Sorry it took so long to update, I have been majorly busy, you have no idea. But I'm happy to announce that I now have a new laptop. But I'm also unhappy to announce that there are going to be more grammar mistakes than usual because my new computer doesn't check the spelling so I tried to edit it as much as possible, but even then there will probably be tons of mistakes. Sorrry, but keep in mind that I did my best.

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Chapter 5: Struggles

Chloe's heart was in her throat and her lungs were empty. She couldn't breathe or move as she stared at the demon in front of her.

"What is it?" Simon asked worriedly, unable to see what her an Jessa could.

"It?" The demon looked offended, "I am a female. Not an 'it', young man."

Chloe couldn't talk, couldn't move, couldn't tear her eyes away, could only stare at the demon in front of her. It's bright blue eyes were what creeped her out the most. They literally glowed, and were cold, holding no feeling, no kindness, just ice, just darkness. And as Chloe stared into the woman's eyes, she felt her limbs going cold, losing feeling.

The next thing that struck her was the demon's long hair. It was pitch black, but even that wasn't enough to express how dark it was. The demon's hair was the darkest thing Chloe had ever seen, drawing in light from the air around it, making the room feel cold, feel dark, feel hopeless, sucking away all happiness that had ever existed in Chloe's heart, sucking it away until all that was left was a cold unfeeling shell of herself.

The demon was cold, cold down to the very core, Chloe could feel the room chilling, could feeling the cold radiating from it's pale pale skin. And was cold, and this cold froze her, froze her movements, her thoughts, and her very soul, and she was unable to do anything.

"What's going on?" Derek asked firmly, coming up from behind her and putting a hand on her arm.

It was his hand that did it. It broke some spell that the demon had put on her, allowing her to breathe again, to feel like herself again, to look away from the creature that had hypnotized her.

She took a deep breath, focusing her mind on Derek, on his presence, the feel of his hand on her shoulder. If she focused on him, then she maybe she could stay out of the demon's grasp.

"It's a demon." She said, and Derek's reaction was instant. He stiffened and narrowed his eyes, as if by doing so he would be able to see what he couldn't already. But it was pointless. Chloe didn't know much for a necromancer, but she did know that demons were a part of the spirit world. Derek and the others weren't able to see the demon in front of them because they couldn't see the members of the spirit world. Only her and Jessa could. And that gave the demon an advantage over them.

She also knew that demons could be unbelievably powerful, depending on what kind they were. Chloe prayed that this was a nice demon that wouldn't give them trouble. But she knew she was just kidding herself. The way the demon radiated darkness, the way its very presence chilled her to her core, it was a sure sign that she was not a nice spirit.

"We need to get out of here." Derek's voice was low, almost a growl. His hand tightened on her arm, and Chloe knew just how worried he was, and with Derek that was never a good sign.

"You cannot leave." The demon said, narrowing her eyes at Derek, "There is something from you that I want."

Chloe relayed the message to Derek, who narrowed his eyes, tightening his grip on her even more. "We just want to leave." He raised his voice and his eyes scanned the room, "We didn't mean to disturb you. We're sorry." He pulled her and Jessa behind him, as if he could shield them, and he started to lead them towards the door.

They took only one step before their feet froze where they stood.

Chloe looked down at her feet in shock. It was like her feet were glued to the floor, and she tried to yank them free, but she couldn't. She looked at Derek, panic growing in her chest as she realized that he couldn't move either, none of them could.

"Maybe now you will listen." The demon said, "Don't try to break free," she added as both Simon and Tori started to struggle noisily, "You can't."

"What's it saying?" Derek asked, noticing that her and Jessa's attention were focused on something he couldn't see or hear.

"She said we can't escape." Jessa told him.

"She?" Derek asked.

Chloe and Jessa just nodded and the demon sighed heavily.

"I hate dealing with humans." The demon said, "They're so stupid, and it is irksome when they can't hear you." Then she smiled at her and Jessa, "But sometimes your stupidity serves my needs, like right now."

Chloe felt a cold chill run down her back, what ever this demon was talking about could not be good.

"Now what is she saying?" Derek asked, the worry in his voice starting to switch to annoyance since he couldn't hear what the demon was saying.

