The Wolf Mage

Lack of Control

Erza was up first now. She held her dagger poised at Dale. There was a look in her brown eyes. She was so focused, I could tell she had a plan of attack already figured out. I blinked my eyes a few times, realizing I was starring.

“Lets begin” Dale said. Erza immediately charged. She lashed out vertically at Dale forcing him to move backwards. Each step Dale took seemed to planned, like he was about to use magic suddenly offensively. Erza suddenly moved to the left just as part of the ground shot up in huge dirt pillar.

“Divine light!” she exclaimed. Blue sparks traveled down her arm into the handle of the blade, and there was a huge flash of bright, white light from the blade of the dagger. I squinted in an effort to see, but had to turn away. I looked back, shielding my eyes when I saw that a pillar of earth had shielded Dale from the light. To add to this Dale was gone. Erza stepped back, her eyes concentrated on the ground. She frowned, and pressed her hand to the ground. I closed my eyes, trying to feel magical presence under the ground. My eyes snapped open, ‘He’s erased all magical presence of himself under ground’ I then realized. Just as I realized this a dark brown circle appeared under Erza. The ground within that circle started to rotate, and suck itself inward turning to sand.

“Shoot” she muttered. A few feet away Dale reappeared, and pressed his hands to the ground. Blue sparks traveled around his hands, and zipped towards the ground to the circle. In the shape of orange peelings the ground began to come up, and encase Erza in a sphere.

“Come on Erza!” Brad called to her. Erza beat her fists on the dirt that was trapping her being too late to try and escape. She grunted with effort and frustration as the earthy trap was beginning to close giving her only a few seconds left of light left. Erza suddenly took the dagger, and drew blood on her left arm.

“What the heck is she doing?” I asked Brad. He shrugged in response, he didn’t know either. Erza took her dagger with the blade now coated in her own blood.

“Magic surge” she said aiming the dagger at Dale. He jumped back to dodge, but the bolt was faster than any other magic she’d used. He eyes widened as he was hit in the chest by the bolt of pink lightning. He gasped in shock as the trap around Erza suddenly crumbled to dust. He pressed his hands to the ground to reform the trap, but there wasn’t a spark of magical energy from him. He groaned and ran a hand through his thick brown hair, and laughed.

“It would seem I’ve lost without magic since I don’t have any weapons with me” he chuckled. Erza smiled proudly, and took a step forwards when her whole body began to fall forward. She was falling over where she stood.

“Erza!” Brad and I called to her. I ran towards her. Her eyes were closing, and the bloody dagger in her hand sparked with pink lightning as it fell. It crackled with energy on the ground. I managed to catch Erza in time before she could fall. Her eyes didn’t open, and she was unconscious.

“Erza?” I called to her. She didn’t move or wake up.

“She must have used too much of her magic” Dale suggested.

“Can over use of magic energy really knock you out?” Brad asked. He shook his head,

“And in rare cases such overuse can completely drain a person to death” he informed him. Brad withdrew his sword as he walked good distance away from Erza.

“Well then I guess you’ll have to fight with a weapon until you can use your magic again” Brad stated. Dale waved to him in a dismissive manner. He clapped his hands together, and the crumbles of dirt on the ground suddenly flew back away from him. I shielded my eyes from the dust in the air as a wave of magic was expelled.