It was midnight when Frida awoke to a strange noise. It sounded like whispering then crying and finally praying. She got out of bed and left her room, she didn't see anyone in the hall so she assumed that she was imagining things but she felt a little nervous so she went to get a drink to calm her nerves. As she walked she felt a cold presence following her, she turned around but didn't see anyone. She went to the kitchen, got a drink, and went back to her room. She was then startled by a figuring wearing a bed sheet.

"T.J is that you?" She asked. The figure didn't answer. "T.J if it is I am not amused."

Frida groaned and pulled the bed sheet off expecting T.J to be under there but to her shock it wasn't. It was a woman, a ghostly woman. She was floating a few inches off the ground, she was dressed in clothes from the nineteenth century, her hair was flowing and her eyes held what appeared to be both peace and sorrow. Frida could make out her face while at the same time she couldn't. That was the thing about ghosts they were so hard to see. Frida noticed that the woman had the marks of Christ on her wrists, she tried to touch the woman's wrist but her finger just went right through her hand.

"Who are you?" Frida asked the ghost woman.

For a long time she didn't speak and when she did she did not tell Frida who she was but instead gave her some advice.

"When the corrupted nun screams you must sing to silence her."

"What does that mean?"

"When she screams it will hurt terribly but you must ignore the pain and sing vocally."

"I don't understand, what are you talking about?"

Without another word she disappeared.

"I've got to lay off the churros." She thought getting into bed. The next morning she went down to the break fast hall to find Manny scarfing down bacon while Andrea was giving T.J his daily bandage change.

"Oh my arm." T.J complained. "Oh the pain! It's unbearable! Just put me out of my misery!"

"Hold still you big baby! I haven't even touched you yet!" Andrea said annoyed.

"Hmmm...Be gentle with me." He teased only to have her tighten his bandages. "Ow!"

"There now in just a few more days you'll be good as new." Andrea said.

"But it still hurts. Can you kiss it better for me?" He gave her big, adorable eyes.

"Alright but just this once." She kissed his bandaged arm.

"Thanks."

"Well look who's finally awake." Manny said when she walked in. "Over slept again?"

"This time it wasn't my fault." Frida said. "I was visited by a ghost or at least I think I was."

"A ghost?"

"Yeah."

"What did it say?"

"It's a she and she said when the corrupted nun screams I have to sing to silence her. Any idea what that could mean?"

"Not a clue."

"You know ghosts can predict the future." T.J said. "Maybe she was informing you of a future problem."

"Maybe."

Father Anthony walked by their table carrying three boxes.

"Excuse me but could the two of you help me?" He asked.

"I got it." Manny said.

"Me too." Frida said. "What's in these boxes?"

"Some medicine, a few blankets, and a couple books for Lilith."

"Hey how is the kid doing?" T.J asked.

"Poor thing refuses to talk to anyone. She just sits up in her room all day."

"You can't really blame her especially after what she went through." Manny said. "Not to mention she doesn't know who anyone is."

They carried the boxes upstairs to Lilith's room. Before entering Frida had to take a bathroom break leaving Manny to carry two boxes. They went into the room, the girl was sitting on her bed and looking out the window. They noticed how frail and half starved her body looked. What in the name of God did that man do to her? Did he starve her?

"Hello." Father Anthony said. "Are you feeling any better?"

The child didn't say anything, she just looked at them.

"Listen we need you to take some medicine." He said. "We'll leave you alone after that."

Father Anthony pulled a bottle containing a clear liquid and a spoon. He opened the bottle and poured the medicine into the spoon but when he went to give it to her Lilith got out of bed and hid in a nearby corner shaking like a leaf.

"We're not going to hurt you." He said. "We just need you take your medicine."

She only backed up further into the corner as if she would turn invisible if she did.

"How's it going?" Frida asked returning from the bathroom. When she went into the room, Lilith's eyes lit up and ran right toward her throwing her arms around her Frida's waist, hugging it tight, and crying like a child who had been frightened by something and wanted her mother to protect her. "What in the world? What happened?"

"Don't look at us." Manny said. "We were only trying to give her medicine."

Lilith continued to cling to Frida and cry. Confused but understanding Frida hugged her back and let her cry. It wasn't long before she cried herself to sleep and they tucked her back into bed. When she woke up again this time they sent Sister Josephine in, while Lilith didn't speak she took her medicine and ended up hugging her too.

"It would appear that while Lilith fears men greatly she trusts women." Father Anthony said.

"Why is that?" Sister Josephine asked.

