Dear Readers,
Well here it is! The epic end of the battle. I hope you like it! I would like to say thanks for baring with me, and there will be ONE MORE CHAPTER before I am going to go ahead and say the story is finished. This part of it anyways. I am beginning a sequel, it will follow the kids of the covenant when they are in high school and follow their crazy lives. I hope you enjoy this story (just one more chapter to wrap up all the loose ends) and I hope you will read the sequel. Enjoy guys!
Alice's POV
There was so much stuff in the house that looked like it belonged to teenagers. It didn't look at all like it had been as abandoned as everyone had thought. This must have been their base of operations. Reid had said he had a run in with Darcy, but she was nowhere to be found when we ran upstairs. I could've sworn I heard stifled crying, but there was no time to investigate it. Besides, it was most likely my brain playing tricks on me.
Reid, Sarah and I exited the house and into a full-on battlefield. There were scorch marks in the earth, brush had caught on fire, and there was a smoky smell in the air. The weather was sinister; it was so dark it almost felt like night. Wind whipped my hair out behind me, so strong it almost knocked me over. I had a dizzying sensation, and I grabbed onto Reid's arm. I realized I was probably not a hundred percent either, getting so close to dying and then being healed. My body was still trying to catch up. But there was no time for that.
Closer to us, I saw Evan's body on the ground, unmoving. I almost went to him, but reconsidered. I knew what he was now. But it did give me the sudden urge to throw up, and so I turned away from Sarah and Reid and leaned over the porch to empty the contents of my stomach; all I got was bile. I hadn't eaten since we had been kidnapped.
"Are you alright?" Sarah asked, as Reid squeezed my arm.
I nodded, and stood back up, looking for my brother. A little ways from Evan's body was Brooke, disappearing and reappearing to avoid getting hit by an energy blast from Pogue or Tyler. But the boys couldn't keep this up for long; besides Caleb, none of them had ascended. Pogue was going to ascend in less than two weeks, but that didn't really do them any good.
Further away, causing serious damage to the landscape and each other, was Caleb and Chase. They were duking it out in what seemed to me as an ironic battle between the forces of good and evil.
"We have to help them." I said as my eyes went black, and then I bolted towards Tyler and Pogue without a second thought. Brooke had done her little parlor trick and reappeared behind Tyler.
"LOOK OUT!" Pogue shouted at him.
I didn't think, I reacted. I threw my arm out, and I felt the power ripple through me, a ball of pure energy. It shot out like a cannonball, hitting Brooke square in the shoulder. She screamed, her body spun backwards and collided with a tree. She was out cold. Her arm was bent at an impossible angle, and if I looked close enough, I could see the gleam of a white bone protruding from her shoulder. I looked away, trying to stop the nausea from taking me over.
Pogue and Tyler snapped their attention to me, shock on their faces. "Alice!" They both shouted with joy, running toward me.
Reid suddenly was beside me. "No time for that now boys. We'll have a happy reunion later. Right now, we need to go help Caleb." They nodded in agreement.
I looked at Reid sideways. "Where's Sarah?"
"She's in the car with Amy and Kate. She will be safe there." Reid said, and then took my hand. "Ready to go kick some ass?" The fact that he didn't even ask me to stay in the car with the girls shocked me. But it felt right.
"Yea. I just can't believe you are okay with it." I said honestly.
"Alice, you are my girlfriend and I love you. I want you to be safe. But to be honest, if I told you to wait in the car, you wouldn't. Besides, you do have something they don't; power. You are apart of the covenant, and like your Wonderboy brother always says, we have to stand together."
"Alright guys, I don't mean to rush this lovely moment for you, but I think Caleb needs our help." Pogue said urgently.
We snapped our attention to him and nodded, following him towards Chase and Caleb. And it did look like Caleb needed our help; he was struggling. Just as we got close enough to be of any value, Chase launched enough power that I could feel the energy and heat radiating from where I stood.
My heart stopped and the world seemed to move in slow motion. Caleb looked up, saw the ball of energy shooting towards him. "CALEB!" I screamed as it flew towards him. I slapped my hand over my mouth but it was too late to take the words back; he lost focus, his head turning to look at me. I saw his mouth forming my name as the energy hit him square in the chest. Caleb flew through the air, his body arching as if he had be punched in the stomach. He smashed into the Putnam house, his body hitting the wood with a sickening crack. Then his body crumpled to the ground. My knees gave out, and I felt my body falling. At the last second, Reid grabbed me and held me to his body. If he hadn't, I probably would've crumpled to the ground just like Caleb had. I heard screaming, and thought I had finally gone off the deep end. Then, somewhere in the back of my mind I realized it was Sarah. I could hear her screaming from the car.
