Brent-Ka thanks for your advice but I am not sure if it will help me cause you see to explain this well I must say that I have a learning disability which affects how I speak or write so even though I may understand what I am writing fully no one else may not do. I hope that explains why I have the imagination but not the writing capability's of making it understandable but still thanks for the advice I will try as best as I can to not say too many thens or any other things you said.
Now as usual on with the story.
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Tales of Souls, Swords and The Hammer
Chapter 2 Old Age Guidance
She found herself in a place where she didn't want to ever be in, everywhere around her she saw nothing but flames, this place was like an inferno and it was so hot it would put a sauna to shame. She turned around and saw a being who was a burning inferno, it had an odd looking sword inside its skeletal form and it screamed in greed like tone.
The pink hedgehog woke up from that vision she had and looked at her surrounding, she found herself on a comfy yet old bed, she looked for her hammer and found that it was no where to be seen.
Amy saw someone come into the room, it was a man with tied black hair, a black beard and armour that looked to have being used quite a lot in defending his body against many things.
She looked at him in confusion and then she went defensive again scooting back against the bed not saying a word.
The man said to her "So you are awake," he sat down from a safe distance on the bed and asked "Can you understand me?"
The pink hedgehog didn't say a word, she looked for her hammer but still no sign of it.
The swordsman then tried starting a conversation saying slowly so she can understand "My name is Mitsurugi pleased to meet you."
As soon as he didn't get a reply, he gave up thinking that she probably is a foreigner that does not understand him.
He then got up and while his back was turned he heard a girls voice say "Do you have a hair dryer?"
Mitsurugi turned around in shock and asked "A what? What's a 'air dyer?'"
Amy looked shocked at this and somehow scared "No hair dryer! Oh for the love of…"
She calmed down and saw that the samurai looked a bit shocked that she could talk and a little bit wondering what this thing she called a 'hair dryer'.
Amy decided to say something else "The names Amy Rose by the way." she looked around and asked "Did you put my hammer somewhere?"
Mitsurugi nodded his head and replied "I left it with the rest of the weaponry." he continued to say "I sometimes train here whenever I am away from home and on rare occasions I train other people."
Amy looked up at him and he said "That would be one thing I recommend you do cause the way you swing that hammer is not fluid and it does not help you against creatures like Charade."
The pink hedgehog asked "Charade?"
The samurai replied "It is a creature that is still unknown to many people but it seems to search for the Soul Edge fragments."
He showed her the piece he has and said "It is like your piece, the fragments are supposed to be of Soul Edge a great blade that only the greatest of warriors can hold.
With interest in her eyes she asked "Soul Edge?"
Mitsurugi explained "Like I said Soul Edge is a great blade that only the greatest of warriors can hold, it is supposed to be the most powerful blade in existence. Many people want to find it for many reasons but those reasons are unknown to me."
Amy then asked innocently "What is your reason for finding it?"
The samurai looked towards her and said "I am sorry but my reasons are my own and I do not wish to tell you them."
She replied "I understand."
It was then she asked politely "You said that I need training tell me what I am doing wrong?"
Mitsurugi said in a wise tone "You let your guard down too much, also you do not seem to use your weapon to its full potential, to be honest there is a load of things I can tell you but as far as advice go I would train."
Amy looked up at him and said " You said that on rare occasions that you train other people right?"
Mitsurugi looked at her and said "Yes your point?"
She asked politely "Can you then train me please."
The samurai replied "I am sorry but I do not have time to train people right now."
As he was about to leave the room the pink hedgehog went in front of him looked at him as cutely as she could and said "Ohhh please I am a fast learner and I promise to listen carefully to your wisdom."
Mitsurugi sighed and said in a exasperated but calm tone "Alright come with me."
The pink hedgehog could not help but to give the swordsman a wide happy grin.
As he showed her out of the bedroom they went into a large area where there was some type of cage with water around it, Amy looked at the cage and wondered why there was water around it.
She got her answer when the samurai said to her "Usually I put the cage there so no one falls into the water when I train people, but sometimes I may remove it to so they may learn how to get people out of a fighting ring."
Amy then asked "Why?"
Mitsurugi replied "It is sometimes useful in some areas against some opponents."
The pink hedgehog nodded her head in understanding, the samurai man then asked "Shall we get started then?"
She then replied confidently "Yeah lets get started."
As the master and newly appointed student entered the cage, Mitsurugi threw her piko piko hammer to her, as soon as she caught it Mitsurugi took his samurai sword out of his sheath.
He then tauntingly cracked his neck from side to side and said "Don't cry."
Amy decided to taunt back so while sorting out her gloves to make sure they fit she picked up her hammer ready to go and said in a confident tone "Get ready to lose."
