I am sorry, I wanted to make sure this chapter ended with a bang. And not gunshot bang.
CHAPTER 29: SONIC BOOM
Before she could turn around, Sonic grabbed the Scabbard at her side, tossed it away, and sent a rather clumsy punch to her back. The punch was not too powerful, but still the dramatic reaction shocked Sonic. She slammed against the stone wall above the angry mob, and bounced off. She still had quite some power, that had to wear off first. Since Merlina was a skilled magician, she could probably hold it's power for longer than Arthur did. Using the power, she began to levitate before she fell into the mob.
"I don't care what you're thinking as you turn to me!" Sonic shouted at the powerful witch. "Cause what I have in my two hands is enough to set me free!"
Merlina had an impressed look on her face as she stared into the eyes of the super powered hero as he shook his empty, metal gloved hands. She had never seen him with this much strength, granted she did give him the gauntlet on this right hand to give him finger strength, but nothing that remarkable.
"I could fight the feeling, to resist it over time, BUT WHEN IT'S JUST TOO MUCH TO TAKE, you sneak up from behind!" Sonic shouted, referring to the time where Merlina had stole the Scabbard off Sonic's back. -And not what I just did right now.-
The room remained silent. -I want a cheering crowd, god dammit, now I feel kinda awkward, BUT I CAN'T STOP NOW. THIS IS THE PATH I MUST TAKE.- "Was it me, you say, you're looking for?" Sonic took out his shield and brought it in front of him. "Let me show you who I am and what I'm here for!"
He held out his right hand. As if on cue, Percival was rearing her arm back to toss him the flamberg she had picked up, but a soldier stopped her. He took out a small vase, and poured it on the sword form the tip. It was oil. The Soldier nodded as he took his hands away from the sword, signaling her to throw it. As she did, she threw fire at Sonic. Sonic grabbed the oily sword, and slashed the fire attack, lighting the flamberg on fire. -HOLY SHIT YES- Sonic grabbed it in the air and twisted the burning, long, wavy bladed sword and got into a battle pose.
"~You're trying to reach inside of me! Tryin' to take my energy! LET ME SHOW YOU JUST. WHAT! I'M! MADE OF!~"
Sonic ran backward up the wall behind the throne and kicked off at Merlina. Merlina shot a powerful spell his way. The super powered hog rose his shield and deflected the blast. The mid-air block caused him to change course upward, spinning around. Sonic used this to his advantage, and got into a ball, spinning at his signature speed, and slashed Merlina.
The Dark Queen had parried the devastating blow with magic, however. Sonic began to spin the other way with little control. He landed on his back, took a breath, and spun around on his behind and rolled backward to his feet.
"Fire!" Sonic ordered the crowd, pointing at Merlina. Reluctantly, those who still had ammunition for their rifles quickly pointed their guns upward and fired at the witch, while archers had to ready their bows. As they did this, Sonic ran to the throne again, ready to attack the same way again.
Merlina had some noticeable knock-back from the bullets force, but no blood was shown. She had created an invisible aura of magic to protect herself from any wounds.
Sonic raced up and leaped from the large marble wall once more, ready to attack when her magic was now more focused on defense from the bullets. When he was in the air, White Death was reloading, and Merlina was regaining her balance.
Sonic did another spin, and launched herself at Merlina once more. The blast was felt by the Dark Queen this time. The magic shield broke as a slash wound appeared across her chest. She spun in the air, but took control of her momentum and flew to the Scabbard while Sonic was still in the air. She dropped herself onto the Scabbard, rolling over it, stopping eventually, clutching it to her chest.
"I am impressed, to say the least..." Merlina trailed off, letting of an "ah" of relief as the black magic of the Scabbard sewed her wounds in a comfortable and relaxing way. "May I ask what encouraged this sudden burst in strength in such short time?"
Sonic kicked to his feet, and was walking over while Merlina was speaking. "Nimue and her strength potions." A smile swung across his face as he twirled the sword he had in his hand around. As he walked to Merlina, thinking of how to combat her without destroying the Scabbard, he saw a look in her eyes.
It was fear. Mixed with some anger, he later noticed, but fear was the first thing he noticed. A beast is more dangerous when cornered. -Especially if that beast has a conduit of an ungodly amount of energy.- But, as Merlina stood up, Sonic did not hesitate to dash at her, holding the flamberg with two hands to his side, ready to cut her into clean halves. Instead of trying to block the attack, the Dark Queen went for a simpler option.
