The God Of The Cosmos

by Spam5192

The Magic Saga: Sukko, learns that using Magic has consequence, when his home dimension is destroyed in a Genesis Wave. But in his loss, he realises he's not alone, fighting for survival. The Titans. But the Multiverse is tearing through spacetime, causing havoc. When the ultimate Multiverse-ending monster arrives, in Cthulhu, all the Titans must give their all, to save their home.

3. Chapter 3

Chapter Three – The Greatest 'Sonic'?

Sukko was wrong to assume that no one knew he was out there, battling out in the Greater Cosmos.

Someone did.

Dimension – 15862 – Where Hell Itself Lies

The Sapphire Dragon had been traveling through the Multiverse for years. Bouncing from one dimension of Mobius, to another, through purple inter-dimensional portals, doing all he could to help those in need. Saffie heaved, yawning hard, as he stretched his almighty wings and tail. It was night and he had a moment's breather in between all the antics and he was taking full advantage of it.

To say the Sapphire Dragon, or Saffie, was a glitch in the Multiverse, would have been accurate. He was a 'Sonic'. A version of the mighty Hero of Mobius, Sonic The Hedgehog, one of millions out there, but also, no other Blue Blur was like him. Saffie was entirely unique, and he knew it.

He been through literal hell and back again, both physically and mentally, and it had made him the almighty warrior he was today. The strongest and greatest 'Sonic' of them all. Or so he had been told, multiple times. He'd still yet to believe it. There was blood in past. He'd killed. Did he even deserve such a title?

Saffie was tall and extremely well built, with deep muscles across his back, arms, legs and torso. In the darkness, the true spender of his stature couldn't really be seen. Part Hedgehog, Part Dragon. He was wearing black jeans, t-shirt, rock boots but no gloves. He possessed two sets of wings (one main pair, extremely large and powerful, and a shape similar to a bat, and one smaller pair at the top of his tail). The first pair allows him to do a vertical takeoff. Behind that was a set of smaller wings that aid in gliding. At the end of his tail, he had two tail fins that aided in steering and stability. He was incredibly manoeuvrable in the air and extremely fast. In the sky, was now where Saffie's speed truly lay.

Despite the mis-mash, he looked absolutely stunning. He stretched his enormous ten metre wings and adjusted his secondary wings, which were used for balance. He absolutely loved flying but now was not the time.

He was on the trail of a monster.

An ugly inter-dimensional creature that had been ripping apart numerous dimensions, destroying many, and Saffie, now on it's tail, was determined to see it destroyed. But it had proving intensely difficult. The gigantic monster, larger then a skyscraper, had a spherical body, with numerous large cold black eyes and long think tentacles. He rolled along the ground, flattening everything in it's path, leaving a disgusting deep orange slime trail behind it. Known by many as the Grimcreep, it was a true monster of nightmares.

But where did it come from? Saffie growled. That was entirely his fault. He had been inter-dimensional traveling for some time, but having solved the same old problems within each dimension, time and again, constantly repeating himself, Saffie got bored and then complacent. Classic 'Sonic', unfortunately, and as Saffie heard of the Grimcreep, a monster supposedly trapped in a far off dimension, he had to go and look.

Anything for a little excitement, no?

Heavily advised against it, Saffie ignored everyone but found that tracking down the correct dimension, wasn't easy, especially with the purple inter-dimensional portals. But regardless, he found it, and with his eyes narrowing gleefully, he mocked the monster. He originally had no intention of killing the beast, when he found it. It's tentacles were in chains and his cold black eyes, were very sleepy, on the dank, dead planet in the Multiverse. Saffie looked around, this had been a Mobius at some point, but no more. Everyone was gone, including the resident Sonic, the planet nothing more then a empty wasteland, the oceans dry. Only the monster was left.

Had it done this, or did another catastrophe happen to the planet and the monster was to just transported inter-dimensionally here, and left to rot? Saffie had no idea, but regardless, as he smirked, time to have some fun with it.

