CHAPTER 16
Shadow and Ker laid their eyes upon the strange demon who had stood before them.
With an evil smirk on his face, Razi gave the demon an order. "Get rid of them."
"Yes, my master", the demon replied with a growl.
Shadow gasped in surprise as he heard the demon talk, "This demon is different."
Ker was just as surprised as Shadow was, "It talks. It can actually think for itself."
With ease it seemed, the demon had picked up the parked car he had landed on and threw it towards Shadow and Ker.
Shadow's eyes widened as he quickly stood from the ground alongside Ker, "Move it!"
They both scattered and avoided the car the demon had threw at them.
Shadow clenched both of his fists as he saw the demon walk towards them. "I don't care if that thing can juggle, we're taking it down!"
Ker's white eyes had began to glow as he glared at the oncoming demon, "I'm with you, Shadow!" White beams of light had shot from his eyes and blasted at the demon.
The attack looked like it didn't effect him because he was still coming in their direction.
It seemed to have only angered the demon after Ker had attacked him so he began to run towards them.
Ker was taken by surprise that his attack didn't take any effect on him. "What?"
Shadow charged at the demon with a yellow aura forming around his hands, "Chaos Spear!" In shock, he watched as he blocked his attack. He clenched his fist and tried to punch the demon but surprisingly it had caught his fist. "Son of a…"
The demon felt his flesh burning from the sudden green aura forming around Shadow's fist. However, it acted like it wasn't in any real pain. "Is that all you got, hedgehog?"
Shadow gritted his teeth in frustration and used his free hand to send multiple powerful punches into the demon's chest.
Ker had decided to help him.
When the demon saw them both attacking him, the demon used its arm and pushed them away from its body with great strength.
The two of them slid away from him and stood in front of him while panting heavily.
"Damn it", Shadow swore. "His body is so tough, it's like fighting a brick wall."
"Yeah", Ker agreed. "He's pretty tough."
Shadow turned to Ker, "Let's blast him together."
Ker made a nod when he agreed that combining their attack would be a better chance of hurting him. "Okay."
When Shadow's hands started to have a yellow aura around them, Ker's eyes had glowed a bright white. He directed his hand toward the demon, "Chaos Spear!"
The demon's eyes widened when he saw both of them attacking him together. He was knocked back by a great distance when their combined power had struck him.
A relieved look had formed on Shadow and Ker's face as the demon fell to his knees.
Shadow thought the demon was getting weaker, "That did it. Now let's finish him off."
The demon looked over to Nack who held the diamond in his hand. "…Need more power…" He quickly got to his feet and confronted Nack.
Before Nack could say anything, the demon swiped the diamond out of his hand and shoved him to the ground. "Hey! That's mine!"
The demon tightly clenched the diamond in his hand, "Weak mortals such as yourself have no use for this."
"But you can't do this!" Razi shouted, "I'm your master! You must obey me!"
Everyone watched in shock as the diamond had suddenly got absorbed into the palm of the demon's hand.
The demon gave Razi a menacing look, "I don't have a master." All of a sudden the spikes on his shoulders had gotten longer and bigger.
Maxcell's eyes widened when the demon had shot one of the spikes towards them. The spike had missed but it was just enough to scare him out of his wits. "Holy shit! I'm getting out of here!"
The group watched as Maxcell scurried from the scene.
Razi thought it was a good idea to leave as well, "I'm right behind you!"
Zena and Demon followed with Nack screaming behind them.
"You get back here and help me get that diamond back!"
Ker watched as the group ran away. "Shadow, they're getting away!"
"We'll worry about them another time. We have bigger problems", he stood in a fighting stance in front of the demon who had just gotten stronger.
Ker's eyes widened when he saw the demon ejecting a spike from his upper arm. He just knew he had his sights set on Shadow with it. "Shadow, look out!"
Before Shadow could react, Ker had suddenly pushed his body away from the flying spike. When he fell to the ground, he had looked back and saw Ker kneeling to the ground with a spike stabbed in his side. "Ker!"
While he was trying to removed the spike from his side, the demon grabbed Ker by his neck.
While he had his hand around his neck, he stared at Ker in curiosity. "You're a full demon aren't you? You're just like me. Why do you throw your freedom away for pathetic half breeds like that?"
Shadow watched in horror as the demon stabbed another spike into Ker's leg. "Ker!" He looked down and reached for the gun in his holster. He pulled it out and pointed the barrel of the gun at the demon. "You put him down!" He pushed a strange button on the side of the barrel of the gun before he pulled the trigger.
When the bullet fired into the demon's arm, the entire right arm had blown off from the powerful impact.
Ker fell to the ground as the demon yelled in pain. He watched as the demon cried in pain and ran away from them. He saw Shadow running over to him and kneel next to him. "Shadow, he's getting away."
"I blew his fucking arm off, he won't go off too far since I weakened him." He helped Ker off of the ground. Once he got Ker to stand to his feet, he gave him a concerned look. "Are you all right?"
Ker looked down and still saw the spike stabbed into his bleeding leg. He pulled the spike out and tossed it onto the pavement. "I've had worse things stuck in worse places." He glanced at the handgun he held in his hand. "What did you use on that demon anyway?"
"Rouge modified my handgun. She equipped it with explosive burst rounds." He explained as he placed his gun back in his holster.
Ker rose an eyebrow as he was impressed, "Nice!"
"Yeah I fucking love that woman." He began to walk down the sidewalk, "Come on we gotta report this to the others."
Ker nodded and followed behind him.
In The Next Chapter…
Espio: We need more info on this demon.
Tikal: What about Nails?
Nails: I got just the thing!
Tikal: I want to go with you!
Shadow: No way!
Tikal: You can't tell me what to do!