HALWRIGHT SCHOOL OF SUPERNATURALS - Chapter 69: Chapter 69

The enemy had come and Ben knew whatever came out of the rift opened by Mael, it wasn't him and it wasn't in any way hinged, it would kill and defile all that it could until there was nothing left. A clatter and heaving turned him to look at the rift closely, a being unlike Mael was walking out, his raven hair like the night sky, his glowing scarlet eyes haunted by his prison and his features retaining an unnatural grace, that he almost seemed harmless, but as he stepped foot onto solid ground the bodies that lay there all shriveled to bones, the very air became dense and poisonous. "Free, —I am free." He rasped out as a cackle escaped his lips. "I am free!" He declared, roaring like a dragon in chasm of gold, Ben could feel it, his power was something unimaginable, he could've easily killed the others, as each step he took, he drained nature itself, the sky was darkening now, a show to what was happening, he had returned and he had a hunger for vengeance unlike any other.
Ben having cloaked himself couldn't be seen by him, Mehejash, his true name, once a normal simple man, now corrupted by his need for power. "Witch, why are there no armies to feed me, no welcome, —do you not rejoice in my presence!" He hissed as Ben soon realized, he was no ordinary mystic, he was also a witch, he could sense his magic, so he released his cloak. "Your taint would've killed them, like you're killing this forest, armies, mystics, nature —all would've been devoured by you." Ben replied as he looked into the eyes of the creature the world feared, in the blink of an eye Mehejash was in front of Ben, scrutinizing every part of him. "Yet, —you don't fear me, are you not terrified that I will absorb what little life you have." The creature taunted as he placed his palm on Ben's shields and tried to take his magic but nothing happened. "No, I do not." Ben replied as he reached out and grabbed Mehejash's arm and pulled magic from him.
Mehejash wretched his arm away from Ben and narrowed his eyes on him, then released a singular bolt of black lightning onto him but it was absorbed before it even came in contact with him. "What are you?" The creature once man asked and Ben smiled. "Better than you." He retorted as he released a singular bolt of lightning onto Mehejash that he dodged but Ben smirked as it bent around and kept attacking until his opponent was forced to create a shield with his arms and block his attack, Mehejash was almost at full power and as time passed Ben knew he'd be harder to fight, but he couldn't attack blindly he needed to find the source of his power first. "Khathu de mehevita." His opponent cast the spell creating several typhoons from nothing and hurling them toward Ben. "Solceda nalla vitu." Ben clenched his fist as his magic flared and the typhoons were gone, he turned around to face Mehejash who was behind him ready to strike, what the man hadn't expected was Ben to have speed, in a breath Ben vanished and appeared behind the man delivering a blow to his head then unleashing several solar flares that hit their mark everytime until they all exploded. "You'd have to do better than that." Mehejash called out as he rose from the smoke unscathed, of course Ben knew that, he was just looking for a way to break through his defenses so he could siphon the immortality spell away.
Mehejash attacked this time, he lunged for Ben with only his bare hands, he threw a punch which was dodged, swerved around Ben to try a shoulder chop but Ben flipped back and waited in the air as he growled and lunged for him again, the man lunged for him trying to connect a kick, a punch, tackle, all of it Ben was either countering or dodging, then Mehejash was frustrated as he released a guttural growl and aimed with precision in his attacks, Ben deflected his punch to the right with his palm, used his his knee to hit Mehejash's chin, then grabbed his arms, pulled him back to deliver a punch to his chest which he deflected but that's exactly what Ben wanted as he materialized a dagger in his other hand and sliced through the creatures neck. "Constó." Ben muttered the spell keeping Mehejash in one place as he began siphoning his immortality spell through his blood. It took a lot of power to keep him in place as he struggled and growled to the excruciating pain of blood siphoning. "Immortalis revere dracous morterm vindartu nagitane." Ben cast the reversal spell as he had siphoned three quarters of the immortality spell, making sure Mehejash couldn't place it back. He was almost finished, his immortality fading but then a shadow appeared behind Ben ready with a spear to attack him, it was Mehejash's shadow.
With the spell he placed burnt into Mehejash's soul Ben released the now almost ordinary mystic and ported away before he could be impaled. "No, what have you done to me!" Mehejash screamed as he felt the spell that branded his soul and only a sliver of his immortality remaining, but even so, he still had his power just not his long life. "You'll pay for this, you'll die witch!"  He screamed as he amassed his power into several orbs that materialized above him and he set them on Ben, the witch knew he couldn't deflect that with his current power and considering he needed more he had no choice, he opened the valve to his first source. "Fourth Circle: Devil's Muse." He allowed the power to flow into him as his demon mark glowed and his eyes changed to a blood red, Ben willed his magic into being and created one massive energy bomb that he set on the attack from his opponent but he wasn't done, as their attacks exploded and created tremors and craters on the ground, he lunged for Mehejash, blasting him with demonic energy, now that he wasn't immortal, every attack was lethal, and Mehejash knew that as he saw the witch attack him, he had to fight and kill before he was killed, so he roared in fury and attacked the witch, they exchanged blows and blasts as if it were child play, if only there were witnesses who could see how their power was breaking through the dimensions.
