Chapter Twenty
The Great Battle, Part One

Erin: I am SOOOOO SORRY SOOOOO SORRY for the REALLY REALLY late update!! Anyways I have changed my mind, I'm going to leave you waiting a little longer so there will be twenty one chapters of the story and then an Epilogue Okies?

Marianne: I think they get it, now this chapter was mostly my doing!

Erin: she's actually telling the truth this time! Now, before we left the story with this:
A few people were gathered around a body lying on the ground, some of the people were crying and others were swearing loudly.
"No…" someone sobbed."No, no, NO!"

Marianne: we used the Song-Everything I Do, written and owned respectfully by Bryan Adams…. now let's get on with this…

The battle had stopped raging and the demons were backed into the trees as their leader came through and stood at their head. Marianne remained in the middle of the group of her friends, clutching the body to her and crying her heart out. Everyone else had tear tracks through the grime on their faces.

"This is all, my fault," Blaze kept muttering.

"No it isn't," Rikku assured her. Amy and Rikku wrapped their arms around the purple feline to comfort her. They tried to approach Marianne but she wouldn't respond to any of them. She just continued crying and murmuring.

"Don't be dead, please don't be dead," she whispered.

"Well, well, well, what have we got here?" Sideus called. They all whipped around to stare at the dark lord forming a circle around Marianne.

"This is your doing Sideus!" Maverick shouted. "Isn't it?"

"Of course, I couldn't let the young angel over there be at full power, now, could I?" Sideus replied with an evil laugh. "I needed to establish a weakness in her." They all glared at Sideus.

"So you chose to kill someone to get her weak?" Blaze demanded.

"I intended to kill her best friend," Sideus shrugged. "But who I got was much better." Rosililea and Ivy came forward with Blaze, all glaring at the dark lord.

"Guys," came Marianne's weak voice. She was still holding the body of Sonic close to her, tears still falling from her eyes. "Leave him to me, this time it's personal." She glared at Sideus. "But you know the rules of battle, give us time," she added.

"Of course, on my honor shouted orders as a warrior," Sideus to his army and they moved into the forest. "Midday," he added to Marianne as he turned to leave.

"Count on it." Marianne looked at Rikku who looked at her watch.

"Three hours," the golden fox told her. Marianne nodded and looked back down at Sonic. She stroked his quills and took some steadying breaths. "Marianne-" The yellow cat held up her hand to stop the younger fox.

"Leave me, I'll… I'll be along soon," she whispered. Blaze, Ivy and Rosililea stopped near her.

"Maz… I'm so sorry," Blaze sobbed. "This is my fault."

"No, it's not," Marianne replied. "Blaze, this is anyone's but your fault. It's this idiot's fault." She held Sonic close to her and more tears fell from her eyes.

"We'll meet you back at the house," Ivy whispered. The three of them walked away and Marianne took a shuddering breath as they left her.

"Sonic, you idiot," she whispered. "Why did you have to do that? I should have taken that flame for Blaze, you shouldn't have pushed me. I could have taken it." She stroked Sonic's quills again and kissed his forehead gently. She held him in her arms as she started to cry and rock backwards and forwards again. The yellow cat began to hum a song in Sonic's ear, tears splashed onto the hedgehog's face as she began to murmur it to him.

"Look into my eyes, you will see,
What you mean to me
Such a heart, such a soul
When you find me there you will search no more,

"Don't tell me, it's not worth trying for,
You can't tell me it's not worth dying for,
You know its true
Everything I do,
I do it for you."

Marianne paused for a moment to take a calming breath; she then began to sing again.

"Look in to your heart,
You will find,
There's nothing there to hide
Take me as I am,
Take my life
I would give it all, I would sacrifice

"Don't tell me it's not worth fighting for
I can't help it, there's nothing I want more.
You know its true
Everything I Do,
I do it for you."

Marianne hugged Sonic closer to her and cried into his quills while still singing the song for him.

"There's no love, like your love
And no other, could give more love
There's nowhere, unless you're there
All the time
All the way, yeah."

Marianne stopped for a moment and hummed the break in the music to her love.

"I'm sorry Sonic," she murmured. "You should have let me take the flame, I could have survived because there are three others who would have shared the blow with me," Marianne murmured. "I've been hit countless times, I would have been alright. Why did you have to do it you idiot? Why did you have to go and play the hero?" Marianne sighed and prepared to sing the next part of the song.

"You can't tell me, it's not worth trying for
I can't help it, there's nothing I want more.
You know it's true
Everything I do,
I do it for you.

