Everyone, I am SO SUPER DUPER SORRY! I don't have a real excuse for why it took me TWO FREAKING MONTHS to update, and I am SO SORRY! Honestly, I lost complete interest in this story. Like, all interest in it. But I couldn't bear to let it go unfinished, even if this chapter is two months late. So, I had to post this. This is the last chapter of this story, and again I'm sorry. I hope you enjoy it! :D Also, I will be posting a new story as soon as possible. It won't be very long, but the wonderful justkeeptyping gave me the idea, and I owe the story to her for her winning my Jara contest! :D So, that should be up soon! Again…

I AM SO SORRY! D:

But anyway, please enjoy the last chapter!

Nina POV

I could barely feel myself. It felt as if my true soul was huddled in a little shell in the corner of my being, avoiding the raw power that Senkhara radiated. I remembered the feeling of her being in my body much more than I liked, and just like last time, it made me feel dirty, useless, just a kind of garment covering something so much more powerful. Whenever Senkhara's soul was in my own body, connected to me like this, it was like I could see her, see her very being. Her soul was a tiny thing, really. It was weak, and depressed, but it was swollen with pride and false-happiness out of power. It radiated pure darkness, and all the power she gave off seemed to really just be coming from her arrogance, how much she thought she was so powerful, so it made her that way. It was an old thing, if it were tangible it would probably be cracked and beaten up, rough and wrinkly. After thousands of years of roaming the earth bodiless, it actually seemed to be in good condition, from the little I knew about souls. Maybe those Egyptians had known what they had been doing with mummification.

I tried my hardest to hold on to a little sliver of myself, to not let my own soul get covered up by Senkhara's ego like last time. I tried to keep some control over my body, and with that effort, I was able to see where Senkhara was leading my body. I was led through a labyrinth of tunnels, under thousands of miles of rock. My body seemed to be radiating a sort of dark cloud, but I couldn't even focus on that, it was taking all of my willpower to focus on where Senkhara was taking me.

I was finally led to a little cavern, which was lit up from some unknown source. Senkhara waited in the center of the room until a little light appeared at the end of the opposite tunnel. As I watched, I saw two forms approaching, both utterly familiar, one wavering, and one humanly solid. I forced my being to look harder through my own eyes, mentally forcing Senkhara's soul over as I peered closer at the figures, which alone – and definitely together – made absolutely no sense. If I had had enough control over my body, I might have spoken aloud, voicing my confusion, but Senkhara's soul was still overpowering my own, so the words I wanted to shriek were confined to my mind.

Rufus? Eddie? What's going on here?

But of course, none of them could hear my thoughts, so they didn't answer my questions, only advanced closer. Eddie seemed to be in a type of trance, his usually giddy, bright eyes dull and unfocused. He had his fist closed around something, and it was radiating a soft light through his fingers. Had he in fact found what he'd been looking for too?

I fought the fatigue my soul was showing, trying to keep focused on the scene unfolding before me.

Rufus smirked at me – or Senkhara in my body – taking in the object in my hand. "Perfect. You have it?"

Senkhara spoke through my mouth, making me feel even more dirty as she spat at him. "Of course, fool. You have yours, I presume?"

Rufus' expression grew a bit stale, and he gestured to Eddie. "Of course. Now, is it all ready?"

I felt my soul rattling around as Senkhara bobbed her – my – head up and down. She forced my body towards Eddie's, and Eddie walked towards me in a trance-like state. He raised his hand with the object clasped in it, as if there were a voice in his head ordering him to do these things. And after all that had been going on, I didn't necessarily doubt it.

Senkhara urged my body forward, raising my hand with the painful stone cold heat still nestled tightly in my palm. She pushed me towards Eddie, to where we were almost touching, and I vaguely noticed there was a hole in the rock above us, and some kind of ornate carvings on the walls around us, but Senkhara's soul was getting even more powerful the closer I brought my hand to Eddie's. My body seemed to scream in protest, as if the objects Eddie and I held repelled each other, but Senkhara forced my hand forward with surprising strength. I almost imagined a slight squeak of my own escape my mouth as my hand and the object in it were forced against Eddies', and Senkhara's soul was ripped out of my body.

Eddie POV

I don't know what had gotten into me. I would normally never listen to Rufus, after all, I barely knew him and I still knew he was insane. But I had to figure out what was going on – and even more important, I had to get this thing out of my hand. It was like it bound my hand to it, but I really just wanted to drop it, let it fall to the ground, because the heat searing across my palm was utterly unbearable. But Uncle Crazy here must have done something, because I didn't seem to have any control over my mind. I was forced to swim through the thickening water, and suddenly – somehow – I was walking through a tunnel in the caves, completely dry, it seemed. Rufus had a tight grip on my wrist, even though through the sliver of vision I could retain his figure seemed to waver.

Rufus dragged me through the halls into what seemed like a giant cavern, and in the center of the room stood… Nina?

Nina had a dark cloud surrounding her body, an evil glint in her eyes. I knew this look too well.

Senkhara.

None of what was going on made any sense at the moment, but Rufus was still forcing me to walk forward. I wanted to stop and protest, to pull back and scream out my questions about what was going on, but my mouth wouldn't move at my brain's command. Rufus was in utter control of me.

