Drains Her Power

Raven's eyes grew red...and there were too many of them. Four glowing red eyes burned on her shadowed face, and a dark shadow like a great bird stretched its wings out to just touch Blaze...yet at that touch, the demon suddenly collapsed.

Lois Lane kicked backwards as the giant demon's firm flesh quickly began to shrink in on her ones. The fleshy cock-tentacles shriveled into thin, limp, empty tubes. The demon seemed to struggle to raise her heavy horned head, and Lois could see the outline of her through the drooping, limp flesh...but the white eyes burned.

"C-c-c-c-uuuunt..." The scarlet succubus' voice ended with a dry rattle. She reached out one long limb toward the Titan...but then Wonder Woman was there. The Amazon's muscles strained as she grabbed the gigantic elbow and pulled it back, her left eye swollen closed. A moment later, Mary Marvel had grabbed Blaze's other arm, and between them, the two held Blaze on her knees as Raven's shadow drained the demon dry.

Lois Lane stood behind Raven. It was a scene from a horror movie; Lois could see the ribs and sternum clearly as the scarlet skin began to tighten. It was as though Blaze was being hollowed out, dried out...mummified in minutes. The small scarlet breasts hung like empty sacks on the deep chest, and the head lolled on a limp neck, as though the muscles no longer could hold it aloft...and white-hot hate burned in the shadowy sockets of her eyes.

A moan came from behind the reporter, and she turned and saw that Zatanna stirred. Lois rushed to her side and slid her shoulder under the magician's armpit, to half-drag her into a standing position.

The witch's left hand rose and made a theatrical gesture...and then the shaking, gloved hand twisted and turned to give the demon the finger.

".ssybA eht ot ezalB hsinaB"

Something changed, as the last syllable of the incantation was spoken. It was as though the pressure in the room dropped, like a plain coming down to land, an almost painful pressure in the reporter's ears...and then she saw a dark spot grow on Blaze's bony chest...and then the terrible image of the demon scrunched and drawn through that hole in space, her limbs ripped from Wonder Woman and Mary Marvel's grip, the whole body drawn almost inside out, compressed in a single moment into a space the size of a grain of rice...and then even that was gone.

Lois Lane's ears popped.

"Is...is it over?" The reporter asked.