Chapter Twenty

Epiphany

As the days went by, Angel couldn't stop feeling so angry, he would keep concentrating on his martial arts classes; sometimes he began to feel hate towards Susan and the other staff because of what they said about his godmothers. He spent a lot of time feeling depressed, and either sat in his room or in the garden or Common room listening to his ipod and drawing and writing in his scrapbook.

One day he was sitting in the common room with Tilly, Melon, Herod, and Kimas. Tilly was playing on the floor quietly with Melon; Kimas was reading a comic book and Herod playing on a little game-boy. Angel meanwhile was on the sofa and had his ipod on and was looking at a picture of him when he was eight at the Mobotropolis Women's Prison visiting his Godmothers.

As he was looking at his picture, he was also glancing at the TV, the news had come up again and the newsreader was reading about another report on a murder case. "Another couple of Mobotropolis Citizens have been murdered last night, the two Mobians haven't been identified but it seems that the killing was another of the Infamous Murderer Razor the Wolf" as the newsreader spoke, Razor's picture came up, Angel snarled as he glared into the perverted Wolf's eyes on the screen.

The newsreader went on about the murder saying that the victims had been tortured and raped before finally being mutilated. Angel could feel his want for Razor's blood get stronger "I'll get you!" he whispered softly, "I will kill you! Even if it costs me my life!"

As he was looking at the screen, he suddenly heard a cry, he looked up and saw Jerry above Tilly and was holding a wailing and struggling Melon above his head in his hands. Jerry's Gang had gotten hold of Tilly and were being cruel to her. "No please!" wailed Tilly "leave Melon alone!"

Jerry smirked at Tilly "what are you gonna do about it Cry-baby?" he mocked, the other bullies laughed, Kimas and Herod tried to step in, but the other bullies pushed them back. "Leave them alone!" said Kimas, trying to be brave when in fact he was terrified of the bullies.

"Or else what?" snarled Jerry "what are you gonna do?" he threw the crying Chao on the floor and placed his foot on its tummy. "So ugly these Chao!" laughed Jerry, the other bullies laughed, Melon looked up at Jerry terrified and wailing. "Please!" sobbed Tilly, tears streaming down her cheeks, "leave him alone! He's only a helpless little Chao!"

Jerry smirked "not yet Whimpy!" he spat, "not till we've had some fun! What you gonna do? Cry for your mummy?Well you can't! She's dead!" he then began to kick the Chao around like a football, Melon let out little terrified Chao noises and wailed as Jerry kicked him again and again with his dirty trainers sending him flying around the floor, Tilly screamed and sobbed, Herod and Kimas wanted to stop Jerry but they were too scared, as Jerry was bigger and stronger than them.

Angel saw the cat kicking the Chao around, he felt the fury rise as he saw red, he couldn't believe the heartless bully was kicking around a tiny Chao like a football, like it had no feelings. Angel threw down his ipod and book and leapt towards Jerry, his blue eyes began to turn white as he did.

Jerry was stunned, but he didn't have a chance to move as Angel grabbed his throat and held him up, "How could you!" screamed Angel in total blinding fury, "try and kill a tiny little Chao with cold blood!? A creature that can't defend itself!" Melon who was on the floor wailed and cried, he was bruised but not badly hurt.

The bullies were so shocked by Angel's attack that they let go of Tilly who ran over to Melon and held him tightly in her arms sobbing. Herod and Kimas tried to comfort her, as they did; they kept their eyes on the wrathful hedgehog that was holding the cat up by his throat.

Just then Arlene came into the room, "what the…." she then saw Angel holding up Jerry, who had started to become blue in the face. "Angel!" she cried, she then saw the sobbing Tilly and the dirty, bruised Chao. Angel as soon as he heard Arlene dropped Jerry who rubbed his throat. "What the hell happened!?" Arlene demanded angrily. Tilly who was holding the whimpering Melon looked up. "Jerry tried to kill Melon!" she sobbed "Yeah!" said Kimas "then Angel stopped him!"

Arlene looked at Jerry with fury, she then grabbed him by his jumper, "is this true!" she shouted "trying to hurt an innocent defenceless animal?!" Jerry went white with fear, but Angel nodded. Arlene looked furious; "right!" she shouted "you Jerry and your gang! To Susan's office NOW!"

She pulled Jerry up and marched him out of the common room, with the rest of the gang following him, with the look of pure fear in their eyes. As Angel watched them go, he felt his urge of revenge get stronger, he saw he was getting tougher and stronger, "Good riddance!" he snarled.

Herod, Kimas and Tilly looked up at him, "Angel?" they asked "are…are you ok?" Angel said nothing, the anger was still strong within him, he glared at them then marched out of the common room taking his ipod and his scrapbook with him. The three Mobians watched him go in shock.

In the garden, Angel lay on the wall, staring up at the sun, he was feeling mixed emotions, he felt satisfied that he had given that bully what he had deserved, yet he was still feeling fury.

"Will this anger ever fade?" he asked himself, "no" he whispered, "I may have done some practice with that bastard, yet the evil murderer is still out there!", he looked at his hand, "and those who have done evil" he whispered "deserve punishment, and fate worse than death….eternity in hell"

He clenched his fists, "they all deserve to die" he whispered to himself, "every ingle one of them!" he remembered his parents telling him how their friends, Sonic, Amy and the others had fought an evil nemesis, Dr Eggman, he was evil, yet not as evil as Razor.

"Angel?" then Kimas voice brought him back down to earth, "Angel?" Angel turned his head and looked down to see Kimas, Herod and Tilly standing below the wall looking up at him. "What are you doing up there all alone?" asked Herod. "Thinking" mumbled Angel.

He sat up and leapt off the wall landing next to them, "we just wanted to thank you Angel" said Herod, Tilly then threw her arms around Angel, Angel was a bit shocked as Tilly hugged him tightly. "Thank you so much!" she cried "Thank you for saving my little Chao!"

Angel smiled, yet Tilly was almost suffocating him, he pushed her hands from around his neck and continued to smile sheepishly at the Rabbit. Kimas and Herod patted him on the back "we'll never forget that mate" they said. Angel smiled again, "anytime" he said, then began to walk towards the building.

Whoa! Angel sure turned into a hero there, yet his anger is getting stronger everyday.

Note: This scene was requested by Neros Urameshi and Rock Raider, so here it is, hope you like it guys. Also readers, I suppose some of you are wondering when Angel's gonna be out of the orphanage, we'll see some change in the next chap, but what though? Well, wait and see! XD

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