Season 1 episode 9
Midnight- Apocalyptic thingy time
I walked out of the bathroom after my shower and saw Emilio pouring a cup of coffee. It's been a few days since the whole fiasco with the faceless demon and the sacrifices, and we all kind of went about life as normal trying to figure out what we were going to do. I smiled and walked over to him wrapping my arms around his waist and I felt him chuckle.
"Good morning Addy." He said, and I let go so he could turn around and face me and he handed me a cup of coffee. I took a sip and sighed, perfect.
"Good morning Emilio." I looked at him standing there with nothing on, but his PJ pants and I smiled.
"What are you smiling at?" he asked setting his cup on the counter behind him.
"You, wondering how I got someone as perfect as you." I stated like it was the only reason.
"I am no where near perfect Addy" he said closing the gap between us, I looked up at him with his 5 o'clock shadow that he hadn't shaven and his light brown amber eyes and I reached up on my tippy toes and kissed him gently on his lips. I pulled away but stayed close,
"you are to me" I said and gave him another quick kiss before moving away. I heard my phone chime with a message and saw it was Manny.
"I gotta go Emilio I guess we are going to talk with Joe about the whole Apocalyptic thingy." I yelled running back to the bedroom getting dressed and running back out and I didn't see Emilio in the kitchen anymore. So I rounded the corner to the living room and smack right into him.
"Oh im sorry" I just laughed and gave him a quick hug,
"Its ok ill see you later, stop sneaking around mister" I went over to the door and blew him a kiss running out his door over to Joe's apartment. When I got there Manfred was already talking Joe.
I saw Manfred looking at the painting and he said
"The man said that the offering the truckload of bodies he would usher in the beginning of the end."
"I'm not surprised, all the death and demise that has been coming to midnight is precursors of the veil breaking." Joe explained.
"Hey Addy bout time you joined us" Manfred said, and I slapped him,
"Well maybe next time I should get more that a 2-minute warning when you damn well know it takes me 20 to get ready Manny" I shot back at him.
"So, what was it like last time" I asked, "The last time the veil broke" I looked from Manny to Joe continuing the conversation.
"I wasn't here when it opened, me and Bowie came later
he said "By then it was demons where everywhere, spreading death and suffering."
"So basically, like the everyday apocalypse" I said throwing my hands in the air.
"Yeah It normally starts with your everyday apocalyptic weather as well." Joe said.
"So what do you know about this demon Colcannar?" Manfred asked trying to decipher the painting further.
"I wasn't on a first name basis with any of the demons I was just trying to kill ask many as I could get my hands on."
"Wait what's that?" I asked hearing someone yelling outside, we all moved over to the window and saw Fiji in the middle of the street yelling, at something, but nothing was there.
"I won't go with him! Ill never go with him! Leave me alone! I will never go with him!" she was yelling to no one in the street.
"Who is she talking to?" Joe questioned. We all wondered the exact same thing and we went outside to investigate.
We approached her with caution as she didn't seem to notice us all around her.
"Fiji you ok?" I asked reaching out to my friend. I saw Bobo join us outside and she continued to yell.
"Leave me alone, you don't know me, stop saying that!" and in a flash fire shot out of her hand right at me, I jumped back but not before my jean jacket caught on fire.
"Addy!" Manfred yelled, I quickly tore off my jacket throwing it on the ground and stomping on it. While that happened Lem came out and leeched Fiji to the point of slight unconsciousness. My brother rushed over to me and Bobo rushed over to Fiji taking her from Lem.
"Addy you ok," I nodded and looked to Fiji.
"Were you sleepwalking?" I asked as her as Bobo held her upright.
"No, it was real, he was real." She said looking in front of her in disbelief, we all looked to each-other and got her inside her house.
In a few minutes Bobo, Creek, Manfred and I sat with her in her living room trying to figure out what had happened, I looked down at my hand seeing it slightly burned from when my jacket had caught on fire but I hide it with my sleeve, so no one would notice. I looked to Manfred as he talked.
"They man you saw in your dream"
"Colcannar sent him" Fiji said looking at him.
"Maybe it was just a nightmare" Creek said, if that were true this whole veil apocalyptic bullshit would be a nightmare too asshat, I kept that comment to myself though.
"I wish" Bobo said quietly.
"While you were sleepwalking you kept saying, stop saying that, stop saying what?" I asked looking from Manfred to Fiji as Manfred paced the small space.
"He said I would give myself to Colcannar." She said quietly.
"That's not gonna happen" Bobo said fiercely.
