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 8 The Bombardment

In the darkest time of the night in the town of Mizar, not a single light was on since it was so late in the night. The streets were so dark that not even a single warrior was brave enough to come out.

At the inn bedroom where the two female heroines were in separate beds, the wind priestess was sleeping soundly unlike the pink hedgehog who was stirring in her sleep she moaned as if in pain and mumbled many pleas to stop, sweat matted all over her fur, she was getting hotter from an unknown source.

She soon mumbled a bit louder "No, no, please stop," she opened her eyes, sat straight up in her bed and said loudly "Stop it now!"

Her eyes were wide open in fright; she felt her whole body as if to check for something that was supposed to be there, she sighed in relief glad she was back in the her temporary room, her temperature was starting to return to normal as she came out of bed not feeling like going to sleep again.

She went up to the window and looked outside up to the stars, she saw the stars here were different to the ones on her world. She sighed wondering if she was the only one in the world, would she find anyone she knew and would she ever return home.

She looked towards her companion who was still sleeping soundly even when she screamed loudly, these visions she has been having made her feel scared of sleeping again almost.

Deciding that her dreams would subside somehow she looked around and then thought "Maybe a breath of fresh air would help me?"

With that in mind she got ready and her hammer in her procession and went out of her room and locked it after leaving, she walked out of the inn with no specific destination in mind.

The cool night breeze felt nice against her as she walked through the gloomy streets, she looked up now and then to the sky hoping for a wishing star. She kept walking not caring about the time.

Suddenly she heard something in the deepest of the darkest of shadows; she decided to check out the source of the sound, she cautiously walked towards the place where the sound was heard.

She walked into the shadows and down the dark stairs into an underground place, the floor had weird patterns with holes that made a shape of cobwebs, the middle of the floor was made of some type of old rock but it looked stable.

Careful not to get stuck or fall through the holes she went towards the center of the room, she looked around a bit more wondering what this place was. Her thoughts were interrupted as the metal cobwebbed designed floors went up and soon connected to become the walls of the now small room.

Confused she looked around wondering how and why part of the floor went up to make a large wall that she was not able to get through or over. In her state of bewilderment someone had kicked her in the side of the face, the force of the kick made her fall to the ground and against the wall. She groaned in pain from the shot and looked to who kicked her.

The person before her was defiantly the cloth wearing man who she saved her companion from, this time round he looked to mean business now because he was wearing purple cloth in places but he now wore silver armour and helmet to protect himself from any weaponry.

While spinning his sword around he looked towards her ready to fight, Amy slowly got up to her feet spun her hammer around and got into her stance while saying "You will regret facing me!"

With that said both the fighters started to hit one another with their weapons but they kept clashing with one another. The pink hedgehog pushed the cloth wearing man to the other side of the ring.

He rolled when she tried to smack him with her hammer, once he got up he kicked her many times in the face and kicked her over his head, she soon hit the floor and exclaimed in pain.

She got up and hit the man in the stomach with the head of her hammer and smacked him down onto the floor, the cloth wearing man looked to her with an unknown gaze, he went to slash at her a few times but she dodged a few times. Suddenly the blade cut her skin but it was only a flesh wound.

In anger she smacked him to one side of the ring and checked to see if the wound was deep luckily for her it was not so she was still able to fight. The cloth wearing man got up again and kicked Amy in the face and tried to slash at her some more but she guarded against each blow.

It was then she dodged the horizontal slash and went to hit him but he jumped back and charged up with energy which made flames appear all over his sword. He then slashed at her while doing the splits with his legs the flaming slash knocked her down the floor and made her roll away from him.

Things only got worse as she got up she saw him take out something, he soon lit it and it made a noise which was like a warning sound that it was a bomb.

Amy felt scared about it but decided she was not going down without a fight, the cloth wearing man soon tried to knock her down again but she jumped back away from him. He then jumped towards with a devastating kick to the chest which made her fall to the floor.

He laughed a little in triumph, Amy looked down to herself after recovering from the kick and saw the bomb was attached to her somehow, angry she took the bomb off her self and started to clash her hammer with his blade.

The cloth wearing man was now slashing at her some more with his martial arts like swordplay, her self taught style of swinging of the hammer clashed with his sword so many times.

She looked to the bomb seeing the fuse halfway through its time to blow up, she hit him in the back of the leg with the handle of her hammer, after seeing him go onto his knees she twirled the hammer and lifted it high above her head and hit him smack on his head.

He soon got up and looked ready to blow as he screamed and glowed green, Amy took the time to do the same tactic and glowed green as she raised her hammer high into the air.

The cloth wearing man went to thrust his blade into her but she dodged and soon after charged up her hammer so flames appeared, she started to spin with her hammer into her opponent leaving flames and love hearts in its wake.

She looked to her adversary in anger; she checked the bomb and saw it was going to blow soon.

He soon got up and tried to stab her with his blade twice but she dodged and jumped over him and stuffed the bomb down his pants. This made him panic and tried to get it out but it was too late the bomb exploded him into the air and soon he fell flat on his back, the blast was not that big but good enough to make him wounded.

