"Almost there." I groaned to myself and I looked outside the window as I wait for lunch to arrive. The teacher had as copy the title lessons for the semester in his subject. I've learned a lot of things this morning...not only academically...okay FINE ... not so much academically but more on my classmates.

I already knew Lotte was a nice person, but she'd shown more of it like she'd help me pick up my pen, or she'd let me borrow an eraser. She pays attention to the class well, the honor student type . I hope I can copy notes from her too.

The Filipino behind me enjoyed pranks , including trying to make me drink extract from a poisonous leaf. She'd been nice enough to kick my seat when I was falling asleep through a lesson though . Maybe she's quite nice like Lotte said, but I'll think about it because of the poison.

The person seated in front of me, Amanda had a bit of temper and much disinterest in class. She seemed to know Jasminka who was seated beside Constanze, in front of Lotte , since she came to spoke to them when the first period ended.

The bell rang and finally...finally...

"IT'S LUNCH!"

"Akko. You're loud." Sucy deadpanned.

"Say what?!"

"L—Let's be calm and have lunch, Akko." Lotte raises her hands .

"Yo Japanese girl!" suddenly the girl sitting in front of me called. Amanda? Was it ?What? Is she a bully or something?

"Do you need anything?" I asked holding down the annoyance in my tone.

She sat facing the back of the seat and leaning to it. Something I've done a lot , but Diana-sama tells me not to.

Diana-sama... I remembered when she sent me off to school this morning... My heart races at the thought of her. No . No. No. I must focus on school for now.

"Amanda." she says grinning , cutting me off from my thoughts.

Two girls approached her from behind and waved at us. "Constanze and Jasminka? Am I right?" I said and they both nodded.

"You three know each other?"

"More or less..." Amanda said. "More importantly...you three up for something interesting?"

"Like what?"

"As long as it won't get us into trouble..."

"If I get something out of it..."

We all headed to the cafeteria to eat lunch except for Lotte who had brought lunch boxes, the other for Sucy. Proof of how close they were I guess. As we all took our seat in a table near the walls, Amanda carefully looked around as if checking for people that might hear her.

"They said this school has seven secrets surrounding it." the redhead says placing her tray on the table and sitting beside Constanze .

"Are we talking about ghosts or treasures?" Sucy blandly stated then takes a spoonful of Lotte's cooking.

"Both!"

I leaned forward on the table ."I'm all ears~"

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"Ehh??? Again? But I just started school...

" Akko pouted, annoyed when Diana had tried to explain she'd be gone for a day or two or three .

The blonde held her chin in thought. "I see..." 'So that's her reaction' silencing the last bit to herself.

"I have a lot of things to tell you about my first day in school..." The same sullen expression of the Japanese girl affected Diana and stood in silence thinking. "Croix, say something to her." Akko looked over to the lilac-haired woman who'd been there listening.

Croix put her hands up. "Even if you tell me that..." she looked at her master again. She did question why Diana always tried to pacify and pamper the brunette... why a young Japanese was so important to the last-born of the Cavendish was strange . Still... she wouldn't dare step into what seemed like a husband-and-wife argument . It was that kind of atmosphere for Croix at least.

"Akko... It would just be for a few days. You can tell me when I am home...including everything else on the following days." a soothing voice comes from behind the brunette and the figure enfolding her with slender arms.

"Unfair... I can't refuse you if you're being like that..."

The blonde's lips curled upwards victoriously as she laid her head on top of the small girl, still hugging her from behind. "My apologies...However it is truly a matter of importance Akko. You must understand."

The brunette faced upwards to meet blue eyes. "More important than me?"

"Akko." it might not be noticeable, but Diana's expression slightly changed and downcast. Akko could tell atleast.

The bubbly girl returned to her playful demeanor. "Just kidding... I get it . I get it. Diana-sama is very kind and want to help people that's why..." they exchanged smiles for a moment before Akko hugged the arm wrapped around her and nuzzled onto it. "But when you return, I get to have you all to myself , okay?"

