A/N: Well people this is the end of the first arc. In the second one we will see what else would be in store for Sonic and his friends when they meet the Kamihime Jiyuu no Faita. Also I'm going to use the Archie characters but I will say this now I WILL NOT BE USING THE ARCHIE PLOT LINE. The plot is going to be all me okay. And also I'll be adding new fan art soon. Well enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 10: The beginning of a War
The next day marked the beginning of summer and it was a time of year that everyone loved. The schools were working on talking finals and also the students couldn't wait for the long vacation ahead of them. The city changed during the summer; the plants and trees were a bright green color and the breeze was cool but at the same time humid and hot. The sun was high on the sky so it was well noon time in the city.
We now turn to Kyokuko Academy and we find Rin, Asami, Aya, Ichiro, Isao, Junichi, Yuffi, Sonic, and Blaze were eating lunch under the shade of a tree to try and escape the heat of the day. Since it was summer Yuffi was in the black dress shirt without the red jacket and the shirt had short sleeves in this time of year. The same went with Sonic, Blaze, Isao, Junichi and Ichiro. Aya, Asami and Rin were wearing the sailor fuku but this time the sleeves were short.
"Hey how about we head around town today" said Yuffi. "Since we've got nothing better to do"
"We can also invite Kaiko and Chikane" said Ichiro.
"So what do you guys think" said Rin looking at Sonic and Blaze. "We can go to some sweets shops and have something to eat and then we can just walk around"
"Sounds fun" said Sonic. "And it sounds like a good way to relax"
"I don't know" said Blaze.
"Come on Blaze" said Rin. "We've been working and training nonstop for weeks so at least let's take advantage of this nice day and have some fun. You know like regular school students"
"Alright" said Blaze.
"Then I'll call Chikane to invite her and to meet us at the station" said Asami grabbing her cellphone from her skirt pocket.
"I'll call Kaiko" said Ichiro also grabbing his cell.
"Yaay we finally get to have fun!" exclaimed Aya happily.
After school they went to the nearby station, just after Rin and Yuffi called Mioko to tell her that they would be around the town today, and they were waiting for Kaiko and Chikane to come. After a few minutes they came into view and they were also wearing the summer uniforms. Chikane wearing a light green dress shirt with short sleeves tinted with darker green and Kaiko was wearing a white dress shirt. Once they said their hellos they went off around the town. The first stop was the local book store. There they were looking at the different types of manga and other books.
"Alright they have the latest Bleach volume" said Rin happily.
"Rin-chan, check this out" said Asami. "They have the latest volume of Loveless"
"Serously!" said Rin happily. "Chikane-chan, have you ever read Loveless?"
"Read it I love it" said Chikane.
Chikane walked over to them as Yuffi started flipping thru the pages and when she stopped at one page the three girls let out loud squeals.
"Blaze-san you've gotta see this" said Chikane happily.
Blaze walked over to them and she looked at the manga. Her face then turned a bright shade of red. "E-ehh!" exclaimed Blaze in embarrassment.
"Aww you've never read Shonen-ai before have you" said Asami.
"Shonen-ai?" questioned Blaze still with the blush on her cheeks.
"In other words, Yaoi, Boy's Love or BoyxBoy" said Yuffi.
"How can you read this!" said Blaze in shock.
"Well it's only natural that girls like yaoi" said Rin.
"No its not" said Isao with Junichi, Sonic and Kaiko beside him.
"You're not one to talk" said Yuffi. "Just like girls like yaoi, guys like yuri"
"Anyway let's get going" said Ichiro. "Aya already found the latest Shugo Chara manga"
After they bought some books their next stop was the local sweet café where they decided to eat some sweets. Asami ordered a strawberry Sunday, Aya ordered the same as Asami, Rin ordered a chocolate Sunday with pokeys, Yuffi ordered a vanilla strawberry cake, Isao and Junichi both ordered Sundays, Ichiro ordered milkshake, Sonic ordered the same as Yuffi, Blaze ordered the same as Rin, Chikane ordered a chocolate sticky bun, and Kaiko ordered a vanilla Sunday.