"Yeah, I would fight for you
I'd lie for you,
Walk the wire for you
Yeah, I'd die for you….

"You know it's true….
Everything I do…
Ohhhhh,
I do it for you…."

Marianne sobbed harder as she finished the song. She held Sonic to her even closer and shook her head.

"You are an idiot Blue-Boy," she whispered. "I hate you for it, now you're dead and I feel so bad because the last thing I did was glare at you." Marianne pushed her wet and dirty hair away from her face and looked at Sonic with twinkling eyes. She had stopped crying and her saddened look was replaced with one of affection.

"You have no idea how much I love you," she whispered. She leant down and kissed Sonic's lips once and then straightened up. She continued talking to him as though he was alive.

"Do you remember when we first met? You saved me from those wolves, I kicked you in the gut and then I punched you. You told me I was a spoilt brat then you took me to Elise who called me bulimic…. Oh and do you remember when we first fought together? We made such a good team, it was on my birthday and that's when you came up with "Cat-girl", so I called you "Blue-boy"… we had so much fun together didn't we?" Marianne sighed as she continued to stroke Sonic's quills, memories going through her head.

"And what about when Silver and Blaze, them being them, were so sick of us liking each other but not doing anything about it so they set us up, then we got together and they were finally happy. Oh and then that fiasco on Independence Day, our year-anniversary, wow that was so crazy. Eggman had some really nasty robots that day, he ruined our evening but hey, we still got to see the fire works."

With the others…

The rest of the heroes trudged back to the house through the rain, all feeling miserable and pitiful. They made their way over the muddy ground, all covered in mud, grime and black blood. None knowing what to say to make anyone feel better, not knowing what to say to break the terrible silence that hung in the air as they reached the house. Angel saw them coming and jumped up and rushed over to them, her smile fell when Blaze shook her head to her.

"What-" Angel started but a teary Maverick stopped her.

"Shhh," he whispered. "Just don't say anything for the moment." Angel obeyed and walked with them all over to the house. They all walked onto the verandah and threw themselves onto the ground not bothering with chairs, they were too sad to bother with anything. Blaze, Ivy and Rosililea slumped against each other against the wall of the house. Silver, Shadow and Jason had no idea what to do for them. They simply leant against the verandah railing and watched the three girls comforting each other.

Silver found himself wiping the tears off his face pointlessly as more tears fell after them. Jason was trying hard not to cry for his friend and Shadow had, for once, succumbed to tears. He didn't bother trying to hide them, he just let them fall. Silver noticed the tears so he gripped Shadow's shoulder tightly. The black hedgehog looked at him, tears tracing tracks down his muzzle. He put his arm on Silver's shoulder and nodded slightly. They grasped right hands and pulled each other into a one armed hug.

Jason glanced at them and a very small smile came to him but it disappeared almost immediately. He looked over to the three girls who were whispering quietly to each other. Shadow and Silver broke apart and looked at the orange hedgehog.

"I never thought losing Sonic would be this painful," Shadow murmured. "I guess that guy just lights up the world, doesn't he?" Silver and Jason looked at him and nodded.

"He's a great guy, a little conceited, but still a great guy," Jason added.

"It's hard to imagine our lives without him," Silver whispered. The three girls looked over at the boys.

"I can't imagine how Marianne feels right now," Ivy said. She stood up and walked over to stand with her husband. "She's probably blaming herself no doubt."

"She would be," Blaze said quietly. "She was going to take the fire for me but Sonic pushed her out of the way, the idiot, honestly." Blaze started to sob again so Silver went and sat beside her and wrapped his arms around her so that she could cry onto him.

"I say we give her fifteen more minutes then the six of us should go to her and make sure she doesn't do anything stupid," Rosililea said. She had finished crying and had no more tears left. She brushed the remaining tears from her face and stood up. "Knowing that girl she will go and do… something, so we'd better go to her."

"Like you said, we'll give her some time," Ivy said. "She needs some privacy to speak her thoughts to no-one."

"She tends to do that when she's sad," Blaze said from Silver's arms. She detached herself from her boyfriend and stood up. "But she also tends to do stupid things when she's mad, and trust me, she will be very mad." Blaze walked to the verandah steps with every eye on her.

"Blaze, what should we do?" Rikku asked.

