"Hey, Silver, I'm so sorry, but for some reason, I just can't find my flashlight anywhere!" Ado had been looking for his flashlight since dinner was finished, the sun was now starting to set, and after turning over the entire campsite countless times, he was about to give up.
"Well, Ado, we don't have much time before sundown... Its 7:30pm now, we're starting the hike at 9, and we still need to pack up everything in camp and get it all back on own backs before we start..." Tails was looking through his pocket itinerary again.
"Don't worry about it, like we discussed before, you don't ever use your flashlight anyways, and Silver can just hold my hand the entire way." Sonic grinned at Silver, white shining fangs showing.
"Yeah, Ado, I have to agree with Sonic on this one... I mean, we literally HAVE to get started on the hike AT 9 o clock, since it'll take an hour to get up there! We have to be at the top campsite of the mountain BY 10 o clock so that Silver doesn't miss the big surprise!" Tails started getting impatient, stamping his foot into the ground with excitement.
"What? Oh come on really?" Silver moaned after listening to Ado's first comment. He would have to hold Sonic's hand after all, but now that he thinks of it he might have a safer chance then with walking with a flashlight. With the incident earlier today it might as well be fate for his own protection.
"I'm sorry, Silver, but we just don't have time to look for it, anymore!" Ado shrugged his shoulders. "At least Sonic'll keep you safe..." He thought about it, Sonic HAD raped the child earlier. 'Oh god, what if he tries it again? Oh well, I'll just hide in the bushes, make sure that blowhard doesn't try to touch MY Silver...'
"Alright, guys come on, we gotta pack this all up, let's go, and we have no time to spare." Tails started taking his and Sonic's tent, piece by piece.
Silver sighed while he put down the rest of his tent and away in the sturdy box it was in before. He put it by the far corner of the camp towards the mountain so it wouldn't be in the way. He then helped Jake pack up the cookery ware and food so they might be able to get to the mountain with time to spare. Everyone seemed to know what was going to happen… besides him. "Why are we going up there anyway?"
"Don't worry, Silver, its nothing bad, we just wanna keep it a surprise for you... I think you'll like it." Ado smiled at the young hedgehog, clearly excited about the night hike. He packed away everyone's clothes into their corresponding luggage cases, and, when nobody was looking, took a highly worn outfit from Silver's case, and quickly packed it into his own.
"Well the way you put it I might as well be afraid." Silver teased sticking his tongue out at Ado.
"S-shut up Silver, this time, it actually IS something nice! Sort of a "thank-you" and "welcome" thing, from us four." Ado flipped off the hedgehog jokingly, accidentally smiling.
"Oh, yes, you're SO pissed off, Ado, that's why you're smile is lighting up the fricking evening." Tails joked at him.
"Screw you!" Ado grabbed each of the luggage cases, handing them to their owners.
Silver began to wonder what was actually at the top of that mountain now. It sounded like they were bringing him to a concert for all he knew. But he seriously doubted that, they would have seen a lot more people in the same general area as them.
"Well, you guys, we have everything gathered, we can relax for about a half -hour, unless you guys wanna start now, so we can get there a little early." Tails distributed out two flashlights to Jake and Sonic, keeping the third for himself.
"I wanna go now!" Ado started jumping with more excitement.
"I say the sooner the better." Jake said getting ready to pull up his stuff onto his shoulder.
"We should probably go now so we have a bit of time to pull out our tents and stuff." Silver stated still not completely understanding what they were all going to do on top of the mountain.
"Yes, alright, I'll race ya guys there!" Ado yelled as the final ray of sunlight disappeared from the sky, casting everything in a deep blue shadow. The nightlife of the woods came alive, eerily making noises. The wolf laughed at the noises, strapped his luggage case onto his back, got onto all fours, and lunged into the bushes, disappearing from the others' sights. All that was heard was a rustling getting quieter, heading for the mountain in the distance.
"Alright, you guys, let's go. Don't worry about Ado, Silver. He'll find his way." Tails grabbed his luggage case and Sonic and his' tent, strutting off down the dirt trail leading to the mountain.