"Oishii (delicious)!" exclaimed Yuffi talking a bite and with a small sparkles and a small blush.
"Nee-chan really likes sweets" said Rin taking a bite of her Sunday.
"Man this is good" said Sonic taking a bite.
"This place has always been popular with the students" said Ichiro.
"So Blaze-san how do you like the Sunday?" asked Chikane.
Blaze took a bite and a small blush appeared on her cheeks. "Oishii" she whispered.
"Seems she likes it to" said Isao.
"This is a perfect way to escape the heat" said Kaiko.
"Hai" said Junichi.
After they were done eating the sweets they were walking around the town wondering where to go next.
"So where should we go next?" said Aya.
"Hmmm" said Yuffi. "I know how about th-"
Yuffi was cut off when a sudden burst of spiritual energy erupted out of nowhere. Everyone's eyes went wide with shock as the familiar chill ran down their spines. But for some reason this spiritual pressure was different than anything they've ever felt.
"N-nani!" said Chikane.
"The hell!" said Kaiko.
"This spiritual pressure" said Ichiro. "Its way different than the demons we fought before"
"Aya-chan can you pin point where the spiritual pressure is?" asked Rin.
Aya nod her head and she closed her eyes. A glowing light green aura surrounded her body and in her mind she was scouting the whole city to find where the spiritual pressure was. To her shock there was more than one.
"There's more than one" said Aya. "Nii, iie, yon, iie, jyuu? There's way too many for me to count!"
"Damn this is bad" said Sonic.
"Can you tell us the locations?" said Blaze.
"Hai" said Aya. "In the north, east and west parts of town"
"Then we can cover way more ground if we split up" said Yuffi.
"Yuffi, you Rin, Sonic and Blaze don't even have your weapons" said Isao.
"We still have a good set of legs and arms" said Rin. "We'll take the north"
"Asami, Aya and I will handle the east" said Ichiro.
"And we'll take the west" said Junichi. "We'll meet up with each other when we finish the fight"
"Hai" all of them said as they put their fists together. "Let's go!"
And with that they all dashed in different directions to find out what threat was in their city. Sonic, Blaze, Rin and Yuffi were running to the north side of the town. They saw many people running for their lives and also they heard a loud screech. When they got there they saw a creature closely resembling the demons but there were some differences. First of all they were more human like, had long white hair and large claws. It was about to attack a human woman and her child until Rin charged up to it and punched it across the jaw and Sonic and Blaze ran and grabbed the mother and child and took them to a safer place. Yuffi charged up to the demon and she kicked it on the jaw. The demon turned around and it had glowing red eyes and also a lust for blood.
"No way" whispered Yuffi.
Sonic did a homing attack and stuck the demon but it didn't go down that easily. Blaze shot a wave of flames at it but even when it was ignited in flames it didn't die much to her shock. Rin charged up her solarkinesis and she shot an arc of light from her hands and it cut off the monster's arm. But much to their shock it was still attacking.
"What's with this thing" said Sonic as more started to appear.
"They just won't die" said Blaze.
Then they heard a gun fire and a ball of blue energy stuck the monster. They turned to see Mioko holding her gun blade in hand and with their weapons also in her hand.
"Mio-chan!" exclaimed both Rin and Yuffi.
"I felt the same spiritual pressure so I decided to bring your weapons" said Mio handing them their weapons.
"No matter what we do these things just won't die" said Yuffi.
"I've only read this in books but there's no doubt about it" said Mioko. "These are Resetsu"
"Resetsu?" said Rin. "They look nothing like the Resetsu in the mythology books"
"That's because they're incomplete" said Mioko. "I'll leave this to the four of you in the mean time I'll evacuate the people" and with that Mioko left.
Yuffi unsheathed her sword and got into a fighting stance. Sonic, Blaze and Rin did the same. "So how do you kill a Resetsu?" said Sonic.
