Little Witch

Chapter 3: Light Part 3

Gregamoore began packing his stuff. "Where are you going?" Eliza asked.
"I'm keeping you out of danger." Gregamoore answered. "Alagamooragg will be coming for me. Once it realises I'm not where it last saw me, it'll start following my very obvious trail.
"I wanna come! I've read up on Alagamooragg. A simple light spell could stop him."
"Eliza! You unleashed this demon! I am not trusting that you have the power to defeat it! Have you even cast the light spell?!"
"I'm trying!" Eliza cried. "I just need more time!"
"We have run out of time, Eliza!" Gregamoore angrily replied. Gregamoore finished packing his things and left.

After a couple hours of researching, Eliza decided to rest. She didn't dare try the light spell again, in case she freed another demon.

Gregamoore had walked a few miles and came to a market, where he met a familiar face. "Goblo!" Gregamoore exclaimed, walking up to an art stall. "How have you been?"
"Long time, no see, Greg! I've been fine. You?" Goblo asked.
"I've had better days. Eliza accidentally summoned Alag-" Gregamoore lowers his voice to a whisper. "Alagamooragg."
"The demon of darkness?"
"Yeah. I came here so that it'd follow me, and not Eliza."
"Greg, you haven't read page 36, line 15 of 'Demons, demons and more demons', have you?"
"Why? What does it say?"...

Eliza got back to researching. She goes to the bookshelf and pick out a new book, returning the one she had done her research on before resting. As she walks back over to her seat, she turns her head and notices large scratch marks on the window. 'Strange,' she thought, 'I'm sure it's nothing too dangerous though. Even if it was it couldn't get in here, right?' Eliza sits back down, feeling a bit uneasy. 'Right?' Eliza tries to brush off the fact there are giant scratches on the window and goes back to researching. Eliza opens the book, titled 'Demons, demons and more demons'. She looks at the table of contents. "Page 36 is about Alagamooragg! Maybe I can learn something that'll help me defeat him, if we ever were to come face to face!"

Gregamoore rides his broom back to his house. He knows he's not going to make it in time!

"'Line 15:'" Eliza read, "'Alagamooragg does not seek revenge from past banishers. It's first priority is killing... the one... that freed it.'" Coming to the haunting realisation of her situation, Eliza bolts up the stairs. With the book still in hand, Eliza hides in her room and quietly reads aloud. "'If someone was to free Alagamooragg and die by it's wrath, the creature would be... unbanishable!' I don't even think 'unbanishable' is a real word, but that's not my biggest problem right now." There's a thud downstairs, as if the front door had just been knocked down. The sound of large footsteps follow. Eliza searches the book for a solution, but her search is hopeless. Without the light spell, she couldn't possibly beat Alagamooragg. The footsteps become louder. With the floor vibrating below her from the hefty footsteps, Eliza realises there's only one thing she can do. Or at least, try to do. Eliza put her index fingers together. "Think happy thoughts," Eliza tells herself, "think happy thoughts." Alagamooragg bursts through the bedroom door and roars. "ILLUMI!!!" Eliza shouted. As her fingers move apart, a glowing orb appears. As Eliza moves her fingers away from each other, the orb gets bigger, forcing Alagamooragg to retreat. It bursts through a wall and hits the ground outside with a thud, injuring itself. Before Alagamooragg can get up, Eliza jumps from the second floor and lands in front of the beast, unharmed, and still with the orb in her hands. Moving the orb closer to Alagamooragg, Eliza begins to feel pride.

Gregamoore returns, hurrying to Eliza as soon as he sees her. "Eliza!" Gregamoore cried. "Are you ok?"
"Yep," Eliza replied, "I learned to cast illumi and I took down Alagamooragg. I told you I could defeat him. And I'm... sorry... for summoning him in the first place."
"Eliza, you have nothing to apologise for. I was a lousy teacher and I should've never left you to learn that light spell on your own. I promise to be a better teacher. You'll be learning spells like there's no tomorrow!"
"What about school?"
"You can drop out. I did when I was your age and look how I turned out!"
"You're right, I should stay in school."
"That's not what I-"
"I'm kidding!" Eliza laughed. "But on a serious note, what do we do with Alagamo-"
"It's gone!" Gregamoore exclaimed...