Caring for Your Rival: Chapter 8 SONADOW

Remember Our First Night in Bed?


"I hope your party doesn't involve you lying around like that," Shadow growled while scanning the whole situation that Sonic and Zhadow was in.

Shadow had to admit, his alternative form did look exactly like him and this scared him a little. Were their powers evenly matched as well? Was Zhadow also known as the ultimate life from just like Shadow? Aside from that, Shadow made a what seemed like an envious look on his face when he saw how vulnerable Sonic looked right below Zhadow. The ultimate life form's hands quickly formed into a fist as he stomped his rocket shoe to gain both Sonic and Zhadow's attentions again.

"Come on, get up!" Shadow pointed at the blue hedgehog, "You can do better than that. Stop being damn submissive!"

"Hey sorry pal. I was just having some chat with Zhadow here," said Sonic.

The blue hedgehog raised both of his blue legs and made an attempt to kick Zhadow's stomach. Of course, Zhadow saw this coming right away so the ex-zone cop leaped into he air and landed on the middle of the room.

"I see. you must be Shadow the hedgehog," said Zhadow as he stood up from the ground and faced Shadow with his glare.

"Zhadow the zone cop," Shadow replied back.

"He's not a zone cop anymore," interrupted Zonic as he stepped next to Shadow, "He is the most wanted criminal in No Zone."

"Zonic, I expected a friendly greeting from you. I guess since you met Shadow here, I'm not that important to you anymore," Zhadow replied.

"Watch your mouth," Zonic answered coldly as he took out a small pocket sized gun that said "inhibit" written on it.

"Don't make me laugh Zonic," Zhadow whispered, "Even if you say that you are out here to catch me, I know the truth. You. Can't. Harm. Me."

Shadow was confused to see what Zhadow was talking. The ultimate life form swiftly changed his perspective to Zonic and noticed something strange about the zone cop right away. Zonic's hand started to shake little by little and his emerald eye, which resembled Sonic's eyes, wasn't stable any more. The focus in Zonic's eyes were no longer there anymore. The elite zone cop's hand became weak as he decreased the level of the hand that held the small gun. Soon enough, Zonic dropped the weapon to the floor which echoed across the room. Zonic seemed completely lost in his own little world now so Sonic quickly decided to take charge.

"Yo Zhadow, watch your back!" yelled Sonic and the blue hedgehog tried to launch another kick to Zhadow.

"Chaos Control," Zhadow murmured and re-appeared right behind Sonic.

"Shit! I forgot Zhadow can do chaos control!" Sonic shivered and before he had the time to turn around, Zhadow used his fist to knock Sonic's back with full strength. Sonic screamed in pain and fell on to his knee instantly with his arms shaking in weak support.

"You fool! you don't kneel in front of your enemy," Shadow said under his breath, "Chaos Spear!" Shadow's attack took Zhadow by a huge surprise. Zhadow never thought his alternative form would be able to have the power to control chaos energy. He was sure that he would be the only one in the universe that would be able to do so. Zhadow used his rocket shoes to quickly move away from the attack but chaos spears managed land some hits onto Zhadow's arm

"I see you can do the same attack like me," said Zhadow as he gave a brief glance at Sonic. Just then, from Zhadow's hand a dark energy started to appear as he pointed his hand towards Sonic. "Chaos Bind," Zhadow shouted.

"A.. what?" Sonic never heard that type of chaos attack but when Sonic realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

The air around Sonic started to feel as if a strong pressure was pulling him down. Sonic's whole body felt heavy. Soon enough, a bright yellow chaos energy wrapped Sonic around which fully immobilized the blue hedgehog.

"You should stay out of my way, Sonic prime. We can have fun later," Zhadow smiled as he observed the struggling hedgehog.

"You are not going to have any fun with him," Shadow growled but backed away as Zhadow also released chaos spear towards him.

Before Shadow even had the time to throw some of his attack, Zhadow vanished instantly, and gave a sneak attack to Shadow right behind him. The ultimate life form managed to leap away from Zhadow's punch but was very surprised at the damage that Zhadow was able to cause to the floor. There was a deep black hole where Zhadow threw his punch and cracks formed around the damage.

