Author's Note: Meanwhile, back in the Ghost Bubble....

Sean's POV

Lana and I are frantically having a silent argument while Cernunnos and Carrie have a loud one.

It's got to be Trivia, I say. She's the weakest.

No, we should throw our support to Cernunnos and attack Mercury, Lana protests.

I know why she thinks this. Our dedication to Cerridwen is dissolved, but Lana still belongs to Cernunnos.

No, Mercury will realize what we are doing and order Apollo and Diana to kill us. 

But Trivia has two aspects. We'll be dividing our strength.

We take one at a time. I think her division makes each aspect weaker. 

Fine. The ugly one.

I grin. You'll have to be more specific, Lan.

She grins back. My heart aches. We are probably going to die, and that's probably the last time I am going to see my twin smile.

The one in red, she says.

When it starts, I say, and she nods.

Cernunnos and Carrie are still arguing. I think they are stalling, but I'm not sure why. Is help coming? Or does Cernunnos just know he's going to die, and he wants every last second he can get with her?

It's actually kind of funny, how they can command everyone's attention, with their fight. Even Mercury is standing by, his evil plans momentarily forgotten, as he watches the Great Celtic Lovers hurl their passion at one another like bombs.

Then Cernunnos kisses Cerridwen. It's a beautiful moment, but it hurts me to watch. It takes me a minute to realize why it hurts. It's not because I'm jealous. The intense attachment I felt for her is gone. She's no longer a goddess. She's no longer my goddess. Though I care about her deeply as a person, the soul-binding feelings no longer exist, because I no longer belong to her.

No, I'm actually kind of glad for Carrie, that she gets this last great moment with Cernunnos. If we die, we might as well die honest. The love they have for each other is wild and eternal, and I'm glad they are sharing it.

The reason that the kiss between Cernunnos and Carrie hurts me is because of Dru. Cernunnos loves Cerridwen with his entire soul, and a god's soul is great big thing. He doesn't love Dru like that, and everybody in this whole fucked up situation, including Dru, knows it. What will she feel, if this is the end for all of us here? If she's left knowing that Cernunnos died for Cerridwen, and that I died for my sister?

I can't die here today. I won't sacrifice Lana and I won't leave Dru alone.

Lan, we are staying alive. Whatever it takes. Do you understand me? We'll take Trivia, but then, we stay alive. I protect you, you protect me. That's the only way we survive.

We need to help Cernunnos, she protests.

No, Cernunnos can take care of himself. You need to live for Finn. That asshole will go insane if you die. He Greenspark loves you. Like Cernunnos loves Cerridwen. He can't live without you, so you have to survive this.

Silence from her. Finally, she says. Okay. Trivia, then protect each other.

"I love you," Cerridwen is saying to Cernunnos, and suddenly he whips her behind him, out of Mercury's reach. Mercury laughs. "You have her mortal body; I have her divine soul," he holds out Carrie's immortality to taunt Cernunnos.

"Winner takes all," Cernunnos quips.

Swords appear in their hands. Diana and Apollo disappear from our cages, and they, along with Trivia, close ranks on Cernunnos and Cerridwen, who stand back to back.

"Do not harm Cerridwen," Mercury instructs them.

"She killed me!" Trivia snaps.

"Fine, you can harm her. Just make sure the damage to her mortal form can eventually be repaired."

Trivia snarls in satisfaction. Yeah, we definitely have to take that bitch out. I may not be in love with Cerridwen, but I'm still kind of her boyfriend. I'm not letting Trivia hurt her.

Mercury doesn't fight fair. He flashes inside Cernunnos' strike perimeter and stabs Cernunnos in the side. Cernunnos roars and leads with his horns, smashing Mercury in the shoulder and throwing him off. For a moment, I'm stunned. Cernunnos' horns colliding with Mercury's shoulder sound like trucks crashing into each other. They're throwing down like...fuck,  I don't even know. Sucellus would have some great description of their fight, I'm sure.

