The Lycans In The Wind

by Spam5192

A Sonadow Fanfiction. Book One. What if you had been living a secret? A secret so deadly, it could cost you your friend's trust, loyalty, even their lives. Sonic has to make a choice, to stay and live the lie or leave. But events occur outside of his control that turn his world upside down, and leading to a fight for survival, not only for himself, but for everything he knows.

5. Chapter 5

Chapter Five - The Colony

Sonic ran into the desert, and along the ridges and canyons. They was something about this place that made him nervous, but he didn't know what. The sun was hot on his back and neck, and Sonic knew he would have to find shelter soon from the scorching heat. He ran for about an hour. Ahead of him, there was a large canyon, like a large black scar in the earth. He ran alone side it, and looked down. He saw nothing but blackness but it did seem to have a bottom to it. Moved and ran down the near vertical edge of a enormous canyon, the largest Sonic had ever seen. The canyon was deep and he took a while before he hit the bottom. He hit the ground hard, and carried on along the canyon. He slowed. He felt better, it was a lot cooler down here, but he wasn't paying attention to where he was going.

He was caught in something, which rapidly brought him to a halt. Sonic panicked. He fought with it, it was a rope and wooden mechanism of some kind, but it was covered in something very sticky. The more he fought with it, the more tangled he got. He would have fought he way free given the time, if something hadn't thwacked him hard on the back of the head, knocking him out cold.

Darkness reigned, his brain swirled painfully, he was extremely dizzy. He had no idea how long he was out, but was extremely surprised to wake lying in a clean bed. He opened in eyes to see dirt above his head, the smell of the clean sheets filling his nose. Everything was blurry.

{Are you alright?}

Sonic jumped a mile at those words. He didn't exact 'hear' them, but it was like someone had gone inside the depths of his mind, and placed them there. He growled. His new world around him was slowly coming into view, he was underground, in a room, and someone was in the room with him.

{Hey, don't growl at me, I only asked if you were alright!}

Sonic stopped and stared, looking around for the source of those words, in the depths of his mind. His eyes fell on a person sat on end of his bed. At first glance, he looked like a male hedgehog, with a large round head, with large quills falling down his back. Large eyes and a small nose and muzzle. He arms and shoulders were curved and sleek, his gloved hands resting on his knees. He was a pale chestnut brown colour and had rich golden yellow, kind eyes, and a smile. Everything pointed initial to hedgehog if it wasn't for his scent. Sonic 'inner wolf' screamed at him.

Werewolf!

Sonic stared at his companion, and panicked, shifting in the bed. The brown werewolf looked concerned put out his hands to calm Sonic.

{Hey easy, friend. I'm not going to hurt you!}

Sonic stared. He heard the werewolf inside his mind, but he didn't see his lips move, didn't hear any sound.

"How are you doing that?" Sonic gasped, his voice cracked. His companion frowned.

{Doing what?} He asked. Again the words but no sound or lip movement.

"That!" Sonic whispered. "Speaking to me without actually specking!" Sonic stared at the new werewolf, who promptly laughed at him.

{Wait, your a werewolf, and you've never heard of 'Thought Speech'. Where have you been? Its how our kind communicated with each other, because we can't talk in our Luna Forms.} He said. Sonic stared, their Luna Forms must mean their full werewolf forms of a full moon.

"Lets just say I'm not from around here." Sonic said, rather loudly. As he did, his companion lent forward and put a hand over his mouth.

{Don't speak.} He said using his mind. {Your better off talking using 'Thought Speech'. The less noise you make around here, the better, we don't want to attract the attention from the colony guards.}

Sonic frowned. Colony? Guards? What was going on? Where was he?

His new friend continued. {You know how to do it, don't you?} He asked. Sonic shook his head. The beige werewolf looked rather put out but didn't let go of Sonic.

{Look. Form the words in your mind, as if you going the speak them with the mouth. But instead push them with your mind in the direction of the person you want to hear them. Try it.} He added with a smile.

Sonic thought. He didn't really have much choice here. He formed the words in his mind.

'Like this!' He thought. Nothing from his companion. No reaction at all. He wasn't doing it right. Now Sonic really concentrated, forming the words in his mind and throwing them at the chestnut werewolf as hard as it could.

