I'm Your Challenge

Merlina continued to lead Tails through the castle as she navigated through the many hallways. "Uh, Merlina, what type of surprise is it." the two-tailed fox asked as they turned again to their fifteenth hallway. At the end of the hallway was a large wooden door unprotected. Actually, if Tails thought about it, majority of the guards had suddenly disappeared. The fox thought that whatever the surprise was, it was big. As they neared the door, Merlina lifted the large latched that barred the door, the only source that the door was protected.

"Here's the surprise." Merlina said as she opened the door. Darkness could only be seen in the revealed room. Taking a few steps inside, Tails looked around to find any other source of light, but nothing could be seen.

BANG!

Tails ears perked up as he whirled around to the source of the sound to find no source of light radiated into the room. Only one thing could have caused the room to now become as dark as an Abyss…

…Merlina shut the door.

Panicking, Tails desperately ran to the door and looked for a handle, but there was none. Great, Tails sarcastically thought as he gave up trying to smash and cut the door down. Walking aimlessly in the dark, the fox wandered deeper into the room. Lights suddenly started to flicker above the mobian. Looking up, light bulbs hanging loosely from the ceiling radiate a dull light. Looking around, Tails saw that he was in a large stone wood. The large wooden door was far behind him, while a large iron gate was only a few yards away. His ears perked up as they caught a soft, but recognizable type of noise could be heard. Tails could have sworn he heard cheering. Quickly moving to the door, Tails looked between the bars and gasped.

"Hi, you finally made it." Sonic said as he stood on a large platform that jutted out several feet above the arena. On his right was Lancelot while on his left were Percival and Gawain. Stands filled with the people of Camelot surrounded the arena. In the arena were two soldiers fighting, dents covered the armor as cuts and bruises littered across the exposed skin. The soldier in the dark gray armor slashed his claymore toward the other soldier, but he easily parried it with his sword, causing his attacker to stumble before falling onto the ground. Taking the opportunity, the soldier quickly held his sword against the other soldier's throat. "That's enough for today. Go and rest now." Sonic shouted to the soldier. The soldiers bowed to him, causing Sonic to sheepishly smile, before departing the arena.

"What's this about, Sonic?" Tails asked the blue hedgehog.

"Why, we're trying to see if you're ready to be a knight. I know this is probably early for you, but you seem to be learning about this quickly." Sonic explained as his gate and the one on the other side slowly lowered to the ground. "So I'm testing you now." A clicking sound indicated that the gates had fully lowered themselves. From the other side of the arena a soldier wearing white and gold armor stepped out, a longsword was strapped to his hip. "Prepare yourself."

(Meanwhile at the Mystic Lake)

"Prepare yourself Galahad!" the green hawk shouted as the underworld knights charged at the duo, their swords raised high as it prepared itself to tear through armor and flesh and have blood covering it like paint.

"I know, Lamorak. I'm not a little kid anymore!" the silver hedgehog shouted back as he used his two dagger-like swords to slash through the two knights. They soon disappeared into thin air. As for Lamorak, he used his fan-like swords to quickly slash through numerous soldiers. The two knights quickly defeated the first wave of soldiers, but for each one taking down, two more took its place.

"There's too many." Lamorak shouted as they now began to get over-run. Bruises, cuts and slashes covered his exposed flesh as dents decorated the armor.

"Lamorak, Galahad, come here quickly." Nimue shouted as she stood on the platform that the duo were protecting. Using his telekinesis to slow down the approaching attackers, the silver hedgehog and green hawk dashed over to the pink hedgehog. The soldiers crept up the platform ready to attack again, but were blinded as a flash of light surrounded the Nimue, Galahad, and Lamorak. As the light dimmed, the underworld knights looked around for their targets, but no traces of the three were present.

"Don't worry about them." the Black Knight said as he walked up to the large group. "I know where they are going anyway."

(Back in Camelot Castle's Arena)

Tails and the soldier continued to parry each other's attack. It was a first slash match so the person who was able to slash their opponent was the victor. This is going to take a while. Tails thought as they again parried each other. Then an idea popped into his head. Leaping backwards allowing a yard of space between the two, he crouched to the ground as his two swords began to glow a dull yellow. The arena had now turned silent as they watched with interest the fox. As the swords turned a gold color, Tails leaped into the air, his namesakes waving in the air. After reaching a height of two yards, Tails used his tails like a whip to propel himself to his surprised opponent. He then quickly slashed his opponent multiple times, causing his opponents armor to receive multiple dents and slash marks.

"That's the end of the match." Sonic announced as uproars of cheers erupted from the crowd.

"Did I finish my testing?" Tails asked. Sonic shook his head in disagreement.

"No that was just a warm up." Sonic said as he nodded his head to one of the soldiers. That soldier pulled out a long whistle that had a dragon head at the end and blew on it. Several seconds later, a large shadow covered the arena. The crowd gasped in terror and some had fled the premises. Tails looked up to see an olive green underbelly. The ground shook as the creature landed in the arena, taking up some of the space. The creature was a large dragon with a phthalo green scales and olive green wings. Brown spikes covered his body as four brown horns jutted out of his head, two on the side near the top of its head that curved upward from its ears, one large on in the middle that covered most of its head, and one on its nose. Its long tail swayed side to side like a cat ready to pounce, its arrow-shaped tip was also an olive green. It leaned forward as a large roar erupted from its mouth. Its teeth were razor sharp and pearly white. Its green pupils glowed with excitement.

"I'm your challenge." the dragon said, its feral lips forming a large grin.

Me: you didn't see that coming did you. I decided to put myself into the actual story. Anyway, sorry for not updating this story for a while. I had a hard time coming up with this chapter.

Sonic: Anyway review.

Me: Oh, I need a good name for Tails' soul surge. Any suggestion let me know. Also, I'll accept a few OC, so if you want audition your OC. I want to know their name, age, description, abilities, what they like, and what they dislike. See ya.