Chapter 44
Dynamic Duo
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"First to rid this place of all these distractions," she hissed. The two massive claws rose above her monstrous head. Her eyes glowed a fearsome dark green as the two claws slapped together. Instantaneously, the ground below Sonic and Blade erupted into scores of fireballs, scorching the earth and almost everything around it.
"Huh?" Blade wondered aloud.
"No!" Sonic gasped. "Tails! Amy!"
"Ha ha ha…Worry not, at least for now. Your friends are unharmed. I cannot kill the living like that, but all the robots are gone."
"Metal…" Sonic whispered.
He couldn't believe he actually cared for that metal death trap. Amazing.
"Now that those are out of the way, your friends can watch you be-EEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRHHHH!"
The dragon howled in pain and leaned towards Sonic. From over its back, Sonic could see a glow of red behind it.
"Blade!" he shouted.
The warrior shot up higher just in time to avoid Crystal's tail as she swung it back and forth. Blade then took his sword over his head and plummeted down to the neck of the dragon. But she flashed a claw into his path. The sword almost snapped in two like a twig as it hit a single nail of the claw. Blade quickly zoomed under the dragon and looked for an opening underneath, but all he saw were diamond scales, just like Smaug had in that one book…which one? He knew Tolkien wrote it…
No time. Crystal bent her neck all the way under her chest and spat a cylinder of blue fire towards Blade. He dropped just beneath it.
"RRRRGH!"
Just above, Sonic hammered Crystal's neck with two fists. Any normal beast would've had its neck broken. In this case, he still caused a considerable amount of pain. The angry Crystal swung her neck to whack Sonic, but the quick gold hedgehog flashed just away from it.
"GRRRRR!"
Now it was Blade's turn for a hit. He stabbed his sword into one uncovered area of her chest.
"Too slow!" Sonic called from above. He zoomed into Crystal's head and battered her with a bicycle kick, then barrel-rolled away from her when she blew fire.
"Can't keep up, eh?" taunted the hedgehog.
Blade was about to comment when he stopped. Something was wrong.
"Sonic! Keep attacking it!"
"No kidding!"
"I mean, stop joking! That thing's not at full potential!"
"What??"
"Smarter than you look," growled the dragon. Suddenly, she began to spin rapidly. Sonic covered his face to shield himself from the wind. Blade flew over next to him.
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Down below, Knuckles, Amy, and the others watched on.
"Sonic, why?" Amy cried. "Why again???"
Knuckles was more focused on the dragon.
"Tails!" he shouted. "You got anything left?"
"You kidding?" the fox responded. "I'm bored! I'm ready to-"
"Great! Get to Angel Island and get me my Master Emerald! Hurry!"
Tails didn't even bother asking. He simply nodded and flew away.
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A flash emitted from the spinning dragon. Crystal was cackling something Sonic and Blade couldn't hear.
"We were goin' good for a while there," Sonic said. Blade said nothing, instead looking at the dragon.
"This is so weird…It's just like that one book," Blade muttered.
"Huh?"
"I saw one crazy book in the library," Blade explained without turning his head, "that said the end of the world would come to an end by not the Devil nor Jesus, but by a servant of one of them, depending on whether or not the Earth was worthy of redemption. But I can't tell…what this one serves, heaven or hell."
"Her name is Crystal," Sonic responded, "and she's a bad one. She's with "King Satan" as she says."
"Guess that makes it easy to guess which side she's on."
The light shone brighter and brighter until Blade and Sonic could no longer talk because the light was too distracting. Finally, it disappeared. In its place flew a black dragon with red claws and gray eyes, much sleeker and more dangerous looking than the last.
"See me, the true king of all evil!" bellowed a voice that was neither male nor female, something far more evil.
"That can't be the same person," Sonic whispered. "King?"
"I don't think it is," said Blade. "I think it's a fusion of Satan and Crystal or something."
But Sonic noticed something odd.
"Blade, you're sinking, man!"
It was true. The warrior noticed it now. He slowly began lowering to the earth, and his bright red glow was losing its luster.
"What's happening to me?" he shouted.
"It must be the Chaos Emeralds!" answered Sonic. "That dragon uses the Emeralds too, and this new transformation its got must be taking up too much energy! All three of us can't hold our Super forms!"
"Damn it!" growled the warrior man. "Sonic, do your best. I know you don't need me to stop this thing." His voice was now barely audible. "Good luck, Sonic. We all…"
That was it. He was too far away.
"I know you can do it," Blade had said. If only Sonic knew that as well. This was a whole new beast, something out of every league his previous foes had been in. This was the Devil himself. Or, at least the Devil's right hand man/woman.
He cracked his knuckles. The dragon screeched. It was time to go to work.
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Tails couldn't help but stop for a second to watch the developments of the fight. Now it was Sonic against some big black monster. This was getting scary. He hated to admit it, but without that Blade guy helping out, Tails was losing faith in this fight.
"Good luck, man," he whispered before he took off after the Master Emerald again.
