After the girls were having a very relaxed day, they went to rest, not knowing what was about to roll around the next day, even more that an invasion would happen, they were only worried about Eleanor's visit at the Du Nord family residence, regarding Grandma Cavendish spoiling the little children. Which made Diana a little jealous, since her mother didn't pamper her that much or treat her granddaughters with all the care and love in the world.
Beth later that day took little Caroline to Lesbiland, concerned for the girl's safety, there she would be protected, alongside Aunt Heather. The whole town was preparing for the attack that would take place the next day, preparing some of the weapons bought in Terre Sapphique, as well as others that were reverse engineered.
October 21, 1758, it was 7 a.m. in Terre Sapphique, the girls woke up that morning like any other, the first to wake up were Esther and Victoria, not knowing yet what was about to happen in two hours, the two got up and quickly went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, since it was customary in that house, the couple who woke up first always prepared breakfast.
- Esther... I had a dream today love...
Victoria says.
- A dream? I am afraid every time you say that because I know there is something there.
Esther says worriedly.
- And so it is... I dreamt that we were being invaded by Mildred Berger's army... She killed most of us... It was horrible... A massacre... We were too unprepared and they took us by surprise... The children...
Victoria says until Esther hugs her.
- Love... This is very worrying... We should be a little careful about this.
Esther says.
Victoria soon pulls back a little from the embrace and changes her expression to one of concern, she quickly picks up her broom, while Esther looks at her with concern, Williams soon finds out what it was all about as she feels the same thing. There were many presences flying towards Terre Sapphique, possibly Mildred's army. The blonde rushed into each of the rooms waking up the girls, one by one, prioritizing the children by taking them to the emergency hold.
- Hmm... What is it Aunt Esther?
Says Sarah waking up.
- Stay here! I'll call your mother, we have some little problems and we need you to wait in safety, if you behave we'll make a huge cake and also a lot of pancakes.
Says Esther smiling at the girls.
Esther soon went running to wake up the girls' mothers, Victoria arrived at Terre Sapphique's city hall, and soon Mayor Poppins was wondering about the McLaren's sudden reaction. Penny soon changes her expression from one of confusion to one of greater seriousness.
- Are they coming?
Says Penny.
Victoria just nods, the whole town starts running, the mothers go with their daughters to the shelter, where they would be very well hidden in case the invasion is successful for Mildred's side. The other witches, some were taking the weapons that had been stored all the time and preparing for the imminent attack, others were already going to the landing towers, with their brooms armed with machine guns.
Meanwhile 100km away, Mildred's army of about 2000 witches was flying and slowly approaching Terre Sapphique, Berger was talking strategy with Julia and Natalie who were also in the front line.
- Very well, Julia and Natali go through the forest, I'll go through the air, to draw the attention of the witches in town who will follow me and my group of flying witches, meanwhile you attack from below and prevent each one from getting close, we'll come down this way so as not to cause any strangeness, we have to maintain the surprise attack.
Says Mildred lowering the flight altitude.
Mildred and her army soon landed at a distance of 50km away to Terre Sapphique, while in the city there was a whole organization of witches to go into positions, to organize themselves at each of the posts, such as the towers of the walls that had machine guns ready in case invasions happened on either side.
Far away, in Lesbiland, Julia had already given the signal for Heather to prepare for a probable counter attack, and even left the location traced for Tyrrell to come and delicately prepare the witches for when the action begins.
It was already 8:00, all the mothers and children of Terre Sapphique were sheltered, except Diana, Maria, Martha, Gabriela, Gwendolin and Lorraine, who decided to go head on into danger, even Eleanor decided to help her daughter, taking some of the weapons and putting them in her waistband, as well as ammunition. Which worried the younger Cavendish a little.
- Mom... If you die who will lead the Cavendish family.
Diana says worriedly.
- Same thing I say to you, who will come back to give attention to the children? Your responsibility is at the very least to come back alive to your daughters, I will not stand by! I will help! I really want to put a bullet in those damn things! I'll do it for Bianca Evergreen!
