Disclaimer: Diane Duane owns these characters... for now... MWAHAHAHA!

A.N: Sorry this took so long, but, hey, same excuse as last chapter.

Nita sat outside in the moonlight, The Book of Night with Moon on her lap, flipping furiously throughout the pages, looking frantically for a spell to neutralize the vault the other Seniors were confined to.

"Listen Kit, this isn't going to work if I sit out here. Do you think you could talk the ceiling into letting moonlight into the building while we're down there?"

"Um, yeah, sure, it shouldn't be a problem," Kit mumbled, pacing back and forth. "Oh no..." Kit broke off his pacing,.

"What is it?"

"Even if we figure out how to neutralize the containment spell in time, how are we going to stop the missile? We'll be completely sapped of energy by the time it comes!" He turned to Chao, "Do you have any bright ideas?"

"I'm sorry, but this is where I have to leave you, I can't help any more." Chao said sadly. And disappeared

"Uh..." Nita started to sweat, "crap... Hey I found it!" she exclaimed, looking at the Book, "It's a reading to temporarily nullify the Lone Power's power over a specific region! It's perfect!"

"Yeah, but what about..."

"We'll have to figure that out as we go; we're almost out of time, come on!"

Nita and Kit sprinted into the building, stopping at the top of the stairs just long enough to set up a shield charm and to ready a killing spell. They looked down the dark stairwell, wondering what waited just around the corner.

"You ready?" Kit said shakily to Nita. She nodded, clenching her jaw.

"Let's go!"

They sprinted down the stairs, but all their preparation for what they would see didn't erase the shock they felt when they saw a scene from their worst nightmares.

"Heh, heh, looks like the Lone Power's got some new pets," Kit stammered as he looked at the landscape around them.

Darkness had overtaken the basement, showing only hints of the terrors concealed within it. Slinking shadows scuttled across the edges of their vision, a blanket of dirty fog hid the ground, and dark shapes could be seen in the distance. Nita went pale as their first trail trundled toward them. Giant millipedes writhed beneath them, trying to reach them. They swarmed over a paralyzed Nita, their mandibles clicking, searching for something to...

Wait, Nita thought, millipedes are harmless. Nita let loose her killing spell, splattering bug goo over the walls and themselves.

"Nice..." Nita muttered, "Come on, let's go."

They stepped into the foggy darkness, feeling their way to the right wall.

"You know, this is almost too easy," Kit said nervously.

"Yeah, no kidding."

"Don't worry," an ominous voice said from the darkness, "I won't disappoint you." The Lone Power stepped out of the fog, flanked by a slavering pack of perytons.

Kit! Cover for me, I need to start the reading! Nita unleashed the shield spell she had been preparing around the two of them, opened the Book, and began reading."�"(A.N. Just play with me and pretend it's the speech, okay?")

"No!" snarled the Lone Power and released a bolt of killing energy towards them.

A.N. CLIFFIE!!!!!!!! Heeheehee. Please review! It would make me so sob happy!