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To think, just a day or two ago she was this close to going on her first date with him. Now he stood even closer to his demise.
Amy silently sobbed into her hands. She hated every one of these moments, and there had been a number of them. Times where Sonic had gone super and stood inches from death. Chaos…Biolizard…Metal Sonic…and now this hell spawn.
It was a tiny, shimmering gold dot against a massive, charcoal black and fire red dragon. And Amy wasn't sure Sonic had a shot in this fight.
Now she did something she hadn't done in a long, long time. The last time she had prayed was on September 11th, when she hoped Sonic wasn't near any of the crash sites. Now, she knelt down, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and began to pray.
God, if you're out there and you can here me, please. If this is the Devil, only you can kill it. Please give Sonic your strength to defeat this monster. I know him almost as well as you, and he'd never ask for help, but he needs it now more than ever. Please…please!
A tear slipped off her face onto her folded hands, down them, and finally hitting the ground.
She made the sign of the cross and looked up, not getting out of a kneeling position. The last time she prayed, it had worked-Sonic had been near Manhattan island, but the massive amount of traffic had made him bored and he left just before the attacks. She could only hope it worked now.
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Blade finally touched the ground and immediately got down on one knee. He placed his sword in the ground and stared at it.
"What happened?!?" cried Vector. "What are you…"
"Sonic can handle this on his own," Blade muttered. "He doesn't need me."
"But-" began Mighty.
"If he needs help," Blade retorted, "I'll go back up."
That was the last anyone heard of Blade for a long while. Not that they wanted to hear him. They were too busy watching the incredible battle about to occur.
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"Impressed, rodent?" cackled Crystal, flapping her wings.
"If I was impressed," Sonic explained, "I'd have said something by now. New body, same old crap inside."
"You continue to mock me? Fine, I shall show you my true strength!!"
"That line is so old it's lost all meaning," Sonic groaned.
Sonic cut towards the dragon, but he was swatted out of the air by one of its massive wings. He braced himself in mid air and zoomed back upward. He hit the bottom, but bounced off. The diamond scales were gone, but the new scales seemed to be made of steel or something. The dragon flapped its wings again, blowing Sonic even closer to the ground. In fact, Crystal continued flapping at high speeds, keeping Sonic from coming back. The hedgehog pushed with all his might against the torrent of wind. Finally, the dragon stopped and Sonic flew at top speed, surprised at his sudden movement. The dragon, though, put up its claws. Terrified, Sonic pulled up…
"AAAAAHHHH!"
…right into a beam of fire spewed from Crystal's mouth.
Dynamic Duo
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"First to rid this place of all these distractions," she hissed. The two massive claws rose above her monstrous head. Her eyes glowed a fearsome dark green as the two claws slapped together. Instantaneously, the ground below Sonic and Blade erupted into scores of fireballs, scorching the earth and almost everything around it.
"Huh?" Blade wondered aloud.
"No!" Sonic gasped. "Tails! Amy!"
"Ha ha ha…Worry not, at least for now. Your friends are unharmed. I cannot kill the living like that, but all the robots are gone."
"Metal…" Sonic whispered.
He couldn't believe he actually cared for that metal death trap. Amazing.
"Now that those are out of the way, your friends can watch you be-EEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRHHHH!"
The dragon howled in pain and leaned towards Sonic. From over its back, Sonic could see a glow of red behind it.
"Blade!" he shouted.
The warrior shot up higher just in time to avoid Crystal's tail as she swung it back and forth. Blade then took his sword over his head and plummeted down to the neck of the dragon. But she flashed a claw into his path. The sword almost snapped in two like a twig as it hit a single nail of the claw. Blade quickly zoomed under the dragon and looked for an opening underneath, but all he saw were diamond scales, just like Smaug had in that one book…which one? He knew Tolkien wrote it…
No time. Crystal bent her neck all the way under her chest and spat a cylinder of blue fire towards Blade. He dropped just beneath it.
"RRRRGH!"
Just above, Sonic hammered Crystal's neck with two fists. Any normal beast would've had its neck broken. In this case, he still caused a considerable amount of pain. The angry Crystal swung her neck to whack Sonic, but the quick gold hedgehog flashed just away from it.
"GRRRRR!"
Now it was Blade's turn for a hit. He stabbed his sword into one uncovered area of her chest.
"Too slow!" Sonic called from above. He zoomed into Crystal's head and battered her with a bicycle kick, then barrel-rolled away from her when she blew fire.
"Can't keep up, eh?" taunted the hedgehog.
Blade was about to comment when he stopped. Something was wrong.
"Sonic! Keep attacking it!"
"No kidding!"
"I mean, stop joking! That thing's not at full potential!"
"What??"
"Smarter than you look," growled the dragon. Suddenly, she began to spin rapidly. Sonic covered his face to shield himself from the wind. Blade flew over next to him.
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Down below, Knuckles, Amy, and the others watched on.
"Sonic, why?" Amy cried. "Why again???"
Knuckles was more focused on the dragon.
"Tails!" he shouted. "You got anything left?"
