This was it...

The prophecy that had been predicted all those centuries ago is so close to being fulfilled.

Louis could feel the anxiety building up within him, so he takes a deep breath and slowly breathes it out before nodding at his friends, signalling them to advance forward.

Niall transports himself right in front of Simon, flipping him off when the warlock sees him and dodges the attacks thrown at his way.

"Try and get me!"

Dodge.

"Hah too slow!"

Dodge.

"That all you got?"

Liam chuckles at his boyfriend, running full speed to the warlock's right and leaping high on his two feet, shifting midair and landing on four furry big paws.

Harry conjures up a long, durable rope and throws the other end to Liam, making sure his werewolf friend catches it in his mouth before levitating himself off of the ground.

"Let's restrain him, Li."

Both witch and werewolf run around the angered warlock who is still being pestered by the Irish ghost boy, easily tying him up with the rope.

"You can't possibly think you've stopped me already, heroes." Simon snickers.

Niall arches a brow at him, "we've taken down all your minions, an-"

"All of them? I think you're mistaken, lad. I have one more ally on my side."

There's a beat of silence before a loud roar erupts from the forest.

The chosen ones and their friends gape at the huge, black, scaly creature emerging from the trees.

"Is that a-...?" Katy trails off, gulping nervously.

"That is definitely a dragon." Leigh Anne confirms, eyes not moving away from the beast.

While everyone was transfixed by the huffing dragon, Simon takes his opportunity to get his hands free from the rope and uses it to tie up Liam using his magic.

The werewolf's growls snaps Niall and Harry out of their shocked trance from seeing the dragon and they immediately go to their friend's aid.

Louis glances towards Ed, pointing to their blonde witch friend right beside him, asking if she's okay. The ginger haired warlock gives him a thumbs up, assuring him that she's able to join them in battle once again.

"May I introduce to you my last minute reptilian recruit, Gigi."

"Last minute?!" Leigh Anne squeaks out.

"Shouldn't we have one, too?!" Niall exclaims, "not fair! Very not fair!"

Harry finishes untying Liam and joins him in glaring at Simon.

"Life's never fair, lad. Gigi, attack!"

The chosen ones are torn between helping their friends or going after the evil warlock who's continuing to head deeper into the city, causing more mayhem.

"Our friends can't hold off the dragon by themselves, it seems to be deflecting Ed and the girls' every attacks." Louis appears next to them, sword still in hand.

"We need help." Niall breathes out helplessly.

Louis loosens his grip on the sword slightly, eyes down cast, "where can we find help at this point in the battle?"

Someone clearing their throat catches the attention of the four, and when they turn their heads to look at who did it, they're shocked to find a guy wearing mostly black accompanied with a leather jacket.

"Uh... Who are you?" Harry asks him.

"I'm Zayn. And I heard you guys needed some help."

The friends exchange glances with one another then turn back to the stranger named Zayn.

"And you are a-...?"

"I am the god of darkness." The raven haired guy replies casually.

Liam tilts his wolf self's head, as if saying really?

"Look, Simon has done enough damage to the human world. It's time this ends. Like, right now."

Louis nods, "he's right. C'mon lads, let's go."

So while the four chosen ones head to the direction of where Simon went, Zayn turns his attention to the mighty beast currently in battle with a werewolf, shapeshifter, warlock, two vampires, and four witches.

Closing his eyes and breathing in deeply, the god of darkness concentrates his power and starts to feel his pupils expand in size till no white or golden brown is left in sight.

"Need a little help here!" One of the witches calls out, trapped under the tail of the scaly being.

Wielding the darkness around him, Zayn uses it to trap the dragon in place, resulting for it to let out an irritated roar and lift its tail to try and crush him underneath its weight. It wasn't successful though as the dark eyed lad had vanished into thin air, appearing out of the shadows farther away from where he used to stand.

"Whoa, new guy!" Cara acknowledges his presence.

"Let's save the introduction for later. Right now, we have a dragon to slay." Zayn tells the gang, and they nod in agreement.

Harry looks over his shoulder to get a glance at how his friends are doing. He sighs in relief at seeing them all working together to take down the vicious dragon.

The blonde ghost boy smirks as an idea pops into his mind. He tells his plan to his friends and they immediately take full action on it.

Harry summons a few crows using his powers and instructs them to distract the warlock by flying around his head and pecking at him aggressively.