'He shattered the floor just with a single blow?' Shadow analyzed his enemy carefully. 'Just what is he?'

"Please don't tell me this is all you can do, Shadow," Zhadow laughed a little, "I expected a more epic battle from you."

"You do not want to see when I lose my temper," Shadow growled. 'I can't just release chaos blast here. It's going to hurt everyone including...' Shadow glanced at Sonic who was still tied to the chaos energy on the floor.

"Hey, go help him out!" Shadow turned around to see what Zonic was doing but the zone cop was still in his little world.

He looked as if he was under hypnotism or something. Zonic didn't even more at all from that exact spot.

"I'm just going to tie you down like Sonic prime here!" Zhadow form another dark energy around him, "Chaos Bind!"

When Shadow heard Zhadow's attack, the black hedgehog decided not to do anything. Instead, the ultimate life form just stood there without an attempt to evade the binding spell. Zhadow also realized that nothing happened to Shadow unlike Sonic.

"Hmph, you should know a chaos binding attacks doesn't work to someone who is also made of chaos energy himself," Shadow answered and jumped into the air to make a better target of Zhadow, "Chaos Lance,"

'Since when did Shadow know another move other than chaos spear?!' Sonic searched through his memories when he and Shadow worked together during missions but he never saw Shadow using other attacks aside from his signature move, chaos spear. The blue hedgehog was then displayed with red colored spears that was created as soon as Shadow waved his hand. They were more like an upgraded version of chaos spear if Sonic had to make the analysis.

'Did he learn all these stuff while I didn't see Shadow for a while?' thought Sonic.

Red spears missed Zhadow when the ex-zone cop used chaos control to easily evade the attacks. Spears instead made contact with various parts of the wall which made small explosions.

"Chaos Lance," Zhadow looked around to see how much Zonic's room was messed, "I don't know that chaos attack myself. You must be pretty powerful."

"Enough talking, just hand over the chaos emerald you have there," Shadow ignored Zhadow's comment and he narrowed his eyes even more. A clear sign that Shadow did not enjoy Zhadow's company at all. While listening to the conversation between Zhadow and Shadow, Sonic tried to bring Zonic's attention back to the reality. Something was seriously wrong with that zone cop right now but Sonic didn't want Zonic to stay like that until the whole battle was over.

"Hey Zonic!" Sonic tried to break free from the chaos energy that bonded him harshly to the floor, "You okay ther-argg!" When Sonic made an attempt to get up from the floor, Zhadow quickly landed his heavy rocket shoes right onto Sonic's back which made the blue hedgehog land harshly onto his stomach again.

"Sonic prime!" Zonic finally came back from his lost thought.

"I'm having a second thought," said Zhadow as he used his hand to tightly grab onto Sonic's right arm. The chaos energy was no longer around Sonic anymore.

"Hand him over," Shadow's anger started to boil down. But Shadow also didn't want to do something reckless because Sonic too close with Zhadow. One false move from Shadow could really do some damage to Sonic as and this was something he wanted to avoid the most. Shadow wanted to just skate and grab Sonic away from his so called alternative form but Shadow didn't really know what kind of powers Zhadow was capable of. The black hedgehog didn't want to take any risk just yet.

"I'll talk with Sonic prime for a second before I return him to you, Shadow," Zhadow smirked and roughly handled the blue hedgehog who struggled to free himself form Zhadow. Shadow felt a small stab in the chest and hoped that his ears were deceiving him.

"Let me go!" Sonic yelled and he became a little desperate at this point. He did hear Zhadow saying that he would take him.