Really bad idea.

Saffie horrendously underestimated the monster. It was significantly faster and more powerful, then the Sapphire Dragon had given it credit. Soon, Saffie found himself completely out-sped, and out manoeuvred, from what he thought was a slow and useless monster. It easily snapped it's chains, and went after Saffie, much faster then expected, and he quickly found a huge tentacle wrapped itself around him and hard. It had stayed calm and still before, because the monster was a very reactive creature, and without any stimulation, the creature just remained still and calm.

Not anymore.

Saffie screamed, as the tentacle squeezed him hard, and it was only when his anger exploded, as his three foot long silver Adamantium knives, which extended from his clenched fists, did he slice and dice the tentacle, dispensing with it in seconds. Saffie flinched. He had been months since he'd last used them and had forgotten how much they hurt when they came out. His body always healed up the wounds afterwards, but still he grated on him.

The creature screamed, a blood curbing yell, as recoiled from Saffie, but not before ripping something from the Saffie Dragon's wrist. Saffie immediately squealed, chasing down the creature, desperate to get the device back. It was a inter-dimensional portal generator. He already had one, moulded to his very wrist. He had been gifted the device during his very first travels of the Multiverse. But friend of his, Tails, back on the main timeline of the Multiverse, which he still frequented occasionally, has asked if Saffie could get him a device as well. A second one. It had taken years of searching, to find a dimension of Mobius, with the technological knowledge to replicate the device's incredibly complex manufacture.

Finally, he succeeded, and now that blasted creature, had ripped that device from him, and was now promptly swallowing it. Saffie growled. Oh no, you don't. It had taken years of blood, sweat and tears to get that second inter-dimensional portal generator, he was was not going back to Tails empty handed. He growled.

This now meant war, and as the Sapphire Dragon charged at the Grimcreep, it suddenly, stopped and began to shake violently. Then to Saffie's utter horror, it somehow activated the inter-dimensional portal generator, inside of it, as the huge purple portal portal just appeared, out of nowhere, and prompt swallowed the creature whole, before immediately vanishing into the thin air, taking the monster to who knows where.

Saffie screeched to a halt, in total and utter shock, now left completely alone on the forsaken planet.

He swore.

That was three days ago, and he'd been on the trail of that blasted monster ever since. The utter carnage it has left behind on multiply dimensions, as it randomly traveled using the inter-dimensional portal generator, just left Saffie riddled with guilt. Why didn't he just listen? He wouldn't have been in this mess. He was warned against it. But again, classic 'Sonic', of course, he didn't listen. He was bored and thought he knew better.

Not this time.

Saffie heaved in the darkness, taking the short rest. He had no idea what dimension he was in now, or where the resident Sonic was, but right now, the Grimcreep was here, and he had to fix it, somehow. But that was proving intensely difficult. Any kind of distance weapon, just recoiled of the beast leaving it unharmed. The only weapon Saffie had to successful even damaged the Grimcreep was his three foot long silver Adamantium knives. The sharpest weapons on the entire Multiverse, that could slice through anything, but it also meant getting up close and personal with the creature to fight it. But that meant dealing with the it's blood. If you could call it that. It was thick, dark orange, slimy and so incredibly acidic that it instantly burned through anything. Saffie's cyborg body stood no chance against it, as it burned through his skin, in a matter of seconds, and down to the delicate circuitry underneath, potentially threatening his life.

Yes, Saffie was indeed a Cyborg. He was eighty percent robotised with solid Adamantium, and one hundred percent mutant. He was almost indestructible. He was a robotised Blue Dragon-Hedgehog, heavily loaded with firepower and weaponry. Dragon's Breath, Flight, His Adamantium Knives, Robotisation Energy Manipulation, Super-Speed and Super- Strength, Instant Heal, and an enormous temper to match. Plus all his Cyborg abilities, able to hack absolutely anything with the Direct-Neuro Interface in the back of his head. A total and utter monster.

