Darkness. That's all he seemed to be. Every now and then he could hear voices, but they blended together. The last thing Tyler could hear clearly was Kylie cry over him and begging for him to wake up. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free from the spell. After that day, Tyler couldn't tell you how long he had been here. To him, it felt like centuries of solitude.

A humming noise began to enter his darkness, which was a first in a long time, Tyler could hear something. Tyler strained his ears to follow that noise.

No, wait, he thought, it was someone whispering words. Slowly as he made his way toward the words, the darkness began to change. It was becoming lighter. In excitement, Tyler raced onward catching on to Kylie's voice. She was saying something in a fast pace. But what was it? It didn't seem English. It was becoming brighter and he was gaining feeling in his body now. He could feel her breath on his face, the warmth of her hand holding his. He engulfed a huge breath of air and his eyes flew wide open, which instantly squinted at the bright light above the room.

"Tyler?" Her soft voice called his name and he directed his eyes toward Kylie. For a few seconds he soaked every inch of her. There she stood with her long fiery red hair cascaded down her slender shoulders. Her pallid skin made the freckles on her rosy cheeks pop. Around her striking green eyes were tears and dark circles pertaining to the fact she had not slept in what seemed like days. His hand moved up to cup her face and she took both of her hands and placed over his and sighed in relief.

"Why do you look so tired?"

Kylie stared at him before breaking out into a smile and tears, "You've been turning into a statue for almost three months and all you can comment on is that I look tired."

Tyler sat up and Kylie squeezed him into a hug. He held onto Kylie tightly and kissed her forehead. He was just happy to have Kylie in his arms again.

He questioned quietly, "Three months?"

Kylie glanced up smiling, "You must be hungry then."

Tyler nodded his head, "Now that you mention it, I could go for some food."

"Here," Kylie passed over a plate of sandwiches.

Tyler grabbed for one and hastily ate the one sandwich in a matter of seconds. He wiped his face and swallow the last bit quickly, "Sorry."

"You don't have to apologize on begin hungry," Kylie laughed as she handed him another one. Tyler took another bit slowly enjoying having food in his stomach again. Licking his lip he asked, "So what did I miss?"

Kylie shook her head, "Quite a bit I'm afraid." She muttered more to herself, "A few things your mother wants to talk to you about before our departure." Her striking eyes shot up and she added, "But we should discuss these things once we talk to the others."

Tyler eyes lit up at seeing his friends again and he swung his legs off the table. "Let's go."

Again awareness hit and he realized he had no inkling where he was. His eyes search the room in wonder and Kylie said, "We're in the safe haven Celestial created."

Tyler was even more puzzled by the minute, "Who's Celestial and she made this whole building by herself?"

Kylie grabbed onto his arm and started to escort him out of the bedroom, "Celestial is one of our guides to help us defeat Gabriel. And as for her power, she can create much more. She kind of can make portals to other dimensions, or just create a new dimension."

Tyler scratched his head and replied, "Interesting." His dark blue eyes became resentful as he said, "Gabriel hasn't been defeated yet."

Kylie smirked a little and said uplifting, "Not yet. But his time is coming."

They began to descend down the stone stair case and stepped into the grand entrance. Huge stone pillars held up each floor of the circular palace. And as his head inclined higher and higher, he noticed a glass dome letting sunlight shine through. Kylie grabbed his hand and smiled, "This way." Crossing the spacious area, they went through a wooden door to a large living room. It would have seen larger if there weren't so many people crammed into one place.

Tyler glanced around in glee, to see his closest friends. The first one to attack him with a hug was Reid. He practically squashed Tyler as he said, "About time you stop sleeping on the job, baby boy."

Tyler chuckled, "My bad bro. I just thought I let you take the reins on this one."

Caleb walked over and patted his back and added, "Glad to have you back."

Tyler replied, "It's good to be back. So Kylie told me I missed out on a lot."

Caleb sat back down by Rae, who wrapped her arms around his torso. She said, "You probably should sit down. It's pretty long."

