CHAPTER 17

ON THE VERGE OF DYING

Later that night at Rouge's house, Rouge was asleep in her bed not knowing the demon form of Shadow had came through her window. Once he stepped into her bedroom he transformed back into his normal self. He looked over to Rouge sleeping peacefully in her bed. He walked over to her and stared at her beauty for a moment. He got on top of her and started to kiss her.

Rouge felt his tongue slip in and she immediately woke up noticing him kissing her. She started to scream.

Shadow took his lips away from hers, "Awake?"

"What are you doing in my house!"

"The window was open", he said calmly.

She struggled to get him off her, but it was no use, "Get off me!"

"What? I can't see my lover for once."

"Shut up and leave! I don't want to see you again!"

"Don't deny me, Rouge. You still love me I know it."

"My heart belongs to the old Shadow", she said sadly.

"I'm still Shadow just...stronger and..."

"More of a jerk", she finished.

He laughed a bit, "A jerk huh? Is that what you think of me?"

"To be honest, yes."

Shadow moved on to a different subject, "Anyway this isn't the reason why I came. I hope you know that I'm the leader of the fourteen demons."

Rouge's eyes widened, "You were the one sending these demons?"

He nodded, "Dark resurrected them for me to lead them. Your friends are in a real jam. Without the Z-X the demons will be taking over the city in no time."

Rouge then forgot to give Espio more bullets, "Oh my god! Why are you telling me this?"

He got off her and walked over to the window and transformed into his demon form again. He spread his wings and looked over to her with a smile, "I told you before I love you." He flew out the open window.

Rouge quickly jumped out of bed, ran over to the window and watched him fly into the dark night.

That next day at the park a man with red hair leaning back with a giant axe on his back wearing a black cloak and a necklace with a red jewel in it was sitting on a bench looking at parents spend time with their kids. "Look at those foolish mortals", he muttered. "How pathetic, acting as though they have unlimited happiness. I wonder if they even know what death is." He stood from the bench and took the axe off his back. He smirked, "Maybe I should show them."

Back at the Chaotix, Tonya was typing something on her computer until she saw three of the demon's necklaces glowing on her desk. "What the? Vector, another one!" She shouted.

The rest of the gang came into the main lobby while gathering weapons.

"No, we can't. The Z-X needs ammo", Espio said.

Charmy looked over to Vector, "What are we gonna do, Vector?"

"We keep fighting that thing until we kill it", Vector said bravely.

Tonya put her hands on her hips, "And if we don't?"

Vector sighed, "We die."

Espio made a huge gulp, "Die?"

Vector grabbed the white necklace and ran towards the door, "Lets go!"

When the Chaotix made it to the park, they were shocked to see half of the people of the park laying on the ground slaughtered.

Espio's eyes widened, "Whoa, everyone's...dead."

Tonya looked at the children dying along their parent's side with blooding gushing out their heads by a deep cut to the skull. "How awful..."

They then heard screaming coming from the woods. They ran into the woods and soon enough they found the demon with a huge axe in his hands slicing at a child to death with it.

"Hey knock it off, demon!" Vector shouted.

The demon slowly faced the group with blood dripping from the blade of his axe. "More weaklings?"

"Who are you?"

"My name is Verge the fourth of the fourteen demons. You can't stop me. I am unbeatable."

Charmy put his hands on his hips, "Yeah right."

Espio took out the Z-X and pointed it at the demon. He pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. "What the?" He hit his head, "I forgot! I'm out of bullets!"

Verge then ran up to Espio and swung his axe at him.

Espio fell to the ground but got up quickly because the demon swung his axe at him once more.

The axe hit the ground and was stuck in the ground for a short time. Verge struggled to get the axe out the ground.

While he was doing that Espio had no idea what to do.

"Espio!" A woman called.

Espio looked behind him and saw Rouge with three red bullets in her hand. "Rouge!" He shouted in happiness.

"Catch!" She threw the bullets over to him.

Espio jumped up and successfully caught them. He took out the Z-X and started to reload the gun. He knew Verge would get his axe out the ground sooner or later. After when he put the three bullets in the gun, Verge pulled his bloody axe out the ground and ran towards Espio swinging his axe at him.

Espio quickly pointed the gun at the demon and fired. The red bullets struck Verge in the chest and the demon's chest bursted from the inside. He yelled in pain and fell to the ground dying painfully.

Espio ran over to Rouge.

Rouge looked at Espio sadly, "I'm sorry I was late."

Espio smiled, "You couldn't have shown up at a better time."