Chapter 6: A Vision of Help
"No, can't say we did," David said.
"Don't be so bitter," Nexell said. "You're minutes from death, enjoy your last moments of life."
"Run!" Millie ordered, spiraling a gust of wind at him, hurling him into a wall. Charles and Jordan darted up the stairs. Annie, Sabrina, and David ran down the basement stairs. Nexell threw Millie against the wall with his telekinetic powers. She landed on the ground, unconscious. He grinned and blinked to the basement.
"Behind you!" Annie yelled to David. David turned around just in time to see Nexell wave his arm and send David flying across the gym. "David!" Sabrina shot a beam of light out, but Nexell deflected it. He formed an energy ball and threw it at her. She made a force field, which sent it back at him.
"Annie, get out of here!" Sabrina cried out.
"Not without you," Annie replied, grabbing a sword and running toward the warlock.
"Annie, no!" Nexell threw an energy ball at Annie, sending her to the other side of the gym with a burn wound on her stomach. "No!" Sabrina sent another beam of light at Nexell .
"Give it up, Sabrina," he said. Sabrina ran over to Annie's fallen body. By this time, David was starting to wake up. Nexell started to follow Sabrina over to Annie. David quickly ran over to the weapons.
"Hey!" David yelled. He held up a pistol that he had found on a wall of weapons. He shot it and hit the warlock through the chest. Nexell looked down at the hole in his chest and smiled.
"That won't work," Nexell said. "We warlocks can't be killed with physical weapons like that."
"Dad!" Sabrina yelled. A moment later, Robert appeared in a mass of blue orbs. He observed the surroundings and quickly knelt down to heal Annie.
"You guys are really starting to piss me off," Nexell said. "All this running and healing."
"Live with it," David said from behind him, raising a bar and hitting Nexell across the head. He fell to the ground, but quickly regained his ground.
"You're really a pain in my ass!" he roared, using telekinesis on David. Sabrina shot a beam of light while Nexell's back was turned. It forced him to the ground. She got up and started to run towards him. As she got closer, he blinked and reappeared behind her. She shot a beam at him, but he blinked out of the way. They repeated that sequence a few times.
"You're a coward!" she yelled.
"No, you're just too slow," he said, still blinking from place to place. She continued throwing light at him, but it proved futile.
"Fight like a man…err, warlock!"
"Fine," he said, appearing in front of her and pushing her to the ground. He put his foot on her neck to keep her from getting up and used telekinesis to stop her from using light beams. "I don't have my athame, so I guess I'll just have to kill you."
"You're forgetting one thing," she said, transforming into a thousand different particles and floating behind him. "I can orb."
"That only delays your death," Nexell said in an agitated voice.
"Then I guess this does too," she said, using both hands to produce a powerful beam of light, pushing him about twenty feet into a wall. Sabrina ran over to David and started shaking him. She was having troubles holding Nexell off on her own. "David, David." He slowly started to awaken. Nexell was also up, walking towards them. "Get up!"
"Ok…" he said weakly. Before up, he formed a clone of himself. The clone ran to Nexell to give a little extra time. Clone David punched the warlock in the jaw. Nexell used telekinesis and threw him against a wall.
"Dad, orb Annie out of here!" Sabrina ordered. She looked at David, who was struggling to stand. "I'm gonna get us out of here too." She orbed to the third floor of the house, which was where Charles and Jordan were. Robert and Annie appeared there as well.
"Are you okay?" Robert asked David.
"Yeah, I'll make it," David said. "Go check on my mom in the living room. I think she was knocked out." Robert nodded his head and orbed.
"What do we do now?" Annie asked. "Hide?"
"No," Sabrina said. "We need to stay together. We have a better chance with our powers combined." Nexell blinked in in front of them, looking very angry.
"I've had enough fooling around!" he yelled. "Stop with the games!"
"The games have just begun," Sabrina said, hitting him with light.
Charles thought they were done for. He felt his pocket and felt the athame he had taken off the ground. He was sucked into a vision of Nexell using it on a witch. A gray essence had come from her and went into himself. It was a short vision of the past. The strange thing was that he could control it this time. He didn't feel the pain as much, nor did he fall down. The vision was less intense.
"Stall him," Charles said.
"What?" Annie asked.
"Stall him," Charles repeated. Annie, beginning to understand what he wanted to do, produced an image of Charles still standing where he had been, and hid his real body from view.
"I'm invincible," Nexell said. "No one can stop me now!"
"No one, except for us," Charles said, plunging the athame into Nexell. He burst into flames. The flames released several white lights, that all went off into different directions. One settled into Charles, but no one took notice. Everyone was preoccupied with the burning warlock that stood before them.
"Aww," Millie said. "Are you saying I missed all the action?"