Sammael's POV

I'd heard what went went down down between the female and my brethren. As it was happening - of course.

It still astounds me how little their "familial relationship" does for their powers.

Sonia is clearly my child, or she wouldn't have such unbridled, raw, almost limitless power, but for some strange reason, it's linked to her familial relationships. And yet not me - or any of mine.

What am I to do about this?

Sonia's POV

I heard all four men arrive with a loud "THUD!"
But given they arrived inside a shield of my blue energy, inside Peter's now burning, insidious realm, I felt the tiniest of 'ticks' in my mind, where the pull of electricity seemed to come from.

Once Ody had shaken off his travel and arrival, he raced over to where I was and wrapped me up tight in his giant arms, and whispered into my ear and he not-so-subtly poked and prodded me for injuries- "I'm glad to see you're OK, baby-girl. Quite the warrior-woman to acquire to have by my side."
And then, to make things even weirder, he freaking bowed at me. "Bowed!" I thought to myself, while eyeballing his brothers incredulously.
"He tried to bind my soul.
He tried to kill me.
-More than once!
And now he wants to fuck with my head? Oohh bring it Ody, I'm in the MOOD to crush you - for SPORT!"

I finished my mental tirade, and realised Ody was looking at me funny, with his eyebrows slightly raised, like he'd asked me something, and was awaiting an answer.

Charming me, mustered up a, "Huh?"

Ody looked a bit deflated and I suppose that was what I had been going for... so, why do I feel bad?

Ody ended up clearing his throat and then repeating himself- "Once we're out of this shit-fest, would you do me the honour of having dinner with me?"

And the rude bastard had the audacity to look awkward and nervous while asking me! Ugh!

"Maybe" was all I could muster for Ody as a response in the end.

I inclined my head so that the brothers knew to come over and join the conversation.

"So, this is it. Sammael needs to be taken down, and he's not going to want to let us leave - alive at least." I said with a determined look on my face. Satan, Asmodeus, Lucifer, Leviathan and Beezlebub all nodded their heads in agreement.

"He already knows-" I started, only to have Ody cut me off.

"How? We left there to follow your signal." He shouted in aggravation.

"My signal is one-way-" I explained, "But yours isn't. He tracked you and managed to get a tendril in before I snapped the shield shut."

"He can hear us?" Beelzebub questioned.

"At the moment, yes." I clarified.

Lucifer and Leviathan linked hands and whispered a bunch of Latin words under their breath that seemed to both fortify my shield, and soundproof it. If the person wasn't speaking directly to you, you wouldn't be able to hear it!

And so we made our plan.
For our final showdown with Sammael.
To the death.

Ody's POV

I heard the plan, I mean I was there - I was in on it!

But the entire time they were speaking and planning my mind was shouting at me, "You're not going to let her go into this - are you? If she dies in this fight, you'll never forgive yourself, Asmodeus! She is strong, beautiful, amazing, smart, strong-willed... who am I fooling? What force of nature could stop her from being where she wants to be?"

Mid-mental rant at myself, Beelzebub's voice popped into my mind and said "If you don't answer them soon, they'll know your not focused!"

I blinked - almost dazedly - to clear my mind and said "Sorry, what was that? I missed that last bit."

In my head, Beelzebub's voice chuckled before saying, "Smooth bro, smooth."

It was Lucifer who shook his head as he walked over to me, and gently touched my shoulder while murmuring, "This ensures you're 100 percent up to speed." And inserted the full plan, inside my head.

To say my stomach blanched, would be an understatement.
My blood froze to ice in my veins, my heart stopped beating, and my brain went dead when I realised the main part of the plan?
Was to use Sonia as bait.

Sammael's POV

"Why can I not hear anything?" I bellowed, and slammed my fist down on the nearest surface within reach - which happened to be my desk.
My servant, standing at attention by the door, let out a yelp as he jumped, then stood back at attention.

"Get me my potion!" I demanded.

"Y-yes S-Sir!" The servant bowed deeply before running off to fetch the required mix.

I paced my office much akin to a lion stalking it's prey for dinner.

I heard feet incoming towards my office and turned to meet the red-faced, panting servant holding my potion.
"Thank you. That is all." Is all I said in response before upending the mix down my throat.

I coughed on the bitter, rancid flavour that ran down my throat, but managed to get out the Latin phrase that went with it.

"In potio bibentibus est, da mihi potestatem extra potestatem. mihi dare sanguis meus mihi pedes in hostem."

Which translated, (roughly) to, in drinking the potion, give extra power to my powers. To give me the blood of my foe at my feet.

All of a sudden, the tiny little strand of power that I had sent into their shield sparked to life.

I saw Sonia's lips move as if to speak in warning and I burst the shield they were hiding under - altogether.

I dusted my hands off on each other.
"There, that makes it so much easier to find them." I thought to myself.

Sonia's POV

The shards of shield came glittering down on us, all of us, only for me to see Ody standing - slightly dazed - staring into that trickle of power that smashed our shield.

I immediately made my way to him, shaking him gently by his shoulder- "Ody, are you ok?"

He jolted to attention with such shock, and genuine fear, that his body was in 'Fight or Flight' mode before he even knew what he was doing.

"Ody! ODY! It's Sonia, it's me." I had to almost shout to get his attention.

He latched his arms around my waist and started to just cry.

Amid his tears, the words- "I don't want to lose you," And "I don't want to watch you die!" Were repeated amid sobs as Sonia made eye-contact with Beezlebub making a soft shoulder shrug motion, as if saying, "I don't know."

Ever-so-gently, I could hear Beelzebub's voice in the back of my head, and based on the look on Ody's face - he could hear it too.

