Dixie

Nina showered the gargoyle with several powerful blasts of fiery energy, knocking it on its back and temporarily blinding it. The mage gargoyle flew up in the air and hurled several bullets of fire and ice back at Nina, who attempted to dodge them all but was struck across the face by one.

She felt something roll down her cheek like a tear. She wiped her hand across her face, looked down at her mortal blood and back up at the gargoyle, rage gleaming in her eyes. An intense wind whipped through the realm they battled in, nearly spinning the gargoyle out of the sky, but only slightly stirring Nina's hair and cloak.

'Enough,' she whispered, gripping her staff with both hands and raising it vertically above her head. Her eyes glazed over with the power that overtoke her as she brought the staff down and buried its tip in the ground. The earth shook and a hole opened up where her staff had penetrated it. A fiery wind lept up from the crevice, swallowed the gargoyle, dropped back to the earth, and the hole closed again. Nina stood motionless, slightly charred from the explosion, a tiny flame consuming one forlorn strand of her hair. The wind died down and the vacuum evaporated.

Vanelee looked up just in time to see Nina collapse from exhaustion, having defeated the mage beast.

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