Hey guys! Wow, it's vacation for me and the last thing I wanted to be hit with was writers block. But what happens anyways? I get hit with a massive writers block. I guess I have to thank a trip to Borders to give me a strange idea of what happened next. I hope you guys enjoy the chapter and please tell me what you guys think.
Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does however own her OCs that are mentioned in the previous chapters like Spades the Cat, Sinister the Hedgehog, Toxin the Hedgehog, Angel the Butterfly and so on.
Thank you disclaimer. Lets move right into the story though.
Chapter Eight: An Angel's Battle Part One
The walk seemed to linger for hours as Fang the Sniper and Angel kept walking through the darkness of the forest. Over the time the duo were together, Fang's mind kept sending warning signals, but of course, he never listened to them. He liked surprises; but what kind of surprises he would get while with Angel made him a bit uneasy. It was true that Angel was only a little girl, but... there was something that shouted "warning this is a dangerous being you're with".
"Fang... you're really nice..."
This dropped his guard slightly.
"What brought that all of a sudden?" Fang asked quietly as the cold wind blew the rain toward them and made them feel like bullets. The dark clouds that lingered over head were dark and were beginning to flash as though someone was messing around with a light switch.
"I just heard rumors that you were a bad person... but... I think they were lying."
"Who told you I was?"
"...Everyone."
Fang blinked as Angel kept her glance down on the ground; something wasn't right.
"What happened to you before I met you?"
"I already told you. My friends and I were attacked. My friend was being hunted down."
"Not what happened to them. To you, because personally you seem a bit in shock."
Silence flew over the duo before Angel stated, "It's not shock... it's fear."
"What do you have to be scared of though? I'm here."
"But for how long?"
Fang's mind froze and only one question echoed through his head, "did she know I was going to leave her once she was safe?"
"Of course I did."
He suddenly stopped and looked at Angel who looked at Fang with a slight glare that was mixed with a look that demanded an explanation. He felt guilt rise and the voice in his head screamed louder than before to run away and forget that he ever met Angel. Once again, he ignored the voice in his head.
"How did-"
"I read your mind. It's not hard to do. Just concentrate and you get a pretty good picture of what the person is thinking. Now please tell me something Fang... or should I say Nack?"
Fang flinched at the name Nack; it had been so long since he had heard his old name. He listened to Angel as she continued.
"Fang, Nack, whoever you are... do you believe in ghosts?"
"Ghosts? I... I never thought about it. No. Ghosts are just around to be in scary stories to keep children up all night-"
"No."
"You don't?" asked Angel as she crossed her arms.
"Nope."
Angel raised an eyebrow, "You never believed in ghosts? Not even once? Okay then, do you believe in the walking dead?"
"What does this have to-"
"Answer and I'll explain."
Fang sighed as he said, "no. I don't believe in anything after death."
"Not even an afterli-"
"What does this have to do with anything!?" Fang practically shouted out.
Angel blinked and she smiled.
"... Don't believe in ghosts? Well you're talking to one."
For a long moment, Fang didn't do anything except stare. Until... he started laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!! N-NICE!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH I'M SO SC-SCARED!!" Fang roared as he kept laughing hysterically. During his little laughing fit, Angel's wings fluttered slightly and she stared at him with a cold glare.
--- Meanwhile ---
Rogue stopped in the shadows, listening to the echoing laughter. He hated the sound of laughter more than anything; laughing was a weakness, a way to be easily distracted. What made him burn with anger was he had no idea what Fang was laughing about; talk about being paranoid.
The demon listened as the laughter died. He smirked as he remembered he was in the form of a chameleon. Just as his fangs formed a very devious and evil grin, he camaflouged with his darkened surroundings. As he moved through the shadows, invisible, he couldn't help but to keep his grin on his face...
He had found a weakness.
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Fang gasped for air as he stopped laughing at Angel's statement. Angel blinked, obviously not liking the fact that she was laughed at, and questioned, "are you done laughing and ready to face reality?"
"Wait... you weren't kidding?"
"No I was. Of course I wasn't!" Angel said with desperation in her voice. "I'm dead! I'm a spirit! A ghost! A... a... phantom!!"
Fang didn't move, his voice was destroyed on the spot. Laughing seemed to be the wrong thing to do, but screaming at her seemed to be just as wrong as laughing... what were you suppose to do if you came across a spirit? Run away screaming for your mom? Faint? What do you do at times like these?!
"... Prove it."