"Well of course." the older girl says holding back a chuckle. Akko was just so adorable at that moment (though she always have been) that she regretted to release the hold she has on her prompting the younger girl to face her. "I'll be going." she uttered , the smile never leaving her face .

"Take care." likewise, the smaller girl's bubbly grin was still there.

"It's not like she's leaving for a war , you know? I'll be there too." Croix couldn't help making a comment this time, making the two remember she was still present.

The heat creeps up to Akko's face in realization.

Diana holds back another chuckle. So adorable, so lovely . She could just take the girl and... and... but decides to save it for later. For now, she planted a light kiss on the girl's cheek, making her face even redder. "'A kiss for good luck' as one may say." She says before her eyes pierced a hole in the air and became what seemed like a portal. She walked towards it with a satisfied smirk. "Let us be on our way, Croix."

They disappeared along with the portal and Akko was left there blushing, touching the spot where the lips of Lord Cavendish left this lingering effect.

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Two figures were to be seen stepping out from the light in the air as they went out from the portal.

"Well... I'm still not used to that either." Croix scratches her head and sighs with a shaky smile on her face.

After just a moment, they were transported into a village that now seemed like a ghost-town .

"It's become gloomy around here ever since the entity showed. Some people panicked and they just...left . Kind of eerie don't you think Lord Cave—Woah! Are you okay?!" she almost reached out to help the woman who held her head with a light groan only to be stopped as she raised a hand.

"I just feel a tad bit dizzy after the 'leap'. It's a bit strange...but I feel quite alright now."

"So the headaches...it's really Ak—"

"Not this time ." the blonde's voice was more stern and commanding this time. Noticing it came out a little sharp, she sighed, feeling apologetic. "I do not wish to speak of it at this moment. Let us get back to the task at hand."

"Of course." the purplenette waved it off and continued to walk the streets leading the way. A few villagers might be at the town square of maybe she should try the houses,she'll figure out along the way.

As the aide of Lord Cavendish, seemingly passed on to her by her grandmother, she'd been around to understand a fit or two by the woman. It had been her duty to watch over Akko as well , but mostly because Lord Cavendish deemed her important. At first she did not comprehend why the human girl was of importance to an existence as close as a deity . Indeed, Lord Cavendish is that important of a figure. Maybe not of this time, but hundreds of years ago.

It was only a forgotten legend to the people of today, a mere fairytale that had become unpopular, yet Croix, hadn't forgotten the bedtime story that was told to her by her grandmother .

It was of a time when magic had reigned over the land, the tree of life, Yggdrasil that was full of magical energy, and the gifted who had prowess and control over it were called witches. Families of the first blood witches —one of which her family belonged— had a goal to help mankind grow and flourish. The first of them who had influenced the others was the strongest family of Cavendish. Whether it was turning a barren land into a healthy field to plant crops, or cure for the sick, even exterminating creatures that preyed on mankind , there were many things that they helped with. Soon enough they had influenced the other families in their kind deeds and started to follow. Witches were deemed heroes, saviours and many more by the common people, but magic wasn't good nor evil, some witches had planned on using magic for their own good, even destruction. Others took control of creatures to make them attack humans and wreaked havoc wherever they can.

The Cavendish couldn't stand by and led to containing the witches that had used magic for evil. The other families of course, followed her example . They decided officiating an alliance between their families to the Cavendish who of course had welcomed their assitance in seeking out the witches that had turned . Yet to their surprise, there were far too many who had lost their paths and went astray , hence the Great war of Witches had started. The war waged for a long long time. So many was destroyed, so many lives lost , to the point that there was almost nothing left in the world... A balance had been broken. A balance that could no longer be returned because magic had cause the world chaos. The brave of the first family, the Cavendish, was the one who gathered everything they'd had in their power and casted a very powerful spell from the tree of life, Yggdrasil . Thereafter, the world had returned to it's normal state rather than the wasteland it had become after the war. The people left had started rebuilding. The tree had disappeared and magic was no longer , not many had lived to tell the tale, not many knew exactly what the tale was, or how the great witch who had saved all had disappeared.

