CHAPTER 29
REUNION
Shadow stood there on the sidewalk in shock at the two mysterious strangers with Kayla hiding behind him. His eyes were fixed on the black hedgehog who was smirking down at him from the power line he was sitting on. His clenched fists shook in anger from the sight of the hedgehog. "I thought I recognized your face from somewhere! Why are you disguised like a regular being? Afraid to show your real self, demon?"
The hedgehog shook his head slightly, "Of course not. I just enjoy being in this body. It's quite comfortable when no one's actually screaming at the sight of me when I want to take an innocent stroll around the city."
Shadow's eyes flashed over to the brown squirrel woman who was staring at him with an evil smile. 'That woman looks like Kayla. She…she…couldn't be…' He looked over to the hedgehog once again. "Who's the whore?"
The squirrel woman crossed her arms over her chest in annoyance. "How dare you!"
Shadow formed a smirk towards the annoyed squirrel because she had gotten irritated by his comment. "Heh, with you wearing that slutty outfit, it's an easy thing to think."
The woman gritted her teeth in uprising anger as she stood up. "Stupid bastard! My name is Kainya, but my true demon name is Kaliyah."
After hearing that name, Shadow and Kayla froze in shock.
Kayla looked over to the black hedgehog who was standing beside Kainya and gasped in horror. "No…", she murmured in a soft voice as she stared at the black hedgehog's face. "Dad! That's him! The guy who attacked me the other day! It was Darkness! No! Demitri!"
The black hedgehog licked his lips towards the frightened squirrel girl. "Ah you remember now?"
Kayla's body began to tremble as she began to remember Demitri. She remembered how Demitri had approached her and hit her in the stomach with a strange red glove device. "Demitri…he attacked me and used a strange looking red glove and hit me in the stomach with it. Before I knew it, I saw Kaliyah standing before me…" She placed her hands on her head in frustration, "I always wanted to get rid of my inner demon, but not like this…"
Shadow looked back over at Demitri in rage, "Bastard! You attacked Kayla just so you could separate Kaliyah from her? Why'd you do it?"
"Simple", he spoke calmly as he wrapped his arms around Kainya's waist and pulled her closer to him. "I wanted her to be my queen."
Shadow couldn't help but to laugh a bit from Demitri's answer. "Heh, if you ask me, you two make one Hell of an ugly couple."
Demitri gritted his prolonging fangs in annoyance from his insult. He jumped towards him with claws extending from his fingertips. "I could say the same for you and your bitch of a girlfriend!"
Kayla watched in horror as Demitri tackled Shadow to the ground. She began to back away until she heard Kainya's sly voice behind her.
"Where are you going, sweetie?"
Kayla quickly spun around and immediately backed away from a smirking brown squirrel woman who was licking her lips in hunger.
"Your face is so adorable! I just want to break you in all kinds of pieces, my dear!"
Her eyes widened in fear from the demon woman who stood in front of her with her claws extending from her fingertips. She stood there frozen not knowing what to do. She had no more demonic powers, no Chaos powers, and no weapons. She was powerless against her. She shouted as she backed away from her, "Stay away from me!"
"Oh? What's the matter?" She asked as she slowly walked towards her. "I only want to make nice and devour your sweet insides!" She then raised her hand and sliced Kayla in her arm from one of her claws.
The young squirrel cried in pain as she held her bleeding arm.
With Kayla's blood dripping from her claw, she formed a smile until she suddenly felt a pain in her arm. She winced as she held her arm from the sudden pain. 'What the? What is this pain?'
When she realized she couldn't do a thing to stop Kaliyah from attacking her, Kayla screamed in terror.
While he was trying to get Demitri off of him, Shadow heard Kayla screaming and raised his free hand with a yellow aura around it at Kainya. "Stay away from my daughter, you disgusting creature! Chaos Spear!" The yellow aura from his hand suddenly struck Kainya in her shoulder making her blood stream down her arm and drip onto the sidewalk.
Demitri gave Shadow a hateful glare as he pinned Shadow's wrists down to the ground. "Bastard! How dare you attack her!" He then sunk his claws down into Shadow's wrists while he held them down.
Shadow groaned from the pain as he felt his blood streaming from his wrists. When he noticed Demitri wincing in pain and taking his claws out of his wrists, he took the opportunity to use his feet to kick the demon off of him. When he saw Demitri fall to the ground, he got off of the ground and felt a sudden pain in his side. He held his side gently as he ran over to Kayla. 'Damn!' He thought, 'I completely forgot about the whole blood for blood shit! We can feel everything we throw at each other! I can't beat him like this!'
While still holding the small scratch Kainya had made on her arm, Kayla rushed over to her father in tears. "Dad! Are you okay?"
He made a small nod towards his daughter. "Yes but that's not important. Are you all right? Did that bitch harm you?"
Kayla held her arm tighter from the irritation of the open wound. "She just scratched me that's all."
After hearing that, Shadow turned to the two demons in Mobian form with a glare. He hated anyone who harmed Kayla in any way and he was determined to make them pay.
Demitri and Kainya stood beside each other while holding their sides in pain.
Kainya turned to Demitri with a confused look, "Demitri, what's happening? Why am I in pain when the brat hasn't laid a hand on me?"
The black hedgehog demon clenched his fists as he glared at Shadow and Kayla. "Fuck! You can't attack your host neither! Kainya, we'll have to come up with a new strategy…" When he turned to her, he saw her kneeling on the ground holding her stomach in pain, "Kai!" He kneeled down to her, picked her body off the ground, and held her in his arms. "What's wrong?"
She groaned and began to breath heavily as she held her stomach. "My stomach…"
Demitri started to worry about her condition more than ever since her stomach was hurting more than once. "Again?"
"Darkness! What's wrong?" Shadow asked in an exhausted voice as he continued to hold his sides. "You don't want to fight anymore because your girlfriend can't take the pain?"
When he heard his voice call out to him, Demitri glared at the black and red hedgehog in annoyance. "You've won this battle Shadow, but I'll be back and I shall win the war!"
Speechless, Shadow and Kayla watched as Demitri jumped on a rooftop of a building and ran until he was out of sight.
Afterwards, Shadow sighed heavily and decided to let the two demons go since he wouldn't risk Kayla's safety. He slowly turned to a quiet and shocked Kayla and suddenly saw her close her eyes and her body fall to the ground. "Kayla!"
A/N:
Shadow: I can't believe...
Kayla: What are we gonna do?
Midnight: You want me to do what?
Demitri: What's up with you lately, Kai? You wanna tell me something?
Kainya: Demitri, I may be...