"Why is he after you? What does he want?" Manfred questioned.
"I don't know" she whispered with a shrug of her shoulder. "But I don't want anyone getting hurt because of me." I looked down trying to make sure it was still covered.
"Stop you are the one who is hurting now, we are taking care of you" Creek said.
"Exactly you helped us when we needed it now let us help you" I said remembering she was the reason we all haven't killed each-other.
"The man in your dreams did he say anything else" Manfred asked sitting down in front of her. She paused not looking at any of us
"No" she whispered, and I felt the lie, I felt the fact that she was scared of something, I just needed to figure out what. Me and Manfred shared a look "I'm gonna go make some tea" Fiji said getting up from the couch. We went out to the porch to meet Lem because he couldn't come in her house.
"I leeched her pain, there was a lot it ran deep" he said as Bobo joined us.
"Of course she emotional she's been stalked by a demon."
"She's hiding something about what happened out there" I said "I felt it there is something she doesn't want to tell us but i don't know what" I looked at the three of them out front.
"Well maybe there is but we can't force her to tell us, we just have to trust that she is telling us the truth." Manfred said, and I shrugged.
"She's so emotional she almost set us on fire" Manfred said.
"Colcannar is not the only threat to Fiji, she is a threat to herself and others" joe said "We need to keep an eye on her"
"I'm not going anywhere" Bobo said
"The suns almost up ill be back tonight" Lem said before taking off.
So how are Lem and Olivia doing?" I asked I know they had a falling out after the fight.
"Well he's sleeping in back of the pawn shop so no?" Bobo said.
I went to the RV since we finally got it back from where ever the hell Manfred left it and bandaged my burnt hand and then started grabbing some of grandma's demon killing journals. One thing I had that Manfred didn't was the fact that I could understand some Romanian, he no the other hand was trying to use and app to translate it. I started reading through some of the old journals and I must have fallen asleep while reading. I woke up to someone gently shaking me, I groaned and looked up seeing Emilio crouched down on the floor next to me.
"Morning beautiful" he said giving me a quick kiss, "Manfred called me to see if you were with me because you weren't answering your phone, I told him that you weren't with me and he asked me to check the RV, long night?"
"Yeah, while we were talking with Joe, Fiji almost fried us and once that was over I decided to come back here to see if I could find any information of this demon Colcannar and I must have fallen asleep, I haven't been sleeping much." I admitted.
"I know, its gotta be hard with everyone's emotions of high alert." I nodded, and he reached his hand out to help me up off the floor. "Manfred said he also needs you to meet him at Joe's" I nodded and grabbed a few of my ancestors' journals that might be helpful. When I got to Joe's after about 10 minutes I saw Manfred giving Joe one of the journals I couldn't find.
"Well I guess we have the same idea" she said as she waved the books in her hand, "Now I know why I couldn't find those journals.
"Xylda left us all her demon kill journals" Manfred said as I handed him the books I had brought.
"Are they all in Romanian" Joe asked gesturing to the text in the book.
"I've been using an app to translate but its slow going" Manfred said.
"For you, I can read most of it I've been working on piecing together the words I don't know though" I said,
"So, you really think that we are destined to fix this that i- the man who can bridge the worlds between the living ad the dead and Addy the one to can project the feelings onto others can fix this" Manfred said looking at Joe
"That is the prophecy" he explained holding one of the books.
"Who sealed the veil last time?" I asked looking over at the painting.
Joe looked up at from the book he was reading to answer "It didn't hold forever, but it was a shaman, I think his name as Cartori, weird guy," Manfred began to pace as joe talked "Tall, covered in brands and tattoo's"
"Did happen to say how he did it?" Manfred asked.
"He didn't survive, went out to the crossroads alone, we found his body a day later broken and burned at the crossroads in pieces" I let out the breath I didn't realize I was holding.
"Where was he buried?" I asked trying to come up with ideas.
"On sanctified ground" Joe said looking at the window, he nodded his head over to the church "Under Rev's church"
"Well let dig him up, dead bodies we can work with" Manfred said looking to me and I nodded
"Well you better work fast the veil is opening." Joe said and we looked at what he saw and we saw a sandstorm heading straight for midnight. We quickly got everyone in midnight evacuated and headed over to the church basement to meet Joe and Emilio. Using some lights and pic axes and shovels and started digging, as Joe started setting up the lights he looked to Manfred and asked
"Is Creek with Fiji?"
"No I told her evacuate." Manfred said picking up an axe.
