CHAPTER 8
SURVIVAL
Shadow, Espio, and Knuckles scattered and the blade of the sword missed them.
The sword had came back to the demon who unleashed it, "Damn it! I almost had them!"
Shadow studied the demon. She had long pink hair and her pupils were pink also. She was wearing a black cloak and was wearing a pink jewel in a necklace around her neck. He now remembered her, "Seraku!"
"Got that right. Now time to get my revenge!" She ran toward Shadow while striking her sword down at him.
He quickly dodged her attack.
Her sword had went into the ground. As she tried to get it out of the ground, a yellow light hit her in her arm. She screamed as she fell to the ground. She looked at her injury and the yellow light looked like spears were stabbed in her arm. She got off the ground and saw Shadow's hand glowing yellow. "You're gonna pay for that hedgehog!" She took her sword from the ground and continued to attack Shadow.
Espio got off the ground and saw an orange haired demon with chainsaws for hands wearing a black cloak and with an orange jewel in his necklace that was around his neck.
"Remember me?" He asked.
"Satar right? Heh, who could forget an ugly fucker like you."
The demon frowned, "Time for me to put that smart mouth of yours to rest." He came at Espio with his chainsaws running.
Espio moved and Satar's right chainsaw had only cut him by a little bit on his arm. Espio held his arm, "Well it's better than last time."
Satar came at him again and Espio once again moved.
Knuckles was fighting with Ker, but Ker wasn't really fighting.
The white haired demon sighed, "Deminse is the best big brother in the world. He brought us back to life so we can take over Mobius as a family."
Knuckles thought that he wasn't much of a demon at all, "What the fuck kind of demon are you?"
"Just like my brothers and sisters. The fourteen demons. My name is Ker what's yours?"
Knuckles was confused. Did this demon want to kill people or make friends? "Uh Knuckles."
"Deminse and the rest of my siblings think I'm not good enough to be a demon, but I think if I try a little harder..." He looked over to Knuckles but didn't see him. "Hey where did he go?"
Shadow fell to the ground bleeding from his mouth, "Damn, we can't kill these demons like this."
Espio ran over to Shadow with Knuckles by his side and helped him off the ground, "Shadow, what are we going to do? We have no chance against these guys."
"I agree", Knuckles said. "And some of them are more freaks than they appear to be."
"Guys I want you to get back", Shadow said.
"Why should we listen to you?" Knuckles asked with disgust.
The dark hedgehog faced him with anger, "You have to get back or you'll get blown to bits."
Espio grabbed the echidna's wrist, "Cooperate for once will yea?" He led Knuckles away from Shadow.
A yellow light appeared around Shadow's body and turned his black fur yellow.
Espio gasped, "Isn't that his super form?"
Knuckles nodded, "That's what it looks like, but how can he do that without using Chaos Emeralds?"
"Maybe he has some special abilities to help destroy Deminse."
Shadow hovered from the ground eyeing the fourteen demons. He held both of his hands at the pack of demons, "Chaos Blast!" A red light came from his hands and hit the fourteen demons with a powerful blow. Shadow fell to the ground losing his super form.
The demons surrounded Deminse while moaning with pain.
"Shadow is way too powerful when he's on their side. We have to think of another strategy", the yellow haired demon said.
"I agree. Let's just get the hell outta here", Deminse raised his hand in the air and a red light appeared around him and the rest of the demons. Soon they all disappeared.
"Shadow!" Espio shouted as he ran over to him and kneeled down to the ground to check his body.
Knuckles walked over to him, "I say we leave him there for the buzzards."
Espio ignored Knuckles' comment. He sighed with relief, "Thank god he's just unconscious." He looked over to Knuckles, "Knuckles, help me carry him."
The echidna's eyes widened, "What? No way! Because of him, Rouge dumped me and now she's all emotional over Shadow again."
The chameleon let out a smirk, "She is huh? In that case, help me carry him to Rouge's house."
Knuckles' mouth hung open, "Now you've completely lost it, chameleon. I'm not gonna let him go anywhere near Rouge!"
"Oh really?"
Later at Rouge's house, Tonya was sitting with Rouge on the couch trying to comfort her. "Come on Rouge, stop worrying."
Rouge hugged her, "I can't what if Knuckles actually kills him?"
Tonya broke away from her, "Come on Rouge, you know Shadow. He's way more stronger than Knuckles will ever be. Besides he's a pretty tough guy."
The white bat smiled a bit, "You're right, I just have to think positive."
All of a sudden, Espio and Knuckles came through the door with a black hedgehog unconscious in their arms.
Rouge gasped, "Shadow!"
Tonya and Rouge got off the couch for Espio and Knuckles to set Shadow on it.
Knuckles backed away from Shadow's body for Rouge to run over to him and she did.
She kneeled down on the floor and started stroking through his black fur.
Tonya ran over to Espio and started kissing him all over his face until she saw him bleeding a little from his arm. "Espio, what happened?"
The chameleon faced the purple cat, "Satar cut me with one of his chainsaws."
"What? He's back?"
Rouge turned to Espio, "What happened to Shadow?"
"We kinda got caught in a battle between the fourteen demons."
"The fourteen demons are back?" Tonya said with disbelief.
"Got that right."
She hugged Espio, "Oh, Espio!"
"Hey you should be grateful that this time I didn't get my arm almost cut off."
Rouge looked back at Shadow noticing him waking up, "Shadow", she called in happiness.
Shadow faced her with a slight smile, "Rouge? It's you." He slowly lifted his head away from the couch, "What am I doing here?"
"Knuckles and Espio brought you here."
"Knuckles? You mean Knuckles the Echidna?" He looked over to Knuckles in a weird way. "That was unlike you to bring me to Rouge's house."
He crossed his arms, "This doesn't mean we're friends. We're still enemies no matter what. I will get my wife back." He walked out of the door.
Shadow took his mind off Knuckles and looked over to Espio, "Es, what did you do to convince him to help you drag me here?"
The chameleon smiled, "I threatened him by telling him about a fake curse of the echidna clan", he laughed.
The dark hedgehog smirked, "What a moron."
Meanwhile in Spike's room, Spike was laying on his bed with Lynn beside him kissing him.
She broke away from him noticing that Spike wasn't enjoying it as usual, "Spike, what's wrong?"
He looked over to her, "I don't think I'm strong enough."
Lynn sat there confused, "Huh?"
"When I was fighting my father, you should've seen his power. It was amazing. I've never seen so much energy. He's a lot more stronger than I am. That means I just have to train my body more. I have to be strong." He took her hand, "To protect you."
The pink cat blushed, "Oh Spike, you'll always be my strong, sexy, dark hero no matter what." She took her hand and placed it on the zipper of his black shorts until she heard a voice shouting from downstairs.
"Lynn, we gotta go!" Tonya called.
She sighed and kissed Spike on his lips one last time, "Later, Spike." She left his room leaving Spike thinking about his powers.
