The Wielders of Chaos part 20
"Heroes From Another World,"
The four heroes, or three heroes and one so called anti-hero, began hurrying toward Blaze's Castle. On their way they came across what appeared to be a village, a deserted village. They took a few looks around to see that there was no sign of anyone, and that the people possibly ran off in a hurry. Sol closed her eyes to feel any heat trails that were left post Blaze's instructions.
"Wow…doesn't seem like it was that long ago that these people left," she said.
"Yeah, the monster busted through the perimeter we set up, so we had to evacuate them to the shelter in the Castle," Victor said pointed toward the towering structure not far from where they were. Andrea looked out with awe. The castle stood tall, with one extremely tall tower surrounded by lesser towers. A slight purple tint came off the castle making it look beautiful even in this dark atmosphere.
"Wow, your castle is lovely Blaze!" Andrea cooed.
"Yeah I'll say. If it looks this pretty from this faraway then up close it must be even better!" Amy said in agreement.
"Thank you. I suppose as the last beacon of hope for the planet it must stand out," Blaze said sternly.
"I don't get how you have a castle like that, but you're still not willing to pay me for my services," Arcane whined.
"What would you do with money anyway, buy up the candy shop?" Andrea asked incredulously.
"That's none of your concern, and stop talking down to me!" he exclaimed. Suddenly, a liquid began covering his arms. He seemingly panicked as he tried to shake it off.
"Victor get a hold of yourself now!" Sol ordered. Arcane took a couple of deep breaths to calm himself until the liquid began to retreat back from whence it came.
"What was that?" Andrea asked.
"Victor and Chaos aren't what you'd call the ideal partnered situation. It's weird because they bonded really well on an emotional level, but it's hard for Victor to control Chaos's powers. We're still not sure why," Mikaela explained.
"I always thought it was a psychological reason why. Chaos is willing to help us to fight off this evil because it's the right thing to do, Victor however wants some type of payment or reward for it. That clash of selflessness and selfishness is bound to create problems. A bond is at its weakest when they can't agree on the same goal," Silver said explaining the situation in more detail.
"That makes sense…" Andrea said glancing at Arcane who was still trying to stay in control as he stares at his hands. After one final cleansing breath he dropped his arms.
"Alright, I'm good we can go on," he said. They walked through the village with Andrea and Amy asking more questions about the world and Sol and Mikaela answering them to the best of their knowledge. They exited the village and grew closer to the castle grounds. What they saw startled them as they see a horde of monsters trying all trying to push their way into the castle. The only thing stopping them appears to be one person standing at the gate of the castle. The person had a long broad sword in his arms the length of his body. He had blond hair in the form of a bowl cut with blue eyes. He wears red, and black high top sneakers, black shorts, and a red shirt with a sword strap on his back. He smiles as the creature all approach.
"Holy crap that dude is all by himself we gotta help him!" Andrea exclaimed summoning her hammer.
"Whoa simmer down Andrea," Mikaela said using her powers to pull Andrea back.
"What, but he's gonna get creamed!"
"Just watch, besides we'd probably just get in his way,"
Andrea tilts her head then looks the person over again carefully, she notices a red Sol Emerald on the boy's hip. So he's a carrier, wonder who his hero is. The monsters rushed the boy head on and the boy smirked swung his giant sword horizontal arch. He let out a battle cry as he rushed forward into the pack. He sent monsters left and right with sword swings. The sword looked incredibly heavy, but somehow he swung it like nothing. It was a testament of his massive strength as he slashed and tore the monsters apart with ease. He caught a beast's face then slammed it into the ground and stomped on its face. He noticed a few creatures slipping past him, so he threw his sword to cleave a monster's head in half. The Dark Feral recognized he is now unarmed and moved in for the kill. However, he lifted the creatures overhead with great ease. He tossed them aside without a thought.
"Wow…this guy is insane…" Andrea gasped.
"He might be as strong as Knuckles," Amy added.
"Yep, that's Sam Permafrost, our muscle," Sol said with a smirk.
"Well he seems really well trained up on his powers, why didn't he teleport to my world yet?" Andrea asked.
"Well as you can see he's a major part of the defense of the castle. Without him those beast would probably go rushing on in. With Arcane still a liability, and George and Lauren skills not up to snuff to fight off an army like this it be a bad idea for him to leave. He was actually the second one to almost master his hero's powers so he was before me," Mikaela explained.
"Who is his hero anyway?" Amy asked.