Says Eleanor spinning a Cavendish gun resting on her index finger and then stowed in her holster.
- How do you know they are coming?
Diana says.
- I had a dream, but then I ended up feeling several presences coming towards us, they were a little far away, but I could already feel them, so I went running to the town hall, Esther must have felt them too, on the one hand it's good to have magic very well trained, I just hope that this time it will all be over, there is no winning side in a war... Just war... Only death and destruction...
Says Victoria giving a sniffle and looking down.
- Look love, this will all be over, we will be able to live in peace... Have our life... Don't get down, let's just finish this war and win!
Says Esther putting her hand on Victoria's shoulder.
Victoria and Esther face each other, the two soon after kiss, put on their robes, which were different, since they were normal robes without any restrictions, but were more resistant, and allowed a smoother flow of magic throughout the body, which gave the witch more control.
9:00
Mildred's Army: 2000
Population of Terre Sapphique: 1566
Terre Sapphique's Army: 728 (Witches able to fight and who agreed to participate)
The time for the attack arrives, Mildred orders half of the witches to follow her through the air, starting to fly towards Terre Sapphique over the trees, while Julia and Natalie's group are flying through the forest dodging the trees, going more lowly. Julia and Natalie face each other after a while and propel themselves backwards, catching two witches from the army.
- Hey, what are you doing?
Says one of the witches.
- If you pass us, the reward will be huge, from now on you take over.
Says Julia giving a bag of coins to the two witches and then propelling herself backwards next to Natalie.
The two witches agree and use magic metamorphosis spells, transforming into Julia and Natalie, who have turned back, going back to the army that was a little surprised by the absence of the witches, but the two soon pretend and disguise, saying that the two were negotiating strategies. The soldiers just keep going, as some were even afraid of Julia and Natalie's orders.
9:15
The first witches arrive on the outskirts of Terre Sapphique, they were the flying witches that were with Mildred Berger, soon one of the operators of the defense towers signals, starting to shoot, quickly, aiming at each one of the witches, the machine guns alone already caused a great damage, easily knocking down each one that tried to approach, but a few dodged the shots.
- What? What kind of artillery is this? Were they prepared all along? Did they know we were going to attack?
Says Mildred shocked and using a magic shield.
Mildred also notices that those projectiles were much faster than any cannon, somewhat preventing her group from getting close to the city. The signal sent by the tower witch was soon noticed by the city witches who were in the air force, led by Saria Meridies they soon started flying towards Mildred's group. Berger angrily casts a spell on that machine gun turret, causing a huge explosion and killing on the spot the witch who was shooting.
- Die, you useless thing! Damn you! A single witch has slaughtered more than 100 witches with ease! Where did they get those weapons?
Says Mildred.
Little by little the flying witches start to appear, they were in formation, aiming their machine guns and starting to shoot, Mildred quickly protects herself in the magic shield, while the other witches try their best, shooting with muskets, cannons or even casting spells, but it was useless, the flying witches of Terre Sapphique were equipped with machine guns, besides flying in formations, which made it impossible for Berger's side to shoot one or the other, turning into a real massacre in the air.
In the town of Terre Sapphique the witches were soon spreading out in barricades, soon a small group of the witches from Mildred's group arrived, who managed to escape the two defenses, but were soon shot down, one of them even took a revolver shot given by Eleanor who had an excellent aim. After shooting Cavendish even spun the gun in her hand and blew out the barrel of the revolver.
- Don't even think about coming here or you'll get lead.
Eleanor says.
Mildred was extremely annoyed, of the 250 witches she called to go with her to invade, by then about 175 had died. The Terre Sapphique air force only sent 25 witches at that time and only two were shot down, they didn't even get to die, they just fell off their brooms and fell to the ground, being rescued by witches who were on the ground. Berger explodes in rage and begins to cast spells, on each of the witches of Terre Sapphique chasing them one by one. This time no machine gun could stop the blonde who was using magical shields to defend herself, she was even managing to shoot down one or another, until she is hit by something shaped like fireworks that explodes right in her back.
