Chapter 5: Another One Bites the Dust
Present Day
Back in the present, Gardon was just done telling the story about that fateful day that changed this dimension's Blaze. Everyone couldn't help but imagine what that Blaze must have gone through to end up the way she is right now. The Blaze that was with them in the room, was just speechless. She felt great shame that a version of herself went as far to take the life of someone who put her under so much pressure. Sonic and the others looked at Blaze who just looked away from them. But Blaze could understand why her other self did it due to the amount of stress and depression she was holding inside her, but still made the wrong choice.
Gardon frowned seeing how much this story was affecting Blaze and the others. In Blaze's head, all she can think about is what her counterpart was thinking before and after she took the life of Eggman Nega. That version of herself never found friends or people she could trust completely to comfort her like Cream, Sonic, and Vanilla.
Sonic stepped forward to his cat friend, "Blaze, we're still with ya." He said, trying to calm his friend.
Blaze couldn't help but bite her lips hearing Sonic as she did her best to hold back her tears. "How…I can end up this way? I don't want to believe this actually happened to me." She said, trembling.
"It's not your fault Blaze, Eggman Nega was the one who caused this to you other self." Tails said.
"We know you'll never do something like this. We've been friends through and through and we won't stop being friends now." Sonic said, with a soft smile.
Blaze slowly looked at the others, who were smiling at her. She was surprised that didn't treat her any differently and things were the same with them. They weren't scared nor wanted to get away from her. Even Marine was looking at her with a worried look who was frightened by her when she revealed her identity to her earlier. She could see how much different she truly was from the Queen the way she acted in front of her friends.
The cat princess closed her eyes to calm herself, trying to clear out the negative thoughts and doubts from her head. When she opened her eyes, Blaze looked over to Gardon who was still frowning while looking at the ground. Blaze knew that Gardon had a lot more to share with her and her friends.
"There's still more to the story isn't there?" Blaze asked, worried.
Everyone looked at Gardon who just nodded his head while still looking at the ground. "Yes, there's more to tell. Are you willing to listen to it?" He asked.
Blaze looked at her friends who agreed to listen more to the story. Seeing how they want to stick by her no matter what and learn about the Queen. Blaze looked at Gardon with a more confident look.
"Please tell us what happened next?" She asked politely.
Gardon sighed, "Shortly after you took Eggman Nega's life away and your mind snapped. You had a thirst for power and wanted to rule everything. To do so, you went on a killing spree to every kingdom around the world to gain it. You wanted the whole world to know your wrath and power. It was like a game to you. I was there because the Queen wanted someone to witness it all. The birth from becoming a princess to a Killer Queen." The Koala bear said, thinking back.
Flashback
In a faraway place in the Sol dimension, a kingdom known as Adwaor, where its mighty ruler King Ordger, a huge anthropomorphic polar bear was present. The kingdom of Adwaor was a place that Sonic went to in Blaze's regular dimension where he helped the king and his people fight against an ancient beast that once roamed the land.
King Ordger had this worried look on his face. Recently he had received news that a couple of kingdoms have been taken over and their rulers of those kingdoms have been slaughtered by an unknown being. His kingdom of Adwaor was put on high alert in case this strange individual showed up.
He was wearing his best silver armor set and had his sword ready in its sheath. He was making preparations for the attack as he had multiple of his best royal guards around him. King Ordger stopped walking when he saw his wife, Queen Silas, a female anthropomorphic polar bear walking towards him.
She looked worried and scared for she fears that both her and her husband's life were on the line. Throughout their whole marriage, Queen Silas has never seen her husband so tense up, he was usually jolly and loved to battle any foe big or small.
But not this time, Queen Silas has also heard about the strange individual that is causing havoc on the other kingdoms of the world. For some these kingdoms were known to have strong rulers with a great army, only to be beaten by one individual.
"My beloved, are you sure you have everything secured?" Queen Silas said, worried.
"Yes, I have the whole castle guard up from top to bottom. We have guards on the rooftop in case they try to sneak from the top. The guards are in every room in the case they come in the window. The sewer entrances are also guarded since they are connected to the castle." King Ordger said.
Queen Silas frown, looking at the castle entrance door guarded by their royal guards. She looked back at her husband shyly rubbing her arm. "I'm scared, you know. It may not seem like it. But I fear our fate ends here." She admitted.
Her husband put his hands on his wife's shoulders. "Do not be afraid, I swear to you by life I will protect you at cost. I don't fear losing my life, I fear losing you." He said.
The polar bear queen smiled as she looked at her husband with loving eyes. Despite this touching moment they were having, it was interrupted when one of the royal guards came through the door with a few others for they had news to give to their king.
"You're majesty, I hate to interrupt but we caught someone trying to speak to you about a warning. He seems to know what's going on." Said the Royal Guard.
Coming from the door were two more royal guards, in their hands someone captive in their grasp. King Ordger saw who they had and it was a koala bear dressed in formal blue attire. He looked frightened but had this hasty look for he wanted to say something.
"Who are you? Speak!" King Ordger asked, harshly.
The koala bear looked at the king, "The name is Gardon, a personal royal guard of the princess. Please hear me out." Gardon answered.
