Chapter 11: Enlightenment
It was pitch black, so Sonic couldn't see anything. "Hey, mysterious entity, can you tell me where to go now?"
As if on response, a path of black torches led Sonic to the stairs. Sonic walked slowly to the stairs so he wouldn't accidentally trip over. His plan failed, as he slipped and fell face first to the floor, and he almost had a heart attack when he noticed the floor was wet.
"For the love of... Wait..." She thought she would lose coinscience by now and then she would end up in a strange place next time someone drenched her with a hot liquid, but she didn't, she was still conscious. But then, she felt a cold air passing through her legs and he heard the voice laughing maniatically.
"Hey! No fair!" She replied. Another set of torches led showed her her old clothes. Her blue underwear, short light blue skirt with black belt with a blue buckle and a blue tank top where all there. She put them on and then the torches led her upstairs.
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Tails was in the middle of a forest, walking to the place where the purple rock had come from, until he heard an evil laugh that freaked him out.
"He-Hello?" Tails was shook, but he was determined to find Sonic and get him out of... wherever the hell he was.
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After Sonic arrived to the second floor, the flames guided her to one of the rooms. She slowly opened the door, and the flames went inside, showing her a familiar person, meditating with his eyes closed.
"It's you! The one who threatened to kill me if I didn't joined your clan!" She pointed at him. He shut opened his eyes, showing his glowing white irises and his pitch black sclera.
"Yes, too bad that mind-controlling curse was only temporary... This would have ended a little earlier" He smirked. Sonic was shocked to hear that. So that's why she always lost her conscious whenever she turned into a girl! And that would explain how did he got here in the first place.
"But well, time for this little conflict to end. My master isn't very pacient" He stood up and all of a sudden, Sonic was punched out of the room, breaking the door in 2 parts. Virtual appeared in front of her and grabbed her neck.
"The punishment isn't over." He said throwing her out of a window. She couldn't see where she was going because the cave was now pitch black. It seemed the hole was covered by something.
"I have an idea!" She slowly stood up and started running in circles very fast, creating a circle of flames that lightened up part of the cave. But that wasn't everything. She noticed that some creatures backed away as soon as she started the fire, they were mobians. She could see that Syra, Rae and Honey where between them. The only difference they had was their pitch black scleras and their glowing irises. They backed away until they weren't visible. She also saw that the hole that was once used to let the people enjoy of the sun was now blocked by some kind of purple barrier made up of dark energy.
"It seems you don't like light, let me give you some of it!" She started running in circles again, increasing the size of the fire and making the dark mobians back away even more. But there was something odd about it, she wasn't affected by the fire at all, like if it was normal for her to stay near it.
Virtual looked at this annoyed. "I didn't knew she had fire powers, this will make things harder..."
"Come on! Didn't you guys wanted to catch me? Here I am!" She stopped in the middle of the fire she had just made. The dark mobians looking at her with hatred.
One of the dark mobians leaped over her, it was Syra, but as soon as she got lightened by the fire, she tried to back away.
"Oh no! You aren't going anywhere!" Sonic grabbed her hand and pulled her in. As soon as she was in, she started to twist her body in agony, while letting out inhuman cries of pain. The darkness that was in her soul slowly abandoned her body and dissapeared.
"Huh? What happened?" She said regaining her conscience. Her eyes had their normal white sclera again and her irises didn't glowed in the dark anymore.
"Let's just say that even when being controlled, you can't stop being stubborn." Sonic joked "That, or you really really hate me."
"And I'm grateful for that." She replied.
"I have an idea, I'll keep extending the circle of fire and you will try and pull the ones that are closer, got it?" Sonic told her.
"Right! Lets do it to it!" She went out of the fire circle, but she was close enough to still be lightened by it.
Sonic started running in a circle motion again, expanding the circle and letting Syra get a hold of two more dark mobians.
"Here you go!" She sent them spiraling inside the circle of fire. She was going to pick more, but Virtual tried to stop her with his dark tentacles. Syra saw this and managed to dodge the attack and grab the dark mobians, sending them inside the circle of fire. The cries of pain that the dark mobians inside the fire ring were emiting was earsplitting. But Sonic and Syra ignored them, keeping up with the plan.
