A/N: To all my lovely readers who have been with me since I started this fic, this is for you.

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Chapter 21:

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"AAAAHHHH!" Reid screamed in utter agony, as lightening came down from the heavens, piercing through the ceiling and entering into his chest. His eyes were clenched shut, his hands balled into fists.

"FINAL STRAW, CALEB!" Chase called to him. He pointed to Caleb's mother, still choking on the floor, and turning a bit purple. "Are you going to let her and the other girls DIE?"

"AAAAAHHHHH!!" Reid called out in more pain, as the surge through him began to grow. Chase looked to the blond with an envious longing all over his harsh features.

"I can't imagine what that feels like…" Chase admitted to Reid in a jealous awe. "Absorbing all that Power… But I will soon…"

Exertion's tears streaked Reid's face, the torture too much.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

"Reid!" Elle choked. "Don't give in!"

"SHUT IT!" Chase snapped at her, throwing a hand in her direction in an attempt at causing her harm, but nothing happened.

"What?" he hissed in confusion. He looked to Reid for an answer, and found it. Even through the stress, the pain, and the hindrance of his Ascension, he still wouldn't stand for Chase laying a hand on Elle. His black iris's and outstretched hand were the traces that he had put up some sort of barrier to protect her, even if just for the split second he could manage it.

"Don't TOUCH her," Reid warned him in a voice that wasn't his. It was distorted, trying to hold the Power inside of him. His eyes were finally open and pure black in color. The wood that he stood upon suddenly burst into flame, threatening Reid's life if the triple-Ascension wasn't already. Thunder cracked overhead, and the flames danced near Reid's feet.

"REID!" Elle called out in worry, putting up a hand to shield her eyes from the light upon him.

"It's YOUR turn to choose, my dear!" Chase called to her. "Are you going to let your sweetheart die just so you can beat the villain? Or spare him, will the Power to me, and die heroically yourself?"

"Chase!" Pogue suddenly yelled, stepping forward. "I have a secret to tell you!"

Chase looked to Pogue with threatening eyes, urging him to make it fast.

"Elle isn't the entity…" he informed him, much to the surprise of all. "The real one made me swear not to tell…"

His eyes fell to Caleb's mother, who shamefully looked anywhere but at her son. Caleb's eyes went wide with shock and dread.

"No…" Caleb breathed in horror. Chase seemed to have a similar look of dread. He grew alarmed, having obviously not anticipated this new development.

"I don't believe you!" Chase shouted back. "Prove it!"

"Don't have to," Pogue replied. "She'll prove it herself."

Suddenly an even bigger strike of lighting struck Reid, making him scream out with everything in him.

Then, Evelyn screamed too, her eyes falling jet black. Another strand of lightning sprang from Reid and into her chest, connecting the two together.

All eyes fell to her, as she lifted to Reid's level on the risen stage, slowly drifting through the theatre towards him. She screamed in agony as the electricity drained the life and Power right from her and into Reid.

"I…" she stammered, preparing to speak the world-shattering words.

"NO!" Chase yelled. "This was not supposed to happen this way!"

"Will…!"

"There has to be some other way!" Caleb demanded of Pogue, but he just shook his head no. Before them, Reid's yells began to fall weak, meaning he was going to die in any moment now…

"Them…!"

"Mother, NOO!" Caleb desperately called to her. "Please!!"

The mother looked to her son with love in her eyes, smiling a sweet, melancholy smile before uttering the final words:

"My Power."

Immediately four strands of lightning sprang from Evelyn in a large blast of energy, spearing into the four Sons and making them all yell in unison. The blast was so large it tore apart half the auditorium, revealing the police, SWAT, and FBI who were gathered on the outside.

But it regressed quickly, and not a moment too soon, for in the next second, Reid's Ascension was complete, and he dropped to the floor. Elle, fearing for his health, quickly ran to his side, trying to rouse him without success.

Evelyn Danvers then too collapsed to the ground, breathing one more time, before her eyes closed in death's slumber. Caleb rushed to her, kneeling by her side, but he knew it was too late for any goodbyes. His eyes clenched shut at the sight, a single tear rolling down his cheek. Pogue put a hand on Caleb's shoulder in sympathy.

She was gone.

Caleb slowly rose to his feet. She was gone and it was all Chase's fault…

He turned to the culprit with murder in his eyes. Chase was staring at Evelyn Danvers frozen body in shock, wondering how in the world he had lost this battle… again. His gaze was empty, staring into oblivion, his mind not being able to comprehend what had just happened.

"You…" Caleb growled at Chase.

"Everyone, drop to the ground and put your hands over your head!" a policeman with a megaphone called. "Now!"

Tyler immediately shot his hands in the air fearfully, Pogue ignored them to tend to the injured and confused Kate and Sarah.

"Pogue?" Kate asked in confusion, shaking off the last traces of her trance. "What happened? What am I wearing?"

Pogue didn't reply, just threw his arms around his fiancée and held her tight, like he was reunited with her for the first time in years, relief swelling over him. Sarah smiled approvingly, then cast her eyes worriedly on Caleb.

Elle was too distracted with the lifeless Reid.

"Wake up!" Elle begged him. "Reid, please! Wake up!"

Tyler noticed this, and exchanged glances with Pogue nervously.

"He's okay, right?"

Pogue shook his head in stunned ignorance, not knowing how to answer.

