Story 3; onslaught of the gods

Chapter 1; a new threat, versus slifer the sky dragon

Sonic was as usual in a duel. A tough one.

"It is over King. All you have is your pathetic 0 stats and effect negated Black-winged. Surrender or I will feed you to my utopia the lightning".

"Save the speech until you win" Sonic answered back "I only need one card to win".

"You WON'T win. Your 3 year reign is coming to an end!"

"My turn. I draw!" Sonic drew his card. He smiled. His deck just never let him down.

"I summon forth blackwing blizzard the far north. Through its effect I special summon blackwing Kris the crack of dawn from my graveyard. I tune these 2 together to synchro summon blackwing evolution booster!"

"What is that?!"

"A card specifically made for me."

"No fair!"

"I have agreed that whoever beats me has the right to claim this card and the card I'm gonna play next! But it WON'T be you. I perform a BLACK SYNCHRO! Tuning my evolution booster and Black-winged dragon I synchro summon the ultimate monster! ARISE BLACK FEATHER SKY RULER DRAGON!"

Sky ruler appeared above Sonic causing the crowd watching the duel to go crazy in enthusiasm.

"Impressive card. But still. With 3500 atk it is no match for utopia the lightning in the battle phase!"

"I'm well aware of utopia's effect. But even if you use it it won't save you. This dragon gains 300 attack for every blackwing in either graveyard. And sorry to tell you but this duel lasted long enough for my deck to almost ran out and all my blackwings are now resting in the graveyard. They are a total of 25. That means my dragon gains 7500 attack points!"

"11000?! How is anyone supposed to defeat this thing?!"

"This the ultimate challenge for the dueling world. It is up to every duelist out there to find a way! NOW ATTACK! JUDGEMENT OF THE SKY!"

"NOOOOO!" (Sonic's opponent LP 0)

"One more day one more victory as I always say" Sonic said and the crowd cheered. Afterwards he left on his duel runner, the furious flame and headed for his and Amy's date.

Sonic was now champion for 3 years. Incredibly long amount of time taking into consideration the continuous changes in the game meta. No matter what he was facing he always defeated it. He had learn to expect anything since he started dueling at 8 years old and now he was 22. He and his friends had participated in a lot of competitions in the pro league over the years and Sonic's friends all reached the top 8 just under Sonic. Under him in second place was Amy, now his wife, who was also known as the duel queen. In third and fourth place were Tails and Knuckles accordingly, following up in 5th Jet the hawk, 6th was Wave the swallow, 7th was Shadow the hedgehog, 8th was rouge the bat and 9th Storm the albatross. These rankings were official for 2 years now. sometimes the ranking changed between the places under 2nd and above 9th but no one managed to get into the top 10 above 10th place. They were known as the legendary 9.

Sonic and Amy furthermore, were also king and queen in the world of the cards' spirits. Using the power of the dragon god, lunar dragon they were able to travel from one world into the other as if they were just going from one city to another. In these 2 years after the adventure with Sonic's corrupted descendant, the older versions of Sonic and Amy who ruled the kingdom died. Now their kingdom belonged to Sonic and Amy.

It was all as Sonic would want them. A perfect life. Little did he know that this perfect life would stop being perfect soon enough.

Sonic reached outside the archeology museum. Amy was right outside. Once she saw him she run towards him and kissed him immediately. Then they headed inside.

"So how was today honey?" she asked him.

"Just as always victory and fun. Although some gamblers bet money for sky ruler. According to the company this card is worth like 1000 euros. These guys bet more than that."

"And you take their money?"

"I try to persuade them to keep them but most of the times their pride doesn't allow them to keep them. I must have like over 100.000 euros in my bank account because of these guys".

"And what do you do with them?"

"Usually I donate to several services for kids or old men or people with special needs. I keep only the money I need for us."

Amy smiled and kissed him again. Her Sonic was the best man she could dream of.

"Oh by the way did you hear the last announcement of the game?"

"The last announcement I heard was about the release of xyz and pendulum monsters."

"The company said that in order to make the game a bit more fair since you have a one of a kind card they created 3 more one of a kind cards. They said their names were 'the Egyptian gods.'.They are already out, put in random packs. Whoever pulls one becomes instantly almost equal to you."

"Interesting. I would really like to get my hands one of these. Could be great for my collections."

They entered the museum. They headed straight for the Egyptian section. Amy had a passion for ancient Egypt. During a tournament in Egypt they visited the pyramids and she and Sonic got locked in a pyramid until Tails could get them out. But what she really wanted to see today was a brand new just-discovered pendant that was found in the dessert. It was there for millennia. Sonic thought it was a bit weird that it wasn't discovered by anyone all these thousands of years.

