Sonic

Kalshion and Katarina skated to school like they normally did, while their cat followed them by running on the fences keeping an eye on them. When they were just a little bit away from school, they came across some construction being done on the road, and where asked to take a detour. Kalshion and Katarina agreed and went around the construction by taking another route.

As they followed the route, Katarina noticed something in a tree up ahead. "Hey Kalshion, do you see that glow in that tree up ahead?" she asked. Kalshion looked and noticed a small speck glowing in the branch, "Yes I do," he replied. Stopping by the tree, Katarina climbed up the tree, went to the branch, and removed a aura shard from the bark. "Just as I thought," she said jumping down showing Kalshion the shard, "A shard from the dragon aura."

Little did they realize, but they were being watched by a figure standing on top of one of the nearby houses. The figure smiled at the sight of the shard, and pulled out a sword, "This one is in the bag," he said jumping down off the house.

Katarina's cat began to hiss, giving Kalshion and Katarina a split second warning to jump out of the way of a Esuna wave aimed at Katarina. The wave dispersed on the ground, giving some damage to Katarina, as she fell on her knee. Kalshion looked up to see Tommy grinning evilly at Katarina, and to find a shard in his forehead. "I must thank you for finding another shard for me," he said in an evil tone, "Now hand it OVER!" Tommy began making swings at Katarina with his sword, which she tried her best to stay ahead of.

Kalshion began to run up to Tommy intending to knock him out, but he quickly turned around and delivered a powerful Dark Esuna wave at him. Kalshion taking his best effort, managed to dodge most of the attack, and land back on the ground, "When did Tommy get so strong?" he asked looking back at Katarina. She had a few cuts on her shirt and some blood coming out of a few, "She's been hit," said Kalshion getting the strength to try another attack.

"It's been fun, but it's time to end this," said Tommy releasing energy from his sword. Katarina tried to block the attack, but the energy went right through her, slamming her into the wall, as she dropped the shard. Tommy laughed and stabbed the shard with his sword, causing him to absorb the shard, which materialized next to the shard already in his forehead. "I'll catch you later at school," he said laughing as he ran off.

Kalshion ran over to his sister who had some blood coming out of her mouth. He prompt her up with his hands, which stained them with blood. "Katarina! Katarina, Hold on!" he yelled. "Could this have been what the dream was warning me about?" he thought trying to keep Katarina awake. The cat jumped by her side and began to meow, knowing good and well that if Katarina fell asleep, she might never wake up again.

*Meanwhile, at the high school...*

It was about ten minutes till the morning bell rang; everyone was outside chatting with their friends. Emeral and Joe were sitting on a bench just observing the students when both felt pain coming from Katarina and Kalshion. Emeral looked at Joe, "Something's wrong," she said. Joe nodded and the two ran off in the direction of Katarina.

As Emeral and Joe got closer, they could see a figure laying on the wall with a cat and another figure by them. When they got to them, Emeral gasped and placed her hands over her mouth at the sight of Katarina. Joe was shocked at the extensive damage done to her, wondering who did such a thing to her. "Joe, Emeral, Help me, I'm loosing her!" said Kalshion with tears in his eyes. Emeral knelt down by Katarina, "Don't give up Katarina, work with me," she said placing her hand on Katarina's chest. A Soft green energy started to come out of Emeral's hand and began to engulf Katarina. As the energy filled her body, Katarina began to breath with more and more ease till she was no longer in danger of dieing. Kalshion began to relax as the scars, cuts and bruises on Katarina's body began to fade away, till the point where you wouldn't even know she had been injured. After about 25 seconds of using "Purity Litany", the green energy subsided and Emeral removed her hand from Katarina and fell off her knees onto the ground exhausted.

Joe ran over and aided Emeral back to her feet, while Kalshion aided Katarina. "She'll be ok now, a bit sore for a while, but ok," said Emeral leaning on Joe's shoulder. Katarina, being held by Kalshion, lifted her head, "Thank you Emeral, for saving me," she said. Emeral smiled, "You are welcome," she said pausing for a moment, "Can you tell us what happened?"

"It was Tommy," said Kalshion, "Tommy came after Katarina after she found a shard in that tree and attacked her, taking the shard." "Tommy!?! Attacking Katarina?" said Joe in a bit of shock. "Yea, but I'm not sure if he was himself, he also had a shard, but it was embedded in his forehead," replied Kalshion. Emeral, who had recovered from using such powerful healing magic, rubbed her hand against her chin, "The shards themselves should not be causing any behavior influence," she said. "I don't know, but either way, he now has two shards, which means his powers are at highly dangerous levels to the people of this town," replied Joe.

Just then the tardy bell over the school ran, grabbing Joe's attention, "I think we better go to school, and talk about this later," he said. The rest agreed as they took off running to school.

