Chapter 6
Lilith laid on the floor, her vagina still steadily dribbling Emmett’s cum out onto the bathroom floor. Her abyssal eyes leered up at him as he kneeled beside her. She slowly came back down to reality, though her limbs continued to twitch every so often from the aftershock of Emmett’s onslaught.
“So is that it? Are you all… like, powered-up now?” Emmett pressed, not really sure what question to be asking at this point.
Lilith continued to glare at him. “What the fuck was that?”
“What?” Emmett’s expression scrunched up in confusion.
Lilith slowly sat herself up. “You… just started fucking the hell out of me!”
“So? I thought that was what you wanted?”
“No! I just wanted you to…” she made a jerking-off motion with her hand. “…just jack off! Or just cum after I blew you!”
“Well, this was faster.”
“That’s debatable.”
“Uh…” Emmett was lost for words, scratching the back of his head. “Are you okay? Did I… fuck you too hard-”
“No!” Lilith suddenly interjected. “I mean, I’m fine, you- you didn’t fuck me too hard, okay?” Lilith turned red, the memory of Emmett’s enormous cock throbbing inside her was now a feeling that permanently etched into her mind.
Emmett sighed. “We don’t have time for this. Are you good?”
Lilith did her best to shake off her perverse thoughts in an attempt to return to the urgent task at hand. “We’re halfway there now.”
“Just halfway?” Emmett exclaimed. “How is that possible? I thought you just needed the cum?”
“It’s not that simple,” she groaned, her voice still coarse after her erotic screaming. “There’s an activation agent that needs to be brewed.” She sat up further and waved her hand along the ground. As her palm hovered over the ground, light flares of purple flames produced several small jars filled with some kind of dust, empty beakers, a twig with a full head of grey leaves, a mortar and pestle, and a few vials of different colored liquids, with only one being empty. Finally, in a slightly larger flash, a metal stand with fixtures used for standing the beakers and vials in place. Lilith whisked her fingers toward the puddle of cum spilling from her vagina. The cum stopped flowing against gravity and suddenly began to float in the air in thick strands.
“Holy…” Emmett whispered as he witnessed the magic.
“I had a batch before, but it was destroyed when Valdrina attacked me.” Lilith directed the levitating cum strands into one of the empty vials, filling it to the brim, causing the stopper to overflow the white liquid onto the sides of the glass as it pushed into the top to fasten itself.
Emmett suddenly put on a puzzled look. “Wait, if you can just teleport objects to you, why didn’t you teleport the spell tracer away too?”
Lilith glared back at him in response. “You think I’m that dumb? And I don’t teleport things, I send them into… this… magical space, and then bring them back.” Lilith continued to work with the ingredients she summoned on the ground, picking leaves from the twig, pouring dust into the mortar along with some leaves, and grinding them using the pestle.
“Like a pocket dimension,” Emmett guessed.
“If that’s what you want to call it, sure. The spell tracer has a small, pseudo-sentient being bound to it called a wisp. I can’t send any objects with any amount of sentience to the magical space.”
“To prevent you from just banishing people, I see.”
“Yeah.” Lilith smelled the smashed particles in the mortar and shook her head, continuing to grind the further, this time adding a drop of blue liquid from another vial.
“So how long is this going to take?”
“I’m going as fast as I can; it’s a delicate process. If I screw it up, who knows what’ll happen.” She continued to grind, and with one more sniff, she nodded her head.
“You could teach me the steps, I could do it, and you could go check up on Aidan-”
“What makes you think you can successfully synthesize a magic potion all of a sudden? This is advanced alchemy for one of the most powerful potions in the world-”
“We need to at least delay that demon from killing Aidan, for all we know she already ate his soul or whatever!”
Lilith grit her teeth in frustration. “I know, I know, I’m doing this as fast as I possibly can.”
“All I’m saying is that between both of us, you’re the only one that can stand a chance.”
“Not really, my fire was barely penetrating her… hair dome.”
Emmett sighed out harshly. He crossed his arms and began to pace the room in a stiff manner. Eventually, he squatted down, facing the wall, with his hand on his mouth. Finally, he stood back up and turned to Lilith.