"She's strong survived more than most" Emilio said.
"She doesn't need to survive this" Manfred said looking at Emilio.
"You're complicating it, you love her be with her" Emilio said, and I looked to him, he gave me a slight smile.
"Thanks for the advice" Manfred said, and we started to dig. It took some time, but they soon uncovered a small casket.
"I thought you said he was tall?" I commented.
"There wasn't much of him left to bury" Joe replied grabbing the lid to the casket with Emilio. We looked down and they saw that the casket was empty, there was no bones, clothes nothing but dirt.
"There has to be something, bones clothes something?" Manfred said sifting around in the casket.
"I'm afraid not" Emilio said looking through the box as well.
"It has been about one thousand years" I shrugged.
"It was a long shot" Joe said
"It was our only shot" Manfred said looking to Joe.
Suddenly I felt something wrong, something evil, and then we all heard the gunshots ring out.
"What was that?" Emilio questioned,
"Not something good" I said as we ran up the basement stairs I reached the top of the stairs and I saw demonic looking corpse stick thingy's walking towards us through the dust.
"RUN!" I yelled booking it across the road to Fiji 's where I saw everyone else waiting. Manfred was the last on in the house and he fought against the weird thing as he tried to close the door.
"What the ever-living hell is that?!" Manfred yelled looking at all of us.
"I think they are wraiths, I read something about it in one of grandma's books, they are evil spirit manifestations that show the arrival of a demon." I stated looking back at Manny.
"I wish I read those more" he said shaking his head.
"Well maybe if you knew how to read Romanian you could have-"
"Guys now isn't the time" Olivia said.
"Colcannar is coming" Emilio said as we looked to Fiji and the fear that came off her has me almost nauseated.
"So what do we do?" Olivia asked looking to me and Manfred. Bobo went into the greenhouse with Fiji to treat his injures, I guess he got burned by one of the wraiths, while everyone else sat around the room, I walked over to the window and Manfred paced the room.
"At least they are spirits they can't enter the house" Emilio said trying to give reassurance.
"And Colcannar what about him?" Olivia asked.
"Oh he's real as you and me" I said "Once he rises.."
"Were screwed" Oliva cut me off.
"She's right we got no way to stop them no way to stop Colcannar" Manfred said facing everyone again. "We are sitting ducks."
"What are you saying Manny" I asked turning around
"Has he always been a good motivational speaker?" Olivia said sarcastically.
"No, I'm a realist and realistic self knows there is only one thing we can do, get out."
"So, you bail of us just to come back and tell us all to bail?" Olivia said anger coming off her.
"I'm not saying we bail, I'm saying we get Fiji somewhere safe and regroup, rethink and come back with a plan to kill the wraiths and Colcannar." Everyone seemed to agree as we all nodded.
"Joe, Addy and I are going to the garage" Emilio said and grabbed me to follow him as I walked out of Fiji's I heard Olivia say
"Before we leave I'm going to need you to wake up a vampire"
"What are we doing?" I asked the two of them as we went down the road a bit to a small shack.
"Well I think we need this and I figured you would be the best person to drive" Emilio said and flipped on the light to show us a Vampire bus. I smiled, its been a while since I had the chance to drive one and I looked to Emilio,
"You want me to drive that?" I asked but with a smile.
"I think you are the most qualified, besides me but I figured you would be better" he said and Joe handed me the keys.
"Let's get the bus outside Fiji's for everyone to get in, less for Lem to be out in the sun." I nodded and jumped in. I looked around trying to gather myself because it was bigger than the RV but its not the first time I have driven one. I started her up adjusted the mirrors and backed it out and pulled in front of her house. I heard yelling and everyone scrambled on the bus.
"Go!" someone yelled and I closed the door, raised the stairs and took off. I looked in the mirror and saw Olivia, Lem, Bobo, Fiji and Joe all in the back and Emilio was standing behind me.
"Guys where's my brother?" Emilio looked and didn't see him either.
"He was grabbing Fiji's cat and then going to catch up with us" Bobo said.
"Someone better let me know when he is behind me" I growled, and a few minutes later Olivia spoke up.
"Manfred got out, him and Creek are behind us." She said,
"Thank god." I breathed. Emilio flipped on the radio and the man was saying that if you were stuck in the storm to pull over until it passed to stay safe.
"Ha that's not gonna happen" I said, and Emilio said.
"It's not an option." He put a hand on my shoulder,
"Thank you for what you are doing" he smiled looking at the road ahead of us being almost unclear with how much the storm was kicking in.