"Stab it in the heart" said Yuffi. "It's the only way to fully kill them"
They charged to the Resetsus and at first it was rather difficult to stab it in the heart but their moves were easy to read. Sonic would block the attacks and when he would find an opening he used his speed and stabbed it. Blaze would use her dual blades to stab two at a time. She would also use her reflexes to block the attacks and then once she found an opening she would attack. Yuffi would use her swordsmanship abilities to slay the Resetsus easily and she would slice them and then stab them to ensure to kill them. She would also shoot black energy balls from her hands due to her spectrokinesis. Rin would use her martial arts abilities to stun them and then she would take the opportunity to kill them. In a matter of moments they managed to kill the Resetsus. They swung their swords to clean them of the blood and remains and also they were breathing hard.
"Well that's the last of them" said Yuffi as the Resetsu turned into ash.
"Let's go help the others" said Sonic.
Aya, Asami and Ichiro were fighting the Resetsus in the east part of the town. Asami would teleport rapidly with her chakrams in hand and slice and stab the Resetsus. Ichiro would use his guns to shoot the Resrtsus rapidly. Aya would use her spiritual energy along with her telekinesis to form whips of spirit energy and with it she would use it to stab the Resetsus. Once the last of the Resetsus fell the three siblings were breathing hard.
"These things" said Asami. "They look like Resetsu but they seem incomplete"
"I know" said Ichiro.
"And their spiritual pressure is way different" said Aya.
Then there was a sudden burst of spiritual energy that was so strong that it almost put Ichiro, Asami and Aya to their knees. Their eyes when wide with shock and they turned to the direction where it was coming from.
"This spiritual pressure!" said Ichiro. "It's nothing I've ever felt before"
"It's so powerful that I can fell the weight of it" said Asami trying to hide her pain.
Aya then fell to her knees breathing hard. Asami and Ichiro ran to her and she was slightly sweating from the pressure. "Aya-chan you should head back without us"
"Iie!" said Aya as she got up stumbling a bit. "I'm a member of the Kamihime Jiyuu no Faita too so I need to stay with my teammates"
Ichiro and Asami couldn't find a reply for Aya's determination so they both looked at each other and smiled a bit. They could not believe that their 6 year old sister was that determined.
"Fine then but let's check on this spiritual pressure before people start to pass out cause of it" said Ichiro.
"Let's go!" said Asami.
"What the hell is that thing!" yelled Isao.
Isao, Junichi, Kaiko and Chikane were done with the resetsus but what they were seeing was something they've never seen before in their lives. It was a large creature at least 18 feet tall, light brown skin like the demons, long white hair on its head, bright red eyes and large claws on its hands. It let out a loud roar and when it did it emitted a powerful spiritual pressure that almost sends them to their knees.
"T-this spiritual pressure" said Chikane. "It's so fierce"
"Well we need to kill the thing before it suffocated all the people here" said Junichi.
Isao clenched his bow in his hands (They ran into Mioko and she gave him his bow and his arrows) and aimed and arrow at the large monster in front of them. He shot an electrical arrow at the monster and it shocked it temporarily. Kaiko made a sword of ice from the frozen ground around him and he ran up to the monster. Using the levitating rocks that Chikane was controlling he jumped on them and aimed for the monster. But to his shock the monster struck him with its large claw and he slammed into a building. The glass of the building broke and he fell to the floor. He coughed up some blood and glared at the monster. Chikane pulled her small pole from under her skirt and turned it into a naginata. She let out a battle cry and she jumped to attack the monster. She managed to block the attack from its claws. Junichi saw the opportunity and he shoots his Rail Gun at the monster while Isao shot a large rod of lightning from his arrows. Kaiko got up again and he shot many ice shards at the monster. As all the attacks hit the monster they got the shock of their lives as the monster was left unscathed.
"The hell" said Junichi.
"It had no effect" said Chikane.
"Just what is this thing!" said Isao.
"Damn it" hissed Kaiko.
The monster let out a loud roar and lunged towards them. Then in a flash a chakram was invaded in its shoulder. Asami was over head of the monster and she pulled her chakram and it slightly sliced the monster and sprayed out some blood. Then two fire balls hit the monster as a gun fire was herd. Then blades made of spiritual energy struck the monster as it roared in pain. Kaiko, Isao, Chikane and Junichi turned to see Aya and Ichiro running to them.
"Daiyobu" said Aya.
