CHAPTER 27

When Nack had his sights set on Shadow and Rouge, he pulled the trigger and began to fire his rifle at them.

"Get down!" Shadow ducked to the floor along with Rouge so that none of the shots that were fired would hit them.

Once Nack fired his weapon, the rest of The Raiders began to fire their guns around the room sending everyone in panic.

Just hearing the shots being fired had gotten the creature's attention away from feasting on the cake. It jumped down from the table and began to destroy the tables, chairs, and other decorations as it went on its mindless rampage.

Sarah watched in disbelief as the creature carried on. "What the hell is that thing?" Before she could flee from the terrifying situation, she turned to a male brown monkey who was pointing a machine gun at her.

"Mayor Sarah Wish", he spoke with a devious smirk on his face. "Who knew you'd be at this lovely shindig?"

The yellow fox's heart raced when she noticed his finger resting on the trigger.

"I bet we'd be rolling in money if we took Tech City's mayor hostage! How about we take a walk, lady?"

Before she could follow through with his threatening demands, she saw him suddenly fall to the floor. She looked and saw Charmy who had stood there holding a half broken glass vase. She placed a hand to her chest in relief, "Charmy? Thank you."

The bee dropped the remaining piece of the glass vase onto the floor. "Don't mention it."

Rouge was crawling around the floors trying to avoid all of the gun fires. She had then took cover behind a wooden table that was flipped over. "This is a disaster!" She looked around the room that was almost completely wrecked between the strange creature and The Raiders. "The Raiders are here! A demon is on the loose and my dress is getting ruined!" She was then startled when a red male echidna took cover behind the table with her.

"Hey Rouge, long time no see?"

A relieved look had overcame on her face, "Knuckles!"

"Nice wedding", he spoke. "You looked good up there."

"Thanks. It means a lot you came." She and him were then startled by a random gunshot that had almost hit them.

Knuckles glanced around to see if any of The Raiders were around them. "Where's Shadow?"

She shook her head, "I don't know . Somehow I lost him." Her ears perked up as she could hear her mother's distant screams. She turned to Knuckles, "Knuckles, make sure my parents are safe."

He made a nod, "No problem! Go find Shadow."

"Will do." She and Knuckles had then spilt up from each other.

Jack and Garnet were trapped in a corner as the strange creature approached them with its fangs drooling.

Garnet screamed as Jack held her close trying to protect her. "Help us!"

Before the creature could leap at the two, it was hit in the back with a glass plate. It then turned and saw Knuckles standing behind it.

"Get away from them!"

The creature took its attention away from Jack and Garnet and started to approach Knuckles instead.

Knuckles stood in a fighting stance ready to take on the creature until Ker and Julie-Su stood beside him.

Julie-Su couldn't take her eyes away from the menacing creature. "What in God's name…"

Ker clenched his fists at the sight of it, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that was a Hell Hound."

Knuckles gave him a confused look, "A Hell what?"

"How did The Raiders become so capable of summoning a demon like this?" Ker had asked himself .

Julie-Su had pulled out a handgun from the garter that was around her thigh. "Does it matter? Let's just take that thing out before anyone else gets hurt." She aimed the gun at the creature and fired a shot at it. She was taken by surprise as the demon quickly dodged the bullet and lunged itself at her. She flinched as she awaited for the demon to attack her until Knuckles had stopped it by holding it back. "Knuckles!"

The demon was so strong, he didn't know how much longer he could hold it back. With the help of Ker, it was enough to send the creature flying back.

It didn't take long for the demon to stand back on its feet and come at them again.

As they braced themselves for another attack, they saw the demon suddenly get hit with a powerful gunshot.

The demon kneeled to the floor in pain as blood seeped from its leg.

The group turned to a black wolf who was walking over to them in a calm manner it seemed. "Midnight!"

The wolf held the magnum tightly in his hands, "Close call huh?"

Rouge fell to her knees as she ducked and covered behind another wooden table that was flipped over. She had then realized that a black and red hedgehog was sitting beside her. A relieved look was on her face as she saw the sight of him. "Shadow! Thank God! Do you know how many tables I had to check behind to find you?"

