Chapter 17
As the two of us continued to hover silently right near the dimensional gate way that leads to the Zone of Silence, I began to think to myself on what I just said.
"Just who's voice did I just use? I sounded almost like fully grown adult in his mid-thirties! Well, I guess that's one of many signs that I've transformed into my own Chaos Form. Now, all I got to do is to take care of that mutated sorcerer!"
As I finished my thought, I quickly turned my full attention towards Univos Ixis and saw him beginning to charge up his human-like hand with a huge amount of dark Chaos Energy. Before I could react to what the sorcerer was doing, he instantly began to shoot the energy in the form of a black sphere. Then, the ball of dark energy divided into several other small spheres as they charged towards my direction.
Just before either of the spheres could have a chance to collide with their target, I began to shout out the name of Shadow's special ability, "Chaos Control!"
Before I knew what was happening, emerald light surrounded the area that I was in and small spheres of dark energy stopped in their tracks without making any movement. That was when I finally realized that I had instantly stopped time itself using Chaos Control. I looked around and saw that neither the tiny shooting spheres of energy or Ixis himself moved even an inch as I began to hover around the sky of the motionless world that I had entered. As I moved through the air towards Ixis, I began to think to myself while still in surprise of what I just did.
"Whoa! Now this is intense! I can't believe that I was able to stop time using the Chaos Control and very easily, I might add! This is the most extraordinary thing that I've ever seen and done. Now I could use this to my advantage. If I attack Ixis while he's frozen still in time like this, then the attack that he would feel would be much more devastating than it would here in this time frozen world. I guess that there's only one way to find out."
"Chaos Burst!" I shouted with my adult sounding voice as I stuck my hand out towards the mutated sorcerer and created a powerful burst of white light from within my palm that struck Ixis on the chest.
When the effects of the Chaos Control finally wore off, I saw the huge form of Ixis burning with powerful flames of white fire. I heard the sorcerer scream in pain as soon as the time-freezing effect of the Chaos Control wore off. As soon as Ixis finally managed to extinguish the flames that I've created, I saw the sorcerer turning his insane gaze towards me and snarled before he began shouting to me.
"You'll pay for that, human! How dare you damage me with that sneak attack of yours! Now you'll see my true power as I deliver a serious blow to your body and then you'll get my point! Now take this!! Dark Crystal Spears!!"
As soon as Ixis said those words, I suddenly saw a barrage of what appears to be crystal-like spears charging towards me with sharp points ready to pierce through my body. Just when the sharp spears of crystal were about to collide on target, I started concentrating and before I knew what was happening, a field of silver energy appeared in front of me, surrounding me with its protective force as it took the force of the attack. But before I had the chance to form a strategic way to fight back, I began to see Univos Ixis flying towards me at full speed with his claw-like hand. I also noticed that the energy field that was protecting me was gone, leaving him to attack me directly. But just before I could react, the sorcerer's claw grabbed me on my right arm and threw me right to the ground with incredible strength. As I tried my best to recover from the attack, I saw Univos Ixis diving towards where I lay. However, I was able to avoid the full impact of the attack by using shouting, "Chaos Control!"
Before the sorcerer had a chance to collide with my body, I began to see the time freezing effects of the Chaos Control starting to take hold of their surroundings. Recovering from the effects of the attack that Ixis gave me earlier, I started to pick myself from the floor and move away from the sorcerer as fast as I could. But, just before I had the chance to launch another one of my Chaos Burst attacks at him, I started to feel the area around me begin to become misshapen, like it was about to fall apart and collapse upon itself. Then a black hole, almost like a rip through time and space, began to appear out of nowhere and started to pull in air inside of its mouth. However, I was able to escape its clutches by cancelling out the effects of the Chaos Control using my mind. When time around my very being started again, I began to hear a small chuckle coming from Ixis just before I turned and saw an evil-looking smile on his ugly face.
"What's so funny to you, Ixis? Have you finally lost it?" I spoke to the sorcerer with my adult sounding voice as I prepared myself for another one of his own attacks.
"Hee! Hee! Hee! Not really, human!" Univos Ixis answered with a calm menacing tone in his voice. "I just can't believe that you almost fell prey to my trap that I've set for you for when you've attempted to use Shadow the Hedgehog's Chaos Control technique! Do you honestly believe that you could get me with the same trick twice? Especially while using a technique that I'm so familiar with since I've possessed that black rodent's body.
"You see, I knew that you would be able to escape my obvious assault using the Chaos Control. So, I was able to place a little trap for when you used the time-freezing effects of that technique. Now the next time you dare to try that technique on me again, you won't be so fortunate to escape the black hole. Now prepare to die!!"
As soon as he finished his explanation, I began to see the dark warlock beginning to charge at me again like a jet with his sharp claw ready to stab at my body. Just before he could collide on target, I immediately flew up into the air again just as I did before for when Ixis launched his powerful attack at us. When I was finally able to stay in mid-air, I suddenly saw a burst of dark energy appearing out of nowhere that exploded with intense strength and magnitude like a grenade. When I was finally able to avoid the attack, a beam of intense energy and power swooped past me, just barely missing me in the leg.
