Hey its Galesonic. I'm sorry for uploading so late. I've had a lot to do these past few months and they were affecting my writing time. Anyway, the show must go on!
Disclaimer: I do know own Sonic, Digimon, or anything else used in this story except Frost, Gear, and Theta
Chapter 12: Ice in My Veins
The group walked towards the center tower of the village. They noticed many catgirls of various types staring at them, like they had a plague. Their stares were colder than Frost's ice attacks and just as soulless. Flame and Candle were unaffected, probably because they get that a lot. As they got to the tower, an old woman walked out. She was fairly short, almost as tall as Emerl. Her cat ears and hair were silvery white and her eyes were shut. Her skin was pale and wrinkly as well as being on the verge of flaking. She wore a blue robe that looked almost royal and soft. There was a warm smile on her face.
"Oh. Flame and Candle." She said in a raspy voice. "Welcome back to Ruby Village. It's been a while. Are you here doing your usual job?"
"Too long, Madam Seral." Candle said with a smile on his face. "We're not here to treasure hunt in this area again. We've just come to drop off our friends here."
Seral eyed at the group efficiently, especially Takuya and Izumi, who are still unconscious. She whistled and 3 younger women dropped from the tower and 2 carried the couple into the tower. All of them wore silver-like armor in the shape of a two piece suit. They either carried swords and daggers or a spear with a scythe edge.
"I'll be sure to take care of them." She mewed with a comforting tone. "In the meantime I would like to know all of your names."
Emerl walked up to answer the request. "Very well. My name is Emerl. The Android next to me is Gear. The little kid is Tommy. The bigger teen is J.P. The raven girl is Roki and the bag hatted teen is Koji. The two your guards took in the room are Takuya and Izumi."
Seral nodded as she looked at the remaining guard, who showed everyone else their own part of the village. She walked in and put on a necklace, which had a special marking on it. The markings were in a stone pendant and looked like tribal language. It started to glow bright gray as she moved her hands over the two of them as their wounds started to dissolve further and further. In only a few minutes, all of their wounds were healed.
"It's a good thing I like this pendant." Stated the elder. "I don't know what would have happened if I did give it to Candle and Flame. Like the last one I had before."
Roki lay down in her grass bed as she started to relax. Everyone else, with the exception of her and Tommy were given their own rooms. Her room was a simple one. It was enforced and reinforced with bark from the forestry and the bed was made of the most soothing leaves from the trees. There was also a small bathroom-like area that had bamboo reeds to act as a water system for bathing and somehow plumbing. The mostly tree-dwelling tribe may look primitive, but their technology is not as good as Earth's technology.
The raven-haired girl sighed. It was already two days since they were on Mobius and she missed Earth like she was gone for over thirty years. She likes how Mobius was open forests and somewhat peaceful, if you exclude the machines and assassins that Lord Metallic sends nearly every second. Not only that, the water was really clear and clean as well as the cloudless skies. However, she still missed the air and water on Earth.
Tired of this, she got up and walked out of the room. She needed to clear her mind about all of this. The only people she could go to be either Koji or Madam Seral. She couldn't go to Koji since he doesn't really listen to her rants that much. She had to go to the elder. Within minutes, she walked to the main building. She was receiving glares by the population. That's when it hit her. There were no men here in this village.
"They're an Amazon tribe aren't they?" she asked herself as she got to the main building. It was the tallest on in the village, being the one of few on the ground. It was also made of bark and tree and the roof was a part of the tree itself. She knocked on the chestnut door. The door creaked open and a catgirl popped out of it.
The girl was rather young, like a teen or young adult. Her ears and hair were respectfully sunset red while her skin was fair and vibrant. Like Seral, she wore a robe, but unlike the elder, hers was dark red, like the color of blood. Her eyes were an onyx black and a fang was exposed from her scarlet lips.
"May I help you, youngster?" she asked in a soft, calming voice.
"My name is Roki." The teen started. "I'm here to speak with Madam Seral."
"I'm sorry, but she is busy at the moment with your friends. I might be able to help you with your dilemma. My name is Mia, sorceress in training."
Roki agreed and followed. She led the multi-colored eyed girl towards the hallway. They got to a door at the end of it. The door was metal and had some symbols that she couldn't read. The sorceress opened the door and showed the environment. It was a giant room. It was filled with 7 statues in a circle with some colored rocks surrounding them. There were also two pillow-like sheets for sitting and a small pool of water in the middle of the room, inside the statues. Mia took off her robe respectfully, revealing a torn gray rag-like dress and some reed sandals. She then took off her sandals and walked up the stairs into the center of the room. Roki took off her sneakers and followed suit. They both sat in the sheets and Mia put out her hand over the water.