“Okay, give me facts.”
“What?” she asked sharply.
“The best way to solve any puzzle, any problem, is to go over the facts. Give me facts, things about this demon lady.”
“I need to concentrate on this, I can’t just start going over… ‘facts’ with you.”
“Just start from the beginning then: you came here with your spell tracer thing, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then you used it to come to our class.”
“Right.”
“Then you seduced Aidan and went to this bathroom with him.”
“Yes- where are you going with this?”
“Doesn’t it seem strange that the demon didn’t just attack you and take the spell tracer herself?”
“I mean… I guess.” Lilith actually paused and contemplated that fact.
“I don’t think she wants to be seen.”
“That makes sense… if demons are discovered by humans, then demon prey becomes a lot warier of the looming threat…”
“That gives me a plan- I have a plan!” Emmett giddily cried out.
“What could you possibly have come up with?”
“I think I can get her away from Aidan at least and buy us some time.”
“How?”
“I don’t have time to explain, just- when you’re done, come down to the basement and get Aidan.”
“Finishing the potion and defeating the demon takes precedence here-”
Emmett flashed a glare at her. “You’re still on this?”
“I have my mission-”
“You said your coven was in danger, right?”
“What?”
“Your friends, family, whatever. They’re in danger?”
“I don’t-”
“Bottom line is, you owe me. Hell, you got Aidan into this mess in the first place. If anything, you saving him should make us even. But I’ll give you this: one day your coven- your family, will be in danger. And you’ll have the power to save them- thanks to me. But something will always itch at the back of your: I let you have it.”
Lilith squinted at Emmett, looking at him like he was a madman. “What the fuck are you getting at?”
“I let you have that power. I gave it to you.” Emmett asserted this, poised and resolute in his words.
“Trying to make me feel guilty?” Lilith smirked, but her brows were still furrowed with anger. She knew deep down, Emmett was right.
“You don’t have to feel guilty. You save Aidan- then you’ve earned that power.”
Lilith shook her head with another belittling laugh. “You have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Oh, believe me, I know what I’m talking about. Maybe you’ve spent too much time in hiding with your witches and Justicars and shit. But humans don’t have spells and demon magic to fight each other. Hell, wars are barely fought by any first-world countries. All we have up here is leverage.”
“And what leverage do you have on me, exactly?”
“Peace of mind. You get your ultimate power, and I get my friend back- fair trade, noble, it makes a great story. But if you just take it and scram, then you’ll forever have that power stained with his blood, forever.
Lilith stared blankly at Emmett in disbelief.
“Think about it.” Emmett finally dashed out of the bathroom. As he made his way down the hallway towards the stairwell leading to the basement, he couldn’t help but think to himself: “I don’t think I’ve bullshitted anything that hard in my life.”
The basement level was dark, lit only by lamps hanging from the ceiling whose bulbs hadn’t been changed for years, causing them to flicker and periodically dim. The musty air smelled of mold and the walls and ceiling were trailed with rusty pipes whose purpose has been long forgotten. The place was void of separate rooms, only having concrete pillars to support the infrastructure. The entire area was blanketed in dust, save for a large trail that had been swept through, leading all the way to Valdrina and Aidan, who had dragged him all the way to the corner of the basement.
Valdrina was on top of Aidan, who was laying on the floor. Her pencil skirt was ridden up, the middle of her panties pulled aside to make way for his towering member to enter her pussy. She forcefully bounced on top of Aidan as she grabbed his broad shoulders, allowing her slick insides to reave his sensitive dick. Aidan simply sat back with a vacant, happy expression, staring into Valdrina’s eyes, which were alight with joy.
“And they said humans were no fun,” she quipped to herself, stifling sly laughter as she enjoyed the immenseness of his size within her. As she ravaged him up and down she squealed with delight as she began to feel his cock pulse and throb within her.
“Ah, ah, ah, ah” Aidan whimpered out as Valdrina enjoyed his cock. Aidan’s entranced vision began to lower, and his grin widened as his eyes met Valdrina’s large breasts, bursting out the fabric of blouse, the buttons on her shirt holding on for dear life.