"A guy by the name of Mighty the Armadillo, his strength is legendary and almost freakish with what he can do as you can see," Blaze explained. Sam had dispatched with all the monsters by the end of the conversation. He slipped his sword on his back then wiped a bead of sweat from his brow. He looked over to see the group walking towards him. He smiled and waved to them.
"Sol, Mikaela how ya guys doing?" He said greeting them with a smirk. "I see you also found Arcane too,"
"He knows how to call for help," Andrea remarked making Arcane glare at her. Sam looked at her with an eyebrow raised.
"You're a new addition, who are you?"
"My name's Andrea, I'm from the other world where Mephiles is," she introduced.
"Right, my names Sam," He reached to his hip to hold up his Sol Emerald. "And this is my pal Mighty,"
"Nice to meet you Andrea," Came the friendly voice of Mighty out the emerald.
"Oh and before I forget this is my friend Amy," Andrea said holding up the green Chaos Emerald around her neck.
"Nice to meet you both," Amy greeted.
"Wow…so these are what the other set of emeralds look like. They look like a lot of trouble to carry,"
"You get used to it," Andrea shrugged.
"Well welcome to Amercia, what brings you guys back here?"
"Are you serious, dude we need both sets of emeralds to bring down Mephiles, and we gathered all of them except you five," Sol explained.
"Oh yeah I forgot," Sam smiled rubbing the back of his head. "But unfortunately Michael left to the other world a little while ago before you guys got here,"
"Ugh, are you serious!" Sol exclaimed.
"Yeah, he was getting pretty antsy so he went off to the other world to pick bigger fights," Arcane added.
"Bane of my existence and Tikal couldn't stop him?"
"Well she advised against it at first, but for someone whose not chatty he knew just what to say to convince her to reconsider her position. Apparently she agreed, but only because she wanted him to secure the Master Emerald," Sam explained.
"B-b-but, the Master Emerald is on Angel Island, along with a crazy sociopathic chaos god!" Andrea asked flailing her arms.
"Even with Tikal backing him up with her powers this guy won't stand a chance against Enerjak," Amy explained.
"Chaos said that Tikal and Michael are fine. He was saying something about 'the hero being near' or whatever," Arcane said. "This Chaos Force stuff is seriously confusing…"
"Oh man that makes me worry more now…" Sol groaned.
"Well we can deal with them when we get back to Mobius, right now we should deal with the matter at hand," Blaze said calling attention.
"She's right are the other two inside the castle?" Silver asked.
"Yeah, their settling down the town's people in the shelter below the castle, we should head inside too," Sam waved them to follow him inside the castle. They walk over the drawbridge into the castle. They see that despite the conditions outside that the inside of the castle looked brightly lit. Many guards were returning to their posts at the same time as well. They walked until they made it to a staircase that descended further down. Once they reached the bottom they saw that a large gathering of villagers all covered in blankets and sitting down to gather themselves. The eye catchers though were the ones flying around the room making sure everyone was settled. They two stopped a moment to look over to their new arrivals but they both brighten up to see them.
"Hey Sam finished already?" came the boy flying over to greet him with a smile. He seemed to be about thirteen years old and dirty blonde hair with short bangs and small cowlick, and brown eyes. He wears a blue short sleeved jacket, dark blue jeans, and blue and white converse. He stood at the height of 5'2 at least to Sam's chest. On the inside of the jacket pocket is a bright orange Sol Emerald.
"Yeah, those guys didn't stand a chance!" Same said flexing his arm.
"Yeah, Sam's skill and Mighty's strength make one sick combination," came a voice from the boy's emerald.
"Of course you would think so Ray," said the girl with them. She appeared to be sixteen and with chocolate hair, and chocolate eyes to match. She wraps her hair in a ponytail, while wearing a long sleeve light blue shirt and a pink shirt that covers half of his quads standing at a height of 5'10. She also wears a fanny pack on her hip that held inside a white Sol emerald.
"Who are these guys?" Andrea asked.
"Well I'm Lauren, and this little guy is my adopted younger brother George," She said with a smile.
"Who you calling little guy, I'm a teenager now,"
"Barely,"
"Yeah whatever, I'm also the carrier of Ray the Flying Squirrel," George said floating up into the air.
"And I'm the carrier of Cream," Lauren said with a slight bow.
"Oh my goodness Cream can you hear me!" Amy called.
Suddenly Lauren fanny pack glows and Lauren eyes changed to a soft golden color. "Amy?"
Amy took over Andrea's body then immediately clasped Cream's hands in a show of affection. "Oh Cream it's been so long. When we got all the Chaos Emeralds I was so worried we wouldn't find you!"
