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The incantation paper spun over the fountain, drawing beams of magic from the sky and ground, and formed a sphere.
Yes,it was working.
Magic flowed through Bethany.
Quite a lot of magic.
A really huge amount of magicsurged from the ground and scraped the ether, generating enormous bolts of energy.
No.
No, the spell was getting too big.
The spinning orb shivered and spun above the fountain as the vast quantities of magic poured into it.
Bethany planted her feet and leaned against the hurricane, trying to rein the spell in before it did something she hadn’t planned.
The orb flung itself apart into six gigantic forms.
Long, slithering bodies glistened in the desert sunlight as they dropped into the grotesque water with sloppy splashes.
Bethany gasped.
Those were not plecostomus fish.
They weren’t fish at all.
One of them reared its enormous, red-scaled head out of the fountain’s pool and grinned at her with a mouthful of white, terrifying fangs.
Those were sea serpents.
Bethany had conjured sea serpents.
A small part of her brain was pretty darn impressed with the fact that she’d conjured a legendary-class apparition, but a much larger part of her brain was freaking out becausethere were sea monsters in the casino’s fountain.
And the angel investors were due to arrive in two weeks.
She had to get the sea monsters out of the fountain before Math saw them. She had to send them back to the ether and summon some plecostomus algae-eaters tomorrow. There was no way she would have enough magic in her for another spell today.
Bethany flipped open her conjuring pad and tried drawing a new spell, but the ink pots had run dry, a metaphor for the fact that she’d drained herself conjuring sea serpents.
A bright green serpent flung itself out of the water, breaching like a whale, and splashed down into the slimy ooze with a slurp.
Bethany stepped back.
A scarlet serpent leaped into the air and dove after the green one, its maw gaping open, teeth shining in the sunlight. Mossy tendrils hung from the row of ebony spines running down its back.
The two serpents coiled around each other, fighting and roaring. Their screams blasted through the air.
“No!” Bethany ran toward the fountain, hands outstretched. “No,no!Stop fighting! No fighting!”
The sea monsters writhed in the slimy pond, struggling mightily.
“Stop that!” she shouted at them.
Two more serpents lunged into the fray, and the other two swam around the melee, hissing and looking for an opening to attack the others.
Bethany jumped up on one of the fountain’s retaining walls and yelled,“I said, stop that!”