Niall teleports back to where the rope his witch friend had conjured up not so long ago lay on the cemented ground and pops right in front of Simon. He crouches down to avoid the birds and ties the rope around the old man's ankles. Once done, he gestures a thumbs up to Liam who runs behind the unsuspecting warlock and pulls on his cloak, causing him to fall backwards.

"Get the hell away from m- agh! Ow!" He was interrupted by the crows flocking around him again.

Louis approaches Simon's struggling form and glares down on him.

"You know, I should hate you for trying to take over the human world and causing so much damage. But I don't."

Niall snickers beside the older lad, which has the vampire rolling his eyes playfully at him.

"Okay, I actually do loathe you. But if it weren't for your stupid scheme, I wouldn't have ever met my amazing friends and found my beautiful soulmate."

Harry blushes at his boyfriend's words.

"So at least you did something right." Louis raises the sword,

"Bon débarras, sale chien." Then plunges it right into Simon's heart.

The warlock let's out a bloodcurdling scream, before he goes completely still and turns into dust right before their eyes.

"Did you just speak French? Where and when did you learn French?" Harry asks, smiling at the vampire lad.

"When you're as old as me, you learn a thing or two from tourists wandering around the forest." Louis chuckles, wrapping a hand around Harry's waist then standing on his tippy toes, whispering into the boy's ear huskily, "je t'aime tellement, mon amour."

The younger lad shivers at how hot Louis sounds speaking French, "to be honest, I have no idea what you just said," he shyly nuzzles his nose into Louis' neck, "but I think I understood 'love' somewhere around those lines "

"You are correct, my love."

"Yo guys!" Niall's voice breaks them out of their loved up bubble.

Both witch and vampire tear their gazes away from each other, looking around to find their ghost friend. Liam shifts back into his human form before pointing to the dragon, smiling fondly at Niall who's doing the Irish jig on top of its head.

Harry giggles while Louis face palms with a smile, "sometimes I wonder if he was actually a leprechaun before he died."

"Oi! I heard that Tommo!" The blonde headed ghost glares at him playfully.

By the time Ed, Harry and the girls manage to teleport all of Simon's minions to their respective locations, everyone -including Zayn- meet up at the border between the city and the forest.

"Guess this is where we part ways huh?" Shawn smiles sadly.

"We all better get going soon, the sun's almost about to rise." Katy says, noticing the orange-y light in the horizon.

Cara and Kendall intertwine their fingers as they turn back to their friends, "Ken and I are gonna go ahead."

"Yeah, me too."

"Same here."

Says Katy and Shawn.

The four wave farewell to the remaining bunch, Ed calling out, "keep in touch, yeah?" Just before they could step on the soiled ground.

"Definitely." They all respond then walk off into different directions of the forest.

"Ready to go, girls?" Ed turns to his witch friends.

"Yeah, just give me a minute." Perrie tells him.

Jesy, Jade, and Leigh Anne talk in hushed tones as they watch their youngest friend approach the god of darkness.

Harry and Louis smile widely at one another, leaning in for a kiss when someone interrupts them.

"Great work, chosen ones." A man with blonde hair tells them, applauding lightly.

Everyone has confused looks on their faces at the man.

Louis clears throat and asks, "uh, who may you be?"

"Who may I be? Well, Let's just say I knew all along that you would come and save the day- er, night."

Liam pieces the puzzle together and gasps when he figures it out,

"You're Jeremiah Condriath?!"

The man grins, nodding his head.

"Pleasure to meet you all. Though I go by James Corden now."

"Whoa..." Niall gapes, amazed to see the person who predicted the prophecy all those years ago, "man, you're old!"

James stares at the boy with a blank face though he's obviously offended, "yeah I know, don't remind me."

"You reside with the humans?"

"Yes. And I just came here to congratulate you all. Scurry on now, the sun's almost up."

Ed, the girls, and Zayn immediately head into the forest.

The four chosen ones glance back at the wizard, the one who gathered them all together by a prophecy.

"Will we see you again?" Louis asks.

"Of course."

"When?" Niall then adds.

"Whenever you like. One thing though..."

"What?" The four say in sync.

"It has to be In The Middle of the Night."

The warlock winks at them before proudly watching the four chosen heroes run off deep within the forest, going back into hiding once again.

But maybe, it doesn't have to be like that...

OHMAHGAAAASH!!!

IT'S ALMOST OVER!!!

I apologize if the French said by Louis is wrong  ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Well then, one more chapter to go.

See you all soon!!!
~Zenpai