"Stay here until the time is up," Blaze told her. "You guys should wait; conserve your energy for the fight. Ivy, Rose… are you coming?" Rosililea and Ivy glanced at each other and then hastened to follow the lavender cat. The three girls disappeared into the heavy rain. Shadow, Silver and Jason looked at each other,

"We should go and get Sonic," Shadow suggested. "We don't want him on the battlefield, and it's only respectful." He appealed to his two friends to agree with him. Silver and Jason glanced at each other and then looked at Shadow.

"You're right Shads, but I think Marianne would rather bring him back," Silver replied.

"I agree with Shadow," Jason said. "I think we should head up too." The three hedgehogs started down the steps when Maverick stood up.

"Where are you guys going?" he demanded.

"To get Sonic's body," Shadow murmured. "He can't stay on the battle field."

"We only have two hours and a half until Sideus sends his forces back out," Maverick reminded them.

"Make sure you guys start heading up when there is an hour left to go until the forces come out, just to be sure," Silver told him. Then he and his two team mates walked into the rain and trudged once again through the mud to the edge of the reserve.

With Marianne…

"…boy that was a great day," the yellow cat said with a shaky laugh. She looked Sonic over to try and find the black mark where the fire hit him. She found the deep, black gash across his chest. She touched the edge of it and then put a finger on the top of the black scar on her own chest. Made by the same fire from the same wizard, then she glanced at her left arm where a scar ran across her bicep, it was where Sideus had slashed her with his black blade. She looked around as she heard footsteps and smiled slightly when she saw Blaze, Ivy and Rosililea walking towards her.

"What are you guys doing?" Marianne asked. Blaze came and sat beside her. Ivy and Rosililea sat opposite them to create a circle around Sonic's body. Marianne was still cradling his head and stroking the quills when she started tearing up.

"We're here to keep you from doing something stupid and we thought you might like some company," Rosililea told her.

"Thank you guys," Marianne murmured. Blaze was staring at Sonic with tears in her eyes.

"It's my fault, I'm sorry," she whispered.

"Blaze, I told you, it's not your fault at all," Marianne said to her gently. She put an arm around Blaze's shoulders and squeezed her gently.

"Hey, Sonic's got something in his pocket!" Ivy exclaimed. "Can I?"

"Of course," Marianne replied. Ivy reached into the pocket in Sonic's jeans and took out a small velvet box.

"Is that… what I think it is?" Marianne whispered. Ivy bit her lip and dusted the box off.

"I think it might be," Rosililea whispered. She turned her head to look as the boys arrived. They looked at the velvet box in Ivy's hand and their eyes turned sad.

"He was going to do it now?" Shadow asked.

"Oh man," Silver whispered shaking his head.

"This is going to break you heart a thousand times over Maz," Jason muttered. Marianne looked at them curiously.

"Ives, let Marianne open it," Shadow whispered. Ivy passed Marianne the box and the yellow cat opened it slowly and gasped, she started to cry silently again as she looked at the sapphire ring in the box. It was a sapphire the same colour as Marianne's eyes with a tiny diamond set either side of it, it was simple and elegant and Marianne couldn't speak. She simply took the ring out of the box and put it on her left, ring finger.

"Oh Marianne," Blaze gasped. She hugged Marianne close her and allowed the yellow cat to cry on her. The three boys sat down in the gaps the girls had left and remained silent while Blaze calmed her friend down.

When Marianne finally calmed she remained silent and just stroked Sonic's quills sadly.

"Blaze," she said quietly. "Do you still have those amulets?"

"I have the one you gave to me to stop the cold and that star one… why?" Blaze replied. The purple cat tugged the two amulets from under the protection of her shirt and took them off.

"I just want the star," Marianne muttered. She put the star around Sonic's neck and kissed him once more. "How long?"

"About an hour and fifteen minutes… why?" Silver replied. Marianne nodded and then looked up at her friends. As she did so the gash on Sonic's chest burnt and Marianne took her arms from around Sonic's neck and gasped.

"No… the liar!" Marianne yelled furiously. "We still have another hour at least!" she added shouting into the sky. There was a black mist around Sonic and he disappeared.

"What just happened?" Shadow gasped staring at the place where his friend had been.

"Where'd Sonic go?" Jason demanded glaring at Marianne.

"He was killed by dark fire and therefore is taken by it!" Marianne snapped. "I didn't want it to happen and I hoped the amulet would help but it didn't. Blaze, keep the other one for when we find Liam, we're going in there, Shadow, run back quickly and tell the others to come now and head into the forest. That bastard betrayed his warrior's honor and now he's going to feel my fury." Marianne stood up and the other followed suit.