Angel smiled as she walked up to a tree. She then ran toward the tree. Fang expected her to hit the tree and start crying, but she ran right through the tree and she walked through the tree and stood in front of Fang with a victorious grin.
"Believe in spirits now?"
"W-W-W-"
Angel smiled innocently as she took Fang's hand, "come on! Don't be so scared!"
"I-I'm not s-scared! Just... freaked out."
"In other terms, you're scared of me."
"As long as you don't plan on cursing me because I laughed at you then we're still on good terms."
Angel smiled as she pulled Fang along.
"So you're dead... and someone killed you?"
"Yep. A demon named Cecelia did this to me."
"Um..."
The butterfly facepalmed herself as she exclaimed, "OH YEAH! You weren't there! I'm sorry! Maybe I should explain."
"An explanation would be nice," Fang stated as he let himself keep being dragged by Angel.
"Alright. Well it happened almost a few hours ago... I was walking with my friends Fate, Apple, the Chaotix, Hailey... Ocean... Flame... Mighty... when she appeared..."
--- Flashback: A few hours ago ---
The large group had been travelling for hours through the meadow that seemed to go on forever. Ocean was sleeping as Mighty carried her, everyone else seemed just about ready to fall asleep on the spot except for Fate. The fox had determination written on her face and she kept walking with her head held up high.
The silence that seemed to keep the lullaby of drowsiness playing in everyone's ears suddenly came to a sudden halt as shadows gathered around them.
"Not now," Fate whispered in slight fear as the Chaotix, Apple and Flame ran up beside Fate.
The shadows kept gathering until they formed the figure of an armadillo. The demonic eyes seemed to hurt Mighty as he flinched and his blue eyes fell to the dark green grass that was littered with flower petals.
"Mighty, is that our daughter? May I hold her since you're no longer going to be around?"
Mighty backed away, Ocean was still sleeping as though she hadn't heard anything. Hailey got in front of Mighty protectively and took out a knife.
"Leave us alone or else you will face death in the face."
"Ha! Death wouldn't want to face me after what's happened. I mean, when his favorite assistant turns against him and works with Rogue, why would he want to face me? I'm a disappointment," Cecelia said with a tone that could freeze boiling lava.
Angel looked at Fate who looked like she was in a trance.
"Angel, get Charmy and get the hell out of here."
The butterfly nodded, "right!"
"Charmy, take this."
Vector handed Charmy a cell phone.
"Call us when you get to safety."
"'Kay Boss!" Charmy replied as he flew over to Angel who took his hand and started running away, full speed. Apple was scared for Ocean's safety.
"Mighty, trust me on this and hand me Ocean. I'll keep her safe."
The red armadillo seemed distrusting of Apple for a millisecond before he handed Ocean to her.
"Keep her safe. If anything happens to her..."
"I know. Wish you luck."
Then Apple and Ocean were gone from the group. Flame looked at Vector as she said, "Vector... get Espio and Hailey, and leave."
"WHAT?!"
"Fate, Mighty and I can handle Cecelia on our own. Besides, you've got to meet up with Charmy otherwise things could go badly."
Vector clenched his hands into fists, "no. We're helping."
"You can help by DYING!!" Cecelia screamed as she lunged at them.
Espio grabbed Vector's hand and dragged him to the ground as Cecelia flew right over them.
"I say we listen to Flame and make a retreat."
Vector growled as he sighed, "fine."
"Come on Hail..."
Espio looked around and saw no trace of Hailey anywhere.
"Where did she-"
"DIE!!"
Espio and Vector both barely dodged the attack and Espio threw a kunai at the demonic armadillo. Cecelia dodged and watched as the duo fled. She turned to see Fate looking slightly fearful, while Mighty cracked his knuckles and Flame started to flicker with new flames that appeared.
"You want a piece of me?"
Flame smirked as she charged toward Cecelia.
"Fire Blast!"
Cecelia waved her hand and a fairly large shield appeared in front of Cecelia and blocked off the overwhelming heatwaves. She smiled as she threw the shield at Flame after the attack was done. Flame didn't expect that and was hit. She fell to the ground and she was knocked unconscious.
Mighty didn't want to fight Cecelia, which was pretty understandable since this was once his girlfriend. But what he knew was that Fate was going to die if he didn't help. Just before he was going to launch a punch at Cecelia, the demonic armadillo fell to the ground.
