Ch 9
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Sabrina felt Harvey stir from next to her, and as soon as he opened his eyes and smiled at her, Sabrina felt tears threatening to erupt from her eyes.
"Hey." Harvey said to her with his dopey smile.
"Hey yourself." She said and immediately afterwards she started crying.
"It's okay Brina. It's okay." Harvey said and put her in his embrace on the hospital bed.
"It's not okay Harvey! You were right! You said to let it go, but I didn't and when you said it could backfire I didn't listen as well! I just keep messing things up. Every single time I try to help, it always ends in tears. I almost killed you last night!" Sabrina said, guffawing in sorrow at what she did.
"No you didn't Brina, you gave me two days without coughing." Harvey said and the coughs returned once more.
This made Sabrina wrap her arms around him possessively as she continued to cry into his shoulder.
"I'll make this right Harvey, I swear to you I'll find a way to make this right!"
"I know you will." Harvey replied.
"I didn't mean to hurt you like that."
"Of course you didn't."
"I just didn't want you to still be hurting so much."
"I know you didn't meant too."
Harvey said continuing to comfort Sabrina. A lifetime of having her in his life made him know that it was useless to argues with or against her. If you had Sabrina in her life all you could do was comfort her like this when things went downwards.
"I gave you back the pencils." Harvey said to her, stopping Sabrina's crying.
"What?" She said in confusion.
"During my first life you gave me a set of magic pencils that never had to be sharpened and you also gave my Dad eggnog that cured him of alcoholism, and I gave them back and asked you to never use any magic on me or my family ever again." Harvey said as Sabrina stopped crying fully and looked at him in the eyes after he turned his gaze from the ceiling towards her.
"And that wasn't even the worst of it. After that Roz became blind and me and her, well it was mostly me we…we asked if you didn't curse her because of….because me and Roz started going out after we broke up… And even then you still forgave us and even cured Roz of blindness."
"Why….why are you telling me all of this?"
"To remind you that you don't destroy everything your touch, that you're a better person than you keep saying you're not. And, and I'm a not such a good man as you think I am." Harvey said as another cough came over him.
"W…what happened after…after you said I cursed Roz?" Sabrina asked.
"Oh, the Order of the Innocent attacked. And then the whole church thing happened."
"Wait, but if you accused me of blinding Roz, then you must have…been close to hating me then."
"Y-yeah, kind of."
"But you still rushed in guns blazing when you thought I was in trouble."
"Yeah."
"So even when you didn't want to be near me, you still came to help me, that was very sweet of you Harvey." Sabrina said, her smile returning and she gave him a kiss.
"You're too kind Brina, I acted as a jerk and called you a monster." Harvey said, ashamed of his past behavior.
"And I forgive you for that Harvey." Sabrina said and snuggled up with him, she felt much better now.
"I don't deserve you Sabrina Spellman, you're divine."
"Well, I am the daughter of the devil, and he was an angel. But I definitely deserve you Harvey, and don't you forget that." Sabrina replied and the couple laid on that hospital bed, enjoying a rare moment of peace.
After a few hours the sun rose and it would soon be time to vacate the hospital room.
"Feeling nervous about tonight….cough….cough?"
"Not really, I have my family with me, my friends, the man I love. I'm ready to rock and roll." Sabrina said as she and Harvey made their way towards the meeting ground where the next part of their plan was about to take place.
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It was a great clearing right in the middle of the woods, there the Spellman clan, their hedge witch allies, and members of the Church of Night, with the exception of Lady Blackwood who still kept her dealings with the Spellman's a secret and abstained from coming, all gathered for a great announcement.
"Tonight is a momentous might my brothers and sisters. For tonight we announce to the rest of the magical community the forming of a new coven, a better coven. My brother Edward also had a dream like this, a dream of a new coven, a better one, here is his vision:
1. As mortals are the God-spawn of the Earth, so witches are the Hell-spawn. They share a common home and destiny.
2. Not only may witch-kind lay with, love with, and live amongst the mortals, it is their sacred prerogative.
3. As Lilith was the mother of demons, so all witches must be revered as the matriarchs of their Coven.
4. Magic is the gift of higher beings to witches. It can and should be used for pleasure, for gain, and to satiate the senses.