“Oh, you like these, my little puppet?” She unbuttoned her shirt and simply thrust her torso forward, her massive bosom doing the rest of the work as her shirt torn open, allowing her large, meaty breasts to bounce forward within her lacey black bra.
“Booos..” Aidan dribbled out with a look of awe on his face.
“That’s right…” Valdrina sang out, as she grasped the back of Aidan’s head. She pushed his face into her breasts and bounced on his dick even harder and faster. She pressed his head into her chest, allowing him to snuggle in between her glorious mounds. Aidan himself began to rhythmically thrust his hips upwards in an attempt to sate his evolving lust as Valdrina enveloped his face within her breasts.
“Uh-huh, uh, uh!” Aidan moaned out as his penis pulsed intensely inside her as he continued to push his cock upwards as she came down, intensifying the pleasant force of Aidan’s rock-hard flesh crashing into her insides. Valdrina went cross-eyed as the force of his cock sent shockwaves of ecstasy up her body.
“Humans are more fun than I thought!” she screeched. “Oh, oh, oh, yes, yes!” she chanted, possessed by the girth of Aidan’s cock decimating her insides as she plunged down upon him.
“Ooo-ooo-raahh!” Aidan roared. Valdrina felt his dick pulsate wildly, its whole size throbbing against her sensitive walls. She shrieked and yipped as she raised her arms into the air and accelerated her movements on Aidan’s cock one more time, frantically hammering her hips onto Aidan. He enjoyed the view of her breasts bouncing madly in front of his face, and finally, Aidan roared one final time: “Raaaaahh!”
Valdrina’s eyes flitted uncontrollably as she felt the geyser of cum rush against her insides, along with his cock pulsing, shooting the white liquid into her with every intense beat. Aidan, however, suddenly fell back, unconscious, slightly startling Valdrina.
“Oh,” she said with a cringe. “I guess he really is just good for cum.” Valdrina stood up, allowing Aidan’s cock to fall out helplessly. She readjusted her skirt and panties and buttoned her blouse. She looked over her shoulder. “Did you enjoy watching me do that to your friend, little pervert?”
Emmett revealed himself as he walked out from behind one of the pillars. “No, not really. I’m more into the consensual stuff myself,” he taunted. His knees were shivering at the sight of the monstrous woman.
“What a great guy you are, so noble,” Valdrina sneered.
“No, well, actually, I needed you to finish, to prove a point.”
“The only point you’re about to prove is how fragile your bones are.” Valdrina readied one of her claws, her scarlet nails growing instantly.
“Oh, but we wouldn’t want the Witches and Justicars to find a dead body down here, especially after you already let one escape.”
“You humans continue to surprise me-”
“Yup, we’re an exciting bunch of skeletons encased in flesh.”
“Yes, your friend had a cock so large, I actually enjoyed absorbing his powerful seed. And you, you’re so naive that you’ve confronted me without a single defense. And that witch won’t be an issue…” Valdrina presented the fanged wand she stole from Lilith. “Thanks to your little witch friend, the downfall of her meddlesome coven is at hand. I can use this to find their magical hiding place and then we can overrun this city.”
“Right, it’s a good plan. Especially since you’re all powered up now, with descendant cum.”
Valdrina’s confident expression faded into serious thought. “What are you getting at?”
“I, mean, do you feel any more powerful? Magic is a lot of… feeling stuff, isn’t it?”
Valdrina brows furrowed in confusion. She looked at her hands and clenched them into fists. Her puzzlement soon morphed into fury. “What did you do, you dirty trickster?” she growled out slowly.
“I didn’t do anything, but you should take a look at your spell tracer again.”
She squinted at Emmett in confusion, but soon, with Emmett’s words, she was made aware of the small wisps of ghost blue energy emanating from the tips of the fanged wand she held. The trail of energy wavered directly towards Emmett.
Even Emmett grinned at the revelation, now sure that Lilith was right. An excitement well up in his chest, now knowing that some kind of magic lay dormant within him. However, his eyes met Valdrina’s, which were now surging with rage. The excitement froze over with a swift wave of chilling terror.
“Fuck my ass,” Emmett groaned. He dashed towards the stairwell.