- What?
Says Mildred almost losing control and turning around.
It was Saria who shot at her using her invention, a rocket that was fired from the wings of her broom that was more equipped, Meridies fires again and this time Berger dodges and soon after casts a spell only it catches on one of the air force witches in an effort to defend the lilac haired girl. She gets down on the ground and starts trying to get the fallen witch to stay alive, but it was too late.
- Pathetic, she saved the life of that damn rocket, I would torture her a little bit, but I'll take care of the others, I can't lose any of my group.
Says Mildred.
Saria soon gives the fallen witch a burial, then picks up her broom in an attempt to get back up in the air, but one of the witches on the ground tells her not to go up, but Meridies pulls her up and then faces her with determination.
- I am an air force witch! It is my specialty! As leader of the air force my duty is to protect all my partners!
Saria says.
Saria takes off and goes after Mildred in an attempt to hit her, by then Mildred had shot down about 12 witches from her group, the others were trying to run away in retreat, while Mildred's group with 83 witches was after them all. Soon Meridies starts shooting and taking them down one by one, which causes a small group to come after the lilac witch.
- She's getting us from behind! Get her!
Says one of the witches.
9:20
Mildred's Army: 1817 (183 casualties)
Population of Terre Sapphique: 1543 (23 casualities)
Army of Terre Sapphique: 705 (23 casualties)
The invasion was a real war in Terre Sapphique, witches from all sides were coming to attack the city, although the city had a large advantage, giving casualties to many of the groups, besides those controlled by Mildred. Mildred's group was the only one that was slowly gaining. Since Berger was very powerful, making short shrift of the village's advanced weapons.
A little near there, Julia and Natalie were waiting in the forest for the group from Lesbiland to arrive, until little by little the group was arriving and expanding, they were even carrying the flag of the city, to signal who they were. A red flag, with a black shield that had a huge white L in the middle.
- Finally they arrived.
Says Julia.
- My sovereign Julia, we come as soon as we can, on orders from sovereign Heather, what are the orders?
Says one of the witches.
- Wait 10 minutes, we will only attack the council witches, we won't attack any of the Terre Sapphique witches, they are very easy to spot. The Council Witches are wearing purple robes, shoot only the purple ones. Whoever kills Mildred Berger will win the weight in gold, and will also have the privilege of participating in all the royal orgies
Says Julia.
The witches quickly cracked a smile, they all got organized, Julia's tactic involved all of them at once overwhelmingly going to Terre Sapphique, her army had 222 witches, very well trained and armed, they used many of them weapons bought from the village, or copied weapons. Besides also heavy cannons, they were very powerful witches as well, many of them spent five years in one of the hardest training ever known to witches. They were all the elite witches of the Lesbiland army, only the best, despite their small number.
9:25
Mildred could already see the city as she chased the group of witches from the air, but little by little her group diminished a lot, Saria was on fire shooting down most of the witches, but at the same time her group also diminished, the 12 were only 5, but the 83 witches became 41, many returned to try to defend themselves, but were hit by the accurate shots of the purple haired girl.
- (Damn! They are arriving in town, I will have to use the rockets, since they are grouped together... And my ammo might run out...)
Saria launches a rocket towards the group, causing most of them to fall, and Mildred to lose control a bit, then she launches another and another, reaching the point of hitting everyone, until in the middle of all that smoke Mildred comes flying out of there facing everything towards Meridies, Berger as soon as she arrives grabs the purple haired witch by the neck.
- At least they managed to escape hehe...
Says Saria looking at the witches in her group leaving.
- All this just to save your little friends, too bad you won't live to see them die at my hands, consider yourself privileged to be a victim of mine.
Says Midred.
Mildred concentrates magic in her hand making a blade spell in her hands sinking it all the way into Saria's chest, leaving her hand a little until Meridies eyes went out, after all she takes her hand away and the lifeless body of the purple haired witch falls to the ground, the witches of Terre Sapphique were horrified, just before the girl falls, she is hit by a series of explosive spells cast by Berger who soon after departs from there towards the city.
