SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Twenty: Everlasting Fire, Part 2
Silver could only stare in fear as his greatest fear had come true. Iblis, the Flames of Disaster, had returned. Iblis lowered its head down to its darker brother, Mephiles. Surprisingly enough, Mephiles began to pat the flaming monsters head like it was a pup.
"It is good to see you again, my brother." Mephiles said. "Nothing has changed about you."
"How is this possible?" Silver mentally panicked. "We blew out the flames of Solaris. Iblis shouldn't even be here."
"That is true, but I still exist." Mephiles suddenly said. "Perhaps Iblis was able to find some way to escape extinction as well."
Silver's mind was completely going into overdrive. First, Iblis came back and now Mephiles was reading his mind. This was not natural under any circumstances.
"Did...you just read my mind?" Silver said in shock.
"Of course not. You just said it out loud." Mephiles stated, completely oblivious that he didn't.
"I didn't say it, but I thought about it." Silver stated.
"If what you say is true, then you should be able to read my thoughts." Mephiles mentally said.
"I did!" Silver exclaimed. "How is this happening?"
Even Mephiles didn't have an answer. Such powers seemed unimaginable. But even if they did have this power, why was it only reacting now. Suddenly, Mephiles remembered something that Nazo told him when they first met.
---Flashback---
"Silver's has a kind of chaos energy that is different then others. Your powers accidentally merged with his, making you both immune to the time paradox." Nazo informed. "Basically saying, you and Silver are connected.
---End Flashback---
As Mephiles resurfaced from his memories, he did not take notice of Silver's blank stare. Mephiles had understood the connection and prepared to explain it. But Silver beat him to the point.
"So it's all because of your mistake." Silver took pride in saying that. "We are not only immune to the timeline, but our minds are connected too."
"I see that minds aren't the only thing we can see from each other." Mephiles said, not the slightest surprised. He turned back to Iblis and placed his claw on its rocky head. "You can see into my memories. Let's see if you can do the same to him."
Mephiles roamed his claw around the beasts head before digging into it. Iblis may be a mindless beast, but even he has memories. Both he and Silver saw the memories of Iblis' terror, his battles against Silver, and the final battle as Solaris. Mephiles stopped at one point when he found some thing of interest.
---Flashback---
"Silver, use chaos control to stop time and seal us into another dimension." Blaze said; struggling to keep Iblis sealed.
"No! I can't do that to you!" Silver said.
"Didn't we go through this already? We agreed to save the world at any price!" Blaze reminded him.
Hesitantly, Silver grabbed another chaos emerald and reeled his hand back to use chaos control. But he couldn't go through with it.
"I can't! I wouldn't know what to do without you! You fought along side me to save the world! You're my friend...right?" Silver asked, on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
"You're still naïve." Blaze said as she turned to face him. "But...that's one of the reasons...why I loved you."
Blaze walked closer to the grey hedgehog and tilted her head and moved closer until her own lips made contact with his. After a moment to embrace it, Blaze pulled away as her body began to become transparent. Blaze dropped the chaos emeralds and felt herself being pulled into the darkened skies.
"Blaze!" Silver cried.
"Good luck, Silver." Were Blaze's final words.
Blaze finally reached the cloud and exploded in a ray of warming light. Suddenly, Blaze found herself in an empty dimension. Realizing she couldn't hold it any longer, Blaze released the fire within her. Iblis turned its head and glared with great anger towards the fire cat. Iblis raised its claw to kill her until a flash of light blinded it. After regaining it senses, Iblis found that Blaze was no longer present. Minutes turned to hours, hours turned to days, and days turned to months. Iblis began to lose all hope of escaping. Suddenly, a white vortex appeared before it. After close inspection, it saw Silver and Metal traveling through the vortex. Iblis wanted to follow, but it was too big. So, Iblis ripped off its head and threw it into the vortex before it closed.
---End Flashback---
"So that's how he escaped." Mephiles chuckled. "Looks like you're the one at fault this time, Silver."
"So I made one mistake. But it's one I'll easily correct!" Silver exclaimed.
