Julia was almost casting her spell, with a murderous look on Diana, who was only accepting her fate with her eyes closed, but as soon as McLaren casts the spell, Cavendish ends up dodging it at the same moment, appearing with a bluish aura emanating around her, Until she opens her eyes and is even surprised that she hadn't died, the girl with green hair looks at her hands and notices her hands emanating a bluish aura, just like the redhead who was infuriated, but at the same time laughing, even casting another spell that again the witch in disguise dodges easily.
- (What power is that? Has my potential finally been awakened? I feel the energy coming from the Cavendish family, as if I have something special...)
Julia soon stops staring at Diana who also faces McLaren, what the redhead sees are several Cavendish around the green-haired girl, who soon after joined the witch in disguise, soon after taking advantage of the increase in power, Diana goes with everything on top of the witch hunter, hitting a kick that is defended with the palm of her hand and the impact even makes Julia shock Cavendish's leg and throw her a little far away.
- Pathetic, this is still not enough to defeat me.
Says Julia.
Diana soon got up and started punching and kicking Julia as hard as she could, but even so, not even with an increase in magical power, she was still no match for McLaren, who even kept playing with the green-haired girl as she easily dodged the world, as if all that effort of hers was in vain until the redhead holds the witch's hand in disguise and starts laughing while shaking her hand.
- That, suffer, you will pay for what you did, you cheap Saoirse, let's see if you can still punch with your hand all fucked up.
Julia says until a glow begins to emanate from below.
Diana was with a concentrated spell, which takes a full hold of Julia's belly, but was only enough to push her back a little. Luckily Cavendish escaped from breaking her hand, since McLaren was showing herself to be an extremely powerful and cruel witch, this defense of the green-haired girl even made the redhead start laughing.
- Are you still trying? But how pathetic, I'm impressed that you're just stretching your suffering just so your little friend can capture it? I hope it's your friend dying for my security!
Julia says until shooting sounds start to sound.
It was Gwendolin and the witches she managed to take through the halls, all of them were without magic, except Benson, only about 8 witches stayed in prison and were dead witches' bodies. Leaving Gwen traumatized and she was even crying as she ran there, sweeping all the security guards, the others that were captured picked up muskets from the floor of the immobilized witches.
- Let's go to this slayer's arsenal! With muskets we will teach this Julia McLaren a lesson!
Says one of the witches.
- Exactly! She didn't want to kill our friends! She didn't keep torturing us? Then let's kill the damn thing!
Says another witch.
- But first let's eat a little... I don't know if I'd have the energy for it...
Says another witch.
- Let's eat, you must be starving, I imagine, so come with me, I have the map of all the corridors of the fortress.
Says Gwendolin.
Gwendolin goes with the witches liberated by the corridors, until reaching the kitchen that was closer, Benson was in a very high state of anger too, so much so that when seeing a security she simply immobilized quickly with a single spell, with extreme precision. Besides feeling some tremors due to the fight between Diana and Julia which was very intense no matter how much Cavendish was getting too much. Back in the fight, the girl with green hair finally managed to hit McLaren in the face, but she remembered the lessons she learned from Ryouko.
- (It's not because I hit a punch that I should stop attacking, let's see now if it's all that!)
Diana soon hits another punch, which picks up Julia's nose, then a kick and followed by a spell that she forced what she had to hurt McLaren, after the smoke clears at the same time the spell hits the redhead. She reappears, with a small bleed coming out of her nose, so much so that she passes her hand and sees that she was bloody. Julia begins to face Cavendish with a more sanguinary and angry look.
- No more games, your araque Saoirse! I would give you a quick and painless death! But now I will make a point of giving you a slow, painful and time-consuming death!
Says Julia bubbling with rage.
- All this just because I made your little nose bleed? Oh fuck you asshole, I'm all fucked up, bleeding in parts that I didn't even know it was possible to bleed and you come to me with the one that I hurt you from? Fuck you.
Says Diana until Julia begins to disappear.
Diana enters in a defensive position, she tried all the time to defend herself and dodge the imminent Julia, but even with her attempts to defend herself, she ended up being hit with everything by a very strong punch in the stomach, which even threw Cavendish a little backwards, McLaren just kept looking at everything. The girl with green hair slowly got up and as soon as she was on her knees she vomited some blood and fell again.