"Great, now what am I going to do?" I thought to myself as I dodged a sudden barrage of dark energy spheres that appeared out of nowhere and started to fire themselves towards me. "I can't use the Chaos Control, since Ixis has now made it impossible for me to use. Wait a minute! Just because I can't use the time freezing affects of the Chaos Control doesn't mean I can't use the warping capabilities. Well, let's hope that it's enough."
I soon began to concentrate more on trying to avoid Univos Ixis's attacks. While doing so, I soon began to notice the huge wormhole in the Zone of Silence beginning to grow larger than it was before. Before I could react to what was happening, the mutating sorcerer said to me while making himself appear right in front of me, "Now is the time to end this little tussle of ours, boy!" Ixis said to me as he began to raise his human-like hand towards me before making a spear of darkness appearing out of it. "Soon, you and all of this planet will soon know the meaning of fear once I pull this world into the Zone of Silence with the almighty power that I will soon gain! Now die!! Dark Spear!!"
Just before Ixis could set the chance to impale me with the solid energy spear to my body, I immediately shouted, "Chaos Control!"
Before I knew what was happening, I was traveling through the tunnel of emerald-colored light and appeared at my desired destination: right behind Ixis's back. When the sorcerer turned his back towards me, I started to turn my hand into a fist and threw it at his face with all of my strength. As soon as the Univos Ixis was as far from me as possible, I began to grin a bit at what I had just accomplished just now.
"That's for throwing me right into the ground, Ixis!" I said to the sorcerer with my adult sounding voice as I began to prepare myself for a counter attack. "Oh, and in case you were wondering, that trap of yours only effects me for when I'm using the time freezing affects of the Chaos Control. But that doesn't stop me from using its warping capabilities!"
But as soon as I finished speaking, I heard the mutating wizard start to give off a soft laughter at first. Then he began to laugh a bit louder before he stopped in order to say to me, "Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Good hit, lad! I must say, that I'm impressed that your were able to find a way to get out of my trap's clutches while still using the Chaos Control to your advantage. But your mere wits alone won't save you or your friends from the tortures that I have in store for you once this world is pulled into my realm! Now take this!"
With that, Ixis suddenly threw what appears to a ball of dark energy towards me at an incredibly high speed. But just before the sphere could have a chance to hit its mark, I began to think to myself these two words, "Chaos Control!"
I was then traveling once again through the green tunnel of light and found myself right behind the sorcerer's back. As soon as Univos Ixis turned around and faced me, I immediately started to extend my hand towards the sorcerer and shouted, "Chaos Burst!"
With those words shouted from my mouth, a burst of silver-colored energy appeared from within the palm of my hand and struck Ixis with its intense force. The mutated wizard began to scream in pain as he floated away from me in the sky while being surrounded with intense silver flames. As soon he put out the silver embers that surrounded his body, Ixis began to snarl at me as he began to say to me with a hint of hatred in his voice.
"(Grrrrrrrr!) You're really starting to test my patience, human! Now you will see the full extent of what I could do for when any foolish being that tries to defy me!"
As soon as he said those words, Ixis began to once again fly towards me at full speed. But before I could move or warp using the Chaos Control, I soon felt a hand grabbing the muscle of my right arm while getting a tight grip on it as well. That was when I was once again face to face with the mad sorcerer, who I realized was the one using his human hand to get a tight grip on my arm.
"Just what in the world are you doing, Ixis?" I asked the insane looking wizard while keeping a calm tone in my adult sounding voice.
"I'm going to pull the two of us to a place where I have limitless power, boy!" Univos Ixis answered as his angry looking face began to transform into an insane smile. "Now prepare yourself to go into a place that is beyond your imagination!"
With those words said and done, the sorcerer began to pull harder on my arm and began to drag me into the huge dimensional hole in space that he created. The two of us flew at an incredible speed away from the moon's surface and headed straight for the black hole to the dimension that Ixis calls his domain. Just when the two of us were about to go through the huge black hole, without thinking about it, I began to gather a green sphere of energy from within my hand and started to throw it towards his face. As soon as the energy ball collided with Ixis's ugly face, the sorcerer loosen his grip on my arm and put his human hand on his face. While I saw the huge mutate wizard trying his best to subdue the pain that he was feeling, I started to fly away from the fiend and headed back towards the moon without caring about why I was able to breath or why my head didn't blow up like a balloon and explode.
However, all of a sudden, I had a disturbing feeling from within my body. When I turned to what was causing me to have the terrible feeling, I saw Ixis beginning to absorb the negative power that came out from within the portal. That was when I began to gather a large amount of green Chaos Energy from within my hands and began to shout out two words while aiming both of my open hands towards Ixis, "Chaos Beam!"
As soon as I shouted those two words, a beam of green energy shooting out from within my hands fired itself towards the huge mutating sorcerer. When the heavy beam of energy collided with the sorcerer, it created an explosion that was so intense, that it almost made me wish that I brought a pair of sunglasses with me so that I could see what was happening. But as soon as the light from the explosion finally cleared, I thought that everything was over and now I was able to rest. Boy, was I wrong for when the brilliance of silver light finally faded.
What I saw was the huge and mutate like sorcerer, still floating near the portal he created across space, a bit shaken torn up but didn't look like he was through yet.
