CHAPTER 19: FUCK A NINJA

In an hour or two, the knights had arrived at Avalon. The Knights of the Round Table had just got off the ship, and as soon as they did, the armadillo turned around.

"Thank you for the transportation here, Ezio." Bors thanked. -Still like being called that.-

"AGREED, IT WAS VERY EFFICIENT." Galehaut added.

"You're welcome." Sonic replied. "Nothing really."

"Do you want to come with us to fight the King, Ezio?" Lamorak asked. "You know what they say, the more the merrier."

"No thanks, I'll be staying here." Sonic politely declined. He was going to fight, just not alongside the band of knights.

The hawk scoffed as he turned his back and began to walk away. "Fine, then. If that is what you wish, sir Ezio."

"Well, we'll be off, then." Percival said, waving goodbye.

"Good luck!" Sonic cheered in reply. As the knights of the round table began walking around the corner of a building, Sonic walked back into the captain's quarters, went around the large mahogany desk, and opened the widest drawer. Sonic pulled Caliburn from the drawer.

"How was that?" Sonic asked.

"Oh, horrible. It felt like a coffin!" Caliburn complained.

"Well, they're gone, let's go." Sonic said, leaving the captain's quarters, and leaving the ship.

He was looking for a way to the rooftops. Using his passage-way spotting eyes, he sees a way he can climb up right onto the rooftops; right up the front of a shop of some sort. It wasn't too specific. The wooden sign that dangled from a post suspended next to the doorway had faded writing on it. Judging by what Sonic was able to make legible, "The Chao..." it was probably a bar, or a pet store of some sort. -Because every building in Britain can't be a home, castle or a bar.-

Sonic sprinted up to the side of the doorway, kicking off the windowsill to propel himself upward.

"WOAH! Did you see that?" Exclaimed a child from inside the building. -Oh shit, was that just Charmy?-

"WHAT IS IT, CALVIN?" Boomed a loud man, also from inside. -If Vector is Hobbes I am going to cut round holes in my visor and place giant-ass home made googly eyes in their place, and take no notice to it at all.-

After deciding it wasn't a great idea to wait for them to come outside and look at him dangling from the wall, Sonic began to climb up the building. When he came up to the second story window, he saw a chameleon writing in a book at a desk, right up next to the window. -FOUND MY NINJA.-

The chameleon looked at Sonic surprised, and wasted no time pushing his desk off to the side and pulling Sonic into the room by his collar.

Caught off-guard, Sonic was then thrown to a wall, and Sonic examined the chameleon more carefully. There was a couple changes from the Espio Sonic knew well. First off, he was wearing a yellow scarf. -Might I say he looks rather da- HEY WAIT A SECOND, MY OUTFIT IS MISSING A YELLOW SCARF.- Second, he had taken a liking to more unique weaponry. Across the room were several weapons, including a Scottish claymore, an Arabic scimitar, and a Japanese katana.

Currently, the chameleon was holding what seemed to be a dagger with a ball connected to it via a chain from the hilt. The chain was very long, and he was twirling it around. -I think I know this weapon, it's a... a... what's it called... YOU KNOW, I bet Tails would be able to name what that thing is, what with all of weeaboo NI-HON-EESE anime stuff he watches. But whatever. The thing in Espio's hands fuck up swords and people.-

The chameleon began to interrogate the intruder. "What are you doing climbing up the bui-"

With a sudden jolt, Sonic attempted to grab the chain. Getting denied, Sonic was slashed at with the dagger, but luckily, his armor made it glance off.

"You're pretty fast, but not fast enough." -THAT'S IT THIS NINJA IS GETTING FUCKED.- "CALVIN, VICTOR, GET UP HERE!" -No googly eyes. Aww. That would have been hilarious.-

Without any warning, Sonic grabbed the chair and threw it at the chameleon.

Downstairs, Calvin the Bee and Victor the Crocodile began rushing up the stairs. Victor busted the door open, he saw their friend being choked by his scarf by a knight wearing red and white armor, who apparently came in through the window.

"TENZIN!" Victor cried out, rushing toward them. -Tenzin? … I'm okay with that. And also, thank god, Vector has a minorly changed name so I can wrap my head around it easily.-

Victor reared back his fist, and sent it flying toward Sonic. Sonic threw Tenzin in the way, but, intentionally, Victor's punch fell short. Sonic was waiting for the hit, while Tenzin lifted his feet up off the ground and kicked off of Victor's huge fist. The chameleon flipped over Sonic, now released from the choke Sonic had him in.

Sonic quickly wrapped the scarf around his neck and dashed over to the wall, pulling out his shield and turning around before he slammed into the wall. He saw Tenzin slashing at the space Sonic was with a kunai.

"Woah! He's fast! Did you see that?" Calvin cried out.

"No, I didn't!" Victor shouted back. "Help us out here!"

