Chapter 10; adventure in the salt waters, Amy vs treasure hunters

Early in the morning, at 5AM, Sonic's alarm clock was activated, blasting him and Amy with his favorite song. After a lot of complaints, a small fight and several falls while carrying their stuff to their runners, they headed for the airport. When they arrived, the gang was all there as well ready for departure. However Tails had bad news.

"Sorry guys " he said when he saw them "but some idiots who were responsible for taking care of the plane's landing system's maintenance forgot to do their work last time we left and now it is stuck in landing mode."

"Damn" Sonic said "We can't take off like this."

"Sorry again guys. We're gonna have to wait until they repair it."

However 3 hours went by and it wasn't fixed yet. So Tails suggested he called the group the moment the plane was ready and they wouldn't have to go through baggage check at that moment. They all returned to their houses. Sonic laid on the couch and Amy ordered some Chinese food since they didn't have time to cook. While they were eating she expressed her query.

"What will be our next destination?" she asked him.

"Valetta. Malta's capital."

"Coooool! Finally we're going somewhere with beaches. Should we take swimsuits?"

"Well… wouldn't hurt. I decided we'll take it easy this time and have some fun wherever we go."

"YAY! I LOVE YOU!" She screamed while falling on him and started kissing him. Afterwards she started calling the gang and suggesting they all bring swimsuits since there was a big chance they would visit a beach.

About 5PM Tails called them and announced that the plane was ready. Once again they all arrived at the airport and boarded their private jet. 15 minutes later they were on the way to Valetta.

Amy was watching the sea from the window when Wave sat next to her.

"Amy you won't believe it!"

"What? Jet again?"

"Yes! You won't believe it! He called me his little girl! I'm geeking out!" Wave said unable to hold herself.

"That is very sweet but technically Wave you are a just a young woman. Not far after the stage of a little girl. Had you been.. I don't know…. 30 or 35 this would be very sweet. But now you're becoming a bit annoying."

"Oh sorry. I just… Well… you were like this when you first fell in love with Sonic. Where did your enthusiasm go?"

"It is still inside of me. I just know when it is time for it."

"Actually you're right. I mean you are married one year now. Of course you may have gotten a little sparing."

"Yeah. And well… we got a picture to preserve. The world sees me and Sonic as an example. I don't mean to call myself perfect but.."

"Chill I understand. Well I'm going back to Jety!" she said and blasted off. Amy thought that Jety was a terrible nickname. She looked out of the window again and saw the shores of Malta showing up under the clouds.

30 minutes later they had landed. Since it was already late and the city was really small so there was no need to use their runners they decided to have some night walks instead. After they all dressed formally with Sonic deciding for once to make his presence known wore his royal black duelist suit, they started roaming around the city admiring the architecture of the buildings during the night. Of course they were noticed by everyone. Soon afterwards they decided they wanted to do something special this time rather than clubbing and night dueling. So Sonic looked online and saw there was a casino just 30 minutes from the city on their duel runners. They never had an experience from such a place so they went there. When they arrived they had to show their id to prove themselves to be off age. The guard would almost not believe Tails being of age because of his physical appearance but was allowed to enter in the end. The place charmed them. Everyone looked so high class person. And they were. Huge amounts of money were played. Sonic was gonna play a bit of course betting only a few money which of course didn't surprise anyone (as they all recognized him) due to his humble nature. Tails who was actually very clever was gonna help Sonic by counting the cards given by the game master in blackjack and help him with their own 'language'. Wave and Jet went around the place to look at the games. Knuckles and Silver were playing in the fruit machines. Amy was right next to Sonic. After 1 hour Sonic had won already 10000 euros in cash. A guy dressed as a worker in the casino approached the game master with a pissed look on his face. They had a small talk in whispers and then left. Amy noticed that during their conversation, the game master looked at Sonic with a suspicious look on his face. Determined to know more she followed them to a back room. There she heard their conversation hidden behind a box.

"This guy is winning too much!"

"What can I do about it?! He has divine luck!"

"I don't care! I want my money!"

"You will have your money!"

"Tomorrow!"

"Dude! Tomorrow the Xlendi beach will be full of people! I can't just go there and get the treasure and leave unnoticed."

Amy was shocked at the word treasure but then heard the angry guy pulling out a gun.