"Damn! All that power I've put into that attack and I was only able to deliver that much damage?" I thought to myself as I continued to carefully watch Univos Ixis breathing in air. "What am I going to do?! It's like..!!"
Before I could finish the thought, I suddenly saw Ixis raising his hands into the airless space that we were in and began to shout out, "Dark Star Swarm!!"
As soon as he shouted those words, I was soon being surrounded by a swarm of what appears to be dark sparkling star-like projectiles all around my body. Luckily, I was able to put up a defensive silver-colored energy field around myself so that I wouldn't be scratched or seriously injured by the attacks. However, that didn't stop the small projectiles from giving me bruises that they delivered to me. As soon swarming barrage stopped their assault, I soon began to look towards the sorcerer with his grin still on his ugly face.
"Hee! Hee! Hee! Do you honestly believe that you could defeat me that easily?" asked the sorcerer with a smug grin on his face. "Don't forget that I still have the power of seven Chaos Emeralds and the power of the Zone of Silence to give me the strength that I need in order to defeat you to claim your power! You might be the strongest being in the universe right now, but sooner or later that power of yours will start to dissipate from your body and as soon as that happens, I will be able to gain the upper hand and fatally strike you with one attack!
"As for what to do in the meantime, I'll just keep on my assault by hitting your aura with another one of these....Dark Star Swarm!!"
As soon as Ixis shouted those words again, another barrage of the small dark star projectiles began to swarm all around my body like little locusts. Like I did before, I began to rise the aura of silver energy all around my body again and took the impact that the small star-like bullets delivered to me. While enduring the assault, I began to think to myself with a bit of annoyance in my mind's voice.
"Great! Now that the Halloween freak show knows what to do and has me in this barrage of killing energy locusts, I'm a sitting duck! There's no way that I could keep the aura up for long unless that I plan to drain myself of some of my energy! There's got to be some way to stop this attack! But what? I can't seem to have an opening to start an attack. Unless..."
That was when I began to start concentrating on making a huge barrage of meteorites appear out of nowhere. Just as soon as the thought hit my mind, I saw a huge swarm of flaming meteorites come out of the deepest recesses of space and charge themselves towards Univos Ixis. When the huge fiery projectiles collided themselves with the huge mutated sorcerer, a huge explosion was created with great light and intensity. The power of the blast was so strong that it caused me to float away from it as fast as possible. When I was a far enough distance away from the blast, I began to ready myself for the reappearance of Ixis, knowing full well that the fight wasn't over yet.
"Whoa! I can't believe that I was able to do that!" I thought to myself as I watched the huge cloud of smoke beginning to dissipate. "With just a single thought, I was able to summon a huge swarm of flaming meteorites to attack Ixis! I guess I must be more powerful than I thought. But I'd better save that thought for after I've defeated the Halloween reject."
With that thought done, I began to see the huge mutated wizard emerge from the cloud of smoke made by the powerful assault I unleashed upon him. But as soon as he fully appeared, I saw that he was not in the best shape that I would have expected him to be in after receiving a direct attack from the huge meteor rocks. His entire body was burnt a bit from the flames that the flying space rocks emitted. The huge spikes on his shoulders and back were nearly broken off from my huge attack that collided with their target.
"Damn! I don't believe it!" I thought to myself as I watched the dark wizard beginning to approach me. "That attack that just unleashed towards Ixis is powerful enough to destroy entire cities! And yet, here he is flying towards me with a vengeful look a his face, about to do something that's so nasty that I don't even want to think about it. Then again, he's probably too weak to do anything."
As soon as Ixis was about twenty feet away from getting closer to me, he looked at me with a menacing look on his face along with a laughter that made almost him look insane.
"What are you laughing about now, freak?" I said to the huge mutating wizard with my voice still sounding like that of an adult. "Have you finally decided that you are no match for me?"
"Hee! Hee! Hee! You must have mistaken me for someone who gives into defeat, mortal," Univos Ixis responded with a soft menacing chuckle as he struggled to breathe in air into his lungs. "Do you really think that I would give up on trying to obtain the power that I've worked so hard to gain? Because, if you believe that, I would say that you're about to meet your maker in the beyond as I give myself a second chance at defeating you!"
As I was puzzled at the wizard's words, I began to say to him, "What do you mean by that, Ixis?"
"Hee! Hee! Hee! What I mean by my words is...This!!" with that said and done, I began to see the wizard raising his arm straight upward while shouting, "Time Reversal!!"
With those words shouted throughout the vastness of space, I suddenly saw a glowing green light surrounding me with its brilliance. I also saw one of the most unusual things I have ever seen. Ixis began to move away from me at an nice even pace. The strange thing about it was that he was moving exactly the same way he did when he tried to fly up towards me. His entire mutated form began to become engulfed with gray smoke as the huge meteors began to reappear before my eyes.
"Why that cowardly wizard! He's controlling time itself!" I thought to myself as I continued to watch the scene in front of me reversing itself. "He's making it so that he will be able to recover from the injuries that I've given him in order to gain the advantage! But what in the world is he trying to do by...?"