"Hai" said Kaiko.
Asami landed in front of them and when she looked at the monster again her eyes went wide with shock. "How could it be this strong?"
"Seems like only very forceful attacks would work on this thing" said Chikane.
Then all of them heard a familiar battle cry as they saw a figure in the air. Rin delivered a powerful round house kick to the monsters but to her shock it barely moved. The monster turned and slammed Rin into the ground leaving a large crater. Yuffi then appeared with her sword in hand and swung her sword at the monster. It blocked her trike with its large claws and with its free hand punched her. She coughed up blood when the punch made contact and she slammed into the building. Sonic and Blaze both attacked the monster but they were also thrown back. Both of them slammed into another building. Sonic and Blaze both got out of the rubble and broken glass, both with cuts and blood pouring down them. Yuffi also got up with blood coming out of the back of her head and breathing hard. Rin also got up from the rubble with blood coming down her forehead. The four of them lunged for another attack but the monster let out a loud roar that emitted spiritual pressure. The force of the spiritual pressure was so great that it forced them back.
"Damn it" said Yuffi. "What the hell is this thing!"
"We have no idea" said Isao.
"Whatever this thing is it's not going down that easily" said Kaiko.
"Its shockwaves are so powerful and dense that we can't even get near it" said Asami.
"I have an idea and I think it might work" said Rin.
Blaze thought for a moment and she knew what she was thinking. "I know what you mean Rin" said Blaze. "Sonic, Yuffi this is a perfect time to test them out"
"Heh alright then demo this will take some time to prepare" said Sonic with his usual grin.
"We need all of you to lung it in the air and keep it there for at least 30 seconds" said Yuffi. "Can you do it?"
"Oi remember who you're talking to" said Aya.
"That's right" said Chikane.
"Alright then" said Isao. "Let's destroy this bastard"
They all decided on the plan and hopefully it would work. Chikane and Kaiko started out with creating pillars of earth and ice and once they lifted their hands high in the air large pillars of ice and earth bursts from under the monster and shot it in the air. Ichiro shoot fire balls from his guns and it hit the monster sending it higher in the air. Isao and Junichi shot their electricity at the monster using Isao's arrows and Junichi's Rail Gun. Aya then jumped in the air and used her spirit whips to send it higher in the air. Asami appeared under the monster and kicked it repeatedly sending it higher in the air. Then Sonic, Blaze, Rin and Yuffi appeared in different directions of the monster with their swords in hand. Sonic had a glowing blue aura around him, Blaze had a red aura around her, Yuffi had a black aura around her and Rin had a light yellow aura around her. Their swords also had the same glowing aura.
"Take this!" said all four of them.
"FIRE STRIKE!" yelled Blaze.
"WIND BLADE!" yelled Sonic.
"BLACK LANCE!" yelled Yuffi.
"WHITE LANCE" yelled Rin.
From Blaze's twin swords a large arc of flames was shot out, from Sonic's blade a large arc of blue spirit energy shot out, from Yuffi's sword a large black arc was shoot out and from Rin's blade a large light yellow arc shoot out. All the attacks hit the monster with full impact and a large explosion happened soon after creating a large wave of blue, black, red and light yellow spiritual energy. They landed on their feet breathing hard and with smoke coming from their swords. They let out a sigh of relief when they saw that the monster was destroyed. The rest of them were in total shock on what they just saw but none less amazed.
"SUGOI!" yelled Aya, Asami and Chikane running to them.
"That was amazing said" Kaiko.
"When did you guys learn that?" asked Ichiro.
"A couple of days ago" said Sonic.
"It takes a lot out of us when we use it though" said Yuffi.
"We need more training to prefect it" said Rin.
"So far our limit is 3 blasts" said Blaze.
"Well let's get going and get our wounds treated" said Isao.
"Yeah, itai, I think I have a couple of broken ribs" said Yuffi.
Suddenly two black blades came out of nowhere and when it was about to hit Sonic and Yuffi Blaze and Rin jumped in front of them gaining them a very bad slashes on their arms. Sonic and Yuffi's eyes went wide with shock as did everyone else. Blood started pouring down their arms and they fell over in pain. Sonic caught Blaze as Yuffi caught Rin.