"She only knows what she remembers from her childhood and her time with Raphael. Since Raphael abused her she sees all men as cruel abusers and having never known her real mother and being raised by maids she views all women as motherly figures." He said. "That's why she tried to hide from me and Manny and clung to you and Frida. She saw me and Manny as abusers and you and Frida as kind, motherly women."

"Oh that poor child. She must've suffered such pain to feel that way. Do you think she'll recover?"

"I don't know but it's obvious that she's not going to be really comfortable around men for awhile. So do you think you and the other nuns could tend to her?"

"Of course anything for a child."

For the next few days Lilith was tended to with great compassion from the nuns, it almost made her feel like she was back home on the island where she grew up with the kind maids who raised her. One night it was storming real bad and she had nightmare, when she woke up felt like someone was with her. She was scared and couldn't go back to sleep, she got out of bed and left her room to find someone. She noticed the door to Frida's bedroom was left open and went inside.

"Frida?" She said lightly shaking the sleeping woman.

"I didn't do it Sister Josephine!" Frida woke up startled. "Oh Lilith it's you. What are you doing here at this hour?"

"I had a nightmare."

"Really?"

"Yes and I think there's someone in my room."

Frida got out of bed, slipped on her dressing gown, grabbed her gospel gun, and went to Lilith's room. She looked around for something demonic or supernatural but didn't see a thing.

"I think you were just scared by the storm." Frida said. "Tell you what how about I make you a late night snack and we can talk."

She took Lilith to the kitchen where she prepared two mugs of hot chocolate.

"So what was your nightmare about?" Frida asked sipping her hot beverage.

"It was about twins, a boy and a girl. One was a monk and the other was a nun but they weren't holy."

"What do you mean?"

"They were preforming these rituals where they killed people for money. Then the monk was hanged by a mob but the nun escaped and she was then destroyed by a bright light but before she was destroyed she said she'd come back."

"Whoa that is scary."

"Do you think that means something bad is going to happen to me?"

"I don't think so but if it makes you feel better I'll tell Sister Josephine about it tomorrow."

The next morning she told Josephine about Lilith's dream and to her surprise a look of fear crossed her face.

"She said that they were twins and that they killed people in rituals? Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Do you know them?" T.J asked.

"If what you say is true then I fear that her dream was about Sister Carla and Brother Carlito."

"Who are they?" T.J said.

"Years ago they were a former nun and monk of this church, we thought they were holy people of God but they were frauds. At first they began charging people for forgivness from God then they began practicing devil worship, they sacrificed people for wealth and power. When authorities got suspicious Carla pinned the whole thing on her brother, he was hung for devil worship. She planned to flee with their money but she was defeated by the angel of light Catarina."

"I thought angels couldn't commit murder."

"Catarina didn't kill her. She battled Carla and stripped her of her demonic power, in rage Carla attempted to kill Catarina only to end up killing herself. I am very afraid that she's now become a dark creature and is planning to posses Lilith."

"She can't! Can she?'

"Not as long as Lilith stays in the church. Takeo."

"Yes?" He said.

"Gather up your slayers and the exorcists. I fear there is a very dangerous and evil ghost creeping around here."

"Yes ma'am."

"Is there anything we can do?' Frida asked.

"Protect Lilith and don't let her leave the church."

"Right." Frida left to go check on Lilith.

"Why would Carla go after Lilith?" T.J asked.

"She and her brother found it easier to manipulate and prey on children who were sad and frightened. Lilith would be the perfect victim not to mention if she had her body she could easily continue her sacrifices by fooling her future victims into thinking she's an innocent little girl."

"Maybe I can exorcise her."

"Carla is a very powerful and evil ghost, I doubt you'll be able to stop her. Just focus on keeping Lilith safe."

Unknown to them Carla was at the window listening to the conversation.

"Foolish woman." She hissed. "Does she really think she can stop me? That brat will have to leave the church sometime and when she does she's mine. I will be able to continue my work and this time there will be no angel of light to stop me."

A hundred years ago...

Carla a living woman with red hair and brown eyes was attempting to leave town with a bag full of gold coins not caring at all that her brother was being hanged at this very moment. She was this close to getting away when a holy arrow was fired and it almost touched her skin.

"Sister Carla." An angry but calm voice said from behind. "Stay right where you are."

"Catarina." She said turning around and putting on her best smile. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Just where do you think you're going?'

"You have to understand with my brother being discovered as a devil worshipper people will start suspect me of it so I must leave and start a new life."

"Drop the act Carla you may have fooled the judge but I know you're just as guilty as he is."

"That's ridiculous. I am a woman of the church, a servant of God."

"You are a demon in human skin. You killed all those people. They came to you for help, for the lord's help and you just gave their lives to the devil for money."

