Blade was alone in room of the main base where everyone was since Sandro captured Sergei. He was in the main room where everyone planned the attacks on many places of Dekay to weaken Sandro enough and fight him. Blade was looking at his reflection on the monitor of one of the computers. They hade many new ones since Night appeared. These computers were more modern then the ones anyone of the resistance group saw in their whole life. Even such people like Inferno. But Blade was more interested in his new problem.
For some time now he had those scars on his cheeks. In some attacks they even started again those painful transformations only in his current stage, without transforming into a demon. Blade was lucky since no one knew about his secret. Even Storm or Vamp. The bat looked closely at his scars as he remembered the day when he got them. It was still unknown to him how did this happen. In the first minute the Energy fired a purple beam towards him and at the next second - this all happened. It was like being torn apart from the inside when he felt this pain. He never went to bed from that day as he was now suffering this new pain. And he feared that it could take over him...
Blade suddenly felt that someone taped him on the back. He turned around to see Night standing behind and looking at him. He was here for some minutes now but Blade was thinking to hard to notice his energy. He sighed as he asked "Did you free him?" Night nodded as he said "I was wondering, where did you get those scars. From my memory, no type of weapon, no matter how powerful it was, couldn't even leave a cut on you." Blade looked at the ground as he said "I was wondering the same thing - How did I get these..."
The bat then looked at Night again as he said "Gather everyone here, we need to talk about our final attack." Night answered "Ok." and left the room. Blade looked at his reflection once again and then he went to the centre of the room.
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As everyone was now in the room, Blade looked at everyone. Inferno was standing near the same computer where Blade was looking at his wounds and his eyes were glowing with different colours: his left eye was glowing with red and his right eye was glowing with black colours. Armagedon was interested in this as well if he requested Inferno to half posses his body to hear and see what was happening as well. Wind Raven and Energy Storm were standing near the large table in the middle as both were looking exhausted. They were still in a little shock after their last fight an hour ago. Storm was already standing straight while June was still holding her hand on the table, not wishing to sit down but in no condition to stay straight as well. Vamp, Bats, Wings and Blood were sitting in front of the table as they were all quiet. Nightwish was standing near his brother as Nightmare was sitting in front of one of the computers and was checking the files. Nightwish sometimes looked at what Nightmare was looking at. And finally Night was standing near Blade as he waited for it to start.
Blade then said "I gathered you here to talk about the people, who will go on the final attack." The Brotherhood of Blood was a little surprised at this decision. Inferno and Armagedon didn't seem to even react on this. June wasn't really in the mood to do anything while Storm was quiet. Nightmare stopped browsing threw the computer and shut it down as he looked at Blade and with him Nightwish looked at Blade as well. Blood said then "Why can't we all go? It's a fight to the death! We should attack him with everything we got!" Blade looked at Blood as he quiet down and Blade said "Because of this being the fight to the death, I can't let anyone die for nothing. Only the strongest will go so that they would have a chance to be alive in a battle with Sandro. As you know, The God of Darkness was always merciless but now he's in fury since we destroyed most of his bases that helped him out. He will fight with all his might and will do all kinds of tactical plans to defeat us. We must be prepared to those tactics."
Night said "I'll go without any objections. My soul purpose was to destroy The God of Darkness, and since I couldn't do so in my own time, I will try to do this now." Blade nodded as he said "Now I'll pick the others who will go. The first one will be Nightmare." Nightmare looked at Blade and stood up as he said "I'll be glad to whip out that bastard from existence." He walked to Blade. Blade looked at everyone as he thought of the ones who could of help out very much and not get killed. He couldn't risk his sons and his girlfriend at this mission, especially when Storm was after a battle. Nightwish was powerful but he wouldn't be going with tactic. He'll be mostly like his brother in this situation - brutal and violent. Unlike him thou, Nightmare now knows how Sandro will act and he will use his mind at first. June was off the list for sure since she was still in a little shock from her last fight. Inferno...It was a pretty hard decision since Inferno was a good fighter. But Armagedon would probably try to use his old tactic and since Sandro is now more powerful, it would probably not work.