"It's the least I can do, everyone is my family" I said.
"Well you and your brother will most likely be the reason we survive this so trust me you are doing plenty." I looked quickly over to Emilio,
"That's because I have you" I smiled. In a puff of smoke almost we broke into a clear part of the road.
"We have clear roads ahead!" Emilio yelled informing the others. I heard olivia say she had booked us a hotel about an hour or so away and I looked in the mirror the same time Manfred must have noticed it as well.
"Guys… it's following us" I said
"We have to get some distance from it" I heard Manfred say over Olivia's phone
"Well we can't outrun it in a tour bus Manny!" I yelled at him.
"Wait you're driving!?" he yelled.
"Got a problem?" I growled at him.
"Nope" I heard him answer short and sweet.
"Good I'm glad" I said.
"We need to hole up somewhere without windows nearby" Bobo said coming up front with me and Emilio.
"Where?" Olivia and I asked at the same time. He pointed at the next road on the right.
"Take that road I know the perfect place" he said.
"Hang tight" I yelled and jerked the wheel hard to the right to be able to make the road and the turn. He quickly led me to the old cartoon saloon and we all booked it inside. Manfred was right behind me with Mr. Snuggly and Fiji but once I got in I noticed Fiji wasn't next to him.
"Manny where is Fiji?" he turned around and saw her staring in to the storm at nothing
"Fiji!" he yelled and grabbed her and dragged her in pulling the door closed behind her. We all gathered inside Creek coughing from the dust.
"So much for outrunning the storm" Lem said uncovering himself, you could see the smoke coming off him. "It's following us"
"No," Fiji said taking off her hood "It's me it's following me"
"Fiji there is something you're not saying" Bobo said and I felt fear and concern coming from her.
"If you know why the storm is chasing you, you need to tell us" Manfred said, and I looked to him shaking my head. she was hiding something but that wasn't the way to approach it.
"I don't know why Colcannar is after me" she said looking around the room.
"When we were there at our house when we banished Colcannar from our house he kicked me and Manny out but kept you there" I said trying to piece it together.
"And he's kept talking to you ever since, why would he be after you" Manfred asked grabbing her and then a light exploded as she yelled.
"I don't know!" we all jumped not expecting it.
"Fiji!" Olivia said looking over knowing she did it and why, she knew her emotions controlled her powers, I knew from that happening. "What is going on"
"We are all here to protect you, you owe us the truth…" Bobo said walking closer to her.
"I'm a virgin" she blurted out in embarrassment "I'm a virgin witch a powerful virgin witch and that is why it wants me" I felt her body on the verge of tears for many reasons' embarrassment, pain, guilt and sorrow. The awkward feeling in the room was almost mailable.
"well- uh – yeah I guess thanks for being honest" Manfred said trying to make it less awkward in the room.
"Glad to know the truth" Joe said.
"I'm not" Lem admitted
"What difference does it make" Creek asked now confused.
"Virgin witches are powerful" I said trying to help Fiji
"Especially older ones are rare, powerful, that thing wants my magic." she said trying to hold her emotions together.
"Well its not gonna get anywhere…"
"No please don't this is this most embarrassing moment in my life so if you don't mind, I'm gonna need a minute" she grabbed her bag and went over to Manfred "The cat please" she reached her hand out and Manfred handed her the cat and he disappeared behind the wall. Even with her body out of sight I still felt all her feelings. We all sat around the bar thinking and I sat with Emilio trying to relax and stay calm so I didn't hurt anyone with the overwhelming amount of feeling the room. Olivia and Lem were talking and I could feel all their emotions about whatever they were discussing that that hurt as well. Manfred was talking with creek and I was thinking on how we were going to fix this, how we could battle Colcannar, when it came to me.
"Manny" I yelled jumping up "I have an idea" I walked over to him and told him my idea.
"It just might work." He said and we both went to go see Fiji in the back room she went into. We explained the plan with her and she nodded.
"If we combine the right spells we might be able to make this work but with using black magic there is going to be a catch." Me and Manfred looked to each-other and nodded.
"We know but so is just waiting for us all to die this is our best shot" I said, and I handed her some of our old ancestor's curses "These are some curses our ancestors used I have translated most of it some words I don't know or are to old and worn to be able to se." I said, and we showed then to her. She looked at them and then looked to us.
"This is some very dark magic" she said almost surprised.
"Meaning dangerous as hell." Manfred said
"But so is Colcannar" I stated, she walked over to a canaster that she had left her house with.
