Sonadow - King and his slave part 1

Long time ago, far away from here, was a kingdom, which was dominated by absolutely a wise and righteous king. His name was Sonic the Hedgehog. King Sonic was loved by the people and there was a good order in his kingdom. On king's side kingdom was ruled by the most desirable, and probably the most beautiful maiden in the kingdom, lady Amy Rose. This marriage between king Sonic and lady Amy was already arranged when both were only children. Queen Amy had always loved and worshiped the king, but the king himself didn't show any love for the queen. Over the years of marriage, the situation was the same; the queen was desperately in love with king Sonic without a response to her feelings. However, the king cannot invalidate the marriage. But this is not the story of a failed marriage or revocation of that marriage. This is the story about the king, who accidentally falls in love with his own slave. And it produces a lot of problems to the king and to all his servants. But now, let's start the story. It all started in one stormy night...

It was a stormy night in king Sonic's kingdom, when a guest arrived at his castle. A guest had a slave with him and he was going to sell that poor hedgehog to his king. The slave dealer knew very well that the king Sonic would pay a good price for a good slave. A slave dealer had also heard that many dealers had tried to sell slaves to the king, but the king had refused to buy slaves from them. The king was very demanding, when he selected his servants apparently. But the slave dealer was absolutely certain that the king Sonic would buy a new slave from him. He could have been up to hit his head on a pledge about that. The slave dealer walked towards the guards, which nodded to him in acceptable way and let him in to the great throne room. In the back of the throne room was a throne, where king Sonic was sitting and he looked across the room to the guest.

"M-master..." a slave whispered with submissive voice. The slave dealer turned to look at a slave angrily.

"Who gave you permission to speak?!" he snarled quietly to the slave, who startled in fear of his master's angry tone of voice.

"I-i'm sorry m-master..." a slave whispered with fearful voice.

"Now, keep your mouth shut and try to look better than you really are, you stupid piece of smut," a dealer grunted and stepped closer to the king. The king Sonic looked at the slave dealer a little curiously.  

"Well well... Isn't that Scourge the Hedgehog, the kingdom's the most reputed slave dealer," the king said. Scourge smirked evilly.

"I see that my reputation is now reaches your ears my king," he said and bowed. Sonic nodded as a sign that Scourge could rise.

"What brings you to me as such a evening?" the king asked, and nodded toward the window. Scourge looked out of the window to the storm and then he turned to face his king. Scourge grinned. He pulled the rope, forcing the slave, who he had bring with him to the castle, on his knees to the floor. The rope, which Scourge had toured tightly around the slave's neck, made sure that the slave didn't try it to run away.

"My king, I came here to trade this slave to your highness," Scourge told. Sonic looked at the slave, who had dropped his look on the floor. The slave was a black hedgehog with red stripes on his head and he was wearing rags. Hedgehog was shivering slightly in cold because he was soaking wet.

"What kind of slave that is?" Sonic asked after a moment.

"Oh, that's really a good slave to you, my lord! That is really hard working and will do anything to keep his owner happy. And I really mean anything. This slave has praised a lot and this has had many different owners."

"Why so many different owners, if I may ask? Did this slave do something wrong?" the king asked.

"Oh of course not my lord. Unfortunately, for economic reasons none of these previous owners couldn't keep this slave for a long time. So, what do you say my lord?" Scourge finally asked. King Sonic turned his attention to slave and rose to his feet. Scourge moved a little further away while holding tightly onto the rope. The king walked closer to the slave, and looked at him very closely. He walked closer to the slave, and stopped to stand in front of him.

"I would like to see slave's face, before my decision of buying," Sonic said, and looked at the slave, who has been really quiet all this time and whose gaze was still firmly on the floor.

"Of course my lord," Scourge said. The slave, however, kept his eyes on the floor.

"Well? You didn't heard what your king said?" Scourge blurted out. However the slave didn't move.

"Why you little..." Scourge snarled and raised a whip inside of his robe. He was just about to give a punishment to slave but then king Sonic stopped him.

"I don't think that's necessary, mr. Scourge," the king said with a little annoyed look on his face.

"Please, let me handle this. And without a violence," he continued. Scourge nodded and put his whip away.

"Forgive me my king," he said. Sonic just nodded and turned to look at slave again.

"Why you don't want to face the eyes of your king?" Sonic asked with calm voice. The slave sighed heavily and began to speak with really weary voice.

"My lord... My king... I've always been told to keep my gaze down. The slave is not allowed to view his master eyes..."

"I understand... Of course, I will not force you to look at me, but I'd really like to see the face of the person whose with I'm talking at the moment. I have difficulty to believe that behind a pleasant voice would be ugly face," the king said.

"T-thank you my lord..." the slave said with a little confused voice. No one had ever praised slave's voice, so the king's compliment warmed a poor slave's heart.