5. Only the true union of mortals and their witch brethren will bring the Era of the Peace and Prosperity.
Zelda read out loud a modified version of Edward's planned reforms that Harvey told them, having heard them during one night in his first life Sabrina was sad and drunk and confided in him about who she considered her true father.
" In this new coven we abolish the laws of the past that say a woman cannot lead a coven! We will openly have women lead us, we will openly accept all who come as a friend. We will be free to be who we want to be, love who we want to love. Do as though wish, well we wish to be free, to have peace, to be love and loved back, and from hence forth we will have it! Tonight the coven of WICA is born." Zelda announced and a great cheer rose from the gathered witches and a handful of warlocks.
"I should have known better than to trust a Spellman." Blackwood's voice came from out of the nearby woods and from the loyalist members of the coven and the allied coven all came out of the woods.
"You are the same as your brother Zelda, and so are you Sabrina. Nothing but pair of troublemakers who would destroy everything and anything that is holly! But it ends now, you have no idea how long we've waited for you to gather so we can deal with you all in one fell swoop!" Blackwood said and fired a great burst of magic towards the WICA coven, only for the magic to hit a great enchanted shield of….of pure light!
This made the Loyalists stop their advance upon the witches.
"You have no idea how long we've waited for you all to gather here so we can deal with you all in one fell swoop. "Zelda said with an elegant half smile on her face.
"What?"
"Come now Faustus dear, did you actually think I would host a gathering here, in the middle of nowhere without a good reason? It appears that you never knew me at all, but that goes for all men like you, you just can't accept that a woman can be your equal or even your superior. "Zelda said triumphantly.
"What are you talking about? This place has no power, no black book speaks of such a thing! You're little trick with the shield will not hold for long, soon you're powers will be drained from it and we will punish you all for your treachery and heresy!" Blackwood shot back.
"That shield isn't meant to protect us from you Father Blackwood. It's for keeping us safe from something worse." Hilda said cheerfully.
"Worse? We are the servants of the Dark Lord. There is no beast or man in the darkness stronger than us! You are just bluffing, I have spent centuries of my life studying and speaking with sages from across the world! Not a single witch or warlocks has ever done anything to imbued this place with any power!" Blackwood shot back, certain that this was all a bluff.
"Witches didn't do anything to this place." Sabrina said as she made her way to the front of the group. "But others did." She took a few more steps and guided Harvey, who was holding her left hand and was coughing again to the front of the group and now the two stood directly between WICA, the shield and the loyalist coven.
"Walk away, just walk away. This will end in tragedy if you don't leave this part of my families lands and never come back.…cough…..cough….."
"You! Now it all makes sense, your mortal boe, the hunter that plagued us. You laying with our hated enemy is one thing, but this sickly creature? What could possibly be in this hunter's land that could threaten us?" Blackwood said with dismissal, not even bothering to acknowledge Harvey's presence, now that the witchunter was in the open instead of hidden, he would be an easy meal for the Loyalists victory feast.
"My family's old graveyard." Harvey said and at that Blackwood's blood ran cold, as he realized that they had just walked into a trap.
"Spirtz of da odar world. Hear me MAmboo Marrie, hear uz all! By da powar of da great Guiney, I summon dhee, coma and claim da ''eads of ya most hated foe! We the witches of WICA summan dhe ta hunt once more!" Mambo Marie lead the coven in a great chant.
From the ground a great burst of mist erupted all around, engulfing the Loyalists and from them the battle cries came.
Horns where blown, drums beaten, bagpipes filled the air as the spirits of the entire Von Kunkles Clan that slept in this cemetery awoke from their slumber.
From hunters in leather and hide jackets, to redcoats, to Northern Yankee blue clad soldiers. Helmet wearing officers of both world wars, they came. They had all awoken.