Before I had a chance to finish my thoughts, I saw the meteors being reversed back to the place where I summoned them from. As soon as the green light around me began to fade away, I soon saw the meteors beginning to charge towards him like I saw them doing before. Before I could figure out what strategy Ixis was planning while the herd of meteors nearly collided towards him with, the sorcerer began to shout out as he chuckled, "Hee! Hee! Hee! Dark Reflection!!"
Later, I figured out his plan of attack. Just before I could react to the sorcerer's actions, the flaming meteors that were charging towards him were being caught by a dark coating of energy around Ixis's huge form. Then, the huge fiery space rocks started being redirected right back towards my direction. As they charged themselves towards me at a great speed, I prepared myself to take on the full impact on what the huge flaming rocks were about to deliver.
Then, when the whole swarm of meteors finally reached their destination, I felt the tremendous force of my own summoned attack collide against my body which was still engulfed by the silver aura. The impact I felt from this redirected attack was so strong that, it felt like a gang of teenagers were beating me up with their bare fists, despite the protection the silver aura around my body provided me with. Luckily, the aura was able to prevent the fires from burning straight onto my body with their intense flames. But it didn't prevent the great heat they emitted surrounding my body like a boiling pan.
"Damn! That was too hot and intense!" I thought to myself as I panted for air from within the depths of space, while trying to cool myself off at the same time after the assault. "That horned freak was able to deflect my own assault before it was able to even reach him! And the worse part of it is that he was able to direct it towards me instead!"
Just then, I saw the aura around my body beginning to fade as the smoke around me started to clear. That was when I heard Ixis laughing sinisterly as he said to me, "Hee! Hee! Hee! Surprised you a bit didn't it, boy? Well, in case you are a bit slow on the out take, I'll tell you. You see, I've reversed the time around our very beings, and I was able to not only restore myself, but to reflect your attack right back at you so that you could feel the pain that I've endured! But, judging by the way that you were able to withstand the full assault, I'd say that you managed to hold out. I just can't say the same for your protective field. Hee! Hee!"
When the sorcerer said those words, I immediately began to gather all of the energy within my body and began to raise the silver aura up around my body back to full strength. When I turned my attention back towards Ixis, I saw him giving me an ugly smile on his mutated face before he began to saying to me.
"Hee! Hee! Hee! I must say that I'm indeed impressed that you were able to gather enough power for you protective field, human," Ixis said. "But I'm done fooling around with the likes of you and your so-called friends! It's time I put you in your place and plunge this world into the Zone of Silence and gain the great power from you! Watch as I plunge myself into the black hole to gain control of the earth and become even more powerful!! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
With those words said and done, I saw Univos Ixis charging himself towards the huge planet-sized portal that he had created. I began to give chase to the sorcerer, but he was just to fast for me to follow.
"It must be because of the extra energy that I've used in order to put my protective field back up," I thought to myself as I watched the sorcerer get even farther from me. "Just what am I suppose to do now? I wish that I had a Power Ring to..."
As if thinking about it, would to bring it to me, a fresh shining golden Power Ring suddenly appeared right in front of me while I was still in hot pursuit of Ixis. Then, without even thinking about it, I soon found myself touching it with my hand, absorbing its great energy into my body. Refreshed with brand new strength and power, I started catching up with Ixis. However, I was too late. Just before I was twenty feet within range, I saw the sorcerer diving right into the black hole just before I could even reach him.
When I finally stopped myself from flying in space, all I did at that moment was hover and watch. A moment later, I soon began to feel a terrible power coming from within the black hole near Earth. That was when I started to see something emerging from within the portal that Ixis created using his evil magic and cosmic power from the Chaos Emeralds.
What I saw was an enlarged version of Univos Ixis's mutated form emerging from the black hole from within blackness of space. He was so huge that he was even bigger than the entire planet. However, his lower body seemed to have fused with the portal that his waist and feet once were. His own face still remained ugly and intact. The only difference that I did see in the sorcerer's face was the huge black horn on his forehead that contained the seven green (now darkened) Chaos Emeralds on it.
Before I could to react, I saw the impossibly giant Univos Ixis beginning to reach out for the blue green planet with both his normal and clawed hands. That was when I started to fly up towards the humongous sorcerer at an incredible speed throughout space. When I finally got in front of Ixis's enormous form, I was right near the earth's atmosphere and face to face with the huge sorcerer himself. Despite having stopped the giant wizard's approaching form from grabbing onto the blue planet, I began to hear his booming voice saying to me while staring down at me.
"HEE! HEE! HEE! WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU ATTEMPTING TO DO, BOY?!" Ixis said to me as his evil ugly face staring at me. "DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A PRAYER AGAINST TRYING TO STOP ME IN MY CURRENT FORM? EVEN WITH YOUR CURRENT POWER LEVEL, THERE'S NO WAY FOR YOU TO STOP ME FROM ACHIEVING MY GOAL!"
"You think that by growing into an enormous monster that you can get away with what your doing?!" I said to Ixis as my adult voice sounded very serious while I pulled the Star Sword out of its resting place. "I won't allow you to pull this world into your dimension so that you can do whatever you please with it! So, you're going to have to fight me in order to get it!"
