Boo cat hissed and growled as she lunged towards Azure clawing his eyes out. "Don't touch my friends!" she cried. Azure cried out in pain as the sword scalped Jon. The pain woke him up with a yelp. "You house cat. I'll skin you alive!" Boo Cat let out an eep as she ran off with Azure hot on her trail.

"He scalped me! That son of a bitch scalped me!" Jon cried. He picked up his as his wound bled. "Relax boy. It looks worse than it is. Just heal yourself." Raven rolled her eyes at Jon being melodramatic. "At least you still have the rest of your head still attached." Tarot kneeled towards Jon ignoring her sister's callousness. "Here. Let me heal that for you." She said tenderly. Her hands glowed pink, conjuring her healing spell. "Don't worry babe. I got this." Jon placed his bleeding scalp on his head and turned it so it fit. He then placed his hand over the wound and set it ablaze with his fire. The wound healed itself instantly causing no discomfort to Jon.

"Oh, why did you have to heal that?" Raven cooed. "You would have looked adorable without your hair. Like a hunky Friar Tuck." She laughed her own joke as Jon and Tarot just looked at her. "You're lucky there is a murderous elf on the loose…"

"Wretched feline! Your days on this earth are over!" Azure slashed rapidly trying to cut Boo to ribbons. Boo was barely able to stay ahead of him. "What? Would an apology help?" she said in fear. She ran into a dead as Azure lunged the sword towards her. She leapt up ad landed on the flat surface as she kicked Azure. She scratched his eyes again when suddenly his arms shot up and wrapped his fingers around her neck. She wriggled pathetically as she tried to get free.

"Squirm feline! I want to see the light leave your eyes as I crush your throat!" he said sadistically. A pink beam shot through his chest and he turned around to see mother with her fingers raised ready to take another shot.

"Gods of the black well curse you and your family!" he shouted.

"Curse all you want Azure, you will never leave this room alive." Tarot tried to warn her mom that he was too fast but she was too late Azure leapt toward her and pushed her into a nearby wall. A small wisp of smoke rose from Azure's hands and connected with Mother's forehead as her eyes became white and her face froze with a look of pure terror. "There are worst things than death, witch mother have a taste of yours…

Inside Mother's head, she was tied naked to a stake and forced to watch as her daughters burned to death. "I was forced to exist inside an isolated cell without a head for years! You can't imagine how that can twist your mind… Break it! But you will learn… Yes. You will suffer before your lives blink out…"

Tarot snuck up behind him and used her magick to blast his head and release her mother. Azure backhanded her with the back of his fist as Raven summoned summoned a flaming snake to devour him. For a minute, it seemed to work until he summoned broken shards of wood and stabbed her in the legs and arms. She creamed in pain.

Jon cried out when he saw her hurt and blasted Azure with a column of fire. Azure laughed it off as he summoned a shield. "Oh good all of the flies are in the spider's web! Now we can start the real fun!" He raised his hands as multiple tendrils of smoke rose from him and attached themselves to the heroes heads. One after the other they all fell to the ground with tears in their eyes and terror stricken faces.

"The great Dark Shadow has fallen upon the house of the Black Rose and all those who dwell in it are lost. What images will haunt you in the end? What horrors will send you to the world of the dead?"

Jon cowered in fear as grey aliens with female bodies, sasquatches and spiders surrounded him.

"What scares the Graveyard Guardian? The Skeleton Man? Insects? Imaginary beasts?! Childhood fears that cause you to scream so loud… Truly proof of an infantile race!

"I've already glimpsed your fears witch mother. Seeing your daughters burned at the stake. The feeling of hopelessness. Knowing you are helpless to free them of give them comfort. A torture well deserved!" Azure cackled sadistically…

"What of the sword maiden?" Tarot could only look on frozen in fear as the Headless Horseman looked down on her. "The witch that cut my head off, afraid of a headless spirit?! The gods are just indeed." He laughed

"And what of my former pale lover?" All around her shadows of men and women pointed at her… pointed at her breasts berating her. Cutting into her with words like daggers as they insulted her. Calling her a whore, a slut because of her large breasts until her self-esteem crumbles. "Hmph. Mankind inflicts mental scars as easily as it does physical ones."

Back in the real world, Azure was reveling in his supposed victory. His opponents slipping further and further away. Becoming more and more consumed by their own fears. "Praise the Dark Gods for rewarding me with this moment. Praise them for granting me my revenge!"