"You kidding?" the fox responded. "I'm bored! I'm ready to-"
"Great! Get to Angel Island and get me my Master Emerald! Hurry!"
Tails didn't even bother asking. He simply nodded and flew away.
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A flash emitted from the spinning dragon. Crystal was cackling something Sonic and Blade couldn't hear.
"We were goin' good for a while there," Sonic said. Blade said nothing, instead looking at the dragon.
"This is so weird…It's just like that one book," Blade muttered.
"Huh?"
"I saw one crazy book in the library," Blade explained without turning his head, "that said the end of the world would come to an end by not the Devil nor Jesus, but by a servant of one of them, depending on whether or not the Earth was worthy of redemption. But I can't tell…what this one serves, heaven or hell."
"Her name is Crystal," Sonic responded, "and she's a bad one. She's with "King Satan" as she says."
"Guess that makes it easy to guess which side she's on."
The light shone brighter and brighter until Blade and Sonic could no longer talk because the light was too distracting. Finally, it disappeared. In its place flew a black dragon with red claws and gray eyes, much sleeker and more dangerous looking than the last.
"See me, the true king of all evil!" bellowed a voice that was neither male nor female, something far more evil.
"That can't be the same person," Sonic whispered. "King?"
"I don't think it is," said Blade. "I think it's a fusion of Satan and Crystal or something."
But Sonic noticed something odd.
"Blade, you're sinking, man!"
It was true. The warrior noticed it now. He slowly began lowering to the earth, and his bright red glow was losing its luster.
"What's happening to me?" he shouted.
"It must be the Chaos Emeralds!" answered Sonic. "That dragon uses the Emeralds too, and this new transformation its got must be taking up too much energy! All three of us can't hold our Super forms!"
"Damn it!" growled the warrior man. "Sonic, do your best. I know you don't need me to stop this thing." His voice was now barely audible. "Good luck, Sonic. We all…"
That was it. He was too far away.
"I know you can do it," Blade had said. If only Sonic knew that as well. This was a whole new beast, something out of every league his previous foes had been in. This was the Devil himself. Or, at least the Devil's right hand man/woman.
He cracked his knuckles. The dragon screeched. It was time to go to work.
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Tails couldn't help but stop for a second to watch the developments of the fight. Now it was Sonic against some big black monster. This was getting scary. He hated to admit it, but without that Blade guy helping out, Tails was losing faith in this fight.
"Good luck, man," he whispered before he took off after the Master Emerald again.
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To think, just a day or two ago she was this close to going on her first date with him. Now he stood even closer to his demise.
Amy silently sobbed into her hands. She hated every one of these moments, and there had been a number of them. Times where Sonic had gone super and stood inches from death. Chaos…Biolizard…Metal Sonic…and now this hell spawn.
It was a tiny, shimmering gold dot against a massive, charcoal black and fire red dragon. And Amy wasn't sure Sonic had a shot in this fight.
Now she did something she hadn't done in a long, long time. The last time she had prayed was on September 11th, when she hoped Sonic wasn't near any of the crash sites. Now, she knelt down, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and began to pray.
God, if you're out there and you can here me, please. If this is the Devil, only you can kill it. Please give Sonic your strength to defeat this monster. I know him almost as well as you, and he'd never ask for help, but he needs it now more than ever. Please…please!
A tear slipped off her face onto her folded hands, down them, and finally hitting the ground.
She made the sign of the cross and looked up, not getting out of a kneeling position. The last time she prayed, it had worked-Sonic had been near Manhattan island, but the massive amount of traffic had made him bored and he left just before the attacks. She could only hope it worked now.
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Blade finally touched the ground and immediately got down on one knee. He placed his sword in the ground and stared at it.
"What happened?!?" cried Vector. "What are you…"
"Sonic can handle this on his own," Blade muttered. "He doesn't need me."
"But-" began Mighty.
"If he needs help," Blade retorted, "I'll go back up."
That was the last anyone heard of Blade for a long while. Not that they wanted to hear him. They were too busy watching the incredible battle about to occur.
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"Impressed, rodent?" cackled Crystal, flapping her wings.
"If I was impressed," Sonic explained, "I'd have said something by now. New body, same old crap inside."
"You continue to mock me? Fine, I shall show you my true strength!!"
"That line is so old it's lost all meaning," Sonic groaned.
Sonic cut towards the dragon, but he was swatted out of the air by one of its massive wings. He braced himself in mid air and zoomed back upward. He hit the bottom, but bounced off. The diamond scales were gone, but the new scales seemed to be made of steel or something. The dragon flapped its wings again, blowing Sonic even closer to the ground. In fact, Crystal continued flapping at high speeds, keeping Sonic from coming back. The hedgehog pushed with all his might against the torrent of wind. Finally, the dragon stopped and Sonic flew at top speed, surprised at his sudden movement. The dragon, though, put up its claws. Terrified, Sonic pulled up…
"AAAAAHHHH!"
…right into a beam of fire spewed from Crystal's mouth.