Chapter 25: Sonic vs. Flame
Sonic in his Darkspine 3 form looking angrily at Flame who just took Ebony's life and now her body laid motionless. Kenny looking on to the fight but can't waste any time so he resume to hack through the terminal but Flame blasted a red flaming energy ball at the portal and destroys the machine preventing them from escaping.
"Like I said you guys won't be going anywhere." Flame reminded.
"Y-You destroyed the portal!" Kenny shouted.
"Yeah and there's no way that I'm letting you guys leave since this place is about to explode."
"What do you mean?" Sonic inquired.
"This place is going to explode. We activated all the bombs here and it'll detonate in exact one hour. Everyone here is going to die and be blown to blitz, turning into pieces of ashes."
"You monster…" Kenny insulted.
"Say what you want but we're more than monsters, we're demons!"
"And I'm going to beat the demon out of you and make you turn off the bombs."
"Sorry to say this but there is no off switch and no way to disable the bombs. It'll keep going until it reaches zero and boom!"
"That's it! Now I'm angry!"
*BGM: The Enigma TNG – Heavy Grind*
Sonic let out a loud roar of rage powering himself up and Flame just smirked but decide to power himself up for the big fight that he's been waiting for. After that's done, both hedgehogs then rush in and clashed, colliding as they engage in a powerful and terrifying battle that caused a powerful shockwave when they both clashed pushing Kenny back against the wall from the powerful shockwave and the powerful wind gust blowing.
The fight got started and there was some extreme and powerful blows engaging from different areas in the room as both Sonic and Flame teleported and deliver a vicious strike with powerful force creating shockwaves from their strikes and it started to make their fight to get intense. After taking seconds of exchanging blows, both hedgehogs began throwing various of punch and kicks at each other going at it as both hedgehog aren't back down to the fight. As they throw various strikes, Flame went on to deliver a terrifying punch but Sonic blocked it off. He then gets even with a kick until Flame blocked it off with his forearm then swung his fist Sonic but Sonic ducked down then goes with a back flip kick to the chin but Flame easily dodges it then takes the chance as he blasts a red fire energy ball to Sonic pushing him away.
Sonic somehow catching it and kicks it away before it can explode on him. After the explosion had just dealt with, Sonic return his focus on Flame but sees him charges at him and try to struck Sonic with a superman punch until Sonic counters him and delivers a double kick to his chest pushing Flame back a feet away. He then engulfs his fists with flames and delivers a few strikes to the red hedgehog but when Sonic continue his assault with his melee attacks, Flame just smirked and caught his fist with his hand looking right through his pure white eyes.
"Is that the best you can do hero? Show me what you can do." Flame taunted.
Flame punches Sonic in the stomach causing him to scream out of pain spitting blood from his mouth then followed by a head-butt to his forehead and a strong punch right to his face to his cheek sending Sonic to stumble against the wall crashing on his back. Flame engulfs his hands with flames and begin to blasts multiple red fire energy balls at the hedgehog hero.
"Inferno Missile!" Flame shouted.
After shouting the ability of Flame's, Sonic soon got out of dodge as Flame just blasting his ability over to the hedgehog hero. The red hedgehog grinned as he blasted multiple energy balls at Sonic grinning as he start to cause destruction from this ability of his. Sonic jumps against the wall and leaps from it charging at Flame with a strike. Sonic swung his fist at the red hedgehog, sending Flame a fierce punch then followed by delivering a spinning roundhouse kick sending Flame away with a kick to his face. Flame bring himself back after doing a quick recovery and Sonic charges at Flame and throw multiple punches at Flame going at it. Flame easily dodging the punches, blocking them off each and every strike Sonic can throw at him. After two or three punches, Flame then countered Sonic by grabbing his fist with his hand and uppercut him in the chin then deliver a beatdown with various of punches giving Sonic a brutal pounding. After a minute Flame delivers one fierce and intense punch sending Sonic flying towards the table and crashes through it by breaking the table and few things.
