Knuckles awoke to a starry night sky hanging over him beyond the broken pillars of his ancient shrine. It was a beautiful night on the island, crisp cool air cutting through the heat of summer to lend a comfort that was better for his attempts at sleep. However he had woken not out of discomfort or insomnia. It was the sensation he felt deep in his bones,  the tell tale remnants of an additional energy fading a short distance away from where he was stationed. It was a cause for concern that had the red guardian sitting up in an instant, focusing his eyes on his surroundings for any would be thieves or trespassers within the vicinity that needed to be dealt with. But he thought it rather peculiar as he scanned the area and found nothing after a good couple minutes of intense vigilance.

"Huh...Must be my imagination" He muttered to himself with a hand to his forehead whilst he shook his skull in dismissal of the strange phenomenon, and started to lie down on his side at the edge of the altar once more. All seemed to be safe and sound while the echidna curled up, blinking slowly a few times as sleep began to reclaim him. 

However it was when his lids were shutting without intent to open them again for the remainder of the night, he noticed a bush down below and across the field give a curious jitter that propelled him to instantly sit up again. Now sleep would have to wait, for a guardian's job was never to dismiss a potential threat even if the chances were high that it could just be some harmless animal. No, his duty had to be carried out no matter what, so he stood up and descended with eyes trained on that bush.

"Hey! I know there's someone over there!!" Knuckles shouted across the field as he walked at a brisk pace with fists clenched  at his sides and his chest puffed out. He looked stern and tough, wanting to dissuade the boldness of a possible thief if there was one.

No response came from the bush however. No frightened animal scattered nor did anyone emerge, and neither did the bush shake or any of it's branches budge so much as an inch while the Guardian got closer to it. Instead it was still, so stark still in fact that it was almost eerie to the echidna who's eyes narrowed at it. Something or someone was in there and Knuckles was sure of it.

"Alright, if that's how you want it..." He sounded annoyed and as he got close enough he stared it down with a glare of warning, giving one more chance for the presence to show it'self. But when nothing came of it, his right fist reared back and shot forth through the twigs and leaves. "You asked for it!" He barked with fury!

But his eyes widened when he felt his fist impact something soft that abruptly clamped around it, effectively stopping his powerful punch in it's tracks. "What?!" The echidna gasped, shocked and possibly nearly frightened when two intense crimson ovals  appeared from within the bush. 

"You' know, you're really cute when you're angry" A smooth velvety voice cascaded through his ears, causing the guardian's muzzle to redden as he easily recognized it and the dark figure whom now came forward, emerging from his hiding still with a grasp on his fist.

"Shadow?" The echidna blinked momentarily and gathered his wits "Just what the Hell are you trying to do, you idiot?! I could have knocked your head off!" He yelled, outraged that the hedgehog would play this kind of deception on him

"Oh please..." The striped hedgehog smirked, brimming with the confidence that was always overflowing from him. "You and I both know you wouldn't make a first attack with lethal force, Knuckles." The grip on the red male's fist loosened and Shadow re-situated his hand so he now gently held his mitt by the fingers, making the tough guardian blush more intensely as he drew it in and kissed the back of his hand like a gentleman would.

"Shadow..." Knuckles looked away bashfully and felt his heart's pace skip a beat as the hedgehog pulled that move. He always had a strange way of charming him, and the echidna would deny it up and down but he actually liked it. "I thought you were on a four week mission from G.U.N." He spoke softly, still looking away while the agent smirked at his reaction.

"I was, but unforeseen circumstances occurred and ended the mission two weeks early" Shadow's eyelids lowered half way, the little smirk staying on his muzzle as he lightly caressed a long lock of the Guardian's. "The target was an old man and died of a heart attack. I was glad because it meant I could come be with you, my cherry echidna"

Knuckles himself was glad to see the hedgehog earlier than he'd expected, but his expression was stubbornly stoic as he huffed and pulled his hand back to fold his arms over his chest. "Hmph. That's nice and all, but did you really have to surprise me the way you did by making me think there was a threat?" He asked in a tone of annoyance. "I was all pumped up and ready for a fight and now I'll never get back to sleep"

"I did it because I love seeing you all tense and serious, ready to throw your fists and crack some skulls~" A lowly chuckle rumbled deeply from within the hedgehog's throat saying this and he advanced on the other, snaking a sly arm around the shorter male's waist. He truly did adore the way his mate looked before a fight. "Besides... I can just tire you out in another way~"

The echidna opened his mouth to speak but he suddenly felt himself pulled closer by the arm around his waist and Shadow's lips silenced him as they crashed into his own with an intensity sending a wave of warmth through him. A warmth that reddened his cheeks and brought on shivers of pleasure to relax his once tense form.