{LIKE THIS!}

The brown werewolf recoiled, letting go of Sonic. He rubbed his head.

{Yes, but not quite that loud.}

Sonic bit his lip in guilt, he really didn't mean to that. {Sorry!} He added. This whole Thought Speech idea was getting easier.

{Thats alright.} His friend smiled at him. {What's your name any why?}

{Sonic.} Sonic said. There other werewolf stared.

{Unusual name for someone like you!} He added.

Sonic frowned. {What do you mean for someone like me?} The chestnut werewolf shifted where he sat.

{Sorry, I just expected a name to reflect your unusual coat colour, thats all. I have never seen a werewolf your colour before. Such a rich blue. Is it real?} He said.

Sonic gasped. He looked around. {Wait, there are others?} His friend laughed.

{Sure, there are others.} He Smiled. {Your in The Werewolf Colony, the last underground home of our kind. There are about a couple of hundred of us who live here.}

Sonic stared. This news was epic, he wasn't alone after all. Then his new friend realised that Sonic really wasn't from around here.

{Look, let me introduce myself, my name's Cyrus, and your in my house. You were caught on one of our sapient traps, and the guards knocked you out and brought you here. But when they realised that you were a werewolf and not a hedgehog, and therefore not for eating, they were unsure what to do with you. I was passing by getting some food when they brought you in, and I managed to persuade them to let me keep you, but only if you didn't cause any trouble.} He sighed. {Sorry about that.} Cyrus looked dishearten.

Sonic processed this information in his head. It was a lot to take in.

{That's alright} said Sonic. But he wanted to cheer up his new friend. {So, never seen a blue werewolf before?}

Cyrus' heart leapt. {No, I haven't.} He squealed. {Is it real?} He said again.

Sonic nodded. His rich royal blue fur coat was genuine, he had been born with it.

Cyrus gasped. Sonic frowned.

{What's the big deal with it anyway?} He asked. His blue fur coat had never been a problem before. Cyrus shifted where he sat again.

{Its just that blue is not a common colour for a werewolf.} Sonic rolled his eyes. Figures! Cyrus continued. {In fact, it has never been seen on a werewolf before today. That why we had trouble believing you were one of us at first. Never throughout the thousands of years of Werewolf history, has a werewolf been born with your colour.} He paused for a moment. Sonic stared. {You see, all Werewolf fur coats colours are all earth tones, brown, green, red, yellow, and very occasionally, black. But never blue.}

Cyrus looked at Sonic.

'Great!' Sonic thought. Trying to hid out here and he going to stick out from a crowd badly, and there was nothing he could do about it.

{So like I said.} Cyrus thought. {Your name doesn't really describe you.}

Sonic laughed. {Oh yes it does!} He defended. {But its not for the way I look, its more my personality!} Sonic knew there was more to it then that, but he didn't fancy going into it right now.

Cyrus stared. {Okay.} He said. Sonic could tell he didn't really understand, and dropped the subject. Sonic grabbed the covers and swung his legs out from the bed and placed his feet on the floor. He sighed, he was now sitting next to Cyrus on the bed. The chestnut werewolf had plain black shoes on his feet, and Sonic realised how silly his own cherry red and white shoes looked next the them. Sonic was about to get up, when he had an uncontrollably pain in his stomach, screaming out in pain. Hunger was setting in. Cyrus got to his feet, panicking slightly, and grabbing Sonic's mouth.

{Shhh. Look, stay here.} He said, leaving Sonic shaking, sat on the bed. Sonic had no idea where Cyrus disappeared to but with minutes, he was back. He stuffed a large bowl of raw meat, on Sonic's lap, under his nose.

{What's this?} Sonic asked staring at the contents of the bowl.

{Wild rabbit!} Cyrus replied. {Don't worry, its not Sapient. I don't go in for that stuff. But some do round here.} He got up and walked out to the window in the room. He scanned out of it, looking nervous. He looked back at Sonic.

