Royal slave: chapter 8
Shadow's POV
I looked at the photograph and held it in my hands. I recognized the person on the picture. How couldn't i? only one hedgehog could look so much like me. I held it closer to my face as i couldn't see enough anymore because my vision became to blury to see because of my tears that had gathered in the corners of my eyes and were now streaming down my face. "h-how does a photograph of d-dad get here?" I stuttered. I could recognize my father's appearance anywhere. I knew from my mother and the little bit i remember from him that he looked exactly like me, except for that he didn't have streaks. And he had blue eyes. Just like that woman.
"and now all the pieces fall into place. or almost all." I heard a voice say that was quickly followed with a giggle. I turned around and saw the elderly couple standing in the doorway. "y-you're..." I stuttered pointing at them while shivering, but i didn't find the right words to finish my sentence. The woman smiled before answering. "we are your father's parents. or in other words, you are our grandson." The elderly woman said walking towards me and laid her hands on my shoulders. "we wanted to tell you, but we first wanted you to feel at home here." The man said and approached me aswell. "so this room...is mine?" I asked and looked around again. Both of them nodded in response. "as soon as we heard of your birth we made this room your baby room." She said and looked down sadly. "but no matter how much we tried. we never found you." The man said and laid his hands on her shoulder in comfort.
"not untill the ball that is." The man said. "the ball?" I asked. "yes, we were invited by your previous owners. we had no idea you were there untill you had hit the duke." The man continued after my question. "why didn't you do anything?" I asked loudly. "because we didn't have the time to do anything. Before we could your owners' servants had already taken you away. and we had no idea where. we knew that you would be brought back to the slave house. and so we returned home and waited." The woman said and placed her hands on my shoulders again. "but that doesn't matter now. what matters now is the fact that we finally have you, our grandson, again. and that's the most important." The man said and the woman wrapped her arms around me. I did the same and returned the embraced.
Sonic's POV
"oh come on mom! just tell me!" I complained as my mom wouldn't tell me anything. Neither would my dad. I tried asking them for a few times, but they didn't tell me anything. They said that they didn't see a reason for me to search for shadow. It was to dangerous for me since shadow was still a savage in their eyes. "because i see no reason why i should tell you. that savage could hurt you." My dad said. "he is no savage dad!" I yelled. "yes he is! who else would hit the duke out of nowhere." My mother said. "are you ignoring it or just plain stupid! it was obvious that the duke was provoking shadow with something! but it's not like you would care! you two are to heartless for that!" I yelled, shocking my parents pretty hard. "shadow is not the savage you are!" I yelled and left the room.
I didn't need those two. i had another way of finding shadow. and all i had to do was go the slave house and ask for the adress of the new onwers. Those slave sellers couldn't hide any infortmation from me and they didn't have the right to ask why. This would be so much easier then asking my parents.