Author's Notes.

The forty nine reviews from 2016 have absolutely nothing to do with this chapter, or story for that matter. I can't get rid of them short of deleting the story and uploading it again. Why is there a delete this chapter button if you can't get rid of the reviews after you do it. This is my rant thank you for glancing at it.


III


Puck angrily ran his clawed hands over the bark of the trees that surrounded him and his secret stronghold.

"LOVE,"

Such a tiny thing that could ruin his life forever. He could not infect her through the horseman now. He would have to do it himself all because of this love. Puck would have to put himself in mortal danger to do this. He could not control the pollen and attack the Horseman at the same time. He would have to lure them here where he was his most powerful and inject the woman with the toxins. It did not matter if the woman was fertile or not. The toxins would steal an egg if necessary and take it to the seed of the horseman to create the desired.

Puck kicked the grass and cried out in frustration. Moloch had no control over his greatest creation. The underworld all knew of their disagreements about Abraham's life. Why would a slave think that he had a life? What was Moloch doing to make Abraham think that he had power of any kind to say which way his life would proceed. Moloch was getting soft and now everyone could see it. This was Puck's time to take control. He would never get another chance while Moloch was weak and this Horseman distracted. Puck returned to his kneeling position and began to concentrate on the pollen.

His movements were gentle but deep. She could feel every inch if his flesh as it moved in and out of her body. Her soft breathy cries echoed his deep moans in her ear. He was a man of his words as soon as she was ready he began again to make love to her. Abbie knew that she had found all that she would ever need in this powerful but gentle man loving her at this moment. Tears came to her eyes as his hard flesh pressed deeper into her. Abraham pulled his lips from his mark when he heard her whimper and stared down at the tears in her eyes and concern filled his body and face. His movements inside of her stopped.

"Am I hurting you?" Abbie's response was to move her legs higher upon his back and lift her head from the soft blanket to hungrily kiss his lips. A deep moan came from her throat as his thrusts began anew with more power that drove her hard into the blanket. He had to get deeper. He needed too. His muscles contracted as his body moved quickly upon hers. He held her thighs tight to his body and drove hard into her while still receiving the ravenous kiss from her.

The pollen circled around them and then floated down to their moisture covered bodies and moved into the pores. The special dust confounded their reality and made them both believe that they were inside their home loving each other frantically. Puck smiled as the vision took hold. Soon they would venture outside and he would lure them into his stronghold and begin his plan for the horseman.

*()*

Master Lucifer did not trust him. Moloch glared down at the three headed beast following him to the horseman's home. It angered him that his master thought that he was keeping things from him. Secrecy was part of their nature. How could he be effective with this loud beast following him around? The devil dog was the spawn of Cerberus because Moloch was not important enough to warrant Cerberus's attention. The white demon turned away from the light grey colored beast. People walked by them on the path unafraid because to them he was a tall slender man walking his toy poodle at night. The three headed beast growled as Moloch chuckled.

"You are not even important enough to have a name. You are just a messenger while others reap your rewards. You receive nothing for the blood that you shed. Your unimportance is the only reason that you live. The master did not want to soil his pet with the runt of his litter he eats his children you know that is why you don't have any siblings."

The beast snapped at Moloch as they stepped into the wooded area surrounding Abraham's home. Their relationship was at an impasse. Yes, Abraham had tried to kill him every day this month but he was just bored. They had been together for 400 years trying to do their master's bidding. Ichabod and his people were the strongest that they had ever faced. If Abraham wanted to kill them, he could but he seemed disinterested about achieving their goal. He seemed frustrated with his life. Moloch had brought him women of all kinds but Abraham wanted nothing to do with them. They were not of their own mind he would say to him. What did that matter in pleasuring himself? He was the horseman of death there was no escape from that. Nothing could tear him away from Moloch. He would not allow it. He would not be alone in this fight.

Moloch stood before Abraham's door ready to defend himself. The last time he was here

Abraham almost beheaded him for not knocking. The beast watched him knock with curiosity.

"I have been here too long. It is considered rude not to knock and … he has an axe."

The beast growled and prepared for a fight sensing concern in Moloch. The knock was loud and the two waited for the door to open. Moloch knocked again even louder and this time anger filled his body.

"I can smell him but I do not feel his presence within the house."

The spawn of Cerberus sniffed the air and began walking away in the direction the scent carried him. Moloch followed the beast with angry steps. Abraham would not just leave without making a last attempt on his life. He knew that he could never be free as long as Moloch lived. This was unlike him. The beast stopped at a mass of vines blocking their path into the darkness of the forest. Moloch studied the barricade.

