Dear Diary,

Hello my name is Frida Suarez, I am sixteen years old and this is what has happened in the past year. I met Manny some half human half spirit who's very impulsive and can be a jerk but has a good heart, Andrea a devil slayer and the best girlfriend, and T.J a shaman or an exorcist as that is what modern shamen are called and he's okay but he has a leachery problem. I also found out that I have some powers and I used them to kick the butt of Manny's crazy demon ex girlfriend then I watched my Mom fight which is weird since she's not usually violent. So I am now attending the Santo Order a church/school which trains healers, exorcists, and slayers where I will learn to use my powers better. Andrea is training to be a slayer there while T.J is training to be an exorcist all the while trying to resist the urge to grope and peep on some of the younger nuns. As for Manny can't use his powers for awhile, we found out that if does the demonic and spiritual energy in his body will drain his life force. Luckily T.J found a way to contain all of Manny's spiritual and demonic energy inside a buckle made from metal that was blessed by a priest and it's locked with a seal that only I can undo so if Manny gets any ideas about using his powers he can't get them. However if he gets angry enough he can break the seal and cause God knows what kind of chaos so we're working on anger management with him. Manny keeps the buckle on his belt twenty-four seven and constantly begs me to lift the seal but I am taking no chances with his life. That aside today I'm going to learn how to shoot a gospel gun, wish me luck.

Sincerely Frida Suarez.

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"Role call." Sister Josephine said. "Sister Rosa?"

"Here."

"Sister Teeney?"

"Here."

"Frida?"

No response.

"Frida?"

"Sorry I'm late." She said rushing into the room. "I overslept."

"That's the tenth time it's happened." She said sternly. "If you're late again you'll be mopping the floors all next week. Now ladies today you shall learn how to use a gospel gun. This weapon was invented during the nineteen-twenties, to a human it is completely harmless won't even break the skin but to a demon or spirit it can penetrate it's indestructible skin, break it's stone hard bones, and if hit in the right area can destroy it."

"Whoa tough." Frida said.

"Now to use this you'll require hand eye coordination, quick-thinking, and above all time."

"Time?"

"Time is the key element, knowing when it is the right time to shoot. These bullets have no scent meaning neither demon nor spirit can smell it which gives us an advantage. Demons and spirits rely on their sense of smell more than any of there other senses. If one had to choose between giving up it's eyes or sense of smell it would give up it's eyes. There fore since they cannot smell the bullets they don't know what's coming but their hearing is just as sharp and if you miss your target they'll hear the shot and know what to expect. Now load up your guns and begin target practice."

Frida loaded her gospel gun with the holy bullets and begin shooting at targets. It came pretty easier to her due to shooting a bow and arrow for a whole year.

"So Frida what's your friend Manny like?" Rosa asked.

"Let's see impulsive, rude, hot-headed, a little feral, sometimes a flat out jerk but he's also brave, caring, sweet, and really funny."

"He sure is cute." Teeney said.

"I guess he's kind of cute."

"What's it like working with him?" Rosa said.

"Exhausting."

"You think I could work with him sometime?" Teeney asked. "He just seems so nice."

"Back off Teeney, you're a nun so you can't have boyfriends and besides he's Frida's man." Rosa scolded.

"He's not my man! Oh no! no,nonono! It is not like that!"

"Then why do you always bring him lunch?"

"Because he's my friend."

"Then why don't you bring lunch for Andrea and T.J?"

"No more questions!"

Her training in using that weapon went on for a week. T.J learned new ways to exorcise demons while Andrea learned knew fighting techniques including how to use sacred jewels as weapons, turns out they were more than just pretty stuff to wear. Manny found his hands full with repairing weapons, furniture, and supplies nearly everyday.

"Hand me that wretch will you Manny?" Tonio asked.

"Here." Manny said giving him the tool.

"Hey brought you some lunch." Frida said.

"Thanks." He said taking the bag of food from her. "So what's new?"

"Well I've officially passed gospel gun class."

"Great."

"Now I wanna get out and test it."

"Test it? On what?"

"A demon."

"There aren't any demons around here."

"There are when Sister Josephine starts sending some of the students on missions."

"Frida what are you thinking?"

"I say we convince Sister Josephine to send us on a mission."

"We?"

"Eat up quick because we're going to her office after lunch."

However Sister Josephine was busy at the moment talking with Father Anthony and Takeo.

"So what exactly have your spies told you Father Anthony?" She asked him.

"A few months ago a devil worshipper abducted a young girl."

