Author's Note: Here's the sequel I promised. This story is dedicated to my friend LuMezenga who had the main idea for the plot. Again I do not own anything, all those rights go straight to Joseph Delaney. Hope you like it. Read and review it.

Chapter 14: Fiend's Return

Stefan took me to the middle of the church where the pentagram was drawn. Mab was talking to Bony Lizzie in a corner, but they were just shadows because of the lack of light in the place. When they heard us coming, Bony Lizzie turned to us and left Mab alone.

"Do you remember anything I'd taught you about rituals?" she asked me.

"Yes, but I never did a ritual so big," I answered.

"That's not something to worry about. You just have to concentrate the energy. Now, let's get started. Stefan, you stay in one of the ends of the pentagram. Alice, you stay in the other one by Stefan's right," she said turning to Mab. "Mab, you do the same but you stay at Stefan's left. Jason will be between us."

In a few seconds, we were in position waiting for Jason. I didn't know what I was doing, but I needed to find a way to stop that ritual, save Tom and get the hell out of the church. Still, I couldn't react so soon without a plan. They would catch me and I would become the sacrifice. A couple of minutes later Jason showed up and took his place. My heart started to race once I realized he didn't know he was going to be used as the sacrifice. Mab didn't need him anymore and what a better way to get rid of him than that?

"Jason! Do you have any idea of what's going on?" I asked him.

"Yes, I do. I'm helping Mab and Fiend will share my body with me. I'll be more powerful," he answered.

"No!" I shouted "It'll get you kil…"

"Shut up, Alice!" I was interrupted by Mab. "Don't listen to her, Jason. You're going to do great! It's for a better future, remember?"

"Quiet! All of you," Bony Lizzie screamed. "Now, join your hands. For those who have never been to a ritual before, I need you to focus your energy on the power we are creating. Don't get distracted. Otherwise, the power created won't be enough. Are you sure you want to do this, boy?"

Jason nodded and we joined our hands. I was nervous and the heat from all those candles was making me sweat. I, honestly, didn't know what was going to happen. Fiend was mad at me. He didn't like Stefan for sure. He was going to take over Jason's body. I didn't know how his relationship with Bony Lizzie was, but it was probably bad, which left Mab, who wasn't the best option around. It wasn't much, but I knew that Fiend would be very angry with, basically, everyone in that room.

"Alice!" Bony Lizzie shouted again and I got back from my thoughts. "Focus. Don't try to ruin this ritual. You know that you friend is in danger. If this goes wrong, he dies."

I didn't reply, just nodded in agreement and tried to focus on the energy, just like I did in the other rituals I'd done, but this time was different and it was my first big ritual in years. I couldn't fail nor miss anything. Tom's life was in danger, so I decided to continue acting that ritual was nothing and focused like Bony Lizzie had said. She started the ritual, talking in a language I couldn't understand, but I could recognize some expressions in Latin, like "return to you land", "master of the dark", "sacrifice for you", so I could understand some parts of it. I was with my eyes closed, like everyone else should be, but I had a feeling that something was happening besides the ritual, so for a moment I opened my eyes slightly and saw some movement coming from a pillar to another one. That really got my attention, so I fully opened my eyes. I saw Tom's head spying on us. He looked at me and I tried to tell him get out of there, but he put his finger on his lips telling me to stay quiet. I nodded and closed my eyes. I really hoped he had a plan to stop that madness.

Bony Lizzie started to speak faster and I couldn't understand anything, but that meant the ritual was working. Then, suddenly, Bony Lizzie stopped talking and everything got quiet.

"Don't open your eyes," she said "Mab and Alice repeat the spells after me. When I stop to help the boy, you have to continue saying it."

So she started saying the spells and Mab and I followed her orders. I could feel the energy being pulled fiercely out of my chest, but luckily the pain wasn't excruciating as it would be if I was doing it myself. After a while, the floor started shaking and I could feel Fiend coming.

"Get ready boy. He's coming. You have to let him in. Don't fight against it," Bony Lizzie instructed Jason.

