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As the seven of them traveled through the reefs, the atmosphere suddenly turned colder. "A little chilly, eh? Maybe too chilly in the Lava Reefs." Knuckles muttered. Sonic suddenly remembered where that feeling came from; "Watch out, guys. Chaos is near!" he yelled. The ground suddenly gave way and a creature made of water jumped out of the fissure. "Long time no see, Sonic. I've learned some new tricks over the years" it told Sonic with telekinesis.
"Is that I challenge I'm hearing from a walking, flabby puddle?" Sonic retorted. "I take it you're Chaos. I'm Ozone, and you're going down." "Bring it, then" Before they could get into fighting stance, Chaos shot out a huge stream of water out of it's mouth and cooled the lava until it hardened. That left the battlefield shrouded in a blanket of fog. Chaos then superfroze himself so that he became an ice-block, literally! The result was simple: the once scorching lava reefs turned into a frozen cave that was near sub-zero temperatures. Once the arena changed into Chaos's liking, he changed back into his liquid form, and lunged for the gang.
The Chaos Emerald that Shadow possessed suddenly started glowing. "Uh, guys. We got a problem" Shadow warned. Silver then got a chill down his spine, and concluded, "I guess that means Chaos has an emerald on it." Amy knew that she wasn't much of a fighter, so she offered to search the battlefield for the emerald. Ozone began the fight by charging chaos energy into his hand. Shadow began glowing the familiar shade of red. Sonic also gathered energy into his hand, but had a different use in mind. Silver grabbed whatever ice blocks he could using his psychokinetic powers. Blaze thought she would try something different: she would try to use Iblis's powers; She gathered some of the energy from Iblis sealed within her and created a small fireball in her hand. She threw it up into the air and the fireball expanded into a miniature sun. Once that was done, the pyrokinetic feline harnessed some energy from the 'sun' and formed it unto a green sphere of energy.
Chaos shot out one 'arm' and blast of icy water spewed out at a rapid pace. Fortunately for Chaos, the water quickly turned to ice. That, along with the environment, not only caused the group to be pelted with ice blocks, but also resulted them to be frozen in place. Since Amy was not in the attacking front, she didn't know what Chaos was up to, thus was unaffected by the battle. When she turned to see the battle, she gasped in horror at Sonic's predicament. "I'm coming, Sonic!". She made a beeline straight for the group with her hammer in tow. Ozone, still frozen, could only watch as Chaos started to set traps around the field. What Ozone didn't count on was Amy charging at the group with her hammer. What really surprised him was the fact that she was dragging the hammer while running as if to sharpen the sword on the ground while running. When Amy got close enough, she twirled around to build up extra momentum for the hammer, and with one swing she decimated the icy prison containing the attackers.
"Thanks Amy, I didn't count on Chaos knowing that trick." Sonic admitted. "Chaos…" Ozone began. He then began glowing an icy shade of blue, and yelled "…Drain!" Ozone's aura dissipated and reformed around his hands. He lunged forward and began to throw a series of punches and kicks that were at speeds even Sonic couldn't keep track of. "Hey, Ozone, physical attacks don't affect that freak!" Ozone heard the blue blur and ignored that statement. Shadow growled at Ozone's plan, and used Chaos Control to slow down time and stop Ozone from continuing the onslaught. "Didn't you hear Sonic? You can't beat Chaos with physical attacks" the ebony anthro yelled. "I know what I'm doing, I will explain once I'm done this… just wait, Shadow." the alien retorted.
Once Shadow gave up trying to tell Ozone to stop wasting his energy, he walked back to the group and told them to 'just wait' like Ozone ordered. After about 2 minutes of non-stop punching and kicking, Ozone finally jumped back to the gang. "I know you're thinking I'm an idiot by jumping in and physically attacking, but you'll thank me real soon." He said, as if admitting a big mistake. "Just attack now and I'll explain what I did after the first wave of attacks" Ozone concluded.
The gang didn't even bother to ask questions, and returned their attention to charging up energy for their attacks. "Hold on, dudes." Ozone interrupted. "Chaos... SUPPORT!" with those words, Ozone glowed a bright shade of yellow and it the aura struck the team like lightning. "You guys can now use your chaos attacks without the need to charge, but hurry! I can't keep this up forever ya know." The gang nodded their heads and focused the energy that Ozone's providing into their respective attacks. Shadow formed his signature Chaos Spears around himself, while Sonic focused the energy similar to Naruto's Rasengan. Silver used that energy to form little thunder clouds around the area, whereas Blaze used her share of energy to prepare large puddles of lava. Knuckles tried a different tactic: he used his share of energy to ignite his hands. Amy informed Ozone that she will not be battling, but will look for the chaos emeralds nearby. Ozone nodded his head in agreement and cut off the supply to her. When she was given the 'OK' to get going, she ran off to scout the battlefield for nearby emeralds.
Chaos saw Ozone's tactic and 'evaporated' out of sight. Sonic was taken back by the watery foe's sudden change of plans, until it reformed behind Ozone. Shadow felt Chaos's presence behind Ozone and shot the spears in Ozone's direction. Fortunately, none of them came close to the alien, but that sort of agitated him. "You trying to betray me, Shadow?" he yelled in frustration. "Idiot! Chaos is behind you!" with those words, Ozone quickly swung his arm around to strike Chaos on the little 'brain' and that did the trick in hurting Chaos physically.
Chaos, once realizing the unexpected change of situation, formed a claw and stretched it out towards one corner of the battlefield. A moment later, a chaos emerald started floating out of one of the cracks in the icy barrier and headed straight for the divine creature. Once it touched Chaos, he 'absorbed' the emerald into his liquid body and glowed a bright yellow color. When the light show was over, Sonic stopped preparing his attack and was overcome by fear when he saw Chaos's new form: Chaos1.
Seems like the battle between the group and the 'God of Destruction', Chaos, has just begun. Where did Chaos get the emerald from? Will Amy find any chaos emeralds on the field? Stay tuned and find out in the next exciting chapter of this story!