"He always DOES." Sonic whispered, grabbing Silver's arm, and heading off down the road, attached to Silver.
"Kinda creepy out here." Silver mumbled as him and Sonic were a fair distance behind Tails and Jake. The breeze made movement in the bushes and trees, making it feel like there was a large amount of unnatural movement amongst them. The flashlights dimmed the moonlight around them but in the distance it exhilarated many of the leaves of plants causing them to shine brightly. Silver noticed in the distance, there was a plant he had heard about and had really hoped to see it. Irisipian. He pulled on Sonic's hand pointing into the direction of the plant hoping he would let him see it.
"Umm, sure, you can look at it, but, hey, you sure it's okay to touch, Silver?" Sonic was concerned, but walked towards the plant anyways.
'Good thing the breeze is keeping me unnoticed from Sonic and Silver... I NEED to know what that cobalt pervert is planning to do with my child...' Arrow stayed close to the two, creeping every inch they walked, beside them, hidden by the forest bushes.
"Of course!" Silver replied, pulling out his camera. "If they weren't I'd be taking this photo from a safer distance." Silver snapped the photo and put the camera back in his pack. "Beautiful isn't it?"
Sonic walked up behind Silver, slowly reaching his arm out to wrap around the young hedgehog's shoulders, when Arrow started growling from the bushes, pink eyes looking red from the light of the flashlight.
Silver had heard the growling and snapped his head in the direction they were coming from. The first thing he saw were the red eyes and he quickly made his assumption. He grabbed Sonic's arm squeezing it pointing towards the red eyes muttering words he couldn't explain at the time.
'Shit, they found me.' Ado quickly turned around, and darted off into the shadowy bushes again, leaving Sonic and Silver alone.
"Silver, what's wrong with you? You look like you just saw a GHOST or something!"
"That thing! That thing that tried to eat me was right there, just a second ago!" Silver cried hiding behind Sonic pointing to the bush Ado was just in.
Sonic grabbed hold of Silver, forcing him in to hug him. "Its okay, Silver. I got'cha." Sonic glared at the bushes, noticing a single, cerulean clump of tail fur attached to the thorn of a bush. 'That wolf is trying to ruin my plans again...' "Hey, Silver, let's just keep going, okay? And fast, too, so that the... Umm, Naga doesn't catch you, yeah, hehe."
Sniffling Silver pulled away from Sonic wiping his eyes to get rid of the tears. "Okay." Silver wheezed out.
"Come on, we've gotta, um, hurry away from here, and catch up with the others." Sonic grabbed hold of Silver's hand, running away from the spot, trying to lose Ado, who ran beside them, hidden by the bushes. 'Shit, I'll never lose him if THIS keeps up...' Sonic took a leap away from the path, jumping out over a row of bushes, tumbling down a steep incline on the other side. When he and Silver had finally reached the bottom of the incline, the flashlight had broken, and they had no idea where to go.
Silver looked around immediately not seeing anything. But they had moved far away from the mountain and the thick trees blocked out the light of the moon and any view of the large rock formation. "Sonic where are we?"
Sonic looked around everywhere, disoriented. "I-I don't know, Silver! D-do you remember where we fell down from, so we can just climb back up?"
"No, it's to dark." Silver found his way over to Sonic, he had found the flashlight but he soon discovered it was broken. "Do you think that things going to find us?"
Sonic started acting like he couldn't see in the dark, grabbing around to see where Silver went. "Silver, where are you? I can't see ANYTHING! It's too dark!" He made his way behind the hedgehog, and squeezed his butt.
Silver jumped slightly and held onto Sonic's hand moving it away from his butt. "Sonic I'm right here, and don't do that. You scared me, and I can see just about as much as you can."
"Oh, there you are, Silver! It's your hand! Oh, good, I can feel your hand..." Sonic used his free hand to quietly unzip his pants to get ready without Silver noticing, then took a step forward, pretending to trip on a rock so that he fell on top of Silver.
