Me: YAY! Finally! Sorry for late update. Lazy and busy... _ enjoy!
EDIT: I forgot to add that they obtained the chaos emeralds... _
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Chapter 12 – The Real Black Knight
"Is that… Mephiles?" Rouge asked. The knight is covered with blue and purple crystals, including his armor. He has his visor on but the right side was broken, allowing his green reptilian to be seen. He has no mouth. His sword is similar to that of Sir Lancelot's but it is made of black metal. The tip has large crystals that act like spikes. The lower part of the sword is like Arondight but the yellow part are replaced with crystals.
"I am not this Mephiles person. I am Mephtic the black knight." Said the dark figure and scanned his ememies, "I see you have not bought your royal wizard, Arthur but would you? Her power's is not strong enough to create a portal to the Underworld, does she? Or is she scared?" King Arthur felt the rage building up.
"Stop bombarding us with questions, you freak! Now hand over the chaos emerald!" Knuckles yelled.
"You're rude, aren't you." Mephtic spoke as he glared at Knuckles. "I have introduced myself to you and yet you have not."
"Quit the talk and get to the point. You did not show respect to our king and have wasted enough time. What are you planning to do with those emeralds?" Sir Lancelot said.
"My my, you have changed Lancelot. It has been years since we have last met each other. Why not start with a 'hello'?" The crystalline figure spoke.
"What does he mean? Did you two know each other Sir Lancelot?" King Arthur asked.
Sir Lancelot lowered his head, thinking of the past. "Yes…" "Why not tell them about our story? Your allies will certainly want to know." Mephtic encouraged. "It has nothing to do with this!" Sir Lancelot yelled. "Hmph. Then I'll tell them then. It was a long time ago when Lancelot was still living with Nimue…"
Flashback
Lancelot was practicing his fighting skills with his wooden sword besides the lake. Nimue is busy doing her stuff back at her place. The black hedgehog grew tired and decided to sit down and have some apples.
Suddenly, he noticed a strange shadow between the trees. It seemed to be watching him. The darkness trotted forward and stayed in front of the hedgehog. Lancelot holding out an apple and asked, "Do you want some apples?" He put the apple in front of the darkness and it surrounded the apple and the fruit disappeared. Lancelot figured that the strange creature might be hungry. He gave it his whole basket of apples to it. The creature greedily consumed all the apples and remained silent.
Then, the shadow moved towards Lancelot's shadow and started to form. He turned himself looking exactly like Lancelot but without a mouth. Lancelot was shocked and held up his wooden sword towards it.
"Who are you?" Lancelot demanded an answer. The copy stared at his sword and spoke, "How rude of you to point that at me. I did not do any harm." Lancelot realized his error and put the sword down.
"My name… is Mephtic. I have been searching for one's shadow that is worth of restoring me. I mean you no harm." He said. "I am Lancelot. You want to play with me?" Lancelot asked kindly. "… sure."
From that day on, whenever Shadow saw Mephtic in the meadow near the lake, he would go and play with him. However, whenever Nimue is near, Mephtic would hide, preventing from being spotted.
"Mephtic, why do you always hide from Lady Nimue?" Lancelot asked one day. ".. I don't like strangers…" Mephtic replied. "Oh."
Both of them met almost every day until the day Lancelot left the lake and became a knight of the Round Table. Since then, they never saw each other again.
Flashback End
"We have always been friends, Lancelot. I have missed you ever since you have left the lake." Mephtic continued. "I always remember the days that we have spent in that meadow. Not long that I've found out that you have become a knight. I thought of creating a throne in the Underworld since it is my birthplace… Ah yes, I haven't told you that, didn't I Lancelot? Yes… this place is my birthplace. Beautiful, isn't it. However, I did not kidnapped the king and take these emeralds simply because of you Lancelot…"
"Then, what is your plan?" Sir Percival asked.
"… Revenge on using me. You suppose to know about Merlina's plan, right? Well, that black knight that that Sir Sonic fought is an alternation of me! Merlina used ancient magic and changed me into an evil form of King Arthur. She even put her own king into deep slumber. I did not kidnap your king. I was enraged. How dare of her. I did not release the king but the Knights of the Round Table found him and saved him. Since I was not treated with rightful respect and ways, I should use the power of these emeralds and take over the world! MUHAHAHA!" Mephtic ended his speech with his maniac laughter.
"You… If you threaten our kingdom in any ways, then I should treat you as my enemy instead of my friend!" Sir Lancelot yelled.
"Then so be it!"
"Alright! Time to get this party started!" Knuckles punched the air with his fits.