Flame then jumps up in the air, engulfs his fist with red flames and descends down readied his fist to strike an immense blow to Sonic.
"Let's see if you can handle this! Flame Quake!" Flame shouted.
Flame readied to slam his fist towards Sonic with this technique. Sonic suddenly rolled out of the way and Flame slammed his fist down at to the ground creating multiple cracks onto the ground including a big dent. The flames begin to burst from underground from this technique setting the quarters ablaze with fire all over the room. Kenny taking cover not wanting to get involve in the blazing fire. Flame laughed it off, he seems to like the destruction that he caused, Sonic growled and charges at Flame for a strike but Flame surprisingly uppercuts Sonic up in the air then launches off to Sonic and grabbed him by the face and descends down to slam Sonic down to the ground but it was more than slamming Sonic down, he eventually breaks the ground with intense force.
The ground begin to shatter into pieces and thus Flame descends down with his hand onto Sonic's face gripping a strong hold to the hedgehog hero. Kenny begin to fall from the broken ground of the quarters which it's now in ruins as Flame destroyed the room. He activate his angel wings from falling to a sudden death.
"Oh man, this is getting insane. Sonic I hope you're ok." Kenny hoped.
Kenny rush over to the scene of the fight but then again he decided to stay put in order not to get involve of their showdown so instead he waited for Sonic to finish the fight hoping that he could defeat Flame.
With Sonic and Flame's fight still in progress, both hedgehog descending down after Flame had slammed Sonic down to the ground which causes the ground to break that destroyed the Hedgehogs of Darkness's quarters. Flame smirked, raising Sonic up while they're fallen and hit Sonic with a few punches to add the damage but the hedgehog hero stopped Flame there, countered him off with a flash kick and followed by a homing attack through the nearby wall that broke through and bashing Flame through seven walls with his homing attack and crashes against the ground as they are in the holding cells that are in ruin all because of the riot and their fight that went overboard.
Sonic deliver multiple and serious of rapid punches pounding Flame without showing any mercy. Flame smirked feeling the effects of the punches coming from Sonic thus far, as Sonic beating up Flame his tattoo on his right arm begin to grow slowly and consuming Sonic with darkness each time his anger and rage boils within him. Sonic may not know it but he can feel it in his heart but he take his focus to try and defeat Flame. After a couple more punches being thrown to Flame, Sonic go for a brutal punch until Flame countered him off by catching his fist and head-butted him in the forehead. Flame extend his hand out to Sonic's face and blasts a red ki fireball to Sonic that pushed him few feet away out of the holding cell.
Sonic is up in the air but did an aerial recover to pull himself together. Flame jumps from the holding cell room through the wall to get a surprise attack that Sonic wasn't aware of. Just Sonic turned around, Flame struck Sonic with a spinning hook kick right to the jaw then deliver three punches to the hedgehog hero then slam down his hands when Flame clasped his hands together and struck Sonic down to the ground on the third floor of the tower. Sonic crash landed against his back against the ground but bounces off and hits the ground. He pulls himself back to the fight spotting Flame still in the air, he spread his arms out and channel his power and energy into his hands ready to unleash to activate his ability against Sonic.
"Let's see if you can handle this total destruction? Incinerate Missile!" Flame shouted.
Flame let out a loud battle cry and began blasting multiple rapid red ki fire energy balls over at Sonic. Sonic using his quickness by using his speed and agility to dodge away the rapid energy balls blasted from Flame. Sonic dodging the energy balls quick as he can not to be hit my one of them as they began to explode and impact like homing missiles. With Flame's technique, begin destroying the ground with cracks and craters in terms creating a few holes to the ground that almost breaking the third floor of the tower. Sonic wall run on the wall to get away as Flame continue firing his Incinerate Missile at Sonic destroying the wall only to leave the massive trail of destruction.