"Why would he be in here?" The vines whipped out at them making them both moved back. Moloch reached out, grabbed one, and just as quickly let it go. He rubbed his hand as pain flared in it.

"It is as old as time. Pain and revenge fill this garden. Puck is here. He is here to cause disruption in our master's plans. He has Abraham for reasons that I will find out why momentarily."

The beast began ripping at the vines trying to make a hole but the living garden was too strong. Moloch placed his hands on the wall of vines and drained its energy long enough for the beast to break through the two quickly stepped inside the garden. Once his feet touched the soil of the garden Moloch fell to the ground and watched the barricade return behind them. His power quickly drained from him. He would have nothing to protect himself except for the beast following him. He looked up at the sky and saw the fowls in the midnight air and the sound of water. The beast began growling as the white cloud approached them. Moloch felt its power trying to control him. He snorted out the offending dust, as did the beast.

"Abraham is too strong for this trickery. What could make him falter in his focus?" Moloch slowly stood and swatted the dust away.

"We must find him before he is consumed with this place."

*()*

He broke out of the sealed room that Katrina had conjured and headed towards the Hollow woods. He could hear Andy talking upstairs as he transformed into this creature. He was the size of a huge bull with one horn in the center of his head. The pain of the transformation was vivid in his memory and continued to manifest itself every time he thought about Abbie. She would pay for making him resort to this torture. He would have what he wanted or she would die. He did not go through all of this for her to reject him. She seemed only interested in the supernatural and now…he was that. He was prepared to gore Abbie to death if she did not return his love The Luke beast ran on all fours towards the dark row of vines that he could see surrounding the Hollow woods. Luke crashed into the moving vines and fell back against the ground. The area had tripled in size since the last time he had seen it. He had never seen the vines on the trees move like this. He knew that something unnatural was causing this. Abbie was here. The beast inside growled.

"I know that she is here and you better let me inside or I will destroy you." Luke waited for an answer as he paced outside the rapidly moving wall. A face formed on the wall and stared at Luke.

Puck frowned from his secluded sanctuary at the impudent human cloaked in the power of the Gore. He was about to reject him but thought to himself maybe this beast could fight the Horseman for him.

Luke watched as the vines receded and a thin and pale looking creature with horns on his head walked towards him. The beast growled but Puck only smiled "I have a proportion for you. wearer of the Gore horn. The one that you seek is inside but she is not alone. She is with the one called Abraham. He is not going to give her to you because you think that you deserve her. He has already taken her first blood. She is bound to him but if you help me I can unbind them for us both. All you have to do is fight him with me. He is very strong and I cannot take him by myself. Once he is defeated we can unbind the female."

Luke snarled and paced before the demon. "Why should I help you?"

"I am all that you have in the form of help. Your fiends want to kill you because you have the horn of Gore. I know of its power and what it can do. If we work together we can have what we want."

The beast continued pacing. "What do you want with her?"

Puck smiled again. "She will carry my champion and you... you can have a place in my army alongside my hell warrior."

"What about Abbie?"

The demon chuckled. "I doubt she will want you after we kill her lover."

The Luke beast roared. "That will not matter. I will help you kill the horseman and you will have your hell warrior and I will have Abbie."

Luke lifted his snout to the air and familiar scents filled his nostrils. Ichabod, Frank, Andy, and the witch were coming.

"They are coming to stop us."

"Then let us flee."

The vines opened again and the demon walked into them. Luke hesitated for a moment and then walked inside after his new ally.

*()*

Something inside of him screamed for him to wake up and take heed of his surroundings. Abraham did not understand he was fully awake. The bringer of death looked down at the resting woman in his arms and smiled. He had satisfied his initial lust but he needed more and right now, they were heading towards their home. He had built their house some time ago. The huge redwoods and green bushes lined the pathway to his home hidden in a circle of trees. Abraham smiled as Abbie moaned and snuggled closer to his warm chest. He loved this woman and…. Abraham stopped walking. He could not remember when he had built their house. These trees were not any of those that he remembered. His mind began to process what he was doing as he looked around the forest as if he had never been there in his life.