"HEE! HEE! HEE! HA! HA! YOUR BRAVO AMUSES ME, MIGUEL!" Univos Ixis replied with a menacing tone in his huge booming voice. "YOU WOULD DARE TO FIGHT ME EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE OF YOUR WINNING! EVEN WITH THAT STAR SWORD OF YOURS, YOU STILL DON'T HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING AGAINST ME! IF FIGHTING YOU ALLOWS ME TO GAIN THE AWESOME POWER THAT YOU POSSESS, THEN SO BE IT! HA! HA! HA! PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE!"
With all said and done, I saw the enormous sorcerer advance himself towards me and throw his huge claw towards me.
"Chaos Control!" I quickly thought as I warped out of path of the Ixis' claw, finding myself now above the sorcerer's head.
"Whoa! Now that was a close one!" I frantically thought as I saw Ixis' huge form scanning the area for me. "If I was too slow to pick up on that a moment later, things would've been a bit nasty for me. Now, the only thing on my mind is how I'm going to be able to beat something as big as Ixis? There's got to be some way for me to..."
My thoughts were soon cut short when I saw Ixis' large face looking right in front of me as he was saying to me, "HEE! HEE! HEE! HEE! YOU DIDN'T THINK THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO EVADE ME BY SIMPLY WARPING WITH THE CHAOS CONTROL? NOW IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO FEEL MY WRATH! DARK THUNDER!!"
As soon as he shouted those words, a stream of what appeared to be lightning streams of dark electricity started to surround me. Fortunately for me, the aura that surrounded my entire body was able to protect me from the electrical assault's paralyzing affect, but didn't stop them from delivering heavy blows to the force field as well as my body. When the assault finally ceased, I began to breathe in very heavily trying to regain my strength.
Then I saw the grinning face of Ixis stare back at me saying with his giant voice, "YOU'RE QUITE THE RESILIENT HUMAN AREN'T YOU, MIGUEL? BUT THAT VERY STRENGTH ALONE ISN'T ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND MY MYSTICAL MIGHT. DESPITE HAVING TO HARNESS SOME OF THE STAR SWORD'S SECRETS FOR YOURSELF, YOU ARE STILL NO MATCH FOR ME!"
"Well I hate to burst your bubble, Ixis but I'm not going to give into your words that easily," I said to Ixis while pointing the Star Sword's blade towards his direction. "So you could blow all of the hot air that you want, but you won't get to me! So come and get me!"
"HEE! HEE! HEE! AS YOU WISH, MORTAL!" Univos Ixis said to me as he began to reach his enormous hands out towards me. "IF GETTING THROUGH YOU ALLOW ME TO GAIN THE ULTIMATE POWER THAT I'VE BEEN WANTING TO OBTAIN, THEN SO BE IT! PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER IN THE NEXT WORLD, BOY!!"
With that said, the giant sorcerer's hands, both human and clawed, started reaching out towards me. Right before those hands had the chance to touch me, they suddenly stopped advancing when a bright shining light appeared right in front of me. Before I could react to what was happening, I began to hear the voice of the mysterious visitor say to me with in its omnipotent voice.
"Human, there is a way that you could still win this battle," the ancient being said to me in my mind. "There's an ancient magic spell that could help you, 'turn things around,' as you modern humans would put it. My companions and I are going to release a part of you that knows a spell that is far too powerful and dangerous to ever be used. You could level entire cities with it, but you could also choose to annihilate an entire planet. All you have to do is chant the words while holding onto the Star Sword and the rest will then be up to you."
"Whoa! Hold up!" I thought (in response to this mysterious beings voice telepathically.) "Are you trying to tell me that you're going to give me the ability to destroy Ixis?! Now that's just too intense! But then again, I guess that I have no other opinions at this point. So, all I have to do is chant the words that appear in my mind and Ixis will go ka-bang?"
"Well yes, that is one way of putting it, young human" the ancient voice said to me. "As soon as I depart from your mind, you will be able to harness that ability to vanquish the sorcerer from existence. Now, we must part ways so that one day the two of us can meet again under different circumstances. You have a bright future ahead of you, young human."
"Whoa, now wait a second!" I asked telepathically. "Are telling me that you can see into the future?"
"That's correct, young one," the mysterious visitor responded. "If you're wondering about it, the only thing that I can only tell you is that you're going to spend your future with a lovely young woman. Sadly, the one that I see in your future is not Michelle, but a young woman who's from a world that is outside of yours. You'll see when the time comes. You just have to be patient. In the meantime, perform your sworn duty to defend the lives of this and any other planet that Ixis is planning to enslave and save those that you care about the most. Good luck."
The voice disappeared, and I began to see the white light that once surrounded me with its brilliance begin to fade from existence. But while it did so, I began to think about the people on the planet that were depending on me to save them from this mad wizard.
"My family, my friends, and my teachers," I thought to myself as the images of my entire family, Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles, and Tails as well as the people that I had gotten to know over the years came into my mind. "I'm not going to just stand around and let Ixis do whatever he wants so that the people that I've gotten to know in my world get hurt by the likes of him!
"I won't allow that to happen! I'm not only doing this for myself and for everybody in the universe, but for the future that I'm about to have! Whatever it is, I know that it's good and I've got to make sure that it happens no matter what! Well, here goes!"
