Apologies for not updating in a metric yonk, exams started popping up like complaints after Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. You're lucky I'm even writing a chapter right now =P although I do hope to get this finished ASAP, it's been going for almost a year at this rate.
As the floating island loomed on the horizon, lopsided and starting to fall to the ground, the pair approached by air, as fast as their wings would carry them. These new forms felt strange; but comfortably strange. With immense power at their disposal, they surged forward to do battle with Naugus himself. They uttered not a word to each other, both knowing what must be done, both aware of the consequences of failure. From the speeding hovercar behind them, the only traces of them were two blurs; one of deep pink and red, the other of black and shining yellow.
Upon reaching the base of the rock, they headed sharply upwards. Scaling the few hundred or so metres to the surface in a matter of seconds, they kicked off the ramparts upon reaching their lip and rose up to survey the scene. Although the ground was trembling and the whole superstructure was on the move, there was no sign of their foe. He hadn't even emerged from the tunnels. Exchanging confused glances, they drew closer. Not so much as a sound from him. They nodded and began to seal the exits with any rocks they could find. No sooner had they done that than the rate of the city's turning began to grow. Almost instinctively, they abandoned their endeavours and took flight, and with good reason. Getting as far away as they possibly could, the rumbling peaked, and they heard a cascading roar from behind them. Upon a momentary backwards glance, it became pretty obvious that the entire city had been blown into a thousand pieces from the inside. As the giant pieces of rubble whistled past their ears, they saw the wispy orb floating there amidst the dust, its enraged occupant ready to explode, just like the gardens before him.
"You DARE defy me?" He bellowed. "Feel my wrath, Shadow the Hedgehog!" He rose up to their altitude level, and began to summon a large ball of energy, and concentrated it into a beam, aimed directly at Shadow. Amy quickly leapt to his rescue, and shoved him out of its path, along with herself. All that got hit was a stray feather from Shadow's wings. "Ooh, this is just delicious. You brought me another one of the chosen ones!"
"Chosen one? What the hell are you talking about?" Shadow yelled back.
"Oh, don't act like you don't know what I mean." Naugus replied casually, charging up another beam, while the pair of them frantically took evasive action.
"We can't keep doing this forever, Shadow!" Amy grabbed him in midair and dropped a message to him. He turned and headed back to her, narrowly avoiding another energy blast which hurtled off into space.
"He seems to be more interested in me. I'll distract him while you attack him from behind! His shield goes down when he sends that blast!"
"Are you sure that'll work?"
"It probably won't kill him, but it'll give us enough time to get away!"
"Okay."
"Getting tired yet?" The evil wizard taunted.
"Not a bit!" Shadow yelled, trying to reverse the taunt. With much success aswell; Naugus did not like his fearless attitude one bit. He gathered his energy to smite him, taking as much as he could to minimise the hedgehog's chance of escaping. With an almighty yell, he unleashed the ball, hurtling towards him. But before he could see if the attack had proven successful; he lurched forward a little and coughed. He saw blood fly from his throat and fall the dizzying distance back to the ground. While watching its path, he noticed something else – a smooth, sharp piece of metal protruding from his chest. While inspecting it, he was distracted by a pair of thumps on his back knocking him further forward, and he started to drift down. His power was slowly fading…
"What…"
"Say good night, Iggy." Amy jeered, standing on his back, hanging on by her katana handle, waving her hammer in the air. Shadow ascended in front of them.
"Shadow! But how?" Shadow smirked.
"Forgetting…" He flashed back around a hundred paces in a yellow blur, waved, and returned just as quickly. "… this?" Naugus stared in disbelief, and Shadow whirled in mid-flight, bringing the heel of his boot into sharp impact with Ixus' face, and Amy finished the job with a hammer blow to his nose. Shadow used his chain to get a firm hold of the old man's torso, and with a couple of swings, hurled him to the ground.
"Wow, considering he's only the biggest evil ever to walk Mobius, he did die pretty easily." Amy said, looking down at him in eulogy.
"Something tells me he's not quite dead yet…" Shadow uttered.
"Well then… shouldn't we go down there and finish him off? You know, be thorough?"
"I don't think it's quite as simple as that. We should just go, now, because he is gonna be mad as hell when he gets back…"