Jessa filled him in as Chloe continued to try and get a grasp on their situation. "What's your name?" Chloe asked the demon. Maybe if the thing had a name it wouldn't seem so scary.

The demon laughed, full and loud, sending an unpleasent shiver down Chloe's back. "My name is Nadinka, child." She paused as if waiting for Chloe to react, but Chloe had never heard that name before in her life.

Nadinka sighed, "I can't say I didn't expect a reponse. I haven't caused any chaos in centuries. I'm sure necromancers stopped warning their children about me long ago. You know, I used to be feared by all necromancers, but it seems that is no longer the case."

Jessa was translating what Nadinka said as she talked so Derek, Simon, and Tori knew what was happening.

Chloe felt the situation spirling out of control. They were stuck in a house with a demon that did not seem nice at all and wanted something from them. What ever it was that she wanted could not be good because if she wanted it from them it meant that she couldn't get it herself. They needed to leave and fast.

"Look," Chloe said, finally taking charge, "We don't want any trouble, we'll leave right away." And as she was saying it, she felt like one of those innocent girls in movies who were just seconds away from getting jumped by the rapist/mugger/kiddnapper.

"But you can't leave yet," Nadinka said, taking a step towards Chloe, her voice cold and compeling, making Chloe's opinion sway about leaving, "I haven't had any visitors for such a long time."

"I'm sorry," Chloe said, her voice shaky, trying to ignore the feelling of wanting to give into Nadinka, "But we have to leave." And she tried to move her feet, but still they felt like they were glued to the ground.

"Little girl," Nadinka smiled, but it didn't do anything to warm her cold gaze, "you amuse me with your naiveity. A necromancer, two of them, both walking into a prison that holds a demon. I never thought it was possible. And now that you are here, well, I can't just let you leave."

"Why not?" Jessa asked, "Why can't you just leave and go play with someone else. Why are you even here in the first place?"

The demon shot forward until she was right in Jessa's face, Jessa jerked back from surprise, "Do you think I enjoy being in a run down house in the middle of some forest, miles away from any where I could cause chaos?" Nadinka's eyes were filled with ice-cold fury, her hair was blowing in an invisible wind, and her skin seemed to glow with an unearthly light, "No, I don't. I'm stuck here, little necromacer, and if I weren't stuck here then I would not be here bothering you insignificant children."

"Jessa?" Simon's voice was cautious as he said his girlfriend's name. He knew something was wrong because he had seen her face turn white and had watched her lean backwards in surprise.

"I'm alright." Chloe was surprised to hear how steady Jessa's voice was.

"What did she say?" Derek asked yet again as both Chloe and Jessa failed to fill him in.

"She said she's stuck here." Chloe replied, watching as Nadinka backed away from Jessa.

"Why is she stuck here?" Derek asked.

"Because," Nadinka's voice was laced with venom, "I was banished here." She started to pace in front of them, her bright blue eyes glowing in her anger, listening as Jessa translated what she had said.

"Why were you banished?" Chloe asked, hoping that if she stalled maybe it would give Derek enough time to think up a plan, or she hoped that he could think up a plan, she wasn't sure how they were supposed to escape if they could't even move their feet.

Nadinka fixed her glowing blue eyes on Chloe and smiled a cold smile. Chloe tried to hold back a shudder, but she couldn't. She felt Derek's hand tighten on her arm, letting her know that he was there. "My sweet little girl, that is a very long story, but if I am going to use you, I might as well tell you why." Chloe did not like the way Nadinka said 'use you'.

"About three centuries ago I was one of the most feared female demons known to the necromancer world. It was hard to make a name for yourself then, since so many humans mistook a female demon's destruction for a male's." The demon said this like it was one of the most offensive crimes in the world, "So I had to get creative to make a name for myself." A creepy smile spread across Nadinka's face, and Chloe got the feeling that she didn't want to know what she had done.

"So once I got my name I attrached the attention of Lucifer, the highest ranking demon in the demon world." The smile widened, "I became his concubine, and stayed with him for over a century, the longest any female had ever stayed with him without being thrown aside. But," The demon sighed, "I messed up."

