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I've got an idea in the works, so we'll see how it goes.\n\nThis is the second most brutal thing I've written, the first being another Shadow torture fic that I'll probably never post.\n\nI'm gonna go write something happy now...\n\nBrownie points to anyone that knows the game the title is referencing. ", "description_bbcode_parsed": "\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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requested some Mephadow!

I'm planning on writing something a bit less...horrifying for these two at some point. I've got an idea in the works, so we'll see how it goes.

This is the second most brutal thing I've written, the first being another Shadow torture fic that I'll probably never post.

I'm gonna go write something happy now...

Brownie points to anyone that knows the game the title is referencing. ", "writing": "They stood watching Mephiles carefully as he menaced Sonic, who was collapsed on the ground, struggling for air after Mephiles’ first attack.\n\nNo one dared move. Mephiles was capable of anything, they couldn’t risk the hero’s life by acting rashly.\n\n“What do you want?” Tails boldly demanded, even though his voice quaked in fear for his brother.\n\nMephiles turned his piercing stare on the young kit, who flinched away. Amy and Knuckles took up a defensive position in front of the youth.\n\n “It’s not what I want, you pathetic sacks of flesh.” Mephiles stomped a foot into Sonic’s back, who groaned in pain but muffled the noise with his hand to keep his friends from worrying.\n\nShadow moved forward slightly, thinking he could spin dash into the demon while it was distracted with Sonic’s posse. Mephiles quickly turned his gaze to Shadow, anticipating his actions.\n\nThe demon grinned and ground his foot into Sonic’s back, and this time Sonic was unable to muffle his cry of pain.\n\nShadow took a step back.\n\nMephiles eased up on Sonic, but didn’t remove his foot from his prone form.\n\n“It’s [i]who[/i] I want.”\n\n“You won’t have Sonic, you creep!” Amy threateningly raised her hammer, prompting only a quirked eyebrow from Mephiles.\n\n“Stupid girl. If it was Sonic I wanted I would have taken him. I already have him.” Mephiles kicked Sonic harshly before firmly planting his foot on his back again.\n\n“You’re not taking away any of my friends, Mephiles!” Sonic gasped through what felt like a broken rib.\n\n“I don’t want any of your friends, Sonic. At least, no one you treat as a friend.”\n\n“What are you talking about?” Sonic’s throat ached as bile rose into it. Everyone here was precious to him, and what would Mephiles know about friendship anyway?\n\n“Time is at my mercy, Sonic. I went back and watched as you became who you are today. You made me curious at first, but now you bore me. You have neglected the most worthy among you. [i]It repulses me[/i].”\n\nMephiles’ voice twisted into a vicious snarl, and he kicked Sonic again thrice, one strike with each growled word.\nSonic wheezed and spat up blood.\n\n“Stop it, just stop it!” Amy cried out. Tails buried his face in his hands, not wanting to watch his brother be beaten.\n\n“I want Shadow.”\n\nThe group gasped in shock, but Shadow only rolled his eyes. He’d predicted that much, seeing as how Mephiles had already made the offer to join him. Wasn’t one rejection enough for this monster?\n\n“Shadow is my friend! You won’t take him away!”\n\nShadow didn’t want to admit it to himself, but Sonic’s earnest defense of him was heartwarming. Mephiles was right, they weren’t friends and Sonic had never made an effort to make friends with him, so it was a little surprising to hear him say so.\n\n“You arrogant fool. You’ve had it so easy.” Mephiles tutted and glared down at Sonic. “You believe anyone you meet is your friend, that your magnetic personality is all that’s needed to create a bond between you and others. You have no regard for the people that require more than your mere presence.”\n\nSonic wanted to defend himself, wanted to tell Mephiles off, but the truth of his words kept him silent.\n\nHe’d always figured that Shadow would open up to him, as every other had before him, in his own time. He’d never bothered with making an effort towards gaining Shadow’s trust. Something he was quickly coming to regret.\n\nShadow, meanwhile, was tiring of this conversation. What did it matter if Sonic and he were or weren’t friends? This was a waste of time.\n\n“What do you want with me, Mephiles?” Shadow bluntly questioned.\n\nMephiles grinned at the Ultimate Lifeform.\n\n“That would be telling, and telling isn’t nearly as much fun as showing. Do we have a deal?”\n\nShadow examined the situation. As much as he hated to admit it, Sonic was the best hope for defeating Iblis and preventing the terrible future they had both witnessed. Going with Mephiles meant, at best, Shadow would have a chance to defeat him if his guard dropped, and if such an opportunity didn’t arise, delaying him while he busied himself with whatever he wanted Shadow for.\n\n“Fine. I’ll go with you.”\n\n“Shadow, no, you can’t!” Rouge insisted, gripping Shadow’s arm.\n\n“Shadow meatbag, you required assistance in fighting Mephiles previously. You will likely not be able to defeat him on your own. This course of action will therefore lead to your demise.”\n\nShadow shrugged off Rouge’s arm and ignored Omega’s warnings as he approached Mephiles.\n\n“My death is incidental. What’s important is stopping Mephiles. This will at least delay him while you gather strength and the Chaos Emeralds.”