CHAPTER 2

                  Chapter 2  Ext. Limbo City Streets - Day

              Raven and Shadow are walking the ruined streets together. As they pass by old businesses, and homes with the roofs caved in Shadow can see that Raven is in deep thought as he can see that she's leading him to a strip club called Edge. As Raven and Shadow arrive to the club Shadow watches as Raven opens the door, and walks in with Shadow following her in.

                  Int. Edge Strip Club

          Raven watches as Shadow looks around at both the male and female strippers dancing to heavy metal music. Raven then shakes her head as she then loudly clears her throat to get Shadow's attention. Shadow tears his eyes from both strippers as he hears Raven clear her throat, and looks at her. Raven sees Shadow look at her, and she asks him a question in Scottish.

                   Raven (Asking Shadow)

           Shadow is this yer first time in a strip club?

         Shadow then gives Raven a glare as a sign to back off. Raven sees Shadow glaring at her, and she raises her hands, and steps away from him. Shadow sees Raven backing off to give him space as they then hear someone call out to Shadow in Japanese.

                 Voice (Calling in Japanese)

                  KAGE!

         Both Shadow and Raven both turn around to see a blue hedgehog coming towards them. Raven then looks at Shadow and raises her eyebrow at him. Shadow sees Raven raise her eyebrow at him, and he then sighs as the blue hedgehog stops in front of them. Raven can see that the blue hedgehog is wearing no shirt. She can see that he’s wearing skin tight black leather pants with black leather boots. Raven then looks into the blue hedgehog’s eyes, and she’s surprised to see that his eyes are an emerald green. Raven then feels uncomfortable as she sees that the blue hedgehog is looking at her with lust filled eyes.

         Shadow can see Raven’s discomfort at how Sonic is staring lustfully at her, and he then clears his throat loudly to get Sonic’s attention. Shadow then sees Sonic look at him as he then speaks to him in Japanese.

               Shadow (Speaking in Japanese)

               Nani suru hitsuyo nasemono?

         Sonic looks at Raven then back at Shadow as he then replies to Shadow in Japanese.

                Sonic (Replying in Japanese)

         Watakushi hitsuyo e shiru donata ga anata no tomodachi futte.

            Shadow then looks back at Raven, and raises his eyebrow in question at her. Raven sees Shadow raise his eyebrow at her, and she just sighs as she then shrugs her shoulders at his silent question. Raven then replies to his unasked question in Scottish.

                Raven (Replying to Shadow)

Ye can tell him what ye want te Shadow. It makes no difference te me. Aye have te find Tifa and drop kick her ass from here te the highlands and back.

           Shadow nods his head to Raven, and then points to the stairs. Raven sees Shadow nod to her as she then sees him point to the stairs. Raven then nods her head to Shadow in thanks as she then climbs up the stairs. Shadow watches Raven go up the stairs until she’s out of sight then he turns to Sonic and speaks too him in Japanese.

               Shadow (Speaking in Japanese)

Sonikku Karasu futte (de)nai watakushi no tomodachi (…o) nozoite kanojo futte watakushi akuma sagashi nakama. So (…no) ushiro hanarete.

           Raven then smirks as she hears Shadow say this in Japanese from the top of the stair case. She then shakes her head as she then walks down the hallway to the bedroom door. Raven then stops at the door, and knock as she then calls out to Tifa in Scottish.

             Raven (Calling out in Scottish)

             Tifa! Aye’m coming in!

         Raven then opens the door and steps into the room. As she does she then sees the body of a dead male hedgehog lying on the floor sliced across the torso. Raven then removes her shades, and puts them into her trenchcoat pocket, and she opens her eyes to reveal them to be crystal blue. Raven then grabs her guns Avenger, and Vengeance from their holsters under her trenchcoat.

          Raven then narrows her eyes as she then feels chaos energy as she then looks from the corner of her eye to see Shadow appear right beside her. Shadow then glares at the demon he then pulls out his own guns Gerald, and Maria. Raven sees Shadow holding the two guns, and she sees that they are named after her deceased family members, and she gives a smirk at Shadow as he then looks at Raven.

        Raven sees Shadow look at her, and she then nods her head and ducks as Shadow then shoots at the demon behind her. Raven then stands up and fires at the demon right behind Shadow. She moves quickly as it turns to dust. She sees more demons appearing, and quickly gives a side kick to one of the demons as it gets too close to her. As the demon drops its scythe Raven quickly catches it then she gives it a good twirl as she then slices the demon across the torso with the scythe.

        Raven hears the demon give an unearthly scream as it turns into dust. She quickly uses the scythe to block another demon’s scythe from hitting her in the back once again. Raven can see that these are lust demons. Shadow then looks over at Raven to see that her eyes are narrowing, and he quickly holsters his guns as he then gets into a fighting stance. Shadow then charges up chaos energy, and throws it at the demon that is attacking Raven. The chaos energy hits the demon, and Raven hears it give unearthly scream as it becomes dust.

       Raven then looks at Shadow, and nods her head to him in thanks as she then pulls out her guns, while Shadow then sweep kicks a demon as it gets close to him. Shadow then uses a chaos spear kill the demon. It turns to dust the moment the chaos spear hits it. Raven then quickly holsters Avenger and Vengeance as she then catches the lust demon’s scythe before it hits the ground.

