Thursday, 4 January 2018
It's been a day since Diana, Akko and Amanda have been in Margareth's hands, that single day, has already been a real hell for the three girls, even more all the torture and violence they see suffering at Ford's hands, of many kinds, a lot of it for the pressure of getting the powers of the staff and also for Cavendish to educate the creature from Luna Nova, to be more obedient and submissive to Benson, what is ending up not working very well already in the first day, since this feeling ended up in the more becoming a friendship between the two who didn't like the Englishwoman at all.
Besides what was going on in the dungeon things were also progressing in the middle of the searches, after the appearance of two other girls who were also going after their missing friend, Rita Campos and Abigail Meyer, Rachel Livesey
's roommates, who unfortunately passed away, without the girls knowing her whereabouts, who had been missing for a long time, the next day has already been set for a meeting and where will also be the introduction of this duo.
Rita was waking up that morning, looking at Rachel's bed, still worried about the disappearance of her colleague, she got up and went to do her personal hygiene, thinking a lot about what had happened that day, the whole magic thing, everything she saw Margareth doing in the blink of an eye, she was simply having a thousand things on her mind. As well as Abigail that was also waking up and soon joined Campos in the bathroom, going to do the personal hygiene.
" Good morning Rita " Meyer said.
" Hey, that was crazy yesterday, wasn't it? Magic, this thing is really real, I thought it was all a lie, but now it makes sense that beating I got the day before yesterday " said the redhead turning her neck.
" I wonder if she really is with Rachel. This Margareth girl seems pretty dangerous just from the way the girls talked about her, especially now that we have to go to the room and we can't tell anyone until now," said the dark haired girl who then left the bathroom and went to change.
" Anyway I want to find Rachel, she is our friend... " Said the motivated Brazilian.
After this organized by the two, they finish changing, take a look at the clock, go to the Luna Nova cafeteria, where they have a breakfast and are already received by Sucy, Lotte, Hellene, Marianne, Constanze and Jasminka, who compose the whole group, they were kind of talking there in a relaxed way.
Some minutes later they finish eating and together they all go to one of the old classrooms of Luna Nova, what already leaves them a little surprised with the place seem really like a classroom, because they had never entered in those corners, that were always locked, there were the six adult girls, Croix, Chariot, Laura, Bernadette, Saori and Morgana, until then Rita and Abigail had not talked with them about the previous day and how they were introduced to magic.
" Welcome, I am Laura McLaren, I am Diana and Hellene's mother, but I am also one of the witches who knows what's been going on, I was there on the day Margaret was sealed, I am a survivor from 1999 so I have some baggage there to say " McLaren said.
" I am Bernadette Cavendish, you may know me from my skateboarding career, but not from my other side, I am Laura's wife, Diana and Hellene's mother and also a surviving witch from the events of 1999, we are both pretty much the ones who have been fighting since that time for magic, but we have failed many times, we are wanting the goal of the restoration of magic " Cavendish said.
" This place in the past was once an academy of witchcraft, and one of the best in the world, I was one of the remnants of what was Luna Nova in the past because I moved here in the transition, I was the one who was almost chosen by Claiomh Solais, but I decided to leave this journey to the next generation, since I would be alone in this with Croix, for such a big responsibility, the Ursula you know so well is actually Chariot Du Nord " Said the Du Nord leaving the two awestruck with the revelation.
" We did it out of necessity, Chariot's career had started right when the responsibilities came, right when Margareth turned up and since we were the only ones left, we had to take care of the place for years, continuing with the idea of being an orphanage, kind of so no one will suspect the past, not even the so dangerous cultists " Meridies said.
" What do you mean cultists? What do you mean 1999, you can talk about one thing at a time? I'm still trying to process what this information from you is," Campos said.
" Does that mean we're witches? " Meyer asks.
" They always have been, all the girls of Luna Nova, they hide within themselves the potential for magic, but we are still going to start walking these things, we intend to go back with what it was in the old days, since having the help of many witches would be very good, but we can't just let you go around spreading around that you are witches, it is still too risky " Said the Frenchwoman.
" We are going to explain everything in detail to you, since it can serve as a test for the other girls here to start our future magic classes coming back, pay attention, after that we will go back to the quests " Said the Italian girl while Laura was doing her magic.
A long explanation later...
Laura pretty much summed it all up, Luna Nova before 1999, when it was a witch academy, still in the years when she was a young teenager, then adulthood, where they got to the events of the mysterious cultists, who are still not sure what their motivations are, what they want with the witches and why they attacked, then the events leading up to Margaret Ford, detailing everything they could, leaving both girls quite shocked at the revelations.
