Chapter 21: Trouble Comes Back
Blast and Flame had watched the fight from Tartaros guild watching through the magic hologram made by Blast himself. Toxic comes in, sees his brother and friend watching the fight before the fight is over.
"How did it go?" Toxic asked.
"Everything had went suburb and Erebus was equally matched to Zack but the giant had overcome the odds activating his Dragon Force. I knew I should've put the finish touches to Erebus before fighting his counterpart." Blast stated realizing his mistake.
"Don't sweat it, it was an entertaining fight and overall the plan is going as planned." Flame cheered.
"Speaking of plan, how did it go of collecting Crawford since he set up as bait for Erza and Mirajane to collect them to find the last member of the Magic Council?"
"Everything went as smooth as planned. Right now Kyouka had taken Kyouka to the torture chambers and Seilah taken Mirajane to the lab to make good use for her demon takeover powers. I also heard that Seilah had captured Lisanna from Fairy Tail." Toxic informed.
"Interesting. Three Fairy Tail members captured, this becoming an interesting day and we're going to play our part very soon when the time comes."
"I've been too anxious to fight the blue hedgehog now I'm getting too damn impatient." Flame cursed.
"Now, now Flame we will have our fight against Sonic soon enough but for right now we move forward to the plan and by the we help Tartaros to complete a few of their missions then let them be while we focus on Sonic."
All of sudden, there hear a boom not too far from here and hear the yelling.
"What the hell is that?" Toxic asked.
"I don't know but I'm going to check it out." Flame stated leaving the room.
Blast soon begin discovering that Sonic and Kenny are heading this way to the Tartaros guild.
"It looks like Sonic is heading this way." Blast discovered.
"Wait Sonic is coming here?" Toxic asked.
"Yes. It seems that he sense his wife is in danger but not only that sensing his friend Mirajane in danger as we speak and on his way to rescue them. Well we'll just see about that and not let him interfere, Toxic I want you to keep our target busy just for a little while."
"Understood brother."
Toxic teleport in lightning and went to go confront Sonic. Blast got up from his seat and joins with Kyouka to the torture chambers.
"I want to have a word with the wife of Sonic." Blast planned.
Elsewhere…
Zack had visited his parent's grave where it's a ruined town appears to be a ghost town. He knelt down, looking at the cemetery that he built for both of his parents and now Rai Gadder after burying him since he lost his master just now all thanks to the Hedgehogs of Darkness. He bow down, paying his respects to his parents and his former master.
"I am so, so sorry for not saving you master. I hope you're at a better place along with my parents. Mom, dad I am sorry for shaming myself and disappoint you for the actions and the stuff I have done. I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me. I'm going to make everything right and make you guys proud and will not disappoint you again. That's my promise and to you master Rai Gadder I will not let you down." Zack prayed.
After saying his prayer and paying his respects, Zack raise up from the ground and look at the other direction. He heard about Tartaros and set his sights there.
"Hold on Mirajane, I'm coming to help and Fairy Tail I'm coming to help you all as well." Zack said with a stern look on his face.
Back at Tartaros…
Natsu and Happy were the ones who burst through the wall and start searching for Erza and Mirajane. Happy somehow lost Natsu and got separated as he bursting through the hallways finding his two guildmates and friends and bring them back to Fairy Tail but confront Tartaros. As Natsu fighting through the guards of Tartaros, he stumbles to a man with armor with two letters on his armor: Absolute Zero. Natsu became shock, remembering the presence of his fellow guildmate.
"You look familiar and you have Gray's scent. Just who are buddy?" Natsu questioned.
"So you know Gray huh? Sorry but that question is denied and you won't be knowing who I am." The man said smirking.
"Alright then, I'm going to kick your ass and you're going to tell me where Erza and Mirajane are."
"I don't think you're in that position of doing that."
The man look behind him, it was Flame walking through the hallways with that sinister smile cracking his fist.
"Get out of here Silver, I can take it from here. This won't last but a second." Flame demanded.
"Well he's yours pal. Enjoy your fun." Silver encouraged taking his leave.
