Disclaimer: I do not own Newsies or any of its characters, Disney does. I do not own Jo, ChocolateCoveredJockey does, I own Princess Serenade (pronounced Seh-rehn-aaa-dee), I do not own Merlin.

A/N: There is one more chapter left after this one.

Jo smiled as she walked back towards her and Jack's apartment on Neutral Grounds, she had met with her sister a week ago and Floaty had already made the potion to turn Trench back into a human. Hanging from her arms were two paper bags from JC Penny's filled with new clothing, none of which were black. She was tired of the color black, she had to wear it every day for the last two hundered or more years during this war, now if everything went according to plan, there would be peace. After the peace Spot, Jack, Star Gazer, Skittery, and Blink, along with the Dahres-Naga (Who Jo had a strong feeling would wind up being her sister), a group of thirty males would be chosen by their strength, honesty, loyalty, and courage and the willing to lead; the males would be highly trained as warriors and would protect the vampire race from the Tahkers.

She went up the elevator to the fourth story in the Sister Moon Apartment Houses, before she had a chance to open her apatment door a young woman around twenty one or twenty two opened the door for her.

"Welcome home, Mistress Jo," smiled the blonde haired, blue eyed, five foot seven inch woman...Who was actually a werewolf.

"Thank you, Kendra, how many times do I have to ask you to call me Jo...We're friends!"

"I'm sorry, Mistress," the woman shook her head, "my kind can't do that. Not since your kind freed us from the eleven who abused us as servants all those hundreds of years ago. We are loyal servants to the vampires, our respect for your kind is great."

Jo sighed, "I don't know how you can respect our kind, Kendra, when all we did for so many hundreds of years is war with eachother and kill eachother...Over who knows what."

Kendra took the bags from Jo and set them down in the corner of the living room and sat down on a wide and well cushioned dark blue couch with Jo.

"Mistress," Kendra said softly, "our kind does not understand why you war amongst yourselves, we also know that your kind has no idea why either. However, we all know that one way or another the war would have to end someday...Your kind keeps our kind safe, you don't allow us to leave Neutral Grounds because you don't want us hurt or killed. You let us breed, be free, and have the option if we want to serve your kind or not." Kendra paused, "the elves were cruel to us and never gave us that option, we were whipped and worked until one either dropped dead or found a way to change and run far, far away. Then, when your kind found about all...The abuse...The killing...You all fought the elves and took us as your own, you care for us...You gave us our own homes and treat us with respect and treat us as equals-"

"You ARE equals!" Jo replied, "slavery is wrong, and what the elves were doing to you all was slavery, Kendra. We don't understand why your kind wishes to stay as slaves for our kind when...We don't believe in slavery-"

"We are not slaves, Mistress," Kendra replied, her ocean blue eyes filled with passion, "we are servants, we are friends. We are...Like your bulters and maids. We are there when noone else is, we are your friends. You freed us from slavery and gave us back our lives, in turn we want to help you all. Serving your kind is an honor, a high honor...Your kind does not treat us like slaves and never has," she shook her head, "you treat us with dignity and respect, you let us be free, we choose to help you, to stay around, to be servants. Besides, we do have days off," she smiled.

Jo laughed, "yes! That you do, Kendra!"

"Now off the past and into the present," Kendra smiled, she crossed her legs and looked at Jo again, "if peace happens...Who will be the Dahres-Naga?"

"We all have a strong feeling my sister Floaty will be the Dahres-Naga, she'll be a good queen."

Kendra nodded, "a very good queen," she said in agreement, "she'll be a kind and loving ruler."

Jo laughed, "I don't think she'd appreciate being called a ruler over people, she's going to feel very strange about the whole thing for a while."

Kendra paused and lifted her nose into the air and sniffed.

"What's wrong?"

Kenda paused, "that smell," her voice went from human to a wolf's growl, "posion, deadman's blood mixed with SilverCane (SilverCane was created by the Tahkers it knocks Vampires out when mixed with deadman's blood and almost kills them. Tahkers use this to give vampires a slow death. See why the vampires hate them?)."