{Oi! You idiot, eat, before you make yourself ill.}

Sonic sighed. He had eaten raw meat before but never in these quantities. His host had been very kind and generous with him, and Sonic felt like he had to at least try. He groaned as the pain in stomach was back. He grabbed a piece of meat, placed it in his mouth and bit. His head exploded in a range of emotions as his 'inner wolf' woke up with a vengeance. It tasted good, really good, as Sonic realised he hadn't eaten almost a week. With hunger, and his 'inner wolf' getting the better of him, he ate the meat, and before he knew it, he had finished the bowl, and was licking it clean, feeling self-satisfied. Cyrus was smiling at him.

{Hungry?} he said. Sonic nodded.

{Yes.} He said. {Thank you.} He saw that Cyrus was still looking out of the window.

{Problem?} Sonic asked. Cyrus looked back at him.

{I don't think so.} He said. {I was just checking to see if any of the guards heard you scream. But it doesn't look like it.}

Sonic stared. What was he scared of? Cyrus seemed to read his mind.

{Even though you can't tell where you are, it's after dark, and there is a strict curfew. Nobody leaves the colony, after dark. In fact, nobodies allowed to leave their homes, and there is strictly no noise. We don't want the outside world to know we're here. The guards go around patrolling the underground streets, checking. Break the curfew, and the consequences are severe.} He shuddered.

Sonic got the impression that Cyrus had seen what those consequences were first hand.

{Why so strict?} He asked. Cyrus rounded on him.

{Because we don't want the 'normals' to find us, not after what they did to our ancestors. Those brutes would destroy us if given the opportunity.}

{Hold it!} Sonic said. {Not all 'normals' are that bad.} He cast his mind back to his friends. He believed that before the most recent full moon, but since, Sonic was now unsure.

{How would you know!} Cyrus spat, staring at him.

{I've seen them.} He said, but he then sighed. He didn't know to think anymore. {But your right!} He added. Cyrus stared, astonished.

{You've seen them. Are you telling me that you've been in the presence of 'normals' and your not dead.}

{Dead!} Sonic said. {I thought Werewolves were immortals.}

{We are, to a point.} Said Cyrus. {But they have methods of killing, as we can be killed if the situation is right, or if not killing, making one's life unbearable.}

So the immortality had its limits. Sonic was glad he hadn't found it yet.

Cyrus bared down on him. {So how did you do it?}

{I made them believe I was an ordinary male hedgehog, a Sapient.} Sonic said brightly. Cyrus continued to star. He didn't believe him.

Sonic decided to quickly change the subject. {So what do we do now?} He asked.

Cyrus sighed. {Until morning. Nothing.} He smiled at Sonic. {So I suggest we try and get some sleep. You take my bed, I'll sleep through here.} Cyrus indicated the bed Sonic was still sat on, as he made is way to the next room. Sonic stared as he left. Leaving him alone in the room. He lay back down on the bed. What sort of mess had he gotten himself into? He had running from Werewolf Hunters only to find a Werewolf Colony. He prayed that he didn't bring them here. Or had be been running from Werewolf Hunters? Sonic closed his eyes and cast his mind back to the clearing in the forest, and the loud noises above his head. Come to think about it, those noises sounded like Tails' old Biplane backfiring.

He sat up and put a hand over his mouth. What had he done? How could he be so stupid. They had come for him, to help, not hinder or kill. He had to go back. But he couldn't leave, not yet. He owed that to Cyrus. He had saved him from a lot of bother. 'Wonder if all Werewolves were like him.' Sonic thought. He suspected not, by the fact that some of them ate Sapients. He also suspected that he was in for an uncomfortable ride tomorrow. That meant he was going to need all the strength he had to escape if needed to. He lay his head on the bed again, and tried to get some sleep. He had a feeling he was going to need it.

Days and nights look exactly the same underground and it was Cyrus shaking him awake, that told him it was morning. There was a lot of movement outside of the window now.

"Morning!" Cyrus said brightly. Cyrus' voice was quite high pitched and bubbly, it reminded him of Tails. Sonic stared.

{What! No Thought Speech.} he said, automatic with him mind. Cyrus laughed.

"Don't need to during the day." He said. "The hot scorching sun of the desert keeps the 'normals' away, only at night have they ever ventured this way. Thats why we don't risk it." He pointed to the ceiling. His underground home was right beneath the desert.

"Hungry?" He added. "I have more meat in the kitchen." Sonic eyes widened and his stomach rumbled at the sound of food.