In a moment, she was off to the side. Sonic's extremely focused swing had managed to cut her shin level purple hair as she did so.
Sonic had to spin after he swung once to help slow it down. He looked to the direction she went off and raised his shield, anticipating a magic attack. He was instead blown away by a strong wind, propelled by Merlina's magic. He flew against the wall behind the throne, rolling on his side once he landed. He was on his back now, and Merlina was quickly running over, raising her staff against White Death.
Sonic thought quickly, and grabbed the flaming flamberg by the tip, and reared it back.
Merlina was about to summon an undead dragon just above where they were standing, when suddenly she heard a noise.
whiffwhiffwhiFFWHIFFWHIFFWHIF-
CR-R-R-R-RACK
The flaming sword smashed the witch in the spine, shattering her magic force field. The flamberg bounced off and embedded itself on a pillar. Merlina, screaming from the pain the devastating sword toss did to her back, sending her belly flopping onto the ground, landing on the Scabbard.
-Magic shields don't make crack noises. They sound like glass when they break. So, if that was what I think it was, FUCKING EW!-
During the small moment of Sonic's disgust, Merlina had rose again, her just broken back being immediately fixed. She was breathing heavily, obviously not pleased with how effective her shielding is against him, even with the Scabbard. She put the Scabbard on her back as she turned around, meanwhile Sonic ran up to retrieve his sword, and she began to cast a spell. The spell materialized a chunk of metal, wrapped in electricity, and launched it at Sonic.
Sonic, at first, was only afraid that his shield wouldn't be able to withstand the chunk of metal, but then he saw the electricity wrap around it. Knowing he'd be fried if it touched his full-body platemail suit of armor, he quickly rolled off to the side a dramatic range.
When Merlina was finished throwing her arms in order to aid the spell casting, she looked over at Sonic, who was rearing his fist back. Quickly, she stuck her hand out and began to materialize something in it.
But before it could finish, Sonic was over to her in an instant and sent a stern, powerful uppercut to her jaw, sending her into the air. Sonic took this moment to recognize the cheers of the crowd. Satisfied, he quickly ran over to where his sword bounced to. He saw it lodged in a floating piece of a pillar in the red space-like area. -I wonder what will happen if I fell down there...-
Not fearing the all the potential dangers that lie in the abyss, the hedgehog leaped onto the pillar fragment. It began to move from Sonic landing on it, but Sonic wasted no time in tearing his sword out of the pillar, causing parts to break off, and jumping back to the room.
As he walked from behind the small line of large pillars, he saw that the Dark Queen had switched her attention. She was slowly summoning a giant blue and red version of King Arthur, with two of his very large swords. He had many tentacles coming from his back, also wielding swords. -Jesus Christ, I just realized how fucking overpowered that LOOKS, let alone IS.-
Without a second to spare, Sonic jumped onto the pillar and raced up it. He jumped off at Merlina and smashed her with the blunt side of the still burning sword. To his surprise, neither Merlina or the sword broke. Merlina was thrown at the ghost, who was turned to smoke. Merlina had managed to stop herself in the air.
Sonic landed, and immediately he ran up the pillar once more, lunged at Merlina. She created a shield of magic, visibly thick, and moved in Sonic's direction as he flew toward her. The attacker was sent slowly front flipping over the blocker, and began to fall to the ground. But as he was falling, Sonic made one more attempt of attacking, as the Dark Queen looked down at her falling enemy.
Sonic threw the sword at the Dark Queen as if it were a javelin.
The flamberg effortlessly tore through Merlina's skull, and continued skyward. The brain matter and other such objects located inside the skull flew out, but the magic from the Scabbard did not waste any time.
Sonic, not a fan of brain matter in his face, began to roll on his side a dozen or so times, until he did a spin onto his feet. He turned to see Merlina plop onto the ground, bits of her skull's insides being pulled back in by the magic.
Before long, Merlina's skull was as good as new, and it was fully functional. And worst of all, she still had her memories. She looked up at Sonic, -who was mildly disgusted with the whole event, and the fact that it can revive the freshly dead,- with a thousand hateful words in her eyes. Her hair pulsed into the air as she grabbed the Scabbard from her back, and began to get off her knees. She looked like she was going to use every last drop of the Scabbard's power killing Sonic.