"I had went with Mr. Chaos to this world so our spirits could bond with the Sol Emeralds. And we've been helping out wherever we could,"
"Wow Cream you must've been really excited, you usually ask before you take over my body," Lauren's voice said.
"Oh, I apologize for that, I was just so happy to hear Amy's voice since I missed her so much," Cream cried as she grabbed Amy in a hug. If felt odd for Cream to be looking down at her now, but Cream was sure it was odd for Amy also.
"So Cream, why haven't you come back home yet?" Amy asked.
"Well there's just been so much to do here," Cream admitted.
"She's right, even when we left it was kinda bad timing. From what I noticed from this world and the other one is the monsters. The monsters here attack, no matter what or who you are. They've ravaged the land destroying everything in their path with no care at all. On Mobius however the creatures are more organized and goal driven. Possibly because Mephiles has a tighter rein on them since he's there, possibly," Sol said.
"We'd have to wait on that report from Team Dark to see if Mephiles is even there are not. I'd hate to think we're fighting this full scale war and he's barely been present the entire time," Mikaela said.
"Yeah that would be so annoying," George said floating around the group. "But since you and Sol came back to get us does that mean that you gathered everyone in that world already?"
"Yeah, all seven Chaos Emeralds and their carriers have been found. The same thing can be said about the Sol Emeralds as well, we just need to unite and make a plan," Mikaela explained.
"Yeah, but now we have to put in extra effort to find that fink Michael," Lauren groaned.
"Everyone is a little split up on Mobius too so it's not like we won't have to put forth the effort bring everyone together again anyway," Blaze stated.
"But how?" Arcane asked. "Leaving this world would put everyone at risk, and who knows how long we'd be gone. Plus with my still unreliable powers, our lack of experience, and to top it off we're only guessing where Mephiles is at what can we do?"
"Now ya care?" George questioned floating overhead Arcane. Arcane flicked the older boy in the forehead to make him go into a tail spin.
"He does bring up a fair point," Sam said. "I would hate to leave these people like this without some form of protection,"
"Hey whatever happened to that guy Eggman Nega?" Amy questioned returning back to the emerald.
"There's an Eggman on this world too?" Andrea questioned.
"Yes, and he is a lot more sinister," Blaze growled.
"I was gonna go with crazier but hey different opinions,"
"His whereabouts are currently unknown. I'd doubt these creatures could take down the Doc that easy. He's probably held up somewhere nice and tight waiting for this to blow over," Mighty suggested.
"Well he's been waiting a long time if that's the case," Lauren said retaking her body. "Why do you ask Amy?"
"I don't know, maybe we can get some help from him. He might have a few robots or shields or something we could use to,"
"That's not a bad idea," Sam said with a smile.
"Better than trying to take on the Iblis beast that's chewing up the world," Arcane muttered.
"The what?" Andrea asked.
"Oh, the Iblis beast is still a threat, I forgot about that," Sol groaned.
"What is it?"
"A super powerful being powered by this enchanted fire. We've taken it down, but it just keeps rising from the ashes. It's a pointless battle since the beast will never truly stay down," Sol explained.
"How long does it take to rise back up?"
"A day or two, which does give the people a lot of relief since the monsters corral to the creature to bring him back. Of course the factory is Mephiles but he litters the planet with creatures every so often,"
"I've got an idea!" Andrea exclaimed.
"I thought we already had one?" George questioned.
"But now I got one even better," Andrea said. "How many of you guys does it take to defeat The Iblis creature,"
"Sol and I can handle that thing no sweat. Like we were meant for it," Mikaelas stated proudly.
"Alright, I may not be Miles but I know how to make a good plan. Sol and Mikaela I want you two to take out The Iblis creature. While you're doing that, Sam and I will be doing a little monster hunting by destroying as many of those little buggers as we can. George and Lauren, since you both can fly you can go out and find Eggman Nega. See if you can't get something that can possibly protect these people whatever it may be,"
"Oh I get it, when Iblis rises up from the ashes he needs power from the monsters. The fewer monsters the less power he'll have, and the less power he has the longer it will take for him to come back up. Also any decent protection from Nega should at least buy us a day. So we're looking at potentially setting things up for the next week and half possibly," Lauren said with a smile.
"Wow that's a great plan Andy!" Mikaela smiled.
"I'm not leader of Team Rose for nothing," Andrea said with a smirk.
"Team Rose is back and I missed it…" Cream seemed on the verge of crying.
"You can totally take my spot if you want," Silver begged.
