Re: He Is Mine (Demeter)
(Sofia refused Demeter's protection two posts back, and told her to worry about herself and saving Idian.)
(Also, complicated magic combat is complicated. Just writing this post was taxing on my brain, and explaining everything in greater detail would make my mind melt.)
Just as the fighting began, Demeter's wind caused the benches to be hurled at the witches. Lightning, fire, spiked roots, and sudden blades of metal hurled at Sofia from the witches before most were caught by surprise, three witches being knocked out cold and collapsing to the ground from the sudden attack, while the fourth threw herself to the ground and held her hand on her hat, and the fifth rose her hand, and weaved a counter wind to push at the hurling bench, causing it to drop harmlessly to the ground. The witch who stopped the bench with her magic was the one holding Idian's leash, tasked with defending the captive rather than attacking, and doing well at her task.
Meanwhile, Sofia's body seemed to vanish into shadow, moving swiftly through the courtyard like the creature of the night that she was as she dodged all of the projectiles thrown at her, before leaping to the head of a statue of a woman posing as if singing to a crowd, wearing only cloth over her body. Removing the shroud from herself, there were visible holes in her cloak, but her body remained unharmed. From there, she drew her sword, and covered it in flames, before leaping at Octavia. The green eyed witch rose her staff, and began to focus on fighting in melee with Sofia as she blocked Sofia's sword strikes. "Can't you... Understand... My situation!?" Octavia grunted as Sofia clearly outmatched her up close, which caused Octavia to quickly make an outburst of power, pushing them both away from each other.
"I do feel sorry for you, and I believe that the best mercy for you is a quick death." Sofia replied, before Octavia growled, and released a thunderstorm of lightning, attacking Sofia wildly with rapid strikes of bolts which Sofia dodged, paying attention to where Octavia directed her staff, quickly moving faster than the eye could see, and even raising her sword to catch a bolt of lightning, with Sofia herself unharmed, seemingly due to her grip, likely made of some material resistant to electricity.
Meanwhile, the pair of witches who survived through Demeter's attack focused on her while Octavia fought Sofia. The one who ducked under the bench rose her staff, and released a rapid moving yellow chain that was the same as the one holding Idian. Too quick to react to, it quickly wrapped around Demeter like a snake, constricting not only her body, but her magic as well. Once she was ensnared, the witch pushed herself up, barely holding to the likely struggling Demeter, just as a shadow appeared over her body.
"Above!" the witch holding Idian announced after she had countered Demeter's spells with her own control over wind. Saying this to the other witch, her cohort looked up, before Demeter would see Bubbles falling at high speeds from the clocktower above, and slamming right onto the witch's face, immediately locking her limbs around her and causing the witch to panic and as a result, release Demeter from her chains.
Seeing the situation turn for the worse, the witch holding Idian pointed her staff at his face, glaring at Demeter. "Don't." she warned Demeter, threatening to cast her magic and harm Idian the split second she saw Demeter even extend the smallest, single thread. Just as she said that, Demeter would see Idian let out a sigh, and curl himself up, before springing at the witch, slamming his head against her as she turned to look at him, and a moment after, flexing his arms, and breaking from the chains that held him with ease.
"I hope you'll forgive me for this, Demeter." he said up to the elf, while Bubbles was struggling with the flailing witch she was on top of, biting her and slapping her fins against the witch, before slamming her weapon against the witch's head, knocking her out cold.
Once the five witches were taken care of, and Idian was saved, they all heard a cry from Sofia as she fell on her back, holding her side with her hands from a wound Octavia had given her after having a clear shot at her due to Sofia being distracted from the witch earlier threatening to take his life. "Sorry," Octavia said with a voice of regret, before her staff charged with electrical power that would end Sofia's life within the next second.
They stood a fair way away from Demeter, and weaving at such a distance would not be enough to stop Octavia's magic. She would need to get closer very quickly so that her weaving would not be limited by distance, and in such a short time, her only choice would be to shield herself as she used her magic at the same time to block the line between Octavia and Sofia. She would likely still be wounded, but if done correctly, Neither she nor Sofia would die.