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Chapter 11: Friends Amongst Enemies: Fight And History

All four of the combatants clashed. Amy and Sonic had both their weapons drawn, while Flame and Candle blocked them with only their arms easily. It looked like both of them were fighting them with wet noodles. Everyone was amazed they had the sheer power to do that, with the exception of Emerl. They all separated and stood their ground. Sonic cursed at how strong they were.

"Damn it…" He said as he started looking at the two carefully. "They are strong. They have weapons, but they aren't using them."

"Well, we have to beat them at this fight." The pink hedgehog stated as she rushed at Flame, her katana ready to slice, when it was stopped. To her surprise, it was Candle holding it with just his finger.

"My, my. This must be the legendary Bellezza." Candle remarked in total amazement. "I'm surprised a young magician like you can have the magical ability to hold it. Let alone attack." He pushed his arm forward, letting Amy lose her balance as Flame rushed in and gave the young hedgehog an uppercut right into her stomach. The pure force of it, not only knocked the wind out of her, but also lifted her feet into the air.

"So I was correct. Flame's a Power type and Candle's a Speed type. Both of the fire element." Emerl projected as Roki looked at him as if he had two heads.

"Speed and Power type…" The multi eye colored teen said to herself as she now turned her attention to Emerl. "Elaborate on this please."

"Certainly. Three types classify Mobians: Speed, Power, and Flight." Emerl looked at the Amy, who was suspended in the air. Candle appeared right behind her, his hands directly above his head. He clamped them together tight like glue and smashed them onto her back. As she slammed on the ground, Sonic appeared behind the lemon hedgehog and kicked him in the face. Compared to Candle's strength, it was like he mildly tapped him, but it was still enough to throw him off guard for a punch directly in the face. "As you know Speed types, like Sonic, Candle, and Amy, can run at incredible speeds and incredible reflexes. Power types, like Knuckles and Flame, are really strong and can cause devastating damage to enemies based on their strong points, like Knuckles' fist."

As Emerl stopped, Amy fell to the ground, but instantly got up. Flame pounced at her, but received a kick in the gut, followed by a series of punches hitting various parts of his body. Everyone couldn't keep up with her hands. They were as fast as bullet trains, but seemed like poke compared to Flame's innate power. "And finally Flight types, which Tails is in. They are able to fly through any form, like Tails using his two tails as a propeller. Either way, they have strong points and weak points depending on the Mobian."

Amy continued with her barrage of punches until a white light surrounded her right fist. The light infused fist felt stronger to her than it did with her left. A smirk showed itself as she charged at Flame and jumped for her attack. Her left eye shined bright red for a split second, then suddenly turned off.

"Take this! Shining Arrow!" The pink magician cried out, as the white light grew brighter as it connected with Flame's jaw. The sheer power of it not only caused major damage to him as well as pushes him into the rose bushes, but it surprised even Emerl.

"I can't believe it!" He yelled as he jumped up from his seat. The usually emotionless robot was so surprised by this, but this made him reconsider his outlook on this fight. "How can she use a chaos attack at her inexperience?"

Everyone looked at him like he was crazy, but he knew he had to explain the situation yet again. "Right. As you know, there are three types of attacks: Normal, Elemental, and Chaos attacks. Normal attacks are like regular punches and kicks. Not much damage against elementally strong enemies. Elemental attacks are attacks powered by the corresponding element, such as Sonic's Severing Slash attack combined with the earth element. Chaos attacks relies on both elemental energy as well as Chaos energy. But she only has a shard of a Chaos Emerald. She must be really strong willed."

Flame stood up from the mangled pile of roses and felt a throbbing pain in his jaw. His lip had a bad cut and blood started to trickle down like a stream. He wiped it off and held the handle of his seemingly empty blade. He started to take a stance, his left foot in front of his right and both hands clamping the handle in front of him. The jewels in his glove started to glow in a bright, almost blinding light that would make even put the sun to shame. Out of the handle, a giant blade of fire erupted. It was roughly the same size as Amy's Bellezza. The blade was of a blood red color and as sharp as a diamond by the looks of it.

"Didn't think a kid could use the Chaos Kingdom's magician's special attack at that strength. I'm impressed." Flame said in an almost vicious tone. He had a smirk on his face, exposing his perfectly white fangs. His pupils turned into slits as well. "But, I'm sure I will win."

He charged at Amy with full force, with her at a defensive stance. Both their blades clashed, with sparks flying everywhere. Both their strengths were equal at this point; it was a pure stalemate. Amy was sweating heavily, not just because of the power struggle, but because of the tremendous heat radiating from the sword itself. Sonic and Candle both fought in their best aspect: speed. Both combatants kept throwing punches at each other, but were quick enough to either block or counter the attack. It was like a giant standoff before all four fighters so fierce, that it was never going to end so easily.

At the sidelines, everyone was speechless at the pure power of them. Roki noticed how strong they really are and was really jealous they got their spirits early. She looked at Tommy, J.P, and Koji from her peripheral vision, not even wanting to miss a second of this fight. The blue haired teen noticed the pudgy boy staring at pure amazement, his mouth agape. The child couldn't take his eyes off as well, but he didn't look as surprised as J.P. Koji on the other hand, started to sweat at the pure sight. He had pure anxiousness on his face and was curling his hands against his jeans. Roki knew he partly excited about the fight, but he showed some fear as well.