The yellow cat threw one last glance at the place where Sonic's body had lay in her arms and then strode off into the forest with her team following her. Jason and Silver watched Shadow run back in the direction of the house. He came back to them fifteen seconds later and the three of them waited until they could see the glow of the army on the horizon before they too walked calmly into Sideus's domain.

With Rikku, Amy and Maverick…

Rikku and Amy took Maverick with them at the front of the army while Julie and Alex took the sides.

"Shadow, sounded…" Amy thought for a moment.

"Very worried," Rikku finished for her. Amy nodded.

"I wonder what happened to make Marianne break the time period," Maverick mused. "Maybe something happened and Sideus broke his honor."

"Probably, that's the only thing Marianne would crack for," Rikku agreed. They reached the edge of the trees and Rikku stopped, she was being hesitant so Amy took her hand and squeezed it.

"It's alright, we won't let Sideus get you again," Amy assured her. Rikku smiled and squeezed back.

"Let's get this done," she said punching the air. They started into the trees again and began walking. The further they walked into the trees the darker and colder it got. The foreboding air made them break into cold sweat and shiver uncontrollably. Rikku moved closer to Amy who put her arm around the fox's shoulders and squeezed her warmly.

"It's alright Rikku," Amy said. "I'm cold too." The glow from their angel army was fading to dull silver. The evil in the forest was affecting all of them. At the back of the army the rest of their friends had formed a tight-knit group to try and keep warm. The gods were walking calmly beside them and looking over sympathetically for the evil was starting to get to the gods too so therefore had to be affecting the mortals terribly.

"This is horrible," Rouge complained. "We had better get to those demons soon so that we may fight and get warm while we're doing so."

"I don't, these demons drain a lot of energy while you're fighting them," Knuckles snapped to her. Rouge took on an indignant pose and glared at the echidna.

"Stop fighting guys!" Tails snapped at them. "There is no point arguing, it's not going to make us feel better." Rouge and Knuckles glared in opposite directions to each other. Tails sighed and looked right ahead to the angels, thinking of Rikku and hoping she would be alright.

As the army walked further into the trees they changed their ranks because the trees were becoming closer together.

"I can sense someone… very powerful," Julius said out of the blue making them all jump. "I think… they mean no harm." The mortals strained their eyes to see the goddess, whose glow had become so dim that they couldn't see it at all.

Back at the front of the army Rikku stopped walking and stared ahead into the gloom.

"I can see someone," she said. "Stop moving guys, there's someone up ahead." Amy and Maverick looked at her and stopped walking. They looked through the dark but Rikku's feline type eyes adjusted quickest.

"It's the others!" she shouted.

"Quiet Rikku," Maverick barked. "Don't give away our position."

"Well excuse me for breathing." Rikku glared at the blue wolf but Amy shot her a look and shook her head.

"He's right Rikku, you need to be quiet," she said. Rikku folded her arms in a huff and turned away. Ahead of them, Marianne, Blaze, Ivy and Rosililea had turned and were looking back at the army whose glow was also gone so they looked like mortals.

"Guys move up!" Marianne called.

"Marianne gets to raise her voice," Rikku said. Maverick and Amy stared at Rikku with incredulous looks on their faces.

"Honestly Rikku," Amy said shaking her head. "Grow up a little bit." Rikku stared back at Amy.

"That's being very hypocritical," the vixen snapped. "When Sonic told you to grow up you got all offended and then you tell me to grow up… you need to sort out your-"

"Rikku, will you shut up or they're going to know that we're coming!" Maverick snarled.

"It's ok," Marianne said walking towards them.

"He already knows we're here," Blaze explained. The two felines reached the other three and looked them over.

"You look like hell little sis," Maverick whispered.

"I've been through hell and back again more times than I can count," Marianne replied. She glanced at Rikku worriedly. "The evil is getting to you isn't it?" Marianne smiled weakly when Rikku threw her a questioning look.

"The evil tends to get to your head when you go through it," Marianne explained. "It's been making Shadow very edgy too."

"Edgy?" Blaze questioned. "He's driving me up the wall." Marianne giggled weakly and looked at Blaze.

"Silver's the one who's annoying me," Marianne told her. "He's getting very jumpy and gets startled by every small sound. I mean it's not as if-" Marianne was cut off by a large explosion to their left. Rikku, Amy and Blaze hit the dirt while Marianne and Maverick stared into the darkness hoping to see what had made the sound.

"What is it?" Rikku whispered from Marianne's ankle. The yellow feline looked down and shrugged.

