CHAPTER 1

Fiona's heart raced inside her chest while her light blue eyes were locked onto the male green hedgehog who had stood across from her while they both stood in the middle of the quiet foggy cemetery while the morning sun's light had tried to shine through the thick fog around them. She couldn't take her eyes away from him. She couldn't believe that he was actually there standing right in front of her. She could see her breath from the cold air as she spoke in a low voice, "Scourge..."

The green hedgehog took a small step to her but still kept his distance from her. "Fiona", he spoke in a low tone. "It feels like it's been so long."

The longer she had looked at him, the more she had noticed how off he had seemed. There were so many red flags coming from him just from his appearance. His clothes had the residue of what it appeared to be blood and she could've sworn that when he had talked, his teeth had gotten sharper. And last, his eyes were now a deep blood red color. She slowly reached out to him and took a step forward. "...What happened to you?"

When he saw her take a step closer to him, he took a step back. "Please", he begged. "Don't come near me."

This was strange. He clearly wanted to see her but he was keeping his distance from her. "But...why?"

His eyes slowly shifted away from hers. He didn't know where to begin. So much had happened since the last time they saw each other.

She noticed he was being short with her. He was hiding something but what? "What happened between you and The Black Shield? Why did you turn against them? The Council?" She waited for an answer but he remained silent. "Tell me", she begged as she walked over to him. She reached her hand out to him once more. "You promised to see me again. Why? Why did you leave?"

He had then suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her body into his as he tightly embraced her.

Fiona's body froze as he held her close to him. It was strange from how he was acting but she couldn't help but to feel safe in his arms. She heard him whispering in her ear.

"Fiona", he spoke softly. "I still can't fully control my urges. I...don't want to hurt you."

She didn't understand. What did he mean by that? "...Hurt me?"

He slowly made her look up at him and made sure her eyes locked onto his. "...Because I'm a demon."

Now all of the alarming signs that he had given off had made sense. As he talked, his teeth were now fangs, his eyes were deep red, and his clothes were in fact covered in blood. He was in fact a demon. A killer. A flesh eater. An immortal monster. She slowly placed her hand on his cheek not wanting to believe any of what was happening. "No...this can't be..."

He slowly shifted his eyes from hers, "I made a deal with Dark and now I'm working with him and The Dark Alliance."

This hurt her so much. It's true that she just met him but she felt an actually connection with him. The things he said to her before had made so much sense. She felt like she actually had someone she could relate to for first time in her life. Tears swelled in her eyes, "No..."

"I couldn't see you sooner. I felt that I was really unstable at first when I turned. If I went to see you...well...I wouldn't have been able to control myself."

Was this how they were going to go their separate ways? She didn't want to do it. She didn't want to say goodbye. "But you..." Her eyes sadly shifted away from his, "I...I..."

He placed his hand over hers gently and softly kissed it as he looked back at her. "I know. I missed you too, Fi."

Her heart raced inside her chest as he kissed her hand. She missed this. She missed having him with her so much. She slowly leaned closer to him and pressed her lips against his.

The two were then engaged into a passionate kiss. He slowly took his lips from hers, "God, Fi. I miss the taste of your lips." His lips had then slowly traveled down to her neck.

Her body slightly quivered as his lips traveled down to her neck. She knew what he was now but she didn't want to be afraid. She wanted to believe that he was the same man she had met before. But even when she felt his lips softly kiss her neck, she couldn't help but be cautious.

"And your neck...", he spoke softly as his breathing had gotten heavier.

Her heart raced as she felt his grip around her slightly tighten and his breath on her neck. "Scourge..." She called in a low tone. She suddenly felt his tongue slowly yet hungrily licking her bare collarbone. "Scourge, no...", she had called again but she heard nothing but low growling coming from him. This was what they were both afraid of. He had tasted her and he wanted more of her. He was going to kill her. She shut her eyes tightly as she couldn't pull her body from his. Her eyes widened when she felt something trickling down her neck. She was for certain that he had bit her but she felt no pain. Her eyes shifted over to Scourge who had his fangs sunk down deep in his wrist while he had his arm wrapped around her neck. "Oh my God..."

He then roughly pushed her body from his causing her to fall back onto the ground.

As she laid on the ground, she watched as he backed away from her with his bleeding wrist still in his mouth. She understood what he had done. He bit himself so he wouldn't bite into her.

"Get away!" He shouted, "Don't come near me!"

She knew that she couldn't get near him at the moment but he was obviously in need of help. She wanted to help him but how? "Scourge..."

He bit harder into his wrist, "I don't want to kill you."

She watched as his blood seeped from his wrist and dripped onto the ground. "Please", she begged in a soft tone. "Let me help you." She then saw him turn away from her and slowly took his bloody wrist from his mouth while he heavily panted.

"Fiona", he spoke without turning to her. "I'm sorry."

Before she could say or do anything else, she watched helplessly as he ran off into the thick fog.