"Please give me your hand." Mia requested. Roki complied as the catgirl put her hands over it. Her hands began to glow a bright yellow and let out a soft hum. The water under their joined hands bubbled and started to smoke. In no less than a minute, the water froze and the room suddenly became colder.
"That's strange…"Roki stated, "what was that?"
"It was a spiritual technique known through this temple." Mia answered. "It shows your spiritual alignment. The statues here show the elements and their religious leaders here in the tribe." She got up and took a gray rock from a pile behind her. She placed it on Roki's hand. It soon turned white, cold, and some water vapor started to condense. "Just as I thought, your element is ice."
"So what does this mean?" the teen was confused as she watched her go back again. This time, she brought out an ice blue orb and gave it to Roki. She touched it and a giant light engulfed her. Soon, the light faded and she was her normal self. She looked around and felt nothing different. She saw nothing by her eyes alone. "I don't feel any different. Seems to be a dud."
"It is not, Roki." The young sorceress answered as she moved the teen's head towards the water. She saw something completely different. Her eyes normally were brown on the left and green on the right. However, now her green eye was glowing brightly. "Your eyes shows great power inside you. Far greater than anyone I have seen."
Roki searched through her pocket and found her cell phone. Instead of it being her 'best friend', it was a D-Tector, colored light blue and pink. On the screen, it showed a symbol of a snowflake on it. She looked at it in a confused visage, thinking that it was just a joke, but then started to remember the things that happened to Takuya, Tommy, Izumi, and Koji so far.
Takuya and Izumi walked out of the main building feeling refreshed and relaxed. Their wounds were fully healed. They both let out a yawn and looked around. By now, it was night and there was no one in sight. They were walking aimlessly towards the treetops. Izumi looked up and noticed her lovable pet owl, Yume flying around.
"Hey Yume!" She yelled. "What's going on!" The owl descended towards her mistress and showed that she was breathing heavily.
"My word!" the nocturnal scout complained, "I spent ages trying to look for you. Now that I've found you, I can relax."
As soon as she said that, a snarl was heard in the background. The trio suddenly felt the temperature rise. They knew right there that it was a fire elemental. From the trees came a girl. She sported a short red dress along with some high heels of the same color and a necklace with a red jewel shard, like Candle's. She also had fox ears and short, cropped hair, both colored black. Her piercing yellow eyes was staring daggers at them, especially Izumi. She barred her fangs and showed an evil smirk.
"So, Lord Metallic sent me to take out a bunch of brats?" she scoffed as she wafted her hair. "This is child's play at best."
"Oh yeah. We'll show you child's play." Takuya rebutted as both of them took out their D-Tectors. The screens shined as it showed their respective elements. Takuya's was a mountain, showing earth and Izumi's was a star, showing light. It then beeped as the computerized voice started up the process.
"Spirits recognized. Spirit Evolution…activated."
They were engulfed in the light and as it faded, revealed Sonic and Amy. The fox girl could only scoff at the two figures in front of her now.
"Ha! Not much against Evelyn, Lord Metallic's top assassin!" the fox girl yelled as a fireball erupted from her hands and threw it into the ground, surrounded the four of them in a giant fiery wall. She rushed at Amy first, whom seemed to jump away at the last second, but moved into the fire. She moved away and held her right shoulder, indicating she was burned.
Sonic rushed in with Hogosha in hand. He attempted to slash the fox girl, but the handle suddenly felt hot, and by reaction, he threw it away from him. This gave Evelyn the perfect chance to land a punch at his stomach. Not only did this knock the wind out of him; the heat coming from her hands gave it an extra boost in power combined with the Chaos Emerald. He fell backwards, coughing blood and holding his stomach in pain. Evelyn could only laugh at him.
"So much for the Spirit of Ear.." she was soon interrupted by a diamond shard to the arm. She was then bombarded with even more shards, but she managed to dodge them easily with amazing flexibility and agility.
The mage silently cursed; as Diamond Storm didn't work on the assassin like she planed, but managed to get a hit at least. This made Evelyn full of rage. Her eyes perked up and she barred her fangs as fire erupted in her hands.
"You bitch." She angrily yelled as she walked closer slowly and intimidatingly. "No one who has hurt me has ever lived to tell the tale. Now feel my true power."
The Chaos Emerald shard glowed bright red as the foxgirl ran at high speed at the pink hedgehog. She quickly drew Bellezza and blocked the attempted tackle from the assassin, but she could still feel the pressure going down on her mixed with the heat. She then moved back and extended her hand as a giant white light surrounded it.
