He is My Master

22: Lessons In Obedience

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"A new sslave, my Prince?" Lazar predictably questioned as Shadow returned to the castle at sunset, leading a fidgety Sonic and a positively terrified Tails behind him. The foxlet had freaked as soon as he had realized he was supposed to be taken to the castle and not even Sonic had been able to calm him. Shadow had had to threaten to beat the kit, at which notion Sonic had growled, but at least for now the young fox was more terrified of his new owner than of the looming bulk of the royal fortress. The purple lizard flicked his black tongue in disapproval. "It sseemed like you sstill had your handsss full with the mosst recent addition..."

Shadow had to battle the urge not to fill his hands with Lazar's throat, but at least Tails gave a more slave-appropriate whimper at the lizard's glare than Sonic, who just glared right back, as usual. Shadow sighed and yanked his leash.

"I have found that Sonic reacts a lot better to mistreatment of others than to abuse of himself. Therefore, to break him into submission I bought this pitiful waif, which I plan on punishing in Sonic's stead where he can see it, until he realizes that he has to obey me to the letter or there will be consequences."

"An unorthodox approach. Ussually thesse sslavess do not care for anything elsse but themselves. And usually they alsso only have one tail," Lazar mused, though he sounded mildly intrigued.

Shadow smirked. "And what kind of royalty would I be if any of my possessions and pets were ordinary? I will need a second food bowl in my room tonight, but until then I do not wish to be bothered. This day has been tiring," he finished, which also was possibly the only non-lie he had uttered to Lazar all day. He pushed past the lizard imperiously, aware of how frightening this episode just had to have been for the kit. Inwardly, though, he shrugged. Shadow himself had been through much worse in his childhood, so there wasn't that great a pity he could make himself feel. Besides, having Tails with their little troupe had just upped the complications by around 300 percent, so he was feeling just that teensy bit resentful.

Yeah. That's it. And it has nothing at all to do with the fact that Sonic is now fawning all over the tail-wonder and isn't paying a bit of attention to ME, Shadow thought. If anyone knew I'm this close to throwing a tempter tantrum because I want attention from Sonic of all people, I'd be the laughing stock for the next century.

Shadow grumbled under his breath, pushing the door open to their shared domicile. As Tails nearly froze at the threshold upon seeing the huge bed of the Prince and Sonic put a soothing hand on his shoulder, whispering in his large ear to calm the little fox, the Ultimate Lifeform couldn't help but feel a small pang in his chest at this picture of intimacy and love that the blue hedgehog had to feel even for this pitiful version of his kid brother.

Shadow closed the door with force as if to shut this train of thought physically out. He turned toward Sonic and Tails, making to take off their leads. The kit's one was a quick affair, but for Sonic's, Shadow just permitted himself take a couple of extra seconds, as if he had suddenly difficulty with the lock, just for the pleasure of touching his supposed slave . His fingers brushed over Sonic's neck, throat and shoulders as if by accident and Shadow wondered whether he had imagined the sudden hitching of breath in the blue hedgehog's throat in mid-sentence to Tails.

Do my touches make you nervous, Sonic? He couldn't help but wonder. It might just be false hope conjured up by his sudden jealousy, but...

The black hedgehog shook his head. He had to think up something they could do with the kit and it wouldn't be easy. His glance fell onto the pile of books on his writing desk.