In the Life of Service

Kai: I WAS going to update this on V-day but I couldn't due to the site moving servers.

Also, I feel the need to say this:
This chapter has a public rape and a rather nasty beating. If you don't like this kind of stuff, please leave.
That is all.

Part Three
Manic awakened with his head still pressed into the firm spot of his master's shoulder.During the night,however,the black hedgehog had drawn the other up against him tighter and rested his head atop the other's.Manic was very pleased that the hedgehog was so comfortable around him.He shifted slightly to get comfortable.A black ear flickered at the sound of his collar clinking lightly.

Slowly,rubied eyes opened.He was warm,as if another body was pressed against him.As his sleepy brain awakened,last night replayed.He had no clue this little beauty had such an ability.Maybe he never showed it off so no one else knew.Shadow was lucky to have found him before someone else did.

Not knowing the other was awake as well,he took the time to feel the other's body.His fur was soft and smooth,almost like frayed silk.At first,Shadow detected almost no hint of musk and had to wonder of his new pet was a neuter (which would have been a waste of money for a bed slave as they want nothing to do with breeding) but as he continued to pet and feel his pet,a distinct male scent began to fill his nose. Apparently,he had just had no one to touch him in a way that started the musky glands to work.

Manic continued to lay still,enjoying the gentle exploration of his master.He really wanted to purr to show he enjoyed the stroking but could not bring himself to do so.It was an unwritten rule amongst the slaves:If you enjoyed your master's affections, you are not allowed to vocalize your feelings unless your master gives you permission to do so.Some masters like the idea of 'raping' their slaves and that held to it.

He let a whimper slip,doing his best to keep from getting up. Shadow looked down at him and ran a thumb over his cheek.

"Today you get washed up and presented to the courts as mine.Your brother is supposed to be presented as well but with his attitude,I do not think it such a good idea."Shadow spoke into the flickering ear. "How were you trained?"

"As a...I wasn't trained for anything specific."Manic shook his head.

"Do you have a name?"

"I am yours to name. Call me what you wish."

"I wish to call you by your name."

Manic's eyes lit up brightly,a tear shimmering in his eyes.It was only those slaves that had the utmost trust from their masters were asked their true names.It meant that he was really trusted and had pleased his master in the highest degree.

"My mother named me Manic."the green one spoke softly.He shifted the collar around his neck and a small locket on a fine chain slipped from its hiding place."It's the only thing my mother had given me besides this locket."

Shadow took the small locket and opened it to reveal two pictures.One was of a dark blue hedgehog with blonde hair,obviously a female.The other was of a proud looking grey hedgehog,head held high and blue eyes glinting in the light.

"I do not know their names.I wish I did though..."Manic adverted his eyes."All I do know is that my brother and I are illegitimate children...Sonic could be claimed by her husband but she knew I could not.That is why I ended up in there."

Shadow did feel sorry for him.Although he never really got to know his mother,he did have a (somewhat) caring father.

Manic noticed the lack of speech and lowered his head."I am sorry,Master, that I bored you with my past.It is paltry and the past is behind me.You are my present and future..."

"You did not bore me,Manic.But it does hurt that that happened to you.Come.Let's get you presentable for the courts."

*~*~*~*~*~
Yuan looked thoughtful as the beginning guests to Court started to arrive.His prized little slave,stood by his side,head bowed and greeting the guests with a polite little courtesy.Had she been anything more than a village girl,he would take her for a second wife.He treated her like she was a wife whenever court was not in session but during this time of year,she was once again a 'slavey' for short.

A slavey is what a female was called that was kept for housekeeping,cooking and other things around the house.

She was a soft dusty pink with emerald eyes that reminded Yuan of his first wife's eyes.When not in court, she was dressed in finery but as this,she was wearing the grey kimono of a maid.The collar she wore was bejeweled,showing her rank within the castle.The only other reason he didn't marry her was the fact he still had one very big reminder of his first wife...

Whom was walking through the door.

It was his youngest daughter.She had taken all her looks from her mother,right down to the silver markings,pitch black fur and long sheet of silver hair that was softer than silk. But,like her younger brother, her eye color was a bright rubied red,a sign of the past of both parents.

She was making her way into the room wearing a white dress ,which did not at all look like the fancy dresses most of the others wore,opting for the simple style, probably due of the bulge in her midsection. She had chosen the simple look because it did not require a corset.Her long hair was gathered together at the base of her neck and braided.And in that braid was a few sprigs of baby's breath.A small tiara was on her forehead,a shimmering dewdrop of a jewel hanging almost between her eyes.