Valdrina’s hair erupted into long crimson strands that smashed against the floor, raising her up and allowing her to jump with great force towards Emmett, flinging herself. She impacted Emmett as he neared the entrance of the stairwell. Valdrina tumbled across the floor with Emmett attached to her as she gripped his entire body with her mighty strength. He groaned as the searing pain tore up his body, but the adrenaline allowed him to stave off the anguish. But Valdrina was soon on top of him, grinning viciously.
“Little human, your cum will be mine.” She retracted her claws and went for his pants. However, she suddenly paused as Emmett presented something that was in his hand. It was a small, white, plastic handle. On it were the words “PULL DOWN.” Valdrina looked behind her. Near the entrance of the stairwell was a fire alarm, its handle snapped off.
“You little-” she started, but she was interrupted by the deafening screech of the fire alarm, which was accompanied by a sudden downpour of water. The shower drenched her hair, causing it to become heavy and tangle up, draping all around her and Emmett. As Valdrina is startled by the onslaught of water, Emmett used the opening to slide out from under her, running across the room.
“Wrong way, you stupid monkey!” Valdrina taunted as she shot up and retracted her hair back into its short form. In a swift motion, she lunged after Emmett. But in the knick of time, Emmett jumped out of the way, causing her to crash into the wall with a large, wet, “splat!” As she tumbled down the wall, she spied something that caused her eyes to widen in fear: an exposed wire. As she made contact, the electricity surged through Valdrina’s wet body, causing her to shriek in pain as she convulsed and seized up.
“I told Jenna this place wasn’t up to code,” Emmett quipped as he dashed back up the stairs.
Emmett rushed up the stairs with frantic steps, absolutely jetting down the hallway, which was now slippery with sprinkler water. He stumbled here and there, catching himself with crazed half-steps and almost smashing against the walls, but he pressed on. Yet even as he was halfway down, he could see the image of Valdrina sauntering up the steps as he glanced behind him. “Shit.” He used the full might of his completely average athleticism to run faster, fueling himself with the terrifying thought of what the enraged demon would do to him now. Valdrina began her own mad dash, gaining distance on Emmett fast, totally able to ignore the wet floor as her feet smashed the ground with every step. But soon, as Emmett neared the next stairwell, he could hear the rustle and bustle of the students rushing out of class, reacting to the blaring fire alarm and complaining about the sprinklers.
As Emmett was halfway up the steps, he could spy Valdrina at the base of the stairwell already. But as he made his way up, he was filled with relief as he could now see the crowd of students leaving class, many of them rushing out and using their notebooks and bags as protection against the sprinklers. Emmett lunged forward to meet the crowd but suddenly felt a hand on his ankle pulling him down.
“I have you now, descendant!” Valdrina hissed.
“Help!” Emmett screamed as pathetically as possible. Several students from the crowd looked back towards him with worry, with some running to his aid.
“You okay, man?” one asked, extending his hand out.
“Yeah, slipped on the water…” Emmett glanced behind him; Valdrina was gone. He proceeded to grab the student’s hand and stood up. “Thanks, bro.” He was visibly distraught and exhausted.
“You, uh, okay?” the student started as he began to walk away. “What were you doing down there?”
Emmett gulped. “I was checking on… the basement… for… something.” That was the best he had as he was on the spot.
The student eyed him up and down in bewilderment. “Uh, okay, man.” The students simply continued, and Emmett followed, becoming lost in the crowd.
Valdrina raced back to the basement level, returning to the corner of the room. However, her eyes widened with rage as she realized Aidan was no longer there. She sniffed furiously at the air. “That… little witch…” She seethed with anger coursing through her being, her body trembling as she clenched her fists at her sides. “Took my goddamned dinner.” Valdrina paced about the room, thinking of how to proceed.
“I cannot just go back to the Blackrift now,” she murmured to herself. “Not after I told Elrin off like that.” As she walked about in contemplation, something peaked her ears. She looked up at the ceiling, and soon her devilish smile returned to her.
Emmett followed the crowd of students out onto the courtyard, where they all began to disperse towards their dorms. He noticed dark, grey clouds rolling overhead. Students complained and whined as they felt a light drizzle in the air, especially annoying after the sprinklers had doused them completely.