King Ordger looked at his men and nodded to make them let go of Gardon. "To which royal princess you serve?" He asked.
"Princess Blaze, your majesty." He said.
"What's your deal here? Where is the princess? I have very important matters to attend to." King Ordger said.
"I came to give you a warning." Gardon said.
"Warning? Of what?" The king said, frowning.
"You need to run and hide right now while you still can." Gardon pleaded.
"Run and hide? Nonsense, from who?" The polar bear asked.
Gardon looked at the king with a horrifying look, "From the princess herself." He said.
"From Princess Blaze?" The king said, confused.
"I'm sure you heard of it by now. A strange individual attacks the kingdom and slaughters its rulers. That's Princess Blaze's doing!" He screamed.
"That's nonsense! Why would the princess do such a thing? She's supposed to protect this planet and make sure every kingdom has equal power." The kind said.
"The princess has gone mad with power. A while back she had a devastating battle against Eggman Nega that made her snap his neck and lost control of her mind." Gardon said, thinking back to that day. "I was there when it happened."
King Ordger was shocked to hear this, it was the first time he had heard of this news for his kingdom would receive news much later than most places due to how they were located far away. Queen Silas stood beside, also shocked by the news as she looked down at the Koala bear.
"Why are you telling us this? Don't you work for the princess as her personal royal guard?" She asked.
"Trust me, I don't share the same vision as the princess. She allowed me to give you this warning." Gardon explained.
"She allowed this?" The Queen said, confused by the princess' choice.
"She figures it would be amusing to her if the rulers knew that she was coming for them. Princess Blaze is treating all this like a game for her enjoyment. She also wants me here to witness it all." Gardon said, shaking up a bit.
Gardon got to his knees and began to beg in front of the king and queen. "I'm telling you for the sake of your lives. Leave now and hide while you still can. I've seen too many lives taken and I don't want to see that number go up even higher." He begged.
Queen Silas looked worried, she saw the expression on Gardon's scared eyes, seeing how dead serious he was. Not a single hint she and her husband have a chance of living unless they run and hide like he asks them to. The queen looked at her husband who was deep into his thoughts.
King Ordger nodded, "No, I'm not one who runs from fight. If what you say about the princess trying to contain all power then I shall put a stop to her wrath once and for all." He said, unafraid.
"No." Gardon said, feeling defeated that the king wouldn't listen to him.
"Fear not my friend, with my army as strong as they are. The princess has no chance against us." The king said.
Just as Gardon could speak and try to convince the king to leave with his wife. A large fire explosion was seen by one of the royal guards. The explosion was so big it even shook the castle a bit. Gardon, the king, and the queen looked at the window and saw fire and black smoke coming from the village of the kingdom.
They heard the people of the kingdom Adwaor screaming and crying as they tried to run from the explosion. Seeing the fire through the castle windows made Gardon's heart sink for he knew it was too late and knew what was going to happen the moment he saw Princess Blaze's dark silhouette coming from the fire explosions slowly walking towards the castle at her own rhythm pace.
King Ordger got furious, Princess Blaze was making a mockery of his kingdom by just simply walking through his defense. Gardon, the king and queen looked to see more of the royal guards coming towards forming a wall to prevent her from proceeding further. She came alone with no help and that's how she loved it.
The royal guards pulled their guns as they steady their aim at Princess Blaze. Swords, axes, and spears were pulled out alongside their shields to protect them. Princess Blaze placed a hand on her mouth and simply chuckled seeing how they were prepared to take her down.
The royal guards loaded their guns as large clicking sounds were coming out. Just before any of the soldiers could shoot Princess Blaze, everyone went silent. Princess Blaze closed her eyes with a smile and started tapping her foot in a rhythm on the solid ground. She then snapped her fingers and moved her head to match with the rhythm. Much like Gardon said, she wasn't taking this seriously and was just a game to her.
"Are you ready, hey are you ready for this? Are you hanging at the edge of your seat?" Princess Blaze spoke playfully to the soldiers.
They watched as Princess Blaze kept snapping her fingers and tapping her foot. After a certain amount of the beat, soldiers fired their guns, shooting out the bullets at the princess. Blaze kept her smile and covered her body in a fire aura. None of the bullets managed to hit Blaze for they would just incinerate the moment they touch Blaze's fire aura.
They stopped to reload and at that moment Blaze suddenly appeared in front of one the guns man and placed a hand on them. The gunsman stood frozen in fear as Blaze fire blasted his body completely blasting his life out from the living world. There was nothing left of the gunman but black ashes falling to the ground, everything about the man was now gone.
The soldiers were frightened to see their fellow brother in arms gone from their lives. One of the soldiers quickly snapped out of it and went to attack Blaze while she had her back turn. The same for the rest of the soldiers as they went to attack to avenge their lost soldier. Blaze smiled wickedly and pulled her cat claws, not only were they out, she lit her claws on fire.
She dashed toward the soldiers and started slashing them off them with her burning claws. Blaze would dashed around in an unpredictable way that made the soldiers scared of what to do. The sound of the soldiers screaming in pain from harsh burns as their faces were slash by Blaze's claws. Their legs were badly burned making them crawl or pass out from shock. Arms were burned or cut off making them unable to defend themselves with their weapons.
