The time was passing with the ten witches about the creation of their family, the girls took advantage of these years to train a little more and also wait for their daughters to grow a little more so that they could leave on a journey towards the last book.
During these years more births took place, on February 20, 623, Liliana Meridies Arnoux, daughter of Anna and Hera, on March 27, 623, Bridget Ulster Munster, daughter of Madeleine and Kara, on April 14, 623, Emma Von Hoffen, daughter of Marianne and Chenoa, was born. This completed the daughters of the five couples, but as they waited longer the other girls took advantage to get pregnant too, using a different method of using the magic stone which could choose which of the two would be the mother. With this the other girls of the couples who did not get pregnant had the chance to have a child. The first of these girls was born on January 18, 624, were the twins Linette Cavendish and Meredith Cavendish, who left Woodward on March 5, 624, was born Vanna Ulster Munster, who left Kara on March 11, 624, was born Joanna Meridies Arnoux, who left Anna and finally on April 6, 624 was born Astrid Benson, who left Freya. Marianne was the only one who decided not to get pregnant and to focus more on training, since she wanted to be on a much higher level than the other eight witches, besides her own wife too.
Hera also took advantage of that time to improve Rhiannon, decreasing a little the size of rooms to have more seats, since there were 5 couples defined, so Meridies decreased to only 6 rooms, in case of partnership with the last witch of the last book. With the decrease of rooms, they had much more space, the kitchen started to have its own room instead of being part of the main room, besides also leaving a room where there is an emergency airframe, where in case the aircraft gives problems, all ten would enter there in order to survive in case of a fall. In addition Hera reinforced the structure of the aircraft and left more aerodynamics, which significantly increased the cruising speed of the aircraft. The engines remained the same, but were more accurate and a little more economical, in case the trip was longer than expected. Hera also developed a radar in the aircraft's cockpit, taking away the need to use Lilith's book to direct what made the trip even safer.
During this time the girls took the opportunity to further train their magic, to prepare themselves enough for the last book, this time the training involved wearing magical tunics that Madeleine's mother had, which would further help the girls to evolve and stay with the most powerful magic.
The years passed so quickly for the girls that even the youngest who was Woodward was the same age as Harriet was at the beginning of the whole journey, all ten were already adults and were over 18 years old, although it didn't make much difference in the time they lived.
The magical power and ability of the ten was much, but much greater than before, to the point of even being able to fly from broomsticks long distances without spending much magic and still go at a higher speed, as well as knowing more powerful and advanced spells. When it came to attributes, the girls were in that order.
Physical Strength: Freya, Beatrix, Chenoa, Woodward, Harriet, Marianne, Kara, Hera, Madeleine and Anna.
Magic power: Beatrix, Woodward, Chenoa, Freya, Harriet, Marianne, Madeleine, Kara, Anna and Hera.
Magical knowledge: Harriet, Chenoa, Freya, Beatrix, Kara, Woodward, Madeleine, Anna, Marianne and Hera.
Broom skills: Madeleine, Freya, Kara, Marianne, Harriete, Beatrix, Anna, Woodward, Chenoa and Hera.
Fighting skills: Freya, Chenoa, Beatrix, Woodward, Harriet, Kara, Madeleine, Hera and Anna.
As the months went by the girls were already more prepared and they felt that it was time to leave at once for Lilith's last book and thus end that journey that was already taking almost 5 years to finish. Already used to the different tunics, they had a vast knowledge with the spells of all the eleven books they had, which already showed that it was time to start leaving.
The children were already over 1 year old and the other girls even offered to take care of the children while they were on the journey. The Hoffen would take care of Emma, Bridget and Vanna. While the Meridies would take care of Leslie, Rachel, Liliana, Linette, Meredith, Joanna and Astrid. What both families gladly do, after all they knew they were helping in the journey of the legendary ten witches.
October 14, 625, the long-awaited day arrives when the girls leave on an uncertain journey towards Lilith's last book, as usual the day was dawning. In the Cavendish room at the Meridies residence, the whole family was sleeping in the same bed, Beatrix and Woodward one facing the other while their three daughters were in the middle of the two, until the sun rays began to strike their faces. And with that the two mothers wake up.
- Good morning, baby.
Says Beatrix yawning.
- Good morning my love.
Says Woodward smiling to Beatrix.
- Are you ready to go get the next book?
Says Beatrix.
- I have waited a lot for this day.
Says Woodward.
The two of them get up with all the care in the world, take their daughters and put them lying in their cribs, kissing each other on the foreheads. Then the couple change and they go to the kitchen, where they meet the girls, who were there having breakfast and getting ready for the trip.
- You finally gave the faces.
Says Kara.
- We have to leave the three children sleeping well, I don't want to leave the house with them so energetic and crying with our farewell.
Says Beatrix.
- And how strange that Marianne doesn't rush us anymore.
Says Woodward.
- And to think that I was the pain in the ass of the journey, which you had to put up with all the time complaining.
Says Marianne laughing.
- You have matured a lot my love.
