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WARNING! : THIS STORY COULD'VE FOCUSED ON OTHER CHARACTERS WHEN IT WAS UPDATED. SO I BEG YOUR PARDON IF I MAKE YOU ALL CONFUSED... O_+
Adventure Through the Unknown
Chapter 21 : The Fight
*Music Starts : Multi Attack (Sonic Riders : Zero Gravity)*
Sonia shot out pink laser beams from her keyboard, aiming it to Sleet. Seeing this, the wolf smirked, moving to his left by side-stepping. While doing so, the laser beams went past Sleet's right side, just a few inches away from him.
"Ungh! Why can't you just stand still?!" Sonia yelled in annoyance, teeth grinding together in anger "That way, I can beat you easily!"
"Not a chance, you pesky little hedgehog!" Sleet said with triumph, an evil smirk was plastered on his face "Keep shooting those stupid laser beams of yours all you want! 'Cause it'll never hit me! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Then what about this?!"
Just as Sleet turned around to find out who's the female voice he just heard, a black boot struck itself to Sleet's stomach, making the wolf cried in pain, and was sent flying off a few feet from where he stood before he landed on his back; onto the thick, cold snowy ground below.
"Heh! How's that, Wolfie?!" The owner of the black boot, who's none other than Fiona, said with a smirk "...Not so cocky now, are we?"
Sleet made himself sat on the snowy ground below, an annoyed look was placed on his face. "Hmph! What's that supposed to mean? You're just lucky because I accidentally let my guard down back then!"
"Oh, no you don't." Fiona said, somehow like a taunt "You're just too embarrassed to admit that you let yourself get distracted."
Upon hearing this, Sleet got even more annoyed than before. Pushing himself up to his feet, he said, "Oh, no I don't! And you know what, girl? I don't care about your taunts to me! What I care about is, I'm going to beat you all to a pulp!"
"We won't let you!" Cream exclaimed, before she flew up and stop in midair. Raising her right hand up, Cheese flew to Cream's raised-hand before the Chao covering himself with a blue force shield.
Cream looked up to her beloved Chao with a smile. "Let's do it, Cheese!"
"Choo choo!" The Chao gave the 6-year-old rabbit a nod, as he closed his eyes and the force shield around him began to shine bright blue.
Cream then focused her gaze to the wolf below her. When she did, her once gleeful eyes were changed to a serious one, which enough to make Sleet startled.
"Chao Barrier Attack!" Cream cried aloud, as she brought her right hand down. When she did, Cheese flew down from the rabbit's hand, and aiming himself to Sleet at high speed.
Seeing where was Cheese flying to, Sleet smirks. "Hehehe... This will be easy to be evaded."
Or so he thought.
Sleet's eyes widened when he saw the Chao vanished right in front of his eyes. This enough to make the wolf's confidence gone, and replaced with a frantic one.
"W-What the—?!" The wolf frantically looking to his left and right, trying to figure out where the Chao vanished to.
While still wondering about the Chao's whereabouts, suddenly, a sharp pain appeared on his back, which turns out to be Cheese attacking him from the back.
"G-GAH!" The wolf yelled in pain, as he fell forward onto the snowy ground below on his face. The cold sensation of the snow was enough to make Sleet quickly pushed himself up from the snowy ground.
Already up to his feet, the wolf shook his head, making the snow on his face to fall back to the snowy ground below.
"Good job, Cheese!" Cream said aloud before giving her Chao a thumbs-up, while Cheese flew back to the rabbit while letting out a "Choo".
"Grrr... You pesky little rabbit!" Sleet growled, teeth grinding together in anger "You're just a child! Why you choose to attack me? Aren't you afraid of me being one of three top criminals of this—!"
"Oh, could you just shut up already, Wolfie?!"
Before the wolf knew it, Fiona was right behind him now. With her right leg up, Fiona brought it right to Sleet's back, making the wolf cried in pain.
Sleet fell forward for the pain he got on his back, tremendous pain coursed through his body. But before his body could reach the ground, the wolf came to his senses, and used his arms in attempt to support himself up, and not meet the snowy ground face-first.
Fiona let out a loud humph before she crossed her arms. "Gee, seriously. Give up already, Wolfie. You're outnumbered now, meaning that you'll lose this fight... So just give us back the Queen's crown, and—"
"SHUT UP!" Unexpected by everyone there, Sleet twisted his body so the front part of his body was not facing the ground, his hands were on the ground behind his back to keep himself from falling backwards.
Seeing Fiona startled by his sudden move, the grey wolf smirked before he brought his right leg up and push it forward, thrusting it to Fiona's stomach.
Not prepared to take the attack, Sleet's feet was successfully struck Fiona's stomach, making the red fox cried in pain, and was sent flying off a few feet from where she stood.
