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Chapter 10: Kissed by fate, Embraced by Wings
All that had gone by had left the group in shambles; Lyndia had put an end to the best efforts of an all out battle with her and left unscratched. It left much of those remaining questioning then just what they should do against something like that? Battle experience, knowledge of the battlefield, and quick judgments made her a difficult opponent to consider going against. It was like waking up from a dream that he had not known he was in; all that Wushan had gained would not amount to much against his sister in a straight fight.
"Alright guys, consider our options here. We don't have long to plan now since she beat us pretty swiftly. But we still need to plot a little bit ahead, even with this power you've given us we can't win." Sonic was being realistic about this moment, they'd do better but defeat her? He highly doubted that would be the case.
Tails nodded to that since it was a simple fact, he eyed Knuckles and Shadow, since the two were still there would they help? He wasn't really sure where to place it, he was sure that Knuckles would help and Shadow usually did in a pinch. After hearing the world was under threat, he wanted to know their plans none the less.
The doubt was cleared in a single instant, as Shadow took things into his hands.
"End the debate Sonic; she won't get lucky again when I see her next. I will use the ultimate power against her and she will no longer be able to play those games she was able to this time. There will be no second chance to make a fool of me; she will regret taking me seriously." Shadow's words were spoken with some anger present.
It was understandable given the fact that his efforts combined with Knuckles, Sonic, and this stranger had amounted to nothing. Her strength was nothing of the matter, stopping her would be a simple matter when he was motivated.
Knuckles shook his head at Shadow's words, though he agreed with the resolve since she had come this far and stated her intentions; she had to be stopped.
"I will assist in what ways I can from here, I must not leave the Master Emerald." It was his duty and Wushan understood that.
"Thanks Knux, I knew we could count on you." Sonic was glad to have him on board, though as long as the threat was away from the M.E. there would be less trouble for their buddy. He was sure however they'd need the emeralds soon, if they couldn't stop her at the second temple; they would need the power of the Chaos Emeralds as a trump card.
Between those present amongst minds, they had an excellent team and he was sure they could take Lyndia down before she caused any real problems. Sonic looked to Wushan, since well this was more or less his main issue and all of the knowledge did lay with him. Even after the Sacred Point Guardian had filled them in, the location of the second Sacred Point Temple was secret.
Wushan wasn't sure just what to do since even he didn't know anything past the first point, how would they find the second temple? He imagined it had a power signal and he was certain Tails's device would work just fine, but they needed to act faster than just getting there on time.
"Don't strain your mind too much little brother, you must focus." The familiar tone had everyone standing on guard.
As those in the group turned to face her, a state of battle-ready looks seemed to be the main result. All except Wushan, who knew his other elder sister without fail despite her similar appearance to Lyndia; he ran over to her and embraced her tightly.
Sonic blinked lightly at the scene, while Tails had a look on confusion on his face, wasn't she trying to beat them up? Shadow didn't bother waiting and launched a bolt of chaos at the two embracing Drakehedges; he had no time for any confusion.
"There'll be no need for that, Shadow." Wushan said as he casually turned and punched the chaos bolt into the ground; least to say his focus remained despite the embrace.
A moment of shock hit Tails once more, Sonic was more impressed with the action than shocked, and Shadow scoffed at the result since it wasn't really powerful.
"This isn't my sister Lyndia, this is the younger of the two and my other big sister; Lana of Tibea." He said her said full of pride, since knowing the history and having nothing but respect for his sister was to be expected of him.
Lana rubbed the top of his head and looked at his friends; these were the others that Lyn had mentioned while speaking with her. She would take her time to gain their trust before trying anything else, since she could see that even at her brother's word there was wariness lingering from the presence of her sister's battle with them.
"I don't expect your trust of you just yet, but I suppose you may learn to later on. Whether or not you do is your choice, I am here more or less for my brother's sake however I do care for comrades of any kind even if they are strangers." Lana spoke right to the point, it was direct and there was no need to push it any further.
Sonic gave a light nod and Tails did as well, Knuckles seemed to relax since she would've attacked already if that was her goal. Shadow snorted and crossed his arms, she was still worthless and that was the end of it; lest she proved herself useful.
"Alright, Wushan I will be brief and we can catch up later, Lyndia is headed towards the area you now call Ice Cap Zone." Having come into contact with her brother, she was using his mental knowledge of updated areas while comparing those with the locations that she knew well.
"The second temple is up there? That's dangerous, since we don't put up with the cold well." Wushan had known for a fact that the cold was something that was out of their hands, even if there was no choice but to go there.
Lana nodded as this was a fact Lyndia knew all too well.
