OK, let's keep this thing rolling. You can probably guess who wins judging by the title. It's hard coming up with chapter names for this

Sonic the Hedgehog:

Tournament of the Stars

Chapter 11: Girl Power

Last time, Alexander the Snake managed to brutally wounding Silver and Mephiles made a return by nearly killing Sally. Despite this intervention, the tournament continued.

"Our next fighter wants to become a great sage, just like her mother. It's Marisa Harmon!"

Marisa walked on, smiling as she did. As she waved, Sonic made a glancing look towards Larcen, who looked concerned for her. His attention was brought back by the commentator.

"And her opponent, a hedgehog who can control electricity, it's Strike the Hedgehog!"

Strike entered the arena, feeling confident. When he first saw Marisa, he expected this fight to be too easy. But then he heard that she was a sage. Now, things would be interesting.

As they walked up to each other, they shook hands.

"I hope you're not going to go easy on me" Marisa said.

"I hope you'll be a decent challenge" Strike replied.

The two backed off and Strike fired a bolt of lightning at Marisa. The young sage easily blocked it by firing her own lightning spell. Now, Strike knew he was in trouble. If she mastered lightning, she could easily block any of his attacks. It looked like he needed the element of surprise. Marisa reeled her arm back and, in a similar style to Thorn, threw a fireball at the yellow hedgehog. Taking a leaf out of Sonic's book, Strike ran, barely avoiding the fireball. Marisa began to hurl several more after him. Being not as fast as Sonic, Strike was knocked over and skidded across the ground, hitting the wall headfirst.

Feeling dizzy, he slowly got back up and made a dash for Marisa. Smiling cheekily, Marisa used her light magic to blind Strike. Reeling back, Strike couldn't defend himself from another fireball. He tried picking himself up but found himself floating in the air. Marisa was using her wind magic to summon up a miniature tornado that spun Strike round and round. Strike, somehow, managed to turn it to his advantage. He charged up a huge amount of electrical energy in his body, before dispersing it. It got caught up in the tornado as well, turning it into a sort of thunder tornado. Strike managed to take control of it and spun it towards Marisa. Now, she was caught up and was getting electrocuted at the same time.

Strike, having escaped the tornado, smirked with satisfaction. It seemed he had won until he saw the tornado beginning to die down. Marisa threw herself out of it and fired what looked like an orb of darkness at him. It hit the yellow hedgehog dead on and he began to suffer terrible burns. He writhed on the floor in pain as the darkness engulfed him. Thankfully, Marisa used some of her light magic to get rid of it, as well as heal Strike. The hedgehog sat back up and gave the thumbs up to her.

"You did well. I shouldn't have underestimated you" he said.

Marisa smiled. "You were a good opponent."

"Marisa has won, ladies and gents. And look at that sportsmanship!" the commentator yelled, as the crowd cheered for Marisa. She went to sit back down with Larcen who congratulated her. Sonic saw her give him a friendly hug but Larcen blushed. Sonic's theory was beginning to become more of a fact. He then saw Axel watching Strike.

"Hey, Axel. Did you see how good a fighter Strike was? Sure, he lost but he managed to turn her own attack back on her" he said but Axel wasn't listening, or should I say, not caring.

"It doesn't matter how good of a fighter he is. He's still an abomination" he replied.

"Gee, I'm flattered!" Strike said, sarcastically, having just shown up. "By the way, where's Sally?"

"That Mephiles nearly killed her while you were waiting for your fight. She's in the medical ward. They said its best we didn't see her since she won't be able to speak. Plus they have a lot of work to do on her injuries" Sonic explained.

Like Shadow, Strike clenched his fists, swearing several vendettas on the crystalline hedgehog.

"Our next fighter is none other than the princess of Soleanna, it's Princess Elise!"

The crowd erupted into cheers as Elise walked on. She wasn't surprised that they were like this. She even saw several men wolf whistling her. She relaxed when she saw Sonic wink at her from the sides. Of course, when she saw who her opponent was, she became even more worried.

"And her opponent is another magician, this one a sworn enemy of the Sailor Scouts, Rothion the Owl!"

Rothion walked towards the centre of the arena, staring at Elise. He broke into silent laughter.

"My opponent is some little girl? This is no challenge!" he scoffed in his French accent.

Elise gulped and readied herself.

"Ah, so she has some fight in her. Very well, let's see how you fare!" the owl challenged, pulling out his axe.

He swung it at Elise but she dropped and kicked out at Rothion's legs, knocking him over. Quickly getting up, he slammed his axe into the ground, causing an earthquake. Elise tried to keep hold of her footing but Rothion lashed out, hitting her with the handle of his axe. She was sent sprawling across the ground. Smirking, Rothion raised his axe and brought it down on her. However, she had vanished. Eyes widened, he looked all over the place for her. He found her, soon enough. Well, actually, she found him.

With his head turned, Rothion was kicked in the side of the face. He turned to face Elise but she wasn't there. He heard a whistle and saw Elise on the other side of the arena, waving at him. Not even the crowd was sure how she did it. Enraged, Rothion threw his axe at her but all it hit was the wall. How was she disappearing like this? Suddenly, something slammed on his head. Looking up, he saw the princess standing on his head. He swung up with his hands but she had already jumped off. Upon landing, Elise quickly spun round and kicked him in the stomach.

Thrown back to the wall, Rothion pulled his axe out of the wall and ran at her, intent of brutally wounding her. But once more she just vanished; coming from behind and doing a karate chop on the side of Rothion's neck, knocking him out cold.

"Elise has won! Can you believe that?" the commentator cried, with a hint of surprise in his voice. Even the crowd was taken aback but all the same, they still cheered for her, Elise blushed slightly as she walked back to the stands while medics came for Rothion.

As she sat down, Sonic immediately came up to her. "How in Chaos did you do that?" he asked.

Elise smiled, pointing to something around her wrist that Sonic hadn't seen before. It was like a metal wristband with different buttons on them.

"The scientists in the labs built this for me. It was what allowed me to teleport. It can also increase my speed, make me invisible, create a barrier and even slow down time" she explained.

Sonic whistled, clearly impressed. "Wow, you're certainly prepared for this."

The commentator began to speak again. "Well, let's get moving shall we? Our next fighter is…"