Disclaimer- I have to say that all of the Sonic characters in this fic or mentioned do not belong to me they belong to Sega. Same with the Soul Calibur 2 characters they belong to Namco. Now as usual on with the story.
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Tales of Souls, Swords and The Hammer

Chapter 3 Journey Through The New World

On the beautiful plains the grass has the most stunning shade of green ever seen, a river flowed with sparkling looking water and the flowers were gorgeous it was if nothing tainted the lands.

The broad, long and windy river flowed perfectly down into the waterfall, creating a fine mist as the crystal clear water plummeted and separated.

From the side of the river, someone's delicate and soft hands reached into the clean water, took the liquid into their now bowl shaped hands and splashed it onto their face.

The person was none other than the pink hedgehog known as Amy Rose, she looked at her reflection in the river and smiled to see that her face looked alright.

She has been on her journey for a day now and already she found this world interesting.

She looked around once more at the amazing sight before her but she had to leave for her journey was more important then sight seeing.

The pink hedgehog walked away and went on with her journey through the windy plains.

Hours Later

As Amy made her way from the plains she found herself in what appeared to be some ancient ruins. The pink hedgehog's small feet walked up the old stairs, the ruin looked to be Japanese in origin and the area was pretty big.

As the pink hedgehog walked through the ruins the sun started to set and the sky changed from soothing blue to orange with bits of red. She sighed for she knew that the town of Thuban was still awhile away so she was probably going to have to sleep somewhere.

She sat down on a slab of rock from the ruin and closed her eyes deep in thought.

Her mind was filled with the usual day dreams of Sonic being with her, holding her or stroking her quills. The adorable pink hedgehog wished so much for her sweet Sonikku to be here. Amy opened her eyes in realization that he was not here and she was alone, her eyes had the look of sadness in them for it seemed hopeless to find anyone she knew.

She shook her head and told herself "What is wrong with you, of course you will see him again this is just like the time we got stuck on Earth with Chris, Chuck, Tanaka and Ella and many others so if I keep looking maybe I will find Sonic here on this world somewhere."

The pink hedgehog smiled for she had some hope to concentrate on. At that moment her ears heard something in the far distance, she ran towards the place where she heard the commotion.

Amy climbed up some parts of the broken ruins to get to the location, the sound was starting to come more clearly now, the sound was of weapons clashing together.

She heard some grunts and war cries as well, one was a woman who sounded quite young the pink hedgehog also heard two men's voices one sounded very deep and the other sounded in between deep and high pitched but the only thing she heard them do was a loud inhuman grunt and the other sounded like he was laughing a lot.

Amy heard the young woman's voice say "I see you!" while she was climbing she heard the woman say "Go… Away!"

But as the pink hedgehog almost made it she heard the woman cry out in pain as soon as she heard her get hit by something.

As Amy got up and grabbed the wooden floor she saw one big man covered in red armour with bits of gold for design his helmet covered his face also he was carrying with him a big battle axe which was the same colour as his armour.

The other man was covered in brown cloth mostly around the head to hide his identity, his right arm was naked and in it he held a falchion.

The two men looked down at the body of the young woman who they defeated, her tied back dark blue hair blew in wind over her face, her body laid still the only thing that moved was her fingers, the woman wore peculiar clothing in places, a green top but still showed her thin figure she also wore white short pants.

The woman tried to get up, as soon as she looked up she saw the big man with his axe raised ready to chop her in half, the weapon was about to hack right through her, she closed her eyes shut and put her hands on her head.

But nothing happened she was expecting the end but to her amazement when she opened her eyes she saw a pink hedgehog wearing a red dress and red shoes with a ocean coloured hammer in her hands, the hammer stopped the axe coming further.

The smaller man finally reacted and tried to slash at the small hedgehog, but the young woman quickly grabbed her tonfas and hit the cloth covered swordsman.

As the small man was hit back, Amy pushed the giant of the two away this made the big man scream in utter distaste.

The young woman was surprised that a creature like this would help her she also wondered a lot about the person who just saved her but there was no time to find out for they had enemies to take out.

The big armoured man checked his axe and grunted in confidence while the cloth covered swordsman slashed with his falchion a few times and laughed a little.

When the two saw their opponents were ready the young woman raised her arms with both tonfas in her hands and said "Wind guide me." she got ready into her fighting stance ready for a fight.

The pink hedgehog simply looked down eyes closed and said "Sonikku." the young woman heard what she said which surprised her more, the small creature then got into her fighting stance and was ready to fight their opponents.

In that split second the cloth covered swordsman tried to thrust towards Amy with his blade but when she noticed his blade she deflected the thrust which pushed the swordsman away, the hedgehog looked at him angrily as she charged at him and smacked his foot which made him grab it in pain while jumping on one foot.

The armoured axe man went to hack at the hedgehog but the young woman charged towards the man and hit him in the face with one of her tonfas while screaming "Strike!"

The armoured man fell on his back and growled as if in disbelief, he got up and went to chop for her head but he ended up missing, at that point the man got up and hit her with the side of his axe which knocked her down to the floor. As he went to chop her on the floor she rolled out of the way and jumped onto her feet.