Fine polled began swirling around him trying to corrupt his thoughts. He could feel the presence inside the pollen telling him to keep walking towards the circle of trees. What was in the trees that it wanted him to see? This was the same voice that wanted him to hurt his mate. Abraham instinctively held Abbie closer to his body. He snorted out the offending pollen when his vision began to blur. His actions caused more of it to rise from every living thing in the garden. A thick white cloud surrounded him and his mate trying to force itself into their pores, nose and mouth. Abbie breathed in the pollen while Abraham rejected it. His soul screamed for him to resist the entity around them. Something was very wrong here. He felt a presence coming for them and looked towards his left ready to confront the entity. Tree limbs took advantage of his distracted gaze and tried to pull Abbie from his grasp. The Horseman suddenly turned away from the intruder and walked away from the cloud but it followed him and began to close around them as tree branches barred his way for escape.

Abraham never ran from anything in his long life but he had no other choice if he wanted to save Abbie. Abigail moaned in his arms as he gripped her tighter and ran away from the cloud of dust and towards the tree branches. Abraham broke through the branches, foliage, and continued running back the way he had come. The landscape began to blur and the picture of their lighted home that Abraham saw in the distance began to recede. He slowed his feet as the images around him began to change into dark trees and leaf litter. The Hollow woods surrounded them and he could see their clothing, rumpled blanket and four torches waiting for them to return. Abraham stood still. They had never left the garden. This strange dust had replaced the voice and consumed their minds with lies.

"Abbie,"

The sleeping woman in his arms opened her eyes and smiled. The sunshine made her feel so warm as he carried her to the river. "Are we going on that boat ride?"

"NO Abbie wake up."

She frowned. "I am awake."

Fine dust began moving towards them from the forest. Abraham walked away from it quickly. He headed for their blanket. "We are still in the garden and that thing that I attacked is to blame for this."

Abbie chuckled. "What,"

Abraham lowered her to the blanket as the pollen came speeding towards them. Abbie's vision began to blur until she could see the white swirls coming for them. Abraham held her tightly and stared into her frightened eyes. The cloud of fine dust moved towards them. "Hold your breath. Do not breathe in the dust."

Disbelief showed in her eyes. She needed to breathe. She was not supernatural as he was. She would die without air. "I…. I can't. I need to breathe."

His lips sealed over hers as she cried out with surprise and fear. His weight sunk her into the blanket as the cloud rolled over them from all sides.

She had no idea how long he kissed her but she knew that somehow she could breathe through him. His muscled body covered her in every way. He was determined to keep her from harm. His lips slowly left her and she opened her eyes and stared up into his intense blues. The cloud of pollen suddenly went away.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes."

"Well of course she is alright. She is not the one that I plan on damaging." Abraham and Abbie stared at the tall approaching pale skinned demon with a scar on the right side of his face. His violet eyes fell on Abbie laying under the Horseman. Abbie felt material on her breasts and looked down and grabbed the shirt that Abraham had given her. She saw him placing on his tattered bottoms as the creature came closer.

Puck smiled as the Horseman slowly stood and stared him down. "My name is Puck and you are Abraham and Abigail. It is nice to finally meet you two."

Abraham held out his hand for Abbie sensing another watching them. "You made the pollen for what reason."

"I wanted you to come and see me but that damn six sense of yours would not quit. So I have to improvise and well…..."

The Luke beast came tearing out of the shelter that Puck had created for him. Abraham avoided the goring horn and jumped out of the way. Abbie recognized the eyes and facial structure of the beast.

"Luke what are y…"

"All he wants is you and so do I. However, your lover will have to die. This garden will not survive without your help female. It needs life and you are the only one that can provide it…well you and Abraham. You see I want to rule and the only way is through his seed. And since you have it, we are going to have to take you with us."

Abraham prepared to fight when he saw Luke pound at the ground.

*()*

Ichabod and his group stopped before the vined wall and watched it slither and crawled over itself. One vine reached out and scratched Ichabod on the collarbone. He stepped away and rubbed the spot expecting blood but there was nothing but the feeling of heat. He could feel something moving where the vines scratched him.

"Are you okay? Katrina asked him.

Ichabod frowned at her. He did not want her touching him. He did not trust her anymore since she lied to him about being a witch. The others may have forgiven her but he held on to his anger. "I am fine."

"What is this?" Frank asked Andy.

"I don't know. This was not here earlier."

Katrina moved forward and gently touched the vines. She quickly pulled her hand away. "It is very old. There is pain and joy within this presence. "

The vines suddenly stopped moving and opened for the group. Ichabod and Frank moved to walk inside. Katrina saw the shine of a necklace around Ichabod's neck and she reached out right out and grabbed his arm.

"What are you wearing?"

"Alamet medallion…"

Katrina quickly released him. "You cannot contain the power within the medallion. It will consume you once you enter the garden. There is power within there that I cannot contain."

"I am immune to the evil inside unlike you."

Frank frowned at his words. "Hey she is our friend whether you are married to her or not and I think you should listen to her."