Virtual sent more and more dark tentacles, but Syra kept dodging. She was about to snatch another dark mobian, but this time, a dark tentacle managed to get a hold of her. "This game is over!"
Before Virtual could do something to Syra, Sonic ran into the middle, creating a fire that extinguished the dark tentacle.
"This is it!" Virtual had finally had it with these two. He accummulated all of his dark energy and sent it forward. Knocking Sonic, Syra and all of the already cured mobians. The energy also dissipated the fire ring, making the cave pitch black again. Virtual used his tentacles to infect the ones who were already cured.
Sonic could only sit there helplessly as she saw everyone Syra had cured, and Syra, getting infected by the tentacles again.
"Now its your turn" Virtual said, sending a dark tentacle towards Sonic. Sonic yelled in pain as he felt the negative energy flowing through him.
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"Wow! I can't believe it! I found a Chaos Emerald!" The sun started to rise and Tails had found the white Chaos Emerald!. He saw that the emerald started glowing.
"There must be another emerald nearby! I think this is my lucky day!" Tails kept searching for the other emerald. He reached a cliff and the emerald was glowing the brightest.
"I don't see any Chaos Emerald..." Before he could say something else, the Chaos Emerald started levitating, and emited a white burst of white light. Tails felt that the ground started rumbling.
"What's going on here!" He panicked. The white Chaos Emerald sent a white laser to the cliff.
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Virtual felt that something burned his back, when he turned around, he was greeted with very bad news for him. The shield was slowly disintegrating! And to add salt to the wound, the sun was out! Every dark mobian on the place emited an ear splitting scream of agony, and after a few seconds they stopped.
"So close... SO CLOSE!" Virtual's dark energy quickly dissapeared and he crashed into the ground, ending with the evil that was once inside him.
Sonic saw the sunlight and smiled. But who did it? Who saved her? Her question was answered when she saw a familiar two tailed fox flying her way.
"Sonic!" Tails went over to Sonic and hugged her, not paying attention to the people laying in the ground "I found you! Are you okay?" He asked worried
"I'm fine, i'm fine, how did you got here?" Sonic asked him. "You just saved my life and the life of all the people laying here!"
"Really?" He asked surprised. "How?"
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"I'm very sorry for having caused all of this" Virtual apologized with Sonic and Tails.
"Yeah, no problem, it wasn't your fault." Sonic said. "I just want to get home and take a shower with hot water." She said
"So, when you told Sonic you would kill her if she didn't joined your clan, was that your dark side?" Tails asked
"Yes, I was trying to get rid of it but it just got stronger and ended up overwhelming me." He said depressed.
"Don't sweat it! Everything is fixed and its all because of Tails." Sonic said.
Tails blushed a little. "I think i got to be the hero this time."
"You said it buddy!" She said. "I guess this is the goodbye for now."
"Yes, I think Rae has thought about visiting you." He said. "And, of course, Syra wants a rematch."
"That girl just doesn't learns does she?" Sonic rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, here, take this." He stuffed his hand in his pocket and got a necklace with a gold cross. "As a token of gratitude, for freeing us." He gave it to Tails
"Thank you." Tails said putting the necklace on his neck.
"Tails, where is the Tornado?" Sonic asked confused.
"Long story... I'll tell you on the way home." He said.
"Ok buddy." Sonic grabbed Tails and zoomed off at the speed of Mach 2.
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The Light Clan has finally returned to normal! But the mystery is still here, what will Tails turn into when he gets drenched in cold water? Have a sneak peek.
Also, for the people who still wants their Ocs in the story, just post it in a review or PM me, im all ears. :D
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"You have fallen on the spring of the drowned Ice queen" The tour guide said.
"The drowned who?" Tails asked confused.
"Thousands of years ago, there was a vixen queen that was very cold with everybody, even her own children. One day, a wizard gave her ice powers, on the condition that she gave him her children. She agreed, the wizard not only gave her ice powers, but he also gave her an extra tail per child she gave to him, and she had 3 children. After that, she never saw them again. It was said that later she drowned in this same spring because she felt guilty about giving her own children to a stranger. And now, everyone that touches this spring will turn into her every time he or she gets drenched in cold water, but you might return to normal by drenching yourself in hot water."
"Great, just great... A four-tailed ice fox! Is there something more strange than that?" He sighed.
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See ya in the next chapter! :D
