Chapter 8: True Knights

After defeating Sir Gawain and his apprentice, the team finally arrived at the Crystal Cave, where a number of villagers are apparently held captive by a dragon. Fortunately for them, the dragon was nowhere in sight, so they were easily able to rescue all the captives before it came back. After rescuing everyone and killing some Underworld knights and Grimm, the team headed back to Nimue, even after they passed the deadline of her trials.

BGM-Sonic and the Black Knight OST-Knight's Lesson: A True Knight

"The appointed time has passed." Caliburn said, after dark.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't remind us." Sonic replied to his annoying sword.

"Hope she's not too mad for being late." Ruby wondered, until they noticed the little girl from before.

"Hey, it's that little girl from before." Yang noticed.

"You've been waiting here the whole time?" Blake asked her in which she responded with a nod. "Sorry about that."

"Good news is that everyone is safe." Weiss told the little girl. "So now you can go home and be with your loved ones."

The kid responds with a smile, "Thank you. And sorry about tricking you."

"Wait, what?" Ruby said with a funny, confused look on her face. Just as she said that, the kid transforms herself to her true identity, Nimue, surprising everyone.

"You have all shown courage, strength, and compassion." Nimue told them with a smile

"Huh? Then..." Sonic responded.

"I shall show you how to blunt the power of Excalibur. 'Cause you are all true knights!" Nimue told the group, which makes everyone jumps for joy.

"Alright, we did guys!" Sonic high-fives everyone before following Nimue back to her lake.

BGM End

Back at her lake, Nimue has just finished explaining to the group how to defeat King Arthur. Apparently, the key to defeating him lies in the sacred swords.

"So, the only way to beat King Arthur's immortality is by using the sacred swords we gathered from the Knights of the Round Table?" Ruby asked Nimue to make sure she got it all.

"That's right." Nimue said, just as Sonic pulls out the two swords from his quills. "The three sacred swords, combined with Caliburn, should dispel the power of immortality that protects him."

"That doesn't sound so bad." Weiss said.

"It sounds like a walk in the park!" Sonic said, thumbing his thumb up.

"We'll see about that." Caliburn said.

"Oh, c'mon. You've GOT to stop doubting us." Yang said, getting all tired of Caliburn underestimating them. "The other two knights and their apprentices were a walk in the park. What makes you think this last one would be any different?"

"The remaining knight, Percival, is the Knight of the Grail." Caliburn starts to explain. "She is as strong as she is noble. One mistake could be your last, especially with her two apprentices."

"Percival has two apprentices?!" Blake asked him.

"Yes, she does." He replies.

"Anyone wants to guess who the last two apprentices could be?" Weiss asked the group, with Sonic being the first one to answer.

"Yeah. One of them is a red-headed Amazon and the other is a teenage girl Thor. Did I get them right?" Sonic asked

"Yep." Team RWBY said in unison.

"So you all fought these warriors before?" Nimue asked.

"Fought them? Yes. Beat them? Well, Nora sometimes, but none of us ever beaten Pyrrha in a one-on-one match. Well, except for Peter that is." Ruby answered her.

"And I take it this "Peter" is not here now? Yes." Nimue asked.

"Nope, makes you wonder why he didn't get involved in this. I mean, this kind of stuff usually happens when all of us are together." Yang said.

"Well, it probably won't matter much if he was here anyways." Caliburn said.

"And why not toothpick?!" She said annoyed from what he said.

"Not only are Percival's apprentices very strong, all three of them are very good at working as a team." He finished.

"So what? We're great at working as a team." Sonic responded.

"Oh? Is that so?" Caliburn said, not buying what the knave said.

"Trust me, you'll be surprised. Besides, I will be using the best of the great sacred swords!" Sonic said to his talking sword.

"Of-Of course! It's about time you figured that out." Caliburn said, a bit caught off-guard from Sonic's very late compliment about him

"Just you watch, they'll won't know what will hit them. And I got a plan that might work." Sonic said.

That last line surprised the entire team, mostly Weiss. "Wait, you actually have a plan?" She asked the blue blur.

