Summary: While helping Grandma Raven at the Dead-Raising Reunion, Lee and Ellie get sidetracked by a sisterly argument.
Inside the ancient temple, Raven was moving her index finger in a circle and pointed her magic for floral decoration in the dining table. Her hair was tied up in a curly ponytail and she was wearing a off-shoulder, short sleeved black dress with a violet belt around it.
"These Damask roses never cease to amaze me." Raven said. "Hard to find them these days."
A reflective glass mirror with a metallic black spade-shaped bezel outlined with purple jewels started to glow brightly. Raven turned around to gasp in surprise. She watched as two glowing spiritual light phased through the mirror's surface and slowly transformed into a physical manifestation of two familiar Dragonesses. One Dragoness has a fairly petite, slender body with fair cream skin, blond hair tied up in a bun, and blue eyes. She wore a deep blue knee-length dress with pink puffy sleeves and pink ribbons, white leggings, and black strapped Mary Jane shoes. She also has pink rabbit-shaped mark on her left cheek. The other Dragoness has a slender build with pale skin, waist-length black hair, and hazelnut eyes. She wore a purple knee-length dress with black long sleeves and black flat shoes. She also has black curved horns and black sphere-shaped mark on her right cheek.
"Oh, Elara, Neoma, my granddaughters, what a pleasant surprise." Raven greeted sweetly. "What brings you two here from the spirit world?"
"Hello, Grandma Raven." Elara greeted back. She looked at her gloomy older sister. "Uh, what's she doing here?"
"I was about to ask you the same question, princess." Neoma retorted as she rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"I'm here to visit my grandma on such a lovely day." Elara said.
"Well, she's my grandma too." Neoma said. "Don't forget that, little sister."
"Now, now, girls." Raven said in a calm tone. "Let's settle this like ladies. How about we all have a family dinner together? And I know just the family member who will be delighted to join us."
In the Crete Fortress, Lee and Ellie sat on the chairs to stare at the Dragoness book inside the kitchen. The book projected holographic images of Elara and Neoma in their timeline.
"Grandma Elara and Great Aunt Neoma!" Ellie said with an exciting smile. "I can't believe they actually arrived at Grandma Raven's temple from the spirit world!"
"It says that Grandma Elara is the youngest Dragoness to create over 5,000 spells." Lee said. "She's extremely more adept at magic than Great Aunt Neoma."
"What does it say about Great Aunt Neoma?" Ellie asked.
"Great Aunt Neoma didn't develop her own spells, but she's only famously known for her invisibility spell." Lee answered.
"Sounds useful." Ellie said. "Let's go meet them!"
"It's a good thing I've learned a portal spell from Donna earlier this morning." Lee said with a proud smile.
Lee waved her hand back and brought her magic forward to open a glowing blue spade-shaped portal. She and Ellie then jumped through the portal together.
Lee and Ellie jumped safely out of the glowing blue spade-shaped portal in front of a surprised Raven, who was brushing her ponytail inside her bedroom.
"Oh, Lee and Ellie." Raven said with a smile. "So glad you came. But where's Donna and Ella?"
"They have other things to do, so it's just us." Ellie replied with a grin. "So, what's up with Grandma Elara and Great Aunt Neoma?"
"Elara and Neoma couldn't stand each other during their full time as Dragonesses. They have been carrying their strong sibling rivalry since Neoma was six and Elara was three." Raven explained.
"Neoma has low ratings on magic, but she is surprisingly charismatic that outshined her younger sister and her mother despite her emo mood. Elara is more cheerful and optimistic like her mother, but she can be annoying obnoxious because she always believed that she is more superior than her older sister. And now that they're here, I don't want them to bash each other during this brief reunion."
"So, you called us to help our dead relatives get along?" Lee asked with a confuse eyebrow.
"Exactly." Raven said. "I need you two to help these sisters to fix their problem, so they can move on. I already had my waiters and chefs preparing meals for the dinner. But first, you two have to dress presentable."
"That's where I come in." Lee said with a smug smile.