Tyler walked over to a chair and Kylie stood by him, until Tyler grabbed her hips and guided her over to sit on his lap. She burst into a smile and curled her face into his chest.

"Okay, begin," Tyler said anxious.

Rae looked over to Abby and said, "Where do we start?"

Abby shook her head and said, "After you went out, we had to get the counter spell from the Book of Absolution."

"I thought that didn't exist?" Tyler said confused.

Kylie sighed, "It did Ty. That was the thing I had to keep secret because it wouldn't be a good thing in Gabriel's hands."

Her face pulled into a frown at the mention of Gabriel and Tyler lifted her face up to his and asked, "What's wrong Kylie?"

"He has it," Kylie said glum.

Rae tried lighting up the topic by saying, "But we did get the counter spell to bring you back. And Kylie, if you didn't change the plans on our tactic, I would have never made it back."

Reid shook his head and replied, "Yea, instead we had the chance of getting exterminated doing our suicidal mission."

Kylie smiled over to Reid, "We made it." She turned her head a bit and her eyes bulged out at Ben, "What happened to you?"

There Ben stood with a black eye and a bloody lip. Ben rubbed his shoulder with his one arm before saying, "Well after your return, Ruth's ex, let say, had it out for me."

Reid snickered, "Apparently sleeping with a member of the tribe makes you mates for life. So you can say he was pissed off that a witched claimed her no less."

Tyler expression was confused as ever and Kylie whispered in his ear, "The boy with the black eye is Ben." Tyler looked at Kylie in disbelieve and she continued to say, "I know, it's crazy. But the god and goddess choose him and Celestial to be our guides through this war. As for Ruth, she's a part of a witch hunter tribe that we kind of teamed up with to defeat Gabriel."

"So what happens after we defeat Gabriel? Do they start hunting us?" Tyler whispered back concerned.

Kylie shook her head and responded, "Actually we came to an agreement. They wouldn't hunt our covenant if you guys go back to white magic."

"White magic," Tyler said it slowly before adding on, "Didn't you tell us in junior year that magic was lost long ago. We need some spell to return it or something?"

Kylie smiled pleased as she said, "Besides ripping out the spell to bring you back, I may have taken that spell too."

Behind them, Pogue entered the room quietly and had said, "Good thing too. We won't have to ever worry about using too much and becoming old men."

Abby stood up and ran over to Pogue to hug him tightly. She said worried, "How are you? You're walking fine."

Tyler turned around to Pogue using a cane to distribute his weight from the one leg. Pogue's tone appeared positive, but his expression seemed off as he said, "I'm fine Abs."

Abby's grey eyes grew bigger as she diligently concentrated on Pogue. In a split second, she gasped and hand went to cover her sadden face. Abby said softly, "It's entirely my fault."

Pogue was caught off guard by her mind reading and retorted, "This is not your fault."

She shook her head fiercely and replied back, "Yes. Yes it is. What have I done?"

Pogue grabbed onto her shoulder and got intense, "Abigail Channing. You listen to me for once. This is not your fault. I just wasn't quick enough." Pogue glanced up at everyone a little self conscious and scared.

Rae walked over to Pogue and replied, "You're still the same, hulk. You can show us. We're not going to run away."

Pogue gulped before lifting his pant leg up. "They couldn't save my leg after the hell hound made it into his chew toy. So," he tapped the metal leg with his cane, "I have this instead." Pogue turned back with full concentration on Abby.

"If you didn't find me, there wouldn't have been much left of me tonfind," Pogue finished saying as he swiped her blonde bang out of her eye.

Giving a sigh, Pogue looked up and smiled in surprise, "Hey man, I didn't know you were up."

Tyler smiled back and said, "Yea, I've been awake for ten minutes now."

Caleb piped in, "We're catching him up to speed."

Pogue laughed and said, "There's a lot of shit that went down. My pop had a minor heart attack."

Serenity, holding Austin in her arms, asked, "Is he okay?"

Pogue nodded his head and responded, "Thanks to Chase, he's much better than fine. He's on his way to recovery."