I don't really have time to be cute with my words right now. Fear for my sister and for Cerridwen consumes me. They are mortal, in the midst of warring gods.

Trivia starts to shuffle towards Cerridwen, and Lana and I act as one. With all our magic, we invade the brain of the witch goddess. Our magic wraps together like vines and we puncture one tiny artery in Trivia's head and we strain and push and strain until I think my own head will burst. I look over at Lana. She is fighting with all her might, too. Trivia is a minor goddess, but she is still a goddess, and very hard to kill.

Both Aspects of Trivia are screaming in pain, and it takes me a moment to realize Cerridwen is attacking her remaining aspect, at the same time she is throwing disruption spells at all the Roman godspawn, blowing them off their feet. Cerridwen, a mortal witch, is fighting eight Roman godspawn and a goddess. Christ, there's never been a witch like Cerridwen. Except maybe Dru.

Trivia is screeching and her aspects are in such agony that they are trying to tear apart from one another.

I'm chanting death magic and dropping to my knees in the effort. I see my twin doing the same. We're not enough. It's taking not just our magic, but our life force to invade Trivia's brain. I feel it now...the dark magic we started is like a pump that we can't turn off. 

Stag. Here it is. The deja-vu I have always dreaded. This is the moment in my vision from long ago. The moment when I am chanting  Lana's death.

 I was never killing my sister. Our lives are fading under the pull of the dark spell we made together.

We started death. It's going to take us with it.

Lan, I gasp. I'm sorry. This is it. My vision.

Don't fight it! She shouts. Go with it! If she dies the spell will break!

My twin is so fucking brave. Willing to throw her life toward killing a goddess. She fills me with courage.

I grab my head and flail my life and death at Trivia. Trivia screams and makes one final attempt to lunge at Cerridwen, but she topples over. The aspect we were attacking is dead. At once, the spell Lana and I created together is broken. I look over at Lana. She is on her knees, weak, like me, fighting for to restore her breath, like me, but she is alive. She survived my vision. She is alive.

For the moment.

Cerridwen leaps over Trivia's body and slashes the throat of the living third aspect. I don't know why. I don't think a throat slashing will kill an immortal aspect.

I climb to my feet. What is she doing?

"They killed a third of Trivia," Diana says in disbelief to Apollo, pointing to me and Lana. They don't seem to know what to do. They look from me to Lana, to Cerridwen.

"Kill the twins first, it will only take a second," Apollo says. "Then we'll punish the Celtic witch for Trivia's sake.

Diana nods agreement. She unmakes herself and I know she's coming to kill me, and Apollo will do the same to my twin.

I throw all my power into a protective aura around Lana, and I feel her protecting me, but I know it won't be enough against Roman gods.

I take one last look around at the chaos that is my reality. Cernunnos and Mercury sword-fighting and crashing into each other like cars. Cerridwen crouching like an animal over Trivia's dead body. Harsh words fill the air around us. A sound so foul, that it fills me with fear. It takes me a minute to realize the sounds are coming from Cerridwen.

And then, with my witch's intuition, I understand what language Cerridwen is speaking.

The language of the long dead. She's sacrificing Trivia to the ancient ghosts. She's asking them to help her. To avenge themselves. She telling them, if they will help her to victory, she will help them to peace.

Diana is shimmering in front me, and I brace myself for her remaking and whatever horrific pain she is about to inflict upon me, but it doesn't come. She jerks forward, as if she's trying to remake herself into the mortal plane, but she can not cross. The ghosts are holding her back, keeping her from her mortal form. They are doing the same to Apollo. I don't know how long it will last, but Cerridwen is speaking to the ghosts constantly in their language, pleading with them to hold back the gods that want to kill us.

I laugh. I may not be in love with Cerridwen, but at this moment I could kiss her.

Lan! Let's get out of these goddamn cages!

She nods, and we set to work free ourselves from our magical prisons.

A/N: Wow, Sean didn't kill his sister after all! Let's see if they can stay alive a little longer....

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