*At the Cat Cafe...*

Moouse was busy setting up the tables of the cafe like he was usually told to do by Colonge. He wasn’t wearing his glasses, but was having no difficulty navigating the cafe, which made Colonge a bit suspicious about him. "Good Morning Great Grandmother," said Shampoo coming out of the bath in a towel, "Is clothes in Dyer finished?" Colonge turned to her and smiled, "Yes they are Shampoo." Shampoo smiled back, "Thanks Great Grandmother," walking into the dyer.

Hearing Shampoo's voice, Moouse ran into the back of the kitchen to say good morning to her, not realizing she just got out of the bath, "Good Morning Shampoo," he said finding her in the laundry room in a towel. Moouse blushed then jumped back in suprise, "Moouse, get out of Shampoo's way," she said picking up a nearby cup of water and throwing it at Moouse. In natural defense, Moouse covered his face with his arms, which caused a dark energy barrier to pop up in front of him, blocking the cup of water from hitting him.

Shampoo just stared at what had just happened as Moouse removed his arms from his face wondering why he didn't turn into a duck. Colonge came over observing Moouse, "Since when did you learn how to make barriers?" she asked. Moouse looked at his hands, "I made a barrier?" he asked. "Black Magic?" asked Shampoo. Colonge looked at her, "Maybe, Maybe not," she replied.

After a while of thinking about it, Moouse went out side and began to practice his techniques, finding he could raise a black barrier at any time he wanted. As he smashed straw dummies of Ranma with his hidden weapons, he found that he could cover his weapons in electricity, making them a shocking surprise for Ranma. Laughing to himself, he decided to go to the school and fight Ranma to claim Shampoo.

*Morning Break at the high school...*

"I'm sure of it, Tommy had an evil Aura about him," said Kalshion talking with Joe, Emeral, and Katarina by a tree. "But why?" asked Joe, "He always had a good heart, so why would he suddenly turn evil?" "He wasn’t in class today, so I haven't had a chance to check his Aura," added Emeral. "You sure the Shards can't change a person?" asked Katarina. "It is remotely possible that the shards can influence someone to be more evil or good, but it would gradually happen over several days, which we would have noticed, even without powers," said Joe.

Ranma was sitting with Akane on a bench by the wall of the school building, "Are you ok? You haven't been yourself lately," he asked. Akane turned to him, somewhat happy that he was worried about her, "I'm ok, just have some things on my mind," she responded. "Like what?" asked Ranma. Just as Akane was about to answer him, Ranma shoved Akane to the ground just as a spiked chain ball slammed passed them sparking electricity. Akane turning around to smack Ranma but realized that he just had saved her from an attack, which was launched by Moouse who was now standing in front of Ranma.

"Today Ranma Saotome, Today is the day I defeat you and take Shampoo away from you," said Moouse. "How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not interested in Shampoo," said Ranma taking a fighting posture, "But if you want to challenge me, I'm always up to a battle." Moouse laughed, "I'm afraid you are not match for me this time Ranma," he said. Ranma just grinned, "We'll see about that," he said with a small laugh. "Take this Ranma," said Moouse launching a duck egg bomb attack, with added electric explosions. Ranma dodged each one, a bit impressed with Moouse's added flavor to his attack, "You're still to slow," said Ranma running up to him, "Kachu Tenshi Amaguriken!" "Black Shield!" replied Moouse blocking every hit of Ranma with a black energy shield. "What the?" said Ranma, "Surprised Ranma?" laughed Moouse. "First of the White Swan!" he yelled smacking Ranma with a touch of an electric shock into the wall.

By this time, Emeral, Katarina, Kalshion, and Joe were watching as Moouse showed of his new abilities. "Does he have one?" asked Joe to Kalshion, "Yes, it seems to be in his spine," replied Kalshion. "Well, I guess we better get it," said Emeral getting up just as a energy wave flew over her head at Moouse. Moouse ready to deliver a new blow heard the attack from behind and raised his shield, which absorbed most of the attack, but knocking him back. "What The, Who's There!?!" yelled Moouse.

Tommy jumped from the trees with his sword in his hands, "I believe you have something I want," he said grinning. "What are you talking about?" asked Moouse, "Can't you see I'm busy here?" Tommy laughed, "Does it look like I care? Lets just make this short and sweet," he said charging for Moouse. Moouse stepped back and launched a barrage of several items at Tommy, which he dodged by jumping back a bit.

Kalshion, Katarina, Emeral, and Joe ran up near the fight, "This isn't good, a battle between two people with shards," said Joe. "We need to stop this quick," said Emeral, "If you two don't mind, can we read your minds to see the exact locations of the shards?" Kalshion and Katarina were a bit surprised by the question, they figured if they could do that, why just do it without them knowing. "I guess," replied Katarina. Emeral nodded in thanks as the two ran out of sight, which caught Ranma's attention.

On top of the Gym, DS stood and watch with delight. "This is better than I hoped for," he said, "Two people giving negative energy to the shards in combat with each other will produce even more powerful negative energy for the shards to gather." He turned his head over to Kalshion and Katarina, "Why are those two still here?" he asked himself. He observed them for a minute noticing they were eyeing the locations of the shards on the two fighters, "Could it be?"