Saria Meridies (1734-1758) dies from a stab in her heart, killed by Mildred Berger at 9:28 on October 21, 1758. Saving the lives of some of the witches in her air force group, managing to take out all 41 witches who were following the supreme leader.
9:30
In the forest the witches of Lesbiland, begin to take off in the direction of Terre Sapphique, the flags were up and signaling that they were on the side of the village. Julia and Natalie were in front of them all.
Back in Terre Sapphique, Mildred was getting closer and closer to the city, but she decides to climb a little higher to get a wider view, noticing that the witches from her army were having difficulties, so she makes the decision to go back to the walls to knock down each of the machine gun towers, since they were easily shooting down the witches from the council's army, who were even retreating a little.
Meanwhile in the middle of town, at the barricade where Victoria and the girls were standing, one of the air force witches arrives and goes running towards McLaren with desperation, which makes the girls even more worried.
- Victoria! Air Force Unit I was totally destroyed! There are only four left! Saria saved us! But we don't know what happened to her! There's a blonde witch in that group and she's frighteningly powerful! She has slaughtered most of us!
Says the witch.
- Maria! What are you doing?
Says Diana as Maria put on her glasses and climbed on her broom.
- I will not stand here! Diana! Who knows what happened to Saria, I don't want her sacrifice to go in vain! I'm very much against violence and war, but I have to do this for the greater good!
Says Maria until Eleanor hands her a machine gun.
- Take Maria, you will need it.
Says Eleanor until Maria refuses the machine gun.
- I'm going to get heavy with this thing, I need all my agility now!
Says Maria until Diana picks up the machine gun.
- Well! You won't be alone in this.
Diana says, lowering her glasses and climbing on a broom.
Maria gets a little angry at first, but then smiles at Diana who smiles back, and the two of them fly together to the most powerful magical presence, which was Mildred destroying the machine gun turrets around. She would cast spells towards the turrets that would explode and kill the witch who fired on the spot, allowing the witches from the air force to pass. The Cavendish Du Nord couple soon intercepted a group of witches who were getting close to the village, the green-haired girl was shooting with the machine gun, while the red-haired girl was standing on her broomstick and casting very powerful explosion spells.
9:35
The witches from the rest of the army, who were going at a lower altitude and at a lower speed, arrived at the city walls, they soon began to shoot, the witches arrived in a part that had no machine gun towers, the cannons slowly knocked down the walls. As soon as everything was knocked down they are faced with a huge army of armed Terre Sapphique witches.
- Attack!
Says the fake Julia.
Soon the witches of the council's army obey the orders of the false Julia and start shooting in the direction of the witches of Terre Sapphique, using the cannons to disperse the girls more, so begins a real war on the ground too, but the side of the witches' council was in a huge numerical advantage, they were all a thousand against 45 of the witches of Terre Sapphique, little by little they could advance even with a technological disadvantage.
- Damn it! Withdraw! There are too many of them!
The witches of Terre Sapphique say.
- We need reinforcements!
Says another witch.
9:40
Mildred's Army: 1431 (569 casualties)
Population of Terre Sapphique: 1500 (66 causalities)
Terre Sapphique Army: 662 (66 casualties)
Lesbiland Army: 222
Diana and Maria get very close to Mildred who looks at them both with debauchery, as her back was to a machine gun turret, until Berger points her finger backwards towards the turret, exploding it and causing the destruction of the only machine gun turret left on the wall.
- You arrived too late!
Says Mildred.
- Yours...
Diana says.
- Well, well, it looks like the wanted person from five years ago has turned up, I finally found the criminal. Well, I guess you're not winning this one. Attack these two! Whoever kills them will get a big reward!
Says Mildred.
Mildred signals to the witches to go towards Diana and Maria, it was a very large army of witches on broomsticks, who surrounded the Cavendish Du Nord couple. Meanwhile Berger took advantage of the breach and left, heading towards the town of Terre Sapphique to meet Victoria McLaren.
See you, war witches...