Lauren the Echidna Volume 2

Chapter 25

Flaming Encounter

It was then I knew exactly what I had to do in defeating Mephiles once and for all. Me and Cream had made our way back down toward the entrance of the castle and were about to enter. That was until Titan's voice echoed around both of us.

"Don't you think you should get more firepower BEFORE you get your asses kicked?"

"Easy with the language, geez…" I rolled my eyes but suddenly felt a nerve strucked inside my body and I shouted in pain, holding onto my chest, panting. "W-What the…gah!"

"Better watch your mouth kid…I'm part of your body now and I can destroy it just like that…" Titan replied as he let my body feel comfort again. I gasped and coughed a few times, but soon shook it off after Cream came to my aid.

"Alright fine…sorry about that…but what do you mean by firepower? We already have five of the seven Chaos Emeralds…why can't we-"

"You need more than the Emeralds to beat him…"

"Then who else is gonna-"

It was then a bright light shined behind us. It was of a bright red color and at the same time, a circle of flames was surrounding a certain spot there behind us. Cream blocked her eyes from the intense light and I only winced, getting ready in case it was an enemy. I stopped and looked closer,

"Wait a minute…I know that light…huh…" My eyes widened and I smiled wide to finally see who was floating there in the light.

It was a lavender colored creature, like a cat, with hair pulled up on the back of her head. Her gloves were spiked around the cuffs, being white, and her outfit was almost the same as I have seen her with. It was the same purple robe around her, except that it was tied around her waist, but now with a white dress like shirt, sleeves somewhat going down to her elbows and small yellow rings around her wrists. The same jewel was on her forehead and she was now wearing a pair of white flared pants, but with the same red boots as before. I smiled more as she approached us with nothing but a smile as well, and stopped a few feet in front of me.

"Well well…Blaze the Cat…The pyrokinetic being from the future." I held out my hand to her for a quick handshake and she took it.

"It's good to finally meet you, Lauren. I've heard a lot about you and what has happened. And I heard you needed some extra power in defeating Mephiles." She smiled letting go of my hand. I nodded to her and explained what just happened with Titan, and of course spoke with only his voice being heard and Blaze understood every bit of it.

"I have just the thing for you…but it requires handling a massive amount of power."

"I think I can handle it, Blaze. And I think I know what you're gonna give me." I smirked and she nodded, handing me a bag. Cream and I looked inside and there were the seven things that I needed to help Titan in his mission. They were all shining their own color, but a slightly different shape than the Chaos Emeralds.

"Hehe…the Sol Emeralds…just what we need." I smirked more and Titan's laugh was heard. Blaze smirked as well, telling me a few more details about Mephiles' power, I accepted and thanked her, but another thought came to my mind.

"Blaze…why don't you join us in kicking Mephiles' butt?" I said.

"I'd be honored to, Lauren." She bowed to me and came back up with a fist clenched in front of her face.

"Hmhmhm…alright then. Let's get Cheese out of that castle and get this overwith…" I put the bag around my waist and took off into the castle with Cream and Blaze.

**1**

Every attack we used here and there was not missed. Many clones from Mephiles' evil bane had been attacking us from left and right, but we always came out on top of each one. Cream actually had gotten a black belt after seeing how much I had fought back on Earth. She got so inspired that she took classes of self-defense and other martial arts and was now a black belt of her class. I was already impressed by the moves she used, them being almost the same as the ones me and Knuckles used on Earth. Meanwhile, Blaze was on my left side sending blasts of fire energy and had also learned a few new tricks. She somersaulted, front flipped, and many other gymnastics she had already learned she used to her advantage. As Blaze rolled around, several sparks of fire were being sent out and destroyed each clone with one hit each. As for me, I was sending several blasts of telekinetic energy, and a few jets of water and metal bending was thrown in there as well, slicing through anyone in my path. It was then that I had a little plan for a sudden upcoming of a small army of clones. I smirked and took out the green Chaos Emerald and began to mutter something,