"Give me some information about her."

"She's quite young, twelve years old. She's very kind, innocent, sweet, and charitable."

"So she's a child. Where are her parents?"

"Her father abandoned her shortly after he got her mother pregnant. Her mother was the faithful servant of a spirit and during her pregnancy which she was unaware of at the time she took a fatal blow meant for her master which would've hit him in his weak spot. She survived but it left her body so weak that when the child was born she died in childbirth. Her master pitied her and to repay her for her sacrifice he had his servants raise the child."

"Oh the poor thing."

"This man plans to sacrifice her demons."

"Who is this man?"

"Don Raphael."

"The Don Raphael? The owner of all those casinos? What could a demon possibly offer him in exchange for her? He's filthy rich."

"He's old and close to death, he's convinced if he gives the life of a child to Satan he'll be young forever."

"The fool! No one can do that!"

"Yes but devil worshippers are not ones to listen to reason."

"Alright send our best slayers and exorcists to retrieve her."

"Our best slayers and exorcists are in Japan fighting our demonic enemies in Asia." Takeo said.

"Is there anyone we can send?"

"You can send me." Frida suggested.

"No Frida you're new and inexperienced."

"Hey I maybe new but I am not inexperienced. I've taken down several demons with just a bow and arrow."

"It's too risky. I'm afraid we'll have to call one of our professionals from Japan and wait for them to come back."

"By that time the poor girl could already be dead." Frida said. "Sister Josephine you have to let me go."

"No. You're intentions are admirable but you're not ready. Now get back to your studies."

Frida sighed but an idea popped into her head. She went to the library and looked up Don Raphael's Casinos. After printing out a map to it, she grabbed a gospel gun and holy bullets then went outside to the garage where the order's only car was.

"But Frida Sister Josephine told you not to." Sister Rosa said.

"That lady doesn't have enough faith in me." Frida said. "I can handle this."

"Sister Josephine is going to be really upset about this." Sister Teeney said.

"Hey it's not like she's gonna take it out on you two. Don't worry about me."

"Oh dear." The two nun girls said leaving Frida to do her business hoping that she wouldn't cause anymore trouble.

"Uh Frida what are you doing?" Manny asked. "We're not allowed to use the car."

"I'm going to Don Raphael's casino."

"Why?"

"Well it turns out Don Raphael the owner of the joint is a devil worshipper who plans on giving a girl to demons so I'm going to save her."

"And did Sister Josephine tell you to do this?"

"Not exactly."

"What do you mean not exactly?"

"As in she told me not to."

"Frida this has bad idea written all over it. Please get out of the car before you do something stupid."

"And just where do you two think you're going?" T.J asked.

"T.J you're a rational guy right?" Manny asked.

"Yes."

"Okay so if Frida goes off on a mission by herself to fight a devil worshipper she could get herself killed right."

"That depends where is she going?"

"Don Raphael's Casino."

"Oh! Then yes! If she went by herself she would definitely be killed."

"Thank you."

"Which is why I shall be coming with you."

"What?!"

"I'm going too but only because I don't trust you alone with her." Andrea said.

"Tell me you two aren't going along with this. This is crazy!" Manny said.

"What's with you Manny? Usually you're up for any mission." T.J asked.

"That was before I had my powers limited."

"Manny you underestimate our strength." Andrea said. "None of us have any spiritual or demonic powers but we've taken down hundreds of demons and monsters. Trust us."

"Oh man I know I'm going to regret this." He said. "Move over."

They got in the car and Frida made her way to the front seat.

"You know how to drive right?" Manny asked her.

"Dad has given me a few lessons. How hard can it be?"

She put the key in the ignition and started up the car and began driving. They used the map she printed out to get to the casino unfortunately Frida was a very reckless driver, she drove so fast and rough that it scared the life out of her three passengers. Made them wonder how they had not been stopped by a cop yet.

"Here we are." Frida said pulling over. "Am I a good driver or what?"

"WHAT!" Manny, T.J, and Andrea shouted shaking and looking as white as a ghost. When they got out of the car T.J and Manny rushed for a nearby trash can and threw up their lunch from earlier today.

"Okay now that, that nightmare is over." Manny gagged. "How are we going to get in there?"

"What do you mean?" Frida asked.

"You have to be twenty-one or older to get in there and we're all underage."

"We just need to make ourselves look older." T.J said. "We'll dress up in fancy expensive clothes, fix our hair, and maybe add a little make up then sneak in."