After a minutes of leaving destruction, Sonic had enough so he jumps on the wall and launches himself at Flame spinning himself to create a new technique that hopefully harm Flame.
"Inferno Spiral!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic engulfing himself with flames all over his body, spun around and struck Flame in the gut with his head like torpedo and blasts the spinning spiral of flames to Flame pushing him a few feet away then Sonic brings himself together as he bring his hands to his right side and channels his energy creating a flaming fire ball that he enlarges it to make the attack twice as strong. He had Flame in his sights and right on target and so that gave Sonic the chance to unleash his ability against Flame.
"Inferno Flash!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic blasted a beam of inferno flames using much energy as he can to make the beam powerful enough to harm the red hedgehog. Flame soon to see this coming as the beam big to enlarge it big enough and so Flame teleported dispersing himself in flames as the Inferno Flash came to impact the wall creating an explosion that destroys the wall and into rubble by the blast. Sonic thought he had Flame in the ropes so he waited patiently for the smoke to clear off slowly fading away. It took for a few seconds to fade away to show the results, turns out he destroyed the wall and the ground only a little which a few rubbles coming down and Sonic wondered where Flame had went off to.
"Where did he go?" Sonic asked.
"Looking for Flame I see." The dark voice interpreted.
Sonic recognizes the voice which he turn around sees Darkness floating behind him with a smirk and crossing his arms.
"I don't got time for you." Sonic scowled.
"True but just want to speak while you look for your opponent. You anger and this rage is boiling inside you and it's filling up the darkness. It's making it much easier for me when the time comes and I will soon takeover your body." Darkness grinned.
"Like that's going to happen, no way I'm letting that happen."
"Oh we'll see about that my hero friend."
Sonic quickly shakes his head to get Darkness out of his mind to get back to the fight. What he did not know that is Flame teleported above Sonic and axe kick him above his head with intense force sending Sonic descending down to the ground which broke the third level of the tower by Flame's unbelievable strength. The ground shattered, breaking into rubble coming down into pieces. Sonic recover himself and leaps off to rubble after rubble getting right back in the fight. Flame teleported to the rubble and blasted more rapid ki fire energy balls to Sonic making things more fun for him and make their fight to get more epic. Sonic kicking away the energy balls then gets even to even the odds as Sonic blasted a few inferno balls as well. Flame deflecting them away with his hands easily like it was nothing.
Sonic charges over at Flame for a strike but Flame teleported by dodging Sonic's incoming attack. Sonic lands on the piece of rubble, Flame then reappears by holding a piece of rubble and tosses over at Sonic. The hedgehog hero launches from the piece of rubble as both of them clashed and breaks into pieces. Sonic looks over to the rubble before returning his attention to Flame but only he gets struck in the face by a punch sending Sonic flying as he crashes through the piece of rubble and hits another rubble but he did a backflip and lands onto it followed by launching himself away with full velocity. Sonic shoulder tackles Flame through a wall that send both of them out of the tower outside of the Dark Realm.
Flame knee kicks Sonic in the chin and tosses him away a feet away. Sonic back flips doing an aerial twist and lands the ground on a giant platform. Flame engulfs his hands with red flames channeling his fire powers with ki energy all together smirking and Sonic knew that he's about to use another one of his abilities at him so he got ready, prepare for the worse.
"Incendiary Grenade!" Flame shouted.
Flame creates a flaming fire ball from his palm and tosses it like throwing a baseball at Sonic. He gets out of dodge by doing an aerial cartwheel which the incendiary grenade begin to explode into inferno flames. Sonic sees another attack coming as Flame tosses more of his fire balls at Sonic destroying the platform with the flammable explosions. Sonic jumps to another platform and front flip when he lifts himself up in the air when he grab an edge of the platform. Sonic blasted a few fire balls at Flame before he lands onto the ground with a skid. Flame dodges the fire balls with his reflexes before going back to use his Incendiary Grenade on Sonic throwing more and more creating more flaming explosions.