- That, suffer a lot, I will make you lose all that blood that is in your body, damned.
Says Julia.
- (Shit... I'm in trouble... Gwen... Please, my friend... Help me, I'm fucked... Only you could appear here... I know your focus is different).
Meanwhile in the fortress cafeteria, all the free girls were eating a real banquet that was there, besides some of the security guards that were immobilized. Gwendolin was smiling when he saw the girls enjoying for the first time a plate of food, which they hadn't eaten since they were captured. Gwen also starts thinking about Diana.
- (I wonder if she's holding it right... This fight between them has already taken a while... And it seems that now she's stopped making noise... But why am I having a bad feeling about this fight? Just in case I have any doubts, I'll see how my friend is doing).
Gwendolin soon makes a point of taking one of the crystal balls and starts to see what was happening. Benson is in shock to see the scene of Diana standing up while she spits blood all the time while Julia was with her arms crossed starting to laugh a little at Cavendish's suffering.
- What? Di... My friend is in danger! Take the map of the fortress! Take the muskets you can find, I'll trust you to protect yourselves, you can shoot the other witches! But don't shoot to kill! I need to save my friend! She's in the main hall fighting the leader!
Says Gwendolin desperate and concerned.
- You can rest assured Saoirse, we are already grateful just for having saved us! You can save your friend! She was also involved in this! We are eternally grateful for what you did to us!
Says one of the witches while Gwendolin was keeping her eyes closed.
- Perfect! There's only one other little group that's coming here! You have nothing to worry about, most of you have already been immobilized! I'm going!
Says Gwendolin.
Gwendolin starts to run out and as soon as he opens the cafeteria door he encounters a group of five witches armed with muskets, who are soon immobilized even before they shoot Gwen. After immobilizing them, Benson starts running towards the main hall what were there Diana and Julia.
In the main hall Diana was being beaten by Julia with extreme cruelty, she could barely move, McLaren's punches made her dizzy, she had already lost a lot of blood, to the point of barely being able to hold on to her feet, until the redhead hits a kick that was a very strong two-footed to the point of throwing the Cavendish with everything backwards, the force was so great that the pilastra barely managed to hold on and with the impact almost fell on the girl with green hair. She had already broken some ribs, which left her dying of pain, trying everything to get up and hold the fight, the hunting witch was slowly walking towards Diana trying to get up.
- (Shit... I'm gonna die... Maria... I don't think this is the time I'm coming home... So young... I couldn't even enjoy life... Gwen... I need you more than ever... Now I understand how important that training was... Because I went to pay for it... Because I was so immature... Because I didn't dedicate myself... I just saw it as a boring obligation... I just wanted to know how to have sex with Maria and make my inventions... Now I'm here... Catching... Paying the price of being an asshole... To be a child).
Julia soon gets closer to Diana, she picks up the Cavendish by the arm and starts to pick up the girl with green hair by the neck, besides also taking off the mask that she was disguising, with the intention of discovering her identity, but when she takes off she doesn't see anything else but a Cavendish.
- I already imagined, you are the daughter of the woman that my sister defeated, you came to give the change to the wrong person and I am not good like my sister? I think you need to know a little something before I choke you to death...
Says Julia while Diana tried everything to get out.
- Prolong as much as you can my death, you will still regret having done it.
Says Diana laughing.
- Well, well, you're still debating me... You can be sure that I will more than prolong your suffering, I want to hang you slowly, little by little, just to see you falling dead to the ground and then you will serve as a trophy for your leader? Victoria McLaren! My damned sister betrayed our group of hunting witches, she's the original damned Saoirse? I really hope she gets the message.
Says Julia while Diana was in shock.
- Victoria... She's...
Says Diana.
- This surprise? Too bad it's the last news you'll hear in life. Hahaha!
Says Julia slowly tightening Diana's neck while Cavendish tried to let go.
Julia was little by little strangling Diana who tried everything to get out, but the strength she used was usually in vain, since McLaren was extremely strong. Until she was surprised by a flying woman given by Gwendolin who appeared to protect her friend. What makes the redhead loose the Cavendish who was paler than she usually was the huntress until she fell a little on the ground with the impact of the kick. When she saw that she was the friend, the girl with green hair even smiled so relieved that she cried a little happiness.