"Please." He said, and he got off the bed and onto his feet, and Sonic followed Cyrus into his kitchen. Sonic noticed that Cyrus was bigger then him, and much more developed werewolf. A few years older maybe, but not much. The bedroom had been a small square room with a window and a bed, and nothing much else. In the second room, however was larger, and Sonic saw that it was a kitchen, lounge, dining room all rolled into one, with a strange combination of earth, mud made furniture with electrical items everywhere. There were sofas made made of earth, everything was, including the work surface. But all the utensils were there, even a working fridge. Cyrus went to the fridge and pulled out bowls of meat for them both. They was all that was in it. Meat. About half full. He thanked Cyrus and looked around. To the side of him, the same side as the previous room was a window. It was extremely large and had no glass in it. There was a lot noise coming from it.

He wondered to the window with his bowl of food and looked out of it. He stared amazed. The window opened out onto, in Sonic opinion, the biggest underground cavern he had ever seen. He looked like it had been hollowed out of the very rock by hand. The cavern was the size three football pitches side by side, oval in shape and about four stories tall. Looking around the cavern, Sonic saw the windows of people's homes carved all the way around the edge. There were four rows of windows, from floor to ceiling, and Cyrus' was one of the higher most windows, giving a great view of the cavern below. On the floor of the cavern, it was full of people, all werewolves, jostling around, shouting, arguing with with each other. Sonic even saw some fighting. Sonic saw that one end on cavern, there was an small square arena, the seating all around the edge. Sonic could see it was full of cheering Werewolves, screaming for their champions, fighting in the centre.

At the other end of the cavern, was what looked like a market, except only one thing was for sale. Meat. Every different type of meat you could think of. Sonic stomach turned when he saw the arms and legs of dead Sapients down there, still with gloves and shoes on. Nobody he knew, thankfully. He turned away to look at the Werewolves themselves. They all looked like hedgehogs, and Cyrus was right, there was a range of different colours down there, brown, green, red, yellow, and one or two black ones, but definitely no blue.

Cyrus moved next to him by the window. "Impressive, no." He said with a smile. Sonic nodded. "This place was built by our ancestors many thousands of years ago, and is is the last true home of the Werewolf."

Sonic continued to look down. Around the bottom edge of the cavern there were large tunnels, which Sonic figured, lead anywhere and everywhere. Then Sonic saw a werewolf run along one of the tunnels and then be ran down by two extreme large, beefy, and mean looking blonde werewolves running on all fours. It caught Sonic's eye, because looked strange to see a werewolf run on all fours when not transformed because of the full moon. Sonic frowned. Cyrus saw where Sonic was looking. He shuddered. Sonic looked at him. He sighed.

"Those are the Guard Chasers. The fastest Werewolves around here. Nothing can outrun those. They are fast and they are dangerous. Get caught by one of those and that happens." He pointed down to the poor werewolf who just been caught, getting ripped to pieces, to howls of laughter. Sonic was horrified but raised an eyebrow.

'How fast can they go?' He thought, but he didn't want to find out there and then, not right now anyway.

Sonic watched as the poor werewolf being carried off, unconscious, by the two Guard Chasers, down a nearby tunnel. No wonder Cyrus was frightened, this society was brutal. He kept watching the Werewolves go about these lives, he noticed something strange about them. They were all male. They wasn't a single female down there. Where were they? He mentioned this to Cyrus. He laughed.

"Of course, we're all male. You won't find a breeding female around here. They tend to get locked away as soon as their born."

"What? Why?" Said Sonic, not really understanding. Cyrus looked at him.

"Don't you know what you are." Sonic shook his head. Cyrus stared but explained anyway.

"Werewolves are immortals. Supernaturals. They never die off, so if they bred normally, they'd overpopulate the planet within centuries, killing everything." Sonic didn't like that idea and neither did Cyrus. He continued. "So nature decided in order to control the population, only half of all Werewolves born, are capable of breeding. Therefore you get 'Breeding' Werewolves and 'Non Breeding' Werewolves. Everyone here, including you and me, are all 'Non Breeding' Werewolves, and we are all male."

Sonic stared, he didn't really understand. "So where are the 'Breeders'?" he asked.

"Not here!" Cyrus said, thankfully, seeing how brutal the society he lived in was. "I don't know where they take them. But thats all they do, the males and females in there, breed, all day, everyday."

