Hey guys! I'm back ! And this time, with my new chapter of the Mystery among the Corridors! This will be a long chapter, since my first ones were a little short :)
Sorry, I've been a little sick, so I lost a bit of time on my writing time. :(
ENJOY!
Chapter 5: Boxing competition! (Part 1)
It was a sunny Friday morning, when our mysterious friend Spiker was on his way to school, accompanied by Benny the Hedgehog. It was 8:15 a.m. After a long walk in the forset they finally reached school, where Apple was standing with Tikal and Amy.
"Hey Spiker! Hi Benny! How are you to doing?" asked Amy.
"We're fine" replied Benny politely. "How about you?"
"I'm alright." She turned to Spiker. "What about you?"
Spiker hesitated a bit, but then said "I had the best night I've had in a very long time." Amy smiled back, pleased Spiker was finally happy with his life.
"Well, I'll be going now." said Benny "I'll see you after school."
"Alright" replied Spiker. Then Benny stepped away, back to the forest where he lived.
Spiker and the girls went in the school yard to wait for the school bell.
"Oh, by the way!" started Apple. "I still didn't introduce you to my friend Tikal. Tikal, I present you Spiker, Spiker, I present you Tikal."
"Nice to meet you" Tikal said kindly.
"It's nice to meet you too" replied Spiker "You sure are a pretty echidna."
Tikal blushed a little "Thanks! Appart from Knuckles, you're one of the first boys to say I'm pretty."
"Who wouldn't say you're a pretty girl? Only idiots would say the opposite."
"That's really kind from you, I appreciate it!"
They all continued talking, until Spiker recieved a note from a student saying "Today is this month's boxing competition! Sign up to show how strong you are in front of the school and become the strongest member of the entire sports team!" Spiker read the note carefully, and then Apple spoke up.
"You maybe should go to this competition. Since you've already beaten those dumb wolves, maybe you could win!"
"I'm not sure about that." Started Spiker "You know, I only have you and the rest of Sonic's gang as friends. And I used to have a reputation as a monster as you know."
"It's alright! I already told all my other friends about you, that you weren't bad at all! And they do think you can be a really nice guy!" Apple said comforting Spiker.
Spiker hesitated, then said "Alright, I'll do it!" Apple smiled back. Then, Knuckles and Sonic arrived.
"Hey Spiker! Hey girls! What's up?" said Sonic.
"You planing on going to the boxing competition Spiker?" asked Knucles.
"Yup, he is!" Apple replied for Spiker. "Why? Are you two going?"
"Well of course. I mean, I'm one of the strongest students in the school." Knuckles said acting serious. Apple giggled. "What's so funny?"
"Are you trying to show Tikal how strong you are?" teased Apple.
"W-w-what? No! I-it's just because I want to show the school who's the best!" Knuckles was speechless.
Both Tikal and Appple giggled. "What? You don't like Tikal or something? That's not very nice!" Apple teased again.
"N-n-no! That's not the problem! It-it's just I...but..." the cat caught Knuckles' tongue.
"It's alright, Knuckles." said Spiker. "Whatever the reason, I'm sure you'll be one of the best, or even THE toughest in the school."
Knuckles looked at Spiker and hesitated. "Th-thanks."
The whole gang smiled back. Spiker and Apple ran to the gymnasyum to sign in for the boxing competition.
At 2 p.m. the competition began. In the tournament, there was Spiker, Knuckles, Sonic, Shadow, Silver, and three wolves from the wolf gang. Then the sports club leader, who was none other than Vector the crocodile, spoke into his megaphone.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Thank you all for coming to this month's boxing tournament! And thanks to all the competitors for signing up! Our first match will be Spiker and Sonic the hedgehog!"
Spiker was surprised. He never thought he would ever have to fight Sonic. But now was the time to show the school who's the strongest!
"Spiker and Sonic come up to the ring, please. The match will start at the sound of the bell!" Vector announced. So Spiker and Sonic jumped into the ring. Sonic starred into Spiker's drark green and his red snake eye, and Spiker starred into Sonic's shining green eyes.
"Good luck Spiker." Said Sonic. "I won't go easy on you."
"Hit me with your best shot!" Spiker smirked.
"Get ready!" announced Vector. The bell rang and the fight began.
