[Galadria]

Aha, I am back. Still working on the ending, but, here is some more. Kaltia, the Drow in my second novel is what I would have liked Viconia to be like, though I love Vickey dearly.

A huge demon of purplish hue stood before them. Its vast wings, leathery in appearance, spread from its sides. The hideous face, cracked and seamed, regarded them.
"So you come at last, hero," it boomed, "I suppose that I should have expecting you, given your recent ...conversations." It seemed to chuckle to itself.
All weapons were at the ready, Noemi and Cythera were already making the preliminary moves to bring forth spells, but Galadria wanted to know something. "Meel'shadrixx, I presume?" she asked grimly.
"You know my name?" it answered mockingly, "why did a mighty mage such as you not just summon me to your presence?"
"The answer is known to you already, but I cannot summon a demon already on this plane. How long have you been hiding out, here?"
The creature laughed again."What makes you think I am hiding out?" it retorted.
"The material plane can be of no pleasure to you," the dark mage replied." If you could reside in the Hells, you would. Something has chased you here and keeps you away from your home. What is it?"
The demon glared. "Those cursed Guardians that you speak to so much created a being which rules in my stead. I cannot return until I have so weakened them that they will have to remove the interloper in their own defence. Only then can I return to my sweet abyss.
"I know you, mageling. It was you that defeated my servant Smaractus and forced me to move him to another plane. Why should I, Me'elshadrixx, Pit Lord of the Ninth Hell, answer your questions? Die, god's bastard." It unleashed a searing stream of fire at the party. Sefa flinched, but saw to her amazement that it flowed away to dssipate harmlessly. One of the mages' doing, no doubt. Odo and Attalus charged and began hammering at it with Starshine and Corhydras. Noemi blasted the demon with a electric bolt and Cythera cast a ward of paralysis at it.
Meel'shadrix ignored the spells to bat at the men assaulting him with his claws. He managed to knock Attalus down for a second, and began to gesture, casting another spell.
Sefa, standing apprehensively beside her Mistress, as ordered, was surprised to see her reading from the scroll she had been studying last night. Her words cut through the clamor of battle:
"I wished a wish, once, on a moonless night.
The wish was good, the thought was pure.
The ears of the silvery light heard and said'
There was no day you will not see your wish come true."
She stood, arms outstretched, as the demon hit her with a burst of energy. She seemed to explode.When the smoke had cleared, all that was left was a little heap of charred bones and smouldering cloth.
Sefa screamed.
"Gal!" sobbed Noemi. She felt grief well up inside her, like a lump of molten lead. Tears streaming down her face, she turned back to their enemy. She had no wish to leave this room, now. She would die, fighting the demon that had killed Galadria, and, when she was dead, their dust would litter the floor together, for eternity. Her hands suddenly alight with a swarm of manycolored globes, she cast them at the creature. This time he staggered.