Sonic and the Black Knight - The After Years: Rise of Darkness

Sonic yawned tiredly as he walked along the top of the castle walls that surrounded Camelot. There were archers all along the wall awaiting an attack. As Sonic made it to the middle of the front wall he found Gawain staring out towards the empty fields and decided to join him. "How's thing's here Gawain?" Sonic asked his knight as he reached his side.

"All quiet so far, but I expect that to change soon." Gawain answered without taking his eyes off the fields.

Sonic sighed relieving some stress, but it came back almost immediately. "Well I'm going to go check on the others." Sonic claimed.

At that second something caught Gawain's eye and stopped Sonic from leaving. "Wait sire!" Gawain cried.

Sonic turned and looked at Gawain and noticed he was pointing at the field ahead and decided to look down to where he was pointing. A dark shadow was forming in the middle of the field. Sonic could sense the dark power that was forming with in the shadow. "This power… Why does it feel so similar to my own?" Sonic questioned.

Finally after a couple of minutes four dark figures raised from the darkness, two of them resembled Lancelot and Galahad so Sonic suspected they were their dark versions. However the other two were different, Sonic however recognised one of them, a black hedgehog in gold armour who wielded Deathcalibur. "Shadow…" Sonic whispered in sorrow.

The forth figure took a few steps forward which snapped Sonic out of his trance and readied for an attack. "Don't take another step!" Gawain ordered.

The figure stopped and slowly looked up to them revealing that he was a hedgehog as well, but he look a little like Sonic except very Dark blue fur it almost looked black and his eyes were a blood red. "Wh-who are you?" Sonic asked.

The hedgehog smiled sinisterly. "Oh, you don't remember me? How typical of you."

"Wh-what?" Sonic stuttered in disbelief.

He slapped his palm on his forehead. "Oh that's right, there no way you would be able to remember, silly me."

Sonic was starting to get annoyed. "What do you mean?"

He scoffed at Sonic's question. "Like it'd tell you." He then had an idea. "I know. How about we make a deal."

Sonic raised his eye brow in confusion. "What kind of 'deal'?"

He smirked. "How about if you beat me, then I'll tell you everything."

"And if you win?"

"Then you simply hand over your kingdom. Sounds fair right?" The hedgehog asked Sonic.

Sonic nodded and jumped down from the wall and landed in front of him. "Ok, deal."

As Sonic reached for the hilt of his sword Caliburn's face appeared on the sword again. "Wait don't I get a say in this?" Sonic ignored his swords complaint and pulled Caliburn from his side and held him in front of himself ready for battle.

The hedgehog mimicked his move and pulled his sword out which was a sword half the size of Caliburn.

"So then, if I'm going to take you down then may I know your name?" Sonic kindly asked his adversary.

The hedgehog looked at him and chuckled for a few seconds then regains his composer. "I don't have a real name… Just call me Dark."

Sonic nodded and smirked. "Alright then 'Dark'. Brace yourself!"

"Sire!" Came a few voices from above.

Sonic looked up to see Gawain, Percival, and Lamorack falling down to them.

Once they landed they drew their swords. "Sire we will fight with you!" Gawain pronounced.

"Knowing them their not planning on a fair fight." Percival explained. "So Gawain will take Dark Galahad, Lamorack will take Dark Lancelot and I'll take on Shadow."

Sonic thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. "It's settled then, you three go fight his three Knights and leave the two of us." Dark ordered.

His three Knights bowed. "If that is what you wish sire." Shadow then teleported the six of them away and left the two hedgehog's alone.

Sonic and Dark then charged for each other with their Swords held high. "Can you match my speed?" Sonic cried as he dashed towards Dark.

As Sonic swung Caliburn towards Darks face, the hedgehog instantly parried the attack with his own sword and pushed Sonic into the air which in turn caused Sonic to perform a jump dash past Dark and land on his feet.

"Well, you certainly have the speed and reflexes." Sonic commented as he regained his composure and turned back towards Dark. "But do you have the skills?"

Sonic charged towards Dark again, but this time he didn't raise his sword. Instead he grinned and spoke two very familiar words. "Chaos Control." Instead of freezing time in the area, he instead froze time around Sonic who now just floated inches away from Darks face.

Dark stepped around Sonic till he was positioned on Sonic's left and punched him directly on his temple which flung the still frozen Sonic to the other side of the castle's wall. Dark laughed evilly as Sonic hit the ground.

"So cocky, but unable to even land a scratch on me, let alone move." Dark Taunted as he stepped towards Sonic slowly and his smile faded. "You think you deserve to rule this kingdom?" He said lowly as he clenched his sword tighter. "You're barely even worth to be called Royalty. You know nothing of how to lead a Kingdom." Dark stopped beside Sonic's body and grabbed his sword with his free hand, clenched it tighter and raised it above his head. "You were NEVER the rightful King. You stole that title from me!" Dark exclaimed as he swung his sword down towards Sonic.

"Chaos Break!" A voice cried from above.

At that instant Sonic unfroze and quickly dodged the attack which left Dark confused. "What? How-!" Dark was cut off when a fist collided with his face and was sent back a few hundred meters.

"You ok Sonic?" Knuckles asked as he extended his hand toward Sonic which he gladly took.

"Thanks man, I owe you one." Sonic chuckled.

"Hmph, you got luckily, but I was distracted by my hatred before so don't think I'll make the same mistake again." Dark declared as he stood back up again. Sonic and Knuckles readied themselves, but Dark never attacked. "I think I've made my point, and it's about time we take our leave." Just as Dark finished the rest of his Knights appeared next to him.

'Wait, if their here, then what happened to-?' Sonic thought as he turned his head to look behind them and saw everyone unconscious.

"From this point on, The kingdom of Camelot and The Kingdom of the underworld are officially at war!" Dark declared and teleported away.

Sonic sighed and fell on his back. "This was a disaster."

"Hey it's not all bad." Knuckles said as he sat down next to him.

Sonic sat up and glared at the echidna. "Not bad!" Sonic cried in anger. "We lost one of our closest and most powerful friends to the Knights of the underworld, We lost Deathcalibur, And now we're at war with the Underworld! And to top thing's off their unconscious!" Sonic exclaimed as he pointed to the others. "So in what way is this NOT BAD?!"

"Um, well if you put it that way it's pretty bad, but come on." Knuckles agreed. "Your not the type to give up."

At that moment Percival started to regain her strength and sat up weakly. "I'm going to help the others get some medical attention." Sonic said and walked over to group of unconscious bodies and left Knuckles alone.

"I'm starting to think we should never have come here." Knuckles whispered and followed Sonic.