Soon, the bright white light completely vanished right out of existence. Then, the huge form of Univos Ixis reappeared before me as I saw him covering his eyes as if he were blinded by the intense light.
"Now is my chance to finish Ixis off before he strikes," I thought to myself as I began to once again point the Star Sword's blade towards the sorcerer's huge form. "Now the question is how...?"
Before I could finish the rest of my thoughts, I saw a flash of a million of letters flying all around my mind. However, the letters that I saw weren't English words that I was used to reading. What I saw were words that were written in some type of ancient language that I had never seen before. They were like no other language that I had ever read or seen in any book in my entire life. When they stopped jumbling around my mind, the ancient and foreign-looking words began to slow down and line themselves up in six straight lines making it easy for me to see them clearly.
But that wasn't what freaked me out the most. What surprised me the most was that I was able to read and understand the sentences that the words created. It was so clear to me, in fact, that it was as if it were it written in pure English. However, I didn't get the chance to wonder why when I saw Ixis beginning to turn his furious face towards my direction.
"AAARRRGGGHHH! FOOLISH MORTAL!!" Ixis shouted to me as he looked at me with his huge angry eyes. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!! NOW IS THE TIME TO PUT THIS GAME TO AN END AND PUT YOU OUT OF YOUR MISERY!! CHAOS DARK BALL!!"
With those words, I began to see Univos Ixis' huge form beginning to raise both of his hands into the air. Then, before I knew what was happening, the huge ball of dark Chaos Energy appeared in between both of the sorcerer's hands. The sorcerer began to back away from both me and the earth as he continued to maintain holding the dark sphere in his hands.
"What the...?! Are you out of your mind, Ixis?!" I shouted to him as my angry adult voice echoed throughout space. "If you launch that thing at this planet, everything and everybody in it would be destroyed! Why are you trying to destroy the planet that you want to conquer?!"
"HEE! HEE! HA! HA! HA! YOU NAIVE FOOL!!" Ixis answered as he stopped and looked at my direction with an insane smile on his ugly face. "DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WORLD THAT I'VE WISHED TO CONQUER?! THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHERS THAT I COULD CHOOSE FROM, INCLUDING YOURS!! ONCE I'VE DESTROYED YOU, I WOULD BE ABLE TO STRIP YOU OF YOUR POWERS AND RULE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE AS I PLEASE!! HA! HA! HA! HA!"
"Ixis has finally gone over the edge!" I thought to myself while watching in terror at Ixis, who was about to throw the huge energy ball at the me as well as the planet. "Now what...?"
Without having the chance to begin my second thought, I began to see the ancient language beginning to line up in front of me like a paragraph.
"I guess that this chant in my head is my only and last chance to stop Ixis," I thought as I began to ready the mystic weapon in my hands to chant the word in my mind. "I know that's too dangerous to use, but at this point I'm out of choices. Well, I just better get it over with and hope for the best."
"Ixis Naugus!!" I shouted to the sorcerer at the top of my lungs while still pointing the Star Sword's silver blade towards him. "I challenge you to a duel!! I'm going to try to unleash all of the power that I have left!! And if it doesn't work, then you win and I'll give up completely!! Do you accept or are you a coward, sorcerer?!"
"HEE! HEE! HA! HA! HA! ARE YOU SERIOUS, HUMAN?!" Ixis said to me with his giant and insane voice. "YOU'RE PLANNING TO CHALLENGE ME WITH THE REMAINING OUNCE OF STRENGTH THAT YOU HAVE LEFT?! YOU'RE REALLY AMUSE ME!! SO GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU TRY, YOU AND THE EARTH IS GOING TO WIND UP AS SPACE DUST!!"
With those words said by the sorcerer, I took that as a sign to begin chanting the ancient language that was floating in my mind. When I began to start reading the words while still pointing the Star Sword's blade at Ixis' direction, each of the words began to light up.
"Sword that is forged from the stars themselves," I chanted as I began to see the mystic weapon's blade start to glow with a bright silver light as I continued to read the words in my mind, "the weapon that is forged from the one who's body shines like silver. Heed my words as I summon your might to eliminate the evil that stands before me. Vanquish the one who's heart is corrupted by evil's temptation and power. Let the evil be destroyed by the power that this weapon possess. Sword, allow me to control the powers of light and darkness so that they will obey my commands!!"
As soon as I finished reciting the words, I was surrounded by a silver light far beyond any light that I had ever seen before. While being consumed by the silver brilliance, I began to see the surprised expression on Ixis' huge face while continuing to hold onto the dark sphere of Chaos Energy in his hands.
"WHAT KIND OF MAGIC ARE YOU TRYING TO HARNESS, BOY?!" the giant sorcerer asked me with a tone mixed with anger, confusion, and insanity. "I GUESS IT DOESN'T MATTER!! NOW IT'S TIME FOR ME TO FINISH YOU OFF LIKE THE INSECT THAT YOU ARE, BOY! NOW PREPARE TO BECOME NOTHING BUT A MEMORY, FOOL!!"
As soon as Univos Ixis began to throw the enormous sphere of evil Chaos Energy, I started to shout out to Ixis before I read the two last words of the ancient words that were in my mind, "Now we'll see who the real fool is! Desolation Blade!!"
