Post by vastrix on Sept 26, 2022 8:42:28 GMT -5
Tabitha starts to get up, but the night hag kicks her in the side of the face, sending a spray of blood and maybe a tooth across the room. Tabitha starts to get back up again, but the night hag slashes with the bone staff and catches her in the side of the head again to knock her back down.
The night hag smiles a ghastly smile, pointing the end of the bone staff at Tabitha’s head. The end of the staff glows as power builds for a final attack.
Night hag: Not so easy when you don’t have the element of surprise. Is it?
Tabitha manages to get to her hands and knees, blood drooling from her mouth to the floor.
Tabitha Osborne: F-funny you should mention the element of surprise.
Night hag: You can’t surprise me anymore, little witch.
Tabitha looks up at the glowing end of the staff and smirks.
Tabitha Osborne: Watch me. Decies centena millia ardens Gehennae sicas!
An uncountable number of blazing energy daggers rip through the floor, though the night hag jumps backward to avoid falling through the floor. The daggers rip through the ceiling and then curl back down to target the night hag. However, she holds out the bone staff and absorbs all of them. She looks down at the exhausted Tabitha with triumph as she points the end of the glowing staff at her once again.
Night hag: Indeed.
Suddenly, the bone staff is kicked from the night hag’s hands and is sent spiraling down through the many floors of the hotel in the holes in the floor. Esmeralda stands before the night hag, seemingly whole once more.
Esmeralda von Krauss: I’m the one who has slain your sisters and broke your coven. You fight me.
Night hag: Of course.
The night hag leaps across the hole in the floor to slash Esmeralda across the chest and the midsection with her claws to leave deep grooves in her flesh to cause dark blood to spurt from the wounds.
Esmeralda kicks the night hag in the gut before pulling her up into a gutwrench suplex and attempts to throw her into the hole in the floor caused by Tabitha. She glides through the air and lands on her feet on the outside of the hole. She curls her talons into fists before extending them with a shouted word of power to sling bolts of lightning streaming toward Esmeralda, who flicks an upholstery needle at the same time. The metal needle draws the electricity, sending the powerful spell right back at the night hag.
The hag stops her spell and turns to the side to avoid the projectile. It strikes the wall and explodes, making a rather large hole that leads into the hallway.
Esmeralda von Krauss is already in the air as the night hag is distracted by the explosion and strikes her in the chest with a superman palm strike. The night hag sinks her talons into Esmeralda’s sides and hurls her back across the room where Esmeralda slams into the side of the bed. Hehehe and Hahaha lurch into action as the sight of their boss injured and rush around the hole in the floor to shoulder charge the night hag from each side.
The night hag presses her taloned hands against the chests of Hehehe and Hahaha before shouting a word of power. Bolts of energy rip through the twins and they fall onto their backs. Esmeralda von Krauss jumps to her feet, looking horrified.
Esmeralda von Krauss: No!
She begins to leap across the hole at the night hag again, who summons a wall of wind to push her back to slam against the bed again and land next to the fallen Tabitha Osborne.
The night hag leaps across the hole to stand next to the pair. She holds out a red gemstone that is hanging from around her neck. She pulls out two small crystals from a pocket and cackles.
Night hag: Two souls to add to my collection today.
Esmeralda starts to get up to fight, but the night hag shatters one of the crystals across her forehead to send her back down to the floor, bleeding dark blood from her forehead. The night hag looks to see what she has done and shrugs.
Night hag: I guess the witch will have to be collected later.
The Night hag begins chanting something and a line of power connects Esmeralda to the crystal as the red gem begins to glow with energies from within. Tabitha opens her eyes to see what’s going on.
Tabitha Osborne: Fluvius Ignis!
A stream of fire erupts from Tabitha’s fingertips to sweep across the Night hag’s face. The night hag’s chanted spell is interrupted as she begins screaming in pain. Once the spell is done we can see the front of the night hag’s skull as the flesh and eyes of her face had been melted away. She takes a couple of steps backwards and falls into the hole in the floor to fall the many stories to disappear from sight.
Tabitha gets up and helps Esmeralda to her feet.
Tabitha Osborne: Are you alright?
Esmeralda looks to the twins with concern.
Esmeralda von Krauss: No.
Hehehe and Hahaha stand up, their clothing has holes in them, but they do not. Tabitha looks over at them in confusion.
Tabitha Osborne: How did they…
Esmeralda von Krauss: I do not know, dahling. Sticky, I know, but these two confound me. They should be mortal, but they have proven time and time again that they are clearly not. Also…thank you for your help. I will honor our truce.
Tabitha Osborne: I will honor it as well. I’m also going to leave before the police arrive.
Esmeralda von Krauss: Go. You have done enough here, dahling.
Tabitha leaves the room while Esmeralda sits down on the side of the bed and lights up an Egyptian cigarette without a holder. She takes a drag of the cigarette like a monster and blows smoke into the air.
Esmeralda von Krauss: This is going to be interesting to explain to the police.