CHAPTER 24
DEADLY DUEL
The next day in the afternoon at the Street Punks' hideout, Lance walked into the living room and saw Appex and Zena sleeping with each other on a torn sofa. Lance was annoyed by their laziness, "Get up you lazy bastards!" He shouted.
Appex and Zena were startled and they both fell on the floor.
Appex accidently fell on Zena. He looked at her and blushed, "Uh...sorry."
She blushed as well, "I'm sure you didn't mean it." Although she didn't seem like it, she actually enjoyed Appex's body on hers.
Lance got impatient, "Will you two please get off each other! I have to say something!"
Appex quickly got off of Zena's body and confronted Lance. He crossed his arms, "This better be good."
Zena confronted him as well, "Yeah I was sleeping good for once."
Lance placed his hands on his hips, "Ever since Shadow's been devouring everybody, you two have been slacking off more than usual."
Zena raised an eyebrow, "What's your point?"
Lance faced Appex, "The Chaotix have been fighting demons called the fourteen demons. They have necklaces with jewels around their necks. Those jewels seem valuable. Appex, I want you to steal those jewels from those detectives. Got it?"
Appex hit his hand with his fist, "Finally something to do." He began to walk out the door until Zena called him.
"Appex."
The red porcupine looked back at the green and black squirrel.
"Don't get killed", she said with a smile.
Appex made a slight smile at her then he finally walked out the door.
Later Appex was walking on the sidewalk with the sun about to set. He was on his way to the Chaotix, until he saw a girl with her back turned was wearing a black cloak with short light pink hair stabbing a woman in her back with something extending from her hand. Appex stopped walking and examined the horrifying situation.
The girl dropped the dead woman to the ground and faced the red porcupine with a friendly smile, but with a deadly look in her eyes, "Hey red, you saw that didn't you?"
Appex made a slight nod, "Yeah the whole thing." He noticed she was wearing a necklace with light pink jewel in it, 'That must be one of those demon jewels. I guess she's a demon.'
The girl laughed, "I kill for my laughter as for the person I killed I guess they won't be laughing at all."
Appex was confused, 'How could a demon kill so much and have a cheerful personalty?'
The girl's fingernail had extended. She smiled at Appex, "I'm Yaru the twelfth of the fourteen demons and I'm going to kill you."
Appex placed his goggles over his yellow eyes, "Bring it on."
Yaru skipped over to Appex trying to stab him with her nail.
Appex jumped up in mid air and struck his sharp quills from his arm at her, but hit the ground.
Yaru jumped back, "So you do have some fight in you, red."
Appex jumped back down to the ground, "Lady, don't call me red. It's Appex."
She sighed, "Whatever", she said in an uncaring voice. She ran over to him and tried to stab him once more, but Appex had moved over to the side. Her nail had got him a bit. It cut him in his arm.
Appex noticed blood coming from his arm. He held it.
Yaru laughed, "Ha, got yea!"
Appex smirked, "Yeah only my arm. If you wanna kill me you gotta put more effort than that."
Yaru frowned, "I really don't have time for you anyway, red." She began to walk away.
Appex gritted his teeth, "Don't you walk away from me!" He jumped up in mid air and the quills from his back rose up. He released them at the demon. The sharp quills hit her in her back.
The demon fell to the ground with quills stuck in her bleeding back.
Appex walked up to her, "Who's got the last laugh now, bitch?"
Yaru looked up to him, "Man you're good", she then passed out.
Appex kneeled down at her and took her necklace from her neck.
Shadow then appeared on the other side of the sidewalk, "I could've sworn I felt the presence of a demon." He saw a red porcupine walking towards him. He noticed his bleeding arm. He thought he must have gotten into a fight.
Appex walked up to the hedgehog and handed him the necklace and walked away from him.
Shadow looked at the necklace with confusion. He looked back at the tired porcupine walking away from him. "I don't get it, Appex."
Appex was still walking away from him with his back turned, "You need that more than I do, so take it or leave it." Afterwards Appex disappeared.