Bob and the others could hear everything that was going on. When they heard AJ, pretending to feel any sort of remorse for what she had done and treating Amelia as if they were still friends, he looked at the others with an "Are you serious?" kind of look. They kind of shrugged at Bob and continued to listen.
"But now I'm not alone and I'll never have to be," they heard AJ say, and though they couldn't see anything, they had a pretty good idea of what was happening. They all stood up and began to walk quickly towards the mansion, with the Extendable Ears trailing behind them.
"Well then, let's even the odds," Amelia said and after a moment of silence, they heard the sounds of screaming.
They stopped walking at the base of the hill which led to the mansion.
"What's wrong with her?" Chuck asked, bewildered
"She's transforming into the demon. We have to hurry," Seb said.
Using the superhuman strength that he possessed as an oni, Jeff ripped the hinges off the gate. Everyone ran forward and removed the Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder from their pockets. Bob also removed what appeared to be a shrivelled hand from his pocket, conjured a candle and lit it.
"Seb, when we get in there, follow me. Everyone else, wait for the powder to clear," he said and everyone nodded.
With a flick of his wand, Bob threw open the door and everyone threw down the powder. Instantly, the room was cloaked in darkness. Letting the protective Charms dissipate, Bob grabbed Sebastien by the arm and led him towards some of the vampires.
The vampires, who were clearly not expecting this, were taken aback. Several attempts were made to clear the darkness, but nothing worked. Bob led Sebastien to the black haired vampire and put his finger to his lips, signaling him to stay quiet. Sebastien nodded.
Meanwhile, Bob snuck up behind the vampire who could control time and raised his wand. With a flick of his wand, the vampire was suspended in the air by his ankle, utterly helpless as Bob launched a Stunning Spell that hit him in the chest, rendering him unconscious.
He moved towards the vampire that was skilled in mind control. He raised his wand and used the Full Body Bind Curse on him, satisfied when he hit the floor with a thud.
Just as he was about to curse the youngest of the vampires, something moved in front of him. Using the candle from the Hand of Glory, he saw that it was a demon. The demon was unlike anything he had ever seen. It was half woman and half bird, almost like a harpy. The demon winked at Bob and he knew at once that it was Amelia. He waited to see what she would do.
Once the Darkness Powder had been thrown, the entire room was cloaked in darkness. Taking a moment, the demon allowed her eyes to adjust. Once she could see clearly, she heard footsteps, meaning that her friends had arrived.
The demon smiled. She knew exactly what she would do. As William and his men tried to get rid of the darkness, she walked quietly over to where Adam Siska was cowering. No doubt he was remembering the last time he had been surrounded by darkness. She looked over and saw Bob standing there. She winked at him and came up behind Adam.
She put a hand on his shoulder and delighted when he jumped up in fear. He turned to look for the source of the touch, but he couldn't see anything in this thick darkness. Illshya leaned in and spoke.
"What's the matter, Adam?" she rasped, right next to his ear. "Scared of the dark?"
She gently stroked the side of his face with one of her talons. He struck out blindly, but by that time, Illshya had already flitted away.
Slowly, the darkness powder began to disintegrate and the room began to clear. When the room was finally clear, William saw exactly what had happened. The Lycan, his friends, and the wizard had entered the mansion.
The Butcher was unconscious on the far side of the entry hall and Brendon was laying on his back, stiff as a board.
The room was absolutely still for a moment before all hell broke loose.
Sebastien stood behind Mike, and with a growl, he tackled the vampire to the ground and the two began exchanging blows.
Michael had released Brendon from the Body Bind Curse and Brendon went after David and Pierre.
Just as Michael was about to curse Chuck, Bob fired off a spell, which Michael deflected.
"You think you're so cool just because you have a wand?" he challenged
"Bring it on," Bob countered as he raised his wand.
The two began throwing hexes and curses at each other with frightening speed. Though Michael knew just as many spells as Bob, it was clear that Bob was the better spellcaster.
Jeff easily took out Sisky, who was simply standing in the middle of the room, dazed and scared. Chuck tried to go after William, who simply laughed at him.
"Please, you think you can really beat me, Waterbender?" he asked
Chuck shrugged. "I can try, can't I?"
He summoned a whip of water and tried his best to land a hit on William, who was too fast for him. Dodging everything the Waterbender threw at him; William easily knocked Chuck out of commission with a roundhouse kick to the stomach.
Chuck's knees buckled and he fell to the ground. He coughed from the force of the impact and pain spread throughout his chest like wildfire. As he coughed, he noticed tiny flecks of blood on the floor. This was not good.
Meanwhile, AJ and Amelia were fighting like nobody's business. The female hybrid bit and clawed at the demon, who dodged them all. Finally, the hybrid got in close enough that the demon was able to claw her across the face. As blood began to soak the fur that lined her muzzle, the hybrid gave a growl and leapt at the demon. Illshya muttered a word in the ancient demon language and summoned a wild wind that blew the hybrid back into the wall.
Ever determined, AJ got back up and continued to try and attack the demon.
"You're pathetic, hybrid. How can you ever hope to defeat me, when I am as old as time?" the demon laughed
AJ snarled and kept on attacking.
