Sunday, 7 January 2018, Glastonbury, England, Luna Nova
It had been five days since Diana, Akko and Amanda were in Margareth's hands, in that time it was a real terror for Kagari and O'Neill that until then were already a long time without eating, almost giving in to Ford to speak the first word, holding strong the tortures that they were suffering day by day, just waiting for the moment that they were going to get out of there, it would be in the next attempt of the girls when they were going to reach the underground. The Cavendish on the other hand was already managing to improve a lot more the communication with the creature that was gaining a much less frightening form, the skin already had gained a warmer appearance, less pale, the dark circles under the eyes were much smaller, even getting to look like what was Diana III, already managing to formulate some sentences when writing, much for the part of the constant extractions of blood that rolled.
On the other hand things were going well with the search team, thanks to the sound detectors a map was made with the way that would lead to the entrance of the old dungeon of Luna Nova, the map was drawn by them, with a route planning, to deceive Ford a lot, without her noticing where they were going, even more because during those days all the espionage equipment hadn't even moved, what was causing some suspicions on the brown one.
Things started in the beginning of the afternoon, Rita, Abigail, Hellene, Marianne, Lotte, Sucy, Constanze and Jasminka were already ready, getting ready to go to the underground, as well as the adults, Croix, Laura, Bernadette, Chariot, Saori and Morgana, the fourteen witches are more than ready to face Ford. They started with style, with Constanze, Croix, Laura, Morgana and Saori starting to control the machines, in this case the tanks that were positioned in several places, in a route where they were going to separate by two paths, in a discreet way, it was also enough for the Meridies to detect the frequency of some cameras around.
" Now let's see if she can catch us through the blind spots, I have positioned some defences for us, then we will go in with everything " said the Italian after they had positioned the tanks.
" Let's split up into two groups with seven, so we'll confuse Margareth thinking we're still searching and scouring the place, but after one route we'll find each other, hit the place head on and go to her " McLaren said to all who nodded their agreement.
They go finishing getting the things, taking a good look to themselves and also to the map, prepared, they go down to the lowest floor of Luna Nova, arriving well at the door to the hidden dungeons, taking off the huge stone, waiting a little to enter there.
Meanwhile another blood transfusion was finished, which ended up making the appearance of Luna Nova's creature even more convincing, the skin became more flushed, the heat was noticeable in several spots, just as the hair got lines that used to be from a Cavendish, besides a strange filler on the body.
" A few more days and she'll be ready, that's all we need, now go to your place " Ford said.
The two go to their place, kind of as usual, the thing that Margaret created gets all being affectionate with the friend she made, little knowing that that could be the last day she would be in captivity if all goes well.
The fourteen witches arrive at the corridors, jumping in, and then separating into two groups of seven, one consisting of Laura, Bernadette, Hellene, Marianne, Rita, Abigail and Sucy, the other by Chariot, Croix, Saori, Morgana, Constanze, Jasminka and Lotte, all of them very well armed for the occasion, strangely with firearms, as it was a tactic to save more magic, in this case they were only 9mm pistols, but still worth for self defense against what may come towards them.
" Now let's go! " Said Laura, who touched Chariot's hand, and so the groups separated down the corridors.
It didn't take long and soon Margaret noticed one of the groups walking calmly through the corridors, pretending to be looking for something, and with that a smile spreads on Ford's face, who is pushing the buttons to show the transmission of the cameras to the girls in an attempt to scare them more, only that she doesn't lose by waiting for what's coming.
" Let's see now if you're going to come prepared, you can be armed to the teeth, right now I'm not going to have any mercy on your lives hahaha " Said Ford, who immediately pressed the button to release the minotaur.
Margareth's defenses were already starting to hold the group from advancing, that only one of them she could notice yet, since the other was not in the range of the cameras for taking a different route that involved the blind spots without Ford's detection.
Things were also still rolling in the dungeon room where Luna Nova's creature was emanating a light through its body, then catches it right in Diana's shock collar, who gets weird.
" Diana? Why are you doing this? Margaret is going to punish me " Said the confused Cavendish.