"Thats not really a way to live." Sonic said thinking aloud. He looked down at his groin, it was flat against his pelvis, no pouch. It didn't explain why it was female. Sonic saw Cyrus' eyes had followed him and he smiled.

"What!" Demanded Sonic. Cyrus turned to face him.

"Don't panic!" He said. "I'm the same as you. We're both 'Non Breeding' females."

Sonic saw that Cyrus' groin was identical to his, but he still didn't understand.

"What?" He asked.

Cyrus sighed, trying to calm his new friend. "'Breeding' Werewolves are what you would consider normal. Its us 'Non Breeders' that are the weird ones. There are two different types, 'male' and 'female'. They both look identical, looking like male Hedgehogs, except for the groins, one has a male groin, with a pouch, and the females don't, even though neither of them actually work."

Sonic thought. "What was the point of that? Why have different genders if you can't breed?" It made no sense. Cyrus sighed.

"So relationships can be formed, and families put together. Not all Werewolves are like those brutes down there." Indicating out of the window. "Love is a part of our lives just as much as anyone else's. Non breeding males and females, get together for love and happiness."

"And do what?" Said Sonic. "Mate for the fun of it!" Cyrus looked at him.

"Well, yes." He said. "But its more complicated then that."

So Non-Breeding Werewolves were all considered males, until they got in the bedroom. Sonic laughed at that thought. It was a stupid idea, but one he may to get used to, as his thoughts turned to Shadow. He was male and Sonic a 'female' by the rougher sense of the word. Maybe he had a chance with him. Sonic knew it was wishful thinking, they was no way, NO WAY, Shadow would accept him as a mate. He'd be way too freaked out by it all, and would properly shoot him. Sonic looked disheartened. He couldn't give up on Shadow yet not until he'd at least tried. He finally had some answers, he finally knew who he was, a freaky cross-bred werewolf with the body of one gender, and the mind of the other. But he did know what he wanted. Shadow. It explained why he was so interested in him. But then something else crossed his mind.

"What if two non-breeders want a baby? What happens then?" Sonic wondered aloud. Cyrus stared. Werewolf society had been this way for thousands of years. Why would two non-breeders want that? They couldn't and it wasn't the done thing to do. The look of shock on Cyrus' face, told Sonic to drop the subject. If two non-breeders wanted a baby, they'd have start playing with genetics. His mind turned back to Shadow again, he was a geneticist. He smirked quietly to himself. He felt himself going very red. It was wishful thinking, something he would absolutely adore, but wishful.

Cyrus was looking sorrowful. It broke Sonic's train of thought.

"What's wrong?" he asked. Cyrus looked at him.

"Mate for the fun of it!" He repeated what Sonic had said earlier. He gazed out of the window. He smirked. "That would be nice." He said quietly to himself. Sonic grabbed his new friend by the arm, horrified.

"Hey! Is someone forcing you into it?" Sonic demanded. Cyrus' eyes filled with tears. Sonic took that as a yes.

"His name's Xander, and he's horrible. But big deal, it happens to all the non-breeding females round here. Thats what they do to us!" Sonic was dumbfounded, he got the impression that non-breeding females, like him and Cyrus, were second class citizens and nothing more then prizes, to those brutes, down there, out the window. Anger filled Sonic, he place his empty bowl on the ground, grabbed his friend and hugged him. He'd made a decision.

"Look, I'm going to try and get out of here." But Cyrus shook his head.

"You can't, its forbidden..." Sonic cut across him. He cried.

"And your coming with me. There a place I know where you'll be safe." Or at least it would be, if Tails took him in. No reason why the kid fox wouldn't. He was a friend in need.

Cyrus shook his head again. "No, I can't leave. It's too dangerous." He stammered. "The Guard Chasers!" Sonic laughed. Cyrus stared.

"I can outrun those things!" He said, waving them off as nothing. They looked like nothing compared to some of the robots Eggman sent after him. Now they were fast. Cyrus didn't believe him. He shook his head. No one was that fast. Sonic smirked.

"Time to show you why they call me Sonic. Let's go!" Sonic ran to the front door, and held out his hand. "Come on!" He said. Cyrus stood there, shaking, but finally relented. He hated his place, and did want to get out too.