"Either take him out or get the treasure. Unless you want a one way ticked to the bottom of the sea!"

Amy was ready to go warn Sonic when…

"Ok. Meet me tomorrow at the shore next to the beach. We'll use a small fishing boat to enter the cave. We'll leave with the treasure the same way."

"You better be right to your word."

Amy left and returned to Sonic's side as fast as she could.

"Hey Ames. Where have you been?" he asked worried.

"Just went to see how the others were doing and get a drink."

"You worried me. Don't you do it again please."

"I promise. But I'm beat. Can we please go?"

"Yeah I'm beat too. I'm done" he said to the game master who had returned "Come on Tails. Let's get outta here."

"Dude now? Come on don't you see how much we've gathered? We can double them!"

"I said NO Tails. Have some self control."

"Grr. Fine" Tails said disappointed.

They all left the casino and returned to the jet. Then just before Amy closed the window and laid next to Sonic she saw a black figure outside the fence of the airport. She was gonna wake up Sonic but the guy suddenly took out his phone and spoke for about 2 minutes. Then he left. Amy decided to let it go for tonight since the jet was guarded due to Sonic's presence (although Sonic hated having body guards because he didn't want the others to think of him as a coward.) She woke Sonic up the next moment and narrated everything to him.

"So they're after me? Relax Amy. I have 5 life threatening messages a week. This is nothing new.'

"Yeah but we should still go and stop them should they go there."

"Ames relax. I'm trained for situations like this. We'll be fine. Now sleep. We have a long day tomorrow." He said closing the light and falling asleep immediately. Amy thought about it and decided to let it go. Minutes later she was out like a light.

The next morning after the gang woke up and had a quick breakfast they decided that searching only Valetta wasn't going to work if the god card was anywhere else on the island so they all split and searched different places on the island. Amy had to search the area close to Xlendi beach. Passing by a shore next to the main part of the beach she saw the two men from yesterday talking next to a fishing boat. Determined to not let such men fulfil their plans, she called Sonic.

"Hey baby" Sonic's voice was heard from the phone "Are you done with your part of the island?"

"Yes. What about the others?"

"They are done as well. They want to go to a beach now."

"Cool! I am next to Xlendi beach. Go get your swimsuits and come. I had taken mine with me just in case."

"Ok see you soon." Sonic said and closed the phone.

Amy waited at the entrance of the beach for 30 minutes. Eventually her friends arrived. They found several beach chairs they left their stuff out and dived into the blue water. While having fun Amy noticed the men with the boat and 2 more men with them heading for the entrance of a cave. Determined to stop them she approached Sonic.

"Umm.. love? Can I borrow your duel runner so I can use the submarine mode and look at the beautiful environment underwater?"

"Of course. But please umm… don't crash it. Last time it took 3 days to be repaired."

"Hahaha. Relax I'll take care." She said and headed for Sonic's runner. She wouldn't let these guys go through with their plan. She drove it into the water whilst driving it then pressed a button which turned it into a submarine like vehicle. Then she drove it underwater and headed for the cave. Knuckles could see the duel runner heading there but he just ignored it.

Amy reached inside the cave and got out of the runner once it touched the shore. Then she followed the path inside the cave. When she got into a large room in the end of the way she was surprised. Tens of thousands of gold coins were scattered everywhere. Chests with precious jewels also stood there untouched. In the middle of the room were the 4 henchmen. The cave had an opening on the top so light could come in. She heard conversations again. Amy immediately started recording everything on her cell phone.

"There you are friend. The treasure is ours. Just as I promised you."

"I have to admit you surprised me. I never thought you can actually keep your promises."

"Yeah. Now let's get to work. It will take us 2 to 3 times to take all these and take them to our cars."

"Why so many?"

"Because we're too many for all the treasure to fit the boat without sinking."

"Then I guess we could become fewer and do it faster."

"How?"

"Like this." He said while taking out his gun.

And he fired.

He got the first man on the head. He fell to the ground with his skull pieces falling all around him. Amy felt she would faint.

"Now get to work you gorillas. We need to get all this stuff to the boat."

"Over my dead body!" Amy screamed, after she had enough listening to his sick plan, surprising the 3 remaining men. The one pointed his gun at her head.