Silver moaned in slight pain. "Sonic, get off of me please?" He tried to get up on his own but the cerulean hedgehog kept him down.
"Oh, well this is... Surprisingly romantic, Silver..." Sonic unbuttoned and unzipped Silver's pants, flipped him over onto his back, and lowered them. "I'm so sorry for this, Silver, but... Damn, you're so GOOD at taking it... I need to try this again." He used one hand to cover the hedgehog's mouth.
Silver was able to rip off Sonic's hand for a brief moment, "Please Sonic don't do this. I won't tell anyone if you stop now-" Silver was not able to continue thanks to Sonic's hand recovering his mouth. Sonic hushed him saying he'd be gentle and he'd make this enjoyable for him to. But Silver didn't believe it; he didn't want to believe Sonic would want to do this to him. He could feel something warm near his tail hole lined up and ready. The ivory hedgehog felt like he needed to scream but who would hear him? The naga would.
Sonic was ripped off of Silver and immediately the ivory hog scrambled away and pulled his pants up doing them up. He gazed over to where the general area Sonic was supposed to be, he could hear strong movement from that area as well. The only light illuminating from that area were to deep crimson eyes glaring down on what most likely would be Sonic.
"You BASTARD! I KNEW you were going to try that, why the fuck won't you give UP, hedgehog? You already HAVE a boyfriend, why do you have to RAPE this child?" Arrow slapped Sonic across the face with as much strength as he could, but the hedgehog had already fainted from the scare of the moment, and the shock of the second fall. Arrow looked back, staring right at Silver, and then lunged at him, picking him up onto his back and climbing back up the incline with him atop his back.
Silver was in to much shock to notice the voice and the clothing on the back of the wolf, he has mistaken him for the naga. The ivory hedgehog flailed his arms and bucked his legs in an attempt to escape; to him the creature seemed a lot weaker then before and he felt he had a chance at freedom.
By the time he reached the top of the incline, Arrow had run out of strength from carrying Silver and fighting against him simultaneously. He jumped out of the bushes, onto the moonlit dirt trail, once again visible, and collapsed onto the ground, sending silver tumbling down beside him.
"Y-you JERK... What, did... Did you not WANNA be saved from that rapist... Or something?" Ado gasped for air between words, completely exhausted.
"A-Arrow?" Silver gasped, now seeing it was the wolf that had saved him. "I'm sorry, your eyes, they were red! And I thought you were that thing, I-I-I-I-I-I was too scared to think straight." Silver cried tears falling from his eyes, trembling, and curled up into a ball.
"It... It was probably the damn lack of lighting..." Arrow crossed his arms to make a cushion for his head. "Silver, you are so much trouble to keep safe... And, I gotta go back down there, too... Can't leave Sonic... Although I sometimes wish I could..." With a bit of regained strength, the wolf stood up. "Hold on, Silver... I'll be right back... Don't get into more trouble on your own, okay?" He got onto all fours, and darted back over the bushes, back down the incline.
"What lighting? There was none down there." Silver mumbled crossing his arms sitting up. He wiped away his tears now that he has calmed down and began to hum a bit of a tune out of boredom and to calm himself down and get his mind of things. It was taking Arrow a surprisingly long time to get Sonic and come back up; he began to worry for them. Dead straight in front of him the bushes began to ripple with movement, Silver began to think it was something predatory and he backed up becoming engulfed in fear immediately. The vile creature came out revealing… a bunny.
Silver quickly calmed down seeing it was only a harmless forest creature. He crawled to it smiling cooing friendly words in hopes that he could pet it. "Hey there little guy, aren't you cute." The bunny began to get nervous when Silver began to approach it, but the rodent stood its ground. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you." Just before Silver could even touch a hair on the bunny, a clawed black hand with a red streak came down onto the spine of the innocent rodent crushing its heart killing it within seconds. Silver backed up away from the kill swiftly, the silhouette that belonged to the hand became obvious. It was the naga that had attacked him from earlier.
