Chapter 2: Bad Times Rising
" Hey, Boomer! Have you…" Spic started to ask when the gamer shushed her.
" Can you feel it?" Boomer asked.
" Feel what?"
" The crushing presence of zombies… I have fought them for days, hiding in this mall with only a lone baseball bat… They're coming for me…" Boomer babbled until Spic whacked him over the head. Ghost emerged from the shelter holding a freshly forged sword. The blade glowed with a ghostly shine.
" Ghost… This came for you in the mail." Spic said as she handed her husband an envelope.
" Ghost, you may not know me, but I know you… I've been watching your battles closely. While you're playing patty cake with amateurs like Trez or Team Metal Chao, Dr. Eggman is planning something nasty for you all…" Ghost read. The white chao shouldered his sword and started out the door when Flash and Scribbles stopped him.
' Where do you think you're going?' Scribbles wrote.
" You're planning something crazy, right? Count us in…" Flash smiled. The trio left the garden and dashed towards the doctor's base.
" Why do we find these bases so easily?" Flash asked.
' It's because Chunkyus Maximus likes to put his face on everything he makes.' Scribbles replied.
" And the mug of our heads aren't over the top?" Ghost commented.
" Nah, those are cool…" Flash answered. They joked until they reached the gate of the fortress.
" Stop… Ghost, you'll go no further…" Akuma growled and leaped from the roof.
" Who are you?" Ghost asked and unsheathed the Dragon Fang.
" Ah… I finally see the legendary Dragon Fang for myself. It's a shame that such power is in your hands." Akuma commented as he drew his sword. Ghost's eyes widened in shock at the sight. The sword that his opponent wielded looked like the Dragon Fang only the hilt looked more demonic and the blade pulsed with an unholy glow.
" Heh…You think that waving around a cheap copy of my sword is going to scare me?" Ghost asked. Akuma smiled and struck the ground with his sword. Waves of darkness shot out at the white chao who dodged. Ghost then swung at his opponent only to hit air.
" What were you aiming at?" Akuma taunted. Ghost whipped around to see Akuma standing there. Ghost whipped out a Chaos Emerald and focused power into it.
" CHAOS DUPLICATE!" the white chao roared. Where one Ghost stood, now there were six. Akuma smirked and jammed his blade into the ground again.
" AKUMA PHANTASM!" the silver chao shouted as clone after clone appeared until at last there were ten clones. Each of them charged at the six Ghosts and slashed at them. At the end of the assault, Ghost stood surrounded by nine Akumas. The true Akuma came flying from midair and tossed Ghost into the sky. Akuma's sword started to glow with black fires.
" It's time to put this to rest… HELL WYVERN!!!" Akuma roared as the black flames took the form of a sinister dragon that rocketed at the falling Ghost. The mass of unholy fire struck dead-on and Akuma leaped at his quarry and spiked him into the ground. When the dust settled, Ghost lay on the ground and the tainted sword was jammed into the ground millimeters from his head.
" Now you know the power of the true Dragon Fang. It's a shame that you couldn't live to see the wonderful world that the doctor has promised. Ah well…" Akuma sneered when suddenly; flames tore through the trees and air. Ghost was enveloped in a cloud of smoke and disappeared along with Flash and Scribbles. Akuma saw this, grinned, and walked back to the base, whistling.
Ghost got served! Review for the next chapter!