"I thought he was already dead," Nate said, confused. Also, the idea that the hilarious and rascally demon he'd met earlier was now one of those [i]things [/i]was terrifying. Nate jumped when the Maitlands appeared. Adam covered his ears as a blood curdling shriek shook the building.

"What on earth is going on?!" He hollered over the noise. 

"Don't ask," Nate said, showing them the door at the top of the stairs. "You guys go, we're gonna' stay with Lydia."

"Absolutely not!" Barbara stepped up. "We aren't leaving you with...whatever [i]that[/i] is." She was referring to the awful sounding monsters. 

Their arguing came to a stop when it suddenly grew quiet. Beetlejuice had managed to push his demon mom back through the portal, after putting up the fight of his life, and sealed the damn thing. The black abomination collapsed into a pile on the floor, then slowly shifted back into the familiar, striped demon. Only Beetlejuice was now soaked in black demon blood. He was missing chunks out of his body, was bitten and clawed all to hell, and his suit was torn to shreds.