[I] The chapter was getting very long so I split it in two. Hope you like and finally the showdown is here…

Ritual from the following website - .

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When Will and I were putting the twins down for the night Sam, Dean and Bobby had gone to collect the evening meal from our local Italian restaurant. After the boys were down, we all sat down in the dining room to sit and talk and eat we had decided on Caesar salad, baked ziti, eggplant parmigiana, stuffed peppers, and stuffed zuchinni to follow with raspberry panna cotta. The meal started off with everyone in deep silence but during the course of the meal the tension slipped away and the conversation returned to the normal witty banter. After the meal was over, Will and Sam made coffee and I went upstairs to check on the twins I wanted to quiet the feeling that I had been coming and going during dinner that something was wrong. I had been putting it down to me being an overprotective parent and knowing what was about to go down in a couple of hours. As I came down the first staircase from the nursery I heard a crash and raced down the stairs to the kitchen, hoping to catch Sam and Will before they headed into the study and into the trap that I knew was waiting there for them. When we came through the door we were faced with Dean and Bobby pinned against the far wall and an 8 year old girl with short brown hair was standing staring at them. She turned around as we entered and as she went to raise her hand Sam and I linked our hands as we had been practicing and pushed her under the devils trap. When she was in the middle of the trap Bobby and Dean dropped off the wall and all eyes in the room turned us. We both said "Not now guys, we'll explain everything later, we need to take Lilith down now."

"You really think that the two of you are strong enough to take me out.." as we watched the young child in the middle of the devils trap transformed into a blonde 20 something and she started to laugh manically "You think you are going to be able to save anyone, you couldn't save Mary, Jessica or John. How do expect to take me out? I'm a whole lot stronger than my young apprentice Azazel. However in retrospect I never should have sent a boy to do a man's work or in this case a woman's work. He was supposed to have you ready for me Sam, Will you were supposed to have died years ago. With you gone there was no chance of that prophesy coming true that can be easily resolved now. Dean are you ready to go, I think I'm going to forego the hounds on this occasion that body of yours is too good to get ripped apart; I want you whole for me to play with, and play we will."

The tension in the room was quickly escalating as Lilith goaded everyone more and more, we needed to keep calm heads if we were going to defeat her and send her back to hell where she belonged. With my hand still firmly in Sam's I started finger spelling that we needed to get everyone to calm down before she grew any stronger as she was feeding off everyone's rage and fear. Sam fingered back how do you suggest we do that without giving the game away. I looked at him mouthed "no problem" and applying my training I picked up on Will and Aidan empathic abilities, turned the power around and projected feelings to everyone in the room getting them to chill out. When Lilith sensed the change in the atmosphere she turned to me and said "Antonia - it's not going to work for long you know, you can't keep this up all night at some point you'll fail and as soon as you do I'm out of the circle and you will be the first one I slaughter, then I'll kill poor Will, Dean, Bobby and Sam I'm still deciding whether to kill you or to let you lead my army, I'll need someone to keep them in line until my sons come of age." I looked at Lilith and said "Your sons, in all the research we did we couldn't find any sons they are all daughters." Lilith laughed and a cold chill ran down my back as I suddenly realized that she was talking about taking Aidan and Cole. I screamed at her "I won't let you take them, I'll die first" Lilith responded "Sweetheart I just explained that's the plan." As the panic was rising in me I felt this sudden wash of calm and I looked around the room and Sam, Will, Dean and Bobby were looking back at me with kindness and love on their faces. When they had been hit by the feeling of calm they had realized what all of the practice sessions in the solarium had been about and decided that the best way that they could help in this situation was to remain calm, and send back feelings of love and support no matter what Lilith said to get arise out of them. All of the while that Lilith was taunting everyone in the room she kept trying to escape from the Devil's trap but due to the diligent research that Bobby, Sam, Dean and Will had carried out she was not getting out of this so easily.

Sam started finger spelling again and stated that I think that we need to start the exorcism ritual before she has a chance to get any stronger, or we get any weaker. We need her gone before midnight as that is when I saw the hell hounds turning up for Dean. I know that she said she has called them off but she's a demon and demons lie. I nodded my head in agreement looked at Will mouthed I love you at him and Sam started the ritual.

