After the girls met Brillant Anna, the girls helped Arnoux perform, going from west to east in everything that was city and village of the Franco Kingdom, where they began meeting the redheaded witch in a town near Nantes. In this they first started a way to the south that Harriet was afraid to go at first, but ended up accepting, since most of them also agreed to help Anna.
From the big cities they passed in order through Nantes, Tours, Limoges, Bordeaux, Arles Marselle, Lyon, Paris, Douai, Trier, Cologne and Mainz, passing by some smaller villages and feudal lords' lands on the way, they almost reached the kingdom of the Visigoths and the Kingdom of the Lombards, which was close to another book by Lilith, but in this the girls decided to pass after taking the book further north.
During this time the girls took advantage to share Anna's book, acquiring even more knowledge about animal metamorphosis spells and also objects, besides a spell that shrinks things, which is very useful to take many things when there is no space.
Anna was another who benefited a lot, using more knowledge of the other books to further improve the presentations, and sometimes the girls also participated to help Arnoux, since they were better with the spells than the redheaded witch, presentations that were already spoken throughout the Franc kingdom "Brillant Anna & Les Brillants Sorcières", the cities and villages were waiting anxiously for the passage of the group.
They were almost in the Kingdom of Saxony, there were few villages left to arrive in the other kingdom and thus reach the next book, in which they ended up having to enter into an agreement with the feudal lord of that land, who was not at all friendly to the witches.
August 11, 621, the girls were in the feudal lord's castle of that land, called Thule, he was the grandson of the first lord of those lands and managed that place with every possible restriction, that day the girls were in his castle to ask them to introduce themselves there.
- So you are Brillant Anna & Les Brillants Sorcières, who are spoken throughout the kingdom?
Says Thule.
- Yes we are. I am Brillant Anna.
Says Anna until Thule hits the ground with his staff.
- I did not authorize you to answer. Two more of these and I will send them to the dungeon, be warned that I will not tolerate disrespect to my authority.
Says Thule making the girls shut up, while Harriet only held the anger.
- (What a son of a bitch, I'm with a huge desire to show this idiot who we are, a bitch of a guy lazy, who he thinks he is with this idiot staff and these soldiers in armor, without them this Thule is nothing but a weakling).
- Do you want to introduce yourselves to my lands by showing this disgust that is magic and yet without paying anything? That way I feel like cutting off your heads. I can even think of letting you introduce yourselves, with a gold fee, the equivalent of 4 bags of gold of this one.
Says Thule with the bag of gold in hand.
- So we agree.
Says Anna taking the bags of gold and delivering them to Thule that starts counting.
- Now get out of here and turn around and organize this stupid little festival.
Says Thule pointing to the exit.
Then the girls leave Thule Castle and go to the village, where Anna soon uses a spell for the hut to be set up and get the right size, Anna starts to organize in the center of the village some decorations and in this all the inhabitants, including merchants started to organize in the surroundings, putting their tents close by, all the people of that place were anxious for Brillant Anna to come, to the point that some stopped working in the field just to go see the witch.
- It's Brillant Anna and the Brillant Sorcières!
Says one of the inhabitants.
Little by little the movement of the city got bigger, as well as there was already a crowd in the center, in which some Thule guards stayed in the access corridors, demanding coins from the peasants who wanted to pass and it was a very high price what made many come back. Realizing this, the girls began to disguise themselves as peasants and gave coins to them so that they could watch the presentation.
- Take some coins, we just want more public.
Says Beatrix disguised as a peasant.
Thanks a lot!
Says the peasant woman.
Little by little the peasants with the help of the girls were able to enter the festival, but the Thule guards realized this and they increased the price for the peasants to enter even more. Harriet starts to repair it and goes annoyed to one of the guards.
- I know they are increasing even more the price for people to enter.
Says Harriet.
- Quiet female. I know they have been helping the peasants to be able to enter this festival, giving little bags of coins to the people. If you knew that, you would be dead now.
Says the guard.
- If you want I'll give you even more gold than your master gives you just so that you won't disturb us.
Says Harriet with a bag of gold in his hand.
- So we have an agreement, I let you give money to the peasants and not raise the fee for them to enter.
Says the guard.
Meanwhile in Thule Castle, he watched the village from afar and noticed that there was a big party going on there, it was even bigger than he expected, it was with musicians, food stalls, jumping and cheerful peasants, besides the big stage of Brillant Anna & Les Brillant Sorcières, which left that feudal lord slightly irritated to the point of calling one of his servants.
- Hank!
Thule says until Hank goes to him bending on his knees.
- Yes sir.
Says Hank.
- Go to the village and bring me information about this Brillant Anna and also tell the church priest to come here.
Says Thule.
- Right!
Says Hank getting up from there.
Hank runs to the village, passing first in the church that was on the way and warning the priest to come to the castle. Then the servant of the feudal lord, goes to the village and starts to ask the people about the festival and also he takes a poster of Brillant Anna & Les Brillant Sorcières, in addition to taking some information with the same guard that Harriet bribed about the girls paying peasants to enter the festival.
