CHAPTER 23
THE DEATH OF CHARMY
Later that night at the ice base, Deminse and a light green haired demon was looking out the window watching the snow fall from the sky.
Deminse shook his head slowly and sighed, "Damn...damn it all", he muttered. Why us, Hazel?"
She shrugged, "I don't know maybe because we just deserve this. This is our punishment."
Deminse took her hand and smiled at her, "Come on, sis. Let's cause destruction together one last time."
She smiled back and a red light appeared around them making them disappear afterwards.
Meanwhile at the park, Shadow, Rouge, and Spike were walking along the sidewalk discussing about how Spike defeated Yaru before she had killed Rouge.
Shadow bursted out in laughter, "Yeah Rouge, I'd be embarrassed too if my own son rescued me like that!"
The white bat placed her hands on her hips, "Ha, ha very funny, love", she said sarcastically. "You men are all the same I swear."
Spike let out a chuckle, "Now you're starting to act like Tonya."
"What did you say about me, Spike the Hedgehog!" A purple cat shouted while approaching them with Espio, Lynn, and Ker with her.
Spike immediately tried to rephrase what he said, "I-I didn't mean it like that! You don't nag that much about us guys!"
Tonya lit up in rage, "Rouge, control your son!"
Ker grabbed Tonya's wrists, "Can we not be so violent right now?"
All Rouge did was laugh.
"Espio, what are you doing here?" Shadow asked.
Espio started to look around a bit, "There are only two demons left. The family and I got pretty worried so we started to look around for anything strange."
"I can understand why."
Lynn ran over to Spike and hugged him, "Spiky, I missed you so much!"
Spike hugged her back, "Spiky? You've been thinking about me a lot lately haven't you?"
"Hey guys!" A green crocodile shouted while approaching them with Charmy and Chloe beside him.
"Vector!" Rouge guessed that everyone must have had the same feeling as them.
Shadow crossed his arms, "Looks like we're all here. Now we have to find Hazel or Deminse and soon this whole nightmare will be over with."
Then everyone heard screams close to them.
Spike started to look around, "Looks like they'll be coming to us."
They ran deeper in the park and soon saw Hazel and Deminse killing and destroying everything in their path.
Hazel lured her gun with smoke coming from the barrel and looked at her brother once more, "It feels so good to kill again."
Deminse stared at the dead bodies that he and Hazel had done, "I agree it does."
"You know what else is going to feel good?" A voice shouted from in front of him.
Deminse looked over and saw Shadow and the rest of the group.
"Us kicking your ass!" He finished.
He made an evil smirk, "Oh really? We'll just see about that...", as Deminse was about to attack Shadow, Hazel pulled him back. "What's the deal, sis?"
She looked down to her huge gun, "You can kill them after when I try. I want you to save your strength."
Deminse made a nod and disappeared within a red light.
Afterwards Hazel had her attention on Shadow and the rest of the group, "Let's just get this over with." She pointed her gun at Shadow. 'What a minute.' She looked over to Charmy and Chloe and smiled with her finger on the trigger, 'They seem like an easy target so why not have a little fun with the hedgehog. I want to see them all suffer after all.' She pointed the gun at Chloe and pulled the trigger. A light green beam came out of the barrel and aimed at Chloe.
Charmy watched as the beam hurled towards her. He clenched his fists, 'I can't let that happen to her. Not to the woman I love.'
As Chloe stood there helpless, Charmy quickly pushed her out of the way and instead the beam was shot at Charmy.
Charmy fell to the ground acting like he had no movement in his body.
Hazel took her gun and put it on her shoulder, "As long as someone dies I'm happy."
"Bitch!" Shadow ran over to her and kicked the gun out of her hand. He took his other foot and kicked her down to the ground with his hand glowing yellow, "You're one dead son of a bitch!" He shouted with anger.
Chloe and the rest of them ran over to Charmy's paralyzed body. Chloe kneeled down to Charmy and took his hand, "Charmy, you saved me. Thank you."
Charmy let out a slight smile, "You know, Chloe. Once you've been hit by the beam, your body becomes paralyzed and within a minute or two you'll die from it."
Everyone let out a gasp and some of them started to cry even Chloe.
She placed her head on his body and started to sob on him, "Charmy, no! You can't! You can't die!"
Shadow placed his glowing hand near the demon, "Chaos Spear!" A yellow light struck into Hazel's neck and blood had emerged from her wound. He turned his back and quickly ran over to Charmy surprised that he was still alive. "Charmy."
The dying bee looked over to Chloe one last time, "I'm sorry, Chloe", he said in a hoarse voice. "I tried to protect you, but I guess Shadow will have to take over."
"Charmy", her tears met his body. "I love you."
"I love you too, Chloe", his eyes slowly closed.
When his hand loosened from her grip, she knew that he was dead. She let go of his hand and started to cry, "Charmy! No!" She just stared at his face and cried all over it.
"How tragic", a voice said from behind them.
The rest of the group looked and saw Deminse standing there with his arms crossed with that same smirk on his face that he had left with.
"Deminse", Spike muttered.
A gust of wind blew and the sky had turned pitch black.
Deminse looked over to Shadow, "It's time to conquer this world and you, Shadow the Hedgehog won't be part of it." He took his hands away from his chest and clenched them staring into Shadow's eyes. 'This time I won't be beaten by some half demon shit.'
