Gathering of the Seven
A/N: I respectfully don't own Sonic and Nazo, they belong to their respectfully owners. I own the OC's. If .a persons dialogue is slanted and is in quote, "Like this.", then that person is speaking telepathicly. Only the spirits of the seven Chaos Emeralds are able to do it when inside their emerald.
Chapter Six- Rough Waters; A Major Loss, A Major Success
Miki came to a beach east of Mystic Ruins and noticed that there were dark clouds out on the horizon. "Looks like there's a storm out there." She said to herself. She looked at the sky and noticed that the sun was beginning to set a bit. "Okay, time to get going." She then powered up and started flying towards the dark clouds.
Once half an hour past, Miki stopped where she was and noticed that the waters were starting to get a little rough. She looked ahead and saw that she was only ten miles from the clouds. She took a big breath and dived underwater. She swam as fast as she could to the area where the clouds were and she is a very fast swimmer, going at least the speed of an average speedboat and a speedboat is fast. She sensed the Chaos Emeralds energy a mile and a quarter up ahead, but there was also a different energy close by and it was overpowering Miki.
She stopped and looked around franticly trying to find where the energy was, but she felt it above her. She looked up and saw a shadowy figure come straight at her with a sharp shadow claw. She immediately got scared due to the power she was sensing and swam towards the emeralds energy while avoiding the sharp claw. She looked behind her and saw the figure swimming at a speed faster than hers and had the claw stretched out.
Panic was all Miki could think as she moved out of the way by swimming to the surface. Once she did, she immediately flew into the dark sky as she was in the location of the dark clouds. The figure jumped out of the water and flew to the sky, at almost the same height as Miki and was twenty feet away from the hedgehog. Miki could now see that the figure was a black (humanoid) wolf with purple streaks along the arms and legs, had red eyes, and was wrapped in a large purple cloth, revealing her right eye and arm.
The waves below started to get rougher as lightning struck down, but it didn't affect the two. Miki looked at the wolf and noticed some female touches to the body, but she wasn't too sure if it was either a boy or girl until the wolf spoke. "Who are you? And why do I sense great power in you?" Miki shouted over the rolling thunder.
"How I got my power is none of your importance as of now." The wolf shouted back, the wolf was female. "But, I will leave you my name for I know that you will be surviving this fight. My name is Yami Yamota the Wolf, strongest among the Shadow Army controlled by my leader of the Dark Clan, Master Raze."
Among the name Raze, more lightning strikes appeared as the water were getting rougher. Miki also sensed a great evil power originating from Yami that it was over coming her light Ki energy. She can feel an ominous wind blowing from the wolf's side, a dark wind that brought chills down the hedgehog's spine.
"Now, I think that it's time that I find the Chaos Emerald for my master before you can get your hands on it."
"Not if I have anything to say about it."
Lightning struck and thunder rolled, then it started to rain. The water below was started to create big waves that almost reached the bottom of their feet. Miki then started to glow in a bright yellow aura while Yami glowed in a black and purple aura, the two signaled each other that they were preparing to fight. All of Miki's aura traveled down to her right hand and created a two handed, gold sword with a silver blade. Yami's aura traveled to her right hand as well and created a single black spear with a purple rock shard ant the end.
With their weapons held for battle, the two charged at each other. After a boom due to their weapons colliding, they were sent back a few feet but Miki quickly caught herself in midflight and headed straight for Yami with her sword glowing as the hedgehog traveled her Ki energy to the sword. She struck down, but her attacked was blocked by Yami's spear as the wolf lifted it. Upon doing so, she felt a shock in her hand and backed off.
"What in Raze's name was that?" Yami asked
"That was my Ki energy you got shocked with." Miki answered and held out her sword. "You see, I specialize in the spiritual field and in energy. I sent some of Ki to my sword and it went right through you dark spear, possibly giving you a shock due to my light Ki."
This girl is different from all of the other enemies I have faced. Perhaps this will be an interesting fight after all. Yami thought. She shook off the shock and prepared herself as Miki raised her sword.
