Fangs & Blueberries

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It was around 9pm, when Sonic found himself sitting on a bench in the small garden with crossed arms and a thoughtful frown on his face. He still felt guilty about his behavior earlier, for he definitely did not intend to make Shadow angry, yet it happened just a few hours prior.

He released a soft sigh and shook the unwanted thoughts away, finally deciding to stop his brooding. His eyes landed on the bloodberries and suddenly he felt an itch of an urge to taste one of them. The temptation grew stronger with each passing second and before Sonic could even realize it, he already approached the berries.

And actually noticed some of them missing, so he assumed, that Shadow told him the truth about the other night. Cautiously looking around he quickly checked, if anyone's here to see him, but (un)fortunately saw nobody, so he returned his attention back to the berries.

"Let's see," he whispered to himself and grinned as he grabbed the pink berry and tugged it, only to feel resistance from it.
"Come on!" he hissed at the berry and used bigger amount of strength, tugging it with a deep groan he then gasped, when the berry finally got picked and he landed on his blue butt covered by the comfortable pants.

"Ow... heh, gotcha!" he smirked at the berry now in his hands, wondering if he should keep the sack of seeds as it is or try to tear it off as well. Crossing his legs he remained sitting on the ground and carefully brought the berry close to his nose, sniffing a little he perked up at the strawberry scent it had, oddly enough.

"It's really sweet, huh?" he whispered and opened his mouth to take a bite of it, but the ivory spirit suddenly appeared and yelled at him to stop, which caused him scream in shock.
"SILVER!" Sonic growled at him angrily afterwards.

"Don't eat it! It isn't suitable for you!" Silver warned him with insistence in his voice.
"Why?"
"Because... ugh, just don't eat it, okay? Didn't Shadow warn you about the berries?" Silver clenched his fists and descended on the ground next to Sonic, also sort of sitting down.

"He did. But how can you know, if it's dangerous for me? I am different, heck, you even had a theory of me being immortal! So, what can I lose?" Sonic didn't understand Silver's behavior.

Silver shook his head.
"Being immortal doesn't mean being invincible, Sonic. I am worried..." he briefed and admitted while hugging his knees close to his transparent chest.

"Hey, don't worry, I'll be fine!" Sonic said confidently while looking at the berry in his hands, the temptation in him was hardly endurable.
"Sonic, please, listen to me! I am serious!" Silver still insisted and outstretched his hand to stop him from doing it.
Sonic grinned at him and stood up.
"Don't be silly, I will just take a little bite, then I'll leave it be, okay?" he promised, being stubborn about it, especially now, that he already had the berry in his hands.

"These berries are very rare to get, this is wasting, Sonic! Don't you dare ever do it again, else Shadow would get really mad and might even kick you out," Silver warned him with a growl and still in the sitting position he lifted himself higher above Sonic's head level.
"Ugh, fine, it's just for this once, I promise!" Sonic rolled his eyes, not really taking the spirit that seriously and sighing softly he finally sank his teeth to the berry, which was now pretty juicy thanks to being picked at evening/night time.

As Sonic took a piece of it to his mouth, he carefully munched it and noticed the weird sweet taste resembling of a strawberry mixed with an iron aftertaste, which indeed reminded him of blood. Swallowing the portion he then grimased, as the iron aftertaste remained in his throat.

Silver couldn't help but actually giggle a little at his companion's grimase, yet was still tensed up and only hoped it wouldn't poison him.
"So? How do you feel?" he asked in concern, now taking up a standing position in the air while floating freely above the surface.