-"Jesse, try to open the door, I'll hold them down" Johnny said managing to sound calm.

-"Yeah right, they'll turn you into a pulp before you can even throw a punch" She said while trying with no luck to open the door. "How can this st be blocked? This door never had a lock!"

Kant and Schwartz lunged at them but they couldn't get to the kids because Melissa threw herself at the priests, falling with all her weight on Kant's ribs. They turned to face their attacker but instead of fighting they saw her as if they recognized her

-"Lady Carla?" Schwartz said in surprise, -"What are you doing here and why are you protecting the monsters that harmed you?"

-"What the hell are you talking about? Look, I won't let you hurt those kids, they did nothing wrong"

-"I see, you have been possessed by the devil as well, in order to save your soul we will have to send you to our lord as soon as possible" Kant said in a menacing tone.

Melissa didn't had time to guess why the priests called her Carla, she kicked Schwartz in the stomach and threw a big punch to kant's head, Schwartz grabbed her from behind placing his forearms in the back and front of her thick neck while Kant begun to punch her chest, but the brunette was much stronger than they thought, she lifted both legs in the air letting Schwartz support her heavy weight and kicked Kant with all the power her strong big legs had to give. Kant fell on his back and the force of the hit made Schwartz take a few steps back. Of course it would take more than kicking like a mule to subdue him, he was twice her size, yet she remembered something her dad taught her, she placed her legs on the floor and her hips next to her assailant, letting all her weight go to her legs and hips she had enough stability and leverage to bend her upper body attached to Schwartz, lifting his feet from the ground, then she shifted so he could fall to the floor. With Schwartz down and Kant out of sight she thought she had won.

She turned towards the garage door and saw Johnny kicking it with all his strength, throwing it down. Jesse told her to go with them, at that instant she felt a huge pain in the back of her head and fell unconscious.

As Johnny broke the glass of the van in the garage so he could open its door Jesse saw a large pool of blood appear from under Melissa's head. Kant was behind her with Dr. Quest's cane on his hands. She tried to help her but while her attackers charged at them she felt and arm grabbing her from behind and dragging her towards the van, it was her friend telling her that they had to go before the priests caught them. They barely made it in time to shut the door as Schwartz dug his huge muscular arm inside the broken window trying to catch Johnny's throat, but he dodge him just in time, connected the cables under the van's steering wheel and the vehicle ignited. They had no time to open the garage's front door so they went trough it, breaking a hole into it.

Outside the hurricane was on its peak, the merciless wind was threatening to destroy the van and strong rain was falling against them making incredibly difficult to ride. The worst part was the dust and trees falling beside them as they tried to escape, it was impossible to see anything beyond two meters in every direction so they were riding blindly with the hope that somehow, they could get to the town and find some help. They also were worried about their parents, staying alone under this storm could be fatal and they were possessed by those maniacs, so it was quite likely for them to be walking on the outdoors trying to find them and kill them ,or worse.

After ten minutes of riding in the darkness a tree fell on top of the van's hood, Johnny tried to turn and dive it but instead he crushed under another tree in front of him. They managed to get out with only a few bruises but the van was completely destroyed. As they got out they heard horrible cries of anger and what sounded like curses. They couldn't see the priests but they knew that if they could hear them in spite of the deafening sound of the wind and lightning they had to be close, so they ran in the opposite direction. Jesse stumbled over a sharp rock and when she fell she heard a cracking sound and knew what it was, still she kept running, there would be another time to worry about broken bones once they were safe.

Eventually they found a small hill with a large hole in the front, they recognized it. It was a small cave located not far from the compound, they usually went there when they were racing in the hover boards. It was a nice place to rest from the noon's sun in the summer, now it was the best place to hide until the storm or the alignment were over.

Inside the cave there wasn't much room so they held each other in order to fit in. As their fear slightly diminished Johnny felt a sting in his arm were he crushed the glass of the van and Jesse checked her leg, luckily she wasn't bleeding.

The hurricane got worse and a lightning fell inches from them, they could feel the electricity on their bodies as they screamed in shock, they stood frozen with cold and fear until a few minutes later the raining stopped and the wind and lightning disappeared

-"Is it over?"