Where would they go? Zhadow had the red chaos emerald so technically the ex-zone cop had the power to take him anywhere. Another strange thing that Sonic noticed was the impact that Zhadow inflected onto Sonic's body. The hero was used to with getting hit during his battles but they didn't knock his body out cold. But when he received one attack from Zhadow, if felt as it he was smashed into pieces from a twelve story building. Zhadow's hands were hard as a solid metal that paralyzed Sonic's body for a few seconds. Sonic coudln't move his body freely. This was when Sonic realized that he was in fact really in big trouble. It's been a while since the blue hero felt an actual fear during the battle since he always had fun fighting his past enemies.

'No... Zhadow isn't serious.. is he? I can't be separated from Shadow right now...!' Sonic panicked and this caused him to lose all the strength that was left inside him as his heart beat increased even more when the Sonic kept thinking about being separated. Being separated from his favorite rival. Then Sonic said something that he thought he would never do in his entire life living as the hero.

"S-Shadow!" Sonic finally called out with pled, "Help...help me, please!"

Help me please..!

Help me...

Please...!

Shadow's eyes opened as he realized what Zhadow was about to do next. The ex-zone cop revealed the red chaos emerald. The emerald started to shine in bright colors and Shadow took this as a bad sign.

'No... he better not take that idiot away!' Shadow thought as he took out the purple chaos emerald that he held onto from his back quills. Shadow didn't want to reveal his emerald to Zhadow, just in case Zhadow might do something to take the purple emerald away from him. But now, Shadow thought it was stupid for him to not use the emerald in the first place.

'I can't believe I put my priority in this damn chaos emerald than his safety...' Shadow cursed himself as he used the power of his emerald. "Chaos Control!"

Shadow hope that he would stop the time just at the right moment to catch Zhadow from taking Sonic away to who knows where! The ultimate life form knew that compared to the power of the chaos emerald, his speed would not match. Shadow felt all of the surrounding beginning to slow down as his white emerald glowed like the sun but Shadow was shocked to see that Zhadow and Sonic were no longer in front of him anymore.

"No..." Shadow whispered as he looked around the room. Nobody was here except for Zonic and Shadow. '

Was my chaos control too slow...?' Shadow thought and the black hedgehog stopped the effect of the purple emerald. The time was no longer slowing down anything and everything went back to normal.

"W-where is Sonic prime?!" Zonic frantically looked around to see any sign of Zhadow and Sonic.

"Damn..." Shadow sighed deeply. For once, the black hedgehog thought he was too slow. Too slow from stopping Zhadow right on time. "Don't you have any way to track that criminal?" Shadow turned around, hoping that Zonic had any reasonable answers.

"I-I'm... I'm really sorry Shadow..." Zonic couldn't face Shadow anymore. 'I can't believe Zhadow was right in front of me and I failed to catch him again! Why do I always go though the same pattern...!'

"Hey! Snap out of it!" Shadow skated in front of Zonic and shook the zone cop a little, "What the hell is wrong with you?! Why didn't you do anything when he was here?"

"Zhadow is right..." Zonic closed his eyes and Shadow was surprised to see a small strain of tears forming on the corner of zone cop's eyes, "I can't hurt him. He knows too much about me."

Shadow finally released Zonic and stepped back a little to give some room for Zonic. The black hedgehog didn't expect to see the strict version of Sonic to show even the smallest drops of tears. Shadow waited for Zonic to continue but when the zone cop just stood there without a word, Shadow broke the silence.

"What do you mean you can't harm him?" Shadow pressed on, "Is Zhadow protected by something? Is he really that powerful?"

Zonic shook his head, "No... it has nothing to do with Zhadow's abilities."

"Then what is it then?" Zonic couldn't face Shadow any longer because no only he failed as an elite zone cop to stop Zhadow on time but Zonic also allowed the criminal to take Sonic prime away!

The zone cop was worried that Shadow would be mad at him and would probably not want to speak to him again. As Zonic thought about why he always had hard time dealing with Zhadow when he confronted him, a certain sweet but painful memory rushed into Zonic's mind.

Zonic's memory

"Z-Zhadow, would you keep yourself under control...?" the elite zone cop clenched tightly on to the bed sheets that was all tangled up at his body this point.

"What's wrong, Zonic?" Zhadow closed his eyes as he placed light kisses on Zonic's cheek, "This is what you wanted, correct?"