"Gypsy dark magic" she flipped the lid and grabbed a book from the inside "Meet witch black magic" after a little while fenagling something together we went out to present this to the others.
"We were getting worried" Joe said
"You might still want to be" I said standing next to Manny
"We combined a curse with an ancient witches spell to get answers" Fiji said.
"But the problem is its black Magic" Manfred said "Meaning it needs a sacrifice"
"Ok and eye a finger?" Olivia asked
"A life" Fiji interrupted her "Answers are given in exchange for a life" the room looked at each other
"So that's a no" Creek said, thinking she as just going to answer for everyone. Then I saw Emilio stand up
"Take me" me and Lem spoke up
"Don't be ridiculous" Lem said walking closer
"Emilio you can't" I said, I couldn't lose him.
"I'm not I've taken many lives" he said, and I felt tears in my eyes.
"But you are mine" I whispered, and he looked at me with sorrow.
"This is my way I can make amends for everyone" he said.
"Everyone just shut up" I heard that voice, we all turned to it and saw the cat on the stage "Take me I'm sick of this life"
"Is that cat talking?!" Olivia exclaimed
"He is" Bobo and I said at the same time.
"I'm really old, my bones ache, I've spent the last seven years without her, I want to see Mildred" he said, and Fiji looked at him almost heartbroken.
"You been by my side for so long" she said with her hand on her heart
"I never liked you" he interrupted. She smiled and tried not to laugh
"I know" she said, everyone looked at each-other and Manny raised an eyebrow at me. We all gathered around a wiccan circle and I stood in between Manfred and Emilio ready to begin. Manfred handed her a knife she made a cut on her hand and dripped the blood in a circle around the cat. She wrapped her hand up and leaned down to Mr. Snuggly
"Give Mildred a kiss for me" she sat back and reached for the power "We offer this life for an answer" black smoke came out of her mouth and circled over the cat and when the smoke dissipated he was still there.
"Hey why am I not dead?' he asked. I felt myself become cold and I couldn't say anything.
"Addy!" I heard someone yell but I was already falling.
Manfred POV
"Addy!" I yelled as I felt her become cold next to me, she turned blue and then she was falling towards the ground.
"Addy!" Emilio yelled as he caught her.
"Adelynn!" I yelled shaking her to no avail, she was cold to the touch.
"Move" I was pushed aside by Olivia who started CPR
"No no no no she was just supposed to get answers" Fiji muttered backing away from the group. Olivia kept trying but Joe pulled her back.
"She's gone" he said.
"I can't believe that your gone, I can't feel you are gone" I said. Emilio sat down behind her head and held it in his lap brushing her red locks from her face and began to pray and I laid my head down on her stomach, holding her ice-cold hand in mine. "I refuse to believe that you are gone Addy, you aren't supposed to die like this"
Addy POV
I was standing in the middle of the road of midnight it was peaceful but I knew it wasn't real. Over by the church I saw a man standing there in a shawl just looking.
"You're the shaman" I said "Cadim?'
"Cartori" he corrected. "And you are?"
"Adelynn Bernardo" I said, I looked around wondering why I was alone without Manny. "So, this is death?"
"This is death" he nodded
"I like it here" I said feeling at peace, not feeling anything but my own feelings "Its peaceful, a lot more peaceful than midnight is at the moment." I almost wanted to laugh.
"Is Xylda around?" I asked almost forgetting why I was here
"Don't you have a question for me?" he asked.
"oh yeah sorry, how do me and my brother close the veil?" I asked. In a flash he was in front of me and he leaned closed and whispered in my ear what I had to do. And he sent me back
I gasped like I hadn't breathed in forever, I felt someone jump up and I opened my eyes looking at my friends and my brother. I breathed quickly and looked around seeing Emilio behind me and Manfred by my side.
"Addy your heart stopped" Joe said and Manfred grabbed my hand and Emilio put a hand on my shoulder.
"What the hell" Olivia said looking astonished.
"Fiji's spell it worked" I said with a smile
"You got answers" Manfred said I looked to him and saw tears in his eyes.
"yeah, I met the shaman" I looked around and realized someone was missing
"Guys where's Fiji?" the all looked around confused and we all got up and ran outside
"Fiji!" Bobo yelled, and we looked around seeing how calm it was, the dust storm was gone
"She's going to him" Manfred said as he passed Bobo and looked in to the night I went up next to him and I nodded grabbing my brothers' hand,
"Then let's go get her back" I said.