Jo's breath caught in throat and beated quickly from terror, "we need to get out of here-" she started when a dart landed in Kendra's neck when the werewolf woman went to stand up; she collapsed to the floor knocked out. Jo rushed towards the door, it flew open and Trench smiled at her thirty of his loyal vampires behind him and quickly pouring into the apartment. Jo turned and ran for the window that led to the fire escape, Murlough stood in front of the window ten of his warriors stood in line behind him.

"Hello Aphrodite-Rah, you shouldn't have tried to make peace with Spot's clan," Murlough smiled as he clasped his hands behind his back, calmly. "As the old saying goes, however, if you do the crime, you pay the time."

Jo glanced around the room the vampires were all in and circling her, more elven warriors had poured into the room and stood with the vampires. FLOATY HELP! Jo screamed in herself not knowing what to do.

Floaty gave a soft curse as her wand broke, "damn it." She muttered, "I was hoping this one would last more than a month this time," she frowned. Trying to clean Spot's basement was like trying to clean up the streets of New York and make them look all sparkly, which would never happen. She looked at Spot's basement, it was filled with crates, boxes, and other things that were just put down and left wherever someone put them.

FLOATY HELP!

Floaty jumped ten feet high when she heard her sister's cry in her mind, she held her hand out to the door leading into the house, her staff was leaning against the doorway. It flew straight into her hand, along with her fedora, she quickly put on the fedora, clutched onto the staff and grabbed her extra wand, shouting a few words she vanished from the garage as Specs was walking in.

"Hey Floaty would should I'se do wid dis-" he started before she vanished in front of his eyes. "...Ok then." He set it down ontop of a crate and walked off.

Jo jumped away from the green haired elf that had tried to cut her with his long dagger coated in Dead Man's Blood. She had bruises and scrapes, Trench was walking towards her.

"Just say yes to me, Jo, and forget this silly peace plan of your sister's and you'll be fine. I'll make sure noone ever touches you or hurts you again," he smiled.

Jo glared at him hate in her eyes, "never!" She growled, "never!" Trench looked like the devil at that moment, his black hair was slicked back, his dark brown eyes focused on her, the suit he wore...She backed away only to bump into Murlough, she jumped the other way and stared at him. She was about to give up that help wasn't going to come when a bright golden ball formed in middle of the room, she blinked and shielded her eyes. The ball had rays of light coming out of it, a strong wind picked up that knocked most of the vampires and the Elven Warriors down. A moment later her sister formed, she was standing calmly and clutching onto her staff, her eyes hidden under the shadow of her fedora's brim, however her irses were glowing bright purple and her pupils were glowing white letting Jo know that her sister was more than pissed.

Jo took a step back she had never seen her sister this angry before. Floaty was still lightly glowing a golden color, a soft wind swirled around her like a personal hurricane, it lifted her duster. Floaty's arm raised and pointed the tip of her staff at Trench, "back away from my sister, Trench," she exclaimed, her voice echoing. Jo quickly moved away as the mini-hurricane or tornado that was circling around Floaty unwrapped itself from around her and blasted out to Trench. Jo quickly ducked as the man flew over her head and past her, his back smacked into the wall, he groaned as his body slumped to the floor before he went unconcious. Jo suddenly realized why so many were more afraid of her sister than they were of her; she had a lot of respect in the vampire community, Jo did, but Floaty would obviously always out do her in that department. Though Floaty always argued that.

"Now, Tuuli-Rah," exclaimed Murlough, Jo noticed that Murlough's voice was slightly shaking, "just calm down."

"How dare you tell me to calm down!" Floaty growled, "I saw what you tried to do to my sister! If you think I can't read minds, you're wrong, as a wizard there's a Hell of a lot of things I can do. You made a false plan with Trench you wanted his help, you never intended to give my sister to him. You wanted to keep Jo and me for yourself. You figured you could kill Trench off and easily gather your elves and what was left of his die-hard-loyal-vampires up and become king of our race just like your king of your own! "

Jo stared at Murlough in hate, she didn't like Trench but what Murlough did to him...That was just plain wrong. Of course suddenly turning him into a human before he knew what was happening was pretty mean too but it was for a good cause. Jo paused and stared wide eyed as her sister's staff started to glow like a kleidoscope and almost looked like a thick liquid of some sort as it changed into a long silver sword with twists of crystal around the blade. Murlough obviously recognized the sword since he quickly took a step back.

