So here it is: the last chapter of Slaymaids: season 1. As usual comment and favorite. And please don't hate me for the ending, i promise to make it all better in the next season. Enjoy.

Choices

Early in the morning, Rikki arrives at Emma's. "You wanted to see me?"

Emma lets Rikki in and leads her to her room. "Yeah, you and Cleo actually. But as Cleo is not responding, I'll ask you already."

"Ask me what?" Rikki sits down on the bed.

"If it's okay if I tell Byron about us?

Rikki starts laughing. "After months of telling me that I shouldn't tell Zane about us, you tell me you want to tell Byron. Just like that."

"Well yeah I thought if all of your boyfriends know about us, why can't my boyfriend know?"

Rikki stands up. "Because we didn't tell them. They discovered it on their own. It's not my problem your boyfriend is too stupid to catch up."

Emma stands up too to face Rikki. "Byron isn't stupid, maybe a bit slow, but not stupid? I guess I was just the only one smart enough to hide our secret."

"I kept the secret to Zane, even after he discovered it, I kept hiding your secret, Emma."

"Well I'm sure Byron won't tell anyone."

"And you think Zane would?" Emma's face says enough. "Really, do you think Byron would smash all of Dr Denman's equipment to keep your secret? Do you think Byron would break bonds with his father to protect your secret?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Even though Zane knew that picture wasn't of me and that I was lying to him, he still protected us. So don't give me this crap about Byron being more trustworthy. I guess it's just the same old story, one rule for us, another one for Emma. Even when Zane threatened to leave, I still didn't tell him about you or Cleo. Because it was our secret, do you remember that? The first day, we promised each other we wouldn't tell anyone else."

"Rikki, I haven't told him alright? I was just asking."

After taking a deep breath, Rikki calms down. "I know, I'm sorry. I just had a couple of hard days."

Emma sits down next to Rikki. "Did he really leave?"

"Can we not talk about that please?"

"Sure Rikki, just remember, I'm always here if you need me."

"Thanks. And thanks for letting me blow off some steam."

"What are friends for?" She hears the doorbell. "I'll be right back."

Behind the door Byron is waiting. "You wanted to talk to me?"

"Yeah about that. I don't really remember what I wanted to tell, so it probably wasn't really important."

Byron shakes his head. "You let me come over here because you had to tell me something important and when I'm finally here, you tell me there is nothing to tell. I have enough of this games Emma."

A demon appears behind Byron. "Byron, run!"

"Didn't you hear what I just said? I have enough of these games."

"And I said: Run!"

Byron looks around and sees the demon coming towards him. Another demon grabs Emma from behind and puts a hand in front of her mouth so she can't scream for help. Byron comes towards the demon. "I don't know who or what you are, but let her go." Byron tries to hit the demon, but misses and instead, the demon hits Byron, knocking him out. He takes Byron in his arms and shimmers out. The other demon releases Emma and tries to get away, but Emma doesn't let him go that easily and tries to freeze him. Angrily, the demon looks towards her and she manages to duck just in time to not get hit by a huge energyblast. Unfortunately, the blast hits the wall and furniture behind her and blows everything up. The demon throws a second energyblast and this time it does hit Emma, making her fly across the room.

The demon shimmers back out, right when Rikki comes downstairs. "Emma, what is going on down here?" She sees what has happened to the room. "Oh god. Emma!" She runs across the room and finds her on the floor.

With some help from Rikki, Emma succeeds in standing up. "I'm fine, but they took Byron."

-h2o

Cleo and Lewis are packing up there picnic. "Lewis this was a splendid idea." She sits down in his lap.

"Only the best for my lady."

"Wow, did I find myself a real gentlemen?"

"Yes you did."

Right when they are about to kiss, a demon appears in front of them. He smells the air and then looks at Cleo. "Mermaid." When they hear the demon, both Lewis and Cleo stand up. But before Cleo can do anything, the demon throws an electric ball at her, making her fly across the grass. Instead of coming towards Cleo as expected he turns towards Lewis. Before Cleo can do anything he has already lifted Lewis off the ground by the neck.

"Let go of Lewis." Cleo makes a huge waterball from the fountain nearby, but before it can hit the demon, he has shimmered out, taking Lewis with him.

