Chapter Sixteen
The portal appeared and the zone hoppers rushed out fast, with the portal closing after the last one.
"I have to say that is one pie I am glad I didn't eat." Shadow muttered as he stood close to Sonic and looking out in front of them.
"Well count yourself very lucky Shadow, I feel so guilty for eating Chao." Silver said with slightly drooped ears and bowing his head down slightly.
"Let's try to forget that and figure out if this zone is sane." Knuckles calmly said as he crossed his arms and looked in front of them with a calculated expression.
"Knuckles is right, don't think about it and concentrated on where we are now." Zhadow casually said as he looked at Silver still looking very disturbed.
"Me and Angel agree." Shadow calmly agreed and now had all eyes on him.
"What? I think it's a befitting name for a dark Chao and she likes the name so get off our cases." Shadow said with a small frown back at everyone.
"Yeah babe, she sure looks like an angel." Sonic dryly said with a dead-panned expression while locking his eyes with the dark Chao in his boyfriends arms.
"Anyway we going along the path in front of us towards that lake in the distance or going along the path behind us towards the woods?" Knuckles asked as he didn't care which way they walked down.
"I've had enough of trees." Sonic muttered but at the same time he didn't want to go near a lake either.
"Same here." Silver said in agreement but unlike Sonic he didn't mind going near a large lake.
"The lake sounds refreshing and when we get there we can check out what is making that smoke." Zonic said then pointed to where smoke was rising into the sky within a cluster of trees.
With that agreed they took the walk down the path towards the lake. When they got closer they were able to see a little hut made right by the lake in front of those trees. Then when they were right next to the lake they saw more huts going along, counting seven in total.
"I'm getting like a witches vibe here." Sonic said with an amused grin as he looked at the huts by the lake that had large gaps between them.
"Hey you lot, get in quick!" Someone called out in a panic from her front door, looking anxious at the travellers.
"Since it's like Amy I say let's go." Sonic said cheerfully then began to walk over to the second hut down from where they were standing.
"Yeah that is undeniable logic." Shadow sarcastically said with a small frown then followed his boyfriend, having the others follow him.
"Hurry up, you cannot be seen." This worlds Amy said as she took a step to the right to allow entry.
"And why is that?" Knuckles asked with some suspicion in his voice as he entered after Sonic and Shadow.
"Just hurry, please." Amy fearfully said then once the last one entered she closed and bolted the door.
"So what's the matter?" Silver asked curiously as all stood in the living area near the front door.
"This place is a hidden sanctuary from King Mephiles. He is evil and puts people into slavery. Anyone is game to him, whether they are a wealthy well known family or poor and unimportant. You lot would have been seen and given us all away that's why you needed to hurry up and get inside." Amy explained with a serious look at the zone hoppers.
"Right well thanks for like allowing us into your home and I have to say it's nice and cosy in here. You live alone?" Sonic said with a look of gratitude for he did not want to be a slave or put these people in danger of becoming one themselves.
"You are aware the hut to the left of yours has smoke coming out of its chimney right? That is how we saw this place so if we did then anyone scouting about will too." Shadow seriously said as he frowned at Amy.
"And why lock the door, no in fact why lock total stranger in with you when we could be anyone?" Zhadow questioned as he was now getting suspicious.
"Erm well you see." Amy nervously said as she took a step backwards.
"Why so nervous, you hiding something?" Shadow seriously said while deepening his frown.
"Come on guys let up, she's trying to help us." Sonic groaned at the suspicious behaviour of his boyfriend and Zhadow.
"Yeah you two, do you want to be slaves to this king Mephiles?" Knuckles said with a small frown.
"Sleep!" Amy shouted then clapped her hands, her hands glowing as she kept them together.
The glowing light expanded fast and shot at the zone hoppers. They all quickly grew sleepy and one by one they dropped to the floor fast asleep, including Shadows little Angel.
Some time later...
"Oh man that was one rough nap." Sonic groaned as he slowly opened his eyes.
