Chapter 11: World Adventure: Mazuri

In the Mazuri Village of Africa, Lunar Bandits, Golems, Earth Gamblers and Rocky Trilobites surrounded the villagers with Stone Grizzly in the front. To the villagers, it was dajavu all over again. "Who are you? And what do you want?" the village leader demanded.

"I am Rocking Beast Stone Grizzly, one of the three loyal generals of the great and powerful Erazor Djinn!" the genie bellowed boastfully, "My master is to be the new ruler of this world, but to do that he requires the power of the World Rings and Chaos Emeralds. I have come to an understanding that one of the Emeralds is hidden here... so... give it to me!"

"We're not letting you take the village's Emerald!" said a younger villager as he threw a rock at Grizzly's nose. It hit and Grizzly howled in pain as he held his nose. As it recovered, he snarled at them with his eyes glowing dangerously yellow. Yep, it's dajavu all right.

"So... you dare defy one of the generals of the Erazor Djinn? I will bury you all!"

"Back off, boulder breath! Backlash Wave!" Suddenly, a huge tornado storm appeared and blew all the minions away. Grizzly snarled as he turned to the newcomers.

"Look! Sonic as come back!" another village shouted in glee. The whole village erupted in cheers.

"Blue rat and friends! I don't have time to deal with you! I'll look for the temple myself!" with that, Grizzly dove into the ground and dug into the earth. The Resistance ran up to the villagers.

"Is everyone alright?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, thank you children," the village leader nodded, "But that monster, that Grizzly Beast, is headed for the Gaia Shrine. A Chaos Emerald is being kept there. You must stop him!"

"Okay. Leave it to us!" Renee said.

"The only way to the temple is through the Savannah Citadel. With Sonic's knowledge of the land, you should all get there before Grizzly does."

"No worries," Sonic smiled, "Let's get going!"

So the Resistance began their trek through Mazuri. They ran out of the village and into the savannah and to the fortress. They had to deal with the Golems and the Lunar Bandits that got into there way. They jumped from tree to tree and swung on vines. Soon they got to the high point of the tree tops and found themselves looking down at a huge temple covered in ribbons.

"There it is!" Sonic pointed, "The African Temple!"

"It looks almost like the Ice Temple," Corina observed.

"But it's so colorful," Moka said as she stepped forward but tripped and fell into yet another trap door down to a tree slide, "YEEEHHHHHAAAAAA!!!"

"Moka!" Tsukune gasped.

"Hey, you guys go on," Asuna said, "We'll get her," she, Ako, Saturn MOMO, Klule, Kurumu, Sayo went down into the slide.

"Don't sweat it, Tsukune," Himeno reassured him, "Even with most of her power sealed of, she still pretty strong." He nodded and the Resistance continued on the long way.

(Down in the Temple...)

"Owwy..." Moka winced as rubbed her bottom. She stood up, looked around. She was on a bridge leading to an alter with something glowing yellow. "Is this the Temple?"

"Moka!" Asuna called as she and her chosen group came from the slide, "Hey! You alright?"

"Yeah, thanks. But I think that trap door was a shortcut."

"Then why don't we look around some?" MOMO suggested, "A Chaos Emerald might be here." They ran towards the alter and reached the yellow Chaos Emerald. Kurumu quickly grabbed it.

"Yahoo!" she squealed with a grin, "Three down, four more to go!"

"Don't forget," Ako reminded them, "We have five more World Rings to get too."

Suddenly, the Temple shook and Grizzly jumped out of the ground several meters from them. "St-Stone Grizzly!" Sayo and Saturn stammered.

Grizzly sneered at them, "Say, you all look quite cute."

"Yeah?" Kluke frowned, "What's it to you?"

"...I HATE anything that is cute!!" with a wild roar, Grizzly charged at them on fours and lunged. Moka quickly grabbed him over her head.

"BEHAVE YOURSELF!" she yelled as she threw him back on the ground.

