Poor Lilith stayed up in her room weeping greatly. When Frida and the nuns explained what happened to her former home and family she was devastated. She kept herself locked in her room and refused to let anyone in.

"Poor kid." Manny said. "I know what she's going through."

"Me too." T.J said.

"Me three." Andrea added.

"Yeah but none of you had to go through it twice." Frida said.

"This is ridiculous!" Nicholas said. "She can't stay in there in forever!"

"Hey buddy for once why don't you act like that cold heart of yours actually has feelings?" Manny said.

"Yeah she's a little girl." Andrea said.

"No she is a young woman trapped in a little girl's body."

"But she doesn't know that. She doesn't remember."

"Not my problem."

"Man you're a jerk." Manny said.

"Nicholas maybe we should just leave her." Davi said. "After all we need to work on curing you."

"Davi need I remind you that I cannot leave without her because I promised my father I'd look after her and when a spirit gives a promise he must keep it!"

"I'll speak to her." Davi said going upstairs to her room. "Lilith I insist you stop behaving like a child and come out this instant!"

"Go away!" She said.

"I will not! Understand that Nicholas cannot leave this place without you so you must come!"

"I don't even know you people! And I'm not coming out for any reason!"

"Well I've done all i can do." Davi said giving up too easily.

"That does it! Out of my way!" Nicholas said going upstairs.

"What are you doing? You better not hurt her!" Frida said.

"I will do whatever is needed to get her out of there." Nicholas knocked on the door. "Lilith let me in now!"

No answer.

"Lilith you know you can't ignore me! Open up or I'll break down the door!" Still nothing. "That's it! I'm coming in!"

He took a step back and came running toward the door only for her to open it and him go flying out the window.

"AHH! CURSE YOU!" He shouted as he hit the ground. He got back up and marched right back upstairs. "ALRIGHT I'VE HAD IT! YOU ARE COMING WITH ME EVEN IF I HAVE TO DRAG YOU! I MEAN REALLY WHAT IN THE-"

But he stopped when he saw her tears. She sat on her bed, clutching a pillow like it was her life source, and was crying into it. He realized that he was going to get her to leave with him he was going to have to try a different approach. An approach he wasn't going to like at all. He closed the door to her room and locked it then covered her windows.

"What are you doing?" She asked nervously.

"Easy I'm not going to hurt you I just don't want anyone to see me like this."

"Like what?"

"You'll see but just remember I'm doing this just for you and you can't tell anyone about this especially Manny okay?"

"Okay."

"Here we go." He took a deep breath and changed into a jaguar cub. He then jumped onto her bed and nuzzled up into her lap. Lilith seemed to hesitate at first and was a little unsure about what was happening but when he looked at her with those cute kitty eyes she couldn't help but smile and hug him.

"I can't believe I've been reduced to this." Nicholas thought. "A great spirit forced to become a pet to satisfy a little girl. She's not even a real child. Well at least she stopped crying."

She didn't speak but she didn't cry either she just kept holding him and stroking him. Nicholas would never admit it but he actually enjoyed her touch in fact it made him purr once or twice.

"You say you were supposed to protect me. Why?" She asked.

"My father told me to."

"Did he ever say why?"

"No."

"Why did he want me to be protected?"

"When you're mother was first pregnant with you which she was unaware of at the time she took a fatal blow that was meant for my father. She lived but it left her body drastically weak."

"Did you know my mother?"

"I was five and I only saw her for one moment. It was the day you were born, I heard my father talking with her. They had just been told by the doctor that due to her weak body and the exhaustion of labor she was going to die, her lover your no good father had taken off almost as soon as he found out he was going to have a kid so she was scared to death that you would be alone. But my father knowing that she might've lived if she hadn't of taken that blow gave his word that he would make sure that you were always protected and cared for."

"Your father sounds so kind."

"I guess."

"Do you have a mother?"

"Of course I have a mother! Everyone has one! You think my father gave birth to me?!"

"No! Sorry that's not what I meant."

"Oh do you mean is she still in my life? Well no. You and I have something in common. Apparently both of our mothers left this world while bringing us into it."

"So your mom died in childbirth too?"

"Yes it would seem she too had a weak body."

"I'm sorry."

"It's no big deal I never knew the woman."

"But wouldn't you have wanted to? Even for a moment?"

"What's the point of wanting something if you know you can't have it?"

She hugged him close.

"What are you doing?" Nicholas asked.

"Cuddling."

"I don't cuddle!"

"But I'm sleepy and I want someone to sleep with me."

"Well then I'll ask Davi to do it!"