The master and student were ready to go but Mitsurugi said "Before we begin the fight lets start off by learning the basics."
Amy nodded to her new teacher and listened carefully as he said "Horizontal attacks provide a great way to damage a circling foe." he demonstrated with a slash to show how it goes, the pink hedgehog did the same with her hammer and he looked to her and said "Very nice."
Mitsurugi then got back to his stance and said "Secondly you need to know the vertical attack, these kinds of attacks are very useful to counter an enemy's horizontal attack." he again showed her how the slash is done Amy did the same with her hammer and he said "Not bad."
The samurai then said "Now we will learn the kick, it tends to be a bit weak, but the quickness of the attack allows you to catch your opponent off-guard, but that could be a problem since you are so small."
Amy did not look pleased and gave him a hard kick to his shin and he replied "OW."
He felt his shin to see if it is ok he then said "Ok I take that back, you are strong with your kicks."
He looked towards her and said "Next is guarding. You will learn that guarding is absolutely essential if you plan on becoming good at fighting."
He continued to say "Also evading attacks is also a great way to win, lets try it, see how well you do."
Mitsurgi ran up to her and tried slashing at her but she defended with her hammer, the samurai went for another slash that went down to slice her but she went to the left to evade the attack.
The samurai smiled at his student and said "Excellent."
Mitsurugi smiled towards his student this caught Amy off guard as he threw her across the room and against the cage.
This made her say "Ow, why did you do that for?"
The samurai just looked at his student seriously and said "You should never let your guard down no matter what, also grabs and throws are useful to use on your opponent. You are lucky I did not use my real grabs with my sword."
Amy looked at him angered by what he did she ran towards him hammer in hand letting out her war cry. She grabbed a hold of his leg and tripped him up, she then was about to raise her hammer and smash it onto his head.
But before she could do anything he said "Excellent ." she stopped and looked at him with confusion in her eyes he then continued to say "I did not think you would be able to do that but obviously you are proving the fact of size does not matter."
Amy smiled at him for his praising and asked "But wait samurai's are supposed to not judge books by its cover right?"
Mitsurugi replied "Yes but I never had trouble with people your size before."
Amy understanding what he meant nodded her head.
He went back into his battle stance and said "Another form of the guard is called guard impact. It may take a few tries to perfect it but you'll learn the timing soon enough."
She again nodded understanding his wise words.
He then told her "Try hitting me now."
She nodded and tried to hit him but as her hammer almost made contact he quickly deflected the strike with the greatest of ease.
Amy was caught by surprise by that, as Mitsurugi said "Usually its great way to leave them open for more of your attacks." the pink hedgehog was wondering how can that be hard until he said "Now lets see you try to use the guard impact."
He slashed towards her but she defended against the blow, but she did not do what was necessary to the lesson.
The samurai then said "Not good enough."
He slashed towards her again and again the same result he then said "Ok lets see if the third time is a lucky charm."
Amy was ready this time to make it work, as Mitsurugi slashed towards her again she deflected his sword with ease much like he did.
The swordsman smiled and said "Good, you finally got it. But next time try to not let your guard down while doing it. I noticed you left yourself open again, but I guess practice makes perfect."
She looked up to her teacher who put his sword down. She wondered if the lesson was over but she got her answer when he said "Now for the final lesson, I am going to teach you about the soul charge."
The pink hedgehog looked towards him and asked "The soul charge?"
Mitsurugi did not answer though as he told her "Concentrate with your eyes open."
Amy could not help but say "Huh?"
He saw her confusion and said "Just do as I tell you."
She then replied "Ok"
She did as he told her and concentrated with her eyes open the only problem was she did not know what to concentrate on.
He then said "Now concentrate on yourself, concentrate on the soul inside you, call upon its power."
She did as told and concentrated on her soul from within, moments have passed and nothing happened.
The pink hedgehog sighed and said "Its not working."
Mitsurugi said in a determined tone "You can do it just concentrate harder and when you feel a surge of power call upon it like you would in war."
Amy did as he was told she concentrated harder on the soul within her.
A few more moments have passed and still nothing she then thought "Oh Sonikku if only you were here."
She concentrated back to her soul like she was supposed to but just at that very moment she felt a surge of power go through her much like what Mitsurugi described.
She raised her hammer into the air and screamed "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" when she did that a green glow surrounded her which made the room brighter. When she felt the surge go from inside her she looked at her trusty piko piko hammer that now had a blue aura around it.
She looked at the blue aura with a questioning look, she heard the samurai's voice say "That blue aura you see is what you called upon it increases the power of your attacks." She smiled at what she accomplished but there was more lecturing to come from the swordsman as he said "It also has the amazing ability to break people guarding, but the problem with using this, is that it leaves yourself open to any attacks."