Amy stood in front of her cloth wearing opponent with confidence in her eyes, the two started to fight one another with the man laughing now and then. His sword slashed against her hammer as did her hammer against his blade.

The two kept fighting blade against hammer, both of their weapons clashed and the two did not falter in trying to hurt the other but it seemed to each they were both equally matched. The man looked at the pink hedgehog he underestimated.

The man laughed again and he went into a stance and started to make flames appear on his sword and then when he tried to slash at her she dodged.

It was at that very moment she screamed holding her hammer high, flames appearing over it and turning bigger, she shouted "Take… this!"

The flaming hammer hit the man in the face and made him go over near the edge but as soon as he was on the floor he quickly got up.

The big man was now grunting in frustration cause of how fast the woman was with her tonfas, the armoured man tried to hit her again with the side of his axe, he got her this time and she was smacked near the edge of the wooden floor of the ruin.

Amy was smacking her opponent up against a caged area while saying "Got you!" and "Stay down!" the man fell to the ground while screaming. The man in armour went to hit the young woman off but she evade him and was right behind him.

As soon as he turned around he saw her spin her tonfas which made flames appear and shout "Come on... hit!" the armoured man fell to the floor. The woman thought it was over, she turned her back on him and walked over to see her helper.

But as she walked she turned around to see the big man up and his axe about to chop her in half but the pink hedgehog ran and shouted "Look out!"

Amy hit the armoured man so hard he flew in the air and fell off the edge screaming during the fall. The hedgehog turned around to see the cloth covered man blade still in hand, but he made no advancement,

So with one final laugh he ran towards them and jumped over them, they both looked behind them expecting to see him but instead he was gone, no where in sight.

The pink hedgehog spun her hammer around saying in a confident tone "Too easy."

The woman just clutched her tonfas near her chest and said "My heart is still pounding."

Amy looked towards the person she saved, the woman looked down at the pink hedgehog and asked "Who are you?"

The small creature put Neptune's Hammer away and answered politely "Amy Rose pleased to meet you, and you are?"

The young woman replied politely with a smile "Talim." The two looked at one another for awhile, Talim was surprised by how Amy could talk like a human cause to her there was no such thing of a being like her.

The pink hedgehog was glad to meet someone on her journey, the young woman asked "So Amy where are you off?"

Amy replied "I am off to a town called Thuban."

Talim said "I am off that way too."

The pink hedgehog again replied "Wow so we can be like comrades."

The young woman nodded to that and said "That would be great," she then smiled and continued saying "thanks for saving me by the way I really needed it."

It was then Amy asked "By any chance you know the way out of these ruins to get to Thuban?"

Talim answered back "I am not sure, wait a moment."

The young woman looked in the direction where the wind was hitting her face, she then nodded as if understanding it.

Amy's new found companion said to her "Follow me please." the two started to walk in a direction out of the area they were in and down a steep cliff, they then walked down a long straight path.

It seemed to them it was a path that looked like it went on forever from a distance, the two went onwards to what might lie ahead.

As the two walked side by side Amy asked her companion "Errm Talim?"

The young woman replied back "Yes?"

The pink hedgehog looked at Talim and asked "What were you doing back there? When you were facing the wind?"

The young woman simply replied "I listened to the wind," Amy looked up at her with confusion in her eyes, she noticed the look in her eyes and explained "I am a wind priestess, the last of my tribe to be able to read the winds."

The adorable hedgehog asked with curiosity "So can you hear it say things then?"

Talim replied "No that's not how it works, the winds do not talk to me I simply read it of any type of aura it has. Back there I was trying to find the town by using the winds to help find it."

Amy smiled and nodded in understanding, as they kept walking along their path it was the wind priestesses turn to ask "If you don't mind me asking why are you off to Thuban for?"

She simply replied to her "Well I am going there cause my master said in this note I have that I must make my way there." it was then she asked again "So what is your business there then?"

Talim replied "I am just passing through there and maybe stay for the night."

The pink hedgehog then asked "Where exactly are you off to?"

The wind priestess again replied "I am on a journey to find an evil source," without asking the hedgehog got more information "One day as I was reading the winds I had collapsed after sensing an evil energy which flowed through my body, I was unconscious for days, after that I could not understand why I collapsed until a few months ago a westerner brought a peculiar metallic fragment, he said it was a vitality charm but I recognised the energy within the metal fragment as the same malevolent energy that I felt on the day I collapsed, so here I am on my journey to find whatever this evil is."

Amy was so intrigued by her companion's story she brought out her piece of Soul Edge wondering if it was the same as Talim's, the hedgehog asked while showing her the piece of the evil fragment "Is your piece like this one?"

The wind priestess looked at the metal fragment and brought her piece out to compare, she found the pieces they had seemed to have come from the same place.

Talim was shocked to find that one of the fragments was with the small pink hedgehog, but she decided not to bother her bout it till a later point in time.

Amy asked again "Well is it?"

The young woman replied "Yes it sure is."

The two said nothing more as they put their soul edge pieces away, Talim did not know what they would do when they got to their destination but she just had to wonder what would happen next. So they kept on heading towards their destination.

TO BE CONTINUED

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