"Aren't you forgetting someone?" Arcane asked annoyed folded arms. "You didn't give me anything to do,"
"Well…you don't seem too interested in helping people, and you don't seem to care to much at all about our problems. To top it off I don't trust you and you're a liability," Andrea said bluntly which clearly rattled Arcane's cage as he mashed his teeth.
"I'm the most powerful here!" Arcane exclaimed.
"So?" Andrea questioned which made Arcane do a double take.
"What do ya mean 'so' power is everything?!"
"I mean we could kick your butt, heck I could solo you easily. Your problem kid is you don't really know what you want and you don't know what team to play on. Yeah, you wanna be a badass, but right now all I'm seeing is some punk kid with some fancy powers that doesn't know how to use em. I can't trust you until you grow up and realize you aren't the only one who's got tough times. Maybe if you listened to your conscious you'd actually be a hero instead of some kid playing pretend," Andrea grinded Arcane viciously and without mercy. Even Sol had to cringe at the harshness of her words. "Alright guys let's go," She said walking forward and past a shocked Arcane. "Keep everyone in the castle safe, see if you can at least do that much,"
Everyone then rushed off with George hanging in the rear to look back at the stoic Arcane. "Will you be okay?"
"Yeah…just go…I'll show her…I'll show her that I can be so much more," George never heard Arcane sound so determined. He smirked at Andrea's handiwork then hurried up to catch up with the others.
"You think he'll be okay?" Ray asked.
"Oh I think he'll be just fine,"
They all split off into their three teams to handle their assignments. Sol and Mikael and had fought The Iblis before so it was more a routine then anything to them. Sol was able to sense the enchanted flames that made up The Iblis' body. She led the way as they quickly hurried past the dead pastures of the outer rim of the kingdom toward the darkly lit purple flamed volcano in the distance.
"Seems like he might be a bit more resistant this time around," Sol muttered.
"Well I guess he's just cranky because we haven't been around to read him his bedtime story in a while," Mikaela smirked.
"Since when do you crack jokes so much?" Sol asked with a raised eyebrow.
"It helps deal with insecurities and doubts, and plus I'm hilarious!" Mikaela said as she floats in the air. "But I guess I'm not as funny as your boyfriend huh," Mikaela said flying off.
"Well he is fun-hey he's not my-I mean we're not-," Sol was flustered as she shook her head. "Stop doing that and let's focus!" Sol said shooting off at super speed using her flames to propel her forward. The two journeyed toward the volcano but were not met without resistance. A whole packs worth of Dark Ferals were rushing toward the volcano. The two heroes couldn't allow the creatures to reach The Iblis less the creature becomes that much more a threat. Sol wrapped herself up in a coat of flames as she began bashing her way through the crowd. Mikaela created a barrage of psychic knives that cut through the crowd as she provided air support. Sol threw a few flaming needles out from under her cuffs that caused her holy fire that burn the creatures to ash. Her flames were always a major source of pain and agony for the creatures. Sol began unleashing more and more flames from her body pushing her limits. She knew that she needed to harness Blaze's full powers in order to be of use to the rest of team and defeat Mephiles. She wasn't quite skilled enough to handle the full potent properties of Blaze's abilities.
"Careful Sol," Blaze warned. She nods as eyes are alit with fire. Mikaela stared in wonder at the small sun that was beginning to form around Sol.
"Mikaela now is your chance to test how far you've come as well. Think you can do the Meteor Smash," Silver asked.
"Silver…I don't know if I'm ready for that. I mean that is a lot of pressure to gather so many things,"
"I know, but it's come time to see just how far you guys have gotten,"
Mikaela let out a breath and then inhaled sharply her body glows a florescent light as her cyan Sol Emerald began glowing brightly. She raised her hands above her head to summon a large amount of psionic energy. The mob of monsters began to notice that they were severely outmatched. The creatures began to merge together with one another. The mob slowly became two Dark Beast. The Beast were covered with spikes, two tails, razor sharp claws, and surrounded by purple flames.
"Use it now Sol!" Blaze exclaimed.
"Sol Burn!" Sol exclaimed shooting out her arms to lash out with a spiral of flames shooting out from her body. The flames completely overpowered the purple flames surrounding the beast however they stood strong.
"Mikaela while their weakened!" Silver encouraged.
"Meteor Smash!" she exclaimed dropping the energy orb down on the beast. The orb and the flames complimented each other as a spiral of flames and psionic energy began circling each other as they shoot up into the air and breaking through the clouds. The girls were shocked to see the sheer power of the attacks shatter the darkness. Through the darkness sunlight peaked out making both of them smile brightly. Seeing the sun was welcoming and it filled them with great pleasure.