A few days later, it was early that next morning at the Chaotix. Tonya was sitting at the front desk typing on the computer until she saw someone set down a white mug full of coffee down onto her desk. She slowly looked up at a male purple chameleon smiling warmly at her. "For me?" She slid the mug full of coffee closer to her. "You shouldn't have", she spoke with a smirk on her face.

He leaned over and gently kissed the side of her head. "Anything for my beautiful wife to be."

She let out a small giggle as he kissed her forehead. She still felt that everything was a dream. She would finally be getting married and to Espio. Who seemed to be by her side for as long as she could remember. "Oh Espio, you're embarrassing me."

Appex was sitting at another desk on the far corner of the lobby. He had his feet propped up on the desk while he read the newspaper. He slightly shifted his eyes over to Espio and Tonya flirting with each other. He rolled his eyes and sighed before continuing to read the newspaper.

The two were then engaged into a passionate lip lock until Tonya gently pulled away from him.

She pointed at the computer. "Come on, Es. I'm trying to catch up with all this paperwork."

He slightly shrugged his shoulders carelessly, "It can wait, babe. You have all day. Besides, Shad's not around right now." He spoke softly in her ear, "Maybe we can head back into my office and..." His words trailed off as he saw Shadow walking into the lobby with a white mug full of coffee in his hand and Rouge standing by his side. He quickly leaned away from Tonya and turned to Shadow with a nervous look on his face. He had hoped that he didn't catch him flirting with Tonya. "Uh, Shadow! You-you're back from your coffee run already?"

The black and red hedgehog gave him a cold expression. "Just because you and Tonya are getting married in a few weeks, it doesn't mean you two can go off to fuck each other every time I turn my back."

The chameleon turned his back and crossed his arms in annoyance. He murmured bitterly under his breath. "Why not? You fuck your wife every time my back's turned."

He arched an eyebrow as he heard a few words from his murmuring. "What did you say?"

A sweat drop appeared on the side of his head as he realized that he may have spoke his comment a little louder than he had wanted to. He slightly turned back to him with an anxious look. "Uh I said I better...duck... my life...turned." He then realized he had been caught saying what he had. He paused and pointed towards his office. "I'm just...gonna go that way."

He angrily nodded while he watched the chameleon head back into his office. "Yeah you go do that."

Appex made a small laugh and turned a page of the newspaper he read. "He actually said..."

"Trust me", he spoke in a bitter tone. "I know what that fucking smartass said." He leaned against the wall and placed his hand in his pants pocket. He took a sip of his coffee. "If he knows what's good for him, he'll keep his mouth shut and I won't have to knock out his other eye."

Appex placed down the newspaper he was reading and stood from the desk. "Heh damn, Shad. Cranky much?"

Rouge leaned her body against his and gave him a teasing look. "Yeah you've been pretty snippy lately. Spike's even noticed. Every time you hold him, he bursts out crying."

Tonya placed a finger to her chin as she had to agree with everyone had Shadow had been in a bad moon lately, "Geez that does sound worse than usual."

Appex leaned over on Tonya's desk and let out a chuckle. "You know its bad when your own son is afraid of you."

Shadow set his coffee down on a nearby table and crossed his arms. "It's Sarah and the rest of the Council. They're all on pins because Scourge decided to go team demon."

The red porcupine shrugged his shoulders, "So he grew some new chompers. He can't be that strong now can he?"

Shadow had then began to recall the night when he and Freya had faced him for the first time in battle. "That night when Freya and I fought with him, his strength was unbelievable. I could barely touch him."

The group all knew that Shadow was strong with the help of his own demonic power but if he seemed worried about Scourge then they figured that he would indeed be a problem for them.

"Demonic powers are completely on a different level and it's already bad enough he's a skilled weapon's expert." He sighed, "I hate to say it but he won't be easy to defeat."

Everyone had then began to wonder how any of them could defeat Scourge and The Dark Alliance. Their thoughts were interrupted when they saw Freya coming through the doors with a stack of books in her hands.

The red ferret dropped the books onto Tonya's desk and panted in exhaustion. "S-Sorry I'm late, boss."

Shadow looked down at the watch on his wrist and then back at her in annoyance. "Freya, you're a whole thirty minutes late."

She gave him an apologetic look. "I know. I'm sorry." She and everyone else had heard a door close and saw Midnight walking into the lobby.

The black wolf had walked over to Freya. "Oh there you are, Freya. I haven't seen you all morning."

She gave him an annoyed look. "Midnight! You were supposed to pass the word along that I was gonna be late."

"Sorry", he spoke while he nervously scratched the back of his head. "I didn't quite understand your text."

She shrugged her shoulders angrily. "What was there not to understand?"

While Freya argued with Midnight, Tonya pointed at the books Freya had placed on her desk. "Hey, Freya? What are all these books for?"

She turned to the books she had placed on the desk. "Oh they're for college. My finals are coming up. I'm studying real hard so I can graduate this year."

Shadow took his back from against the wall and grabbed his mug full of coffee. "As long as you finish your tasks first then I don't care where you study."

