Chapter 2

A few minutes later, Val, Jasmine and Devina reached the Chaotix, as they entered they saw that everything had been destroyed and ransacked. Then they saw the Chaotix members unconscious on the ground, all except for Shadow, who was fighting a light blue rabbit.

"Roxy?" said Val in disbelief, "You did all this?"

The rabbit blocked a punch from Shadow before roundhouse kicking him, "I did this so I can kill two birds with one stone." she said

"What're you talking about?" asked Val

"I'm going to bring back Gabe AND destroy you."

"Roxy, for the last time, I'm not responsible for Gabe's death."

"Shut up! Your lies won't work on me Val. Now, back to business." Roxy ran into an office and locked the door, Val ran over to Shadow and helped him up, "What's in that room?" he asked

"That's the evidence room. All the items we confiscated during our investigations are in there." answered Shadow

"Is there anything in there Roxy could use to bring back Gabe?" asked Jasmine

"No, I don't know what she's thinking, but there's nothing in there that can bring the dead back to life."

"So…she did all this…..for nothing?" said Val.

Val stood up and cried out, "ROXY!!" he then threw a purple fireball at the Evidence Room door, blowing it off it's hinges, and charged inside to fight Roxy.

When Val found Roxy he could see she was afraid, his eyes were glowing slightly red, which meant he could transform into his demon form at any time. Before Roxy could run, Val launched a lightning fast punch combo at her, amazingly the rabbit was able to dodge the punches, before delivering one of her own to Val's face, making him stumble back, giving Roxy the opportunity to kick Val hard in the chest, sending him crashing through the wall and back into the reception area where Jasmine, Devina and Shadow were. As Val stood up, his eyes glowed red, his fur began to change from brown to purple as he ran at Roxy again, suddenly he fell over. Val then looked down at his feet and saw a rope around them, he looked up and saw the other end of the rope was in the hand of a black rabbit with grey hair, "Who the Hell are you?" Val asked angrily

"My name is Shade, and I won't let you harm Roxy."

Just then Shade's eyes fell on Devina, his eyes widened and his blood ran cold, 'It can't be….it's her!!' He quickly took out a strange circular metal disc and pressed a button on the top which made blades appear all around the disc, he then threw it at Devina.

Just before the bladed disc hit Devina, her armblade appeared from her sleeve and she blocked the disc with it, ricocheting it into a wall. Shade then drew another disc and charged at Devina, but before he made it to her, Val struck him with a fireball, "Hold it furball!" he said as he used his sword to cut the rope that was holding his feet together, "If you're looking for a fight, then fight me."

"This doesn't concern you, stay out of it." said Shade as he stared at Devina, who glared back.

"You're attacking my family, it does concern me, now let's go!" replied Val as he took up a fighting stance.

Shade sighed, "Very well, if you're in such a hurry to die." he then spun round and threw the second bladed disc at Val, but this one seemed to be attached to Shade's arm via a chain.

Val easily rolled out of the way of the disc, he then aimed the tip of his sword at Shade, "Hono'o Katana!" a large fireball fired from Val's sword at Shade, who jumped over it and tried to slash Val with his disc as he fell. Val held up his sword and the two began to push against each other, trying to force each other back. Shade then kneed Val in the stomach and kicked him into a wall before charging at him again.

Val grabbed Shade's wrist as the bladed disc in his hand was less then an inch away from his throat, "You should just leave, forget about this." said Shade

"No! Now tell my why you wanna hurt my family?" replied Val

"I don't, all I want….is Devina."

"What's your problem with her?"

"She ruined my life!!"

Shade's rage made him lose focus for a split second, which was long enough for Val to force him back and punch him hard in the chest, knocking the wind out of him. As Shade stumbled back, holding his chest and coughing up a little blood, Val jumped into the air and kicked Shade in the head, sending him flying through the air and into a wall.

Then Val's rage exploded, he cried out in anger, as he did, the room began to shake and Val's fur began to turn golden, everyone watched in awe as Val suddenly transformed into his Super form.

In the blink of an eye, Val flew over to Shade and grabbed him by the throat and held him against the wall, "Tell me why you want to kill Devina!!" he shouted

"It…it's because she…." Shade tried to speak but he was now terrified of Val, just then Val noticed Roxy running for the door, "Jas, stop her!" he said. Jasmine turned and saw Roxy, she then placed her hand on the ground as her eyes glowed green. A giant hand made of rock crashed up through the floor and grabbed Roxy, she screamed as it tightly held her.

Val looked back at Shade, "Tell me!"

"It's because she murdered my parents!" Shade shouted

"What? When" asked Devina

"Fifteen years ago, I was five years old…you said I wasn't worth your time, so you let me live."

Devina struggled to remember what happened, "I…think I remember….that was before I met Val and Jasmine…back when I was a monster."

"After that, I spent years training to become a vampire hunter." said Shade, "I've tracked and killed so many vampires I lost count…and I did it all in the hope of finding you…and avenging my family."

Val's grip around Shade's neck tightened, "You're not going anywhere near her."

Just then Val froze, he looked over at Roxy, who had her eyes closed and was murmuring something, "What is it hun?" asked Jasmine

"I feel a great amount of energy building up around Roxy." answered Val, he then gripped Shade's neck even tighter, "What was it you two came here to get?"

"She made a deal with me, she said she knew where Devina was and she'd take me to her if I helped her steal something….she said it was called….the Kuei Sin Amulet." replied Shade

"But it's useless." said Shadow as he lay in a corner, nearly unconscious, "The amulet's purpose was to resurrect the Kuei Sin God….but we stopped it months ago, the God's soul was trapped in Oblivion, the amulet no longer has a purpose, it's useless."

Roxy laughed, "You're so naïve. Did you think the amulet's sole purpose was to resurrect the Kuei Sin God? No, the amulet serves as a means to summon any dead soul to this plane of existence, basically…"

"It can resurrect anyone." said Val

"Yes. And now, I think it's time we had a little family reunion, don't you?" asked Roxy. Just then a white hedgehog walked out from behind the stone hand that was holding Roxy, the hedgehog smirked when he saw Val, "Hello, brother."