Chapter Seven:
When the group of witches led by Brian Harley arrived at the flea market after having teleported into an alley nearby, the demons had not yet attacked. He felt confident though, dealing with a few lower level demons should not be that big of a problem. He was slightly worried about his sister though. Bridget had went with Chris' group to the school. She had insisted on helping, as with telepathy she was a useful weapon, being able to tap into the powers of not only other witches but also demons. She also refused to be in his group saying that if she was with him he would be too concerned about protecting her.
She probably was right. They all needed to focus. "You ready?" The words of the witch, Danielle, the one who had teleported them there broke through Brian's thoughts. "Ready as I can be" he answered. "besides I am always in the mood to kick some demon ass." "Right, so… do you really think we will be able to you know stop the source though. I mean even if…" While Danielle was still talking the Demons had began shimmering in, and an energy ball was thrown their way. Brian was able to push Danielle out of the way before blowing up the Demon that had sent the attack there way.
All the people around, began to panic seeing the sudden appearance of what they thought were witches and then there attack on the flea market. The scene was chaos. The demons were throwing fireballs, like crazy simply trying to cause as much destruction as possible. As furiously as the demons were fighting to cause their destruction, however the group of witches were fighting just as hard to save innocent lives and vanquish the demons.
Recovering from being thrown out of the way, Danielle sprang to her feet and used the two potions she was loading to vanquish two demons that began charging at her. Finally, the number of demons seemed to be dwindling, making the witches feel as if they were beginning to make some progress. That is until a fresh load of demons shimmered in.
Brian was trying to vanquish as many demons as he could with his power, blowing up one after the next, all the while dodging all sorts of energy and fire balls. More demons just kept coming, and the mass hysteria among the public was not helping. Upon blowing up another demon he sensed one coming up behind him, he turned surround to find a demon ready to stab him, when the demon exploded into a fiery vanquish. Danielle had managed to throw a dagger the demon's way before it was successful in making its kill. "Thanks." Brian smiled at the witch who just saved his life. "No problem, I was just returning the favor." She answered before they both turned back to business, focusing on the demons at hand. Back into the fighting mix Brian was able to blow up an energy ball right before it was able hit an innocent boy. He then turned to the demon who had thrown it and caused the demon to explode as well.
Finally, the number of demons was once again diminishing and this time there did not appear to be anymore coming. All of the witches were using their respective powers to finish off the remaining demons. Brian managed to blow up one last target, to then realized that all the demons had been vanquished. Many of the customers at the market seemed injured, but as far as Brian could tell there were few if any fatalities. He advised the people there to call 911 before gathering his troops and having Danielle teleport them out of there. He could only hope that the other groups had had as much success as they had, vanquishing the demons and managing to save many innocents.
While all that had been going on at the flea market, demons had commenced attack on the airport as well. Leo and his band of witches, were managing to have some success, although they had lost some innocents. The airport was a lot more spread out, so there was simply to much ground to cover. They were successfully vanquishing demons however, and saving many lives in the process. Leo himself had managed to vanquish quite a few himself with his lighting bolts. He was also trying to heal as many wounded innocents as he could, all while trying to fend off the demons.
Leo did run into trouble however when a dark lighter showed up on the scene. Wyatt must have sensed that his father was there thwarting the demon attack. Luckily Leo saw the arrow coming at him and reacted in time to orb out of the way. A young female witch then seeing the attack on the elder used her power of electrokinesis to zap the dark lighter, resulting in its fiery vanquish. Leo thanked her before continuing the struggle. The girl that had just helped to save his life must have been only fifteen. She should not have to be dealing with this He thought to himself, which gave him even more motivation to fight. After all it was his son that had caused all of this.
Despite all the Demons the group of witches along with the elder had managed to vanquish, the demons just seemed to keep coming. Leo simply could not keep up with healing all of those that had been wounded. There had simply been more demons than he expected. Refusing to give up though he took the potions he was armed with out of his pocket and managed to throw them at four different demons, giving him some leeway to continue healing some of the people who had been hit.
His group of witches for the most part, however were still holding there own. They continued to fight as no of them had yet to be seriously injured. That was one good thing at least. Even if they were losing some innocents they were still going strong in their rate of vanquishing. He could tell that they would eventually be able to overtake the mass of demons, which although they were large in number, they were being vanquished quite easily. Eventually their numbers would dwindle and the remaining demons would realize continuing the task was suicide. Apparently Wyatt did not think that massacring innocents required his more powerful demons. Leo was grateful for this at least because against more formidable demons they would have had some real problems.
Finally, as Leo had predicted the demons saw that the mission was essentially suicide and seemed to either be giving up or meeting their doom. Seeing the remaining shimmering out finally gave Leo some relief. As the fighting finally dies down, the group could hear the approaching sirens of emergency teams, and so they orbed out in order to avoid being accused and prosecuted as witches. Although their had been some losses, the Elder was satisfied with what they were able to accomplish. Had they not been there so many more lives would have been lost.
