McLaren Castle Ruins, Dublin, Ireland
After a long journey, after 10 long years, Diana and Hellene finally meet again, although it was not the way Cavendish and McLaren wanted, Diana needs to win in order for her sister to join her in the main journey to the castle of Countess Cavendish, to solve the curse once and for all, maybe to put an end to all this. On the other hand, if Hellene wins, she will leave the castle taking Marianne with her as a servant, whatever the purpose or intention for which McLaren wants to use Leblanc. This could be the fight that will determine if the journey ends or continues since Hellene could be an extremely powerful ally to the girls in the missions and could be of great use due to her being a hybrid like Diana.
After another face to face that served to evaluate how strong and willing to fight both were, Hellene, gets a smile on her face when she notices that her sister is still powerful and with that she turns into a wolf, going up Cavendish with everything, propelling herself with an impressive speed, this way Diana dodges, turning into a bat of that onslaught and then she returns to normal and launches herself into a kick with flying, this way McLaren also quite smart returns to normal form and manages to defend herself from her sister's attack with her arm.
Hellene: Not bad sis, at least you can think fast.
Diana: And who says the intention was to kick you?
The Cavendish gives a smile, propels herself backwards supporting the feet on her sister's arm, this way she ends up throwing herself more to the high side, where she throws fireballs that catch the McLaren from the top to the bottom, Diana landed on the ground and stopped standing and started to throw more of those fireballs and this way Hellene was going more and more backwards and with the platinum blonde ceased her attack, she went to the younger sister with everything ready to punch in the middle of that smoke, but on the other side she had a hit.
Everybody was trying to see through all that smoke, they were tense, the fight was very intense until then and it was just in the beginning, it seemed even and the girls barely had the notion that Diana could reach that point, until Hellene
appeared in the smoke running forward with her hand giving a kick in the stomach of her sister that was thrown a little back and that way McLaren even raised one of her hands and it was noticeable a glow in it. Demonic magic came out of the ground like columns of fire and that way Cavendish had time to transform into a bat and dodge those several columns on the ground that were forming to hit her.
Hellene: I can stand here all day, it amazes me how smart you are.
Diana: But you won't.
The Cavendish goes dodging faster and faster, even going up to her sister who stops with the attacks, but McLaren has a trick, when Diana approaches, she steps on the ground and that way a stone hits her in the shape of a bat making her return to normal and with that the redhead gives a smile on her face and starts to hit the older girl.
The girls are horrified watching that scene, Akko only goes getting shocked and also a little indignant, because she crowed that there was a kind of seesaw in that place with a stone and a board.
Akko: Now Diana will learn what it's like to fight with someone real and not her silly little rules of fighting, I bet she'll be pissed off at her sister fighting apparently dirty.
Hellene, was starting to give a sequence of kicks and punches in Diana, they were some well given, in the region of the chest and face and as the Cavendish was still a little stunned she barely managed to defend herself from the first ones, that at least in the first ones, but when she regained her senses in the middle of being punched, the older one makes a punch meet the punch of the younger one, causing a light shockwave and with that the one with platinum blond hair, opens the cape with the other hand and throws some fireballs which hit her own sister that is thrown back and gets a little dizzy. This way Diana goes up, hitting a volley on her own who is still a little stunned with the kick, but this soon ends when Hellene uses a spell that makes four spirits leave the body and this way the souls went up Cavendish. This way the fight was getting more and more fierce, both were with equivalent powers and strengths. So much that Croix also noticed this.
Croix: I don't know which of the two wins, both have their weaknesses and strengths, they are well balanced, I just know I will keep rooting for Diana.
Akko: Go Diana! You can do it!
Marianne: Diana! Diana! Diana!
Sucy: Are youseriously going to stand there shouting her name, what a stupid thing to do.
Amanda: Diana! Diana! Diana! You'll win this or else I'll kill you! I'm kidding hahaha! You'll win this shit Diana!
Diana listened to some of the cheering, but was in too much trouble, trying to dodge the tetra spirit thrown by her sister and in the mean time to dodge, McLaren took the opportunity to get in the wolf form and use the impulse and that's what she did, she went running towards her sister and then she came back to her normal form, kicking Cavendish in the side of her body that was thrown against one of the pillars of the castle ruin and then the redhead again goes to her sister in the wolf form and gets on top of her while showing intimidation.