"Been a while seen we've seen that huh?" Mikaela said cupping her hands over his eyes.
"Troublesome insects…" came a dark voice from the sky. Sol and Mikaela froze in shock wondering whose voice that was. It sounded deep, dark, and demonic. Like the voice couldn't help but snarl and growl. It was so terrifyingly deep Sol and Mikaela couldn't move. They looked toward the sky to see the clouds swallow the sun again, but not just that the clouds began to swirl. The swirling gave way to what appeared to be a portal, and something came through. Sol and Mikaela's eyes widened in horror. They saw what appeared to be a hedgehog. The hedgehog was completely black, his eyes were only swirling pits of purple flames, with an aura to match, and the smog of purple smoke leaked from his mouth as well. The most eye catching was a large hole in the middle of the hedgehog's chest that leaked out the purple flames.
"Mephiles…" Mikaela questioned.
"No…." Blaze muttered in utter terror. "That form…" Sol took a careful note of the hedgehog's body, but saw nothing that was so mystifying. Except for the black shoes with a white strips with a black buckle. "It might be…..Sonic's body!"
"Sonic's what!" The girls exclaimed.
"I-I think she's right…..but how….why?" Silver's voice quivered.
"This body has taken a long time to get accustomed too. Like a second pair of clothes," the body floats down as if the body was in super form.
"You sicko!" Silver yelled.
"How dare you! You're not even worthy to lick the dirt of his sneakers!" Sol growled.
"I admit I've underestimated you all for a very long time. Thinking my creatures and the vile condition of this new world would swallow you up. But that ends, as of this very moment,"
"What are you gonna do?" Mikaela asked. In response the body floats up into the air a bit then drops down all the way to the pass of the volcano slamming into the ground harshly kicking up dust. The girls stared forward in wonder at the creature. It looked at them then raised its hand to shoot a lightning blast straight into the sky. The sky took in the energy, but suddenly shot it back out bigger and larger straight into the mouth of the volcano. The girls' faces dropped when suddenly the whole volcano explodes. Silver takes control of Mikael to use Chaos Control to warp them away. Once farther they look upon to see what was happening. The volcano exploded outward, but was being pulled back in. The rocks and debris began forming a monster made totally out of purple lava. Devil wings rose up, a misshapen body with long muscular arms, ridiculously sharp claws, devil horns, and three toed feet. A horn underneath its jaw, jagged body with sharp spikes, The creature's eyes open to reveal deep black voids that focus in on the two heroines.
"I'm going to do that," the body floats toward the head with arms crossed. "My two greatest creations, the Devouring Iblis and Sophiles," Sophlies smirked at his own clever word play.
"Don't get attached we'll destroy them both soon enough!" Silver growled.
"I had wanted these worlds to last longer to serve a walk down memory lane. I'm a sentimental creature, but you've tried my patience when you refused to hand over the emeralds. You tried my patience when you resisted me. You tried my patience by challenging me. So now I'm going to destroy everything and collect the emeralds from the ashes to ascend to godhood once more! I'll kill this world first, then I'll kill that meddlesome crew that is heading towards me, I'll destroy that world too, and I will save the most extricating of ideas for the one who wields Sonic,"
"Sol," Blaze began slowly with clear worry in her voice. "Allow me to fight this thing,"
"I can do this Blaze, I can face this this is what you trained me for, I'm ready,"
"No you're not, not for this, not yet,"
"Well we'll never know unless I try," Sol said taking a fighting pose as the creature began walking towards them.
"No Sol, let Blaze and I handle this. This is too much too soon. Neither of you are ready for this,"
"We'll never be ready," Mikaela began as she snatched control of her body from Silver. "But that doesn't mean we aren't going to try,"
"Will you two listen to us?! We're not trying to hold you back and keep you from fighting. We trust you, but we will not allow you to go into a battle where you cannot win!" Silver exclaimed.
"There won't be any guarantee that we'll live if we fight Mephiles. So we might as well get used to facing those odds. You ready Mikaela?"
"Totally!"
"Well I hope you don't plan on going into this alone," came a voice behind them. They turned around to see Arcane standing behind them with a black fedora hat on.
"What are you doing here?!" they both exclaimed.
"Well that big monster was pretty hard to miss," he said pointing at the monster slowly walking towards them. "It's as big as a mountain. I told the others to probably head on over when they could. Sam and the gerbil will be here soon. George and Lauren said they found a lead on Nega so they might show up a little late if at all,"
"The people-,"
"Are safe, I made sure the castle guards put them sealed up tight in the bunker and got them everything they needed,"
"Alright, maybe you can help us out with this little issue," Sol said staring up at the monstrous beast that towered over them. The Iblis unleashed a monstrous roar as the wind produced from the roar almost blew the warriors right off their feet. Only reason they were able to stay put was because Mikaela held them down with her powers. It raised a hand then brought it down.