-h2o-

Back in the sea hag's cave, Denman leads the demon that is holding Lewis inside. The sea hag points where the demon should put him down. "Good work Ms Denman." She comes towards the demons. "Put him with the other. And what about the last one, where you able to catch him?"

"No he has left town, so what are we going to do now? I don't get how we can prove mermaids exist by kidnapping some boys."

"Everything in its time, Ms Denman."

"What are you going to do with them?"

"Oh Ms Denman, if I had known you were such a whiner, I certainly wouldn't have you made you the offer. Unfortunately, I need you for the next part otherwise you would be lying with the fishes already."

Scared Denman looks towards the sea hag. "Why do you need me?"

"Well I can't send any demons at the girls to give them my message for they would kill him. But you are human, meaning they can't kill you."

"Wow, that's a relief." Denman ironically adds.

"Okay, now I want everyone to behave on your best behaviours. I want to make a good impression."

Fire lights up behind the sea hag and she turns around with a smile when Eleanor steps out of the fire. "So have you caught what I asked?"

"Off course."

"And the potion?"

"To its boiling point. We just need the incantation."

"Good, I guess it's almost show time then?" She adds with a smile.

-h2o-

Jenny arrives at Emma's, where Rikki and Emma are sitting in front of the destruction. "Alright, the police are probably going to be here any minute. Try to get a premonition or anything than can help us before the cops close this place up."

Jenny starts looking around, touching things. She stops on the exact same spot Byron was attacked and gets a premonition. A woman and the sea hag are standing in front of a cauldron, the woman is continuously chanting the same incantation. "Give me a paper and a pen." Jenny quickly writes down the incantation. "Can anyone read this?"

Emma comes closer. "It looks like Latin."

"I'll get to the library, so you guys there."

"Sure." Jenny leaves while Cleo comes closer.

"What happened here?"

"Demons. They blew up my house and took Byron."

"Lewis too."

"What? Why?"

"Oh I know why." Denman stops in front of them. She opens her laptop and shows the girls footage of Lewis and Byron on her boat. "Your powers. My associates wanted me to give this to you." She hands the girls a lantern. "You need to give up your powers and put them in this lantern. Then come to the moonpool on midnight and hand the lantern back to them. If you don't do what they say, your boyfriends may find themselves in too deep waters, if you understand me?"

"Why are you doing this?"

"Well, now that's a good question, unfortunately one I cannot answer. Now I'll see you ladies tonight."

-h2o-

The girls meet Jenny in front of the library on a bench. Cleo takes a step forward. "Look, we don't have a choice, they gave us an ultimatum. Our powers or our boyfriend's death. So we need to do this."

Confused Jenny looks towards the others. "Alright can someone explain what she just said, cause I haven't the slightest clue what she just babbled."

"The persons you saw in your premonition, they made a deal with Denman. She came around to tell us that they caught our boyfriends and if we don't give them our powers, they will kill Lewis and Byron." Emma explains.

"You can't do this. I translated the incantation and it is a spell that can turn the entire world upside down. It will give evil more power and good less. My guess is that they need your powers to do this."

"We can't take the chance of Lewis or Byron dying. We're going to do this."

"And what about all the other innocents you can save by keeping your powers? You can't give everything up."

"Jenny, this isn't up for discussion. They already blew up my house. We're doing this no matter if you like it or not."

"No…" Jenny touches the lantern and gets a second premonition. Rikki is standing alone with the witch. Next to her are two piles of ashes and Rikki is crying. The woman reaches out her hand, but Rikki shakes her head. The witch puts out her hand in the same way Rikki always does and Rikki starts boiling up. "Oh god, no you can't do this, they will kill you."

Recognizing Jenny's face when she just had a premonition, Rikki asks, "Jenny what did you see?"

Jenny explains what she saw. "Now you surely can't do this, they will kill you as soon as they get your powers. With your own powers even. We need to think of a plan."

"We don't have time for that Jenny. We're sorry, but we need to go."

"No Jenny is right. Do you think they will just let your two boyfriends walk after we gave them our powers?"

"I'm sorry Rikki, but we are taking any chance with this and if you don't want to help us. We will do it on our own."

-h2o-

Denman is pacing around the cave. "This is madness. I don't want any part in this."

Eleanor looks towards the sea hag. "Couldn't you have picked someone that didn't talk so much?"