Lee waved her hand back and brought her magic forward to send out a shimmering blue energy swirling around herself and her little sister from top to bottom. Their ninja attire were melting away completely into something new. Lee wore a navy blue off-the-shoulder dress with one left sleeve, periwinkle blue tights, and royal blue high-heeled shoes. She also wore a pair of blue spade-shaped earrings. And Ellie wore a short orange dress tied with a light orange obi belt and a dark orange puffy coat, light orange stockings, and orange flat shoes. She also wore a pair of orange diamond-shaped earrings.
Lee, Ellie, and Raven bursted through the doors as they walked up to take their seats in front of Elara and Neoma.
"Welcome, Grandma Elara and Great Aunt Neoma!" Lee greeted with a smile. "I'm Leona and this is my little sister Michelle."
"Hiya." Ellie greeted with a friendly wave.
"Hello, ladies." Elara said with a sweet smile. "So, you two are my great-great-great-great granddaughters. It's so nice to finally meet you."
"Sup. I'm your great aunt or whatever." Neoma said with a dull expression.
"Excuse me, big sister." Elara said. She looked at Neoma with a sideway glare. "She can be quite gloomy sometimes."
"Well now, that the introductions are done." Raven said with a slight nervous smile. "Who's ready for dinner?"
"Dinner is served!" The head chef called out.
The servants walked out of the kitchen and laid out all the foods on the table for the Dragoness family.
"Bon appetite." The head chef said with a bow.
The head chef and the servants took their leave back into the kitchen.
"Yes, I'm starving." Ellie said with a smile.
"Everyone dig in." Raven said.
"Don't mind if I do, Grandma Raven." Ellie said.
"So, girls, tell us about your Dragoness training." Elara said.
"Well, the girls have been training real hard." Raven smiled proudly. "Don't you, girls?"
"Ah, yes, our mom Saldana has taught us everything she knows during her time as a Dragoness." Lee said. "Especially all of the legendary Dragonesses and their powerful spells." She then let out a smug smile on her face. "I personally took a proud initiative on studying, of course, Grandma Elara's spells."
"What?!" Ellie asked. She started laughing while eating a lobster at the same time. "I know you ain't talking about the Digitus Pygmy and Habitu Auxilium spells!"
"Ellie." Lee hissed with a glare.
"Mizukaki Digitus and Habitus Auxilium. Oh, how stylish." Neoma commented sarcastically.
Ellie couldn't help but snicker at Neoma's sarcastic comment.
"And my Digitus Pygmy spell is great for painting nails with webbed fingers all at the same time." Elara retorted. "Plus, there's nothing wrong with using my Habitu Auxilium spell for picking cute outfits."
"Yeah." Neoma said. She looked down at the meal in a mutter. "Obnoxious much."
"Neoma." Raven said with a glare.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Elara asked as she crossed her arms over her chest with a glare.
"Now, ladies, let's not say anything you both might regret." Raven said.
"Hey, it's not my fault that she's cheerfully sweet on the outside and an obnoxious schemer on the inside." Neoma said with a shrug.
"At least, I'm not a lazy, gloomy lone wolf!" Elara snapped. "I do not understand how I can ever be related to you."
"Same, princess." Neoma scoffed.
Only Lee quickly stood up from her seat to ease down the argument between two Dragoness sisters.
"Come on, ladies." Lee said. "Let's not fight. I'm sure we can work things out in a calm and peaceful fashion."
"Says the future Dragoness in training with a cocky sense of fashion." Neoma said.
"What are we talking about?" Lee asked in disbelief.
"Just because we're dead in the spirit world doesn't mean we don't observe all future Dragoness descendants." Elara said. "And trust me, there's times you and your sisters have pointless arguments that are nothing compared to us."
"She has a point, you know." Ellie said with a snickering smile. "I mean, you'll never gonna be a fashion diva if you can keep on acting like a snobby queen bee."
"Oh yeah?! Well, a news flash, skater girl!" Lee snapped. "All my fashion video blogs went off the chart with zero dislikes compared to your skating videos and you don't hear me judging about it!"
"It's cool. I get it." Ellie said. "That way when fan critics gives you negative reviews it will feel like you gave out your fashion collection for all nothing."