"The seven Emeralds are the servers…" The light shined brightly around the emerald and I held out my hand with it floating in front of me. "Alright Cream…time for the Chaos Home Run." I smirked back at her and she blinked, then knowing exactly what I was talking about. This move I had mentioned was actually a double move that involved me and her in a double attack. She jumped in front of me and then hopped high in the air as I sent a wave of chaos energy around her. Cream, being only nine, had gotten very smart over the past three years and nothing was able to hurt her from this move, having done almost the same with Cheese, and shouted out that she was ready. I held her up in the air with Chaos Control, still with that green aura around her and shouted,

"Alright, take this! CHAOS…!"

"HOME RUN!" Cream shouted in unison with me and I jumped up to her and sent a blast of wind with one of my kicks at her back, sending her spinning in a ball down at the army of clones, making a shockwave of chaos energy that sliced through each one with ease. Cream bounced off the floor and unrolled herself, landing down behind me as I landed one knee with my hand on the floor in front of me. I smirked and watched as the clones disappeared into nothing but dust and mist. I stood up to my feet and Cream came up to me, grasping me in a hug, happy to see that our move worked like a charm.

"We did it, Lauren! We did it!" She shouted happily. I hugged back and looked to Blaze, who was clapping, impressed by our cooperation.

*END 1*

We all then looked to the throne that was before us, its décor very evil looking and a small but poisonous aura was surrounding it. My eyes narrowed and Cream had let me go, standing beside me while Blaze came by my other side. The aura was way too familiar. I knew where we were now. Titan's voice echoed in my head only I could hear,

"This isn't the way I had expected it…be on your guard, kid." He said as his voice faded for the time.

It was then I spotted the cage where Cheese was being held, but my eyes then widened to see who else was in the cage. That other small creature was white with light brown spots on her, brown spots around her ears and one eye, tail curled up onto her back. I couldn't stand there any longer, I went behind the throne and up to the cage with Cream and Blaze following. The white and brown creature had barked, knowing it was me and her tail began to wag happily. I broke open the lock to the cage and opened the door, them both going to their owners. Cheese flew over to Cream and they were finally reunited, while the other one came to me and pounced onto me and sat in my arms. I hugged her with a few tears running down my face.

"Oh my God…Sandy! I can't believe you're here…I'm so glad I found you…" I held her close and she whined a few times, then licked my face, still wagging her tail. I continued to shake as I held her close, but then felt her being taken away from me with an aura surrounding her body.

"Huh?...What the…NO!" I grabbed onto Sandy and held her back, while she was whining and barking at whoever was trying to take her from me. My grip had finally slipped and Sandy was now lying beside the feet of the one being that had taken her away in the first place. My eyes widened more to see that it was none other than Mephiles the Dark, keeping Sandy in his grasp, as if trying to hurt her while holding her on the floor.

"It seems you have quite the relationship with your pet, Lauren…maybe I should break that bond…hmhmhmhm…" He smirked as wide as he could, then snapped and a loud whine came from Sandy's mouth. I gasped and noticed that he had not only hurt her, but had just knocked her out cold. My teeth then gritted and I began to growl.

"Why you son of a bitch…you just had to do that DIDN'T YOU!?" I shouted as I threw myself at him with a punch so hard across his face, it would've cracked his jaw, but he barely budged at the punch, then grabbed my fist. He smirked more and crushed his hand down on mine, almost breaking it, that is until Blaze had hit him in the back with a powerful blast of fire. Mephiles didn't wince, but he took me and threw me onto the ground in front of Cream and Cheese, who again came to help me up to my feet,

"Hmph…I have no need for the blue creature anymore, but I do have this one…" Who he referred to was Sandy, still having the same smirk on his face.

Mephiles was definitely toying with me this time…he kidnaps my dog and begins to threaten me with killing her…it was then I wouldn't take anymore of his tricks…it was time for me to end this before he hurts anyone else…