But Saffie never used to be this way. He started life just a normal Sonic, like any other in the Multiverse, but with black eyes, not that actually made a difference. Fate, it seemed had other plans for him. He had been battling his own Robotnik, like all Sonic's but it all ended very different. He defeated Julian, but that wasn't the end. The final fight with Snively, his nephew was brutal, followed but the five and a half years coma, that painfully turned him into this monster, the corrupting the Power Rock he used as a heart, battling Robotnik again both on and off the R.I.N. (The Robotnik Intelligence Network), sacrificing himself to finally rid the world of the Human and gaining the Deep Power Stones as a new power-source.

But that was just the beginning. Then came the inter-dimensional travelling. Landing on a new dimension for the first time, only for it to be, entirely coincidentally, the main timeline. Only to then save the place, sacrificing himself again, as the Deep Power Stones were neutralised. But thanks to the Wisps, he gains a new heart, and his revival to fight again, as well as be give residency there. Further travels around the Multiverse, lead him to the horrendous place of the Grid, and Scourge, the bright green evil version of himself. Both were successfully defeated, but it almost destroyed him mentally.

Now, having learned from that, he now took nothing for granted, but that didn't mean he wasn't occasionally idiotic. He was still a 'Sonic' after all, no matter how far removed from that, he appeared to be. He made mistakes, but he fixed them, but nothing yet, was more stubborn or outright annoying then the Grimcreep. He had to get this monster dead, and was failing. He growled. Some king he turned out to be. The normal laws of physics didn't apply to him, and yet the Wisps had called him the 'King'. There were even more dimensions out there, with further 'Sonics' and the Wisps said that 'he', the monster, was the greatest of them all.

But not right now. The idiot, in this, was left no choice but to back off and heal, but that wasn't easy. He could heal the skin covering his electronic innards instantly, but the circuitry themselves, needed Robotisation Energy Manipulation to repair, and that was dangerous to use. Fine on himself, but dangerous to those around him. Anyone caught in the vile green light of the power, would be instantly robotised, turned from organic to perfectly robotic, this minds destroyed. Saffie could turn them back, but as experience had taught him, they were never the same people again, afterwards.

But the monster began rampaging again. Through the deep darkness, putting more lives and businesses at risk, as it just rolled everywhere, smashing his huge thick tentacles into everything, the orange slime and blood trail, burning through everything. Saffie decided to make a judgement call.

Kill the Grimcreep or die trying.

That was not the ending he wanted, but he only had himself to blame. He scrapped the second inter-dimensional portal generator, that was long gone, now dissolved in the creature's blood. Saffie found pieces of it, in one of the trails of the beast. A least the Grimcreep couldn't travel between dimensions anymore, and loose Saffie again. But also now it was trapped here, with a planet full of people, destroying everything. It didn't really solve anything.

Saffie was currently running and flying everywhere, getting as many people to safety as possible. But as dawn landed, he noticed the creature below, as he soared high above and with the coast clear, he dive bombed it, at speed, his three foot long silver Adamantium knives extended. He slashed at the creature, desperate to avoid the super acidic orange blood, and beating his wings hard, he soared upwards again, before instantly turning and diving again.

The Grimcreep got bombarded, and it's anger exploded at the pest, that wouldn't just leave it alone. It roared, raising all of it tentacles at the same time, it thrusted them down to the ground hard, the momentum sending the creature skywards. Caught completely off guard, Saffie was forced to dodge him for his life, but what happened next, no one could have foreseen.

As the Grimcreep and the Sapphire Dragon himself, became instantaneous level, high in the sky, they eyes meeting for a split second, the world all around them just disintegrated. Out of nowhere, an enormous tear, appeared right across the sky, directly above them. It went from horizon to horizon, and outlined in bright white light, it opened up revealing a deep, dank darkness beyond. Suddenly, the air, all around them began to get sucked up through to tear, and into the intense vacuum of the blackness, at humongous force. The Grimcreep was immediately pulled through the tear, screaming and roaring the whole way, and Saffie, suddenly, glimpsing planets and suns in the distance through the tear, realised that behind it, was deep space.

