Chapter 2; pro league match, Sonic vs count Edward

Sonic and Amy were looking at the shores of England from the airplane. Tails had said 5 minutes ago they would land at London's airport. The sky was pretty clear of clouds unusual for England.

4 hours ago they had taken off from Athens heading for London, Silver and Espio's hometown. They had agreed during the flight that Silver would escort Espio to his house and afterwards inform his parents of the situation and meet them back at the airplane the next day when they would take off. As for Sonic and his team they also agreed to split until 4PM and search the city for any reaction to their marks. it happened as Sonic noticed during the duel with Slifer that Slifer reacted to his mark. A logical conclusion was that the other two god cards would react the same way to their marks. But since they didn't know if they had to be within a specific range for the cards and the marks to react they had to search the entire city. Since they were 6 it would take about 4 hours on their duel runners. Before they left the airplane Sonic heard his ancient's egypt's ego from inside his head.

"Sonic there is something I need to tell you."

"What's the matter?" he said inside of him.

" The slifer card you acquired in the morning…. It is one of the illusionary beasts given to me by the lunar dragon to fight against the Tails of my time."

"REALLY?!" Sonic said in shock inside of him again.

"Yes the other two cards must be the other 2 beasts."

"Then we'll find them." Sonic decided.

They reached the city. There Espio and Silver headed for their homes while the singed ones started roaming the city section each one would explore. They began at 11AM but 2PM came and nothing. They had searched all of the city and no response. Sonic even had Slifer with him but neither Slifer nor his mark reacted in any way. in the end they decided to go visit the landmarks of the city before departing. First stop was the closest to the meeting place after the search; the eye of London. They rode it and took plenty of pictures from the top. They did the same thing with their visit to big ben. Without the others knowing it Sonic and Amy went to the top of a building and took a selfie that made them look like they were standing next to the big ben as giants. Since they were there they also paid a visit to the Westminster palace and that the cathedral of saint paul. Finally they considered visiting one of the tons of museums in London but culture wasn't their strong point so they instead visited the aquarium and the zoo and decided once this adventure was over to get a real tour around the world. About 8PM they returned to the airport. They were planning to sleep in the airplane and in the first light of the day to fly for another destination. But before they could cross the gate to the airplane section they were stopped by a guard.

"Is there a problem officer?" Tails asked confused.

"No mister prowers. It is just that I have someone in my office who wants to meet the king."

"Please don't call me king. Just Sonic." Sonic tried to stop the formal tone.

"I'm sorry but we're in a hurry right now. We're leaving with at 6AM." Tails said.

"I am terribly sort mister Prowers" a voice was heard "but I have the unhappy duty to deliver an invitation to you and your friends which I must inform you that you cannot ignore." The voice came from a stranger dressed in a butler suit.

"And from who is the invitation exactly?" Sonic asked.

"From my master, Count Edward White the 3rd. He is holding a feast at his mansion just outside of London and you sir, the queen your wife and all 4 of your friends are invited. Master Edward would also appreciate it if you appeared in your royal suit."

"Tell Count Edward that at any other time yes but right now we have to sleep cause we wake up early tomorrow."

"Master Edward gave me the duty to also inform you that the invitation is not to be turned down. He wants you there tonight. A limousine will come pick you up in 2 hours." The butler said and left. The others looked at Sonic.

"Well since they don't leave us any choice let's get ready guys."

"But.. what about our mission?" Jet asked.

"Relax Jet. We'll reorganize the mission."

The next moment they all rushed into the plane and search through the things they brought. Sonic wore his royal suit which was the suit he defeated dark Sonic with. His greatest nickname to the dueling world was the black duelist. His entire suit consisted of an everyday outfit but all-black in accordance to his blackwings and with a black cape. Amy wore a fire-red dress which revealed her back so she would not be so 'opposite' in terms of color to Sonic. Tails Knuckles and Jet wore suits they had seen gentlemen wearing in movies. Wave took her time though. Sonic with Amy next to him waited for her with Knuckles Tails and Jet. He checked his watch.

"Wave! It is 9:50. The limousine will be here any minute!" Knuckles yelled.

"Sorry! I'm done. But I look stupid."

"Just come out already." Tails said bored. Sonic knew why he was bored. Cosmo, Tails girlfriend was on vacation in Rome. Had she come with them, and she usually followed Tails everywhere, Tails would be the soul of the party. But now he was 'all alone' when he was in such occasions.

