He is My Master

51: When A World Lies Dying (War Begins)

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"Are you happy now?"

The question was asked in a familiar dry tone, and prompted Sonic to smile at the black hedgehog who had asked it.

"Very," he replied. "Thanks."

"No no no, don't hold back. Anyone else you'd like to visit and improve their life before we go home? Because I 've taken such a fancy to this place I'd simply love to-" Shadow started, but was interrupted when Sonic gave him a playful shove and stuck his tongue out.

"So sorry to have been wasting your time with my saving-people-thing, Master," the blue hedgehog apologized with a sincerity that rivaled that of the Joker asking for Batman's autograph, "Of course," he added, "it's not like without me making friends with Silver we'd be dead at the gallows or anything, or without me busting out Knuckles from the castle the echidnas wouldn't be giving us free food and shelter at the moment, or without me talking to Sa-"

"Point. Taken," Shadow cut him off in a dead-pan, and at the same time wished that the cocksure grin Sonic gave at his exasperation wouldn't also simply make that damned whirlwind hedgehog simply even more attractive.

And he *knows* it, I'm sure.

"C'mon, Shads. You know it feels good to help," Sonic said with a warm expression in his eyes, even if Shadow only gave a non-committal grunt in return. The pair of dimension travellers was on their way back to the campfire where Knuckles and the rest of his family sat, and once again, Sonic's good mood was almost infectious, until-

"And the runaway pet returns. Have been retrieved by your owner, then?" a female voice asked with a bit of a sneer, and Sonic's expression turned into a non-impressed dead-pan at this greeting when they had finally reached the group by the fire. The collared hero came to a halt, both hands sinking onto his hips as blue spikes bristled, though it was still short of real anger.

"You know what?" Sonic asked instead, "Screw you guys. I can do what I want whenever I want and visit any place I chose to, and if that's not freedom, I don't know what is," he said, before adding. "And on top of that, I bet with all your tribe laws in place, that's actually more freedom than you could ever dream to have," he said, directing that last remark squarely at Shade who had stopped sneering now and returned Sonic's last phrase only with a glower. The blue hedgehog seemed to take that as a victory, and, giving a small satisfied grin again, finished with:

"And just in case any of you still think staying with him isn't completely my own decision..." The collared hero flashed another bright grin at them, then swiftly turned around, facing Shadow and putting both his hands on the other's cheeks, right before planting a kiss on surprised tan lips that was just as sweet as the first one they had shared and, despite their audience, not less intimate.

When it had finished, Sonic turned around to the momentarily stunned echidnas again, grinning like a rogue that had stolen the loot. "So I'd love to hear what you'd have to say to that."

The answer, turned out, was just a little bit unexpected when Lara-Su, the first to recover her poise, answered Sonic's grin actually with just a small, cheeky smile of her own and said, "Well, honey-hog, congratulating you on your proposal springs to mind."

Shadow, who had been on wobbly legs ever since Sonic had decided to spring that kiss on him without any warning, chose that moment to simply drop down where he stood with as much grace as he could muster.