Sonic dodges another on then launches himself up in the air to go for a kick, Flame dodges it making Sonic to miss his hit until Flame grabbed him by his quills and swung him around a few times with full velocity then a second after tosses him back into the tower and hits the ground on his back. Sonic try getting up but Flame charges in by bashing through the wall and slam his fist down right to Sonic in the chest and deliver three or four punches in the face and grabs his neck. The red hedgehog look into Sonic by his pure white eyes with a smirk.
"I got to admit Sonic, you really did hurt me. I'm quite impressed." Flame commented.
"Get off me!" Sonic demanded.
"Try all you want but you won't beat me and beat the Hedgehogs of Darkness. Sooner or later you'll become one of us and guide us to the new path of destruction."
"I told you didn't I?" Darkness reminded in Sonic's mind.
"Shut up!" Sonic shouted.
"Talking to Darkness huh, I know he's in your mind interrupting you as the darkness just eat your body and mind turning it into blackness like a black mist. Let the darkness guide you, overcome you from light and let it filled you with strength."
"No. I. WON'T!"
Sonic blasted a shockwave of inferno flames from his body that pushes Flame a few feet away and crashes against the wall. Sonic prompts himself up to his feet and powers himself up. He went on to transform into his Super Sonic 4 form knowing that using fire powers with his Darkspine form won't do anything.
"Now I'm going to beat the crap out you!" Sonic threatened cracking his fists.
"Using your super form huh? I was wondering if you were going to use that. It's going to make much more fun for me."
*BGM: The Enigma TNG – Titans of Desolation*
Flame slammed down his fist creating an uproar of flames from underground like a shockwave geyser. Sonic jumps in the air and charges his hand with purple energy to his right fist descending down in the air.
"Comet Punch!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic struck a fierce punch right to Flame in the face with brute force. It send Flame back through the wall and crashing a few more walls until he reaches to another room of the holding cells. Flame shakes off the pain that he had endured making him smile of this incoming attack from Sonic.
"Now that's more like it." Flame smirked.
Sonic charges in and deliver a few more strikes with his punches then a knee kick to the chin and last a spinning hook kick sending Flame crashing through the bars of the cell. Flame picks up the broken bar and struck Sonic by swinging it right to the face and hits him again and again three more times then chokes Sonic with it.
Sonic struggle to get the broken bar away from his throat but Flame wouldn't let him go. Sonic soon then bring up an idea, he notices that they're in front of the wall so Sonic pushes himself and Flame back to the wall and hits him. Flame wouldn't let go of him so Sonic then pushes him against the wall several times until Flame is forced to let go of him, Sonic then deliver a terrifying spinning roundhouse kick then add the damage as Sonic creates a sphere of red and yellow energy into this ability with his chaos energy.
"Chaos Blitz!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic blasted his sphere of energy at Flame that pushes him through the wall and a few seconds after it explodes damaging Flame. Flame is seen with some bruises on his body, dirt on his clothes and had three or four cuts on his arms. Flame had blood on his mouth which he grin as he licked the blood from his mouth liking the intense fight. Flame soon notices that Sonic is charging at him readied his fist. Flame also charge at Sonic and when both hedgehogs are inches away, they swung their fists for a strike but only to be collided to one another that create a shockwave when they both clashed. They then went on to go at it as both of them throwing off punches with rapid speed and teleporting to area different area creating the sounds of shockwaves as both hedgehogs delivering blow after blow, strike after strike, and attack after attack going at it like there's a time limit in a match.