"I didn't know being on the bottom-" Zonic yelped a little in pain, "is going to hurt t-this much." "

"Well, get over it," Zhadow answered rather coldly and leaned closer. This time he managed to place a more rough but passionate kiss on the elite zone cop's lips. Few seconds later, Zhadow pulled away to continue his talk, "Also, you're the one that told me you wanted to get taken care of."

"Hmph, you don't have to be so mean about it Zhadow," Zonic answered between the moans, "Don't get too tough just because you're on top of me right now." Zonic rolled his eyes but he quickly jerked his whole body with wide opened emerald eyes when Zhadow placed a little force inside him.

Zonic knew that Zhadow loved when he had the full control and not to mention total domination. But at the same time, Zonic didn't mind getting dominated by Zhadow as long as it had nothing to do with work.

"I'm sorry but I'm in control right now," Zhadow smirked, "Wipe that proud look on your face, Zonic. Don't make go too rough on you in our first night," Zhadow hissed under his breath.

"You sure love to take charges, huh?" said Zonic as he tried to get used to with their current position. "I'm amazed at how you manage to control yourself when I order you around during day time."

Zhadow opened his mouth to respond to Zonic's last comment but was too directed when blue zone cop's quiet moaning in pleasure caught his attention. Zhadow just loved seeing his partner like this. Very weak, helpless and best of all vulnerable. Zhadow actually thought about using some of their items that they use to capture criminals like a simple hand cuff or even a control collar but he didn't want to scare his romantic partner in their first night.

"Why are you slowing down..?" Zonic asked while keeping his eyes shut. At this point he no longer felt the pain which helped him to finally enjoy the sexual treatment

"Just thinking about how to fully take advantage of you," Zhadow answered and reached down to
give a small peck on Zonic's forehead.

When Zonic felt his partner's gentle lips, he finally opened his eyes with a little disappointing but perplexed look on his face expression.

"Was that really needed?" asked Zonic as he used his legs to bring Zhadow for a closer contact. "I didn't know you can act soft on me."

Zhadow of course took this as a challenge from his cocky but adorable lover as he started to increase both his speed and power of each thrust. The confident look on Zonic's felt faded away and was replaced with a blushed one. The blue zone cop bit his tongue so he can keep his mouth shut from saying anything stupid.

'You can't keep yourself silent forever...' Zhadow trailed off. The black hedgehog leaned a little further to reach to his lover's ears. Also known as Zonic's most sensitive spot. When Zhadow started to tease them with bites and licks, the elite zone cop jerked a little as he felt his whole body heating up. Soon enough, Zonic's panting sound became a soft moaning that excited Zhadow even more.

"Is this what you wanted then? Me having the total control of our beloved boss?" The black hedgehog purred.

"Y-you... you're good..." Zonic whispered as he allowed Zhadow to consume him more and more.

Zonic hated when people bossed him around, probably because Zonic himself is in the highest ranking position in No Zone. Zonic was in fact, in the higher status than Zhadow but strangely, the elite zone cop didn't really mind if it was Zhadow taking in charge of him once in a while. Zonic liked showing his submissive side but only to Zhadow.

"Anything else you want to tell me?" Zhadow smirked and waited for that specific sentence he wanted to hear.

"I am yours for tonight,Zhadow," Zonic relaxed completely on to the bed as he felt Zhadow's shadow coming closer and closer...

End of Zonic's memory

"Zhadow and I..." Zonic was a little hesitant to continue with his story, "Zhadow and I were... m-more than just zone cop partners." Shadow raised one of his eyes as confusion but didn't say anything at all this time. "We were... I guess you can say that we were in a secret relationship," Zonic let out yet another harsh sigh.

Shadow's eyes went wide open when he heard Zonic's last sentence. So Zonic and Zhadow... were in a relationship?! But how did their relationship turned into a catching game?

