Note: welcome to Green Universe! A series of stories and adventures focused on major players in the Sonic Universe that Green the Hedgehog lives in. Each story ARC will be two to four chapters long, each one will feature a different character(s) to tell a story of. This first ARC is dedicated to the brave tale of one of the greatest heroes of the Sonic Universe, before he ultimately faced the evils of Mammoth Mogul and fell in battle protecting the Source of All from evil and corruption. This story takes place two weeks before Sonic's birthday happened after his return from space, so before issue 160.
Green Universe ARC 1
Sir Connery's Last Crusade Part 1: The Hunt for Damocles the Elder
It was a beautiful day in the wilds of the continent of Eurish. Flicky birds were chirping as they fluttered in the sky, or hopped from tree branch to tree branch. And yet there was the sound of a strong gallop in the wind, it got louder and scared the Flicky birds into the trees. The galloping was coming from a strong knight from the Kingdom of Acorn, this knight was the noble Sir Connery. Sir Connery is a powerful stallion, who is one of King Acorn's best knights to ever live. He was born and raised in an easy going yet valiant family who took their jobs in life seriously. Sir Connery was very boastful in his youth, and hardy. He wanted to be a noble knight to the royal Acorn family that ruled over the Kingdom of Acorn. However shortly after earning his knighthood from services in the Great War, the Kingdom of Acorn was betrayed by the defector from the Overland known as Julian Kintobor. Julian was the warlord in the last years of the Great War for the Kingdom of Acorn, outside of the Overland little was known on why he was a war criminal among his people and yet he was accepted into the Kingdom of Acorn for his seemingly honest and well-meaning appearance. However it was all a façade that Julian held while he worked on his sinister plans to take over the Kingdom of Acorn from within by using their own technologies and plans from former warlord Kodos the Lion. Julian renamed himself Dr. Ivo Robotnik and the evil dictator would attempt to take over the world.
Sir Connery wanted to face the menace of the newly formed Robotnik Empire head on like any brave knight, but he was called away for another cause. The three godlike Chaos entities known as the Ancient Walkers, foresaw a great evil that would be unleashed unless all dark magic was destroyed in the world. Sir Connery was summoned by the Ancient Walkers and gifted the Sword of Light as his torch against the darkness. Sir Connery proved himself a champion among heroes, and carried out the will of the Ancient Walkers. For nearly a decade Sir Connery has slain hundreds of dark/black magic users. Witches, wizards, warlocks, mages, true magicians, sorcerer, sorceress, enchantress, temptress, alchemist, necromancers and Dark Chaos users of the evil and dark arts of many ranks fell before the might of Sir Connery. A little while ago he visited the Dragon Kingdom, he tried to locate and destroy dark magic users there but the only true dark magic user he found and destroyed was a necromancer attempting to create undead warriors. He encountered a technomage calling herself the Iron Queen, but she wasn't truly a magic user because of the nature of techno-magic, and she wasn't truly evil she was just misguided and very lonely.
Regardless, the Iron Queen was not among those that Sir Connery was commanded to take down. His main targets once took refuge on Angel Island, they were Black Death (real name Black Tom the Cat) a sorcerer. Enchantra the rabbit, an enchantress and Matheus Poe the Raven, an alchemist. Were all evil magic users who sought to use the Sword of Acorn in order to take over the world with black magic, and their leader was Damocles the Elder who was a goat wizard. At one point Knuckles confronted all of them before Sir Connery sleigh the evil beings, except for Damocles who seemingly vanished, though a wax replica of him hid the Sword of Acorn that was retrieved by him and Matheus. For almost a year now the evil goat wizard has remained hidden, and escaped the grasp of Sir Connery and his allies. But now Sir Connery has finally located the evil wizard, and plans to put an end to him. With Damocles dead, only the few remaining members of the Order of Ixis and four truly evil magic users would be left, however with these few beings in hiding or banished into the Zone of Silence or the Void. Sir Connery figured that he could end his crusade with the defeat of Damocles and return home where he could be of help. Though the Ancient Walkers, would have other plans in store for Sir Connery.
"Thou shall not escape." Sir Connery said as he galloped through some woods. Thanks to some help the horse knew where he'd located the evil wizard. This help came in the form of Aurora the goddess of the echidnas.
