Ok everyone! Next chapter is the final and I promise it will be epic. Everything that's happened was leading up to it. So enjoy this one.

Chapter 6

It took everyone a moment for what Jerome had done it to sink in. They all stared at the body with the twisted neck. They were very quiet, the only thing one could hear was Jerome's deep angry breathing. Mara looked up at him, his eyes red, his fangs perfectly sculpted into a point. His pupils dilated.

"Jerome" she said quietly. He looked at her, and his breathing settled and his eyes went back to normal. He stared at the body on the floor, and realization dawned on him.

"Jerome" Fabian said in a deep, husky, tired voice. "What did you do?"

"What did you do?" Amber repeated.

"Is he dead?" Eddie asked.

"Jerome you just killed him!" Fabian shouted.

"But I guess you don't care do you?" Nina asked him. "He's just another person to you? Another person to kill and then move on"

"I didn't mean to do it!" he yelled

"But you did, and now he's gone!" Joy yelled.

"Don't you think I know that? I have eyes!" Jerome yelled back.

"Jerome" Mara said calmly looking at him. "They're right. You can't bring him back"

"But we can" Patricia said. Piper looked at her.

"It takes a lot of power-"

"I'm fine" she said kneeling down next to Mick. Piper followed her and everyone stood by watching intently. They began to chant.

"Kcab tirips sih gnirb

Tcat ni efil sih peek

EfiL fo gniR eht esuap

Eil ydob sih erehw mih ekaw"

"Eil ydob sih..." Eddie repeated. "Eil, as in lie?"

The twins nodded. Everyone looked at him oddly.

"They're speaking backwards" he explained.

"Kcab tirips sih gnirb"

"Bring his spirit back" Eddie translated.

"Tcatni efil sih peek"

"Keep his life intact"

"EfiL fo gnir eht esuap"

"Pause the Ring of Life"

"Eil ydob sih erehw mih ekaw"

"Wake him where his body lie"

Mick's body began to glow and levitate. Everyone stood away, wide eyed apart from the twins. After another moment, Mick's eyes popped open and his body fell to the floor. He coughed roughly and dangerously, but he was alive.

"Oh geez I'm tired" Piper said. Patricia nodded.

"What just happened" Mick asked rubbing his hurting neck.

"I killed you" Jerome said. "The witches brought you back to life"

"Not that I blame you for him not being able to control his urge to kill" Fabian said to Mick. "But a word of advice, don't anger a vampire"

Mick looked around at everyone.

"Can we all just have a normal day for once?" Mick asked.

"Not with all the creatures we have here" Nina shook her head.

"Vampires Werewolves and Witches" Mara said. "Oh my"

"Don't forget Elements!" Amber said. "And mermaids"

Everyone looked at her in shock.

"There's a mermaid?" Patricia asked

"No, kidding" Amber said. "But how awesome would that be?"

"Ok, can we get out of here before the zombies come?" Alfie asked.

"Alfie, there's no such thing as zombies" Mara said as they began to walk out. Alfie stopped her.

"You just found out that elements, vampires and werewolves are real, and saw witches bring someone back from the dead, and suddenly it's impossible for zombies to be real?" Alfie asked.

"You have a point" Mara said. "I guess technically, Mick is a zombie"

"Exactly" Alfie said. Then he looked panicked. "You're right! What if he gets a taste for brain?"

"We would have to fight him off" Mara said trying to keep herself from laughing. "We would need protection"

"Yes, and quickly" Alfie said

"So what would you do during a zombie apocalypse?" Mara asked him. Alfie then excitedly began to explain his plans to her. They all went up the stairs. Patricia looked at her arm. She shouldn't have done that spell. But Piper couldn't do it alone and there was no way she would allow Mick to die.

"Patricia, Piper" she heard Amber say. They turned towards her. "I would like to apologize. I shouldn't have assumed you were coming here just to steal Alfie away from me and I shouldn't have made you choose me or your sister. I guess I'm not as grown up as I thought I was"

"It's fine Amber, we all make mistakes" Patricia said.

"Yeah, I've made my fair share of them" Piper said. Amber smiled and skipped off.

"Hey Patricia" Nina said going to her. "So I have this card, for Victor and I was hoping you would sign it"

"Why the hell would I do that?" Patricia asked. "All he's done is cause me stress"

"He's also helped us numerous times" Nina said.

"He kidnapped my best friend" Patricia said.

"Well your best friend found it in her heart to forgive him" she said showing her Joy's signature on the card. "So her best friend should as well"

"FIne, I'll sign it, but I don't forgive him" Patricia said scribbling her name somewhere on the card. Nina smiled and went to find someone else who didn't sign it. She had a feeling Fabian and Jerome were going to be hard to persuade.

Jerome went in the living room to find Alfie there.

"So, a vampire?" Alfie asked.

"A werewolf?" Jerome asked.

"Did you have anything to do with the missing persons?" Alfie asked.

"Did you bite Eddie?" Jerome asked.

"No" Alfie said. Mick came in with a shocked face.