"Take a deep breath!" Arcane exclaimed as he grabbed both girls' arms. The giant hand slammed down onto the ground creating a large dust cloud the size. Under the dust cloud a puddle slipped out from under the hand. The puddle took shape into three figures with Sol and Mikaela gasping for breath. "I'll see if I can bring him down while you guys catch your breath,"
"…wait…" Sol gasped coughing. Arcane closed his eyes as he run toward the beast.
"Come on Chaos we gotta work together on this one….I know I'm not the most heroic or honorable. But I am willing to fight for this world as if it was mine. Can we agree on that?" he asked. His Sol Emerald shined briefly before he smirked. "Thank you," Suddenly his arms shifted into a liquid form with his arms under the surface of the water like substance. The Iblis swung its hand across the ground creating a long dirt trail toward Arcane. Arcane held his hands out as he caught the giant hand head on. His feet were sliding across the ground as he mashed his teeth to hold the hand back. However, eventually he came to a stop. Hiw body shook as he tried to hold the hand back with the beast in shock that his hand was stopped by such a small creature. The Iblis then closed his hand around Arcane to trap the boy in his fist.
"We'd better move!" Mikaela said taking flight. Sol groaned as she tried to dry herself of the water substance. The Iblis lit his fist a flame as he clenched it tightly. It then threw its hand down throwing Arcane roughly into the ground. The boy left a large crater in the ground as he tried to move despite the pain. Mikaela began launching a barrage of psychic knives at the beast's face. The blast broke apart on contact with the creature as it opened its mouth to shoot out a stream of flames. Mikaela was consumed by the flames. However, thanks to her ghost abilities she was able to become intangible to avoid being burned by the flames. Sol came rushing toward the beast's feet. She wrapped herself in flames and began to spin like a top toward the creature's knees. She hit it with all her might, however this seem to only annoy as the creature allowed a burst of purple flames to shoot from its body overpowering both Mikaela and Sol. They both went flying into the air but were caught by Arcane's expanded elongated hands.
"He's too big to fight like this!" Mikaela exclaimed. The Iblis waved its arm to unleash a barrage of flaming energy arrow that came raining down on them like rain. Arcane raised his hands to create an electronic energy shield that sparked to life each time it was hit.
"Wow, you have a lot more control all of a sudden," Sol gasped.
"Can't…hold…"
"Let me try," Mikaela closed her eyes to focus on creating a shield to relieve Arcane. "Can't hold it much longer either…"
"We need a plan," Arcane stated to try and catch his breath. His emerald also shined brightly in a pattern as if speaking. "Chaos says we won't be able to take this beast down like this,"
"It's certainly more powerful than the creature we fought outside Central City," Mikaela groaned.
"And bigger…" Sol groaned.
"We need to hit it with precision strikes. Sol had the right idea earlier but neither of you are strong enough to do any real damage. Chaos is our muscle right now so we must rely on him and Arcane," Blaze said.
"Are you sure about that?" Sol questioned.
"Are you up for it Arcane?" Silver asked. Arcane was quiet a moment in thought. He never felt some much pressure of others relying on him like this. He felt responsible and knowing that he couldn't let them down now. His emerald blinks a few times making his eyes widen. "What he say?"
"He said, he believes in me, and he never doubted our partnership. He said the reason I couldn't control his powers is because I didn't have a drive a reason to fight beyond just fighting. I want to destroy this thing and protect those people back at the castle that's why I'm here and that's why I fight. So you can count on me!"
"Good…cause I can't take much more…" a laser beam hit Mikaela's shield making the shield break and Mikaela hit the ground. Sol and Arcane turned to see the creature standing over them with the Sophiles floating there by its head with a smirk.
"Crush them," The Iblis obliged as it raised its foot to bring down on the heroes. Arcane reached out with his elongated hands to grab Sol and Mikaela then closed his eyes.
"Chaos Bind!" Suddenly a burst of energy shot out of Arcane and began wrapping around The Iblis. The creature was unable to move a muscle with its limbs all wrapped up tight. Sweat poured out of Arcane's face as he threw his hands back his chaos energy tendrils actually lifting the creature and throwing it back onto the ground. The wind and dust that followed almost overwhelmed them as they felt like a hurricane was coming for them. Once the wind settled they were able to remove their arms from their faces to block out the dust.