I continued to walk forward, meeting Nina in the perfect center of the cavern. Both of us in seemingly trance-like states, we raised our hands in which the objects were clasped. I could feel the power radiating from Nina's hand, and my own. I wanted to run and cower from it. But I was utterly unable to.

Nina's hand was raised in midair, inches from mine. I desperately tried to pull back, but instead of the objects repelling each other like they had at first, they were pulling together like magnets. Our closed fists finally came together, and I could barely feel her cool skin against my hot fist. Still in the trance, our fingers unfurled, bringing the objects together, when suddenly there was a burst of light, and I was thrown off my feet, the light burning ice was torn from my hand, and I found myself lying on my back.

I struggled to get up, looking around the cavern. The previously spotless walls of the cave were charred and crumbling, and water was trickling across the floor in a steady stream. I looked around, searching for Senkhara and Rufus, but neither of them were to be found. Still scanning the cavern, I saw a small body strewn across the floor, and rushed over.

"Nina!" I called out, kneeling down next to her. "Nina, are you okay? Can you hear me?"

Nina sputtered, her eyelids fluttering, and she looked up. Her normally blue eyes met mine, and I sighed in relief that they weren't Senkhara's. She was herself again. "Eddie! What happened to Senkhara and Rufus?" She asked, sitting up and putting a hand to her head, surveying the cave room we were currently in.

"I don't know," I admitted. "After the… explosion thing… I looked up and they were gone, and the cave was like this."

She shuddered. "They aren't here. I would feel Senkhara's presence. But where could they be?"

"Hopefully dead for the third time, and for good," I sighed, helping her up. We both looked around, before Nina suddenly rushed forward, picking up two small objects and showing them to me.

The stone cold heat and light burning ice.

With wide eyes, Nina peered closer at them, before putting the light burning ice close to my face. I flinched, before realizing what she was showing me.

The normally clear substance was shockingly blue. A far too familiar blue. My mouth stood agape, and I turned my attention to the stone cold heat.

It was a hard, flat black.

Nina grinned at me. "They… they are in the rocks!"

She handed me the light burning ice, and with a smirk, took the stone cold heat in her hand, wound up her arm and threw it with shocking speed and power at the wall. The rock shattered against rock, and the floor was soon covered in small little pieces of black rock. Following her lead, I took the blue rock in my hand and chucked it at the wall, and soon the entire floor of the cavern was blue and black.

Looking at Nina, I sighed. "How do we get out of here, though?"

Nina smiled, pointing. "See the water trickling down that path? We follow it."

***Line***

Patricia's POV

I just sat there, horror in my heart, and probably apparent on my face, staring at the pond. Jerome sat next to me on one side, and Mara on the other. They said nothing, though, and I didn't either. We just sat there helplessly, staring at the perfectly still pond, wishing for the slightest ripple.

Still sitting there, I realized I began holding my breath when Mara and Jerome stiffened.

There, far under the surface seemed to be something. It could be a fish, but the largeness of it suggested to me it was not. As it grew closer, my eyes widened, and I jumped up.

Nina and Eddie were swimming towards the surface. Still not knowing what had happened, I held out my hand anyway, letting it rest just above the water – I was still slightly scared of it – and soon the pair broke through, gasping.

"Patricia?" Eddie asked, grabbing my hand and letting me drag him out. Beside me, Jerome and Mara had helped Nina out of the pond. It took me a moment to register neither of them were wet. Not a drop of water was on them.

"What happened? I know Senkhara and Rufus were down there, I know. But… how did you get away?" I demanded.

Eddie sighed. "Honestly, I don't know. Rufus had control over me, and Senkhara had control over Nina. They were controlling us, but there was a random explosion, and they were stuck in the rocks, so we destroyed them and came back here. I seriously don't understand what just happened at all."

Nina stood up, thanking Jerome and Mara. "Where is Fabian?" She asked urgently.

"Back at the place you jumped," Mara said.

"Thanks," Nina said, running off.

Nina POV:

"Fabian!" I screamed, running through the caves, skidding around corners. I turned another corner to find the brown haired boy on his knees, next to the hole, holding his head in his hands. His back wracked with sobs.

"Fabian!" I cried again, running forward.

Fabian whirled around, his eyes, still wet with tears, widening. He jumped up, running towards me and picking me up, twirling me in a circle. "Nina! Are you okay?" He asked urgently, setting me down and grabbing my hands.

I smiled. "I'm fine. And Rufus and Senkhara are gone for good."

Fabian beamed, leaning his forehead against mine. "That's all that matters to me."

I grinned back, standing on my tiptoes to press my lips to his once more.

Amber POV:

My heart pounded in my chest. "Amber… I love you too. But…"

"Please, just give me another chance! I've been absolutely terrible to you, but just give me one more chance. I promise I'll prove it to you!" I cried.

Alfie contemplated this for a moment, before sighing and nodded.

I beamed, throwing myself into his arms and positively smashing my lips against his.

Nina POV:

I boarded the bus behind Fabian, ready to be rid of this place. Although the trip aside from the entire experience with Senkhara had been fine, the campsite still had an eerie feel to it. When I took my seat next to Fabian, I looked around the bus at my housemates and smiled happily. Amber and Alfie were holding hands, talking happily, finally back together. Mara and Jerome were talking in hushed whispers, and Mick had his arm around Joy, and they were both smiling. Everything seemed to have worked out for the best.

And as I snuggled into Fabian, I smiled.

Everything was absolutely perfect.