\n\n“My, my. Look how important you’ve made him feel. Do you understand now what you’ve done to him?” Mephiles whispered to a stunned Sonic.\n\n“That’s not true, Shadow! We’ll defeat Iblis, together! You don’t have to do this!” Sonic pleaded, but Shadow ignored him, still approaching Mephiles. \n\nSonic had already watched Shadow die once before for the sake of the world. He’d seen him knowingly throw his life away. Why had he never taken more time to make sure he was alright? He kicked himself internally for never giving Shadow the time and care he needed.\n\nAnd now Sonic would lose his friend again, and Shadow would die thinking his life was expendable, because Sonic had never done anything to make him think otherwise.\n\nThe rest of the group was silent. Knuckles’ practical mind had come to the same conclusion Shadow had. Sonic was their best hope. They had to save him from Mephiles.\n\nTails and Amy just didn’t want to see Sonic die. For both of them, their insides roiled at the thought of sacrificing one of their own to save Sonic, but it was, in the end, a sacrifice they would make.\n\nTails wept into his hands and Amy tried to comfort him, to no avail. This was too horrible, and believing this to be the better option was no comfort.\n\nMephiles made a gesture, and a portal to places unknown opened behind him. Once Shadow was in reach, he snatched up his arm and held it firmly. He kicked Sonic away, towards his friends, who immediately fussed over his wounds.\n\nSonic sprang up, ignoring the pain of doing so, and ran for Shadow and his captor, but the two disappeared before he could reach them.\n\nHe collapsed to the ground and pounded at the grass, crying at the loss of a friend he’d neglected and driven to suicide twice.\n\n***\n\nThey materialized in an opulent bedroom, in a place Shadow didn’t recognize, and knowing Mephiles, in a time not his own.\n\nMephiles confirmed as such with his next words.\n\n“We’re still in Soleanna, in its castle, but in a time before The Solaris Project destroyed it. These are the royal chambers.”\n\nShadow tested Mephiles’ grip on him, who only jerked him forward towards the bed.\n\n“Where is the royal family, then?”\n\n“This place exists in my own little pocket of time. It’s mine to control and exists so long as I do.”\n\nThe moment Mephiles tossed him onto the bed, Shadow sprang back at him, summoning chaos energy in his palm, only to find it didn't come to him.\n\n“Wha-” He started, before being silenced by Mephiles’ hand on his muzzle.\n\n“I told you, I control this room. Only I have power here.”\n\nMephiles stroked Shadow’s quills in false tenderness and he pushed him backwards onto the bed. Shadow fell back with Mephiles on top of him. Mephiles pushed them up until Shadow’s back met with the headboard.\n\nDark energy appeared around Shadow’s wrists and bound him to the headboard. Mephiles released his mouth and pulsed at his gloves and shoes, leaving him bare except for his inhibitor rings.\n\n“Wouldn’t want you leaking chaos energy all over the place. We’ll be making enough of a mess as it is.” Mephiles said as he stroked the shiny gold rings.\n\n“What are you planning, Mephiles?” Shadow struggled as he spoke but was unable to free himself.\n\n“I am planning so very much. Let me show you.”\n\nThen Mephiles dug his claws into Shadow’s abdomen.\n\nShadow shrieked in pain, and couldn’t tear his eyes away from the sight of Mephiles penetrating his skin with his sharp talons. Blood poured from the room, staining his fur and the clean sheets. He kicked out with his feet, but Mephiles only bound them to the end of the bed with the same dark energy he had used before, leaving them spread open.\n\nMephiles finally removed his hand after digging it around in his guts for a while longer. A gaping hole was left behind, which Shadow gagged at the sight of. Already the wound was healing, but the pain made him nearly pass out.\n\nMephiles slapped him to keep him awake through his suffering. The bleeding hole eventually closed, leaving only ragged fur and patches of blood.\n\nMephiles let his claws flash in front of Shadow’s eyes for a moment, before tearing into his muzzle. He opened his mouth to scream, but blood filled his orifice, and he could only gurgle and choke. Shadow tried to turn his head to spit out the blood so he could breath, but Mephiles gripped his face tight, keeping him still and drawing more blood.\n\nHe sucked in air through his nose, and his throat burned with his own hot blood. Having no other choice, he forced himself to swallow, making his stomach roll with queasiness. \n\n“What…what’s the point of this?” Shadow asked, once his mouth was clear.\n\n“You are the strongest of them, in mind and in body. And that makes you the most satisfying to tear apart.”\n\nMephiles dug his claws into Shadow’s shoulders and leaned over him, and in a single hard thrust, penetrated Shadow’s anus with his cock, which had hardened with the ecstasy of torturing Shadow.\n\nShadow tried to crawl up the bed, to get this monster’s length out of him, but the claws in his shoulders kept him pinned. Blood dripped down his arms and legs.\n\nThankfully, Mephiles’ cock wasn’t crystalline as the rest of him was, but instead flesh, so the pain could have been much worse. Still, the sudden strain on his passage tore it open mercilessly. Shadow could only lie back and take what he was given, moaning in pain.