Hey all, this chapter is when it really gets interesting. I know, I know, finally! I have about ten more chapters to go, but I imagine them being quite long and far between.

(Very Important)Anyway, I was just looking at some Angel/Buffy fanfics and realised something. They have challenges! It's not fair, how come us Sweep people don't get them. So what I was thinking was that we should have a challenge site for Sweep fans. If you don't actually have a clue what I mean by a challenge, it's a writer who makes up the storyline to a story, but it is just posted on a site and another writer actually writes the story. Anyhow, I was thinking that maybe I should make up a site to that. But I was going to announce it to the whole Sweep community (wow, a community) but I was wondering if it was a good idea or not? So, since not that many people actually read this story (it's actually only 4, and if you do and don't review, please do, I like it when people review!) I thought that I could ask you lot and get a response from you. Then if it's good then I can make an announcement of it. Wee, that was fun!

Bradhadair: You need to get your own actual account on this site! That would be so cool. You really really should, why don't you? And you would be way cool at writing fanfics, or you know, not. Whatever works? GIDEON AND HOPE ARE FOREVER! And ever and ever. They're my favourite (can you guess that?)

Essence of Dreams: YA! Your first review for this story. You have to keep reviewing, it's the only reason I write my stories. It's all for you guys. I love you all! Anyway, I'll return to the world of the sane (probably not for long).

Wiccan-gal: I'm glad no one is actually throwing stuff at me. It's nice to be safe. You'll be glad to know that this is a long chapter, that's why it's taken so long. Also that now, the story has caught up with me. What I was doing before was writing it in my journal and then on this, and I was further ahead of the fan fiction version in my journal. Now it's caught up and it's difficult to write it. Also (this is my fault) I'm writing more stories than this one, their just not on the site yet. Don't hit me! There is a big Ebony/Ryker thing coming up. You'll see at the end of this chapter…

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Ebony was telling Erimentha about what had happened since she left, as they all had been since they had left Port's edge. They had stopped off at her motel room so she could change out of the rags she wore. Now they were walking quite slowly towards Erimentha's old home.

Erimentha gave a small laugh as Ebony joked about Mr Powell, an old teacher of the two. She didn't have the heart to tell her though, that she knew all this stuff already. She had read all their minds a while ago. She was only briefly paying attention so she could say something at an appropriate time.

But most of her energy was focused on Elsu. She hadn't known him before like she had the others. She had been reading his thoughts and emotions for a while. It seemed like he was beginning to open up and trust her. She felt that way about him too.

She reached her house and Ebony stopped talking. Erimentha stood and looked at her home, old home. Ivy crawled up the red brick work. The painted work around the windows was chipping and in desperate need for a re-do. The stain glass in a tiny window in the door shaped in an image of an angel shone as the sun come out. The house almost looked the same as how she left it.

No one dared to push her into this. They all knew (even Elsu) this would be hard for her without having to be rushed. The expression on her face changed quite suddenly as a strange feeling ran down her spine.

"What is it?" Ryker asked. Erimentha pressed her finger to her lips to silence them all. Her eyes darted around her looking from house to house and in between in every crack something evil could hide. She was sure she had heard something. She tried listening to all thoughts close around her. Her eyes shut. Behind her, her friends got ready for an attack. She could hear all their thoughts, her Ma's, all the neighbours. Then she felt it. Bingo.

Keep walking. 'We make it in the house and we're safe." She sent them all. They quickly walked, in step with each other, up the concrete stairs outside to house. After they had got past the first half of steps, Ryker whispered to them all:

"Did we miss them?" Just then, eight demons of the same kind that had attacked the circle appeared in front of their faces. These demons all carried long staff with a different crystal on each. Moira and Elsu's faces changed instantly as they looked exactly like the demon they had fought to stop all the demons; he had been hard to kill. All the demons eyes glowed with a sinister evil.

"Not a chance," Moira said, aware that it did not matter if they spike loudly or not anymore. Their cover was blown, always had been. They all turned around to run in the other direction, but another eight demons stood in their way, armed the same as the others.

"What do you think the chances are of us living through this are?" Ebony asked.