"But where are we going to get that stuff?" Andrea asked.

They looked over at sign at a store that read: Tuxes, Evening Gowns, Hair Products, and Make-Up half off.

"What luck." Frida said.

They went inside, bought the stuff needed, and began trying to make themselves look older. Manny and T.J wore two tuxes, Andrea wore a lime green evening dress that showed a little cleavage and had short gloves, Frida wore a midnight blue dress that split a little and showed her right leg and wore long white gloves with it. With a little make up and a change in hair they easily fooled the people there into thinking they were at least twenty-one. They decided to split up to cover more ground, T.J went with Andrea and Manny went with Frida. They began searching higher level until Frida caught sight of a slot machine.

"Manny give me a coin." She said.

"Frida this is no time to be gambling around in a casino." Manny said.

"Oh come on I need the money."

"No! The mission comes first now let's go."

"No! The slots are calling me!"

Manny had to literally pry her hands off the machine and drag her by the arm.

"Where do you think that girl might be Manny?" Frida said.

"I don't know, knowing devil worshippers he won't keep her somewhere we can easily find her."

"Let's try to look in there." There was a door in the way back leading to the basement with a lock on the door. Frida pulled a hair pin from her hair and used it to pick the lock then they quietly slipped inside. The room was dark and there was hardly any light. "Can you see anything?"

"No. I'll see if I can feel around for something." His hand reached out and searched for something. His hand felt something soft and squishy. "Hey what's this?"

"Ahhhh! Hands off!" SLAP!

"Ow! Sorry."

Then a light went on to reveal some sort of alter. They heard footsteps coming, they quickly hid in a small area where Frida gave unknowingly gave him a view of her legs making him blush.

"Hey are you okay?" She asked him seeing his blush. She followed his gaze and blushed back. "You devil!"

"What! No! I just looked over and-"

"Shh! Someone's coming."

They watched as a group of people walked into a room. It was three men, one was a large and aging old man close to the brick of death, they guessed that was Raphael and the other two looked like employees of his and they were carrying a little girl who was passed out. The girl had been drugged no doubt and she had long snow-white hair and blueish-purple eyes dizzy from the drug.

"Manny is it my imagination or does that little girl look familiar?" Frida asked him.

"Yeah she does...Oh my God that's Lilith!"

"Lilith? The girl who's always with your cousin?"

"Yeah."

"But she was so much older looking last time we saw her. Why does she look like a child now?"

"I don't know but we better get her out of there before this crazy ceremony takes place."

They laid the girl onto the alter and chained her arms and wrists to it.

"What do you think they're doing?" Frida asked.

"I've seen this before it's a sacrificial alter. This man plans to sacrifice that girl to any devil he manages to summon."

"God almighty, we better do something."

"Now leave us!" Don Raphael ordered his men who left. He then lit a few candles, held up a demonic idol, and began chanting so strange language that neither of them could understand. The idol glowed, a flame went off the room and surrounded the child causing her to scream. Frida quickly pulled her gospel gun from under her dress, made her aim, and shot a holy bullet at the idol turning into ash and stopping the ceremony.

"Who did that?!" Raphael demanded.

"Frida you get Lilith, I'll hold off the old man." Manny said.

"Right."

"You! How dare you!" Raphael shouted. "Do you have any idea what you've done?!"

"Yeah I just saved an innocent girl from being inhumanely sacrificed! I can't believe people like you are so desperate for youth that you'd give the life of a child to demons! You're disgusting!"

"Enough with the lectures you runt! You won't ruin my plans!" He pulled out a gun and began shooting at him. Frida went to the alter and once again used her hair pin to pick the locks to the shackles that held Lilith.

"Lilith? Lilith can you hear me? Come on wake up." She gently gave the girl a few shakes to wake her up.

"Huh? Wha...What's going on?" She said dazed.

"We need to get you out of here. Can you walk?"

"I...I feel dizzy."

She tried to walk but she fell down.

"My God they've must've put drugs in your entire system. Alright hang on girl I'm gonna get you out of here."

In another area Andrea was looking around for a young girl but couldn't find her.

"T.J I'm having no luck what about you? T.J? T.J?" She found him sneaking around backstage toward the dressing room, oogling at the show girls. Andrea groaned, then grabbed T.J by his shirt collar and dragged him away. "You just can't help yourself can you?"

"I'm sorry Andrea, I really do try but when I see a beautiful woman I just have to go for it."

"Is that why you're squeezing my breasts as we speak?" She said as he massaged her breasts.

