CHAPTER 26

DEMINSE'S LAST STAND

Later in the base, Deminse barged into Dark's room, "You bastard!"

Dark was sitting in his chair looking at the snow falling from the sky. He slowly spun around and faced Deminse, "Deminse, what's wrong?" He asked calmly.

"I'll tell you what's wrong. My brothers...my sisters...dead...they all died because of you!"

"Because of me? Hazel is dead?"

"Yes", he said with sadness.

He stood from the chair and walked around him, "Looks like you're all alone now."

"What do I do now, Lord Dark?"

He whispered in his ear, "Revenge."

Instead of sadness, hate started to build up within him, "Yes...revenge...for my family!"

"Go."

Deminse ran out the room with anger in his heart.

Dark smirked, "This should be enjoyable."

Later in the base, the Chaotix were running through the dark hallway into the middle of the base.

They then came to a huge room that seemed perfect for a party.

Vector looked at how far the ceiling was away from them, "Shadow, what is this place?"

"I'm not completely sure. This looks like the center of the base. I haven't been here myself to tell you the truth", Shadow said.

Rouge walked up to Shadow, "Uh, Shadow?"

Shadow turned to faced her, "You're talking to me?"

"Uh yeah. What that demon said back there...it is true. You don't work for Dark anymore."

Shadow smiled, "Told yea I was telling the truth."

Rouge smiled back at him. She hugged him, "I'm glad you're back with us."

"Darkness!" A voice shouted from the ceiling.

Shadow looked up and saw Deminse standing on the balcony with anger in his eyes. He jumped down to the group and faced them, "You bastard...You killed my brothers and sisters."

Vector cracked his knuckles, "Yeah and you're next." He faced Espio, "Espio."

Espio nodded and took out the Z-X. He pointed the gun at the demon. He quickly fired.

Deminse took his hand out from behind his back and snapped his fingers.

Then the next thing the gang knew a huge explosion hit them. They all fell back on the ground.

Charmy quickly got up, "That was cool do it again!"

Rouge put her hand over Charmy's mouth, "Shut up, Charmy", she said annoyed.

Deminse positioned his fingers in a snapping position once more, "I'm Deminse the last of the fourteen demons. You killed my family and now I'm gonna return the favor."

He snapped his fingers and a dark blue energy appeared from his hand striking at them once again.

They all scattered and fortunately the blast missed them. Deminse had his attention on Shadow, "You caused all of this." He snapped his fingers towards him. The dark blue energy had struck at him.

Shadow fell to the floor bleeding from his head. He struggled to get up.

Deminse was walking closer to him. He set his foot on his back. He held his fingers at him, "Revenge..."

Shadow then gave up and fell unconscious.

While he had his attention on Shadow something struck him in the chest. He looked over to the group and saw a white bat pointing a gun towards him. Before he could kill her, the bullet inside of him exploded. His chest was bleeding from the inside and his blood emerged from the outside. He fell to the floor with pain while his eyes were still open, "Brothers, sisters...I have...failed." His eyes then closed.

Rouge sighed in relief, "Thank goodness."

"Shadow!" Vector had shouted.

Rouge quickly ran over to Vector trying to wake Shadow up, "What's wrong with him?"

Vector faced her with sadness, "He just passed out and he won't wake up."

Espio looked at the wound on his head, "Looks like a pretty bad injury."

Charmy's eyes started to water, "Pretty bad?"

Rouge kneeled down to his body and shook him, "Wake up, Shadow! Wake up now! I know you can hear me! Wake up!"

"Shadow won't be waking up for some time now", a voice said behind them.

The group faced the stranger he turned out to be Dark.

Dark smirked, "In fact Shadow won't be waking up at all."