"Right, Pogue?" Tyler asked again.

"I… don't know…" Pogue stammered, his brow wrinkling with worry.

Behind them, Caleb had grabbed Chase by the collar and yanked him close.

"You will DIE by my hands, do you hear me?!" Caleb vowed.

"You have until the count of three!" the policeman warned. "Then we will open fire…ONE!"

"Crap," Tyler muttered, stretching his arms a little higher. Pogue now raised his hands as well, as did Sarah and Kate.

"Reid, please!" Elle pleaded, getting near hysterical that the blond wasn't breathing. Tears flowed from her eyes in streams, and she attached her ear against his chest with no intention of removing it. "Open your eyes—let me see your beautiful eyes! Please, don't do this…!"

"TWO!" the policeman called.

"We are equally matched, Caleb," Chase reminded Caleb. "You can't kill me… You'll just make history repeat itself again."

"Yeah, but you forgot one difference between us…" Caleb said to Chase. "I have friends."

Tyler and Pogue's eyes fell black immediately at their friend's words, knowing where they were supposed to be… and that was right behind Caleb.

Chase grew furious at this, being reminded of the one thing he had always wanted… to be one of the Covenant. To grow up as they did, with homes, families… their brothers. Angrily, he raised his hands up to the sky, calling out like a battle charge, forming balls of energy in each hand.

"OPEN FIRE!" a distant voice called out.

"GET HIM!" Caleb's voice rang out at the same time.

"AAHHH!! Tyler and Pogue yelled out with battle cries, as did Chase in return. Both parties charged at one another, ignoring the police and their flying bullets completely.

Caleb raised himself into the air, flinging energy force after energy force at his hated enemy, wishing the pain of his mother's death would ease if only he could make the culprit pay.

Three against one was difficult for Chase, but he seemed to be holding his own, flinging Tyler into a wall, and Pogue into the stage.

But Caleb's rage was too large, his will too strong. Chase too, was now in the air, and the midair battle suited well to keep Caleb's loved ones still below out of harm's way. The police had seemingly stopped firing for the moment to gaze at the flying boys in awe.

"We're right behind you, Caleb," Pogue said to his right.

The three boys nodded to one another, and flew together in a straight line, ignoring Chase as he wound up for a large attack.

"Give it everything you've got," Caleb ordered his friends. "And I mean everything…"

The three boys lifted their hands to the jet-black sky. They cried out as if they were lifting something extremely heavy, their brows furrowing in fatigue but fighting onward.

A small ripple of Power appeared under them, slowly growing into a wave as it curled and spread to rise above them.

Chase's eyes grew wider and wider as the wave of energy became larger, and all too soon it was a tsunami, flying his way.

Sarah and Kate winced as the tidal wave hit Chase and flattened him into the ground like one would crush something underfoot. Caleb was tempted to throw him into the flames he had prepared to burn Reid at the stake. It was what he deserved.

But the moral man inside of him made him throw his now unconscious enemy at the police's mercy.

Caleb sighed and decided to be done with it.

"Fire, men," one cop shouted to the rest. "FIRE!"

A few shots came to Caleb, but they were easily flicked aside. Thankfully, Caleb didn't get the chance to decide if he wanted to defend himself or not.

"HOLD YOUR FIRE!" called a female voice. "THIS INSTANT!"

Caleb looked over to the mass of government entail and civilians gathered around, but her voice stuck out from the rest. It was none other than Caroline, his interrogator from the FBI headquarters.

"I have proof here that says these boys are completely human," she explained, holding up the papers for them to see. "It's why they were released. The real culprit behind all of these attacks, you have just shot down. So well done."

"But the boys…" the one with the megaphone sputtered in confusion. "They ripped apart the building…"

"Did you witness any of them do this?"

"Well, no…"

"I think I've made my point. Any man to fire one more shot will be arrested themselves, is that understood?"

"I don't get it--" Caleb began, but Caroline interrupted him with a smile.

"Let's just say the government will treat you just like any other paranormal issue," she explained in a low voice. "We'll brand you top secret, take you under our wings and sweep your evidence under the carpet."

Caleb tried his best to give her an appreciative grin, but his heart was so heavy he couldn't manage a convincing one. He simply thanked her instead.

She nodded a 'you're welcome', then looked to the others.

"Consider yourself government property now, gentlemen," she informed, then walked off.

Time suddenly seemed to slow down to a crawl. Caleb put his hands at his sides, and inhaled deeply as the confused officers began to move out. He watched in mourning as the paramedics put a white sheet over his mother, then carried her away.

Caleb turned back to his brothers, who were gathered around Reid's body. Tyler was trying to coax Elle off of him, but she was bawling buckets of tears and wouldn't release him for the world.

Finally, between the effort of Pogue and Tyler both, they managed to pry her away. More paramedics came and placed a white sheet over him as well, lifting his body to a stretcher and carrying him off.

Tyler could only hold Elle close as she cried freely into his shoulder. He looked ready to cry himself.

Sarah sniffed too, taking a firm hold of Caleb's hand and squeezing it tightly.

"I'm sorry, Caleb," she said sincerely. He could only nod weakly in reply, then embrace his girlfriend for all it was worth.

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I am so sorry for this ending, but keep in mind there's still one more chapter to go! Please review.
Signed,
--RedRogue