Before you would ask, yes I used some elements of the Ancient Greek mythology in this chapter. I always found it fascinating, and I decided that I will use some parts of it. :D
Chapter 4: The lord of Fire
"Agony, please leave me some fun too." A voice came from a bright spot in the distance
"Rage, you always pop up the worst time." Agony said, and let us breath. My lungs are burning, and I greedily trying to breath in as much air as possible.
"Any you always trying to have all the fun alone, so we are even." A fire creature stepped out of the shadow. 'He should be Rage...'
"Rage, I presume" David said, and smirked.
"How can you smile in a situation like this?" Sonic asked him.
"Just like this" He said, and his smirk became an evil grin.
"You are brave, mortal" Rage said with venom in his voice "Why do you feel so confident?"
"Because I saw all of our enemies." David said without fear.
"And you think this will make your fight easier?" Rage said with arrogance "This will only make your death more painful."
"We'll see."
Rage launched a burst of fire, but David dodged it easily. An immense battle started to take place, but we had no time to just stand and watch, because we had our own enemy to face. Agony launched a wave of air against Sonic and me. We were quickly dodged it, and saw that the ground where we just stood a gigantic hole appeared, like someone would cut it with a knife.
"Silver, Blaze. Go help David. Sonic, Tails and I can take care of this Airhead" Shadow ordered, and I nodded.
David was in a very dire situation, as he was attacked from three fronts at the same time, and was rounded up in a fire circle. Blaze used her Pyrokinesis to manipulate the fire, and opened up the circle around David.
"Do not fear, we will cover your back" I said grinning, and launched a shockwave in the Firelord's direction, but he dodged it with no effort at all.
"You mortals could be more of a challenge than I thought, but even the three of you are no match for me." He said without any doubt of his victory.
He launched a barrage of fire, and we would all burn to death if Blaze wouldn't be here.
"I will see about that." Blaze said, and launched her own attacks, but when they reached our opponent they just became one with the creature's body.
"Fire can not harm me. I am the Lord of Fire!" Rage said, and launched an another series of attacks, what Blaze stopped. "Hmmm. Maybe this will be an interesting battle after all. And I thought that I'm going to be bored to death."
"You will be the Lord of Loosers after we finish you." I said, and launched several attacks against the creature, but it only made little effect. The only real pain I could cause him was when I hit the small horn in his head.
"Did you saw that?" David asked, and dodged an another attack from the creature, and countering him at the same time. He cut trough one of his squid like arms with his tiger claws, and jumped back to dodge an another attack. "The horn!"
"Yeah, there was a hump on the head of Perfect Chaos too, and it was his weakspot." Sonic said giving us some attention, even in the middle of his battle "Maybe that dude have a horn there, and this one has an antler, but that still should be their weakspot." Sonic pointed out. This was the first time for me too to see this small difference between them. I wasn't even looking the top of their head until now to be honest.
"Well, well. So you figured it out?" Rage said with arrogance still present in his voice. "But this changes nothing. You shall not get even near my head again." He said, and pulled up a wall of fire between us, and launched it in our way.
Blaze managed to open up a hole in the last moment, and just barely, but we still fit trough it, but there were no time to think, as we saw one of his squids coming our way sweeping the ground. Blaze jumped up, while I levitated David and myself up, so it passed beneath us. We jumped down to the ground immediately, and David and I attacked immediately, preforming a combined attack. I launched a boulder at Rage's horn, and David hid behind it, hanging into the rock. When rage tried to cut it in half, I only yelled "Now!" and David jumped out from behind the flying rock, jumped in the horn's direction, and hit it with full power. The creature yelled, and Rage stumbled back a bit.
David was not able to use his powers, but he held his place surprisingly well. His stamina is much better than I anticipated from his collapses so far. This made me think. 'How much energy do he need exactly to hold up the frozen time, if he collapsed in two minutes, but he manages to fight an enemy like this for more than 5 minutes. He dodge, run and even attack like us without even panting. Of course he is not too fast, but he compensates it with being extremely careful.'
"At least we can-" I wanted to say finish him off, but Tails' scream filled the air.
When I turned around, and saw an orange bubble like thing coming out of his mouth, while his head was in an air bubble created by Agony.
"I've got his life essence, I've got his life essence!" The queen of air sing songed, just like a little kid.
"Give it back to him!" Sonic yelled at her, but she disappeared into nowhere, leaving Tails' body lying on the ground, unmoving.
"Tails, speak to me!" Sonic said rushing to his body.
"I'm not feeling well." Tails said to all of our relief that he is still alive.
"But you're alive at least." Sonic said
"But not for long." Rage said with an evil voice. "Without his life essence, he won't last for 24 hours, if he's lucky. If he's not he will die in a minute."
We all looked at Tails in shock, that maybe his life ends here.