A pure vacuum.

Out there, there was no air. He'd suffocate, freeze to death. Even a cyborg needed oxygen, warmth to survive. He turned and fled, beating his wings, them nothing but an almighty blur, as he flew for his life, desperate to get away. Suddenly, he heard the Grimcreep roaring and scream. Suddenly, huge flashes of bright white light almost came through the tear, as they lit up the entire morning sky. Saffie screamed ducking for cover, as he desperately tried to outpace the rushing air through the tear. Hugely powerful and earth shattering. Further almighty power shots lit up the sky until finally, with one final shot, the Grimcreep roared it's last, and was silent.

Suddenly, the rushing of air suddenly stopped and everything became still and calmed. Panting hard, Saffie gulped, incredibly confused. He was still in the dimension, right beside the tear, having successfully outflew the rushing vacuum. But as he looked back, he was scared. What was going on? Approaching it cautiously, Saffie peered though the tear into deep space and outright gasped.

The Grimcreep. That stubborn monster he'd been trying to destroy for the last three days, was dead, sliced and diced into pieces. Bits of it lay everywhere, and it had been done in a matter of minutes. Saffie gulped, how and by who? He didn't believe anything out there was even powerful enough to destroy the creature, hence it's original banishment.

Saffie desperately looked though the tear, as to the perpetrator, but saw nothing but darkness. Whomever it was, was long gone, but then Saffie saw it, glinting the rays of the raising sun behind him. It was slowing drifting towards him, through the open tear. He suddenly surged forwards and grabbed it.

A staff?

Short, but ornately pale blue and silver, with a stunning crystal on the end. What? It was a weapon, that was obvious, and it had been used to destroy the Grimcreep, but as it lay dead on Saffie's hand, he had no idea how. Suddenly, the tear behind began to close, as Saffie was forced to back way and pull his eyes away from the staff. He looked back through the tear, one last time, there, in the distance, he saw it, as clear as day, the Multiverse. Lines and lines of planets, amassed together, criss-crossing each other, millions of identical versions of Mobius. Saffie looked back at the dimension he was in and then back at the Multiverse, and then realised that everything he'd ever believed about the Multiverse was wrong, and that it was all curving back in on itself.

Beyond the tear was the Greater Cosmos, looking at the Multiverse from above. The very Multiverse that he himself, physically now flew in, and someone was out there.

What was going on?

As the tear closed behind him with a clunk, Saffie was left alone in the sky desperately confused. He needed answers, and the staff in his hand was the key. The key to the Multiverse and the truth. He heaved. With the Grimcreep gone, his current dimension, was now safe, which meant that Saffie was now free to leave.

But as he about to activate the inter-dimensional portal generator on his wrist, as he landed on the ground, and leave, he was immediately called over by some locals. Saffie heaved, rolling his eyes as he nodded them over. They seemed nervous around Saffie, as he towered over them, but their excitement of the situation, dampened their fear. They squealed in delight, bowing to the Blue Dragon.

"Well done, your almightiness. You destroyed the Grimcreep. It was prophesied that the God Of The Cosmos would save us all."

Saffie blinked, groaning hard.

Oh, no. Not Prophecies.

He hated them, because everywhere he went, there was a seer who saw him coming and they were always accurate, including the prophecies from the Wisps. His best friend was known for doing them. The little cyan Wisp he affectionately called 'Squidling'. It constantly felt like Saffie had lost control of his own life, because of them, but this was different. He stared at the two locals, blinking hard.

