Chapter Fourteen: Celestia the Light

The scene was almost pitch black, the only light seemed to be emanating from Cloak Man, who looked as though he was having a staring competition with Mephiles.

"So? Who are you?" This was Sonic, who at the moment had his full attention on Cloak Man.

Cloak Man's eyes stayed fixed on Mephiles as he spoke, "'God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.' Genesis 1:4."*

"So you are...?"

"Celestia the Light, brother of Mephiles the Dark. I have always been, and always will be."

"But Mephiles was stuck in a scepter! Why weren't y..." Sonic's face turned blank as he realised, Celestia smiled with his non existant mouth.

"You came from the Jewelled Scepter."**

"Hm. So the hedgehog does have a brain. How quaint." as Mephiles spoke Sonic's eyes immediately were diverted from Celestia, who's eyes were already on Mephiles.

"Sonic, use the seven Chaos Emeralds to go super."

"Erm, problem with that, buddy..." Sonic picked up his fake emerald, and crushed it in his hand. Celestia's cloak almost fell off with his shock, he glared at Sonic, then slowly turned back to Mephiles.

"I had my suspicions." He said coolly.

"You never had a chance at finding the seventh emerald." Mephiles cut in, pulling a yellow emerald from nowhere.

"What!?" Celestia yelled in rage, "How the heck did you get that!?"

"That's for me to know..." Mephiles flew backwards, way out of Sonic's range, and taunted Celestia, "Looks like you'll have to take it from me."

Sonic was forced to watch helplessly as Celestia flew to Mephiles, the two floating but a few feet away from each other.

"Well, make your move."

Celestia glared, he took his cloak and placed it behind his shoulders, Sonic saw him inhale and exhale slowly. And in a sudden flash of lightning speed, he swung a kick at Mephilles head, Mephiles ducked and aimed a punch to Celestia's stomach, which was blocked, Celestia spun around and kicked Mephiles backwards. He then flew towards him, bluffing a hit and teleporting behind him, this time going for a punch. Mephiles grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, making Celestia yell in pain.

"The good thing about being a bad guy is that you get to fight dirty."

Celestia growled, kicking Mephilles' shin and twisting around to release himself from his grip. He then grabbed Mephilles' arm, and swung him downwards, sending him flying into a purple, translucent platform similar to and about fifty feet below the one that Sonic was standing on, maybe he could make the jump... Celestia teleported to Mephilles' location and stood over him as he lay in his small crater.

"The good thing about being a good guy is that you get to fight well."

Mephiles dived towards Celestia with a roar, who jumped backwards as Mephiles fired a barrage of black spheres of energy. These were deflected by shields of white energy created by Celestia. Mephiles forced him to back away as he closed in, his dark energy was indeed powerful.

Eventually tiring Celestia out, Mephilles stood in front of him and grabbed his neck. "You can never destroy me. There will always be darkness, there will always be death."

"Yoink!"

Mephiles lashed around as he felt a streak of wind pass his back, he saw Sonic about twenty feet away, spinning the yellow Chaos Emerald in his hand.

"No!" Mephiles yelled, his grip on Celestia weakening slightly, Celestia saw this, and drop kicked Mephiles, grabbing his arm as he fell back, and flinging him towards Sonic, who by now was surrounded by a white light. The light dissipated quickly, and Mephiles found himself quickly flying towards Super Sonic, who ducked, and kicked him upwards.

Sonic flew up to his friends while Celestia continued to fight Mephiles. Blaze, Tails, Marine and Shadow were still unconscious, Sonic smiled and placed his palms out towards them, around his hands formed an white light, brighter than that which was regularly flowing from his body, and the same light emanated from the others.

Within seconds and with a few grunts and moans, the four eventually stood up, gasping in unison as they saw Super Sonic, who's body seemed to light up the scenery with his white aura, his warm red eyes like the most finely cut ruby's. He grinned and stuck his thumb up before returning to the fight.

"Wait!" Sonic was surprised to hear Shadow, "Let me help, I can use the emeralds too!"

Sonic tutted, "Not this time, buddy.." He hesitated, than went on, "...Just... look after Blaze..." he found surprising nobility in himself despite his heart sinking, maybe it was the emeralds. Shadow looked taken back, but nodded hesitantly. Sonic couldn't help but notice Blaze edge away from Shadow slightly.

Sonic backed away slowly and flew towards the fight. Mephiles stood no chance. He saw this, however, and flew backwards, forcing his palms to face the others, "I may be unable to kill you, but I'm sure less can be said about your friends!"

"No!" Sonic yelled. He dashed in the way of the beam that Mephiles had fired straight towards the others, Tails had dragged Marine out of the way, and Shadow had dived to the left. Blaze to Sonic's dismay seemed to be to shocked to move. He landed a few feet from her, intercepting Mephiles' blast with an almighty crack.

Blaze stood behind him as he blocked the beam, he was struggling as his shoes began to skid along the glass like floor. He heard Blaze cry out his name and turned around. "Go!" he roared over the sound of the energy he was blocking along with Mephiles' laughter. Where the hell was Celestia?

"You'll die!" She screamed back. Sonic said nothing, but she noticed a shine in his red eye that was as good as a nod. In a split second, Super Sonic grabbed Blaze and threw her to the side, letting her avoid the blast but forcing himself into the full fury of it. The last thing that the hedgehog felt was a searing, burning pain in his back. His last thought, however, was much more painful.

I've failed.

Some notes:

*I am actually strongly atheist, I'm not saying God is real or anything, just incase I may offend someone or something like that...

**For those who haven't read 'Where I Belong', (and I highly recommend that you do) Super Sonic broke the Jewelled Scepter for reasons that you'll know if you read.

Also, it turns out that Mephilles is actually spelled 'Mephiles' despite what I've written in all of my stories, so I'll be spelling it right now.