"You have tricks up your sleeve. I have more. Shining Arrow!" Amy rushed at Evelyn and gave her a swift punch in the jaw. The force of it alone was good enough to take down any one with the same petite physique as Evelyn, but something was truly off. Her fiery hand grabbed the hedgehog by the arm, burning it in the process.
"Well, well, looks like the bitch has some tricks up her sleeve." The assassin maniacally said. "Too bad it's too weak for me."
She started strangling Amy with her burning hands, which added more to the suffocation. The mage could feel her life escaping her body. Before the deed could finish, a white rock bolted through the firewall and bashed Evelyn in the head, causing her to lose her grip as well as her fire.
"Who threw that!" she yelled as she noticed the fiery barrier going down. She then noticed Roki behind the now extinguished flames with Mia kneeling down, silently chanting the spell to put out the fire. "Another one to spoil my work."
Roki walked in as she held up her D-Tector. He then noticed both Sonic and Amy on the ground, while Yume was still flying around frantically, in an attempt to call the others.
Koji had fallen asleep during the time he has gotten into his room, which was almost the same as Roki's with the exception of it, being smaller and having only one bed. He stretched his tired muscles and joints as he walked out to the balcony. His eyes widened as he noticed smoke coming from the center of town. The first thing that came to his mind was something from Lord Metallic. He went to open the door when at the front of it was Emerl and Gear, ready to knock at it. This made his heart jump almost enough to give him a heart attack.
"God damn it!" he yelled whilst holding his heart. "What are you trying to do? Give me a fucking heart attack?"
"You're going over there." Emerl retorted, obviously ignoring the comment. "I already told Tommy. He's going there as we speak."
Koji nodded and ran out of the room, running his way towards the disruption in the Village Square. He took out his D-Tector, ready to get into the fight. If there was one, that is.
Roki glared daggers at the assassin, who could only smirk as her work. She had already taken down two of the current group with ease. Now the multi-colored eyed teen came in, in hopes to defeat Evelyn. Her D-Tector started to beep frantically.
"Spirit of Ice recognized. Spirit Evolution…activated." Roki was consumed in the bright light. It suddenly turned into couple of ice pillars. Inside, Evelyn could see a body huddled in a fetal position. It had wings that covered its body. The wings suddenly shook and the whole body moved. The ice pillars was then broken and sent shards everywhere in the village.
Frost and ice covered the Village Square as the winged figure emerged. It had a slender, feminine, body. Her fur was snow white, while her wings were dark purple. Her ears were pointed up, revealing she was a bat. She wore purple eye shadow on her large eyes which hold giant pools of forest green irises. She wore a white midriff top with long pants and elbow-length gloves, all matching her shirt. She also had a pair of white high-heeled boots. She carried a coil on her back and had a tattoo on her right arm with the kanji sign for 'ice princess'.
Evelyn smirked as she noticed the figure. The cold air weakening her power. "Well, well. If it isn't Rouge." She said expressionless, fire erupting from her hand, which was smaller than what she usually has because of the cold air.
Rouge looked directly at the assassin with a cold stare. "Hmm. First comes the fire. Then comes the ice." She took out the coil from her back and stretched it, revealing that it was a whip. It had a leather handle, but the rest was made of metal, with the end being a sharpened spike. She started to spin it around above her head to plan a strategy. "Now the ice will extinguish the fire."
"We'll see about that!" Evelyn yelled, completely steamed by this. He hands became engulfed in the flames. "I won't stand for this! FLARE CLAW!" she slashed her claws at the air, which sent a giant flame in the shape of the slash. The batgirl only smirked as she retracted her whip and flogged it at the attack, completely neutralizing it.
"Nice trick. But I think I can do better." The spirit of ice used the whip to grab onto the foxgirl's leg, the spike end jabbing into her leg. She hissed in pain, as it kept digging in deeper and deeper. The air turned colder, which by now got Amy and Sonic to wake up. "ICE WAVE." A blue beam surrounded the whip and moved closer to the assassin, who started to feel scared.
"No you can't do this to me! I don't deserve this!" she yelled as she was covered in ice. She couldn't move at all and her breath was still. Sonic and Amy got to the opposite sides of her and got ready. The pink hedgehog started first as she held up the card.
"Spell #7: Diamond Storm!" the card broke into millions of tiny shards and then shot towards the icicle, causing some small cracks. Sonic was up next as he held up Hogosha high above his head.
