CHAPTER 24
THE LIGHT OF A DEMON'S HEART
Ker kneeled to the ground and stared into Deminse's dark blue eyes. He seemed so serious and powerful. "I wish there was another way to solve this. Without anyone else dying." He looked over to Shadow ready to fight him. "He shouldn't be the one to fight him."
Deminse began to tap his foot on and off the ground, "Well hedgehog, I'm waiting."
Shadow's hand began to glow yellow. He aimed the light at Deminse, "Chaos Spear!"
The light came at Deminse until he rose his right hand up to where the light was about to hit him. A dark blue aura formed around his hand. He took his middle finger and thumb and snapped his fingers making the dark blue energy surrounding his hand destroy the yellow light that had came at him.
Shadow's eyes widened at the sight, 'Shit!'
With an evil smile, he set his hand beside his waist, "Humph."
'Damn! That usually takes him down in one shot. What the hell was that about?'
"You're wondering how I did that aren't you? Well it shouldn't take a genius to figure that out. That what you just saw was only half of Heaven's Light power."
'Of course! Now that he absorbed the light, he'll become even stronger than he was.' He clenched his fists, "Damn", he muttered. "You shouldn't use Heaven's Light like that! That light is supposed to be used for good not evil."
Deminse looked at his right hand and began to clench and unclench it, "It seems to do more evil than good doesn't it?"
'Looks like I can't defeat him with my basic attacks. I guess I'll have to use my super form and if that don't work, I'll use my demon form.'
He began to snap his fingers again and dark blue energy came from it and came towards Shadow, until a yellow light that appeared in front of Shadow and blocked the attack. "What the hell!"
The yellow light surrounded Shadow's body and turned his black fur yellow.
The yellow light that was coming from Shadow was so bright that Deminse had to cover his eyes a bit. As soon as the light faded a bit, he started to laugh, "Just because you had a little fur dye, doesn't mean you're going to defeat me."
"We'll see about that!" He held out his glowing fist and came at Deminse.
Vector couldn't keep his eyes off the battle, "Super Shadow."
Espio looked over to Vector, "Do you think his super form will be enough?"
He shrugged, "I don't know. If he can't defeat Deminse in his super form, he'll be pushed to use his demon form."
"Damn, I hate to see that happen especially in front of the kids."
Chloe wasn't watching the battle. She was just cradling Charmy's dead body in her arms while still crying over his death.
Ker watched as the battle took place, "At this rate, I don't think Shadow will have a chance against him. If he does fail, everything will be lost."
"Don't think like that Ker", Spike stood beside him.
Ker looked up to him with sadness.
"Dad can do it. I know he can. We just have to think positive about the fight."
Still after Spike's words, he still felt that the battle would end in tragedy.
With power, Shadow punched Deminse in his chest and sent him hurling towards a building.
Deminse's body had struck into the building with force which almost made the building crumble to the ground. He slowly got off the ground with both of his hands glowing dark blue. He stared at his hands. "What's this?" He looked away from his hands and looked at Shadow then back at his hands again. He smiled evilly and held out both of his hands and aimed them at Shadow with the dark energy coming out of his hands.
The blast hit Shadow so bad he fell to the ground and lost his super form.
Everyone gasped thinking that Shadow didn't really have a chance against Deminse.
Shadow slowly got off the ground and watched as Deminse slowly walked up to him.
"Give up, hedgehog. You can't win against me, Deminse the demon of demise."
Shadow smiled a bit, "You're forgetting one thing, Deminse."
"What's that?"
"My demon form."
Rouge couldn't believe that he said he was going to use his demon form. He could barely control the form the last time he used it. "Shadow, don't do it!" She shouted.
Shadow heard her, but he never turned around to confront her, "Don't worry everything will be fine. Just stay out of the way and none of you will get hurt."
Somehow Rouge would doubt if anyone would get hurt, she just didn't want to see him transform into that monster.
A red light surrounded Shadow and once it disappeared, Shadow was no longer a hedgehog but a full demon.