Chase shrugged his shoulders as the attention crossed his path. He said quietly, "It was nothing."

Chase smiled over to Serenity and Serenity announced to Tyler, "I found out I'm pregnant."

Tyler face held shock for a few seconds before he said, "Congrats guys. Hopefully it's not another set of twins."

Serenity laughed as she said, "It's not this time."

Chase coughed and bent down to pick up Chastity into his lap. "That's why Serenity and I will not proceed onward in this final battle. We can't risk it," he glanced over to Reid, "as much as we want too."

Tyler eye's shift over to Reid, who stared down at the floor miserable, and Tyler questioned, "I thought Gabriel reign is close to being over?"

The door squeaked open catching everyone's attention and a young girl with violet hair walked into the room. She must have over heard there conversation when she added, "Thanks to Kylie's great shot-"

Reid cut her off by saying, "Celest, she totally missed him. She hit him in the leg."

She cleared her throat annoyed at Reid's interruption and continued to say, "He'll be dead in a matter of days, no matter what. That was Hercules very special arrow. It was not only dipped, but contains the poison of the Lernaean Hydra." She turned to Kylie with high praise and said, "It was amazing you even got that shot in before he disappeared through that portal of his."

Kylie shook her head in disbelief and added, "Yea, it shocks me too. You know what else I can't believe, I was so dumb. For awhile I thought my tracking skills were failing. But it makes sense now. That's how Gabriel or even Lydia would just disappear from my tracking. They wouldn't be here on earth where I could track them."

Tyler whispered to Kylie, "You're not dumb." He continued to ask Celestial, "Going back to before, can you explain what this arrow's poison means? We can heal ourselves to a point, why couldn't he?"

Celestial's dark blue-purple eyes pivoted over to Tyler and she responded, "No, not even his powers can save him. Once you have been in contact with that poison with your blood, there is no escape from death."

"Then let's just let him die in his stupid world. Win, win. We could start repairing collateral damage to what's left of Ipswich." Pogue said pumped.

"We can't," Reid's voice carried weakly through the air.

Abby grabbed Pogue's hand and she added, "You didn't get to hear this, but he took prisoners."

With his hands covering his face, Reid said, "Take a good look around man. Someone is missing from our group."

With Pogue scoping the room, Tyler too quickly glanced around the room to see who was not accounted for. Caleb, Rae, Abby, Pogue, Kylie, Serenity, Chase, Reid and T…."

"Shit, they have Thea," Tyler whispered out in realization.

Celestial stated, "That's why we are going for a final attack in hopes to rescue our people and your friend."

Ben holding a crinkle piece of paper added, "But first, let us rightfully restore your true powers back." He scanned the page and mumbled to himself, "I might be a little rusty on my Latin. Give me a second."

Tyler turned to Kylie and asked, "Will this hurt?"

"I doubt it," Kylie responded, but Tyler could tell nerves rattled her body. He gave her hand a reassuring squeezed.

"Ah, here we go. Ego dico in vox superum muto semita …."

Tyler began to panic and whispered to Kylie, "What is he saying?"

She wrapped her arms around his torso for comfort and said, "I call upon the powers of the gods to change the path of the…."

Ben chanted on, "damnation vornica. Singulus vita ex vox…."

She continued to translate, "damnation curse. Separate life from power…."

"restituo pondera ut eram quondam illic pro is socius in…."

"restore the balance that was once there before it fell into..." Kylie paused, waiting for Ben to finish.

" constupro manuum," Ben ended the spell and Kylie's last words echoed into Tyler's ears, "corrupt hands."

Unlike his eighteenth birthday where he curled up into a ball from the intense pain when getting his full powers, this experience was pleasant. He knew a new energy was consuming his body for he felt warm, and light, unlike the heavy weight that plagued him since he was a baby.

Tyler extended his arm up and felt stronger, complete, different, but most of all, at peace with his self. There wasn't that constant temptation or nagging feeling to use.

Ben smiled and informed them, "Now your power isn't intertwined with your life. I know this will be different and challenging, but you must use the energy that surrounds each of you."