"Well that was unexpected" said a voice.
All of them looked to the top of a building and they saw a figure in a black cloak. Ichiro was the first to react when he saw the familiar pattern in the front of the cloak. "Who are you!" yelled Ichiro.
The figure lowered its cloak and it was revealed to be a man with dark hair with a purple tint up to the base of his neck, dull purple eyes that looked like a dragons eyes, long ears, ghostly pale skin and three horns on his forehead. He was wearing a charcoal gray kimono top with gray ninja pants and black shoes. Yuffi and Rin's eyes went wide with shock and their blood begun to boil in their veins.
"You!" growled Yuffi.
"What the hell do you want!" growled Rin.
"So the two of you still remember me" said the man. "How long has it been now? 9 years"
"Kankuro" spat Yuffi.
"And you remember my name" he said.
"What's your kind doing here!" yelled Isao.
"Just wanted to see all of you and nothing more" said Kankuro.
"Cut the crap!" yelled Asami.
"And also just wanted to see if you've improved after we left" said Kankuro with a grin. "And it seems you have"
"Stop beating around the bush and tell us why you're here!" yelled Aya.
"I decided to send some of my pets to test all of you out" said Kankuro.
"So you send your most skilled monsters to fight us" said Sonic. "Heh they were nothing we couldn't handle"
"You think that these were our most skilled monsters" said Kankuro.
"What are you trying to say!" yelled Blaze.
"These were only prototypes of our creations" said Kankuro. "The actual ones are atleast ten times stonger that these pathetic weaklings"
Yuffi's eyes went wide with horror when Kankuro said that. "No way" whispered Yuffi.
"Why are you sending these monsters out now!" yelled Kaiko.
"To declare war" said Kankuro. Everyone's eyes went wide with horror when he said that. They didn't know what to think when he said that he declared war agents them. "This year we will awaken Orochi-sama and his wrath will create a new era in this world"
All of them were speechless. This problem was getting way out of hand for the small group of fighters and they didn't know what to think, let along what to do.
"But to make this more entertaining my fellow comrades decided to give you time to prepare" said Kankuro. "All of you have until the beginning of winter to prepare but that doesn't mean that we will make this easy for you. We will meet again my darling Yuffi and my darling Rin" and with that he disappeared in a wave of shadows.
Yuffi fell on her knees and shaking her head. "This can't be happening" said Yuffi in despair.
"Five months to prepare?" said Chikane. "There's no way we can defeat them ourselves. That would be a suicide battle"
"Damn it!" cursed Junichi.
"Nee-chan, as much as I hate to say this but we need help" said Rin.
"Rin-chan's right" said Isao. "Yuffi this burden has become too big for us we need help"
"You're right" said Yuffi. "But how can we recruit new allies? I won't risk innocent lives for our burden we don't need anyone to get involved"
"I have an idea" said Sonic. "Blaze and I have some friends back in Mobius and they're members of the Freedom Fighters"
Yuffi got up and turned to Sonic. She walked to him and placed both her hands on his shoulders. "For once in my life I'm going to swallow my pride. Sonic please we need all the help we can get you think that you can contact your friends and ask them to help us?"
Sonic was shocked. He had never seen Yuffi beg before. He could tell she was desperate. "Don't worry Yuffi. Blaze and I are on it"
"Arigato" said Yuffi letting go of his shoulders.
"But there is something you should keep in mind" said Rin. "First off we need to ask them if they're willing to risk their lives for this"
"Then that means that we're going to need to meet them face to face" said Junichi.
"Well next week is summer vacation" said Ichiro. "We could ask permission to head to Mobius for the summer and prepare for the war"
"And also we did take jobs last summer so we all have money saved up" said Asami.
"Then it's settled" said Junichi. "We'll meet up at the end of the week and go over the plans"
"And this time we will make them pay" said Aya.