"Nice of you to join us Sonic, how's being tied up to a pole with wood and twigs by your feet doing for you!?" Shadow called over with irritation.
"Huh?" Sonic questioned and looked down then looked to his left and right.
"O-k so what, these are witch trial times or something?" Sonic said as he and his zone travelling friends were all strung up tightly to poles with wood and tree twigs at their feet ready to be set on fire.
"I would say more like a sacrifice of some kind." Zonic said as he looked around and noticed they were not near the lake anymore but an open dead field with patches of burnt ground in places.
"Well at least we are all together." Zhadow commented casually.
"Oh that is so comforting." Zonic sarcastically said with a roll of his eyes.
"Ow my head. What's going on!?" Silver groaned as he was waking up then began to panic a little as he looked around.
"Hey Silver welcome to the sacrifice!" Knuckles called over as he turned his head and looked at the panicking hedgehog near him.
"I swear if they have hurt Angel then my zone or not they are getting a chaos blast there way." Shadow seriously said with a growl.
"Yeah actually where is the little darling, I would have thought they would tie her up too?" Sonic said with a small frown as he briefly looked left, right and in front of him for the dark Chao.
"If they put her in a cage I'm going nuts on them all." Shadow bitterly said and was growing angry with this situation.
"Babe chill ok, we will get out of here, find Angel then move onto the next zone fast. We do not want a chaos blast right this second with us all so close together." Sonic calmly said as he looked to his left at his boyfriend on a pole next to him but a meter away.
Ten minutes later...
"Oh look the bitch is approaching with all her bitch friends." Shadow growled aggressively with narrowed eyes at Amy personally.
"Wow an all girl tribe." Knuckles commented with a raised brow.
"So I take it no boys allowed then?" Silver muttered and was frowning in displeasure at seeing a few of the females holding lit torches.
"Good to see you all awake boys." Amy said with a sinister looking grin as she stopped in front of the zone hoppers, mostly in front of Sonic.
"Yep, best nap I've had in a while." Sonic said with a grin down at Amy.
"It's actually tradition to let one of you live and be forced to be our slave and shared partner. We all had a chat and agreed to let you free blue." Amy said with delight in her voice.
"Sorry but I'm spoken for." Sonic casually said with no interest in being a sex slave to a bunch of crazy females.
"I'm sure your girlfriend won't mind." Amy purred with a wink up at Sonic.
"You damn well touch him then I will end your life pink bitch!" Shadow aggressively shouted as he glared at Amy with hate.
"I will end you all!" Shadow added with more rage in his tone.
"Relax babe, she and the others will never have me." Sonic said as he turned his head to look at Shadow.
"Wait you and him are together?" Amy said with shock, gasps came from the females standing behind her.
"Yep me and Shadow have been a couple for a while now." Sonic grinned with amusement at the reaction of the girls.
"Right and which one of you is the more dominant one?" Amy asked and gave Sonic a look of hope that he was.
"Yeah like I'm going to share who out of us screws the other." Sonic dryly said with a small frown.
"Well I was going to let the submissive go free but if you don't want to share then you can both burn." Amy casually said with a devious look in her eyes at Sonic.
"Is that a promise, you will let the submissive go free?" Sonic asked with a fake hope in his eyes at Amy.
"Yes so do you want us to free you?" Amy softly said to Sonic as she smiled up at him.
"Yeah I would but I'm not the submissive one, Shadow is." Sonic grinned deviously as he and Amy locked eyes.
"You are lying to save your boyfriend." Amy seriously said with some anger.
"Go one babe tell her." Sonic confidently said with a smug grin.
"Fine, I'm his little bitch in bed ok. There I said it, I admit he owns my ass." Shadow said with a sigh while slightly bowing his head.
"Damn straight I do love." Sonic chuckled with amusement at what Shadow said.
"So the great and powerful Ultimate Lifeform is Sonics bitch in bed? Hahaha that is so funny!" Knuckles said as he teased, laughing so hard he was glad he was tied up to avoid falling to the ground.