Amy lowered her stance just a little by letting her hammer stand on the floor by the head and put her hands in a pray and said softly while closing her eyes "I did it Sonikku." It was as if she believed he was nearby when in actual fact he was no where to be seen.

She looked to the man she just defeated who was injured but still breathing, she went up to the cloth wearing man and looked to him with a serious look on her face.

He then spoke while breathing heavily "I…. can't… believe… you beat…. me……" she just kept her eyes locked onto him he carried on saying "If… you want out….. just push one of the walls…. one of them……. has a weak spot…… so can find….. the way out."

Amy looked to him more and asked "Why were you trying to kill me? You tried to kill me and my friend at the temple ruins too so why?"

He replied "I am….. an assassin…. I was hired to kill…… those who get in….. the way….. of the greater powers……. they thought….. you as a threat…. so hired me….. to take you out."

The pink hedgehog wondered why he was telling her this so asked "Why you telling me all this?"

The assassin replied "It is custom…… if we are defeated….. I have to pass on information….. before I die….. you deserve to know….. what is going on." he coughed at one point looking closer to dying but she did not want that.

She said in a caring tone "Hang in there I will get you a doctor." she forgot that they have no doctors only healers which was close to that.

The assassin then said "The nightmares…… you been having….. they are connected to the temple in Altair…… find the item there and you will be free of the horrible nightmares."

Amy asked "What item? What does this have to do with me? Tell me please." it was no use though because the assassin was now unconscious. This made her shake him a little and said in his ears looking for signs of life "Wake up, you ok?"

Getting no response she looked around and tried to push every part of the walls, she found one weak wall and tried to push but due to the size of it the wall it seemed almost impossible to push.

So she brought out her hammer and smacked it once softly, with no reaction she placed the side head of the hammer onto the wall pulled back and smacked it again it wobbled but did not fall.

She came up with an idea and soon glowed green as she charged up, she then caused flames to appear soon after and smashed the wall down with her Hammer of Fortune. The metal wall fell and made a path to the doorway to lead her out of the place.

Her eyes looked back to the assassin seeing him still unconscious, she went over to him and check his body for anything she can do to help, finding none she decided to pull him out from the room they were in and to the nearest healer she could find.

Hours Later

Talim was up and awake and wondering where Amy was, it worried her a little but she saw that her hammer was gone which meant she could defend herself which relieved most of her worry.

She waited a bit more hoping for her to return but still nothing, the wind priestess thought that maybe she should go look for her. So with that thought in her head she went to get her tonfas and was about to leave until a small figure opened the door and entered the room.

Amy who just entered smiled and said "Good morning."

Her companion replied "Good morning…." she soon asked after Amy sat down on the bed sorting things out "What were you doing?"

The pink hedgehog replied "I went out for some fresh air…. because I could not get back to sleep since I had that nightmare again." she continued on "I came across this assassin who tried to kill me….. but I luckily beat him….. he told me of something at a temple in Altair…. You know where that is?"

The wind priestess brought out the map and said "Yeah here it is…" she pointed to it which was way back north of Benetnasch she asked "So you going there next?"

Amy replied without hesitation "Yes I need to know about these nightmares I am having and need to get rid of them."

Talim frowned but tried to put a smile on her face and said "I…. guess this is goodbye then."

Shocked the pink hedgehog replied "Goodbye? What you mean goodbye?"

The wind priestess looked to her companion and said "I am afraid that we are parting ways here, if you are off to Altair then I can not go with you."

Amy could not help but feel sad about this, in a sad tone she asked "Why can't you go with me? We have been through so much."

Talim replied "Our goals are different I am after Soul Edge and you are trying to find a way home but yet unsure about Soul Edge so we have to say goodbye because I need to find Soul Edge which I heard is in the town of Rigel."

The pink hedgehog thought for a moment taking in all the information, she then took out a piece of Soul Edge and said "Here."

Her companion shocked replied "I can not possibly take it, you may need it."

Amy looked to her friend and said "But it's your mission to destroy Soul Edge….. and you need all the pieces don't you?"

She could not believe she was right but still she felt that she did not want to take the piece but in the end she took the offered piece and put it with the few she had got over the time on the journey.

Talim got on her knees to be at eye level with her companion, the two embraced each other friendly like.

The pink hedgehog said "I am going to miss you Talim."

Her companion replied "I will miss you too Amy."

They both just stayed in the hug for a little while longer not wanting to forget one another. They slowly let go of each other a bit sad for this farewell but deep down they knew that this would have come sooner or later.

Amy got her stuff ready and looked to her companion and friend and said in a sad and yet hopeful tone "Goodbye and see you later."

Talim noticed that she was saying it just so it was not like they were not gonna see each other again so she replied "Goodbye and see you later too."

When the pink hedgehog left Talim took out the piece of Soul Edge that was given to her and stared at it for a bit, she then whispered to herself "Take care Amy….. stay alive my friend."

Outside Amy's ears picked up the whisper inside the room and smiled and said to herself "You take care and stay alive too Talim my friend." with that said she left down the hall and out of the entrance of the inn and got the map ready for the long hike to Altair.

While checking to see if she had everything she needed for the trip she wondered what could make her have so much nightmares in the temple of Altair.

TO BE CONTINUED

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