After talking with Saoirse about how they were going to invade the fortress of each of the hunting witches, after the explanation the five returned to Luna Nova, with the exception of Gabriela who returned to the residence of the Cavendish family. The next day they would visit Saoirse again using the portal she made in the forest of Glastonbury that leads to the hideout of the masked, this time they were trained by the mysterious witch, more specifically to train some skill related to the weak point of the witch they would invade.
Diana was in shock to see the name Victoria McLaren, the witch who said she wanted to change the world of witches was actually the leader of the largest group of hunting witches, which left the Cavendish with even more anger of this witch, in addition to Gwendolin who heard what the girl with green hair told about the redhead, was outraged.
In the hiding place of the hunting witches, they were preparing for a possible invasion of Saoirse, since they were under the impression that the witch would probably invade their hiding place, because they were the remaining witches among the great hunters in Ireland. Julia McLaren was the one with the greatest desire to get her hands on the masquerade.
The days went by, the girls trained day in, day out and Saoirse managed to pull them to the limit of their ability, just as the training of the masquerade helped a lot with the control of the magic they gained in the training they did before coming to Luna Nova, they needed to awaken all the magic power they had.
In Luna Nova, the days went by and soon the classes were back to the same as always with Heather Tyrrelll pestering the whole class, but there was something that made her stop a bit and it was a bet made by Maria about an event that was to happen in the academy. The broomstick relay, Du Nord was very clear and bet that she would leave the academy if she lost the competition, but if the redhead won the race the brunette would have to leave the whole class alone for more than a month.
September 21, 1753, comes the long-awaited day of the broom relay, it was an event that called a lot of attention, especially because they had some witches who were linked to broom racing competitions with the intention of looking for new talent to compete, that event also called a lot of attention because some were interested in a student who showed up to compete in the broom relay. That year the event would be very different, instead of being a relay, it would be just a solo race going through the whole course alone, what made the team win varied from the position in which each student finished. The first one already gave the victory automatically to the whole team. The teacher Jaune of broom flight became the advertiser and commentator of the race.
- Ladies and gentlemen! Witches and magical creatures all over the world! We are here for another edition of Luna Nova's annual broomstick relay! The number 1069 edition! We bring future prodigies here! This will be a different race! No relay! The teams will have to do everything to let one of the representatives win the race from end to end! The winner will carry the trophy throughout the team!
Says Jaune.
They were all lined up for the broomstick relay, Maria and Heather were even with running glasses on their foreheads and fingerless gloves, both were extremely confident to get a win and a title as winners of the event, after all it was a very high bet that was given by them.
- Ready to lose? I'm not a Tyrrell by any chance... Remember that my surname is from a line of elite broom runners, we are the most skilled; my grandmother is seven times champion of the World Broom Racing Championship. Nobody in history has as many titles as her, except the great Sarah Campbell.
Says Heather.
- Her last name doesn't mean anything, it doesn't mean that she is Julie Tyrrell's granddaughter who is as skilled as her grandmother was.
Says Maria.
- And you think I don't know that. I'm as talented as my grandmother, I was born with the gift of being an incredible broom runner, I always practiced a lot, I won't make it so easy for you.
Says Heather lowering her glasses.
- Cool! I will have a worthy opponent, let's see if it's all that.
Says Maria lowering her glasses.
- I was using this too.
Says Heather taking weight off her body.
- Well done! We are about to start the race! And we have two likely highlights! In the green and red teams there are two girls that waste talent, they have quite a rivalry! Maria Du Nord! Heather Tyrrell! They are our two girls with the highest probability of climbing on the highest point of the podium!
Says Jaune.
As soon as Professor Jaune announces about the race, the witches start to line up and get ready for the start, they were all mounted on their broomsticks, concentrating only on looking forward, little by little lights start to be signaled with magic, until Director Tyrrell throws them up and they all start to let go.
- And the shot is taken! The start is given! The race begins and a thousand emotions begin to emerge!
Says Jaune.
Heather and Maria are the ones who drop in the tip giving a brief distance from the rest of the group, but little by little Du Nord was the one who showed that she was with more speed and acceleration, passing the Tyrrell and taking the lead, which was already leaving the brunette with a little anger when she was left behind, but it was still the first route of 8km.
- (What? How can this damn thing go so fast? Is she crazy? That way her magic will end up running out, it's good that she keeps going like this, her magic will end and mine will keep going like this... I just have to be smart, Maria can't get that far from me... The prize of leaving her out of the academy will only bring me closer to Lorraine).
Maria opens up a little more in relation to Heather and this provokes Tyrrell to accelerate a little, but the brunette's acceleration was only to remain at the same level as Du Nord, until she arrives in a more technical part of the race.
- The race is really between Heather Tyrrell and Maria Du Nord! These two are really impressing! We are watching two legends here!