"BARRIERA PROTECTA!" Blackwood and his loyalists shouted as one, raising their own barrier, just as the bullets where shot towards them and the spirits of Harvey's ancestors all came crashing against both barriers.
They struck and both with axes, knifes, rocks, hands and teeth, yet both barriers held, for now that is.
Then Sabrina, ever, clever Sabrina stepped forward and held up a statue of the Mornigstar, this made Harvey's witchunter ancestors pause and look at her.
"Suffer not a witch to live!" One of them said and the other spirits all shouted in agreement
Sabrina dropped the statue and them stomped on it with her foot.
This made the spirits stop their chanting of 'Suffer not a witch to live' and looked at her in shock and surprise and confusion.
"Not….not a devil worshipper, not a devil witch!" The same spirit, who seemed to be the leader of the other spirits, said in surprise.
"BEHIND YOU!" Sabrina shouted dramatically.
"We have come to rid ourselves of the devil. But his minions there have come to kill us for that! KILL THEM! KILL THE WITCHES!" Sabrina shouted and pointed towards Blackwood's group.
"Kill the witches! Kill the Witches!" Sabrina started the chant and soon the entire WICAN coven joined in
"Kill the witches! Kill the Witches!"
"This is rather fun!" Hilda said cheekily towards Zelda.
"I agree. At least we now know why so many decide to join the Church of light." The other Spellman sister replied with a smile.
"Kill the witches! Kill the Witches!"
They said and soon the spirits of von Kunkle Clan joined the chant and all turned and attacked Blackwood's loyalist barrier.
The witches of WICA all joined in with spells to weaken their foe's defenses and together they broke it.
The spirits of past witchunters descended on the loyalist, cutting them up like cattle.
They proved to all who watched why they earned the name 'witchunters.
The loyalists either died or ran.
But it was over.
When the last of the loyalists escaped and the summoning spell wore off, the ghost started to fade away.
"You have brought much honor to our clan young one. I Herman von Kunkle, founder of our clan give you the title of 'Kaiser'', for none will deny you as the King of all Hunters." The Spirit that lead the other spirits said as they faded back to heaven.
But not before they all gave a salute towards Harvey.
Who after hearing those words sat down on his ass and cradled his head in sorrow upon hearing that news.
"I really….I really am a monster. Maybe she was right to collapse the mines the first time." Harvey muttered to himself as Sabrina kneeled next to him and cradled his head in her shoulder, letting him cry on it and soothed him with kisses and caresses trough his hair.
"What's his problem? We killed our enemies, and he just became a renown hunter today!" Nick asked in confusion.
"Harvey's a kind soul. He'd never hurt a fly!" Sabrina shot back at him.
"Yeah! He kills them before their brains register any pain! I mean look at this! Tree covens decimated, that's more than any hunter kills in his life. That's more than most witchunter clans kill in their entire history! For someone who doesn't like violence, he's really good at it!" Nick said with a giggle and offered a sip from his flask filled with brandy.
Sabrina only glared at him before she picked Harvey up from the ground and lead him away from the battlefield.
"Mortals….strange lot the whole of them. Even half mortals." Nick said in dismay and disappointment, before he walked towards Melvin and Dorcas, and joined them in the post victory orgy that was held latter at the Spellman house.
Harvey and Sabrina went to bed in her room.
Downstairs the WICA coven celebrated with wine, song, food, and lust.
Hilda went to Dr Cerberus to spend the night with him knitting and watching old musicals to celebrate.
Zelda basked on the glory of her triumph and happily smoke a cigarette from the top of the stairs as she already planned their next move.
While from the outskirts of Greendale the Pagans entered the town, setting up their carnival.
Caliban lead his faction into the land just outside the Spellman home, ready to massacre them as they now had their guard down.
While from the treeline near the Spellman morgue the company of hunters sent by the Vatican married and saw the house that was filled with WICA witches celebrating and the Demons of Caliban.
"Order sir?" The company's second in command the lieutenant asked his Captain, the leader.
"Terminate, with extreme prejudice." The Captain replied.
The night was not yet over.
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