Free 4 Terramezic Energy by John O'Riley Page A

enchantment. A powerful field of energy surrounded the three possessed wizards and would make any attack against them hopeless. A loud high-pitched whine emitted from the mysterious enchantment that stirred within the depths of the vortex. Josephine knew she had only one chance to stop them and it was a long shot. She reached out with her mind and connected with the vortex. Power cascaded through her body and she gathered it as quickly as possible. Mark and Perry took up positions on either side of her in a gesture of support but white magic wasn’t going to stop the deadly spell from unleashing on the world.
    When Josephine had collected a massive dose of power and didn’t dare wait any longer, she manifested the strongest dampening field possible around herself and the three possessed wizards. Josephine clenched her body as she summoned all of her strength in channeling the magic. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough. The dampening field began to form but Yvonne and Charlotte countered it with pulses of tuned energy waves that prevented it from taking hold. Dread tore through Josephine as she watched angry bolts of red lightning flicker within the vortex and occasionally strike the ground, sending plumes of sand high into the air.
    “Yvonne! Charlotte! You need to fight it! You don’t have to do this!” Josephine shouted. When the young women failed to respond, she focused on Alice. “Alice, you need to stop them! You need to take control of the situation! You’re the claro mentis master.” She clenched her jaw as frustration and despair overwhelmed her. She had to get through to her friend somehow.
    “We’ll protect you,” Perry murmured to her in a voice that was barely audible above the high-pitched wailing of the enchantment.
    Josephine took a deep breath as an idea formed in her mind. “Alice, I should have known you couldn’t handle such an important spell. I should have let the FBI send a federal enforcer to do the claro mentis. They warned me that you were just an old has-been. They said you belong in a nursing home, confined to your room so you won’t bother anyone.”
    Perry jerked his head to the side to gape at her with astonishment. Mark’s body glowed with a soft white light which meant he had gathered a lot of light energy and was prepared to cast a protection spell at a moment’s notice. Alice slowly turned to face them with her arms at her sides and red discharges of energy sparking from the tips of her finger and the palms of her hands. Josephine swallowed reflexively while Perry flinched at the raw hostility in Alice’s gorgeous green eyes. As the wild breeze whipped Alice’s red hair, it gave the illusion that her head was on fire.
    “This world must be purged,” Alice shrieked.
    She clenched her fists and shoved them forward. Thick red streams of sickly energy lashed out at Josephine who’d activated her protection as soon as she knew her friend would strike. Josephine’s shield deflected the attack but she was running out of time. She could sense that most of the compositional design of the enchantment within the vortex was set which meant it was almost finished.
    Josephine turned to Mark with desperation. “You need to try and take over the spell.”
    “I can’t do that!” he protested.
    “Yes, you can. You’ve used light energy to control enchantments before. This isn’t any different.”
    “This is a complex, chaotic, and deadly spell. I don’t think I can affect it.”
    “You’re our only hope,” Josephine said.
    Mark pointed the palm of his hand toward the vortex and a stream of light energy flowed from him. Josephine held her breath for several seconds as she watched. Alice paused in her attack to observe the white magic as well. As the stream of white luminescence approached its target, it began to bend away from it. A cold sense of despair settled in the pit of Josephine’s stomach as the stream of light energy split into two and both ends twisted away from the