Silver gathered a bundle of psychic energy and threw it towards Mephiles. It had almost reached him until Iblis flew out its block the attack. Silver growled. He realized the only way to Mephiles was to defeat Iblis. Silver floated into the air and made a charge at Iblis. The flaming monster swung its claws at Silver, but missed with every swing. Iblis was starting to become annoyed and opened its chest to fire a barrage of fireballs.
"This trick again." Silver rolled his eyes. "Looks like you haven't learned anything at all." Silver used his psychokinetic powers to the fireballs. "Here! I think these are yours!"
Silver threw the fireballs back at Iblis' head. Iblis, not making the same mistake twice, swiped away the fireballs before they could reach him. Iblis returned his attention to Silver, only to find that he wasn't there. Iblis scanned the area for the grey hedgehog until said hedgehog landed on its head. Silver smirked as he crouched down and placed his hand on Iblis' head.
"Let's see if this will jog your memory." Silver chuckled. Silver released a pulse of energy inside Iblis' head. But when he thought he had won, Iblis reached up and grabbed him. Silver was stunned to see that his attack didn't work. "But how? That should have worked."
"Hahaha! You used that trick to defeat the fake Iblis I created." Mephiles explained. "The real Iblis is much more powerful and will not succumb to such tricks. Now, finish it, brother." Iblis threw Silver into the ground and punched him farther into the Earth, burying him under a ton of rock. "That went easier then expected. But still, his friends may come looking for them and that may prove to be an annoyance." Iblis moved closer to its brother and Mephiles placed its claw to its head. "Now, let's see what else you know."
An hour later, Blaze, Charmy, and Team Virtex were scouring through the forest of Kingdom Valley in search of Silver. Blaze acted as leader because she held a tracking device that was pinpointed on Silver's distinct chaos energy."Thank God Tails built this." Blaze said.
"Why on Earth would the fox build a device to track energy?" Recter questions.
"Who knows? I always thought that Tails was weird in the first place." Blaze said. Just then, the tracker began to beep rapidly. "He's close by!" Blaze ran ahead of the group until she reached the ruined castle. She pointed the tracker around until it stopped at pile of boulders. "He's under there!"
Recter, with his overwhelming strength, picked up the boulders effortlessly. Slowly and gradually, Recter was able to spot a trace of grey. Recter shoved the rocks away, and found Silver lying unconscious. Raine tried using some smelling salts to wake him, but they didn't work. It was time to bring out the heavy artillery. Everyone held their noses as Recter pulled off his sock and held it to Silver's nose. The grey hedgehog's eyes instantly flew open and jumped back while covering his nose.
"Oh my god, what is that?!" Silver yelled.
"My gym sock that I haven't washed yet." Recter said simply. "We were trying wake you."
"By killing me?!" Silver exclaimed.
"Come on, it can't be that bad." Raine said.
Raine let go of her nose and breathed in the air. Unfortunately, the scent of Recter's sock reached her nose and promptly knocked her out.
"You really need to clean that thing." Howl said as he started to become dizzy.
"Everyone's a critic." Recter said as put his shoe back on.
"Blaze, did you bring any chaos emeralds?" Silver asked as he limped over to them.
"One. why?" Blaze asked.
"Cause I think we're going to need it." Silver said.
"For what?" Howl asked.
Suddenly, the earth began to shake and crack open again. Iblis claw his way out of the chasm with Mephiles sitting at the top of his head. Most of the heroes jumped back in shock that such a monster could exist. Except for Raine. She was still out cold. Mephiles took great joy in their scared expressions and jumped down to confront them.
"Is that...?" Blaze asked.
"Yeah. That's Iblis." Silver said. Blaze secretly hand Silver the white chaos emerald. "Do you think you guys can distract them long enough for me to perform another seal?"
"That doesn't sound too hard." Recter said as he cracked his knuckles. "But I feel that I should tell you that it won't be free."
"Fine, we'll pay you." Blaze said irritably. "Just take care of Iblis. Mephiles is mine."
"A pleasure doing business with you." Recter laughed.
"Let's make this a good fight." Mephiles said. Mephiles raised his claw to Iblis and said. "Kill them."