"That's Princess Serenade's sword," Murlough rasped, "Princess Serenade...My baby..."

"Yes it was and is the Princess's sword," Floaty replied, glaring at Murlough, "you abused her every day, hit her, yelled at her, hurt her. When Trench turned me I was standing at death's doorstep just waiting for that door to open. Your daughter was a friend of Merlin's, she was in bad health because of you..." Floaty paused and Jo heard her voice crack, it was filled with emotion, anger and sadness mostly. "She was dying...From depression, and a depressed person whose being abused mentally and physically can die of grief to let you know. Merlin wouldn't hear of her life being ended by the grief you caused her, and he wouldn't let me die either. He made Serenade's body die but he didn't let her spirit leave he but Serenade's spirit right in with me." She put a hand over her heart, "making me half wizardess...Serenade screams and cries each time I get near you. She's still afraid of you."

Jo stared wide eyed at her sister, the room spun, her sister...had the Elf Princess Serenade in her as well? Who had Jo been talking too for all these years? Just her sister or Serenade and her sister? She expected to hit the floor as her legs went out from beneath her, instead a chair from the corner of the room slid forward and got to her just in time to catch her. Jo sat in the chair and put her hands on her forehead.

"Please...let me speak to her," Murlough said softly.

"You don't like change," Floaty growled, "remember? Talking to your daughter again would be a big change."

"Losing my daughter was a huge change!"

Floaty glared before shutting her eyes, Jo watched with wide eyed fascination as her sister's body vanished in a ball of golden and light blue light. A moment later her sister still stood in front of her, only her physical looks (as well as spirit) had changed. Her hair was straight and looked like spun silver, her eyes were golden, her fangs were still there, she wore a long white gown, the sleeves of the gown that went down to her elbows were strands of long pearls. Atop her head was a pearl crown in shape of celtic designs.

"Serenade," Murlough whispered, "my daughter...I need your forgivness."

Jo's mouth went dry when Serenade's eyes glared coldly at her father.

"My forgiveness is something you shall never fully have, but for me to move on I must forgive you."

Murlough stared, "you can't pass on!"

"It is time for me to pass on, this Female is strong, she will still be half wizard, it was not I who made her half wizard," Serenade said this while staring straight at Jo, "it was Merlin, he looked ahead into the future and saw Floaty was going to find a way to help bring peace to the Vampire community. I was dying from grief, but also because I was extremely ill; I tried to tell you but you would not hear of it." She looked to Murlough as she said that. She looked back at Jo, "yes, you have spoken to me on different occasions, only a handful of times however. Your sister is an amazing woman, but alone she is not as powerful as she is when you two work together. When you two work together you are invincible and she needs you, don't ever think she doesn't. You are her world, she loves you more than words can say and always finds ways to protect you."

Jo felt tears trailing down her cheeks she had a strange feeling that...Everything...Was going to be alright. She watched as the golden light went around her sister a moment later Floaty collapsed to the ground a glowing silver spirit, Serenade's spirit, climbed out of her sister's body as if leaving a shell. She walked towards her father slowly, Jo tensed and screamed when the spirit burst into flames when it grabbed it's father. The spirit vanished in seconds, and Murlough was encased in a glowing fire, the flames weren't red and orange anymore, they were green and black, the flames of black magic. Murlough howled and screamed before his body became wispy like smoke and vanished.

"Floaty?!" Jo asked running over to her sister, she looked to see Trench's vampires were leaving, the Elven warriors were quickly leaving, they seemed happy, a few of them said something about finally being free. She shook her sister lightly, "Floaty, please."

"Jo?" Floaty asked softly as her eyes slowly blinked open.

"Yea, sis, it's me!"

"Oh good," she muttered, "Serenade...Gone?"

"Yes," Jo nodded, "she um...Took her father with her."

"She was planning to do that...He's...Been abusing his people and forcing them...To fight for causes they didn't...Believe in."

"Floaty, are you hurt?"

"Tired," Floaty replied, "a little achy, I'll live, question is how are you?"