Andy agreed. "I don't think that you should wear that thing inside. When I was in there the garden was moving as if it were alive."

Katrina shook her head. "You cannot help Abbie with that medallion. It will only make things worse."

Ichabod checked his gun. "I can handle this. It has never done anything to me. I just want to save Abbie from Luke."

"I will stay outside the woods and try to help you get out. My power will not work inside."

Katrina watched the group walk towards the vines." I did not think Luke was this obsessed about her. He always spoke of how he admired her."

"He always said that he loved her." Andy added shaking his head.

"He used you both to get what he wanted. Now we have to stop him."

Katrina nodded. Ichabod and Frank walked into the garden but Katrina stopped Andy and handed him a knife. "This is the blade of Glend. If Luke manages to keep the power of Gore you must touch him with this and it will destroy the horn and leave Luke powerless."

Andy took the blade. "The Horseman will want to fight Ichabod if he sees him. Will the medallion protect him?"

Katrina frowned. "The medallion will take control of him and he will burn everything in his path. If he does turn you must stop him."

"You want me to kill him."

Katrina lowered her head. "As much as I would not want that to happen. I am thinking beyond myself. The innocent here will perish if he is unable to contain the darkness inside the medallion. You yourself are not powerless within the garden. You have the power within you Andy it will be there when you need it as it always has."

Andy stared at her for a moment before nodding and running into the garden after his friends. Katrina turned and watched him leave. The vines shot out at her and she backed away.

*()*

Moloch's ability to change his appearance faded as he and the three headed beast walked deeper into the garden. He looked around observing the beautiful colors displaying themselves. "Why display all this joy at night where no one can see it? What is it celebrating?"

The beast walking in front of him growled a warning as the dust rolled towards them. The two avoided it and took another route. The garden was herding them somewhere. Moloch raised his tail ready to strike as the beast stopped.

Ichabod stood there on the open ground staring at them with his gun raised. He had a light on his weapon so he could see. The dust had brought them to their enemy.

"Where is Abigail?"

Moloch chuckled. "Losing your members Ichabod that is a sign of a bad leader."

Frank and Andy cocked their weapons. Moloch stopped laughing. "She is here and so is the Horseman."

Ichabod raised an eyebrow. He was looking for Abraham maybe the reports about a rift between them were true.

"This place has some sort of hold over them." Andy shouted training his gun on the middle head of the three headed beast.

Moloch remained silent.

"We know that you have no power here and that you are not bulletproof here."

Moloch glared at the British solider. "This place is evil."

"Only to you" Frank answered. "It practically baked us a cake to come inside."

"It wants to bring my master here for revenge."

"That is not what we were told. There is a peace here that evil cannot produce."

Moloch chuckled again. "We can do and will do anything to lure in our prey."

"Abigail is not prey to this place. She is not evil. Perhaps it is Abraham that it wants."

The roar from the white demon made the three human's back slightly. "I will destroy it if it harms him."

Ichabod had never seen Moloch so animated about anyone. He had been with Abraham for a long time. Perhaps their break was affecting him.

"What does it want?"

"I told you. W…"

"WHAT does it want?" Ichabod screamed at the white demon aiming at his head as he walked forward. The three headed beast backed as Moloch stood his ground. He could see the Alamet medallion shimmering in the moonlight as the witness advanced.

"You fool! You will kill us all if you do not remove that trinket. The power in it is too much for you to control human. It will turn you to its will and that is destruction."

Ichabod cocked his gun. "Crane… I think that you should take it off. He can't hurt us in here."

Frank was not expecting Ichabod to turn the gun on him. Andy pointed his gun from Moloch, the three headed dog to Ichabod. Frank held up his hands. Ichabod smiled at Frank but it did not look like the British officer. His finger moved to the trigger as did Andy's. Suddenly Ichabod began yanking on the medallion trying to take it off while his right hand kept the gun on Frank. Ichabod released the necklace and started fighting with his right hand for the gun. Moloch jumped out of the way of the bullets that sprayed in his direction. Frank and Andy tackled him to the ground and struggled with trying to take the gun and break the necklace.

He was so strong even with his left hand trying to help them. His dominate right hand still tried to kill them. Frank and Andy struggled. Ichabod looked up and saw Moloch standing over them, growling at them and then raising his fist.

*()*

"You cannot change the fate of your blood line Abraham. You were made for greatness and I will make your name great…without you of course."

"You are not any demon that I know."

"I am before your creation. I was with the master but now I am not. He must pay for his betrayal and you Moloch's prized possession shall be the spear."