Yuan almost cried as he saw his baby girl all dressed up.She looked JUST like her mother like that...

"Daddy!"her eyes brightened as she stepped forwards and hugged him gently."I'm sorry Alex and I didn't make it for the last meeting.I felt really bad about missing Shadow's birthday but I was very ill and he would not leave my side."she glanced down."I think you can 'see' why."

Yuan felt a weak smile cross his lips as he drew her close to him in a gentle hug. "I trust Alex is the father?"

"Daddy!"she yelped and slapped his shoulder. "Unlike 'some' people,Lumerians are very devoted to their mates."

"And where is he?"

"Greeting some lords of the East."she sighed and glanced towards the door.She spotted that silver head of hair and expertly weaved through the crowd(used to said events since she was a little girl)She returned with another hedgehog in tow.

He,like her,had a full head of bright silver hair,but the two locks on either side of his face were stark white.His fur was the color of frost,his
**heterochromiac colored eyes,one amber and the other emerald, still held the frightened nature that all lumerians carried,leaving their safe-haven and venturing into the world. They were scholars and nature masters,not fighters.It shocked them to see that the outside world was like after being confined to their sanctuary in the north,a predominant lumerian settlement by the name of Flanoir('city of ice').

He was dressed in traditional Leumerian clothing; a pale violet tunic,light colored pants and a heavy traveling cloak a startling black against the pale colors of his clothing.The cloak was positioned so that it would hide the monstrosity that was his left arm.

He had had his fair share of adventures and treachery within his family house. He had an older half sister that had hired an assassin to kill him before he could ascend the throne once she found out he had fallen in love.He held a scar across his right eye where his sister had cut him with the assassin's dagger.

He carefully held out his left hand,the material of the cloak slipping off to reveal what had happened. He said he felt disfigured,but he knew nothing could be done about it.It had been an experiment gone wrong.

Lumerians had tried to find a way to heal any form of disease and Alex had offered himself to be the tester,as he was the one who had come up with the idea in the first place.

His left arm and the left part of his chest was now covered in a gleaming blue metal.He had tried to reverse it but while they used their abilities to monitor him during this process,his heart tried to fail.The nanites that made up the metal had integrated themselves into his body and had formed a symbiotic relationship with him.They survived off the energies his body put out and in return,kept his heart healthy and beating. To take away the nanites was like trying to take his heart out.

"It is nice to see you again,Lord Yuan."he said softly,with a soft accent of lumerian in his voice. "I do apologize for missing last weeks meeting.I had to tend to my gravid mate.A mate comes before duties."

Yuan waved this off. "It is fine,Alex.Looks like you've been busy trying to make an heir to your throne."

A faint blush crossed Yuan's daughter and Alex's face."Well...I..."Alex laughed nervously.

The rest of the greetings were nothing to really be noted.

*~*~*~*~*~
I looked over my favorite of the two slaves I had received as he showed himself off in the long silken clothes I had given him.It was a shirt and wide pants made of a sheer white material that left nothing to the imagination.The wrist-cuffs that all slaves wore had been replaced with a set I had specially made for him.I had went down to the smithy last night after he was sound asleep and asked the echidna,who was still awake at the time, to make them and they were at my door by six o'clock this morning,They were almost pure gold (as pure gold would have been too soft for their use) and had etchings of the dragon in them. His collar had been replaced as well,again gold with jewels set into the metal.The collar and cuffs were a sign of his status amongst the other slaves.

The fact I had put him in gold signified that he was well above pretty much every other slave in the household.The only other one with his status was my father's favorite,Amy Rose.

She had come to our castle after her village had been raided.She had ran in fear when she saw the raiders and didn't stop until she made it all the way here.Knowing what life would be like on the street,she had come to my father and begged for a position.She said she would even take stable work,the lowest job on the scales,just to get a roof over her head.My father,having spent the better part of ten years without a wife, quickly accepted her into the folds of the castle.She had began as a cook and he promoted her to a personal servant.But he could not bring himself to make her be a bed-slave.He had slowly began to see her more like a wife than a slave.I knew he wished to marry her but there was one small problem.

My sister Kai.

He just couldn't say no to his baby girl.He didn't marry Amy,even though she was of legal age and her village girl status be damned,because he was afraid Kai wouldn't forgive him.To some,marrying another was the ultimate betrayal,even if the first wife died of natural causes.Kai was her offspring and he didn't want her to feel that he had betrayed her mother.

