CHAPTER 7

THE REBIRTH OF KALIYAH

Kayla looked away from the Chaos Emerald and back at the group with her pitch black pupils in her eyes. She smiled in an evil way, "The Chaos Emerald has given me life once again. Now I am no longer trapped in that dark abyss."

Charmy had his mouth hung open, shocked by Kayla's new vocabulary and behavior. "What are you talking about, Kayla? Whatever you're doing just stop. It's scaring us."

The squirrel rose an eyebrow, "Kayla? You mean that weak good for nothing girl? Ha! Yeah right."

Shadow arose from the floor without many scratches on his body, but he was still hurt a bit. "You. Who are you?"

"My name is Kaliyah. I'm a demon that has been trapped in hell for the last 600 years. But someone awakened me and now I am trapped inside this girl's body. Kinda like an inner demon."

Vector's eyes widened with disbelief. 'I knew it! Something is wrong with Kayla.'

"Damn", Shadow murmured. 'I feel her demon strength now, but why didn't I feel it before?' He looked at the Chaos Emerald in her hand. 'Should've known. The Chaos Emerald made her go off. Nails knew this would happen to Kayla. That bitch.' He glared at the demon that had took over Kayla's body and shook his fists in anger. "Get out of Kayla's body", he growled.

Kaliyah shrugged her shoulders, "Sorry hedgehog, but I'm apart of her now. You can't separate us. I'll be inside of her for an eternity I'm afraid."

Shadow decided to try once again to grab the emerald from her. He ran up to her to attack her.

Kaliyah smirked and simply raised her hand towards him. Then a blast of fire had appeared from her hand and struck Shadow back down on the floor. The smile on her face never left when she saw Shadow's attempt to take the emerald from her. "You're pathetic. There's no way you can stop me."

Shadow looked away from the floor and back at her while panting heavily. "Someone stopped you 600 years ago, I'll be the one to stop you now."

She crossed her arms, "I doubt it."

They were then interrupted when another guard robot had appeared in the room.

Rouge sighed, "Not another robot."

"We got enough trouble as it is", Tonya said.

The robot looked down at the group and located the red Chaos Emerald in Kaliyah's hand. It pointed its gun at her.

The demon's smile got wider as she held up the emerald at the robot. "You want the emerald? You'll have to work for this baby to get it."

The robot replied back by shooting at the demon.

She quickly clenched the red emerald in her hand and held her free hand up near the bullets that were coming towards her. An orange light had appeared in the center of her hand. "Chaos Flame!" A huge blast of fire bursted from her hand and struck through the bullets like they were nothing and struck through the robot's armor destroying it instantly.

The robot collapsed with most of its metal melted onto the floor.

"Whoa!" Espio said. "Did you guys see that? She took down that robot without breaking a sweat."

"She sure is strong", Tonya said in a scared voice. 'I just hope we're not next.'

Kaliyah turned to them with a mad look in her eyes. "Now for you. This showing off thing sure made me thirsty. Demons do need their blood after all."

Everyone shook in fear and started to back away from her.

Kaliyah was about to walk towards them but Shadow stood in her way. "Huh? Move it, hedgehog. Or else you would like to go first?"

"I don't think so. You'll have to go through me first if you want their blood."

She frowned and crossed her arms. She looked away from him for a second then she looked back at him, she couldn't keep her eyes off his. They somehow reminded her of something...or someone, but she forgot about it quickly. "Fine, you want this emerald. You'll have to fight me."

He simply nodded.

"No, Shadow! She'll kill you!" Rouge shouted though she already knew that he didn't listen to her. She just hoped that he would be okay.

Kaliyah didn't hesitate and quickly ran up to him with a powerful punch in the face.

The hit in the face had knocked Shadow to the floor.

'Too easy', she thought. As she walked up to Shadow more and more, she felt a serious pain in her head. She held her head and screamed while dropping the Chaos Emerald. "Wha-what's going on?" She kneeled to the floor and screamed more, 'This...this feeling...I sense something. Another demon perhaps? But where?' She then weakly started to crawl over to Shadow's body. When she got close to him, she placed both of her hands on the collar of his black coat. She looked in his eyes with agony and pain tearing her from the inside out. "You...", she whispered, "You're a demon." Afterwards she fainted on his body.

Shadow placed his hand on her head and slowly took his body from the floor. "Kayla", he whispered softly.

Vector and the rest of the group approached them. "Come on, Shad. Now's the time to use Chaos Control. I think the military officers will be here any second."

Charmy flew over to the Chaos Emerald on the floor and picked it up.

Shadow nodded in agreement, "Okay. Chaos Control!"

Afterwards they all disappeared before the military came and found them.

N/A: Well, another chapter done. Oh and have a Happy Thanksgiving! Make sure you leave a review.