\n\nThen, Mephiles found something inside of him that made sparks fly in Shadow’s loins. The pleasure mixed with the pain, leaving Shadow’s body confused and conflicted. He didn’t know whether to cry for it to stop or for more.\nHe’d never before been intimate with anyone, and had no concept of what to expect as far as sex went. He had no particular desire for it and no partner to do it with. Now, he could see why people were so enthusiastic about it.\nThough the pain screamed at him, the ecstasy overwhelmed him. He’d never felt anything better than the pleasure that rocketed through his body with every thrust.\n\nHis own cock was hard and weeping, and when his orgasm hit, his cum mixed with his blood.\n\nMephiles removed his claws from Shadow’s shoulders and the wounds began to close. Instead, he gripped Shadow’s hips to get better leverage for thrusting into him, but Shadow’s erection failed to return.\n\nThe brutality of Mephiles’ thrusts didn’t allow for pleasure to come of them, as well as Shadow’s exhaustion from his first orgasm. All he could feel was his stretched and bleeding walls being scraped and scratched at.\n\nHe felt Mephiles grow inside of him, and he knew what was coming.\n\n“Not inside, please, not inside!”\n\nShadow should have known that his plea would assure that Mephiles would do the opposite for the sake of tormenting him, but his panic overrode his good sense. \n\nMephiles poured his semen into Shadow, groaning at the feeling, pleased more by Shadow’s despair and his own domination of the hedgehog under him.\n\nShadow whimpered at the hot cum inside his anus, burning his already damaged passage. He felt defiled and dirty, his first experience with sex something unwanted and nauseating.\n\nMephiles pulled out of him, releasing blood and cum from inside of Shadow. The hedgehog sighed in relief.\nThe moment didn’t last long, as Mephiles moved upwards to place his crotch over Shadow’s face to force his member into Shadow’s mouth.\n\n“You bite me, and you’ll get a lot worse than that hole in your gut.”\n\nReason told Shadow he was going to get exactly that anyway, but pain and humiliation cowed him, and he hated himself further for allowing this out of sheer terror.\n\nHis dick tasted like blood and sweat and was bitter on his tongue. It made its way to the back of Shadow’s throat, choking him. Saliva filled his mouth in whatever spaces Mephiles’ girth didn’t take up, and leaked onto his muzzle.\n\nHe quietly suffered as Mephiles took his pleasure, but soon grew bored with the angle. He couldn’t see Shadow’s face twist in shame and pain, and he couldn’t draw blood from here.\n\nHe pulled out of Shadow’s mouth and he sputtered wetly, turning his head to the side to cough up bile and phlegm. \n\n“Disgusting, the sight of you.” Mephiles mumbled with a pleased smile.\n\nShadow whimpered and knew all too well how right Mephiles was. Shame burned him far more than his healing wounds.\n\nMephiles returned to his ass, yanking up his body and digging a clawed finger inside of him harshly, cutting him up and drawing even more blood. He dropped Shadow before thrusting into him again, making pain and pleasure intermingle another time.\n\n“Please, please stop.” Shadow begged, apparently no longer above such lowly actions. He just wanted this to end. He came here to die, not for this.\n\nHis body betrayed him in forcing another orgasm out of him even as he screamed for the pain to end. \n\nHis bindings released him for a moment in order for Mephiles to flip him over and pull him upwards and off the bed until he was hung from the ceiling spread eagle, still bound by all four limbs.\n\nShadow tried to look behind him to see what Mephiles was doing as he moved around the room, but could not ascertain what Mephiles was up to.\n\nFootsteps grew close to him and stopped as once they were directly behind him. With no warning, the crack of a whip sounded, and Shadow howled in agony.\n\nMephiles laughed with satisfaction at the sound, and repeated the action, which brought more delightful sounds of pain from Shadow.\n\nSomething pressed against his anus, and his passage was once again stretched as a vibrator was forced into it. Mephiles switched the device on once it was pressed firmly to Shadow’s prostate, and pleasure pulsed through Shadow at the same rhythm as the pain.\n\nTears streamed down his cheeks as his back was bloodied and slashed until he doubted he had skin left. His erection reformed at the encouragement of the vibrator and Mephiles’ hand occasionally passing over his genitals.\nMore blood than what should have been in him at all pooled on the floor. Yet, his body always healed, preparing a fresh canvas for Mephiles to scar over and over again.\n\nTime was lost to Shadow as searing, sharp pain and constant ecstasy assailed him. He came twice more, his orgasms seeming to only bring more pain as it tightened his damaged back muscles. Shadow couldn’t understand how his body continued to feel good under the assault.\n\n“Do you understand now what your so-called friends have left you to?” Mephiles asked as he moved away, likely to gather another weapon of torture.\n\nShadow wheezed, too far gone from misery to form words, or even coherent thoughts.\n\nHis voice cracked as his back burned when Mephiles threw a handful of salt at his wounds. He tried to scream, but his voice had left him, along with his will.\n\nMephiles rubbed his hands over Shadow’s flayed back, jabbing at bleeding and salted wounds, but was disappointed back the lack of noise from Shadow.