"Ody, Sonia isn't going to die. You're not going to lose her. What you were just shown, was Sammael's "daydream" of how things should go, according to him. It was not a vision of things to come. Let us control this situation, and defeat Sammael once and for all." he summarised nicely.

Ody looked me over, uncertain.

"I'm not some poor, defenceless damsel-in-distress who cannot defend herself - and you know this because you've seen it. Please, trust that we are a team and we can do this, together."

At that, Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan and Beezlebub stood in a semi-circle behind me - awaiting Ody's answer.

"Alright, let's get to it." Ody said.

THIRD PERSON POV

Sammael had gathered his army, and they were readying to teleport - when Sonia and the boys took the fight to him.

A spark of blue electricity dropped them - in formation - to the rear of Sammael's army, where they started annihilating Sammael's numbers, and it was a solid five minutes before Sammael checked the tracking location for teleportation, and realised they were there.

"They're HERE! Turn around and look for my brothers and that ridiculous spawn of mine!"
Sammael screamed.

Sonia had multiple streams of electricity coming out of her hands that she was using to pierce the demon army through both their heart and brain.

Leviathan had transformed himself into his dragon counterpart, because his skin was then impenetrable. That also then gave him the ability and agility to throw burning lights at his demon victims, which would kill each demon he hit.

Satan - being a 'God' as well as a demon - gained strength from demon blood. Given that Sammael's entire army was demon blooded, meant Satan was draining then and snapping their drained corpses. After he couldn't possibly drink anymore blood - he was supercharged, powerwise, and so was able to walk through the demons simply tapping them on the shoulder, only to have them disintergrate on the ground in front of him.

Lucifer spread his enormous wings, the wingspan easily eighteen feet wide. Being a fallen angel, he was strong, and fast and could fly. He was dropping in, picking up a demon, snapping its neck (or ripping off the head) and then dropping the body, and throwing the heads ahead of him, into to the oncoming army.

Beezlebub disappeared from view, but he managed to make over three-hundred troops believe they were lost, alone, in some random desert somewhere, which gave Asmodeous a chance to destroy them.

Asmodeous had the power of breathing fire, so was using it to sweep long licks of flames over the confused demons who thought they were in the desert.
Unknown to everyone else there, though, Ody also had the ability to make his brothers, Sonia and himself invisible - at will.

And so he had.

Sammael's army were trying to fight an invisible army.

"Where are they?"

"Why can't I see anyone?"

"That fire is coming from nowhere!"

"Grab them!"

Were just a few of the things being shouted out.

After ten-fifteen minutes, Sammael's army was down to twenty bodyguards in tight formation around his person.

Sonia skipped forward singing- "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"

And four of his personal guards literally jumped in fright, heads snapping to her direction, trying to see her.

Ody chuckled at Sonia's behaviour, saying- "Someone's gonna get it!"

Which only made Sammael's intense rage - even stronger.

"Aaarrgghhhhh!" Sammael screamed in rage as he went to gather power in his hands, that might have been enough to both encapsulate or perhaps even kill all of them - and nothing happened.

Nothing.

Not a fizz.
Not a spark.

Zip. Zilch. NADA!

Unbeknown to everyone there, Sonia had been weaving small particles of electricity around Sammael - since she skipped into the room.
So when he went to gather his power, she pulled it together - kinda like a cable tie - and he gathered a whole lotta nothing.

If anything, what he tried to gather rebounded off the "protective bubble" Sonia had weaved around him, and recharged everyone else.

Ody made his way to Sonia- "Are you ok, Babygirl?"

And he went to rub his hands along her shoulders, but as his fingertips went to make contact, she stopped him in his tracks by spitting out between gritted teeth- "Don't. Touch. Me!"

Immediately, the mental bond that Sonia and Ody shared, flared between them and Ody probed it, gently and in return heard- "Don'tbreakconcentration. Don'tBreakConcentration.
DON'TBREAKCONCENTRATION. Or the binds will slip free!"

Beezlebub had clearly tunes in - via Ody, and he created his own channel between the brothers (minus Sammael) and was quick to start talking.

"Sonia is the only thing starting between us all and Sammael's wrath. We need to support her bindings, and open a portal to... Certain death for an immortal demon, anyone?"

Leviathan added nothing to conversation, as, fire being the closest thing they had to electricity on their side, he started to fill the cracks in Sonia's shielding bubble.

Ody, throwing concerned glances at Sonia every few seconds, said "What about Olympus? Zeus will literally pull him apart, with the help of his siblings, if we send him there... and then he ends up in the Greek afterlife - and not back in Hell. How does that sound?" He projected to his brothers.

Lucifer and Satan immediately got to work on the one way portal to Olympus, and Ody stood behind Sonia for when it happened.
For when her legs buckled, and when her mind hit overload, and went unconscious.

"I'm not going to leave her deal with this on her own-" Ody thought to himself, "I'm going to prove that for both the good stuff and the shit stuff - I'm here for good!"

The unnatural winds started to pick up, and Lucifer and Satan shouted "The doorway is open!" in synchronisation, as Beezlebub used his powers to lift the shield bubble that was Sammael and fling it through the portal.

Immediately, the portal closed.
The unnatural winds ceased.
And Sonia's eyes flickered before her legs buckled and she went to hit the floor, but Ody being true to his word caught her - Bridal Style - before her hair even came close to hitting the ground.

Asmodeus pulled Sonia to his chest, tightly, and pressed a kiss to her forehead.

"I'll somehow make it up to you, forever." He whispered.

AUTHORS NOTE

OhEmGEE!!

That was the last official "chapter" 😞😞😞

Only the Epilogue to go.