Some soldiers started to run but Blaze didn't want any survivors left and just blasted them off completely with her fire blast, turning their bodies to ash. She could have easily destroyed everyone in a couple of seconds but she just wanted to enjoy her time taking the lives and unleashing her flames at her desire.
Over at the castle, Queen Silas watched in horror while her husband King Ordger was just gritting his teeth and sweating nervously seeing Blaze massacre his men so swiftly. The sound of the men screaming and begging for help slowly dimmed as Blaze took down the last soldier by stomping on his face with her high heel boots, making loud gushy sounds as the people of the village watched in horror seeing the brutality kill the soldier.
She quickly looked at the castle with a creepy smirk knowing that she gained the attention of the king and queen by now. Princess Blaze then shot out another huge fireball and made one the village building explode, just to make the King angry, not caring if there were people hiding in the building. Gardon just wanted to leave but he knew Blaze didn't want him or she might do something even more worse to those living back in their kingdom.
King Ordger looked at his wife, "My Lady, please hide somewhere while you still can. I'll finish this devil with my own hands." He said, clenching his fist.
"You can't love, she's crazy for power! She's a monster!" She cried.
"Don't argue with me, just go now!" King Ordger yelled at his wife.
Queen Silas wanted to speak back, but she knew there wasn't a way to get to him to change his mind. She quickly ran to the deepest part of the castle where there was a safe room. King Ordger watched his wife go and stood feets away from the door. He got his sword out ready to use for combat.
More of his soldiers came out to help fight with him, trying to protect him and the kingdom together. They watched the front door carefully with their weapons ready in hand. Soon out from the door came bursting a burned dead corpse of the one soldier thrown by Princess Blaze herself with more force.
The burned corpse broke apart into pieces as it landed on the ground. The soldiers were horrified seeing one of them on the castle floors like that. They looked back up to see Princess Blaze who was about to walk through the castle door. She had her head low but she kept her sadistic eyes on everyone as she entered slowly.
There ain't no sound but the sound of her feet as she walked towards them. Blaze then started snapping her finger in a rhythm to show how meaningless their defenses were.
King Ordger stepped forward, "I ask your highness, yield now and accept your punishment." He said, trying to convince Blaze to surrender.
Blaze just ignored the question and just kept snapping her fingers.
"Or do you accept this death that we will bring upon you." King Ordger said.
Blaze finally stopped snapping her finger and chuckled, "Funny, I should be you asking you that." She said, in a deadly tone.
The feline, without saying anything next, wasted no time as she headed for the king. The soldiers stepped in the block her way and much like more, Blaze pulled out her claws and lit them on fire. She went for quick slashes with her claws making hits on their faces and arms while she would dodge attacks to keep things going for her.
The royal army stood no chance as she went through them then ease. The king ready his sword timing his strike. Blaze took down the last guard blocking her way to the king. The king went for a mighty down slash at Blaze but missed by an inch cutting a small part of Blaze's fur.
Wide open, Blaze slashes the king on his stomach cutting him deep. The king yelled in pain, feeling burning and sizzling from Blaze's fire claw on his stomach. Blaze smiled hearing the king scream as the guards were shocked by what happened. What was really surprising was that Blaze's claws were able to melt through his armor to land such an attack just to show she wasn't holding back.
The king stood his ground as he refused to get down to one knee in defeat. He ready his sword and charged at Blaze while the remaining royal guards joined the fight. Blaze was feeling nothing but excitement watching the king and his soldiers charged at her.
"How long can you stand the heat?" Blazs asked, as everyone ran towards her.
It was plain to see that the battle was one sided, nobody was to lay a hit on Blaze that day. Much like the fight outside of the castle Blaze was incinerating the soldiers left and right as more came out to fight her. Blaze was moving around in a carefree manner as she was just dancing to the beat that was playing in her head.
She would spin around like a ballerina shooting waves of fireballs as she laughed in joy blowing the heads off of her enemies as they fell around her like bugs. Princess Blaze would use their own weapon against them but amplify them with her fire power abilities, breathing flaming swords and axes. Slicing their heads, legs, and torso off in one clean cut. Gardon, who was watching from behind a stone pillar of the castle and just watched seeing his royal princess be in her element. He saw this event so many times yet it still scares him seeing the princess he served making such chaos.
Gardon looked over to see King Ordger crawling on the floor trying to escape. All that confidence and bravery that had earlier been shattered after seeing the Blaze's power and skills. Not only did he suffer a bad wound by Blaze's claws, he suffered bad burns on his leg and the side of his face that was bleeding slightly. His body was badly trembling as he tried to crawl his way to live. All he wanted was for him and his wife to live out this massacre.
The koala bear made a guess that the king might have an escape route that he and his wife can get to away from the escape room. It seems now was the good time while Blaze was distracted by the king's soldiers. Gardon wanted to help the king escape but he risked being seen by Blaze seeing him help the king get him caught. Blaze would sometimes look to where Gardon was at to make sure he was watching the whole thing.
