Page 233 of The Demon's Spell

“Lucas! It’s one of his contracts!” I cried. “If we destroy it, it will weaken him.”

Lucas winced, then shouted over the raging storm. “How are we going to destroy it? It’s too powerful.”

“We have an Oaken Wand!” I reminded him.

Lucas looked around, and his eyes landed on an old, tattered curtain beside him. He tore the fabric, then curled it around the wand so he wouldn’t touch the contract.

“Chloe!” Lucas screamed, waving the wand above his head. Her eyes darted in our direction. “Destroy the contract. Now!”

Lucas threw the cursed wand into the air as high as he possibly could. Chloe aimed the Mentalist Wand at it, making it levitate above our heads. Magic shot out of the end of the Wand, and the contract glowed a bright red, before shattering into millions of pieces.

Leto cried out, and he appeared to shrink by a foot. “What have you done!?”

He threw his hands upward, and debris swirled overhead to mimic his rage.

“Chloe, destroy the pocket watch!” Lucas yelled.

Chloe used her telekinesis to dodge around Leto and the flying debris. Professor Warbright had seen what we’d done. He stood on the other side of the cavern, holding his pocket watch above his head. Chloe aimed her Wand, and the watch shot into the air. It glowed bright red, then shattered.

Leto roared, his anger rippling through the skies louder than the thunder. He shrank again, but he still towered at least eighteen feet above us.

Chloe whirled toward him, but he was already coming for her. At the last second, magic erupted from the Wand and assaulted Leto. His back arched, and his head lifted to the skies like he was in pain. It barely lasted a moment before his screams turned to dark laughter. He was still too strong for her spell.

“Your magic is no match for me!” He pushed through the spell and snatched Chloe out of the air. He tried to yank the Wand out of her grasp, but she must’ve been making him see things, because he stumbled from side to side as he tried to grab it.

“You bitch!” he growled.

“Finally, a compliment,” Chloe said.

Leto dropped her, and she rolled across the ground as she landed. He stumbled around blindly.

“You can blind me, but you don’t know how to use the power of the Wand!” Leto shouted.

He swiped his hands outward, and I gasped as I was swept off my feet. Lucas screamed my name, but with a broken leg, he couldn’t move.

Leto dangled me upside down. “I can’t wait to torture you, pretty one.”

He thought I was Chloe.

“Let her go!” Chloe screamed.

I thought she blasted off another spell, but my vision blurred as all the blood in my body rushed to my head. The flashes of lightning seemed merely like flashlights blinking from miles away as everything faded out of focus. All I could make sense of was the glowing red pit below me as the demon dangled me above it.

“We have to work together to kill him like Cynthia said!” Lucas shouted. “Kill him, and all his contracts are voided!”

Please, Mother Miriam, I prayed. I was in so much pain, I just wanted to be done with it, but my soul wasn’t ready for this to end. Please save me.

I didn’t know what happened, but the demon took a step back. I witnessed a bright light swirling from below me, near the demon’s feet. Could it be Mother Miriam?

The light wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t the bright white glow of Mother Miriam’s magic. It had a silvery hue to it.

I realized it was Charlotte’s magic. Through the dark of the night, the magical glow lit up her form. I saw she was standing at the demon’s feet, her hand pressed against his leg as she aimed all the Death magic she could muster into his form.

He dropped me, and I landed with a hard thud on the ground.

The demon looked rather annoyed as he growled, “I am immortal. You cannot kill me. Your Death magic merely tickles.”

“I don’t have to kill you!” Charlotte yelled. “I only have to distract you!”

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