The prisoners and dark army soldiers notices that Sonic fighting one of the Hedgehogs of Darkness that inspired the prisoners cheering for the hedgehog hero and went on to fight off the guards to escape from the tower. As a minute pass of both hedgehogs going at it, Flame swung his fist at Sonic but Sonic answered with an uppercut using Sho-Hog-Ken hitting Flame in the air. Sonic grabs Flame by the ankles and tosses him down to the ground and then Sonic creates multiple red lightning energy arrows and hurls them over at Flame by using Chaos Arrow then followed by when Sonic creates red energy of wind into his hand and hurls it over at Flame again using Sonic Wind 5x.
Flame gets attacked by Sonic's Chaos Arrows as they piece him, impaling him like arrows and attacked by Sonic's Sonic Wind 5x. Sonic goes for another third strike as he brings hands together, creating a red and yellow sphere of energy from his hands he added yellow lightning into it and brings it to his right aiming directly to Flame.
"Take this! Chaos Storm!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic hurls the Chaos Storm over at Flame with full speed that impacts him when it reach into contact and explodes like lightning and bomb explosion causing Flame to scream in pain feeling the effects of the ability then afterwards Sonic went on to use his final and yet powerful ability hoping this would end and defeat Flame for good. Sonic creates an orb of red and yellow energy enlarging, powering his energy to become powerful enough to end the fight. Flame was bruised up at this at first and try to get back on the fight, Sonic let out all the rage with a loud battle cry unleashes a beam of red and yellow energy over to Flame.
"Super Sonic Beam 10x!" Sonic shouted.
The beam hit Flame that in the result that created a massive explosion with a powerful shockwave plus the massive wind gust blowing that blew a few guards and prisoners out of sight. It also causes a loud rumbling noises in the tower that sounded like an earthquake and the blast was powerful that created the area with smoke.
Meanwhile, in Earthland…
The Hedgehogs of Darkness return back to Earthland leaving Flame to deal with Sonic alone. The brothers appear in the west of Magnolia which they're far from the city itself. Just when the brothers would head off to return to Tartaros to help them until they see the destruction of the giant cube a couple of miles away and not all that, they see a giant size king with armor with a white long mustache that appears to be the king of the celestial spirits.
"Well what do you know, the celestial king had destroyed Tartaros' flying cube and their guild hideout." Blast noticed.
"Looks like a lot has happened since we were away to complete our plan, brother." Toxic assured.
"I believe so, although I sensed that they lost a few members and it's just only a few of them left and their guards have been defeated too."
"All because of the celestial spirit king, any who summoned the celestial spirit king?"
"I believe it has to be the blonde celestial wizard."
"Wait her? The one who's extremely in love with our prisoner?"
"Precisely. She must've used the trump card to take down the floating cube and Tartaros' guild down into ruins. This should be entertaining."
"So what do we do now brother, shouldn't we go and help Tartaros?"
"Of course but it seems like they're holding out on their own perfectly fine. However, we'll wait for the time they need our assistance so for now we watch."
"Ok Blast, I hope you know what you're doing?"
"Trust me Toxic, this will be fun."
The Ruins of Tartaros…
Lucy laid there on her front, weakened after she had used up all of the magic within her to save her friends and summoned the celestial spirit king to come to her aid. She had that sad expression holding half of the gold zodiac key with the signal: Aquarius. She broke down realizing the fact that she'll never be able to see her again after remembering the times she had with her since childhood and remember how Lucy have to sacrifice her key to summon the celestial spirit king to come help.
Flashback…
After when Mard Geer had summoned a curse that frozen everyone like a statue with red goop putting them in imprisonment. Turns out that Lucy was the only one that escape the prison and regroup herself to find a way to save everyone. Tartaros noticed this and went to search for Lucy but Lucy felt into the water and appear to be heading off to somewhere which she hold onto the piece of wood to keep her in the surface from drowning in the water.
The blonde celestial spirit realize she's has no one to come help her not even Sonic realizing that he's been caught by the Hedgehogs of Darkness. She started thinking about her major crush wondering what he'll do if he was here.
"Sonic… I don't know how I can do this without you. Everyone needs you, I need you. I hope you can back safe and help us cause we really need the help we can get." Lucy thought.