"Of course. You and black cat are going to help me." Sonic replied.

"Saywhatnow?!" Blake and Weiss responded in unison.

"Don't worry. I'll tell you girls along the way. They won't know what hit 'em!" Sonic said before turning to his talking blade with a playful glare. "I've gotten pretty used to you too."

"That is exactly what I told you not to do!" Caliburn said, following the D-Avengers out of the lake.

"Fare thee well brave knights, mostly you Sonic, chosen one of Caliburn." Nimue said before disappearing once again.

Molten Mine

The group traveled through the Molten Mine, a mining town for the townspeople, where most of King Arthur's wealth comes from. After dodging some minecarts and lava, which was all fun for Sonic and Yang, but not for the rest, they are then greeted by a purple cat in knight armor, along with her apprentices at the edge of a cliff over the volcanic lava. One of them has a green eyes and a red ponytail, wearing a bronze armor and a mask. The other one has short orange hair and turquoise eyes, wearing pink armor. Sonic, Blake, and Weiss decided to step up to confront the three.

BGM-Sonic and the Black Knight OST-Sir Percival: The Knight of the Grail

"I am Percival, Knight of the Round Table, servant of King Arthur." Percival introduces herself.

The pony-tailed knight then introduces herself, "I am Sir Nikos, apprentice knight of Sir Percival, also servant of King Arthur."

Then lastly, the orange haired knight introduces herself, with a smile and ready to kick butt. "And I am Sir Valkyrie, I am also the apprentice knight of Sir Percival, and I am ready to break some legs!"

Everyone then just sighs at her statement, 'Yep, she is definitely like Nora, that's for sure.' Weiss thought to herself before noticing Percival pointing her sword at her enemies.

"Now state your names and your masters!" Percival asked of them

"I am Weiss Schnee, a huntress in training by the people at Beacon Academy and a member of the Avengers." She said, getting her weapon ready.

It is then Blake's turn, "I am Blake Belladonna, I am too a huntress in training by the people at Beacon Academy, also a member of the Avengers." She finished as she gets her weapon ready.

And last but not least, Sonic introduces himself as he points to himself, "I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog! I may be an Avenger, but I have no master, except the wind that blows free!"

Now Percival speaks up, "Very well, Weiss and Blake, Knights of Beacon, and you too Sonic, Knight of the Wind, prepare...for battle!"

"Bring it on!" Sonic said, standing with his friends for battle against Sir Percival and her apprentices.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic and the Black Knight OST-Through the Fire

As Team Percival starts to dash towards out heroes, with Percival in the lead, Sonic starts to rev up his super peel-out, leaving a cloud of dust behind him, covering Weiss and Blake. He grabs the two from behind as he dashes at full speed towards the other knights. As Sonic gets closer and closer to Percival, she then lets out a small smile before stopping in her tracks, leaving the other two to attack the hedgehog and his friends. Before they clashed, Sonic throws Blake in front of them, leaving them both confused on why he would do that to his ally. Just as they struck her, Blake then suddenly explodes, with smoke covering the entire area.

Nikos and Valkyrie are inside the smoke, coughing as they try to figure what just happened. "What just happened?! How did she explode like that?" Nikos questioned.

"Wouldn't you like to know!" Sonic said, jumps slashes towards Nikos, but she was able to block it with her Milo while they clash inside the smoke.

"Nikos, I'm coming!" Valkyrie said as she approaches her to help out. Just then, something tangled her up and it was revealed to be Blake. "Wait, how are you not all dead and stuff?" She asked her.

"I'm able to create clones, so to speak, some which have special properties which you just witnessed." She said, pulling Valkyrie for an attack, but the crazy knight was able to get out of the rope and use her version of the Magnhild to combat the cat Huntress.

Nearby, Sonic and Nikos continue to clash with their swords, with neither one of them letting up. "Not bad, not bad at all!" Sonic smiled.

"Same to you." Nikos responded with a smile as well. "But now…"

"IT'S OVER FOR YOU!" Percival shouted as she comes from above to attack Sonic. But just as she does that, Weiss attacks her with some ice cubes, knocking her back.

