CHAPTER 20

DROWNING IN AGONY

That next day, Spike bragged about how he defeated Seraku for the second time. He had already told his parents about it last night, but he just couldn't stop telling about it for some reason. Shadow and Rouge were getting sick and tired of hearing the story over and over.

Spike was sitting with Shadow and Rouge at the kitchen table, "I can't believe I learned a new power and killed a demon with it!"

Rouge tried to smile for him, "Again Spike, we're proud of you for defeating Seraku but you must know that she was only the beginning. Starting with Seraku, the rest of the fourteen demons will be a lot harder to kill than the rest of them that we encountered. You're pretty lucky to defeat her without Shadow's help."

"Whoa and I thought the first demon was a pain in the ass."

"And of course the most difficult of them all is Deminse the demon of demise. Even I had difficulty killing him", Shadow said.

Afterwards Spike didn't speak for a long time. He was too busy thinking about Deminse and was hoping that Shadow would defeat him in the end.

Later, Tonya was walking on the sidewalk by herself. She noticed that most of the people that were usually out during the day, didn't come out at all anymore. It was probably connected to the killings the fourteen demons were doing. It seemed that people were scared to death and never wanted to step foot outside from their homes again. While she was looking around, she thought she had heard a nearby scream. She started to look around more, "What?" She heard the scream again from an old house near her. She quickly ran to the door and found it locked from the inside. She started to pound on the door with her fists, "Is anyone in there?" She asked. "Is there something wrong?" She soon stopped pounding on the door and took out two fans with sharp blades on each end of them. She took the fans and sliced the door into pieces. She ran in the house and saw on the floor two elderly people laying on the floor dead. They looked like they were burned by something judging by the wounds on their bodies. She gasped at the sight and turned her head not wanting to look at the dead people, "Who did this?"

"I did", a voice said approaching behind her without her noticing.

Tonya quickly turned around and saw yet another demon, "Izuki", she murmured.

He was the same just as every other demon they met except his hair and jewel color in his necklace was green. "You really shouldn't be so nosy, cat. Now prepare to die." He took out a showerhead from behind his back.

"Wa-wait a minute, Izuki! Don't you want to brag about how you killed these people instead? Then kill me. I mean it seems that you're rushing a bit here don't you think?"

The demon lowered his weapon to the floor near the corpses, "You already know how I kill my victims so why should I brag? Besides I've been in hell for over ten years I need some blood on my hands. I can't talk to a mortal like you." He aimed the showerhead at her face, "Now stay still and die."

Tonya quickly moved out of the way and dodged the white acid that came out of the showerhead. She fell to the floor, but quickly got back up and faced the demon, "Go to hell you damned bastard!"

"I told yea I've been there already!" He continued to try to burn her with the acid.

She moved again and fell on the floor while bumping into the stove knocking a couple of things down on her. She used the counter to get off the floor and that's when she spotted a fire extinguisher. She smirked and grabbed the fire extinguisher.

Izuki started to laugh, "What are you going to do with that? Heh, stupid cat." He raised his weapon in the air and acid started to flow out of it.

Tonya took the fire extinguisher and threw it into the acid making the acid backfire and explode on Izuki.

The demon was blown back from the explosion and hit the wall with his back.

When Tonya saw blood all over his black cloak, she knew he was dead. She started to laugh, "Poor bastard. Too bad he doesn't know a thing about science."