The king grabbed something that helped get up to his feet. He leaned on the wall hallway of his castle and limped his way towards where he knew his wife was hiding while gritting his teeth for his burned leg hurted him when he tried to move.
As he limped his way in the hallway, he could hear the echoes of his army screaming and the sound of Blaze's horrifying laughter alongside it. The king just grunted and closed his eyes for he was ashamed to look back where they were at.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry my men. I don't deserve to be your king." He cried, hating himself.
Meanwhile in a secure room somewhere in the castle, Queen Silas walked back and forth in the room. Next to her was a secret escape route that was behind a bookshelf. She's been waiting for about 20 minutes in that room, during that time she could have escaped but a part of her didn't want to leave her husband behind.
She had some hope that maybe her husband was able to handle the princess' wrath with his army. The queen knew her husband would be really upset if he didn't escape while can. Silas was just quietly crying for the thought that her husband might have come to an end.
The queen got spooked when she suddenly felt the door of the room shake. She backed up and got ready to use the escape route in case it was Princess Blaze coming through the door. She was quickly relieved when it was actually her husband opening the door but was shocked to see the condition he was in.
He fell to his knees as he looked at the ground in defeat. "I failed them." He said.
Queen Silas knew what he was talking about. She could see the traumatizing eyes on her husband as she kneeled to his level. She placed a hand on the side of his that wasn't burned to not hurt him.
"It's okay beloved, what matters is that you're here. Come while there's still time, we can escape while she's busy." Queen Silas said, crying some tears for she was happy to see her husband was alive.
Just before Queen Silas could grab her husband to help him on his feet. A flaming hand bursted out from the king's chest . The two were caught off guard as they both looked at the flaming hand that was stabbed through the king's chest. They looked behind to see it was Princess Blaze who had done it and smiling about it. All she did was giggled, not letting the two say anything else and completely incinerated the whole king's body into ashes where he didn't have a chance to scream in pain.
The only thing left from the king was his royal crown that rolled down on the floor towards his wife. The queen just looked at the ashes that was once her husband as she picked them up with her hands trying to put them together as if there was a way to bring him back.
It was no use as the ashes of her husband would just fall from her hand and back to ground. The queen was breathing uncontrollably, not wanting to believe what happened was real. Before she could do anything else, Blaze disrespectfully kicked the ashes of the former king spreading them over the room.
"Hey." Blaze spoke up.
Queen Silas who was down on her knees slowly lifted her head up. She had no choice but to look up, her chances of escaping was zero. When she looked up to see Blaze, she was greeted with a cold sadistic look and grin staring down at her. Blaze then placed her hand near the Queen's forehead.
"I'm gonna get you too." Blaze said, smiled.
Just outside the room, Gardon was walking towards the room he saw Blaze walk into. He slowly followed her after seeing the mess she caused back where she was slaughtering the king's men. Just before he could reach the room, a terrifying feminine scream was heard so loud that the birds outside the castle flew away.
"AAAHHHHH!"
Gardon instantly recognized that scream from the Queen Silas voice as it echoed the hallway he was in. He knew if Queen Silas had met her demise, so had the king. Gardon stopped walking when he saw Princess Blaze coming out of the room holding the king's crown on her left hand and the queen's crown on her right hand, seeing them as trophies to the collection.
Princess Blaze walked through the hallways of the castle as Gardon walked behind her keeping his distance. As they walked, Blaze began to whistle a playful tune. Drop of a hat she was willing as playful as a pussycat as she changed her mood so quickly. Seeing as this whole event was just another average day for absolute power over the world.
As she whistled happily, Princess Blaze began to shoot some fire balls from her hand slowly setting the castle on fire, not caring about the remaining soldiers and servants who will or will not escape from the burning castle. She had done what she came to do and taken the lives of the king and queen of Adwaor and now it's time to go to the next kingdom.
Outside of the castle, the folks of Adwaor were gathering around, curious to know whether their king was able to take down Blaze. They got their answer when they saw black smoke coming out from the window of the castle.
The smoke got more visible as fire then started to spread out all over the castle. The kingdom of Adwaor watched in horror seeing the king's castle in flames. All of Adwaor's history was in the castle, now completely burned out from existence. What was most terrifying, they saw some of the castle servants and soldiers jumping out the windows from the castle for they had no choice but to jump to escape. If they were fortunate, they would just suffer from a broken bone after falling. However some weren't because their bodies were already caught on fire and fell to their deaths on impact for not landing correctly or falling way too high up.
Everyone looked at the doors of the flaming castle, coming out from the door was Blaze and Garden, Blaze coming out with a smirk proud of what she had done while Gardon looked ashamed that he was part of it. Everyone saw Princess Blaze playfully spinning the crowns of the king and queen on her fingers like they were toys to her.
Not wanting to upset Princess Blaze, the people of Adwaor got on their knees and accepted Blaze as their new ruler and hoped for mercy. It pleased Princess Blaze that the people knew their place in the world. She has claimed a new territory, spreading fear and power to those that defy her.
Both Princess Blaze and Gardon walked until Blaze came to a complete stop as they stood inches away. Gardon was curious as to why she stopped walking. Without looking at Gardon, she finally spoke to him after a moment of silence in the most sinister dry up tone.