" I'll get you out of this! You saved me, Diana! Now I'm going to save you! " said the creature in a faltering voice that surprised the Scot after the collar simply snapped freeing the platinum haired girl's neck.
" I am free of the restraints, thank you so much Diana! " Said the blue"eyed one hugging Margareth's experiment.
" Let's free the others, let's enjoy the moment of distraction " Said the other with a faltering voice.
At this a sound of alarm starts to go off in the corridors, the two run towards the exit of that part of the dungeon, now with the magic in hands the Cavendish could go faster and even knock down some doors, but of course Margaret was noticing this, there were thousands of things happening at the same time.
" What, one more alarm must be those that are activating the creatures? " Said Ford who then looks at the screen and notices that they were in the corridors of the dungeon.
She notices that it was the two Diana's coming out running through the corridors of that dungeon running towards Amanda and Akko's cell, which she was getting angry, hitting the table, already starting to go running too to meet the four, kind of this ended up distracting her from watching the corridors, while the rescue was going on.
" Damned! This damn freak broke Diana's collar, but that's still nothing, they'll see how I'm going to run over them yet " said the brown haired girl, who was already leaving with a wand in hand ready for the attack.
In the corridors the minotaur arrived at the group that was being led by Laura, the creature looked at all of them with blood in its eyes, but the Irish girl still kept calm, even if her daughter and daughter"in"law were afraid, what soon she was giving impulse towards the monster, disappearing right in front of the taurine that ended up giving an ax in false in the redhead that simply appeared right behind giving a kick in the back of the head that made the creature to give some steps forward.
Where they all take advantage and start to shoot that monster, but the ammunition nothing worked, they only heard the screams of McLaren.
" Stop shooting! I'm going to end up shot here! " shouts the blue"eyed one.
She reappears right in front using a cutting spell, where she cuts the axe by the handle catching it in her hands and with that the minotaur started trying to use the hand but still didn't hit any blows, being even played with by the redhead that dodged all the attacks, soon hitting an axe on the creature's neck that ends up being cut off.
" Whew... Now at least we have a guaranteed steak," Laura shrugged.
" Fuck, Mom, aren't you scared? I was shitting myself after the katana broke off on the hard back of this thing " Hellene said.
" I admit that I was also scared to death, but if it is to protect you I will overcome any fear, now come on, we are soon reaching the girls " McLaren said.
They all nodded and continued walking down the corridor, still pretending to be just scanning the corridors along the route they had followed, without revealing much, especially since Margaret was not even looking, already having a much bigger concern.
Meanwhile Diana reached the cell where Akko and Amanda were, she uses magic to pop the lock on the door and thus opening the cell for the two who were sitting tired, quite weak and the staff was in the middle between them.
" Diana! " Said the weak Kagari as she noticed her friend's presence.
" I came here to save you, let's get out of here! " Cavendish said.
Soon the two Diana's begin to pop Amanda and Akko's collars using magic, freeing the two girls who were weak, they get up from the floor they were sitting on, Atsuko picks up her staff, but they soon come across Margareth's hands clapping as soon as they leave the cell into the corridor.
" Congratulations, congratulations, you have managed to free yourselves from your collars, but you have just made a serious mistake, you should not try to leave here, this is bad, very bad " said Ford all intimidating.
" Let's see how long you keep saying that when they find us and we are released, leave us alone Margaret, you will deal with seven who are coming, and we four, it will be eleven against one, you may be the most powerful witch in the world, but there is no one on earth who can hold your own against eleven," said the Scottish woman.
" Well until now let's see if you guys are going to stay in this disobedience " Said the Englishwoman who only uncrossed her arm, which caused the two Cavendish to come out towards her already casting spells, then disappearing behind her own who simply let herself be hit by two powerful punches that caught her in the face.
They kept hitting, but no hit did anything, the one with brown hair, even turned and smiled in a way that was intimidating them more and more, what was letting Amanda with the last forces also try something, she cast a spell and also went up, Atsuko with the staff in hands thought only one thing, seeing all her friends hitting and causing nothing.
" You're pathetic, I already said I'm the strongest here, there's nothing you can do against me," said Ford, who then began to counterattack little by little.