He turned to her after when a gunshot nearly took out his shoulder. "Please tell me you have a gun on you?"

She rolled her eyes in annoyance, "You actually think I would have weapons on me on our wedding day?"

He gave her a silent and serious look. He knew better than she did, that no matter what the occasion, she would always have some kind of weapon on her.

She sighed heavily, "You know I do." She pulled her dress up to her thigh that revealed a handgun that was being kept in a holster. She took the gun out of the holster and handed it to Shadow.

"That's my girl", he spoke in relief as he took the gun from her.

While he was studying the gun, she huffed and crossed her arms. "I just knew today was too good to be true. Everything is ruined because of Nack and his squad of super nerds!"

The hedgehog turned to her, "Can this gun be equipped with burst rounds?"

Rouge's mouth hung open in disbelief as she thought Shadow wasn't paying any attention to what she had just said. "…Did you not just hear me? I am very appalled by all of this!"

He sighed heavily and decided to direct his full attention to her. "I'm sorry you feel that way, sweetheart. I really am. But if we don't stop Nack, there's not going to be a wedding because the bride and groom might get eaten by a demon dog and become demon dog shit. Do you want to be a steaming pile of demon dog shit?"

She rolled her eyes in annoyance and took out some bullets for the gun. "Okay geez! No need to get all grouchy."

"Sorry, hun. I'll stop being so grouchy when I stop getting shot at!" He and her were both startled by a flying wooden chair that had almost hit them. "Rouge, today!"

"Okay! Okay!" She handed him a few of the special bullets.

Tikal fell to the floor and tried to crawl away from Maxcell who had pointed a machine gun at her.

The chipmunk chuckled deeply, "End of the line, girly."

"Hey!" Nails shouted angrily as she approached the chipmunk. "Get away from my lady!" She held out her hand towards him.

Tikal watched in amazement as the chipmunk flung back into a table and fell to the floor causing him to drop his gun. She had stood to her feet with the help of Nails.

The black bat held her close to her. "Are you okay, sweetie?"

Tikal was so under shock that Nails had used magic in front of her for the first time. "Yes I'm fine. Thank you, Nails."

Anita had her back against the wall as Zena held up a shotgun towards her. "Stay away from me, Zena!"

She laughed deeply, "How sweet of you coming to your only son's wedding. Treasure this moment like it'll be the last thing you're ever going to see." Before she could fire her weapon, she felt a cold metal object being placed at the back of her head.

"Leave her alone, Zena", a cold male voice had demanded.

Zena slowly spun around to face a red male porcupine. "…Appex? What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing", he growled. Appex's eyes shifted over to the frightened pink hedgehog, "Anita, run. I got this."

When Anita saw Zena being distracted by Appex, she had decided to listen to him and got away before Zena had attempted to kill her again.

Zena lowered her shotgun and gave the porcupine a bitter look. "Seriously? You're here too? God! You ditch us and now you're hanging out with these stupid detectives? When are you gonna come back to us?"

Appex pushed the barrel of the gun close to her forehead, "Never. Nack is just dragging you along and using you. He doesn't give a damn about you and you know it."

"Shut up! You know nothing, you traitor!"

His eyes widened when he saw her beginning to raise her shotgun.

"I loved you, you idiot!" Before she could pull the trigger and shoot him, he had reacted faster than her and knocked her unconscious to the floor with the end of his gun.

He looked down at her unconscious body and kicked the shotgun out off her reach. "I just wish you would understand, Zena…"

Espio and Tonya ran over to Knuckles, Ker, Julie-Su, and Midnight who were confronted by the demon. "What the?""

Julie-Su turned to the group, "No matter how many shots I fire at that thing, it won't stay down. What do we do?"

Razi stood next to the demon with an evil look on his face. "No matter what you do, you'll never beat my loyal Hell Hound!"

In The Next Chapter…

Garnet: …We really need to talk to Rouge about what she does at her job.

Razi: No! My Hell Hound!

Knuckles: You're in some serious shit now!

Shadow: I don't believe this…

Nails: Oh my God is that…

Rouge:…Sky?