Emmett’s heart was beating fast, his mind racing about Aidan’s safety. He hoped with all his might that Lilith was done with her potion. Emmett whisked his head about every which way, looking for any sign of Jenna. He quickly tore his phone out of his pocket: 6 missed calls, and 16 missed texts, all from Jenna. With a frantic thumb, he dialed Jenna’s number.
“Emmett! Where are you?” Jenna immediately answered, exasperated.
He suddenly realized that he couldn’t just tell Jenna all of this. He paused to think.
“Hello? You there?” Jenna pressed.
“Yeah, I am, just… it’s been crazy.” He didn’t even know what he was going to refer to as “crazy.”
“Oh my god, you were right, then!” she exclaimed, worried. “I’m by the bus stop- I ran out as soon as the alarm went off… wait, was that you?”
“Yeah, I’ll tell you all about it later,” Emmett replied with zero confidence.
“This sounds serious…” she fretted. Emmett couldn’t help but feel guilty for keeping her out of the loop. “What’s happening? Where are you?”
“You catch the next bus, I still have some business to take care of.”
“Is Aidan okay?”
“God, I hope so,” Emmett said unconsciously, thinking of if Lilith had acted accordingly.
“What?” she shouted.
“Uh, I have to go! See you later.” he cringed and hung up. “Oh jeez.” he groaned to himself. “How the fuck am I going to explain this.”
Suddenly, the ground shook beneath him. He was frazzled by the sudden movement- although the area gets the occasional earthquake, something about this shockwave felt localized, as if something was moving underneath the very earth he was standing on. Slowly, the realization hit him. The ground beneath him began to quake harder, and he could finally feel that something under the ground was coming closer and closer to the surface. Finally, clumps of grass and dirt erupted out from under him, as he could see a split frame of a hand jutting out from the earth. He screamed out in terror and tumbled backward as Valdrina shot up through the ground, landing right on top of Emmett. Her deep red hair was clustered and spiraled into a cone-shape, towering into the air from her head, creating an improvised drill. She relaxed her hair tendrils back down to her sides.
“Storm’s coming, boy. The humans have scattered,” her tendrils shot at Emmett with lightning speed, wrapping around his arms. She gingerly lifted him into the air above her head, decidedly more gentle than before now that Valdrina knew of his worth. Another tendril gently came forward, pulling Emmett’s pants down, revealing his soft, limp dick.
“Tsk, tsk, not so hard in front of such a beautiful woman, are we?” she teased.
Although he admitted to himself that Valdrina was very attractive, it was the least of his worries right now. He gritted his teeth in defiance, but Valdrina simply responded with snickers at his futility. She finally stuck her tongue out, which was pointed at the end. Emmett’s eyes widened as her tongue gradually began to lengthen, turning into a pink, slippery tentacle protruding from her mouth. She grinned slyly. Emmett’s dick chubbed up a bit at the sight, anticipating what she was about to do to him as the tongue approached. She snickered again as she saw the effect of her power.
Soon the long tongue slithered around Emmett’s half-soft cock. He felt the warm, spongy tendril slither around his shaft, the soft point tickling at his sensitive skin.
“Oh… shit.” he moaned out unconsciously. Valdrina smiled wider. His penis began to engorge and lengthen within the grasp of her demon tongue. Soon it swirled around his dick with a tender, yet comfortably firm grasp. The soft, sponginess of her tongue and the warmth of the moistness send a wave of hot sensations up to his chest. Finally, the spiral tongue completely cocooned his whole length, the wet, fleshy texture now wrapped about his whole cock. Valdrina gave out another short, sexy laugh and she pulled her tongue in, the smooth spongy flesh of the wrap sliding back over his cock. The tongue then tensed, sliding back into this cock. The hot moist rubbing of her spiraling tongue sent numbing shivers up Emmett’s spine- it was a feeling he had never felt before. She proceeded to rub his cock, sliding her spiraled tongue back and forth on Emmett’s dick. His heart pounded with excitement and his eyes rolled back into his head as his dick pulsed within her tongue trap.