"Er, I'm the Sapphire Dragon, not the God Of The Cosmos, and I didn't destroy that creature, someone else did." He admitted, to utter silence, as the sudden realisation hit him hard. Those incredible power shots he witnessed destroying that monster. They definitely rank of god-like powers. Was that, who was on the other side of the tear? He looked down at the now somewhat stunned locals. "Hey, this prophecy of the God Of The Cosmos, can you show me?" He asked.

The two locals nodded and lead Saffie down a path, and then turned into a secluded woodlands. It wasn't large as the two locals took Saffie, to a large boulder in the centre of a clearing, surrounded by fallen logs and wild flowers.

Painted upon the boulder, in black, were drawings, now somewhat faint, with the passing of time, and but the lettering, thankfully, was as clear as day.

'When light turns to dark, and dark turns to light, the God Of The Cosmos will show you the way. With immense power and a good heart, he will defend us all'

Beneath the letter seemed to be a painted image of this so-called God Of The Cosmos, but it was so small and faint, Saffie couldn't make anything out. The Sapphire Dragon just gasped. This prophecy must have been hundreds of years old, and yet, like all prophecies, it was spot on, like it was directed at him, for this exact moment in time. Panting hard, he stared down at the incredible staff in his hand, and realised that there was something going on here, then just him. He thanked the locals and ran, leaving the small woodlands behind him.

He was really keen to go. He may not have had the inter-dimensional portal generator for his Fox friend, back on the main timeline, but wow, did the staff compensate. He just hoped it survived inter-dimensional travel.

It did.

Dimension – 23691 – Who are you?

Tails gasped.

"Are you sure?" He stammered, as Saffie told him where he found the staff. The Fox was examining it in his workshop, in his house, on the main timeline, which was right next door to the lounge, which was where the Sapphire Dragon's hologram now stood.

Tails' House, was a large house with two large bedrooms. One each for Sonic and Tails, and a bathroom upstairs, and a large open-plan lounge-kitchen- diner downstairs which was in a large L shape, the small kitchen was set towards the back of the house and the lounge towards the front. There wasn't exactly a dining room there, but a large breakfast bar which was doubled as kitchen work surface. The lounge took up all of the front of the house, along the longest edge of the L-shaped room and there were sofas everywhere. All misshaped, all different sizes and colours. There was enough space to sit ten to twenty people. In the centre of the lounge, a large dinning table had been placed, with several chairs around it. This had been a necessity recently, as a organisation station, due to the significant increase of attacks by Eggman. A large table made planning and paperwork much easier.

To the side of the kitchen was the staircase, which run up through the centre of the house and the other side of that was another large room. It was separate from the open-plan living space and could only be entered and exited by a single door. It was Tails' Workshop. Sonic had not idea what when on inside that room most of the time, but it was very grateful of it, the inventions that came out of there had saved his life on more then one occasion.

Even though this was technically Tail's house and Sonic was a permanent guest in his 'guest' room, Knuckles was another semi-permanent guest who could often be found lounging on one of Tails' sofas. But the kid fox did get a 'hell of lot of visitors' in Sonic's opinion, as almost all of their counter attack plans against Eggman were always derived at Tails' House. How the hell Eggman hadn't found them yet, was completely beyond Sonic's comprehension, but the Fox knew it was only a matter of time.

Saffie kept the prophecy of the God Of The Cosmos to himself for now. Here on the main timeline, prophecies had a nasty habit of making people outright panic, especially with the Wisps prevalence for giving them. Saffie wasn't entirely sure if the staff, and hugely powerful power shots and the God Of The Cosmos were all related, and the one and the same person.

Regardless, finding the staff had bewildered him so much, that he'd pushed the revelation of the real Multiverse, right to the back of his mind. He would deal with that later, but right now, he desperately wanted to know who wielded that weapon. Because they were ruthlessly powerful with it, far more so then himself. They had taken out a monster in minutes, that he'd failed to do, in days, not that he was going to admit that, but ultimately, he wanted to know if this newcomer could be trusted. He seemed to be on their side, but Saffie just didn't know, and it seriously worried him.

