CHAPTER 13

A NEW ALLY

With anger, Espio ran up to them and broke Ker away from Tonya by pushing him on the ground. "Stay away from her!"

"Espio!" The purple cat shouted, "Leave Ker alone!"

Espio faced her with utter confusion, "What?"

"You heard me." She walked over to the demon and helped him off the ground, "Don't you harm him. Got it?"

Ker took her hand and held it, "Will he kill me again?"

Tonya held his hand tighter, "No, he won't."

"But Tonya, he's one of the fourteen demons", Shadow said.

Rouge looked over to the black hedgehog, "You're right, Shadow he is one of them, but he isn't evil."

"Huh?" He said confused as much as Espio.

"He's Ker the demon of light. He's not like the rest of the demons."

Tonya smiled over to Rouge and looked over to Ker, "He just wants to be our friend. Right, Ker?"

Ker nodded with a smile.

"You can come with us."

"No way!" Espio shouted.

Tonya looked over to him with rage. "Why not?"

Espio began to think for a moment, "Because...the X-jet has six seats? Yeah that's it! The X-jet has six seats. He can't come with us."

"It's okay guys", Shadow said. "I'll use Chaos Control and warp myself back."

The cat smiled, "That's a great idea, Shadow."

Espio gritted his teeth and glared at Shadow.

Shadow looked over to him and noticed his glare, "What?"

Espio looked away from him, "Nothing!"

After when they all returned, they were at Tonya's house listening to Ker.

Spike jumped for joy, "Yeah! Finally that stupid echidna is dead!"

Shadow crossed his arms and smiled at Spike.

Ker was nervously sitting on the couch with Tonya, "Your husband's not going to kill me right?"

Tonya let out a laugh, "Of course not. He just wants to help like the rest of us."

Lynn glared at the demon, "I don't like him. He seems nice now, but later he'll turn evil."

The demon sighed, "That's what I want to talk to you about. My brothers and sisters torture me and keep saying that I don't belong and I think what they're saying is true. Maybe...I don't fit in with the fourteen demons anymore."

"But you're suppose to be one of them. Why?" Spike asked.

"I just don't want to hurt innocent people."

"Damn, what kind of demon are you?" Spike was surprised by Ker's emotions.

"Haven't you been studying the book I gave you?" Lynn asked. "It's Ker demon of light and I can see why. He's all good inside."

Ker continued, "But there are times when I get angry and I get called names I don't like and that's when I start killing, but I just don't want to do that."

"Well if you call yourself a good demon then you can join us", Vector suggested.

Ker was silent for moment, "Well I..."

"KER! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!" A voice shouted from outside.

Everyone ran outside and saw a red haired male demon with a giant axe in his hands, with red pupils in his eyes, wearing a black cloak with a red jewel in his necklace around his neck.

"Great it's Verge", Shadow said.

The demon looked over to Ker with a smirk, "Good job, Ker. You led them straight to us. Now's your chance to prove yourself worthy to the fourteen demons."

Ker clenched his fists while shaking them, "I can't..." he said in a low voice. "I can't."

"Wha-what did you say?" Verge tightened his grip around his axe.

"I said I can't! I found friends that respect me and the things I do unlike you and the others."

Verge frowned, "You traitor. Then you shall die like the rest of them." He raised his axe in the air running over to Ker. His axe struck down and he was covered in blood, but not Ker's blood.

Tears filled Ker's eyes as Tonya fell to the ground with a bloody arm, "Tonya, you..."

Espio ran over to her and examined her wound, "Tonya, are you okay?"

The purple cat smiled a bit, "I'm fine."

"Why did you do that?"

"For Ker." She looked up at Ker, "We're friends now right, Ker?"

Tears ran down his face, "Tonya", he said hoarsely. He glared at Verge, "You hurt my friend now you're gonna pay for it!" His white eyes glowed and a white beam had shot out of his eyes. The beam struck at Verge through his forehead.

The demon let out a cry of agony, "Ker!" He yelled. He fell to the ground with blood gushing out of his head.

Ker looked down at his body with Tonya standing next to him while holding her bloody arm.

Tonya looked over to him, "Ker, what are you going to do now?"

He touched his necklace, "The right thing." He pulled his necklace off his neck, threw it to the ground, and stomped on it crushing the white jewel in it, "I am now no longer part of the fourteen demons."

Tonya took his hand, "Remember you're not alone in this. You'll never be."

The demon smiled and had a feeling that this was the reason why he never fitted in with the fourteen demons.

On a rooftop, Baz was standing there with his arms crossed glaring at Ker from above, "Just wait you little traitor", he said in a low voice. "Deminse will take care of you." He then disappeared within a red light.