"No you're soft and warm and fluffy. Perfect napping companion."

"Let go of me! Right now!"

But the young girl was already curled up in bed, snuggling him close, and sleeping like a baby. She looked so sweet and calm, he didn't want her to start crying again so he decided to play the role of the cuddly friend just for this one nap.

"Father you owe me big time for this." Nicholas thought.

It wasn't long before he too had gone to sleep with her. Suddenly he awoke to hear Lilith screaming, he saw her stuck to a large spider web that was trying to pull her out of the church.

"Nicholas!" She cried. "Please help me!"

She was then pulled outside where she was grabbed by something dark which carried her away. In a flash Nicholas changed back into his form and went after them. The creature resembled a large spider like monster, Lilith struggled to get loose, she kicked and screamed but it had a tight grip on her. It spun a web and stuck her in it.

"Put her down you miserable bug!" Nicholas ordered.

The spider turned around and gave Nicholas a sickening grin which he knew all too well.

"Kane! You bastard arachnoid! What do you want?!"

The creature just continued to grin at him sinisterly which made Nicholas sick to his stomach. He went raised his claws and struck at the creature. Nicholas was a very strong being but in the form of a child he was outmatched against his opponent. Soon he found himself stuck in a web with Lilith. Kane looked down at Nicholas with his blood shot eyes and bit Nicholas on his arm.

"Ahh!" He hissed.

"Nicholas!" Lilith gasped.

"My spider venom is has dangerous and painful as the fires of hell. Powerful enough to take down human, devil, or spirit alike." Kane said. "By midnight tonight you'll be dead as a door nail and you little girl are next!"

Lilith screamed, a shot rang out and it shot off one of Kane's legs. It was a holy bullet fired by Frida armed with a gospel gun while Manny, Andrea, and T.J stood by her with other weapons.

"Put em down!" Frida demanded.

"Or what?!"

"Or we'll send you back to hell where you came from!" Andrea said holding up her jewel spear.

"Do you honestly think that I can be defeated by mere children?"

BANG!

Frida shot another bullet.

"Your head is next creep!" She threatened.

He jumped from his web and fired webs at them. They struggled but he overpowered them and had all of them in his web. He began injecting venom into his prisoners one by one with the intent of eating them once their bodies were dead.

"Frida I need you to undo the seal." Manny whispered to her.

"But Manny-"

"Frida we are going to die! Our only chance of not being eaten is for me to transform now undo the seal unless you want us all to be spider food!"

"Alright. But once you save us I'm putting the seal back on."

"Fine now hurry."

She took a deep breath and said the words that would undo the seal.

"Ancient tiger spirit I summon you!"

The belt buckle spun rapidly and in a flash of green fire Manny changed into his spiritual form. Using his claws he freed himself and the others from the web. Only Nicolas was poisoned, Frida, T.J, Andrea, and Lilith took him back to the church to get healed while Manny fought Kane. Manny was a young man and in his spirit form so he proved to be a challenge for the demonic spider. The first thing he did to him was tear off his fangs that contained venom so he couldn't infect him then he made a grab for his eyes, he managed to rip out one.

"You! You share the same blood with Nicholas!" Kane hissed. "Tell me are you Santiago Rivera's son?!"

"No! I'm not!"

"Then why do you and Nicholas have the same blood! I came smell it and it's scent is exactly like his!"

"It's none of your business!"

Manny punched him, Kane hissed, and bit Manny's arm. The boy pulled away in pain and clutched his bleeding arm. Kane licked the blood that was smeared around his mouth due to biting him so hard and seemed somewhat amused.

"How interesting." Kane chuckled. "Your blood and Nicholas's smell the same but it tastes entirely different! So Santiago couldn't be your father! Your the son of his younger brother Rodolfo aren't you?"

"What's it to you if I am?"

"If that's the case then your of no use to me! My score is with Santiago and his brat! Now out of the way so I may devour him!"

"Not on my watch!" T.J shouted. He shot holy water into Kane's eyes, burning them, he shrieked and fell down screaming in agony. T.J quickly made a circle of salt around him and pulled out a cross. "In the name of the holy father I hereby banish you from this holy ground and never return!"

A light went off, Kane cried out and he was gone. Manny then collapsed from exhaustion, T.J carried him back to the church where Frida said the word to seal his powers back in his belt and tended to his wounds. After that she went to heal the poison from Nicholas's body, by midnight he was good as new.

"Once again you save my life." He said. "For that I owe you another debt."

"No big deal dude." She said.