Sonic started running with his great speed around Spiker. But then Spiker ran straight and knocked Sonic down. No one ever hit Sonic while running with his super speed. Sonic got up, ran to Spiker, but right then Spiker moved behing Sonic so fast we couldn't see him.
"How in the world did he manage to move so quickly?" thought Sonic. "He's almost as fast as me!"
Sonic ran as fast as he could towards Spiker, but Spiker would just move behind and kick him in the back to push him away. This continued for five long minutes, until Sonic was almost out of energy. This was the occasion. Spiker ran towards Sonic super fast and punched him right in the stomach. Sonic flew to the other side of the ring.
"And the winner is SPIKER!" Vector shouted out loud pulling Spiker's arm up. Every one in the audience applauded. But then Spiker looked at Sonic, who was trying to get up.
Spiker ran to Sonic, handed out his hand to him, and said "You're alright Sonic? Sorry I went a little rough in the end." Sonic looked up, and smiled back.
"It's alright. That's the rule. But it was really fun fighting with you! You're the first one to actually defeat me." Spiker also smiled and pulled up Sonic, and they shook hands.
The tounament continued. Next was Knuckles versus one of the wolves, Silver against anotgher wolf, and Shadow fighting the last wolf. Unfortunatelly, Silver lost his fight against the toughest wolf of the gang. Knuckles and Shadow won their match. Before the final match, there were two last fights to determine who would fight in the last match. Shadow was fighting the wolf, and Knuckles was fighting Spiker. Shadow and the wolf fought first.
"Have any idea who might win this match?" Knuckles asked Spiker.
Spiker was observing the fight. "I'm not sure. I know Shadow is very fast and strong, but this wolf also looks pretty tough."
"I bet Shadow is going to win!" Sonic appeared behind Spiker and Knuckles. "Well, he's as fast as me, and maybe as strong as you Knuckles. So I guess... HUH!" They all looked behind and saw Shadow flying into the air being beaten up very hard.
Shadow flew out of the ring and Spiker caught him before he crashed. Shadow was bleeding pretty badly and was unconcious. Spiker called for a doctor to help Shadow. The doctors arrived and took Shadow away to take care of him. Spiker stared darkly to the wolf.
"I'll be waiting for you, BEAST!" barked the wolf. And right when he spoke those words, Spiker's head started hurting again, but with more pain.
"Hey! Are you alright?" Sonic ran to Spiker.
"Darn it! Starting again!"
"You will kill anybody who gets in you way ..."
"What's going on? Who is this!"
"You know who I am...can't you remember?"
"No! I don't want to! Get out of my head!"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Replied Spiker to Sonic. "Just a head ache."
"Hey Spiker!" a familiar voice came from behind. He turned aroundsaw Benny arriving.
"Hey. How did you get in the school?" asked Spiker.
"I heard there was a boxing competition and Apple sent me a text saying you were in it." replied Benny. "So I came to see your match. You're incredibly strong! I never knew you would defeat Sonic so easily!"
Spiker looked on the side, thinking of what he'd just heard in his mind. What in the world would want him to kill or do any harm to anybody?
It was his turn to fight, and this time against Knuckles. They jumped onto the ring to get ready to fight.
"I won't be going easy on you." Knuckles spoke out. "Since you defeated Sonic pretty easily, I want to see if I can beat you!"
"This time, I'll be going harder than with Sonic." replied Spiker confident.
"No one ever beats me in a fight!"
"We'll see about that."
"Get ready!" announced Vector. The bell rang.
Knuckles ran to Spiker to punch him straight into the stomach, then Spiker just stepped aside to not get hit. But then Knuckles turned and punched Spiker right in the face. Spiker hopped up, and said "Not bad, not bad." Spiker said with irony. "But you can do better than that!"
"Then you'll get it!" Knuckles ran to Spiker to punch him again.
But Spiker stepped aside and gave a big punch in Knuckles' stomach. Knuckles fell down, and got up fast and started running again and again trying to punch Spiker. After a while, both of them were exhausted.
"Gosh! You're a real tough guy!" said Knuckles.
"So are you, but this is about to end."
"What?"