Abraham moved Abbie closer to his body as the Luke beast paced beside Puck. "I am not with Moloch."

Puck chuckled. "Yet he comes where he has no power to find you. Her friends are here too to rescue her. I made sure that the meet so that I did not have to kill my one-time brother. Moloch will always be with you; death rider. However, you have lived out your purpose. Now give her to me and let me start this war."

Abbie could feel the power running through Abraham's body. She could see the steam coming off his chest and shoulders as he stared down the pale demon that stood seventy-five yards from them. "Never,'

Puck lost his smile and Luke began running at them. Abraham prepared to meet him. He placed Abbie away from him. Sounds to her left made her turn and face that direction. A three headed dog came running out of the foliage and leaped on the bull and attacked the horn. Luke lost his footing and began tumbling past Abraham and into the trees behind him. The three headed dog returned from the trees with the horn in his mouth.

An evil sneer filled Puck's face. "Moloch,"

The white demon stepped through the foliage. The three headed canine gave him the horn. Abraham moved Abbie away from his former master not really sure why Moloch was there. "I am confused at what you are planning here Puck. You don't have the power or the conviction to complete this task that you have laid before yourself. This garden maybe powerful but you…. well."

Moloch began looking at the horn. "This never stayed on in all the times that I used it."

Puck looked over his one-time brother. He was the same except for the dark eyes that looked calm but Puck knew different. The evil sneer returned to Puck's face. "I would have thought to see fury on your face not this clam beast before me."

Abraham could sense the hidden rage within Moloch's body as he stared at his former master. Something was brewing inside of the white demon that made Puck stall in his battle with him. Something old and painful had happened between them that was still fresh in their souls and minds.

"Calm can be deceptive." The deep voice of the white demon resonated in the distance between he and his one-time brother.

Puck turned from him and looked at Abraham holding Abbie close to his body. He had to separate them. However, first, he had to weaken the already weak Moloch. "Young Rider, your father or oppressor as you would call him and I have known each other for centuries. He was sent here to bring our master victories and souls and he did. He was our master's favorite…. until he met her. Lagoria was the guardian of the old dark garden where you live now Abraham. Her silver hair was spun by the angels themselves. Her midnight skin was so soft and smooth it would make you cry to touch it. Her beauty has never been matched in all of time and never will be. Her jade colored eyes held truth and knowledge and could melt your soul. Moloch the great white demon became infatuated with her. But we all knew that she would never…. ever talk to such evil."

Moloch growled. "We do not need to hear these lies of yours Puck. We came here to stop you from creating another hell."

Puck smiled at the agitation that he could see in the body of the demon. "He has never heard of her has he. You neglect him even now."

Moloch looked at Abraham and Abbie and then returned his gaze to Puck. "There is no need to do this."

"Is the wound too deep to bear? I bear it also. He deserves to know."

The black eyes of the white demon bore into Puck.

"Do not speak her name again." His voice was almost a whisper but Puck took notice of the threat in his words.

The tensing inside of her mate made Abbie move closer to Abraham's body. He had never heard the demon speak with such emotion in his voice before. Something more than anger grew in Moloch's body. The reason why he was there was not as important now.

*()*

Frank and Andy waited for the signal from Moloch patiently. "What could they possibly be talking about for this long?"

Andy looked back expecting to see Ichabod but he was gone. Andy tapped Frank and he turned. "Where is he?"

Frank looked around. "Can you sense him?'

Andy had never used any of the teachings that Katrina had taught him. The only one that he had told of his ability was Frank. His latent powers were discovered by accident. One of her former apprentices conjured a spell that got away from her. She was told to never touch Katrina books of magic but her curiosity got the better of her. At that moment of time Andy was walking into the witch's home to bring her news about Luke when the conjured force entered his body. He fell to the floor unmoving as Katrina ran to aid him. Just as quickly as it entered him the force ran from his body and onto the one that conjured him. The whereabouts of the body parts of the assistant are still undiscovered.

Andy closed his eyes and then opened them quickly. "NO!"

Frank followed him as he turned and ran away from their hiding position. The two ran back towards where Moloch had pounded the medallion into the solid rock wall beside the lake. Ichabod was standing there staring at it.

"Hey Ich whatcha doing." Frank stood in plain view as Andy worked his way around to the other side.

"I think that I can get this out."

Frank chuckled. "Oh we don't need that we have guns. Come on,"

Ichabod frowned and turned back to staring at the medallion. The voice inside his head wanted him to get it out and bring it to his master.

"I have to do this."

