“Watch out!” I shout as three demons run at an angel who is picking a woman up off the floor. I call my fire, but I’m too late to stop one of the demons running a silver sword through the back of the angel. He screams out in pain, the scream mixing with everyone else’s on the battlefield outside the castle, and I kill the demons with my fire. The angel I recognise as Chesca flies down from the sky and stands in front of the woman on the floor, and nods at me. She is going to protect the Angel I turn and look around the battlefield outside the castle, which is littered with supernaturals bodies, demons running around with silver weapons, and angels are flying in the skies overhead.

“No!” I scream as a demon rips the head off a wolf with his bare hands, and another, smaller, female wolf runs towards the demon. I pull my air power and hold the demon in place as the female wolf jumps and rips the head off the demon and lands on the ground. I don’t have long to see if she is okay as a ball of fire flies past me, and I jump out of the way.

“Atti!” I hear shouted behind me, but when I turn around in a circle, I can’t see who shouted at me. I turn just in time to see a fray lift his hands in the air, and, to my shock, a tornado appears in his hand. The fray, with green hair, throws the tornado towards the demons running towards us, and it gets bigger as they run straight into it. Another fray woman runs up next to me and puts her hands into the air. Rain pours down on us as dark clouds fill the skies. I watch as she redirects some of the rain, turning it into sharp icicles and shoots them into five demons necks in one go.

“Weather magic, that’s what you can do?” I ask her, and she nods. A loud roar fills the night as I feel a big intrusion to the ward. The demons can just walk straight through it. It must be something to do with the Winter solstice. But, I doubt we will ever know. A loud roar fills the night, and a lot of people stop, but not for long as the demons don’t seem to notice. The tornado is pulling the air from the ground, and it feels like I’m being suffocated as I look up into the dark skies.

“Demon,” the woman screams next to me and points up to the sky. The dragon that Winter set free flies across the woods and shoots blue fire into the tornados. It suddenly comes back to me what Milo said about dragons. He must have called the Dragon here.

“Dragons, Milo, seriously?” I mutter, knowing tornadoes mixed with dragons is just as dangerous to us, as well as the demons. I glance over to see Dabriel fighting with four demons, and I know I need to help, now. I run over and use my air to send two of the demons flying away into the tornado. By the time I get to Dabriel, he has killed the other two, and all that is left is dust.

“That is not helping us,” Dabriel points at the dragon, which is setting half the woods on fire and randomly flying down and picking demons up, throwing them into the fire.

“Freddy!” Dabriel shouts, and I turn to see where he is looking. Freddy and a silver wolf are surrounded by at least ten demons, the wolf is injured, and Freddy is protecting him.

“No!” I shout when the demons block my view of Freddy, and I run over to them. I burn all the demons in my path, and see Dabriel flying ahead towards Freddy. Winter could never live with herself if she lost Freddy, none of us could. The little shit is family to us, and he needs to live, so I can kill him myself for being out here fighting.

“Duck,” I shout at Freddy when I get through the demons and see Freddy is fighting with one. Freddy does as I ask, and I lift both my hands, calling air and lifting all the demons around me into the air. Dabriel flies around and kills each one before landing next to Freddy.

“I’m fine,” Freddy says, holding his arm that is bleeding.

“What the fuck are you doing out here?” I shout at him, picking up the sword he had dropped and giving it to him.

“Mich needed me,” he nods towards the injured wolf.

“Get inside,” I say, and he nods. I go to take him and Mich back when the dragon roars loudly, and I look up just in time to feel two more large things pass through the ward that is connected to my magic. Even now, the crystal is trying to fight for us. I watch the skies and two more dragons appear in the distance. The dragons roar at each other, and the tornadoes are making it difficult to see them, but the fire they shoot is killing everyone on the ground.

“They will destroy everything in this fight,” I shout at Dabriel and hear a scream behind me. I turn around to see Lucifer holding his chest, a sword in the middle of his chest and he falls the ground. The demon behind him pulls the sword out of Lucifer’s chest, and I shoot my fire at him, burning the demon to pieces as we all run over.

“Lucifer,” Dabriel says as he pulls Lucifer’s shirt up and tries to heal him.

“Tell Josh–” Lucifer says but doesn’t finish his sentence as he coughs on blood and his head drops to the side. Dabriel just stares down at him, his hands still on his chest.

“Dabriel . . . he is gone,” I say, shaking his shoulder and needing him to get out of his shock. Dabriel stands up and nods, lifting his sword and standing in front of Freddy and Mich’s wolf.

“Get everyone inside the castle, now,” I shout and use my powers to send the message to all the witches.

I wrap an arm around Freddy and Mich, and Dabriel puts his hand on my shoulder before I move us all inside the castle. The castle shakes as we get inside, and I run back to the door with Dabriel at my side. The dragons’ roars are loud enough to shake the castle, let alone their fight. I only hope Winter’s dragon is strong enough to kill the others and take the demons with him.

“We fight together, brother, and save as many as we can,” Dabriel says.

“Together,” I say, and we run out into the battle as our people run inside.