The hedgehog charged at the wolf with her sword again glowing but when she struck down, the wolf dodged it by moving to the side. Yami the smacked her spear against Miki's shoulder blades and the white hedgehog was sent flying. She kept flipping over when she suddenly had an idea pop into her head. The sword disappeared and she did her own Spin Dash attack that Sonic taught and headed back for Yami.
The black wolf prepared herself and held her spear infront of her, protecting her as Miki made contact. The white hedghog didn't bounce off the spear, but instead tried to break the spear. Eventually, Yami pushed the hedgehog away and focused some energy into her spear. Miki got out of her Spin Dash and was in time to see a black arrow come at her.
She moved out of the way, but noticed that the black wolf was covered in a dark aura as the spear disappeared. Yami was chanting something, but Miki couldn't tell what it was because it was in a language she was not aware of. Suddenly, the a water pillar shot up in front of Miki and the white hedgehog saw a pair of reptilian purple eyes in the water. The water dropped to reveal a black sea dragon with long whiskers and big fins sticking out of its face. On its head was a symbol marked in dark gray aura and Miki felt a vibe as she felt the symbol was familiar.
However, the hedgehog didn't have time to think about that as one of the whiskers wrapped around her arms and waist, making her unable to move at all. The sea dragon then tossed Miki to the ocean with a great thrust and she was going so fast that she couldn't even stop herself. She was left with one option and it was the one option she was forced to use.
She took in a deep breath and hold it for one minuet. She then let out a inhuman scream and it was sent in a wave. The wolf had to cover her ears really tight because of how high Miki's scream was, but the sea dragon was sent back a few feet away. Once Miki hit the water, a wave of continuios energy was sent in all directions on sea level, and it even reached land. She tried to swim for the surface of the ocean, but the waves were preventing her to do so.
Because of her "call for help", she was lacking air and since she was in the water, she was beginning to black out. After a good portion of a minuet, Miki blacked out completely and sank to the ocean floor. However, she was still aware of her surroundings, so as she landed on the floor, she sensed energy around her and it was something familiar. She was then grabbed by something and was being pulled.
Yami unplugged her ears once Miki was in the water and the sea dragon was back to its senses. "Glad she is done for now." She said to herself before turning to the sea dragon. "Find the Blue Chaos Emerald and make sure that you return it to Master Raze." The sea dragon nodded and dove into the water, doing as it was told by its summoner.
Yami's ears twiched as she sensed something approaching fast. She heard footsteps on the water so she looked down and saw a humanoid orange cat in a strapless shirt with a bell in the center of the chest, a pair off faded jeans and white shoes and she had jade eyes. She jumped up and before the wolf could think, the cat kicked and sent Yami flying. Yami was about to catch herself when suddenly...
"Thundra!"
"Chaos Spear!"
Both attacks made contact with Yami and she was sent straight into the air. Yami flipped over and stopped herself from going any where. She turned and saw the orange she-cat with a yellow she-cat and a male azure hedgehog with the Green Chaos Emerald in his hand. "Well, this is amazing. I was only expecting to see only one protector, but three in the same place? This is simply going to be a joy for Master Raze. Right, Aurora?" Yami asked the yellow she-cat.
"Not as long as we have Sonic, Jade and Miki." Aurora said. Sonic turned to face the orange cat, who was looking around franticly trying to find someone.
"Mango, what are you doing here?" He asked.
The orange gave up searching and turned to Yami. "What have you done with Miki?" She asked, she was very worried and ticked off.
"That white hedgehog? She's down below, but I wouldn't want to risk swimming, cat."
Mango, who was apparently Miki's house pet and somehow transformed into a humanoid cat, was beyond ticked and was about to get at Yami's throat when the temperature dropped to below freezing within a heartbeat. The rain turned to snow and there were places where ice were starting to form on the surface. Suddenly, as if sensing something, Aurora and Mango turned to face one ice patch and saw three hedgehogs break through, on being knocked out. One hedgehog was ebony with red marks and eyes, gold rings and hover shoes while the other was almost identical to Sonic but with lighter fur, quills sticking up, green eyes, red and blue shoes, and was slightly taller than the ebony hedgehog.
