Za'thego, the local shaman, meditated in silence.
The youth, Kao-gama, sat in silence beside him.
After many hours, Za'thego stopped meditating and opened his elongated eyes.
"What is it, master?" Kao asked quietly. Without answering, Za'thego got up and walked into the ancient terror Room. Kao followed. As Kao walked in,
he looked around and shuddered. This was where the pictures, statues and other works of all the demons were kept.
'And,' he shuddered again.'This is where many of them are trapped'
Suddenly, as if to confirm his thought, a giant, upright lizard-like demon with ragged plates (sound familiar? Godzilla) on it's back creaked open it's eyes and roared.
Quickly, the shaman whacked it's head three times with a staff, resealing it.
They then continued to the back of the room.
Meanwhile, the museum was bubbling with excitement. A new exhibit had been opened.
In fact, it was so exciting that they failed to notice the cloaked figure that was about three feet tall, who walked in easily.
The sandstorm roared outside loudly.
Inside the new exhibit was a tour of their pasts' ancestors.
"And over here is a picture of the flying ancestors, called the Drerak"
The hostess showed the onlookers. "There is a skeletal picture"
She pointed again. After many 'oohs' and 'ahhs' she took the impressed people to the back of the room, where the last piece was held.
"Now," she began. "this is a statue of the one who started us all..."
The shaman and Kao finally reached the end of the room.
The demons were very restless. By now, Kao could tell that something was wrong.
They got to the end and looked at the statue and the painting.
The painting was of an ice bird that turned into nothing waist down.
It was killing, eating, crushing, and freezing people in an icy wasteland.
The statue was supposed to be of a small person in a cloak, but was split down the middle with a hole in the middle. Za'thego gasped. The demon had escaped!
'That means he'll be going after his big brother..' he grimly thought.
The sandstorm continued.
Meanwhile, the people in the museum were clueless as to what was going to happen. They were focusing on the small carving in the center of the room. It consisted of a snake-like head; rearing back and wide open.
Twin sets of long and delicate looking fangs decorated the top and the bottom of the mouth. On top of the head glared two large and angled eyes.
In-between them a mane started and traveled down the neck to where the carving stopped and met the podium. Also behind the head were four quills:
two on each side. The top ones curved up like Shadow the hedgehog's,
whereas the bottom two were like Sonic's. The hooded figure grinned deviously.
This was all too easy. 'For having warrior ancestors,' he thought 'they are too trusting.. oh well. Their loss.' He strode up the statue.
"Umm, sir? You're going to have to back away" the girl warned cheerfully.
He ignored her, and instead put one of his bandaged hands onto the statue. "S-sir"
she backed up; confusion in her eyes. He rolled his. "Pathetic"
he mumbled as he used his free hand to turn her into a block of ice and crumble it.
Then he focused all of his energy onto freeing the demon within the carving…
Kao's and Za'thegos' hearts beated quickly as they raced to stop a demon from releasing another demon that could only be described as " the devil himself"...
The sandstorm silenced itself.
They reached too late. As soon as they arrived, the hooded figure had released him.
Suddenly a bystander lunged and pulled down the smaller demon's hood in attempt to keep it from escaping ( stupid idea!). Instead of what the demon should look like, he instead looked like a certain blue hedgehog,
except he had a diabolical look on his face. Then he disappeared.
Everyone simply stared at where it had just been...