Dark steam rose from the wolf. A shadow began to cover his body. At that moment Lola knew that it was working. She looked over her shoulder and saw Lalita staring up at the eye in the sky. “Odiamus. Lord oh mighty. Please spare the girl.” She heard her mother say. The god of darkness wanted Lola. The girl had no further desire to stay in Necrovania. Whatever she was wanted for she knew it was for unpleasant reasons. It’s not the first time she breaks the rules.
Dougal’s body began to change. His legs grew longer as well as his arms. The magic of the moon stones quickly absorbed the Gargoriff fiend inside Dougal. The shadows released Dougal and just like new he was a human again. He was naked with only torn pants covering his groin. He was weak and coughed blood dreadfully. Lola burst with tears seeing him as a human again. His blond hair and olive skin. He could not stand up. Lola caresses his face and kissed him. His eyes watered. Dougal was bony and could barely lift his arms. “Lola my love.” He said coldly and heavily. Too weak to speak. Lola carried him with both arms. She flapped her wings and ascended. “Mother come with me.” She yelled.
“No my dear. I will only bring trouble. Leave this place at once you don’t belong here.” Lalita said.
Lola’s cried and yelled “I will be back I promise.”
“Knowing that you are still alive fills my heart.” Lalita said.
“I love you mother.”
“I love you my dear.”
Lola flew away rapidly. The winds in Necrovania gusted strongly. With Dougal in her arms she flew away from the Nephim hills and onto the forest of naked trees. She glanced over her right wing and saw a ray of light coming from the colossal eye in the sky striking her mother. Lola closed her eyes full of tears and flew as fast as she could. I will return mother. This is not the end.
Lola prayed to Omegus that the portal from which she came was open. Shastih would not leave her trap in Necrovania. Suddenly a titan hand came down with its palm wide open. Lola spun and casted razor winds upon the titan hand. She wounded it and it returned back to the dark skies. “I will not die here” she told herself.
Abruptly more titan hands came down from the dark sky, this time they were wrinkled and bony with claws. Lola’s heart hammered her chest. She had never flown with so many obstacles in her way. She dodged the titan hands. They were all trying to capture her. She dived and then rose again. She swooped up and down. One hand after the other tried to capture her. Like a sparrow flying away from the talons of an eagle. Lola had no place to hide. If she hides between the naked trees, she would not be able to fly and would slow her down. The dark magus persisted and flew around each titan hand.
Lola saw a hand from above cast a spell. It launched a ball of fire. Lola smiled and extended her rod while holding Dougal with one arm. It was an enormous fire ball much large than her exploda spell. Like the sun zooming in on her. Lola’s rod glowed red. She swung it and released an energy wave. A line of red energy flew horizontally and cleaved the fire ball in half. Lola flew right between the two halves. She passed the forest of naked trees and onto the wastelands where she first came. She thought that the titan hands would stop chasing her but when she glanced over her right wing they continued to chase her. “What do they want from me?”
Finally she saw it. The portal from which she came. A window into the human world hovering over the sky. Yes, almost there. Just a little more, Dougal. It is almost over. As she descended down to the portal, she heard a shriek from above. She glanced back and saw an enormous gargoyle ten times her size. It swooped down from the dark skies at her. Her heart pounded and sweat damped her forehead. Lola plummets down like an eagle to its prey. The wind whistled over her ears.
Once she reached the ground, she flew into the portal and with a blinding flash she was back in the human world.
She spreads her wings in the small room. She placed Dougal on the wooden floor. She spun around trying to find Shastih. In the corner of the room by the door she saw him on the floor bleeding from his mouth and a hole in his chest. A fiend with fleshy wings lied dead just before him. “No! Shastih.” Lola shook his body but he would not respond. He was completely gone. How could her teacher have died? How did he fail to defend himself? “No! Shastih. Not you.” She cried.
Then Lola heard a shriek again. It was from the same beast that chased her. She looked through the portal and saw the beast gaining in. “I have to close the portal. But how?” She asked herself. Only Shastih knew how to open and close the portal. That is why he had stayed behind. Then something switched in Lola’s mind.
The stones. The stones contained dark mana. That is what was keeping the portal open. “Pikan Fahiah!” Lola shot a bullet of flames at a hematite stones and it shattered. She noticed that the portal window shrank. Lola then destroyed the stones all over the room. Onyx stones and hematite stones filled with dark mana. Little by little the portal shrank and before the gargoyle could enter the human world, the portal had fully close.
Lola fell to her knees and sights with tremendous relief. She dragged herself to Dougal and rests her head on his chest and cried. She was so tired. She just wanted to fall asleep. Her dark form contracted and she was back to normal again. Her eyes were green again and her fangs disappeared.
She finally saw her mother. Dougal was human again. No more of that dreadful wolf form. Shastih, her teacher of the dark arts was dead. “I guess you can’t have it all.” She told herself.
Dougal coughed heavily as Lola lied on top of him. She got off him and flipped his body. Dougal began to vomit. He vomited a puddle of blood on the wooden floor and then the three stones that released him from his curse. He continued to coughed blood and was unable to push himself up. He was too weak. Lola helped him lie on his back and cradle his head. Blood crimsoned her black dress that her mother had given her with dark magic. Lola picked up the three stones and inside the stones she notice a fluid. It was like capsule and the Galgoriff fiend was stuck inside one of the stones. “Good riddance. I think I will keep you as a trophy” she said looking at the spirit of the wolf trapped inside the moon stone.
“You did it Lola.” Dougal said, his voice so low and tire. Lola sniffed and hugged him.
“I missed you so much” she sobbed. “Let’s get you to bed. You need a lot of rest. I will make you some tea.
The next day Lola and Dougal buried Shastih. They also burned the fiend that had killed Shastih. They engraved his name on a tombstone. They took supplies for their journey back to the capital city and had made love the night before they left. Lola was in pure bliss to have felt Dougal’s flesh again. Their naked bodies pressing against each other in the dark.
Lola carried the grimoire in a travel pack. Dougal carried food and water. They headed north to Centra, the capital city of Alexandria.
“What will you do now? Do you know of someone else that can read the grimoire?” Dougal asked Lola.
“I am going to find a way to bring my mother to the human world. I will learn to the read the language of the dragons.” She answered.
“You never get tired of danger do you.” Dougal said.
“Not as long as it means having those I love with.” She replied.
Fiends continued to chase Lola in the human world. Wherever she goes, fiends followed her. She was always ready to face them and now with a much powerful helping hand. She wanted to become more powerful so that one day she could enter Necrovania at will. She wanted to become more powerful so that one day she could defeat the all powerful Alexanders.
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