Says Jaune.
As soon as they got to a more technical part, it was where it was possible to differentiate between a witch that was only fast and a witch that had skill. Heather with fear slowed down a lot the speed to make the turns they had on the track, already Maria slowed down very little, she passed at the edge of each turn, passing with all possible speed through each turn, even the most closed she passed almost scraping her body through the barriers, this was causing some WBRC team owners to keep their eyes more open for the redhead.
- How incredible! Maria Du Nord has no fear! She passes at the limit of each curve!
Says Jaune.
Heather was amazed at the way Maria went through the curves and soon tried to imitate Du Nord, but she was having tremendous difficulty going the same way as the redhead, but Tyrrell almost hit the wall no matter how hard she tried to do it at the same speed as Maria, but this only left the brunette more terrified.
- (Ahhhh! I can't! What the fuck! How can this damn thing maintain a grip and still the speed through all these turns? This can only be some trick... How can someone be that fast?)
Heather gets a little more possessed of anger and with it she increases the speed, but was having trouble keeping up with Maria's pace so much that she hit a wall and ends up being thrown, falling to the ground with everything, almost she ended up dying in a fall above 300 km/h, but due to magic she managed to brake the fall a lot.
- An accident! Heather Tyrrell hit the wall with everything! That means Maria Du Nord is ahead! Now it is Diana Cavendish who is in second position as well as Gwendolin Benson! We have the red team in first position! With all three leading... But what is that? Heather doesn't give up for anything! She's getting up!
Says Jaune.
Heather uses a spell to repair the broom and then comes back with everything running, she was in 37th position at that moment, only by a miracle she could beat Maria, who was even running alone, getting further and further away from Diana, this while fighting her position against Gwendolin who were very similar in terms of speed.
- Apparently we will have a more exciting battle for the second position; Diana Cavendish and Gwendolin Benson who are team partners are facing each other for the second place on the podium, but how incredible.
Says Jaune.
Gwendolin and Diana stayed all the time exchanging positions between them, sometimes they used the curves to try to hinder the passage of the other, they were not so slow, the speed that they passed through the curves was even a little higher than what Heather passed before hitting. Maria was already isolated; she was almost arriving in what was the second sector of the broomstick relay.
- And Maria Du Nord goes through the first sector! With an incredible ability! Entering the second sector will only miss two more sectors!
Says Jaune.
Gwendolin leaves the curve and stays a little ahead of Diana who ends up not wanting to have a contact with Gwen, but it was a light contact that still let them follow normally by the race track, but this made them stay side by side, it did not take long and soon they were getting to the beginning of the second sector.
Heather was in a recovery race, she managed to climb to 23rd position after the accident, no matter how injured she was, and she still kept a good part of the speed. Maria remained with an extremely isolated leadership, which was drawing a lot of attention from the owners of some teams.
- This Maria Du Nord would be perfect in our team, I need to hire this girl.
Says Anne Collins (Collins Brooms team leader)
- In your team she won't get anything, they only got lucky because your team hired Julie Tyrrell at the peak, except that today the greatness is not the same as 35 years ago.
Says Jessica Robbinson (BRTM team leader)
- Don't try to buy Maria, we arrived first, she is already destined to run in our team, when she is older.
Says Artemis Meridies.
- Poor her in racing at Scuderia Meridies, you don't even have tradition, she deserves a chance at Scuderia Carlucci, we own most of the World Broom Racing Championship titles! She will have the honorable chance to compete for the biggest!
Says Isabella Carlucci. (owner of Scuderia Carlucci)
- If they were the biggest they wouldn't be bad in the current years, I'm sure that if she is smart she will choose our team, the Scuderia Meridies broomsticks are so fast that we got more podiums than you last season.
Says Artemis.
Back in the race, Gwendolin and Diana remained side by side, until another technical part arrived, only this course gave a bigger advantage to Cavendish, she had a bigger ability in controlling the turns, overtaking Benson with style while sliding a little, leaving the witches stunned while watching the race.
- How incredible! We are seeing a class overtaking here! Diana Cavendish with incredible control! On the side!
Says Jaune.
- These two are not bad either; they are also going very fast, have you stopped to think that we have two other possible champions? They may not be as fast as Maria, but they can deliver results and even victories, all they need is a quick broom... Actually the brooms at WBRC are very different and I liked this Diana Cavendish, she has style.
Says Anne Collins.
Maria soon reached the third sector, she was with a wide advantage over the others, every second it was possible to notice how she managed to overcome herself, already Diana and Gwendolin were fiercely disputing for each other's position, even more that they went through the more technical part of the circuit, she reached the part with more straight lines and it was in this that Benson thought of using more magic, accelerating little by little and getting closer and closer to Cavendish.
