it and that scared him. He also knew that Shadow would not stop fighting even after this whole ordeal he would continue. Shadow thought he was untouchable and that spelled disaster. Sonic couldn't handle losing Shadow he couldn't go through believing it was all his fault. Not again. Shadow was the only person that made him feel something now, he couldn't understand why but none of his friends made him feel... anything. Not even Tails who Sonic had gone so far as to forget about finding. His little brother; yet he couldn't bring himself to care. He was a shell. Not a person that felt compassion for so many things that he use to; he was an exoskeleton of that being. He didn't even know why he was crying; perhaps it had been more about the feelings and emotions that shadow was making him feel and how they had ceased. Sonic was broken from his thoughts as knuckles came running towards him, his eye bruised. He didn't look mad though, just concerned,
"Sonic are you alright. I know I don't do this often but, I'm sorry. Shadow explained everything."
Sonic looked to knuckles eye then back to the dark hog trailing behind,
"Apparently."
Knuckles touched his eye then remembered what Sonic was referring to,
"Oh no, that was my fault."
Rouge walked out of the storage room with a wet towel and a comb,
"You two aren't causing any more trouble are you."
Sonic spoke very horse and almost monotone,
"It's alright Rouge. It's fine Knuckles, I forgive you."
Shadow came up to Sonic and placed a hand on his shoulder,
"Do you forgive me?"
Sonic looked to Shadow with tired eyes,
"Of course."
"Commander! Eggman's forces have been sighted!" Gadget shouted from down the hall.
As soon the wolf was a couple feet away from the group, he noticed Sonic and Shadow. The red canine became very bashful all of a sudden,
"Oh, um hello Shadow. S-Sonic, what should we do?"
Sonic immediately turned his frown into his signature smile. He grinned ear to ear and with a thumbs up and said,
"No problem! We got this."
Gadgets face lit up at the sight of his hero's empowering features. The rest of the group shared concerned glances. Knuckles caught Shadows eye to which the hog responded,
"Told you."
Sonic pulled Shadow away from the group as they went to be briefed on the new information. Sonic looked pleading,
"Shadow, I want you to sit this one out."
Shadow blinked at the male,
"But... I mean… I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I'm kind of a valuable asset to the group."
"Yeah but they have me now, no point in both of us going out."
Shadow cocked a brow at the lack of logic behind the statement,
"Sonic if anyone needs to stay behind its you."
Sonic shook his head and adopted a mean look that threw shadow off,
"Look just listen to me alright."
Shadow didn't know how to respond to the blue male's sudden mood swing,
"Sonic..."
Sonic changed his face yet again and gave a sad puppy appearance,
"Please Shadow. Just this time."
Shadow softened his features. How could he say no to Sonic? Even if it was an odd request. Shadow wrapped Sonic in a hug and squeezed tight. It was his fault anyway that sonic had been taken, Shadow thought to himself.
