Chapter 7: Seek and Destroy

Sonic yawned as he woke up. He felt the warm sun rays caressing his face.

"Such a nice day... wait a second..." He noticed his voice was high-pitched. Then he noticed he was still a girl. She saw the bucket of hot water she was going to use before sleeping, but it seems she was very sleepy that night. Well, that's what happens when you are still awake at 2AM in the morning.

"At least i'm wearing underwear, wait, why is that supposed to make me feel better?" She quickly removed both undergarments and then drenched herself in the hot water.

"I wonder how did it kept hot the entire night? Whatever, let me just get a shower." He headed for the bathroom.

"Sonic!" Tails shouted from the living room. "It seems there is another power outage! You will have to use cold water!"

Sonic got annoyed. Well, in the forest the power outages were more common because the houses were very distanced from the city.

"And why couldn't you have told me that before I used the bucket with hot water!" He shouted.

"I thought you used it before going to sleep!"

"Nope!"

Sonic came into the living room so they didn't needed to shout to communicate. Sonic saw Tails was already eating breakfast. Eggs and bacon with a toast.

"Sonic, try not to spend so much time as a girl" He said while taking a bite out of his toast.

"I'll try, but in the meantime, can you please heat some water while I take a shower?"

"There's no gas left so I can't use the stove."

"What? And how did you made those eggs and bacon?"

"Heating a pan with the heat of the tornado engine." He took a bite out of a piece of bacon.

"Well, heat the water like you..."

"The tornado is out of gas too." He said finishing his breakfast.

"Explain how did all the gas ran out?" Sonic tapped his foot and crossed his arms.

"I haven't bought gas since you left for your world tour." He said picking up his plate and going into the kitchen.

Sonic sighed. "Man, just when I thought I could get one normal day..." He picked up the clothes he had use for yesterday's party and went into the bathroom.

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"At least I can run faster" Sarah was running down through Green Hill Zone, this was the only part of the world that hasn't changed at all, yet she could spend her eternity running through that place. And now that she was faster she was having a lot more fun. But all of a sudden...

"Now!" Two individuals tried to leap at her, but she was so fast that they didn't managed to catch her. Sarah skidded into a halt to face her opponents. She was shocked to see who they were.

"Syra and Rae?" She gasped.

"Long time no see, hedgehog!" Syra said with a devious grin. "Time to pay!" She charged at Sarah.

Sarah dodged it and gave her a roundhouse kick.

"It seems you are a sore loser." Sarah said sticking her tongue out at Syra. But then she got punched by Rae in the back.

"You haven't forgotten our names! That's cute." Rae smirked " That way you will know who where the ones that ended your life."

"Wait, you want to kill me!? Why!?" Sarah stood up.

"You were warned, don't you?" Syra replied

Then it hit her.

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"Just when I thought I was going to be okay... I end up splashing myself in water." Sarah was running out of China. She was initially going to get out as a man, but he accidentally ended up slipping and falling into a river.

"Man, I'm hungry..." She heard her stomach rumbling. But then she heard noises nearby. She went to see what was going on and she discovered a fighting arena surrounded by trees. There were lots of people cheering the fighters that were in the middle of the arena.

One of the fighters was a canadian lynx. She had normal fur color, gold eyes and waist-length silver hair with black tints at the end of it, she also had bangs pointing to the middle of her face. She had a black cloth tied around her head. She was wearing a black short sleeved shirt with a metal surrounding under her chest to the end of the shirt, khaki shorts and black steel-toed knee-length boots with metalic soles. She was also wearing wrist-length black fingerless gloves, with a metal encasing nearly the lower half of her arm.

The other fighter was a brown bull. He was wearing a samurai vest and black khaki pants. He also had a piercing in his nose and his body and sword were 3 times bigger than his opponent.

Sonic went near to have a better look, but ended up being spotted.

"Hey you!" One of the mobians guarding the entrance called her. She was an ebony hedgehog with purple streaks and she had slanted red eyes. She had a sakura styled hair that covered her left eye and a purple jewel incrusted on her forehead. She was wearing a short black dress with a black belt with a purple buckle, a purple vest and gloves that had silver spikes at the wrist. She also had a lightning-bolt mark in her chest. "What are you doing here?" She went to speak to her.

"Nothing! I was just watching the fight." Sarah said innocently. Her stomach rumbled louder.

"Seems you are very hungry, are you?"

"Yes! Do you have any food?" She asked desperately.

"I'm Rae, and yes we have!" She pointed to a table with lots of food , raging from sushi to...

"Chili dogs!" Sarah was almost going to charge at the table, but Rae stopped her.

"If you want to eat all of that, you will have to defeat her." She pointed to the lynx that had already beaten the bull. And she barely had any scratch.

