Author's note:

Yeyz! ^.^ I've actually made 10 chapters! This is the longest story I've ever made! So do you like it? I'm not very good at writing fighting scenes, which you can see later in this chapter, but I'm trying to improve anyway XD

Chapter 10: Zinthia VS Crunch

It had gone months since Crunch came up to the space station, yet Zinthia only saw him a few times. Each time they finally had time to be together, like talking or something, Cortex or NGin always came with a job for one of them. Zinthia started to get suspicious of this, sometimes she was even set to look at pictures of Crash Bandicoot, and so if she had to fight him, she knew how he looked like!

The fact was that Cortex remembered how they'd been friends in the past. He was afraid that if they got so close again, they might start a riot. That was why he plotted something smart. While keeping the two of them from each other, he was making a little machine. This was a mini-version of the Cortex Vortex. With this, he could just zap one of the anthros, and they would be affected as much as from the big machine. Cortex remembered putting Zinthia in the Vortex, and this had made her very angry, strange enough.

But Cortex remembered that he also had inserted some demon DNA in Zinthia, and if he had calculated it correctly, anger would make her to the evil Zin. He finished the machine, and called for NGin. The cyborg came running, and looked at Cortex. "Arrange a fight arena for Crunch, and Zinthia. I have to try something out." Cortex said with an evil grin. NGin nodded, and quickly went to do as the doctor said.

Zinthia felt a shiver down her spine. Something bad was going to happen. She just had this weird intuition of hers, and it was usually right. NGin came walking towards her. "We will see how good you are in battle, after the time since you fought the lynx. Follow me." He told her, with his airy voice. Zinthia disliked this slightly, but followed. She was guided into a fighting cage, but there was something odd about this. Usually, NGin or someone else named Tropy would watch over the fights, this time however, Cortex was looking.

Suddenly, her opponent came in the door, and her eyes widened when she saw who it was. Crunch stood with his ears slightly wide. This meant that he was unsure about something. "Hey, Cortex! There is no fucking way I'll fight one of my best friends!" Zinthia shouted to Cortex, but Cortex then grinned. Zinthia didn't understand why.

"Oh, but it isn't you who will fight him, my dear." He said with a voice that got Zinthia and Crunch's hair on end. "What do you mean by that, you moron!" Zinthia snarled and her ears were pinned back. "You'll see." Cortex replied, and pointed at her with a device. Zinthia wasn't able to dodge it, and got hit. "Zinthia!" Crunch exclaimed, before seeing her going back up on her feet. But something was wrong. Zinthia's light grey fur, had become almost black, and her eyes were not amber anymore, they were flaming orange. What surprised Crunch even more was that she got wings.

"Oh how smart a device doctor" A cold voice said, and she showed an evil grin. "You made Zinthia angry so fast that she could not suppress me anymore…" the voice continued, before the dark wolf turned towards Crunch. "Zi-Zinthia? Is that you, or who the hell are you!" Crunch shouted angrily. Zin laughed, but there was no emotions tied to it. "My name is Zin, boy. And how I want to kill you!" she screamed, charging at Crunch.

Crunch dodged, and was almost terrified at seeing his friend like that. It had something to do with Cortex's device tough. Zin jumped towards Crunch, in a speed almost twice as fast as Zinthia, her claws were sharper, and Crunch could suddenly see electricity around her claws. He dodged all the time, and tried to find and offensive move, but Zin was all to fast for him. Suddenly, her claws sunk deep into Crunch's arm. It both shocked him, by the electricity, and hurt him by the cut that would probably be a scar. If he survived that is.

Crunch fell down at his knees, but when Zin was about to finish him off, she started to shake. "No! Not already!" She screamed angrily. Crunch didn't understand what it was about, but he saw an opening, and hit Zin in her jaw. The wolf was pushed up in the air by the force, and thrown away. Crunch was panting, but he didn't bleed as much as he would've thought.

Then, the blackish wolf became lighter, and her wings disappeared. What was left was the normal Zinthia, but this time she wasn't unconscious. She rose up slowly, growling. The effect of Cortex's device still hadn't worn off; Zinthia had just managed to suppress Zin. Then she suddenly leapt up towards Cortex, and kicked the glass he was behind. As being angry gave her more power, she was actually able to break the glass. Cortex screamed like a girl, and ran towards the door. Zinthia didn't care about following. She had to look after Crunch.

"Are you okay?" She asked Crunch, slightly worried of him. Crunch nodded quickly. "Yeah. I just need some rest. But who, or rather what was you just now?!" Zinthia didn't like that question very much but felt that she had to answer it. "Cortex made some sort of weird machine. I don't know more than he used it on me, and then everything blacked out. When I woke up, the machine was destroyed, and had huge claw marks on it. But now we have to take you to the hospital!" She explained. Crunch nodded again, and rose up. Zinthia helped him getting to the little hospital in the space station.