"Uh...Maybe or maybe I was just seeing that they were healthy and strong."

SLAP!

"Focus you perverted leech! When need to find that girl?"

"Of course and how old is she?"

"She's twelve."

"Oh."

"Please tell me you're not a pedophile."

"I'm not! Andrea I maybe a lecher but I would never go after a child! That's rape and I would never rape a woman or child!"

"I don't know why but I believe you."

"Really?"

"Yes now let's get off this subject and continue with the mission."

Just then they heard shots being fired. Crowds of people started running toward the exit, screaming in terror while they followed the gun shot noises downstairs into the basement. They saw Manny on one side of the room trying to avoid getting shot while Frida was in the corner trying to shield Lilith. Knowing there was a gun going off T.J covered Andrea and the two began crawling on the floor toward Frida and Lilith.

"What's going on?" Andrea asked.

"We have to get her out of here, she's heavily drugged and needs a doctor." Frida said.

"Okay I'm gonna try to get that gun away from him, you two try get out of here with the kid." T.J said.

He crawled up behind Raphael and in one swift move grabbed the gun in his hand, the two begin to wrestle for it. Giving Frida a chance to run out of the basement carrying Lilith on her back with Andrea following close behind with her jewel weapon ready if trouble started. As Raphael and T.J struggled to get the gun away from the other a shot rang out, Manny grabbed Frida's gospel gun which she had dropped and used it to hit Raphael hard on the head knocking him out. He saw blood leading toward T.J's arm, he had been shot.

"Hold on buddy I gotcha." Manny said lifting him up and carrying fire man style out of the building and back to the car.

"Oh man this hurts like a bitch." T.J complained.

"You're gonna be alright." Andrea said. "Just stay calm."

"Everything is going dark, I think I'm seeing stars."

"No T.J don't you leave us!:come on! Stay awake!" Andrea said.

"I've got help on the line." Frida said on the phone. "Hold on guys, hold on."

They drove down to the hospital and made calls to the Santo Order.

"What do you mean she went to the casino?!" Sister Josephine shouted.

"Yes ma'am we tried to stop her but-" Rosa said.

"Frida!" She cried angrily. "I swear that girl is going to- Ugh!"

The doctors tended to T.J's wounded arm and began to remove the drugs from Lilith's body. It wasn't long before Father Anthony and Sister Josephine came by and while they were grateful they were all okay Sister Josephine wasn't too happy that Frida disobeyed her and went on a mission.

"I told you specifically not to do this!" She scolded. "And now look what's happened? You got someone injured! I knew you weren't ready!"

"Look I know your mad lady but if hadn't of taken this mission Lilith would've been sacrificed." Frida argued. "Don Raphael was just about to give her life to the devil when we stopped him! So yeah I messed up, I disobeyed you, and T.J got hurt because of it but he's alright now and what's most important is that we saved her!"

"You know she has a point." Father Anthony said.

"Enough! Frida you've made your point but you still have much to learn. That aside what happened to Don Raphael? Is he still alive?"

"I don't know I knocked him out with a gospel gun after he shot T.J." Manny said. "If he's still alive he needs to be arrested and given the chair."

"I've already called the cops. Anything else we need to know?"

"Yeah why is Lilith a child?" Frida asked. "Last time we saw her she was fourteen years old now she's twelve."

"How do you two know this girl?" Sister Josephine asked.

"She travels alot with my cousin Nicholas, speaking of which I'm surprised he hasn't shown up looking for her yet." Manny said. "Then again he hates humans."

"Hmm...Let me examine her." Father Anthony said.

He went into Lilith's room, the girl was just waking up.

"Who are you?" She asked fearfully clinging to her bed post.

"It's okay my name is Father Anthony and I'm here to help you."

After examining her he came out with some news.

"Well what is it?" Sister Josephine asked.

"It appears that before he planned to sacrifice her Don Raphael preformed a backwards aging process."

"What is that?"

"It's a very dangerous ritual that very few people survive, the aztecs created it in hopes of stopping death and old age. When preformed correctly the person ages back a couple years but the side effects are death, brain damage, and who knows what else and even they manage to get through it in one piece all memory of events from previous ages are erased. Looks like Don Raphael wanted to try this technique first and decided to use Lilith as a guinea pig."

"So she doesn't remember anything after turning twelve?" Frida asked.

"Complete wipe."

"Can the effects be reversed?"

"I don't know. I'll look into it in the meantime she'll be staying with the order."