In the huts, the seven girls were getting ready to introduce themselves; Anna wore a white dress with blue balls that stayed everywhere, seat openings in the belly and shoulders, and a neckline, while the other six girls wore a more basic dress, blue, and some red details.
- I don't know about this place.
Says Harriet.
- I've been to worse places. Where they even let me into the city when they saw me flying with my broom. We have to be careful in those places that have churches too. Although I didn't see if I had here... Because priests get very angry with witches.
Says Anna.
- Yes, I know this well, from where I came they believe in this thing of Christianity and this is harmful for us, because they are very intolerant of anything that goes against what is in that book of theirs.
Says Harriet.
The girls were arguing there about the times when Anna couldn't perform and also when the whole town turned against her, even when the church got angry about Arnoux wanting to call more girls to become witches.
Meanwhile Hank arrived at the castle after collecting information and in this Thule was talking with Father Peter, about the witches, the same one arrives panting and kneels facing the lord who just takes his staff.
- It arrived until very fast.
Says Thule.
- My Lord... The place is a real indecency.
Says Hank.
- Yes, I know that already, witches were a bad idea, but tell me about it.
Says Thule.
- They are paying for our peasants to stop working to attend the performance, while the nobles of the village are annoyed to know that they have that scum with them, one of the guards said that he saw a witch bribing a guard of ours so that a fee would not be charged to enter the festival.
Says Hank as Thule got angry to the point of hitting the staff back on the ground.
- These witches act anyway... They are manipulating the masses so that they have more of them in the world, this is instigating people to believe in paganism and this is blasphemy.
Says Peter.
- If this is blasphemy then I leave it to you to do whatever you want about these witches. It is better the enemy of the witches than the enemy of the church. Amen!
Says Thule.
- So you give me the freedom to take the right measures regarding witches? I will use brute force to judge them and I have the verdict that they will be executed in public square today.
Says Peter while Thule clapped.
- If today there is going to be an execution, I make total pleasure to go together to watch, how long have I not seen one happening and what will be the punishment?
Says Thule curious and with a malicious smile.
- To purify the soul of these poor girls, only with the fire of hell so that they can pay the height.
Says Peter.
- Great!
Says Thule
Then Thule goes with the priest to the soldiers' lodge, where he starts to group a small troop in order to attack the seven witches and render them. In case they come to resist, the feudal lord even released the order to kill, prioritizing leaving only Brillant Anna alive, so that she will be judged and burned in the central square of the village.
Back in the village, the Brillant Anna & Les Brillant Sorcières presentation begins, with Anna first appearing on stage with open arms and speaking aloud.
- Ladies and gentlemen! Witches and magical creatures! You are ready to meet the wonderful world of magic! I am Brillant Anna and these are Les Brillant Sorcières!
Says Anna.
The girls slowly began to appear as a show of lights began to come out of pipes that were positioned next to the stage which left people impressed and amazed with that show all of lights and magical glow, Anna began to do her broomstick show dancing in the middle of the stage while the girls did stunts jumping from one broomstick to another or else spinning in the air. The children watching it were delighted and amazed by that show.
Meanwhile Thule, Peter and his army slowly arrived in the village, marching along the trail that led there, while the presentation still continued, with all the inhabitants clapping and shouting for the girls' names, that they were so enchanted by the presentation.
Until the soldiers arrived in the village and all the inhabitants when they saw it ran out, in that Thule and Peter only signaled for everyone to leave and that the party had finished what those people obeyed at the time. The girls stop the show and start to face a little terrified for those soldiers and Thule.
- You are doomed; surrender if you do not want to die now.
Says Thule.
- In the name of God, I ask that you kindly come here with your hands up and without reacting; we can save your soul.
Says Peter.
In this a frightening silence takes over the girls, Freya only signals for the girls to go, but the girls were still, Harriet was terrified and whispers to Benson that it was time to act, in this she shows her middle finger and in the hour the blonde uses a spell that makes a magic force field around the stage, the moment they all run out to the side of the stage the arrows are thrown, and they just hit the force field.
- Damn you! Attack with all your might!
Says Thule furious.
Then Anna started to pack things up and use magic to quickly shrink the tent, along with the things that were inside to save what was possible, just as the girls also took broomsticks, Freya only held the force field with magic and Woodward used a spell that made more and more roots and branches stand in front of the path or to attack the soldiers who tried to get close.
- Please! Go soon! I can't hold a force field like this for long!
Says Freya.
- The brooms are ready! The tent is shrunk! Freya come on!
Says Harriet with the broom in hand while the girls are levitating.
- I face them and you go.
Says Freya until Harriet pulls her by the arm making the force field disappear.
The girls were lucky and managed to fly out of there, but the archers kept shooting and in this the girls had to deflect, even more Harriet who was carrying Freya in her arms, until the Nordic started to realize that she was falling.