Manic was watching as a faint smile spread to my lips.I had already spoken to Kai over this subject and she agreed that our father had become too mopey.Ever since my mother's death,he had turned sour towards the world.He guarded my sisters and I like the greatest treasures in the world.He really didn't like it when a lumerian monk had showed up, traveling along the road from their largest settlement near the ocean (Named Izoold or 'sea port') and quickly gained the affection of my younger sister.

Yuan had seen that they belonged together and set the monk,Alex, through a series of tests to test his true feelings for his younger daughter and ended up having to give her away at the altar not two weeks later. He could see that Alex loved her the same way he had loved my mother.

I shook my head and motioned for him to turn around.As he did so,the cuff bangles on his bare feet slinked and chimed together quietly.Some might call me a fool for letting a slave get away with wearing all this finery but let them.He deserved it.

He bowed deeply at the waist."What do you think,Master?"

I motioned to the mirror and let him see why I was speechless.He looked like he walked right out of a gypsy caravan.All that was missing was the odd piercings that many of them seemed to have.

He walked over to a chair and picked up the outfit I was to wear.While Court was formal dress,I had opted for the same thing Alex often wears,a soft colored tunic and pants and a light cloak.I hated the robes that Father usually made me wear but I wasn't about to wear them for more than an hour.Since I was now eighteen,I had to attend almost all of court.I could leave up to two hours earlier but no sooner.

I took them from him and began to slip out of my silk nightclothes.I felt that look upon my body as I undressed but I ignored it.True,I had yet undressed in the gaze of this exotic treat,but I enjoyed the little show I was giving. He gasped as I pulled my shirt over my head,exposing my chest.

Oh,I guess he saw my piercings.My older sister had found a strange crystal on her travels and brought them back to me.I had placed them onto two hoops of fine silver and done the nipple piercings under her instruction.
They were a deep violet,about the color of royal purple and were as clear as ice.She said she knew not their origins but she did know they came from deep within the Otter territory.She had rounded them to two beads about the size of a pea and ran a string through them to make sure they didn't get lost.

But when she pulled out the string,she found the string to be crystallized.She tried many different materials and the only thing that muted the crystallization was metals.And the only metal that worked was silver.

Thus she gave them to me and I found the most interesting thing to do with them.She found it funny but helped anyways.My sisters had always said I'm a tad off,so I guess they're right.

I finished dressing after a few minutes and,feeling some pity for the youth I had in the torture room,I decided to get him down and get him ready as well.

*~*~*~*~*~
Sonic looked back over his shoulder.His arms hurt for being suspended and his legs too for having to hold said position for about fourteen hours.He did not DARE to go to sleep,thinking his 'master' (he spat the word) would wait until he dozed to beat him.

The door opened and Sonic's eyes widened.He could only guess why the dark hedgehog was dressed up but from the look of things,it wasn't gonna be good.He winced back against the wood,expecting pain to befall this back,but instead one of the cuffs on his feet were undone,letting his leg go free.Knowing better than to try anything at the moment,he remained still as the other was unclasped and he was released from the wrist bonds.He remained still as Shadow carefully attached a pair of ankle cuffs (nowhere near as fine as Manic's),a strong iron, to his ankles and used a weak fire ability to seal the cuff shut.This was repeated to the other ankle and both wrists.Now the only way to get them off was to melt them off.

Shadow motioned for him to follow.Sonic did so,but wearily.He was thinking that maybe Shadow was going to do something worse than a beating...

He was shocked when he entered the room only to have his brother drag him into the middle.Dressed as he was,Manic was careful in helping his brother get dressed.

Sonic's outfit for court was much simpler.A collar of silver was fitted around his neck in place of the leather one and a set of clothing made from the same sheer material was carefully fitted.While Manic's bore markings along the sleeves and pants,Sonic's was plain.

This confused the blue one.If he was going to get beaten,then why go through all this?More mockery?

A tap at the door.

Shadow walked to it and unlocked it.A young slave-girl peered in and said softly. "This slave wishes to inform you that Master Yuan has requested your presence at Court in ten minutes."

Shadow glanced at the blue one,seeing his eyes bug out.The two of them were to be formally presented to the courts as belonging to someone.A wicked smile crept across the black one's face."Alright.Tell him I will be down shortly."

The slave nodded and backed out of the room with a bow."Yes,m'lord."

Sonic turned his gaze to his brother,watching him brush out his hair.The slave-house had not touched it because,unlike his brother, his hair was turning silver.It was yet another trait attributed to the healing abilities.He had used dyes in the house to keep the silver out but now he didn't want to cover the rare color.