"HOLD IT YOU IDIOT!" the leader screamed. The first guy stopped. The leader looked at Amy in interest and lust.

"Well, well, well. The duel queen. Where is your husband? The king?"

"He doesn't have to be bothered with such pathetic animals as you!"

" Now this isn't the proper way for a queen to be speaking. How about you leave the cave now before I change my mind and take you captive?"

"And let you walk away?! Forget it!" she said activating her duel disc.

"Huh? You wanna fight me?"

"Yes."

"You got some nerve for a so called queen. But I like it. Ok then. Duel disc!" He yelled at his 2 henchmen. One of them brought a duel disc from the box they brought with them. The leader wore it.

"Now then. Let's start."

"Bring it on!" Amy said determined to win.

"DUEL!"

"I'll start it. I activate the field spell kyoutou waterfront. Now I summon forth lee the world chalice fairy! Her effect allows me to add to my hand the world legacy world chalice monster card. Now I activate transmodify! I tribute my lee to summon a monster of fairy type from my deck but level 3. Come on out the agent of creation venus! Since a card was sent to the graveyard my field spell gets a kaiju counter and another one for transmodify being sent to the I play his effect. I pay 500 LP 3 times to summon 3 mystical shine balls from my deck!" (Amy LP 6500)

"Hm.. interesting deck. Guess I'll take it with me when I beat you."

"You ain't beating anyone. I tribute one shine ball to link summon imduk the world chalice dragon! Now I get another counter. Now with Imduk's effect I can normal summon once again. I tribute another shine ball to summon forth world legacy world chalice. I tribute world legacy world chalice and imduk to link summon on imduk's place auram the world chalice blademaster! I get another counter for a total of 4 .Furthermore because my imduk and world legacy world chalice were sent to the graveyard their effects are triggered. Imduk special summons the beckoned by the world chalice from my hand and world legacy world chalice summons another beckoned and the world chalice guardragon from my deck. Now I tribute guardragon and mystical shine ball to link summon ib the world chalice priestess. At this point my field spell has 5 counter's which is the max it can have. I can add a kaiju monster like gameciel the sea turtle kaiju from my deck to my hand. Now I overlay my 2 beckoned to xyz summon daigusto emerald. Thanks to his effect I detach one beckoned to add the 3 shine balls back the the deck, shuffle and draw one card. Perfect. I pay 500 LP to summon 1 sine ball back from my deck." (Amy LP 6000) "Now I link summon using emerald and shine ball to link summon another ib the world chalice priestess. Now I play the spell world legacy's heart to add 2 beckoned to my hand. Next I pay another 500 LP to special summon another mystical shine ball" (Amy LP 5500) "And link summon another imduk. Now i link summon tributing ib and imduk to link summon ningirsu the world chalice champion! Thanks to his effect I draw one card for each world chalice monster he points to with his link markers and he points up wards to my auram and left to my ib. but I chain with ib's effect to special summon at his right. So I draw 3 cards."

"Are you done?" he asked her bored.

"NOT AT ALL! I link summon using beckoned and ningirsu to link summon my new ace! Firewall dragon! Next I pay one final time 500 LP" (Amy LP 5000) " to special summon the last mystical shine ball. Now I tribute auram and ib to link summon another firewall dragon next to the first one. I special summon crowned by the world chalice due to auram's effect. Then I link summon link spider by tributing my last shine ball. Afterwards I tribute venus and crowned to link summon left of my 1st firewall dragon my last ib. Then I remove the guardragon from my graveyard to special summon my crowned left of my 2nd firewall. Finally I activate emergency teleport to special summon chosen by the world chalice and tribute them both to link summon another proxy dragon! I finally set 1 card face down and end my turn."

"About time! My turn. I draw. I summon souleating oviraptor in attack mode. Thanks to his effect I can add babycerasaurus into my hand. Then I activate the field spell dragonic diagram. Thanks to its effect I destroy my babycerasaurus to add true king lithosagym the disaster into my hand. Then because my babycerasaurus was destroyed I can special summon another one from my deck. I also activate my oviraptor's effect to destroy this cerasuarus and special summon the other one from my graveyard. and now thanks to the destroyed ones effect I can special summon mischellaneousaurus from my deck."