"Well, with you being the way you are, it just being us, unarmed against sixteen head demons, I would say not so good." Gideon said as both sides of demons started to charge towards them

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Ebony fell to the ground as a demon jumped on her from behind. They both tumbled down the large kill-like garden in front of the house. As they fell, her head and body collided with the concrete stairs, adding scars and bruises to her already battered and bruised body. She was weak and she knew it. But there was a lot more at stake than any reason she could come up with to stop fighting.

The demons grip held on tightly to her neck from behind her. She could feel herself suffocating. When they reached the bottom, the demon quickly climbed on top of her, its hands still wrapped around her neck.

She tried pulling them off but they wouldn't budge. She reached out and laid her hands flat on its chest. A surge of power ran through her and the out into the demons body. Her neck was freed as it went flying back up the hill.

She stood and looked to where it had landed. She expected to see just another dead demon, but she gawked as it slowly raised itself into the sitting position. How? She thought, but they were interrupted as two other demons grabbed her arms and pulled her backwards, lighting her from the ground. An arm came shooting out from the side and hit one of the demons in the face, sending it flying backwards and letting go of ebony's arm. Standing in front of her was Ryker. She quickly spun and kicked the other demon off of her

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As soon as Ryker punched the demon out of Ebony's way he could feel a demon from behind him charging at him. Although all the demons were attacking them, this would be a direct hit. As it ran at him, he put all of his weight onto his feet. He heard it roar and jumped into the air; managing two back flips before landing back onto the ground again.

The demon looked around it, unaware of the move just pulled on it. Ryker took this as his opportunity. He tried to slow time, but only managed it on the one demon. He realised these demons were stronger than the others he had faced before. He ran to it and grabbed at its hard. As he whipped his hands around he heard a cracking noise, informing him the demons neck had been snapped. He stepped back and was shocked to see the demon rise to its feet once again.

Oh Shit.

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Somehow, Gideon, Moira, Elsu and Ebony had managed to make it back to the centre of the lawn. Moira levitated in the air and spun, kicking at least four demons out of her way. Something caught her eye that she hadn't noticed before.

"Does any one else think there's more than 16 demons here?" yelled Elsu over the noise of the demons. Moira came back down from the down from the air, her face alight with terror.

"That's because more are coming."

"What!" shouted Gideon and Ebony, simultaneously. They should have expected it, they knew that, but it was still a shock to know it is actually happening.

"Why would they need more to come? They out numbered us already," stated Gideon. He threw many punches at all the demons, but that just led to more demons coming from behind him.

"Yeah, but since their outnumbering us, how come their only coming one at a time?" Moira asked.

"To tire us out," said Elsu.

"But we're already tired out. They're too strong for us to kill." Ebony stated. Gideon agreed. He had snapped a few demons necks, but they had got back up and started attacking once again. Both Moira and Elsu had seen this happen.

"Sow how the hell are we supposed to kill all these demons and the late arrivals?" asked Ebony. Elsu was fighting a demon when something caught his attention. On a nearby tree, a piece of bark hung out, straight. He pushed the demon off of him and threw out his arms his arm and used his power. The demon was lift from the ground and flew into the tree, stabbing it on the bark. A bright white light surrounded the demon before its body disintegrated into dust and vanished. He turned and saw the others had seen what had just happened.

"Well, I supposed you could do that," stated Moira.

"It must have broken the crystal, like we did last night." Elsu guessed. Ebony looked around to see all the demons minus one still standing, ready to attack.

"Damn." They all shot a questioning look at her. "Since all the other demons are still alive, it means their not connected top each other." All still had blank looks on their faces. She sighed, thinking it obvious. "We have to kill them all and not just the one." Nods of understanding were shown.

"But the problem is that we don't have weapons to destroy the crystals with and we can't just keep throwing them into trees." Elsu said. Silence between them was had as they tried to think of more ways to kill the demons. Of course, the silence was unnoticed amongst the horde of screaming demons.