Blade then said "I think that is all. The rest of you have far to big issues." Bats wanted to say something when Blade interrupted "You are far more weaker then even me. So you 4 will not go. Even Vamp." Storm walked up to Blade as she said "You can't leave me out." Blade shook his head as he said "Far to dangerous for you. You still need to rest after your last battle. You ca-..." Storm just put her finger to his mouth as he stopped talking and listened to her as she said with a soft voice "I will not leave you in this fight. Don't even try to talk me out of it." Blade sighed as he said "Alright. But I'll be watching over you so that you would be ok." Storm kissed Blade as she said "Thanks. You won't regret it."
Blade then looked up and said to the rest "We will now go. The faster we strike, the more chances we have to surprise him. The rest of you will remain here. If we won't be back, then you know what to do." With that he looked at Nightmare as he said "Teleport us." Nightmare nodded as dark clouds started to appear around them as Nightmare raised his hands. In a tight grip all 4 disappeared, leaving the rest. Most of them went to their rooms. The only one who stayed for while was Nightwish. He whispered "Be strong, my brother." and only then left the room.
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In The Dekay Castle, a few minutes before the teleportation...
Sandro was sitting at Sergei's throne as he was gripping his claws very tightly and his face showed fury as he suddenly stood up and shot a gigantic dark energy beam at the entrance door. The door was still in its place after it but now it was seriously damaged as The God of Darkness closed his eyes and tried to calm dawn. He said to himself "How can a small group of weaklings corrupt my great plans? I just don't know how. They even managed to free Nightmare and destroy my most trusted servant..." He heard a voice then "Maybe because you are to dumb to understand that you will fail." Sandro quickly got mad again as he said "Shut up, moron, or I'll just kill you instead of keeping you alive."
Sergei was in the same energy field in which he was captured. He was smiling as he continued "Oh, common, don't be that stupid. I see threw time and I know that you will fall. You will be defeated in this same room in wh-..." Sandro yelled out "ENOUGH!" The whole castle was shaking from those words as the door fully broke and fell on the floor as The God of Darkness was gripping his claws again and his eyes were glowing with dark colours as he said "My plans will never be stopped. I will always succeed." Suddenly a bright flash appeared in the centre of the throne room as 4 characters were started to be seen. The God of Darkness grinned as he recognized Nightmare from one of them.
Blade, Nightmare, Night and Storm were standing now in the centre of the throne room. The light stopped glowing as all 4 were looking at The God of Darkness. He was grinning as he was expecting them. He slowly raised his head and looked at them. He said "Greetings. Welcome to my castle. Be sure that when you die you'll regret coming here." Sandro grinned as Blade said "Are you sure that you aren't mistaking us with you?" The God of Darkness closed his eyes as he said quietly "No..." With that suddenly a huge energy buster from the walls, sealing and floor at the place where the 4 were standing. Night and Nightmare were quick enough to avoid it while Storm hesitated and Blade, seeing that, stayed in his place and created a very powerful shield from darkness and light. The energy suddenly turned green as it went threw the shield and placed Blade and Storm under some king of energy cage. Blade was really angry right now as he looked at Sandro who was grinning as Storm said "I'm sorry." Blade suddenly momentarily calmed down as he said "Don't worry. It's not your fault."
Night and Nightmare looked back at Blade and Storm as they turned towards Sandro and Nightmare said "Since you are darkness, I can not harm you with my normal form. But with my special form..." With that suddenly a huge vortex appeared above him as the darkness started to go into the vortex and 2 dark wings started to grow on Nightmares back as his fur slowly turned from black to silver. His wings were now fully grown and were taking much ground. Night was a little surprised and impressed but he was still having his eyes on Sandro. The God of Darkness was more ticked off since Nightmare was using his dark form to help him in battle. He was using Sandros slave. Sandro then suddenly grinned as he said "Your resistance is at an end. I am more powerful then you think. I shall rule this dimension and the rest ones as well."
With that he raised his hand quickly and a wave of darkness went towards the hedgehogs. After the wave, huge spikes from dark material grew with the speed of sound from the darkness all over the floor. Night shot some missiles towards the spikes as some were destroyed but they continued to grow and soon Night was hit and damaged by them. Nightmare, on the other hand, flu up from the beginning and flu right towards Sandro with an angry face. Sandro only grinned as he saw Nightmare charging at him.