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Meanwhile, Sonic and Zhadow landed in another world where everything pure white. In fact, even the sky was white as if it was covered by a huge wave of clouds. The floor was mixed with what seemed like a frozen water which was covered with snow sheets. There were few flowers that stuck out from the snow but the petals looked more like a glass than soft ones that you would see in an ordinary world.

"Ah.. my back still hurts crazy...!" Sonic moaned in pain. The hero finally opened his eyes and looked around. He felt a cold breeze through his thick quills and Sonic automatically tried to keep himself a little warm by rubbing his arms back and forth with his gloved hands.

"Where is this place?" Sonic whispered and a white fog came out from his mouth, indicating that the weather was indeed very cold.

"Cheimon. This place got its name from winter storm in Greek," Zhadow answered who was right behind Sonic. "Have you ever been to this place, Sonic prime?"

"Heh, like I would want to come to this crazy place," Sonic dusted off some snow that was on his blue knee. If Sonic's back was not in an incredible pain, he would have challenged Zhadow for some serious battle. But the blue hero still felt the aching pain but not only that, Zhadow looked like he wasn't really in a mood for another fight so Sonic decided to wait and just be on his guard.

"I'm surprised that your Shadow can also use chaos spear. I guess that means he is also capable of chaos control as well? He must be very similar with me," said Zhadow as he touched the red chaos emerald.

"I hate to break it to you but there is one thing that I noticed which was different from you and Shadow."

"And what would that be?"

"Shadow doesn't use cheap trick to kidnap hedgehogs," Sonic replied using a huge sarcasm in his voice. "But I have to hand it to you, you seem to be a lot stronger than Shadow. I received few punches from him before but you-" Sonic pointed at Zhadow, "your hands literally feel like metal hammers! I thought my bones were going to break into little pieces!"

After tossing the red emerald up and bottom with his one hand, Zhadow decided to take off his white glove to show something to his prisoner. Sonic was very surprised to see what Zhadow had hidden under is glove.

"Metals?" Sonic came closer to Zhadow, "Woah..hold on! Your hand is literally a metal?"

"Both of my hands are like this, Sonic prime," Zhadow sighed and took off his second glove to show a hard looking hand. "Also, these are not metals. My hands are components of carbon in his highest state, diamond."

"Uh... a carbon diamond?"

"It's one of the strongest elements to the point where nothing can scratch this unless it's another carbon diamond."

'No wonder!' Sonic mentally slapped himself, 'This guy's hand is definitely not normal! I mean they are freaking hard elements!' Sonic rubbed his back one more time to make sure there weren't any cracks in this bone.

"... You seem surprised. Your boyfriend's hands are not like mine then?" Zhadow placed the gloves back to his hand to cover his hard looking hands.

Sonic blushed in deep shades of red again, "Stop saying that! Shadow and I are not dating! I don't even know why you're keep saying that to me!'

'What...? Sonic prime and Shadow are not... their relationship is not like how Zonic and I were? Or is he just denying it?'

"Never mind then," replied Zhadow, "I'm the incomplete product of an ultimate life form. That's why my hands are like this. Some inner parts of my body is hard like carbon diamond."

"The incomplete product?" Sonic tilted his head in confusion and Zhadow smiled at this, finding the blue hedgehog amusing as ever. "I'm not like Shadow. Even though I might possess chaos powers, I still age like normal living beings. If Shadow is the real ultimate life form, then he should be immortal."

"That's right," Sonic snapped his finger, "I remember hearing from Shadow something about not aging!"

"Now if you excuse me, I have a chaos emerald to find in this world," said Zhadow as he backed away from Sonic in order to use the power of the chaos emerald without him.

'Zhadow must have heard what Zonic said!' Sonic thought back to zone cop's word about finding a chaos emerald in a place where it was really cold.

"Hey! If you're planning to look for that chaos emerald, why did you bring me here?"

For once, there was a silence between two hedgehogs. In fact, this was the first time that Sonic first witnessed Zhadow being so speechless. Zhadow's eyes were half closed as if he was thinking about something. A few moment later, Zhadow shook his head gently. Sonic didn't know why but he thought Zhadow for once looked not very, well, evil. He had a little sad grin on his face before the ex-zone cop's perspective went back to the curious blue hedgehog.