"Boring!" She yelled "Can anyone give me a real challenge?"

Sarah went into the fray.

"I'll do it." She said.

The lynx looked at the hedgehog with a bored look

"Really? I have taken down cougars bigger and deadlier than you, I wouldn't hurt such a puny girly girl like you." She mocked at her.

"I'm not in the mood to talk, I just want to eat, and if I have to beat you for that, then so be it!" She was serious.

"Ok, I'll be happy to make you suffer." She readied herself up.

A referee entered the middle of the arena and started to explain the rules. "Its simple, the one who goes out of the ring loses! Thats it! Everything goes." He got out of the ring.

"Ready to feel the worst pain you will ever feel in your life?" The lynx was very confident about herself.

"Blah blah blah, lets just fight already!" Sarah shouted irritated.

"Here I go!" The lynx charged at the hedgehog... Only to see her disappear before she even got to swing her sword.

"Right behind you!" Sarah spin dashed the lynx in the back, sending her out of the ring. There was an awkward silence in the entire arena.

"I won!" Sarah didn't wanted to lose more time so she started eating everything she could find on that table. Eating the chili dogs first of course.

The lynx? She couldn't understand what just had happened. Her 3 years of total domination in the ring had just been erased in 5 seconds.

"How..." She slowly stood up. "HOW!?" She burst in a fit of rage and charged at Sarah. Sarah instinctively dodged her attack and tripped her over, making the lynx fall face first to the mud. Everyone laughed at her.

"Sorry but you could have hurt someone with that thing." Sarah apologized, finishing her food.

Rae went over to the lynx and helped her to stand up.

"Syra, are you okay?" She asked her.

"I'm fine" She lied.

Sarah rubbed her belly after finishing. But before she could run away satisfied, someone poked her shoulder. When she turned around, she saw one of the most interesting, yet bizarre creatures he had ever seen.

It was some kind of combination between a kitsune and a cat. He had dark gray fur, white muzzle, unusually large ears and a white swirl shape that resembled a portal on his chest. He also had three cat tails, each tipped with white, and the inside of his ears where also white. His eyes were purely white, edged with black like Silver, and he had Tails' style bangs. He was wearing white gloves, black boots that had a white cross shape on each one, black cuffs lined with white around his wrists and ankles and a black cross necklace.

"Who and what are you?" Sarah asked.

"I'm Virtual, the leader of this clan." He said. "I see you have defeated one of our best fighters..." He said looking at Syra.

"Did I? Ooops..." She sweated.

"You don't have to be afraid, now that you have defeated our best warrior you shall have to join our clan." He explained.

"But what if I don't want to?" She asked nervously.

"In that case we would have to kill you." He said coldly. "But i'm sure you will accept, right?"

"Let me answer you." Sarah ran at full speed, leaving a trail of fire behind her.

Virtual sighed. "Another powerful warrior that denies such a great chance... " He looked at Syra again. "You will have to kill her and bring her shoes to me." He ordered her.

"Can I go with her too, big brother?" Rae asked her.

"Yes, you can" He said.

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"I knew I should had just bought food from a store..." Sarah said.

"Not my problem, you are going down!" Syra readied her katana.

"Its two versus one, what are you going to do?" Rae taunted her.

Suddenly, they both charged at Sarah, but she ran away, making them crash between themselves.

"Man, I can't take down two at the same time!" Sarah muttered while running to her house.

"I can still feel her, lets go!" Rae said. She and Syra went after Sarah.

(-/-)

Tails was looking at the photos he and his friends took at the party from last night in his laptop. Suddenly, Sarah came in the house and locked the door behind him.

"Tails, i need your help."

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"You sure she is in there?" Syra asked Rae. They were just outside the house where that red hedgehog was supposed to live in.

"Yes, although I can't feel her anymore for some reason... Maybe this house has some kind of barrier that prevents me from detecting her." She replied.

"Whatever..." Syra kicked the door, making it break into pieces. They saw a yellow fox looking at a laptop.

"What the hell..." Before he could end his question, Syra grabbed him and pulled him into her face.

"Tell me where is that red hedgehog!" She shouted.

"Hey! Who is there?" Syra heard a male voice coming from another room. When the door opened, Syra's rage turned into embarrassment. It was a blue hedgehog, but not any blue hedgehog.

"Now you are going to tell me why are you breaking in my house and yelling in Tails' face." Sonic said, crossing his arms and tapping his foot impatiently, waiting for an answer.

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So, this clan wants Sarah dead because he didn't wanted to join them. But if he stays as Sonic he isn't going to have any problem.

I believe all of the Ranma fans had just discovered the little similarities from this clan and the clan that Ranma faces while on China.

Anyway, see you on the next chap!