"Now's our chance!" Sol said once she got Mikaela to her feet. Mikaela nods in agreement then teleports away surprising Sol. Mikaela appeared over the beast then held her hands above her head to gather a large amount of energy in her palms. She concentrated as best she could for one precise strike while the beast was done for the moment. She threw both of her hands down to unleash a giant crescent wave. The Iblis raised its hand to block it but was taken by quite a surprise to see the blade slash through its wrist. It was startled to see its entire left hand fall uselessly to the ground. Mikaela was drained dramatically because of the attack and began to free fall. The Iblis opened it mouth to unleash a stream of flames. Mikaela was too powerless to move despite Silver's best efforts to try and get her to take some action. He knew if he took over her exhausted body he would only make her condition worse possibly ultimately killing her anyway. "Arcane throw me!"
"Just give me a minute to-,"
"Throw me!" she hollered. Arcane growled as he had no choice but to suck it up. He grabbed her wrist then spun around a few times to launch her threw the air toward Mikaela. Sol went sailing through the air assisting by the flames she lit at her heels. She flew towards Mikaela to snag the girl just before the purple flames could claim her. Sol tried her best to offer protection for her but was overcome with the pressure of the flames herself as they were both thrown to the ground. Arcane gasped as he ran toward them. The Iblis grabbed its severed hand to throw it at Arcane. The boy looked up too late as the hand was upon him about to crush him. He winced as he closed his eyes but only until he heard a sharp sound. He looked up to see Sam had slashed the hand in half with his broad sword.
"Need a hand," Sam said with a smirk.
"You're hilarious…" Arcane groaned. He looked around a moment to see Andrea was running towards her downed teammates. Somehow she was able to create an illusion of Mikaela and Sol flying around the beast's head. "We need to hit this thing where it hurts,"
"Yeah…but where would that be?" Sam questioned looking the creature over. "Usually we can just pound it into submission with a few head strikes,"
"We need to destroy its armor around the vital areas. Sol had aimed for the knees earlier so I guess we can try that,"
"Alright let's go!" Sam exclaimed rushing forward and Arcane not far behind. "Oh and congrats on master your powers,"
"Thanks,"
With the girls Andrea was able to pull Sol and Mikaela to relative safety then looked on to see Sam and…Arcane? She was surprised to say the least, but she noticed he seemed to be in a bit more control then when she last saw him. She smiled as she realized her words had done something. She turned back to her two friends. Mikaela was unconscious while Sol was dead tired. Neither were ready for a fight again, although Sol was still itching to get back in there Andrea was able to get her to settle down a bit. She watched as The Iblis unleashed a barrage of flaming energy arrows down on the two. A red shell suddenly appeared on Sam's back as he curled up into a ball as the arrows bounced off. Arcane created a shield that protected him from the barrage. Once it was over they began running again.
"You get left, I get right!" Arcane called. He leaped out toward The Iblis' knees while cupping his hands and Sam did the same. Arcane struck his knee and Sam slashed his. The creature let out a sharp yelp of pain at the blows shattering pieces of its armor. Arcane however shot his elongated arms out in the forms of spikes. They pierced right through the knee and out the other side let out a sharp hiss of steam. The beast roared out in pain as it transferred its weight on the other leg. "Chaos Strike!" Arcane gathered a ball of energy in between his palms then unleashed the blast into the damaged knee blowing the kneecap off altogether. The creature lost its balanced as it fell to a knee, well half a stub to be more accurate. It glowered at Arcane in fury then opened its mouth to breath hot purple flames. Sam chuck his sword as hard as he could for the blade to impale itself into the creature's throat.
"I've always wanted to say this, but it is so clobberin time!" Sam exclaimed leaping forward with his cup hands toward the other knee. He struck it so hard it sounded like thunder which made the beast holler in pain. Arcane leaped upward using his jumping abilities from Chaos to land a powerful haymaker into the beast's jaw. Arcane was pleased to finally nail the sucker but struck with terror to see the creature eyes lock on his then fire a concussion beam from its eyes to slam him into the ground.
"Arcane!" Sam yelled. He growled as while Arcane had it bust Sam began climbing the beast. He made it to The Iblis' shoulder then began running toward the head. The creature turned it head to unleash a stream of purple fire along its body toward Sam. Sam was thrown off and hit the ground quite harshly.
