@TrixyTrixIt didn't.
The blast of pure magical energy broke straight through the mere fire like a knife through butter and struck the girl on her side. She dropped, landing on the hard concrete and staying down. She twisted and writhed, but her leg felt broken. Violetta patted herself down, and felt it before the pain hit. There was a piece of her flesh ripped out of her hip. It went down somewhere awfully pinkish, and Vio turned her head away. She'd have to keep a low profile for a while, say, five or ten minutes for this little wound to heal itself up and she'd be right as rain. Even now, she could hear the weird rustling as the fabric knitted and wove itself back together, it wasn't even a thing.
Something jumped in her hand. The one not holding the flamethrower which she'd been pointing up trying to stop the other girl from getting too close. She looked down. It was right next to her amber gem, and it was sucking out a hundred little specks of black misery out and, for want of a better word, gorging on the grief. And it was pulsing, and twisting the air around it, and struggling against her grip. She dropped her gem, picked up the seed in two fingers and threw it, in the general direction of the troublemaker, but it was far too late, the seed was already going to hatch as it flew through the air and distorted all of space and time around i-
Violetta woke up, and saw a million snowflakes dancing past her eyes. She was wrapped around something, a giant tree trunk made of glass and crystal. It would've been quite pretty, if it weren't
all upside down. The ceiling stayed steady as a rock while the floor stretched away to infinity, and the only thing stopping her from finding out what lay down, except by falling in and finding out. Must be a witch's labyrinth, Violetta thought. Eventually,a familiar will show up. Maybe even the witch itself. Or the girl would beat her, rip the labyrinth apart, and she'd be able to backstab her as she came out of the labyrinth. With that in mind, there was no better thing to do but stay here and out of her way. Revenge for Germany could wait. She snuggled down under her layers of clothing and glared at the light bouncing every which way.