"You mean like that sad motorized skates that Donna made for you two weeks ago?" Lee questioned with a smirk. She noticed the ever-growing rage on Ellie's face as she kept talking. "Oh, by the way, I recorded that test run. I recorded every last moment of it. And that was the most funniest and saddest epic fail I have saw. Not that I'm the one to judge, but I would totally love to heard video fans' worldwide opinion."
"Well, I messed up the colors of that elegant egyptian dress you liked so much! It looks wild and silly with all different shades of green, orange, and yellow, so heads up, diva!" Ellie barked.
Knowing that the family dinner won't resolve any time soon, Raven levitated a Damask rose from the flower vase and charged it with dark energy.
"Keep your business away from mine!" Ellie yelled as she constructed a long orange energized whip in one hand.
"Likewise, bum!" Lee shouted as she crafted two blue tessen in her hands.
Lee and Ellie growled dangerously as they pointed their weapons at each other's necks.
Then, Raven tossed the Damask rose in the air without detection, causing a giant purple rose-like monster to appear on the right side of the dinner table. The rose monster has a very thin and slender body, lilac skin, violet eyes, and has six octopus arms.
"Now, this dinner is getting be interesting." Neoma said to Elara with a small grin.
On Raven's cue, a giant purple rose monster let out a loud dangerous screech that caught the mystic family's attention. The rose monster shoot out black sticky substances from his mouth that pinned Raven, Elara, and Neoma against the wall. Lee and Ellie looked at their pinned relatives before turning back to the rose monster.
"What the heck is that?!" Ellie exclaimed in shock.
The rose monster narrowed its eyes and smashed its giant tentacles at the mystic kunoichis, but Lee and Ellie leapt away that led the tentacles hit the table in broken pieces.
Lee dove down with her tessen to slash the giant rose monster, but she suddenly was veered off course and crashed to the floor when Ellie hit her older sister's tessen with her whip.
"You attacked me!" Lee cried.
"Wow, I am so sorry about that. My whip must've slipped." Ellie lied.
"Seriously?! You're doing this now?!" Lee screamed.
The rose monster directed itself towards Ellie and began to slash its razor sharp claws at the orange mystic kunoichi, who dodged the slashing claws and performed rapid high-damage somersaults that knocked the rose monster away to the wall.
"Try and slash this!" Ellie said.
Ellie launched her whip at the rose monster, but Lee's tessen flew out of nowhere and pinned it to the other wall.
"Oh wow. I'm sorry. My tessen must've slipped." Lee taunted.
"All right, that's it!" Ellie yelled.
Ellie and Lee quickly grabbed each other by the collar of their dresses.
"You want a piece of me, diva?" Ellie snapped.
"Thought you never ask!" Lee retorted.
"Stop fighting already!" Elara shouted. "You two really need to get along and stop that monster!"
"Like they're gonna listen!" Neoma yelled. "Let's get work on a spell to get ourselves out of this sticky goo!"
As Elara and Neoma are working on a spell, Raven looked back at the mystic kunochis as she hoped that they can put their argument aside and fight together like sisters. Lee and Ellie fought each other with their psychic energized weapons while calling out harsh names at each other.
But then, the rose monster's giant tentacle descended upon the two mystic kunochis and smashed them into the ground. Before Lee and Ellie could stand up and fight, the rose monster wrapped its other tentacle around the mystic sisters.
"This is all your fault and you know it!" Lee snapped.
"No, it's not! It's because you haven't apologize to me!" Ellie retorted.
"What?! Hey, blame me because you can't keep your mouth shut once in a while!" Lee countered.
The rose monster began to beat Lee and Ellie several times without mercy until it slammed them into the ground. The rose monster then moved its way to the pinned Dragonesses, not even notice Lee and Ellie standing slowly from the floor.
"Hey, Ellie." Lee spoke weakly.
"What is it, Lee?" Ellie asked.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking right now?" Lee questioned.
"Of course. I mean we're sisters. " Ellie replied.
"So then...temporary truce?" Lee inquired.
"Heck yeah." Ellie responded with a dangerous smile. "Temporary truce."
"Let's take it down!" Lee and Ellie shouted as they finally stood up.