       Shadow watches Raven catch the demon’s scythe and he keeps watching her as she give the scythe a few good twirls. Shadow then watches as she blocks another lust demon’s attack on her. Shadow sees that Raven then gives the demon a kick to the stomach to break the deadlock that they were in as Shadow sees Raven move as fast as lighting slamming the scythe into the demon’s heart. The demon gives an unearthly scream as it turns into dust.

        Raven then turns around to see that Shadow is fighting off a group of demons that circled him. She sees him kicking a demon hard in the stomach sending it flying into a wall where it turned into dust from the powerful kick. Shadow then activates his hover boots, and hovers in the air as he then charges up chaos energy in his hand, and then as Raven watches him she sees him then release the chaos spear at the circle of demons.

        Raven sees the circle of demons then become dust as the attack hits. She then sees Shadow land on his feet on the ground. Raven then sees a lust demon appear behind Shadow with its scythe ready to attack him. Raven then quickly jumps into the air with chaos energy crackling around her hand as she then yells out her own attack in Japanese.

              Raven (Yelling in Japanese)

              KUROI CHAOS YARI!

        Shadow watches in amazement as he sees Raven throw a chaos spear aimed at the demon right behind him. He turns around to see the demon get hit with the chaos spear, and the demon turns to stone. Shadow sees Raven land back to the ground on her feet, and watches her as she walks to the stone demon.

       As Shadow continues to watch Raven he sees her stop right in front of the demon. Shadow then sees Raven pull her fist back, and slams her fist into the stone demon shattering it in one hit. Raven then hears a groan coming from the bed under the covers. Shadow, and Raven then look at each other, and he watches her go over to the bed and yank down the covers as she then asks a question in Scottish.

               Raven (Asking in Scottish)

               Tifa are ye alright lass?

            Tifa looks up at Raven and nods her head to her. Raven sees Tifa nod her head, and she then drops the covers back onto her. Shadow watches Raven check on Tifa, and then he clears his throat as he then asks Raven a question in Japanese.

               Shadow (Asking in Japanese)

             Karasu anata dekiru hanasu no nihonjin?

            Raven then sighs at Shadow’s question as she then nods her head to him and answers his question in Japanese.

                Raven (Answering Shadow)

Hai Watakushi dikiru hanasu no nihonjin (…o) nozoite watakushi no ho okonomu e hanasu Scottish.

       Shadow nods his head to Raven in understanding as he then asks her a question in English.

                Shadow (Asking in English)

          Raven how are you able to use chaos energy?

      Raven looks at Shadow, and sighs as she then knew from the way that he’s looking at her that he want the truth from her here and now. Raven then takes a deep breath through her nose then she slowly lets it out through her mouth as she then gathers her thoughts, and then she answers Shadow’s question truthfully.

               Raven (Answering Shadow)

Aye always had the ability te use chaos energy Shadow because of me mother. Aye can do what ye can because of her. However me mother was murdered by demons when Aye was little. But before me mother was murdered she was able te use chaos energy as well. Then years later when Aye was captured by the military but Aye was able te escape from them.

    Shadow nods his head at Raven as he then crosses his arms and she sees him lower his head in thought. Raven then shifts from one foot to the other uncomfortably as she looks at the hedgehog in front of her. Shadow then looks up at Raven and she is surprised to see a flicker of concern in them before seeing them become cold once again. Shadow then turns his back to Raven. She just shakes her head, and sighs as she then hears Tifa speak.

                Tifa (Speaking to Raven)

                Raven is that him?

      Raven just nods her head as she gathers up Tifa’s clothes, and gives them to her. Raven then sees Shadow turn around then leave the bedroom, and she just sighs, and shakes her head as she watches him leave. Tifa then speaks.

                  Tifa (Speaking)

And that is the last Angel Of Darkness that yer uncle spoke of? Heh. Aye was expecting…someone more on the friendly side like yer cousin Maria.

        Raven then starts to growl at Tifa in warning as she glares at her but Tifa ignores her as she continues to speak.

                Tifa (Cont’d)

And yer cousin along with yer uncle weren’t safe on the Ark. All because yer uncle went and created Shadow. Heh. No wonder the last of yer family were murdered in space by demons led by Black Doom.

        Raven then moves quickly by grabbing Tifa by the throat and slamming her into the wall as she then snarls in her face.

              Raven (Snarling)

Don’t. Ye. Dare. Blame Shadow fer the death of me uncle or me cousin ye mother fuckin’ bitch! Shadow tried te protect me cousin, and everyone on board the Ark. He did everything in his power te stop the demons from harming me uncle and me cousin. Tis not his fault that they were murdered in front of him nor tis his fault that me cousin sent him here on earth te protect him.

       Raven then let’s go of Tifa’s throat and leaves the room angrily to see Shadow waiting for her in the hall. Shadow looks at Raven, and then at Tifa who is gasping, and choking to breathe air into her lungs. Raven just gives him a glare then she walks down the hallway to the stairs, and she then walks down them. Shadow looks into the room and sees that Tifa is collapsed onto the ground, and he smirks before he turns away and follows Raven down the hallway and stairs.

       Raven is facing the door as she hears Shadow walk up behind her and feels him place his hand on her arm in a comforting way. Raven then looks at Shadow and nods her head to him in a grateful way. Shadow sees Raven nod her head at him as he then returns the gesture as she walks to the door and opens it and they both walk out of the strip club and into the night to head to the Limbo City Public Library.

             (Fade To Black)