CHAPTER 15

DARK KIDNAPS KAYLA

Espio slowly stood from the floor while holding his sides from Rose's attack. His eyes focused on the black demon that placed his hands on Shadow. He let out a gasp, "Dark", he murmured. He then looked over at Shadow, "Shadow! Snap out of it, Shadow! Don't let Dark get to you."

Still it seemed that Shadow was just standing there.

The others stood from the floor still a little hurt, but able to move around a bit.

Rouge was horrified by Dark's appearance, "Shadow!" She shouted, but he acted like he didn't hear her.

The black demon's smile grew wider. He took his hand away from Shadow's shoulder and looked towards the group, "Fools, no matter what you say you'll never break my control over him." He looked down at the pink hedgehog below him, "Rose, you pathetic girl. I told you to do me just one simple thing and you fail me...again."

"I'm sorry Lord Dark, but you don't understand", she said in a low voice. "There was a little girl and she transformed into some kind of monster."

Dark turned to the brown monstrous creature that was staring at him. He smirked, "Another demon? What fun." He then just forgot about Rose and walked towards the creature.

While Dark was worrying about the demon, Rouge slowly approached Shadow while Dark wasn't looking. She ran over to him and grabbed his arm, "Shadow", she whispered. "Shadow, answer me."

When Dark approached the strange demon, he immediately asked for its name. "You must be new huh? So, what's your name?"

The demon stood silent.

"Come on now. Don't be shy. I know for a fact that all demons like you can speak."

"My name is Kaliyah", the demon had finally said.

Dark's eyes had widened, "What! Kaliyah? It can't be...Carrie? Is it really you?"

The demon nodded, "Yes."

Everyone gasped at the fact that somehow Dark had knew Kaliyah.

"What a minute, Dark. How do you know Kaliyah?" Vector asked.

He smiled, "Oh, we go way back. You see when she died, I had resurrected her because she was killed by her own family and others because of her different opinions about life. I found that hard on the child so I talked her into revenge on the people who destroyed her life."

"Wait, was Kaliyah ever human?" Tonya asked.

Dark nodded.

"That was like centuries ago!" She shouted.

"Man your old!" Charmy shouted.

"Yes", Kaliyah had said. "And now that I'm about to collect six of the Chaos Emeralds, I will become the most powerful demon of them all."

Dark frowned, "Fool, have you forgotten who had brought you back to this world. I guess I'll have to teach you a lesson." He ran up to her and sunk his claws into the flesh on her arm.

Kaliyah yelled in pain as her blood ran down her arm and onto the floor. She took her fangs and sunk them into Dark's arm.

Dark punched her off his arm and held his bloody arm. "You dare make me shed my own blood?"

Kaliyah fell to the floor with Dark's blood around her mouth. She tried to get back off the floor, but she was too weak.

Dark came up to her and held out his hand in front of her with a black aura of energy coming from it. "Time to die, you ungrateful..." He was then kicked down to the floor from behind. He quickly looked and saw Shadow standing there cracking his knuckles, "You sure have a lot of nerve, Dark."

The demon smirked, "I guess my powers aren't that effective against someone such as yourself."

Then they then heard groaning coming over towards Kaliyah.

Shadow turned to her and saw a little girl slowly getting off the floor.

"Shadow", the child spoke in a scared voice.

"Kayla, are you all right?"

"Shadow!" Espio shouted.

Shadow looked over to him and saw a kunai held to his neck by an injured pink hedgehog with an evil smile on her face, "Espio! Rose, let him go!" He then heard a scream coming from Kayla. He turned to her once more and saw Dark approaching her. "Kayla!" He used Chaos Spear to strike at one of Dark's wings.

Dark yelled in agony when his wing had sustained a powerful injury.

Shadow then heard yelling coming from Espio. He looked over to him and saw Rose's kunai slowly cutting Espio's throat. He quickly used Chaos Spear and hit Rose's hand making the spear stab her hand.

Rose immediately threw Espio on the floor and held her bleeding hand.

Afterwards Shadow ran over to Espio and helped him off the floor. He took a good look at his neck and it was cut pretty bad. "Espio, are you okay?"

He looked up at Shadow with a glare, "Yeah no thanks to you."

He looked at the chameleon with confusion, "What?"

"What's your deal, Shadow? I'm not good enough for you anymore? Is that it?"

"What are you talking about, Es?"

"Kayla. Everything's about her now right? You save her, but you barely save me."

"You don't understand. She's just a child and..."

"Yeah well for a guy who doesn't want to be around her, you sure do hang around her a lot."

Shadow was then getting angry over Espio's attitude. "Look, I don't want her around me. I never wanted her around in the first place! She's nothing but a waste of my time. And I also agree that she needs to die because she's a threat to us all. And when this whole Chaos Emerald shit is over, I'll just dump her off in an orphanage! Is that okay with you!"

Espio gave Shadow a sad look, "Shadow...you didn't have to..." He looked over to Kayla with tears dripping from her cheeks. She looked so hurt. He faced Shadow again, "Shadow..."

Shadow had then heard sobbing coming from behind him. He slowly turned and saw Kayla crying. "Kayla...did you..."

The child's eyes full of tears looked into his sadly, "Shadow...you...hate me?"

He shook his head, "No Kayla, that's not what I meant."

She turned her back to him, "I...hate you.", she muttered with a sniffle. She turned to him once more and this time with anger, "I hate you!" She shouted full of tears. She was then quickly grabbed by Dark from behind. She started to kick, scream, and cry.

Dark placed his hand over her mouth and looked up at Shadow, "Maybe I'll have use for the child after all." Afterwards he escaped by using the evil black wind.

Before Shadow could stop him, he was gone.

N/A: YES! It's finally letting me submit my chapters! I'm so happy. I guess I'll just wrap this fic up.