Finally, Valdrina’s eyes widened, giving out a sharp squeak. Her tongue receded, revealing dribbling pre-cum on Emmett’s dick tip. Valdrina swallowed, and her grin cracked up her face with a violent joy. “I-I can taste it!” she stuttered among her sharp, screeching words. “It’s magnificent, it sweetly tingles down my throat just so!” With her tendrils, she raised Emmett above her further, aiming his hard flesh protrusion right at her face. Suddenly, he was thrust into her, his cock rushing right into her mouth. Soon, she was voraciously thrusting Emmett back and forth into her own face. The hot, rapid sliding about Valdrina’s mouth sent a burning sensation through Emmett’s body. However, he soon felt the familiar plateau he once felt with Lilith.
“Y-you know,” he stuttered. “I already came really hard today. There’s no way I’ll cum hard like that again.” Valdrina’s eyes narrowed, her slyness unwavering. She popped Emmett out of her mouth.
“You know nothing of my dark powers, boy,” she chided as Emmett wore a worried face. “I can control you like a puppet, just as that witch did to your pathetic little friend. Her powers are only a pale imitation of my own!” Valdrina, with her sharp finger, touched a single finger to Emmett’s head. Suddenly, everything was black once again.
Emmett woke up in the place he expected to be in, the white corridor. Only this time, Valdrina towered in front of him, menacingly.
“A very neat mind-space for a human,” she taunted. “But it’s no matter to me, your mind is mine!”
Emmett’s eyes were wide with fear, but with a sharp and sudden instinct, his body moved. He shot his arm back and grasped the golden doorknob of the black door. With one, swift motion, he swung the door open before Valdrina, now guarding behind the wood. Valdrina, startled by the move, leaped back. However, her face turned pale, and her eyes widened with absolute fear. Her pupils wavered and her crimson hair fell limp. She stood there, stiff. Emmett watched in wonder at the effect the opened door had, though he could see nothing was happening. Valdrina was only looking at whatever the door revealed, and Emmett could only be thankful that he was not witnessing whatever horror was in there if it was terrifying enough to paralyze a demon.
Valdrina continued to step back. “No…” she whimpered. “This is… impossible.” The curiosity burned within Emmett, but Lilith’s warning of things behind locked doors echoed in his mind, stopping him. Soon, a cloud of thick, black smoke began to sift out of the doorway.
“No! Please, close it!” Valdrina turned to run. But as soon she moved, the black smoke erupted from the gateway, completely overtaking Valdrina as a vicious howl echoed throughout the corridor, followed by her sharp screams. The smoke shot forward with a violent torrent, the thick, rapidly billowing swirls madly filling the hallway for as far as Emmett could see. The door was now pushing against Emmett as a strong force emanated from the gateway. Now terrified himself, Emmett pushed against the door with all his strength. Slowly it gave way, the door gradually closing and the wood cutting into the violent steam of dark smoke. Finally, the smoke was completely blocked, only now gushing out through the small opening. Emmett did his best to dodge it as it was forced out, looking away with tightly shut eyes, his shoulder pressing against the wood. Finally, he heard a click: it was closed.
Emmett opened his eyes. He was back in the courtyard, on the ground, suddenly feeling a stinging pain in his spine. He looked up at Valdrina. She was panting in place, her figure was stiff with a wide-eyed expression simply looking outward at nothing. Her chest was heaving, her confident expression banished, and her hair tendrils now sorrowfully strewn about the ground around her. Her head finally swung down, her mad eyes meeting Emmett.
The rain came down harder on the two. Thunder began to rumble in the sky above them, visible lightning streaked across. “You see…” Valdrina started in a low groan. “You’re an insect… a coward… you… you are a human,” she sneered, her sharp words penetrating through the hard drumming of the rainfall. Emmett was indeed out of moves. He wriggled backward in the mud with fear, not knowing that Valdrina would survive that. “You rely on dirty tricks… while I…” she held her hand up, but struggled as her shaky fingers finally made a fist. More thunder resounded in the air, the rumbling noise and quick flashes of lightning startling Emmett as he was witnessing what might be his last sights. “…I rely on the strength I’ve cultivated.” She held her arms open. “We are survivors, human. I am..” her hairs slowly began to levitate into the air again. Her talons shot out of her fingertips, and she made a stance, ready to lunge at Emmett. “I am a survivor!” she screeched into the air. The sky roared with thunder once more.