"Oh I will."
"One of the Hedgehogs of Darkness, Flame right?" Natsu assumed.
"That's right dragon breath. Let's have some fun." Flame grinned.
"With pleasure."
Natsu charge at Flame igniting his fist with flames.
"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Natsu shouted.
Natsu just about to strike a fierce punch to harm Flame but unfortunately, Flame then punches Natsu down to the ground with one hit that made Natsu unconscious. Flame simply laughed at the fire dragon slayer and shrug it off.
"I thought you be tougher but you seem so hopeless. How pitiful." Flame insulted.
Another member of the nine demon gates arrive and sees Flame that did the job.
"You took care of the intruder that quickly?" the member of the nine demon gate asked.
"Yeah. What's your name?" Flame questioned.
"Franmalth." Franmalth answered.
"OK Franmalth you take care of this trouble maker here, I'm going back to my friends."
"Uh… yeah will do."
Flame walked away to return back to Blast and Toxic.
"That was so easy that I almost felt guilty." Flame commented.
Meanwhile, the Torture Chambers…
Erza finally woke up from her slumber to gain her consciousness. She then look around to see that she's no longer at Crawford's residence but somewhere unknown, she notice a female waiting for her to awake. She brought a smile and start talking to the Titania.
"Ah you're finally awake, I was hoping that you never wake up." Kyouka said.
"Who are you and where am I?" Erza demanded to know some answers.
"Oh you're at a quiet place where no one can help you."
"Where's Mirajane?"
"She's safe but in the lab as we speak, we're going to turn her into one of us and make use of her."
"Release Mirajane right now!"
"I believe it will not happen. She'll be busy with the project and now that you're here, you're going to answer my questions. Now where is Jellal Fernandez?"
"Jellal… why on earth would you want to know where he is?"
"I assume that he's used to be a member of Magic Council. We have known that you and him are very close are you not?"
"We're friends to be précised but that's only that, I moved on and have someone that is precious to me."
"Ah. You mean that hedgehog that saved Earthland three times name Sonic the Hedgehog."
"How do you know?"
"I believe we heard it from someone that we have come across with and joined forces."
Moments after, the door open and appear to be Blast the Hedgehog entering in the room and shut the door. Kyouka smile greatly, greets Blast with a passionate kiss on the lips.
"Hello beloved, glad you can join me. Did you miss me?" Kyouka asked.
"No not exactly, I kept myself occupied with Sonic." Blast answered.
"Sonic! Blast If you ever go near my husband I will…"
"You what Erza? You cannot stop me from what I have in store of your precious husband of yours. You won't be able to see what we're going to do."
"What are you planning?"
"That's none of your damn business but overall I just came to see you scream which I find it… amusing."
"What do you mean."
Kyouka smile, went on and electrocute Erza showing her no remorse.
"That kind of pain now tell me where is Jellal?" Kyouka asked.
"I don't know where he is." Erza answered.
"Wrong answer."
Kyouka again electrocute Erza making her scream once more. Seconds after, Kyouka stop electrocuting Erza and ask her once more.
"Where can we find Jellal?" Kyouka questioned.
"I told you I don't know where Jellal is." Erza reason trying to tell her the truth.
"That's not what I want to hear."
Kyouka again electrocute Erza once more but this time very severely making the Titania scream once more. Kyouka smile and increase more torture for Erza, she then increase the sensitively for her to feel more pain making the Titania scream some more. The demon again electrocute Erza some more, torturing her for the fun of it hoping she can get Erza to answer her questions truthfully. Blast then exit the room to let Kyouka have her fun and return back to his main objective.
"*Chuckle* I'll let her enjoy torturing Sonic's wife, that will make him twice as angry since we killed his cousin. Now that Flame is busy with the intruder and done by now or whatever he's doing perhaps I should call our spy and let her the time has come." Blast exclaimed.
Somewhere, in the outskirts of the woods…
Sonic zooming over to the destination with Kenny on his shoulder holding tight as he can while Sonic in his sonic speed.