"Could have been anything," she replied. The 'anything', just at that moment, appeared. A huge red beast covered in golden flames that licked around everything it passed. The beast was knocking down the trees with fire balls (which explained the explosion) and moving towards them very quickly.

Amy, Rikku and Blaze jumped up while Ivy, Shadow, Silver and Jason came running towards them.

"I vote that we run deeper into the forest!" Shadow said staring the beast coming towards them.

"I agree with Shadow!" Rikku and Amy said.

"Guys… oh alright but get the army onto that thing or it'll catch us up!" Marianne said. Amy shouted something at the army and then the gods and the angels turned to the fire beast while the mortals all started walking deeper into the forest.

"Have the guys from the back of the army come up yet?" Ivy asked, not daring to look back.

"We're here!" Rouge called.

"So are we!" Alex and Julie added. Ivy nodded and turned to Marianne with a worried look.

"What should we do?" Ivy asked. "With the army and gods fighting that thing we can't just waltz over to Sideus and his army and go 'we're here to fight but give us a tick to wait for our army'." Marianne sighed and ran a hand through her hair, which was falling out of place and in drastic need of attention.

"I know, but that means we have four choices," she replied. "One: we could go up to find his army and hide. Two: we could wait here for our army to finish fighting that thing and his army would find us. Three: we could go and help fight that thing and his army would find us. Or, lucky four: we could call off our army and hope that that thing doesn't catch up to us."

"Ok… that's not much of a choice," Shadow said.

"Wait there is one more," Blaze said. "We could always call Sideus's army to us and then our army would help us fight them and that thing."

"Uh… that sounds really dumb," Rikku said.

"Wait… she has a point, if we could expect Sideus and his army then we wouldn't be ambushed," Amy said in agreement to Blaze.

"No… let's just find Sideus's army and call our army to us," Rosililea suggested. "Easy and we won't get killed in the process." Everyone nodded their agreement to Rosililea's plan so they started moving through the trees.

"So… what happened to Sonic's body?" Maverick asked in a whisper to Silver.

"Apparently when you get killed by dark fire you get taken away by it so… yeah Sonic kind of turned into black mist and disappeared," Silver explained. "Marianne thought she could stop it with her magical amulet but it didn't work." Maverick threw a sideways glance at Marianne who was walking with her eyes turned towards the ground.

"Poor Maz," he whispered. "Hey… is she wearing a ring?"

"Uh… actually yes she is, you see before the fight Sonic came to me, Jason and Shadow with an idea to make it so that Marianne wasn't mad at him…"

Flash back

Sonic walked into the room where Silver, Jason and Shadow were playing the x-box with much shouting at the television and each other. There wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that they would listen to him unless the game was over or the television turned off. So the blue hedgehog walked over to the power point, where the cords to the television were coming out, and pulled them out of the socket. Shadow swore loudly and looked around to find the source of the television's sudden fault.

He saw Sonic and his eyes widened in surprise. Silver and Jason looked around at Sonic curiously.

"What was that for?" Shadow asked.

"I need to talk to you four who seem to be able to hold relationships longer than me," Sonic replied.

"Can't it wait?" Silver asked. "I almost had these two beaten!"

"You did not!" Jason retorted. "You were heaps behind me; Shadow doesn't count because he's so easy to beat."

"Hey, I was kicking your ass Jason," Shadow replied kicked Jason from behind Silver.

"You were not! I was-"

"Guys, please I really need your opinions," Sonic said breaking up the argument. The other three hedgehogs sighed and nodded. "Thank you." Sonic sat down with them and took a deep breath.

"So what seems to be the problem?" Silver asked.

"Marianne just told me she loved me and I was really tactless and now she thinks that I hate her so she's upset and really mad at me," Sonic explained quickly.

"That is a problem," Shadow said earning an elbow in the ribs from Silver.

"Well, why are you coming to us?" Jason asked.

"You guys have had better relationships than I have, you're the only people who I could think of… except Tails but then I'd have to wait until tomorrow." Sonic looked helplessly at his friends.

"What are you planning to do about it?" Silver asked.

"I have an idea but I'm nor sure if it's a good idea." Silver raised and eye brow at Sonic curiously.

"What is this idea?" Shadow asked.

"I want to ask her to marry me," Sonic said quietly.

"YOU WANT TO PROPOSE TO HER?!" Shadow shouted. Sonic and Silver both jumped on Shadow with their hands over his mouth.

"Shut up Shads," Sonic hissed. "I don't want anyone knowing."

"But we know," Jason pointed out.

"Shut up Jase," Silver snapped. "I think it's a great idea Sonic, you should definitely do it."