Chase's sickening laugh assaulted my hearing. His voice invaded my mind. "I told you; you can't beat me. But you had to choose the hard way, didn't you, Caleb?"
His voice, his sickeningly awful voice lit a fire in my heart that I thought had died. Adrenaline rushed through me and I pushed away from Reid running to Caleb. At first the boys didn't move. They didn't protest her running to Caleb. For a second, she didn't think any of them knew what to do. Reid complained about Caleb's leadership, but without him, they all seemed lost.
I fell to my knees at Caleb's side. "Caleb, please be okay. Please. You have to be okay." I said, shaking him, trying to wake him. "Caleb, please, GET UP. Please Caleb, you can't do this to me. You are supposed to always be there for me. You're the only biological family I have left." I said taking his hand. I let my eyes go black trying to fight back tears. I was going to fix this, even if it killed me.
"Aw is the little girl gonna cry?" Chase taunted me. That is when the boys snapped back into reality. They formed a sort of blockade between Chase and myself and Caleb.
"Shut your mouth, Chase, or I'll shut it for you." Reid said with menace in his voice.
"Ohhh I'm so scared." Chase said, rolling his eyes.
I was going to make him eat his words. I looked up, and the clouds swirled in a circle faster and faster. Chase looked up seeming to notice something was different. "Yea," I said quietly, but I know he hear me. "you should be." And then I let my anger peak, and there was a flash of lightning. It hit right next to Chase, sending him flying backwards.
"Alice, did you do that?" Reid asked. "That was sick!"
"My aim was off."
"What do you mean?" Pogue asked.
"I meant to hit him." I said, turning back to Caleb, closing my eyes. I let all of my energy and power build in myself.
"Alice..." Reid said with worry in his voice. I knew the sky was imitating the power inside of me. But I had no time to worry all about that now. The power inside of me had risen to an uncomfortable level. I knew it was time, and I willed all that power and energy into Caleb's body. I felt it draining out of me slowly.
"Work." I said under my breath. "This will work. It has to." I opened my eyes to looked at Caleb. He had to breathe, he was going to breathe.
"Uh, uh, uh." Suddenly I felt my body fly backwards, my hand ripping out of Caleb's, our connection breaking. "I can't let you do that, Alice."
"No!" I screamed, fighting against the invisible hand that held me to the house. The boys tried to get to me, but they were in some sort of invisible cage. Reid was yelling, smashing his fists against the invisible walls, but to no avail. The other two were doing everything to try and get out as well, but they weren't having much luck either. "Chase," I said as he walked slowly towards me, psychotic grin on his face. "I really need to work on my aim."
"Yea, you really should. You should've killed me when you had the chance. Because now, I'm going to kill everyone you love. And, well, everyone you have ever met. While you watch. And then, I'm gonna kill you. Unless, of course, that whole uniting with me and being the biggest force of evil the world has ever seen appeals to you?"
I spat in his direction. "Go to hell."
"Yes, I probably will." He said with a smirk. "Alright then, where do I start? Ah yes, how about with your lover?"
"Fuck you, Chase!" I shouted as he used his power to pull Reid from the force field, and hold him incapacitated in midair. I tried desperately to use magic on him, but I was having a hard time mustering up the strength to use it. Trying to save Caleb had taken so much out of me, and while my power was unlimited, my body was not unlimited as a vessel for such power. Besides, I could tell Chase had done something to prevent me from using.
"If you hurt him Chase, I will make you regret the day you were born!" I screamed.
"This is gonna be fun." Chase said with a smirk. "First your mother, then your brother, and now-" Chase stopped short when he glanced in the direction of where Caleb's body was. Or had been. Caleb's body had disappeared. He furrowed his brown. "What the-" Suddenly a powerball hit him and he flew through the air, smashing into a tree so hard it broke, and fell down.
Reid fell to the ground, and Pogue and Tyler were no longer trapped. I fell to my feet, and looked in the direction it had come from. "Caleb!" I shouted, running to him.