\n\nThe bindings disappeared, and Shadow fell into his own blood and cum on the ground. He curled into a ball on the ground instinctively, beyond caring how he looked.\n\n“Disappointing. It’s not fun if you give up so soon.” The vibrator was turned off and pull out of him with a disgusted scoff.\n\nHow pathetic, Shadow thought, that he couldn’t even be enough for his torturer.\n\nWith that, Mephiles vanished, leaving Shadow to whimper and cry and despise himself for it.\n\n***\n\nRapid footsteps beat against the ground, a sound far too familiar to Shadow’s ears, which perked up a little more at each foot fall.\n\nThe doors burst open, and Sonic ran to Shadow’s still curled up and sobbing form.\n\n“Shads? It’s-it’s me, Shads. I came to get you. You’ll be okay, I promise!” Sonic gave a grin, which was a fragile and shaky imitation of his usual cheer.\n\nSonic carefully tried to lift Shadow into his arms, and Shadow flinched even though his wounds had long since healed.\n\n“Shh, it’s okay. You’ll be safe soon.”\n\nShadow calmed, willingly relaxing in Sonic’s hold. He had, after all, tried to convince him to stay. Sonic hadn’t wanted this for him, even as his fellows had.\n\nHe was carried towards the double doors. Sanity returned as the hope of escape grew.\n\nBut with sanity came reason. How could Sonic be here? Hadn’t Mephiles said he controlled this pocket of space and time?\n\nShadow banished these thoughts. If anyone could find a way to him, it would be Sonic the Hedgehog.\n\nThe doors opened, the same bedroom he believed he had just escaped, only this time adorned in blue.\n\nShadow looked up to Sonic, confused and expecting to see Sonic just as confused, but instead found him grinning down at Shadow.\n\nHope withered and died as suddenly as it had blossomed. \n\nSonic carried him to the bed, this one clean of blood and vomit, and laid him down gently. He placed himself over Shadow, and thrust his cock inside just as Mephiles had, with no warning and no preparation.\n\n“No, no, no. Not him, [i]not his face[/i].”\n\nSonic was everything to him in so many ways. He had saved Shadow from his own darkness, he had provided a challenge and a standard to live up to. Now, Sonic’s face grinned lecherously at him as his cock fucked his abused hole.\n\nShadow whimpered and begged for it to stop, but Sonic’s visage continued to torture him.\n\n“Oh, you weak, pathetic little thing. You thought a something like you, some abomination grown in a test-tube, could be my equal? You think I’d acknowledge you? You think I’d waste my time coming to save you? Pathetic.”\n\nShadow hated that he had been hoping exactly that. Sonic had always given his all for his friends, but that clearly didn’t apply to him. Shadow was as expendable to Sonic as he thought himself as.\n\nShadow covered his face, realizing the bindings were gone and he could fight back and not caring in the least, and wept for the bond he’d never had.\n\nSonic melted away to reveal Mephiles. Still, Shadow didn’t fight, even as the face of his enemy made itself known. What did he have to fight for? If the kindest, most generous hero of the land didn’t want him back, who would? There was purpose in escaping when no one awaited his return.\n\n“You couldn’t possibly think he’d come for you, could you?” Mephiles taunted. “He has far more important things to worry about than you. Like his real friends, or what he wants for dinner tonight.”\n\nShadow went boneless as Mephiles fucked him, the last shreds of pride, of hope, of strength dissipating.\n\n***\n\nThey had successfully gathered the Chaos Emeralds before Mephiles made his reappearance.\n\nThe moment he showed himself, Sonic attacked, screaming and demanding to know where Shadow was. Silver soon joined the assault, more for his own purposes than to find someone he barely knew.\n\nWith the power of the Chaos Emeralds with them, the demon fell, and Sonic delivered the final blow with extreme prejudice. The demon would not reveal where Shadow was, so the next best thing would be to destroy the creature, for Shadow’s and everyone else’s sakes, and hunt him down personally.\n\nAs it turned out, there was no need for a hunt. As the demon died with a snarl the sky above him opened in a portal, containing the image of a fancy bedroom. Reality stirred and shifted, and the bedroom and the portal they could see it through vanished, leaving only a crumpled, dark form behind.\n\nSonic dove towards Shadow, apologies on his lips, stopped dead once the sight of Shadow sunk into his mind.\nShadow stared off into nothing, his garnet eyes no longer burning with will as they once had. They darted back and forth, confused and lost. His lips muttered nonsensical babbling.\n\n“Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop, [i]make it stop[/i]…”\n\nSonic collapsed to his knees at the sight of him. How could Shadow, always so prideful and bold, be reduced to this in just a few hours?\n\nSonic reached out to Shadow, holding his quivering form close and crying. He’d done this to Shadow. Sonic had unknowingly fostered Shadow’s disregard for the sanctity of his life. Sonic had caused him to willingly walk away with Mephiles to save him.\n\nSonic held Shadow tight and whispered in his ear, “I’ll take care of you, I swear it. I’ll make it up to it, even if it takes the rest of my life. I’ll protect you, my friend.”", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "They stood watching Mephiles carefully as he menaced Sonic, who was collapsed on the ground, struggling for air after Mephiles’ first attack.