He stood in his hologram form, looking very different. He was completely solid, no longer see through, like a normal person should and it even could interact with the environment around it. It was his Hard Light Hologram. Saffie stood there with his arms folded, powerful and strong, his large jet black eyes fixed on Tails. The beautifully manicured Blue Hedgehog quills flowed his back from his forehead, looking spectacular, and his gloves and shoes were spotless. The white stripe on his red shoes glistened in afternoon light, his short royal blue fur shined like silk. Saffie was exactly the same height and weight as the resident Sonic, who stood opposite him. Not a monster, but a true mirror image except for the eyes colour. Sonic had noticed over the years that several of his counterparts had black eyes, but only a very small handful. Green was much more common. Classic Sonic, had black eyes, and now, as he smiled, so did Saffie. Or at least, in this form. Sonic suspected that this was how Saffie looked before he changed. Almost exactly like his fifteen year old self.

Saffie heaved, as he'd stored his body somewhere safe out of the way, as being a cyborg, he could separate his mind from his body and survive, and it allowed him to sleep. It was far to big to fit into Tails' House anyway. His old tree branch he used to have, as a place to sleep, here in the main timeline, he'd been forced to abandon. Even in that secluded spot, people still searched him out, gave him hassle, calling him a monster. Saffie heaved. It was true, but this was also his home, he had permission to be here. Nowadays, he barely came home, only when times were bad, or he needed help, or like now, when something downright weird happens.

Saffie kept a low profile and even though most of the friends of Sonic had seen him in the past, only Tails, the Blue Blur himself, and Knuckles, knew he was still around. Everyone else believing he'd, along with every other visiting counterpart of Sonic The Hedgehog, he's just moved on. Overall, it was for the best, less questions were being asked this way.

Tails was examining the staff in detail. It was a superb piece of craftsmanship, but what got to the Fox, was it's chaos energy readings. They were off the charts. He was a very young, Fox cub with a unique mutation of two tails instead of one. He had mostly yellow-orange fur with white fur around his muzzle, front torso, and the tips of his tails. He had bright blue eyes. He wore white gloves and red shoes with white toes. He gasped and hard.

"This is incredible. I've never seen anything like it. It can't create it's own Chaos Energy, but can channel like nothing I've ever seen before. I didn't believed Chaos Energy could be physically concentrated that hard." He stammered. Tails didn't find any Magic traces, at all, within the staff. All of that was now long gone. Saffie frowned. God-like levels of power? But before he could say anything, Sonic cut across his thoughts, frowning.

"But how did the Grimcreep get into that dimension anyway. I thought it had been banished." He wondered. The story of the Grimcreep was well known, even across dimensions, especially for a traveler like Sonic. He could survive occasionally travels, just not the back-to-back travelling that Saffie regularly did. That would eventually kill. The damage was caused was due to their unstable origins, especially to those born on a Mobius. Saffie knew this all to well, constantly getting battered by them, as he used them to travel the Multiverse, knowing the fact that he was an immortal Cyborg, was the only reason he was still alive.

Saffie gulped and bit his lip, and finally admitted the real reason why the Grimcreep wasn't were it was supposed to be. Both Sonic and Tails just looked at Saffie, throughly unimpressed. It was just the three of them there.

Sonic was a stunning Hedgehog with royal blue fur that covers most of his body, peach on his arms, muzzle and belly, and big emerald-green eyes. He had small, triangular ears on the top of his head, six long quills on the back of his head, two spines protruding from his back behind his shoulders, and a short tail. Saffie hissed back at his counterpart.

"Hey, back off. I'm you. Don't tell me you haven't made mistakes." He spat. Sonic growled in response, but Tails cut across him. He giggled.

"Oh, he has." He smiled, but Sonic roared with anger.

"Not potentially world ending ones." He hissed. But Tails frowned.