Lucy brings herself up knowing what she has to do.
"I'll save my friends, I'll do this for all of you including you Sonic." Lucy determined.
Unaware her surroundings, Lucy stumbled Jackal who had found her but not all, there was Lamy and the another demon that almost resembles as a fish named Torafuzer. They all came after and stop Lucy from escaping but she wasn't going to let it happen as she summons two celestial spirits to fight. There was Leo and Virgo appear and fight them off as Virgo handle Lamy and Leo taking on Torafuzer. That only leaves Lucy with Jackal. She uses her magic whip to fight off Jackal which she hit her whip to Jackal by his wrist causing him but to smirk.
"You forgotten about my curse, haven't you?" Jackal grinned.
Jackal activate his curse that destroyed the magic whip and hurt Lucy with the explosions and sent her in the water. Lucy pulls back up to get back in the fight, Jackal again using his curse creating some explosions within seconds after hurt Lucy some more catching Leo and Virgo's attention.
"Lucy!" Leo and Virgo shouted.
"Damn it! We got to help her." Leo exclaimed.
"I know but they're in our way and we can't do anything right now. I only wish Sonic were here to help us." Virgo wished.
"Me too, I don't know where he is but he has personal business to take care that involves with his jackass enemies that came looking for him."
Jackal toying with Lucy with more explosions causing him to smile sadistically just by hearing Lucy's screams.
"Come on, scream! Scream for your hedgehog hero!" Jackal taunted.
Jackal collapse in the water, flowing making Jackal smile once more to look for her. He soon spotted her and use his explosions on her yet again harming Lucy yet again. Lucy had enough and use her magic once again that she takes out another gold zodiac key bringing Leo and Virgo's concern to Lucy using another key.
"Lucy, you mustn't!" Virgo reasoned.
"No Lucy!" Leo shouted.
Lucy didn't care and she refused to give up and lose to Jackal and the rest of Tartaros.
"I won't give up! I will save my friends and I won't let them down. I will make Sonic feel proud and I am not going to give up now. Open, Gate of the Water Bearer: Aquarius!" Lucy summoned.
Her celestial spirit arrived and stop Jackal as she pushes Jackal away but he ducked away the water. Lucy smiled looking over to her celestial spirit.
"You're still an idiot." Aquarius commented.
It made Lucy smile at her words.
"I heard what happen to Sonic being captured by the Hedgehogs of Darkness, I would like to see him but I got handle these scumbags first." Aquarius stated.
"We'll see him again but right now we got bigger problems." Lucy reminded.
"I know."
"Whatever, I'll destroy you too." Jackal grinned.
Aquarius snarled, use her vases controlling the water as she use the water to push Jackal away and to Torafuzer but surprisingly swim in the water and through Aquarius's water.
"What? He can swim through my water?" Aquarius noticed.
"That's my element." Torafuzer explained.
Torafuzer appear out of the water and uses his sharp slashes from his arms to slash Aquarius which hit her in the right shoulder causing pain to the celestial wizard.
"Aqaurius!" Lucy cried.
"Lucy! Close one of the gates! Don't overdo it!" Virgo reasoned.
Leo and Virgo rushing to Lucy and Aquarius aid but is interrupted by Jackal using his explosions out of nowhere between them and send them back to the celestial spirit world. Aquarius is down on the ground stumbling and trembling in pain and Lucy try her best to get up but Jackal using his explosion curse to torture Lucy making her scream.
"*Laugh* That's right, scream. Scream for your hero Sonic to come save you. Oh I forgot he's not here, he's with the Hedgehogs of Darkness and I'm sure he won't return to save you." Jackal taunted.
"Y-You're wrong, Sonic will come back and will stop you guys." Lucy retorted.
"Like that's going to happen."
Jackal snap his finger using explosion on her leg making Lucy to scream again. Torafuzer wasn't amused, he wanted to end this right away not wanting to watch Jackal to torture her.