CHHHCHT
"AAAH!" Merlina screamed, looking back. The flamberg had fallen tip first onto her calf, and the Scabbard's power was healing the wound around the sword. She had pinned herself to the floor. -She's standing perfectly still now... she can't dodge...-
Sonic knew his opportunity, and smiled at the thought.
Sonic walked over to a rather large warrior. He shared traits as what one would imagine a barbarian to be, however he was armor clad and carried a heavy steel hammer.
"I will be taking your weapon now." Sonic asserted.
"Why?" The loud man boomed back. "JUST KICK H-"
"If it is NOT your destiny to give me that hammer, you will be traveling to Ireland by air!"
"Sir Sonic, I-"
"I AM NOT A SIR! I WORK FOR A LIVING YOU MOOOROOON! YOU WILL CALL ME 'SONIC', OR 'SONIC THE HEDGEHOG', DO YOU UNDERSTAND!"
Without another word, the massive warrior handed him the war hammer, a scowl across his face.
Sonic then went over to wandering woodsman. "I would like some oil." Sonic asked. Without a complaint, the woodsman took out some of his lantern oil and gave it to Sonic. Sonic poured it on the hammer.
Sonic walked over to Percival.
"Light it up."
As fire began to crackle on the hammer, Sonic turned to his immobile enemy. With a delighted-and-insane smile, he held the solid steel hammer with both hands and dashed at Merlina with his signature speed.
One minute earlier...
"God damn it, hurry up!" The aggravated sniper shouted.
A dwarf from the underworld wiped the sweat from his brow as he and his two others placed barrels in their hands on the ground. "Alright, that's all... let's take a lookit dis... five thousand, nine hundred and fifty barrels of gunpowder, Sax. Holy tits that was a ton. Filled every room in the whole damn hallway trying to store them"
"Yeah yeah, just get out of here." Saxton replied.
"Oh, and Degroot, sorry 'bout before..."
"JUST GET OUT OF HERE!"
As the dwarf scurried back into the portal, which shut behind him, Rachel turned to her friends. Rachel herself was stitched together, wearing a dress made of black bandages and a cape.
"What are we doing with these barrels?" Rachel asked.
Saxton put slammed his hands on a barrel, leaning on it. "Al will hoist these things over his head, and you will hit it with a gentle fire spell. He'll then throw it overboard at the mob below, hopefully nailing that blue piker straight in the face. Got that, big guy?"
Al nodded. He was now charred severely.
Saxton went on. "While you two are doing that, me and Degroot will be attacking stragglers with what we got, arright?"
"Seems simple 'nough..." Degroot said. His feathers were blown off in the front and his flesh turned purple from bruising. "... Oh, god... my aching EVERYTHING."
"I know it hurts, man. Look, if the bitch wins with our help, we're all good as new, alright Degroot? Then we can get ready on a plan to collapse the castle into the pit below, alright guys?"
The quartet nodded in unison. The weasel smiled, his fang shining proudly.
"I love you guys. Alright, grab that ba-"
As he charged as fast as he possibly could, he began to shout.
"Sonic boom, SONIC BOOM..."
This is it. The most damage Sonic could ever possibly and impossibly do to something is about to be dealt. When Sonic was mere feet away from Merlina, he swung the massive hammer forward and upward in a golf-like fashion.
"SONIC BOOOOOOOOOM!"
For a couple milliseconds, Sonic could see Merlina fly through the throne, break the false illusion of the red space in the room, and break through the castle's natural throne room walls.
BUT THEN
P-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The first thing Sonic noticed was he was blinded by an amazing light, seeing nothing but white. Then he noticed his ears were ringing, which was where the sound was coming from.
-NO!-
Massive winds suddenly erupted. Sonic slammed into the ground, and bounced off like a rubber ball. Whatever he had just did, Sonic knew the results were catastrophic. He couldn't see or hear, but he could just feel that everything around was getting blown landed once more, staying on the ground this time.
-FUCK!-
Before he could regain any of his senses, his body slipped into unconsciousness, as it was almost completely drained of energy.
-SHIT!-
You know, I was more interested in the next part than this chapter. SO OH BOY, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT.