Chapter 5

Revenge of the Earth Tribe (Part 1) Bandages and Threads.

Sonic's Pov

Bored, bored, and bored. Those words were coming out of my mouth as I was sitting at the check-out desk at my part-time job. Every other day of the week I come to work at my job, Mega Beats. It was a music and media store that's usually popping. But for some reason today, we're completely dead!

((Flashback)))

"Work?" I was getting ready to go to work when Amy came in my room asking for a favor. "What do you mean work?"

"I have to go. I may not be in the apartments anymore, but I still got to work" I got up from my bed and grabbed my book bag.

"I understand" Amy said smiling. "You feel as though you're responsible for paying me back and letting you live here. Well don't worry, we have more than enough money to keep this place running. You don't have to…" I was already out the door as I heard her giving a speech. "Hey! Come back!"

"I need this job, but not just to live. I need it for carrier reasons.

"Right, your musician carrier. Why would you want to learn about music? Magic is so much more interesting.

I looked at Amy giving me a cute girl face. I felt my cheeks tingle a bit. I didn't want her getting the wrong idea. I must be crazy if I find a girl like her cute. So, I quickly turned away walking out of the hallway. "I'll see you when I get off"

Amy groaned a bit before turning around. "Fine then…" she sounded a little disappointed.

(End Flashback)

She sounded so sad. Maybe I should get her something on my way…..What am I thinking?! Why should I care about her? She's the reason why my world been turned upside down. At least here I can still be me. Where I don't have to worry about any monsters!

"Close it up, Sonic" A heard a big gruff voice speak to me which made me kind of jump. Out from the manager's office was a big green crocodile wearing gold headphones and matching necklace. "Another dull day"

"You sure you don't want to stay open for a little longer, Vector?" I asked

"Nah, I got some errands to run anyway, and I'm sure you don't want to stand here waiting all day"

Normaly he isn't that generous, but who am I to turn down an offer to go home early. "Cool. I'll head out then"

"Not so fast" I felt his large hands touch my shoulder as soon as a turned around. "It would be nice if you did me a solid and closed up for me"

So close! The exit was practically within my reach! "Well I guess I could…"

"Great! I'll see ya Monday!" With those words, my boss ran out the door almost as fast as me…. almost.

Should have guessed. I stood at the desk letting out a big sigh.

Normal Pov

Sonic started closing the music shop, turning off the displays, radios and lights. When he was just about to close the manager's office, he heard the door open. He walked out seeing who it was. "Back so soon? Did you forget…" he then saw that it wasn't his boss, but it was two echidnas. One was wearing a Mayan style clothes and the other one had on a complete black suit. Sonic slowly closed the door behind him looking at the newcomers suspiciously. "Sorry…but were closed. Come back tomorrow"

"Oh, we'll just he a second" Said the red echidna walking up. "We're looking for a special disk called the blue knight. You heard of it?"

"Look. It's been a long day. So, whatever you want I'm sure it can wait till to…" the second echidna slammed her hand on the desk.

"I don't think you understand…." She said with her head down. She then lifted her hand in front of Sonic. Out from her hand came out white webbing material that launched at Sonic roping him like a trapped bug. He was caught in what looked like a spider web. "We're looking for you…..wayward knight"

"You're coming with us!" said the red echidna.

"Oh…man…" Sonic's ears drooped down. "They couldn't be just regular thieves?"

The second echidna grabbed Sonic and walked him out along with the red echidna. He then locked door and the two of them walk down the street.

Sharp mind.

Amy was in a room filled with books and scrolls and a large circle in the center. This large circle consists of seven other smaller circles, each one representing other elements. She was sitting at a desk looking through a book trying to learn a new spell.

"I now have three earth monsters" she thought "I need to learn different elemental spells if I'm going to stand a chance against any more. I got lucky the last three times. Even with Sonic's help, we barely escaped with our lives during those battles"

She then closed her eyes having a flashback of a person she knew a long time ago. He was her mentor and taught her all kinds of magic. She had always worked hard and mastered different spells, however even some of the strongest of wizards and witches could fall prey to the monsters in the realm. Amy was no exception. She had to master stronger magic if she would have any chance against these monsters.

"Trying to master more spells, mistress?" Cream came in with a tray tea and cookies setting it on a nearby table.

"Oh yes" Amy got up from her chair getting out her wand. She walked up to the circle. "I'm going to practice with ice. During my last battle, I thought it would be helpful. Plus…I'm still kind of rusty with ice…."

She held up her wand and started chanting. The large circle started to glow, and one of the seven circles glowed a bright cyan. Cream then cuddled herself feeling it getting cooler. "Frigid temperatures come forth! Wo-Ns!" There was a bright glow from the wand, but then it suddenly stopped. Amy looked at her wand closely. "Wha…what happ…OHHH!" She then felt a large pile of snow fall on top of her. Cream then giggled when Amy came out. Amy on the other hand sighed in frustration.

"Not again" She said while getting up and brushing the snow off herself.

"Don't give up, mistress! You've already mastered fire based magic. Maybe ice is harder because they are opposites"

"I was able to learn all seven elements easily. Ice has always been too hard for me! If we come across any more earth monsters, I need to be ready Now, let me try again" Amy held up her wand once more; both the wand and the ice circle started to glow. "Now….Wo-Ns!"

"Hey Amy!" The door came flying open breaking the young hedgehog's concentration. Mighty was at the door smiling, when suddenly he was blown back by a barrage of snow and flown into the wall. Amy ran over to him helping him up.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" She said.

"W-ha...what are you…d-d-doing?!" he said shivering trying to keep warm. "T-t-tr-trying t-t-to kill us?!"

"Of course not! I was just practicing magic…."

Moments later, Mighty was wrapped in a blanket drinking hot tea. "Practicing ice magic, huh? So that's why you never used it against any of us"

"I figured that since we may go up against more earth monsters I need to be ready" Amy answered eating a cookie.

Mighty sighed after taking a sip of tea. "I'm going to level with you, Amy. Did I ever tell you that you weren't my first owner?"

"No"

"Well, as you may already know, when a witch or warlock captures a monster in the monster realm, they become their familiars. As the rules state, the monster can't rebel against their master, or else they could die. But that doesn't mean there can't be a little arguing in the mix.

"I know about that. Lila and Richter can be a handful sometimes"

"Yup, but anyway, there are only two ways the contract could be broken; releasing, and death"

"So, did your last master release you?"

"One did, because she thought I was useless, but the other one….well….he was killed. And in turn, me along with other monsters were free from him" Mighty then looked at Amy directly. "I think you're a nice girl Amy, a little crazy, but nice. So, I'm going to give you a little warning; break up our contracts"

Cream gasped, but Amy kept her composure. "Why would I do that?" She calmly asked "Do you not like being here?"

"No, no! it's awesome! It's just that, like I said, you're nice compared to my other masters, and you held out against even Richter and Lila, but now that you captured two high ranking monsters, more than likely you're going to run into stronger ones. Like in those video games were you beat the little bad guys before the big bad mama or boss comes to try and finish you off. And when that happens, there's a good chance you might die!"

Amy then smiled at Mighty. "Well I'm happy you're worried about me, and you're showing some consideration"

"So, you'll break our contracts and forget this whole thing?" Mighty started drinking his tea.

"Nope" at that sound Mighty nearly choked on his tea.

"Why not?!" he asked while coughing.

"I know the risk, Mighty. But I'm not going to give up. I said that I would conquer the monster realm and I meant it"

"Do you have any idea what you could face?! We're talking powerful monsters here! There are some way stronger than all three of us combined! Don't even get me started on the tribe monarchs! There one of the ones who killed my old master! Not that I'm mad at them for doing it"

"It may be impossible and I might fail, but sometimes I feel that not trying is the biggest failure of all"

"But why try at all? Why is it so special that you conquer the land?"

Amy was quiet at first, but then cleared her throat. "I can't tell you yet, you're just going to have to trust me"

The armadillo let out a big sigh. "Like I have choice. I really hope you don't end up like Dave.

"Umm, Mighty" Cream spoke "Why did you come in here anyway?"

"Huh? Oh yeah! Come quick!"

Call to arms

After a while, Mighty led Amy and Cream to one of the rooms. The girl's eyes and mouths were wide open at a huge mess in the room. Soda bottles, chip bags and candy wrappers blanketed the floor. It was pitch black, with only the TV screen lighting the room. In front of a TV were Richter and Lila with controllers in their hands staring at the screen like mindless zombies.

"See the two of them aren't even trying to get their chores done!" Mighty complained. "I'm sick of me being their chore boy!"

"And you wondered why, Mr. Sonic went to work today" Cream told Amy.

Amy shook her head and walked over to the light switch and flicked it on. Both replied with a snarl and a hiss and glared at Amy.

"What do you want, you little runt?" Richter asked in a deep voice.

"Yeah, go away!" Lila added.

"If you two are going to spend the rest of the day loafing around like shut-ins, then maybe you can help me with something"

"Any monsters to fight?" Lila asked

"No"

"Then don't let the door hit you on the way out" Richter said turning back to the game with Lila.

"You two have a list of chores to do. You need to get it done before you do anything else!"

"Yeah!" Mighty said but then backed away as Richter gave him a death glare.

"You're not our mama" Lila said rudely.

"Plus you have a butler and a maid. Have them do it" Richter added

Amy glared at the two slackers but then smiled devilishly. They were both in an important turn based battle "Boy, you two must be really into that game, huh? But when was the last time you saved?"

Both gasped and looked at each other. They were both so immersed into the game they didn't even think of saving. They then turned to Amy who was right in front of their game system. She waved her hand over the plug.

"You wouldn't dare…" Lila said with her eyes changing becoming more snake-like.

"Ah, Ah, Ah. One step, and I'll pull it. Unsaved progress will be lost"

"No! No Please!" Richter begged. "We'll do anything! Just please don't let 18 hours of work go down the drain!"

"Have mercy on us!" Lila begged as well.

"First off, get this room cleaned. Second, apologize to Mighty for treating him like a servant. And three…"

"There's a third?!" both asked, but gulped seeing Amy's finger rub on the outlet. "Ok ok!"

"I need help perfecting my spells" Amy said "You two are going to help me with that"

"Ok! We'll do it! Just slowly move the finger away from the plug" Amy complied and moved away from the system. Both monsters wasted no time and started cleaning their room.

"See how easy this can be" Amy asked. Suddenly the lights were shut off as well as the game. Both Richter and Lila's mouths dropped.

"NNNOOOOOOO!" Both scream to the heavens and hug each other in depression. "All our hard work…" Lila said tearing.

"Gone….in a flash…" Richter finished. They both were in a corner with gloomy expressions.

"Ugh! You two are useless" Amy groaned.

"It's not too late to break ties, Amy" Mighty suggested again. "At least free those two slackers. Personally, I don't mind living in the world"

Cream made a ball of light using her fairy magic. "What happened to the lights?"

Ignoring Mighty's request, Amy walked out of the room.

"Is everyone alright?" Tails came in the room holding flashlight. "I was just about to head to the basement to look for the circuit box"

"Circuit…box?" Amy wondered

"Don't tell me you just forgot to pay the bill" Tails wondered. "If money is an issue….

"Our electricity is powered by special magical relics and stones" Cream explained.

"And, as I told Sonic earlier, we are very financially sound thank you very much" Amy added

"But it's unlikely for the lights to stop working. Which means…."

"Someone is tampering with the items…." Amy said sternly.

"Another monster?" Tails asked

"More than likely"

"Come on out, Amilia rose!" a voice cried out in the dark. "We got your precious knight! Come out and surrender, or he dies!"

"Oh no…" Richter said shocked. "Cousin…."

"Who?" Amy wondered.

"Listen, we better do as he says. Trust me on this. If my cousins are here, we could be in big trouble!"

"We'll see about that. Since you know them, why don't you tell me more about them?"

"What difference would it make? They'd make short work of you anyway!"

"Not if we have a plan. So as your, owner, I order you to tell me about them"

"Well…" Richter looked at Mighty who shrugged with a scowl, and looked at Lila who lifted her hands.

"She's dead either way" the brown hedgehog said.

Cream gave Lila a narrow stare. "We need to work your behavior…"

"Ok, fine. I'll tell you" Richter said

The two lieutenants

When they all walked outside of the mansion they saw two echidnas and Sonic all tied up by a white thread. The red echinda held a yellow stone relic in his hand.

"Can I go to the bathroom?" Sonic asked calmly.

"Silence, hedgehog" the peach echidna ordered.

"Come on, I really have to go!"

The red echidna looked at the door and saw everyone leave the mansion. He tilted his head at Amy and then looked toward Mighty, Richter and Lila.

"Knuckles! Shade!" Richter greeted casually. "How are my two favorite cousins doing?"

"Don't play coy with us. You're in big trouble for letting yourself get beaten by a simple witch" the peach echidna spoke.

"Ouch…" Mighty spoke.

"Where's the rose witch?" the red one asked. The three monsters pointed at Amy who had a tense look in her eyes. "You?! This little runt bested you guys?!"

"Hey, don't be hard on them" Sonic said "They didn't stand a chance…AHHH!" the treads tighten on Sonic.

"I said stop talking!" Shade repeated.

"Well, rose witch, are you coming quietly, or are we spilling blood?" Knuckles asked

"Last chance: just do as he says, Amy" Mighty whispered. "It will be less painful that way"

"Before I give you an answer, I want to know, are you two attendants to a province chief?"

"We don't have to answer that" Knuckles said "Just know if you want anyone to live, you'll come with us to the monster realm. And I mean all of you"

Amy looked down in thought and her wand.

"Look, witch...bi….Amy" Lila came up and walked to her. "Quit fooling yourself. Just do as he says. If you surrender, she might go easy on you"

"She?" Amy's ears perked up. "Who's she?"

"Eep!" Lila covered her mouth and turned away whistling.

"The point is, you did your best" Richter added "So just give up and come with them"

Amy looked at Big and Cream who both had concern in their eyes. She then looked at the two echidnas. She then nodded and knelt.

"Here's the deal. Give me my volt stone back, and then I want you both to take me to your monarch"

The three monsters looked at Amy in shock. "Oh we're going to bring you to her, dead if you don't corporate now!" Knuckles threatened

"Oh well, I tried. Mighty! Knock her back!"

Mighty froze for a second, but did as he said, pushing the echidna out of the way. "Why…you…" Shade's eyes turned red and she removed her headband revealing two red jewel-like marks that looked like a second pair of eyes. She looked at Mighty with rage and her eyes turning red.

"Oh Boy..." Mighty said nervously.

"You asked for it, witch!" Knuckles was about to attack, but Richter quickly got in the way. "Richter!"

"Sorry cuz…you know the rules. I got to protect her"

Sonic quickly got coiled by a large snake tail. Lila was in her Lamia form and pulled Sonic to safety. She then broke the white binds.

"Don't take this the wrong way, spiny treat" Lila said releasing him. "Just because I'm helping doesn't mean I like you"

"Good enough for me!" Sonic said hitting his fist. "Now for some payback! Right after a bathroom break!" he then zipped away into the mansion.

"Cream, shrink down and give me an analysis" Amy ordered

"Right way" the little fairy spoke following her orders.

Knuckles stepped back growing at Richter. "You can't beat me, Richter!"

"Maybe not…" Richter then changed into his gargoyle form. "But I'm going to try!"

The bandages on Knuckles' wrist started to coil around him taking up his entire body. Golden bands and a gold tunic appeared on his body as well as a matching mask which eyes were glowing green*

(Picture the same mask Enerjak wears in the Archie Sonic Comics)

"You always were a bigger muscle head than me!"

"He's a mummy." Cream pointed out. "Over thousands of years old, these monsters fall in the beast/undead class. They know special spells and have high level magic in both earth and fire. It's said that mummies were made immortal by their gods in order to serve them longer.

Amy smiled looking at Knuckles. "A monster that uses magic…interesting"

"You're really pushing it, Amy" Sonic said returning from the restroom.

"Sonic!" Tails cried out. The others saw a huge spider web on the ground. Tails, Big and Mighty tangled in the web. On the web, the other echidna slowly creped them with the lower part of her body now that of a spider.

"Arachne" Cream explained. "Mostly found in caves and top of trees, these beast/insect monsters wait for their prey and trap them in webs and drain them of their fluids. Their attractive bodies seduce unsuspecting men to their demise. The webs that they shoot are said to be soft as silk and stronger than steel.

"My kind of girl. That's what I like about her…" Lila slowly slithered over to Shade.

Shade looked at Lila with fangs seeping from her mouth. "We don't have to fight, Lila" Shade said with a little hissing in her voice. "We will let the chief handle her. You and Richter can be free"

"And miss a chance to go up against you? No way!"

Knuckles threw fireballs at Richter; Richter dodged the attack and threw himself at Knuckles with his hammers in hand. Knuckles responded by flinging some bandages using them as whips and rapped Richter around them and tossed in into a nearby gazebo. Richter quickly got back up and shook his head and flew at knuckles at full speed. Knuckles then chanted a spell under his breath creating three stone statues that block Richter's path. But Richter still manages to break through the statues, only to be brought down by Knuckles who punched down on him.

"Just give up, Richter. It's pointless" Knuckles said. He was then knocked back by a random rock that hit his face.

"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Richter said smiling. He then started pounding on the ground with his fist. He then dug underground. Knuckles looked closely trying to find Richter.

"Like I said, it's pointless, Richter" Knuckles' eyes started to glow. He looked through the ground trying to find his kin. But he was suddenly held from behind. He quickly turned around and saw that Richter had come up from the ground.

"Give up? You're getting soft cuz!"

Knuckles then murmured another spell causing his helmet to glow. He then tilted his head back and swung it into Richter's head knocking him down, causing the orange gargoyle echidna to lose his grip. He then looked at Knuckles with his eyes swirling. "Why are my arms so pins and needles…..haaaa" He flung his head back speaking in gibberish.