"Mick?" Jerome asked. He did answer so Jerome snapped in front of his face and Mick was out of his trance.

"What's wrong" Alfie asked.

"N-nothing" he stuttered.

"After the shit you gave us for not telling you every detail of our lives you better start opening up like this is a therapy session and spill some guts" Jerome said.

Mick took a deep breath. "I talked to someone"

Alfie and Jerome looked at each other. "So?"

"He was dead" Mick said. The two gulped and became uncomfortable.

"I think Amber's calling me" Alfie said rushing up the stairs. Mick looked at Jerome who wouldn't look at him.

"Oh, is it really that late, I have to feed, wouldn't want me hurting anyone here" Jerome laughed nervously and made his way to his room.

Piper knocked on Jerome and Alfie's door to see Jerome open up. "He's not here"

"Where is he?"

"Snogging Amber perhaps" he said closing the door. She rolled her eyes and made her way upstairs. Alfie was just leaving Amber's room.

"Hi Alfie" she said kindly.

"Hey Piper" he said.

"I wanted to return something of yours" Piper said handing him the ten of hearts. Alfie took it and smiled at her. It took him a moment to realize she was flirting.

"Thank you" he said taking it. It took him longer to realize he was flirting back.

"Are you happy with Amber?" she asked leading him downstairs. "I've heard she can be a bit... demanding"

"She's hard to handle if you don't know her" Alfie said then turned Piper around and put his hands on her shoulder. "And I love her, Piper. So this will never work"

"I told I would come back for you" Piper said sadly. "I thought you would wait for me"

"Piper I will always care for you, and you are a beautiful girl" Alfie said. "You'll find someone"

"Fine" Piper said. "But if you ever get tired of her, I'm easy going"

With that she left.

Mara was pacing outside of Jerome's door, deciding if this was really what she wanted to do. She stopped Joy in the hall.

"I could look eighteen right?" she asked.

"Yeah, I mean, you're seventeen it's not that much of a longshot" Joy said.

"Twenty-one?" she asked. Joy eyed her.

"Yeah, you could pass for a twenty-one year old?" Joy said.

"How about twenty five?" Mara asked.

"It's a little bit of a longshot, but with the right makeup you could look any age" Joy said. Mara nodded and turned on her heel and knocked on Jerome's door. Joy looked at her with curiosity before leaving. Jerome opened the door.

"What's wrong Mara?" he asked. "Come to break up with me now that you know the truth?"

"On the contrary, Jerome" Mara said walking in. "I want you to turn me"

"Oh no, I can't do that" Jerome said.

"And why not?"

"I won't be responsible for ruining your life" Jerome said.

"It didn't seem to ruin your life" Mara said. "You're still graduating next year, hopefully. You look old enough to be able to do whatever the hell you want, and you get to have fun"

"Why do you even want to turn?" Jerome asked. "Mara you know I love you, but who's to say we'll even be together by the end of the year?"

She smiled after seeing him wince at the statement. "Who says I'm doing it for you?" Mara asked. "Maybe I'm doing it for me? Maybe I'm tired of being weak. Maybe I want to be strong like a vampire, have fun. Not care because I'm young, I'm gonna stay young, and I have the rest of my life to do what I want. All I have to do is graduate, and I'm free for the rest of my life"

"This is a permanent decision" Jerome said. "Have you fully thought this through?"

"When have I ever made a decision without thinking it through first?" Mara asked.

"Then come with me" Jerome said and she followed him out of the house.

"Eddie are you ok?" Patricia asked. "You look a bit ill"

"I feel really sick" he said. "Get me to a bathroom quick"

She helped him up and got him to the bathroom where he threw up everything he ate. Patricia went to get Trudy.

"Trudy something's wrong with Eddie" Patricia said. Trudy went to find Eddie to see him throwing up in the toilet again, but this time he was throwing up blood and coughing dangerously.

"Help me get him to his bedroom" Trudy said. She grabbed a trash can while she was at it and put him on the bed. She opened his cast to see his recently stitched up bite was now open again and bleeding. His whole leg was swollen and puffy and his bite seemed to be infected. There was a rash that started at the bite and spread to the rest of his leg.

"Oh my God" Patricia said.

"I can't feel it" he said. "I can't feel anything on my right side"

"Call Mr. Sweet" she said to Patricia who ran off. She felt his forehead. "Sweetheart you're burning up"

"Maybe he needs a cold compress" Fabian said in the doorway. He sped off to get a cold wet rag and brought it to Trudy who placed it on his forehead.

"I called Mr. Sweet and he's on his way" Patricia said

"Should we call the hospital?" Trudy asked

"I don't think they can help" Fabian asked

"Why?" Patricia asked.

"Because I-" Fabian stopped short looking at Trudy and decided not to let her know. He whispered to Patricia instead. "I think one of the werewolves did it"

"Maybe they know how to fix it" Patricia called. "ALFIE, JOY, NINA, GET YOUR ASSES IN HERE"

"Patricia language" Trudy said. The three appeared at the doorway.

"What is it?" Nina asked.