Like most healers,whenever he used his powers,his hair began to bleach a pale silver.It was a trait only found in the extreme southern lands.

Sonic spoke softly. "Manic...he's going to present us! As his slaves!"

Manic glanced over his shoulder,flipping the pale sheet of hair out of his face."So?"

"But at Court!In front of all the nobles!"

"Again,so?"he laid his brush down."I have no problem with it,so why should
you?"

Sonic ground his teeth.This was the LAST thing he wanted to do.He had attened court himself on occasion with his mother but... :Oh,kami! Mother!
She'll be here...:

He thought about begging Shadow not to display him but it would only result it being done anyways. It was just another way to break him.

*~*~*~*~*~
Yuan stood,waiting at the door as more guests poured in.It was nearing noon and soon enough lunch would be served and court would go underway. :Shadow had better get his ass down here or...:

He was cut off as he heard the familiar 'tak-tak' of the boots Shadow insisted on wearing.They were metal tipped and rang out whenever he stepped.There was also a soft jingling undertone as if...

The doors were opened via two other slaves,allowing Shadow entry with his two slaves,both on leashes, following behind him.

Most of the guests marveled at the exotic looking slaves,each with a very unique color to them.The green one,dressed in a high ranking outfit,walked softly behind his master,posture showing his submissiveness.His beauty was only added to by the mane of silvery hair
that fell down his back,shimmering like a curtain of silk.

The blue one,however,walked with his head up,daring anyone to say or do anything.That spark of wildness was still burning,but mutely in the circumstance,deep in his emerald colored eyes.He was scanning the crowd for his mother.

But he did not see her as they were led to the throne seated on Yuan's left side.Shadow was disappointed not to see his older sister.He sighed and attached the leashes,with locks, to the sides of the throne-like seat.
Seating himself in it,he turned to his father for him to continue.

"Shall we get started with lunch?"Yuan said to the stunned guests.

*~*~*~*~*~
Some time later,I was crowded about by some of the younger guests,some marveled,others stumped and all of them jealous.Manic seemed to enjoy the attention,knowing by my look that he should let them pet him. The blue one,however,kept dancing away from touches.I warned him with a firm tug and he turned those emerald eyes to mine,as if trying to intimidate me.

I wrapped his chain leash around my paw and got right in his face."Behave yourself.Remember,you still have a beating when we get back upstairs.I may decide not to do it...if you behave."
Now he had not spoken a word to me since he was purchased.His first words to me were on top of some pretty fierce growls."Get bent,you damn sicko."

Silence befell the room.I felt the green one behind me flinch away and lower his head.

Hoo,boy.I could feel the look from my father boring into him.I opened my mother to speak for him when I felt the leash jerked from me.He was pulling on his leash so tight I was sure that he would choke him to death.

"Do you know the penalty for those who do not respect their master in public?"
I saw those green eyes dart left and right.He thought I was going to be bad to him.I am down right gentle compared to my father.

Yuan stared down into the same intense emerald eyes this his wife had held before.He could read the teen and could see the rage behind the veiled orbs.There was more fear though than anything.He narrowed his own aqua colored eyes.

"I asked you a question,slave."Yuan growled.

I watched as that blue idiot did the one thing that was never to be done to a noble.And I thought my reaction to it was bad...

Yuan blinked as he felt the spit slither down his cheek.He closed his eyes and growled.I was sure he was about to kill the little one!

But he proved me wrong.He let out a slow breath and,with his strong grip,doubled the hedgehog's arms behind his back,wrists twisted between his ears, and marched him out into the courtyard.The noonday sun was shining brightly in the cleared out bright white stone walkway.It led to a circular platform and on top of that was a large log standing upright.
My father tossed the hedgehog up against the wide log that graced the center and,while the slave was dazed, snapped his shackles (noting that they were smelted onto the wrist instead of using locking cuffs) to the two short chains that were attached to a peg in the middle.

He waited for the hedgehog to regain his bearings before leaning down to look him in the eye (as the pillar did not allow him to stand up straight)."You will remain out here until just before the sun sets.If you get down on your knees and apologize for what you have done then I will lessen the whipping by five strokes."

I winced as I saw that expression.He was going to do something really stupid,I knew it.

I was proved correct this time as a bare foot came crashing down onto the toes of the slipper-shoe that my father wore when in the palace grounds.I winced as a yelp escaped father.