The two landed perfectly on a ice patch nearby and it was thick enough for them to land on without breaking it. The two then placed the third gently on her back and turned to face the group hovering in the air feet above(Sonic is using the emerald to float in the air and we'll get into Mango later). Everyone in the group looked down and Aurora was happy to see them, Sonic and Mango were happy to see the ebony hedgehog but was confused on why the cyan hedgehog was here, Jade was hard to tell because he was inside his emerald, and Yami was no where near happy.
"Sorry we were late for the party you guys." Shadow said.
"We got delayed a little." Nazo added on. He then turned to Yami. "Why am I not surprised that you're here, Yamota."
"I was about to say the same for you, Nazo." Yami said as she lowered down to an ice patch below her. Aurora, Mango and Sonic did the same, but only to where Nazo, Shadow and the knocked out Miki was. Jade's emerald floated over and sat next to Miki. Jade's physical spirit form appeared and he focused on healling Miki. Her injuries were healed, but she wasn't waking up at all. "I'm guessing that Mephiles underestimated you when you were in your own wolf form."
Jade then turned to face Yami. "What in the world did you inject into this girl, Yami?" This confussed everyone except Yami, as she smiled very deviously.
"It wasn't what I injected, but what my sea dragon injected." Yami said.
"What sea dragon?" Aurora asked. Just then, the waves got calmer and the clouds cleared away, causing the snow to stop, but the temperature never did go back up. "Speaking of which, he probably found the Chaos Emerald and delivered it to Raze. I really do hope that you would take this warning. Anyone who comes in the way of Master Raze will end up just like your friend there, but in a much worse condition." She was refering to Miki, who still layed on her back. Yami then disappeared in a black mist and left a huge impact on the group.
After awhile of some introduction to Mango and some explaination from Nazo, the Sonic Heroes headed straight for Central City where Tails was waiting. Amy was there too, but she didn't tackle Sonic like she used to. However; she was freaking out over Miki. After a moment of explaining everything to the two, Miki was placed in bed for rest and was carefully watched over by Nazo and Mango, who returned to her cat form. Everything was not fine for the Sonic Heroes, but unfortunetly, it was in better terms for Raze...sort of.
"Unacceptable!" A voice rang through the hallways of a dark castle(Told ya'). Inside a throne room, black crystals popped up and surrounded the fox that fought against Sonic and Mephiles. The two were knelt down a few feet away from a very angry hedgehog, who had his back turned to them. "Sora, I can understand that you were facing two people fused together but that still doesn't make the situation any better for you now. And you, Mephiles the Dark, I gave you the Flames of Disaster(Again, we'll get into it a later time) and you still were defeated by Shadow and Nazo in his wolf form." More crystals popped up from the ground, but this time more spread out in the throne room.
"But, Master Raze, I never expected Shadow to be there. If he wasn't there, then Nazo would be right here in your control again." Mephiles objected. "If I had a little more of..."
"I don't want to hear any excuses from you two!" Raze shouted, rattling their ear drums. He then sensed someone just come into the room, but not through the front door. "Well, at least someone got the job done right." Raze said more calmly as Yami walked up to him with the Blue Chaos Emerald in her hand. The crystals disappeared as Yami handed over the emerald to her leader.
"All is done for now, Master Raze." Yami said after kneeling down. "But, I'm afraid that the girl will wake within a few short days."
"It won't matter for now." Raze said as he walked over to a pedetal near by and it had the Purple Chaos Emerald. He then placed the emerald down and sat in the throne. "It won't be long before all seven Chaos Emeralds are mine and once the Guardian of the Master Emerald is dead, then the protectors will die as well and there will be no one to stop me from conquering the entire universe."
A/N: Finally got this done!
Two Chaos Emeralds are in the hands of Raze, three are with the Sonic Heroes, there are still two more to be found. But who will get them? Who is Yami and Sora, and why has Mephiles joined Raze? And will Miki be able to wake up before any more danger comes?
Find out next time.
This chapter is dedicated to Aaron the water mage, thank you for waiting patiently for this chapter to come out.