However, the part that her grandmother had always liked to tell her, was how she had come to. Not everyone of the first families had perished . One of the few who lived to tell the tale and knew of the tale was her ancestor, Othelia, one of the first blood families who was the first one that had followed Lord Cavendish in her endeavors to help humanity. Othelia, the person who had seen firsthand how giving and kind was Lord Cavendish.

Othelia , the last living being who had seen Lord Cavendish in her glory, as she saved the world and her life.

Not very long after the tree disappeared , the blinding light that ran through the world to reconstruct it , a creature of white with golden mane and a peculiar shining green horn went near Othelia. She touched the head and it turned into a woman, a woman who was very familiar. Othelia knelt before her, forever grateful , and had sworn her life to serve her for so long as she could and willingly give her next generations for servitude .

Lord Cavendish can only return a smile and say there was no need to but if she must, she is in need of a companion in her lonely journey to the world to understand her purpose .

A millenia passed and Othelia's offspring served her, another millenia, an offsprings of offsprings, and another... and another ... There were many things they'd done in their travels, nothing short of helping those in need. Even trying to stay for a decade or two in one place until Lord Cavendish says to move on to the next. It was the last place they had went to where Lord Cavendish decided to settle there for a while and build a place where the sick could get cure whether rich nor poor, nothing she hasn't done previously yet.

It was when the eighth generation of Othelia's descendants had given birth to Miranda. After only two decades , Lord Cavendish had decided to that there was no longer a purpose for her existence. She had already restored balance to the world, the power she now possessed

is not needed anymore and that she only needed to protect it so that it may not be used again for evil. She bid the mother and Miranda goodbye and went to a deep slumber , in a place where only she exists.

Yet here she was, Lord Cavendish herself, in her full glory . Walking with another descendant of Othelia. Helping lost spirits from the great war and looking for answers to questions that Croix still doesn't know of. A hunch that probably one of them was again, her purpose.

Why had she waken up?

And Akko was of value to her because she was the one who awakened her?

How had the young girl awakened her in that case?

A snap of a finger breaks her out of her thoughts. "Y—Yes Lord Cavendish?"

"You seem disturbed. I do not mind it but... Anyway, I had mentioned to make inquiries of the people gathered in that pub." Her right arm wrapped by the white sleeve of her robe pointed to the a slightly rundown pub. "Pub masters prove quite helpful on interesting stories around. I shall go visit the areas of occurrences."

"I know. You still know how to use your phone right? Wouldn't want you running off on me ."Croix squinted accusingly.

A grin as blonde locks waved by her hand proudly. "Well pardon me but I am well aware how to use this machine now. Moreover, I am much responsible, thank you. "

"Last time I checked, I asked you to check your messages and you went outside the house to go to the mailbox. Also , you pretty much destroyed the mailbox after not finding any." The purplehead puts on a victorious smirk.

"That is ...irrelevant. I—I can handle this now. I shall take my leave as you should. I will call you on this...cellphone at later juncture." The woman clasps her arms together over her chest and started walking away.

Croix chuckled. She may be literally, a very powerful being, but she is glad that Lord Cavendish was still human in some points.

So I'm tryna unfold the legend of Diana her bit by bit... XD

I know they call her last born of the Cavendish but I will explore more on the Cavendish part in the future. Essentially,she is considered the first witch now because she is the last left of the first family of witch. I'll let you know why The Cavendish are the first family but not this time. xD

Also, Akoo's highschool hijinks will be relevant to the story , you will see. :)

Kinda took too long because I had an idea for another Diakko story . The words kept pouring out and I can't stop because I might forget. Kekeke. Hope you enjoyed. Til next time.

Also the Tree Witch Lore... I'm crying...