No one dared move. Mephiles was capable of anything, they couldn’t risk the hero’s life by acting rashly.

“What do you want?” Tails boldly demanded, even though his voice quaked in fear for his brother.

Mephiles turned his piercing stare on the young kit, who flinched away. Amy and Knuckles took up a defensive position in front of the youth.

 “It’s not what I want, you pathetic sacks of flesh.” Mephiles stomped a foot into Sonic’s back, who groaned in pain but muffled the noise with his hand to keep his friends from worrying.

Shadow moved forward slightly, thinking he could spin dash into the demon while it was distracted with Sonic’s posse. Mephiles quickly turned his gaze to Shadow, anticipating his actions.

The demon grinned and ground his foot into Sonic’s back, and this time Sonic was unable to muffle his cry of pain.

Shadow took a step back.

Mephiles eased up on Sonic, but didn’t remove his foot from his prone form.

“It’s who I want.”

“You won’t have Sonic, you creep!” Amy threateningly raised her hammer, prompting only a quirked eyebrow from Mephiles.

“Stupid girl. If it was Sonic I wanted I would have taken him. I already have him.” Mephiles kicked Sonic harshly before firmly planting his foot on his back again.

“You’re not taking away any of my friends, Mephiles!” Sonic gasped through what felt like a broken rib.

“I don’t want any of your friends, Sonic. At least, no one you treat as a friend.”

“What are you talking about?” Sonic’s throat ached as bile rose into it. Everyone here was precious to him, and what would Mephiles know about friendship anyway?

“Time is at my mercy, Sonic. I went back and watched as you became who you are today. You made me curious at first, but now you bore me. You have neglected the most worthy among you. It repulses me.”

Mephiles’ voice twisted into a vicious snarl, and he kicked Sonic again thrice, one strike with each growled word.
Sonic wheezed and spat up blood.

“Stop it, just stop it!” Amy cried out. Tails buried his face in his hands, not wanting to watch his brother be beaten.

“I want Shadow.”

The group gasped in shock, but Shadow only rolled his eyes. He’d predicted that much, seeing as how Mephiles had already made the offer to join him. Wasn’t one rejection enough for this monster?

“Shadow is my friend! You won’t take him away!”

Shadow didn’t want to admit it to himself, but Sonic’s earnest defense of him was heartwarming. Mephiles was right, they weren’t friends and Sonic had never made an effort to make friends with him, so it was a little surprising to hear him say so.

“You arrogant fool. You’ve had it so easy.” Mephiles tutted and glared down at Sonic. “You believe anyone you meet is your friend, that your magnetic personality is all that’s needed to create a bond between you and others. You have no regard for the people that require more than your mere presence.”

Sonic wanted to defend himself, wanted to tell Mephiles off, but the truth of his words kept him silent.

He’d always figured that Shadow would open up to him, as every other had before him, in his own time. He’d never bothered with making an effort towards gaining Shadow’s trust. Something he was quickly coming to regret.

Shadow, meanwhile, was tiring of this conversation. What did it matter if Sonic and he were or weren’t friends? This was a waste of time.

“What do you want with me, Mephiles?” Shadow bluntly questioned.

Mephiles grinned at the Ultimate Lifeform.

“That would be telling, and telling isn’t nearly as much fun as showing. Do we have a deal?”

Shadow examined the situation. As much as he hated to admit it, Sonic was the best hope for defeating Iblis and preventing the terrible future they had both witnessed. Going with Mephiles meant, at best, Shadow would have a chance to defeat him if his guard dropped, and if such an opportunity didn’t arise, delaying him while he busied himself with whatever he wanted Shadow for.

“Fine. I’ll go with you.”

“Shadow, no, you can’t!” Rouge insisted, gripping Shadow’s arm.