"SIR PERCIVAL!" Nikos shouted for her safety. As she's distracted, Sonic kicks away her blade far away and then makes a mad dash for Percival.

"Alright Ice Queen, take care of this one! I'll handle Flame Princess!" Sonic shouted so he could deal with Percival.

"Got it!" She replied, getting ready to attack a weaponless Nikos.

Sonic approaches Percival as she then starts to clash with the hedgehog. "So was your plan to separate us so you can fight us individually?" Percival asked.

"Maaaybe." Sonic answered with a smirk.

"Hmph. Let's see how long that will last." She said as she then performs some quick attacks on Sonic, almost catching him off guard.

"Oh! She's fast, I'll give her that!" He said, surprised that she can keep up with his speed.

"I warned you she was a formidable foe!" Caliburn reminded him.

Back with Weiss, she is having a bit of trouble fighting Nikos. Despite not having her weapon, she is still giving her a good fight with her hand-to-hand fighting skills.

"Not bad," Nikos complements, "It's not every day that I fight an opponent without my weapon."

"Must be my lucky day." Weiss smirked as she gets a good hit on her, which knocks her back.

As she then gets up, she uses her power of magnetism to bring back her sword that was stuck on the ground. "Wasn't expecting me to do that, did you?" She asked Weiss with a cocky smirk.

"Actually, yeah, we were." Weiss smirked back, just as the timer on the tiny device she secretly left on Niko's weapon explodes with webbing, making it all sticky and hard to use.

"What the?! What sort of magic is this?" Nikos asked, shaking her sticky blade frantically but is frustrated to find it almost impossible to get rid of.

"It's a little spider-tracer that explodes and creates webbing on anything it touches. Complements of Spider-Man." Weiss explained.

Nikos starts to get annoyed as she rushes towards Valkyrie, who is still fighting Blake, to help get the webbing off, leaving Weiss to give chase after her.

"Valkyrie! I need help!" Nikos said just as Valkyrie knocks back Blake. "Can you get this 'webbing' off of me?"

"Okey dokey." She lands a powerful hit on her sword, destroying the webbing. Weiss helps Blake up as she sees the two all ready to fight again.

"Now then, shall we continue?" Nikos asked them.

"Sure, let's finish this." Blake replied to her. 'Come on, Sonic. Anytime now.'

Meanwhile, Sonic is still fighting Percival, with the two of them starting to show some fatigue. As they fight, the knightly hedgehog notices that Weiss and Blake are fighting Nikos and Valkyrie.

'Alright, time to see if this cat is like the one I know.' He thought to himself.

"Alright, kitty cat, time to stop holding back, unless you were REALLY giving it your all earlier." He taunted the cat knight, igniting her hidden rage to new degress.

"Alright, apprentice knight! Enough games!" She surrounds herself in a fiery tornado and dashes towards Sonic, but the speedy hedgehog leaps back so he could continue taunting her.

"Catch me if you can, unless you're tired, then sit down, go drink some milk like any other cat." Sonic smirked.

Percival continues to follow Sonic, now angrier than before. 'C'mon, c'mon, a little closer.' He thought as he approaches the other girls. Sonic bounces on both Nikos and Valkyrie's heads, landing right next to Blake and Weiss.

"HEY!" Both Nikos and Valkyrie said annoyed, just before they got hit by Percival's fire tornado.

"Had enough?" Weiss taunted as they get up from the ground.

"Not yet." Percival responded. "I'll admit that was a smart tactic by you, Sir Sonic, but thanks to you, I'm reunited with my team, and now we will finish this battle."

Percival grabs both Nikos and Valkyrie and creates a bigger fire tornado, and then they all spin around the three heroes, leaving no place to escape as there is fire surrounding them.

"There is nothing that you three can't do to stop us now!" Percival said somewhere in the fire.

"This is our ultimate technique!" Nikos said.

"Now let's see if you can all handle the heat!" Valkyrie said.