"I'm not letting you kill those mermaids. How am I going to prove to everyone that what I told them was true? That they exist."

Eleanor turns around. "It was never our intention to help you prove your theory. Don't you get that? Now will you please stop whining, or I might lose my patience."

"Wait what? All I did was for nothing, oh you will pay for this." Eleanor nods her head towards the sea hag, who looks towards her demons. One demon walks over to Denman. She holds out her hands in defence and suddenly they catch on fire. She looks at her hands. "Stop this, please." And that's the last she says before she flames up and turns to ashes.

-h2o-

At the moon pool Emma and Cleo are sitting around the lantern. "You're sure we can do this without Rikki?"

"Yeah, she maybe be the strongest of our three, but together we are stronger than her. And she already wrote the spell, so we know it will work." Emma hands Cleo a paper.

"So all we need to do is say this spell and then everything will be as before."

"Yes, are you ready?"

"From whence they came, return them now. Vanish the words, vanish our powers."

Out of each girl a bright light appears and vanishes into the lantern. Cleo tries to make a bubble of water from the moon pool, but it doesn't work. "It's over."

-h2o-

Right as Rikki has found the shell, she had to look for Jenny, on the bottom of the sea, she feels something going through her and suddenly she is in firm need of air. She looks down and sees a couple of legs. With all her might she still exceeds in getting to the surface on time.

"Damn, they did it anyway."

-h2o-

At midnight the sea hag and three demons flame into the moon cave. Cleo and Emma take a step back. The sea hag holds out her hand. "The lantern please."

"First promise that the guys won't be harmed."

"Sure, whatever, I could care less about them. You will find them at the dr.'s boat. Now the lantern please."

With much dismay, Emma holds out the lantern which the sea hag eagerly takes. "Thank you. Now I don't think introductions are necessary."

Eleanor flames into the cave and takes the lantern from the sea hag. "Thank you, now I finally get what I deserve." She opens the lantern and three bright lights move into her chest. "Now this feels good." She looks back to the girls. "And you girls are right on time to watch the climax of the show." She takes a potion out of her pocket and first freezes the potion, then boils it and then uses Cleo's power to shake the fluid. "Too bad that my daughter has to miss all this. But don't worry, I'll talk to her later." She is ready to throw the bottle in the moon pool when Jenny and Rikki interrupt her.

"Well if you want to talk to me, than please do so?"

Eleanor looks at Rikki and then points to her three friends. "Not for those three, but I can give you amnesty if you join me. Think about it Rikki, you and I could rule the world."

"I would rather be dead."

"Well that can be fixed."

"Not on my watch." Rikki takes both Emma and Cleo by the hand and pulls them into the moon pool together with her.

In the meantime, Jenny holds out the shell that Rikki had found and tries to throw it at the sea hag, but she creates a sudden wind which blows the shell into the moon pool.

The moon pool starts to bubble due to the moon coming around. The bubbles form around the girls and suddenly Eleanor falls to the ground. The three bright lights come out of her chest again and return to the girls. "No, what is happening?"

"The moon is correcting things. Out of all people you should know that doing this tonight at the moon pool wouldn't work out the way you planned. The moon pool has a power of his own."

Eleanor looks towards Jenny. "Oh, but I'm not defenceless yet little girl." She stands up and holds out a hand. "From witches you were born, but now you will feel my scorn. Your blood will boil like water, as it came from the power of my daughter."

A grimace of pain crosses Jenny's face as she falls down to the floor. In the meantime, Emma and Rikki get out of the water. They both kneel down on the floor next to Jenny. "Emma, cool her down." Emma holds out her hand and gets to work.

Back in the moon pool, Cleo has found the shell. She makes a move upwards with all her strength and jumps above the water to throw the shell onto the sea hag. It hits her right in the chest and causes her to dissolve.

Rikki stands up, "It's over mom."

"No, not until I say so."

"Mom, please. Come back to me. We can work past this. I can give you one more chance." Eleanor looks down at her feet. "Mom, say something."

With a smile Eleanor looks up. "Kill the boys." The girls only realize what she just said when they see the demons shimmer out. Eleanor herself turns to the moon pool to throw the potion right at Cleo, as Rikki holds out her hand, Eleanor is struck by lightning and starts to burn and vanishes completely. Rikki is standing between two piles of ashes. But there is no one there to console her. Both Emma and Cleo are on their way to their boyfriends and Jenny is unconscious. Tears are starting to form on her face.

