Chapter 10: The battle for both emeralds…

Aerick was holding a blade, prepared for combat. He could sense they had not only the just discovered emerald, but the one from the guild. "So, you carry two emeralds… one from the Guild of Hedgusst." Aerick said. "You aren't getting either one!" Sonic said. "I'll take the emerald, and kill you, each. Once I find the location of the guild, I'll squash it like a bug beneath my feet." Aerick said.

Over by his egg-o-matic, Eggman looked confused. "What the hell?" He thought to himself.

Shadow fired three more bullets at Aerick, they only bounced off of his shield. He grinned again. "Four guild students, even those of a royal family would lose to me." Aerick said. Shadow fired another bullet and another. Until he ran out of ammunition. He dropped the gun, and pulled the sword out of his bag. Sonic and the others followed Shadow's lead. Shadow swung at Aerick who shielded himself again. The force pushed Shadow off of his feet. Eggman got in his egg-o-matic, to help Aerick in the fight. Sonic through green chaos balls at Aerick, Knuckles did too. Tails grabbed a book from his backpack. On the cover read: The book of chaos spells. Tails searched through it. He soon came to a spell called shield disruption. Tails spoke. "Sonic, I'm going to say a spell that'll disrupt his shield, when I'm done, put your hand up and cast the power!" Tails said. Shadow eventually got up on his feet again. Tails started saying the spell. "Chaos power, I call upon the greater good of the light, cast the spell upon the darkness. To protect the servers of the seven chaos enriched by the heart of power, CHAOS SHIELD DISRUPT!" Tails said. The others casted the spell. Aerick's shield disappeared. Shadow, Sonic and Knuckles charged at him. Dr. Eggman, in his hovercraft, started shooting lasers at Shadow, Sonic and Knuckles. "Someone take him down!" Tails said. "I'll do it!" Sonic jumped in the air to counter the lasers. He was toying with Eggman, attacking the egg-o-matic a little, when he had the chance.

All wasn't so well with Aerick's fight. He was beating Shadow and Knuckles at sword arts. Their so called arts of Hedgusst to counter Aerick's attacks weren't working. Shadow came in for a swing, as he blocked it, he put his other hand out and created a shield barrier, an electric one. Knuckles was coming in for a hit, but just then, the shield appeared. Knuckles was shocked severely by the energy coming from the shield. He was stunned, open for an attack. Aerick did the chaos blast spell. The most simple, yet deadly attack. He shot a big green ball, Knuckles was hit and throw into the water. He became very weak. That chaos blast was the hardest to ever hit him in training. Mare-rith had never hit so hard. Aerick was like super sonic compared to Mare-rith. "That leaves you, Shadow… the Hedgehog." Aerick said.

Tails ran over to Knuckles in the water. Knuckles was too heavy to be pulled by Tails out of the water. Tails could do nothing but hold Knuckles head above the water to keep him from drowning.

"YOU KILLED MARIA!" Shadow said swinging furiously. His hits became more powerful, his hits were harder to block. Shadow was about to get his revenge, he would avenge Maria. Shadow swung at Aerick, once Aerick tried to block it, Shadow pushed back very hard. "Time to die old man…" Shadow said to Aerick in a deep, harsh voice. Shadow pushed so hard Aerick was being pushed back in the dirt. Shadow let go, Aerick was still trying to push. Just as Aerick tripped, Shadow put his hand out. He blasted a very bright green energy ball at Aerick, he was thrown back. He looked lifeless now. Lying in the sand. But it was Aerick dead from that deadly blast?

Sonic was still in the street, fight Eggman. Sonic jumped up. He landed on the egg-o-matic itself. "Alright Eggman, you lose!" Sonic held the sword at Dr. Eggman. "I knew it. You're never actually going to kill!" Eggman hit a button, and it ejected his chair, which apparently had booster packs somewhere on the back. He flew off, leaving his egg-o-matic. Sonic hopped into the cockpit. He looked around for anything useful.

Shadow slowly approached Aerick's body. Aerick out his hand up and blasted Shadow with the same spell Shadow hit him with. Shadow flew even farther than Aerick. He hit the sand, hard, rolling in a ball as he was slowing down. He had felt like someone pushed him off a car into the sand at 100 miles per hour. He felt like lying there. He felt like he had no reason to get up. Suddenly, a picture of Maria flashed in his head, causing Shadow to jump up like a bolt. He saw Aerick slowly coming toward him. Tails, in the water, just got the craziest idea. Tails realized he wasn't being noticed much, so he started whispering to Knuckles. "Think you can get on shore by yourself?" Tails asked quietly. "I think so." Knuckles whispered back. Tails ran over to his back, and got out a magnum pistol. He aimed and made sure it was ready to fire. But before he was about to shoot, Aerick and Shadow got into it again. They were constantly moving with sword play, Shadow was in the way a few times, afraid of missing and hitting Shadow, Tails ceased to fire. Shadow was eventually tiring, it was like Aerick had a never-ending power. Shadow was holding Aerick off, with locked blades. He saw Tails across the beach, slowly and unnoticeably walking in their direction with a pistol, Shadow pushed Aerick back, Tails had a perfect shot, he fired. Aerick screamed.

"AW DAMN! MY ARM!" Aerick screamed. People started noticing the fight. It was drawing unwanted attention.

Tails felt weird all of a sudden. He felt… funny. Even at a time like this, he could not hold it in. It was just pure funny! Tails burst out laughing like a hyena. He screamed in laughter at the words Aerick screamed. "HA HA HA HA! YOU FREAKIN' IDIOT! I… I SWEAR! YOU DID NOT EVEN SEE THAT COMING!" Tails fell on the sand screaming in laughter. Shadow had this chance, he was about to swing in a final blow and kill Aerick, when cop sirens were heard coming fast. There was a flash. Aerick chaos teleported. Shadow looked up at Sonic, who was screaming in laughter, just sitting like an idiot. Laughing inside the cockpit of that floating egg-o-matic. Tails started to cry. It was SO damn funny. Aerick had been shot in his arm, right by his elbow. It was funny watching him scream in pain as he bled. He was so stupid!

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Shadow screamed, "The police are coming, we need to get out of here now!" Sonic jumped over to his things. He dragged them along with Knuckles over to Shadow. Tails ran over to Shadow. "Shadow, where's the emerald?" Tails asked. "Here." Shadow took it out of his backpack. "Grab onto your things, now, when I say the word, think of the guild, and teleport there. We have to go to Mare-rith, GO!" There was a flash. By the time the police were on the scene nothing but blood from Aerick's wound was on the beach.

----At the guild of Hedgusst----

Shadow opened his eyes, along with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. They were outside in front of the shrine. Shadow turned around to Mare-rtih. "I sense, all did not go well?" Mare-rith asked. Shadow took the red emerald out from behind him. "Ah, you've retrieved a new emerald, I knew one was in Station Square. So, why are you so sweaty? You look tense." Mare-rith said. "We had a fight with Aerick…" Shadow said, trying to catch a breath. Mare-rith's eyes widened.

END CHAPTER

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