Diana: Why should I be afraid of that way of yours?
The Cavendish turns into a bat passing underneath, but she didn't expect McLaren to return to normal and then use a magic column spell that ends up hitting Diana who returns to normal a little hurt with some excoriations, and this way Hellene takes the opportunity to attack trying to punch her sister, but she gives an elbow that gets on her chest and with that the platinum blonde and the redhead start exchanging punches and kicks that were always blocked and defended.
Hellene: Not bad, you really know how to fight, but still I won't let myself be beaten, I'm not here to lose.
Diana: And I much less Hellene.
The two continued exchanging punches and kicks, always being blocked, until McLaren used another tetra spirit and this one caught the older girl in the face, making the blows stun her a little more and this way Hellene concentrated a lot of strength in her left arm and in a moment of little guard she punched Cavendish very hard in the stomach, who spat some blood with the intensity of the blow.
The others even looked in shock at that scene, the redhead's strength is not something to be underestimated, that way the blow was enough for Diana to be more attentive, McLaren would give another blow to her sister, but she counterattacks with a fireball that catches her and this way she defends herself with her arms and quickly the Cavendish retracts the nails of her hand and starts giving scratches that get on Hellene
's arm that ends up losing the defense and getting irritated, this way the dhampir puts the nails back to normal and manages to punch the redhead that then almost at the same second turns into a wolf and gets right behind her sister.
Hellene: You like to use claws? Then let's fight with claws too.
Hellene returned to normal and with the human form she lowered her right hand with her claws retracted to the point of sticking it on her sister's shoulder and from there she started punching her by the back in a very strong way, even holding by the injured shoulder, Cavendish was even trying to get out, was trying to use the bat form, but it seemed that her body denied that magic, so in that way without much choice she decides to appeal to use some of her magic.
Hellene: How do youlike using your claws now? Nobody told you to scratch my arms.
Diana opens her eyes and uses a fireball spell again, this one makes her make a portal in front of her and another one behind Hellene and that way she ends up hitting McLaren in the back a few times, making her release Cavendish that ceased the spell and with her shoulder bleeding she didn't give up attacking, The fight that seemed not to have an end, the girls were getting tense each second, it seemed that Hellene never stopped, a real fighting machine.
Marianne: That sister of Diana's is strong, wow, even in the fight against Elizabeth it must not have been like that, I just remember almost dying that day, Elizabeth just slaughtered everyone and narrowly missed killing Diana.
Akko: Even when I trained with Diana I didn't see her fighting like that, it's like she was hiding it all from me, the two of them just fight so fast that I can barely keep up sometimes, I have to have my reflexes very sharp to be able to follow these two.
Diana hits a punch on Hellene and this way McLaren goes dragging behind, Cavendish was going to punch her, but ends up being defended by the redhead's arm who puts the cape over her to intensify this defense and this way she opens her arms and reveals under the cape an attack where several bats go to the older one who is being bothered by the many creatures going up and this way Hellene's hand is shining again and taking advantage of the moment she hits a punch on her sister's face, This was followed by another punch to the stomach, this one causing the Cavendish to be thrown against another castle pillar and the redhead didn't stop, she turned into a wolf, ran, came back to her human form and with that hit a two feet volley that was strong enough to destroy even more the already destroyed pillar and made Diana fall on the floor, a little hurt, already coughing some blood, the youngest stayed with her foot over her chest and just had a more victorious expression.
Hellene: Income sis, you fight well but you still have a lot to do to reach my level.
Diana: I don't need to get that low to reach your level.
Hellene: Looks like my serious looking little sister can also be a jokester, let's see who will have the last laugh then.
Hellene lifts her foot and when she would hit the older one with a stomp, she turns into a bat and returns to her human form with a hook, then she throws a knee that catches Hellene in the stomach region, who takes a few steps back and smiles happy that the fight wasn't over yet and this way they both go up one another to exchange punches, this time with a little more impact as it can be noticed, as if they were more heated and used to it.
And they really were, some of the blows caught and they were thrown against the walls, even so they kept going up one of the other, alternating between their forms of bat and wolf, meeting each other in clashes of punches and kicks, this way leaving the girls even more in shock around the potential of the two dhampirs.
Until in a moment, both of them hit a kick in each other, in a simultaneous way, both of them were already with some injuries and excoriations on the body, they stand up and clean the blood coming out of their mouths and stay with a smile that were enjoying the battle.