"Did one of you do this?" Patricia asked. They looked wide eyed at Eddie. Nina and Alfie couldn't help but glance at Joy.

"I did" Joy said. "I didn't mean to, I just smelled meat and went for it"

"I don't care just fix it" Patricia said.

"I don't know how" Joy said.

"Do any of you know how to fix this" she asked. Alfie closed his eyes and shook his head.

"It's fatal" Alfie said. "How could I not notice before? He hinted it before he left"

"He who?" Patricia asked.

"My dad" Alfie said. "He told me to make sure he's by loved ones, and it would be better to end it on the tenth hour. I didn't know who he was talking about before"

"I'm sorry" Joy said tears going down her face. "I wish I could do something to stop it or something, anything!"

"Well you can't" Patricia spat.

"Don't yell at Joy" Trudy said. "It's not her fault. I'll get some tea going"

"Eddie I'm so sorry" Joy said

"It's ok" he said with a very weak voice. "Do you think instead of tea I could just have a mouth full of whip cream? I'd shoot myself if the last thing I drank was grass in water"

"I'll tell Trudy right away" Joy said running to the kitchen.

"Where is Edison?" Mr. Sweet came bursting in the room. Everyone else left.

"Hey pops" Eddie said.

"What happened?"

"I got a small wolf bite" Eddie said. "Doctor Lewis said it's pretty bad"

"You are listening to Alfie?" Mr. Sweet whispered.

"He's outside, you don't have to whisper" Eddie laughed, which was followed by a cough.

"I'm going to ask Trudy just how bad it is" Mr. Sweet said leaving. He went in the hall to see Trudy and asked her what could help.

"Uh, maybe we should speak over here" Trudy said. Joy showed up with pancakes and a bottle of whipped cream.

"You really didn't need to do all of that" Alfie said.

"Yes I did" Joy said and went into the room.

"There has to be something we can do" Nina said. Patricia looked at Fabian.

"There is" Patricia said. "Fabian has to change him"

"What?" Fabian asked shocked. "No I can't"

"You have to!"

"I can't" Fabian said. "I haven't fed all day and my throat is already dry, if I bite him there's a chance I won't be able to stop"

"How much of a chance?" Patricia asked.

"There is an ninety seven percent chance of death" Fabian said.

"You're the only one that can do this!" Patricia said. "

"Where's Jerome?" Fabian asked

"MIA" Patricia said.

"Patricia I can't do it, I can't if I do-" Fabian started. He was suddenly thrown up against the wall, but no one touched him. Patricia walked up to him, and spoke in a dangerously calm demeanor.

"Do you want him to die?" she asked him, not very close to his face. He spoke in a similarly calm voice when he said what he said next.

"Do you?"

Patricia looked enraged and turned on her heel and stomped up the stairs. Fabian fell from against the wall.

"Does anyone want my opinion?" Nina asked. Alfie and Fabian looked at her. "Do it Fabian"

"I could kill him" Fabian said.

"He's going to die anyway, at least this way there's a chance, even if it's small, that he'll live. In a... dead way" Nina said. "And we'll try to pull you off of him"

"Who knows, maybe it will taste disgusting!" Alfie shrugged.

"Why would it taste disgusting?" Fabian asked.

"He's sick and dying and got bit by a werewolf" Alfie said. "Just doing some wishful thinking that vampires are allergic to wolves"

Fabian sighed and went in the room to see Eddie pigging out on pancakes.

"This is your death wish?" Nina asked.

"It would be mine" Alfie said. Fabian went to the side of Eddie.

"I think I should ask for permission to turn you" Fabian said.

"Into what?" Eddie asked. Fabian gave him an 'I know you know' look.

"I think it's a good idea" Joy said. "Maybe that won't be your last pancake"

"You know for someone who was told like twenty minutes ago that he's going to die, you're surprisingly calm" Alfie observed.

"Honestly?" Eddie asked. "I can't feel anything. I can't feel my body, well most of it. I can't feel any emotions. So I'm not really mad or sad or scared about it"

"Probably the bite" Nina said.

"Ok, so then I guess asking you if you mind me turning you is useless" Fabian said. He looked to Nina, who nodded at him, and leaned down to bite Eddie.

"I thought vampires didn't have emotions" Alfie said.

"...Yeah" Nina said.

"But he was pretty worried about Eddie" Alfie said. "Maybe there's loopholes. Like depending on the person or the situation, they still have their humanity. I mean, I didn't want to bite his head off the whole time he was in there. And that's surprising because I wanted to bite his head off all week, I wonder why that is-"

"Alfie!" Joy said. "What are you blabbering on about"

"I don't know, but Eddie's not looking too good" Alfie said pointing at Eddie, who looked more exhausted and weaker by the second.

"Fabian that's enough" Nina said. "Fabian stop. STOP"

"Just pull him off" Alfie said trying to force Fabian away but with one push Fabian sent Alfie flying.

"Fabian, stop! You're killing him!" Joy yelled. All three of them were trying to pry him off by now. They finally got him away from Eddie, but no one could tell if he was going to wake up.

Get ready for the final...