The door opened and Wave came out. She was wearing a white long dress and shiny silver earrings. The exact opposite to the usual wave. Wave mostly wore punk clothes just because she liked them not because she was punk herself. She had made clear that she didn't like 'fancy-dos' ' situations. Everyone was impressed by the change with the exception of Jet who blushed at her sight and his heart started beating fast for no reason at all.

"You… you don't…" he tried to say but the words would just not come out of his mouth.

"I what Jet?" she asked in a somewhat aggressive tone.

"You don't look stupid at all. Quite the opposite. You look ummm.."

"Yes?"

"Come on idiot say something! But watch what you say!" Jet said inside of him. But before he could choose an appropriate set of words his mouth spoke some words by itself.

"You look gorgeous."

Wave blushed at those words and felt a small but strong heartbeat as well.

"Oh. Umm.. th-thank you."

The blush and the stutter didn't escape Amy's attention though.

Sonic looked outside the window.

"Guys let's go our ride's here!"

They walked out of the airplane and headed for the exit of the airport. But unfortunately they had overstayed in the city before and Sonic was spotted so the media immediately came outside the airport. Sonic and the gang made their way through the crowd after some effort and got into the limousine.

"Phew. Damn. How the heck was I spotted. In an every day outfit that is not black at all I am unrecognizable." Sonic wondered.

"My fault guys sorry." Knuckles admitted.

"How?" they all asked.

"I put one picture with the bridge of London and myself on my facebook account. But unfortunately I put in my 'duelist' account and not in the account I have for talking with others. So they all figured I was with Sonic and they all 'attacked' like many many bugs.

"Paparazzi." Tails said in disgust.

"It is ok Knucks. I'm used to it." Sonic said.

The ride was pretty long until they reached outside of London were there were no more journalists or paparazzi. Soon they were outside the mansion. Everyone except Sonic and Amy were nervous cause they weren't usually invited in such feasts. The limousine driver informed a man who welcomed the guests that Sonic and his team was here and then returned to his job. The man for the guests went inside to announce their arrival to Count Edward. Shortly after he came back out.

"Please come in. My master is expecting you."

"Thank you." Sonic said and headed inside arms in arms with Amy followed by Tails and Knuckles. Jet was about to go in when Wave grabbed him from the arm.

"Umm.. Jet?"

"What is it?"

"I'm a bit too embarrassed to go in there alone and Amy is arms in arms with Sonic. So umm.. could you go arms in arms with me?"

"Oh… umm.. sure." He said and they walked in together.

The feast room was huge. It was like they were in 17th century only the people all wore modern suits and dresses. Once Sonic and Amy walked in the room everyone stopped talking and looked at them. At the next moment everyone approached them to meet them. Amy knew it was gonna be a long night so she wore her smile and answered to every compliment. Eventually they came face to face with the Count and the Countess.

"Sonic the hedgehog. What an honor to welcome you in my humble mansion." Count Edward said.

"The honor is all mine Count."

"No, no my friend just call me sir Edward. And once I drink a bit I will forget the 'sir' too" he said with a small laugh and then turned to Amy "and of course the queen. I am fascinated." He said while kissing her hand gently

"Thank you sir Edward." Amy answered.

"So how are things back home Mister Sonic?" the Countess asked.

"Simple Madam. An average youngster's everyday life with the addition of a lot of duels and challenges everyday."

"I have been wondering about this Sonic. How is it that you are a king yet such a simple person?"

"Because I have all I need in my life Sir Edward. My beautiful wife" he said while smiling at Amy who looked him with a face of worship "my dear friends" he continued while showing his friends who had started conversations with the other guests " food to eat, water to drink, clothes to wear and above all good health."

"I never imagined that someone so high could be so simple."

"Happiness is hiding in the simple things Sir Edward. When I began dueling I had a lot of things I wanted. But when I realized I was being destroyed by those wills I was able to find peace and find happiness and satisfaction in simple stuff."

"You're really an interesting person. And what do you think about the duelists of this country?"

"Quite interesting. They have good focus in their targets. But sometimes they forget to enjoy the game."

"Everyone eventually forgets about it for a moment I assure you" Sir Edward said laughing.