"Because I want to upset Zonic as much as possible," Zhadow said bluntly.

"Why do you want Zonic to-"

"If you know what's good for you, stay here Sonic prime. I'll search this place and come back for you," Zhadow interrupted Sonic, "Chaos Control."

"Hey! Wait up!" Sonic yelled but it was already too late. Sonic was a little disappointed when Zhadow vanished into thin air with the bright red light. The cold air became stronger as Sonic looked around to see if there was any other living things aside from himself.

"There is no way Zhadow is going to come back for me," Sonic snorted and rubbed his legs to relax some muscle, "He's probably hoping that I would just stay here and freeze to death! Well, sorry to burst your bubble Zhadow but I'm going to find that emerald myself before you do. Then I can hopefully use chaos control go back to Shadow and Zonic."

Sonic thought about the last time when he used the chaos emerald for chaos control. Unlike Shadow or Zhadow, it was difficult for the blue hedgehog to use chaos control with just one emerald. It's not like he had the chaos energy flowing though this body like the two black hedgehog.

"I better cross my fingers when I use chaos control," Sonic reminded himself and started to run across the winter land.

The cold but refreshing air blasting in to his face and the sound of snow below his feet made Sonic chuckle a little. Sonic felt so much at ease as he left his mind blank. All the stuff about Zonic, Zhadow and Shadow were left behind as Sonic only thought about one thing. That was running. Running untill he felt the satisfaction.

Meanwhile, after hours of warping into different places, Zhadow failed to find the chaos emerald that he heard from Zonic. It was true that Zhadow had chaos energy flowing just like the ultimate life form but Zhadow was the incomplete product. This meant, Zhadow did not possess the power to feel the presence of chaos emerald. With a slight dissapointent mixed with anger, Zhadow decided to chaos control back to where Sonic was supposed to be. But, what Zhadow didn't realize was the fact that Sonic actually took off!

"What the? Did Sonic prime just leave?" Zhadow tried to detect Sonic's foot prints on the snow but it was too late. "He's not very bright like, Zonic!" Zhadow screamed in anger, "That fool is not going last long in this coldness!"

It was then when Zhadow noticed a shift in the rushing of the wind.

"Oh no... the blizzard is coming in. I hope Sonic prime can take care of himself," Zhadow looked around to see if he can spot any sign of the blue hedgehog but all he saw was a bunch of snow. Sonic was the fastest thing alive and he could be anywhere at this point.

'I can't just keep randomly using chaos control until I run into him,' Zhadow thought to himself, 'I hope you're not that stupid as I think you are.' With that thought, Zhadow used one last chaos control to wrap himself out from this world, leaving Sonic behind.

So we now return to the running hero.

It took a while untill Sonic started to decrease his speed but even Sonic noticed the change in coldness. It was so cold to the point where Sonic couldn't keep his legs shivering from the wind so he needed to stop with the running. The blue hedgehog rubbed his hands together to form any type of heat that he can create. When the rubbing got tired, Sonic tried to warm his hands using his breath.

"I.. I think I can sense the chaos emerald!" Sonic's ears perked up in happiness and he used his last bit of energy to run just one more time to the direction where he felt the chaos energy.

"Yes! I think the emerald should be just around-" It was then when Sonic's scream could he heard from miles and miles away.

The blue hedgehog stepped into the part of the floor that looked like a snow but it wasn't. Sonic came right into the thin ice and below the glass was a deep water that could swallow anything into darkness in matter of minutes. Sonic felt the icy water covering his whole body and he even drank some of the salty water. The blue hero knew that he was drowning.

"Zhadow! Zhadow are you there?!," Sonic spit back out some of the water and tried to keep himself floating by moving his arms and legs around, "Zhadow! Zonic! Shadow! Anyone there?!" Sonic felt tears forming form his emerald eyes.

He was not going to die this simple.

There was just no way.