"Being Lucifer's concubine gained me a higher status, and with that higher status I bagan to take risks; risks that I normally wouldn't take, but was taking because I believed I couldn't get into trouble. I went to another man's bed one night, thinking that if Lucifer could have other options then so could I." Nadinka smiled grimly. "We were caught and I was sentenced here for five centuries, never to leave, no way out."

'"Wait a minute," Tori said once Jessa had repeated what Nadinka had said, "You cheated on the most powerful demon who ever existed?" Then she laughed.

"Little girl," Nadinka turned her cold gaze on Tori, "Just because I haven't killed you yet doesn't mean that I can't and that I won't."

"Tori," Jessa translated, "Shut up."

"Why do you want us?" Chloe asked, just trying to get down to the reason why they couldn't leave.

Nadinka shifted her attention from Tori to Chloe, and smiled at her, but it didn't reach her eyes. "I like you girl, let's stop the chit-chat and get down to business. I need you for this..." Chloe waited for Nadinka to finish her thougth, but as she watched the demon expectantly, Nadinka's image faded until she was no longer there.

"Where'd she go?" Jessa asked, frowning at Chloe. She shrugged as a response.

"Hey!" Simon said excitedly, "I can move my feet!"

Chloe was just looking down at her own feet, picking up her right foot to see if Simon was right when pain exploded in her head.

She cried out and fell to her knees, clutching her head as the world faded around her. A steel spike of pain kept stabbing into her head, sending radiating waves of pain through her skull. All she could see was darkness, and she squeezed her eyes the pain forcing tears to flow over her cheeks.

Through the pain she felt a presence in her head, a presence that shouldn't have been there.

Let me in, little necromancer, Nadinka's voice whispered to her, her voice sooting and calm, Give up and let me in, everything will be alright.

Chloe felt herself waver, felt her entire spirit want to bend to the demon's words, and that scared her more than anything she had ever experienced.

No, she thought desperately, No, please no. Don't do this to me.

Little girl, Nadinka whispered, Don't fight it, everything will be alright, eveything will be fine, give in to me.

Chloe felt her spirit waver again and pain exploded in her skull, faintly she heard herself screaming, but it was from a long way away, she could feel herself fading.

No. I won't let you. She had to keep fighting, had to fight.

Give up, little necromancer, give up and let me in, I won't hurt you.

Leave me alone. Chloe told her. Leave me alone. I won't let you in, just leave me alone.

You are being selfish, my sweet little girl, Nadinka's voice was so appealing, so believable that Chloe almost listened to what she ordered, I have done nothing to you and your friends. I have let them live while you tresspass in my home, and yet you deny me the one thing I want. You are wrong, little girl, you are the one in the dark here.

And Chloe almost believed, almost believed that Nadinka was being generous, that she was the one that was bad, the one that was doing wrong. She felt Nadinka push father into her mind and pain exploded through out her body. Some how this reminded her of the time in the safe house basement when Doctor Banks had stolen her body. That experience had terrified her, and she knew that she couldn't go through something like that again.

You're lying. Chloe replied, clutching her head, You're lying. You're trying to steal my body, trying to take me away. You're the one who is selfish, I have done nothing to you. Leave me alone. Just leave. Me. ALONE!

Chloe gathered together all the strength she could gather in her fading spirit and body and pushed at the presence that was Nadinka. She pushed and shoved at Nadinka, ignoring the pain that was stabbing at her skull. She gathered up the demon's spirit and shoved in away, and every time it felt like Nadinka was seeping her way through Chloe's barriers, she would shift her forces and drive her back out. She keep going, kept fighting against the demon that wanted to take her until Nadinka was gone, until the only person in Chloe's head was herself.

With a gasp Chloe's eyes flew open. She was lying on her back on the ground. Derek's dark green eyes were right in front of her, his face dark with worry.

"Chloe!" Derek's fingers ran over her face, as if making sure she was really there, "Chloe, is that you?"

"Yeah," Her voice was shaky, her whole body was shaky, "Yeah, it's me."

"When did we first meet?" Derek asked, making sure that it really was her.

"The Lyle house, in the kitchen. Simon was stealing some crackers and you came up behind me and scared the crap out of me." She gave a small smile at the memory.

