CHAPTER 18
KER'S CHOICE
The blue haired man came closer with the huge butcher knife in his hand. It looked like blood was on the knife. He was for sure about to kill them.
Shadow crossed his arms and looked over to Lance with a glare, "I don't hear you making fun of him!"
The grey fox clenched his fists and turned to Shadow, "I said shut up so shut up!"
"Why don't you both shut your mouths and save your breath for the screaming that you'll do once I kill you", the demon spoke.
Lance made a smirk, "Heh, you'll be the one screaming. Appex!"
The red porcupine confronted the demon and gave him a cold look, 'This guy won't last in a fight against me. As if I were afraid of that giant blade that which he wields.' He held out his hand with his quills standing from his fur. He picked off at least five and threw them at the demon's chest. It made him bleed, but he was still standing. Appex figured he needed more than five of his sharp quills to kill him. He picked off over fifteen and threw them in the same area on the demon.
All the demon did was laugh, "Is that the best you weaklings got?"
Appex was about to pull off more quills from his arm, but Shadow had stopped him.
"Hold it, Appex. If you keep pulling off your fur like that, you're gonna become one bald motherfucker."
He took his hand away from his arm and had his attention on Shadow, "Have any other bright ideas, Hedgehog?"
He smiled a bit, "I say we team up." He held out his hand so he could shake it.
Appex gave him a strange look. He swore he would never team up with Shadow. They would just be strong rivals and take care of their own battles, but somehow he decided to agree with his suggestion. Appex took his hand and quickly slapped Shadow's away. He turned away from him, "Agreed."
Shadow rubbed his hand that Appex slapped away, "Well you got a weird way of showing it."
"Enough!" The demon shouted. He came at them with the point of his knife coming at them.
Shadow and Appex got out of the way before he could stab them with his weapon.
Appex stood beside Shadow, "Now what, Hedgehog?"
Shadow looked over at the demon and smirked, "I got a plan." Out of nowhere he grabbed Appex's wrist.
"Take your hand away from me!" He shouted with anger. He almost jerked his wrist away from him until he finally got Shadow's plan.
"Chaos Control!" He shouted as a green light appeared around them.
As the demon tried to stab them with his knife again, they just disappeared. He started to look around for them, "Chaos Control? This is bad." With him not knowing, Shadow and Appex were behind him and Appex used his blue and yellow shoes and kicked the demon down on the ground.
The demon got off the ground quickly and faced the hedgehog and porcupine with anger. He tightened his grip around his giant butcher knife. He threw the knife at them, but they both dodged it and the knife stabbed a brown chipmunk through the neck instead. He stomped his foot on the ground with frustration. "Man, I almost had them!"
Behind the brick wall, Ker saw blood scatter on the ground beside him. 'Shadow? No it couldn't be his blood, but still someone's dying and it's all Gerkor's fault.' He stood from the ground and looked around the corner watching everyone staring at Maxcell's bloody body. He gasped, 'How awful.'
Maxcell was lying on the ground with the knife stabbed through his neck.
Zena ran up to Maxcell in tears and removed the bloody knife from his neck, "Maxcell, speak to me! Are you okay?"
The chipmunk said nothing and wasn't even breathing for that matter. He was dead with his eyes still open showing the exact moment when agony had struck through him.
Zena held his lifeless body close to her and broke down in tears, "Maxcell!"
The demon cracked his knuckles, "Stupid creature got in my way. Oh well, I guess I should take care of the rest of you." When he walked closer to the rest of the group, he was ready to attack them until a white beam struck through his stomach and blood exploded from his insides. He turned around and saw a crying white demon.
"Sorry", he said in a broken voice.
"Ker!" The demon yelled and fell to the ground dead.
Ker ran over to Shadow and hugged him, "I know I did the right thing, but why does it hurt me so much."
Shadow pulled him away, "The answer will eventually come to you."
He smiled a bit and nodded.
Lance let out a sigh, "Great we're down to three of us. Well...I guess Maxcell wasn't really useful to us anyway."
Zena walked up to him and stomped on his foot as hard as she could, "Lance, you're a terrible leader and an asshole!" She walked away without looking back.
Lance yelled in pain, "What the hell was that for! Crazed bitch!"
Appex shook his head slightly, "Women", he muttered. He began to leave as well.
Lance saw him leaving and tried to keep up with him by limping, "Hey! Wait up!"
Afterwards, Ker wiped away some of his tears, "Kinda pathetic huh?"
Shadow looked over to him, "What is?"
"I noticed that every time I kill someone, I start to cry."
He placed his hand on his shoulder, "In a way, I think you're suppose to do that."
"You think?"
He nodded and took his hand away from his shoulder, "Come on let's get you back to Tonya."