"Well I'm sorry I checked out on you guys. I would've said something, but I just couldn't listen to him talk anymore. I had to make him shut up." Caelb said, smirking at me, pulling me into a hug. The guys ran over to us too.
"How are you-"
"Alive?" Caleb asked. "I'm gonna guess that had something to do with you." He said. "Now, I think it's time we end this once and for all." Caleb turned to where Chase had landed, and held out his hand. He was channeling all of our powers, not taking them, just using them as support almost.
"You can't destroy me!" Chase said, running at Caleb, developing a powerball of his own.
"Are you sure?" Caleb said, and a gigantic blast of power flew from his hand. It tore through Chase's body, leaving a gigantic hole in his middle. "Because I think he just did." Chase had one last look of surprise take over his face before it froze and then he fell to his knees, keeling over.
The sky started to lighten, the clouds parting some, the weather becoming more normal again. It was over. Chase was dead. Relief overtook me, and then it was replaced with exhaustion. I let myself fall into a sitting position, and the boys crowded around me.
"Alice, are you okay?" Reid asked, crouching in front of me.
"It's over. No more Chase. It's over and we are alive." I said out loud. "It's finally over." I kept repeating it until he hushed me.
"I know, love, I know." He said as he held my face in his hands. "It's okay Alice, breathe."
"I love you." I said suddenly, finally looking into his eyes.
He already knew I did, but I think it still shocked him to hear. Like he couldn't believe it. "And I love you." He kissed me hard, and I kissed him back, hard.
Suddenly the girls were there.
"Caleb!" Sarah screamed, leaping at him, attaching herself to him. She hit him with such force that Caleb almost fell over.
"It's okay, Sarah, I'm okay." Caleb said as he held her to himself tightly, her body was shaking because she was sobbing so hard. He ran a hand through her hair as he quieted her.
Kate was kissing Pogue like there was no tomorrow. "I'm trying not to gag guys." I said loudly, and they broke apart, both too happy to be embarrassed.
"Sorry, Alice." Pogue said, ruffling my hair.
I noticed Tyler's arms around Amy from the corner of my eye and smirked. "Finally, I muttered under my breath, and Reid smirked too. He pulled me up to a standing position, holding me tightly. Kate threw her arms around me tightly, and then released me.
"I'm so happy you are okay." Kate smiled at me.
Sarah pulled back from Caleb, tears still falling freely down her face, and she smacked his arm hard. "What the- what did I do?" Caleb asked.
"Don't you ever do that to me again! I thought you were dead! I thought I had lost you! I thought I was never going to love ever again, and I was going to be broken for the rest of my life!" With each new sentence, she hit him again. I tried to stifle my giggles. Reid was shaking too, and I could tell he was suppressing laughter as well. He finally grabbed her wrist, pulling her to himself, stopping her short.
"Sarah, I love you. I won't ever do that to you again. Just stop hitting me." Caleb finally said.
"I just thought I was never going to get a chance to..." She pause for a second, gathering her thoughts. "Caleb..." She said, looking up at him.
"Yea?" Caleb said cautiously, hoping not to get hit again.
"Marry me." She said. Caleb's eyes went wide, and I was so shocked that I practically fell over again.
He pulled back from her. "Sarah, I wanted to ask you that first." She looked at her feet sheepishly. "But since I already know what your answer will be if I ask, I guess I don't need to get down on one knee." He said, pulling the ring out of his pocket. She looked up at him shocked. "Give me your hand." She did, and he slid the ring on her finger. "I love you so much." She jumped on him, kissing him hard.
"OH MY GOD!" I shouted. Everyone looked at me with worry on their faces. "I just realized, that means we will get to be sisters now!" I said, and everyone laughed.
Everyone was happy. Finally. I saw a flash of red out of the corner of my eye. I looked over, and then I saw her. She was holding a baby. She was looking around, stunned at the death and destruction. Then she looked angry. Darcy. She caught my eye and held my gaze for a second, and then she was gone.
I put it together in my head quickly. I realized that Chase would not attempt this final battle without a little insurance policy. He was the one trying to create an evil force the world had never seen before. He wouldn't let his line die off, and even if he thought he would win, he wasn't going to leave it to chance. He never did. and what was more evil than a half-witch, half-demon offspring?
"What's wrong?" Reid asked me, snapping me out of my reverie.
"Nothing..." I said, but then said quietly to him, "I just think we may have a little problem that we didn't anticipate."
