Royal slave: chapter 5
Shadow's POV
I was awoken by a yell, the sound of a cage door opening and a kick to the side. I curled up and laid a hand on my side. I growled and looked up gainst the slave seller. "what? forgotten your ussual awakening, slave 4405?" The slave seller smirked and walked away. I growled and tried to fight back, but before i could the coward had already closed the cage door. My growling died down and i sat up straight. A diffirent slave seller, who was giving breakfast to all the slaves who were awoken by the other slave seller, walked to our cage and dropped some food in our cage. The food was the ussual. Some dry bread, water and a bowl of soup. Cream sat down in front of the plate and i grabbed the bread and broke it in half and gave cream the bigger half. "thank you, mister shadow." She said and started eating it. I smiled and started on my own piece of bread.
We quickly finished our breakfast, although i advised cream not to eat the soup because poeple would get often sick from it, and waited. Waiting for a possible buyer. And it didn't take long before a couple came. It was an old couple. And they didn't seem like nice poeple. And cream thought the same. Nobody would want an adult slave like me. So cream hid out of view behind my back and hoped that they didn't see her. I couldn't blame her for hiding. It was only naturall that she would try not to get bought. I tried that aswell before i was bought by sonic's parents. I didn't have an adult's back to hide behind though.
Hiding behind me seemed to work since no one was paying attention to me because i was an adult. And couples and families wanted young children not an adult who obviously got brought back by his or her previous owners. But someone had noticed her behind me and walked towards us. I growled in warning to scare them off, but unfortunatly it didn't seem to be working. I growled louder as another attempt, but they just kneeled down in front of us. I crossed my arms and stopped growling as it was obvious to me that my growling wasn't such a success at scaring them away.
"what?" I snapped as the couple just stood there. "who are you hiding there behind your back?" The woman asked innocently. "what makes you think that i'm hiding anyone?" I said. "it's your sitting position. you don't look comfortable sitting like this. has if there is something, or rather someone, in the way." The man said. I growled. They were right. I really wasn't comfortable sitting like this with cream hiding behind me. I was scared that i would crush her with my weight because she looked pretty fragile and she was just a small child. So as a solution i was sitting in an awkward pose. "come on, child. you don't have to be so shy." The woman said, referring to cream. Cream peaked at them from behind my back. She seemed affraid of them. "come on, we won't hurt you." The woman said and smiled at cream. Cream was tempted to come out of her hiding spot. "cream, what're you doing?" I asked a bit harshly. Not that i wanted to sound so harsh. It was a sudden reaction. Cream was scared off by that, much to my dislike, and hide behind me again. "cream, isn't it? do you really want to stay with a meany such as him?" The woman said and laughed a little bit. "what is your name slave?" The man asked me. But i didn't answer. Untill a slave seller poked my harshly in my stomache. "he asked you a question, slave." The slave seller said with a threathening tone in his voice. "so? i don't see why i should answer." I said stubbornly. I sometimes wondered where my sudden stubborness came from. The slave seller growled in annoyence. "his name is slave 4405." The slave seller said. That annoyed me and i was almost temped enough to kick him in his butt while he had his back turned to me. "no, we mean his real name." The man said. That surprised me. Normally poeple would only ask for a slave's number, but they asked for my real name. What were they up to?