Chapter Thirty-Six

Final Obstacle

The Present Day

Angel watched as the city glittered and remembered his life there before and after Razor had fucked it up. "It was only until I was 11, I was happy…but then after Razor came and slaughtered my parents before my eyes, I have never felt happiness….nor joy…not peace…nothing can wash away this pain I feel in my heart, all these years of misery and abuse have scarred me…"

He pulled out his katana sword that Val gave him; he studied the blade looking at the Chinese symbols, one that bared his name, and the other side that showed its purpose and curse. "I've killed a whole lot of people to get to this point" he whispered to himself, "I've committed many crimes, I've tortured…slaughtered and killed" he thought about all the people he had murdered, he thought about the whores and hooker gangs in Emerald city when he slaughtered Natalie. He thought of the Drug dealers and Otis, then Snarl and his mobsters.

"They all deserved their fate" he snarled, he then thought of Wade and Budd's torturous and painful deaths, "they deserved all that torture I laid on them" he whispered softly "they deserved to die…they deserved it all! Their wicked deeds brought this on" he reached around his neck and took the silver locket; he opened it and stared at the pictures of his parents, and of the two girls, Molly and Maria. "There is only one person in this locket that has not yet died" he whispered "me…."

He looked up at the city again, "I will find Razor…." He whispered "but I care not….whether I live….or die….if Amethyst's life has been taken….I shall die, but not before Razor is killed…." He pulled out his handgun, "if I find Amethyst alive….I shall protect her….and swear that nothing will hurt her again….those that try…shall die by my hand….if she is dead….Razor too shall die….and so will I…"

As he was thinking, he suddenly heard a scream, it was coming from the forest behind him, he turned and run into the forest, following the sound of the screaming, "Amethyst?" he thought in panic "no! What if she's being murdered? Or worse? Raped, tortured…then finally being slashed to ribbons?"

He ran further into the woods, then the screaming got louder, he then heard laughing and jeering, and shouts of "Yeah! Give it her! Yeah! Yeah!" then sounds of a young man shouting "leave her alone! Leave my best fried alone!" Angel ran further into the woods until he saw some figures by a group of trees.

Angel drew his gun and ran over, he then saw a group of figures, two were pushing what looked like a red female rabbit against a tree, whilst the rest of the group were holding some Mobians who were struggling against their grip. Angel used his bat vision to see clearly, then his blood ran cold, he recognised the three suffering Mobians.

They were his three friends from the orphanage! Herod, Tilly, and Kimas! But what shocked him more was that the group of Mobians who were torturing them were Billy, Penny, Jerry and his gang. "We'll stop hurting that cry-baby when you tell us where Angel is!" shouted Billy, Jerry then nodded, "yeah, or she'll have her face bludgeoned in like her smelly little Chao!" Angel's eyes widened as he saw Melon laying on the dirty ground, his face bludgeoned in and dead. "Please stop it!" shouted Kimas "we don't know where he is! We haven't seen him for years!"

"They're looking for me eh?" thought Angel, "well, they'll be surprised to see me…and they won't live…to tell the tale!" he crept up to some leaves, then bared his teeth, he then leapt from the bushes yelling. As he did, Billy, Jerry Penny and the rest of the gang jumped up in fright, yet they still didn't let go of the three Mobians.

"What the fuck!" shouted Billy, Angel then looked up "Billy" he snarled "we meet again…" "Huh?" cried Penny, Angel then lifted his head, "remember me..?" he spat. "NO!" cried Jerry "it can't be!" "YES!" said Angel, "Angelous the Hedgehog!" "ANGEL!" cried Tilly. Herod and Kimas gasped.

Angel then drew his sword, "you evil bastards! Looking for me? Why?" Billy took out a small handgun, "to find you and kill you! Then bring your body to Razor so we can join his gang due to his previous gang members being slaughtered by you! He'll be proud to know that his gang members's killer is broght before him so we can join him!" Angel could feel his anger boiling up again.

"Join Razor.." he snarled "join Razor…" he looked up as his eyes glowed white, "you'll see the blade of my sword pass through your bodies before you join Razor!" Billy held up his gun, "come on then you freak!" Angel snarled, the slashed the sword. He then ran towards Billy who ducked as Angel swung the sword over his head.

Billy then dived towards Angel making him fall, Angel turned to see Billy holding his feet, then lifting the knife as if about to stab him in the legs to attempt to disable him. "YOU WILL NOT STOP ME!" screamed Angel, he pulled one of his legs free then kicked Billy in the face to get him off. Angel then leapt to his feet and pulled out his gun.

As he did, Penny, Jerry and his gang pulled out guns and Jerry pulled Herod close to him, making him act as a shield. Herod struggled in Jerry's grip. Angel then pointed his gun at Jerry "YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" he then fired his gun, but as he did, Jerry pulled Herod into the path of his bullet, the bullet pierced Herod's chest and blood exploded from his chest.

Angel gasped in shock as Herod's body jarred and Jerry dropping him to the floor right next to Melon's lifeless dirty corpse. Tilly and Kimas started screaming in devastation at their friend's death. "NO!" screamed Tilly as tears fell from her eyes "Herod! Herod!"

Jerry began laughing, as did his gang and Penny, Billy then grabbed Angel from behind "Murderer!" he shouted "how could you? Kill your friend!" Angel roared and punched Billy in the face, he then picked up his sword he had dropped, he then looked at all the group. "YOU'RE ALL GONNA PAY FOR THE PAIN YOU PUT ME THROUGH!"

The group then surrounded him "come on then freak!" laughed Jerry "come on!" said Penny, "you black hybrid freak!" Angel roared again, "So be it!" he shouted, he swung his sword around, as he did, the gang all pulled out knives and firearms, Angel leapt towards a couple of Jerry's gang and slashed his blade, the blade hit two boys in Jerry's gang and they fell to the ground dead and bleeding.

