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 9 Deep Evil
The mountains had a usual harsh cold wind blowing along the rocky paths and down the sides of the cliffs, the tiny bit of sleet came down fast due to how hard the wind was blowing.
Usually this mountain would not be a good idea to climb, but in this specific situation only one person was climbing the dangerous cliff side to reach the next destination and this meant everything to climb just to find the answers and solutions to all the weird yet horrifying dreams and to get home.
A gloved hand took a hold of the edge of the cliff and as the hand gave the person leverage to get up, the pink hedgehog known as Amy Rose looked like she had not slept a wink in days as she kept going through the harsh winds and sleet to the temple of Altair.
Her eyes were heavy yet determined to carry on not wanting to stop and dream those awful scenes again, her feet started to become slower due to tiredness and the freezing cold weather. But this still did not stop her as her now shaking hands took a hold of the side of the cliff side and her feet started to go up it trying to make her way to the top.
It felt like an eternity to climb as she felt the freezing wind blow against small frame, her eyes were tightly shut as she felt it go through her and sleet get caught into her fur.
Her body was cold as ice but she ignored it wanting to reach the temple badly, after for what seemed like days she finally got to the top and before her eyes saw a temple, she smiled at the sight as she got up and walked slowly towards the temple unable to run from the wintry like conditions.
But at that point her vision started to become hazy and soon she fell onto her knees and onto the snow covered marble floor with a thud, the mixture of heavy eyes and coldness affected her body to make her unconscious.
She felt nothing as she laid there upon the icy cold marble path of the temple, she didn't even take notice of the feet that were coming up towards her due to her state of health. The mysterious person examined the pink hedgehog's weak form as if noting what was wrong with her and what to do?
Hours Later
The mysterious person soaked a wet rag in a basin filled with water and made sure it was damp by twisting the cloth and soon after took it to a sleeping form of the unconscious pink hedgehog.
The damp rag was placed upon her forehead and lightly wiped over it a little, the water was warmer then the freezing temperature outside the temple of Altair, the warmth made Amy stir a little and opened her eyes to see nothing but a blur at first her vision soon came back to normal and saw before her the person who was wiping her head.
In pure instinct she sat up shocked to see the stranger and tried to look for her hammer.
"Calm down my child I am not here to harm you." the man said in an oddly calm tone.
Amy's emerald green eyes examined the person before her noting that he was a priest and that she be careful with her choice of words around him.
"Where am I?" she asked him politely.
The priest replied kindly "You are in the temple of Altair… not many travel here except those who have faith in the Lord's relic that we keep here to worship…. Is that why you are here?"
The pink hedgehog shook her head and answered "That is not why I am here…. I was told I would find something here to help me."
"You have the taint within you." he said still keeping his odd tone yet he said it in such a way that it made her shiver a little.
"The taint? What do you mean?" she questioned the priest of Altair.
But her only reply from him was silence as he turned around as if pondering what to do next, the long silence did not make Amy feel better and wanted to know what he was thinking.
"My child…. What exactly made you come here?" he asked a bit cautious like as if he was wanting to hide something.
"I had these awful nightmares for so long… so real.. the heat, the flames, the emotion and even the pain… so scary" she replied knowing she wasn't going to get anywhere keeping something like that to herself.
The priest thought for a moment humming to himself, the silence was soon broken when the priest asked politely "Can you walk?"
"Ermm yeah I think I can." the pink hedgehog replied to him as she got up, her weapon was handed over to her by the young priest who soon went to the door and offered her passage through first.
"This way and follow me." the priest said to Amy, deciding its best to follow for now she put her hammer away and followed the priest outside the room and through the large halls of the temple.
The stained glass windows were just like the ones you see in fantasy books, each colourful window showed scenes like parts of the tale of an old myth in their view, Amy's eyes looked to each one in interest as if trying to find out the tales meaning or plot.
It was at that moment her eyes caught a look of something, a blade that was been taken by a hand, the sword was malevolent looking with its mixture of black and red to symbolize how dangerous the blade was.
The eye of the blade had fire inside it, the glass window was beautiful like all the rest but this one seemed to had a certain dark quality which would make any man or woman tremble upon gazing at it.
Her thoughts were disturbed upon feeling a hand touch her shoulder and the oddly calm voice ask "Is something the matter my child?"
She shook her head as if to shake off all the thoughts of the evil glass window and looked to the priest with sincerity and replied "No, nothings wrong father."
The priest soon beckoned her to keep following him which she did, it confused her how come there were no other priests at the temple of Altair and some parts of the building seemed to have a sinister theme to it.