- Harriet!
Says Freya shocked to see that Benson took an arrow to the back in the shoulder area and was letting go of the blonde.
Freya in a moment of courage lets go of Harriet's arms, grabs her broom, manages to hold Benson, but they were still in free fall and a few millimeters from bumping into a tree, but the blonde in time uses a spell to make the broom float again and from there the girls fly away. But still with a greater concern that was about the arrow that the girl with brown hair had taken. That was the only moment Freya was crying after taking that arrow from Harriet's back.
- Harriet? Harriet? Harriet? Harriet!
Says Freya with a bloody hand on Harriet's face trying to wake him up.
- Hmmm... That hurts so much... Ahhh...
Says Freya groaning in pain.
- Harriet! How nice that you are alive!
Says Freya crying.
- I think we'll arrive in an hour if we fly at full speed to the next witch...
Says Kara looking at the radar of the book until Freya picks it up.
- I will go with all my power until then! As fast as I can! See you there!
Says Freya crying and starting to shoot in front of the girls.
- Freya! I know healing spells!
Says Beatrix until Kara puts her hand on her shoulder.
- Let... That can be good for the chemistry of the fat one with the giant.
Says Kara until everyone scolds her.
- Kara!
They all say.
Meanwhile, Freya went as fast as she could to get to the place, she kept crying about the arrow Harriet had taken, so much so that Benson was bleeding a lot. The Blonde, while holding the broom with one hand, tried to hold the brown-haired girl's wound with the other, to try as much as possible to make her bleed.
- Freya... I...
Says Harriet groaning in pain.
- We'll be here soon Harriet! I hope you are witches who will own the next book! I don't want to lose the person I love most in this world! Even if I have to sacrifice myself for that! My world is you Harriet! I love you!
Says Freya crying while Harriet in pain gave a smile.
- By... A brief moment, I stopped feeling... Pain... When I heard you say that you love me... Freya...
Says Harriet smiling at Freya and putting her hand on the blonde's face.
- Harriet! Hold on a little longer! We're almost there!
Says Freya crying.
- I love you Freya...
Says Harriet crying and closing his eyes on it Freya begins to cry and blush at the same time.
- Harriet? Harriet!
Says Freya crying worried.
- I'm fine... I won't die for an arrow... But that doesn't mean that... Ahhh... It hurts like hell!
Says Harriet groaning in pain while Freya gave a relieved snort.
- Please... Don't play with me like that...
Says Freya crying.
Freya soon arrives at a city, which was even of a considerable size, soon it uses a spell to understand the language of the places and goes to the location where she was pointing the book, the day was slowly getting dark and the blonde arrives at the door of a house and starts knocking there madly asking for help, carrying Harriet on her shoulders.
- Somebody, please! Come out! I need help!
Says Freya in despair.
In Freya's desperation, three blond girls with long straight hair, answer the door confused and when they notice that it was a stranger holding another girl on her shoulders, they end up closing the door, but the Nordic girl puts her foot in the door.
- Please tell your mother that I need help, my... My... My friend is going to die!
Says Freya in despair as the girls got scared and agreed with her head.
Freya takes Harriet off her shoulders and she was starting to look pale and her mouth was bleeding, but Benson was still alive, so the Nordic girl starts to cry even more and the girl with brown hair and eyes that were a little faded, tries to smile at the blonde and already with a weak voice, barely coming out a word says "Freya... I love you". While the three girls went to the mother to say that there was a stranger holding a girl saying that she could die and she keeps her hand on her face and runs along with her daughters to the door. When Freya arrived she was crying as she looked at Harriet getting weak, the hand of the blonde who was on Benson's back was even soaked in blood.
- Get in soon! We'll fix it.
Says the girls' mother.
Freya just agrees with the head and enters the house of that family, where the mother of the girls asks the blonde to lay Harriet on a bed, the owner of the house who was called Hilda takes a potion and goes to the two girls.
- Don't worry, your friend won't die.
Says Hilda giving a potion that makes Harriet unconscious.
- What did you give her?
Says Freya getting a little angry.
- Do not lose your temper. This is just an anesthetic; your friend will not feel anything, now help me. Didn't you take the arrow all over? Did you?
Says Hilda.
- I broke and the tip is still inside, I didn't want Harriet to hemorrhage.
Says Freya.
- You tore up a lot of her flesh inside doing this. It was the right thing to do, but it was also very hard, your friend lost a lot of blood in it, but nothing that a few potions and some dressings won't help your friend recover.
Says Hilda.
Then Freya and Hilda try to take care of Harriet, taking the rest of the arrow and the witch who owns the house soon uses a potion on the wound that magically begins to heal little by little and also bands the area around the arrow. After that she didn't have to do much, Freya is relieved and politely asks the lady of that house if she couldn't stay to spend the night, together with other friends of hers who would come and then leave from there, which the blonde even agrees.
See you, witch enemies...