Yuan couldn't believe the audacity in this slave.No wonder Rouge wanted to get rid of him."Well then.I think it time to teach him his place here,don't you think?"

I wasn't even given time to speak;the crowd answered for me.But the fact my father was beating my property (whether he deserved it or not) wasn't what bothered me.It was the fact the hedgehog who made no protests so far to the blue one's treatment.I could smell the salt from his tears again...

Manic wasn't doing so good.He knew I shouldn't beat his brother to a bloody pulp.I had only intended to use a crop and give him a few firm pops.I'm not into heavy beatings.I was going to let him (the blue one)hang overnight and pop him a grand total of five times.

I could tell he wanted to go to his brother and protect him from the vicious beating he was about to get. I did something that still stumps me as to why I did it.

I pulled him to my chest.

He balled his fists into my tunic and sobbed into it.I could hear the cry lodged in his throat that escaped in whimpers.I had no desire to see the beating either.

*~*~*~*~*~
Manic sniffled as he realized Shadow was making him walk.But not behind him like he had been taught.He was walking with him,wrapped in his arms.He had been crying into his master's tunic...how embarrassing.A master shouldn't have to comfort a crying slave...

He was shocked that Shadow had steered him all the way back to his quarters and pulled both onto the bed.The tears had stopped but the sobbing had not.A low wine escaped the distressed hedgehog,clinging tighter to the warmth of his master.

Shadow pulled the two of them down onto the bed and snuggled the distressed teen to him tighter.He needed this right now.He knew what was about to happen.

Again,had he not had the slave's leash in his paws,he would have pulled free.A yelp escaped the collared teen before he turned to his master with hurt eyes.

"Why are you allowing this?"the teen blurted,trying to stop his tears that spilled forth once more.

He realized he spoke out against his father and flinched back,expecting a blow to the face.However,none came for his insolence.

"It is not that I allow it,it is that I am beneath my father and cannot go against what he had deemed.If we are lucky,he will be sent up here by some maids to clean his wounds.But you need to relax if you are going to help me tend to him.

He was about to say something else but Shadow silence him by lightly petting his back and down to his tail.A soft whimper escaped the teen but it was not of distress this time.The petting was driving away the bad thoughts and feelings.He relaxed himself against Shadow's chest and let him pet the worries away.

*~*~*~*~*~
Out in the courtyard...
(WARNING!Skip this part to teh next bold section if you don't like beatings or a public raping.WARNING!)

Sonic groaned as he felt a hard tipped something prod at his back.Then it came back to him.Yuan,his supposed Master's father, had allowed him a reprieve of thirty minutes to rest and think about what he's done.The 'thing' that had prodded his back was harder than steel.It almost worried him that it didn't have a sharp tip.

Yuan stepped up in front of him again."Alright,slave.Will you beg for forgiveness?Or will I have to beat it out of you?"

Emerald eyes flashed in impertinence.He knew he was tied down.He knew he was trapped.Yet he could not bring himself to that level.

Yuan straightened back up."Fine,be that way.There hasn't been a good beating around here in ages.I'm sure the others will enjoy the show."

It was only then that Sonic realized that he was surrounded by the nobles.He managed to tear his eyes away from the crowd long enough to see the impressive looking bullwhip that Yuan was now in possession of.

"Glad you saw my little toy before I used it on you."he smirked as he unlatched the long braided strip of leather from the pole that attached to the handle."It is called Corina,after its maker.She was lovely but icy beauty from the north.Some say her heart had frozen after her mate died.After that she began to make whips and the like.She custom made this one for me,complete with embedding shards of diamond into the tassels."

He brought the long whip down on the hedgehog's back with a resounding 'crack' of leather against flesh. The crowd made a disapproved sound as the slave only tightened his grip on the log and didn't make a noise.

"Oh,how silly of me!"Yuan chuckled."I always forget to put the diamond tips out."he twisted the knob of hard wood at the end and several glittering tips of jeweled brightness shimmered from the dull leather.

Sonic snorted at this.

Then he yelped as the ends of the whip had met the side of his face,leaving five cuts along it.

There was an approving clap as the king made the slave speak in pain.He turned his head slightly and nodded to them before walking behind the blue one.

He hadn't mastered in torture 101 as top student for nothing!He knew the worst torture is the anticipation when he would strike.

Sonic cried out as the diamond studded ends of the whip graced his back,cutting into flesh and leaving behind trickles of blood.He fell to his knees ,arms being tugged hard by the cuffs that secured him to the pole.
He whined as Yuan commanded him to count the lashes aloud.Even as tears stinging his eyes,he obeyed.