"FIONA!" Sonia cried her friend's name frantically, before she ran from her spot in attempt to catch Fiona before she hit the snowy ground below. Sonia is not sure if she could reach her friend in time, though. Because the distance between her and Fiona were quite far...
But then, Mina came out from nowhere and caught the 'flying' Fiona just in time. But due to the force Fiona got from Sleet's attack, both her and the yellow mongoose fell on their backs, though Fiona was lucky because Mina was the one who cushioning her fall, not the snow below.
Mina let out a yelp for the cold sensation she got on her back, thanks to the thick snow that cushioning her fall. But the mongoose quickly shook it off her mind, replacing it with worry for the red fox she 'caught' a moment ago (which she still don't know who).
"...Y-You okay, girl?" Mina asked Fiona, who slowly made herself to a seated position with Mina's help.
"I-I'm fine... Thanks to you." Fiona then grimaced in pain before holding her now-sore stomach with her right hand "D-Dang it... I didn't expect this from him."
"Heh. Serves you right, girl." Sleet said with a smirk "You tried to make me give up, which is a big mistake 'cause it allows me to attack you... Now who's the cocky one? HAHAHAHAHA!"
The moment the wolf finished, he felt a presence behind him. Turned around, he found Tails stood there, his left hand was swinging a big-sized electric plug in a circular motion. Sparks could be seen coming from the plug.
As Sleet became wide-eyed, Tails grinned triumphantly.
"Hey there!" The two-tailed fox 'greeted', his left hand still swinging his big-sized electric plug "...Ready to get 'shocked'?"
The wolf was too startled to say a word. Is that electric plug was also... the fox's invention? He was still 8 years old, for Mobius' sake! And yet... He managed to make a LOT of high-tech items.
Sleet was sent out from his world of thoughts when Tails spoke.
"Hmm? No reply...?" The yellow fox shrugged "Oh, okay then. I'll take it as... 'yes'."
With those words, Tails propelled himself forward, thrusting the electric plug to Sleet. Once the plug made contact with Sleet, it send high-voltage electric current to the wolf's body, making him cried in pain.
"Oh!" Still holding Fiona, Mina shifted her gaze from the wincing-fox to Sonia, who stood not far from her "P-Princess! Now's your chance! Use those pink laser beams of yours so the electric current that wolf got will increase!"
Sonia looked to the mongoose upon hearing this. "Oh, c'mon! You don't need to call me 'Princess' here, top-singer Mina Mongoose!" Sonia said aloud before she brought her keyboard up "But... I gotta say that your idea was brilliant!"
As the hedgehog's keyboard began to shine bright pink, Sonia's face turned serious. "Alright, Sleet... This is not only for stealing Mom's crown; but also for you hurting my friend Fiona!"
With those words, Sonia fired a bunch of pink laser beams from her keyboard, aiming it to Sleet.
Mina's theory was proved to be true. Because right after the laser beams made contact with Sleet, the blue sparks from Tails' electric plug were merged with Sonia's pink laser beams, making the sparks around Sleet changed color to light purple. Not only changed in color; it also changed the electric current Sleet got, which got BIGGER than before!
"G-GWAAAAAAHH!"
Screaming in pain, Sleet was completely paralyzed, unable to move even a single limb.
When the pain stop, Sleet couldn't feel his limbs; everything just... hard to be moved. As blurry images began to appeared on his vision, the wolf lose his footing before he fell flat on his side; onto the thick, cold snowy ground below.
"U-Ungh..." The wolf's head was lifted a few inches from the 'white' ground "D-Dang it..."
After those words were out from Sleet's mouth, his head fell back to the 'white' ground below before his 'world' faded into nothing...
*Music Ends*
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After a moment of silence, Sonia and the others walked up to Sleet's body, circling around the wolf.
The group was silent before Sonia decided to speak.
"Good job, everyone." Sonia said, not even breaking her gaze from Sleet's unconscious form "...I'll never be able to win without your help."
Looking up, the pink hedgehog shifted her gaze to Fiona. "Still... You okay, Fiona? I remember Sleet kicked you real hard on your stomach..."
Fiona chuckled lightly upon hearing this.
"Hehe... This is nothing, Sonia." The moment the red fox said that, she winced before she held her stomach, and would be fall to the snowy ground below if Mina wasn't there to keep her up on her feet.
"Ungh... O-On a second thought," Fiona said between her winces "...I-I think I'm not okay."
"My... That Sleet guy was so brutal! How dare he kicked you until you're in pain like this?" Mina said, before looking to Fiona "Anyway... I think we haven't knew each other. What's your name?"
The red fox smiled at this. "The name's Fiona Fox, Sonia's best pal. Yours were Mina Mongoose, right?"
The yellow mongoose giggled upon hearing this. "Gee... Am I really that popular until you know my name before I say it?"