"Would you now like to show me your face?" Sonic asked. In a small moment nothing happened. The king waited patiently and finally the slave looked up slowly. The slave faced his king's emerald green eyes. King Sonic looked mesmerized at slave's blood red eyes, but they reflected fatigue and sorrow. The king had never seen such a beautiful eyes. This was a special moment to the slave too, because he had not looked any royal straight in the eyes in a long time. For a moment they just looked at each other. Eventually, the king began to smile and turned to look at the slave dealer, who had been watching them a little further away.

"How much do you ask for this slave?" the king asked. Scourge grinned and stepped closer to the king.

"Well, I do not know. This slave is a real gold mine. I will not sell this slave so cheaply," the dealer said with a smirk on his lips.

"Hmm... I understand," Sonic said. He walked to his throne, sat down, and called for his lackey. The hall door opened, and orange, two-tailed fox appeared in the room. He walked beside the king, bowed and showed him the coffin caparisoned with diamonds, which he held in his hands.

"Maybe we can negotiate for a price mr. Scourge. Tails," the king said. King's lackey opened the coffin and inside of the coffin was gold bars. Scourge looked at those shining gold bars with a really satisfied smile. Sonic turned to look at slave, whose eyes he had been lost in a moment ago and smiled.

"How about three gold bars?" Scourge was just about to answer when the king had time to stop him.

"Or... How about five gold bars?" the king asked and kept his look on a slave.

"My lord, that sounds excellent! But..." Scourge said with really big smirk on his lips. Sonic turned to look at the dealer.

"But what?"

"I'm confident that you can find many others in the kingdom, who would be willing to pay much more for the slave. As I said before, this slave is a gold mine," Scourge said with a clever smirk on his lips.

"I see... Seven gold bars?"

"Hmm… I don't know… It's quite little. Everything is really expensive in these days my king."

"Ten gold bars. That's my last offering mr. Scourge." Scourge chuckled and bowed to his king.

"That's a price I can accept my king," he said.

"All right then. Ten gold bars from that slave. Tails, pay to him."

"Yes my lord," Tails said, took the gold bars from the coffin and gave them to mr. Scourge. Scourge admired the gold bars with the mark of the king with satisfaction and then he put them in his sack. He bowed to the king and thanked him. Sonic nodded and turned to look at the slave again with a little smile. Lackey went out of the hall with a slave dealer and when they had left, the king got up and walked to his new slave. He detached carefully the rope, which was strangled slave neck. The slave stretched his neck a bit and then the king saw how badly the rope was causing friction in the neck of a slave. Black fur was jagged from the place what rope was causing friction and a few blood drops fell down along slave's neck. But the slave didn't seem to care about the bleeding wound and that made king a little sad.

"Are you alright? Your neck is bleeding my slave," the king said. The slave touched his own neck carefully and looked at his hand what was now a little red because of blood.

"Yes I am my king... I am already used to bleeding wounds and terrible pain.." slave whispered. Those words were a little shock to the king. He knew that the slaves were treated very badly, but he was not expecting that things would be so bad. The king himself was against of any violence and he himself would never have been able to use it in punishment for his servants.

"You don't have to be afraid of violence anymore. I promise that no one will hurt you here," Sonic said.

"T-thank you my king," the slave said with a little, just a little smile on his lips.

"And now... What is your name? I would like to know that."

"My name is Shadow my king..."

"Hmm... How good name for you... Where are you from?"

"I'm really sorry my king, but I can't tell that to you..."

"Why, if I may ask?"

"I suffer from amnesia my king... The only thing I remember is my own name."

"What a sad to hear," Sonic said, and he really meant it. The hall room door opened and the lackey came back into the room.

"Mr. Scourge has left now my lord," he said to his king.

"Good. And now I have a little job for you Tails," Sonic said.

"What is it my lord?" Tails asked with a smile.

"You could take my new slave Shadow to miss Rouge's room and introduce him to her. And after that make sure that miss Rouge prepare a bath to him. And say to her that she have to find new clothes to him," the king said. Tails nodded.

"As you wish my lord," Tails smiled. Shadow looked at his new owner with confused look on his face.

"B-but my king.."

"No buts Shadow. You go over to miss Rouge for a while. She introduces you to the places and advise you. You can ask anything from her and she will answer to you. You are now my slave, and you will never have to worry about violence or feel yourself unworthy. My servants will not be treated badly."

"B-but my king, I thought that.."

"I am not the same as mr. Scourge. So go now Shadow. My lackey Tails will bring you to miss Rouge."

"Alright my king... Thank you my king," Shadow said, get up from the floor and bowed to the king quietly. Sonic only nodded and looked, how his new slave and loyal lackey left the room. The king walked to the window and looked out at the raving storm. He saw how mr. Scourge walked out in the main door of the castle wall with a gold bar sack on his shoulder. Scourge chuckled quietly.

"Heh, duke Eggman will be really gratified because I get rid of that little prince," he muttered to himself and chuckled evilly. He passed by the gatekeepers and started to walk towards the village. His work was done...