After awhile of not using it the blue aura disappeared obviously it can be only be used at a certain amount of time.
The samurai said "Congratulations you have learned well and fast might I add, use these skills I taught you well." but they were still not finished as he said "Ok, now show me your moves."
The pink hedgehog said "What? But there is no opponents."
He simply replied to her "Imagine your opponents."
(A/N: This next bit is gonna sound like Exhibition where you see all the fighters demonstrate their fighting skills.)
Amy Rose stood in the middle of the ring to get ready to demonstrate her skills, she took her hammer into her hands and swung it from left to right, she took a couple of steps back and pretended to smack two people in the face behind her with a turn around spin and swing. The pink hedgehog spun her hammer in her hands while putting it over her head which made it look like a helicopter but as she finished spinning she went ballistic running while swinging her hammer everywhere while at some points letting out a war cry. She then stopped in the middle once more and charged for her biggest attack.
She said in a tone filled with confidence "Here we go." As her hammer gathered up flames she spun her hammer around with the flames and her trademark love hearts following. She finished her practice by stopping and letting out one last war cry and hitting the floor.
She breathed in and out from her work out which was a usual thing for her.
Mitsurugi smiled at his student and applauded her efforts and he said "Excellent, you are very skilled with the hammer and may I say that you might someday become a legend in history."
Amy could not help but blush at his praising but she said to him "Thank you."
The swordsman looked up at the sky and saw the sun was setting and he said "Night will come soon so if you want to get up early I suggest you get some sleep like I am."
The pink hedgehog followed him out of the caged arena and asked "Mitsy have you seen anyone else like me?"
Mitsurugi clearly not bothered about the nick name given replied in all honesty "I am afraid I have not."
Amy looked down at her shoes and said in a sad tone "Oh, nevermind."
The samurai saw that she did not want to talk about it so he left for his room but before he went inside his room he heard the pink hedgehog's sweet voice say "Good night."
He then replied to her "Good night."
As he entered his room Amy went into her temporary room and wondered "Hmmmm am I the only one here?"
She laid onto her bed and kept on thinking about Sonic and all of her friends but in the end she finally let sleep take over her as her eyes fell shut.
Morning
Amy woke up early, well it seemed early to her cause since there was no clocks it was hard to tell what time it was.
She got up and put her hammer away somewhere on her person (still the question where does it come from?), the pink hedgehog was about to leave her room till a piece of paper on the table caught her attention.
The pink hedgehog went over to the paper and read it which was written in a odd way but it was still readable.
It said "Dear Amy, I am sorry but I must leave you on your own at this point cause I have my own business to attend to, but I know you can still survive on your own without my help, all that I can tell you is to head east from here to Thuban it may be a long trip but I am sure you will do well, the reason I am telling you this cause my training grounds are not safe anymore, also since you have done so well I have left you a couple of gifts inside your room under your bed take a look I think you will be pleased. From Your Master Mitsurugi."
Amy did not know what to do now but all she did was do as his note said for it was his last instructions.
She went to her bed and dragged out what looked to be a sack, she pulled it out and undid the knots to find inside 600 gold coins and with it something that surprised her, she took out a hammer that was a little longer then her piko piko hammer, the hammer was silver with bits of blue around the handle and on the head of it.
She gazed at her new weapon in awe wondering why he give her such a gift but she left it at that since he was not around, she put the hammer away much like with her piko piko hammer.
The pink hedgehog got everything including the 600 gold coins she got from the sack with her new hammer she also took the Soul Edge fragment with her. She then left the building and read the note from Mitsurugi and went east like his note said and so began the tale of Amy Rose.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Before I end it I thought I tell you something I will do, I will do a weapon gallery for Amy but I will only do it for weapons she get during adventures so here it is. (information will be set out much like )
1 – Piko Piko Hammer
Special Abilities – N/A
Disadvantages – N/A
Offence – 100
Defence – 100
Weapon Bio – This weapon has served Amy well in her fights against Dr Eggman, his battalion of robots and other sort of creations, not only should foes be careful who wields it but they should also be careful of the wallop it gives, this weapon is most familiar and well balanced to Amy.
2 – Neptune's Hammer
Special Abilities – Has longer reach
Disadvantages – Wielder receives damage on impact when guarding
Offence – 125
Defence – 100
Weapon Bio – The colour of the weapon resembles the ocean, the weapon itself is unknown in origin but with its long reach and some great force behind it, it may look like its for show but it is still a great a weapon.
Please review that is all I ask of you all is that you have enjoyed it and say what was good about the story. Well an authors job is never done till next time readers.