" Woah! So it was all real, those things they talk about from the past were true... Witches really did exist," Rita said, impressed.
" These guys are monsters, why didn't you fight them again? " Abigail asks.
" Because now we are too weak, there are too many of them and they are spread through influences, we don't even know how our enemy acts, who will let us know how to attack, I even tried to gather more information when it happened in 99, but we lost a lot of ours, it was a suicide mission practically, they even went after us after we attacked, do you know Sarah Bernhardt? So her mother was murdered by these cultists when Sarah was still a baby, she was one of my friends," McLaren said.
" That's why we are in this new generation, we are preparing to defend ourselves in case anything happens, we can't afford to reveal ourselves or they will find us and we all risk death, that's why we are so reclusive " Chariot said.
" And why does Margareth want Rachel so badly? She has nothing to do with it " Campos asks.
" I also don't know her reasons for taking Rachel, but we know well why she wanted Diana, Akko and Amanda, the magic seals we used against Margareth, they also served for us to close the access leading to the Gran Triskellion, where from there Claiomh Solais belongs. Our great salvation from magic " Du Nord said.
" It must be some cruelty, or our friend managed to find out something very hairy from Margareth, I only know that this witch scares me, just by the way you describe her, it only makes me even more scared " Said the Brazilian.
" And you saw her in front of you, that was quite a help, we have to really find her whereabouts, so let's plan the next search, this witch is not going to escape all of us " Said the motivated Irish woman.
" But what about us? We are not witches who know spells like you and all that, how are we going to protect ourselves? " Abigai asks.
" The same way as us, at least temporarily " Morgana said revealing the holster hidden under her jacket.
" Are we going to give firearms to teenagers? " Saori said.
" It is only a temporary measure, only use this when you are in danger, what I recommend is that you use it as little as possible " Laura said, handing them both weapons and also a holster to hide under the arms.
The duo was getting enchanted looking at those weapons, and were soon making the question of equipping them under the arms, a little without knowing how to use them, but they were already good for something, then they were all gathering the evidence for what would be to start a search for Margareth Ford, taking advantage of the moment to see what they could get when it came time to find the witch.
At the hiding place, at the room of Margareth's dungeon she was already preparing herself, resetting the battery of the hidden cameras, kind of getting lucky of not having anyone and already preparing to set up some defenses, so that she won't be found in any way, besides delaying a lot what they will do.
She soon gets back to the hidden dungeon and with a smile on her face, starts to announce on the microphone, both to Akko and Amanda in the terrible conditions cell and to Diana who was teaching the creature to write.
[Margareth: Your little friends will try to rescue you, but they will die today, I have already prepared my defences, these damned ones are not going anywhere and you will watch all of this, hahahha, just accept that you will be in my hand for the rest of your short lives, so cooperate with me, Akko and Amanda, tell me the first word of the staff, you were quite disobedient yesterday, Diana Cavendish spoilt, you better be educating my Diana well, or else you will see another horror].
The three were getting a little worried, since the images were showing the corridors, in the middle of the screens, what increased even more the tension, luckily there wasn't anything by the corridors yet but it would be a matter of time until it would appear.
And it really didn't take long, the whole group got organized for another search, all of them this time went to the scary underground carrying lanterns lit on the chest to watch the way, trying somehow to find what was ahead, but soon moaning sounds were being heard.
" Are you listening to this? " Laura asks.
" He looks like a zombie " Marianne said.
" Don't exaggerate, we're witches, but zombies don't exist " McLaren said until belied when the torches pointed to one.
" Rachel! " Rita and Abigail say in shock.
Rachel had a few bites all over her body, half dead, her arms sticking out, in some very strange way she wasn't all torn up, but it was noticeable that the body was already in a certain state of decomposition, starting to float with glowing eyes it was certainly a spell.
" I warned you not to interfere with me, get out of here or you will die by my hands " I said that.
" Ra... Ra... Rachel... Did they kill you? " Said Campos shedding tears.
" Yes, I killed her and gave it to my little creature to eat, unfortunately my little creature apparently didn't like the taste of human flesh and still preferred to eat the rats, but what hunger doesn't do to someone, right? It was a useless death by the way, but look at the bright side, now you can join your little friend " said what appeared to be Margaret and with that Abigail was taking the gun from the holster.
" Margareth, you're a monster " Meyer said after shooting against the zombified Rachel's head and soon returned herself in a frightening manner.
" I just control that body, you can drill as much as you want " Ford said making that body raise its arms and with that was soon heard the sound of something walking.
Until they were revealed to be a huge group of rats running towards the group, which they were already shooting at the many creatures, the ones that stood in the way were run over as if it were nothing, at this the older ones started to create a barrier of magic on the path in front of them, where the rats were piling up and climbing higher and higher.
