He is My Master

49: Where Heroes Rest

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Hello...

...can anyone hear me?

If yes, my name is Shadow the Hedgehog. And if I'm currently talking to the universe, I'd like to file a complaint.

"Nnnggh..."

Consciousness was currently returning to the Ultimate Lifeform, and Shadow was also currently wishing it wouldn't.

He gave another soft moan of pain, exhaustion and the general wretchedness one feels when waking up in a body that has now decided it hates you, and will torture you for everything you put it through. In the black hedgehog's world, everything was dark, blurry and horrible right now, and his mind was a complete mess of yesterday's jumbled memories and painful warning signals from all over his body. Years of ingrained training as a weapon of war and mass destruction were also shouting at him that he simply couldn't lie here, that there was danger everywhere, what he was even thinking to be a sitting duck like this... ?!

Okay. Hold on. Shadow tried to collect himself. What had happened? They had escaped the castle...found...oh gods, found Sonic's mother, and then...they had been in a forest. They had been arguing. Sonic had wanted to go to the Echidnas, but Shadow had said no. Which, of course, could only mean one thing as a consequence...

Shadow finally opened his eyes, spotted Sonic right next to him and fixed the blue hedgehog with a very weary glance.

"We're at the echidna camp, aren't we."

"Shadow!" Green eyes lit up and the blue hedgehog's face immediately morphed into a smile so radiant, Shadow thought it should require a licence. "You woke up!"

The black hedgehog groaned.

"Well done, faker. Ten out of ten for observation."

"Wow, you're a ray of sunshine," Sonic commented, but his smile hadn't vanished, just turned a bit more sarcastic. "I was just glad you're finally awake."

"Urgh. At least one of us is happy about it, then" Shadow winced and tried to sit, but various muscles immediately let him know that this would be a Very Bad Idea. Grimacing, he turned his head a little to at least take in some more of their surroundings. He was lying on some sort of bed in a tent, he noted, and someone had draped a blanket over his lower body. Sonic seemed to have been kneeling on the earthen floor next to the bed, dozing with his head on his arms folded at Shadow's side, but had immediately perked up when the black hedgehog had woken and was now looking down on him, one ear folded, his expression between the relieved and the curious. Behind the blue hedgehog through a slit in the tent entrance Shadow could also see his that his suspicion had actually been correct. There were red-furred Sapients walking past everywhere, and the sounds around them indicated that they had to be at the edge of a mass of people - an army.

"Why am I not surprised we're here," Shadow muttered, but there was more defeat than resentment in it.

"Well, it's not like we had much of a choice," Sonic replied without missing a beat, "You fainted the moment the echidna warriors came charging toward us, and I wasn't really in a state where I could have picked you up and run, either," the blue hedgehog said, rubbing the back of his head with a bit of an awkward smile, but then turned serious quickly. "How do you feel now?" he asked, and Shadow could feel the blue hero's hand sneak over and gloves fingers naturally entangling with his own as the blue hedgehog continued with a bit more sombre tone. "You...actually scared me when you collapsed. Are you any better now?" he asked and the black hedgehog could now briefly see a flash of very uncharacteristic worry in the other's green eyes, only a hint of what the other must have gone through during those past few hours...Shadow felt a bit of a sting that it was his weakness that had caused trouble, but tried to ignore his anger with himself for now.