Chapter 4:
The King sat on his throne, once again shrouded in darkness.
He motioned for a figure to come to him.
As the figure stepped into the dim light in the center of the room, it was revealed that the figure was covered in full black body armor from head to toe. His face was covered with a dark helmet donning crimson lines going across it. There was a small face for the figure's eyes, which were completely yellow, with no visible iris. The figure also had rough black fur and had long claws.
"One of my Pawns of Darkness," the King started, "Are we ready?"
"Yes my king," the pawn answered.
"Then we shall start," the King ordered as the walls of the room flipped to reveal huge shelves of small sculptures, each one showing mysterious figures.
"What will you choose first?" the pawn questioned.
"I don't want to rush this war, I will take my time," the King told the pawn, "But let's start...with a chill!"
He waved his arm out, which fired a orb of black and purple at one of the sculptures, causing a mist of black to blanket the room.
When it finally dissipated, what was left standing was what looked like a regular pawn, but the body under the armor was a thin, light blue. Where it would have legs, it instead had nothing, as if it were a ghost. It simply floated there.
"My name is Yukijuu," the new pawn stated, "And I exist to serve my King."
"Take some of our pawns, and go!" the King commanded.
Yukijuu bowed and teleported away, starting the chain of conflicts that would change the world forever.
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Tails, bored out of his mind, flipped through the channels of their new flat screen television.
"Nothing is on...hey look! A science convention!" Tails shouted excitedly as he stopped flipping through the channels.
As he gazed on the screen excitingly, the new invention was revealed just as the GUN Commander's face appeared.
"Come on! I was watching something!" Tails whined.
"Some unknown force is attacking Station Square," the GUN Commander stated, "Deploy at least three heroes to solve the problem."
Tails' eyes darted to the table where Blaze, Vibra, and Espio sat.
"You three! Station Square, now!" Tails shouted as he shut off the GUN communication, and looked back to the convention, which ended, "Aww, come on!"
The three heroes rolled their eyes as they walked to the center of the workshop, where they stood on a white ring. The ring shined brightly as they were teleported away.
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The three appeared in Station Square, where they saw an interesting sight.
All over the place, pawns leaped from building to building, tearing everything apart. On the ground, they attacked helpless citizens.
"What are those things?" Vibra questioned.
"I don't know, but they're about to get their asses torn apart!" Blaze assured.
"I'll take those ones," Vibra said, pointing to the huge group on the left, "Espio can take the rest."
Blaze barely noticed it at first, but oddly enough, snow was drifting through the air. She looked up to the roof of the newly built stadium to find huge amounts of snow falling there.
"I'll check out what's going on over at the stadium," Blaze decided as she leaped onto the stadium roof, leaving the two heroes to fend off the pawns.
Vibra jumped forward in a shock wave of sound as she blasted through one pawn, taking it out. Two pawns attacked her, one behind the other. She punched the first pawn back as the second pawn put his claw through his teammate's head, lunging at her.
She knocked the hand away in shock, "They would actually kill one another to get to me?"
One pawn tried to assault her from above, but she rolled under the landing pawn and uppercutted it.
Another pawn tried to attack her from behind while she was distracted, but her sensitive hearing detected it, and she flipped over to kick and launch the pawn into the air, where it was hit by a Sonidagarra.
"These guys are quite persistent; I'll have my hands full!" Vibra predicted.
Meanwhile, Espio knocked away another pawn with his long tongue as he threw a shuriken at it, which it blocked with it's arm platings.
The chameleon then kicked the pawn into the side of a building and swung his leg around to kick another pawn that lunged at him.
Suddenly, one pawn grabbed his arm while four other pawns rushed at him, claws ready to tear into his soft flesh beneath his tough outer layers.
Espio had no chance, if he attacked the pawn holding him, he would have no time to attack the others.
But then he remembered his trademark ability. How could I forget it, he wondered.
The chameleon suddenly disappeared from view as the pawns suddenly collapsed.
"Sometimes nothing can beat the classics!" he commented.
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As Blaze landed on the roof, she found herself on the opposite end of it than Yukijuu.
"My name is Yukijuu," the pawn introduced himself.
"Whatever," Blaze rudely responded, and Fire Boosted at the pawn.
The snow falling in the scene of battle suddenly rushed at Blaze, and the cat was forced to jump into the air to avoid being attacked.
"So there is a reason why he looks different," Blaze contemplated, "How can I beat him?"
As more snow rushed at her, the cat unleashed a fireball on the snowy pawn, who formed a shield of snow to absorb the flames.
The snow then rushed up at Blaze, where she knocked it away.
The snow around her suddenly attached to her to limit movement as an unseen mass of snow rushed at her.
"Damn it, can't move!" she yelled as the snow collided with her, and drove her into the ground.
The snow blew away as blaze stood up, greatly weakened.
"My snow drains the energy of anything I wish that is touched by it!" Yukijuu claimed, "You will be weakened the longer this fight drags out!"
"He's right, my strength is draining," she admitted, "But I don't have to knock the snow away..."
She then went into a Fire Boost as she circled around Yukijuu rapidly, "I can simply outrun it!"
The snow attempted to attacked Blaze, but she was moving too fast to track.
As the circle she ran in shrunk and shrunk, she moved inwards towards the helpless pawn.
"No, no, no!" the pawn screamed as she finally slammed into him, causing him to melt away, "Long live the King!"
"The King?" Blaze questioned, but did not pursue it further as she dashed off to aid her comrades.
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Vibra and Espio stood back to back against a group of pawns that surrounded them.
Normally, they would be schooling these minions like they were taking out the trash, but somehow all of their energy faded away.
It's not hard to guess how that happened.
As they prepared for what may have been their final stand, all of the pawns suddenly warped away in black portals; the snow fading away in wisps of baby blue.
As the three heroes teleported away, Blaze thought of Yukijuu's last words.
This conflict may have far more to it than meets the eye, Blaze thought as she stared out onto the horizon.
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"They failed miserably," Apollo observed, "If that's the best we have, then we might as well give up."
"What do you think Apollo?" Kyira questioned, a smirk plastered across her seductive face.
"I'm gonna punch a goddamn hole in you body," Apollo threatened.
"Try me," Kyira dared as Apollo prepared to attack.
As he was about to dash at her, Mor'gul held him back.
"We should not be fighting amongst ourselves," the wolf stated, "Save it for the enemy."
"Whatever," Apollo shrugged as he walked out the room rudely.
"Let me apologize for him," Mor'gul requested, "He is rather hot tempered."
"No matter, his power is enough for me," the King replied, "Though that is a failure, the game has just begun, and I am already planning my checkmate."
He removed Yukijuu from the chess board and moved Blaze, Vibra, and Espio one step back to show they were at base.
"And nothing will avoid it," the King hissed, waving the chess board away, "I can assure that!"
To Be Continued...
A/N: Well, there's your chapter! Same deal as usual, check out my other stories to gain a better understanding of this one if you haven't read them yet, I want two reviews, blah blah blah!