"Right into my trap. 3 monsters out huh? Firewall dragon! Activate your effect and send them all to the hand!"

"Say what?!"

"You're still stuck in the age of true kings and true draco monsters? Too bad."

"Damn. I activate the spell hand destruction. We both discard 2 and draw 2 cards. I discard oviraptor and babycerasurus. Now I banish them both to summon the one the only! Ultimate conductor tyrrano!"

"You don't learn huh? Go solemn warning!"

"Oh no!"

"For 2000 LP I can negate your monster's summon and destroy it" (Amy LP 3000)

"Damn you! I still have this! I destroy petiteranodon and giant rex from my hand to special summon true king lithosagym the disaster! I also intiate my petiteranodon's effect to special summon a dinosaur from my deck!"

"No you don't! I discard ash blossom to negate an effect to special summon a monster from the deck."

"Damn you! so what. I still banish your last 3 remaining links from your extra deck! Now I attack! Destroy the firewall dragon who hasn't used his effect yet!"

"I banish world legacy's heart to negate my monster's destruction through battle!" (Amy LP 2700)

"NO! I won't lose! I set a card and end my turn!"

At the same moment outside, Sonic realized Amy was taking too long to return.

"Damn. Where is Amy?" he wondered.

"Maybe she is charmed by the underwater environment. I understand her. The water here is so clear and clean." Tails guessed.

"Maybe she crashed the runner again." Knuckles said.

"Where genius? In the open?" Jet said sarcastically.

"Well I don't consider caves to be open space." Knuckles answered.

"Wait!" Sonic said shocked "did you just say cave?"

"Yeah. She went to that cave over there." He said pointing to the treasure cave. Sonic then realized why Amy lead them to this specific beach.

"No time to explain guys. Silver, Wave, Jet call the police! Tails Knuckles with me!"

"Where are we going?" Tails said while trying to keep up with Sonic who was swimming towards the cave.

"To save Amy!" Sonic screamed.

Back inside the cave Amy was ready to rev this duel up.

"My turn then, time to end this. I draw. I add another gameciel the sea turtle kaiju thanks to my field spell. Now I tribute your monster to summon my first gameciel to your field!"

"Oh no! I forgot!" He screamed in rage having forgotten that she had a kaiju monster in her hand.

"Now I summon my second gameciel because you already control a kaiju monster. Then my unused firewall will return your gameciel to my hand!"

"No way!"

"I attack with all my monsters!"

"I chain with my trap card! Drowning mirror force! All your monsters go back to your hand and extra deck!"

"You fool! I have gameciel! I remove 2 kaiju counters from my field spell to negate the activation of an effect other than gameciel!"

"No way!"

"FINISH HIM!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (Treasure hunter LP 0)

"You lose!"

"So what? You're only a weak little girl and we are 3 bigger than you men! Get her!" he ordered his henchmen. They charged at Amy.

Sonic along with Tails and Knuckles reached the cave. They found Sonic's duel runner in submarine mode there. They heard fighting sounds and Amy's yells from the inside. Sonic's heart was going to stop from fear in the thought of anything happening to Amy. what was thinking going up on 4 men all by herself?

When they reached inside they saw the unexpected. Amy was standing on top of the treasure hunter finishing him off with lightning quick punches. His henchmen were already down. Sonic Tails and Knuckles were left with their mouth hanging open. Amy finished him off causing him to faint. Then she noticed the 3 boys.

"Hey! What took you guys so long?" she said while hugging Sonic.

"Amy! Do you have any idea how much you worried me?!"

"Yeah well…sorry but I couldn't let these animals do their work here."

"You could tell me."

"Didn't wanna bother you. This guy went down faster than dark Sonic's LP meter back in the spirit world."

"And when did you learn to fight like this?"

"The same teacher who taught you taught me the same moves. What did you think? That I wouldn't be able to defend myself?"

Sonic was surprised he was no longer angry. In the end there was more to his wonderful wife than meets the eye.

Soon afterwards they took those guys out of the cave and handed them over to the police. They managed to hide the treasure's location after Amy's pressure on Sonic. according to her finding it would cause more harm than good. After the police took the criminal's away the group returned to the airport to rest and sleep before their departure for their next journey. Sonic suggested the visited Madrid in Spain. Everyone liked the idea. At 10PM they were all asleep.