SEPHIROTH ADVENTURE: Sephiroth Vs. Shadow; Ch. 10

As the team continued their journey in silence, they saw light breaking through the seemingly endless trees. They had made it out of the forest, but unfortunately, they didn't wind up in Robotropolis. Instead, they had found themselves in a large desert. They could see some of the tall buildings from Robotropolis far off in the distance, so they knew they were on the right track. Once again, they continued walking.

The desert was hot and dry. The team only had a few small bottles of water to last them the rest of the trip. The desert seemed to be endless. After some time, they noticed all of the sand around them was shifting and the ground was beginning to shake. Before they knew it, a HUGE snakelike creature had crawled out of the sand and seemed to be angered. TAILS: "This is the snake's territory, and I guess it thinks that we're intruders." There was no way the three of them could fight this thing because they were worn out by the heat. They had one option: RUN!

The snake was gaining on them. It was way too fast. SEPHIROTH: "I think I know how to handle this thing." He pulled his "Chaos Blade" from his pack, and grabbed his Emerald. Tails grabbed his Emerald, and Knuckles followed by grabbing his two Emeralds. They stopped where they stood and turned to face the snake. Sephiroth held his sword high in the air, and it began to shine, as well as all of the Emeralds. The snake monster was approaching very quickly. TAILS: "Well, what's your plan? We're kinda pressed for time here…HURRY DO SOMETHING!"

The snake monster leaped from the sand and hurled itself toward them for an attack. While it was in midair, Sephiroth yelled very loud, and his sword threw out a huge light screen in all directions. The snake monster flew into the screen and froze in midair. The light screen then confined the monster in a prison of light, and it was immobile. They had defeated the monster, and they could continue their journey safely.

As they continued their walk through the desert, Knuckles looked confused. KNUCKLES: "How did you do that before? I mean, how did you know how to do that barrier thing? That was really cool." SEPHIROTH: "Remember when I told you about materia? Well the Chaos Emeralds seem to work in a similar way. They work together with this weapon to be able to cause all sorts of magical powers. That was similar to the 'barrier' materia." They listened in amazement.

As they finished the last of the water, they thought they were going to die of exhaustion in the desert. But just as they had almost given up hope, they could finally see trees, and just beyond the trees was their destination: Robotropolis! They rushed into the rewarding shade of the trees, and took a nice long rest near the spring, where they got a nice drink of fresh water. They decided to relax there for a while. They needed the rest before their daring infiltration of the city.

Meanwhile, back in Knothole Village, Sally was organizing all of the greatest Freedom Fighter troops from all over the planet. SALLY: "I just got a radio message from Marble Garden. Jaques of the MG-Freedom troops said his men are ready to move." ROTOR: "Princess, I just got a message from Rusty all the way from Hydrocity, he says his men are prepared as well." ANTOIN: "Zee troops from Angel Island are prepared and ready to move out!" SALLY: "Ok everybody, listen up. Richie the Armadillo, the brave soldier that defeated Eggman's Swatbots last week has just been appointed a full time Freedom Fighter Commander. He will be leading Knothole's move of troops into Robotropolis. We're just awaiting the call from Knuckles. When they're ready for us, they'll radio us. Let's just be ready for anything.