He is My Master

17: Escape to the City

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"Ready to go to the city yet?"

"In a minute, Sonic. Same answer like the previous two dozen times you asked," Shadow calmly replied, packing the maps, pencils, a leather bottle, some gold coins he'd found in the Prince's room, an odd thing he thought to be a compass - that had five direction inscribed on it no less - and a fist-sized, polished diamond into a bag he slung over his shoulder.

"Ready to go to the city yet?"

"Sonic!"

The blue hedgehog merely grinned. Even if a part of him was now even more aware of how much the presence of the other sent his heart racing and the blood in his ears pounding, it didn't change an iota of how much amusement he derived from winding Shadow up.

"Just checking. Why are you packing all of this stuff, anyway?"

"The objectory of today is to find the Chaos Emerald, surprisingly. Therefore, I'm packing the essentials needed to navigate in an alien world to us as well as means to bargain with the current owner of the Emerald."

"Yeah, whatever. Can we go now?"

Shadow silently counted to ten. In hexadecimal.

"And where did you even get that diamond? Looks like a Chaos Emerald, but doesn't feel like one."

"I raided the Royal Treasury last night after you had run off. We might be able to switch it for the real one, if we find it."

"You did something exciting without me? That's it, not talking to you anymore."

"Don't make promises you can't keep." Shadow smirked. "And anyway, I wouldn't have gone there without you if you had even turned up. As it was, you were running around the castle until when, midnight? I was almost asleep when you finally thought of returning."

"Um, yeah." Sonic shrugged with his head tucked in between his shoulders, smiling looking somewhat sheepishly, like a runaway dog that knew it had done something wrong. "Couldn't help it, though, just needed some alone time," he said, that grin flashing from rueful to unconcerned in a matter of seconds, "Amy has a way of not just invading your personal space but virtually poking a flag in it and declaring it her own. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if she decided to poke a flag into me next."

The laughter hiding underneath his words made it clear that the blue hedgehog was joking, but right now the hero was also oblivious to the hardening of the jaw muscles and the sudden flash of something murderous in his dark counterpart's eyes. When Sonic turned around, happily chattering on, Shadow had himself in check again, though.

If somebody else tried to claim you, Sonic, I would kill them.

The Ultimate Lifeform paused.

Or would I?

After all, what did he even mean by that, "claiming" Sonic? The blue hedgehog wasn't really something you could just take with you, like a...Shadow's mind searched for a simile...like a cabbage head, he finished and immediately cursed his brain for ruining his dignity even in his own head.

But the thought persisted.

At the moment, Sonic let him be his pretend owner, submitted to the collar and leash and went along with the charades Shadow thought up to keep them both safe.

"-really weird, isn't it? I mean, Knuckles, Jet, Blaze, Black Doom and now Amy. All of them creepily similiar to how they were in our dimension. It kinda bites that Amy was so...callous towards me, though. To me as a slave, I mean. " Sonic was still talking, though sounding more serious now while Shadow stared at him, lost in his own thoughts.