Reid trying to get a feel for his new power asked annoyed, "Energy?"

Ben replied back, "That's what white magic feeds on. Way better than sucking your life away."

Celestial started to talk correct him, "Well actually it was wearing down their life energy…."

Ben rolled his eyes and continued to help Reid gain control.

Kylie whispered to Tyler, "The more positive energy there is the more power you can surge. Just remember white magic has limits too, you have to recharge after using a lot of it."

Tyler lips pulled down as he said, "I feel different, but I just don't know how to connect with my new source of power."

Kylie took Tyler's hand and led him to a corner where they could sit on the floor. She stared into his eyes and said, "I want you to close your eyes and relax."

Tyler did as he was told, though he knew this wouldn't work. Relaxing was hard for him. Heck the one time he had to take a yoga class with his mom for bonding time, the yoga teacher had lost her patience with him and yelled at him to relax. In hindsight, the instructor's lashing out wasn't helping much.

He heard Kylie giggle and his one eye peeked open to see her. There she had her head resting on her arm and looked amused. She finally replied, "Ty, you're so tense."

He glanced around at everyone and said, "I just can't relax, Kylie. It's hard." He looked over to Pogue and he was moving a chair to the side. "Look Pogue's already got it," Tyler said stressed.

Kylie stood up and held her hand out, "Change of plans."

Tyler took her hand and seemed confused by her notion. She began to take him up the stairs again only this time to a different floor. As they passed a few wooden doors, she finally halted to solid oak door with vines covering the arch of it. She gave him a small smile before opening the door and guided him inside. There before him laid a garden of flowers, a bench swing that was situated close by a trickling stream. As his eyes moved around, he noticed a bed that was intertwined with an oak tree's truck.

"Welcome to my room." Kylie said quietly. "Celestial specially made it for me."

Tyler went over to the stream and placed his hand into the clear, sparkling water. He said looking back at Kylie, "This place makes me think of what a fairy's home would be like."

Kylie smiled shamelessly, "I can't help like it though. Come on the bed with me. I'll show you the best part."

Tyler and Kylie lay together on the bed holding hands and Tyler starred up into the oaks branches. He looked back at Kylie with her eyes close. How he missed her very being and gentle touch. His lip began to curve up as he said, "You are the best part."

Kylie opened her eyes and replied, "I know," her head turned upward, "the stars are amazing." She didn't hear him?

His head switched back to see the night sky of changing colors of red, blue and purples where covered in many bright stars. As he was searching the stars he said, "I don't think some of these stars exist in our worl-"

His concentration was broken when Kylie's lips meet his in a surprise kiss. She pulled back slowly and said softly, "I missed you."

Tyler propped himself up and answered back, "I missed you so much baby."

She smiled back at their banter, "I missed you more."

Tyler tickled her side a bit and added, "No way. I missed you the most! Ha."

"Bullshit, Tyler James-"

He tickled her again and she tried pushing him away. He responded, "Get use it Kylie. I missed you a ton and," those midnight blue eyes locked on to her eyes. He whispered calmly, "I love you so much. Not even words can explain how much I need and want you in my life."

She brushed her hand gently through his dark brown hair and said, "Do you feel it." He looked at her intently as she continued to say, "That feeling you have right now, I want you to focus on it more." Tyler's eyes were closed now and as weird as it may be, he could feel warm comfortable presence around him.

"That right there is your power, babe. Concentrate on that and you can do anything."

Tyler opened his eyes and looked up at the oak tree. Kylie laughed and said, "Nice carving. Kylie and Tyler forever."

She turned her head back and Tyler shrugged his shoulders, "It's one of the things I thought of doing. My first idea was the best though."

Kylie shifted her body to face him and asked, "And what was that?"

Tyler gently placed his hand on her cheek and kissed her, "I had been thinking of this one for a while now."

She kissed his tender lips back and said in a shaky breath, "That doesn't involve magic."

"Oh, on the contrary, to the Platters, I can always return the magic just with a touch," he said lustfully as he kissed her sweet lips again.