"Thanks, boss!" She watched as he walked towards the back with Rouge.

Midnight turned to her with a small smile on his face. "I don't think you need to study too hard. After all, you're already smart."

She lightly blushed and giggled. She leaned over and kissed him on his cheek. "You suck up!" She grabbed the stack of books and placed them in Midnight's arms.

When she had first plopped the books in his arms, he struggled a bit to hold the heavy books in his arms.

"Come on! Help me study!"

Tonya smiled warmly as she saw Midnight following Freya into the garage. "They make such a cute couple."

Appex crossed his arms and made a disgusted look. "This place has turned into a complete love shack."

Later in Industrial City at The Black Shield detective agency, Sonia, Dave, Aaron, and Mina all had worried looks on their faces as they laid their eyes on the black male jackal who had his head down on the surface of the front desk in the lobby.

Aaron looked over to Dave. "Dude", he spoke in a low voice. "How much longer is he gonna mope around like this?"

"I know", Sonia added as she spoke lowly as well. "This isn't like him at all. He's usually yelling and barking orders like a big bossy jerk." She crossed her arms, "This is just...sad."

Dave slightly shrugged his shoulders. "Believe me. I tried talking to him but he completely tunes me out. I think he's just upset about Scourge." He and the rest of the group knew that Luke and Scourge had some kind of past together but Luke never bothered to tell any of them about it.

Aaron made a nod, "He's probably thinking all of this is his fault."

Sonia scoffed, "To be honest, I'm glad that obnoxious jerk is gone. The only thing he did best was getting on everyone's nerves."

With a worried look on her face, Mina slowly walked over to the desk where Luke was sitting and started to softly hum an angelic tune.

As he heard Mina softly humming a musical tune, he slowly picked his head off from the desk and looked up at the yellow mongoose who smiled warmly at him. When she stopped humming, he couldn't help but to form a small smile on his lips. "...Your singing was the only thing that could light up the place even when shit has completely fell to pieces."

With a small blush on her face, she leaned over to him. "...You need a break."

He paused and gave her a blank look. He then watched her come around the desk and grabbed him by his wrist to get him to stand up out of his chair.

She giggled softly, "Tonight down at The Silver. I'll be singing and it would be great if you were there to support me!"

He took his free hand and scratched the back of his head as he gave her a unsure look. "I don't know, Mina..." He looked back at her who had gave him a begging look.

"Oh please, Luke! It would mean the world if you showed up!"

Sonia chuckled and placed her hands on her hips, "Come on, Lucas. Loosen up will ya?"

His shifted his eyes over to Sonia in annoyance. "It's Luke", he spoke bitterly. He absolutely hated it when others had called him by his full name. Whenever someone did, he would take it as a term of endearment or if someone was being dead serious with him.

"It'll be fun", Aaron added. "We're all gonna be there."

Dave pointed his finger upwards. "Not me though. I'll be busy cleaning my house."

Aaron knew how Dave was. He was the one out of the team who always killed time by constantly cleaning something. He gave Dave an annoyed look. "You're always cleaning something, Dave."

Mina continued to beg by swinging Luke's wrist around playfully. "Please! You don't have to be super social to anybody. Just drink and listen to me sing!"

"Well", he thought. "I do like music and I do like to drink."

She immediately took his comment as a way of saying that he would be there. "Yay!" Mina happily hugged Luke who still seemed unsure if he wanted to go.

Aaron arched an eyebrow. "He's actually going?"

Sonia crossed her arms. "Luke? In the club scene? Now that's an interesting image." She and the rest of the team were aware that out of everyone in the group, Luke was the oldest and he lived up to it as to being the quietest and acting the most mature. She spoke in a low tone over to Aaron, "But who knows? Maybe we'll see a side of him we've never seen before." She and the rest of the group continued to watch as Mina happily danced around Luke.

Author's Note: Well here it is! New story coming in hot! This story will revolve more around Luke and Nicole more than anything else but it will tell of what will become of Scourge and Fiona's relationship as well. Now originally I was gonna make this a oneshot and then the oneshot turned into a short story and now I'm pretty sure this is gonna be a full on story. Also just a heads up. There's gonna be lemons. Lots of lemons. So be warned!

And also I know I have horrible communication with my reviewers and fans in the past. I'm trying to change that. I'm gonna try to reply with each and every review and also answer my PMs on a regular so if you have a review, comment, or wanna send a message my way, by all means go for it. You guys rock and I wanna try to give back to you all during my absence for the past few years. Anyway, I hope you guys will enjoy the story. Thanks for being so awesome to me!

In The Next Chapter...

Luke:...Sonia?

Sonia: Guys! I'm so fucked up, guys! Haha

Aaron: Haha Sonia's the best when she's drunk

Mina: Oh, Ash! here you are!

Ash: I came to hear your beautiful voice.

Nicole: Lucas, Is that you?

Luke: ...Nicole?

Nicole: We're just having fun...