A New Journey Begins!
Hello everyone! Anyone that has followed me as a writer knows me from my semi-successful undertale fan fics from when that was popular over a year ago, but I have found a new passion, and have decided to come back and write for Little Witch Academia.
I pondered for a while on what i would like this story to be, but I finally settled on doing a reimagining of the original series with my own twist on it. I thought to myself "Hey what if Akko went through her entire journey again, but she had a personal companion that nobody but her could see?" The premise with the companion should ring a few bells for anyone that has read the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson, my favorite series and author of all time! Also, contrary to seeing Akko's parents in the manga, I am going to do a slightly different thing with the beginning. It will not be very important though, so don't worry about it.
Anyways, that's enough crap to get through, lets get to it!
Atsuko "Akko" Kagari woke to the sound of birds chirping outside her window of her room in the foster home in suburban Tokyo.
What a pleasant sound! She thought to herself, just laying on her bed for a moment, soaking in the soothing song. Then the realization hit her. Akko sat bolt upright on her bed and looked at the time on the clock on the wall.
"8:37! I overslept! No No NO this is bad. Bad bad bad!" Akko exclaimed, literally jumping out of bed and pulling on clothes as fast as she possibly could.
"What is all of that rukus for Miss Kagari?" an elderly voice called from down the stairs.
"I overslept, Miss Yashi! I needed to be awake an hour ago!" Akko called down, all while stuffing everything she needed into her suitcase. Akko threw her door open and sprinted down the stairs. Grabbing hold of the front door, she started to turn the handle before Miss Yashi stopped her.
"Miss Kagari, before you go, there is something I must give you. Your mother wanted you to have this." Yashi handed Akko a small photo. The photo depicted a young Akko standing with her mother at the night of the Shiny Chariot performance. Suddenly, a mix of emotions welled up inside of Akko. First it was sadness at seeing her late mother, then came excitement at knowing she was finally about to accomplish her dream, and finally it was thankfulness. Thankfulness for all of the people that helped her get to where she was. Akko threw her arms around Miss Yashi.
"Thank you for everything you've done for me since my mother died. Thank you so much!" Akko said, tears in her eyes.
"It is no problem, dear. Now, don't you have a plane to catch?" Miss Yashi said, letting go of Akko.
"I do! Thanks again! For everything!" Akko said, running out the door with her luggage, shoving her picture in her coat pocket.
Akko ended up getting through airport security just in time to catch her plane. Akko plopped down on her seat and put her bag under her seat. It wasn't long before the plane took off. Soon enough, Akko was staring out the window at the sprawling landscape below her. Strangely, something caught her eye. Flying next to the plane was what looked like a streak of white light. Akko paid no heed to the strange appearance, as she was too focused on the fact that her dream was finally about to start.
The plane landed and Akko stepped off the ramp into the terminal. She hauled her bags with her and walked through the airport until she stood outside the building. Only then did she jump into the air and yell, "This is it! The day that I finally become a witch!"
Akko set to work asking around the town where she could find the bus station. Answer after answer was "I don't know" or "There isn't one." Akko sat down on a nearby bench, defeated. She would miss the ceremony at this rate.
"I guess it just wasn't meant to be…" She said solemnly. A flash of white light dashed in front of her vision, bringing a gust of wind with it.
That's the same thing I saw flying next to the plane Akko thought, following the direction the thing went with her eyes, but something caught her eye. Akko pulled out the directory that was supposedly a map of where the bus stop was. Sure enough, the building on the top of the hill she was looking at looked exactly like what was depicted on the pamphlet. Akko jumped out of her seat, full of newfound energy, and thus began her sprint for the building on the hill.
Fully enamored by the thought of becoming a witch, Akko didn't even realize that there was someone right in her path as she ran for the station. Akko hit the person at full force, knocking both of them over.
"Sorry! I'm so sorry!" Akko quickly apologized and started to pick up the stuff dropped onto the floor, only when she saw another Luna Nova pamphlet did she realize who she just knowcked over.
