Here's part 2, enjoy.

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Chapter 11: Evicted, part 2

TREE TRUNKS ORCHARD, SOME TIME LATER.

The last thing Sticks expected when she woke up for a late midnight snack of apple pie and warm milk, was someone knocking at the door. And she certainly didn't expect to see her friends all beat up with Sonic's chest fur chard when she opened the door to see who it was at this time of night.

Sonic: *Smiles tiredly at her* Night Sticks, mind if we come in.

Sticks: *Eyes her friends with worry and a little suspicion, before side stepping to let them in* Go grab yourselves some pie, i'll get the first aid kit and then you can tell me what in Glob's name happened to you.

While they patched each other up and ate some Apple Pie for comfort, Sonic told Sticks everything that happened at the Treefort, from Shadow's unannounced arrival to them being half tricked, half forced out of their home and coming here for help.

Sticks: *Hears kettle whistle and gets up to take it off the stove* You guys are lucky to have walked away in one piece *Pours warm milk in 4 more mugs* most Warlocks are sadistic and bloodthirsty, their minds twisted that way by the influence of the demon they made a pack with for power and usually don't leave any survivors *puts the mugs on a tray and goes to distribute them to her friends*, those guys are even worst then wizards and even witches, at least their magic is free from the stench of the Nightosphere.

Sonic: *Takes the mug from Sticks while scowling* Yeah some luck, we got are asses handed to us by my childhood rival turned wack job warlock, and now we lost are home. What are we going to tell Mira when she comes back?

Tails: The truth, what else. We'll just tell her what happened and she'll take care of it, she's not Ooo's greatest Wizard for nothing after all.

Sonic: *Doesn't look reassured* Tails, as much as i hate to say this, i don't think relying on Mira to solve this problem would be such a great idea.

Sticks: *Sits down and picks up her mug* Blue's right. Mira's on a mission to retrieve PB'S stolen tiara, which could take her a while *Takes a big gulp of her mug before putting it back on the table*, and even if she managed to come back early, she might be Ooo's greatest wizard capable of outdoing any witch or wizard on the planet, but warlock magic is not from are planet. It might be to much for her to handle.

Knuckles: *Gulps nervously* So you're saying we should handle this ourselves? I doubt we be better off.

Amy: Unless you have some kind of witch hunter's trick that can help us weaken him so we can kick his ass out of the Treefort, *Looks both nervous and hopeful* as i hoped you would have when i insisted we all come here.

Sticks took a moment to think about it while the others, Sonic especially, looked on with hope in their eyes. But when nothing came to her, she to the worry of the others left the kitchen and returned to her bedroom, where she pulled a book from the bookcase at the opposite end of the room. The book was black with golden letters on the cover that spells its title. ''The Witch's Hammer''

Sonic: *Walks into Sticks room and sees her looking through some book* Sticks?...

Sticks: *Makes a shush noise* One moment blue. *Hums to herself as she searches* Ah ha, *points at a page* got it.

Sonic: Got what? Did you find something that can help?

Sticks: Sure did blue, come on let's go tell the others.

She grabbed Sonic's arm and pulled him with her back to the kitchen where the others demanded to know where they have been. Sticks ignored the question and set her book on the table at the page she's been looking, showing them the recipe and ingredients of a Molotov Cocktail-like preparation called ''The Devil's Antiacide''. If brewed properly, this potion can weaken the contractual link between a Warlock (in this case, Shadow), and his demonic patron (who ever that is) enough for witch hunters (Them) to neutralize Shadow.

Knuckles: So all we have to do is smash a bottle of that stuff on his head and we'll be able to kick his ass?

Sticks: That's what the books says, and it never lied to me before.

Sonic: Great, what are we waiting for then, let's get brewing.

Sonic reaches to grab the book, but Sticks grabs his hand, stoping him.

Sticks: Not so fast Blue, we may have the recipe and a couple of the ingredient we need in the spice cabinet, but we'll have to get the rest before we begin cooking. And from what i've read, some won't be easy to get.

Sonic: *Shakes his head* There's no other choices Sticks, we need this cocktail. *Pulls his hand out of Sticks grip and turns to his friends* So here's how were doing it: While Sticks stays here to get what she already has ready, we will split into 2 teams to get the rest, it will save us time.

The others all agreed with the plan while Sticks sight a bit exasperately at her friend's impatiences, but relents.

Sticks: Fiiiine, just give me some time to make proper lists and you can all go.

By sunrise, Sticks gave the 2 teams (Sonic with Amy and Tails with Knuckles) each a list with specific ingredients for them to find, where to find them and the occasional warning at the end of some of them, and they went their separate ways to get them.

The first ingredient is on Sonic and Amy's list, one of the easiest, or at least it should have been. They had to go pick some flowers from a Wisteria tree, the closest one growing on a hill several miles from the cottage. But a giant decided not long ago to build his house on that same hill and the tree was now part of its garden. The 2 tried asking the giant if they could have some of its flowers, but the giant just slam the door in their faces and ordered them to go away. With no idea where to find another tree, they had to steal a whole branch under the giant's nose. Thank Glob for Sonic's speed or the angry mister giant would have squashed them when he spotted them taking the branch from his window and tried to catch them.

The second and third ingredients were on Tails and Knuckles list. First they acquired a Dove's egg, which wasn't easy do to mama Dove attacking them with a bunch of worms that grossed Knuckles away as the Dove chased him. But Tails used the distraction to snatch an egg from the bird's house, went to grab Knuckles and they both flew away.