"One hour."
Gardon was confused by what she meant. "One…..hour?" He said, looking at the back of Blaze's head.
"I'm giving you one hour to warn the next kingdom about my arrival. This is what you want right? A fighting chance for the kingdoms to live and strive? Besides I really like them to raise up their defense when I arrive. It gives me more chances to go all out with my power." Blaze said, smiling at her flaming hands.
Gardon looked away with his head facing at the floor, gritting his teeth. He hated being used like this, but he hoped one of the kingdoms would be able to take down the princess where he can't do it.
"Yes…your…..highness." Gardon said, choking his words in disgust.
Gardon walked past Blaze without looking at her. He knew without looking, Blaze was looking at him with a devilish look, giving him a head start to warn the next kingdom that she was gonna take over next. He just clenched his fist as tears were coming down his eyes before he walked towards the docking bay of the Adwaor to get a boat to go to the next kingdom before Blaze could get there.
Blaze turned and proudly looked back at the burning castle in front of her, she laughed at it and its former ruler. She turned back and looked straight forward, making a devilish grin appear on her face as the fire behind brightly covered her appearance in a black and red shadow.
"Another one bites the dust."
More kingdoms fell one by one the following days, weeks, and months as Blaze continued her plan for total power for the world. Each passing day, the world would receive nothing but bad news: kings, queens, princes, and princesses were killed off by the hands of Princess Blaze at rapid pace.
To make things entertaining, Princess Blaze would try different approaches to make sure each ruler meets their ends or just traumatize their minds before ending them. Blaze would at times just simply walk through the front doors of the kingdoms annihilating more soldiers before killing the king or queen in front of their people.
Blaze would hunt down the hiding princesses and princes on her own that tried to escape. Only to bring back only their heads to show to the kings and queens to show their royal bloodline will end them. There were many that tried to surrender and give Blaze all the power she wanted so they could live, but unfortunately it didn't give the same drive and thirst for her and just ended their lives anyways.
She would usually just burn her targets into ashes to get her work done quickly, but she had other methods to make it more fun for her. There was a time Blaze would harshly throw the rulers from the very top of their own castle, wanting the people of their kingdom to watch their ruler's body splat on the ground. She would make some rulers choke to death by shoving food down their throat that they can't chew or swallow by force.
Blaze would drown the rulers in their own holy water of their castle watching them squirm and breathe for air and begging for help. The next cruel thing is tying up the rulers and having their castle burned down on them, having the building they once ruled and giving them comfort before crashing down on them. She would brutally beat them to death in front of the people of their kingdom, splattering blood all over her fist and the floor.
Eventually Blaze at one point, while sitting on the throne of her own castle. She received a letter from the remaining rulers of the world. In the letter, she read that the rulers wish to end her madness for power by teaming up against her. They knew Blaze would accept their offer for this was her chance to get rid of the remaining rulers and got really excited because she had a secret plan against them.
Somewhere in a large deserted area of the world, right there in the center of an area which was a rocky desert like place. Princess Blaze was sitting on a rock underneath a shady tree. In her hand she was holding a cup of tea and next to her was a teapot that was half full because she had been waiting for a while.
Princess Blaze softly took a sip of her tea and let out a small purr in delight, enjoying the tasty herbs and other ingredients that made her tea delicious. Blaze was sitting with one leg over the other making herself comfortable while she waited.
She waited for quite a while where her tea would start getting cold, but thankfully she had her Pyrokinetics to help heat up the tea to keep it fresh. Princess Blaze looked at the blue sky and sun above her, smiled at it seeing how bright today was.
"What a beautiful day." She said, smiling before taking another sip of her tea.
Somewhere far from Princess Blaze was Gardon who was watching, doing his job to witness the princess' actions. He was on a hill and watched through a pair of binoculars he brought to watch the whole scene from afar. He was keeping his distance because things were gonna be messy soon and didn't want to get caught in the crossfire.
As Gardon was looking at Princess Blaze enjoying her afternoon tea. The koala bear spotted something in the far distance with his binoculars. He spotted several strange figures walking together in the north direction. He then spotted more strange figures coming for the west and east. They came in packs and hordes, forming these were the remaining kings and their soldiers.
Much to Gardon's surprise, some of these kings were from kingdoms that were enemies against each other but now form an alliance to take down Princess Blaze for she was much more a bigger threat. Even Princess Blaze found herself amused seeing that they were so desperate to stop her that they had to team up.
Princess Blaze continued to sit on the rock and sip her tea. She was soon surrounded by a sea of soldiers and their kings and queens who were also armed with their own weapons and armor. They ready their guns, spears, shields, words and axes at Princess Blaze, who wasn't afraid or worried that she was outnumbered.
They didn't fire right away as they stepped out of the way and let one of the kings walk towards Blaze to talk to her directly. The king stood proudly not showing any sign of fear or regret of making this decision.
"Princess Blaze, I'm here on the behalf of the remaining kings and queens of the world. You have abused your power to rid us from our royal status, burned and beheaded our royal children, and destroyed many castles and homes. We are here to declare as public enemy number one. We stripped you as the guardian of our world and you bring shame to your royal heritage of those that came before you. Surrender your life now or we will use force against you." The king said.