"You're a new student to Luna Nova too? My name is Atsuko Kagari, but you can call me Akko!" She greeted the witch. The girl stayed silent, and simply took out a bottle of purple liquid and dropped it on Akko's stuffed toy. The thing started to move.
"Animation magic? That's amazing! I tried to…" Akko kept talking, eventually moving to pick up the newly living toy. It just pecked her in the eye.
"Hey that hurt!" Akko said, looking up. The girl she had just met wasn't there anymore. Akko decided to run ahead and see if she could catch up, but the girl just seemed to vanish.
"Way to make new friends…" Akko muttered before continuing her trek to the station.
Just as she was approaching the station, Akko caught the end of a conversation.
"Did you hear that the school is running into financial problems so they've started letting in regular people? Like ones not from witch families? Such a disgrace." One of the girls said. Akko blushed and quickly turned her back to the other girls standing at the station.
"Hey are you new here? I've never seen you before." one of the girls said to Akko. Akko turned around.
"Y-Yeah I am. Sure hope the bus comes soon right?" Akko said nervously.
"Bus? You must be the one not from a witch family. This is a Ley Line. It's like the magical highway!" the girls all three laughed at Akko and mounted their brooms.
"Tia Freyre!" they girls said, and sped on their brooms out into the building, where they floated to what looked like a big green portal.
"Good luck getting there! I heard if you're late then you're banned from EVER attending!" one of the girls said as they vanished from sight.
Akko attempted to climb the vines to get into the portal, but to no avail. She just sat down and laid down on the hard concrete, defeated once again.
"Hello?" a voice said to Akko's right. She looked over to find a short person dressed in witch clothing.
"Is there something wrong?" The girl said.
"I'm not from a witch family," Akko said, "I Don't have a broom. At this rate, ill miss the ceremony and my dream of becoming a witch will never come true…" Akko said sadly. The girl looked down at Akko. Then she streched her hand out to Akko.
"My name is Lotte. Nice to meet you. I'll give you a ride!" Lotte said, hauling Akko to her feet.
"My name is Akko! Thank you so much!" The two girls loaded their things onto Lotte's broom and set off towards the ley line.
Not long into the trip, Akko decided to make small talk.
"So why did you decide to come to Luna Nova?" Akko asked.
"Everyone in my family has been witches for generations. I need to get my magical item handling license as well. How about you?" Lotte asked.
"Well, I saw a Shiny Chariot show when I was young, and ever since then it has been my dream to become a witch and put a smile on everyone's face, just like Chariot did! I even have most of the collectable cards to boot." Akko explained. She pulled the premium Chariot card out of her pocket and showed it to Lotte.
"This card is my-" Akko faltered, remembering the photo she had in her pocket, "One of my most prized possessions." The second part was slightly more solemn than the first part.
"What's your most prized possession then?" Lotte asked.
"I-It's this." She pulled the photo of her and her mom out of her pocket. "This is a photo of my mom and I at the Chariot -This was one of the last things she did with me before…" Akko trialied off, afraid to continue for fear of crying.
"Oh...I didn't realize. I'm sorry." Lotte said. Suddenly, a gust of wind came out of nowhere, snatching Akko's photo out of her hand.
"NO!" Akko yelled, standing and literally jumping off the broom after the picture. She caught it in midair, but the force of her jump caused Lotte to lose control and fall off her broom. They both started to fall into the abyss. Akko hit something hard as she fell, and turned midair to see that the girl with the potion from earlier was now falling with her as well as Lotte. They screamed as they fell.
Akko came to hanging from her coat in some forest. Below her was Lotte cradling something as well as the mystery girl standing off to the side. Akko started to move, and the branch she was hanging from snapped, dropping her to the ground next to Lotte.
"I'm so sorry! I messed everything up. As usual." Akko said sadly.
"No it's okay. We just need to find our way out of here before the ceremony!" Lotte said, "And my broom broke."
"The forest of Arcturus." The mystery girl said. "That's where we are. This is perfect."
"Umm the forest of what now?" Akko asked.
"The forest of arcturus. It's full of magic, so if we could open a layline somehow then we could get out of here." Lotte said. Meanwhile, the mystery girl had set up a ring of rope.