Aurora had met Knuckles in the afterlife, and after seeing Knuckles give up his immortal state of being and all of the power that came with it, Aurora wondered what it could be that drove him to become so attached to the mortal world. She watched the mortals carefully for sometime after that encounter, and she came to realize how disconnected she became from the people who live on Mobius. Among the people she saw that she took pity upon was Sir Connery. "He continues his crusade even though he's suffered so many setbacks." She said to herself when she saw Sir Connery crusading. Upon seeing this she felt that she had to take action, and a month ago she did just that. She came to Sir Connery in a vision, due to the fact mortals tend to see Aurora in different forms depending on who is looking at her (for example one person can see her as a human and another can see her as a hedgehog. But truthfully she was originally an echidna and only her kind and select few non-echidnas can see her true form) and Sir Connery saw her in the form of a beautiful unicorn. "Don't be afraid Sir Connery. I am the goddess Aurora. And I have come to you in a vision." She said as she spoke with the hero.
"Great Aurora…! Thy am honored by thou presence fair goddess." Sir Connery said in his vision from a month ago.
"Heed my words mortal. The darkness you wish to cleanse from the world is almost gone. Naugus, Mogul, their minions with magic. Witchcart, the Witchcarters, and Damocles are all that remains of the wicked and the evil that the Ancient Walkers have sent you out to destroy." Aurora said as she stood tall.
"The Witchcarters and their leader have proven allusive. Naugus is imprisoned and Mogul was recently defeated from what the Ancient Walkers have told me. Yet thy wishes to sleigh Damocles so that thy can return to the Kingdom of Acorn." Sir Connery said as he kneeled before Aurora in the vision.
"I know. And that is why I have come before you. In one months' time from now. Damocles the Elder, will head for Avalon. He desires to take a book from that area, which will lead to another world and could grant him incredible power. You must sleigh him, before he retrieves the book. Or else the people of your world and another world shall suffer dearly. You must head for Avalon by tomorrow, and make sure you arrive to face him on exactly thirty days from today or else he'll flee again and throw you off his trail again." Aurora said, she wanted to make sure that Sir Connery could finish his crusade and return home. This was one of the first acts to becoming a better being that she was going to do, partly to make amends for ignoring the mortal world for thousands of years and also because it was the right thing to do.
"Thou hath enlightened me. I shall travel to Avalon tomorrow!" he said.
"Fair well. And may the light of the Ancient Walkers and the one true god guide you." Aurora said as she bowed her head slightly, the horn she had in her unicorn form lightly tapped Sir Connery on the head.
Present Day
Sir Connery was galloping, he soon came to a stop when he saw Green the Hedgehog in the middle of his path. He helped Green get up and asked what the hedgehog was doing in the forest. "I'm just checking on King Rob. And of course Mari-An, and their Little Jon." Green said to Sir Connery.
"Have thee found them?" Sir Connery asked.
"Classified…" Green said.
"Thy, understand. Do thou wish to resume your quest?" Sir Connery asked.
"I'm a bit interested in what you are up to." Green said.
"I am going to sleigh Damocles the Elder. I was informed by the Ancient Walkers earlier today, that thou must return to the side of Merlin Prower, and return to the Kingdom of Acorn!" he said.
"Wait… You know where Damocles the Elder is?!" Green asked.
"Yes! Aurora has blessed me with a vision to his location in Avalon." Sir Connery said.
"I'll help get you there, and help prevent that old goat from escaping again." Green said with a serious tone in his voice, he understood the importance of the mission.
"It's been awhile since thou aided me in thy time of need." Sir Connery said as they ran at a steady pace.
"Indeed. And Sonic and the others will be glad to have you back. We need all the help we can get against Neo Dr. Eggman." Green said as they ran.
"What hath thou been working on lately?" Sir Connery asked, he remembered that Green worked with machines.
"Well recently I've been saving one of the largest global alliances from treachery from within. A short bit after that I found the long lost machine known as the Gizoid General. I spent some time with him, but I currently left him in the care of Nicolas and Tails on South Island in Emerald Town. I had quite a run in with Sonic and Shadow after finding that ancient machine, and I hope that I can make the general a force for good." Green said as he explained some of the stuff he was recently up too.
Soon the two Mobians came within running distance of Avalon, the location from the legends of King Arthur was very peaceful. But the two knew that soon it would become a battlefield and the final duel against Damocles the Elder. The two would wait for an entire day, making sure they would be ready to strike. They soon saw that Damocles the Elder was heading for one of the ancient tombs that had long since been forgotten by time. The two heroes moved in silently, they were waiting for the right moment to strike. "Finally! After all these years, the power of King Arthur and the power to shape worlds. Will be mine to control." The evil goat said as he grinned wickedly while talking to himself as he neared the tomb.
Find out in the next chapter how this tale will end, and read Green Battle and more of Green Universe and other upcoming stories!