Hellene: That's what I've been wanting sis. I haven't had this much fun in years.
The two then meet again, this time they are pushing each other forward, using the strength they have, but it was remarkable that Hellene in this aspect was little by little winning, showing that those muscles are not just an ornament, Little by little making Diana pass a slight suffocation and that way she saw in an opportunity to give a knee that caught in the chin of the same and taking advantage of the moment the Cavendish throws a fireball in the sister that is giving steps backwards until it falls on the ground, but soon it returns and with that it goes with a punch that was dodged by Diana.
Diana: I am also having fun facing you.
The two open a smile in the middle of the blow and then Hellene throws another punch defended by Diana's hand and a kick, having to deal with the well given blows of McLaren that was gradually increasing the speed, and this way the platinum blonde haired girl had to keep up with the defence, but was getting a little sore, losing some of the defence she had.
Hellene: I am having fun, but we have to end it soon sis, this is not a joke here, this is a serious deal and I will not lose.
At that time Hellene uses another tetra spirit on Diana, who defends herself with her arms, but is hit by a knee on the stomach, followed by a hammer blow that is given on the back of the head and that way makes Cavendish fall on the floor with that blow, which McLaren then gives a sigh, and then walks slowly to the group already giving the hand to get the "prize" which was already showing the middle finger to the redhead.
Hellene: 'ow rude, you are ahnly goin to be me partner in adventures.
Marianne: Get away from me, I'm nobody's object, you respect me if you don't...
Hellene: ahtherwise what?
Hellene raised her eyebrow in a more threatening manner, but just as she was about to go all out to get Marianne she took a fireball in the back and when she looked back it was Diana who was still awake, she was even shocked to see that her older sister was so resilient as to withstand a blow that even the strongest vampires could fall unconscious.
Diana: Otherwise you will see me Hellene, you don't treat a person like an object, be polite to them!
Hellene: Since you're still conscious, you should be at least 10 minutes asleep, I hit you with the hammer blow.
Diana: And I defended with power too so as not to let you make me fall faint, now come on, there's still a fight to finish.
Hellene clenches her fists in anger and turns around, going up to her sister who is just watching her at that time McLaren goes up in a wolf shape and Cavendish doesn't hesitate and goes up too, she goes in a bat shape and that way the two kicking blows meet causing a light impact, the two fall on the ground and get up, both start from there to keep exchanging punches between themselves, punching and kicking the same , what the others were looking still in shock, but one of them can even notice what Diana did, getting to explain to the other girls the Scottish girl's tactic.
Lotte: It was a defence spell she used, a magical barrier, she created several to fake a softness in the blow, until it hit her with less impact, a very clever move, Diana knew she could fall faint there.
Marianne: Put smart in that, at least I'm free from being the servant of this hot little redhead.
All: What?
Marianne blushed: I mean, I'm just free from being a slave to this idiot, this very idiotic dhampir, there's no need to go out in a fight against us, that's it, a very idiotic dhampir.
Sucy: Looks like we have someone who is starting to fall for Diana's sister, I just want to see what it will be like having to deal with a sister-in-law who can suck your blood hahaha.
Blushing Marianne: I don't like Hellene, she's just attractive, will you tell me you don't think so? Look at those curves and those muscles, I wish I had a big body like that, but I'm just a skinny girl.
Akko: Looks like we're going to have someone else to keep mocking the lovey-dovey couple, even if I'm afraid of Diana's sister ripping our heads off, she has a way about her that seems a bit explosive.
Marianne: You also don't start saying anything Akko, you are the one who has been having a relationship with Diana since you met, we talk about you and Diana being a couple and you get all embarrassed.
Akko then just keeps her cheeks inflated, not giving a damn and starts to concentrate on watching the fight, while Sucy and Lotte keep laughing with the conversation of the two. Back to the fight, things were on fire, the exchange of blows started to get tiring for both sides, both dhampirs showed themselves a little tired.
Hellene: You never give up, do you Diana?
Diana: I say the same to you, you stubborn girl.
The two go up to each other again, this time McLaren uses a new blow, in which she goes in the form of a wolf in a high speed, reaching to run over Diana who was thrown up and fell on the ground a little hurt, so the same tries again the technique, but Cavendish thinks fast, steps on the ground, uses a demonic magic and shoots fireballs, getting to dodge, Hellene then comes back in another direction, so the platinum blonde steps again and a wall rises up which the redhead hits head on and manages to pass through the middle to the other side leaving the gap for the older woman to give a strong punch that throws her up and out of the stone that she crossed.