Princess Blaze just giggled seeing this whole scene was just "cute" as they looked at her with eyes of hatred for her actions. She just took another sip of her tea as a response. The king just gritted his teeth seeing Blaze wasn't taking this seriously.
"Don't you even dare try to go against us. We enhanced our armor to be fire proof from your abilities. You shall not be burning anyone any more. Surrender now and accept your punishment for your crime." He said, furiously.
Princess Blaze took another sip, but a much longer sip that empty her cup. The princess glanced over her fancy teapot and lifted the lid to see there was no more tea to drink. She felt a little disappointed that there wasn't any tea left for she wanted to enjoy her moment just a bit longer.
"I guess I can finally get started." Princess Blaze said, feeling calm and confident.
She gently put down her empty teacup next to her teapot with a calm smile. The cat got off the rock she was sitting on and stretched her arms and legs out, preparing herself.
"Looks like I can try that new ability I recently discovered. I just gotta turn up the heat some more." Princess Blaze said, happily.
Princess Blaze looked at the king in front of her. She gave a smirk, thinking they won but really that made things even easier for her seeing that everyone was here.
"There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man and bring him to the ground." Blaze said to the king.
Blaze looked at a soldier on her left as she spoke in the most creepy tone she can do with her voice.
"You can beat him."
She then looked at the soldier on her left.
"You can cheat him."
Princess Blaze looked back at the king with a smirk.
"You can treat him badly and leave him when he's down."
The king just felt more annoyed, seeing how the princess wasn't gonna give up. She doesn't seem intimidated by the slightest and must have something up her sleeve that they haven't seen her do.
The feline just chuckled at her words, "But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you. I'm standing on my own two feet." She said, posing to let her body wide open for anyone that dared to attack.
Before the king could command the attack on the feline. Princess Blaze snapped her fingers and suddenly appeared the seven Sol Emeralds floating around her body in an orbit.
"This will guarantee to blow your mind." Princess Blaze said, teasing everyone.
Many were shocked and curious about what she was planning to do. Not wanting to let the princess get the upper hand. They all charge into Princess Blaze to prevent her from using the power of the Sol Emeralds. The cat just smiled devilishly and jumped into the air in time to avoid contact.
"I want it all! And I want it now!" Princess Blaze yelled while in the air.
While in the air, the Sol Emeralds began spinning rapidly around the feline before emerging with her. Once they merged with the princess, a large and horrifying fire was lighting up the sky and blinding everyone's eyesight.
A mad laughter could be heard as the fire in the sky was starting to spread. Everyone ready their weapons, seeing the worst is coming for them. Some were starting to sweat because the heat from the fire was causing a heat wave making it almost unbearable to stand still.
When the fire light finally down died, what they saw was a flying figure in the sky covered in a fire aura that was very visible even for those that were miles away.
Princess Blaze has finally tapped into her new form (At least new for this Blaze.), Burning Blaze. No longer was her fur lavender for it was pink. Her outfit wasn't purple, it was now red. Her body is covered in a mix of pink and red aura.
She looked at her hands and smiled, sensing the amount of power she could feel in her body. So much power that she couldn't wait to unleash everyone below her. Princess Blaze had recently discovered that the Sol Emeralds were able to give her outstanding powers once she was able to harness them with her powers.
After she was done admiring her new power, she looked down at the king who she was talking to before to give him a crazy look. The king was frightened but stood his ground with his weapon ready.
Burning Blaze swooped down towards the king, who ready his weapon. The fire cat caught the king with her hand before he could have a chance to swing his weapon. She flew back in the air while grabbing the king by his neck. The king tried his best to break free from Burning Blaze's grasp.
The feline looked at the king with her red colored eyes to meet his eyes. "Let's see how fire proof this armor can be." She said,
Her hands started firing up as the king's armor prevented him from being burned. However since Princess Blaze's fire gained boost thanks to her burning form, much of the heat was heating up the armor itself for it was too much to handle. The king started screaming, feeling the burning sensation coming from inside his armor. His whole body was slowly burning and melting.
The princess decided to end his misery by blowing up his head with her abilities by placing her hand on it. She threw the headless king down to the ground. Everyone was frightened by the new found power Princess Blaze had and they knew she hadn't even gotten warm up.
Burning Blaze smiled as she cracked her neck before looking down at everyone. "Now where was I? Oh yeah, time for this kitty to have some fun." She spoke to herself
She dives down to a large group of soldiers. When she landed, she made a large fiery explosion doing so, wiping out a chunk of soldiers who immediately evaporated from the planet. The soldiers started fighting back but their weapons and armors were no match against Burning Blaze's deadly powers.
The princess kept going with her explosive stomps wiping more chunks of soldiers as the ground of the earth shook violently. To make more use of her ability, she flew into the crowd of soldiers and simply flew by them, turning them into dust and ashes with her fire aura.
Burning Blaze would go back into the air and create a big massive fireball with just one hand with ease, throwing it at multiple soldiers while destroying a bit of the land. Many soldiers were thrown into the air only to have the princess sliced them into ashes by her powers.