“Shadow meatbag, you required assistance in fighting Mephiles previously. You will likely not be able to defeat him on your own. This course of action will therefore lead to your demise.”

Shadow shrugged off Rouge’s arm and ignored Omega’s warnings as he approached Mephiles.

“My death is incidental. What’s important is stopping Mephiles. This will at least delay him while you gather strength and the Chaos Emeralds.”

“My, my. Look how important you’ve made him feel. Do you understand now what you’ve done to him?” Mephiles whispered to a stunned Sonic.

“That’s not true, Shadow! We’ll defeat Iblis, together! You don’t have to do this!” Sonic pleaded, but Shadow ignored him, still approaching Mephiles.

Sonic had already watched Shadow die once before for the sake of the world. He’d seen him knowingly throw his life away. Why had he never taken more time to make sure he was alright? He kicked himself internally for never giving Shadow the time and care he needed.

And now Sonic would lose his friend again, and Shadow would die thinking his life was expendable, because Sonic had never done anything to make him think otherwise.

The rest of the group was silent. Knuckles’ practical mind had come to the same conclusion Shadow had. Sonic was their best hope. They had to save him from Mephiles.

Tails and Amy just didn’t want to see Sonic die. For both of them, their insides roiled at the thought of sacrificing one of their own to save Sonic, but it was, in the end, a sacrifice they would make.

Tails wept into his hands and Amy tried to comfort him, to no avail. This was too horrible, and believing this to be the better option was no comfort.

Mephiles made a gesture, and a portal to places unknown opened behind him. Once Shadow was in reach, he snatched up his arm and held it firmly. He kicked Sonic away, towards his friends, who immediately fussed over his wounds.

Sonic sprang up, ignoring the pain of doing so, and ran for Shadow and his captor, but the two disappeared before he could reach them.

He collapsed to the ground and pounded at the grass, crying at the loss of a friend he’d neglected and driven to suicide twice.

***

They materialized in an opulent bedroom, in a place Shadow didn’t recognize, and knowing Mephiles, in a time not his own.

Mephiles confirmed as such with his next words.

“We’re still in Soleanna, in its castle, but in a time before The Solaris Project destroyed it. These are the royal chambers.”

Shadow tested Mephiles’ grip on him, who only jerked him forward towards the bed.

“Where is the royal family, then?”

“This place exists in my own little pocket of time. It’s mine to control and exists so long as I do.”

The moment Mephiles tossed him onto the bed, Shadow sprang back at him, summoning chaos energy in his palm, only to find it didn't come to him.

“Wha-” He started, before being silenced by Mephiles’ hand on his muzzle.

“I told you, I control this room. Only I have power here.”

Mephiles stroked Shadow’s quills in false tenderness and he pushed him backwards onto the bed. Shadow fell back with Mephiles on top of him. Mephiles pushed them up until Shadow’s back met with the headboard.

Dark energy appeared around Shadow’s wrists and bound him to the headboard. Mephiles released his mouth and pulsed at his gloves and shoes, leaving him bare except for his inhibitor rings.

“Wouldn’t want you leaking chaos energy all over the place. We’ll be making enough of a mess as it is.” Mephiles said as he stroked the shiny gold rings.

“What are you planning, Mephiles?” Shadow struggled as he spoke but was unable to free himself.

“I am planning so very much. Let me show you.”

Then Mephiles dug his claws into Shadow’s abdomen.

Shadow shrieked in pain, and couldn’t tear his eyes away from the sight of Mephiles penetrating his skin with his sharp talons. Blood poured from the room, staining his fur and the clean sheets. He kicked out with his feet, but Mephiles only bound them to the end of the bed with the same dark energy he had used before, leaving them spread open.

Mephiles finally removed his hand after digging it around in his guts for a while longer. A gaping hole was left behind, which Shadow gagged at the sight of. Already the wound was healing, but the pain made him nearly pass out.

Mephiles slapped him to keep him awake through his suffering. The bleeding hole eventually closed, leaving only ragged fur and patches of blood.

Mephiles let his claws flash in front of Shadow’s eyes for a moment, before tearing into his muzzle. He opened his mouth to scream, but blood filled his orifice, and he could only gurgle and choke. Shadow tried to turn his head to spit out the blood so he could breath, but Mephiles gripped his face tight, keeping him still and drawing more blood.

He sucked in air through his nose, and his throat burned with his own hot blood. Having no other choice, he forced himself to swallow, making his stomach roll with queasiness.

“What…what’s the point of this?” Shadow asked, once his mouth was clear.

“You are the strongest of them, in mind and in body. And that makes you the most satisfying to tear apart.”

Mephiles dug his claws into Shadow’s shoulders and leaned over him, and in a single hard thrust, penetrated Shadow’s anus with his cock, which had hardened with the ecstasy of torturing Shadow.

Shadow tried to crawl up the bed, to get this monster’s length out of him, but the claws in his shoulders kept him pinned. Blood dripped down his arms and legs.

