Amy of the Desert
                fanfic by Daniel Wheeler

Prologue>  Antrarus Makes Himself Known

        One night, Amy had a dream.  She dreamt that she was in a desert
in bloom.  The sun mildly touched her face as she frolicked in the lovely
blossoms.  Suddenly, a dark cloud appeared, and the blossoms disappeared.
 In their place was dry thorns.  As she tried to run, Amy was confronted
by a scorpion in a grayish blue robe.

        He said, "I am Antrarus, the Scorpion Wizard of the Little
Planet.  Unless you, Amy Rose, agree to challenge me, this planet and
Mobius itself shall be in my grasp!  Ha ha ha..."  Amy screamed and woke
in a cold sweat.  She then lay awake and trembling for the rest of the
night.


Chapter 1>  Amy Learns The Truth Of Her Dream

        As Amy got out of bed, she met Sonic, Sally, and the rest of her
friends at a breakfast picnic.  Sonic, noticing that Amy was somewhat
nervous, asked "What's up, Amy?"  Melody, also noticing, said "That's the
same look you had when you had the vision of Jadeflame!"  Amy told them
of her dream, and that Antrarus is threatening Little Planet and the main
planet Mobius.

        Tails, startled, said "Gee, Amy, how do you know of this? 
Antrarus seems like he's got something big planned!"  Amy told her
friends the tale of Antrarus:  

        "Many centuries ago, Antrarus tried to summon the Shadows of Dark
Mobius into the Little Planet so he could invade Mobius from there.  But
one of my ancestors thwarted him in a magical duel.  Though defeated,
Antrarus narrowly escaped death.  He built an underground laboratory to
prepare for his revenge.  Now it seems he plans to carry them out!"

        Suddenly, a red lightning bolt strikes nearby, and Antrarus
appeared from that spot.  It looks like trouble!


Chapter 2>  The Challenge is Given

        "So, Amy," sneered Antrarus, "do you wish to challenge me?  Or do
you want to see your homeland overtaken?"  "All right!," replied Amy. 
"What is your challenge?"  "Just to try to fight me, that's all,"
snickered the overgrown scorpion.  "Of course, trying to reach me would
be part of the problem!  You see, since the Little Planet has multiple
time warps, you'll have to travel through time and space to reach me!  Ha
ha ha..."

        "You're on!," shouted Amy as she went in pursuit of him.  "Good
luck!," Melody called out as Amy left.  Amy found a teleporter to the
Little Planet.  She entered and found herself in a desert sector of the
planet.  She then looked up and saw Antrarus.  "This is the present, Amy
Rose," said the scorpion, "but like I said before:  I will send you
through time and space before you will ever reach me!"

        She ran through the desert and found a sign to the future.  She
enters it and finds herself in a bleak, dismal desert.  The sun never
shines, and the only light comes from the moon at night.  Amy caught
glimpses of the Shadows of Dark Mobius floating as she crossed the
desolate landscape.


Chapter 3>  From the Future to the Past

        Amy ran across the bleak land as she tried to find a way to stop
Antrarus before this future would become reality.  While she dodged the
magic attacks, she looked for an escape route for the present.  She sees
a portal, but she had to fight a hydra-like shadow to pass.  Amy uses a
sun card to stun it long enough to enter.  She returns to the present.

        Amy then followed Antrarus through a maze.  This maze was made of
hardened volcanic rock and decorated with magically grown rubies.  As Amy
followed the scorpion wizard, Antrarus assaults her with fireballs,
probably to insure he gets away.  But the valiant girl dodged the balls
of flame and entered a portal into the past.  Once through the portal,
she sees the desert in bloom, the same desert seen in her dream!


Chapter 4>  To Save The Past

        Unfortunately, Amy has no time to play in the flowers.  She had
to stop Antrarus before he could wreck time and space with his dark
magic.  She was again in hot pursuit.  Amy was first obstructed by groups
of Thorn Mosters.  By using a Fire Card did she wipe out the weeds.  As
the chase continued, more plant monsters slowed down her progress.  At
last she located the wizard's location:  The Dark Shrine of the Little
Planet.

        Amy entered the shrine to see the scorpion wizard perform the
ritual.  There was an octogram (if a pentagram is a star with five
points, then an octogram is a star with eight points) in the center of
the floor, and at each point is a black candle.  Amy kicks a candle over
and ruins Antrarus' spell.  "Curse you!," shouted Antrarus.  At saying
that, he creates a portal.  Amy was swift to follow.

Chapter 5>  Back In The Present

        As Amy entered the present, she noticed that the flowers are
around again.  She had obviously saved time from darkness, but the action
was not over yet; Antrarus was ready to see to it that Amy would not have
a future.

        Amy ran as she was pursued by the magic scorpion and, all the
while, trying to find the right magic card to use on him.  But she trips
on a fallen cactus branch and drops her cards.  Antrarus gloated "Ha!  I
have you now!," and aimed his plasma ball at her.  It seems that he was
about to win!

Epilog>  Destruction of Antrarus

        But the Ancient Walkers stepped in and gave her the right card to
destroy Antrarus:  The Star Card.  She uses the Star Card and it gave her
invincibility (the same type of invincibility that comes when you hit an
Invincibility power-up in a Sonic game).  With it, she knew just what to
do.  She ran as fast as she possibly could and plowed into him fist
first.  The blow caused his exoskeleton to crack and he reels over.

        Then Amy used the Judgment Card and destroyed Antrarus once and
(hopefully) for all.  She runs back to the main planet Mobius to meet her
friends.  After telling of her adventures, Sonic replied
"Congratulations, Amy!  I guess I'm not the only big hero on Mobius!" 
Sally and Melody giggled "Yeah, you AREN'T the only one!"


                                The End
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