Many tried to escape even the king and queens, but the princess made sure that nobody left by creating a long wall of fire that she was able to do in her burning form. Princess Blaze laughed and mocked everyone.
"Run, beg, scream, and pray! You're all going to die today!"
Princess Blaze wanted to try out the strength of her form by landing on the ground and just started beating the soldiers with her punches and kicks. She would easily tear their bodies apart even by the slightest punch due to how fragile they were. She would punch their stomach out, stomp on faces with her high heels, and slammed soldiers against their own soldiers.
The princess then started swirling her body rapidly forming a large fire tornado that reached the very clouds above the sky and unleashed it on the soldiers. She watched as the fire tornado sucked the soldiers in it. Princess Blaze didn't just make one for she made multiple fire tornados spreading throughout the area. It was a death valley with the fire tornados as they pulled in the soldiers, burning them to ashes as their instant death.
She was having the time of her life causing such a major massacre with her burning form. The cat was just laughing at the many screaming voices that could be heard. Gardon, who was far away from the fight, was just covering his ears and eyes, not wanting to witness this slaughter of a thousand soldiers by the hands of Princess Blaze. He just wanted all this to end so no more people would be killed.
It all came to an end with one mighty explosion. The explosion was so big that the force of it pushed Gardon away from his spot.
When the explosion finally ended, everyone was dead with no trace of life. Princess Blaze landed on the ground, standing proudly in her new form with a smirk. The whole land was completely destroyed and only ashes were left from the ground. The princess, feeling very satisfied with herself, returned back to her normal form due to how she was exhausted because that final explosion used all of her powers. Gardon, who was watching this from far, couldn't believe he was seeing this before his eyes.
The valley of ashes as it came to be called that day, Gardon was walking through the valley watching the black ashes be blown away by the wind. He was getting close to where Princess Blaze was at who was just admiring her handy work for she has done her goal of wiping out every king, queen, prince, and princess of the world. Only she remained and she was very proud as hot steam was coming from her body.
While she was having her back turn, momentarily out of action and temporarily out of gas. Gardon slowly unsheathed his sword and was ready to stab Princess Blaze through her chest with it. This was his one chance to end the Princess's reign and give the world a chance to live for the better.
As the koala bear was getting near, Princess Blaze just let out a laugh while still having her back against Gardon. She smiled and spread her arms out making herself completely vulnerable.
"Do it." She spoke up to the koala bear.
Gardon stopped walking and stood there as Princess Blaze turned her body around to face him. She wasn't the slightest worried or scared, looking at Gardon with a teasing look.
"This is your chance, use that sword and stab me to my end." Princess Blaze taunting him, "You want to save the world right? Well here you go! The easy way!"
The koala bear just held up his sword gripping the handle with both hands tightly. His arms were shaking, a part of him wanted to stab the princess so that her reign could end right here and now. But there was another part that didn't. When looking at the princess' eyes, all he could see was the young kitten that he protected over the years. Fond memories that he cherished very dearly, Blaze was like family to him.
Gardon let his grip loose and dropped the sword on the ground making a large clang sound as it hit the ground. The koala bear just got on his knees and hands on the floor as he began to cry. His tears hit the ground of ashes. He couldn't do it, he still thinks there's some good inside Princess Blaze since she was keeping him alive than most. Despite this, he knew he made the wrong choice and was ready to have any consequences for it.
Princess Blaze laughed at Gardon's weak state and just nodded her head. She looked to her where the shady tree she was sitting at before massacring everyone. It was surprisingly still intact but some of the leaves were blown. Even her fancy tea pot and tea cup was there where she placed it.
She walked over it and opened the lid once again. She sigh seeing that there was no more tea. Not even a single drop to drink. "Should have brought another teapot with me." Princess Blaze said to herself.
Princess Blaze looked back at the valley of ashes and let out a happy sigh. Loving the sight of her work. "At least I'll be sleeping like a kitten tonight." She teased herself.
She began walking towards Gardon who was still on his knees crying. Princess Blaze stopped moving when she stood beside the crying koala bear.
"Let's go." Princess Blaze said, harshly.
Gardon looked up to see Blaze smirking at him. Curious to what she plans to do next, know that she completed her plan.
"It's time I christened myself with a new title. A new title that will bring fear to those that hear it." Princess Blaze said, smirking.
The feline looked up at the beautiful orange red sky look that resembled the color of her flames. "Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see." She said, in a tune.
Gardon looked up at the orange red skies, it was almost like the skies themselves were in fire by Blaze. "After today, I'm no longer a princess." The feline said, proudly.
Gardon was confused because she meant that she was no longer a princess. But kept quiet for Blaze had more to say.
"I renounce my title of Princess to something greater and powerful." Blaze said.
"And….what's that?" Gardon finally spoke to ask.
Blaze looked down at Gardon with her devilish red color eyes as the red orange red skies shine their lights on her. She gave a sadistic smile and said the title of her new status for Gardon was the first to witness it for she said in the most evilest yet proudest way.
"The Killer Queen."
Present day
"All dead, all dead."
