It was nighttime. Everybody stayed in their homes and rested. All of the citizens were trained and ready to drag those vampires six feet in the ground. If you don't get it, then just forget it.

The Council and my coven were in City Hall. The leaders and their guards just stood around like a bunch of weirdos. Rory and I were sitting on the floor with our girls in our arms.

"What will happen tomorrow?" asked Erica.

"I don't know, Air," I sighed. "Everything will be at stake here."

"Stake!" laughed Rory. "Get it? The only thing that kills us!"

Sarah, Erica, and I chuckled along with him.

"God, I'm gonna miss that," said Sarah. "What about Benny? Do we have to kill him too?"

The moment those words left her mouth, a flow of sadness came through me. Rory and Erica's faces turned to depressed.

"Grandma gave me this." I showed them the dagger. "She told me that I have to stab Benny with it and the Lucifractor will leave his body."

"Will it kill Benny too?" asked Erica.

"I don't know."

"Love," said Sarah, "you have to remember that…Benny isn't immortal like us."

"I know that."

"You can't make him live forever. Benny will grow old and he will age. But with the Lucifractor…he's gone now."

"It's not his fault! It's Stern. He's taking the people we love away from us and kills them. When the Luicfractor was taking over Benny and Grandma couldn't do anything, Stern just sat there and let it kill her! Just today, he made Benny create a gun and Benny was about to shoot him with it! Look what he's done to my best friend, my brother! He's created a monster!"

"Ethan, I don't know what to tell you. Except…that Benny is still in there…a-and we just need to get him out of there for the moment before the Lucifractor takes over him again."

"Okay."

I kissed Sarah and hugged her.

"I love you forever," she said.

"I love you always," I said.

After leaving them in the middle of the hallway, I headed to one of the offices where the leaders were. I found Anastasia.

"I can't believe you sacrifice our secret and these mortal lives just to save you friend," said Anastasia.

"If you knew how much Benny meant to us, then you would know."

"The Council is my family too, but I never actually made friends with any of them."

"Really?"

"Demetri, Marcus, and Leonardo are just so old, stubborn, and too serious. The guards just do whatever I say and I'm mostly afraid of them because I think they only see me as a stupid little girl and will

"I don't think you're stupid."

"Fair words, Ethan. I must that heart inside of you may not be beating, but it is still good and pure."

"Thank you. I'll tell you what, Anastasia. I'll be your friend."

"Really? I haven't had a friend in over two thousand years."

"Oh, wow. Now you're my oldest friend I ever had."

She cheerfully hugs me so much that I almost couldn't breathe. After she stopped hugging me, Anastasia said, "You have showed me how much your girlfriend and your friends mean to you."

"They're more than that. They're my family. I would do anything to keep them safe."

"I know that. I mean it's you, Ethan. You're the only one who can save us all."

"All? Do you think I'm running this army or something?"

"Yes, you are. Leonardo and I could never pull together something like this. All of these mortals believe in you. With you, they think they can do anything. You brought out the bravery inside of each and every one of them, and you made into warriors."

"Thank you, Anastasia. I'll always be your friend."

After that talk with Anastasia, I realized something. All of these humans were willing sacrifice themselves just for us. I am so thankful for them.

When the afternoon came, we gathered our army outside of City Hall.

"Listen, everyone," I said aloud. "We thank you for all of your courage, your bravery, and your sacrifice. We can defeat them. I know we can. It's vampires vs humans. Who rules the world here?!"

"Humans!" They screamed.

"We have to show those vampires that we're not afriad of them anymore. We have things that they don't have. Strength, hope, faith, weapons, friends, family, and bravery. With all of that, none of them will have a chance against any of you. We are strong! We are invincible! We are unstoppable!"

All of them threw their fist into the air as I did. They cheered along with me.

"They're coming," Sarah murmured.

Stern, Jesse, Benny, and the vampire army started to walk towards City Hall. I felt their stompings in the ground.

"So many of us and only four of them," said Jesse. "This will be too easy."

"We will remembered for killing them all," said Stern. "Especially Ethan."

"Did you really need this many vampires just for these four?" asked Benny.

"It is only necessary for one reason." said Stern. "With those four, who knows what's coming at us."

All of them were across from City Hall. Sarah, Erica, Rory, and I stood at the steps of City Hall.

"We can do this." said Rory.

Once they all stopped, Stern grinned and laughed, "This is it?! This is your army?"

The doors opened. The Vampire Council and their bodyguards appeared.

"No, there's us too." said Anastasia.

"Still not enough to defeat this," said Jesse.

"You know there's a lot more of us," I said.

Jesse sniffed the air. "I don't smell anything. Just garlic."

The humans appeared from the doors, windows, and behind of City Hall. All of them had garlic wrapped around them to hide their human scent. Each of them had bags of wooden stakes on their backs and water guns full of holy water in their hands. Many of the kids were on top of the roof of City Hall with water guns, holy waer balloons, and slingshots.

"What do you say to that, Stern?" I yelled.

"Humans? You really expect my army to be destroyed by these pathetic, weak humans?!"

"Yes."

"Vampires, attack! Show no mercy! Destroy them all!" Jesse commanded.

"For Whitechapel!" I screamed.

Both armies charged toward each other. May the battle of the world...begin.

It will begin now!