Sophie grimaced at Nezznus and tried stopping him from shoving Frida in a jail cell; but instead of succeeding, she was just pushed away.

"This wasn't part of the deal, Nezznus! Or should I say David?" She said with a smirk. As Nezznus closed the jail cell door, he clenched his hands into fists and turned around slowly.

"Don't. Call me that!" He growled. Sophie kept her smirk.

"Whatever you say, David…" Nezznus, now even more irritated, turned and quickly charged at her. Sophie closed her eyes tight and tried to dodge him. Yet, when she didn't feel any impact or any sudden pains, she opened her eyes and looked around to see that Ryan was standing over a doubled-in-pain Nezznus.

"Ryan, you came to help me!" Sophie said with a smile as she thrust her arms around him in a hug as Ryan approached Sophie.

"Yeah, well I guess I just couldn't stay away…" Ryan said; as he looked out the corner of his eye, he saw Nezznus getting up and angrily charging at them. Ryan (regretfully) pushed Sophie off of him and took out the knife he had been carrying in his pocket. Nezznus stopped in front of the two and smiled devilishly.

"What, you're going to stab me? Do you really think you have the guts? You've never killed anyone before. You'd never be able to have that on your conscience the rest of your life. You won't do it." Nezznus taunted. Although Ryan found what Nezznus had said very true, he felt he had to do it. He knew he had to. He had to protect his best friend, and killing the threat was possibly the only way that any of this was going to end.

"Well even if he doesn't, there's still me. And you know I would," Sophie sneered. Nezznus chuckled lightly, then charged at Sophie. He didn't bother with Ryan because he knew that the mortal boy was no match for his power and he would just kill the boy instantly. And that wouldn't be a very smart move considering the boy was Sophie's friend and killing him would only make her more motivated to kill him; and motivating a dark angel to kill wasn't the smartest thing to do…he would know.

Sophie had grabbed Ryan's knife and tried to dig it directly into Nezznus' heart, but he stopped her hands before she could. He was holding her back, and he knew that he could easily turn the situation around. He could easily grab the knife from her hands and aim it at her; but he would let her feel a sense of triumph for a little while. He would let her feel like she was going to get out of this alive and he wasn't. Because the more she believed it, the harder she would fall when she didn't.

~…~

Frida, having a full view of the events playing out in front of her from her cage, was shocked at the suspense of the moment. Never in anything she and Manny had been through, had there ever been knives brought into the equation. And honestly, it scared her. The thought that someone could walk out of this fight dead scared her more than she knew. Every fight she and Manny had fought together had always resulted in someone going to jail with the knowledge that they would escape in a matter of time anyways. It had never resulted in death, and she didn't think it ever would.

Speaking of Manny, she thought, where is he?

Frida searched the warehouse—or, at least, what she could see of the warehouse—for Manny. She spotted him lying unconscious on the far opposite end of the warehouse from her. In all the rush, she hadn't realized that he'd been knocked unconscious. She just remembered being grabbed, tied, and shoved in a cage. They had to find a way out of this, Frida thought, because there's no way I'll be able to untie myself.

~…~

The fight between Nezznus, Sophie and Ryan—Sophie and Ryan working together, of course—raged on. Sophie threw a punch at Nezznus, and Nezznus blocked it and threw it back at her. Ryan tried kicking, but he was blocked as well. It went on like this for a long while, Ryan and Sophie succeeding in punching or slowing down Nezznus; yet it wasn't a very big effect in the long run. It only slowed him down for a few minutes, since he was very powerful and could easily kill the two children.

Suddenly, Sophie pushed Nezznus to the ground when she noticed Nezznus had caught sight of a frightened Anna and faced a moment of weakness. Sophie turned around a moment to catch her breath shortly when Nezznus began to rise to his feet again; Sophie and Ryan, of course, not seeing Nezznus getting back up.

Nezznus, without a word, charged at Sophie. Sophie didn't see him coming, but out of the corner of his eye, did. Ryan found a stray stick of wood, picked it up and charged back at him. Nezznus was fed up with the children's rebellion. He had stalled enough. He needed to overpower them and do it quickly. When Ryan came charging with a two by four of wood, he chuckled in his had. On the outside, he grabbed the other end of the two by four and used it to toss Ryan to the ground like a child's play toy.

"Sophie, watch out!" Ryan exclaimed. Sophie turned around to see Nezznus charging at her. In a rush, Sophie threw off her jacket, revealing her beautiful white wings—which, now that she knew her true nature, turned dark black. Nezznus pushed Sophie to the ground and she tried to squirm free, but her attempts failed. Nezznus had her pinned down.

Little did they know that over on the far end, Manny's eyes fluttered open and he sat up, observing the sudden and fast events happening before him.

"It's kind of sad, if you think about it," Sophie said after a moment of silence. "I'm your only daughter and here you are trying to kill me or something. And not to mention you have an unconscious boy, a caged girl, and a tied-up ex-wife. You're not very family-oriented, are you?" Nezznus grimaced at Sophie's statement. Then Sophie, in the process of clenching her hands into fists, felt Ryan's knife still in her hand. She smiled.

Then Nezznus began the final attack; the final transformation. He began to convert Sophie into a full-angel (since her mother was a mortal human, Sophie was only half-angel, otherwise known as 'Nephilim') to giving her the full power that she would need to rule the dark angels' realm.

Sophie clutched the knife tighter and suddenly, she dug it into Nezznus' chest.

Nezznus felt the impact of the knife and the pain only became sharper when Sophie pushed him off of her. Sophie stood and brushed the dirt off of her as she walked over to Frida's cage to release her and let her tend to her unconscious friend; little did she know that he had come to his senses at just the right moment.

Ryan approached the cage instead so Sophie could untie her mother.

"Give me a bobby pin," Ryan said. Frida took one of the bobby pins and Ryan grabbed it. He stuck it into the lock and fiddled around and eventually the lock opened.

Sophie walked over to her mother and began untying the ropes that had been used to tie her down.

Anna was silent as Sophie worked to untie her. Anna had a lot to think about. Now obviously Nezznus was dead; it made her think. There was one point in their lives where they were happy together and she knew he would never lie to her. They were in love, and they knew they always would be. She remembered the day David had given her a promise ring and she had accepted it and said she would always love him, no matter what happens. In her heart now, she knew she had kept that promise. No matter what happens.

Now that Anna, Ryan, Manny, Frida and Sophie were all untied, set free of cages, conscious and safe, they began to walk out of the warehouse. Behind them, Nezznus weakly rose to his feet.

"Do you really think you've defeated me? Foolish girl, you can't kill me off that easily," Nezznus said weakly, yet with a devious smirk. The five stopped working and turned back to Nezznus. Suddenly, revealing his wings, and flying over—weakly—to Sophie, he picked her up by the collar of her shirt and flew out of the warehouse.

Sophie was completely at his mercy—and she had stabbed him.

OMGEE CLIFFHANGER ENDING! AREN'T I SOOO AWESOME! Isn't this chapter like, so totally awesome? I think it was good. Next chapter will be the last, I promise! Sooo…review!