Thankfully, Mephiles’ cock wasn’t crystalline as the rest of him was, but instead flesh, so the pain could have been much worse. Still, the sudden strain on his passage tore it open mercilessly. Shadow could only lie back and take what he was given, moaning in pain.

Then, Mephiles found something inside of him that made sparks fly in Shadow’s loins. The pleasure mixed with the pain, leaving Shadow’s body confused and conflicted. He didn’t know whether to cry for it to stop or for more.
He’d never before been intimate with anyone, and had no concept of what to expect as far as sex went. He had no particular desire for it and no partner to do it with. Now, he could see why people were so enthusiastic about it.
Though the pain screamed at him, the ecstasy overwhelmed him. He’d never felt anything better than the pleasure that rocketed through his body with every thrust.

His own cock was hard and weeping, and when his orgasm hit, his cum mixed with his blood.

Mephiles removed his claws from Shadow’s shoulders and the wounds began to close. Instead, he gripped Shadow’s hips to get better leverage for thrusting into him, but Shadow’s erection failed to return.

The brutality of Mephiles’ thrusts didn’t allow for pleasure to come of them, as well as Shadow’s exhaustion from his first orgasm. All he could feel was his stretched and bleeding walls being scraped and scratched at.

He felt Mephiles grow inside of him, and he knew what was coming.

“Not inside, please, not inside!”

Shadow should have known that his plea would assure that Mephiles would do the opposite for the sake of tormenting him, but his panic overrode his good sense.

Mephiles poured his semen into Shadow, groaning at the feeling, pleased more by Shadow’s despair and his own domination of the hedgehog under him.

Shadow whimpered at the hot cum inside his anus, burning his already damaged passage. He felt defiled and dirty, his first experience with sex something unwanted and nauseating.

Mephiles pulled out of him, releasing blood and cum from inside of Shadow. The hedgehog sighed in relief.
The moment didn’t last long, as Mephiles moved upwards to place his crotch over Shadow’s face to force his member into Shadow’s mouth.

“You bite me, and you’ll get a lot worse than that hole in your gut.”

Reason told Shadow he was going to get exactly that anyway, but pain and humiliation cowed him, and he hated himself further for allowing this out of sheer terror.

His dick tasted like blood and sweat and was bitter on his tongue. It made its way to the back of Shadow’s throat, choking him. Saliva filled his mouth in whatever spaces Mephiles’ girth didn’t take up, and leaked onto his muzzle.

He quietly suffered as Mephiles took his pleasure, but soon grew bored with the angle. He couldn’t see Shadow’s face twist in shame and pain, and he couldn’t draw blood from here.

He pulled out of Shadow’s mouth and he sputtered wetly, turning his head to the side to cough up bile and phlegm.

“Disgusting, the sight of you.” Mephiles mumbled with a pleased smile.

Shadow whimpered and knew all too well how right Mephiles was. Shame burned him far more than his healing wounds.

Mephiles returned to his ass, yanking up his body and digging a clawed finger inside of him harshly, cutting him up and drawing even more blood. He dropped Shadow before thrusting into him again, making pain and pleasure intermingle another time.

“Please, please stop.” Shadow begged, apparently no longer above such lowly actions. He just wanted this to end. He came here to die, not for this.

His body betrayed him in forcing another orgasm out of him even as he screamed for the pain to end.

His bindings released him for a moment in order for Mephiles to flip him over and pull him upwards and off the bed until he was hung from the ceiling spread eagle, still bound by all four limbs.

Shadow tried to look behind him to see what Mephiles was doing as he moved around the room, but could not ascertain what Mephiles was up to.

Footsteps grew close to him and stopped as once they were directly behind him. With no warning, the crack of a whip sounded, and Shadow howled in agony.

Mephiles laughed with satisfaction at the sound, and repeated the action, which brought more delightful sounds of pain from Shadow.

Something pressed against his anus, and his passage was once again stretched as a vibrator was forced into it. Mephiles switched the device on once it was pressed firmly to Shadow’s prostate, and pleasure pulsed through Shadow at the same rhythm as the pain.

Tears streamed down his cheeks as his back was bloodied and slashed until he doubted he had skin left. His erection reformed at the encouragement of the vibrator and Mephiles’ hand occasionally passing over his genitals.
More blood than what should have been in him at all pooled on the floor. Yet, his body always healed, preparing a fresh canvas for Mephiles to scar over and over again.

Time was lost to Shadow as searing, sharp pain and constant ecstasy assailed him. He came twice more, his orgasms seeming to only bring more pain as it tightened his damaged back muscles. Shadow couldn’t understand how his body continued to feel good under the assault.

“Do you understand now what your so-called friends have left you to?” Mephiles asked as he moved away, likely to gather another weapon of torture.

Shadow wheezed, too far gone from misery to form words, or even coherent thoughts.