"One."-whimper-"Two.ThREE."Yuan grinned that sadistic half grin pretty much everyone was familiar with."Four..."

Yuan pulled up on his whip,letting the anticipation build.He watched the blue one's body relax,thinking that he was finished.He then suddenly lashed out and caught the blue one unawares.

Sonic convulsed as the whip struck his unprepared body."Five..."

A cheer rose from the crowd;for even though the hedgehog was in pain,he still obeyed what his temporary master told him to do.

"Aww...don't look so down.Only thirty four more lashings to go."Yuan spoke softly,with a dangerous purr in his voice.

By the time Yuan got to thirty lashes...

Sonic's back was a bloody mess.While he did fear passing out from blood loss, his bigger fear was of the hedgehog in front of him for he would lash a few times and then come around and stare into his (Sonic's) eyes.The more he got whipped,the stronger 'that' look got in the others' eyes...

By this time,Sonic was just barely standing (if it could be called that) the only thing keeping him up was the cuffs on his wrists.He barely made a sound with each strike,so worn out was he.He whimpered as he got a sharp jab on the ass and stood back up.He started to look over his shoulder at the sound of rustling fabric when he got the same thing to the back of the head.

"Do not turn around."came the husky voice of Yuan."Ten more lashes if you do."

Sonic relaxed himself against the pole.Maybe he was going to apply something to stop the bleeding.He felt those paws settle around his waist and realization sank in.The rustling sound was clothing being undone. He was going to...to...

"Please,don't do this!"Sonic cried,even as Yuan nudged the slave's thighs apart.

"I can do anything I want to you.You are mine."Yuan growled and,with that,pushed into the resisting hedgehog.

The blue hedgehog made a sound that Yuan had never heard a hedgehog produce.It was a thin wailing,like that of a screech owl.

The king looked down and noticed blood coated his thighs.No wonder he was so tight.He was 'breaking him in' so to speak.

Sonic turned to begging to get the pain to stop.He felt like he was being ripped in two."Please,Master. Stop.I'll be good from now on..."

Yuan leaned down and snarled into the blue one's ear."I demand silence!Speak one more time and you'll get twenty lashes when I'm through with you!"a grin spread across his face as the blue one whimpered and said no more.

Sonic was in sheer agony.He was quite sure Yuan was about to kill him.The pain was so severe,he wished Yuan would quit torturing him and just get it over with.Tears poured down his cheeks as he kept getting hammered into the post.

Then a new warmth filled him on the inside.He could feel Yuan pressing his face just below the shoulder,growling softly as if daring the hedgehog to move.But Sonic knew what was happening.Yuan had mated him and he was having to fight off the urge to mark the younger one.

When the urge faded,Yuan stood up,pulled up his trousers and left the hedgehog on the dias by himself.

(WARNING! END OF SECTION! WARNING!)

"Who's up for supper?"Yuan spoke aloud,acting as if he didn't just rape another's slave.

As they left, the blue hedgehog collapsed aginst the pole,fighting off tears of pain and defilment.

He lost the battle pretty quickly.

*~*~*~*~*~
I stood at my window,watching as the maids gathered up the beaten and bruised Sonic.I strode back over to the bed and shook awake my favorite of the two brothers.

Those crystal blue eyes flickered open,their gaze taking a few moments to correct themselves.He turned his head up to me and sniffled.I had finally lulled him into a faint sleep that comes to those who are grief-stricken.

"They are bringing him upstairs.He is quite bloody.I imagine my father gave him thirty-nine lashings."

"But I thought a disobedient slave was given forty lashes,Master."

"True but my father is a cruel one sometimes.It is a form of mockery to give a slave one less lashing than the commands say to do."I shook my head as a light knock came to my door.

It was little Amy Rose that was helping the silently weeping Sonic into the room.I bid her to take him to the bed while I drew some hot water to bathe him in.

Sonic lifted his head slightly,emerald eyes dull, and gazed piteously at his brother.

No words of malice were said,no 'I-told-you-so's or even a beratement graced the beaten one's ears.All that came for the beaten and raped hedgehog was a gentle hug and a comforting smile.And a soft shoulder to cry on.
*~*~*~*~*~End Chapter*~*~*~*~*~

Kai:I promise the hot sex sill be in the next chapter,I swear!

*glances at Sonic* Don't let him kill me! *runs off*


**Heterochromiac: it is spelled correctly. It means differently colored eyes.