When I shouted out those two word to ancient spell, I began to swing the Star Sword's blade toward Ixis' direction and saw the glowing silver blade shooting off a huge and powerful silver energy blade so intense that it nearly blinded me for one split second. However, that didn't stop me from feeling the force of the attack when it collided with its target. I also heard an explosion that was so intense that even the quiet depths of space wouldn't be able to drown it down.
A moment, which seemed like almost forever to me, had passed since I had unleashed my assault on Univos Ixis. I didn't even know if I was even still alive or if it was all just a dream in my mind. What I did know was that I still held the handle of the Star Sword in my hands. When I finally started to rub both of my eyes and regained my sight, I saw that I was still in the same place where I had been opposing the sorcerer while trying to defend the planet from his powerful assault in space. I also noticed that I was now surrounded by the seven green restored Chaos Emeralds that Ixis once had in his possession. The sparkling green gems floated around me in circles as if they were children when they see their mother and father coming home from work.
"The seven Chaos Emeralds!" I said to no one in particular. "They must've been released and restored back to their natural state when I unleashed my attack on Ixis! And if they're here, then that means....it's finally over. I've won! Ixis is finally no more!"
"Guess again, human! It's only beginning!" a menacing voice said to me as I turned and saw that it was none other than Ixis Naugus.
"Man! Don't you know when to give up, horn man?" I asked the sorcerer as I began to ready the Star Sword for another round. "I guess that you want another round of beatings since...."
I stopped in mid sentence because I noticed that almost part of Ixis' entire form was deformed and broken as I saw it being eaten away like a person being dumped with a huge can of acid on him. His arm with his human hand was hacked off along with his leg while his clawed one remained along with part of his ugly face. As I kept my weapon's blade pointed at the approaching sorcerer as he said these words to me as his entire being was being erased out of existence.
"Hee! Hee! Hee! So you've won this battle. It no longer matters to me now that you've managed to harness some of your soul's hidden powers," Ixis said to me while still trying to advance towards my direction with his now eaten body. "Don't worry, I'm not going to fight you anymore for, as you can plainly see, my entire form is being erased from existence. But just because that I have been defeated doesn't mean that you're going to live your life very peacefully as you like to believe. Hee! Hee! Hee!"
"Exactly what does that mean, sorcerer?" I asked the deformed wizard with a serious tone in my adult sounding voice as I kept my weapon's blade aimed towards him.
"What it means is that the nightmare for you is only just beginning, boy! Hee! Hee! Hee!" Ixis responded as he gave me an ugly smile despite his situation. "You see, when your attack was shot towards my direction, it unleashed a great amount of Chaos Energy so great that it destroyed the very fabric of space itself. Not only did it managed to break my own attack and destroy me, it also managed to destroy my own realm when your attack collided with my fused form. But....Hee! Hee! Hee! What you don't realize is that you've just unleashed a terror beyond anything than I could ever muster."
"What do you mean by 'a terror beyond anything than you could ever muster,' Ixis?" I asked while I continued to train the Star Sword's blade towards the fading sorcerer.
"You've unleashed a creature who's creation defies the very course of reality, boy!" the sorcerer responded while continuing to keep that nasty grin on his face. "Beware, for soon you'll fight a being that is even greater than the very Gods and Dark Lords themselves! A creature that's beyond the imagination! I wonder what will happen when you two meet up? I doubt that even you can defeat it even with all of your newly acquired power! I guess I'll be seeing you beg for mercy at the hands of this creature's unstoppable power while I watch safely in the underworld! HA! HA! HAAAAAAAAA!!"
Soon, I began to see what was left of Ixis' living form, fade out of existence like a mist in a morning. Before I knew it, Ixis Naugus, the sorcerer that would do anything to get his hands on the ultimate power, was no more. Feeling and knowing that Ixis was no longer in existence, I placed the Star Sword back in its resting place and flew back towards the moon, which was shining beautifully in the stars along with the seven Chaos Emeralds, still following me from behind. I then decided to explore the solar system for a while before returning to the moon where all of my friends were waiting for me.
I soon found myself flying cheerfully through space at a great speed that would put even Superman to shame. The first place that I visited was the planet that is closest to the sun: Mercury. Then I went to the planet Venus, just before making a little stop towards Earth to see how beautiful the planet really is in all of its glory. I also made a quick visit to the Red Planet; Mars and next to the planet which was larger than any of the other planets in the solar system: Jupiter.
Before arriving to the outer planets of the solar system, I saw the asteroid belt that separated the inner planets with the outer. Once out of the belt, I flew towards the first outer planet that had the giant rings of asteroids surrounding its presense, called Saturn. After looking at the marvelous planet for a minute I saw two planets that were practically neighbors: Uranus and Neptune. When I finished looking at the two beautiful planets, I began to make my way to the final planet farthest from the sun: Pluto.
After looking at the golden star, which also happens to be the sun itself, I then decided to go a bit farther before returning to the moon. So, I began to accelerate my speed, going faster than the speed of light itself. After about five minutes of flying through space, I turned around and saw what humans on Earth would never get the chance to see up close. What I saw was the Milky Way Galaxy shining beautifully in all of its glory as all of the stars seemed to shine like the beautiful Christmas decorations I saw once when I was small.