"Exorcizo te, immundissime spiritus, omnis incursio adversarii, omne phantasma, omnis legio, in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi eradicare, et effugare ab hoc plasmate Dei. Ipse tibi imperat, qui te de supernis caelorum in inferiora terrae demergi praecepit. Ipse tibi imperat, qui mari, ventis, et tempestatibus impersvit. Audi ergo, et time, satana, inimice fidei, hostis generis humani, mortis adductor, vitae raptor, justitiae declinator, malorum radix, fomes vitiorum, seductor hominum, proditor gentium, incitator invidiae, origo avaritiae, causa discordiae, excitator dolorum: quid stas, et resistis, cum scias. Christum Dominum vias tuas perdere? Illum metue, qui in Isaac immolatus est, in joseph venumdatus, in sgno occisus, in homine cruci- fixus, deinde inferni triumphator fuit. Sequentes cruces fiant in fronte obsessi. Recede ergo in nomine Patris et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti: da locum Spiritui Sancto, per hoc signum sanctae Cruci Jesu Christi Domini nostri: Qui cum Patre et eodem Spiritu Sancto vivit et regnat Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. (K) Amen."

As we were reciting this Lilith started to laugh from the middle of the devils trap, "you think that this is going to work on me, you know how strong I am so what makes you think that you are going to be able to get rid of me with a simple exorcism." With that I picked up on the second part of the ritual

"Adjuro te, serpens antique, per judicem vivorum et mortuorum, per factorem tuum, per factorem mundi, per eum, qui habet potestatem mittendi te in gehennam, ut ab hoc famulo Dei (N)., ad Ecclesiae sinum recurrit, cum metu, et exercitu furoris tui festinus discedas. Adjuro te iterum (in fronte) non mea infirmitate, sed virtute Spiritus Sancti, ut exeas ab hoc famulo Dei (N)., quem omnipotens Deus ad imaginem suam fecit. Cede igitur, cede non mihi, sed ministro Christi. Illius enim te urget potestas, qui te Cruci suae subjugavit. Illius brachium contremisce, qui devictis gemitibus inferni, animas ad lucem perduxit. Sit tibi terror corpus hominis (in pectore), sit tibi formido imago Dei (in fronte). Non resistas, nec moreris discedere ab homine isto, quoniam complacuit Christo in homine habitare. Et ne contemnendum putes, dum me peccatorem nimis esse cognoscis. Imperat tibi Deus. Imperat tibi majestas Christi Imperat tibi Deus Pater, imoerat tibi Deus Filius, imperat tibi Deus Spiritus Sanctus. Imperat tibi sacramentum Crucis. Imperat tibi fides sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, et ceterorum Sanctorum. Imperat tibi Martyrum sanguis, Imperat tibi contentia Confessorum. Imperat tibi pia Sanctorum et Sanctarum omnium intercessio, Imperat tibi christianae fidei mysteriorum virtus. Exi ergo, transgressor. Exi, seducor, plene omni dolo et fallacia, virtutis inimice, innocentium persecutor. Da locum, dirissime, da loocum, impiissime, da locum Christo, in quo nihil invevisti de operibus tuis: qui te spoliavit, qui regnum tuum destruxit, qui te victum ligavit, et vasa tua diripuit: qui te projecit in tenebras exteriores, ubi tibi cum ministris tuis erit praeparatus interitus. Sed quid truculente reniteris? Quid temerarie detrectas? Reus es omnipotenti Deo, cujus statuta transgressus es. Reus es Filio ejus Jesu Christo Domino nostro, quem tentare ausus es, et crucifigere praesumpsisti. Reus es humano generi, cui tuis persua- sionibus mortis venenum propinasti. Adjuro ergo te, draco nequissime, in nomine Agni immaculati, qui ambulavit super aspidem et basiliscum, qui conculavit leonem et draconem, ut discedas ab hoc homine (fiat signum crucis in fronte), discedas ab Ecclesia Dei (fiat signum crucis super circumstantes): contremisce, et effuge, invocato nomine Domini illius, quem inferi tremunt: cui Virtutes caelorum, et Potestates, et Dominationes subjectae sunt: quem Cherubim et Serpahim indefessis vocibus laudant, dicentes: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus tibi Verbum caro factum. Imperat tibi natus ex Virgine. Imperat tibi Jesus Nazarenus, qui te, cum disciplulos ejus contemneres, elisum atque prostratum exire praecepit ab homine: quo praesente, cum te ab homine serparasset, nec porcorum gregem ingredi praesumebas. Recede ergo nunc adjuratus in nomine ejus ab homine, quem ipse plasmavit. Durum est tibi velle resistere. Durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare, Quia quanto tardius exis, tanto magis tibi supplicium crescit, quia non homines contemnis, sed illum, qui dominatur vivorum et mortuorum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos, et saeculum per ignem. (K) Amen."