After that they meet up with Mioko and then after treating their wounds at Mioko's house and explaining to her what they needed to do she decided that it was for the best that they get new allies. Everyone left Mioko's house and went back to their homes. Yuffi, Rin, Blaze and Sonic went back to the house. Night fell soon after and Sonic was in his room sitting on the desk with his laptop writing a message to his friend Tails. He was wearing a regular T-shirt with blue pajama pants. He had small bandages on his cheek and also wrapped around his arm. He heard a knock on his door and Yuffi walked in wearing a tank top with long pajama pants. She also had bandages wrapped around her forehead and on her arms.
"Whatcha doing?" asked Yuffi.
"Sending an E-mail to my friend Tails" said Sonic.
"I wonder what they would say" said Yuffi. "There's no need to get others involved but we don't have a choise"
"Is that the reason all of you kept this group a secret" said Sonic.
"Hai, we didn't want any innocent lives to be lost" said Yuffi. "No blood should be spilled for our sake"
"Don't worry about it" said Sonic looking at her with his cocky grin.
"I'm heading to bed" said Yuffi walking out. "Oyasumi (good night)"
"Oyasumi" said Sonic.
Once he was also done with his E-mail he decided to also head to bed. He wondered what else was in store for them now that the Necks of Orochi had declared war against them. He also wondered why Yuffi said that but he decided to let it be.
In Mobius, Tails work shop…
Miles Prower or commonly known as Tails to his friends was working on the X-tornado fixing up the engine to make it work better with the chaos emeralds. He was wearing a regular orange T-shirt with jean pants and he hand goggles on his head. It was quiet in his workshop until he heard a beeping sound. He looked over and walked over to his laptop. His face lit up with joy when he saw who send him and E-mail.
"It's from Sonic" said Tails happily as he clicked open the E-mail.
He read the E-mail and his face went from happy to utterly shocked. He had no idea that there was a group plotting to destroy the entire universe to create a new one, also that a group of classmates from a school were fighting them.
"I need to send this to Sally and fast" said Tails as he forward the e-mail to Sally.
Acorn Castle, Sally's room…
Sally Acorn, princess of the House of Acorn, was lying on her bed deep in thought. Eggman and Nega had been quiet for months and it was starting to worry her a bit. She sat up with a sigh and she turned on her laptop and was going over some stuff. She was looking at her E-mails and she stopped on one that Sonic and Blaze send her a few weeks ago. She clicked it and she was looking at the pictures they had tagged with some friends they meet up there in Kamihime. Some of the pictures were comical and some were just pain weird. An example of this was a picture of Sonic, Blaze, Rin and Asami laughing as Yuffi was pulling Isao's cheeks with an angered look on her face. Sally laughed and wondered how the white and black hedgehog's personality was. Then she suddenly got an E-mail from Tails. She clicked it and red what it said.
'Sally sorry for bugging you this late but this is urgent. Sonic send me a message and apparently we've got a big problem on our hands. He told me that a group called the Necks of Orochi are plotting to not only destroy the world and others by resurrecting a monster called the Yamata no Orochi to create a new era. Sonic also said that the group of fighters he met called The Kamihime Jiyuu no Faita are trying to fight them off but this time they can't do this by themselves. He said that he and Blaze are going to come back to Mobius for the summer with their new friends to explain everything. He also said to call up everyone for an emergency meeting'
-Tails
Sally's eyes went wide with shock and horror. "Yamata no Orochi?" she whispered. "Nicole?"
"Yes princess what do you need?" asked the main computer.
"I need you to look up as much information on the Necks of Orochi and the Yamata no Orochi" said Sally.
"Understood" said Nicole.
Sally closed her laptop and sighed. "Sonic what have you gotten yourself into?"
Omakes
Isao: There's one thing that's been bugging me for a bit
Kagehime-sama53: What is it?
Isao: How was Asami's skirt able to keep up while she was kicking the monster?
Ichiro: WHAT DID YOU SAY!
Isao (shaking): N-nothing.
Yuffi: Creep
Blaze: Honestly how is he your friend?
Rin: Very long story.
Sonic: One of these days I'm going to smack him silly.
Kaiko: Idiot.
A/N: Well hoped you liked this chapter people. This is the end of the first arc of the Sonic Blades series and hopefully I might make it to three arcs hopefully, well bye and till next time.