text: "Now!" Rochelle yelled.
  
  The Prayer protecting the church shattered. Bill led the charge out of the church. Juanita's entire body felt like a ball of nerves ready to fly apart, only held together by her skin. This was Rochelle's plan. Attack the Demons the moment the prayer failed and catch them off guard, driving them back and defeating them before the dawn could come.
  
  Following Bill was Sophia, her wings trailing white feathers. Juanita and Rochelle were the last to exit the church, racing out onto the porch to watch the battle unfold guarded by Reggie, Wendy and Cassie. Bill and Sophia charged straight towards Daevia, a look of stunned disbelief painted on the Succuba's cruelly beautiful face. Cynthia, leading Georgia and Erica, charged right and Hikaru, trailed by Liu and Rosa went left. Bev and Mindy went straight for the naked Sister Mariam rising up from a pile of writhing flesh.
  
  "Do it, Juanita!" Rochelle shouted.
  
  As Bill and the others dashed through the orgy of confused college students, Juanita reached out to all the humans still locked in passionate embraces around the church and pushed into their emotions, suppressing everything: fear, hunger, thirst, anger, lust, joy, sorrow, and all the other myriad of emotions until they were just husk not caring about anything.
  
  They all collapsed in heaps of flesh, one less threat to worry about.
  
  "FEED! FLESH! FUCK!" cried the inhuman Lemures in a single voice. The black creatures surrounded the church and they charged in a wave of darkness. Cynthia conjured the Sophia-Illusion, its burning blade carving deep furrows in the advancing Lemures, while Georgia and Erica's silver swords hacked and felled the Lemures threatening her blonde wife.
  
  Juanita turned and saw Hikaru sending her telekinetic will out in punches, throwing broken Lemures flying back into the crowd, crushing more of the Demons. Hikaru stood between her protectors, defended by Bill's love manifested in Rosa and Liu's silver swords.
  
  "Get ready!" Reggie shouted, standing straight in front of Rochelle and Juanita, flanked by Wendy and Cassie as some of the Lemures skirted the edges of Cynthia and Hikaru's defenses, charging the porch. "None get through! We're the Lions!"
  
  "Yeah!" Cassie shouted and sliced her silver blade through the body of the first Lemure. "Take that!"
  
  Juanita felt so helpless. She had done the first part of her job, now she just had to wait and be Rochelle's mouthpiece. Juanita's gaze flickered to Bev and Mindy who attacked Sister Mariam from both sides, avoiding the dominated nun's black chain, and then her eyes sought out Bill.
  
  Her husband and the Seraph were struggling to even close on Daevia. The Succuba's black chain snapped about, driving both of them back with the speed of her deadly weapon. It was blacker than night, a stain of ink whipping through the air, and deadly if it touched them. Bill moved with surprising grace, like some fighting skill had awakened in him during his time in Hell.
  
  Rochelle's hand snaked out, grabbing her hand. She could suddenly feel Rochelle reading the future. Bill fighting Daevia. A Lemure creeps up from behind and attacks, hamstringing Bill. He falls to the ground in pain. Daevia's chain falls on him. Bill writhes in pleasure and the Lemure rips his throat out.
  
  Juanita reached out with her emotions, and touched Bill the same way she had last night when she came, reaching through the ribbons of love that tied them together.