They reached in front of the showcase. The pendant was golden, small and with (Sonic thought that it was somehow attracting him) a blue jewel in the middle. Amy was so excited that she could not leave sight of it. They spend 40 minutes looking at the pendant. Soon the visitors started leaving. Sonic, waiting until Amy was done looking at the pendant, took out his deck and started looking through it. The moment he took out the Black feather sky ruler dragon card his mark started shining. So did the jewel on the pendant. Sonic and Amy watched it scared. Suddenly the pendant started floating towards Sonic. it collided with the glass breaking it. The alarm was heard. Sonic and Amy ran out immediately. Every visitor was escorted out. They were all searched. Sonic, being the duel king, was allowed to leave. Amy followed him. Once they reached at their house, they laid on the sofa.

"What was that? My mark reacted too. Why did the jewel react to our marks?"

"No idea. Honestly. I hope they found it though. We should better stay away from it."

"Impossible." Amy said shocked.

"Amy I know how much you love ancient Egypt but we shouldn't get caught."

"No… look what you're wearing on your neck!"

Sonic looked down and saw the pendant hanging from his neck.

"What the heck?! It wasn't there just a moment ago!"

"Sonic let's just toss it I think it is haunted." Amy said pulling back.

Sonic agreed but the moment he touched the pendant's chain the jewel started shining again. Suddenly a blue sphere came out of it. It floated in front of them for a few seconds then transformed (Sonic expected it but still was surprised) into an exact copy of him.

"OMG! How many other me are out there?!" he said half angry and half disappointed knowing that they just got in another adventure.

"A lot" the new Sonic said "but it seems I was the only one trapped like this."

"Who are you?" Amy asked him.

"I am a previous incarnation of Sonic's soul. I lived in ancient Egypt. I was the pharaoh and Tails' previous incarnation was the royal guards' leader. But he wanted the throne. He created a mutiny and for 30 years Egypt was a chaotic country."

"Oh so that's why those ancient records I once read spoke of a 'nameless' war."

"Exactly. At the 30th year of the war I decided to end this. I challenged Tails to meet me at the tomb of our ancestors and settle this there. I arrived there and waited. But instead of facing me he tried to lock me into the tomb by blocking the entrance. I got out and started fighting with him. Using the magic of the lunar dragon I destroyed the evil but with a terrible cost. My soul was locked in this pendant. I watched as centuries passed one at a time until the pendant was found. I prayed for you to come across it and you did. Now I need your help so I can find peace."

"What must we do?" Sonic asked.

"I need you, the one who saved Tails' spirit from the darkness in his heart to face me in a duel. But in order to do so I must first reclaim my long lost power. The power of the 3 illusionary beasts or most commonly known as the 3 gods of Egypt."

"3? Egypt had tons of gods."

"The 3 gods I'm talking about are 3 almighty beasts which lunar dragon gave me so I could fight Tails. We have to find them."

Sonic immediately called a number on his phone. He talked for a few minutes then returned to Amy and the ancient Sonic.

"Get in the pendant. We're going."

"Where?"

"To some friends".

Ancient Sonic turned to energy again and got in the pendant. Sonic called the rest of the singed ones and told them to meet him and Amy at their haunt. When they arrived ancient Sonic came out of the pendant shocking everyone. Sonic explained the situation.

"We're gonna need all your influence in the world guys. We must find at least one clue about these gods."

"Count me in." Tails said.

"Us too" Wave knuckles and Jet said as well.

"Ok" Sonic decided " we're gonna start from here; the duelist's haunt. It is internet café. Maybe we can find something through the internet. If not we'll go tomorrow to the library."

Everyone agreed. But after 3 hours they had absolutely no clue about the gods. They decided to split for the night and meet next morning outside the library. But before they could leave. they saw the entrance blocked by the 'guard' who was preventing a guy from going in.

"Please sir. I must find Sonic the hedgehog. It is an emergency."

"Mister the hedgehog is busy right now. And if you want to challenge him you should ask him directly."

"Exactly." Sonic said.

The guy who was refused entrance looked at Sonic. It was a silver colored hedgehog with unusually big hair.

"Who are you?" Sonic asked.

"Are you Sonic the hedgehog?"

"Yes."

"Thank god I found you. I…"

"Want to challenge me just like everyone?"

"No! I need your help. My friend is in danger."

