Braving the Elements(46)

“Don’t want to,” I muttered back, preparing for something awful, though I wasn’t sure what.
“What did you say?” the White Mage asked, cocking his head and clutching the corner of his cape.
I didn’t get a chance to answer. The block ripped away, the creatures mind trying to attach to mine at the same minute.
This was my chance. I sucked in with all my ability, the sweet rush of pure magic filling me to the brim. The warning spikes prickled my skin just as the demon tried to grasp ahold of my lifeblood.
Usually, I’d settle for red power level, like this cursed monster, just to keep things in check. I couldn’t do that now and live. I had to rise above the White Mage in power, because he could beat the hell out of me in actual knowledge.
My palm struck out, the spell to encase the monster in a protective box in my mind. I’d always blown things up when I did this; I figured I’d continue on that road now. A dose of pure black shot out of my palm, eating the dim light as it coalesced around the demon, encasing the monster like it was supposed to.
Except I’d been trying to blow it up.
“Damn it!” I yelled. “Now it works? What the hell?”
“Not possible,” Trek breathed.
“It is true, then—I hadn’t been sure,” Andris murmured.#p#分页标题#e#
My lower cheeks tingled.
I dove to the side, narrowly missing Andris’s grab, willing strength into my shaking body.
Let’s try that again.
Using red this time, I did the same spell; only this time, got the desired result. Not only that, but it fed off the magic already there like kerosene.
BOOM!
Small cracks worked through the ceiling. A huge hole developed in the ground.
“It’s not possible!” Trek screamed.
“Myth my ass, you egotistical jerk!” I yelled back, rolling against the wall and feeling for earth and fire. Letting loose some previously failed attempts at charms and spells, I blasted red in every direction, feeling out the earth in the land around the basement we occupied. Sure enough, five plants burst through the walls, huge and angry, cement and wood crumbling inward. Vines and giant green leaves, clutching like hands with no fingers, reached.
“What the—“ Andris cut off, wide eyed at the monstrous plants.
Every eye in that room, that wasn’t occupied with a green thing, turned to me. Yup, the freak had arrived, and even though she didn’t have a clue as to what she was doing, she still managed to blow shit up!
“I’ve got more!” I yelled, summoning back the black. Mayhem was the name of the game until Stefan could get in here and figure a way out.
I threw my palm out, aiming at two men running at me with swords, and tried to fling them backwards. Instead, they gagged, waving their arms in front of their faces like it smelled bad, but kept coming.
“Damn it!” I said again. Why were the spells working now when before they always went haywire?
My butt tingled again. No time to figure it out. I took off running, my eyes searching for a way out.
“Grab her! I need her!” the White Mage screamed.
I dodged a green vine groping into the room and threw another blast of red toward three vicious looking guys running at me with determination. I hit an ugly couch.
Boom!
The couch shot airborne in the blast, two chairs went sideways. The three men got swept up in a breeze like Mary Poppins. Above them, the ceiling made ominous creaking noises, dirt starting to drizzle.
Another blast rocked the room, only this time, it came from above, where Stefan was. He was trying to get down to us.
“Hurry Stefan,” I pleaded, dodging a jet of pure white.
“Get her!” the White Mage screamed again. “We’ve got to get out of here before this place caves!”
Butt tingle.
I turned to my right just as a monster with bear claws burst through the only exit I could see. It narrowly missed me, and now I had to sprint back into the room, the putrid smell of rot following me. That warning butt pucker had me trying to turn left, but there were more people that way. Huge men with glowing swords had me surrounded, trying to corner the human.
My insides screamed to run just as a glowing white box surrounded me. I swore, tears in my eyes. I didn’t know how to get out.
Andris strode toward me as white bands wrapped around my middle.
“She’s strong, but she doesn’t know her craft!” Trek said, running toward the door. “Keep her confined and bring her with me.”
Another explosion sounded above. A massive groan splintered the ceiling. Dirt and debris rained down. Popping and cracks sounded off before a giant chunk of ceiling fell, landing right in front of Trek, making him dive out of the way.
Andris stopped right next to me, staring wide-eyed at the crumbling ceiling.