Between Two Worlds

Save the Witch Part I

"Enough of your childish games!" Belos said bringing a hand across Luz's cheek striking her firmly.

"Woah you've been lifting some weights Dad?" Luz chuckled licking the blood that was coming from her lip.

"Your generous donation of blood the last time you were here has greatly improved my health and strength." Belos cracked his knuckles, it took a moment to realize that Luz was in the same exact cell she was in the first time she was captured. There was a large dark stain on the ground, where the lifeless body of Soarin Bates once laid. And from the looks of it, he was there for a while before someone came to collect him.

"Good, I won't have to feel bad for fighting a grandpa." Luz laughed out, a small fire burned in her chest the slowly began to spread. Belos clenched his fist and a powerful connected with her jaw. Luz smiled through the aching pain and the tears welling in her eyes. "Is that all you got? I could do better that." Another hit that connected with her left cheek bone. She could tell the Emperor had broken skin by the splintering pain she felt in her face and the blood now present on Belos' hand. And Luz knew exactly what she was doing, all she needed was for Belos to hit her hard enough the it would trigger the Titan's spirit to force its way into her body, which as painful as it was she knew that the only way, for right now, was to bring on the pain. And it was always accompanied by the searing hot feeling that made her blood almost literally boil. "You're nothing! Not an Emperor! Not a witch! You're just a man! You have no power over me!" Luz screamed in his face. And this one was he one she was waiting for, Belos sent all of his rage into the blow, the hit landed just shy of her temple but it blurred her vision and made the edges of her vision blurry. Her eyes flicked into a yellow glow a few times before returning back to their regular chocolaty brown, and the heat that was once building up in her chest died down. Belos took a step back laughing slightly, taken aback at what Luz was trying to do. He point a finger at her before backing up a few steps more.

"Oh you are good Half-Blood. But not good enough so it seems. I will be back later, and I assure you this night, will be your last." Belos left the room, the heavy metal door shutting behind him. Luz let her head hang, lacking at the strength at the moment to keep it up. She knew that soon adrenaline would kick in a soothe the sharp pulsing pains in her head to a deep throbbing which, she found in all her recent times having been wounded in the Boiling isles, was so much better. Luz felt like hours went by. Instead of trying to escape she spent that time preparing for her death, there were so many regrets she had, and missed opportunities. Tears dripped onto the floor and she found herself wishing she could tell her mom goodbye, or that she would've taken Camilla with her. The large clanging sound of the clock unlatching sent Luz's head shooting up, causing her a severe amount of pain at the quick action. Belos appeared in the doorway. Wearing his mask of enigma as usual. "Now, Luz. I figured you are still good to me dead as well as alive so it doesn't really matter how you die. So I'm sure being killed at the hands of everyone you love would suffice." Belos cast a spell and Luz was paralyzed as he unlocked her chains. He suspended her in the air and floated her out of the room and before she knew it she was flying out of a window. Shards of glass cutting her skin as she fell through the sky, rain drenching her clothes. She cast a plant spell to cushion her fall from above but the rain caused her to slip, landing harshly on the wet stone bridge that entered into the emperors stronghold. Luz struggled to get up to her feet and tore off her doublet leaving her in just her white tunic and trousers. She saw five figures in front of her. It was Eda, Lilith, Gus, Willow, and Boscha. All their eyes were pitch black from the pupils to the whites of their eyes. Lilith sent ice daggers her way. She ducked to the floor but not without a few tearing through her tunic and skin.

"Eda!!! This isn't you!" She screamed as she sent fire balls at Luz which Luz dodged sending back a sleep spell that Eda quickly dispersed. Vines wrapped around Luz's ankles. Flipping her upside down in the air before dropping her. She landed almost head first on the stone. But she shifted to land on her arm, lucky it didn't dislocate. She quickly got to her feet, and realized that they weren't goin to go easy on her so she couldn't go easy on them, she just couldn't do anything permanent. Gus cast an illusion spell causing multiple copies of Gus to appear, Luz quickly got to work taking out each one before she got to the real one and when she did he fell to the ground and the rest of the illusions disappeared. Duck. Luz fell backwards catching herself on her hands before kicking up to her feet casting a fire spell at Lilith that knocked her to the ground and tying up Willow and Boscha with a vine rendering them immobile until she could cast a sleep spell on them. Eda still continued her relentless attack. Sending ice spells, fire spells, and laser spells towards her. A laser spell hit her in the chest causing her to fly backwards, slamming against the ground. Her ribs felt like they were gonna break as she wheezed out another breath, Eda approached fire spell in hand. As Eda stood above her, she didn't have the strength to cast but she began drawing a glyph in the rain water on the ground without the elder witch knowing.

"I'm sorry Eda..." She whispered as she tapped the glyph sending bolts on lighting at Eda which struck her knocking her back. Luz used whatever strength she had left to quickly get up and place sleep spell glyphs on everyone, sending them all into a deep sleep until she decided they could be awoken. Her steps staggered as she fought to keep her footing, her hands resting on her knees. Taking long deep breaths, but the fight was not over as she saw a pair of feet approaching her. A hand went under her head and lifted up her head so chocolate brown eyes met the empty black ones of Amity Blight who was standing over her.

"Hello, Luz."