Author's Note: Yup, I've decided. To make up for my lack of posting, I'm doing a double post. You can thank WinterSky101 for these chapters.

Welcome to My Side of the River

Sonya

Kate's POV

I saw Damien pale as he saw my eyes change colors. I allowed a smirk to make its way onto my face, a smirk of victory.

"Always one step behind, aren't you, Damien? I can't stop you myself. No one living can. But I can call the beings who can."

"You're not a necromancer." Damien replied, unease apparent in his tone of voice.

"I don't need to be. Dead bodies won't stop a demon. Their spirits, however, are a different story."

"You can't pull spirits back if they've already passed on!" Damien was really struggling to find a way, any way, that I wasn't who he thought I was. "No medium can do that!"

"That's fine, because I'm not a medium either. Do I have to spell it out for you, Damien?"

My smirk became a full-blown evil grin as I confirmed his worst fear. "I'm a Sorceress."

In that one moment, I began to glow, grey energy pulsing around me. It whirled, faster and faster, and I pulled the ghosts back from the Otherworld.

They erupted, spectral beings of grey breaking free of my aura, as they began to hover around me. Hundreds upon hundreds of these ghosts used me as their portal, all coming for one united reason: to fight off the threat of the demon.

When I felt the last of them coming through, I yelled. "Attack!"

As one, the ghosts shot towards Natalia and Damien. While most were concentrated on Natalia, a few restrained Damien, preventing him from using any power to interfere. The larger mass of spirits dove towards Natalia. Instead of pulling back at the last minute, they dove through her. She wailed, a sound terrifying enough to chill the blood running through my veins.

With the ghosts emerging through her other side came another being, one indefinitely darker than the ghosts. It struggled, but the thousands of ghosts I'd dragged back were stronger. The demon.

They pulled it back towards me, and I realized exactly why there were so few sorcerers around. There was only one way to get the demon back to its own realm without using any kind of black magic. Scratch that. Since no demon summoner had ever lived long enough to create a way to send it back, there was only one way to send it back, period.

The demon had to go through me.