"Er, yeah." He nodded. "When Eggman lost the world war, he disappeared. When he returned as Mister Tinker, his memories wiped, and you had a chance to take him out, like Shadow asked, and you didn't. He later went on to fully regain himself, and he nearly destroyed the world with the his Metal Virus." He explained. Saffie smirked.

"Oops." He giggled. He didn't know that story, but Sonic growled.

"Hey, I fixed it." He hissed, but then Saffie rounded back on him.

"I fixed this." He scowled back, pointing at the immediate situation, but Tails interjected. He frowned, turning around with the staff in his hand.

"But you didn't, did you?" He asked. Saffie sighed and shook his head. Sonic heaved.

"Then who did?" he asked, looking back at his counterpart. Saffie shrugged, he saw nothing through the tear, in the sky, to give any indication as who wielded the staff. Sonic heaved, but his eyes fell back on the staff. He'd never seen before in his life, and yet, it had a sense of huge familiarity about it. As to what, Sonic had no clue, he just couldn't put his finger on it. But as he examined the staff, he noticed something extremely odd about it. He frowned.

"Oh, that's weird. There's the symbol here. The pin with a snake wrapped around it." He puzzled. Everyone looked, as Saffie stared, but Tails outright gasped.

"The Rod of Asclepius?" He stammered. But Sonic frowned.

"Yeah, but this one's got dragon wings. Isn't the Rod of Asclepius is the symbol for a Doctor, right?" He wondered. Tails nodded.

"Yeah, it's known intergalactic and multiversal wide." He agreed. "To bare that symbol, as a tattoo, has to be earned. It takes years of study, hard work, and dedication to achieve." He sighed, but then deeply frowned. "But what are the dragon wings for and why have they added to such a well known symbol?" but Saffie frowned.

"Maybe it's someone making a statement." He shrugged "But regardless, what's it doing on a staff that was used to rip an enormous monster to pieces?" He spat. Now with the Doctor theory, the God Of The Cosmos idea was becoming less likely, but still Saffie couldn't off shake the idea. There was silence. No one knew, but Sonic frowned.

"Maybe it belonged to the person who made the staff, not the person who wielded it." He wondered. But Tails shook his head.

"I doubt that. Being a Doctor is hard work, and those who are, are utterly dedicated to it. Where would one have the time or even the knowledge to create something that ornate." He paused, indicating the staff. "And then allow it to be used to kill. I don't think so." He heaved. But Sonic frowned.

"I'm seriously getting the impression that whomever used this staff on the Grimcreep, didn't have a choice." He wondered. But Tails just frowned.

"But how though? The staff doesn't have it's own power-source." He squealed.

The staff wasn't a Sorcerer's Relic, to be wielded for Magic, containing it's own source, like a wizard's staff. Everglade, the last surviving Wizard of the Order of Eldin in the Sol Empire, used to have old staff, that was an ancient Sorcerer's Relic, but when that was destroyed, Sukko, the mighty Sorcerer made him a new one, in the form of a power ring. A ring where incarnations could be used to cast Magic. With this staff, the Fox was exactly right, it could only channel Chaos Energy and Magic, not create it.

But as Saffie stared at the symbol on the staff, he seen that somewhere before, especially the more he thought about it. Also the design. Suddenly, he gasped.

"Hey, I'm not the only inter-dimensional traveller you've got visiting here at the moment. There's a Cat. Some kind of Princess, I believe." He wondered. Both Sonic and Tails nodded. They both knew who she was.

"Yeah, what about her?" He frowned. Saffie squealed.

"Well, I've seen her around. This morning, on my way here, I got collared by her, and she accused me of all sorts, before I explained myself, and she let me go. But I got a chance to get a good look at her necklace. It was small, very ornate, similar to that staff, and I noticed it had that rod-snake symbol on the back." He gulped. "I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now..." He panted, leaving the sentence to hang. The three of them looked at each other, in silence.

Finally, they had a lead.

Someone knew who it was.

The Princess of the Sol Empire.

Blaze.