"Don't worry, I'm fine for now." Tails said, trying to stand up.
"In your place, I would take it easy." Rage said with a cheery voice."Exhausting yourself only makes your death come sooner"
"Where did she go?" Sonic asked now enraged
"Like I would tell."
"You will, one way or another." I said, and I saw the dark aura appearing around Sonic, and the dark green around Shadow, so I thought it's time for me to bring in the big guns too. I concentrated, and felt the power of Mobius flowing trough me. I closed my eyes, and when I opened it, I saw my fur was crimson red once again.
However, before we could get into action we saw David grabbing his head, and yelling in pain.
"OW, his powers are starting to crack him." Rage said with pity in his voice. "Too sad that we used up his own powers to bring him here."
"How did you used my powers?" David asked
"You didn't knew?" Rage asked "It has the same origin as we do."
"Explain yourself!" Sonic roared out.
"Before the gods came, the Titans ruled this world. It had no life in it. At least, not like it is now. The most powerful Titan were betrayed by his sons, the gods, and got defeated, but his powers still remained. One part of his power the, power of darkness, has been taken by a god called Haxius. The second part, the power of light, has been given an another god by his brothers for safekeeping. His name was Solaris, if I remember well." Rage said, and his words took us as all as a surprise hearing the name of our long seen friend, and the name of our worst enemy.
"What happened to the other parts?" I asked
"From four of the parts, we born. Originally we were only a bunch of Chao, the first living creatures in the world. However when we contacted the fragments of this power, we reborn in it. The first of us were Agony, who as our leader got the title of Queen. My brothers are Chaos the Lord of water, and Despair the Lord of Earth. I am Rage, the Lord of Fire. Chaos is the youngest of us, to be honest, we created him to destroy Mobius, but he failed."
"And my powers?" David asked
"It is the seventh, and last part. It was the ability to control time." Rage said "When your body dies, you will finally become one of us, and do what Chaos couldn't."
"Never." He said, and stood up, like he would have never been better, while he was in large pain just seconds ago.
"We'll see." Rage said, and launched an attack toward him, but Sonic, Shadow and I jumped there, and repelled the attack.
"You have to get trough us, if you want to lay a finger on him" Sonic said, and we launched our attack. Sonic took the center, and Shadow attacked from the right. I took position in the left, and attacked the same way they did. We moved in perfect sync. Within minutes, rage lyed on the ground, defeated.
"This in only the beginning, mortals. The real fight only begins now." He said, and closed his eyes. We saw a red light emitting from him, and his body faded away. Only the body of a Chao remained there, lying lifeless.
"Sonic, go check up on Tails." I said "Hey Blaze, how's David doing?" I asked my love, seeing that David was sitting, and panting.
"Not good." She said "He is getting weaker, and weaker by the moment. He shouldn't fight anymore, and it would be best if we would carry him instead of letting him walk. Maybe it's not much, but this can save his life in the long term."
"All right, let's go check up on Tails." I said, and grabbed David with my Psychokinesis, levitating him gently to Tails' side.
"How is he?" Blaze asked
"As I see, he is about the same way David is." Shadow said. "He might have 8 hours, if he rests maybe 10. How about David?"
"I don't know how his powers work completely, but-" Tails said with an empty glare at him, and said after 3 seconds of silence "He has about 4 hours left. Maybe 5 if he's lucky."
"Did you saw him in the fight?" I asked tails
"No. I had other things to do. I didn't watched for a second, and look what happened."
"He held his ground against Rage fairy well. He's much better than he looks like."
"Explain yourself." Tails said, and I told him what I saw, while we started to move forward.
"In this chase I would recalculate his death to..." He counted in his head for a second, mumbling something under his breath while I levitated him and David next to myself "somewhere about 6 to 7 hours."
"Which means we have 6 hours to find and defeat Agony, take back your life essence, and get out of here." Sonic said
"Don't think we have plenty of time. And what happens if Agony doesn't come back before our time runs out?" Shadow asked.
"Better if we don't even think about it." Blaze said, and stopped. "We should rest here. We can't fight if we're exhausted." She said.
"We have no time to rest, we have to save those two." Sonic said.
"But if we don't we just get ourselves killed, and with ourselves them too."
"Then what?"
"If we only for half an hour, we will still have some time to search for Agony. Is that good enough for you?"
"All right. But not a minute longer." Sonic said, and sat down to the ground.
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Well, that's it. Please tell me what you are thinking from the story so far, as if you don't I shall never know if I'm doing something wrong.
BTW: I also reread my previous stories, and found awfully lot of mistakes, so after I finish this one I will start to rewrite them. I am also planning a fifth story for this series, but I will only start it if at least one of you guys ask me to do so.(no matter how, even a PM is good enough, if you don't want to show your names for the others with a review). If nobody ask me, I will discontinue this series for good(maybe forever). It's your call.