The feast continued for quite a while. Sonic soon met more English lords who loved dueling. He also noticed how his friends were doing. Tails was explaining how his friendship-rivalry between him and Sonic developed. Knuckles was making fun of some stupid pro duelists. Wave and Jet had a hard time but managed to make it through. During the dance that took place several minutes later, Sonic and Amy went close to Jet and Wave and noticed that even though they danced pretty well they looked at each other's eyes blushed. They decided to try and talk, Sonic to Jet and Amy to Wave later. After sometime Count Edward took a microphone and waited for everyone to stop talking. Once full silence was in the air he started talking.

"Ladies and gentlemen. First of all I thank you all for honoring me with your presence tonight. It is about time now to explain why I'm hosting this feast. Firstly for the 10th anniversary of my wedding with my beloved Emily."

Everyone applauded as Edward and Emily kissed.

"Secondly. The reason I hosted this feast sending invitations with my butler so fast in one day was the presence of king Sonic in our country this very day."

Everyone's eyes turned on Sonic who knew what Edward was aiming for.

"As you all may know I and King Sonic were gonna have our English league final match 1 year ago. But unfortunately he had to return immediately to Athens due to an accident his father had. So.. I would appreciate it if Sonic.. here… tonight… had this match with me."

Everyone looked at Sonic waiting for his answer. He closed his eyes and smiled.

"Sure. I haven't dueled all day now that I think of it."

The whole room was filled with cries of excitement. They went outside at a dueling field made at the back of the mansion. Tails went outside before joining everyone else and returned with Sonic's duel disc. He threw it and Sonic pointed his left arm at it and it placed itself on his arm, much to everyone's surprise.

"Let's get on with it shall we?" Sonic asked.

"I will show you the power of knighthood that I possess".

"I see. So your deck is noble knights!"

Count Edward's eyes widened in deep shock. Sonic now knew what he would face. Usually having to face something unknown caught him by surprise but now that Sonic knew what he was facing he was one step ahead.

"Indeed. But they will not lose to some birds."

"Let's duel!"

"I'll start. I draw" Edward claimed "I summon the noble knight medraut. Now I equip it with noble arms of destiny! Then due to his effect it turns to a level 5 and dark type while equipped like this. Then due to his other effect I destroy noble arms of destiny to special summon noble knight borz in defense mode!"

"Before you do it I play maxx c!"

"What's that Tails?" Wave asked

" A pro playing card. Now whenever count Edward special summons a monster this turn Sonic draws a card."

"Cool." Knuckles said.

"Draw your card. You cannot stop the birth of the royal noble knight. Next because I had to destroy noble arms of destiny to summon borz they are re-equipped to borz. Thanks to his effect he also turns to a level 5 dark monster and I can search my deck for 3 noble arms cards!"

"No you don't! prepare to be bricked! I discard ash blossom & joyous spring to negate your effect to add a card to the hand!"

"I was expecting the brick! So I had the spell noble chance! I can reuse the effect of a noble knight that failed to use it!"

"Oh no!"

"Oh yes. I add to my hand noble arms gallatin, noble arms excaliburn and Gwenhwyfar, queen of the noble arms! Now choose one." He said setting the 3 cards on the field after shuffling them.

"Damn. I can't see which one I choose. If I don't choose gwenhwyfar his combo will be ready. Here goes nothing." Sonic thought. " I choose the middle one."

"You chose excaliburn!"

"NOOO!"

"It gets added to my hand and gallatin with gwenhwyfar go the graveyard. Now I equip excaliburn to medraut to give him his effect back. Now I overlay my 2 knights together to summon the xyz monster Sacred noble knight of king Atrodigus!"

"Shoot. This is trouble" Sonic thought.

"Now thanks to his effect my noble arms of destiny and gallatin equip themselves to it! I also equip from the graveyard gwenhwyfar and from my hand the noble arms caliburn! The boss is here! He gets 1800 combined attack from caliburn gallatin and gwenhwyfar for a grand total of 4000! Also untargettable thanks to excaliburn and indestructible once thanks to arms of destiny! Overcome that king!"

"Damn! A 4000atk beater that can't be overcomed. But still.. I will NOT lose!" Sonic thought.

"My turn. I draw! I summon shura the blue flame! Then I special summon Kris the crack of dawn! I overlay them to xyz summon number 39 utopia! Then I overlay utopia into utopia ray and utopia ray into utopia the lightning!"

"NOO!"

"Yes! Utopia the lightning! Attack. I also detatch the 2 blackwings I have in the graveyard to make his attack 5000! Slash that knight!"