Back in Jon's mind, he cowered as his fears converged on him. "No!" he thought "I fought worse than this! I won't let myself die like this. Not today!" Jon's hand lit up again and he aimed his fire for Azure…

"No! My daughters! Please no…?" Mother awoke from nightmare as Azure's spell vanished. She, Tarot and Raven looked as Jon hand was smoking and Azure was on the floor clutching his lower half in pain. "Never mess with my Lovers again" Jon said seriously.

"Did you just…?" Tarot asked

"Yeah. I did" he replied.

"Kill…you… kill you all" Azure strained. Raven noticed a black sleeve that looked familiar under the dark elf. "No…" she said grimly. "I don't think you're hurting anyone ever again." With a wave of her hand, Azure suddenly fell into the dress as if it suddenly became a trap door. At the least minute Azure grabbed edge and tried to hold on. "NO. NOT AGAIN. I WON'T BE TAKEN AGAIN!" Below, necro creatures grabbed for him. Intending to drag him down into their realm. As Jon stood over him, he decided he had enough. This… thing has been terrorizing his loved ones from two long. He raised his boot and with one stamp, Azure fell into the pit. His screams becoming distant echoes as he faded from our world….

"What happened to him? Did he disappear?" Tarot asked as she carried Boo Cat who was beginning to regain consciousness.

"It seems like it. Bastard…AARGH!" Raven pulled the stakes out of her arms, legs and hips and healed them quickly."…I was hoping the necro things would come out and battle him. I didn't expect him to just vanish into the fabric." She picked up the dress and looked at it. The dress looked as though it wasn't a portal to a dark dimension where her ex-lover was suffering. She smiled widely. "I guess a little black dress is a girl's best friend."

"Yay! We won again! Go Team Witchy" Boo squealed. Raven rolled her eyes.

Mother walked over to Jon and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder as he simply stared off into the distance. "Thank you Jon Webb. You saved us all. I'm proud that my daughters found such a wonderful man." The moment was ruined when Jon started sneezing again and snot started dripping down his nose.

"DAMN IT ALL!" he screamed. "This is no how the night was supposed to turn out!" All four of the witches and werecat were taken aback by his sudden outburst. "What's wrong with him now?" Raven asked. "I don't know…" Tarot murmured. Boo cowered in fear of what he might do next.

"I didn't want to do this way. I wanted to do it all romantic like. But to hell with it…" he kneeled down in front of Tarot. Her first love…

"Tarot…Rowan… Will you make me the happiest…ACHOO… gravedigger in the world… be my witchy-bride… and marry me?" he presented her with a diamond ring with skeleton decorations. The scene would have been a lot sweeter if his nose wasn't running and dribbling down his chin.

"YES" she cried. Raven and were both shocked at his answer as Mother smiled.

"I don't want to hear it! I'm already in danger and I've dealt with it. I've fought the undead, the dead dead…"

"YES!"

"I'm already learning magick from your sister and I've just went toe-to-toe with a dark elf vampire. I can defend myself and you so just give it some thought…"

She grabbed his head to make her point clear "Jon! I said yes! I will marry you! I will be your witchy-bride. In this realm…the next realm and the one to come!"

"Oh" Jon said stupidly. He started smiling. Again this would have been better if his nose wasn't running. "You've made me the happiest man alive!" he snorted. They kissed each other deeply, somehow ignoring the mucus.

"Oh gross! He didn't even wipe his face?! I can't believe I kissed that!" she exclaimed.

"Hush Raven. You're ruining the moment." Mother suggested.

"Yay! Marriage time!" Boo squealed. She grabbed Jon and Raven's hands as she pulled them to the gardens. "Come one you happy couple. It's time for the bachelor and bachelorette party!"

Jon, naturally was completely confused and caught off guard but Tarot was all for it. "She's right. Time for on last night of fun before we settle down." She pointed her finger at his crotch and his clothes suddenly disappeared. Raven rolled her eyes at the three but that didn't stop her from joining in. "I can't believe this is actually happening." She resigned. "Oh well. At least the sex will be fun" she rubbed her hands together ready for the party. "Are you coming along, mother?" she asked.

Mother turned to the manor. "No. you kids have your fun. I'll get him later… to help him fit for his tux" she said with fake innocence.

"W-wait a minute!" Jon exclaimed

"Oh how cute. It thinks it has a say in the matter." Raven licked her lips greedily. Jon turned to look at Tarot who simply shrugged. "You said you were ready." She stated.

"You heard your future wife!" Boo shuddered. "But first, wipe your nose! Even have to have standards!"