A hook that threw Hellene upwards, she transformed into a human but returned to her wolf form to dodge the fireballs thrown by Diana. The two collide in a punch that gives off a shockwave and are left gasping for breath, even jumping backwards stepping away.
Hellene: I wonder where you got all that strength from.
Diana: My little secret, now let's continue.
Hellene raising her hand: Enough! I get it, I've had it with you and my sister, you're fucking strong, you fought all you could just to keep going on this journey of yours, you did it because of the trust you have in these people, you freed me and everything else, I guess that means I surrender, I lost this fight, I don't want to take this until one of us dies, I just know that after this journey I want to go on my way.
Diana: Is this a bluff or are you really surrendering?
Hellene: Are you calling me a liar? I will not ruin the trust I have in my sister, I am already getting tired, I join you, I stay on this journey, I want to understand more, well it was fun fighting with you.
Hellene even gives her hand to her sister, she slowly walks up to her, but then is pushed by her using a spell and then gets wrapped in an embrace, which Diana is still suspicious trying to get out of, but she comes to understand that it's an embrace and is feeling a little better seeing that her sister is back by her side, a fight that was quite close and balanced in which the two already had similar powers.
Hellene: I am still angry with you and Mama Bernadette forgetting me here, but I will still try to understand your side.
While they were at that moment, the two daughters of Daryl took the chance and took a drop of Hellene's blood that fell and put it on one of the pacts with death, then they got in position again where they were. After the hug, McLaren goes towards the girls and all of them showed a little bit of fear, with the exception of Marianne who remained confident.
Diana: Well girls, we now have Hellene as our ally, we managed at least to win this battle.
Hellene: No introductions, now let's get out of here, since you broke up with that idiot Banshee we'll finally be able to walk around free.
Marianne: We need to break your face for you to understand, so much so that you didn't lay a finger on me in our fight haha, you stood trembling at the power of the great Marianne Leblanc.
At that time Hellene clenches her fists and Diana with her head agrees to let her sister give the Frenchwoman a fright, which ends up leaving her against one of the walls of the pilasters, the shorter one put her left arm on Marianne's side who was getting blushed and avoiding looking and that way McLaren herself was starting to notice something, but kept her confident expression.
Hellene: you know i can kell you wit joehst de blenk o' an eye, you know? you're really clueless ahr you're really naht afraid o' anythin, interestin behavior, know dat i 'aven't laid a fenger ahn you, boeht if you keep wanderin arooehnd wit dat beauty you'll see me grendin dahse fengers ahn you in a way you wahn't fahrget.
Marianne blushed as Hellene ran her finger down her chin and down Leblanc's body, and Leblanc was sweating as the older sister pushed the younger one backwards, and she stood with her arms crossed, while the Frenchwoman's heartbeat was accelerated by that situation.
Hellene even received some light pats on the head from her older sister and remained oblivious.
Diana: What kind of way is that? You are going to help us on our journey, without this wanting to get into bed with our friends, that you can think about after we finish all this.
Hellene, slightly flushed: dahn't interroehpt me cabbage 'ead, i was joehst tryin to scare de cloehmsy girl into stahppin dinkin she's so cloehmsy, i wahn't go arooehnd sleepin wit ahthers, ahnly if dey ask me to, den it's sahmethin else.
Diana: Hellene!
Hellene: Ahhhhhhhh! if you're going to boss me around like that I'm already regretting having surrendered and let you win, seriously you used to be more fun and nice when we were kids, today you're like a boring old lady, you're at Banshee's level.
Diana: You don't have to think about these things, it's not time to think about getting into bed with other girls yet.
Hellene: And is there a time for that? I think at whatever time I want, it's not my fault if most of you are hot, especially the clumsy one.
At that moment Marianne blushes even more, she was being helped by Akko and Lotte with all the nervousness, already Croix was laughing of the situation, together with the girls of Amanda's trio, and this way they arrive at the side where the exit was, when they arrive there they look around and Hellene is all delighted with the surroundings, until O'Neill arrives at each one of the girls to say goodbye to them.
