Toro Toro

The nine-foot Minotaur stormed through the crowd of hipsters. The three agents prepared for battle.

" You guys help get everyone to safety," Olivia instructed." I'll take care of cowboy over there."

" Are you sure you can take him solo?" Jill inquired.

" I'll whistle for help so dog boy can hear me." Olivia signaled Scott.

" Just don't get yourself killed, witch girl," Scott replied.

Scott and Jill ran to the direct crowd. Olivia pulled out her Silver Maiden to confront her horned adversary.

She ran towards the demonic creature when it stormed at her. Olivia swung her whip around the Minotaur's horns.

She reeled herself into the Minotaur's face, kicking its face and knocking the beast on the floor.

The Minotaur laid motionless while Olivia regained her footing and prepared a spell.

" Lapis hic viventem in locum convolaturi sumus,"

The ground enclosed the Minotaur and transformed it into stone,

While Olivia focused on keeping the stone imprisonment around the Minotaur, the beast expelled heat from its body and heated the air around the canal. causing the young enchantress to lose her concentration.

The heat sapped Olivia's strength. Sweat dripped off her arms and forehead.

" Can't...hold...on," Olivia uttered.

The spell inflicted upon the Minotaur gradually lost its power. The creature created large cracks in the stone around it.

The Minotaur broke free from Olivia's spell by flexing out of the rock restraints, releasing a massive shockwave that threw Olivia into the candy stand behind her.

" Son of a bitch," said Olivia while she crawled her way out of the debris.

As the creature lowered its body heat and reduced the temperature of the air, the Minotaur charged Olivia with its horns glowing red.

" Oh crap," Olivia complained. She teleported out of its path, watching it crash into the vendors 'stands left vacant by the fleeing who saw the Minotaur.

Olivia reappeared a few feet behind the dastardly creature, the young enchantress waved her hands and chanted.

" Fac lava in aeris ligare,"

As the creature discovered the enchantress's location, it quickly turned its head and released a surge of lava from its mouth to incinerate Olivia.

Olivia released an orange mystical blast that countered against the Minotaur's lava breath.

As Olivia continued her attack on the Minotaur, the cunning witch detective struggled to repel the creature's blast.

" Can't … keep this up," Olivia uttered.

" I truly expected more of the Cult clan," Dorian Priest shouted from above.

Olivia looked above her and saw the masked sorcerer floating in the air with his arms folded.

" Priest!" Olivia shouted.

" Your grandmother was a skilled sorcerer who would have bested this cursed creature with ease," Priest continued." You fail to live up to her legacy."

Olivia felt her grip weakened because she was distracted by Priest's interference.

" If you're going to take your shot, Priest, then freaking take it already," Said Olivia.

" So be it, child."

Dorian Priest centered his hands above Olivia and prepared to conjure a spell.

But his plan was derailed when a large pretzel stand flew toward him, knocking him off balance.

" Sorry Liv," Scott said after throwing the stand at Priest." They were out of pretzels,"

" Impudent vampwolf," Priest said while he fired a purple beam of magic at the agent.

Scott used his enhanced vampire speed to dodge Priest's attack before pouncing toward Priest with his activated his silver knuckles.

Priest unleashed another blast at Scott but Scott to slash a portal in between the two, teleporting himself away from the explosion.

" What's this?"

Scott reappeared through a claw scratch portal behind Priest and kicked him to the ground.

As Scott landed on the ground, Priest began to do the same to tackle his young adversary.

" Valkyrie weapons," Priest said. It appears the former captain gave you some of her toys.

" Their perfect for taking you down," Scott said when he charged towards Priest.

But in a flash of wind, a quick devil intercepted Scott's trajectory and knocked him off course. The savage creature roared with great fury before it wrestled the young Vampwolf to the ground.

"Starting to hate these things."

"Quick devils finish these agents. I have more concerning matters to deal with."

Priest summoned two more Quick devils by creating a portal in the middle of the field before teleporting away.

" Perfect. More of those things," Olivia complained while she repelled the Minotaur's attack.

She summoned the willpower needed to repel the Minotaur's lava blast back towards the creature before teleporting to Scott's side.

" Conuertuntur in ligno," Olivia chanted while she cast her hex on the creature wrestling Scott to the ground.

The quick devil transformed into a wooden statue of itself. Scott extended his talons and tore the monster to shreds.

The vampwolf stood up. He and Olivia noticed the two remaining quick devils and the Minotaur preparing to strike them down.

" Still think you got this on your own, Liv?" Scott said.

" Shut up and fight."

Olivia and Scott charged at the lava- spewing Minotaur, barely escaping its attacks. The horned monster slammed its fist into the ground, and summoned massive pillars of lava engulfed the agents.

"Defende nos in hac bestia et urenti" Olivia chanted. Two spheres of silver energy appeared around Olivia and Scott, shielding them from the intense lava.

" Sheesh. Nice save, Liv," said Scott.

But the terrifying monster stormed through the pillar around Olivia, shattering the force field protecting her." Olivia!" Scott yelled when the Minotaur charged toward him, crumbling his force field as well.

When she regained consciousness after the attack, Olivia saw her friend struggling to fight the ancient monster.

"Scott, no."

" You truly are a disappointment," Priest said while hovering above the carnage. I hoped you would be a worthy adversary."

As Olivia felt her heart sink, she heard a third voice.

" Set me free."

"What?" Olivia asked.

While Olivia was surrounded by quick devils wreaking havoc and her best friend struggling to defeat them. She heard.

" You need to release me, Olivia."

" Who are you?" Olivia asked. She fought to stand but collapsed to her knees.

" You know who I am."

" Liv," The vamp wolf screamed before racing to her side. Scott shook Olivia.

" Snap out of it, Cult."

But the Quick devils charged Scott from behind, separating Olivia from him.

" Well done, quick devils, "Dorian Priest. "If my assumption is correct, the demon is manipulating the Cult girl.

I wish to see the result of such temptation firsthand."

While this took place, Olivia battled to cast out the menacing voice in her mind.

" I ... I don't know who you are," said Olivia.

" That hurts, Olivia," The voice teased." I thought we were closer than that. I am the only one who has been by your side since your cowardly parents abandoned you. All for opening that silly spellbook."

" LILITH?"

Olivia's heart pounded when the demon that changed her life spoke after eight years.

" The vampwolf is formidable, but he can't survive this onslaught for long. You and I both know it to be true."

" No. You cannot be real. You can't ..."

" You've wasted the magic we share on parlor tricks and mediocre spells. Stop holding back and do what your family should have done ages ago. Release my full power."

Olivia's mind was consumed by the horrific imagery of the battlefield. The red-haired enchantress was incapable of harnessing enough magic to assist her friend.

"Sc... Scott,"

" It's time to grow up, young Lady," said, Lilith." Quit holding us back and save your friend.

"How?"

"Take off your amulet around your neck and summon me. I will take care of the rest."

Terrified by the possibility of losing one of her closest friends, Olivia shut her eyes, removed the amulet around her neck, and chanted the words she never wanted to say;

" Educ de Lamia avatar,"

Olivia's eyes shot open with full crimson red pupils as horrendous dark purple magic began to surround her body as a spiraling tower, drawing the attention of the brutal monsters attacking Scott.

" Could this be?" Priest pondered. He floated away from the sinister display of magic.

The tower materialized once Olivia's body transformed into a seven-foot demonic figure with purple metallic skin, two parallel horns on her head, long wings, elongated tail, silver and green claws, and her symbol covered half of her face.

" Finally, I'm free," Lilith smirked.