Next they had to acquire the Joyful Tears of a cloud person, fortunately they spotted a cloud person's house only a few moments after they fled the dove. With Tails holding him, Knuckles rang the door bell and waited for someone to answer. When a cute cloud lady answered the door, without warning Knuckles began mercilessly tickling her to tears and collected some of them in a glass Jar Tails gave him before flying away as the Husband of the cloud lady came at the door yelling at them for ''Attacking'' his wife.

All day long, they collected all the ingredients on the lists with various degrees of difficulty, until they only needed one more: A pair of wings from a rare species of emerald colored bat, so rare in fact that they can only be found in a single cave on a small island off the cost of the Candy Kingdom. So the 4 reunited at the Cottage to give Sticks all the ingredients they gathered before leaving for the cost and took a makeshift raft towards the small island.

Sonic: *Rows the raft and sees the island coming into view* Almost there guys. Amy, you got the ''net''?

Amy: Here *Takes out not a real net, but a thick quilt with apple patterns she took from Tree Trunk's cottage* With this we should be able to catch at least a couple of them.

Sonic: Good. Tails, you got the ''Surgical Tools''

Tails: Just this *Takes out a large kitchen knife, that to came from the cottage* That's all we really need to cut of a couple of bat wings.

Sonic: *Nods, then turns to Knuckles* And you got the container to put in the chop off wings, right knux?

Knuckles: Right *Shows them an empty Jam Jar* good think Sticks still had one left empty or we would have to use Sonic's scarf as a bag to carry them.

Sonic: *Glares at the echidna with some disgust* You ever do that with anything that gross and you'll carry it in your mouth *That earns him a look of the disgust from all 3 of his friends*.

The raft then hit the sandy ground of the small Island and they all jumped off.

Sonic: Remember, we go in, we make enough noise to force the bats out, we use the quilt to catch one and quickly kill it before cutting his wings off and getting out of here.

The others nodded and they all marched to the cave. It was dark inside, like any other caves, but Tails had a flashlight option on his electronic watch and activated it, flashing it all around the cave to spot some emerald bats on the ceiling but so far, nothing.

Tails: Weird, i'm not spotting on a single bat on the cave ceiling guys.

Knuckles: Probably woke up and flew outside into the night sky to get some bugs for their breakfast.

Tails: Unlikely Knuckles, the sun is still up and won't set for another hour.

Amy was the first to notice something off about their surroundings. The Walls, Stalactites and Stalagmites looked unusually green and fleshy, and moving as if the stone was alive.

Amy: Euh, Tails!? The walls aren't suppose to move like that, right?

Before the twin tailed fox could answer her, the cave walls produced high pitched squeals that made them cover their ears in pain, and it all ''Unfolded'' to reveal thousands upon thousands of the bats they've been looking for, covering the inside of the cave all along like a living tapestry. The bats all suddenly took flight and surrounded the group of intruders invading their cave, some even coming down to bite them.

Sonic: *Tries to protect himself from the bats like the others when he turned to Amy* Amy the quilt, use it now.

Without answering or a second thought, Amy pulled out the thick quilt and in one motion, she covers them all in it for protection, keeping most of the bats out and trapping one little bat, who was bitting Tails ear, with them.

Tails: *Cries in pain* Get it off me, get it off.

Quickly, Knuckles grabbed the bat and squeezed it until it released its maw from Tails ear and he pins it on the ground.

Knuckles: I got it, hurry up and cut off its wings, its screeching are giving me a headache.

Tails quickly took out the knife and cut off the small bat's wings, then stabbed it in the heart for a quick, mercy kill before taking the wings and stuffing them in Knuckles Jar.

Tails: Got them,*Sees the bats beginning to get through the Quilt* let's get out of here.

Quickly but carefully, the quilt still over their heads, they made a B-Line for the cave exit, discarding the quilt as soon as they were out for the bats to have before quickly climbing back on the raft and paddle away as fast as they can back to the mainland.

BACK AT TREE TRUNK'S COTTAGE, SOMETIME LATER

Sonic: *Hands over the jar to Sticks* Here you go Sticks, fresh off a living bat Tails killed almost at the cost of his ear *Winces in pain from the bite on his hand after handing the Jar over*.

Sticks: *Takes the jar and examines the wings inside, by eye and by smell* They'll do, with this the potion will be finished in another hour. *Sees Sonic hold his hand in pain* In the meantime go treat those bites with the others before they get infected, here *Pulls open a nearby drawer and pulls out a small blue spraying can, a needle and some thread* This disinfectant should be more effective then the one in the first aid kit, and you better stitch Tails ear instead of bandaging it, it will heal faster.

Sonic nodded before taking the items and returning to the kitchen to join the others in patching fresh wounds, while Sticks walked outside to a large, bubbling cauldron awaiting the final ingredient to be put in. As she came up to the cauldron ready to put in the wings, she looked back to the cottage where her friends were, hearing them talking and at times, whine or shout in pain, especially Tails. Then she turned to the sky where the sun has almost completely set, and the night stars were slowly appearing, with a small cluster of them were forming a butterfly and she sigh.

Sticks: Sure wish you were here Mira, make the whole ''Kicking Sonic's old rival's'' ass easier *Giggles* and funnier. *Looks back at the cauldron* Oh well, we'll just have to pray to Glob this will be enough.

Taking a pair of kitchen tongs from a nearby preparation table where ''The Witch's Hammer'' book was resting, opened at potion's chapter, she took one wing at a time and drop them in the cauldron, watching as the brew briefly changed from purple, to emerald green, before permanently changing to a blood red.

Sticks hummed positively to herself as this is what's suppose to happen, before taking the ladle setting on the table and use it to stir the brew, for the next hour.

To Be Continue...