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Sonic the Hedgehog:

Tournament of the Stars

Chapter 17

Last time, Axel and Damien won their fights against Tagio and Mathias.

"Our next fighter is a duck who's handy with explosives, it's Bean the Dynamite!"

Bean jumped out of the shadows into the arena, looking quite crazed. He pulled out several unlit bombs and began to juggle with them. The crowd immediately thought of the same thing. He's nuts!

"And his opponent, a machine hell bent on destruction, it's Metal Havoc!"

Havoc, who was in the crowd, twitched as he saw his robotic duplicate walk into the arena. He seemed awfully calm and he had good reason. Bean didn't show any signs of having skill. Sonic noticed Metal Havoc's similarity to Metal Sonic and became worried about Bean's safety. If he was anything like Metal Sonic, the crazy duck was in trouble.

The two fighters stood opposite each other. Well, Metal Havoc (who I'll just call MH for now) stood. Bean was still mucking about. This was beginning to infuriate the metal being.

"Are you going to fight me or not?" questioned MH.

Bean stopped pretending a stick of dynamite was a trombone and turned to MH.

"Come on, I'm just having a bit of fun!" Bean quacked.

"It's an attitude like that that will get you killed" MH threatened.

Bean laughed. "Oh, don't be grumpy. Here!" and with that, he threw a bomb right in the robot's face. The crazy duck fell over in laughter, thinking that MH was nothing but old parts now. But he stopped when the smoke cleared to reveal MH was still working.

"That will be your final mistake" he sneered, coldly. Before Bean knew what was happening, MH had grabbed him, spun him in the air and thrown him into the wall. Bean was dazed after the quick attack and was unprepared for MH's subsequent attack. He ran at Bean with amazing speed and launched his fist into Bean's gut, causing the duck to cough up blood.

The evil machine backed off for a while, allowing Bean to fall off the wall onto the ground. With whatever strength he had left, he pulled out a stick of dynamite, which he lit. He then ran at the robot, letting out a war cry. His intention was to shove it between MH's eyes and let it blow his head off. But MH stood to the side and tripped Bean up, causing him to drop the TNT. MH picked Bean up by his neck and readied his claws. Before he could rip the green bird up into shreds, the dynamite went off. It didn't hit anyone but it was enough to take MH's attention. Using this, Bean punched MH in the face, causing him to be dropped. MH was now really annoyed but Bean had already pulled out a whole supply of bombs out of who knows where. He threw one at MH but the robot had whipped out a gatling gun and shot it before it made contact.

Bean, wide eyed, began to throw the rest but all were shot before they were even close to MH. Soon, he had run out of bombs and MH had the gun pointed to his head.

"OK, I give! I give!" the duck cried, whimpering at the sight of the gun.

MH chuckled. "You forget. I'm not allowed to kill" he said.

Bean sighed, thinking he was spared until MH shot him in the shoulder before saying "But I AM allowed to be ruthless."

"Metal Havoc wins" the commentator announced as medics came for the duck. Metal Havoc was already leaving but caught Havoc's eye before leaving. Sonic saw this and saw himself and Metal Sonic in the two.

Havoc kept his eye on Metal Havoc as he left before thinking "Looks like things will get interesting."

"Our next fighter is the daughter of the most feared demon in the world, it's Kyira Kitsune!"

Now, the crowd's response was completely different to everyone else's. They booed. And I mean booed. As Kyira came out, she was greeted by a bucketful of insults. The only ones cheering her were her friends and Tails. She smiled at her son. She just had to hope he wasn't one too.

Sonic turned to his best friend and asked "Is that demon stuff true?"

Tails nodded. "She is the daughter of a demon, the Nine Tailed Fox Demon."

Sonic nodded. "I suppose that explains the two tails" he said, pointing at Tails' namesakes.

"Yeah. The sad thing is, no matter what good she does, everyone treats her the same" the fox explained sadly.

"Well, she's got Knuckles' dad, Amy's dad and Gale" Sonic reminded him.

Tails nodded but still looked disheartened. Sonic then realised something. If Kyuta was a demon, then was Tails…. His train of thought was interrupted when the commentator spoke.

"And her opponent, a peaceful echidna who is the daughter of a tribe leader, it's Tikal the Echidna!"

Tikal came in nervously. She had never fought before, and what's more, she was going up against a daughter of a demon. She began regretting ever signing up for this.

The two approached each other and shook hands.

"I'm sorry if I badly hurt you, but I'm not merciful" said Kyira.

Tikal gulped, slipping on a pair of metal covers for her gloves. "Well, I need to give it my best."

The two got into fighting positions. Tikal was the first to attack. She swung out her fist but Kyira easily caught it. Tikal attempted another swing but it met with the same result. With no way to defend herself, Tikal was unable to stop the fox demon from shoving her back before whipping out with her tails, knocking the young echidna to the floor.

She wasn't injured badly but it was clear that she wasn't an adept fighter. Kyira knelt down to her level.

"You could just give up?" she suggested but Tikal shook her head.

"No. I'm not gonna give up. I don't care how hard you try, I'll fight till either I win or drop!" she said defiantly.

Kyira liked her guts but wasn't going to go easy. The demon crouched down on all fours and began to emit a red aura. Tikal began to notice that the air around Kyira was getting hot. Clearly, she was beginning to utilize her full power. Tikal became nervous but knew she couldn't chicken out now. She ran full speed at her opponent but Kyira was faster. She swept past Tikal with amazing speed, knocking the echidna over. She was covered with scratch marks. Turning, Tikal was met with the same thing.

Now, Tikal had more scratches and she was beginning to bleed. She stood back up but suddenly became dizzy and tired. She was getting weaker and it looked like she was going to fall asleep any minute. But she was fighting it. She ran again at Kyira, once more randomly swinging her fists. Kyira sighed at this and simply flicked her tails around, tripping Tikal up. She landed with a thud and fell unconscious.

"Tikal appears to be unable to fight. Kyira wins!"

Instead of cheers, there were boos. Clearly, a lot of people wanted Tikal to win. Kyira sighed softly, watching Tikal being taken by medics, with Chaos accompanying them. She took her seat again, next to Gale, who noticed her sadness.

"Hey, it's OK, Kyira. You've still got friends" he said.

"Yeah, but no matter what I do, the world hates me. I just wish Kyuta doesn't have to go through that" she explained, glancing at Tails.

"Young Tails will be alright. Look at Sonic and his friends. They'll treat Tails the same, demon or not" Gale said, comforting the fox.

"Thanks Gale. Speaking of that Sonic kid, he almost looks a bit like…" Kyira began to say but Gale covered her mouth.

"I know what you're gonna say" he hissed, "And I say keep quiet about it. I don't know for sure but I have my suspicions, so let Thorn and Wrist know that if they're thinking the same thing, they're to keep it quiet, got it?"

Kyira nodded as Gale removed his mouth. Their attention went back to the arena when the commentator spoke (he has a habit of doing that).

"Well that was invigorating but now, onward! Our next fighter is…"