As her words ended, a bolt streamed down from the heavens, and in one instant burst, a pure, white pillar of lightning came straight down on Valdrina. She screamed with a bloody, curdling cry, as the immense white flash enveloped the entire courtyard, a deep, ear-shattering roar of pure power radiating through the air. Emmett was launched away by the force of the impact, landing in more mud. The pillar of electric energy continued to stream down on the demon, Emmett only seeing a faint silhouette of the monstrous woman through his squinting eyes, which strained to keep open under the powerful light. Valdrina continued to screech with pain as the electricity seared into her, and the explosive rumbling continued to resound into the atmosphere. Finally, the thunderous pillar began to shrink, quickly centering around Valdrina’s blackened figure. The intense light subsided back into the night, and to Emmett’s awe and surprise, the sky was absolutely void of clouds.
Valdrina, charred and weakened, her hair burned to ash, and her frame now twisted, fell to one knee. She was hoarsely panting for life. She slowly turned to her behind to finally see her assailant, and Emmett’s jaw dropped in awe. Levitating slowly towards them with her arms out, Lilith’s eyes were surging with power, cracking with bright, violet energy. Lightning sparked from her fingertips, zipping and shooting out every which way around her. Though the sight of her was powerful, it was obvious she was not used to this amount of energy being within her, her expression slightly strained and furious.
“You’re still not dead?” Lilith shouted at her, rage coursing through her words.
“Y-you… can’t… can’t… kill me… you pathetic witch,” Valdrina coughed out. Suddenly, the space next to Valdrina began to twist, the image of the grass swirled and distorted. Black sparks emitted from the distortion and finally, the space ripped open, revealing a swirling, dark vortex. “Not yet!” Valdrina shouted with the last of her energy. Out of the shadows of the vortex stepped a short, young woman, wearing a white, floral gown, fastened by a white ribbon at her waist. Her hair was long and grey, and her expression was quite calm for what she was seeing.
“I’m not finished yet!” Valdrina screeched.
Lilith charged more electric power in her palm, pointing it towards Valdrina and the newcomer. In a swift move, the young woman grabbed Valdrina, and large, leathery, white wings sprouted from her back in a quick burst, sending a shockwave of air throughout the area, blasting Lilith back, causing her aim to waver. A bolt of lightning shot out from Lilith’s fingertips, but it narrowly missed the young woman and struck a tree instead, the wood crackling and snapping, causing it to fall with a harsh thud on the grass. The young woman smiled.
“Goodbye,” she whispered in a soft, sweet tone. The vortex suddenly closed around the two, and in a single instant, they were gone.
The dancing lightning energy around Lilith slowly weakened as she slowly lowered herself to the ground. Emmett used all of his strength to get back up, running towards Lilith.
“You… got Aidan?.” Emmett coughed out as he stumbled towards her.
“Yeah, he’s fine.”
Emmett smiled and reeled over with his hands on his knees. He didn’t know what was surging up from his body now: vomit or relief. “Thanks,” he rattled out through his exhaustion.
“Yeah, now I have ‘peace of mind’.” Lilith let loose a small grin.
Emmett chuckled back at her. “See?” He pondered whether or not he should tell her that he just made all of that up on the spot, but he quickly let it go. “They go away.”
“They’re slippery,” she reassured. “She’ll be back. But now we’re ready.”
“So mission accomplished then?”
“Yeah… not bad,” Lilith replied coldly still. She looked Emmett up and down. “I never got your name.”
Emmett suddenly realized that. His grin suddenly turned to laughter. “Are you kidding me? We fucked, and we didn’t even exchange names.”
Lilith snickered as well. “We were in a rush.” She held her hand out. “Lilith Yang.”
Emmett grabbed her hand firmly and shook it. “Emmett Grimm.”
Suddenly, Lilith squinted at Emmett. “You okay?”
“What, I’m fi-” Emmett’s words trailed off and he fell forward, blacked out once again.