Lee and Ellie ran towards the rose monster with fast speed.
The rose monster took notice and attempted to strike Ellie with its charging tentacles, but Ellie swung a quick flurry of lashes at the tentacles with her whip and then wrapped the rose monster up with it. Lee delivered swift slashes around the rose monster from different directions with her tessen. Ellie's whip and Lee's tessen then disappeared as two mystic sisters channeled their psychic elements around themselves and then fired the psychic water and air forward in the shape of giant screeching dragons that heavily attacked the rose monster on impact.
"Ellie's acrobatics and Lee's sharp technique." Raven said as Elara and Neoma merely watched in awe. "They are strong separately, but their true potential can only shine when they're working together as a team."
The rose monster closed its eyes in silence as it vanished into pixelating pieces.
"Uh, what just happened?" Neoma asked in confusion.
"Yeah, that monster didn't even explode." Elara said.
"I was able to infuse a Damask rose with my dark magic and transformed it into a fierce creature to stage an attack in hopes of the four of you will get along." Raven explained. "You four might have your arguments here and there, but that shouldn't change the fact you girls can't work together as a team."
Raven moved her index finger in a circle and pointed her magic to dissolve the sticky substance that freed herself, Elara, and Neoma. She then used her vast magic to re-organize the dining room telekinetically.
"I'm sorry, Neoma." Elara apologized to her older sister. "When mom started training us to become Dragonesses, I was trying to improve the world and the lives of human and mystic populations as a strong moral compass, which I should've known it would led me to being outright obnoxious and egotistic."
"It's cool, sis." Neoma said. "But I'm sorry too. I know I'm like an emo, snarking verison of a Dragoness, but I learned to learn my magic and defend evil my way. We should've known that being different shouldn't affect their bond. I forgive you."
"I forgive you too, sis." Elara smiled.
Elara and Neoma wrapped their arms around each other into a tight, sisterly hug.
"And we're sorry we got caught up in the argument too." Lee said.
"Yeah, we got carried away from it." Ellie said with an embarrassing smile.
"Heh, no big deal. Besides, we enjoyed your company anyway." Neoma said with a smile. "Too bad. Your other two sisters couldn't join us. I really admired your oldest sister Ella. That girl is one dark punkish gal. Her brute strength is more darker than mine when I was her age."
"I also admired your other sister Donna." Elara grinned. "Her amazing intelligence between science and magic is truly extraordinary."
"Well, I'm glad you all were able to settle your differences at long last." Raven said. She looked up at the clock behind her. "Oh my. It's two hours close to midnight."
"Well, I think it's time for us to go." Elara said.
"It was nice meeting you, girls." Neoma grinned. "Let's do it again sometime."
Neoma and Elara hugged Lee and Ellie, who hugged them back with warm smiles.
Elara and Neoma closed their eyes as they slowly transformed into two glowing spiritual lights and phased straight into the mirror's surface.
"At least they finally resolved their arguments and so did you. I owe you two for helping them figuring it out." Raven said. "And for your reward, my chefs made the best pork cutlet bowls and red velvet cake slices."
Raven snapped her fingers and two servants walked out of the kitchen. They handed six boxes of pork cutlet bowls and red velvet cake slices to the two mystic sisters before heading back to the kitchen.
"Thanks, Grandma Raven." Ellie smiled as she and Lee hugged Raven tightly. "Race you back home, Lee!"
"You're on!" Lee grinned.
Ellie ran off out of the dining room, leaving Lee race after her little sister.
Raven looked at the mystic sisters with a soft smile.
In the Crete Fortress, Lee and Ellie sat on the chairs inside the dining room. As Ellie was eating the crab meat, Lee snapped her fingers and magically handed a pair of motorized orange skates to her.
"So, here. I wanted us to make up." Lee said.
"Huh? Where did you get this? Did you ask Donna to fix this for me?" Ellie asked.
"I'm not saying I did. I'm not saying I didn't." Lee replied.
Ellie saw the green sticker that read sisters 4 forever, causing her to laugh merely.
"Skater girl." Lee said a teasing smile.
"Fashion diva." Ellie laughed teasingly.