The knight of atrodigus was not destroyed due to noble arms of destiny.

"AAAH! (Count Edward LP 7000)

"Now in my main phase 2 I activate the spell xyz wonder. I special summon Kris and shura back. However if they become xyz materials now my life points are halved. So instead I special summon gale the whirlwind and a new one I call blackwing gust the sharp feather from my hand due to controlling a blackwing. Then I play my last card! Blackwing feathers! So I draw 4 new cards. Furthermore I tune gale and shura to synchro summon coral dragon! I discard a card to destroy the galatin!"

"NOO!"

"Now I tune gust and coral dragon into Crystal Wing synchro dragon! Then I activate the spell white vs black! If a synchro monster battles a higher attack xyz monster it gains 300 atk for every rank of that monster. Whick means that you can't attack neither my crystal wing nor my utopia! And to end my turn I activate the spell blackwing retreat to add my Kris to my hand and for every 1000 points it has I draw a card. Finally I set 3 cards before ending my turn."

"Damn. Now I cannot use my monster's effect. This is trouble."

"My turn. I draw. My xyz knight loses 200 atk for gallatin. I set a monster and end my turn by putting my knight in defense mode."

"Defense doesn't work on me! I play the trap battle call. Now at least one monster one my field and one on yours must be in attack mode. However if these monsters fight then they cannot fight again for the remainder of the turn neither targeted for attacks. So you will still survive. My turn. I draw. I attack your sacred noble knight with my crystal wing! He also gains the attack of your monster as attack and 300 more attack for every rank it has for a grand total of 8500! Attack it!"

"AAAAH!" (Count Edward LP 2500)

"I end my turn with a set card."

"My turn….."

"Everything ok?"

"I… I just won! I activate the spell holy sword of the noble arms! It negates any effect that makes it lose attack and also grants it double attack! Also when it attacks you cannot activate any monster effects!"

"WHAAAT?!"

"Goodbye! Attack!"

"No you don't! I activate the spell de synchro!"

"I was expecting that! I chain with the ability of deformer in my hand. By discarding it any attempt to split a combination monster, ignoring if it is synchro, fusion or xyz, changes. Now that monster is destroyed and its meterials return but cannot be used as materials!"

"It can't be!"

"It is. However the cost is that I cannot attack these monster this turn. So I wil attack your utopia the lightning instead!"

"AAAAH!" (Sonic LP 2500)

"It's over. You cannot overcome my monster. Surrender!"

"Never!"

"You can't beat me!"

"Even so… it is as you knights say. A knight.. never flees his foe. And I will not do this either."

"Impressive courage. But still I insist it's over. Your turn."

"My turn. I draw. yes! Thank you my deck."

"What?"

"I special summon Kris the crack of dawn once more. Then I also special summon oroshi the squall due to controlling a blackwing. Now I tune them together to synchro summon blackwing gram the shining star! Finally I play the spell limit overdrive!"

"What?!"

"I tribute my tuner and non tuner synchro to special summon a synchro of the combined level! And what better than my ace! Black feather sky ruler dragon!"

Sky ruler soared.

"So this is the fear of facing this mighty beast. But still I know what it does. It gains 300 attack for every blackwing in the graveyard and you have only 4. So it has 4700. It is far weaker."

"I am not done."

"How?"

"I activate the other effect of white vs black in my graveyard. I banish it and a synchro monster in my graveyard to give one of that monster's effects to my dragon!"

"No way!"

"Of course I choose my crystal wing synchro dragon. So my dragon inherits his effect to gain the attack of the monster it fights. So his attack rises to 12700!"

"Impossible!"

"JUDGEMENT OF THE SKY!"

The sacred noble knight of king atrodigus perished before the sky ruler dragon.

"I lost. (Count Edward LP 0) But it was still a fun duel. You are a real duelist and a real knight."

"Thank you for your kind words Ed" Sonic answered smiling.

"My guests" Edward referred to the crowd " the winner is King Sonic!"

Everyone started applauding. Sonic's friends congratulated him for the great duel. Afterwards the feast continued until 1A when Sonic decided it was time to leave and get some sleep. Tails decided he wouldn't rest a lot and that they would take off at 6AM. The limousine took them back to the airport. There they slept like logs in the airplane. But before that Tails and Sonic decided their next destination. Paris. In the morning Silver joined them. The airplane took of heading for the city that Tails called 'the most romantic city in the whole world'.