49 The Ritual (1)

I use a spell in demon language to take control over Etrigan's body and now he will have to do whatever I do. Still, even with the book, I could feel him resisting my control. So I speak aloud fast and so does he.

"The Battle now is fought and won ... Jason Blood with me is done!"

As soon as Etrigan speaks that in his monstrous voice, he disappears in flames and Jason Blood is found on the ground. I go ahead and put him to sleep with a spell. I tell Tala to go to the Fortress and begin preparation.

I drop him back to his apartment in Gotham and return. I ask Tala who was preparing some stuff, what the second ingredient is. She doesn't exactly answer my question but tells me that today would be a Full moon so at midnight in like 2 hours would be the best time for what I want to do.

She asks to let her finish her preparations first. I check the extraction and see that there are 4 hours remaining. When I brought her here, I had a talk with Tala that as my slave she can't spread chaos now or do the things she did before.

I also told her my plan to be a superhero in the future and she would be at my side helping me. She agreed readily saying that all she wants to do is serve me. I think she is not telling me the second ingredient, as the way to procure it, may not be morally right.

As it reaches close to midnight she brings me outside the Fortress and with her magic manipulates the clouds so that a clear moon could be seen. She then tells me the second ingredient.

Hearing what it is my brain goes blank, and then a thought arises in my mind. Before I could think more about it, I tell Tala to finish the preparations fast as I go and bring the last ingredient.

New York City

In a wealthy part of town, a 16-year-old boy was sleeping in his bed. He was shivering probably because he was having strange dreams about battles and creatures he had never seen before.

In that dream, he suddenly sees the face of a woman with wings which calms him down and his body relaxes, this was almost an every night occurrence for him. But tonight was different, as silently the window opens and from it a shadow flashes in.

In the darkroom that shadow goes up to the boy and chants, a spell then picks him up going out of the window closing it behind.

*Supes_POV*

I brought the boy to the Fortress covering him with my aura, he was still asleep because of my spell in his nightclothes. Just seeing him smile in his sleep, probably dreaming about her again just made me more convinced of my choice.

Tala had created a whole circular array on the ice with Etrigan's blood and placed various plants and organs of various creatures inside it. She explained to me the things which she changed and how this ritual is different from the one that I know.

She told me that we both would have to take part in it. As this ritual is almost in the category of Reality manipulation, we both would be needing a great source of magic.

I gave her my amulet of first magic as this was somewhat of a wish-granting ritual and the one who had to visualize his wish needed to use the Eternity book as his magic source.

Tala was the one who would be conducting the ritual as she has mastery in both chaos and demon magic, more so as this was a custom ritual that she changed according to my requirements from the one in the Eternity book, to grant my wish.

She placed the sleeping boy in the middle of the ritual array, and I kept the philosopher stone as a catalyst and a centerpiece in this array so it won't collapse during the ritual as there will be a massive flux of magic used.

Tala came out of the array and held my hand. She started the chant in the demonic language. The amulet started glowing purple with the great amount of magic being called. I closed my eyes, cleared my mind, and made the image of what I wanted clearer.

The ritual array started glowing red and even the ground started shaking. The sky remained eerily clear, only the moonlight almost seemed to get sucked in the array making it way darker around.

As the clock struck 12 the array started shrinking and it started consuming everything that was kept inside. In my hand, the Eternity book had started glowing red and my mind started growing a bit fuzzy but I kept the thought of what I want clear.

The magic moved from the book into my brain and through my hand in Tala's body where it mixed with the amulets magic and Tala controlled all of this and sent it to the array through her chants.

The array got to the sleeping boy and wrapped around his body. His body started getting absorbed as the array shrank even more. In the end, his body fully disappeared and the array was now a sphere in which a white light was pulsing.

I could feel everything even if I was concentrating on my wish. I said goodbye to the white light, to the soul of Carter Hall. His soul will be sacrificed for this ritual and it will disappear forever.

As the array swallowed the white light, every magic-user on the Earth and around could feel that someone just succeded in completing a grand magic ritual.

I opened my eyes and heaved a long sigh, feeling happy that the ritual was a success. The ritual to hide my real identity of Clark Kent.