Is what Gardon said after he finished his story of what happened to kings and queens of the world and how she gained the title. Sonic and others were more surprised by this, the extreme measure that this Blaze did to earn such a title was unbelievable. Blaze who clenches her fist harshly by her counterpart. She was not sad like before, just angry.
Thankfully, Honey put her hand on Blaze's back to calm her trying not to let her anger the best of her. Just the thought of all of the kings and queens being annihilated was something she never imagined would happen.
"All dead, all dead." Gardon sadly said, he looked at the floor. "And I wonder why I still live on. Alone I'm spared."
"Man." Sonic said, feeling down and not knowing what to say for Gardon.
That was all he was able to say after hearing what Gardon said. Nobody knew what to say. Gardon looked at everyone to see their sad faces and the scared look Marine had, after hearing what happened.
The rain finally stopped pouring after many hours, once it stopped. Blaze immediately stood up and put back her hoodie from her cloak for she was planning to go outside while trying to keep her identity safe. Everyone saw the serious look on Blaze.
Before she could put her hand on the door handle. Sonic blocked her way, preventing her from leaving the house. "And where do you think you're going?" The hedgehog asked.
"I'm gonna find the Queen and put an end to her reign myself. I can't take it anymore. Gardon and the rest of the world have suffered enough. It's time I take action." Blaze said.
"Are you nuts?!" Honey yelled at the lavender feline. "You're just gonna take on the Queen on your own!"
Blaze looked down with a frown, "I'm sorry, but I don't want any of you guys getting hurt from a being with my pyrokinetics abilities. I just can't bear the image of myself hurting the likes of all of you." She said.
"Blaze, like it or not. We're gonna help you take down this Queen. Even if we do meet our end. Just remember not to blame yourself for our actions and choices." Sonic explained. "I'm willing to risk my life helping you and everyone in this world."
Blaze looked at everyone who seemed to agree with what Sonic said. They too would do whatever it takes to save this world like if it was their own. The feline took a step away from the door, realizing it was sucide if she went to face the Queen right now in the mental state she's in.
"You know." Gardon spoke up. "If you need a little extra help against the Queen. I know someone that could be useful to you."
Everyone looked at Gardon with a raising eyebrows. "Say what?" Tails spoke.
"This somebody actually has some experience fighting against the Queen and actually lived to tell it." Gardon said.
"But how? I thought the Queen just killed anyone against her?" Honey said.
"This being is a special occasion, the Queen mostly uses this being as a punching bag when she wants to test out her abilities." Gardon answer.
The koala bear stood up, "This being also happened to be a princess. The very last one." He said, staring at the window.
"But why would the Queen let this princess live rather than burn her like the rest." Knuckles said, getting curious.
"Like I said, she's a very special occasion. I must warn you, she's quite harsh and might be hard to convince to help, especially what the Queen has done to her, but her abilities would give us a chance." Gardon said, informing the gang.
Blaze walked up toward giving him his full attention. "Where can we find this last princess?" She asked, as Gardon nodded and began leading the way.
After much talk, the gang were back on the boat that Gardon provided them, leaving Southern Island and sailed back on the sea. They sailed on the sea for a few hours heading to the location of the princess that Gardon thinks might help them.
Marine joined the gang because she wanted help even if it's something minimal and because it was her chance to sail on the sea. She was with Tails, before leaving her home island, Marine brought her tool boxes that she and Tails were currently using to make things that might be a use for the gang. While Tails was teaching Marine how to make things.
The gang finally reached their destination, an island that not even Sonic, Tails, and Blaze couldn't recognize from their adventures together. Gardon, who was piloting the ship this time around rather than Tails, safely docked the ship near the island.
They all got off and began adventuring the depth of the island. Everything was fine until they started getting further and further in the island. The more they walked on the island the more it was starting to get cold to the point Blaze acted as the heat source to keep everyone warm with her fire powers.
The group came to a stop once they reached a cave. "We're here," Gardon spoke. "Just stick behind me. She's not too fond of visitors but me."
Everyone did as they were told and stood behind the koala bear. They ventured into the cave carefully with gentle steps. They came to a stop when they saw someone sitting a log as their seat.
They hid their identity, but it was obvious it was the princess that Gardon was speaking about before. The mysterious princess seemed to be fine with Gardon's presence for they seem to have some history but didn't look too fond of the others. She didn't speak until she laid her eyes on Blaze and let out an icy breath for all to see.
"What are you doing here? Come to give me another random beating for fun, demon." She said. "And you brought an audience to witness it so you can humiliate me more."
Sonic, Blaze, Tails, Honey, and Knuckles were stunned when they heard the voice of the princess. It sounded so familiar to them and yet jarring until they realized whose voice it was.
"That voice, it can't be." Blaze said, feeling a shiver down her spine.
"She's here?!" Sonic said, surprised.
The mysterious princess stood up from her seat, facing everyone. She took a few steps away from the dark shadows of the caves after seeing their reaction when they heard her voice.
When they saw her face, everyone gasped and took a few steps back. Never have they thought they would see this character ever again after what happened in Blaze's regular dimension. There stood a familiar female anthropomorphic chinchilla that made everyone that day say her name as she looked at them with her icy color eyes.
"Shivera!?"
End of chapter 5