- (Gwen... I've never been so happy to see you... You came to save me... I'll owe you this girl... I promise to make a fertility stone to use in Lorraine, you can even have all the ones I made... That's if I survive here and the experiment works hehe...)
- Diana!
Says Gwendolin running to Diana.
- So that's the name of the cabbage head? How interesting, Diana Cavendish... It will serve in the future.
Julia says until Gwendolin faces McLaren with hatred.
- You will pay for everything you have done! I've seen the horrors you've made the witches captured! How you can leave people dying in your inhuman prisons! You call that food? They are people like anybody else! What disgusts you most is knowing that you are also a lesbian! I will make you swallow your teeth and pay for all the suffering you have caused!
Says Gwendolin clenching her fists.
- So come on! Show me what you have to offer!
Says Julia facing Gwendolin and making her aura emanate in a more threatening way.
Julia soon disappears and begins to go towards Gwendolin who also does the same, the two clash with their arms, then they begin to disappear and reappear constantly hitting each other. Diana was just watching the whole fight destroyed and full of injuries, relieved that Gwen finally arrived. Cavendish also took the opportunity to use some of the healing magic, to at least fix the broken ribs.
- (If I dedicated myself a little more maybe I would be stronger than Gwen... But she really is much better than me... I have to admit that... Even I wouldn't be able to keep up with Julia alone)
Gwendolin and Julia had a very fierce fight, exchanging punches and kicks constantly, but even so McLaren was still able to dodge many of these blows, without much difficulty, which left Benson even more shocked with all that redhead power.
- (She's just kidding me... I can feel it, she still has a lot of power guarded, she's only using part of it against me... Damn... Now I understand why Diana was having such a hard time... And now what? What do I do? Diana, no matter how much she heals, she won't have enough power to join me and defeat Julia? We're screwed I'd say... What I have left is... Yes! Good Gwendolin).
Gwendolin soon ends up taking a punch and bumps into a pier, followed by a knee in the stomach given by Julia, but soon Benson explodes her magic aura and this makes McLaren jump back a bit.
Gwendolin takes an explosive out of her bag and throws it at Julia who picks up the greatest innocence and even laughs, until Gwen casts a spell to light that explosive that explodes well in the hands of McLaren who ended up getting hurt and being thrown with everything back towards a pier.
- Yes!
Says Gwendolin.
Gwendolin soon starts to take the explosives out of the bag, playing towards Julia who was running towards her with rage, some catch and some don't, until one that was very close to both is blown up and the shock wave throws them both backwards, hurting both Gwen and Julia. As much as the explosives could even kill a person, McLaren's power was so high that it only left her with a few bruises around her body, while Benson was burned and injured a little by the explosion, no matter how much she didn't get the girl.
- You bastard! Those little shit boxes! You only know how to use these? Can't you guarantee the magic and the punch?
Says Julia passing her hand through her forehead that she was bleeding.
- I guarantee in intelligence.
Says Gwendolin.
Julia, seeing that her hand was bloody, started to go more seriously towards Gwendolin who took more and more explosives out of the bag until they were finished, none of the explosives took McLaren who arrived at Benson and hit Gwen's stomach very hard, throwing her against a pier, but instead of hitting the pier backwards, the brunette supported her feet and came back with everything on the redhead.
Gwendolin punches Julia in the face, dodges her body, supports her hands on the ground, kicks McLaren's chin, but then has her leg that hits her hard on the ground, from one side to the other, until Benson lets go.
- Now you and your little friend are going to die, nobody told you to play the heroines!
Says Julia.
- You will still pay for what you did to the captured witches! They did not deserve these conditions!
Says Gwendolin.
Gwendolin soon disappears, just like Julia, the two keep hitting each other with punches and kicks, but soon the one who appears more often is Gwen. Diana watched that whole scene horrified and afraid her friend would end up dying, since not even Benson was with enough power to defeat her.
- (Damn... I don't know how I'll have enough magic to defeat Julia McLaren... She is still extremely powerful... I have to start thinking of a plan to distract her and run away... Only then will we be able to escape alive, but this witch is very fast... Saoirse didn't say she was at that level, I thought she was at Diana's level before training).