Night fired rapidly at the growing dark spikes with his enchanted bullets. But the spikes continued to grow after they were destroyed. Night was getting ticked off because he couldn't do anything better then this. He wanted to destroy The God of Darkness but he couldn't even get pass these spikes. Blade was watching Night as he sighed and said "[bWe're not going to win in this rate. I hope that Nightmare isn't loosing to Sandro.[/b" Storm was feeling sad since it was because of her they were in this trap. The spikes were now very close to Night and he got really mad and took out his dagger as it started to glow with light energy. He then suddenly yelled and swings it towards the growing spikes. Everything, what the dagger touched, was destroyed and then Night suddenly rapidly shot the floor with his missiles. The spikes weren't growing anymore and they all could finally see what was going on with Nightmare and Sandro.
Both Nightmare and Sandro charged up an energy attack as both, at the same time, shot huge beams of dark and silver energies. Sandro had more of a crazy grin on his face as he said "You can not defeat me. I have been attached to you for more then a hundred years. I know your every move." Nightmare griped his free hand as he said "You know NOTHING of me..." With that he suddenly flu up as Sandros beam passed him by and he charged towards The God of Darkness. Or to be more correct, towards his legs. Sandro was a little confused and was hit. Nightmare grabbed Sandros leg as he was falling and, with half turning, Nightmare threw him towards the opposite direction, towards the throne. Sandro hit the throne so hard that even some cracks appeared on it. Nightmare flu up to Sandro as he said "You were NOTHING of ME!!!" Sandro grinned as he said "I am apart of you, Nightmare. Even more then you could imagine." Nightmare got even angrier and threw him towards the right corner from the throne. When Sandro hit the wall, he grinned even more as he said "Fury won't get you nowhere."
Nightmare was getting really angry as he suddenly pointed his hands towards Sandro and a huge burst of silver energy flied towards him. The God of Darkness wasn't really expecting something like this and only covered his face with his arms as the shot covered him fully. The beam was hitting Sandro for quite a long time after what Nightmare finally calmed down enough to stop the beam. There was some dark material on the floor near Sandro as he was looking mad himself now. Suddenly a green energy appeared around him and connected him to the wall. Sandro was now confused and mad at the same time. Dark material, like blood, was dripping from his arms as they were spread. He was looking like once was Nightmares Spirit.
Suddenly everyone could hear a voice "You thought that you are all powerful. But let me show you just how powerful you really are against The Lord of Dekay." Only then Blade, Night and Storm turned to Sergei. The green force field was gone on him and on his elite royal guards. Also, in a few seconds, the green energy disappeared around Blade and Storm. Sergei had some kind of symbol made by his hand. Nightmare was the only one who didn't turn around to face Sergei because he was still very angry at The God of Darkness. Sergei came up towards Sandro as he said "Your punishment will be the same as you wanted to do with Nightmare - Imprisoned. Only difference is you will be in a cave. You don't have anything which would give you that kind of a right to be sealed in a monastery." With that Sergei suddenly started to do very different signs with his hand in a very fast rate as several symbols started to appear across Sandros chest. Nightmare was glaring at Sandro as he was grinning towards Nightmare.
Blade wasn't smiling at all. It was like he didn't get what he wanted from this. And the only one who noticed that was Energy Storm. She looked at Blades face as he wasn't showing any emotion. It was like Blade didn't see what happened. Storm asked "Blade?..." There was no reaction. Storm was getting worried.
Sandros last words were "We will meet again, Nightmare. And you know how will we meet." With that an evil laugh was heard threw the whole castle as Sergei did the last hand sign and the last symbol appeared on Sandros chest as they all started to glow and a huge portal appeared behind Sandro. He disappeared and you could see threw the portal that now he was attacked to the caves wall on the other side of the portal. Sergei turned to Night as he said "Could you be the Guardian of The God of Darkness's punishment? Since you didn't fulfil your objective, you could help in something similar." Night nodded as he understand Sergei's thoughts and stepped threw the portal. After Night stepped threw it, the portal disappeared without leaving anything. Only then Nightmares wings slowly disappeared and he became his normal self again - a black hedgehog.
Blade, on the other hand, was now very quiet. Storm looked at his face again as she saw that he was looking at the ground and he was experiencing something. Storm asked him "Blade, are you alright?..." Blade only said "No..." and he turned around and started to walk away. Storm wanted to follow him but he opened a blue portal and disappeared. Storm was clueless in why Blade acted this way. She whispered to herself "Something is wrong.". She sighed as she whispered that.
End of Chapter 5.