"You're good, but you are far too weak to resist my attacks," said Tommy, "Dark Soul Blade!" Tommy launched at Moouse with is blade out going for a stab as Moouse raised his shield again. The blade came on contact with the shield and began to go through. Moouse, determined not to loose, did a daring stunt and used his shield as an explosive sphere, which shoved Tommy back, but also knocking Ranma, who covered Akane to protect her, a few meters back. Katarina ran over to see if they where hurt, forgetting that her cat was following her. "You two all right?" she asked as Ranma and Akane came too. Akane took one look at the cat then screamed, "GET IT AWAY!" she yelled running off and falling into the pool. "Akane! You know you can't swim!" yelled Ranma diving in after her.

Just then Rose jumped up above the school and began to twirl waving her wand, "Sleep Powder!" she said. Blue sparkling powder began to fall on the school, knocking everyone out but Kalshion, Katarina, Tommy, Moouse, Ranma and Akane. Rose landed back on the ground, not realizing Ranma and Akane had been in the pool, which protected them from the powder, "Since Only those with special powers were able to stay awake, we can keep gossip down a minimum," said Rose.

Tommy and Moouse both paused for a moment watching the blue powder fall then resumed to go at each other. "Sonic FORCE!" yelled Sonic generating a large ball of G-Force energy, about twice the size of his head, in his hands above his head and throwing it at the two. The ball slammed into the ground between the two, and exploded into a force knocking both of them 30 meters in the opposite direction of each other. Sonic then took off towards Tommy as Rose ran over to where Moouse was.

Tommy was getting back up when he saw Sonic running towards him, "No you don't," he said taken a swing with his sword, but Sonic was too fast, he left a temporary image of himself in front of Tommy when he was already behind him. Tommy's eyes widen when he realized he had missed just as Sonic whacked him on the neck, knocking him to his knees still conscience. Tommy in rage turned around ready to strike, but Sonic was ready for it. His hand was now transparent blue, and he reached inside Tommy's head just as he turned around, removing the shards from his forehead. Tommy's body glowed red for a moment as DS's curse vanished, and Tommy fell to the ground out cold, from the sudden loss of the shards.

*On the other side...*

Moouse got back on his feet and began to charge back to where Tommy was when he realized someone was nearby. He turned to the side to see Rose trying to wack him on the shoulder, but he blocked her with his shield. "Will you leave me alone, all I want to do is defeat Ranma!" he shouted launching some chain spears at Rose. Rose jumped up into the air and placed her hands over here head, forming a pink energy ball twice the size of her head. "Rose Force!" she cried throwing the ball at Moouse. Moouse raised his shield, but didn't realize Rose's attack was that of light which completely shattered his shield and knocking him into a tree.

Rose walked up to him as he fell from the tree onto his the ground face first. Rose's hand then became transparent blue, and she placed it inside Moouse's back removing the shard from his spine. She looked at it then made sure Moouse would be ok.

After a few minutes from the initial "Sonic Force", Sonic and Rose meet up where the two had originally been fighting. Kalshion and Katarina walked up to them, "So you found the shards, are they all three contaminated with evil?" asked Kalshion. Sonic handed Rose the two shards he took from Tommy, "I'm afraid they are," said Rose. "So why did Tommy turn evil?" asked Katarina. Sonic had a worried expression on his face, "It was some sort of curse or spell that made him evil," he said, "The spell was feeding off the power of the shards, which in turn made him even more evil for every shard he collected." "But how would he know about the shards?" said Rose realizing Tommy had no knowledge of the shards.

DS looked down at the four, "So, those two realized who Kalshion and Katarina are, and what their powers are. This might prove to be a problem, if they keep finding shards before they have a chance to absorb evil, the whole plan might be ruined. I need to keep them distracted, since killing them will definitely bring problems from that old man." he said looking at Sonic, "More interference from me might also make Sonic realize that I'm actually here."

Sonic suddenly got a dark chill, which got Rose's attention, "What's wrong?" she asked. Sonic turned to the gym and jumped into the air landing on top of it. He looked around, but didn't see anything, "I was sure someone was here," he said to himself. "Sonic, everyone is starting to wake up, we need to go," yelled Rose. Sonic took one more look at where DS was standing, then vanished in a blue glow, as Rose did the same.

Moments later, Emeral and Joe came out from the bushes and walked over to Kalshion and Katarina, as everyone started to get back on their feet. "At least we kept the school from finding out about the shards," said Joe. "What about Tommy?" asked Katarina. "Don't worry, we transported him to his house," said Joe smiling. The four of them, and the cat began to walk off, unaware that Ranma and Akane had been watching the entire time.

Akane looked at Emeral, "Maybe I wasn't hallucinating last night when I mistaken Emeral for that person in the red cloak," she thought. Ranma eyed the two, "Those two aren't human," he said to Akane, "They must have something to do with the recent events." Akane looked at him, "Ranma, I'm sure they are good people, but you are right, we need to find out why they are here, and what they are doing," she said.