On those words, Spiker ran fast as he could around Knuckles, like Sonic did with Spiker. Knuckles was getting punched and kicked from everywhere. He then got punched in the chest and flew up the air, not knowing what hit him. Spiker jumped up high where Knuckles was, and Knuckles recieved a fury of punches in the chest, and a final kick pointing down threw Knuckles straight on the floor. Knuckles was all beaten up. He then saw Spiker running near him to punch him one final time. He closed his eyes, waiting for the final hit, but nothing came. He opened his eyes and saw Spiker holding his hand out, smiling.
"Great fight. You were really strong."
Knuckles stared for a second at Spiker, then smiled back, held his hand, and Spiker pulled him up. "You're a great person. We should fight again some other time. And next time, I'll beat you!"
"We'll see about that." Spiker smirked.
"And the winner is SPIKER!" Vector shouted.
Now was break time before the final match. Spiker went out to meet up with Apple and Benny. On his way, people were complimenting about him, how strong and how great he was. This made Spiker feel better because since he beaten up Sonic AND Knuckles, he thought his reputation would get even worse than before. He then saw Apple and Benny and joined them.
"You were great Spiker!" Apple complimented. "I never knew Knuckles could be defeated like this before!"
"Yeah! I'd like to challenge you one day!" Benny said.
"You're just going to get your butt kicked." teased Apple.
"Hey! I'm not that bad!"
"Yeah, yeah." Apple turned to Spiker. "Be carefull with your next adversary. He was able to defeat Shadow who was even stronger than Knuckles."
"I'll be alright, don't worry." Spiker assured Apple. Then, Knuckles and Tikal joined the conversation.
"You sure you're alright Knuckles? asked Spiker.
"Yeah, it's okay." replied Knuckles.
"You could've gone a little easy with Knuckles. You could've hurt him very badly!" said Tikal out loud. She was worried about Knuckles.
"It's alright Tikal." Knuckles calmed Tikal. "I've had worse."
"Sorry, I can go a little over the top when it comes to violence in a fight." Tikal blushed a little.
"Don't be." replied Spiker. "I'm the one who should be apologizing, I can't controle my strengh." he smiled at Tikal, and she smiled back. But then Amy showed up, and she wasn't happy at all.
"What is wrong with you beating Sonic up like that!" barked Amy.
"Hey, it's not my fault if I had to fight him." Spiker tried explaining but was interupted.
"Anybody who dares touching Sonic like you did..." Amy got her giant hammer out. "... I swear I'll beat him up!"
"I wouldn't..." Spiker started as Amy waved her hammer up in the air to hit Spiker. She then swung her hammer, but something stopped the hammer. Spiker was holding out his arm to stop the hammer from hitting him. Everybody froze. How could Spiker stop such a huge hammer impact?
"Don't make me use my entire force pushing you back, please." Spiker said calmly.
"Amy! I told you I was alright!" Sonic popped up between Spiker and Amy He then had his attention on Spiker who stopped Amy's hammer. "W-w-wait... did you just stop one of Amy's huge hammer blows?" he then froze like the others.
"Yes." he then turned to Amy. "I know you like Sonic a lot. But please, don't hit people like this just because a certain person beat Sonic in a fighting tournament."
Amy looked down and lowered her hammer with a small shy smile and said "Alright, I'm sorry." Spiker smiled, and the whole gang laughed.
Break time was over, it was now time for the final match. Spiker ran up to the ring, and so did his adversary. His name was Collin. He was a tall, muscly wolf with long grey fur and wore a black ripped t-shirt and blue ripped jeans. He looked straight into Spiker's eyes and said.
"You really think you can act so tough like that? I beat people like you!"
"You think you're so strong. But really, you're just a selfish person, beating up other people for VERY stupid reasons." Spiker said back.
"Why, you little freak! I'll teach you!"
"Alright!" announced Vector. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last fight of this month's boxing tournament! On one side, we have our new celebrety, SPIKER! And on the other, we have one of the toughest wolves in the school, here comes COLLIN!"
"Get ready!" Spiker and Collin came closer. The bell rang.
This is it! Will Spiker win the tournament? What is wrong with his head aches? Answers, NEXT CHAPTERS!
I hope you liked this one! Hope it is long enough ^.^'
I'm almost finished writing chapter 6 though, I'll try posting it tomorrow :)
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Seeya later alligators! :D