Shadow felt his echidna begin to practically melt against him and purred with a tilt of his head, pushing his tongue into the guardian's maw to meet and brush over the other's, coaxing it into play. Meanwhile he clamped his thumb and index around Knuckles' jagged tail gently, causing it to lift and twitch as he stroked it at it's base.

"Mmmh~" Knuckles couldn't keep up his defensive facade for long, not when the lover he missed was back so unexpectedly and wanting to give him the attention he so desired the entire time he was gone. The echidna had no issue with parting his lips to allow Shadow in and purred contently the moment their pink muscles reunited and intertwined, grazing lovingly together in a most passionate kiss that was breath taking and heart racing. 

Slow and savory at first is how the kiss initially stayed, the two mates soaking up the unique taste of one another.  Soon Knuckles felt both hands of Shadow's glide down over the curves of his two cherry cheeks, giving his butt a nice appreciative and firm squeeze that turned up the heated blush on his muzzle. The dark hedgehog's tongue played a little rougher now with a lustful growl that made it'self known in his throat, the sound accompanied by the wet smacking of their lips in the night. 

A cool breeze of wind blew over the two engaged in the make out session,  and the echidna shivered not for that reason, but because the hands massaging his rump now pulled his lower half closer to the hedgehog's to make him aware of the thickness growing between them. Two weeks apart clearly meant they were practically starved for each other.

Shadow lapped at and sucked on his crimson boyfriend's tongue while he ground his swelling sheath against the echidna's, causing them both to steadily become more aroused. "Mmm, you're not mad anymore~" He said in a lightly teasing tone and  chuckled softly, breaking the kiss but keeping their lips hovering close. 

Knuckles swallowed and looked into Shadow's blood red irises, his right hand placed gently on the fluffy tuft of pristine white and warm fur on the agent's chest. Short huffs of breath escaped and entered through his slightly parted lips, feeling the other male grind his hardening sheath to his and successfully encouraging him to do the same "I-I've had dreams about you... almost every night since you were gone" The Guardian confided with a slight hesitance to make such a thing known. 

Then before he knew it, the hedgehog was laying him down and he was touched by the soft cool grass being compressed under his back. "Oh did you now?" Shadow asked with a bit of a purr, looking upon the red male all flustered and torn between nerves and want, stretched out beneath him. "Tell me, did I make you cum in those dreams?" 

The echidna's muzzle turned another shade of darker red at the question and he was frozen in place while watching Shadow as he now sat up between his legs, wasting no time in removing  his gloves. "I bet you woke up as hard as you are now, didn't you?" He teased further while shifting closer and sizing up their cocks. "Well no need to worry now, cherry. I'm here to take care of you~" The dark one told him and wrapped his left hand comfortably around  their fully hard members. Both were quite thick, but Shadow's rose above the other's six inches by nearly two additional inches and he smirked at the sight. 

"Ahh~" Knuckles gripped a handful of grass in each fist, propped up a bit on his arms so he could see what his mate was doing. A soft moan bled from his lips to the feeling of their manhood's pressed together and throbbing almost in tandem, their balls touching and the heat combining. "Shadow~" He licked his lips as lust and love glazed in his eyes that were locked on his mates while the hedgehog began moving his hand up and down their two lengths. 

"That's right, I'm here and I'm going to give you exactly what you want" Shadow responded, continuing to stroke their cocks together. "Tell me you want me" He purred, already seeing a bead of pre-cum at the tip of his lover's, glistening in the moonlight.

In any other circumstance and Knuckles would be stubborn to admit what he wanted so readily. But in this particular case he was thankful Shadow was back long before he was originally expected. And having been tormented by dreams about him only to wake up alone left such a craving he couldn't now deny in the face, and under the generous pleasure of his desire. "I-I want you" He answered the request with a husky breath, looking at Shadow though still showing signs of slight embarrassment in accepting his role.

"Good boy~" The hedgehog smiled at the eagerness of the attractive red male before him and he was quite eager himself to drill into that red hot body of his, his cock giving a hard pulse at the mere thought of it. "Let's get to it then" Shadow spat in his hand and meticulously slathered the natural lube over his thick length to thoroughly coat it in preparation.

Knuckles knew what was coming next and he was getting considerably more aroused by the sight of Shadow slicking up his cock, getting ready to take him with the impressive tool. The hedgehog then gathered the echidna's legs, spreading them by hooking his arms under the knees and elevated his rear from the ground so that he could position the thick helmet of his dick right against that now exposed pink little pucker.

The Guardian bit his lip, blushing hard as he felt the warmth and slipperiness of the tip prodding the entrance between his cheeks. He caught eyes with the agent and tried to relax while he found pressure against the tight ring above his tail. "Hhhnn" Knuckles made a quiet noise from feeling that pressure increase.