"But how?"

"Mmm, mmm, hmm," Shadow mumbled.

"What?" Silver asked taking his hand off Shadow's mouth.

"I have an idea," he said. "And it's not mean, it's quite romantic."

"Well get on with it," Silver, Sonic and Jason said together.

"Where you're alone with her get her to talk to you and then when she's not expecting just slip the ring on her finger and tell her you love her and want her to be yours forever," Shadow said. Sonic narrowed his eyes in thought.

"You know, that is actually very romantic," Silver muttered.

"I like it," Jason agreed. Sonic then hugged Shadow.

"Thank you buddy, I'd kiss you but that is wrong in so many ways!" Sonic jumped up and ran out of the room leaving his three friends staring at each other.

"There is something really wrong with that guy," Jason mumbled and Silver and Shadow nodded their agreement.

End Flashback

"I see, so Sonic had the ring with him today?" Maverick asked. Silver nodded.

"I guess so," he said. "But I had no idea he had even thought about doing it today." Silver shook his head and looked down at the ground.

"Well… I guess lady luck didn't favor Marianne for the past year." The boys sighed and Marianne looked at them sadly.

"He really did love me?" she asked.

"You were listening?" Silver yelped.

"I'm not an idiot!" she snapped.

"Yeah, he did…" Silver's voice was gentle and Marianne smiled. Blaze came to Silver's side and allowed him to wrap and arm around her. Ivy and Shadow were talking in low voices as Rosililea and Jason walking in silence. Marianne watched her three friends with their guys and tears began to fall from her eyes again.

"Don't cry," Rikku whispered. "Your mother could find a way to bring him back right?" Marianne shrugged and wiped her tears away.

"I don't think you're in a fit state to fight," Julie murmured.

"I'm fine," Marianne snarled.

"You'd better be," a cold voice crooned. The group whipped around to see Sideus watching them with a sneer. "Sad, kitty cat?"

"What do you think?" Marianne spat. Sideus shrugged.

"You weren't that sad when you found out that he was cheating on you, oh wait, you were. That's right, that's when you didn't know that your enemy was me, so you used me for you revenge." The group stared at Marianne as she took a deep breath, glaring at the demon.

"That was one night," she snarled.

"It still happened," Sideus shrugged. "You did love me though, that's why you didn't kill me." Marianne closed her eyes, her fists clenched in anger.

"Marianne, what's he talking about?" Blaze asked.

"Well, you see…" Sideus made a mocking, rude comment and Silver swore at him loudly.

"It's actually true," Marianne hissed.

"Shit," Silver said, staring at her.

"I had the chance to kill him but I couldn't because he'd charmed me the same way Sonic did, I could see Sonic in him and then I just couldn't bring myself to do it," she sighed. "It's all, my fault…" She opened her eyes and stared at the demon with proud eyes. "But this time he won't get the better of me; this time I'll beat him!"

"Marianne," Amy whispered.

"Just get the army, Sideus, me and you, we're going up onto that cliff, and we're going to fight," Marianne hissed. "But first, girls, I think this time, Fury can take it."

"Right," Blaze, Ivy and Rosililea nodded. They all joined hands and Marianne muttered something. There was a deepening of the darkness around them and then it was blasted away in gold light, as sparks fluttered around. When the sparks and swirling gold and darkness cleared a golden cat-hedgehog was standing before them. One of her eyes was purple and the other was red. Her fur was gold and her gold and black quills were pulled back in a pony tail. She had a long lashing tail and she wore a white flowing dress with a slit up each leg. A silver girdle adorned with sapphires hang on her waist where a sword hung loosely.

"Fury," Maverick muttered, smiling. "My god, she… She's alive…"

"Prepare for your doom," Fury hissed. He voice had a faint purr to it, it was deep and soothing. Sideus actually looked worried but he shook it away and smiled.

"Of course, right this way." The demon spun and disappeared, Fury followed suit after a wink to the others. The golden goddess appeared on the cliff face, her glow taking away some of the gloom.

"Ready?" she questioned, a relaxed air about her.

"I didn't think I'd see you again. But yes I'm ready."

"Alright." Fury stepped into a fighting stance, drawing energy into her hands as Sideus did the same. They both leapt forwards at the same time, their energy colliding in mid air. The greatest fight in history had started….

Erin: Well?? I'm sorry about the REALLY late update but this is the second last chapter before the Epilogue. So what did you guys think hmm??
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Erin: shutup, well g2g bye guys!! .