"Tell me why did you save me? I have been nothing but unkind to you, your friends, and my cousin yet you did not hesitate to heal me."

"Well you are mean but that doesn't mean you don't deserve to die."

"I have heard many stories about you Miss Suarez. You put yourself in dangerous situations to help others, despite being human you've bravely fought demons, you pray for the mercy and forgiveness of sinners, and you heal people without hesitation even if you despise them. You are truly worthy of the title holy woman."

"Why do people keep calling me that? What is a holy woman anyway? Isn't that like a nun or something?"

"The holy woman was a nickname given to Catarina the angel born on earth. Those who did not know her as an angel called her the holy woman for despite her heavenly power she looked like a daughter of Eve. People you have helped or have heard of your deeds call you the holy woman because you have her powers, her spirit, and her intentions."

"You act like you know her."

"She died years before I was born but my family has had history with her."

"She died? I thought angels were already dead."

"Catarina was not like other angels. While most angels are the immortal souls of humans who take a new form after death Catarina and her siblings were made on earth from the blood of a guardian angel and the flesh of a human. All three of them taking the forms of a different age, the first her brother was a grown man , the second she who took the form of a teenager, and the third her sister who took the form of a child. They were angels but they had human bodies which could be destroyed but they could never age. At least not if they didn't become regular humans."

"Is that even possible?" T.J said.

"It is. Catarina's younger sister wanted to marry and bear children but she couldn't do that as long as she was in the body of a child herself so she traded her angelic blood for human knowing full well she would lose her powers, immortality, and be capable of sin but she believed it was worth it."

"What about the other two?"

"Her brother was slayed by devil and she...She gave up her life on earth even though it wasn't her time."

"Isn't that suicide?"

"Not if she did it to save someone else's life."

"Who?"

"I don't know. Family secret I guess."

"Well this has been interesting but I'm going to bed." Frida said. "Goodnight.'

She went upstairs to her bedroom, changed into her nightgown, and crawled into bed. She was halfway asleep when she noticed something on her wrist. It was a marking, she sat up and tried to wipe it off with her gown. When it didn't come off she went to the bathroom hoping to wash it off but when she turned on the lights she was horrified by what she saw. On both of her wrists were marks in shape of a cross.

"Oh no." She whispered in horror. "No. No, nonono. This can't be happening. Please God."

She turned on the water and tried to wash them off, she scrubbed as hard she could hoping to God that this was just the work of a marker used in a cruel joke but it wasn't. The marks stayed, they were real, she was the apostle. She couldn't breathe, she didn't know what to do. But she was sure of one thing there was no way she was telling anyone about this, especially Manny.

...

"Is he gonna be okay?" She asked T.J the next day. Manny had spent the whole day sleeping in the clinic which worried her.

"He used a lot of energy but he'll be fine." T.J said.

"So he's not gonna die?"

"No but he definitely needs rest. It's been awhile since he used his powers so it's pretty tiring for him."

"Will he ever be able to overcome this."

"Eventually."

"I didn't want to undo the seal!"

"Frida it was an emergency had you not we probably would've been eaten."

"I know but...Everytime he uses his powers he starts to lose part of his life. What if next time he dies?"

"I don't know but don't forget Frida that while Manny can be a jerk sometimes he would gladly give his life for someone else without a second thought. Especially if the person he's dying for is family or friends."

"Well I don't want him give his life for me. I could never live with myself if he did that."

"Hate to break it to you Frida but I think that if he had to then he would."

"Well I refuse to let that happen! T.J I want you to promise me something."

"What?"

"Promise that you will never let Manny die for me."

"Frida I don't think I can make that promise. Why are you asking me to do this anyway?"

"T.J I don't know why but I feel like something is coming. Something where Manny might have to exchange his life for mine and I don't want that to happen. So promise me that if something like that should ever happen you'll stop him from sacrificing himself."

"Why me?"

"Because aside from me you're the only other person who can get a hold on him. Manny has been through too much pain his whole life. I don't want him to suffer anymore!"

"Frida what's going on? Did something happen?"

"No! It's just a feeling! Please T.J! Promise me this! If he were to die for me I would hate myself for the rest of my life! So promise me okay?"

"I promise." He said.

"Good now I'm gonna go for a walk."

"Alright."

She then left the clinic but T.J was very suspicious.

"She's acting weird even for her. What's with the whole promise not to sacrifice thing and why is she wearing gloves? It's nearly June. Something's not right around here and I'm gonna get the bottom of it or my name isn't Lenard and it's not."

"Who are you talking to?" Father Anthony asked.

"I don't know."