"SEVERING SLASH!" The slash made an airwave that suddenly broke off into ten more. As they collided with the target, it caused bigger cracks, but it still didn't break. Rouge pulled on her whip, which broke off the leg, causing the pieces to fall like dominoes. Sonic and Amy eyed Rogue like she was an enemy.
"Tell us who you work for or we won't go easy on you." Sonic demanded as Rouge only laughed, like she was someone from a high class.
"Guys. It's me, Roki. I got myself a spirit too." The batgirl cheered as she flew to the air with ease, scaring Yume.
"My word. That's five so far. One of Earth, Wind, Fire, Light, and Ice. I wonder how many more there are left." Yume hooted, swooping down to her mistress.
Emerl walked in with Gear, Tommy, and Koji. "There are two spirits left. One, I'm sure of is Darkness. But I do not recall of the last one." He said wisely, but a little defeated since he couldn't figure out some history about the heroes.
Soon after, all three of them were changed back to normal by their D-Tectors. They noticed Mia getting up and bowing to the door, which opened to reveal Madam Seral walking out of it alone.
"I'm surprised to see someone from the mercenary union come here to kill you guys. Lord Metallic doesn't use them unless he is truly desperate." She said as she lets out a soft exhale.
"But that's odd." The owl thought aloud. "From what I can tell. All the past enemies we've had were non-machine. Why would someone use non-machines when he has nearly hundreds of machines at his disposal?"
"We don't know for sure." The elder answered. "We just have to wait. Until then, you can stay here for a few days."
"Sweet! Finally I can have a nice warm bed." Izumi hollered as she jumped for joy. "Malto Bene!"
Suddenly, Tails and Knuckles jumped out of the bushes, both ready for a fight, when they saw fragments of ice and smoke, while Takuya and Izumi weren't spirit evolved.
"Ah crap!" the echidna yelled ferociously. "We missed the fight. We wasted too much time looking for the quickest way there."
"It wasn't my fault." The twin-tailed canine retorted. "I didn't know that there were traps here."
Everyone else laughed as Tommy and Koji got into their argument over the directions.
In Lord Metallic's castle, Theta walked into a room. The room was big and had a table that could fit guest of over 20 people with room for more. There was a fireplace in the side and on the table was an assortment of food and drink, such as chicken, wine, as well as vegetables, ice, peppers, and wintergreen roots. At the far end of the table, Frost sat eating his chicken and roots. On each side of him were Flame and Candle, both eating peppers and having a small glass of wine. There were 4 other people in the room, but they're features were covered by the darkness of the room.
"I have just received word that Evelyn failed her primary mission." Theta reported as he bowed low to the ground.
"Damn it!" the snow wolf yelled as he slammed his fist against the table hard, causing it to have a tremor. "We should have never have paid a mercenary to do a machine's job."
"Patience Frost." Candle calmly said while drinking down his wine. "Just because she didn't get the spirit, doesn't mean that it isn't the end of the world."
"Yeah but it does mean that we have more of a challenge."
"Don't get your fur in a knot." Said one of the figures with a low feminine voice, showing it was a girl in the group. "She failed her primary mission. Did she at least succeed in her secondary one, Theta?"
"Yes, my mistress." Theta said instantly. "The target is in the area of Ruby Village."
Hearing this made Flame and Candle cringe, but they had to keep their calm demeanor for their associates.
"'Tis fine." Another voice called. This one is a masculine one. "This facility we call a base has many a drone. 'Tis a fine choice we use thine accumulance to our advance."
Flame got up from the table in complete surprise. "You meant you're going to destroy Ruby Village just so you can get your hands on that?" his voice was more fearful than angry.
"Looks like we've hit a sensitive side in the Devil himself." The girl said in a flattering tone. "I really like that in a man."
"Cut the chat!" Frost yelled, completely annoyed. "Theta, give the order to 50 of our M-136 ground drones that they are going to battle in a low armored flagship. Give them their primary and secondary missions as planned."
"As you wish, Master Frost." The robot stated as he rushed out of the room. The room soon became quiet for a few moments until one of the masculine figures started to walk out of the room. Frost looked up at him with suspicion.
"You're leaving so soon? You didn't even eat."
"I'm not feeling hungry. I'm going to my room." The voice hesitantly said. His voice, though sort of deep, had a calming, yet intimidating tone to it. He closed the large ivory door, which echoed into the room. The silence in the room took so long; it could make anyone go mad.
And here's the end of the chapter. Lord Metallic's men (and woman) are planning something on Ruby Village. Exactly what is the target? And why do they want it? Find out on the next chapter of What Time Will Tell. Please Read and Review. Your contributions help me gain new ideas everyday.