I got more nervous and I still could feel Fiend approaching. Mab and I continued chanting the spells, when an invisible force pushed all of us to the ground. I almost hit my head on the floor. I tried to get up while I looked around. Everyone, but Jason was on the floor. He was standing, but he didn't seem fine. His whole body was shacking like he was having an epileptic attack. His eyes rolled back and his skin color left his body. He was almost white and basically he had no eyes anymore. He looked like a drunken white zombie. Jason couldn't stand still, but he was trying to stop shaking.

"Don't fight it, boy," Bonny Lizzie said.

Jason seemed to relax a bit and the he collapsed on the floor.

"Jason!" I screamed getting up.

I ran towards him, but Bony Lizzie held me and didn't let me go. The more I struggled, the tighter she held me. A couple of minutes passed and Jason's body stopped moving and I knew he was dead. Tom was never going to forgive me. Mab, who was by Jason's side, went towards him and examined his body.

"He's dead, but I don't think Fiend is in here," she said.

"Be patient. He is here. He's just adjusting himself on his new body," Bony Lizzie replied annoyed.

"Let's kill him now then," Stefan spoke for the first time.

"No… It's not that simple," Bony Lizzie replied.

I looked around looking for Tom and I hoped he hadn't seen his brother dying. Jason's body, then, started to move again. He got up normally, like nothing had happened, but when I looked at his face I realized right away that the ritual had worked. There were two ice blue balls where is eyes should be. He looked pretty creepy and by the smirk on his face I could see Fiend had already gotten used to his new body. When he looked at me, the smirk faded away. I went to Stefan's side a bit scared, but Fiend forgot me and looked at Bony Lizzie. The whole room was in silence and the sound of Fiend's shoes echoed loudly when he walked to Bony Lizzie. She looked at him scared.

"What were you thinking?" Fiend screamed at her. "Do you think I like to be in a boy's body?"

"At least you're here," she answered.

"This didn't work out! You messed something up. I don't have access to my whole power."

"Hello, daddy," Stefan said sarcastically.

Fiend turned and looked at him.

"Well… Look who we have here! Stefan, enjoying freedom?" he said.

"Much more than I thought. And it's interesting to know that you don't have much power. It will be easier to kill you," Stefan smirked.

"Don't play with me, boy," Fiend screamed and his voice echoed.

"Stefan! Shut up. You don't want to ruin everything," Mab said.

Fiend turned to me.

"Oh yes, I forgot. You," he pointed at me. "You are the responsible for this. It's your fault that they're planning to kill me."

"I told you to help me," I said even though I was scared.

"But I can't forget that there is always someone more powerful behind all this," Fiend turned to Bony Lizzie. "I told you not to do this. You knew the consequences and yet you did it only to help your daughter."

"I would have never done that for her," Bony Lizzie replied angrily.

"Of course you wouldn't. You never cared about me anyways. I mean nothing to you. The only sad thing about this situation is that I'm related to you!" I screamed without a clue of what I was doing.

"This kind of speech doesn't move me," she replied to me.

"I told you Lizzie… I warned you about what would happen, but you chose to ignore me. Now you'll face the consequences and she…" he pointed his head towards me "is next."

Bony Lizzie replied something back but I didn't listened because Stefan's voice echoed in my mind. We need to get out of here. Your friend is behind a pillar, follow me on my signal, and then we get him and leave this place for now. I looked at him and nodded. Bony Lizzie was still arguing with Fiend and it got him pretty mad because in a matter of seconds he was already holding her by the neck and her feet were barely touching the floor.

"Now," Stefan whispered in ear and started to run.

I followed him and we passed by a pillar where Tom was.

"Come on, Tom," I screamed at him and he started to follow us.

In a few seconds we were almost outside the church, when I heard something falling to the ground. I looked back and I saw Bony Lizzie's body there. Fiend had killed her, but he was so shocked by our escape that he was just looking incredulous at us. Mab ran towards Bony Lizzie's dead body and I didn't know what happened next because I was pulled by Tom to continue running. So I ran after him and Stefan.