"The advantage will be ours there, since you and I are in Hedgehog shape now, we will deal with the cold far better. Lyndia cannot maintain her shape in that of our father due to the arcane magic. So, heroes of Mobius, the advantage will be ours in the fact that her metabolism is slowed by the cold and that she cannot maintain a high magical output there." She imagined that info would help the morale of the others a little bit.
Shadow grinned at this news; it meant that she would fall a lot easier in such a situation. Not that he needed such an aid, but if nature wished to help him then there was nothing else needed.
"You can all go home and leave it to me; she will be nothing before the Ultimate Life form. Luck happens in rare forms, she will not defeat me again." He would hold nothing back this time; she deserved nothing but his best.
Lana spoke quickly to rebuttal his statement, such pride was in part why he fell the first time.
"While my sister will be weakened good hero she is by no means subdued merely by the cold; she enough power to compensate for that simple fact, she will crush you if you face her alone." Lana wouldn't press the matter with him further, it would do no good.
Before Shadow could respond to his sister, Wushan clapped twice and summoned Toresule to his side.
"We are ready to go then, let's not waste another moment." He said as he looked to his long term partner, the Dragon-like form of his motorcycle had taken hold of a tuckered out Amy Rose and kept her safe while they'd checked things out.
His sister had not killed her and ended up leaving her still, while he was still in wonder about the whole situation. He would tell Lana to of the status that he had entered, Lyndia was not finished with her battle again the pink hedgehog; she wanted her to grasp what powers the temple had granted her first. He had no choice but to tell Amy what she was thought to be to him, her crush on him was not worth chancing her life. He did not feel it was right for her to be put on the line without her knowing what it meant.
Liking someone only to be killed for that feeling later, as he imagined it would scare her off even if she did feel something even remotely romantic towards him. Even if she was not scared, he imagined she could come to simple terms with one fact: defeating his sister was only one step towards being allowed to be with him; she had to pass his mother's judgment and that was something he doubted would happen by long.
While Wushan was left to his thoughts, Lana seated him on the back of the great dragon and held him steady; she knew already from her brother's mind this was his friend/partner.
"Have no fear Toresule, I am his sister and I mean you no harm. I have learned all about you and how you've watched out for my brother thank you very much for protecting him." Her words of gratitude were genuine.
Why not be happy for her brother's safety when he was well looked after right? As her sister had mentioned, the small pink one had smelled strongly of her brother, but she knew that they'd not been intimate. This meant one of several things that she was already thinking about, though it was no need to drop in on her brother; he would protect this girl as she saw in his mind that he liked her.
"You will not harm Miss Rose will you? I will protect her as it was something Wushan requested." He was sure he could trust her, but whether or not she would attack Amy was another thing.
She shook her head and smiled at the concern, he was courteous and protective; this was a good friend to have indeed.
"No, I will not harm her, though it is dangerous for her to like my brother. I can see there is something between the both of them, he fears for her life and denies that he feels more than friendship. But he only hides it from himself, the girl likes him though all that will come of it is a challenge from myself, Lyndia, and if awakened, our mother." She feared indeed the result of that.
Toresule nodded by said nothing, everything was a trying danger but that was not reason enough to stop any soul he'd met in the past during his existence. He knew that they would cross that dangerous realm first.
Any further conversation had ended when Lana sensed her brother's presence. She would continue this with Toresule later and perhaps young Amy Rose as well; it was nothing small to fall in love with the son of the strongest of the Drakehedge. She could tell from Amy's mind, that she had been on many an adventure and a greater affection for the blue hedgehog she's seen before; named Sonic.
As she got onto the back of the great dragon, behind her brother who was sitting closer towards Toresule's neck; she wrapped both arms around him to brace herself for the ride and to hug him.
Without any gestures from Wushan, Toresule started towards their new location, with the Tornado III flying beside him with ease. With the group underway now, it was a simple manner of finding their way to the temple before Lyndia made it. With Lana guiding them it would be easy; but that didn't cover anything else what plans did they have for defeating them?
-With Lyndia
When she sensed the group moving off she felt more hopeful, touched by the fact this all was for her sake. She knew that Lana shared her goal for purging the evil energies from her body, mind, and soul.
"I am so close the temple is just ahead, we should arrive at a similar time. I hope they've got something, some kind of plan either way this will be growing deeper, I have no means of stopping what happens next." With her sister already awake, the second temple would awaken more of their people and their mother's mind would first awaken.
How she longed to hear her mother's voice again, that assurance in the calm yet firm tone her mother often provided, it made her happy to reminisce. She'd make it up to them all if they weathered it if she survived this, how desperately she wanted to live.
Damn those humans damn the mages and their corrupted arcane. She shed several tears while in flight but silenced her thoughts since she needed to focus; there she needed to get her mind in gear, this would work out as long as she kept going.
She smiled at it, one way or another she'd be getting her wish and had no time to let it all go; her fear was what kept her smart but she decided against letting it cloud her judgment. All she wished was to be free and to love her family freely once again.
