At the house
Durgaso was tending to the front lawn with the severed arm of a kissiae, the nymphs that control plants, when he heard someone approaching. He quickly put away the arm and drew out a birch rod that was tipped with an aquamarine crystal. He looked at who was advancing and was surprised to see Evan.
"Hello, Evan." Durgaso said.
"Hi, grandpa." Evan said.
"Why have you come back?"
"To talk to you."
"About what?"
"What is that thing?"
"What?"
"In your hand."
"A wand."
"Well, back to what I was saying. I want to make a deal with you."
"What kind of deal?"
"If you let Kasey and I leave, we'll leave you alone forever."
Durgaso's grin made him look like he was Satan himself, "You see the problem with that is, I can take both of you by force at any time."
"We'll see. HEDERA!"
A circle of dandelions grew and around Durgaso's feet.
"What is this!" Durgaso demanded. He raised his wand and it started to glow, but it sparked and the crystal shattered.
"They stop you from using your magic." Kasey said as she, Jorgo, Hedera, Elmas and Kurus stepped out of hiding.
"Clever children." he said, back to his charismatic tone of voice. "Very well, you may leave."
"Oh we aren't leaving." Kasey said. "You are."
"Darling Kasey, the lengths you go to protect your brother havee always made me smile. But trying taking over this preserve can be dangerous for not only you, but him."
"Don't use my name."
"Why, Kasey?"
"That name doesn't fit me anymore, I think I'll change it."
"To what, Kasey?"
"I said don't use that name!"
"What do you want me to call you then, Kasey?"
"Don't call me Kasey!" Kasey yelled. A lustrous ball of white energy appeared in her hand and flew straight at Durgaso but before it reached him, green tendrils of energy intercepted it. The tendrils faltered and the dandelions slowly decayed until they were all dead.
"Stupid girl." Durgaso said with a sick laugh. He took out an orb that was made of what looked like solid blood. "I will kill you children and your fairy friends."
"How did you..." Kasey said.
"Those little flowers can be broken both ways. I knew you could break through them for me. If I made you mad enough."
"Well that just means that instead of being exile, you'll be killed."
Kasey lunged backward and sent showers of sparks at Durgaso, who held up the red orb and conjured up a crimson shield to block them. Hedera sent vines that wound in and out of the ground but they whithered and cracked apart. Jorgo's horn turned into a battle axe and he went in to attack Durgaso but a thick, silver liquid ripped its way out of his arm and cut holes into him like it a solid knife and not a liquid, which Kasey recognized as blood. Kasey tried to send white electric bolts at Durgaso but before she could make them, Durgaso sent her flying backwards. Elmas summoned a diamond bow and made diamond arrows materialize whenever she needed them but the arrows she fired, oddly, flew away from Durgaso before they hit him. Kurus tried to fight Durgaso up close but most of the time she was conjuring copper shields that kept Durgaso's attacks from hitting anyone in the heroes' group. Jorgo healed his injuries with one of his horns but it flew out of his hand and Durgaso turned it into a raven the size of a horse that went to intercept Elmas's arrows and try to stop Kurus from putting her shields up but Jorgo sent a beam of white energy to the bird that turned it back into a horn.
Hedera made the roots of a tree come up from the ground and they nearly would've speared Durgaso if he hadn't stepped aside. Hedera then made a dozen roses with stems as tall as palm trees and thorns as long as swords. Hedera made all of the thorns fly at Durgaso, one after another, but only on hit him, in his arm. A poppy that was as big as a house sprouted from the ground and leaned down over Durgaso, spilling pollen. Durgaso held the orb up and a shield of crimson that not only intercepted the pollen, but stopped a volley of diamond arrows and a flying axe;was put up around him.
Evan looked at the battle and wished he could help. He was supposed to be unstoppable but he didn't even know how to use his powers. He thought of Dolleno and how he died, not only because he wanted to but, because he wanted to help Evan. That's when it happened. He became a four-legged creature with black fur that had occasional markings that looked like sound waves, long teeth, claws sharper than an adamant dagger and the desire to kill the man who had ruined his family.
A piercing screech filled the air.