Cecelia got up, turned around and growled at the flying object in the sky. Mighty and Fate screamed out frantically, "GET OUT OF HERE ANGEL!!"
Angel smiled innocently as she launched another orb of bright light.
"I should be screaming the same thing. You guys go. I'll make sure she won't bother you."
"Killing two birds with one large boulder, this should be fun," Cecelia muttered quietly as the duo started fighting.
Mighty lifted Flame off the ground and Fate was holding back tears. Fate never cried when Sinister left, but if anything happened to Angel, then... she'd be willing to shed a few tears for that.
"Grr... we can't leave!"
"Oh yes you can," said a calm voice and a white cloaked figure appeared.
"... You're-"
"Yes. But I'll explain later. Come along before it's too late."
The figure grabbed the trio and in a blinding flash of light, they were gone.
Cecelia was throwing as many punches as she could and Angel was blocking them all. Angel knew she wasn't going to be able to keep this up; Cecelia wasn't even breaking a sweat while Angel was.
"ANGEL!!!"
"CHARMY LEAVE!!" Angel cried out as she didn't block in time and a punch collided with her head.
She shrieked as she met the ground and held her head which felt like someone rang a giant gong right beside her. Angel whimpered as she was kicked in the head over and over again. But it suddenly stopped. Angel looked and saw that Charmy was distracting Cecelia from hurting her; the butterfly smirked as she whispered the words.
"Time freeze..."
The duo froze as Angel stood up and walked over to where Charmy was. She grabbed him and held him like a little baby. She stuck her tongue out at Cecelia and laughed, "wow. Such a scary person is so funny when they can't move. Maybe next time you'll have better luck. Bye!"
Angel waved as she flew away with Charmy. Then time unfroze but what happened next caused time all around them to go uncontrollably fast.
"W-What-"
There was a giggle as Cecelia chased after them. Angel kept flying and Charmy watched while squirming.
"Let me go! I can take her!"
"No. That's suicide!" Angel remarked as she tightened her grip on Charmy and flew faster.
"ANGEL!"
The butterfly was too slow to look down and she shrieked as something pierced her wing. She started flying toward the ground and she threw Charmy up.
"FLY!"
The little honey bee did as Angel said and he flew as high as he could go. Charmy watched as Angel hit the ground and Cecelia made her move and began hitting Angel with stones and punches that could snap full grown trees in half. Of course, Angel tried to stop time so she could escape, but nothing happened. Time was moving extremely fast and for a moment it seemed like Angel wasn't doing anything.
Suddenly time stopped.
Cecelia stopped attacking Angel and Charmy was fighting back his tears; whatever happened it stopped Cecelia from harming Angel... then again Angel wasn't moving.
The demon glared at Angel as the butterfly's soft eyes lost their light and stared lifelessly toward the sky. Cecelia smiled as she kicked Angel one last time before vanishing.
--- End of Flashback ---
"So you died that way? I'd love to kick the demon's ass after what she did to you," Fang said.
Angel shook her head, "no you have it wrong. I was acting."
Fang blinked.
"Acting?"
"Yeah. I somehow managed to appear dead and Cecelia thought she had killed me. Charmy even thought so too when he flew down but I sat up and just shook my head remarking, 'ow... that hurt... a lot'."
Fang stared at Angel before asking, "so if you didn't die like that then... how did you?"
Angel motioned Fang to be quiet and listened as a branch snapped. She then started to run full speed with Fang.
"I'll explain it when I know we're alone and not being watched!"
"Who's watching us? Is it that demon Cecelia?!"
"No. It's the last person you ever want to meet while you're alive. He's the prophet from Hell. His name is Rogue. And for some reason, he wants Sinister dead."
The rain fell harder than before and the ground under the duo began to turn from mud to a massive watery mud puddle. They kept running before Angel tripped and fell into the mud.
"Angel are you okay?"
Angel got up and didn't reply as she grabbed his hand again and resumed running at full speed.
"You want to know what happened that got me to become a ghost right?"
Fang nodded, "yes!"
"Then hold on. We're going back in time!"
Fang was about to ask what she meant, before a bright portal appeared in front of the duo. Angel and Fang jumped in and before everything turned white, Fang thought he saw someone familiar watching them.
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Finally, the chapter is done and ready for you patient readers to read it. I am so sorry this is late. A massive writers block slammed into me and I couldn't think of anything better than this. So it's not my best chapter but please respect it like the other chapters and please tell me what you guys think. I appreciate your support and reviews.