This was enough reasoning for her to push on this quest. She figured that she would need to stop by her brother's place of business after activating this temple. She wanted to know just who had been with her brother, it wasn't that hard to tell that her younger sibling had taken a mate over the years of being awake; it was only natural for him to grow up.
"I wonder who was strong enough to claim my brother. The little scamp's always been a handful even when he wasn't as good as he is now." Her tone hinted at a funny memory, raising her brother was one of her jobs when the war had started.
She hadn't been able to keep up with him when he was a kid, always moving around fast once he knew how to fly. She wondered if he was any better at aerial combat. She was going to have to test him when they came into battle; though she'd have to take things more seriously at the last temple she was counting on Lana's struggling with her as well, and she could not beat her sister with her brother and his friends helping that easily.
She was counting on them to all improve if not give her greater issues when fighting, if anything it was all she could ask of her family; to stop her and make it worthy of her warrior's skill.
If anything it would all fall down to what this magic drove her to do, she would have to conserve her efforts of breaking it when she succeeded there was never a surefire way to know what would happen.
"As you wish, I will make way for the future that has chased me this far." Her words were soft, spoken with bitterness from within as she unwillingly accepted the magic's push for her to release the temples.
With strength to defeat an entire Overlander mage fortress with dozens of soldiers alone, how pitiable that the mighty Drakehedge's pride had fallen victim to the same magic held by those miserable fools who attempted to touch what they shouldn't.
As she quickened her pace, she allowed her bitter tears to fall as she headed for the Sacred Point's location. A victim at a thousand flaps of a wing headed towards a destiny that forcefully embraced her.
-Within the mental realm of a sleeping Amy Rose-
Having remained unconscious since she had been possessed by the Sacred Point's energies, Amy was resting comfortably in mid-flight on the back of Toresule. While under the watchful eye of the great dragon her mind was full of dreams. These thoughts unlike anything she had known in the past before, it reminded her of the visit to the ancient land of the Echidnas that one time she had never known exactly what was happening.
"Where am I?" her thoughts sounding as words as she looked into the swimming darkness.
All around her a soft pushing and pulling current, as if like the ocean's waves, she had no idea what to put into thought. This was nothing she had ever seen before, this desolate place had not responded to her mind or presence as of yet. She felt nothing but enclosing warmth that had implanted inside of her mind, it demanded her attentions and she was forced to heed it.
'A fortune upon you child, to become the Egg of destiny for our people; you who will hold our sacred power from this day forth.' The voice spoke to her in a tongue she didn't know and yet the words were as clear as day.
Amy was confused, but imagined that was the heat that she felt around her.
"What power? What are you talking about?" the questions would be answered by a single statement.
'The power to become as a Drakehedge from the Sacred Point's touch that has joined with your form.'
The words had made her shiver a little, didn't she have a say in this? She had wanted to think about it at least, though she got no response from the voice when she tried to sound out the question; nothing came forth.
The voice went on to speak, giving her some sample of what this power would ultimately do to her.
'You will free our original savior from her plight; you will host the magicks within your body. You will become one of us in magical sense. Amy Rose, the chosen of the Drakehedge. The worthy of those mortals remaining, use this power honestly or it may engulf you instead.'
The words fell soon to silence as Amy thought over what she had just heard was this real? Did she have an option in this light? There was no way to be sure as there was simply nothing more from the voice; a statement and then a set of something she felt to be real now inside.
She would be like them like Wushan? She knew he'd said 'Drakehedge' a few times and that was what he was. She never thought it possible and yet now she would be like him, in one sense the magic told her. The prospect was frightening, though like it or not was what now held her in its grip.
She had become the embraced and now all the falling rose could do was kiss the destiny and return the hold. She was lost at first and now a chosen, what would become of her fate in the future? It was something that had yet to be told and only now when she woke, would she try for some answers from those Drakehedge before her.
"I guess that I'd better try to rest, I'm so tired " her words falling to a wary heart which soon drifted to sleep in this world.
While she was swept away by dark currents, she was held carefully on the back of Toresule by a watchful Wushan; who was well aware of the change within. Like it or not he knew that she was dragged into this. But his Ex-mate, by his sister, by the Sacred Point Temple and his peoples' power; there was no escape for the young pink hedgehog now. Just in the inescapable knowledge of the inevitable conflict destined to happen long ago by those who instilled it.
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Well what do you think? Will things change for Amy now? And what does this mean for the group? With a newfound effort and the return of Lyndia's twin sister, Lana (currently depowered while she recovers), will things shift in the favor of the heroic group led by Sonic and guided by Wushan?
Stay tuned to find out, I will write this following chapter very soon as I'm excited about it.
Till the next time I bid you adieu
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