Iblis reeled back its head before throwing it back to cough up a massive fireball. Recter grabbed Raine and Blaze grabbed Silver before the entire team jumped away. Once Recter set Raine down, he bashed his fist together to intimidate his opponent. Recter kicked his foot to one of the remaining pole and broke it off. Iblis threw its claw to Recter, but the red hedgehog jumped to avoid it. at that moment, Recter thrust the pole through Iblis' claw. Iblis roared in pain as it tried to release its claw. Recter struggled to keep Iblis down, but was slow losing his grip.
"A little help would be appreciated!" Recter screamed.
"I thought you the 'King of Combat'" Howl said sarcastically.
"Help now or I'll be you to a pulp!" Recter threatened.
"Cranky king." Howl joked.
Recter growled at his partner. When he turned his attention back to Iblis, he found that the fire monster wanted to crush him with is other claw. As Iblis swung its claw down, Howl jumped out of nowhere and pulled Recter to safety. Iblis was about to strike again when it felt a sudden pain. It was then that both of its claws were severed from its body. Iblis growled at Howl's smirk with his sword over his shoulder.
"That fast enough for you?" Howl smiled. Recter punched him in the face. "Apparently not."
Well, at least that thing is out of commission." Recter said. Iblis waved its wrists and restored its claws. "And I know nothing."
Iblis moved in for the kill when Charmy suddenly flew in front of him.
"You think you're so tough, Mr. monster!" Charmy shouted. Charmy started to punch and kick the large beast, but was actually doing nothing. "Had enough?"
Iblis was becoming annoyed and raised his claw to flick the bug away. Charmy flew over the walls and landed in the forest in a swarm of wasps. Charmy cries of pain could be heard all the way from the ruins.
"He didn't have a chance, did he?" Howl asked.
"No, but you got to give him credit for trying." Recter nodded.
With Blaze and Mephiles. Blaze was assaulting Mephiles with a barrage of burning punches and kicks. But Mephiles avoided them like they were nothing. Blaze was ticked off that Mephiles was making her look like a fool and he wasn't even fighting back. She pushed Mephiles back until they were near the chasm where Iblis popped up. Blaze wanted to end this with a burning swipe, but Mephiles flipped over her easily. Blaze growled furiously while Mephiles chuckled.
"It would seem that love has made you soft." Mephiles said. "You're not nearly as powerful as you use to be."
"You don't know anything about me!" Blaze exclaimed as she ignited her hands again.
"I know more then you think...your majesty." Mephiles said sinisterly.
Blaze's eyes went wide in shock and unwillingly allowed her flames to die out. Just those two words seemed to have sent Blaze in a wave of panic.
"H-how?" Blaze stuttered. "How did you know?"
"When you and Iblis were temporarily connected, Iblis snuck a peek at your memories." Mephiles explained. "It was through him I learned the truth about everything, princess."
"Everything?" Blaze asked.
"Everything." Mephiles stated. "I learned that you reside from another dimension opposite to this one. It was your responsibility to protect the world." Mephiles attitude became more cocky and arrogant. "It's ironic really. You escape your dimension to escape the responsibility, only to be faced with even great ones. That girl must miss you greatly. Poor Marine."
"Shut up!" Blaze flared.
Blaze threw a flaming fist at Mephiles' face and nailed a direct blow. Mephiles was hurtled across the ruin and crashed into the walls. The wall collapse on the demon and buried him under a ton of rubble. Blaze began to regret that as she had used up most of her energy at that one attack. It was a sad fact that Mephiles had reverted to a puddle of ooze before being crushed and reshaped outside the rubble.
"How very foolish." Mephiles said. "To let your anger get the best of you. now you have left yourself defenseless."
Mephiles held out his hand and formed a chaos lance from it. Blaze remained motionless and closed her eyes to await the oncoming attack. But surprisingly enough, when Mephiles fired the shot, he purposely missed.
"What are you doing?" Blaze asked seriously.
"You may come in more handy then I thought." Mephiles said as he turned his back to her. "Besides, killing you would be worthless in a few moments anyway." Mephiles raised his hand to summon up a shadow ball. "Till next time, Princess Blaze."
Mephiles disappeared within his shadow ball, leaving a concerned and confused Blaze behind. Blaze's attention was returned to Iblis. That was until the Recter, Howl, Charmy, and Rain piled up on her.