-"The hurricane? no" Jesse said matter-of-factly as she looked at the sky. It was clear, there were no clouds, just a beautiful starry sky and a rare constellation made of the big full moon and two bright lights coming closer to it, those were mars and venus. She noticed the moon was beginning to change its colors, then added: - "We are in the eye of the storm and the alignment is just beginning".

-"In that case be should hurry to the town before the eye passes"

-"The town is ten miles away!"

-"Do we have another choice?"

Jesse hid her broken leg from Johnny, in her condition is was impossible to walk that far away, she would probably loose her leg, but that was better than dying in her dad's hands so she nodded and begun to walk.

They walked for what seemed like ages, Jesse was grateful for the fact that the adrenaline running through her veins didn't allow her to feel pain, still she was limping slightly. They made it to the main road that connected the compound to the highway, only to realize that the road was blocked by a huge tree and a bunch of big rocks. It seemed like there was an avalanche, causing the rocks from the mountains to fall in that particular place, disappointed, both kids begun to walk in another direction trying to find another way to reach civilization.

An hour later they had to stop, tiredness took hold of them and they couldn't hear their parents anymore, so they assumed it was safe to rest for a while. Johnny saw his friend's battered leg

-"Oh god Jess, is your leg broken?"

-"Yeah, but it doesn't hurt. You see, when someone gets hurt in a situation of distress adrenaline blocks the pain so you can keep fighting or run, it's an ancient mechanism of self preservation." Jesse liked to speak of scientific facts; in this case it allowed her to keep her mind off their current situation.

-"Let me see" Johnny gently took her ankle in his hands and pulled, he knew that traction of the muscles would rearrange her bones. Jesse sighed as this maneuver released some of the pressure her limb was suffering.

-"Thanks" She responded softly, then saw his arm, it had deep cuts. –"let me help you with that" She said while tearing a piece of her leggings and wrapped it around Johnny's arm, she noticed he still had a piece of glass dug in his hand and removed it as carefully as she could, then pressed another piece of her clothes in the now open wound.

Jesse saw at the horizon searching for a path that would lead them out of there, suddenly she felt cold and begun to shiver, for a second she thought she had seen two figures standing in front of her, a blond man and a red headed woman, but then they disappeared leaving only the sight of a destroyed forest and a raging sea. When she snapped out of her short trance she noticed that Johnny was holding her

-"You are shaking"- He told her softly, his face inches away from hers.

-"I'm fine"- After saying that, lots of memories from her dreams came to her, along with realization –"This happened before, in another life"-

-"What?"-

-"I was scared, I started to shake and you held me. Don't say you don't remember"-

-"Four hundred years ago…" His voice was dark

-"First it was Lady Caroline and Jean Leger. And now this!"

-"What are you talking about?"

-"Johnny, this is a pattern, these people looked like us, they fell in love…"

-"Jesse, that's enough! It's only a coincidence, that's all!"- He didn't like where this conversation was heading to.

-"Let me finish, after they fell for each other they had a premature and violent death!"

-"In that case don't worry about it, you are just a friend to me, nothing more."-

-"Maybe we could be more than that"- She took the glass that she removed from Johnny and made a shallow cut in the back of her hand, then she grabbed the piece of cloth that was on his bleeding hand, threw it away and pressed her own self made injury against his wounded palm –"We could be brother and sister, you know. Like those pacts kids do with really good friends, so they can be like blood brothers"-

Johnny was relieved, this was not the time to cope with the fact that he was beginning to fall for his friend, and maybe if he saw her as a sister everything would be ok.

-"Sure sis, now let's get moving"

She looked at her friend, the moonlight made his white skin glow and his bright blue eyes shone in the dark; she prayed that it wasn't too late for her to see him as a brother.

After their rest they felt even more tired, but they knew they had to go on, even if the priests didn't find them by the end of the alignment the eye of the hurricane would go and they would have to face the storm, but they couldn't walk far before their hunters found them.