"No you don't. We have to save Abbie remember."

Andy could see Ichabod and had a clear path to him.

"No I have to do this."

Andy tore through the bush and tackled Ichabod. Frank jumped on the pile as they tried to hold him down but the power inside of him would not be denied.

*()*

Puck turned back to Abraham. "The beauty would send her attendants to chase him out of her garden. These attendants were 10 feet tall and very brutal. Moloch, however, did not give up. He began to slack in his mission for our master and spent all his time trying to make his beauty speak to him. One day she grew tired of sending her attendants after him and asked him why he was always in her garden. He said to her. If I can just see you every day, then this pain in my heart and soul will stop and I will know that there is a chance to know you."

Abraham looked towards his former master and saw him staring straight ahead at some imaginary object. He only had one emotion that Abraham knew of and that was hate. Puck chuckled as the silence from his one-time brother continued.

"Am I telling it right Moloch? The Horseman's female seems very interested. I think that she will love the rest."

Abbie glared at the scarred demon as he looked at her and smiled. "The beauty fell for that line and smiled at him and allowed him into her garden where my master nor any of his minions could go. For years he worked beside her and love grew between them. Then one summer night Moloch took the innocence of La…his beauty and hell shook in disgust. Its mightiest had fallen to a force of good. Our master could not have that and sent many to take her head. Moloch defeated them but he feared for his beauty's safety. He made her a present. A powerful bracelet made of half of his heart and made her promise to never take it off."

Puck looked over at his one-time brother and continued talking. "So our master sent me, his greatest warrior to extract revenge upon his favorite. I was like the Horseman. I was powerful, tall, handsome to the eyes. I carried a spear that could penetrate everything except the beauty's garden. So I had to lure her out."

Moloch snarled at Puck and the vines whipped up through the ground and swiftly surrounded the white demon as he advanced towards him. "YOU KILLED HER!"

Puck looked incredulous. "How was I to know that she was with child."

The white demon fell to his knees halfway to Puck. "She told you but you killed her anyway and then you killed my child."

Puck glared at the fallen demon. "You cry for your loss. Look at me! Her garden stole my power and then her attendants tried to kill me. They beat me until the ground gave away beneath me. I did what I was commanded to do and then our master punished me for what I did. He punished me for what he ordered me to do. I will have my revenge!"

The vines tangled tighter around Moloch and barred Abraham from moving towards him. "You and your beauty have another son that will soon join his brother."

Luke woke from his slumber and heard the gargled voices coming from beyond the rows of bushes where he lay. The only thing that he remembered were teeth and claws tearing at him. He looked through the bushes and saw Abbie beside the Horseman. Rage filled his body. He remembered what he saw them doing. She had betrayed him. She had to die. He looked away from her and the object for his means of murder was laying on the ground underneath the demon tangled in the vines.

Puck looked over at Abraham. He looked confused about something that was said and that made Puck smile. "You were bathed in her blood and given the other half of this retched creature's heart and now he is jealous of what you have. That is the only reason that he is here. He is here to take what you have."

In all his time with Moloch, Abraham had never seen him look defeated as he did now. Moloch was not jealous of him. He did not want what Abraham had. He did not want him to feel this loss of love. Abraham made a move towards Moloch but the vines interfered with him. Puck walked up to the fallen demon still keeping Abraham at bay with the vines. Moloch raised his head and stared up at his one-time brother. The vines began tightening around his body but Moloch said nothing as his eyes bore into Puck's eyes. Puck raised him from the ground and smiled. "I see the rage in your eyes now."

Moloch remained unmoving until he was eye level with Puck. Then his right hand broke through the vines and clamped around his neck. The claws on his fingers pierced the skin on Puck's neck. The scream from the pale demon shook the garden. The vines surrounding Moloch began to loosen and he pulled Puck closer. "Wait until you feel my rage …brother. Where is your power now?"

The sounds of warfare filled the air and Puck's screaming suddenly turned into laughter. "I wil…wil …. have the power that I ….se…seek my one-time brother."

Ichabod came walking towards them dragging the three headed dog that hung onto his left thigh. Frank and Andy came crawling from the trees bleeding. Abraham pulled Abbie into his arms and moved away from the vines when they reached for her. Ichabod kept dragging his body towards Puck as he struggled in Moloch's grasp. The human looked possessed but that was not what alarmed Moloch. The Alamet medallion in his hands caused the white demon great fear. The vines suddenly whipped at Moloch and knocked him to the ground. Puck held his throat and then ran to meet Ichabod.