"Sonic, do you know where we are going?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah. I placed a tracker on Erza's necklace just in case if she gets herself into trouble thought I get prepared for any special occasion." Sonic responded looking through his wrist computer.
"Smart. You planned this ahead the whole time didn't you?"
"Yeah you can say that, other than that good thing I can put this into good use."
Team Sonic continue to their destination when all of sudden, a rain of lighting came bursting from the skies and start attacking Sonic. Sonic senses the lighting so he dodges the lightning, recognizing the color as there are green. Sonic using his reflexes to evade the lightning, getting out of the dodge and getting to cover. Sonic look around for the attacker but soon to discover tat it as Toxic descending down applauding to Sonic's performance.
"Well done, well done. I knew you would dodge my lightning attacks." Toxic applauded.
"You again. What do you want?" Sonic asked.
"A fight, you said you want your revenge against us for killing your cousin so here I am I'll be your first victim so come at me Sonic the Hedgehog. I want to see what you got."
"With pleasure."
Sonic puts Kenny down and transforms into his Super Sonic form then ascend to his third level growing his spikes to a longer length with a load cry.
"Sonic we don't got time for this, Erza and Mirajane are in trouble so we got to remain our focus on them." Kenny reasoned.
"No time for that, I got business with Toxic." Sonic refused.
"But Sonic…"
"I'm not going to let this go Kenny, they wanted a fight I'll give it to them."
Kenny did not want to get into Sonic's bad side so he stay out of it letting Sonic to face Toxic.
"*Laugh* Well what are you waiting for, are you going to come at me or do I got to go after that young sky dragon slayer daughter of yours." Toxic provoked.
*BGM playing: Kid Buu is Fighting Remix (The Enigma TNG)*
This drove Sonic right over the edge and those comments just pissed the hedgehog off more than ever and so Sonic charges at Toxic with a battle cry and deliver various punches and kicks at Toxic. The black and green hedgehog dodging them with ease, grinning as Sonic kept attacking and striking the dark hedgehog. After spending a minute of attacking, Toxic easily counters Sonic and blasts him a few feet away with an electric waves from his palm of his right hand. Sonic did a back flip lands the ground skidding down to the ground and looks over at Toxic. Toxic then fires multiple and rapid green ki balls with dark green lightning dancing around them and heading right over at Sonic activating his technique.
"Static Barrage!" Toxic shouted.
Sonic dodging the ki energy balls as Toxic kept firing at Sonic. After dodging the attacks, Sonic counters off by firing yellow lightning arrows at Toxic by using Chaos Arrow. Toxic smirked and deflects them away from him by smacking them with his hands shocking Sonic and Kenny from this action. Toxic engulfs green lightning into his hands and charges at him activating his technique which involves using melee strikes at Sonic.
"Static Assault!" Toxic shouted.
Toxic deliver Sonic brutal attacks with lighting delivering severe damage to Sonic with immense force. Sonic screaming as the pain came to effect on the hedgehog hero, Sonic uses Chaos Blast to blast Toxic away then charges at him with a flying kick to his gut and sends him back down to the ground. Toxic counters Sonic by head-butting the hedgehog then knee kicks him in the face then axe kicks Sonic down with immense force that sends Sonic descending down to the ground, crashing against it with a loud thump creating a little crater with cracks. Sonic begin blasting multiple yellow energy balls at Toxic but the dark hedgehog deflects every one of them with one hand smacking them away and laughing at Sonic causing him to get more angry.
"Is that the best you can do Sonic? You're starting to bore me." Toxic taunted.
Sonic growled at this, uses Chaos Control to disappear shocking Toxic as he look around for Sonic.
"Now where did he go?" Toxic wondered.
Toxic looked around for a few seconds until all of sudden, Sonic reappear behind Toxic and hits him with a surprising spinning roundhouse kick right to his cheek but somehow Toxic sense it coming and blocked it off surprising Sonic at this and turn his attention over to the hedgehog hero.
"I knew you were going to attack me as I can sense you Sonic. You can't hide from me." Toxic grinned.