The children saw with horror at the two men that used to be their parents. They were unrecognizable because of the wounds the storm inflicted on them, their glowing red eyes and the awful expression that deformed their features. The kids were tired and wounded; they would be no match for those monsters, so they tried to reach to their father's soul:

-"Dad it's me, Johnny, I'm your son, please try to remember…" But he couldn't continue, Kant lunged at him and started punched his stomach with such strength he knocked the air out of him, his son tried to fight back still, nothing seemed to harm Kant. The only option for Johnny was to use a certain blow Race taught him, it was to hit the front of the assailant's larynx with the back of his hand but he knew that such blow could kill his dad. While he searched for a way to escape without seriously hurting his father Kant was strangling him with all his might. Johnny begun to loose consciousness, he looked at the sky as mars aligned with the moon and blacked out.

Schwartz pinned Jesse to the ground, she was facing the floor as his arm was on the back of her neck, he leaned all his weight in that arm making her impossible to move and really hard to breathe, he was using his other arm to throw punches at her back. Jesse begged that Schwartz wouldn't break her spine, she tilted her head back which allowed her to take a deep breath and speak, her voice was raspy and desperate

-"Daddy please stop hurting me, I know you can hear me and I know you can fight this thing"

-"Shut up you little witch" With that said he punched her head with his powerful fist, tears rolled through her eyes and saw the sky in the corner of her eye begging for something, anything, to help her.

Kant was about to finish his work with the boy, but as soon as Johnny closed his eyes a strange light seemed to envelope him. A second later his son's eyes opened and they weren't blue anymore, they were glowing a bright golden. Kant stepped away believing it was evil sorcery.

Juan stood up with an angry expression on his young features and attacked Kant; he threw a big punch at his stomach then another one at the side of his head. The power in Johnny's body was unnatural as Juan possessed him; the external life energy gave him a great strength. There was also the fact that Juan didn't care for Dr. Quest's well being. Kant was stunned but he kept fighting, he entwined his hands and lifted them at the side of his head and throwing them like a hammer, he hit the boy's temple. Juan was on the floor as he heard his love crying for help "this time I WILL be able to save you"

With that on his mind he crouched on the floor and jumped towards Kant and he hit him on the throat with the back of his hand, the priest fell to the floor gasping for air.

A split second later he lunged at Schwartz who was about to suffocate Jesse, all she could hear was an inhuman cry of anger as his assailant's arms left her, she turned around and saw Johnny behind her father with his arms around Race's neck. Before she could inhale again Juan tightened his already strong grip, it wasn't long until she saw the man that used to be her dad turn pale and his lips ashy grey. Schwartz tried to fight but the demon behind him was unnaturally strong and he felt his own strength leave him. Jesse saw him and she knew he was dying. In spite of Schwartz's attack, she never doubted her dad was completely innocent in all this; therefore she could never let him die, even if that meant loosing her own life.

-"Johnny stop! You're killing him" As she saw her friend she realized why he wasn't listening, his glowing eyes told her he was possessed as well. In order to stop him she took him by the shoulders and pushed as hard as she could, placed her hands at the sides of his face and spoke to him trying to sound calm and reassuring

-"I won't let you kill him, he is not our enemy, the monster that took control of his body is"

Juan looked at her with confused eyes, before he could respond he saw Schwartz standing up behind her ready to attack, he tried to stop him but the priest was too fast and hit Jesse in the head with a big branch that was torn from it's tree during the storm. She moaned in pain and collapsed into Juan's arms, he held her limp form in his lap trying to find a way to beat this awful monster, he looked at the sky, searching for answers, just in time to see venus set it's place behind mars.

Schwartz was about to hit the boy as well when a small deceitfully frail hand took hold of his wrists with unbelievable power, a split second before the branch touched the blond hair. The girl opened her now golden glowing eyes. Carolina stood up, she had taken complete control over Jesse's body and like her boyfriend she had much more strength than her human vessel. Still grabbing the hunter's wrist she turned on her heels and threw him as hard as she could, he fell hard over a broken tree then she ran towards him and begun to use her fists, knees and the rocks that where at her reach to hurt him, a second later her love was helping her and between both they easily knocked Schwartz out.

