Warlock: A Nephilim's Wrath: A Shawn Moore Novel 02 by D. R. Rosier

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conclusion I’d better start enjoying extreme sports, I had the feeling that
Susan had only started to corrupt my succubus and vampire…
     
    I had to admit, it’s what I’d wanted.  We all had fun and
were heading back into the city.  We hadn’t gone far, when my detect magic
ability caught some demons.
    “They’re…”
    I got that far into my they’re here warning, when the whole
street was bathed in green fire.  Lilliana slammed on the gas, and we took off
fast.  As soon as we cleared the attack area she pulled the car over which was
just fine from the protective wards.
    I could hold up to fourteen more spells, but I used six to
cast protection from fire, physical harm, and magic on both Lilliana and
Susan.  I wasn’t worried about Malina that way, no lesser demon could even
touch her.  I opened the car door and we all piled out.  I could still feel
them, ten lesser demons, but no warlock or other greater demon was present.
    I frowned in annoyance, “The warlock’s not here.  I guess
he’s just starting trouble again?”
    They all ran out as the ladies agreed with me, and I started
to chant a banishment spell, and focused on nine of the ten demons.  I ignored
the balefire, it couldn’t touch any of us.  One of them tried to bamboozle
Susan, but with my protection spell it just bounced off.
    Lesser demons had pretty much the same skills as vampires,
plus balefire and one or two other innate spells.  There were types too, like
the succubae obviously had different additional powers, but so far so good.
    Two of them gave up on the infernal fire and rushed us,
Lilliana and Susan stepped in front of me to meet their physical attack.  I was
still casting banishment, it was one of the longer ones for combat, and it had
only been a few seconds so far.
    Maybe I should see if I can add it to my amulet, or start a
new one with the more common longer spells?
    Lilliana pulled a knife, and took the demon’s first hard
punch to ensure the kill, the demon died on the end of her blade and turned to
smoke.  The second one had no better luck with Susan, but what surprised me is
she partially shifted, and had a huge claw instead of a hand.  It whipped out
faster than I could track and slashed the demons throat from ear to ear, while
she deflected his punch with her left hand.  Then the demon went flying from a
hip throw, while gasping for breath through the blood.
    He too, turned to smoke as he landed hard.
    I finished my spell, and seven of the eight left were
banished back to hell.  The last tried to run, but a simple three-word
levitation spell put him in the air.  Then I blew him in our direction with an
air spell.
    Susan asked, “What now?”
    “We find that jackass, give me a minute.  These spells are a
little longer.”
    I chanted the spell to identify the lesser demon’s
signature, when I got it, I cast the spell to find it, and I passed that over
to another mind.  I could feel where he was, right in front of me, which was
worthless, but I wasn’t done yet.
    Then I brought up a similar spell to banishment, only this
one wouldn’t send it to hell, it would send it back to his master, and the
active find spell would tell us where he was.  I’d been hoping to run into one
of his demons, and had prepared accordingly.
    The demon smiled at me as if he knew what I was doing while
he hovered in the air helpless to move.  He didn’t even bother with magic, he’d
seen our protections and he was alone.  Perhaps he did know what I was doing,
he detected magic the same way I did, and was probably more practiced at it. 
Experienced enough to pick up the subtleties of spell work.
    He said threateningly, “I was instructed to pass on a
message if you captured me.  You will die warlock, you and your pitiful
patron.”
    I heard Malina hiss in rage, and started to cast the final
spell in my mind.
    He laughed darkly, “Maybe I’ll see you again, in hell,” and then
he reached up with both hands,