Says Chenoa.
The girls continue to eat with all the relaxation of the world, talking to each other about the time they spent taking care of their daughters, talking about the future, what they would do after returning from the goddess Lilith and even they planned to do something big, something that Beatrix idealized to do, which was something that would help many witches, would make it possible to improve the future of witches and even more would be something that would make the ten be remembered for what they did.
After finishing the discussion and having breakfast, the ten of them get up and go to the outside where they surprisingly encounter Rhiannon on the outside with Athena leaning against the aircraft waiting for them.
- Ah mom, thank you so much for getting Rhiannon ready for us to leave.
Says Hera.
- I'm not just here to make you ready for our trip. Exactly what you heard, our trip, I will fly with you, I will fly Rhiannon when you are near the last book, it is a very dangerous trip.
Says Athena in a more serious tone.
- Athena, the eleven books we all get from talking to each other and getting it right, we've all been very peaceful, there was no conflict, I bet even this last witch is waiting for us anxiously, so much so that the book didn't even move from one point to the other.
Says Marianne shrugging.
- Don't be so sure, the place where this last book is from, is very different, it's a huge empire, which is ruled by a tyrant, I've heard reports from Ishtar that in that region people live a real terror, that the tyrant there kills the others simply because yes, that she killed the old emperor alone and part of his army, rising in power with it.
Says Athena.
- These are just exaggerated religious accounts, no one can be so strong as to dethrone an emperor, as if the army did nothing to protect...
Says Marianne until Athena completes it.
- The girl, I just said that she also killed the soldiers, this empress is something to be afraid of, that's why I'll only leave you with Rhiannon on the outskirts and I'll leave a communicator for when you have the last book, I don't know if the holder of the twelfth book is the empress or someone hiding, in doubt I'll be with you on this trip.
Says Athena in a more serious tone.
- Whatever, but I'm sure there's nothing wrong with this lady from the last book and that she's just a cool witch who might be hiding from this silly empress.
Says Marianne.
The girls then enter the Rhiannon and who goes in the cockpit to fly is exactly Athena who starts the aircraft, while on the outskirts of the runway the Meridies sisters with their girlfriends were waving to the girls saying goodbye to the ten witches and Athena.
- Bye Girls! Bye Mama!
Say Demeter, Persephone and Aphrodite.
Rhiannon slowly begins to disappear on the horizon heading east, this time to catch the last of Lilith's twelve books. Rhiannon this time was slightly faster and more economical, with an autonomy 10% higher than she had before. Part of the reason I made Rhiannon this way was the travel time, which was much longer than the trip to the other side of the Atlantic.
- Will this empress really be the owner of the last book?
Says Anna.
- I hope not.
Says Hera.
- We are trained physically and with magic too, but I don't want to risk myself to that point. I don't want to have to use violence.
Says Freya.
- Ah you will believe in Athena? She's already too old...
Says Marianne until Athena screams from the cockpit.
- Old woman is your ass!
Says Athena.
- But at least we can have the chance to test how strong we have become as witches, for sure we will get the book, even if this empress is the owner, we are ten and she only one, we have the knowledge of eleven books and she only one. In a matter of strength and magical power we are very much at the advantage if we have to go against the empress. Do you want to know... I had a brilliant idea, how about we try to take this empress out of power and free these people.
Says Marianne.
- No!
The girls say scolding Marianne.
Marianne then lowers her head and even inflates her cheeks a little, while the girls had a laugh about Hoffen who went to her room along with Chenoa following her.
- Certain things do not change.
Says Harriet laughing.
- Marianne remains the same, no matter how mature she has become.
Says Freya.
- The little princess and the brunette are going to have sex.
Says Kara.
- Hey let's play that racket game a bit, what's it called again?
Says Beatrix rubbing her head.
- Ping-Pong. At least it was the name I invented
Says Kara.
The girls there will play some table tennis to pass the time, since the trip would be very long. Marianne and Chenoa actually went to have sex as usual, while Athena piloted Rhiannon and watched the surrounding landscape, besides looking at the map to see how long and how far she still had to travel.
- (I'm really fearing for the girls' lives... I've tried to go after this book before, I wanted to go after it as far as possible and I went right after it, please, Hera... Don't die... That witch is cruel).
Athena begins to remember when she was younger and had left home leaving her husband taking care of the quadruplets so that she could go out on a journey to get this book from Lilith further away, when she was 26 years old.
*Flashback of Athena
November 6, 613, Athena was flying with a broom to the village where the book of Lilith was located, it was a small village, holding a small device that looked like a wristwatch the Meridies was going towards the location where the book was located, around he heard people speaking a strange language that he was still learning, people also did not stop facing the girl, since many of the people around were somewhat different, dark hair, eyes pulled. Different from Athena's lilac hair and green and western eyes.
- (These people keep looking at me... And they look at me as if they were going to kill me, I barely understand what they're talking about... Hera, Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite, Cesar? I love you guys, I promise to come back, but I'm scared to death of these people, they're scary, at least I'm close to getting to the book).