"They were liars and thieves."

"Seeking redemption, they came to the church to confess their sins and beg the lord for forgiveness. As a nun and monk you and your brother should've guided them but instead you manipulated them. Just like how you manipulated the judge into thinking that Carlito was the only monster. Well I refuse to let you continue these acts of inhumane evil."

"What are you going to do? Kill me? An angel wouldn't do that to a human."

"I'm not going to kill you, I'm going to take away your demonic power."

"You can't! This power is mine! And mine alone!"

She let out a horrible, bloody scream that didn't sound human at all. It made her ears feel terrible pain, so much that she wanted to cut them off but she did not run away or scream or try to cover Carla's mouth. Instead she began to sing in a gentle, soft, melodious, and angelic voice. Her beautiful and holy singing soon began to drown out Carla's screams.

"Stop it! Stop singing! Stop!"

But she only continued to sing. Carla tried to scream as loud as she could only to find her screams getting weaker and weaker to the point of where she couldn't scream anymore.

"What did you do to me?!"

"My holy song has silenced your demonic scream for good and now I shall purge the rest of your demonic power from your human body."

She then pulled out another holy arrow and shot it right at Carla. It didn't kill her because she was human but it removed all demonic aura from her body leaving her to be nothing more than a common human.

"No!" She screamed.

"And now I shall inform the order and everyone else of what you are really like you'll never be able to deceive anyone ever again."

Catarina turned to walk away, in blind rage Carla pulled a knife from under her dress and tried to stab her but Catarina sensed her coming and moved out of the way causing Carla to trip over a rock and fall onto the knife which punctured her heart.

"Damn you Catarina! You won't be on this earth forever! And when that time comes I'll find away back even after I die!"

"Don't be so sure Carla because if you do return to earth and I am no longer here then I will personally see to it that someone on earth stops you."

"You...You wench!"

"Die and repent Carla. May God have mercy on your wicked and greedy soul."

Present...

"Damn that wench Catarina! But she's not on earth anymore so she can't stop me! Now how to get that girl to leave the church?"

She began to think of a way to get to Lilith, meanwhile all the slayers and exorcists were on guard for any sign of unholy beings. Lilith was kept under close watch by Frida and Andrea who made sure she never left the church. Then one night the slayers and exorcists heard a terrible scream, it was the most wretched noise they had ever heard. They dropped their weapons and fell to their knees clutching their ears hoping to cease the pain from the noise they heard.

"Hey what's going on out there?" Manny asked when he saw the slayers and exorcists suffering in pain.

"Looks like they need help." Andrea said. "We better help them."

"what about Lilith?" Frida asked.

"She's asleep, she'll be fine but they won't be if we don't hurry."

Andrea pulled a jewel from her pocket and summoned a spear from it while Frida and Manny got the weapons needed for purging demons while T.J got his scriptures ready. They went outside to face the creature only to find themselves also effected by the terrible screaming. Like the others they clutched their ears and fell to the ground in agony.

"My ears feel like they're on fire!" Manny cried.

"What in hell is that thing?!" Andrea cried.

"It's a banshee!" T.J said.

"A what?"

"A female ghost who's screams are so horrible they can cause excessive pain and even death to anyone who hears it!"

"How do we shut her up?!" Manny shouted.

"I don't know! I have to go inside and read my book!"

T.J struggled to ignore the pain in his ears and get back inside the church. He made it and began looking up ways to defeat a banshee in his book. The loud noise from outside had woken Lilith who went to see what was happening. When T.J saw her he panicked.

"Lilith go back to your room!" He shouted scaring her. She began to back toward the door. "Lilith don't go outside! Don't leave the church!"

He tried to stop her but it only scared her more and she ran out of the church. The screaming then ceased and Lilith collapsed on to the ground, Carla had entered her body. The little girl then stood up and faced him with bleak, dark eyes.

"Finally." She spoke in a frightening voice. "After a hundred years I finally have a body of flesh and blood again."

"You wicked creature! I command you to leave this child's body at once!"

"But why would I do that? She is young and innocent, no one would ever suspect her of having evil intentions."

"How could you have possibly been a nun in life? You show no kindness or compassion for anyone not even children."

"What will you do? Kill me? Go ahead but the girl will die too."

T.J pulled out a bottle of holy water and threw it onto Lilith, the banshee in her body screeched and fell backwards giving T.J a chance to pick her up and drag her into the church. He held her down, tied her to her bed, and began reading from his scriptures.

"In the name of the holy father I command you to leave this child's body!"

The girl's body struggled and showed signs of pain but it didn't work.