"Okay!" he said, and took Sonic's hand. Sonic threw him onto his back as he opened the door. Cyrus clung on as they ran out into the corridor.

"That way," He said, pointing left, and Sonic ran. Cyrus' eyes went widen. He had never seen so much corridor disappear under their feet, in such a short space of time. They rounded a corner to find their pathway blocked, by several male non-breeders. Sonic turned round and saw that more had appeared behind them. They were trapped. Sonic span back round again, to find himself face to face with an enormous werewolf. He was a black werewolf, with long thick, matted fur, beefy arms and legs and glaring red eyes. He looked like Shadow, but that Hedgehog, was way better looking and a hell of a lot cleaner. He growled at them.

"Where are you two ladies off too?" He smirked. "Not supposed to be out are you. Wouldn't want you to get hurt!" He said. Sonic growled back in anger.

'So they lock non-breeding females in their homes, as well as rape them.' He thought. That was not fair. It was wrong, and it wasn't going to happen to his friend any more. He could feel Cyrus shaking on his back.

"Xander!" He murmured. Sonic stared. But the black werewolf noticed him.

"Cyrus!" He hollowed. "Nice of you to come out and greet me, you even brought a friend to play with. Nice looking too, unusual colour." He smirked, lip curling. The Werewolves bore down on them. Sonic held his ground.

"Hey, leave him alone!" He growled. Xander laughed.

"So the blue creature has a tongue. He'll make a very nice pet." He beamed. He made a grab for him. Sonic moved. The black werewolf missed. Cyrus still clinging on to him. Sonic growled.

"I am nobodies pet!" He said in a low voice. Then he saw it, a gap in barrier of Werewolves, he'd have to run up the wall and across the ceiling to make it. A serious bust of speed would required to get through, but it looked large enough. He gotten out of tighter spots that this with Eggman. Be bent his knees and placed one hand on the ground and one on Cyrus, hold him in place. He tensed up the muscles in his legs. He could feel his power of chaos speed growing. He whispered to him.

"Do you trust me?" He asked. He felt Cyrus nod his head, on his shoulder, terrified. Xander laughed them.

"Isn't that cute, their submitting to us!" He roared. Sonic looked up at the black werewolf. Anger had now really set in. He smirked evilly.

"Like hell, we are!" He scowled, and with that, he took off. With every ounce of strength in his legs he had, he released the speed, and ran. Up the wall, along the ceiling, and through the gap. They squeezed through with millimetres to spare. Sonic was in his element, as he noticed that the ceiling was less crowded then the floor, so sped along, expertly dodging the light fittings. Cyrus was unable to believe is eyes, they running along the ceiling, they were going to fall.

"No, we're not!" Sonic said laughing, reading his mind. He knew what speeds to go, to run along a ceiling so gravity didn't play a part. He done this way too many times before. Sonic could hear commotion from behind them. Cyrus screamed.

"They've sent Guard Chasers. We're done for."

'We'll see about that.' Sonic thought. The long corridor winded its way around outside of the colony, like a large spiral, past all the houses, until it came on the floor of the main cavern. Sonic came out of the corridor, jumped off the ceiling to land on the ground, and carried on running. He noticed a tunnel to the side of the corridor, and bolted down it. The tunnel was wider and longer then the corridor and must have stretched out for miles. He heard four Guard Chasers running after them and they were gain on them. Cyrus screamed again.

Sonic smiled. "What's the problem, I haven't even put my foot down on the accelerator yet." He looked down the tunnel. It was long and straight, he had the space to do it.

"What?" Said Cyrus. "What are you talking about?" He squealed. Now Sonic really smirked, as the Guard Chasers got even closer.

"This!" He released all of his chaos speed at once, and it catapulted them forwards, straight through the sound barrier. The noise was immense, it ricocheted down the tunnel behind them, causing it to shake violently. Boulders began to fall around them. But Sonic knew what to do, he dodged them with ease, and kept moving. At this incredible speed, he ran, from one tunnel to the next, leaving the Guard Chasers far behind. But Sonic was getting lost, each tunnel he headed down looked identical to the last. When all was quiet and at a crossroad junction point in the tunnels, he stopped. It looked safe enough, and he hoped to find some bearings.

