Lauren the Echidna Volume 2
Chapter 11
Elemental Surprise
It was now two days after my birthday, December 17th, Knuckles and I were still in bed asleep waiting the moment for us to wake up. Yes, we did sleep in the same bed while everyone else slept in their own bed. Sonic had taken his bed to a branch on a nearby tree branch as he normally would, Frank had taken the recliner to himself and letting it lean back, Elaine having the couch to herself along with Tails curled up on the end, which was comfortable for him with those two tails of his keeping him warm.
The sun had finally risen up into the sky after a few more hours and I had woken up second to last from everyone else. Knuckles was still in his state of slumber while everyone else was up and stretching, getting ready for the day ahead of them. I smiled as I sat up looking to him, then placing a hand on his cheek and his eyes began to flutter open. He looked up to me and smiled as well then sat up kissing me on my cheek.
"Sleep well?" I asked him. He nodded and smiled more, staring into my eyes about to kiss me again, when a familiar face was hanging upside down from the nearby window.
"You two aren't gonna go at it again are you?" A skeptical face appeared across Sonic's face and he began to laugh. My face turned completely red and I glared at the window, but Sonic was already gone. I groaned and my face was still red. Knuckles chuckled at me and smiled, patting me on my shoulder and getting up from the bed. I looked to him and then got up myself, stretching out my arms. I slipped on my hoodie for the cold day, and then looked to Knuckles as he was actually putting on a black jacket just to keep himself warm. It was going to be freezing outside today to everyone got on some warm clothes to keep them from freezing their tails off. Knuckles and I then walked outside with everyone else looking up at the morning sky of winter.
"Ohh man. I'm so glad its winter." I stretched again and smiled wide feeling the soft but cold wind against my dreadlocks. Knuckles stood by me and nodded to me then looked to my mother who was just peeking out the window. I laughed a bit and peeked back in the door.
"Cmon, mama. I know you hate the cold, but seriously. You got fur it ain't gonna hurt you." I laughed again. She stuck her tongue out at me playfully.
"Nyah." And I did the same back to her like we usually would play around with each other, laughing. Frank smiled at this and rolled his eyes, talking with Sonic about some random guy things. I was glad that dad had someone he could talk to without them turning their back on him after just a few weeks from something that happened.
A few minutes had only passed until I stopped in my tracks. Everyone else had carried on with their conversations but me…I had felt some strange energy in the distance. My only option at that moment was to get everyone out of that premises. I turned to them,
"Everyone! We need to move, NOW!" The second everyone heard this they spotted a dark mass of clouds making their way toward us. They quickly jumped onto the roof of the house then backed away from what was coming. My eyes quickly widened as I looked closer to it. The mass was a dark green ball of fur, eyes darkened to the point of them having slits in them, but this time with a light green poisonous color tint to them. The body was slumped over forward and that same aura of darkness was surrounding it. Right then I noticed who it was, but I blinked again to realizing the power that was infused in him.
"Isn't that the hedgehog that I met before with that fire monster?" My dad asked as he stepped back.
"Yeah dad…that's Scourge…but there's something else to him…" My eyes widened more, "Mephiles has taken him over!!" I shouted. Everyone else's eyes widened as well. How could Mephiles be back after that attack from me and Knuckles two years ago? If he was back, but only as a spirit, fate could only tell what he had in store for us all by taking control of Scourge's body. Scourge's teeth had already grown into fangs as they were before, but with a hint of that same poison that had almost killed me before. As Scourge got closer, I stepped back even more; shivering to the fact of all that dark energy was seeping around me.
"Hmhmhm...well well well...look what we have here..." Scourge smirked widely, making his teeth glow a bit with a poisonous aura and stared me in the eyes. My eyes were clearly shaking in fear, unable to feel anything in my entire body, which gave Mephiles the opportunity to fire his next attack, since he already struck a nerve in me. His hand raised and an average sized orb of purple and dark pink aura had formed into his palm. Next thing we knew, a big enough explosion was made from that small orb, knocking us all back onto several things: Loose rocks, trees, the house behind us and the ground.
Scourge laughed at the sight and rose his hands to the air, creating more and more explosions from all around, fazing each and every one of us from side to side, unable to defend even for a second. Even though my parents were tough fighters at the top of their shape, they were still always older than we were, not being able to react as much as we could, thus making them both collapse to the ground to their knees. I growled as I was just thrown down onto my back then looked up, wincing to see that my parents were having a hard time. My stance got a bit more serious and I began to glare.
"Alright...prepare yourself..." My hands rose up in front of my body and they began to glow a bright yellow this time. My eyes blinked as I saw a small amount of electricity surrounding my fists. I knew that sooner or later I would be honing a power that had to do with the elements. At least...that's what I was told by Shadow. My confused frown turned into a smirk and I charged forward at Scourge at a high speed. My hands were sparking violently with electricity and then I threw them at his face, tossing a few shocks of lightning with great speed. Scourge did nothing but smirk, knocking away the bolts and backhanding me across my cheek and onto the ground.
I wasn't stopping there. I threw my feet upward and got back up, then launching myself at Scourge's throat, but found myself being caught by my own throat by his hand. Gagging could be heard from my mouth, but I was quickly released after a very swift punch from Sonic, who had sped up at the right time. That was followed by Knuckles landing a solid but powerful lunging punch across Scourge's face, making him skid back, but still with a smirk on his face. The real Scourge was in there somewhere...and the least I could do was to free him from Mephiles' wrath.
I charged at a high speed again, surrounding my hands with electricity and throwing another punch on Scourge's face, shocking him and making him stumble back. I panted and kept punching over and over, each punch more powerful than the last. Scourge yerked to each punch and was stepping back further and further until finally I slammed him to the ground with more force than before. Mephiles' voice was once again heard in all of our heads as he spoke,
"Hmhmhm...you cannot defeat a spirit, you weaklings...Solaris will be revived...and there will be nothing...you can do about it!!!" Scourge's body glowed a bright purple color that made us cover our eyes from being blind. A bright aura had come off of Scourge, then suddenly forming into that very head of Mephiles himself. My eyes widened a bit to see such horror in front of me, but Mephiles had lunged himself at me at a very high speed, hoping to take control of my own body. Knuckles and the others shouted no in attempt to divert Mephiles' course, but Mephiles only made it by a few inches. That is until a flash of fur had gone by me, knocking the spirit to the ground. I blinked and looked to the character, but noticed this one hasn't been to my world ever since Knuckles and the others did.
The figure had rid of Mephiles for the time being, he having disappeared into the ground with no trace left of him around us, and then turned around to see me. His eyes narrowed a bit and he stared at me in the eyes, as everyone else's eyes widened to see who was standing there in nothing but a pair of black pants and a white robe to cover his shoulders and the rest of his body. His sun colored yellow eyes were very familiar to mine.
"So...you're the one who brought the wrath of Iblis and Solaris into this world huh...?"