Upon coming to a doorway the man of the temple took a torch from the wall and lit it with a flame and went through the door with Amy in tow.
The doorway went down below, the stone stairway looked old and had been there for a long time then the rest of the temple had been. The torch shone light to see where the next step was, the stairway went really far down and light from the torch shone brighter as the daylight from the opened door was disappearing behind them.
Amy looked at the walls which had many designs but there was nothing special about them, some of them looked Egyptian in design but the construction of the wall did not relate to it.
Soon another light shined ahead of them revealing the end to the long dark stairway, upon going through the priest directed Amy inside as he stayed between the corridor and the new area before her.
The ruins before her were like any other, the designs she saw in the stairway was in the room too, an abyss was all she could see all around the arena except for a small path from where she just entered, a hole was where the wall should be was showing grey clouds and letting in a really chilly draft.
Her body shivered at the sudden burst of coldness that blew into her, she looked around not seeing anything of interest it was then a thought hit her, the priest never said why he brought her to this place.
"Father, why did you bring me here?" she asked as she turned around to look to the priest but instead was face to face with someone who had the same emerald green eye colour as her.
This shocked her and made her jump back and look up and down at the person before her, she couldn't believe that she saw was a complete doppelganger of her.
The clothes and the look of her was all the same, the only thing that made her different from the original Amy Rose was the colour code of her dress which was a combination of dark blue and black instead of red and white.
The original stared in awe at the clone, she stood there for what felt like an eternity to her. What she failed to keep an eye on though was that her double brought her hammer up and hit her in the face extremely hard which made her fall flat onto the floor.
"Hmph just as I thought weak, a soul like yours is not strong enough for this world." Amy's double said in a cold like tone.
The real Amy Rose slowly got up with her Hammer of Fortune in her hands and stood strong and looked to her duplicate who tauntingly said "Bring it on."
"Get ready to lose." the pink hedgehog said in her confident tone of voice to her most probable hardest fight she may have against herself.
The evil clone started by spinning her hammer and moving towards her which she evaded and tried to hit her with her hammer but it ended up clashing with the other hammer wielder.
It was obvious from their fighting styles that they both knew what the other was going to do so avoided each others attacks, for minutes in the raging battle neither one got a hit the real Amy Rose wondered how could she gain the advantage over her clone that knew everything about her fighting skills.
It was then it hit her literally as she was smashed in the face by the enemy's hammer from lack of concentration into the fight, she instantly thought what would be the one type of fighting style she rarely use that even herself would not know how to counter attack.
The clone found this out as she lifted her hammer and was about to hit her but instead the original Amy rolled from her spot and sweeped the evil version of herself to the floor and got up to try and hit her back but instead it was guarded and both held the position and tried to push one another but neither side faltered.
At that moment the real Amy stamped the foot of the other and bashed her with in the face with the Hammer of Fortune in hand, her clone stood up angered by this and guarded against a double kick and went to swing but missed as the more nicer of the two pink hedgehogs jumped into the air start to make flames appear and followed it up with a kick to her counterpart outside the arena and into the abyss.
The battle against herself was over, she breathed and panted from the hard battle and put her hammer away.
But before she could even turn around she felt a sudden earth quake which didn't feel natural, this shaking of the platform made her fall on her backside as she looked around in wonder at what was happening.
She soon got her answer when before her where her evil clone fell she saw not a nice looking pink hedgehog but rather a pink furred demon with a hammer that was as long as an axe and it looked to have a stained glass window design on the head of the hammer and had an evil aura around it.
Amy stared at the demon almost in shock since she never saw anything like it before, the larger hammer was thrown towards her which hit her full on across the ruin arena.
The full on hit put her into a groggy state as she slowly tried to get herself up off the old stone floor, the demon flew towards her and hit her straight in the face with the hammer again which made her bleed from her lip.
Amy's body flew again but this time right out of the arena but before she fell completely out she grabbed a hold of the edge with one hand on the ledge and a hammer in her other hand, as she looked down to her possible demise she sighed in relief and looked back up to see the demon of herself up above.
Completely white eyes stared to her as the demon raised the enormous hammer high into the air Amy saw her opening and tried throwing her hammer up towards the demonic incarnation.
This took the evil creature off guard and made her fall to the ground, as the real Amy Rose lifted herself from the abyss and jumps back onto the platform and tried to hit her evil side once more but ended up missing due to the demon getting up and kicking her in the face.