"As if Big wasn't bad enough." Blaze's muffled voice whined.
Iblis let out a victorious roar over its success. No matter what the heroes tried, they just couldn't find a way to defeat the Flames of Disaster. Iblis began to open his chest to use his regular attack when a green blast of energy hit the side of its head. Iblis growled as it was locked in a stare down with Silver. Blaze clawed her wa out under the pile and found Silver facing Iblis.
"Silver, what are you doing?" Blaze questioned.
"Trust me, Blaze. I know what I'm doing." Silver smirked.
Iblis thrust his claw at the ground where Silver stood. Silver used his Psychokinetic powers to create a force field to protect himself. Iblis claw bounced off and tried again. Both times failed and it tried over and over again. Realizing it wasn't getting anywhere; Iblis did the one thing I could: Swallow him whole.
"Silver!" Blaze screamed.
Iblis roar in victory now that its greatest enemy was finished. The five heroes rose to their feet to defend themselves against the burning threat. Iblis moved in close to finish the battle when a familiar voice sounded.
"Chaos emerald, lend me your power." Iblis looked to its chest and found something glowing inside. Silver was still alive and purposely got eaten to get close to Iblis' core. "Eternal sun! The living flame that has been entrusted to the royal family! Fall into slumber with my soul, Iblis! You cursed flames of disaster!"
Iblis groaned in pain as it felt itself being forced inside Silver's chest. Iblis struggled to break free, but Silver's will was too strong. Iblis had no choice but to submit and complete the seal. With the process complete, Silver fell from the sky unconscious. Blaze quickly reacted and caught Silver before he hit. Blaze began to mourn for Silver when she realized it was the same seal that she used before.
"Silver, you idiot." Blaze cried. "How could you die on me?"
"Maybe because I wanted to see you reaction." Blaze's eyes shot wide open when she found Silver smirking at her. "It's good to know you care." Blaze let him drop on his head. "Ow! Show some respect for the dead."
"Do you know how worried I was?!" Blaze screamed, scaring Silver a bit. "Just what were you trying to prove?!"
"Nothing." Silver said quickly. "I was just sealing Iblis away for good."
"But why aren't you dead?" Blaze asked.
"When I looked into Iblis' memories. I learned that you didn't die." Silver explained. "I figured that if you didn't die, I should either. But now I am cursed as Iblis' keeper"
"Well, I'm just glad you're safe." Blaze said. Blaze hugged her boyfriend closely before saying. "But if you do something like that again, I'll make sure you never have any kids."
"Yes, ma'am." Silver said cowardly.
"Well, it's good to see that your safe." Recter said as the others joined him. "Now there's the matter of the bill."
Raine pulled out a miniature register and started to type in all the actions. Afterwards, a sheet of paper emerged from the machine and she handed it to Silver. Blaze and Charmy gathered around Silver. Their literally eyes bugged out and they let out a bloodcurdling scream.
"WWWWWHHHHHAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!"
Back at the Dark Rulers castle, Mephiles reappeared in the central chamber with Nazo waiting for him on his throne. As per usual, Mephiles was keeping track of things with his chess board of figures. Momentarily, Iblis was on the board before it disappeared.
"So I see you have found what you were looking for." Nazo said.
"Yes, but now my brother is trapped within Silver." Mephiles stated. "It will be exceptionally difficult to pry it from him."
"What I don't understand is why you didn't become Solaris when you had the chance." Nazo said. "If you did, you would have been more powerful then even I."
"There is only one person destined to rule the galaxy." Mephiles stated. "And that is you...Lord Nazo."
"It's good to know where you're loyalties lie." Nazo smiled with pride. "But knowing you, you wouldn't give up without have another plan. What is it?"
"I think I have figured out a way to retrieve what Metal Sonic stole from you." Mephiles said calmly.
"Explain." Nazo demanded. All of a sudden, Mephiles began to laugh. "What's so funny?"
"Lord Nazo." Mephiles began. "Have you ever heard of...The Sol Emeralds?"
Silver has contained Iblis and hopefully it will last this time. What is Blaze's secret? What did Metal take? And what are the Sol Emearalds? Find on the next Sonic Heroes.
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