"I can confirm that too, I live with them and have witnessed Sonic getting all dominant with Shadow." Silver said with a serious look at Amy.
"Burn them all!" Amy shouted with anger then took steps back as two of the female approach with those fire torches in hands.
"Hey you promised to let Shadow go!" Sonic shouted out with anger.
"Sorry but I will not let him go, only you and if you don't want life with us then you burn with him and your friends!" Amy shouted back with a sinister grin.
"Babe, can you chaos control us out of here?" Sonic asked as he watched those girls stop in front of Zhadow and Zonic.
Shadow dead-panned as he didn't even think about doing that and was too preoccupied with their situation. He nodded back then concentrated upon his energies to get them out of this field.
"Chaos control!" Shadow shouted then a bright light formed fast, making the girls shield their eyes.
When the light vanished the zone hoppers were gone.
"Not a word." Shadow growled as he glared at Knuckles, who was looking very amused right now.
They had appeared back near Amy's hut.
"Did Sonic screw you so hard your ability to remember about chaos control left your brain?" Knuckles dared to say then broke out into laughter once more.
"Right I warned you!" Shadow called out and went to charge at Knuckles but ended up being held back by Sonic.
"Angel remember love, we need to find Angel then get the hell out of here." Sonic said as he struggled to keep Shadow from ripping into Knuckles.
"They share dominance and were like half lying to free Shadow so he could free us and stop the bitches." Silver sighed with a shake of his head at Knuckles' behaviour.
"Silver, language." Zhadow teased with a smirk at the hedgehog.
"Yeah Silver how could you call them that?" Zonic teased along with his partner.
"Shadow's allowed to say it." Silver muttered as he crossed his arms and looked away.
"Anyway let's find Angel and leave." Knuckles said after calming himself down then all split up and looked in a hut each.
Shadow entered Amy's hut and scouted around.
"Angel, you in here!" He called as he walked towards a closed door.
Shadow stopped as he heard a faint reply coming from behind the door he was walking to. He kicked the door open and walked down the few steps, only to stop and gasp at what he saw.
"That's it, they are going to die!" Shadow shouted in anger as Angel was strapped to a table with knives on a trolley next to her.
"Chao Chao-Chao!" Angel called out with a happy look in her eyes at Shadow.
Outside, five minutes later...
"Where is she?" Silver said as they all regrouped after checking all the huts.
Suddenly an explosion was heard, making all turn their heads and watch Amy's hut go up in flames. Shadow then appeared near them with Angel in one arm and was looking furious. He charged up chaos spears and shot them at all the huts, making them explode and go up in flames.
"Shadow, are you alright?" Sonic asked as he approached his pissed off boyfriend.
"They are all so damn lucky they are not here. They had Angel strapped to a chaos damn table and were going to kill her!" Shadow shouted with anger then threw a chaos spear at the last hut in the distance.
"I say we get the hell away from these boy killing, Chao slaughtering nutter's." Zhadow seriously said with some anger in his tone.
"Come on Shads let's go." Sonic softly said then began to guide his still very pissed off boyfriend.
They all rushed off and didn't stop until they felt safe enough to take a moment to make a portal, which was in the woodland area.
"There, there Angel. We are leaving and never coming back ok." Shadow softly said as he petted the dark Chao in his arms.
"Aw Shadow, you comforting your baby?" Knuckles teased while grinning at the Ultimate Lifeform.
"Sonic let's tie Knuckles up and leave him here." Shadow calmly said as he kept his eyes down cast at his slightly fearful looking Chao.
"Tempting but we can't, let's just move on." Sonic replied with a grin then whipped out his chaos emerald.
"Fine but I'm only giving him a ten second head start when we get home." Shadow said with a smirk then stopped petting Angel and got his emerald out.
They crossed their emeralds, called out chaos control and a portal appeared. They walked through semi fast like then after the last one the portal slammed shut.