Toxic electrocutes Sonic with green lightning, shocking and harming Sonic with electricity and afterwards Toxic swings him around a few times them tosses Sonic back down to the ground but he instead crashes through a tree and hits the ground. Sonic aerial recovers himself to get back to the fight until Toxic teleports right in front of him and surprises him with a knee kick in the chin then struck him with a punch right to the jaw and Toxic soon went on to pummel Sonic with various attacks with lightning engulfing into his fist by delivering more shocking attacks and damage to the hedgehog hero. After seconds of attacking Sonic, Toxic delivers an uppercut sending Sonic flying in the air.
Toxic unleash out a green lightning whip and hurls it to Sonic wrapping it around him which in terms electrocuting Sonic with multiple damage and slams him down to the ground before dispersing the lightning whip. Toxic begin laughing and taunting Sonic to make Sonic to get angrier.
"Ahahahaha is that the best you can do? You're cousin couldn't defeat us since we sent him with a big bang." Toxic taunted.
This made Sonic to get angry at those comments and so he couldn't hold his anger no longer and with that Sonic then begin transforming again becoming bluish-black and his eyes turning pure white growling in rage. Sonic let out a loud cry as he began channeling his negative chaos energy getting very angry which causing his power to increase and so his quills begin to elongate, grew much more during this transformation. It had taken about two minutes to transforms and it was completed. Sonic had gain a newer level of his Dark Sonic form with longer quills becoming Dark Sonic 3.
Toxic isn't too surprised at this but senses Sonic's power increasing with this form.
"Interesting… his negative chaos energy is over the top and is increasing tremendously. This could be a challenge." Toxic thought.
Kenny looking on the fight and sees Sonic in a different form and scan his power level.
"My goodness… Sonic gain a newer level of his dark form? All of this rage is making him to get stronger by the second. I got a bad feeling about this." Kenny commented.
"I'm going to make you pay… for KILLING MY COUSIN!" Sonic shouted.
*BGM playing: Dream Theater – This Dying Soul*
Sonic teleported in a mere second then reappear and knee kicks Toxic up in the air then goes after Toxic. The black and green hedgehog recover quickly but soon gets struck when Sonic elbowed him in the gut then deliver multiple punches to the dark hedgehog making Toxic to gritted his teeth then afterwards Sonic axe kick Toxic down to the ground. Toxic hits the ground on his back feeling the pan, Sonic then blasts dark blue energy balls with black lightning around them. Toxic teleports out of sight then blasts green lightning arrows at Sonic.
Toxic shields himself with green lightning barrier like a force field. The force field blocking off multiple energy balls thrown by Sonic. After blocking the energy balls, Toxic disperse the force field then Sonic reappear and sucker punches Toxic in the face sending him flying a few feet away crashing through several tress breaking them in half that cause them to collapse down to the ground. Sonic rushes in to attack but Toxic then comes back as he counters off Sonic with an uppercut then spin kicks him away then blasts five lightning ki balls at Sonic. After that, Toxic charges at Sonic and assault him with the barrage of punches against the hedgehog hero. Sonic counters off and attack then Toxic counters Sonic again as the two engage in a brutal combat as they attack each other without showing any mercy for about five minutes.
As they attack, their attacks hurt each other one another with a brutal blow while they kept attacking. A couple of seconds after Sonic surprisingly struck Toxic with a brutal punch with immense force then kicks Toxic away. Toxic just only smirked as the attacks had no effect on him and with then Toxic slam his fist down creating a wave of lightning from the ground and it approaches over to Sonic. Sonic dodge away doing a one hand cartwheel and dashes to the black and green hedgehog. Sonic delivers a punch but Toxic blasts Sonic away with electric waves from his palm. Sonic curls himself into a ball and shooting waves of dark blue energy saw blades over to Toxic activating a new ability.
"Dark Saw Blades!" Sonic shouted.
