SIDENOTE: This chapter is dedicated to Nef, you know who you are girl! This was all your ideas! Thanks Babe!

Hotel of the Dammed

CHAPTER 12

Mark rubbed her face in the darkness of the room, Kayla was still going over everything they had discovered about the place. What Clair's death had to do with the demons, and why they were waiting for her.

"I can't make the connection out, Mark." Kay rolled over on the bed and touched his thigh softly, I don't know Janice wanted Clair dead."

Mark thought for a moment, "You said that a witch that dies in a tragic death can create a curse and a rip through the hole right? Maybe they wanted to get more of their kind out. They've been trying to do that since the dawn of time."

"Not out…Kayla came to another dreaded conclusion, "…but maybe take something in?"

"What would they want from here?" Mark didn't want to ask, he was a little troubled by the answer he would get from her.

"The Avatar…" Kay looked away, Mark slummed down a little.

"But I thought that the Avatar was the incarnation of the Goddess, why would they want something of pure good?" Mark questioned, he didn't think she was going the right direction with this, or maybe he just didn't want to believe it.

"There's no one on this world who is pure good, Mark. We are all guilty of one sin or another, I broke two sacred laws of my people myself. Used Death Magic that somehow let the Dark Ones take possession of my mother's soul, and I told a non-pagan about us, my brother Dave. If they knew what I did…let's just say stripping me of my powers would be letting me go off easy." Kay moved away from him, her guilt had come back up to the surface.

"I'm sorry Kay, if I would have told you the truth about Kane killing your parents, you wouldn't have done that." Mark was right when he said he never felt guilt before he met her, he was feeling it now.

"You didn't make be break into the vault and take the spell, Mark, you didn't force my hand to desecrated my mother's grave. I did it all on my own."

Mark sighed, "You know, this is an issue that we will have to deal with soon, but not now. We have to find a way out, and if the demons are after you, we'll just have to send them back before they can to anything to you. I'm sure they want you dead…being the Goddess that walks on the land…"

Kay punched him slightly, "Thanks for making me feel better, hon." Kay sarcastically relied as she smiled again.

Mark looked around the room in wonder, "I wonder why they can't get in here?"

"I believe that the wards were put in place long ago…" Kay hopped off the bed and looked around the room, she smiled as she pulled the top drawer of the dresser next to the bed.

"Here we go!" Kay pulled out a large white crystal that glowed brightly.

"What's that?" Mark asked, he didn't know that much about the witch's powers.

"It's a Santuary Crystal, nothing evil can be let in. Janice couldn't do the deed herself. I think that's why she had the guys kill Clair, so her death would become a curse and open the rift. I can't believe that it still works in this place after the curse was brought on…"

"So, the two demons had to become stuck here when the curse was brought on." Mark smiled, her detective side had come back out.

"We'll go with that…so…they got the curse, got their riff…I think the door way to their plane could be in room twelve, bad vibes from there…they made a trap here, using Clair's death…the Carl demon said they were waiting for me for a long time…"

"But how would they know we would be traveling this highway if the trap was made for you?" Mark asked, just to make sure her facts sounded true.

"He said they've tried before…to get the Avatar, but they failed every time." Kay began to pace, her mind began going over all the information about the Avatars, but here wasn't much, "They've tried before…but there so little on this!"

"Sounds like to me the worshipers were hiding it, Kay." Mark voiced up as he watched her pacing, "It can't be good it they were hiding that from the world."

"And that's the block I hit every time," Kay looked around the room in frustration, "If it was so wonderful to have the Goddess walk the earth, you would think it would be in our history books, wouldn't you? But it was just a story until we found the Temple, the temple was well hidden…why would they hide it?"

"Unless something really bad happened…"

"That scares me, what bad thing happened? A religious war? You think if that would happen, the gods wouldn't do that every thousand years."

Mark stood up, "How do you know it happens every thousand years?"

"I clued in on it just now, Carl said that a chance like this only happens every thousand years. They've went heads up with the other Avatars before, I'm sure of that." Kay looked back at the glowing crystal that was now flickering in the darkness.

Kay and Mark began to feel something around them, the demons had no intentions to wait for them. Mark pulled Kayla close to him as they looked around, the room was began to shake. Kay starred at the crystal until the last of its light went out, there would be no more shield to protect them. They were on their own as the walls started to exploded outwards around them, Kay held on to Mark tightly in fear as the winds stormed around and they found themselves in front of the two demons in their full forms.

The evil grins on their demented faces did make things better, Mark knew his limitations, he didn't know if a call to the other side would be answered, two demons against one Reaper…it wasn't a good odd.

Mark moved Kay behind him and raised his shield to cover them, the demons laughed out loud at his feeble attempt to stop them. They had created this place as their home, the connection to the Abyss was strong here as the evil kept its dark claw into this world from beyond. They had their full powers, this Reaper wasn't a match to them, he had become brittle in his human like form. The human side of him restricted his power, he would fall easily from them…but not before they used him for their master's dark purpose.

"Hand over the girl, Reaper, this is your final chance!" Shouted the succubus, her face still had that hideous smile. "We just want the girl, you don't need her…"

"Fat chance bitch!" Mark shouted back, Kay began to chant as Mark kept their focus on him.

"Now Janice!" The Carl demon shouted as both demons shot rays of dark magic against Mark's shield, the force was so strong that the off spar rays hit the ceiling overhead, causing the whole second floor crashing over the them.

The demons jumped back out of the way of the flying debris, they had succeeded in destroying the shield, but they were a little wary that they had killed they query before their masters could use her for their darkly intentions.

The male jumped onto the top of the rubble, sticking his arm straight down into the debris. He 'fished' around for a few minutes, he felt the warm body beneath the cold one. Carl grabbed hold of her jeans and pulled her girl up from her place, he smiled as Kay tried desperately to breath and cough out the dust from her lungs.

He threw her gently for a demon at the outer wall of the hall, Kayla felt her back hit the wall hard enough to keep her breath out. She fell back and coughed again, trying to gain as much air into her lungs for her brain to work.

"Pretty little thing, isn't she?" Janice cooed as she walked over to Kay and knelt on the ground beside her, watching and smiling as Kay tried to breath, "I believed she would put up a better fight than that."

"She does not have her full power, my sister, I told you that it would be our time now." Carl knelt on the other side of Kay, gabbing her red hair close to the scalp and pulling her head back so she would have a harder time to breath, "Ours for the picking."

He stared in those scared dark brown eyes, his smile only seem to make her even more scared. He thought for a moment, these women had shown no fear against his kind before, he relished in her fright and wanted to feel more from her.

"Janice, go get the Reaper…" He grinned, he could see and fell the delicious buffet of painful emotions the little witch was feeling.

They fed on negative emotions, their power grows as they taken the fear, hate, sadness, and desperation of their victims. And he liked was he was getting from this little baby Avatar. His lords wouldn't mind if he tortured her a little before hand delivering the girl to then in the Abyss. He would be regarded as a hero after all, the one Demon who was able to finally capture an Avatar…things would finally be looking up for their people.

From the corner of Kay's eyes, she could see the demoness pull out an unconscious Mark from the rubble, his hat had fallen off, his long dark hair covered his face as she dragged him towards them.

'Don't…you dare hurt him…" Kay was only able to get out, she may be scared out of her tree, but she couldn't let them hurt Mark.

"Don't worry, my dear..." Carl grinned, "Janice is going to take very good care of our Reaper guest, she has quite the talent for it…"

To be continued.