"I'm afraid you have to stay out of this" Lady Nimue spoke, "You and your friends have no armor, sword or shield. You might be killed during the fight. For me, it's miracle that you have come this far…"
"But…"
"She's right. We have to stay back this time." Luna said.
"It does not matter. However…" The dark knight created a barrier around the chaos emeralds. "You shall not thief the emeralds during out battle. Until the battle is finished, the emeralds shall remain untouched."
"Are you ready, Knights of the Round Table?" Caliburn asked.
"YES!"
"Let's go!" King Arthur dashed forward and clashed swords with Mephtic but he reflected his attack like it was nothing. The knights assaulted the black knight but Mephtic dashed behind them and attacked them.
"This is gonna be a tough fight." Rouge commented.
Mephtic charged at King Arthur. The royal hedgehog blocked his attack with his sword but the attack force of Mephtic is too powerful and got hit. The black sword cut a wound on the king's shoulder. The rest of the gang can do nothing but sit and watch.
"Chaos Punishment!" Sir Lancelot teleported next to Mephtic and successfully landed a hit. "Not bad, but not good enough! Dark Assault!" Multiple swords made of darkness appeared from the ground and slashed Sir Lancelot. The black hedgehog was covered with wounds and fell on the ground, fainted.
"Gail Meteor!" Sir Gawaine threw his twin-swords at the devil but again he dodged it and charged at him. He banged him on the castle wall and rumbles crashed onto him, leaving his sword out of his grasps.
Sir Galahad used his psychokinetic energy and made a circular seal made of two decorated rings. Mephtic grunted at the power of the seal rings but jumped up to the celling and bounced back towards Sir Galahad. The white knight was preparing his attack until multiple dark vines tangled him, leaving him defenseless. With a mighty blow, Mephtic smote his body, penetrating his armor and leaving a wound on his stomach, causing him to kneel down.
"It's not too late to give up now." Mephtic said. "Never! If I fail, I should die trying! Flames of Kilekion!" Blaze became a tornado of fire and accelerated towards Mephtic. Mephtic blocked the attack with his sword and waited until she's worn down. Then, he striked her towards the waking Sir Lancelot and caused them to collide with each other.
King Arthur stood on his feet and continued to attack his enemy but how many times he tried, Mephtic reflected his attack back.
"The battle is over, Arthur. I have won. " Mephtic stated.
"No… I won't lose! For this kingdom, I shall defeat you and bring justice!" Then all of a sudden, the three sacred swords - Arondight, Galatine and Laevatein glowed simultaneously and the three knights slowly wake up to see this sacred event. Caliburn soon glowed and King Arthur glowed in golden light. After a sudden explosion of lights, King Arthur has transformed into Excalibur Arthur with the greatest sacred sword – Excalibur. Everyone was amazed and saw a hope of light on defeating the darkness. Mephtic, on the other hand, was not amused with the light show. Excalibur Arthur dashed towards Mephtic, giving him a shocking knockdown. The dark knight glared at the golden king and used Dark Assault but the king eliminated the swords of darkness. Mephtic rushed towards Excalibur Arthur and rampaged on him but the empowered king easily blocked all his attacks with his great sword. Mephtic, feeling exhausted, grunted.
"Now's our chance!" Excalibur spoke and Excalibur Arthur used Soul Surge and unleashed a fury of sword slashes. Mephtic dropped his sword and kneeled down painfully, blood rushed at his wound on his body and face. His visor is entirely broken and his armor is sliced into pieces with a few remaining on his body. Everyone was delighted they have won.
"Get on with it. It's your chance." Mephtic said.
"I am not the one to decide that." The golden king turned to Sir Lancelot. The black hedgehog stepped forward and raised his sword. Mephtic braced for the impact.
CLING.
The sword was embedded on the floor. "Why?"
"You are my friend and I see good in you." Sir Lancelot spoke and kneeled down. "Getting revenge won't do anything, Mephtic. Stop this."
Mephtic looked at Sir Lancelot and looked down on the ground. "But Merlina…"
"Merlina realized her mistakes and now King Arthur knew the truth, I'm sure he'll talk to Merlina and give her suitable punishments."
"…I'm sorry…"
Mephtic lowered the barrier of the chaos emeralds and gave it to Sir Lancelot.
Sir Lancelot smiled and helped Mephtic to get up. The gang at the back have tears running through their cheeks. "It's so touching…" Luna spoke.
"Let's get back. I'll treat you with some apples." Sir Lancelot smiled and everyone, including Mephtic went back to Avalon.
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