Then naga looked up from his pathetically small kill, he was planning on going after his lost prey from earlier but it had disappeared and he didn't want to track it. But there it was, weakly afraid on its back. He smiled pushing his smaller kill off to the side. The naga knew he would have to make this quick, the cloud grey hedgehog was almost never alone and help could be on its way right now. Even though it's pretty easy to take out, he didn't have the energy to fight for his property. To weak to fight for something he needed to survive. As he approached calmly, the Mobian moved back more staggered. He began to circle the Mobian swiftly making it confused and more afraid. This was one of the most interesting Mobians he has come across. There's a reason he had picked something with such little meat on it to something leaner. He didn't know why but he was slightly attracted to this… thing. He finally grabbed it from behind making it yelp and struggle against him. The naga began to chuckle at the desperate fleeing attempts.
The naga caressed the hedgehog's cheek with his slimy tongue, tasting him again. "Your taste is irresistible."
"No." Silver whimpered elbowing the naga in the chest having no affect what so ever. The naga perked his ears then dropped the hedgehog on his butt.
"Act like nothing happened or your friends are as good as dead." The naga commanded disappearing into the brush with the dead bunny. Silver could hear Arrow coming back with Sonic behind him. He quickly calmed himself down humming again like nothing had happened; he didn't want to be the cause of anyone's death so he did his bet to look casual in a dark forest just after being attacked. But Arrow didn't know that and he didn't want him to know that.
"Silver... S-silver... Help... Help get him off of me... P-please..." Arrow came out of the bushes, this time with strength completely sapped, barely able to move. A slowly awakening Sonic was on his back, crushing him with his weight. "Oh g-god, just get him OFF..." He wolf dug his claws into the ground to try to keep himself up.
Silver sprang up and pulled the hedgehog off of Arrow and rested him on the grass, "Are you okay?" He asked turning back to Arrow with almost nothing but concern in his eyes.
"Y-yeah, I think I'll be okay this time... After that hot springs fiasco... I d-don't think MUCH can phase me... Anymore..." Arrow joked, shaking trying to stand up. "C-could you help me stand up, though?" He reached out his shaking arm towards Silver.
"What the... Hey, what happened?" Sonic was waking up, now, and looked at Silver. "Hey, what's with that saliva all over you?"
Silver pretended to feel around his cheek quickly wiping it up. "There's nothing there Sonic, I think you're seeing things." He responded calmly helping Ado stand.
"T-thanks, Silver..." Ado sniffed the air around Silver. "What the hell is that scent? It smells like you had a crocodile eating you lately!"
"Well, if you SAY it's nothing, then it MUST be nothing..." Sonic kept his concentration on the hedgehog, knowing he was lying.
"Thanks for the compliment." Silver mumbled not able to come up with an excuse why he had smelled that way. "We should probably head to the mountain… Where ever it is." Silver instructed looking around; he couldn't see the naga's eyes or any movement. That worried him greatly, if it slipped then he could kill any of them from where it was.
Arrow perked his ears around, listening for any noise. "I hear Jake's loud ass feet... Follow me, you guys." Arrow crept down the path, following his ears.
"Wait, don't leave us here, we don't have a flashlight!" Sonic ran after the wolf.
Silver hastily followed looking behind him on last time. Now he could see the naga's silhouette just beside where he and Arrow had been standing. He ran faster catching up to Sonic; he did not want to be alone.
"Shit, Jake, there's only a half-hour till ten, and we still haven't ever HEARD from the others... Ya think they'll make it in time?" Tails struggled to keep up with the weasel; they were almost at their ideal camping spot.
"Alright, guys, look around for a spiraling dirt trail leading upwards. We're at the foot of the mountain, once we find that trail; it's a straight path up." Arrow started studying their surroundings.
"Ado, isn't that it, right over there?" Sonic pointed into a few bushes ahead of them, where, right past, in the clearing, was a smallish dirt road.
"Yes, that IS!" Ado pushed his way through the bushes, getting a closer look. Sure enough, the dirt road carried on for a couple feet, then started inclining upwards. "I can tell Jake and Tails have already been here, and not too long ago, either, so we SHOULD be able to make it if we just hurry, you guys." Beckoning them both forward, Ado started running up the small road.