-h2o-

The girls find the boat quickly due to it being on fire. They get out on to the docks and see the three demons coming towards them. "We're outnumbered."

"Don't think like that, we can beat them." Emma holds out her hand to freeze the demons when suddenly not only the demons freeze over, but the whole dock too. She looks down at her hand. "What was that?"

In the meantime Cleo is trying to use her powers to create enough water to put the fire out on the boat. But she only creates a massive wind which blows the fire out. "Okay, weird, but effective." Both girls smash the demons to pieces and run onto the boat. It's a mess inside, everything is smashed.

They find Byron quickly lying on the floor. Emma kneels down next to him. When she holds him, she can feel him waking up. "Thank god, you're alright."

"Emma?"

"Yes I'm here, just be quiet."

Rikki runs onto the boat and smiles when she sees Emma holding an awake Byron. "I took Jenny to the hospital and told them to come here."

"Thank you Rikki." Emma turns back to Byron. "Did you hear that, the paramedics are on their way?"

Rikki looks around in the search of Cleo, when she sees Cleo holding Lewis, while crying, she runs over to her. "Cleo. Lewis?"

Cleo is rocking Lewis back and forth. "He is not breathing. He is not breathing Rikki!" Cleo looks down into Lewis face and pushes some hair out of the way. "Come 'on Lewis, come back. I need you. I can't do all this without you. You're my rock remember. The one that held me together." Cleo takes his hand into hers. "Please Lewis, don't do this. Don't let go."

Sirens from outside let them know the paramedics are there. Rikki calls the paramedics and tells them that Lewis is not breathing. With caution, they pull Lewis out of Cleo's arms and put him on a stretcher. They start using a defibrillator to get his heart back working. Cleo stands up and Rikki holds her in her arms. With every shock they give Lewis, Cleo starts crying more.

After a couple of shocks the paramedics look at each other and stop. Cleo looks at them with anger. "Why are they stopping, they need to continue. Tell them Rikki, they need to continue."

"I'm so sorry, Cleo. But I think he is…"

"No, he can't be." She pulls herself lose and embraces Lewis on the stretcher. "Come back, please." The tears are running from her face. She smashes Lewis in the chest. "Come on, wake up." Rikki pulls Cleo from Lewis and consoles her while the paramedics roll Lewis out of the boat.

-h2o-

A day later, Emma visits Byron in the hospital. "So this was the secret you were keeping all along." Emma nods her head. "Don't worry, I didn't tell anyone."

"So what do you think of it?"

"I think it's great what you do, saving people all the time and not taking credit for it. You're a hero."

"That's great that you think that, but I meant what do you think of our relationship now?"

"Look Emma, I like what you do and I love you, but this just isn't for me. I want to settle one day, have a normal life with normal children, not demons chasing us around. You need a guy that supports you, that doesn't worry sick every time you would go out and that doesn't need to worry about his own life as well. I'm sorry Emma, I hope you find a guy that can be all this for you, but that guy isn't me."

-h2o-

A couple of days later, Cleo is trying to make herself ready for Lewis funeral. The door from her bedroom opens and Emma comes in. "Your mom said I could come up." Emma looks over and sees that Cleo is wearing her most beautiful dress and has her hair together in a bun. The only thing that showed that Cleo isn't going to a formal ball are her red eyes. Red from crying. "You look great Cleo."

"I know, I have to. This is the last time Lewis will see me and I need to leave a good impression." She gives Emma a weak smile. "Have you heard anything from Rikki?"

"Not since the day that…"

"Me neither. You think she is going to come?"

"I don't know, she did something pretty intense, I don't think I would have had it in me to kill my own mother."

"She did the right thing. And she will come back when she realizes that she needs us as much as we need her."

-h2o-

A couple of hours later, when the cemetery is all empty, Rikki walks towards Lewis grave and puts a three roses on it. "Sorry that it has to go like this. I never should have given my mother another chance. If I hadn't, you would still be alive. And don't worry too much about her Lewis. She may not know it yet, but she is the strongest of us three. Goodbye." She gives her hand a kiss and pushes it on the ground. Then she stands up and leaves the cemetery. A bit farther away, she jumps into the water.