"Oh no Sam, I can't watch this anymore," Andrea said standing to her feet. She told Sol to stay put and watch Mikaela as she ran toward the battle. She decided to see to Arcane who was quite beaten down. She wondered how that stupid hat of his was able to stay on his head after all this. He was barely conscious when she got him muttering things incoherently. "Come on kid pull it together we really need you,"
"What…" Arcane babbled then looked at Andrea. His eyes landed on her Chaos Emerald around her neck. His emerald in his pocket was shining brightly as if Chaos was yelling. Arcane came to his senses to sit up and look at Andrea.
"What?"
"Chaos says I need your emerald,"
"What, why, you have your own?"
"He says the Chaos Emeralds make him stronger or something,"
"That's true, but how would this work with me inside it?" Amy asked.
"We can sit here waiting for our deaths while we play 20 questions, or you can give me the stupid thing so we can win,"
"He makes a good argument," came Mighty's voice. They turned to see Sam limp over towards them. "We can't give the beast a chance to heal,"
"Mighty's right, it's now or never," Sam agreed.
"Alright fine here, but be careful with it," Andrea said shakily removing her Chaos Emerald from around her neck. She didn't like how naked she felt without it. Arcane touched it and suddenly Chaos began to react to it making both emeralds glow brightly. Arcane opened his eyes after the light to see his hand transformed. It no longer was his human hand under the surface of Chaos' limbs but the green Chaos emerald fused to his arm. He looked at Andrea in shock who was just as confused and clearly quite weakened.
"Hurry up…" she muttered.
Arcane nods as he shoots to his feet and rushes forward with renewed energy. Sam follows up behind him quickly. "Get ready to knock his block off,"
"Alright,"
"Chaos Bind!" Arcane exclaimed raising his hand to launch out chaos energy tendrils that wrapped around the creature's shoulders, throat, waist, and thighs. Arcane noticed it was a bit easier to life the creature this time as he was seating as much.
"Think you can launch me?" Sam asked.
"Curl up," Arcane stated. Sam followed and Arcane grabbed Sam in ball form then threw it with all his might toward the creature's head. Sam uncurled to soar through the air as he landed on the creature shoulder. He noticed his sword close by then grabbed the hilt the slice it alongside the creature's throat draining it of lava. Arcane using his water abilities began dousing parts of the creature's body as he squeezed tightly. Sam put his sword back on his back then jumped up to jackhammer the creature in the center of the head. This created a crumbling effect that stretched alongside the entirety of the creature. It soon crumbled to pieces it was only mere pieces of rock lava now. Arcane and Sam were in danger still though as the debris would crush them. However, they were quickly rescued by Lauren and George. Lauren grabbing Sam and George grabbing Arcane. They both flew away from the danger area.
"Looks like we got here just in time to save the day after all," Lauren said with a smile.
"Thanks," Sam said with a smile.
"Would have been better if you both showed up a little earlier," Arcane complained.
"Oh don't be mad. If it makes you feel better we had a tough time too. We had to deal with a whole gang of robot pirates who turned out to be pretty useless in the end," George said with crossed arms.
"Well at least we all made it," Sol said with Mikaela leaning on her. Andrea also took back her Chaos Emerald immediately feeling better.
"Well done," came a voice above them. They all looked upward to see Sophiles floating with a smirk. "But as you all well realize that was a simple creature to create. It didn't take a large amount of power to create it either. I see now you are indeed worthy of my attention after all. I will make sure to head back to Mobius so I can give you all the proper respect you deserve,"
"Is that…who I think it is?" Andrea questioned.
"It is, its Mephiles…"
"But…that body….no he couldn't have…YOU EVIL MANICAL BASTARD HOW DARE YOU!" Amy howled in complete fury. Andrea was thrown for a loop to hear her friend speak like that.
"What is it?"
"That body….that's Sonic's body!"
"Wait, the hero of that other world?" Sam asked.
"Mr. Sonic…." Cream cried.
"I suggest you lick your wounds later. After all I can see that all of the heroes there are scattered and easy pickings. Foolish humans I would've thought you'd know this by now, but the saying is divided you fall," A swirling dark portal appeared behind the possessed corpse as it floats inside to vanish. At his exit the heroes look at each other fearful. Mephiles is finally getting his head in the game and beginning to pay them more attention. He was going to toy with them anymore and this battle was clear proof. They very nearly lost that fight and their lives. After so many easy victories this battle suddenly began to seem very, very deadly serious.
"Let's get ready to leave," Sol said after a while garnering the attention of her friends. "The people in the castle have to fend for themselves, we don't have a choice, it's do or die time. Everyone ready?" She was met with tired eyes, but determined faces which told her more than enough. "Alright, let's go,"