"Um… I'm the duel king. I'm not a cop. I can't help."

"Please give me 5 minutes so I can explain. If you still don't want to help it is ok but please just 5 minutes."

"…. Ok But make this quick."

They went inside and sat a table.

"First of all" Sonic started the discussion " who are you?"

"My name is Silver the hedgehog. I come from England. i am the 4th best in England. by the way I'm also a big fan of all you guys."

"Could you get to the point please? We're in a big hurry here." Tails said.

"Yeah sorry. I easily get carried away. As I was saying with my best friend espio the chameleon we opened a few packs to celebrate his birthday. He had an amazing luck that day cause he pulled one of these so called Egyptian gods. But then he disappeared. After 3 days I noticed him entering an old building. I followed him. Inside I saw something that looked like a devil ritual."

"Devil ritual? Damn I hate these things." Wave said disgusted.

" it was only 3 people. Espio a girl and a guy. They put espio's god card and 2 other cards on a table then they carved a circle and started whispering some weird things. Afterwards the other guy said these words; 'My fellow warriors. The divine beasts chose us to change the world. But in order to do so we need to defeat the duelists who hold the power to stop us, a power that originally gave life to these gods. And these people are…. The six first of the legendary 9!' I gasped when I heard you're their target. Unfortunately they heard me. The leader started firing some fire balls with his bare hand!"

"What?" Impossible!" Amy said shocked.

"Yet true. I ran away luckily in one piece. I got into the first flight I found for here and ever since then I've been looking for you guys. I want you to defeat espio and find a way to turn him back to normal. By what this guy said you wield powers too. Maybe you can use them for this cause."

"We'll do it" Knuckles said right away forgetting for a second that Sonic, as the leader, decided such things. But Sonic nodded positively.

"So where is this friend of yours? Jet asked Silver.

But before Silver could answer a lightning stroke close to the café. Within its light Sonic saw the hugest, scariest and most impressive duel monster he had ever seen. A giant red Chinese style dragon with giant wings and and 2 mouths.

"Right there. He is coming for me!" Silver said scared.

"Sonic what do we do?" Amy asked him.

"I'm rolling!"

"You're seriously going after it?!" Jet asked shocked.

"Yes. Guys" he said turning to his friends "I don't expect you to follow me. As for you Ames" he said grabbing her hand "I want you to stay here."

Amy slapped him. Everyone was shocked.

"What did I tell you about not underestimating me?!" she said in a fearful tone.

Sonic was sure at that moment that he said something really stupid because he was worried. Amy always was underestimated and always crushed like a bug everyone who underestimated her. Even as the duel queen, she was an opponent you didn't want to mess with.

"I'm sorry Ames. I just forgot in my anxiety that you cannot be stopped when you've made your mind."

Amy relaxed and hugged him.

"I'll go anywhere you go."

"So will I" Tails declared.

"And me." Knuckles added.

"Me too." Wave said.

"You're all crazy" Jet said "but so am I. Let's do this!"

They went outside and rode the duel runners heading towards the dragon's figure. They bypassed a duelist who lost to the dragon. Eventually they could see the duelist who controlled the dragon. Espio noticed them as well. He stopped instantly and so did Sonic just before him. The rest of the singed ones stopped some meters behind.

"So Silver managed to warn you, did he King?"

"Yes."

"This made my job so easy. My master will be so pleased."

"Who is your master?"

"You don't have to know Sonic. After all in a matter of minutes you'll be food for my dragon. And once you fall so will the rest of your pathetic friends."

"You won't mess with my friends! You're going down right here and now!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Espio said.

"TURBO DUEL! ACCELERATION!"

They accelerated with the rest of Sonic's friends and Silver following them on their duel runners.

"I'll start!... PERFECT! The perfect hand. I special summon junk forward since I don't control any monsters. Because it was special summoned I can special summon the 2 tg warwolfs I have in my hand! Now I tribute all 3 of my monsters to summon my GOD!"

"On the first turn?!" Sonic said scared.

"Exactly. Oh doors of heaven and sky! Open up and grant me infinite power! Unleash the beast of thunder! Behold! The Egyptian god! SLIFER! THE SKY DRAGON!"

Another lightning stroke next to them. Then Sonic saw the dragon descending from inside the clouds. Slifer unleashed a huge roar. Sonic felt as the roar was piercing through his body. He had never felt fear before. But this beast was as strong as his sky ruler dragon. Or so they said.

"Slifer's attack points are determined by the number of cards I'm holding multiplied by 1000. And I hold 2. He has 2000 attack points."

