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Sonic the Hedgehog:

Tournament of the Stars

Chapter 13

Last time, Armand was able to defeat Mighty but his friend Basil wasn't as lucky and lost to Kera. Now, two heroes were about to have their own fights.

"Our next fighter is another magic wielder, it's Blitz the Cat!"

Blitz entered the arena, giving friendly waves to the crowd. As he approached the centre of the arena, he pulled out his magic tome.

"And his opponent, one of the highest ranking members of the Nocturnus Clan, it's Shade the Echidna!"

Shade walked on slowly. She hated hearing anything about her connection to her ex-clan. It reminded her of how she nearly helped Ix conquer the world. Knuckles saw how upset she was and felt a twinge of sympathy for her.

As Blitz and Shade stared each other down, the cat pointed his tome at her. Shade wasn't phased by this at all.

"I suggest you be careful where you point that thing" she said, calmly.

Blitz raised his eyebrows. She seemed so calm about this. It almost creeped him out. Shaking it aside, he said "Are we gonna fight or not?"

Shade smirked. Suddenly, she vanished, just like Elise did in her fight. Blitz was taken aback by her sudden disappearance and was unable to block the punch to the back of the head. As he sprawled across the ground, Shade drew her Leech Blade, ready for anything.

Blitz got up using his staff and he said "What kind of magic is that?"

"It's not magic. The Nocturnus had far more advanced technology than this world. I'm able to teleport myself and with this…" Shade indicated to her blade, "I can sap your energy right out of you."

Blitz chuckled at the challenge and readied his tome. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flew out of it, hitting where Shade would've been standing if she didn't quickly roll to the side. As she composed herself, Blitz had run at her and swung his tome, knocking Shade into the air. Blitz quickly fired more bolts of lightning at her but Shade managed to dodge every one of them. Infuriated, the cat fired a ball of dark energy at Shade, which hit her dead on.

She crashed into the ground, kicking up dust as she landed. Shade had suffered a lot of damage from that last attack and she was struggling to get back up. Blitz felt like leaving it at that but knew that he had to make sure Shade stayed down if he wanted to win. The top of his tome began to be surrounded by lightning and he pointed it at Shade. Closing his eyes, he fired. Shade opened her eyes to see the huge bolt of lightning heading straight for her. She stayed there like a deer caught in headlights as the attack hit.

A huge dust cloud was kicked up as the attack hit. Everyone was on the edge of their seats, wondering what happened to Shade. As the dust settled down, the echidna wasn't there. Blitz immediately thought that he had vaporized her into dust. Then, he remembered something. She could teleport! Unfortunately, Shade had already came from behind and struck him several times with her Leech Blade. With his energy down, the cat collapsed.

"Shade has won with a surprising comeback!" the commentator yelled as Shade smiled over her victory.

She sat back down, since her draining of Blitz's energy refilled hers. Knuckles said to her "That was amazing, Shade."

She blushed at the compliment but did her best to hide it. "Thanks, Knuckles. I suppose I should feel honoured that you find my abilities good."

"I've always thought that, ever since we met. Even when you were with Ix, I knew you weren't one to give up easily."

Now, Shade was blushing so much she was as red as Knuckles. The guardian saw this and tilted his head.

"Is something wrong?" he asked.

Shade shook her head as she looked at Knuckles. Before either knew what was going on, their faces were getting very close. But just as their lips were about to meet, the commentator broke them out of it.

"OK, our next fight is about to begin!"

Once the two echidnas realised how close they were, both blushed and moved their attention to the arena.

"Our next fighter is the fastest thing alive and the defender of our planet, it's Sonic the Hedgehog!"

Sonic didn't walk in, he ran in, and did a circuit of the arena, waving as he did. Since everyone knew him, the crowd's applause nearly deafened him. Sonic quickly made his way to the centre.

"And his opponent, a real thunder-cat, it's Alan the Tiger!"

Alan walked in with a cheerful smile on his face. When he saw Sonic, he became serious.

The two shook hands and wished each other the best of luck. The two then gave each other some distance and prepared themselves. Sonic started by running full pelt at Alan, but the tiger had other plans. He quickly pulled out some metal spiked bombs and dropped them as he used his jetpack to fly up. The bombs exploded, electrocuting Sonic.

As the pain subsided, Sonic looked up in time to see Alan slam his heel into his face. Sonic reeled back in pain, and Alan spun while hovering in the air, kicking Sonic in the gut. The hedgehog was sent into the side of the arena, clutching where Alan hit him. But he wasn't giving up so easily. Alan began to charge at him, using his jetpack to speed up. Sonic waited till the last minute before jumping over Alan, letting him crash into the side.

Sonic turned to see Alan pulling himself off the arena wall. The tiger charged again at Sonic but once more, he dodged by stepping to the side. Alan skidded to a stop and was about to attack again until Sonic's foot got him in the face. This was followed up by several punches and a kick straight upwards, knocking Alan into the air. Sonic curved into his ball form and spun up to hit Alan in the back, knocking him up even further. Sonic bounced off the ground and appeared above Alan, planting his heel into Alan's gut, sensing back to the ground with a thud.

"Alan appears to be beaten, so Sonic wins!"

Sonic smirked as he waved to the crowd. Alan struggled to get back up but found it difficult so he waited for the medics to help him. As Alan was carried off, he gave the thumbs up to Sonic, which he returned. As Sonic sat down, he received congratulations from his friends while Gale stared at him from a distance.

"He knows how to put up a fight. I'm glad to see him happy. But, when should I tell him that…" he thought but his attention was taken back to the arena as the commentator spoke again.

"OK, let's keep this show moving. Our next fighter is…"