The other members screamed as they saw the two Mobians go down. Tilly and Kimas also screamed as the blood sprayed everywhere, all over them, Tilly crawled over to Herod and Melon's bodies and began to sob over them, Kimas also crawled over and sobbed over the bodies of Herod and Melon.

Penny then started screamed at Angel and pointing at him, "Murderer!" she screamed, she ran at Angel to hit him with her fists, but Angel lifted his sword and hacked off her head with a single blow. Billy watched in horror as he saw his sister's decapitated head roll on the floor.

Angel then smirked and looked at the rest of the gang who began to back away in shock, "you bastard!" whispered Billy tears rolling down his cheeks at the sight of his headless dead sister "you cold hearted killer!" Angel looked down at Penny's body and spat on it. "Good riddance!" he snarled, he looked up again at the group.

Billy then took out a knife and ran towards him, but Angel quickly swiped the knife out of his hand with his sword, then grabbed his arm and cut it clean off! Billy screamed, then Angel slashed his throat with the sword killing him, "now you can meet your bitchy sister in hell!" shouted Angel.

Tilly and Kimas looked up from sobbing over the bodies of Herod and Melon and saw Angel killing the bullies, Tilly stared at Angel in shock "what's happened to him?" she sobbed "that's not the Angel we knew!" Kimas pulled Tilly close to him in fear, "he's a psycho!" he cried. They stared at the murderous black hedgehog, his eyes filled with madness and blood lust as he looked up at the remaining gang standing, he sure wasn't the Angel they once knew.

Angel then looked up and saw Billy who stepped towards him, Angel did the same, "You murderer!" Billy taunted, "You murdered my friends! And your own! Razor will find you! And he'll kill you! You won't face him and leave alive!" Angel's eyes started to glow white, "SHUT UP!" he screamed "as long as he dies in my grasp, I don't care whether I live or die killing him!"

He then threw his sword down and began to glow silvery white, his hate was at its highest peak "hear this and die!" he shouted "I killed all who worked with Razor, knew Razor and even spoke his name! and now! I shall kill the very man himself!" He then powered himself up, "CHAOS…KADAVA!" he then flipped and sent a large strong deadly shockwave through the area.

The waves hit Jerry hard making him fly backwards, then the waves burned through him, killing him quickly yet very painfully. Angel then knelt on the ground as the waves vanished, and looked at the massacre around him. He then heard a groan and a sobbing.

He looked up to see Kimas and Tilly, Kimas was fatally wounded with blood and burns over his body with Tilly leaning over him sobbing in fear and devestation, "get out of here Tilly!" said Kimas, "run! Go! Find the police!" Angel then realised that he accidentally killed Kimas when he performed the Chaos power! Angel stepped towards Tilly who cried and began to run, he then looked at Kimas who looked at him shocked before dying.

Angel then saw Tilly running away and crying and screaming, he then knew if he let her get away, she would go to the police, he couldn't let that happen, he couldn't risk it! Then he couldn't fulfil his mission if the police followed his trail to the very place where he was going to kill Razor.

Quickly he used his speed to catch up with her, Tilly kept trying to run but she tripped over a root in the ground, as she got up, Angel grabbed her, "Tilly stop!" he shouted "stop!" but Tilly tried to fight him off, Angel clapped his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. Tilly struggled and screamed through Angel's hand, "let go of me!" she shouted "help me! Help!" Angel pushed his hand more over her mouth trying to get her to be quiet "shhh shhh Tilly stop!" he begged.

But again Tilly struggled and kicked about, Angel then yanked her back, as he did, he heard a horrific crack and Tilly's body went limp in his grasp. Angel's heart leapt and his stomach plummeted, he looked down and saw Tilly's head loll to the side lifelessly.

"No…" he whispered "no!" he gently lowered Tilly's body to the ground shaking his head, he couldn't believe it, in his madness and blind rage, he had killed three of his friends. "All I did was try to kill those harming you" he looked at the bodies of Billy, Penny, Jerry and his gang.

"Even though I succeeded" he whispered "I killed you too" he bowed his head and picked up Tilly's body and carried her gently over to where Kimas, Herod and Melon lay. She gently rested her against the roots of a tree and placed Melon in her arms. He then knelt in front of the bodies and wrung his hands

"What have I done?" Angel whispered softly "How could I?" he looked at the bodies of his friends and mournfully shook his head, "I'm so sorry…" he whispered "I'm so sorry…please forgive me" he clutched his hands on his leather trousers and cried harder and harder.

For a long time Angel sat there staring at the bodies of his friends, mourning them, and blaming himself for causing their deaths. "I'm so sorry" he whispered "I wish I could turn back time and been more careful so you could have gotten away alive" he looked at their bodies again.

"When I was alone and scared at that orphanage, you were there for me, when I cried, you were there, and I was there for you" he looked at the dead green Chao that lay in Tilly's arms. "I saved you once Melon" he whispered, "I'm just sorry I couldn't save you again"

As Angel mourned over his friends, he suddenly saw a light in the distance ahead, it looked like a window light, he then remembered why he had come here in the first place. Razor's farm! "Razor" he snarled wiping his tears away. He stood up, then looked one last time at the bodies of Tilly, Melon, Herod and Kimas. "Rest in peace" he whispered, he then began to run towards the light.

My God...Angel accidently killed his friends...poor Angel...poor Herod, Kimas, Melon and Herod...Rest in Peace.

But now...Angel has to find Razor...and Amethyst...but will more blood be spilt? Find out!

Note: Tilly, Melon, Herod and Kimas belong to Neros Urameshi, (don't worry Neros, your characters have found peace)