"Aren't you going to kill her or I will?" Torafuzer demanded.
"What's your problem? I just want to have a little fun torturing this girl make her scream some more." Jackal retorted.
Torafuzer shakes his head in disbelief, he sighed in defeat to allow Jackal have his fun.
"Do what you want." Torafuzer allowed before leaving.
"Hey you don't have to tell me twice." Jackal smirked.
Lamy rush over to Lucy and hold her up by her arms.
"What should we do with her? I know why don't we blow up her bazoombas?" Lamy suggested.
Jackal look over to Lamy with a wide smile as she laughed. He smirked and raise his hand over to Lucy, she thought that he's going to kill her but instead his hand approach and lands onto Lamy's face and second after he blow her head off, killing her on the spot. Her body backed away three steps back and collapsed. Lucy watched on in shock before turning over to Jackal.
"You're too annoying." Jackal commented.
"You killed your own comrade, how could you?" Lucy asked.
Jackal return his attention to the celestial wizard.
"Never mind her, now back to torturing your ass or better yet I might have some fun with that smoking hot body of yours. Then yet again I won't, I'll just blow you up and kill you right now. Too bad that Sonic isn't here to save you, he doesn't have the balls to come to your rescue since he's dealing with the Hedgehogs of Darkness." Jackal grinned sadistically.
Jackal readied his hand to go with the finish to end the life of Lucy Heartfilia until all of sudden, the massive waves of water came pushing away Jackal a few feet away.
"What the hell!" Jackal yelled.
"How dare you talk about Sonic like that?! I won't let you say a damn word about him!" Aquarius shouted.
"Aquarius…" Lucy trailed off.
Aquarius hold Lucy into her arm trying her best to push Jackal back far away.
"This water can't stop me! You won't stop me!" Jackal shouted.
"All I can do is slow him down. They're too strong for me to handle. Now listen to me Lucy, any celestial wizard that summons three celestial spirits. They can summon the celestial spirit king to help. In order to do that, you'll have to sacrifice one key in order to summon the king to help so with that being said I want you to sacrifice my key." Aquarius ordered.
"What? But what about you?" Lucy questioned.
"I won't be able to see you again nor come to your help anymore."
"No. I can't do that, I don't want to lose you."
"There's no other way Lucy, you have to do it for the sake of your friends. They're at stake and you're the only one that can save them by summoning the celestial spirit king to help. You have to do it otherwise we'll be in trouble."
"Aquarius… I can't, you're my friend. I can't bear to see you again."
"It's alright Lucy, it's the least I can do is be there by your side. I know I may have been so hard on you for all these years and you've shown nothing but respect. I may disliked you but in the end you're my friend and I am happy that I was there by your side. You even make me smile from the dumb and ridiculous reasons and that's what I like about you. I may not see Sonic ever again but I can feel him within my heart."
"Aquarius…"
"It's alright Lucy, I'll be fine. Tell Sonic that I love him and I'll be seeing him again someday."
Lucy hesitated, she didn't want to lose Aquarius and not wanting to see her again but she had no choice. She was in tears and said her goodbyes to Aquarius and summoned the celestial spirit king as he descends down from the skies and uses his sword to slash down the floating cube that came down crashing down far away from Magnolia causing it in ruins and freed everyone from their prison.
End of the Flashback…
Lucy hold the broken key of the water bearer and sobbed in tears knowing she won't see Aquarius.
"Aquarius… it could've been another way to summon the celestial spirit king and not sacrificing your key." Lucy sobbed.
Lucy brought herself up on her knees and tears came down to the ground from her chin. She then thought about the hedgehog hero and his safety.
"*Sob* Oh Sonic… I wish you were here right now and help. I need you…" Lucy sobbed for the blue blur hero.