"Huh. No big deal."

"Oh not right now. but now I play the spell card, card of sanctity!"

"NOO!"

"YEES! We both draw until we have six cards in our hands. So Slifer's attack rises to 6000!"

"6000?!"

"Precisely. I set a card and activate the field spell mount of the bound creator!"

"WTF?! This card is not included in the official card list!"

"Of course it is not! It is given to me by the divine Slifer! It makes him untargetable and indestructible by card effects!"

"Impossible!"

"Your turn KING!" Espio mocked him.

Sonic stayed in shock looking at Slifer for awhile then snapped out of it.

"Even so it appears your deck works specifically around slifer. Once I sent him to sleep, it will be over!"

"Let's see you try!"

"My turn. I draw! I summon blackwing shura the blue flame in attack mode."

"Second mouth attack!"

"WHAT?!"

Slifer opened his second mouth and unleashed a thunderball which destroyed shura.

"What gives?!"

"When you summon a monster, slifer immediately reduces its attack by 2000 . But if the attack is reduced to 0, that monster is destroyed!"

"WHAT?!"

"HAHAHAHAHA! Relax king. Since I'm so far ahead I'll give you a small clue. Slifer's ability only works on monsters summoned in attack mode. So defense will work for some time."

"Grrr.. fine. Since I don't control monsters I can special summon gofu the vogue shadow in defense mode. Then I special summon 2 tokens in defense mode as well due to his effect. Afterwards I special summon blackwing bora the spear in defense mode. I set one card face down and end my turn."

"My turn. I draw. Slifer's attack becomes 5000. Slifer attack gofu."

"I activate negate attack!"

"Hmph. Make your move. I wanna see how long you can last like this."

"My turn. I play swords of revealing light and blackwing feathers. I draw 2 cards and you can't attack for 3 whole turns."

"Is that all? Pathetic. My turn. I draw. I set a card and end my turn."

"My turn. I tribute my 2 tokens to activate the spell stealth attack. Now my monsters are unaffected by monster effects for 2 turns. Next I summon blackwing gladius the midnight sun in defense mode since I only control 1 blackwing. Afterwards I tune them together to synchro summon my black-winged dragon!"

"Good. But against Slifer it is meaningless."

"We'll see about that. Make your move."

"My turn. I set a monster and end my turn."

"My turn. I summon blackwing blizzard the far north. Thanks to its effect I special summon shura the blue flame in defense mode! Not I tune them to synchro summon blackwing evolution booster! I draw 1 card thanks to its effect. Now I perform a black synchro!"

"YES! Bring your dragon so I can kill it!" Espio said with a maniacal voice.

"Arise! BLACK FEATHER SKY RULER DRAGON!"

"Alright! Now Sonic is as good as over with this duel!" Amy said.

"Sky ruler dragon gains 300 attack points for every blackwing in my graveyard. I have 5 so he has 5000Atk!"

"Are you gonna make them kill one another?" Espio asked in a mocking tone.

"Of course not. I activate dark world dealings!"

"No you don't! I activate my set trap, trap for trap. I negate the activation of your spell or trap card and deal you 1000 points of damage!"

"AAAAh" (Sonic LP 7000)

"Now what are you gonna do?!" Espio said.

"Huh. I have megamorth!"

"NOO!"

"My dragon now gains his original attack as damage to reach a grand total of 8500! Destroy slifer with judgement of the sky!"

"AAAAH" (Espio LP 4500)

"Now before I end my turn I play emergency provisions to send my megamorth to the graveyard since now that you have lower LP than me my dragon's attack is reduced by half its original attack so he returns to 5000 and my life points return to 8000! Now what will YOU do Espio?"

"Grrr… My turn. I draw. first I play monster reincarnation. I discard glow up bulb to add slifer to my hand. Then I activate my bulb's effect so it is revived. But I also summon my last tg warwolf and my doppelwarrior!"

"3 monsters again?!"

"Slifer RETURN!"

"So what? It has 3000 Atk. I'll destroy it again."

"No I have first of all my spell card soul taker! Your dragon is destroyed!"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Sky ruler was destroyed and Sonic gained 1000 LP in exchange making his total LP 9000. But he himself was shocked. This was the first time black feather sky ruler dragon was destroyed. Now he had nothing to fight back.

" When my dragon is destroyed" he said in a losing tone " my black-winged ressurects."