Cyrus collapsed off his back on to the floor. He was out of breathe, trembling. He stared at Sonic.

"How did you do that? I have never seen anyone go that fast!" He said as he got to his feet. "You not even out of breathe!" Sonic shrugged.

'Na' Sonic thought. 'It takes more then that to get me out of breathe!' More likely, several days with Eggman on his tail. That usually did it.

"Can't all Werewolves do that?" Sonic said. "I thought it was a trait."

Cyrus shook his head violently. "No, just you! Werewolves are known their strength, not speed." Sonic frowned. He was felt sure his speed was a werewolf trait. If that wasn't the case, then where did it come from. Sonic now had the suspicion that it must have had something to do with the Chaos Emeralds. They must have given him his power of Chaos Speed. But How? Or Why? Sonic suspected that he would never know now, but he was extremely grateful. Cyrus was still reeling.

"That noise, what was that? I've never heard anything so loud before. It brought the tunnel down." Sonic sighed and smiled.

"The Sound Barrier!" He said, casually. Cyrus stared.

"What? A Sonic Boom? Here? Underground?" He stuttered. Sonic raised an eyebrow and laughed at his friend. He was getting it. Slowly. Sonic could see the cogs turning. Then Cyrus stared at him, amazement on his face.

"And that's why they call be 'Sonic'." He said under his breathe, smirking, looking around for any clues as to where they were. He asked Cyrus if he knew. He shook his head. He'd never been to this part of the colony before. Then they heard it.

{OUCH! DAM YOU MONSTERS, GET OFF OF ME!} The thought speech was so loud, it ricocheted inside their heads. Sonic panicked, he recognised that voice instantly.

"Shadow!" He screamed. He didn't how Shadow was able to use Thought Speech, but he was here, in the colony somewhere.

"You know that voice?" Cyrus asked. Frowning. Sonic rounded on him.

"He's a friend, a good person and I have to find him. Any ideas where he might be?"

Cyrus stared and thought. He owed Sonic his life, so he at least owed him this. He looked around. "Your friend isn't very far away." He said. "Thought Speech only has a limited range of where it can be heard, no matter how loud you shout." He began to look down the tunnels. He saw something down one of them.

{This way!} He said using his mind.

'Good move.' thought Sonic. If they were going after Shadow, the less noise they made, the better. They crept down a tunnel. It was extremely long and winding. It was some time later before they saw a light. As they got closer, they heard commotion in there as they looked though a window. They saw that it was a large room that has carved out of the very rock. There were Werewolves in there, chatting, drinking and eating in there. The rooms seemed to be separated into cells.

{What is this place?} Sonic asked, using his mind.

{A Detention Centre.} Cyrus replied. {Their dotted all over the colony, its where anything caught outside is first bought in. I found you in one of the these.} Sonic gulped. Now he was very grateful to Cyrus. Then Cyrus added.

{Can you see your friend in there?}

Sonic gulped again and turned from Cyrus to the window. The Detection Centre had about six cells in it. Most of them were full of rubbish and others were full of bones. It stank of blood and guts as the Werewolves inside were feasting on something freshly killed. Sonic heaved and his 'inner wolf' cringed. It wasn't for him. The poor creature was a wild animal, not a Sapient and there was some comfort in that. Sonic looked past the Werewolves, the each of the cells, looking for Shadow. Looking for a black hedgehog in a dark, black shadowy cells, was not going to be easier, but Sonic believed he was in there.

He kept looking until right at the very back of the furtherest cell, he saw them. Deep crimson red eyes, opening slightly, in the darkness. He'd found him. Shadow was in a bad way, collapsed on the floor of the cell, the Werewolves had badly beaten him up. But Sonic had to admit, it could have been a lot worse. Shadow must have scared them off by using Thought Speech. Sonic looked at Cyrus and nodded. Yes, his friend was in there.

{Speak to him.} Cyrus suggested. Sonic stared. He continued. {If your friend can speak using Thought Speech, then he can certainly hear it.}

Sonic stared at Cyrus as he realised something.

{Won't the Werewolves in there hear me too?} He asked. Cyrus smiled.

{Not if you don't want them too. Only the person you want to hear you, can hear you!}

Sonic sighed and concentrated.

{Shadow?}