- And Gwendolin Benson is making a substantial speed gain! She will soon pass Diana Cavendish!
Says Jaune.
It doesn't take long and Gwendolin overtakes Diana leaving Cavendish behind who takes advantage of the overtaking to enter Benson's vacuum, so the two are overtaking each other all the way at the highest speed until a closed curve arrives where the best is the girl with green hair.
- Diana Cavendish takes the second position! In this incredible duel they had on the straight!
Says Jaune.
Maria reaches the final straight where she passes the finish line and the checkered flag is given to Du Nord who won the broom relay with tremendous perfection.
- Maria Du Nord! Maria Du Nord! Maria Du Nord is the winner of the number 1069 edition of the annual broomstick relay of Luna Nova!
Says Jaune.
But the race was not over yet, Diana and Gwendolin were competing between them for the second position, as they were in a part where they had more curves, Cavendish was winning a little in relation to Benson, but during the few straights Gwen gave pressure, until it reaches the final straight where the girl with green hair explodes the magic and starts to go a little ahead of the brunette.
- How incredible! Diana Cavendish was guarding her power the whole time! We are going to have an incredible duel for the first position!
Says Jaune.
Until Gwendolin also did the same, but Diana continued ahead, little by little Benson came close, until the moment the two arrived at the finish line with a huge current of air that even makes the witches in the bleachers she had to hold on.
- And the second position is Diana Cavendish! Gwendolin Benson completes the podium and gets the third position! The victory is the red team's by pure unanimity! What an incredible race!
Says Jaune.
The 1069th broomstick relay of Luna Nova ends, Heather recovered well until, finishing the race in sixth position, after the end of the race, the girls of the red team get together to take an instant picture that is painted with magic. Maria stood in the middle with Diana and Gwendolin surrounding her, Cavendish on the left side and Benson on the right side, after taking the instantaneous picture, they are soon approached by Heather who was with arms crossed.
- My congratulations, you did the least to beat me, you were lucky, you must have cheated, but I will keep my word... Maria Du Nord, it's impossible for anyone to go against a broom with such speed.
Says Heather.
- Cheat? I was only in the purest of skills.
Says Maria.
- Whatever, I'm leaving here, good luck Scottish redhead, but know that one day we will meet at the World Broom Racing Championship, things there will not favor so much to your side.
Says Heather turning her face and withdrawing.
As soon as Heather withdraws, other World Broom Racing Championship team witches arrive with contracts in their hands and start surrounding Maria who was talking to her friends.
- Maria Du Nord!
Some team owners say until Maria looks at them.
- Ah hello. What are these papers?
Says Maria.
- Maria sign for my team, we are the ones who are further ahead.
Says Jessica.
- Don't sign with the great Scuderia Carlucci!
Says Isabella.
- Does Maria remember when she was 13? I can advance her contract as a broom runner a bit.
Says Artemis.
- Calm people, I'm only 15 years old, I'm still studying... Maybe I'll think about a contract when I finish my studies in Luna Nova, but it won't be for now.
Says Maria.
- Sincerely Maria, you will have your life made. I will pay 200 thousand pounds to join my team this year and you will never need to study again in life, the Luna Nova diploma will not be so necessary for your life.
Says Isabella.
- I don't think, I'm sorry, but I want to be a trained witch above all, so hire me in a few years, I have more important things to solve, I'm sure it will be better if I train a little to improve my skills and also to mature as a runner, after all I'm also very young.
Says Maria taking her gloves off.
- Okay Maria Du Nord, let's not press, but remember the name Scuderia Carlucci, a witch like you can give us a title we haven't seen since 1747.
Says Isabella withdrawing.
The other team owners also retreat and fly outside the academy in Luna Nova, while Diana was stunned to see that her girlfriend received proposals of that caliber to become a world runner.
- Sorry about that A... Maria... But will you let this golden opportunity go? Isn't it your passion to become a broom runner? Even more that you have the chance to become the greatest broom runner in history, besides the youngest champion in history? Love you are only 15 years old, most broom runners to 35 years old, you will have 20 seasons until you are at the age when the body begins to lose reflexes... Honestly... In these 20 seasons 20 championships are possible, 12 more than Sarah Campbell.
Says Diana.
- I'm not looking for greatness, the most important thing is to have fun running and... I want to be close to you Diana... I want to travel with you, I don't want to travel alone...
Says Maria until Diana embraces her.
- All right Maria, I understand... Well, come on, the most important thing is your happiness my love.
Says Diana.
Diana, Maria and Gwendolin go to the red team's room where they admire the trophy that Du Nord got, she was even very calm, without giving the least for the conquest she had, while Cavendish didn't get tired of exalting how incredible her girlfriend is and the way she overcame Gwen on the side.
See you, broom racers...