"Then time for my battle phase. But before that I will play my last 2 cards. First the spell unstoppable momentum. If a monster of mine destroyes one of yours you take half the attack of your monster as damage and my dragon attacks again. And I also play the spell card of sanctity once more. Slifer's power grows to 6000! It is over! KILL SONIC AND HIS PUNY DRAGON!"

"NOOOOOO SONIIIIIIC!" Amy screamed as she saw Sonic taking the attack and crashing.

Espio stopped next to Sonic who was trying to get up (Sonic LP 1600)

"It is over. I won. You don't have your best card anymore and Slifer's practically invinsible. Surrender now and I will spare your life!"

Sonic knew he was right. There was no way he could fight Slifer without black feather sky ruler dragon. He was about to admit defeat when..

"Sonic!" Tails' voice was heard.

Sonic looked behind and felt Tails' foot landing on his face. Tails had dismounted his runner and kicked him on the face.

"What was that for?!" he asked Tails angry.

But at the next moment another kick landed on his stomach. Sonic could hardly breathe now.

"Is this my best friend and the duel king that I admired ever since I became a duelist?!" Tails asked angry.

Sonic heard those words in shock.

"ANSWER ME! Are you gona let this guy take you down?!"

"NO but…"

"But NOTHING! Get back up and relieve him if his god card. Show him why you are a champion!"

Sonic then remembered. It was not over yet. He still had one last trick up his sleeve. And the card in his hand to make it happen. He got up, thanked Tails for the 'lesson' and accelerated once again with espio and slifer on his tail.

"My turn. And time to end this. I draw! I activate synchro deceased spirit. If I have a level 8 synchro dragon in my graveyard I can summon a level tuner and a level 4 non tuner monster from my deck in attack mode. Since slifer's effect won't affect my monsters until my next turn they will live. I summon kochi the daybreak and Kris the crack of dawn."

"So what? They won't be able to be used a synchro materials for the remainder of the turn."

" Who said I was aiming for a synchro summon?!"

"Are you…?!"

"I'm building the OVERLAYING NETWORK!"

"NOOO!"

"I xyz summon number 39 utopia!"

"You can't!"

"I just did! And now I activate rank-up magic limited barian's force! I evolve number 39 into chaos number 39! Utopia ray victory!"

"Anything but that!"

"I assume you know what it does."

"Yes." Espio said scared.

"Once I attack I will first drain Slifer's attack points and then negate its effect. So my monster will have 8800atk and yours 0!"

" Master I'm sorry!"

"Attack! Rising sun slash!"

"AAAAH!" (Espio LP 0)

Espio crashed as well. They all stopped and checked his body. He was breathing normally. They all went to Sonic's house. There after what seemed an eternity espio woke up. They asked him if he was ok. Then he narrated them what he remembered during his 'disappearence'. He told them that Slifer was in a way controlling him. At the meeting with that girl and the hooded person he saw the other two god cards in the possession of them. After that nothing. While silver was talking with espio Sonic gothered the singed ones in his room.

"So what do we do now?" Wave asked " the other 2 gods are out there."

" We can't let them come here." Sonic said " or they will set the match on their terms. Like zazz did with me and Amy in the spirit world."

"But do we have any other choice?" Knuckles asked Sonic.

"Yes we do!" Tails answered for Sonic.

"What?" They all asked him.

"As you know my father is training me to become a pilot. I can use his links to get us an airplane. We won't wait for them! We'll go to them!"

"But we don't know where they are." Jet said.

"We'll look around the world. Eventually we will find them." Sonic decided.

"That's brilliant idea. I always wanted to travel the world. Let's take advantage of it!" Amy said in excitement.

They all agreed and went back to espio and silver. They told them their plan and also offered them to take them back to Lodnon. Espio agreed but Silver said he wanted to help. So they agreed to let him travel with them. The very next morning they had all packed the things they would need and were at the airport. 30 minutes after their arrival Tails managed to acquire an small private airplane for them. They all boarded up and soon after the plane took of with destination London. The flight would last 3 hours. Sonic and Amy were in Sonic room when someone knocked the door.

"Come in." Sonic said.

Espio walked inside.

"Espio what is it?"

"I want you to keep this king." He said hading his god card over to Sonic.

"I can't accept that." Sonic said

"Even if I was just a mindless puppet I lost to you. So I can't keep it. Please take it."

Sonic reluctantly took it. The moment he touched it he felt weird. He felt greed. Will to rule. But it all faded after 1 second. He looked at espio.

"I will take good care of it."

"Thanks. I'll leave you alone now." espio said and left.

Sonic looked at slifer one last time before letting it go while Amy pulled him into another kiss.