"A hard head like yours needs a harder head to whack some sense into you" Knuckles stood there removing his helmet. "It didn't have to be this way"

"I'm just getting those two ice screams with pickles…."

Amy ran over to Richter lifting his head. "Richter! Are you ok?"

Richter couldn't even look straight. "Quit screaming house monkey, today is my ride to make sponge cheese piano…"

"Oh Richter…" She then looked at the battle with Lila and Shade.

Lila was swinging her claws at Shade who was dodging them with ease. Lila then quickly lunged at Shade's shoulder biting her. There was a brief pause before Lila leaned back screaming holding her mouth.

"I have an exoskeleton when in this form. Did you really think that would work?" Shade said calmly. Shade then swung her claws at Lila making her slither back. She then growled and flung her tail at Shade trying to coil her. Shade felt her body getting tight, but she quickly slipped from Lila's grip. "You really don't think do you?" Shade quickly crawled over to Lila getting close enough to her neck.

"What?!" Lila then felt two fangs pierce her neck. Lila moved back feeling the pain. She then started to get dizzy and started tittering.

"That poison is lethal, but it shouldn't kill you" Shade explained as she crawled closer to Lila who fell to the ground. "but it's potent enough to bring you down"

"Damn…. you.." Lila swore before losing consciousness changing back to normal.

Both echidna's looked at Amy who was glaring at them. "Final warning Rose; give up and live, or die"

Sonic was trying to break Tails free from his binds, but was having trouble. "Ahh! This is worse than getting gum out of my fur!"

"It feels nice though..." Tails said trying to break free.

"Well?" Knuckles asked crossing his arms coming up to Amy. She looked down standing up. Sonic and Tails looked at Amy as she was up to the bandaged echidna.

"You two are pretty strong, and you've done a good job so far" Amy complemented. "Having you two in my team will really help me in my quest"

"If you think you can convince us to join you, you're wasting your time" Shade said coming up to Knuckles with Lila tied up in a spider web throwing her next to Richter.

"Oh, am not convicting you" Amy held up her wand and it extended looking more like a long scepter. She then slammed the point of the scepter onto the ground. Before the two knew it the ground collapsed in front of them causing them to fall into a pit. Knuckles fell first, and Shade did after.

Both echidna's were trying to get up, but Shade was on top of knuckles, and it was hard to get her spider body upright, and Knuckles was crushed underneath. "Get off me!"

"I...can't..." Shade said trying to get up. With her spider legs wiggling. The spider was big enough to trap them, but narrow enough making it hard to get out.

Amy acted fast. She held up her wand and it started to glow. "Focus…." She said quietly putting all she can into this spell. "in-ra-yc-i!" She shouted as a large circle appeared above the two. From the circle, came icy rain that came down on the three making it harder for them to escape.

"Now!" Amy then got out two rose colored crystals and threw them a the two echidnas. "La-es" They both started glowing pink before being absorbed into the two crystals.

"We are a mamma's grocery store!" Richter shouted happily.

Mighty then transformed into his golem form breaking from his binds. He helped both Big and Tails free from the webbing. "You ok?"

"I'm fine…" Tails said Big simply replied with a nod.

"That was intense!" Sonic said

"Yeah, I can't believe you won" Mighty added.

"You have such little faith in me" Amy said smiling. "We had the entire situation under control. I just had to get them close enough so I could trap them both"

"You truly are something else…" Mighty said with a little worry in his tone.

"No, it was everyone. We all played a part in this. Like I said, the only true failure is not trying. As for those two, they will recuperate in the mansion. Big, can you tend to those two?"

"Sure thing, mistress" big said going back in the mansion.

"Well, I got to hand it to you" Mighty spoke "You did a good job. But how are you going to handle the chief?"

"Chief?" Sonic asked Mighty.

"Those two were high ranking monsters and she beat them, soon the chief will..."

There was a sudden burst of energy that came from the ground. A portal opened slowly revealing a new echidna, she was gold and had a long white Mayan style dress. She ascended from the ground and floated in the air with her body glowing bright.

Mighty stepped back in fear looking at the beautiful maiden. She looked down at Amy as she slowly descended and touched the ground.

"You" She spoke with a firm voice. "You're the rose witch, and the destined knight I presume?"

"Yes, who are you?" Amy asked

"I am Tikal, I am the leader of the earth tribe. I have come to stop you, and take your knight as my own"

((((TBC))))

Sorry for such the long wait people! Hope you enjoyed it!