The pink hedgehog felt light headed now as she used her hammer to get up but instead the demon grabbed a hold of her and threw her small form into the air and with a spin of the hammer Amy felt the large hammer smash into her.
The pain she was been given was almost unbearable so she let out a loud scream, this made the demon grin and laughed at the pain she caused.
But once again without any sign of quitting Amy did the impossible and got up again using her hammer as leverage, the evil incarnation was not going to let the weak pink hedgehog get the upper hand and charged her hammer with a green glow.
Soon after she charged up again but this time all in flames as the pink demon was ready to give the final blow.
Amy raised her eyes to see the demon flying right towards her with the axe like hammer ready to hit her, as the demon's hammer left flames and broken love hearts in its wake the pink hedgehog jumped to one side and screamed while with a downward smash hit the demon on the head.
But this only infuriated the demon as it looked to her and pounced for her but instead as the pink hedgehog went into a certain last second stance she made the demon go over her and then smacked her with such force that the evil side of her was plunged into the abyss outside the ring all that could be heard was a high demonic scream.
The small pink hedgehog wondered if she won but all she did was pick herself up with her hammer and sighed in relief thanking her lucky stars she was alive.
Footsteps behind her didn't bother her much since she recognised it was the priest's, he picked up the axe like hammer that the demon dropped and he smiled impressed.
"So you are the one of many the prophecies speak of." he said as if so sure of himself.
Upon hearing this Amy turned her gaze to the priest who she should really now smack him upside the head for putting her in this situation but since she was tired from it she decided against it.
"What do you mean?" she asked wondering what he was on about.
"You need not concern yourself with that as its been told that many seek the foul blade." he explained in his odd tone.
"Soul Edge?" the pink hedgehog asked a bit unsure what to think about this.
"Yes the one blade that most warriors seek for personal gain or to destroy it from this world.." he replied as if he knew all.
"But what does this have to do with my nightmares and you putting me against that creature?" she asked obviously not understanding the point of his talk.
"Those who are true warriors of the prophecy will beat the evil that is within them… this proves to me that you may be one destined to get to Soul Edge." he explained while holding the demonic hammer her evil side had.
She laughed a little and replied "I have no interest in Soul Edge."
"Even if it means you can get home with it?" he asked in such a way that made Amy shiver and looks at him in wonder.
"Home?" she asked questioningly like.
"Yes.. Soul Edge can lead you home.." he said in his odd tone still but soon continued to say "The taint has been lifted from you now."
Upon saying that he offered the demonic hammer to Amy Rose who only looked at it while thinking if its ok to take such a thing off him and how the taint left her.
"What do you mean by the taint is now lifted from me?" she questioned the odd priest.
"By defeating the evil and conquering it the nightmares will not haunt you especially with this hammer in your procession." he replied without changing his tone as he continued to offer her the hammer.
The pink hedgehog looked at the stained glass design on the head of the hammer and examined the length of it, she noted that there was a design of an eye on the head too the look of it made her wonder if she should take such a weapon with her.
"Don't worry it won't bite you." the priest said to her as if to coax her into taking the demonic weapon.
Without a complaint and yet unsure she took the hammer into her hands and was surprised at how lighter it was then she expected. She suddenly felt a powerful surge of strength go right through her body it made her a little dizzy as she kept a hold of the demonic hammer not letting go of it.
She soon fainted but this time the priest caught her in his arms and smiled a little.
"You who has so much innocence must rest now, but your destiny is hard to see due to others being entwined with yours… sleep in peace for the nightmares shall not harm you anymore." he said out loud as he took her back up her newest weapon still in her hands.
As the mysterious priest left the arena, a new stained glass window stared to appear inside the church, slowly revealing a pink hedgehog and a demon that looked like her their weapons looking like they were clashing and with that the new tale of the battle will forever be remembered in history.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Please review that is all I ask of you all is that you have enjoyed it and say what was good about the story.
Note – Sorry if this chapter took a long time I just been having to deal with both professional problems and personal ones too anyway new weapon for Amy time to give it a description
5 – Demonic Hammer of Taint
Special Abilities – Has longer reach and drains health from opponents
Disadvantages – When soul charge is used it drains health from wielder or if attacks miss drains health of wielder
Offence – 150
Defence – 125
Weapon Bio – Not much is known about this weapon except that Amy beat a evil demon of herself for this monstrous weapon, the stained glass design on the head of the hammer somehow sends chills through the enemies upon looking at it, perhaps such a thing found at Altair Temple has some connection with Soul Edge?
Well an authors job is never done till next time readers.