Ben punched Mehejash square on the jaw throwing him away, then created a golden sphere of his power and blasted his opponent with it, golden flames seared at Mehejash as he screamed in torment but he had better, he willed the earth to break and rise up into the sky, high enough to create a burning meteor that the witch with demon magic could never stop and when it was high enough, he imbued more of his power into the molded rock, hardening it and shaping it into a spear that he launched. Ben clasped his hands together and concentrated, he'd need a lot of power to deal with this, from his palms came gravity crashing into itself, —a black hole which he poured his magic into and it grew, grew so large that it swallowed Mehejash's attack then exploded throwing both witch and hybrid away  battered and bruised. Ben coughed as he stood on the ground defiled by Mehejash, it was a crater, devoid of life of any kind only ash and fire.
"Sacruvati demeter novudante ligare." Mehejash cast the spell imbuing his demonic essence into his attack, vines grew out of the earth like tendrils, they attacked at speed of their master and on contact they would impale the witch and explode whilst he created another attack, what he hadn't accounted for was Ben having a gift. "Rah's light: Grand Purge." The power summoned was unleashed in a single beam of unbridled golden sun like energy that destroyed the tendrils and blasted right where Mehejash was, creating an explosion that released several gales and an explosion that garnered awe from Ben as it rose to the sky much like an erupting volcano. Mehejash should have realized, this was no ordinary witch, he had a gift, he had demon magic, no—there was more and this, wouldn't do, he needed to use real force, so he summoned his true power to the surface. "Forbidden Circle: Lucifer Incarnate." For he was part demon, and his power could be derived from the circles.
Ben could feel it, feel the change in the very air, so he raised his shields as a beam of black matter so condensed and powerful hit him from above, its force was unlike anything he'd ever felt, now this was Mehejash's true power, he couldn't match this, as his shields shattered and he was blasted down into the crater, driving him down into a carven within the earth and exploded, the hybrid was there as the explosion took its toll on Ben, he created spears of the same power and before the witch could react he had impaled his arms, his legs and stomach, pinned him right to the wall. He attacked then, punching and kicking Ben's body, pounding his body into the carven walls with his fists —that were coated with his lethal power, breaking every possible bone until the walls behind Ben cracked, and Mehejash flipped back and copied his blast, hitting him with the full force of a burning star. Ben couldn't feel anything as the blast yet again took over his body, and then after, rocks mounted ontop of him, his very own grave in the earth, whatever had possessed him to take on Mehejash, then he remembered.  His people, his love, his children, so he opened the valve fully, Mehejash wasn't in complete strength, he was using eighty percent, therefore he needed to match that.
"Forbidden Circle: Lucifer's Maiden." Ben released a breath, everything stilled and then his rocky grave turned to sand, his eighty percent was much more than Mehejash's, as his eyes turned gold and a black slit materialized, his whole body released steam as in an instant he had healed whatever damage Mehejash had inflicted, shooting up and out of the earth Ben shot straight up until the moon shined on him above the clouds. "Now, it is time." Ben whispered as he fell back to the earth and came face to face with a smirking hybrid, he was ready but he wasn't ready for what Ben did, he clasped his palms together and pummelled Mehejash right into another crater, then appeared behind him punching his spinal chord with so much force the aura coated around him cracked and so did his spinal cord, the hybrid wasn't given time as Ben ported above the hybrid and blasted him with force energy wrecking Mehejash, causing him to scream as Ben coated in his own aura floated down into the chaos and began siphoning his opponent at any point that his body came in contact with his.
Mehejash, growled as he screeched releasing waves of aura that Ben didn't run from, instead he placed his palms together. "Like Horus, may my power be my will." He mumbled as he released a singular gale that cut through the waves the hybrid was releasing and if he hadn't dodged, his head would have been cut off, so he concentrated, pouring all the demonic magic he could wield into one singular blast, exactly what Ben wanted, as he willed an even stranger magic to come into being over his body. "Many have traversed the sands, yet, —never understood their scorching meaning, summoning Seth's celestial armour." Ben muttered as his body was overtaken by a deep crimson glow, nothing could penetrate this, because unlike mystic demons, Seth was one with celestial power, and he couldn't be hurt by lesser power, but Mehejash didn't know that as he rose above him, with an arrow the size of a dragon aimed at him pulsing with power.
Ben began to create his counter, molding his energy for what would come next as vision allowed him to see the future. Mehejash released his attack and like he wanted the witch underestimated its power, and by his will, it exploded, now those who would tell tales of this when time passed would say the witch didn't move, he didn't waver and he never feared, even when Mehejash had blasted him with the world breaker, a force so strong it could wipe out an entire nation, it exploded much like an atomic bomb, its flames covering the land, destroying everything for miles and even the empty school, yes Halwright was caught in the blast, only the power placed upon it could save it but it wasn't a match,  it wasn't completely destroyed, only a part of it, for the witch who stood there in all the destruction, he stood strong, even when the earth crumbled to sand and dust, he pushed more power into his summoning and it held him through, until the blast was spent and nothing remained.
Ben slumped to one knee on the sizzling red rock, turned to lava by the heat of Mehejash's attack, the amour he had summoned had held but lost all it's power, so it vanished in the wind. The hybrid himself didn't land gracefully on the earth, he slumped to it as it cooled. "Your demonic power is spent, what now?" Ben called out as he rose from the ground, his power quickly recharging. "How did you survive that?!" Mehejash demanded as he looked to the abomination, what was he, no creature could survive all that power. "That is none of your concern." The witch replied as his eyes hardened. "I asked, —what now?" He asserted and Mehejash relied on his power as a witch. "Summoning : The hounds of Horror."