A loud bang brought Paige to attention. Her head spun around and looked to the door. Another band, and another. They grew more rapid with every growing second, like hail stones the size of elephants. She ran to the door and flung it open. She watched as the sky was ablaze with balls of fire raining down from the sky. Her eyes grew wide and the flames reflected on their glassy surface. It all seemed so surreal to her like no words could describe it, what could she say to express her feelings of awe, her amazement of what was occuring before her eyes.

"BLOODY HELL!" She yelled.

Nika and Vick stumbled from their room and joined in gawking at the rain of fire. Mona angrily stomped from her bedroom and stopped to stare at fire, a ball hit the street in front of their door and made a massive crack. Paige slammed the door as if it would help protect from balls of fire.

"So, anybody up for an apocalypse?" Vick asked.

The slayers turned and stared at Vick.

The crimson moon draped it's light over Jolten, young Audre, or Aud, to her friends, Madigan stare out her bedroom window looking at the falling sky. The little girl sprinted from her room and into her parents, catapulting herself onto their bed where they lay sleeping.

"Mommy, Daddy, The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" Aud, cried.

Groggily Laura Madigan woke to her daughter's shill cries. "Audre honey, could you go back to bed it was just a nightmare."

"No Mommy, the sky is falling, there's these balls of fire falling. Vick isn't home yet do you think he knows the sky is falling?"

Laura sat up from her bed and rubbed her eyes.

"Come on Aud honey, let's get you back to bed." Laura scooped the small child up in her arms and walked her down the hallway to her bedroom. The woman paused in the doorway and stared out the window as a ball of fire crashed to the ground infront of her daughter's window. "GARY!!" She screamed down the hall to her husband.

Vick pulled his shirt over his head and smiled at Nika who sat on her bed.

"Well this will certainly be interesting. " 'Mom, Dad I was chosen to end the apocalypse.' "

"Maybe we should see if the rain of fire clears up before we venture out."

"You're probably right I don't think a simple umbrella will protect us." Vick paused "So Whatever will we do?"

Nika smiled "Wanna train with us?"

"Do I get to use a sword?" Vick asked his eyes beaming like a five year old on christmas.

Nika giggled and cast a sideways glance at Vick. "yeah I guess."

In the upper level of the warehouse Mona held a bow in her hand and shot arrows at a target accross the room. Bianca and Paige stood on a circular matt, the both held long wooden poled with rubber padding on the ends. Paige swung hers and hit Bianca in the back, the older slayer grunted before swining her weapon at Paige.

Nika opened the lid of a large wooden chest. Reaching inside she pulled out a large metal sword and handed it to Vick, who eagerly snatched it away. She grabbed the wooden pike like Paige and Bianca's from on the wall.

"I'm going 100% on you Vick. The horseman is just as strong hell maybe stronger than I am. You need to be ready."

Vick nodded and held up the sword.

"We haven't even started and you're dead... Here hold your sword like this. " Nika held the pike in her two hands and brought it up in front of her face. She let Vick mimic her and watched him hold the sword awkwardly in his hands.

Nika decided she would start a bit slower before she went full force on Vick. "Ready?" she asked.

"Ready." Vick answered.

For an awkward moment neither of them moved. Nika hit Vick's sword with her pike and began to fight. Vick swung his sword at Nika and she blocked him with the shaft of her weapon. The fight carried on like this for a while.

"Always keep your focus Vick, all it takes is one moment for him to get the upper hand and you're gone."

"I am focused." Vick snapped.

Nika clutched the weapon in her hand while half rested on her forearm. She spund around and hit the sword which sailed across the room.

"You're dead." Nika said and held her weapon to Vick's chest.

"Whoa." Was all Vick managed to utter in his awe.

Mona loaded another arrow into her bow, she drew the string back and let go, the arrow zipped through the air and hit the target dead center joining the other arrows which protruded from it's surface.

Paige and Bianca were sparring delivering bow after blow to one another with the padded ends of their weapons. One moment it seemed Paige was winning the next Bianca had the upper hand and Paige lagged behind. Bianca finally overtook Paige with a swing and a hit to Paige's knees.

Outside the rain of fie began to subside. There was an eerie calm that followed for a couple of moments, then thunder and rain erupted in the darkness. The wind began to roar and lightning flashed in the sky. Cars began to flip over from the strength of the wind. The windows of stores exploded.

In the warehouse the slayers and Vick gathered around the television. A news anchor with his perfectly groomed hair and a grim look on his face spoke.

"A complete evacuation of Jolten has just been ordered. The meteor shower and hurricane like conditions have all been cited as the cause of the immediate..."

Vick looked at Nika "I've got to get home."

"I know." Nika replied solemnly.

The pair stood up and walked to the door. Mona, Paige and Bianca followed behind.

"Be safe." Bianca warned as they left the warehouse. They were instantly drenched as they walked into the street. Cars sped and jammed in an attempt to leave town. The wind was deafening so neither of them spoke as they ventured to his house. The rain whipped them in the face and felt like tiny bullets on their skin.

What was only a little over an hour seemed like an eternity. Nika and Vick approached his home, the lights inside flickered. Vick flung the door open.

"MOM! DAD!" he called dripping with water.

Laura ran down the stairs. "VICK! Honey we need to go." she said frantically.

"Mom, I..." Vick began.

"Who's this?" Laura asked as she looked at Nika.

"It's Nika, but mom..."

"Well she can come with us, you're father's already gone with Audre."

"MOM!" Vick yelled.

"What?" She questioned.

"I can't go with you."

'Why?"

"Mom, I can't tell you... but if you love me, you'll trust me and leave right now... alone"

"Vick, honey...how...why..." Then she decided. "alright I love you."

Tears formed behind her eyes as she hugged her son goodbye. "You'll take care of him?" Laura said lookign at Nika.

"I will."

Laura ran out into the rain and into her SUV. The vehicle started and she backed out of the driveway. She waved goodbye to her son who stood in the doorway.

THE END