CHAPTER 9

UPRISING EVIL

Later back at the church, Rouge was making sure that all of the doors and windows were barricaded so none of the monsters would get inside of the church.

Danielle was in the room watching her.

"Wow", Rouge spoke. "You guys had a couple of few open spots here and there within the church. I'm surprised none of them haven't gotten in yet."

"Well those creatures just chased us in here and we panicked so we just grabbed anything we saw to board up the entrances to the church."

"But you forgot the main door. Shadow and I just swung those doors open like nothing was there."

"But we did seal the door off with wooden boards but…you broke through them."

A sweat drop formed on the side of her head as she stared at the broken wooden pieces that were laying near the entrance of the door. "Well I guess I don't know my own strength. Heh!"

"So…" Danielle began. "You and that hedgehog are detectives?"

"Yup sure are."

"And that hedgehog is your partner I take it?"

"Yup."

"So are you like his boss or something?"

The bat's eyes widened in surprise and she began to question how Danielle even thought that she was over Shadow. "His boss? How do you figure that?"

"Well you seem so calm and know exactly what to do in this situation."

Rouge paused for a moment. Never in her wildest dreams would she think of herself as a leader of anything. It flattered her at the thought and a lot. She decided to play a long with it since Shadow was always in charge but now that he was out of the picture, she could take a hold of the situation. She turned to her with a wide smile. "Leader? Why yes! Yes I am!"

Danielle clasped her hands together and smiled warmly at her. "I figured as such. You seem like you really know what your doing."

An unsure smile formed on her face. 'With Shadow out of commission, I really don't know what I'm doing. Damn…what would Shadow do at a time like this?' A sweat drop appeared on the side of her head as she thought realistically what Shadow would be doing. 'Ugh! If that hedgehog was awake right now, he'd probably be yelling, throwing tantrums, and cussing everyone out.'

"Detective Bat." a male voice spoke.

Rouge snapped out of her thoughts and turned to a brown badger who was coming from the back of the room. "What's his condition?"

"He's still unconscious. He also has a high fever."

"Holy crap! He's sick?" She failed to believe how sick he had gotten suddenly. It worried her on what was wrong with him.

"I'm afraid so."

She swore under her breath, "Damn…"

"What should we do, Detective Bat?" Danielle asked as she saw Rouge's panicked expression.

Even though Shadow suddenly wasn't feeling well, she was still in charge during his absence so she assured that it was her job to keep Danielle and Frank safe and calm. "Okay you two, our first priority is to get the heck out of here."

"But…but the creatures…" Frank spoke.

"What? You want to stay in here to either A…starve to death or B…wait until those things break in here and eat you alive?"

Frank remained silent as he knew what she had said was all true.

"We have to leave."

"But how?" Danielle asked. "Those monsters are everywhere outside. We absolutely have no way of getting out."

Rouge placed a finger on her chin until an idea came to her. "So uh…you got any shovels?"

Moments passed and the creatures outside of the church were still wandering around the church awaiting for the group to come outside of the church.

Inside of the church, Danielle was sitting on one of the benches watching Rouge dig a huge hole in the floor with a shovel. She looked down in the hole she was in and arched an eyebrow. "Um are you sure this will work?"

Rouge stopped digging into the ground and looked up at the red fox woman. "Hey! You doubt me? Who's the detective here?"

"But…but you're ruining the floors."

The bat shrugged, "And? This church is pretty ancient anyway."

"Well yes but…it's been here for such a long time. It's a shame to see it in this kind of condition. It was like another home to me and my grandfather."

The bat sighed heavily, "Hey you wanna get out of here or not?"

Before she could say anymore, Frank had peeked his head inside of the hole Rouge was in with some towels in his hands.

"Hey how's Shadow doing?"

"He's still doing the same the last time I checked up on him but I'm going to see if anything's changed."

"Thanks, Frank."

The priest made a warm smile and began to walk towards the back leaving Rouge to keeping working on getting them all out of the church.

When he had made it towards the back room, he was in a small resting room. It was dim inside of the room with one flickering light bulb hanging from the ceiling. On the counter there was a bowl of ice water and beside it were towels along with other medical supplies. He shut the door quietly behind him and placed the towels he had in his hands down on the counter. He spun around and turned to the black unconscious hedgehog who was laying on a small bed. He walked over to him and slowly took off a blue cloth that was setting on the top of his head. He walked back over to the counter and began to soak the cloth in the bowl of ice water. "Heh, it's the wrong time to get sick on everyone you know?"

With his back turned, the hedgehog's hands twitched and his eyes opened suddenly.

"Your very blessed to be alive and have such a friend like her."

He slowly sat his body up from the bed and turned his head over to him.

"With the willpower from God, you can perhaps overcome this sickness of yours and do your part to help as well."

He grabbed a pair of scissors off of the table beside him.

Frank rinsed the water from the cloth and prepared to place it back on Shadow's head. Before he could turn around, a hand was placed over his mouth and he suddenly felt a sharp metal object being stabbed into his back. He let out a cry of agony over the hand but it wasn't enough for Danielle or Rouge to hear his cries for help. He felt himself being stabbed again and again repeatedly. He didn't know how much longer he could bare the pain. He fell to the floor with his back against the wall. He slowly lifted his head up and saw the black hedgehog with menacing demonic eyes holding the bloody scissors in his hand.

The hedgehog began to lick the blood hungrily off of the scissors.

He could faintly hear the hedgehog speaking to him as he kneeled down to the floor in front of his body.

He whispered in an evil tone, "Where is your God now?"

He coughed up some blood until everything went black.

A/N: Yes I posted up 2 chapters in one day. I normally don't do this buuut I'm feeling really type happy sooo here's another dose of the story! Enjoy! ^_^

Rouge: Shadow! My God! What happened?

Shadow: I tried to save him...

Danielle: But...my grandfather!

Shadow: We have to go now!

Rouge: They're everywhere!

Shadow: We'll get out of here! I swear it!