Toxic dodging away the dark saw blades with his reflexes then afterwards creates a ki ball of green lightning and tosses over at Sonic but he evades it away after seeing it coming. Sonic draw his right hand out, creates a dark blue energy ball enlarging it a little with black lightning around it then afterwards when it is done, Sonic then hurls it down unleashes out another new ability of his powers.
"Dark Chaos Blitz!" Sonic shouted.
Toxic sees the dark blue energy ball coming at him with full velocity and impacts him creating a powerful explosion creating a powerful shockwave that blew every tree with a massive wind gust. Kenny taking cover not wanting to be blown away by the blast as he watching the entire fight. Sonic waited for the smoke to fade in mere seconds. When the seconds are up and the smoke had cleared, Sonic discovers that Toxic is still alive and intact. He cracks his neck and start smirking.
"*Chuckle* That kinda hurt, you sure can pack a punch Sonic." Toxic commented.
"Let's see if you can handle this!" Sonic yelled.
Sonic brings his hands together, brings them back to his right side and channel his power and energy as he creates a dark blue energy orb from his hands with black lightning increasing its power to be strong for the upcoming ability. Toxic looking on, standing still since he hasn't moved a muscle watching Sonic to unleash his strongest ability hoping it would get rid of him and so Sonic then shouted and blasts his ability unleashes it over at the black and green hedgehog.
"Dark Sonic Boom!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic blasts a beam of dark blue and black energy from his palms blasting it over at Toxic and impacts him with this upcoming attacking creating another shockwave once again creating another blast once again. Kenny gets blow away but activate his angel wings and hang onto something as the blast blew a powerful wind gust. Sonic waited for smoke to clear away so that if his attack did the trick to get rid of him. It took about three minutes for the smoke to clear away, once it's done Sonic sees that Toxic is nowhere to be seen. He thought that he got him and got rid of Toxic but however, someone appear behind Sonic and struck him in the back of his kidneys making Sonic to spit blood out causing him to scream in agony. It was Toxic appearing behind of Sonic and afterward he struck Sonic back down to the ground with immense force with his punch hitting Sonic right to the head.
Sonic crash down to the ground but later gets back up and rushes over at Toxic striking some various attacks but the black and green hedgehog easily dodge them then counters Sonic with the knee kick in the chin and blasts lightning waves at Sonic a few feet away. Sonic began shooting multiple dark blue lightning arrows at Toxic but he somehow blocks them all away using a lightning force field as a shield. After blocking off the arrows, Toxic rushes in and grabs Sonic by his neck holding him up with that grin on his face choking Sonic as he struggle to free himself from Toxic's strong grip.
"Look at you, you can't even kill me nor my brother and our best friend. You can't defeat the Hedgehogs of Darkness, Sonic. You will never win." Toxic stated.
"I… don't care… I will… kill you guys… and avenge… my cousin." Sonic struggled with her breath trying to talk.
"*Chuckle* Your cousin wasn't that strong to defeat us after he try protecting you. However, he should've learned not to fight with the Hedgehogs of Darkness. Anyway, your attacks didn't had any effect on me. I guess I'll just have to do what I came here to do."
With that being said, Toxic begin electrocuting Sonic with massive 90,000 volts making Sonic screaming in agony making Kenny to cringe to hear his screams. The exceed couldn't take it no more so he use his full body transforming and charges at Toxic to help his partner out but Toxic senses this and blasts a wave of ki electricity from his body knocking Kenny back down to the ground. Sonic reverted back to normal and is knocked out unconscious.
"You should be sleeping for a little while until you wake up, it will be perfect to succeed to our plan." Toxic smirked.
Toxic throws Sonic a few feet away and hits the ground as he bounces off the ground two times and hit the rock and collapse on his torso. Kenny sees Sonic falling down and knocked out unconscious so he rushes over to his best friend to be by his side but something knocked the exceed out cold and lay there reverting back to his previous state and laid there unconscious.
Toxic looking on smiling evilly as Kenny became unconscious then to Sonic.
"Now that my work is done, it'll be a little while for Sonic to wake up for our plan to work. Sleep dreams Sonic and see you at the Tartaros guild. We'll be waiting for you." Toxic said before teleporting out of sight using his ki energy with electricity.
