The beauty of The Beast-
chapter one: Babymagic begins
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Zatanna Zatara hit the ground hard, making it near impossible to move as another thing was sent flying at her.
She wasn't quite sure HOW she did it, but she managed to roll away just in time to avoid a flying tree branch.
The person hurling things at her was the boy-witch, Klarion, himself. She looked around for some help- but no one seemed to be coming to her aid.
Figures.
The justice league had no idea where she was or what she was doing. She'd left in the dead of night after receiving a strange message regarding her father, telling her to come to a certain location, but upon arrival, she fell straight into an ambush.
And what's worse- she'd rejected the SMART notion to actually bring someone along, and now she was in a deep fight for her life, which seemed to want to end in her death nonetheless.
Also, she couldn't even defend herself using magic. He'd made sure to cast a spell that took away her mystic abilities- which, not only made her somewhat weaker, but extremely peeved off.
"Oh, what's wrong, Babymagic?" he asked in his nasally, immature voice, which also held a certain tone of mockery and sadism, "Oops, sorry. That's No-magic now."
She pushed herself roughly to her feet. "Shut up, Klarion. You're giving me a headache."
Zatanna was forced to dodge again as, this time, a large knife was hurled at her.
He whispered a small incantation.,"Diabolus, hostis meus, ut explodere caput tuum, et vade."
(translated: "Fiend, my foe, make thy head explode, go.")
"So, let's see if I can make your head explode."
Zataan felt a sharp pain strike her head, forcing her to her knees. She closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. She felt like she was about to explode!
"Desine!" She cried aloud, desperately.
("Cease!")
Nothing happened.
Klarion chuckled at her desperate attempt with magic. He sighed, loosening his grip on the spell, much to Klarion's disappointment. "I can't kill you yet. That would spoil everything."
He shook his head in annoyance. "But it's no fun this way, is it?"
She rolled her eyes at his childishness. She ducked a new incantation- a fire incantation.
She may not have magic at the moment, but that didn't make her completely useless. She could still fight.
She flung herself into the air, trying an airborne kick to his face. It struck, but unfortunately, so did he- right into her side with raging lightning.
The electric shock rendered her unconscious, making her fall to the ground with a thud.
Klarion landed right beside her helpless body.
No. Not hard in the least.