"Sonic, what now?" Weiss asked him while coughing from all the smoke and fire.

"Just stay still and wait for my signal." said Sonic.

"And then what?!" Weiss asked.

"Just chill, Ice Queen." He punned, which annoyed her at first, but quickly picks up on the plan from his small pun.

For a while, they all stood there quiet, not making any movements. Then, Sonic noticed a change in the wind pattern, knowing that they are about to strike.

"NOW, WEISS!" He yelled, and just like that, Weiss uses her semblance to lift them all up with her ice just as Team Percival attacks the area they were at.

"Where did they go?!" Valkyrie asked.

"Up here!"

The enemy knights all looked up as they see Sonic, Blake, and Weiss in the air. "Alright Blake, time for the fire clone!" Sonic asked her. The cat faunus creates a fire clone using her semblance, and the second she does that Sonic grabs on to it and spin dashes towards Percival and her apprentices. They are unable to do anything as they are all tired from their last attack and are hit with a giant explosion, which knocks them all back, with Percival landing next to a cliff. Sonic comes out from the crater as Blake and Weiss lands next to him, just as Ruby and Yang approached them.

BGM End

"That was amazing!" Ruby congratulated her friends on their success.

"You guys were definitely on fire, get it?" Yang punned, in which she receives multiple sighs from her friends, excepts for Sonic, who let out a chuckle. He then sees the two apprentice knights getting up, and then goes to check on Percival on the cliff.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked her.

"Yes, I am fine." She responded as she gets up. "Well done, Sir Sonic!" Just as she finishes saying that, the cliff she was on collapsed and she was going to dive into the lava below.

"SIR PERCIVAL!" Nikos and Valkyrie shouted as they tried to help their master but can't do to their injuries.

Just then, Sonic jumps off to save her. "SONIC!" shouted Ruby. Sonic was able to save their lives with a sword stab to the mountainside to stop their descent. He then throws Percival back up to the cliff and jumps off to follow her.

"Whew…That was close." He said as he wipes the sweat from his head. He sees a worried Ruby run up to hug him to see he's okay.

"Thought you weren't going to make it." She told him.

"You should know that I've survived worse. Besides, you would probably do the same." He replied as the rest of team RWBY approaches them.

"Just make sure it's not over a sea of lava." Weiss told her.

"No promises." Ruby said which causes Weiss to sigh.

BGM-Sonic and the Black Knight OST-Sir Sonic: Knight of the Wind

"Why…Why did you…" Percival confusingly started to ask Sonic as she is approached by her two apprentices.

"I guess you could say that whim is my other master." Sonic told her.

"Save the hugs and kisses for later." Caliburn said, causing Percival to blush.

"Someone's blushing." Yang notices the red cheeks on Percival's face, which causes her to turn her back to her, annoyed.

"What? You jealous or something, Caliburn?" Sonic asked him.

"For a knave such as you!? R-Ridiculous!" Caliburn said.

"Enough of that 'knave' stuff already!" Sonic said, getting tired of being called knave all the time.

"Seriously! Even I'm getting sick of you saying it all the time!" Weiss said.

"Hmm. Actually." Caliburn starts talking with a smile forming.

"Yes…?" Sonic said.

"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. You have all proven to be true knights. From this day forth, you shall be Team RWBY, Knights of Beacon. And you, Sonic the Hedgehog, you have mastered the code of chivalry, From this day forth. You shall be Sir Sonic, Knight of the Wind. Congratulations, Avenging Knights." Caliburn congratulated the heroic teens.

"Hehe." Sonic chuckled.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! WE'RE TRUE KNIGHTS!" Ruby said as she and everyone else hive-fives each other as they are finally recognized as true knights.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic X OST-Sonic Drive

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. It's been a long time coming, but Caliburn finally recognized just how awesome we are as knights. Now with all the sacred swords we collected, we can finally take the fight to King Arthur and end his madness. Watch out, your majesty! It's time we end this once and for all!

Next time on D-Avengers: Avenging Knights:

The Final Battle?

Sonic: Don't mess with the Avenging Knights!