Derek smiled, "Thank God. I thougth I lost you." He wrapped his arms around her, hugging her to his chest. Chloe just sighed happily and melted into him, having thought that she had lost him too.

But their happy moment was cut short by Jessa crying out in pain. Chloe broke apart from Derek, scrambling out of his arms.

Jessa was on her back, her body convulsing on the ground, her skin was paler than normal, her eyes were rolled back into her head, and a garbled whimper was escaping her lips.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no was all Chloe could think in the seconds that it took for her to get by Jessa's side.

"Jessa, you have to fight her!" She yelled, knowing that it was hard to hear the outside world from where Jessa was now, "You have to fight her, don't let her in!"

Chloe couldn't see any response to her words from Jessa, but she hope that her friend had heard them, that way she knew that she wasn't alone, that Chloe was there for her.

Jessa jerked on the ground, her body bucking and twisting and curling, and Chloe put her palms on Jessa's cheeks to keep her friend from ramming her head into the hard wooden floor.

"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon. c'mon..." Chloe whispered as Jessa continued to battle the demon that wanted inside of her, "Fight her, fight her, fight her..." Chloe knew all too well how easy it was to give into Nadinka, remembering the multiple times that she had almost listened to the demon's compelling voice. She knew Jessa would fight, knew that Jessa wouldn't fall for the demon's tricks because Jessa was the strongest person Chloe knew besides Derek. Chloe knew that Jessa wouldn't give in without a fight, a fight that hopefully Jessa would win.

But what Chloe didn't know was if Jessa had the power to banish Nadinka like she had. The only reason Chloe wasn't possessed by a demon right now was because of her out of control powers that helped her to stop the demon, that helped her to drive the demon out of her body. But Chloe wasn't sure if Jessa would be able to do that, she wasn't sure if her friend had the ability to do what she just did, and this scared her.

Jessa continued to jerk and twist on the floor, her earlier whimpers slowly turning into a high pitched keening sound, all of this reminded Chloe of the times she had watched Jessa go through her Pre-Changes before she was a full werewolf, not happy memories. A quick glance at Simon showed her that she wasn't the only one who thought this. His face was pale and his brow was creased, worry etched all over his face as he watched his girlfriend struggle with the demon that was trying to take her. Chloe had seen Simon make the same worried face numerous times in the weeks in which Jessa was transitioning into a full grown werewolf, and this caused her heart to fill with saddness.

And then suddenly Jessa went still, the only movement was the slow rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. Everyone was quiet.

"Jessa?" Chloe asked, her voice small as she feared the worst for her friend.

"Chloe?"

Chloe's head snapped up and she felt her heart fall.

Standing in front of her, dazed and confused, was Jessa's spirit.

Chloe felt Jessa's body stir beneath her hands; she scrambled back quickly out of fear and revulsion.

"Chloe?" Jessa's asked again, scared, "What's going on?"

Then Jessa's body's eye's opened and instead of seeing the exotic bright green that she was so used to, Chloe was met with a pair of bright, glowing, iridescent blue eyes. Nadinka's eyes.

"Hello, little necromancer," Jessa's voice said to her, but it wasn't Jessa's voice, it was colder, harsher, crueler, and just wrong, "Nice to see you again."

And then she smiled. It was the creepiest smile Chloe had ever seen in her life, it gave her chills and caused her to shudder because that smile came from her friend, it came from Jessa, but it wasn't Jessa, just her body.

Buh- buh- buh- !

So I'm going to apologize for any spelling mistakes and confusion. Nadinka is a demon, obviously. Her name is pronounced just the way it looks (Nuh-ding-kuh). I'm sorry if it got confusing towards the end, but what happened was Jessa got kicked out of her body by Nadinka and now Jessa's body is being possessed by Nadinka. I will make it more understandable in the next chapter.

Soooo... what do you think? How many of you saw this coming? Is it too predictable? I myself thought it was original and have yet to read a Darkest Powers fanfic that had to do with someone getting possessed. Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas, it might help me because this was as far as I planned plot wise, so now I'm just going to have to wing it. Review please! If you review a whole bunch I promise I will write the next chapter faster!

Thanks- Cheerfully Blue