Athena walks a little more around the village with people looking crooked, until she arrives at a house where she was pointing out the location of the book, in which Meridies knocks on the door, waiting to be attended by a local person, until she hears the voice of a girl.
- You can enter!
Says the girl in Latin.
- (How? How? How does she know my language...? Is it other than me? Am I in a trap? Many questions, no doubt I will open this door carefully).
Athena lightly touches the door, until she notices that the whole village was speaking in the local language so that Meridies would not enter, but when she notices this and takes off her hand, she is quickly taken by a gust that causes the door to be pushed out and takes the Lombard along, throwing a little backwards, in this a little girl comes out of there with a deadly and penetrating look with the opaque brown eyes that gave an impression that it was an immensity inside those eyes. Athena gets up dusting off her clothes and quickly enters a defensive pose, while the girl just turns her head sideways and gives a malicious smile.
- Where is the book? And why didn't you bring it?
Says the girl.
- I'm not a fool to bring the book to unknown lands.
Says Athena until the girl casts a spell where a kind of purple energy goes towards Meridies, giving a puncture to the shoulder of the Lombard.
- Wrong answer, die.
Says the girl.
- Ahh! Shit! You...
Says Athena screaming in pain.
Athena starts to use some of the spells she knew to divert from the witch's attacks, but the girl was very powerful and her spells with the purple energy were fast and efficient to the point of giving some perforations in the Meridies, which tried everything not to be hit, this while the little girl was still standing in the same place and with a mean smile. Until another girl, who seemed to be her older sister, arrived and cast a spell to stop hitting the lombard that in a few strokes was already full of holes through the body and bleeding very hard.
- (Thank you whoever you are... I thought for a second that I would die as if it was nothing).
- What is your problem? You can't go out killing others like this!
Says the girl's sister in the local language.
- Get out of here! Leave me! You useless bastard!
Says the girl in the local language pushing her sister.
While the two were arguing, Athena bleeding and every wound drags back trying to escape until a lady hands a broom to Meridies who on impulse just says "Tia Freyre" flying out of there just holding the handle with one of her arms, trying to go as fast as she can. Noticing that the Lombard was running away and seeing who was helping her, the girl casts a spell on the lady that makes the purple energies pierce the woman's body from one side to the other. The girl even tries to hit Athena who was running away and watching that scene, but is stopped by her older sister who casts a spell to prevent her from hitting Meridies who was still in flight and little by little distancing herself.
- (Shit... That witch almost killed me... How can a little girl that size be so strong? She knows how to speak my language and on top of that she knows these purple energy spells... Damn... I can't go back there... And this little girl is cruel... From that age and killed the woman who saved me in front of me... I guess I won't get that book from Lilith anytime soon...)
*End of Flashback
- (Hera... Please... Don't die my daughter... I'm almost sure that what they say about this new empress is not a lie, until because these spells that she uses cause enormous damage... I have no doubt that she killed an army and still took the throne of that empire for herself).
While Athena was reflecting, Hera and Anna go to the cockpit to talk a little bit with their mother and then spend some time, so much so that they knock on the cockpit door.
- You may enter.
Says Athena as Anna and Hera entered the cockpit.
- We came to talk a little with you mother...
Says Hera.
- What do you want to talk about?
Says Hera.
- This empress that you had said was evil... How do you know about her? Because she's even very concerned about us. It's not as if we didn't know how to take care of ourselves, I admire that you came with us, but this empress is making me intrigued.
Says Hera.
Athena gives a snort while looking at the sky and starts to tell a little about the empress to her daughter and daughter-in-law, saying that she suspected to be the same little girl who had almost killed her 12 years ago, which leaves Hera a bit shocked to know, but Anna tries to comfort by saying that now they were witches much more powerful and that it would not be so easy for this witch to win, even more that they were in greater number.
See you, traveler witches...
Full name: Athena Meridies
Date of birth: May 1, 588
Place of birth: Pavia, Kingdom of Lombardy (actual Pavia, Italy) (Lombard/Italy).
Height: 1.58m (5'2")
Weight: 58 kg (127 lbs)
Hair color and appearance: lilac, long curly, reaches the hip line, bangs that pass the eyes with some loose ends.
Eye color and appearance: close green, western.
Body appearance: Extremely pale Caucasian skin, thin, large breasts, rectangular nose, some wrinkles on face.
Athena is the mother of the Meridies quadruplets and already knew about Lilith's book, since it was a story told for generations, but as she had to form a family in order to carry out her mission, Meridies decided to marry a local noble count who was in love with the girl and the different way she behaved, being even an excellent husband to Athena, treating his wife in a way that was not common for men to treat women, with respect and affection. After the daughters were older, Athena could have the golden opportunity so she could go out on a journey towards Lilith's book, but when she got there she came across a 13 year old girl who almost killed her, leaving Athena extremely wounded with few blows, and Meridies had to run away from the battle so she wouldn't be killed and with this she returned destroyed to Pavia, worried that one day in the future her daughters would go on this journey.
