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

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down as well, not just Tina.  Jill and Dennis were both ex-security squad as
well.  They piled into the vans and headed toward the Johnson mansion…
     
    They formed a circle about fifteen feet away from the front
door.  With two ten man teams, Jerrold as agent, and three other councilors,
Karen was in control of the combined magic of all twenty-five mages.  It was
kind of rush, and she squashed the temptation to burn the mansion down and
cackle like a madwoman.
    Instead, after they had protections up, she used the
telekinesis spell and knocked on the door, rather loudly perhaps, but it was
just a knock.  Then they waited.
    A young woman with a fearful face opened the door.
    She frowned, they’d sent a teenager to answer the door?
    The young woman asked, “What do you want?”
    She replied, “We’re here to arrest Gary, and only Gary, for
treason, and for involving a human in mage business.  His assassin has been
caught, and this information has been verified by the whole council.  Send him
out please.”
    The teenager gaped, and then said, “One minute,” and shut
the door.
    She wondered for a minute if she’d been wrong, but a few
seconds later the attack ward on the front door went off, and sent a decent
sized tornado their way.  Damned air mages.  She cast the reversal on the trap,
and the spells magic started to feed back in on itself.  She expected the ward
to cut off, but it didn’t, it just kept shorting itself out.  Then the door
exploded in a blast of magic.
    She shook her head, maybe no one had been controlling it?
    She used her mage sight and saw ten figures heading down to
the cellar.  She narrowed her eyes and studied the ground around the house, and
saw a tunnel leaving from the east side.  It was an escape tunnel, but nothing
like the warded nightmare at the Moore mansion.
    With all the power behind her, it was easy to cast an
earthquake spell, and set the epicenter below the ground where the tunnel was. 
The ground started to vibrate and shake, and she smiled with satisfaction when
the tunnel collapsed.  Not the whole thing, but a good hundred feet of it.
    She double checked with her mage sight, the front door wards
were gone, and they were trapped in the basement, the tunnel was a lost cause.
    Karen said politely, “Let’s go,” and walked forward and into
the house confidently, and led them to the basement stairs.
    She yelled down the stairs, “Gary, come on out.  You’re
outnumbered, and out powered, give it up before you take your whole family down
with you!”
    She felt the circle form below then, and then they were
attacked by a nasty spell meant to kill.  She reversed it with a few words in
her mind, and then channeled more power behind it.  Gary managed to ground the
magical feedback, and cut off the spell only to launch another.
    Dennis said sadly, “Enough, they’re all guilty of treason
now, end it Karen.”
    She sighed, she supposed he was right.  Though she felt a
stab of guilt, there was a girl down there that was barely an adult, but she’d
chosen her side.  She cast an air spell, but with the power of twenty-five
mages behind her, all more powerful than any of the ten below them.  Perhaps it
was ironic to use an air spell against a family of air mages.
    The floor in front of them buckled and then splintered as a
mass of air so dense it was visible broke through the floor.  Chunks of sharp
wood all exploded downward, followed by the spell itself, which released a
giant pressure wave.  Her sight revealed them as the circle of Johnson mages
fell apart, and most of them died.
    There were horrible screams of pain below, and she clenched
her jaw against the pity she felt.  They’d tried to kill her, with a human
assassin of all things.  They’d only gotten what they deserved.
    She turned to Jerrold, “Get down there, and arrest anyone
that’s left.”
    She sighed, her night wasn’t quite over, they’d have to have
a council session when they got