"Silver, I know you're tired, but come on... We're ALMOST there. Let's go." Sonic grabbed hold of Silver's hand, forcing him to follow up the pathway.
Being dragged along by Sonic had caused Silver to become a bit edgy, especially on what he had tried to do to him earlier.
"TAILS! THERE YOU GUYS ARE! TAILS! HEY, IT'S ME! ADO! WAIT UP!" Ado yelled, seeing Jake and Tails reaching the end of the trail, getting ready to unpack the campsite once more.
"Hey, Ado, Silver, Sonic, what took you guys so long? We have twenty minutes to set up before it starts! Hurry, come on, help us unpack!" Ado ran up to the two, taking his luggage case off of his back.
"Ugh, FINALLY we can get this stuff off of us..." Sonic complained.
Silver dropped his things on the ground and began to unpack his sleeping bag and tent, but in the process Tails had stopped him from opening up the tent.
"Don't open up the tent, Silver, we're gonna sleep out with the stars tonight." Sonic smiled at him.
"Alright, guys, it's gonna start soon!" Ado placed his sleeping bag out on the ground between Silver's and Jake's.
"Yep, only ten minutes left till your special secret present is revealed, Silver..." Tails unpacked his and Sonic's tent, which was extremely large in size, and had a screen roof, so that they'd be able to use it and still see the sky. "We're using mine and Sonic's for tonight; it's DEFINITELY big enough to hold all five of us. Now, all of you get your sleeping bags off the floor and help me set up this tent before it starts!" Tails unpacked a bunch of stakes and rods for the tent.
Silver, Jake, Sonic, and Ado rushed over to Tails and immediately scrambled to get the tent fixed in, they found a flat surface on the earth they were on and swiftly moved all the sharp stoned and round pebbles to make it more comfortable to sleep on. With only seconds remaining, the five Mobians managed to get the tent up and all of their things inside. Now they were just sitting outside looking around casually. "So what now?" Silver asked sitting down beside Ado.
Ado instinctively held Silver's hand, without even thinking about what he was doing. "It's going to start..." He looked over, seeing Jake to his other side, and used his other hand to hold the weasel's hand. All five looked to the sky, as Tails checked his watch.
"Ten seconds, everybody... Nine... Eight... Seven..." Ado started jolting around from excitement. "Six... Five... Four... Three..."
A shooting star flew across the sky; the first sign of the shower. After a very tense couple of seconds, more stars began falling from the sky, shooting off in every which way and direction possible, the light from these comets lighting up the ground far below them with beautiful, warm, iridescent light.
Silver sat in awe completely forgetting Ado was holding his hand. He had never seen anything like this. It was the most beautiful thing he could have ever imagined. Words didn't come up to describe this. "Wow." Was all Silver could manage to say.
"Welcome to our family, Silver..." Ado whispered to him, detaching himself from Jake's hand and hugging Silver, scooting close to him. Sonic and Tails looked over at Silver, smiling.
"So, I take it you're impressed?" Tails spoke softly as to not disrupt the moment. "It only happens once every five years."
Silver nodded not taking his eyes of the meteors. "I… don't know what to say. This is amazing. You put a lot of planning into this didn't you?"
"We all did, Silver... Its the main reason we asked you to come here to meet us, Sonic relayed the info to you, I planned out the entire camping trip with Jake's help, and Tails made an exact itinerary to keep this moment exactly perfect..." Ado cuddled himself closer to Sliver, leaning his head on the hedgehog's shoulder, looking up to the sky, still holding his hand.
"No one has ever done anything like this for me." Silver commented his eyes tearing up a bit. "This means so much."
"You're welcome, from all of us, Silver. We just hope this helps you to see that we're not all that bad..." Arrow started tearing up, as well, but tried to silently hide it from Silver.
"I never saw you as bad people." Silver replied squeezing Ado's hand as he held in his tears.