Tower of Apocalypse, Dark Realm…
Sonic waited patiently for the smoke to clear off to show the results if he defeated Flame or not. It didn't take about a minute or so for the smoke to clear off and when the smoke finally faded, Flame is still standing and had shielded himself with his arms right in front of him. He puts his arms down to his sides and grinned at Sonic who is stunned that Flame survived the Super Sonic Beam 10x technique.
"You… how…" Sonic stuttered.
"Surprised? *Laugh* I told you Sonic you can't beat me, I'm too powerful and so are Blast and Toxic. You sure hurt me with that technique of yours, I'm impressed." Flame smirked.
"So you survived my technique. Well you won't be surviving long enough when I use it again."
"*Chuckle* You don't say. I highly doubt that, not until I show you my transformation."
Sonic jumped up in absolute surprised, he didn't see that coming.
"Wait you have a transformation?" Sonic questioned.
"Yep. I'm not the only has a transformation, Blast and Toxic have transformations too. We never really show our transformation when we're fighting serious but you ended up fighting serious with me, I'm glad I can show you my transformation."
"No way…"
"Believe it Sonic, you'll be the first and the only one that will witness my powerful transformation. I want to see your reaction when I do THIS!"
*BGM: Dragon Ball Z - Unofficial Super Saiyan 3 Broly Theme (The Enigma TNG)*
Flame began powering up, crouching down, clenching his hands and look down letting out a loud roar channeling his energy and power to transform. Sonic watching on in utter shock as Flame's power begin increasing rapidly.
"Whoa… his power is off the charts and it's getting crazy by the second." Sonic thought.
Soon his wounds, bruises, and cuts have been healed while Flame powering up. Seconds after, his body begin to flash with yellow then back to red. It flashes yellow back to back and Sonic know he doesn't like the sound of this realizing this is going to get more worse than before. Slowly the small rubble of the broken ground ascended up in the air, Flame continue roaring channeling his power. He let out a loud roar creating a shockwave including cracks on the ground with a big dent on the ground. Sonic skidding slowly as he shielded himself from the shockwave as the wind gust blowing like a hurricane.
Sonic trying his best to not be pushed by the strong wind gust. Flame's body begin flashing yet again rapidly, his power continue increasing rapidly as Sonic sensing Flame's energy. His red aura soon change colors turning into yellow aura by this transformation and Sonic in awe watching Flame's transformation wondering what he has in store. Flame's transformation with a loud roar went on for three whole minutes and until a second after, Flame let out one final roar to unleash it as there was an explosion of yellow light shrine in the entire area. Sonic blocking his sight from being blind by the flash.
When the light disperse slowly, Sonic puts his arm down to look over to Flame until his eyes shot widen of absolute shock. Flame's fur color change from red to yellow still have the black streaks on the tip of his quills. He had that wide grin in his transformation and look to Sonic with his red eyes.
"This is my transformation." Flame assured.
"You became Super?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah I certainly did Sonic. I forgot to tell you Blast, Toxic, and I have chaos energy but its negative energy. It came from Darkness's blood."
"You guys have Chaos Energy too?"
"That's right, we've been holding back our true power but not anymore. We'll be showing it to ya soon enough and this is my full and true power. Call me Super Flame."
"This guy's power is greater than I sensed before. He's beyond powerful." Sonic thought.
"Now for the fun to start, now time I put you back in your cell and complete our objective!"
Flame charges at Sonic with full speed and ready to fight.
*Closing Theme (Dragonball Z)*
Flame had transformed into Super Flame? The Hedgehogs of Darkness have Chaos Energy as well? What else are they're hiding and they're showing their true power. Flame has become powerful than Sonic with this transformation and it seem that he has a bigger advantage against Sonic. Can our hero defeat Flame in his transformation or will he be defeated and come down to his downfall? What will happen next and will Fairy Tail come back on top to stop Tartaros?
Find out next time on the next another exciting chapter of Fairy of Darkness 4: Tartaros.