Deminse made an evil smirk, "This will be easy." He ran towards him with Shadow doing the same. His hands glowed dark blue again. He raised them up at Shadow hoping to blast him until Shadow's hands grabbed his.
He took his sharp claws and stabbed them into Deminse's hand making his blood show from his flesh and drip onto the ground.
He yelled in pain as Shadow shoved his claws deeper in his skin. He finally had the strength to get Shadow off him by using his long black boot and kicked him off him.
Shadow jumped back and was ready to attack him again until Deminse raised his right hand at him with his middle finger and his thumb meeting each other. He snapped his fingers and all of a sudden a huge dark blue blast came from his fingers and hit Shadow making him fall to the ground making him lose his demon form. Deminse's eyes widened at the size of the blast that he made that just came from him snapping his fingers. "Whoa that was so fucking awesome!" He saw Shadow laying on the ground trying to get up, but couldn't because he was so weak. He began to laugh while he was walking over to him, "This is the end." He placed his foot on his back and held his fingers in a snapping position at him. "From where I stand, you're one dead motherfucker."
Spike was about to go into the battlefield until Rouge held him back by his wrist. He faced her with annoyance, "Let me go, mom! Dad needs my help!"
She pulled Spike into a hug, "No, I'm not going to lose my only son too!"
Spike tried to pull away, "But, mom..."
When Deminse was about to attack Shadow with that powerful blast again, out of nowhere he was tackled to the ground by a white haired demon.
Shadow looked from the ground a bit and saw Ker on top of Deminse. Surprisingly he was actually punching him in the face with anger he hasn't seen from him. "Ker", he said in a weak voice.
"Ker!" Tonya definitely knew that Ker wouldn't stand a chance against him.
Ker continued to punch him in the face, "Stay away from him! Don't you harm him!"
Deminse tried to stop his hits, "Ker, what the hell are you doing! You're on the wrong side!"
"The wrong side? I'm on the side I should've been on a long time ago. You mean nothing to me anymore, Deminse. You treated me so wrong. You're supposed to be my big brother. You were supposed to look after me and protect me. You couldn't even do that."
"I'm sick of hearing your meaningless words!" He used his knee and kicked Ker off his body.
Ker fell to the ground trying to get up, but Deminse had gotten up before him.
With force, Deminse kicked Ker in his sides many times, "You weak good for noting traitor!" He kicked Ker one last time and rolled him over on his back holding his fingers at him ready to attack him.
"Chaos Spear!"
A yellow light lightly hit Deminse in his back. He spun around and saw Shadow barely standing from the ground trying to attack him. "How pathetic." He began to walk up to Shadow.
Shadow knew he was crazy for trying to take on Deminse again, but he had to try to save Ker. "Cha-Chaos Spear!" He was deeply exhausted and was using the remaining strength he had left and it wasn't much. The yellow light hit Deminse but since Shadow's attacks were getting weaker and weaker it didn't do much damage as it use to do. Both of Deminse's hands started to glow dark blue again. He raised them at Shadow and the blast hurled towards him.
Shadow shut his eyes tightly awaiting his death until he noticed that he hasn't died yet. He opened his eyes and saw Ker standing in front of him with a huge wound on the left of his chest where the heart was. He looked back at Shadow with a slight smile and tears running down his face.
Shadow's eyes widened, "Ker!"
Everyone gasped and started to cry.
"Ker!" Tonya shouted with tears.
Ker still had his eyes on Shadow, "Thank you, Everyone. Shadow, I'll give you the last bit of strength I hope it helps you." A white light came from where Ker's heart was set and surrounded Shadow's body. Afterwards Ker fell to the ground dead.
The white light got brighter around Shadow. Everyone could barely see him within the light.
Deminse covered his eyes a bit with his hand, "Wha-what's going on!"
When the light faded, everyone saw Shadow looking the same except this time he had two white angel wings on his back. He looked down at Deminse with a serious look.
Deminse looked back at him with the same look. He gritted his teeth, 'I guess he's no one winged angel anymore. I could care less if he's an angel or not. He's still a dead bastard.'
N/A: Wow a lot of people are dying now. I'm still a little sad about Ker's death and I'm sure you all are too.