"Well, I'm glad you like us, Silver. You're a part of our hearts, now, and, this is our thank-you to you, for coming into our lives." Ado squeezed back, to let him know he was there for him. The meteor shower calmed down a bit, but still played on, as time seemed to slow itself down. Each star fell with a different beautiful array of colours, changing the sky's colour into a brilliant display.
Silver had become drowsy thanks to the lights hypnotizing him blurring his vision, making he eye lids become heavy as he fell asleep leaning against Ado.
Ado picked up Silver bridal-style, and carried him into the tent, whispering "I'm gonna go to bed, now, guys..." to the others, and, once inside, gently kneeled down and placed Silver into his sleeping bag, zipping it up. "Goodnight, Silver..." Ado whispered, kissing the hedgehog on the forehead lightly, then, to get ready to sleep, the wolf took off his pants, folding them up into his suitcase, changed his shirt to a normal sleep shirt, and got into his own sleeping bag, which was next to Silver's. 'He really is so cute when he's asleep...' The wolf thought to himself, laying down, watching the hedgehog sleep.
Silver's instincts took over when he could feel Ado's body heat not far off. His body scooted closer to Ado until his face was buried into the wolf's chest fluff. The rest of his body scooted along as well to gain as much as Ado's heat as possible.
Ado smiled, wrapping his arms around Silver. 'I'll always be here to keep you warm, Silver...' His eyelids became heavy, and, slowly, the wolf fell asleep.
"I really think this year's camping trip was a success, wouldn't you two boys say?" Tails kept focus on the meteor shower, sitting between Jake and Sonic, and wrapped his arms around the both of their shoulders, scooting them both closely.
"It was pretty close; this morning wasn't that great for any of us, especially Silver. But now made up for it." Jake critiqued eyes gleaming from the light of the meteors.
"Yeah... I'm glad we planned this out, Jake, Sonic..." Tails yawned, eyelids slowly closing, until he completely fell asleep, falling down into Jake's lap.
Jake had gotten very awkward once Tails had fallen asleep on his lap. "Well I'm getting tired." Jake commented lifting Tails up and onto Sonic's lap to avoid an argument. "Feel free to join us when you feel like it." Jake instructed heading into the tent to see Ado holding Silver while they were both asleep. Finding it adorable he snuck behind the wolf and began to hold him falling asleep without changing.
"C'mon, Tails... Time for us to get to sleep, too..." Sonic picked up the young kitsune in his arms, carrying him into the tent, looking over at Sonic, Jake, and Silver. Rolling his eyes, he walked over to Tails' sleeping bag, placing him into it, then lay down in his own, scooting close to Tails for warmth. "And so a long strenuous day comes to an end..." Sonic felt his eyelids closing. 'Finally...'
It was dark outside; the ivory hedgehog was wide awake unsure of what time it was. Tonight he was having the hardest time to sleep. Slowly unhooking Ado's arms from around him, he sat up finding himself still in his clothes. Crawling around his friends Silver finally made it to the entrance quietly unzipping it. He looked outside, the stars were still out but at the horizon he could see a dark purple light, indicating the sun would rise soon enough. The others were still fast asleep, so he left them zipping the tent up behind him. The ivory hedgehog sat at the ledge of the cliff, leaving his legs hanging over the edge. The stars were amazingly bright and beautiful; he hadn't seen them like this ever.
Not much time had past before he began to look down at the forest rather then the sky. It was misty and eerie looking. Now he was relieved he got to sleep up here, even now waking up this early before everyone. A hand grabbed his shoulder, but he suspected it was one of his friends so he just jumped. He didn't hear them come out so it might have been Ado since he was pretty stealthy. The hand clenched hard making him swing around to give who ever it was a hissy fit, but seeing as a naga was doing this he hurriedly wiped the angry face off and replaced it with fear.
The naga leaned forward tasting him once again. Silver of course could have shouted out to his friends, but he was to stricken into fear to remember that. "Now let's try again, like yesterday." The naga stated, biting Silver for a longer time. Knocking him out again. The naga looked at the tent seeing no one was coming out. He slung the hedgehog over his shoulder and strolled down the path he had took. Back to his den.