Moloch lifted his head and saw his one-time brother about to receive the ultimate power that would give him unimaginable abilities. ""ABRAHAM,"

Puck reached out for the medallion but the force of Abraham's body knocked him from his feet and into the tree behind him. Ichabod tried to turn towards the tree still listening to the voice but the death rider elbowed him in the face and snatched the medallion from his hands as he fell to the ground.

"ABRAHAM!" Abbie's warning came too late as the bull plowed into his back and the medallion flew from his hands and into the air. Puck sat up at the base of the tree and saw the medallion floating in the air he sent vines to intercept it but Moloch's tail ripped through them and medallion fell to the ground.

Abraham tried to extricate himself from the sticky tree limbs while he watched Abbie run and pick up the medallion. His heart began to beat furiously and his hands frantically broke through the old branches

"NO!" His voice boomed across the field of battle as the Luke beast barreled towards her with his horn down for goring. She heard her mate's voice and turned around too late and saw nothing but white.

Moloch roared as the horn came through his lower back and out his side. He held Abbie in his arms as the beast pushed them towards the trees.

"Get the medallion!" Puck screamed at Ichabod as he staggered to his feet. The possessed British officer quickly walked towards the fight of the bull and Moloch. Abbie tried to keep it away from him. Moving it side to side but Ichabod clawed at her arms mindlessly even as she screamed his name. He was so strong. He almost had it until Moloch released her and whipped his body around. The demon roared in pain as he dislodged the bull and his horn from his body. The horn detached from Luke's forehead and fell to the ground. Moloch's tail whipped at Ichabod sending him hurtling into the woods. The demon then fell to the ground bleeding. Abbie kneeled beside him. Abraham finally pulled himself from the prison of the limbs and ran towards them.

Puck watched the scene from a safe distance. He could still infect the female while the Horseman was imprisoned. He concentrated and sent the special vines to do just that.

Abbie set the medallion on the ground before her and used both hands to push down on the wound that was gushing out his black blood. Moloch slowly raised his head and stared into her eyes. Abbie gazed back into his black orbs and saw the reflection of the vines moving behind her. She quickly moved to her left and rolled away taking the medallion with her. The vines continued after her but gunshots struck them and they exploded. Abraham wrapped her up in his arms and turned her away from the danger as more came to infect her. Frank stood and with precision, destroyed those still trying to get Abbie.

Stumbling from the woods, Ichabod came running at Frank at the voices insistence and tackled him. Andy pulled out his gun as he laid on the ground trying to recover from his injuries that Ichabod inflicted on him, and took a shot at Ichabod and struck him in the head. The bullet sank inside his brain but he continued fighting Frank for his gun. Andy kept firing at him striking him all five times but the possessed man still fought as if the devil himself was inside of him.

Moloch began crawling towards Abraham and Abbie when the Luke beast came flying from the woods towards the death rider. This time Abraham sensed him and turned Abbie away from the bull. He released her and grabbed onto the horn. The charging beast only pulled him a few feet from Abbie when Abraham stopped him and snapped off the horn. Puck smiled seeing the woman standing alone. The vines swam at her but a white tail sliced them in half. Moloch slowly stood up from the ground in front of Abbie.

Puck stared him down. "So this is where your life shall end my one-time brother."

Moloch held his side and breathed deeply. "It shall be a glorious death because I shall die killing you."

Frank struggled with Ichabod and the British officer pushed him away and aimed the gun at Abbie and fired.

"Abbie!"

The buller struck her in the hand. She screamed and dropped the medallion. Moloch quickly dove to grab it and Abbie at the same time as Abraham but a vine wrapped around her first and took her to Puck.

Frank and Andy wrestled the gun from Ichabod and once they got him down began beating him but he felt no pain.

Puck's laughter filled the woods as he lifted the female twenty feet in the air with the vine wrapped around her neck. "I will throw her down to the ground if you do not give me what I want. And do not touch it to your blood we both know how destructive that liquid is."

Abbie's hands grabbed onto the vine around her neck. She frantically kicked her legs. 'Don't give it to him."

Abraham wanted to move towards her but Moloch stopped him. "He will kill us and everyone else."

Puck smiled as Moloch threw him the medallion. One of his vines scooped it up and brought it to him. Puck placed the Alamet around his neck and he could feel a change in his body although he thought it would be bigger and painful.

"Let her go." Abraham's eyes darkened.

Puck laughed. "I did not say that I would let her go."

Moloch looked over at Andy and he stopped beating Crane and looked at the white demon. How did he know what he could do? If he had no power here why could he hear this demon in his head? Puck followed Moloch's gaze to the Asian officer and cocked his head to the side. "What are you doing?"