"Stand here." She said. Akko and Lotte stood in the circle, and it suddenly turned into a netting ball.
"Will this help us get back in time?" Akko said. There was no comment from the mystery girl, she just got on her broom and shouted a spell into the forest. The ground started to thud as something REALLY big started to approach.
"Now will you kindly distract this thing while I take one of its feathers? Oh you've already volunteered? Great!" The girl said as a massive chicken with a serpent tail appeared from the forest.
"Oh and if you don't want to become stone, don't let it breathe on you." The girl said. Akko and Lotte screamed and started to run as fast as they could, barely keeping speed to outrun the beast. They ran through a forest until they came on a hill. They couldn't control their speed and hit a tree, shattering the semi-protective ball. And tumbled down the hill. Just before the hill dropped into a cliff, Akko grabbed a stump as well as Lotte's hand.
"I've got you!" Akko said, hauling Lotte and herself to their feet. The bird seemed to have gotten distracted by the mystery girl. Suddenly Lotte tripped and stumbled.
"My leg! I think there's something wrong with it, just leave me and go!" Lotte said.
"I will never do that." Akko said, letting Lotte lean on her for support as they made their way back up the hill.
"No matter what! I will become a witch!" Akko said. There was some well of power blooming inside her, giving her the resolve to keep going.
"Nothing will stand in my way!" A white ribbon of light, the one from before, started to dash in circles around Akko.
"I will follow my dream no matter what!" The ribbon of light flew into the ground in front of Akko, and vines sprouted from the ground materializing into something. Akko remembered what she had heard from Chariot, all those years ago.
"I will aim unto the truest target!" Akko yelled. The vines materialized into a piece of wood with 7 gemstones set into the wood. The shiny rod.
Amazed, Akko reached forward and grabbed the mythical wand.
"Is that…?" Lotte said.
"It is. The Shiny Wand. Shiny Chariot's Wand." Akko said amazed. Something came out of the forest and stopped next to Akko and Lotte.
"I got what I needed. Let's go." The mystery girl said from on her broom. Akko and Lotte jumped on the broom, and took off into the sky. Behind them, the giant Chicken monster broke the treeline and followed the girls through the air, gaining on them quickly.
"This is bad. We would be able to outrun this with 3 people." The mystery girl said.
"Who even are you?" Akko asked
"The name is Sucy" Sucy said. The massive bird suddenly let loose a jet of fire
"Well, SUCY, you didn't tell us that this beast could BREATHE FIRE!" Akko yelled.
"I didn't know that!" Sucy replied. The giant chicken monster was gaining on them, and soon it was close enough that its fire breath lit the back of Sucy's broom on fire. A gust of wind knocked them all off their broom.
"AHHHHH" All the girls screamed as they fell. Akko held the shiny rod near to her chest as she fell towards the trees, and suddenly, it started to glow with a green light.
The Words. Say the Words a woman-like voice said in Akko's mind, and she remembered what Chariot said all those years ago.
"Noctu orfei" Akko whispered into the wind. The Shiny rod glowed slightly brighter.
"Aude" She continued, reciting Chariot's spell,
"FRAETOR" Akko finished. The Shiny Rod flashed with one of the stars turning orange, and the rod transformed into a bow in Akko's hand. She took the drawstring and pulled it back, and a green and gold arrow materialized in her hand.
"SHINY ARC!" Akko yelled, letting the drawstring loose. The arrow streaked towards the treeline, and a massive green leyline portal appeared in front of them. The girls plunged into the portal and fell through the green abyss, until the gold symbol of luna nova appeared in front of them. They aimed themselves through it and the main hall of the school materialized around them. Akko looked around in shock as the glow faded from the Shiny Rod. Then she jumped up
"We made it in time! Yeah!" She yelled ecstatically. Akko's new journey had officially begun!
So, A quick note. Obviously Ursula was there during the whole forest ordeal just like in the show, but I couldn't figure out how to write her in. just know she still knows what happened. Also, There will be much more ORIGINAL content in the future, as the only reason this chapter was so close to the first episode is that i needed to set the stage. Anyways, see you in the next one!