Brendon had his hands full with both David and Pierre, who used their bending to work together to fight him. Just when all seemed hopeless, he was able to use his ability on David, who stopped attacking immediately. Then Brendon turned him against Pierre, who now had to deal with David and Brendon at the same time.
It seemed everybody knew what was going to happen; the Dandies were by now fighting a losing battle.
Illshya knew it was almost over, the only thing she figured would make it harder for the Dandies to accept their loss would be if she injured the one reason she'd showed up to fight in the first place.
She smiled, words forming on her lips she hadn't used in the longest time. It was a guaranteed trip to hell and back if the person managed to survive the curse she was throwing at them, and with a nod, she focused on AJ as the hybrid readied herself to jump once again.
The two had worked their way into the main room where the other battles were, the demon had planned it so everyone would see the damage that would be done. Both girls were just as good fighters as the rest of the boys, but neither was ready to give up.
The demon was bleeding from one of her legs, AJ had managed to bite her opponent a few times before she earned a scar of her own, claws raking across her muzzle that would no doubt aggravate the nose Charlotte had broken the day before. But she had no idea of the pain she'd be in later.
The demon narrowed her eyes as she turned to avoid another collision, and then finished reciting the curse, throwing her arms out, talons brushing fur.
The minute talons hit fur, AJ lost completely awareness and howled with such agony that it stopped all movement in the room, solely thanks to the sudden wave of intense pain rippling through her. It didn't just feel like a surface wound, this felt - she couldn't even think of something to describe it, other than it was like being mauled by Greyback all over again, but at least ten times the pain.
She knew she was on her back, rolled over with paws in the air. With how much pain she was in, she wasn't exactly able to get back up, so she stayed there, howling and whimpering, wondering why no one was doing anything.
Illshya smirked at the damage as the curse worked its way across the hybrid's body, some parts worse than others. Where her talons had initially made contact on her underbelly and where the brute of the curse had hit, the fur was burned away, as well as the first few layers of skin, as though an open vat of acid had been poured on her. It hadn't burned so deep that organs had been exposed, but still the burn went deep enough where infection would mean certain death. She didn't mind the sight of the hybrid's abdominal muscles, smooth pink against the red around it, sinew and fur creating a mess as the wolf tried to keep breathing, trying to avoid moving at all costs.
The demon stood, noticing the room was silent, save for the hybrid's pathetic whimpering.
"Well? I can kill her if you'd like, she's in no shape to be kept alive."
Nobody moved, and it seemed like time had frozen.
Until Illshya anticipated a sudden move and folded her wings over herself in a barrier, not surprised at the sudden left hook that brushed the wings, this had been intended for her face, and immediately she knew who had stepped forward.
When her wings unfurled, she laughed. The sight in front of her was pitiful, but it made her smile to see the eldest of the Dandies with such broken composure.
He knelt by the hybrid, who by this point had phased back in her mortal form, blood soaking the blouse she wore in the spots where the fabric hadn't been burnt away, her entire abdomen damaged. Her face hadn't escaped unscathed as well, because her nose had been re broken, upper lip and chin covered in blood. Both her eyes had rings around them, and they'd be that way for awhile. Her foot lay at an awkward angle, turned to the side opposite from normal, due to the way she'd landed when the curse threw her to the floor.
His hand ran through her hair as he murmured that everything was okay, but Illshya could see she wasn't buying it, AJ was actually trying to talk as tears spilled from her eyes and the hybrid tried to act like nothing had happened.
"You're okay, Adeline. You'll be fine, I promise. Once everyone's gone, I'll have you fix-"
Illshya delighted in the obvious flinch she saw as she set a hand on William's shoulder.
"Now hun, I wouldn't lie to her. She's definitely not okay, and that's a promise."
William stood, glaring at the demon as she stepped back, shaking her head at the injured girl laying on the floor.
"If you'd like," Illshya started, turning to look toward the rest of her group, "I can finish this. Wouldn't want to put you through any more trouble then we have already, by the looks of it this place is going to need some major restoration."
William shook his head, looking at the rest of his men.
"Brendon, Mike, Michael, not another move. As for the rest of you," he started, turning to Bob, "You've made your point. Two of my men are unconscious and my mate lies on the floor in agony. You are lucky I'm allowing you to leave in one piece."
"Right, like you'd bother putting up more of a fight. Scared?" Pierre added from somewhere to the side, to which his friends hastily agreed.
"And you move one step to go after any of my group," the demon said, "I'll put a talon through her heart so fast you wouldn't be able to do a thing."
She smiled, kneeling to run a taloned hand through the blood soaked curls, not surprised when William barrelled into her from the side, knocking her to the ground, fangs bared in a snarl.
"All of you, get out. Now." His voice was calm still, but deadly in its tone.
"Oh but darling," Illshya says sweetly. "Remember, you lost the battle and," She leans up to whisper in William's ear, "You're going to lose the war."
Immediately her taloned hand wrapped around William's neck, slamming his head into the marble flooring. A sickening crack sounds through the house and Illshya and the rest of her company were gone in seconds as the rest of the Dandies sweep in to AJ's aid.