Moira felt frustrated with herself. Why couldn't she think of anything that could help? She and Elsu had been the ones to kill the first demon like this. A demon charged at her, only to feel her knuckles in its face as her fist collided with it. She took a step backwards as the demon regained itself. She bent her knees and jumped into the air. As she flipped, her foot hit the demons forehead and she heard a cracking noise. She landed back on the ground just in time to see, what looked like, a crystal breaking underneath its helmet. It was creating a white light that destroyed the demon. The impact pushed her to the ground and the light blinded her momentarily before she rose to her feet.

"There's a crystal beneath their helmets. Smash it and their dead." She called to her friends, who had obviously noticed. Gideon took her advice and threw a punch at the demons head, cracking the crystal and killing it. That's a better idea than the tree thing.

He heard a small cry of pain from behind him and saw Ebony struggling to hold back a demon. It was pushing itself at her but she had gripped onto its staff with both of her hands and pushing it back at it. But the demon seemed to be out doing her. Gideon ran up to help her and pulled the demon, from behind, off of her. Ebony fell to the ground as he rushed to her side.

"What's wrong?"

"Last night's fight…really…starting to take its toll." She managed to get out, her voice raspy. She took some deep breaths and tried to steady herself.

"I'll get this one," he said, meaning the demon. She only nodded, aware she couldn't do anything else. He turned and picked up the staff the demon dropped when it was pulled backwards. They took their fighting stances. Gideon swung the staff around and hit it off the ground. The crystal on the end broke and left sharp edges, hopefully sharp enough to go though the demon. As he was about to run, the demon grabbed its head and let out a shrill scream before exploding.

"Break the crystal on the staff," he called out. Elsu and Moira had become lost in the crowd, but Erimentha was in earshot. He ran back to protect Ebony.

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Erimentha heard what Gideon called and silently thanked the goddess for a way to kill these demons. She was beaten quite badly, worse than all of the 6 (except Ebony, obviously). She had only a little bit of training from Kira, but nothing like the others had. But breaking a crystal that she could do.

She ran to a demon and stood in front of it. She realised this wasn't a recommended plan of action, but it stood it's propose. The demon did as she expected, and swung its staff at her face. She caught the staff in her hands and held onto it. As the demon tried to push it forward to her head, she push the bottom of it towards its feet, managing it make it swing around both ways. Luckily, Erimentha ducked before it hit her. The demon, however, did not realise what was happening. The staff hit its feet, making it fall to the ground.

The staff was still in her hands as it fell. She turned it around and smashed the crystal off the ground. White light surrounded the demon as it vanished, into what seemed like, thin air.

She was momentarily pleased with herself, until two arms of another demon wrapped around her neck. It lifted her up and started to walk over to another side of demons. They broke away from the crowd and walked towards the garage. She was struggling all the way, kicking her legs and trying to break free. As she reached the garage, she pressed her feet against the wall and flip her self over the demon. She was ready to throw a punch at it, when she felt a blunt object (most likely the staff) connect with her head. She fell to the ground as her vision began to blur.

"Erimentha!" She heard someone yell before she lost all consciousness.

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As soon as she had seen her daughter and her friends, Sky had been so happy. She had run down the stairs to greet them, but when she had cast a glance in the window, she was shocked. She had only been about 5 seconds down the stairs and it looked like now that the teenagers had been in a fight with all these demons for a while. She had run out.

"Quebre a ruptura dos cristais o fragmento de vidro o fragmento dos cristais sua vida," called out Sky as she held out her hands. Power come from her and all the crystals on the staffs began to shatter and the demons shrieked and died. A small smile was about to appear on her face when the fact hit her.

Only four people stood before her.

This meant one thing.

The demons had taken two of them.

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A/N See, now we get to the storyline. Anyway, I really want to write some interesting bits in the next chapter, but I'm afraid it will take a while for that to be posted. And not until I get my 3 reviews! And the spell Sky said, it's in Portuguese and it says really:

"Break the crystals
Break the glass
Shatter the crystals
Shatter their power"

Impressive no? Anyway, I am delighted to say that the new manager for my sweep site (along with the rest of us) is Norfurylikewiccanscorn. So go on and add who you think should be for the movie. Anyway, the address is on my profile if you want to look. Also, the reason it might take a while to update is because I'm also writing other stories. Like my next one to be put on the site, my Sky/Killian one. And I have come up with a really good story for it.

Anyway, read and review this one please!