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Meant to Be Together

Chapter 8: (Jacob)

~two days later~

We finally make it to our little stakeout, our little corner of the world, and we're sleeping, gaining strength for our big battle. Just as I'm about to wake up, the angel appears. "It's time," she says. Charity and I are awake instantly, and we wake up everyone else. "You guys, we're going to need all our powers to defeat the evil forces," Charity begins. "So, no thinking negative thoughts. Positive thoughts only, okay?"

We all nod. So all of us (Angel, Miguel, Poe, Noah, Aunt Grace, Father Lonigan, and the Angel Girl) troop over to our battlefield, which is a cliff, really... two cliffs in the middle of darkness. If you fall, you fall to your death. I sense the evil coming closer and closer, and before I have to go fight for the goodness of the world, I give Poe a hug. "Poe, please don't be scared. I need you here."

"But Jake, you're up against evil. That's something to be afraid of."

"Look, just stay here with Miguel, and you'll be fine. Don't move." I put a shield around her and Charity does the same to Miguel. "If anything, this will save you. Don't be scared. Have faith," Charity instructs.

Miguel and Poe nod their heads in agreement. They hold on to each other just as a huge wall of flames erupts between the two enemy camps. "Prepare to meet your doom," an evil-sounding voice booms. And so, the battle begins.

I look fiercely across the fire, and I see the forces of evil, the ones that inspire people to do wrong things: to kill, to hurt, to manipulate, to steal, to lie, to cheat, and to rape. At that last thought, rage against evil fills me, and I strike a blow at them, which sends some of the demons flying. Not all of them, though.

Just then, I hear a strangely familiar voice, screaming, "Princess! Timmy's scared!"

That's Tabitha's doll, I notice. I never knew he was alive. (AN: Aww… Timmy… *sniff* A moment of silence for Josh Ryan Evans… *pause* Okay back to the story) At this rate, I can't really focus on that right now, as there are demons flying around us, threatening to take Miguel and Poe. I freeze them and Charity zaps them. Noah is hard at work recruiting angels to help us, and Aunt Grace is trying to figure out where exactly the weak points of our enemies are. Just then, two figures that look like Miguel and Poe are walking up to us. They meet Charity and me. "Jake, it's me," the girl says. "Poe. I know you love me." She tries to get her hands on me, but then I hear Poe scream, "Jake! It's not me! Don't listen to her!"

The demon suddenly turns on Poe and a bolt of lightning is coming straight for her, but I freeze the bolt two inches away from the shield. Father Lonigan takes his blessed cane and sends the bolt back at the demon, which collapses. "Thanks, Father!" I yell, over the howling wind, the raging fire, and the relentless rain.

The angels and the demons are wrestling, and then, out of the darkness, a new figure emerges. "Let the power of goodness prevail!" she exclaims, in a loud voice. I turn and see who it is. "Mom?" I ask, bewildered.

"That's right, Jake, I'm here. I've missed you, and Charity, and Grace," she says, pulling Angel and me into a hug. But something just doesn't seem right about her, and when I feel a pendant around her neck, like the one Charity used to have, Charity flings it off, into the darkness. The figure disappears just as soon as it arrived, but soon, my real mother emerges, right when we need her the most. "Jake, Charity," she says, "I finally get to see you two again. You're all grown up!"

"Mom!" Charity exclaims, throwing her arms around her. "What happened to you?"

"I can't explain right now, Angel. I'm here to help you guys." And she joins us in battling the demons of hell.

~*~
(hours later)

We've managed to tackle all the little demons, with help from the angels, but now, we've got to pool all our powers together to stop the big guys. And surprisingly, I see my neighbor Tabitha. "So you are a witch!" Aunt Grace yells. "You're going to die, Tabitha. For all the things you've done to my family, you're going to pay!" A big flash of light comes from her eyes and is headed right for Tabitha. She tries to send it back, but I freeze it, and send it back to her, full force. She stumbles, but is not totally defeated.

"Princess!" Timmy yells. "Don't hurt Timmy's Princess!" I can hear him yelling from wherever he is. But I can't listen to him. I have to destroy her. It's my destiny.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning hits the spot where Miguel and Poe are still huddled. "Destroy Miguel and Paloma! Destroy them!"

"Jake! What's happening?" Poe screams. "They're coming for us!"

"I won't let them hurt you!" I yell back. Charity and I stand next to them, and as the big, huge demons approach (led by the pendant), I say to Angel, "Come on, Angel, we've got to use all the power we have." She nods and together, we push away the demons. It's not easy, though. They're really strong, and when I think that I can't hold on for much longer, Charity turns her eyes to the pendant, which is babbling things like, "Charity, come to the dark side!" and "Charity, kill Miguel!", and destroys it with just a look. The evil ones are outraged about this, and the wind comes faster, the rain harder, and the fire fiercer, as Noah and Father Lonigan help out, and the Angel Girl flying around them, sprinkling holy water on them. They start to smolder, which helps us, and we destroy two of the most horrible demons. Now there are only two people left: Tabitha and a huge, red demon, with eyes like fire. "You're never going to win against evil!" Tabitha exclaims.

"Good always wins in the end!" Noah retorts. "There's no way you're going to beat us!"

Tabitha gets somewhat outraged at this and sends a wall of fire around Noah, who just sprinkles it with holy water and it disappears. Charity and I look at each other while Tabitha, the demon and Noah are going at it, and we have the same thought: Kill them now. As we outstretch our hands once again, I hear Poe and Miguel yell, in unison, "We love you guys!" And somehow, that gives us more strength. Charity and I pool our powers once again and send a huge blast of light toward the huge demon. We keep sending these huge blasts, doused with holy water, until the demon says, "You can't defeat me, you imbeciles!" All of which gets me really mad, and I dig around my pockets, until I find what I'm looking for: a cross. I send the cross towards the demon and place it right over where its heart should be. With one more powerful blast from my sister, the demon moans, saying, "Tabitha, you're our only hope now," and disintegrates into ashes.

            The fire is still raging, but not as high; the wind is slowly dying down, and the storm is passing over, and all of us corner Tabitha. "I hated all of you from the very start," she begins. But we don't give her a chance to finish. I fling her to the edge of the cliff.  Charity keeps her suspended there, and Mom extracts the demon that's been inside of her for more than three hundred years. The demon booms, "I'm never going to give up! You're no match against me!" Charity just laughs. "Yeah, right." With one single zap, the demon is gone, and we've defeated all of the evil. The fire stops, the wind disappears, and the sky clears up, as we all hug each other and cry, as we've fought the biggest battle of our lives. Tabitha's body is still lying there, though, lifeless, and we see her doll scamper up to her and say, "Tabby's dead! Oh, no! What did you do to my poor Princess?"

Charity says, "Poor doll. Oh well. It'll all work out. Now Tabitha is just a harmless old woman, so there's no threat in her, right?" She turns to Aunt Grace for confirmation. "Yes, Charity, there's nothing to worry about. Tabitha won't hurt us again."

"But I feel sorry for Timmy. I mean, he isn't all bad," Angel tells us. "I wish there was something I could do."

"I know!" Noah says. "Why don't you make him into a real boy? Tabitha can be his great-grandmother."

"That's a great idea, Noah," I tell him, and Charity agrees. She lifts the doll's body up and magically transforms him into a real boy. Then she gently sets him down again. The boy is in amazement that he's actually got real hands, real feet, real skin, that he takes one of the stakes left over from the battle and gives himself a cut. Blood oozes out. But he doesn't care, he's just happy that he's a real boy. Charity smiles. "Our work here is done," she says. "Let's go home." We're about to leave for home, when all of a sudden, Poe faints.