Meanwhile, at Fairy Tail in Magnolia…
Fairy Tail trying their best to come up with a plan to attack Tartarus. Makarov got Cana to contact Sonic with one of her cards that she sent Sonic one in case for emergency. Cana kept on calling Sonic to come back to the guild but to no response.
"Damn it! I can't get a hold on Sonic." Cana cursed.
"Could it be the Hedgehogs of Darkness?" Romeo asked.
"I hope not but we need Sonic back here pronto."
"You don't say. Sonic and Kenny left before we would work up a plan to protect the former members of the council without saying a word." Macao said with a stern look.
"Don't worry, Sonic will come around. I just hope that he doesn't ran into the Hedgehogs of Darkness." Wakaba hoped.
"Me too, Sonic still holds that strong grudge from killing his cousin."
Cana soon spotted Elfman heading downstairs to the basement appearing to hold something unfamiliar in his arms with that weird expression on his face. The drunkard card wizard soon makes her way to confront Elfman.
Downstairs to the basement, Elfman arrive and pulls out a big purple orb in his hands ready to detonate.
"I'll destroy Fairy Tail and I will bring Lisanna back." Elfman said in fear.
Elfman then begin detonating the orb which appears to be a bomb. He was interrupted when Cana intervene wondering what's gotten into him until she then discovers that Elfman had a bomb. With taking cautions, Cana acted and try to stop the bomb but Elfman stopped her.
"No. I can't let you stop it." Elfman refused.
"Elfman, what's going on? What are you doing?" Cana questioned.
"I have to save Lisanna if it means to destroy Fairy Tail."
"Are you crazy? Are you possessed?"
"No but I can't let you stop me."
"Damn it Elfman, get the hell off of me!"
"No! I can't let you stop me. I have to do this to save my little sister!"
Cana struggle to fight off Elfman to stop the bomb until all of sudden, it already happened.
Outside of Magnolia…
The Fairy Tail guild begin to explode and completely destroying the entire guild killing everyone in the guild and there weren't anyone surviving the explosion. The civilians heard the explosion and see the guild had been destroyed wondering what had happened.
Elsewhere…
The Hedgehogs of Darkness looking through the magical holoscreen couldn't help but to smile. Flame laughing so hard so was Toxic. Blast just smirked knowing that everything for Fairy Tail has come to an end.
"Fairy Tail is dead and those jackasses won't stand in our way and even Tartaros." Flame commented.
"Damn right Flame, it's a shame that they had a death wish but who gives a fuck. We can proceed to our plan, isn't that right brother?" Toxic asked.
"Indeed Toxic and spectacular job to knock Sonic unconscious for a little while. He should be awake any time now and come fight us." Blast sensed.
"Good. I'm dying to get into action with Sonic again, I've been itching for a fight all day." Flame said cracking his knuckles.
"And you will Flame, it's only a matter of time until we can succeed our plan and capture Sonic to start our main goal that we've been planning."
"We've waited seven long years for this and the time is now to put that into good use brother." Toxic reminded.
"I know, Toxic and Flame. Now the whole world will fear the Hedgehogs of Darkness, the kings of the darkness and the destroyer of worlds. We will complete our prophecy and soon the Hedgehogs of Darkness will rise!"
Blast began to laugh at this so does Toxic and Flame and so they are ready to succeed to get started with their plan.
*Closing Theme (Dragonball Z)*
It appears Fairy Tail has been destroyed and no one seem to survive the explosion. Sonic and Kenny knocked unconscious and could not save Erza, Mirajane nor protect the guild and save everyone. Could this be the end of Fairy Tail? Could it be that Tartaros will succeed in their goal now that Lisanna, Natsu, Erza, and Mirajane are captured? What will happen? Can Sonic come back and stop and save everyone and avenge the Fairy Tail guild or will the Hedgehogs of Darkness intervene and make sure it won't happen?
Tune in next time for yet another exciting chapter of Fairy of Darkness 4: Tartaros.