As we were reciting this Lilith started to scream in pain, the exorcism was starting to work. To finish the ritual, Sam and I joined together saying the words in unison and feeding on our joint powers.

"Adjuro ergo te, omnis immundissime spiritus, omne phantasma, omnis incursio satanae, in nomine Jesu Christi Nazareni, qui post lavacrum Joannis in desrtum ductus est, et te in tuis sedibus vicit: ut, quem ille de limo terrae ad honorem gloriae suae formavit, tu desinas impurgnare: et in homine miserabili non humanam fragilitatem, sed imaginem omnipotentis Dei contremiscas. Cede ergo Deo qui te, et malitiam tuam in Pharaone, et in exercitu ejus per Moysen servum suum in abysseum demersit. Cede Deo qui te per fidelissimum servum suum David de rege Saule spiritualibus canticis pulsum fugavit. Cede Deo qui te in Juda Iscariote proditore damnavit. Ille enim te divinis verberibus tangit, in cujus conspectu cum tuis legionibus tremens et clamans dixisti; Quid nobis et tibi, Jesu, Fili Dei altissimi? Venisti huc ante tempus torquere nos? Ille te perpetuis flammis urget, qui in fine temporum dicturus est impiis: Discedite a me, maledicti, in ignem aeternum, qui paratus est diabolo et angelis ejus. Tibi enim, impie, et angelis tuis vermes erunt, qui numquam morientur. Tibi, et angelis tuis inexstinguibile praeparatur incendium: quia tu es princeps maledicti homicidii, tu auctor incestus, tu sacrilegorum caput, tu actionum pessimarum magister, tu haereticorum doctor, tu totius obscoenitatis inventor. Exi ergo , impie, exi , scelerate, exi cum omni fallacia tua: quia hominem templum suum esse voluit Deus. Sed quid diutius moraris hic? Da honorem Deo Patri omnipotenti, cui omne genu flectitur. Da locum Domino Jesu Christo, qui pro homine sanguinem suum sacratissimum fudit. Da locum Spiritui Sancto, qui per beatum Apostolum suum Petrum te manifeste stravit in Simone mago; qui fallaciam tuam in Anania et Saphira condemnavit; qui te in Herode rege honorem Deo non dante percussit; qui te in mago Elyma per Apostolum suum Paulum caecitatis caligine perdidit, et per eumden de Pythonissa verbo imperans exire praecepit. Discede ergo nunc , discede , seductor. Tibi eremus sedes est. Tibi habitatio serpens est: humiliare, et prosternere. Jam non est differendi tempus. Ecce enim dominator Dominus proximat cito, et ignis ardebit ante ipsum, et praecedet, et inflammabit in circuitu inimicos ejus. Si enim hominem fefelleris, Deum non poteris irridere. Ille te ejicit, cujus oculis nihil occultum est. Ille te expellit, cujus virtuti universa subjecta sunt. Ille te execludit, qui tibi, et angelis tuis praeparavit aeternam gehennam; de cujus ore exibit gladius acutus: qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos, et saeculum per ignem. (K). Amen.

* Praedicta omnia, quatenus opus sit, repeti possunt. donec obsessus sit omnino liberatus.
* Juvabit praeterea plurimum super obsessum saepe repetere Pater Noster, Ave Maria et credo, atque haec quae infra notantur, devote dicere."

As we got to the end of the ritual there was a final scream from the centre of the devils trap and that's the last thing that I remember as I felt myself collapsing to the floor.