CHAPTER 19

JEALOUSLY

That next day at the Chaotix, Tonya was looking at the five jewels in the necklaces. She tried to figure out what they stood for.

Espio was trying to help her.

Tonya then noticed something, "Mm, this is very odd."

"What is?" Espio was still looking at the necklaces.

"I've noticed that the jewels have uneven edges."

Espio shrugged, "So."

"It looks very suspicious. They look like a piece of something, but I don't know what."

Espio noticed Rouge staring out the window. He decided to walk over to her. He gently placed his hand on her shoulder.

She quickly looked over to him, "Espio." She stared at his hand on her shoulder. After Shadow's words from yesterday, she never wanted to be touched by a man at the moment.

Espio quickly removed his hand away from her shoulder, "You okay?"

Rouge sighed sadly, "Fine." She looked out the window again.

Espio could tell she was heartbroken more than ever, "I know I shouldn't ask, but what did he say to you that made you so upset?"

Rouge had tears in her eyes, "He-he threatened to rape me..."

"What! I can't believe him! What a sick bastard!"

Rouge turned to Espio, "Don't worry about it, Espio. I'll be fine. It's my problem not yours."

"I know but still we have to look out for each other right?"

Rouge nodded, "Right."

Espio made a slight smile.

Rouge tried to smile back, but her fears of Shadow prevented her from doing so.

Vector and Charmy looked at Tonya trying to figure out the jewels in the necklaces.

"Find anything?" Vector asked.

Tonya shook her head, "No, nothing but uneven edges in the jewels."

"Don't worry about it, Ton. I'm sure it's not important."

Tonya then took her mind off the jewels and saw a pink hedgehog coming through the door. "Is that?"

Espio looked over to the pink hedgehog with a black headband around her head and wearing a combat vest. "Rose?"

The pink hedgehog walked over to Espio and Rouge, "Espio, what's up?"

He sighed, "A lot. What are you doing here?"

"I came to see how you guys were doing?"

"We're not having much luck that's for sure."

Rose took Espio's hand, "Wanna sit down and tell me what's wrong?"

Tonya was full of rage, 'How dare she walk in here and try to take Espio away from me! The bitch!'

Later at Dark's base, Dark was in his room sitting in his desk chair stressed.

Shadow was leaning against the wall looking at Dark making claw marks in his desk, "Is something wrong?"

Dark looked over to Shadow, "Of course there is. I went through the trouble of resurrecting the fourteen demons for nothing. Five out of fourteen of them are already killed. I obviously made a terrible mistake."

"You didn't make a mistake. You brought back the most dangerous killers from the past, that's no mistake. The others the Chaotix killed were weak but Deminse, the oldest sibling seemed a lot stronger than the rest."

Dark nodded in agreement, "You're right about that."

"Lord Dark, I found the perfect name for my demon form. Darkness."

"Darkness huh? I like it by the way where were you yesterday?"

He smirked, "Just delivering a message."

Later at the Chaotix, the gang told Rose about the fourteen demons and afterwards she wanted to help them defeat them. "Demons huh? They don't seem so tough if you defeated five of them."

"If it weren't for Rouge we would still be fighting the first demon", Vector said.

"I wish I could help you guys out, but I'm only in town for today."

"Don't worry about it we got it covered."

"Yeah but I still wanna kill at least one demon before I leave."

"But you can't do that", Espio said. "You're gonna need the Z-X. That's the only weapon you can kill them with."

"No problem with my ninja skills I can kill anything."

Tonya laughed, "Yeah right, don't count on it."

Rose was annoyed by Tonya, "Are you saying I have no chance against a demon?"

"Got that right. Even Espio couldn't defeat the first demon easily."

Rose looked over to Espio in concern, "What did the demon do to you?"

Espio touched his arm, "Well...he tried to cut my arm off."

Rose looked at the stitches on his arm, "Did the demon do that?"

Espio nodded, "I'm okay now there's nothing to worry about."

Rose hugged him, "I wish I was there to help you."

Tonya pulled Rose away from Espio, "Hey keep off him!"

Rose glared at the cat, "What are you his girlfriend?"

Tonya was about to say so until Rouge came in the room.

Rouge was holding a glowing black necklace in her hand, "Another one."

Later the necklace led the Chaotix in a dark alley with a man wearing a black cloak, with short brown hair and a necklace with a brown jewel in it. He had two heavy metal chains in his hands. He was leaning against the wall with an evil smile.

Charmy looked around them and saw a corpse of a middle aged man lying on the ground with marks around his neck. It looked like he died from lack of oxygen. Charmy ran behind Vector trembling.

Rose smiled wanting a fight, "Who are you and did you murder this man?"

The strange man walked up to the group, "My name is Terkor, I am the sixth of the fourteen demons and yes I did kill this man."

Rose clinched her fists, "A demon huh? I've been looking forward for some action today."

"Rose, no he looks very dangerous", Rouge warned.

Rose took out a shuriken star, "So am I..." She threw the shuriken star at the demon.

Terkor took his right chain and struck at the weapon making the shuriken star hit the ground. He looked at her with the same smile on his face. "Is that the best you can do?"

Rose gritted her teeth.

Espio grabbed her wrist, "No, use the Z-X."

"But I don't know how."

Espio pushed her aside, "Then get out the way." He took out the Z-X and shot a round at the demon.

The bullet hit him in the arm. The bullet had soon exploded and his arm completely blew off. He fell to the ground with huge amounts of blood coming from his missing arm.

Later that evening Espio and Tonya were saying goodbye to Rose. "It was nice to see you again, Rose."

"You too, Espio. Be careful with those demons. I can see why you almost got your arm chopped off." She warmly smiled and began to walk away.

Tonya placed her hands on her hips, "I don't like that girl."

Espio smirked at her, "You were jealous the whole time weren't you?"

Tonya blushed, "No I wasn't!"

"Right, if you were jealous I just want you to know that I will always love you."

"Really, Es?"

Espio nodded slightly.

Tonya wrapped her arms around Espio and kissed him lightly on the lips. She broke away from him, "I love you too, Espio."

N/A: Dang, I'm really behind on my fics. Sorry for the extremely long wait. Once again something was up with my computer and I don't know what it is. I hope it doesn't happen again. Again sorry. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon.