Amity POV
I groaned as I struggled to get to my feet. I turn to my side to see Zoe clutching at her side as she sits up against a tree.
My parents smirk as they walk towards us but I draw a spell circle and summon an abomination hand to attack my father but he quickly summon an abomination hand if his own to block it easily.
Zoe drew a spell circle on the ground and a massive abomination hand launches us into the air. While flying through the air Zoe draws another spell circle and our bodies become encased in abomination armour. We land on the ground.
I look at my new goopy, purple body and look over at Zoe. "This is just weird."
Zoe extends her abomination arm which slams into my mother and sends her flying before looking back at me with a smirk. "You get used to it."
I bend my abomination covered knees and look at my father with determination before me and Zoe rush in for an attack.
Nick POV
I draw a spell circle in the air and the area around us is engulfed in darkness. I rush towards Lilith, flanked by my clones. Lilith swings her staff throwing fire balls at the clones, illuminating the area slightly as i bob and weave between the attacks. I close the distance and land a strong hit to her ribs which makes her cough up some blood. I follow up by tripping up her legs.
As soon as she hits the ground I get out my taser and attack her with it but Lilith rolls to the side and draws a spell circle on the ground send dozens of icicles flying up at me. It knocks the taser from my hand and it falls to the floor and shatters. She then rolls to her feet, draws a quick spell circle and send a blast of magic at me which hits me in the torso and sends me flying back.
I roll to my feet and throw another throwing knife at the emperor's coven soldier. She swats it away with her staff easily. "You're a fool if you think you can beat me Ventat. I am still a member of the emperor's coven." She announces sending a flurry of vines my way.
I reach behind my back and pull out a larger blade, about the length of a forearm (not including the handle) and summon a few clones and begin dancing around the vines, slashing at them when needed. I get close to Lilith and stab at her face. She moves her head just in time and it leaves a small cut on her cheek. With my free hand I punch her in the stomach and she stumbles back into one of my clones that throws Lilith over his shoulder, slamming her onto the ground.
"You're only a member of the coven at all because eda threw the fight!" I yell as I draw a massive spell circle on the ground, using the assistance of one of my clones to make it bigger faster, slamming my hands on the ground in the centre of the circle, and summon a myriad of clones in the forms of a number of beats. Including raging giants, giant teethed worms, a swarm of blood hungry bats and other violent, horrific creatures that I send flying at Lilith.
Lilith desperately span her staff and fires large amount of magical energy through it. She was able to destroy some if the clones but they slowly overwhelmed her. Lilith became covered in the magical beasts.
I fell to one knee, exhausted at the extreme use of magic. As I kneel there panting a typhoon of wind starts sending the creatures flying away. As the creatures poof on impact with the ground in able to see Lilith struggling to her feet, using her staff as a crutch to steady herself.
Lilith was covered with cuts and bruises and was bleeding somewhat heavily from several locations.
I analyses the wounds as best as I could. My medical knowledge is not nearly as plentiful as my cousin but analysing injuries in combat situations proved useful in the military and as a hired gun.
Doesn't look like any vitals got hit too hard. But she's getting tired. I mean I am as well but that's beside the point. I force myself back onto my feet and once again raise my guard.
Luz POV
"Luz get down!" Eda yells as Ed and Em fire a massive blast of magic towards us. Eda dives into me and the blast grazes across her shoulder and she groans in pain.
"Eda!" I cry as I slam a plant glyph on the ground and vines erupt from the ground but the twins dodge easily. They send a blast of fire towards me but I roll out of the way.
Willow sends a flurry of vines toward the twins. They side step in opposite directions. Willow thrusts her arms left to follow Emira with the vines, keeping her on the backfoot.
Gus suddenly appears behind Edric with a poof. The small boy crouches down as Edric backs up. The blight twin trips over the small illusion boy.
As Edric roll onto his feet he sends a blast of fire towards the boy who disappears into a poof of mist and appears a few feet away. "Luz take Eda and find Amity, we can handle this." Gus yells.
"I can't leave you two to fight this alone!" I yell back. "You can't beat the twins."
Willow grunts and she summons a massive flower to act as a shield from Emira's magical blast. "Just go Luz, we'll keep them occupied and get out when we need to!"
I try and argue back but willow just yells louder "Luz just go!" I nod my head and help eda to her feet as we run off towards the Blight manor.
Viney POV
I once again pull against my chains in a feeble attempt to escape. Dr Venat speaks up, seeing my 'escape attempt' if you can call it that. "It's useless." He sighs in a defeated tone.
"Well we can't just give up!" I yell at him.
"Viney calm down." Jerbo says in a calming tone. "If we want to get out of here we have to work together."
"And how will we do that?" Dr Venat says. "We cannot cast any spells, we cannot move and no one has any indication we're here and we have no way of contacting anyone." Me and Jerbo solemnly lower our heads. "It pains me to say that there is nothing we can do."
As silence falls upon the 3 of us a nagging thought that has resided in my head which wouldn't leave. "Why did the Blight parents thank you for recommending your cousin to Eda?" I ask.
Stevan's eyes glaze over with regret. "When Amity was in the hospital from her cuts I brought up how she needed therapy and I recommend my cousin saying he had enough training and that he was a better option."
"Is your cousin a therapist?" Jerbo asks.
Stevan scoffs dryly. "Hardly." He admits. "He's an ex soldier turned mercenary who specialises in illusion magic."
"So why did you..." I begin before the dr interrupts.
"The blights were threatening my hospital." He says in a desperate tone. "They found out Amity had been taking into the hospital and being devilish clever they knew that Amity wouldn't be coming back to the manor so they told me to call my cousin... so they could use him as a pawn."
Nick POV
Lilith rushes in again. Drawing spell circles to launch her forward at incredible speed. She swings her staff which I block with my long knife. We were both tired and subsequently fighting sloppily.
We were panting heavily. "Ya know." *Pant* "the last time I had someone panting this heavily." *pant* "I had, had a lot more fun the night before." I smirk.
Lilith groaned "do you ever shut up." She fired another blast at me in frustration. "There's my opening." I think to myself as I roll forward, dodging the blast. I take my long knife and plunge to into the back of Lilith's knee.
She cries in pain and I rise up, grabbing another knife and plunging it into the witches side. Following up with a kick to her torso sending her flying back.
I struggle to my feet and look at the wounded witch. "It's over Lilith." I announce. "And now I'm making sure you don't hurt the blight children ever again." I slowly stagger towards Lilith, clutching my long knife, intending to kill her quickly. However Lilith raises her staff and it lifts her into the air.
"You're not getting Amity." She yelled down at me "the emperor's coven will assure it." The blue haired witch swung herself onto her staff and flew away.
I fell to my knee. I coughed up some blood and panted. Completely drained. I looked over to hooty to see him slowly thawing out of his icy prison Lilith locked him in. I forced myself to my feet, the voice of my Sargent echoing in my head. "The mission isn't finished yet soldier, so plant your feet, grit your teeth and WIN THIS FIGHT!"
I opened my eyes wide with determination as I pushed down the cries of my body for rest. There are people who still need me, there is still more fighting that needs to be done. I turned my head towards where the others had ran off and forced myself to run after them.
Amity POV
This new abomination technique was incredible. I was faster and hit harder than I ever could before. My mother sends blast after blast of magical energy at me but I'm able to either block of dodge them all together. I was kicking ass in this thing.
Until I wasn't.
I was dodging backwards and accidentally stepped into a spell circle created by my father and massive vines wrapped around my abomination leg and rips it away. This caused me to fall over and the rest of my abomination armour dissolved away.
I heard Zoe cry in pain as she is flung backwards into me. We look up and see my parents breathing heavily as the raise there arms but suddenly a combination of very and vines come crashing into them which takes them off guard.
I turn my head to see the one girl I had expected to see the least.
"Luz!" I call out. I'm so confused as to why she's here. From our last interaction I wouldn't think she'd even know I was here, let alone come rushing to save me in the middle of the night.
"Ah and here's the troublesome human that keeps getting in our way of having a perfect life." My parents scowl.
"The life you were forcing Amity to have was far from perfect." Luz said defiantly pulling out several glyphs from her pockets and preparing to fight.