Chris and his group of witches had managed to successfully orb into the elementary school undetected. "How much time do we have?" Bridget asked Chris once they had arrived. She may have been good, but at least when it came to patience the young witch was not that virtuous. She simply wanted to get the waiting over with. "According to Prue's vision the demons should be arriving any moment." Chris answered the young girl. He had tended to agree with Brian that she should have stayed back at the club with Prue to be safe. She had insisted on coming though and he had to admit that her power could certainly come in handy. He did feel though that he had to watch over her. She had been friends with her cousin for the longest time, and she was like another baby sister to him. Her stubbornness, however had always driven him crazy, and it was using that very trait that had gotten her here today. She had wanted to help and that was that, there was no talking her out of it.
"I wish they would just get here already so we can kick some demon ass." Bridget commented. Chris liked the girls enthusiasm, at one time he had been that way about magic but now, thinking that he might eventually have to kick his brother's "demon ass" his attitude had changed. Now he vanquished demons because he simply could not sit back and let innocent people get hurt, it just wasn't who he was. "Just have a little pa…" he began to advise the young witch but he couldn't finish his sentence as the demons had arrived. All that mattered now was protecting all of the innocent children. The demons were heading to where they could cause the most damage, the cafeteria, where hundreds of children were gathered for lunch.
The witches were all on the demons before they could even get to there, but they were not going to let the witches stop them. Yes some of them were being vanquished, but the others kept heading towards their goal destination. As one Demon managed to open the door to the lunchroom, Chris managed to throw him aside with a fling of the arm. Bridget swung into action too. She was tapping into Chris' telekinesis to fend off the demons, as well as using demon's own powers against them throwing energy balls there way. She always had a lot of motivation behind her when it came to vanquishing demons, as all she had to think about was how her father had died at the hands of one. She then thrust another demon with a blast of wind, tapping into another witch's power to conjure the elements. So far they had been fairly successful in keeping the demons out of the cafeteria where all the students would just be sitting ducks.
That wouldn't last long however, as finally a demon managed to blast through the doors, to the shear terror of the children inside. Chris seeing what happened orbed right in front of the entrance trying to put himself between the mass of demons and all the innocent kids. As soon as he materialized however he became a target for several energy balls flying his way. Luckily he managed to telekinetically deflect most of them away, but he did get blasted in the shoulder. It hurt like hell but he simply would not let it slow him down. He grabbed the several potions he had from his pocket and threw them at various demons, all of them hitting targets and resulting in fiery vanquishes.
By that point all the children were pushing toward the back of the cafeteria to make it out the rear entrance. It was a scene of shear terror and panic, and the smaller children were ending up being trampled over as everyone was rushing to escape their supernatural attackers. Whatever order the few adult monitors were trying to maintain was simply not working, as they were also in a state of panic. They simply could not believe what they were seeing no matter what the news had been reporting for the last twenty-four hours.
Meanwhile Chris was still fighting off as many demons as possible, keeping them from chasing after the fleeing children. He had even began using everything around him as weapons using his powers to throw tables and chairs at the relentless demons. He just couldn't understand how his once loving brother had sent these vile creatures after helpless children. The idea just made him sick, but he was able to channel that feeling into anger, which certainly helped when it came to vanquishing demons. After all witches' powers were emotion based and Chris certainly had some very powerful emotions going on at the moment.
It finally seemed as if many of the children had made their way outside and the mass of demons definitely seemed depleted. Chris was certainly thankful to see the light at the end of the tunnel. They may not have been able to save everyone, but they had saved hundreds of innocent lives. There was one demon that just would not give up however, despite the fact that many others had began shimmering out. Chris could see this demon approaching Bridget, and he was suddenly filled with dread. The demon had come up behind her and the young witch had not notices. Just before he was able to throw a fatal energy ball her way Chris managed to orb into its path. He took the hit instead.
Bridget turned around to realize what had happened. She quickly grabbed her last remaining potion and threw it at the demon vanquishing him. Most of the other demons were already gone or were on their way out as she knelt down, to the guy she had always thought of as a second big brother. He was pretty seriously hurt, just to weak to orb. Plus even though the demon threat was taken care of, many of the staff at the school had started to crowd around the witches looking at them in an accusatory way.
This really angered Bridget, they had just all risked their butts to save so many innocent lives and this was the reaction they got. It didn't matter though. She needed to take care of Chris as he was losing consciousness, and they all needed to get their asses out of their before the police arrived and charged them with being witches. She started to panic as people started to crowd around the group of witches, and Chris inevitably passed out. Everyone was closing in and her friend was dying in her arms, her panic grew worse as she began to feel more and more helpless.