His voice cracked as his back burned when Mephiles threw a handful of salt at his wounds. He tried to scream, but his voice had left him, along with his will.

Mephiles rubbed his hands over Shadow’s flayed back, jabbing at bleeding and salted wounds, but was disappointed back the lack of noise from Shadow.

The bindings disappeared, and Shadow fell into his own blood and cum on the ground. He curled into a ball on the ground instinctively, beyond caring how he looked.

“Disappointing. It’s not fun if you give up so soon.” The vibrator was turned off and pull out of him with a disgusted scoff.

How pathetic, Shadow thought, that he couldn’t even be enough for his torturer.

With that, Mephiles vanished, leaving Shadow to whimper and cry and despise himself for it.

***

Rapid footsteps beat against the ground, a sound far too familiar to Shadow’s ears, which perked up a little more at each foot fall.

The doors burst open, and Sonic ran to Shadow’s still curled up and sobbing form.

“Shads? It’s-it’s me, Shads. I came to get you. You’ll be okay, I promise!” Sonic gave a grin, which was a fragile and shaky imitation of his usual cheer.

Sonic carefully tried to lift Shadow into his arms, and Shadow flinched even though his wounds had long since healed.

“Shh, it’s okay. You’ll be safe soon.”

Shadow calmed, willingly relaxing in Sonic’s hold. He had, after all, tried to convince him to stay. Sonic hadn’t wanted this for him, even as his fellows had.

He was carried towards the double doors. Sanity returned as the hope of escape grew.

But with sanity came reason. How could Sonic be here? Hadn’t Mephiles said he controlled this pocket of space and time?

Shadow banished these thoughts. If anyone could find a way to him, it would be Sonic the Hedgehog.

The doors opened, the same bedroom he believed he had just escaped, only this time adorned in blue.

Shadow looked up to Sonic, confused and expecting to see Sonic just as confused, but instead found him grinning down at Shadow.

Hope withered and died as suddenly as it had blossomed.

Sonic carried him to the bed, this one clean of blood and vomit, and laid him down gently. He placed himself over Shadow, and thrust his cock inside just as Mephiles had, with no warning and no preparation.

“No, no, no. Not him, not his face.”

Sonic was everything to him in so many ways. He had saved Shadow from his own darkness, he had provided a challenge and a standard to live up to. Now, Sonic’s face grinned lecherously at him as his cock fucked his abused hole.

Shadow whimpered and begged for it to stop, but Sonic’s visage continued to torture him.

“Oh, you weak, pathetic little thing. You thought a something like you, some abomination grown in a test-tube, could be my equal? You think I’d acknowledge you? You think I’d waste my time coming to save you? Pathetic.”

Shadow hated that he had been hoping exactly that. Sonic had always given his all for his friends, but that clearly didn’t apply to him. Shadow was as expendable to Sonic as he thought himself as.

Shadow covered his face, realizing the bindings were gone and he could fight back and not caring in the least, and wept for the bond he’d never had.

Sonic melted away to reveal Mephiles. Still, Shadow didn’t fight, even as the face of his enemy made itself known. What did he have to fight for? If the kindest, most generous hero of the land didn’t want him back, who would? There was purpose in escaping when no one awaited his return.

“You couldn’t possibly think he’d come for you, could you?” Mephiles taunted. “He has far more important things to worry about than you. Like his real friends, or what he wants for dinner tonight.”

Shadow went boneless as Mephiles fucked him, the last shreds of pride, of hope, of strength dissipating.

***

They had successfully gathered the Chaos Emeralds before Mephiles made his reappearance.

The moment he showed himself, Sonic attacked, screaming and demanding to know where Shadow was. Silver soon joined the assault, more for his own purposes than to find someone he barely knew.

With the power of the Chaos Emeralds with them, the demon fell, and Sonic delivered the final blow with extreme prejudice. The demon would not reveal where Shadow was, so the next best thing would be to destroy the creature, for Shadow’s and everyone else’s sakes, and hunt him down personally.

As it turned out, there was no need for a hunt. As the demon died with a snarl the sky above him opened in a portal, containing the image of a fancy bedroom. Reality stirred and shifted, and the bedroom and the portal they could see it through vanished, leaving only a crumpled, dark form behind.

Sonic dove towards Shadow, apologies on his lips, stopped dead once the sight of Shadow sunk into his mind.
Shadow stared off into nothing, his garnet eyes no longer burning with will as they once had. They darted back and forth, confused and lost. His lips muttered nonsensical babbling.

“Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop…”

Sonic collapsed to his knees at the sight of him. How could Shadow, always so prideful and bold, be reduced to this in just a few hours?

Sonic reached out to Shadow, holding his quivering form close and crying. He’d done this to Shadow. Sonic had unknowingly fostered Shadow’s disregard for the sanctity of his life. Sonic had caused him to willingly walk away with Mephiles to save him.

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