Fiona chuckled lightly. "Looking at how you got such talent at singing, and you got a lot of fans here, 'yes'."
"Well... Yeah. But—"
Before Mina could finish, a group of people in armor came to Sonia and the others. When they did, they saluted to them, much to Tails, Cheese, and Cream's surprise, though Sonia, Fiona, and Mina somehow seemed not surprised...
"Princess Sonia! Sorry we're late... Are you alright?"
"Don't worry, guards. I'm all fine. In fact, you all come just in time." Sonia said, before pointing her thumb to Sleet's unconscious form "See that criminal over there? Yeah, that wolf Sleet. He's unconscious right now, and I believe it will last long."
The pink hedgehog then folded her arms. "Don't take any chances. Pick him up and 'placed' him to where he should be. His punishment could wait. Because right now, I need to go the site where the 'special festival' takes place to help the others in preparing it."
The guards saluted to Sonia. "Yes, Princess!"
After that, the armored-people made their way to the Sleet before picking him up from the snowy ground below. One of them pulling out something shiny from the wolf's stock, and gave it to Sonia.
"I believe the Queen is at the site where the 'special festival' takes place. So I think it's best if you take this with you, Princess." The guard said, as he watched Sonia stared at the shiny item (which revealed to be a crown) in his hands.
"...Thanks." Sonia said, as she took the crown from the guard's hands before she looked up to the guard "...Please come to the site where the 'special festival' takes place once you put that wolf to jail."
The guard smiled behind his helmet before he gave Sonia a nod, then gestured the other guards to go back to the castle to put Sleet in the castle's jail once again, and noted that they should increase the locks of his jail later.
When the guards were out of the sight, Sonia turned around, only to find Tails, Cream, and Cheese looking at her with widened eyes.
"Y-Y-You're..." Tails muttered after a long silence "...Y-You're the princess of this town?!"
Sonia couldn't help but chuckled at this. "Tails, isn't it? Well... Same at how people knew that you're 8 years old; some new people I've met would always surprised when they knew that I was a princess. They wondered how a normal-looking hedgehog like me was a part of a royal family."
"Which makes me wonder; if you are a princess, why don't you wear luxurious-looking clothes? Like, a gown or... the like?" Tails inquired, looking at the pink hedgehog in front of him questioningly.
"Oh, right. About that..." A smile crept across Sonia's muzzle "...I absolutely love luxurious-looking clothes; like gowns, for example. But I will wear that if I'm inside the palace. For outside, I wore this." She pointed her index finger to herself once she said that.
"Ah... I see..." The two-tailed fox said with a nod "By the way... From the first time I met you, I keep hearing you say the word 'special festival'... What exactly do you mean by that word, Sonia?"
Sonia smiled at this. "The name's 'Lachtara'. It's a festival held once every year, right a few weeks after June 23rd. In this festival, we honour the lost ones in the... umm... 'war', by releasing a lot of floating lanterns on the night."
"Why June 23rd?" Somehow, Tails felt something familiar with the date and month. But he decides to forget about it, thinking that it was nothing to worry about.
"It's because..." Sonia uttered "...That's the date when me and my brothers were born."
Tails was a bit shocked at this news, but it also made him curious about one thing. The two-tailed fox opened his mouth, would like to say something when Sonia decided to spoke again.
"If you gonna ask about the 'war', I'll explain it later." The pink hedgehog said "Right now, let's go to the site where 'Lachtara' takes place. I believe my mom is waiting for us." With those words, Sonia turned around before she walk away from the spot.
Before Tails could react at this, everyone gave Sonia a nod before they followed the pink hedgehog from behind...
"What the— H-Hey! W-Wait for me!" Tails, who was left behind (due to him kinda spaced out back then), quickly twisted his namesakes and flew towards the others, and landed near them. In his mind, he thought that he need to ask Sonia about the 'war' later...
From all people in the group, Sonia noticed how Tails flew with his namesakes, and now walking behind the others and (maybe) act like there's nothing happen. The pink hedgehog smiled, and thought that she would ask the yellow fox about his two tails later...
Hmm... Both Sonia and Tails has a list of things to ask to each other later... I wonder how things will turn out once the question is answered? And how will Tails, Cream, and Cheese react to the 'special festival' later...?
Stay tuned for more Chapters~! ;D
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You know what they said; "Nobody's Perfect". So I beg your pardon if there's some errors and 'weird' sentences in this Chapter. Thank you to you all who've read, fav, follow, and review this story! :) ..Well, as always, next Chapter is in-progress. So stay tuned for more Chapters, everyone! Cheers~! ^^-
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Have a good day, buddies~! :3
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Oh, I might be too early. But...
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"Happy New Year 2013" to you all~! ^^-
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Fun Fact : In Greek, 'Lachtara' [λαχτάρα (lachtára)] means "longing". (Source : Google Translate)