Grizzly snarled as he got back up, "I don't have the time with you bug-eyed punks. Give me that Chaos Emerald!"

"Forget it!" Asuna shouted, "Erazor can sit on a pin cushion for all we care!"

Her friends nodded, "Yeah!"

"Then I shall rock your worlds!" Grizzly sneered as he got into battle stance, "You won't get me like your friends got Tiger!"

Rocking Beast Stone Grizzly (Theme: Battle in the Base from Super Smash Brothers Brawl)

"Can you hit all of me?" Kurumu taunted as she created copies of herself. The Kurumu clones lunged at Stone Grizzly with their razor nails. Grizzly swung dust all around him and saw that only one had a silhouette. He slashed it and the real Kurumu was thrown to the wall as the clones vanished. Grizzly then made some rocks levitate and fired them at the girls. One rock was thrown at Sayo. She stretched her arm to a ledged to evade it. She swung about until she let go and stomped her feet on Grizzly's face. Ako threw needle shots at Grizzly to immobilize him. He snarled as he struggled to get the needles off, but when he did Ako kicked his face with a soccer kick. He knocked her out of the way and jumped up high. As he landed to the other side, a huge quake erupted that caused and the girls to fall on their butts. He curled into a spiky ball and rushed at them while shouting, "You punks!" The girls managed to elude every attempt to run them down. As he stopped, he slammed his paws to the ground that caused a huge shockwave. Asuna jumped over the wave, "Crescent Moon Slash!" she slashed he sword all around Grizzly, causing more damage. "Star Strike!" MOMO fired shots from her arrow to cause more damaged. "Saturn Silent Glaive Surprise!" Saturn used her signature attack and Kluke combined it with her Shadow Phoenix Flare attack. The fiery orb of death slammed into Grizzly for heavy damage. Grizzly charged at Saturn with another wild roar. She ducked, crawled under him and pushed him over. He roared again as he jumped all around, creating more earthquakes. The girls tried desperately to keep balance. Soon, Grizzly fired projectiles from his hard fur on his back. Kluke's Shadow Phoenix created a shield around them. Grizzly tried to fire his levitating rocks again but Sayo used her telekinesis to use them against him. Grizzly charged again but Moka tripped him and he was sent tumbling into a pillar. "Okay, everyone! Let's end this!" Moka shouted as she grabbed Grizzly by the tail and started to swing him around. When the velocity was high enough, she threw him into the air. Kurumu flew up and slashed her nails at him while Asuna did the same with her sword and Sayo, Ako and MOMO used their own attacks in the air. Grizzly crashed into the ground with a loud smash upon defeat.

"We got him!" MOMO and Saturn cheered.

"RRRRAAAHHH!!!" Stone Grizzly yelled as he repeatedly slammed his paws on the ground creating huge cracks, "I hate you! I hate cute and pretty things! I'll get you all for this humiliation! I'll get you!!!" dust came up and covered Grizzly. When it cleared, he was gone.

Asuna shook her head, "Someone has anger issues."

"Don't know, Asuna," Ako smiled, "He acted the same way you did towards Negi-sensei when he first became our teacher."

"What's THAT suppose to mean?"

"Moka! Girls!" Tsukune shouted as he and the others came up to them, "We heard earthquakes! Stone Grizzly didn't catch up to you, did he?"

"Don't worry, Tsukune," Kurumu winked, "We took care of him."

"And we have the third Chaos Emerald," Moka smiled as she gave it to Sonic.

"Awesome!" Zoey grinned, "Now we have four Emeralds and five Rings left to find!"

"I think we should get back home, it's been a long day traveling the world," Corina yawned.

"It was so much fun seeing all the famous sites," Kikki beamed tiredly, "I hope we can do it again soon!"

"Yeah, let's go home," Blaze yawned also.

So the hedgehogs warped back to Australia to rest. Tomorrow though, they will be competing in a race for the next World Ring.

TBC

Next Time: Shooting Star Grand Prix: Race for the World Ring!