Julia hits a spell on Gwendolin leaving her on the ground, the impact was strong enough to break some of Benson's ribs, then McLaren falls to the ground with everything hitting a knee on Gwen's stomach, which makes her vomit a little blood due to the impact. Then the redhead grabs the brunette by the collar and starts punching her mercilessly and mercilessly, punching the girl in the face.
Until after punching Gwendolin so much, sounds of gunfire were heard, soon after Julia ended up releasing Gwen who had his face well disfigured due to the punches, it was the witches who were released, they were all armed with muskets, soon the row changes, the witches shoot again picking up the back of McLaren who leaves Benson and starts to face with anger.
- Shoot!
Says the witch.
The witches change ranks and shoot again, the shots catch the front and the clothes burn, which makes Julia stop very close to the musketeer ranks, which soon change ranks and hit more shots in the McLaren that falls with everything on the ground. Gwendolin uses a healing spell on his face and looks at the witches with relief. The redhead hunter was lying on the ground without showing any reaction which led them to believe that she had died.
- We wouldn't let you suffer... We are grateful for what you have done for us... We only got forty-six muskets, but I think it's enough to put an end to this damn thing. The others are already safe outside.
Says the witch kicking Julia's body.
- Let's get out of here...
Says Gwendolin standing up.
Diana goes to Julia's body and stares with a bit of a pity, after all she was the only one who knew about McLaren's relationship with Saoirse, which left Gwen somewhat intrigued by Cavendish's reaction, even putting her hand on her friend's shoulder.
- What was Diana? She died... But she paid for her crimes.
Says Gwendolin.
- I'll explain on the way... I know something she told me...
Says Diana taking off her cover.
Diana with her cape covers Julia's body, which leaves the girls somewhat confused with the respect that Cavendish had with McLaren, soon after they all leave the fortress and outside meet all the witches. Since the fortress was on an island in the middle of a lake and had no boat, the two witches made a point of taking them at least to the other side which was not very far. There they said goodbye to the witches who were free.
- Bye girls! We are eternally grateful for the kindness you have done for us!
Says the free witch (who was called Hellen)
Gwendolin and Diana leave from there to the hiding place and on the way soon Benson starts getting curious, wondering what made Cavendish so intrigued and even made her be respectful with Julia's body.
- Diana... Why did you do that? Why did you cover up Julia's body with your cape? She didn't deserve that much respect, you have no idea what a horror those cells were... She killed several witches... And those we freed could die too, even more in those conditions... Not to mention that she could kill both of us...
Says Gwendolin.
- Gwen, she is Victoria McLaren's sister!
Says Diana.
- Yes I know that, so you wanted to be respectful for her sister, who must be flour from the same bag, I don't doubt anything? If Julia, who is the little fish, is like that, imagine?
Gwendolin says until Diana completes it.
- Gwen, Victoria is Saoirse!
Diana says in a more serious tone.
- What? What do you mean? You're kidding, right?
Says Gwendolin.
- No, she is Saoirse... I don't think it's Julia's bluff, she spoke with all certainty of the world, it makes a bit of sense... Victoria has always been very fair, she created the lesbian witches' paradise, she is a judge of the witches' council, she is a hunter because that way she knows who are the witches to be judged and that way she would lead to the lesbian witches' town... She is Saoirse because she wanted to stop other hunters, so she would have more control over the witches, she actually saves the captured witches, but she also has to deal with the monster that was her sister... Understand now Gwen, she wanted to end her own group of witches... She wants to put an end to it.
Says Diana.
- Wow...
Says Gwendolin.
- Imagine telling her that her own sister ended up dying...
Says Diana.
- So imagine keeping my sister in captivity for weeks! Because she didn't release Wendy right away!
Says Gwendolin.
- Calm down Gwen... She must have a reason behind it, we'll get her sister free, she knows more about those witches than we do, we'll trust Victoria, at least for now.
Says Diana.
Gwendolin agrees with difficulty, still reluctant a little, since she was feeling silly, for the fact that Victoria knew everything about the time and was using them, but tried to understand a little. Meanwhile, far away in Julia's fortress, McLaren hadn't died, even after being shot 40 times, she got up and was feeling pain all over her body, besides being bubbling with anger, with this she goes to the nearest crystal ball and asks all the witches to gather at the central.
See you, cruel witch...