The Necromancer's Wand: Rise of the Phoenix

After a few hours passed, Damien appeared in the front room with us. “The letter has been delivered,” he stated. “He knows you have his family and what time to arrive at the estate.”

“Very good,” I replied. “Everett shall soon share the fate of his former fellow council member. Give the word, to Ben and your men, that after noon you are free to head back to the safety of the cathedral.

“I cannot wait to be home! Until then, my lord...” Damien vanished and we returned to our waiting. As noon approached, I could tell we all were feeling a little anxious...

One of the guards from the back yard came busting through the back door, “Dark Lord!” he yelled. He came rushing into the living room in a panic, “He is here,” he stated out of breathe.

“Finally,” I spoke in excitement. “You all will stay here and watch over those two. I will go and welcome the councilman.”

I followed my man back outside, through the back door. Everett, to my surprise, was standing over the corpse of the other man I had stationed back here. He was panting in anger, blind with rage.

Everett looked every bit of sixty, with wisdom wrinkles embedded into his forehead. He wore a baggy tan, stylish, robe. His hair was short, nearly all grey except for a few streaks of brown, and he had a nicely kempt, shaggy, beard.

As I made my way over to him, Everett just stared at me in disgust. “Where is my family, wretched creature?” he snarled in a deepened tone.

“Oh, they are safe...” I mocked. “You, on the other hand, are not...Like Wynonna Wiccen, you stand in my way and therefore, must be dealt with.”

“Release them, now!”

“You have my word that they shall be released...but not until after our duel, of course.”

“Fine. If it is a fight you want, then you shall have it...” Everett unsheathed a wand of olive tint. “But know this, after I end you...I will end those who helped in the abduction of my family.”

I unsheathed my wand. “You must kill me first,” I joked.

Everett aimed his wand down at the ground, in between him and I. “Grovelier,” he chanted. The ground shook as a chunk of earth, the size of a boulder, broke free from the ground and hovered in mid air.

As he aimed his wand at me, the boulder soared across the backyard right toward me. The boulder was directly aligned with Everett. I quickly aimed my wand at it,” Decimate!” I cast. A red beam shot from my wand and tore through the boulder, reducing it smaller chucks of rock.

The beam continued to shoot across the yard, threatening to hit Everett. I watched the councilman swiftly remove a second wand, of silver. “That is the wand, Divinity!” yelled Mordin inside my head. “Belonging to Harlan Huxley.”

Everett held his personal wand and Divinity out, crossing them like an “X”. As the red beam struck the center of where the wands met, it spit and was redirect. Everett was using both wands in his defensive position, very intriguing.

The beam split into two, shooting off to the sides of Everett, and singed the ground. I ceased my spell and waved my wand in front of me, “Copliar Finay.” A copy of my bone wand appeared in a burst of green flames.

“Another wand will do you no good,” claimed Everett as I took the second wand in hand. “It takes years to master the arts of Dual Wielding.”

“I am sure it does...However, you will be disappointed to know that I am a quick study...”

He chuckled, ” You are arrogant, prideful. Allow me to show you, what years of practice can bring.” He lowered both wands, down by his side. Then, slowly he rose Divinity in his right hand. “Aguaem,” he chanted.

Everett had his back turned toward the Aurora Sea, but I could hear its waters raging behind him. The sea waters rose and hovered in air behind him, lining the edge of the cliff. I grew in worry, staring upon a wall of water.

As he aimed Divinity at me, the waters formed into a thick beam and rushed toward me. While raising my wands in defense, I was completely engulfed me. Everett swiftly raised his personal wand, placing the tip of it inside the beam of water near him.

“Fír Èllisè,” he chanted. The beam of water quickly froze, imprisoning me inside solid ice. I started to panic for I couldn’t move my body.

Everett freed the tip of his wand from the ice and started walking over toward me. “This is the end for you, ‘Dark Lord’,” he claimed as he grew closer.

I noticed I still had both wands in my hands and I could slightly move my wrist. “Not quite,” I boasted. “Infini Barragio!”

A thick spark shot from both of my wands. The sparks bounced against the ice, on both sides, divided into smaller sparks, and then detonated.

My prison of ice crumbled and collapsed. I was free, immediately aiming my left wand at Everett. “Decimate!” I cast. As the beam shot from my wand, Everett took up the same defensive position and split the beam.

I still had a wand free, aiming it at a chunk of ice. “Hovour,” I chanted. The chunk started hovering and I flung it toward Everett. The councilman was stuck, guarding against my beam, that all he could do was watch as the chunk hit him.

I ceased the beam as the ice smacked Everett in the shoulder, sending him flying back onto the ground. I noticed that his personal wand was knocked out his grasp, not to far from his hand. As he reached for it, I waved one of my wands at it and his came flying toward me.

The wand landed at my feet, having both hands already full. I sheathed my Wand and took his within my grasp. As Everett looked up at me, I snapped his personal wand using my knee. His eyes grew in fear as it dropped to the ground, for he was just down to having Divinity.

He quickly got up to his feet and aimed Divinity at my center mass. “Execute!” he cast. His wand electrified as a beam of electricity shot from it. I raised the wand in my left hand, the tip meeting the beam of electricity.

I blocked the beam as the air blurred thickly around my wand. “As I said before,” I boasted. “I am a quick study.” I raised the wand in my right hand at Everett, “Conduse,” I chanted.

The wand in my left hand stopped blocking, and instead started absorbing the electricity. The electrical energy rose up my left arm, traveled from shoulder to shoulder, and went down my right arm.

As the wand in my right hand absorbed the energy, “Reviera,” I cast. I shot Everett’s own beam back at him, striking him in the chest. His robe caught small embers as he started wheezing for air to breathe. Execute fries the body, from the inside.

He fell to the ground, still gasping. I walked over to him, looking upon the nasty wound on his chest. He had scorch marks and the veins were charred throughout his torso. “Elenore,” he wheezed. “Ian...”

I kneeled over. “Do not fear,” I comforted him. “My quarrel was just with you. They will be free to go...suffer no more.” I aimed my wand at his chest. “Sola Trapis.” As the wand consumed Everett’s soul, he laid there lifeless.

The left wand vanished as I stayed kneeled over. I placed the tip of my wand on the left knuckle of his pointer finger, for I noticed during our duel that Everett was left handed. “Sever,” I cast, slicing the finger from the hand.

I stashed the finger away, in my pocket. I had Wynonna’s sitting in a jar back in my bedroom at the cathedral, his will soon join. “Inari,” I chanted, catching his robes on fire. “And from the ashes, you shall rise again...”

As I turned and walked away, nearly everyone was flooding into the backyard...including Elenore Summit, but not Ian. “Everett!” she screamed, rushing over.

She hollered a yell of pure grieve and anguish, before unsheathing her wand. As she aimed her wand at me, I quickly motioned my wand at hers. I disarmed her, forcing the wand out of her wand and falling to the ground.

She gasped, thinking I was about to kill her. “I will forgive you....this once,” I warned. “Take your son and leave this place.”

“You will burn...” she threatened.

“Perhaps, but not today...”

Elenore picked up her wand and stormed away in helpless fury, wanting to avenge her husband but unable too. She, I assumed, retrieved her son and probably was heading somewhere to fetch the authorities. We lingered about only for a brief moment, so I could gaze upon the sea before returning to the cathedral.