"Nice try shaman!" She laughed. "But getting rid of me won't be that easy! Perhaps your little act would have worked if she was afraid of me and wanted me to go but she's not afraid of me! In fact she likes me! Trust me! The little girl wants me to stay! She thinks I'm her friend! So it looks like I'm here to stay!"

He left her room and went to get Father Anthony who also tried to exorcise her but it didn't do any good either. He tried every technique possible but it didn't do any good.

"What's happening?" Manny asked him.

"This is a different kind of possession."

"What do you mean?" Frida asked.

"Most of the time when a ghost or demon possesses a human their host is usually very frightened and want the unholy being out of their body but this one is different. Carla is very manipulative, she lies to Lilith, she tells her things that only she can understand. Lilith thinks she's her friend, someone she can trust. She doesn't even realize she's being possessed. Carla will not be able to exorcised until Lilith fears her and there's only one way we can get her to see Carla for the monster she really is."

"What?"

"We need to preform an inner exorcism."

"What's that?" T.J asked.

"It's a machine that will transport one person's subconscious into another's to convince that person to break away from the ghost's hold."

"I'll do it!" T.J volunteered.

"What? why you?"

"Andrea is afraid of men, older men like Raphael but she cared for Nicholas and I'm positive somewhere in her subconscious are memories of him. I'm younger so I might remind her of him."

"T.J you don't understand it's very dangerous and risky, sometimes the exorcists end up possessed themselves."

"I don't care! It's my fault she got possessed so it's my responsibility to purge this banshee from her body! I don't care if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to save that child!"

"Alright." He siad. "We'll hook you up."

T.J sat in a chair and they placed a helmet on his head while placing another on Lilith.

"Now remember if anything goes wrong we're getting you out of there okay?" Father Anthony said.

"I've got this."

"Be careful." Andrea said.

"Don't worry about me Andrea I've done much scarier."

The machine was turned on and T.J's vision went black. He then found himself a big area that was filled with bubbles. Each of the bubbles showed projecting images, memories of Lilith's past. In the center of it was Lilith, she seemed calm now.

"Lilith!" He called, the girl looked at him scared.

"I don't want you here." She said. "Leave me alone."

"Lilith I know you're afraid of me but you have to listen to me. Carla's not your friend! She's using you!"

"I said go away!"

"Lilith if you don't break away from Carla your soul will be lost! You don't realize it but she's killing you from the inside! I know you're scared and that's okay but you have to believe me I would never hurt you!"

"How can I trust you? I don't know you."

"Lilith I don't know if you remember but I helped save your life back at the casino. Look I'm not gonna hurt you I just want to help you." He held his hand out to her, she was hesitant but saw that he was sincere.

"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING YOU BRAT!" A voice screeched. "DON'T YOU DARE DEFY ME! I OWN YOU!"

Everything was getting darker and Lilith was getting scared.

"I don't like you anymore!" Lilith said. "I want you to go away!"

She took his hand and a light flashed. At once Carla was purged from Lilith's body and T.J's consciousness went back into his body.

"T.J are you okay?" Andrea said.

"Yeah I'm fine. Like I told you, piece of cake."

"YOU!" The banshee screamed. "I'LL SCREAM UNTIL YOUR HEADS EXPLODE!"

Carla screamed louder than she ever had. They all covered their heads and ears hoping to block out the noise but it didn't work. They all felt like their ears were on fire.

"How do we get her to stop?!" Frida cried. Then she remembered what the ghost woman had told her. "When the corrupted nun screams you must sing to silence her." Frida thought it was crazy but she couldn't think of anything better to do so she stood up and began to sing. To her surprise she discovered her voice was different. It was lovely, angelic, and the others were amazed. It was the most beautiful voice they had ever heard and as she sang Carla's screams grew quieter.

"NO! NOT AGAIN! STOP SINGING! STOP SINGING YOU WENCH!"

But she didn't and Carla found that she lost her ability to scream demonicly. Once she was quiet Frida pulled out her gospel gun and shot her. She cried out as her form began to fade from this world.

"DAMN YOU!" Those were her last words before she went back to hell only this time she would never return to earth again however she was very confused. "I don't believe it that girl destroyed my power with her voice and shot me just like Catarina did! But how is that possible?! She's just a human! Is she the person you chose to take your place after you left this world Catarina? Do you have some connection to her?"

But no one anwsered. Back on earth everyone was shocked by what had happened.

"Uh Frida how did you do that?" Manny asked.

"I don't know I just sang and it silenced her."

"How odd usually only angels can do that." Father Anthony said. "We'll look into that later right now we need to see if Lilith is alright."