Sonic had three enemies against him and he really did not want to waste time fighting these enemies, all now carrying weapons, all brought up.

"You know what." Sonic said plainly.

Sonic withdrew his sword, and pulled the shield in front of him. "Look, you may not have heard of me, but my name is Sonic. I came here along with the Knights of the Round Table after getting them to get everyone that left and go fight the king. Can you PLEASE let me go?"

"No." Tenzin doubted.

Sonic went on. "Don't believe me? I'll take off my helmet."

"I'm not sure on weather or not to believe you," Tenzin began, now swinging the ball. "But I just want my scarf back."

Sonic's arms slumped, and his jaw dropped.

"Really? Just the scarf?" Caliburn asked surprised.

Sonic put his shield on his back, and put Caliburn on the wall, and began freeing up his right hand.

"Yes, I realize now there's no point fighting over some guy running around on the rooftops, no matter the reason. My apolo–"

PAK

-Nope.-

With a loud explosion coming from Sonic's vambrace, the ball of Tenzin's chain swung around in the opposite direction it was traveling and nailed him straight in the face.

-Ninja status: fucked.-

Tenzin fell to the ground, knocked out, and using the element of surprise to his advantage, he ran toward the window, jumped on it, grabbed the decorative bricks surrounding the window and began to climb up before Victor could grasp what happened to his reptilian friend.

Long before Sonic was off of their roof, Calvin broke the silence, lowering his weapons in confusion and disappointment.

"What the HECK just happened?"

…

The Knights of the Round Table were traveling along the boardwalk of Avalon. The sun was setting, and Galehaut had spotted Arthur on the other side of the bay.

"TARGET SPOTTED." Galehaut announced in a moderate volume voice, compared to his normally booming tone. "HE HASN'T SEEN US. STAY OUT OF SIGHT."

"Just before we get to the straightaway toward him, I will lower myself down to the beach." Percival began to plan. "I'll run past him, find myself a way up when I'm in head of him, making him flee from me, into your welcoming arms."

"I'll come with you!" Galahad jumped to the opportunity.

Percival rolled her eyes. "Alright," she said under a groan. "Just, be quiet and follow my orders."

Staying behind crates and other parked ships, the knights began to make their way to the Black Knight as quickly as they could.

"So, this Ezio guy," Lamorak began. "You know him well?"

"Yes," Percival lied. She created a short story in her head. "I met him when..."

KAAaoowwww...

"Sweet bloody Jesus what the hell was that?" Lamorak jumped. "Gawain, normally when things are happening, you're as red as a beat, but now your as a girl at a ball. What's your problem?"

"That sound..." Gawain managed to make out with his mouth. He shook his head, and glared at Percival. "I THOUGHT YOU SAID HE WAS DEAD!"

"I never said I killed Sonic. It was a fist fight, by the way..." Percival reminded.

"Why didn't you just stab him? Did he challenge you? What were the terms? I hope you know I have every right to know about the guy that almost killed me."

"Look, he had to have gotten that weapon from somewhere else." Percival argued. "I don't think he designed it, but the person who did is probably making more."

"Oh GREAT!" Gawain threw his arms up in frustration. "Watch your heads everyone, even if the helmet stops it, you'll be hanging for your life by the skin of your teeth."

"Stops what?" Bors asked, sort of unmoved by Gawain's doomsaying.

"A little metal ball that gets wherever the person shooting it at you wants it to go instantly." Gawain said, pointing toward his visor, which had a noticeable hole in the top.

"Unless you're thickheaded." Lamorak chuckled.

"Hey Percival, can you cook him rare?"

"Oh ha ha, very funny."

"SILENCE AND PROCEED WITH THE MISSION YOU FOOLS."

Speechless, the knights turned their heads and stared at Galehaut as if he grew two more heads.

"... MY APLOGIES."

…

Sonic dashed across the rooftops, really enjoying the views. -Man, sunset rooftop running is sweet. I wish I brought a camera...- Sonic saw the King, across the bay. -Do you think anyone would notice a camera beard?-

"What the hell was that for back there?" Caliburn raved, letting his noble nature leave himself for a moment to chastise Sonic. "He just wanted his scarf back!"

"Well I wanted it," Sonic began. "If someone saves the world, do you think he should get things as a reward for his effort and victory? Shouldn't he eat free if he saved the life of the vendor?"

"Yes, but so far, you haven't saved any lives here yet."

Sonic's eyebrows flattened, annoyed. "I'm getting there yeesh."

"There's no point arguing with you, is there?" Caliburn complained.

"Nope." Sonic replied immediately.

Sonic came to a building on the edge of the city, a boardwalk that curved alongside a bay. Looking down, he could see his knights make their way to him. Glad to see that everything is just as planned, Sonic began rushing toward the king from the rooftops, alongside the unknowing knights.