I walked the streets back to the apartment. I stood in the window looking over Central Park.

Kaulder finally came back and I waited for him to come out of the room where his cursed friend was.

He came out and walked over to his vault. I stood behind him.

"Kaulder." I said trying to get his attention.

He pulled down his sword.

"I never named her. But the witches called her Hexenbane."

"Witch slayer."

He sheathed the sword.

"I'm coming with you." I said as her turned to walk past me.

"Our agreement was me keeping you safe."

"No, it was if I helped you, you'd keep me safe."

"I can't heal anymore."

"All the more reason to have me there. Who says a witch can't hunt witches?" I said pulling out my knife.

Kaulder slowly walked over to me standing inches from me.

"I can't promise you'll live." He said quietly.

"I've died before." I shrugged.

Kaulder grabbed my hip and kissed me pulling me closer to him.

"Who is Sofiel?" Kaulder asked with his eyes still closed.

"I'll tell you about her after this is all over." I said and stepped away from him.

We walked down to the car and took it to the church where the 37th Dolan was waiting for us.

"Sophie. Kaulder." He greeted as we walked up to him.

Kaulder stopped and put his hand on his shoulder before walking past him. Dolan and I followed Kaulder into the church but something was different. It had been turned into the plague tree.

"The plague tree. She's here. When the spell is complete the swarm will be released. We don't have a lot of time." Kaulder said and we made our way deeper into the building.

We walked into the council room to find them all dead and the room destroyed.

Kaulder looked back for me but I was only a few steps behind him.

"Stay close to me." He said to me.

We walked into the tunnels and I didn't see anything.

"Kaulder, where are the witches?" I asked.

We walked up to a wall, shook a vile, and then threw it on the ground.

I saw them. All the witches trapped in a wall, waiting for the witch queen to release them.

"Every witch I ever caught. The queen is liking them together and using their power to release the plague." Kaulder explained.

"How do we stop them?" I asked.

"Every chain has a weak link."

Kaulder unsheathed his sword and started hitting the wall causing the prison to crack. He then reached in and pulled one of the witches out. The witch just laid there. His blank face staring up at the ceiling as he chanted.

"I'll do it." Dolan said pulling out his gun.

"It's not his body that needs to be destroyed." Kaulder said stopping the Dolan.

"It's his mind." I said quietly.

"I wish there was another way." He said with an apologetic look.

"You'll be here when I get out, right?" I asked kneeling next to Ellic and looking up at Kaulder.

He didn't say anything.

"You're going to take her on alone." I said coming to the realization.

"It has to end." Was all he said.

I placed my hand on Ellic's chest and took a deep breath. Kaulder knelt down across from me and placed his hand on mine.

"Be careful in there."

"You sound like you care." I joked.

"I just got used to you." Kaulder smiled.

"Good luck."

"You too."

I focused on Ellic and Kaulder faded from in front of me. I was inside the plague tree. I stood up and looked around. Once I didn't see Ellic I started climbing out of the hold I was in and found Ellic on his knees chanting. I pulled out my knife and slowly crept up on him. Once I was close enough for a blow he stood up and threw me to the ground knocking the knife out of my hands. He had one hand on my throat and the other was grabbing my knife. I reached out to get a hold on the hand with the knife. He ripped his hand out of mine and the knife created a deep gash in my palm. I screamed and clenched my hand shut. I used my other hand to grab something to hit him with. I found a log and knocked him across the head causing him to get off me. But only long enough for me to catch my breath before he wrapped his hands around my neck again. We were over by the hole I had climbed out of. I grabbed onto one of the roots on the edge making sure I had a good grip before I used my body to force us over the edge. I held on as Ellic fell and then I was thrust out of his head.

I looked down in front of me and saw Ellic dead.

"I did it." I thought to myself.

I ripped off a piece of clothing and wrapped it round my hand using my teeth to tie it tight.

Dolan helped me up and the chanting had stopped.

"We need to find Kaulder." I said beginning to walk away from Dolan.

"I couldn't agree more." Dolan said and I turned to see him pointing the gun at me.

I put my hands up in surrender.

"Keep walking." He said placing the gun between my shoulder blades as I continued in whatever direction Dolan told me to go.

We walked into a room where Kaulder was about to kill the witch queen.

"Stop!" Dolan yelled and stood behind me with the gun pointed at my temple.

"Kaulder." I said and he looked over to see us.

"Sophie." He said quietly.

"I'm sorry."

"Release my queen. The witches you rescued me from when I was a kid. They were my parents. Not the pathetic humans. Sadly I was born without magic." Dolan said.

"You're a witch." Kaulder said coming to the realization.

"Yeah." Dolan said and then shot Kaulder.

"No! Kaulder!" I yelled trying to get away from Dolan.

"You stay here!" He said keeping his hold on me.

"Stay away from him!" I yelled at the witch queen who was leaning over Kaulder.

The witch queen looked at me and smiled.

"A fallen angel. Turned into a dream-walker. How ironic." She said walking over to me.

She grabbed my head and then there was a flash of light. I was standing in a field chanting along with the other witches. We all stared at the plague tree. I couldn't stop. She had taken control of my mind.

I was snapped out of it and fell to my knees. I looked up and saw Kaulder lying on the ground.

"Kaulder!" I yelled and ran over to him.

"My love." I said placing a hand on his chest and the other on his head.

He gasped and opened his eyes. I smiled and looked down at him.

The scratches across his face healed and my face turned to one of utter shock.

He looked at me and then touched his face feeling the healed skin.

He then looked over at the crumbling witch's body. He walked over and pulled out his sword showing the queen's still beating heart.

"As long as the Hexen heart beats, she'll never truly be dead." Kaulder said without looking at me.

He raised his sword to kill her, but I stopped him.

"Kaulder, you can't. You'll die." I said shakily.

"I'm ready to face that."

"No! There has to be another way. I saw things in the shadows. Things much worse than the witch queen. They're waiting in the darkness."

"For what?"

"A world without you."

"We need you. I need you."

He lowered his sword but didn't look at me.

"The axe and cross betrayed me. I can't trust anyone."

"You can trust me. You can always trust me." I said stepping closer to him.

He finally looked up at me.

"800 years I've been on this road. Always hunting and always…"

"Alone." I finished.

"You don't have to be anymore." I said and grabbed his hand.

"Besides you asked about Sofiel." I smiled.

"So, we're negotiating now, are we?" He asked returning the smile.

"I guess so."

Kaulder sheathed his sword and grabbed the queen's heart. We took it back to Kaulder's apartment and placed it in a safe in his vault to be locked away forever.