"I'm fine," Jo replied, watching Serenade's sword burst into a thousand tiny pieces and left Floaty's staff behind. Trench moaned.

"Jo," Floaty said softly, reaching into her pocket she took out a small test tube with a cork on top of it and handed it to her sister.

"What? What's this?"

"The potion...To turn Trench human again," Floaty replied, "he'll die if you don't...Murlough...When I first...teleported here I saw him slip a little bit of Dead Man's blood into a small cut on Trench's hand."

"I-I can't give this to him, I'm not magical, I'm not a wizard, I-"

"You can," Floaty replied wincing as she shakily stood up, "I can't right now, I'm literally out of magic at the moment. I'm exhausted, magic is physical energy and I don't have much of that right now. All you need to do is make sure he drinks it, while he drinks it softly sing and chant, 'from vampire to human this spell will not cause you any harm, may you live a long life and find the one you love.' "

Jo nodded and walked over to Trench, his dark brown eyes were halfway open and slowly glazing over, "Jo?" He asked, his voice slurred.

"Yes, you need to drink this, you'll die otherwise," Jo replied.

"Wha...issss...it?"

"Medicine," replied Jo, "to counter act the dead man's blood."

"Ok," replied Trench as Jo put the lip of the test tube up to his mouth and slowly tipped it up she watched him drink it and slowly sang in a chant, "from vampire to human this spell not cause you any harm, may you live a llong life and find the one you love."

"Jo, visualize him human with a wife and kids, think of him as happy...It will make the spell stronger," Floaty's vocie exclaimed.

Jo nodded and did so, when the tube was empty she backed away as Trench screamed and grabbed his stomach.

"FLOATY!" Jo shrieked.

"It's normal!" Floaty exclaimed.

"What da hells goin on heah?!" Jack asked as he ran in, he hugged Jo tightly to him, "ah youse ok?"
Jo explained to him all that had happened, he stared in shock, "why is it I'se always missin' awll da action?" He asked.

Trench gave a final cry before giving a sigh, he opened his mouth, his fangs were gone. His eyes opened and they were a shade lighter, he was human again.

"Why do I feel so off?"

"Because you're human again," Floaty replied.

"What?" Trench asked, his voice hard and cold with anger.

"You were going to die if we didn't do something," Floaty replied, not revealing that they had been planning to make him human again.

Trench growled, "I'll just have someone turn me again."

"Won't work," Floaty replied, "you can't be a vampire again, another vampire could try a million times, a million vampires could try a billion times, it would not work you're human again."

"Is everything alright here? I heard some rather odd noises, your room mate Kendra came to me saying something about a fight," exclaimed Jo's red headed human neighbor, Tillie.

Trench gasped the woman was gorgeous! Floaty, Jo, and Jack watched as he stood up and smoothed out his suit and walked over to Tillie. He didn't show any signs of the pain he had before, he bowed and took her hand and kissed the top of it.

"How about...We talk at my place?" Tillie asked with a smile.

"It would be more...Quiet," Trench smiled, "let me escort you there."

"How about I escort you since you have no idea where you're going?" Tillie asked with a smile as the two walked out.

"Well, dat was interestin'," Jack commented.

"What about the war?" Jo asked.

Jack smiled, "dats what I'se was comin' ta tell ya, Jo, it's over."

"It's trully over? Trully?" Jo asked in shock.

Jack nodded, "trully, it's over. Spot and Star Gazer signed a peace treaty and made two clans into one, weddin's start with Spot's and Floaty's tommarrow along wid deir coronation ceremony." He smiled.

"Coronation...Oh no..I'm not fit to be royalty, Jo would make a much better queen then I would!" Floaty exclaimed nervously.

Jo shook her head, "no sis, you were meant to be Dahres-Naga, not me." She smiled, "You've got what it takes to be Queen of our race...I'll always be here to support you and help you. You'll do great."

Floaty blushed and looked even more nervous, "I'll always be here to help you too, sis."

Jack and Jo blinked as Floaty passed out.

"Awright, she don't pass out aftah spells but aftah bein told shes gonna be Dahres-Naga down she goes," frowned Jack in confusion.

Jo chuckled, "you'd pass out too if you found out that tommarrow you would be the Queen of over a hundred thousand vampires."