Amanda: We don't want to make it a bit of an anticlimactic farewell, but we're going to go, you guys sort your journey out on your side, we're going to go the other way, we'll meet you in Edinburgh, I hope you can make it there.
Akko: These have been great days with you helping us on the journey, we will not forget you and you can be sure we will be in Edinburgh, we will finish this journey for good.
Amanda, Jasminka and Constanze give that farewell greeting to each one of the girls, and they leave the place and go in a separate direction.
Hellene: foehck me, i barely gaht to meet dem, dey seem like nice people.
Diana: They are nice, but their leader is a pain in the ass, she is being bossy towards us, we had to do everything her way, at least now we are free.
Hellene: How bad, my sister, speaking this behind other people's backs, but tell me what is this journey going to be?
Diana: From here we go to where our aunt Daryl is, she sent us a letter saying that she needs to talk seriously with me, it must be about the curse, or something like that, she must know something, then we go to the castle, believe it or not mother Bernadette is still alive, only we are not going for her, but for Croix's wife who is missing there, we want to find out the truth and maybe also meet with mother, clarify things more.
Hellene: If you had said before that it was a journey to Mama Bernadette's castle I would have accepted it without getting out of hand with you, even if you still owe me for allying with humans, I can't trust them that much, remember they killed our mother Laura.
Diana: Iremember it every day, do you think I didn't feel it? I hate it until today, but I know that common and innocent humans are not to blame for anything, the blame lies with those who have the power in their hands, those humans who rule everything and everyone, who want to force people to believe in what is right for them and manipulate everyone, they are the real problem, they don't understand our side and don't want to, they want to maintain the status quo and continue to rule everyone.
Hellene: I have nightmares to this day when Mama Laura was captured, all I could do was run away and come here, I stayed hidden, I saw the castle catch fire, the banshee appeared to protect me, and I grew up for these 10 years here, it was a real hell, all this then is the fault of these human beings you say? So why don't we finish them off?
Diana: Mama Bernadette already tried, that's why she was hunted all over the world, she almost died trying to do that, they're just powerful without needing the power of vampires or creatures of the night, they're just powerful because they have a way of bossing the world around, these people who sent hunters home and that's why I ended up with Croix, she at least is a hunter who is a good person.
Hellene: And how can people who hunt our people be good people sis? They kill our people for mere pebbles of gold, how can that be acceptable?
Diana: Thevast majority unfortunately are like that sis, they are greedy people, wanting only gold, but few are really good people, like Croix, she didn't go for the reward, she went because she wanted to marry her wife, she had a somewhat selfish but noble motive and it's not like the creatures are innocent, you know how these creatures kill people irrationally.
Hellene at this moment is only a little quiet, but then both are interrupted with the appearance of Maril and Merrill who stand right in front of both of them, at this time the group of girls kind of gets into an attack position, but the two twins try to gesture showing that it's okay, that they're not about to attack.
Maril: Woah, woah, woah! No attacking us, we didn't come here to pick fights, we came at our mother's request, she is waiting for you here in Dublin to leave tomorrow for Leeds, she will guarantee hospitality for everyone, come with us.
Merrill: We just came to help, my mother asked us to call them, it's a more serious matter than you think Diana.
Hellene: And how am I supposed to trust these two sluts? You two were watching us the whole time, I am not an idiot, these eyes here know how to observe well every action, so how do you intend to gain our trust.
Diana: Easy there sis, they are our cousins, they are Aunt Daryl's daughters, it must be a matter involving Mama Bernadette, so come on, the best thing to do is to go, at least we will have a place where you will have better hospitality.
Hellene: Aunt Daryl? Mama Laura kept saying that woman is no good sis, are you really going to go for it? Aren't you afraid it's a trap?
Diana: I don't know if it really stinks or not, we don't know her properly, we will know later, anyway, you are the stronger of the two of us, a trap is not like it's our biggest concern.
Hellene: That's right little sister, then let's get out of here, even though I'm suspicious of these two.
The battle against Hellene came to an end, with a surrender by McLaren, who fought as hard as she could, but didn't want to pull too hard so the dispute won't be so deadly, due to some of the injuries, the journey this time will take another turn and this will be the part where things will go in part towards the Countess Cavendish's castle, the end of a great journey or the beginning, the point that this journey will become something that will change the lives of these people that found in themselves a common goal, found their mother in which both hasn't seen on 10 years, but there's still a lot that these lassies will see and find out.
See you, sister witches...