"Mmm, seems like you've tightened up again~" The striped male mused, continuing to push forward gradually harder until finally he felt his mate's entrance spread for him and that tight heat finally began to encompass his rod. "Nnngh, fuck~" Shadow purred a bit louder with just the head of his length inside his love "Like a virgin all over again" He mused further, slowly moving back and forth, pushing more of himself inside that clenching ring little by little.

"Ahhhhn!" Knuckles' head tilted back with a gasp as he was penetrated by the pulsing and hot girth of his mate, his muzzle reddening tenfold at what was said by the hedgehog. "Nnngh, I-it's the chaos energy" He managed to say between quick breaths, knowing Shadow could figure it out for himself that it meant the energy infused in his DNA ensurred his muscle integrity was never compromised. He might be looser for a day or two after a nice romp with his hedgehog, but he'd always tighten back up.

"Hmph, lucky me" Shadow licked his lips, watching the reaction of Knuckles while he slowly slid three more inches in past his snug virgin-like  ring. "Cause I'll never tire of popping this cherry~" He lewdly said whilst reaching forth with his left hand to tease and play with the red one's dick, unable to leave it alone after he saw how it jumped from his advances. The hedgehog hissed through his teeth too from that hot passage squeezing around him.

"Nnngh, don't say, ah, stuff like that" Knuckles could hardly sound serious about it as he moaned when he said it, and he moaned even louder when Shadow suddenly pushed in all the way to meet his pelvis to his red cheeks. "AHhhh!" He ripped out a chunk of ground from that.

"Heh, those sexy sounds you make almost make me want to cum. But I'm not going to until you do first" Shadow declared, pulling his hips back to leave just a couple inches submerged in his mate before he thrust forward again into the depths of the echidna's hot ass. The action was then repeated slowly several times before his speed began to pick up.

Knuckles bridged d his back from the ground with waves of pleasure rolling through him from Shadow's cock thrusting in and out of him meanwhile his own arousal was being pumped slowly in the other male mobian's hand "Hhahhnh, Shadooow~" The echidna moaned louder, his inhibitions from before melting away.

Shadow was further encouraged by those sensual moans to thrust faster, bringing about soft slapping sounds from their bodies making impact. He could see little twinges of discomfort here and there on his lover's face for a short time, but that pain was warded off once he angled his cock to hit that one sweet area deep inside him.

The echidna gasped at the sudden and intense jolt of pleasure when his prostate was nudged by the thick meat being working in and out of his hole ever quicker, and he began to writhe on the ground as Shadow hit that spot again and again. "Hhnnnggg fuck, ahhh Shadow, right there"

"That's right, moan my name while I fuck you~" The hedgehog chuckled and continued to fuck him in that way while slowly moving his hand up and down his cock for a good fifteen or more minutes. He thrust away into his mate and savored every second of it, every single sound and movement knuckles made just adding onto his pleasure in doing so. 

Eventually he released his crimson boyfriend's dick from his hand so that he could pull him closer by the waist and sink his cock as far as he could  into the Guardian's tight tunnel. "I love that look on your face, so sexy and vulnerable~" Shadow said and made his next move while he was still buried balls deep in that hot red ass.

Knuckles was surprised to find himself being lifted up to a position on his knees while Shadow laid himself on his back to have him sitting on his lap with that thick tool throbbing away within him. The red male's organ twitched with a small jet of pre-cum firing from it, this new position allowing Shadow to put more pressure on his prostate and make him whine. 

"Look at you, so gorgeous being illuminated by the moonlight and shuddering with my cock rubbing all the right places deep inside you~" Shadow talked dirty to him and made the echidna's cheeks flush red all over again. "Don't worry, I'll do all the work. Just tell me when you're ready" He instructed whilst stroking that jagged red tail of his mate's.

Knuckles was beading in sweat above his brow and he felt as his hole squeezed the pulsating thickness that kept his ass occupied. The hedgehog's full sack pressed firmly against his red cheeks courtesy of gravity, another aspect that turned him on all the more "Hnnn" He panted softly and took a moment to catch his breath before giving the word for his mate to continue "I'm ready... Please... don't make me beg"

With that, Shadow smirked and moved his hands to grip onto either cheek of Knuckles' rump, squeezing and spreading them while lifting the Guardian up. "Since you asked so nicely~"  The hedgehog replied, thrusting up while allowing gravity to pull the red one down. A loud clap resounded as he bucked his hips hard enough to make his lover bounce and then did it again and repeated thrusting up into his exquisite red ass over and over.