Andy closed his eyes and silently spoke to himself. Heat, undesirable heat filled the pale demon's body and he began screeching in pain. The three headed dog slammed into Puck and knocked him down and begin biting his face. Puck's power over the vines vanished and Abbie fell into Abraham's arms. A familiar neighing filled the woods as Daredevil tore down the path towards them.

Moloch looked at Abraham with concern on his face. "Run, he has the Alamet and the witch will not close the seal with you in it."

Abraham placed Abbie on Daredevil and sent them out of the danger. Moloch roared at him.

"Listen to me! You must go all of you." Moloch cringed and held his side.

Abraham held him up. "If you do not go with me I will not leave."

Frank and Andy quickly carried Ichabod the way that Daredevil ran as lightening began to strike Puck's body. The cries coming from the demon began to hurt their ears. Moloch leaned heavily on Abraham as he helped him down the path. The three headed dog brought up the rear whining for Moloch and Abraham to go faster. They could feel it in the ground beneath their feet. Puck's footstep shook the earth as he began running after them.

Katrina stood at the entrance of the seal that she had created with her eyes as red as her flowing hair in the windstorm that swirled around the Hollow woods. Daredevil and Abbie raced from the opening at a hectic pace. Abbie quickly dismounted and waited for Abraham. An unfamiliar roar came from the seal and Katrina slightly raised her hands and the seal closed a little.

Frank and Andy walked through carrying Ichabod and unceremoniously dropped him on the ground and reloaded their weapons. The monster running behind Abraham and Moloch came into view and Katrina stepped back in horror. Frank and Andy began firing at the massive creature that was three times bigger than Moloch. His gigantic violet eyes moved from one demon to the other as he reached out his massive hand to grab them. It could have just run by them but the three headed dog turned and launched itself at the eyes and knocked the monster off course. Puck fell to the ground as Abraham and Moloch stepped through the seal.

Katrina began raising her hands to close it when Puck's massive clawed hand came through the slit that was still open. One of his huge eyes pressed against the seal and his laughter could be heard as the pupil moved around looking at their terrified faces. Katrina screamed when he began forcing the seal open. Abraham grabbed his axe from Daredevil's saddle but Moloch stopped him and took the the axe. He ran the blade along his wound and then gave it back to Abraham. The Horseman threw the weapon and it slammed into Puck's eye. The massive demon released the edges of the sea,l threw back his head, and roared in pain. Moloch called back the axe and Katrina closed the seal.

The witch began to fall to the ground but Andy was there to catch her. Puck was still standing there and placed his eye back on the seal and laughed for about a second and then looked down at the black blood dripping from his eye and onto the ground.

"Oh SH,,,,,"

The explosion was earth shattering and shook the woods and scattered the fowl and creatures from their homes. Fires raged in the Hollow in any place that Puck had ventured or used his magic. The Hollow would burn until it wiped his presence from its woods.

Katrina slowly opened her eyes and looked at Abraham as he applied pressure to Moloch's wound. "The seal will only last 5 days. When it breaks you must hunt him down dead or alive and take his heart."

"He has the Alamet."

Andy's words were not what she wanted to hear. Katrina look at Ichabod on the ground for a moment then returned her gaze to Abraham. "Then you have no choice rider. You have to find him."

Abbie hid her pain as she wiped the blood from Moloch's wound as Abraham tended to him. The axe began to heat up and he laid it against Moloch's skin. The demon softly growled and closed his eyes at the pain but the blood stopped flowing. Once Abraham pulled the axe away Moloch relaxed and began breathing normally.

"You are in pain."

Abbie shook her head as she looked at the resting demon. "I will survive it."

Moloch moved his hand to her left hand that contained the bullet wound and used what power he had left to end her suffering. Abraham watched him. Moloch slumped back against the tree still with his eyes closed.

"We should not tarry here. Even evil lives in the light."

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Ichabod sat up with a jerk. He looked around his surroundings trying to gather where his was. He suddenly began groaning as the bullets in his body pushed from their entrance holes and fell to the mattress. He picked them up and looked at them until the sight of Katrina in the doorway surprised him. She ran at him with a blade and put it to his throat and forced him down into the pillows. "Say something meaningful right now or your blood shall stain the walls of my home forever."


Author's Notes

Well, here it is and its long. I hope that you enjoy the reworked or rewritten Dark Garden I wanted more and I think that I have done that. Please excuse any errors there are probably a few with over 8000 words. I thank you very much for reading and I hope that you enjoy it~Frostbytefire