Juan held his beloved in his arms and kissed her passionately, after all those centuries they were free at last, no one would separate him from his lover again. Carolina relaxed and leaned almost limply into his strong hold, wrapped her arms around his shoulders and returned the kiss with affection, until a strong wind brought them back from the beautiful moment. They realized that the storm was coming, the eye had passed. They saw the priests seemingly dead in the ground and decided to search for a place to shelter from the storm, in the distance they saw the compound and headed in that direction.

Half way through it they noticed something different in the atmosphere as the storm advanced, as if the night had turned reddish. They raised their heads and contemplated the moon, it was turning red as a black circle seemed to block its light, the eclipse was beginning. They barely managed to see the beginning of it before gray clouds covered the moon; the temperature dropped several degrees and it begun to rain heavily.

Moments later they heard the sound of footsteps behind them and when they turned around it was too late for them to escape. Schwartz and Kant were standing there, not only bruised by their previous fight but now they had a red glow that surrounded them completely. Before that moment they were only possessed, now they were commanded and nourished by the hunter's moon in all its glory. An evil smile crept to their lips as they lunged at the couple of teens.

Schwartz grabbed Carolina by the hair and dragged her not far away, he threw her towards a big rock and she hit her head with it, the injure begun to bleed immediately but she felt no pain, only rage. She ran towards him with her upper body bent and used the momentum and her shoulder to hit the priest hard on his stomach, he fell on his back and before he could hit her back she used her not-so-long nails to make deep scratches on his face. She was determinate to rip his eyes out and almost succeeded, but her enemy was much more powerful than her. He placed his big strong hand on her forearm and in a split second he twisted his wrists, breaking the bones to the point that they came out of her skin. Carolina saw in horror at the exposed fracture, and that was all it took for him to take control of the fight. She hadn't managed to scream for the pain in her arm when Schwartz begun to kick at her chest over and over. He didn't stop until she laid limp in the ground with blood coming out of her mouth and ears.

He saw towards where his colleague Kant was doing his duty with the lord and noticed that his task was more difficult than he thought. Kant was fighting with Juan using all the skills he learned at the crusades, but the boy was strong and stubborn, every time the priest threw a punch Juan blocked it and returned the favor, in one point the boy hit him in the face, between the eyes, and in that moment of distraction he placed his foot behind his enemy's one and pushed him making him fall, he was about to step hard on the man's throat but before his foot reached its destination Kant grabbed it and twisted it violently. Since Schwartz was more muscular than his partner and the little wench was taken care of, he decided to help his friend fight the kid.

Back in the compound Melissa was barely on her feet, she had never felt so weak in her life, but after the concussion all the memories of her previous life came back to her, and she knew that if she didn't do something to stop the children's death her soul would be cursed for the eternity, therefore, she used the cane that hit her head to help her walk and headed towards the sounds of battle in the distance

-"I have to tell them the truth"- she told herself -"It's the only way"-

Kant swung his fist at Juan's head but he used his forearm to block the punch while the other arm hit the hunter's ribs, the priest used his other elbow to hit his head but the boy remained insensible to his attack, on the contrary, it seemed to make him stronger. Then he saw his partner behind the kid and realized what he had to do. He kept using his fists to harm Juan but more importantly, to distract him. They fought for a while until Kant pushed the boy, behind him was Schwartz holding a big broken branch. Suddenly Juan heard a cracking sound, he saw below him and found a branch coming out of his chest and a river of his own blood pouring out of the wound. He didn't feel any pain; it was more like being cold and diving into hot water. He closed his eyes and a soft moan came out of his lips the moment he collapsed.

Both priests heard a small cry of pain after the boy fell, they looked to were it came from and saw the girl dragging herself towards her beloved with tears on her face, once she saw he was down, she lost all hopes and her consciousness

-"I can not believe she is still alive" Schwartz said in disgust

-"And she is not the only one, the young man is still breathing"

-"What do we do?"

-"Simple, the storm is powerful and I believe that the ocean will have enough water to wash their sins"

With that said they held the children in their arms. They were about to throw them to the ocean when a voice stopped them

-"NO, DON'T DO IT! Melissa cried in despair, what she would tell them might save the kids, too bad the priests wouldn't be eager to hear her….

End of chapter three.