The four combatants parted from their struggle and took their stances again. By now, both Amy and Sonic were started to feel exhausted, while Flame and Candle looked as if they were getting warmed up. The fiery hedgehog took the handle of his flame sword as it activated. His sword had the same hilt design as Flame, but the flame on it was blue, almost the same color as Sonic.

"This is getting pretty lame, Flame." Candle chortled with a smirk. The smirk wasn't a normal friendly one he had. This one looked like he had some hidden agenda.

"Yes I do think so." Flame replied as his held his fire blade towards the two Chaos warriors. "Why don't we use our full potential?"

Nothing was said from Candle, signaling a chuckle from Flame. He raised his hand armed with the jewel-encrusted glove and balled it to a fist. The jewels started to glow brightly as a white aura surrounded the Tasmanian. Candle held the jewel shard in his necklace as it shined a bright red color. He didn't gain an aura, but the pressure from it was enough to make Amy and Sonic feel weak against it.

"Oh my!" Emerl stated as his computerized eyes were filled with numbers and symbols. "This is not good. Candle activated the Chaos Emerald shard he stored in his necklace. His power has gone up ten-fold, as well as Flame." Everyone in the sidelines was shocked after hearing the news. They knew what was going to happen to their friends.

Both hedgehogs were struggling to keep balance by the pure force of the Chaos Emerald shard alone. They fell to the floor and had a hard time getting up, but they succeeded. They held their swords and kept their stance.

"Takuya…" Amy stated as she struggled to keep herself up, but Flame appearing right in front of her interrupted her. Before she could make a sudden movement, she was hit full force by a punch to her abdomen. However, it wasn't a normal punch, a giant ball of flame surrounded it. It was just like Knuckles' Flare Grenade. When the punch collided with Amy, something dropped onto the floor from his pocket.

"Izumi!" Sonic yelled as he was about to run towards his partner when he collided with a yellow and red ball. It was Candle, now surrounded by a light red aura.

He kicked the blue hedgehog in the jaw, sending him backward into the rose bush. He then put his hand forward and a fireball started to form. He launched it straight for Sonic, but it curved down towards the concrete floor forming a smokescreen. Amy fell to the ground and instantly reverted back to Izumi as Candle rushed in to Sonic, tackling him and making him revert back to Takuya after a hard slam onto the floor. The rest of the group rushed to the aid of their friends as Flame and Candle watched them.

"It seems that we won this fight." Flame chuckled as his glove deactivated in a bright light. Candle, on the other hand, couldn't deactivate his, but just lowered the pressure to a good enough amount.

"Yes it does." Candle murmured, but felt kind of disappointed. "But that doesn't mean its over."

Emerl looked at both beaten teens. Izumi held her stomach in pain. Her navel had a huge burn around her bellybutton. She was moaning in pain as she spat out blood. Takuya on the other hand, was unresponsive. He was breathing, but he took too much damage from the fight. Roki on the other hand noticed the item that fell onto the floor. It was a small watch-like tool with the symbol of a skull sporting a screw through its head.

"My word." Emerl stated. "They suffered too much damage. If we don't get them to a doctor soon, they'll be dead within the next morning."

Candle looked at the group and felt something empowering him. He was feeling guilty. He walked up to the group and sighed.

"I'm sorry we were so…rash." Said the pyro hedgehog. "We didn't mean to. We overestimated ourselves. We'll take you to a village very close to here. They will help these two with their wounds."

The fire duo was about to carry Izumi and Takuya, but Roki stopped right in front of them.

"Well, now." The blue haired teen yelled as she put up the tool. "What is this? Something is really suspicious here."

Emerl examined the emblem as Gear idiotically stared at it. The intelligent robot turned around and pointed at both of them.

"You two are working for Lord Metallic." As he said that, everyone in the group were shocked. They faced another one of Lord Metallic's army. "Tell us the truth."

"That is true." Flame said, with remorse surrounding his voice. "We do work for Lord Metallic. But, we did not intend to fight anyone. We merely did it to see if we were strong enough to actually put up a fight with them. We just noticed that you were new to the powers, so it didn't help us."

"So why did you lie to us?" Tommy asked, with disappointment. He didn't have any reason to hate them after they explained.

"We lied because, we wanted to keep it a secret." Candle answered. "We only joined Lord Metallic so we can go treasure hunting." Flame then showed them his jewel-encrusted glove and Candle, his Chaos Emerald shard. "We wanted to use the treasure to keep this tavern alive. So far, what we are in is what we have done with the treasure."

"Okay. We believe you." Said Emerl, but was protested by everyone else. "As long as you don't cause harm to anyone else and only treasure hunt, we'll keep you as allies."

Emerl moved his hand towards Candle, offering a handshake. Candle hesitated as first but soon accepted the handshake, striking the deal. Candle broke the handshake and started to move his way to the deep part of the garden, with Flame and everyone else on his tail. They past through the giant forest by crossing bridges, walking on stones, and also climbing some rocks.

After hours of hiking through the woods, they made it to their destination: a village that was both on the ground and in the treetops. The houses were made of wood from the surrounding trees. And there were some people walking about. Candle and Flame looked at the group.

"Welcome to the village of the Lynx tribe. They'll help your friends with their ailments and let you spend a couple of nights here." Candle stated. "We'll bring you into the village, but then we'll be leaving for the caves in Mystic Ruins."

They started to walk into the village. They felt relived knowing that they were able to have their friends get their wounds healed and then have a place to rest.

And here's the end of chapter 11. Sorry I took so long to upload. I had some personal things to take care of. Now, I can try to post more soon. Please Read and Review.

Galesonic