Chapter 5: Too Strong

Charles drove blindly through the streets of New York City. He knew that the woman lived in a poor part of the city. But that still left a lot of city to look over. He knew he didn't have much time left. The girl was going to die soon. He needed to find her fast.

"This is impossible," he moaned, stopping the car in a dark, deserted street. He opened the glove box and got out a map of New York City and a crystal. He held the crystal just above the map and focused on finding the demon. The crystal started moving. Then it started to spin in a clockwise circle. It kept spinning, and spinning, until it stopped on a street nearby. "Yes!" He sped off to find the house.

"Everyone ready?" Millie asked. "I'm not sure how many demons or warlocks will get here. Be ready for anything."

"We're ready," Annie said.

"I'm ready with the spell," Sabrina announced. They stood, in battle pose, waiting in silence. After about five minutes, a first warlock blinked into the living room. Three more plus Nexell soon followed it. A demon appeared a moment later, followed by four other lower level ones.

"It's like a mini war," Annie commented.

"Yeah, witch vs. warlock vs. demon," David added. No one moved for a moment. It was a stare down. Soon, a demon formed an energy ball and hurled it at a warlock. It blinked to avoid it.

"Sabrina!" Millie yelled. "Don't hesitate!" Sabrina held up the small piece of notebook which had the spell written on it. She started to read the spell.

Warlock stealing powers from another,

Be it good or be it an evil brother,

Take the powers that you've stole,

And use them to destroy your evil soul

Nexell started to dramatically yell in pain and shake violently. Then, he smiled and started to laugh at them all. Even the demons stopped hurling energy balls to gasp.

"You can't kill me anymore," he gloated. "I'm too powerful for even your pathetic spell."

"You're the one that's pathetic, and now you die," Marvik said, throwing an energy ball. Nexell held up his hand and the energy ball bounced off of his hand and back at its thrower. Marvik yelled in pain as he was vanquished.

"Do you three really want to die?" The remaining three demons shimmered away.

"What just happened?" Jordan asked.

"He's too powerful," Millie said. "We have a problem."

Charles drove down the street to find the house. Once sure he was at the right spot, he tried to scry again and found that the demon was really close.

"Gonna getcha," Charles said, getting out of his car. He looked up and down the street, but saw no one. He did see the house though. It was directly across the street. He started walking in the direction that Megan would come from.

"Who's there?" Charles heard a female yell.

"There's my cue," he said, ducking into the shadows between two houses. He could hear footsteps running towards him. Soon, he saw Megan run by. She was followed by the demon. Charles darted out of his hiding place and tackled the demon to the ground.

"What the hell?" the demon growled. He pushed Charles off of himself and stood up.

"You'll pay for this."

"I think you'll be the one paying for this," Charles said, holding out the vanquishing potion. He threw it, but the demon threw an energy ball at it to stop it from hitting him.

"You were saying?"

"Uh oh," Charles muttered. The demon formed another energy ball and prepared to throw it at him. Instinctively, Charles kicked the demon in the groin. The energy ball was thrown off in some direction and the demon grabbed himself, moaning in pain. "Yeah, that's right."

"You little witch," the demon grabbed Charles' throat and pushed him back into a brick wall. He held him up, one hand gripping his throat, and held an energy ball in the other hand.

"Need some help?" a voice asked. The demon looked to the origin of the voice and saw an attractive, young lady standing there. He dropped Charles to the ground. Charles gasped for air and grabbed his throat.

"Sabrina," he choked out.

"Are you sure you want me to save your sorry ass?" she asked. "I mean, you didn't want my help."

"Just shut up and kill the demon." The demon threw an energy ball at her and she formed a force field, which deflected the energy ball back at the demon, vanquishing him. Sabrina walked over to Charles and helped him up.

"We need your help," she said.

"What happened?"

"Nexell proved to be stronger than we estimated. We can come back for your car some other time, come with me." She orbed him back and into the Altar Room.

"Good, you're back," Millie said. "Here, you four say this spell. Hopefully, the Power of Four can take him out." Charles huddled with the other three and they read the spell aloud:

Warlock stealing powers from another,

Be it good or be it an evil brother,

Take the powers that you've stole,

And use them to destroy your soul

They heard an explosion in the next room. Millie smiled and opened the door to walk out. There was nothing in sight, except the athame that Nexell had used to kill and steal the powers of so many witches and demons. Charles picked it up and examined it.

"Miss me?" Nexell asked, blinking in behind them.