"Man! I never realized just how beautiful the entire galaxy is when seen this up close and personal," I thought to myself as I continued to stare from where the Milky Way, the earth and the rest of the nine planets resided. "I only wish that my family could see what I'm seeing right now. I'm the probably the first human being to ever take a personal look at this galaxy from this angle. This is so beautiful."
Before I could gaze at the shining galaxy any further, I soon started to notice the seven green Chaos Emeralds still circling around me like children to a school teacher while they're playing in a school game at recess as they sparkled like glitter.
"I guess that's time for me to head back to the others before they start to worry," I thought to myself as I took one last look at the Milky Way. "Now that was one of the toughest fights that I've ever fought. Ixis makes Robotnik feel like a soft pillow both metaphorically and literally.
"Well, I guess that the important thing is that the battle is over and now everything should be back to normal. At least that's what I'd like to believe. What really worries me is what Ixis said to me just before he faded out of existence. That really spooked me. What does he mean that I've just unleashed a creature that's beyond the imagination? I guess that he was just trying to scare me a bit more before he faded into nothing but a bad memory. Well, it's time for me to return back towards the others. A little Chaos Control should get me back there in less than a second now that I have seven Chaos Emeralds to activate it with."
"Chaos Control!" I shouted as my voice echoed throughout the depths of space while being surrounded by a green light that the seven Chaos Emeralds emitted as I was being carried off in a tunnel of emerald-colored light to my destination.
Before I knew it, I was back on the same grounds of the ancient ruins that are on the moon's surface. That was when I've heard the voices coming from both the Sailor Scouts and the SEGA heroes.
"Man, Miguel! Now that was some intense battle that you've just fought!" Sonic said as he quickly got in front of me and shook my hand furiously. "You certainly know how to put on a show by flying around like that, bud! You even managed to get the Chaos Emeralds away from Ixis' body."
"Hee! I'll say," I heard Uranus say as she and her cousin Neptune began to approach us. "Just exactly where did you go for when you finally defeated that horned-freak, Miguel? Or rather, Ultra Miguel? You see, Tails came up with that name for while you and Ixis had that little tussle of yours in space."
"It's true, Mi....uh, Ultra Miguel," Tails said while chuckling nervously at the near mistake that he made at the moment.
"Ultra Miguel?" I thought as I wondered about the name that both Tails and Sailor Uranus gave me. "Hmm. I kind of like how that sounds. I guess that it wouldn't hurt to tell them about the trip that I've had."
"I've been traveling a bit around the solar system while getting a better look at the Milky Way, guys," I answered while still using my adult sounding voice. "I just wish that you all could've seen it the way that I did. It was so beautiful."
"Well, that's not fair!" I heard Venus saying with a jealous tone. "That guy gets to travel around this entire solar system while all of us are stuck here worrying about his safety! What a jiff!"
"I'll say, Mina," Mars said with the same tone as her blonde friend's voice, "he gets to travel around the entire solar system and see the entire galaxy with a view."
"Now, now, you two," Mercury said to her friends with a nervous chuckle. "I'm sure that he didn't mean to gloat as we all thought."
"That's for sure, Mercury," Knuckles began to say as I turned and saw him approaching with a smile on his face. "But what surprises me even more is how he was able to harness the powers of the Chaos Emeralds without going out of control as most beings have."
"Must be because of the Star Sword Miguel has, Knux," Shadow responded as I turned to his direction and saw, for the first time, a curious and bright smile on his face. "That would also explain why he became more powerful than either of us for when we've used the powers of the Chaos Emeralds."
"I have to agree with Shadow," I heard Pluto saying. "There's no way that a mere human boy like him to be able to harness the power that we saw a half hour ago that is powerful enough to destroy an entire planet."
"Well, emerald-powered or not, that guy still shouldn't have started traveling around this whole galaxy without us knowing if he's alright or not!" I heard Sailor Moon saying as I turned and saw that she wasn't a bit pleased. "I mean, how come he gets to travel while we're stuck here worrying about his safety?"
"I'm sure that he deserves it after defeating the most dangerous wizard in the universe, Serena," said Sailor Neptune as I began to feel her hands touching my own. "Besides, I think that he's even more handsome with that form of his."
The last comment made me blush a shade of red for when she said it. That was when I began to think about what the ancient being told me about my future with a young woman other than Michelle. To be honest, it made me sad for when I thought that I wasn't going to spend the rest of my life with her, even though she's only an anime character. But just before I could respond to anyone, I began to feel my head becoming light-headed all of a sudden.
"Hey Miguel, are you alright?" I heard Sonic asking me as I began to see the whole scene spinning right in front of me.
"I'm fine, Sonic. I'm just tired, that all," I said while my adult voice began to become slurry and a bit more like my normal one as I started to feel a bit dizzy and a bit drained of all of my energy. "Why...are....all...of....youuuuuuuuuuu........?"
Before I could finish the rest of my slurry sounding speech, I soon saw darkness beginning to surround me all over and found myself falling into unconsciousness while my body failed to keep me on my legs any longer.