" Those are some pretty hungry little mice, they're going to love eating you " Benson said.
" Let's not close the other side they might come from all sides, let's just run from here " Bernadette said holding the barrier as the rats went higher and higher.
Laura was using a spell that was creating a deep well with a speed that she was speeding up with Croix and Chariot's help, where in the bottom of that well they were making some stakes with the stones that were missing, trying anyway to make the mechanism, while in the other side the girls were using magic to kill the rats that were coming, which were also many, without creating a barrier, and Sucy was throwing potions that were dissolving the creatures' bodies. Constanze using the machines she had, facing the rats with knives, the rats themselves tried to bite, but it was only metal, Jasminka smashing with the stones of the walls, Lotte trying to use spells with spirits to delay the rat's run and even trick the creatures, Marianne and Hellene together firing waves of spells with explosions, which was throwing the creatures back, until the barrier behind was released.
" Now let's go! " said Bernadette running off.
The older ones kind of made a board where all of them were sliding on the ground and the rats were being crushed by this stone board carved by Laura, and the rats behind were kind of falling into the pit, with most of them dying by the fall and also by the stakes, but there were still a few left, especially the ones that were leaking.
" Damn it! This damn thing wants to kill us in the most painful way it has " Laura said.
" I wasn't prepared for that," said the older Cavendish.
" Is it always like this with you? " Rita asks.
" It used to be when I did spy missions when witchcraft still existed " McLaren said as they all went sliding through the sea of rats and right behind them appeared the zombified Rachel.
" Guys we have another concern " Abigail said looking back.
" Do you think you'll get out of here alive? " Margareth said.
With Rachel's body she was starting to cast spells towards that platform, which was being pushed by the adults, which the girls were trying to start counterattacking against Ford, with Marianne and Hellene's explosion spells that were easily deflected, but soon it was noticeable that the ceiling was eventually falling down leaving some ideas left.
" Suffer you wretches! You won't get in my way! " said Ford.
They were trying to defend themselves from the strong waves of spells, but the shields didn't hold much, the rats were still trying to climb on top of the platform, some were simply crushed on the way leaving a huge trail of blood.
Hellene and Marianne soon have an idea they cast an explosion spell towards the rats that get thrown everywhere, then the others make a shield to protect from the rodents that end up falling on Rachel's body, starting to go bite the zombified girl,
" Yes! Now we will see who is the smartest now Margaret Ford " said Hellene.
The platform was reaching the exit and with that Laura catapults them all outside with the rats that were left closing that door and they all end up falling on the top floor panting and terrified with the dark place full of rats and with Rachel's zombie which the body was simply stopped being controlled and the rats were having a party with the remains.
" What was that? " Rita said frightened.
" That was Margaret defending herself, she knows we're in the corridors and she can see us, we can't afford that now or we could end up rat food," McLaren said breathlessly.
" What are we going to do now? " Chariot asks.
" We don't have time to train magic, either we find these girls or they will die, it's not enough what happened with Rachel, now we have to worry about the others," said the Irish woman.
" Rachel... She killed our friend! That wretched witch killed our Rachel! She killed to feed a monster! " Said the devastated Campos.
" I swear that now we're going to put an end to this damned witch and it won't be a sea of rats that will solve this, but now what do we do to counteract this damned witch? She caught us by surprise with this one," said Abigail.
" I don't know yet, but we already know that Margareth is in the old dungeons of Luna Nova, what remains for us is that also on the other side the three try to escape from Margareth's hands, they are with the Claiomh Solais in hands, if they say the first word they will have a bow and arrow in hands, that is powerful enough to hit Margareth with intensity " Said Laura.
" We also have to plan, if she wants to attack, we will too, come with me we will equip ourselves too, we can build some weapons, we have to think like Margareth " Croix said.
" You're right Croix, we'll even make a tank if we have to, but this damn thing won't stay all day in the hideout, this only served to warn us that we won't find her that easy and also that we know where the girls are " McLaren said.
" And also where Rachel is... " Rita said wistfully.
All of them went back to the classroom and with that Constanze, Croix and Laura were assembling some machines so that they can try to infiltrate better through the Luna Nova's bases, which were small tank robots made to go there without the need of their presence, including even micro cameras that can stay hidden and find any movement that the English girl might do.
Rita and Abigail are the two new witches of the group of nine girls, which has now risen to eleven, they unfortunately came to discover Rachel's whereabouts, which ended up shocking them and also taking the proportions of what they are dealing with, of who was the monster that ended their friend's life, being the fuel of motivation for them to come and try to surrender the brown"haired girl.
See you, new witches...