"Ahhh, Ahhhngh, nnggah!" The noises coming from Knuckles got louder and louder the faster and harder he felt that dick ram up into him, reaming his tight hole like a relentless battering ram hammering it's target, the target being the bundle of nerves that shocked his body with insurmountable waves of bliss.

"Hunf uungh, mmmpf!" Shadow began to pant and grunt with the power he exerted to thrust upward and still pulled Knuckles down to meet the base of his crotch with his ass and ground against those cheeks, and he started to swivel his hips as well every few times he hilted balls deep in him "Hhruf, nngh, gonna fuck the cum right out of you~" The hedgehog licked his lips, eyes glued to his mate's bouncing cock that was oozing and making thin zig-zag trails of pre ejaculate across the dark fur of his stomach. Meanwhile the passage he rammed in and out of quickly began to feel ever slicker around his pistoning cock, as his own pre cum discharged inside of his love's sweet hole and allowed the entirety of his length to glide through and out.

Knuckles grit his teeth as he was pounded into and was made to bounce up and down the girthy length of his mate, going along for the rough ride that was pushing him closer to his inevitable, and by the pressure in his groin making his cock swell, imminent climax. "AHhhh! AH! Annnngghh!" His voice cried out and body trembled while there was an intense tingling building up in his balls, his red sack tightening around them. Shadow could tell when his echidna was about to lose it and worked his hips to buck up into him at a better angle to really slam that hidden sweet spot with the goal of pushing him over the edge.
 
The echidna tensed and then quivered at the sensations that hit him hard, his cock swelling with the utmost pleasurable peak he could imagine as the blissful spasms moved through it and erupted thick white rope after rope of hot seed. In that moment he threw his head back and moaned without inhibition, his hands clutching the wrists of the hedgehog who kept pounding into him through his earth shattering orgasm with no signs of letting up.

"That's it, oh cherry you've left yourself neglected haven't you?" Shortly chuckled shadow who remarked on what a sizable load was just fired across his stomach and chest, and even landed on his face. But he never missed a beat, continuously rutting his mate to milk him for all he was worth while his own end was fast approaching. "Come here~" He tugged Knuckles down and devoured him in a messy kiss, squeezing the red one's ass firmly while he plunged his big dick home five or six more times with especially hard thrusts before he felt those orgasmic spasms rush up through his tool as well. "Nnngh, aaah fuck!" He broke the kiss, trembling and making short thrusts as he came deep inside his crimson lover and rolled his hips, grinding his crotch firm against that cherry red rump .

Knuckles almost lost his mind, still in the immediate afterglow of cumming when Shadow shot his thick hot load of spooge and filled his tight ass to the brim  with the warmth and potency of it. "Hhhhn, ah, that's so much" He panted, eyes more than half-lidded and breat husky.

It was indeed a large bounty of seed released into the red one. The ebony mobian could feel the heat of his fresh batch even leaking out to trickle down over his sack while he stayed pulsing inside the confines of the other male. "Mmm, fuck I love you~" Shadow breathed huskily and kissed the lips of the echidna with a passionate tenderness while slowly withdrawing from his well filled tail hole, creating a lewd and wet noise once his thick helmet popped free.

"I love you too" Knuckles kissed him back then winced and blushed little when he felt Shadow pull out with a small rush of fresh cum flowing through the opening as well before his tail hole closed back up, sealing the rest of his mate's seed inside him.    

"Join me at the ARK for a shower?" Shadow requested, chuckling softly as he swirled a  couple digits in the white puddle Knuckles made on his stomach and then licked it off from the tip of his fingers.

"But... what about the emerald? I have to make sur-" The echidna was hushed by those fingers that just gathered up his juices, being pressed gently to his lips and bringing about another blush to stain his cheeks.

"I'll call Omega to guard it. You know no one will mess with him" The hedgehog said, smiling at the echidna who looked to be considering the option.

"...I" The Guardian paused, looking at his mate and searching his eyes for a brief moment. It was a tough call considering his attachment to the island and his duty as Guardian, but he loved and trusted in Shadow, knowing his striped mate would never suggest something unless his confidence could be backed up by it. "Okay..." He finally answered, but then gave Shadow a stern look as he sat up and placed his hands on his hips. "Just tell him under no circumstances is Rouge allowed to be here without me... I know you're all friends, but she still wants my emerald and I'm not taking any chances with her"

Shadow chuckled as he watched his mate sit up, becoming all stern again while he was still being straddled by the echidna. He reached up to play with one of his long locks, smirking warmly with a nod of his head "I'll make sure it's an order. You'll have nothing to worry about"

Knuckles let out a relaxed breath and smiled softly down at the other "Well alright... I guess you better give him a call then." 
TBC