" Noctu orfei aude fraetor! " Said Akko which the staff went eventually turning into a bow and arrow right in front of the brownish girl who looking at that scene gets somewhat of a flashback.
She ended up remembering 10 years ago when it was Chariot that was holding the same staff in the same position aiming the arrow towards her, Kagari kept aiming at her that stayed still, but then she started to react, only that the others were also trying to hold on, in this one that was getting them constantly moving trying to escape of any way of being held, and she succeeded, what made the Japanese girl throw the arrow with everything towards the English girl that ended up dodging.
" Pathetic, do you really think you can beat me like that? " I already said that I am the most powerful witch, you can even try to free yourselves, but there is still a huge barrier that is me and right now your friends will all die! " Said Margaret, who pressed a button she took from her pocket and then broke the device.
" What is that? " asks Diana who was on the floor in pain.
" All my defences will go against your friends, they won't get out of here alive " Ford said.
" We're not giving up, you can beat us all you want, but we'll still hold what we can against you " Cavendish said getting up.
Even in pain all three who caught just a little bit of Benson still went at her who went on to try and hit her, Akko was also another, boosting herself up she simply used her staff as a weapon, slamming into the brownish girl who felt the impact of the shocks as she went to let herself be hit, which she went on to start dodging, to the point where she landed a kick that threw the staff down the hall.
" Do you really think I would afford for you to have an advantage over me? " Said the green"eyed one with a half murderous look at the crimson"eyed one.
Now being four who went trying to strike Ford who simply gave a counter attack, throwing them all towards the end of the corridor with a few blows, they all hit the same wall, injuring themselves some more creating more pain, she just went on with a smile on her face, walking slowly towards them and soon the one who went to stand up was Ford's own creation.
" You won't make them suffer! " Said the creature attacking trying to scratch using her nails that were also half"long, but she simply ends up getting slapped which causes her to be thrown to the ground to the side.
" Get out of here you dead weight, if I knew bringing you back to life would give me trouble I wouldn't do it " Benson said.
" Diana! No! Damn it! You're a goddamned bitch! You did all this and look what your creation has come to, she doesn't deserve to have been raised by a monster like you! " Cavendish said.
" Monster? I'm not a monster, I'm god " Said the brown haired one who was opening her arms laughing sarcastically and there behind the creation of her own was trying to get up, even badly hurt.
" Well you're not that different from the kind of god everyone believes in, you're just a self-absorbed bitch that's all," said the Scottish lass watching her friend get up.
" That to me is a compliment, I am self-centred even, what human being isn't? I'm not guilty of having been born as a human being like any other, I'm self-centered and selfish, I'll do anything even to have my goals, even if it means suffering for others, if they went through at least 10% of what I went through in my life they would know that it's justifiable, the girl who was Gabrielle Benson's daughter, who suffered all her childhood and adolescence at her father's hands, has already suffered what she had to suffer, now she's going to give back what she went through to the world, how sad that the world is unfair, but that's the way it is " said Ford, who was then grabbed from behind.
In this whole monologue of the Englishwoman, she was distracted, being easily caught from behind and grabbed by the other Diana who even used a spell to pin herself to the ground and attach herself to Ford's body who was trying every which way to escape, but the whole thing was stronger than herself, there was simply no way Benson could escape, being the moment the creature even warns them to attack.
" Please don't think of me! I shouldn't even be alive, attack her! Use the staff! Save yourselves and get out of here! " said the experiment holding its creator.
" Let me go! Your emotional games won't work! " said Margareth.
" Thank you for everything you have done for us Diana, we will not forget your efforts " said Diana who held Akko's hand.
" Are we really going to do that? " Kagari asked.
" Everything for our freedom, everything even for her, if we didn't do it it will be in vain all this attempt " Cavendish said.
" Let's get it over with! Before she escapes! " Said O'Neill who also put her hand on her staff.
The three pick up the staff, together they speak the first word, Noctu Orfei Aude Fraetor, causing the bow to even end up becoming a ballista, which was even more frightening to Ford as she saw the size of that thing, being aimed right in front of her, to the point that she was struggling herself by wriggling all over the place, but even then Diana behind held it even tighter.
" Don't you want to have an end with me? Now let's have an end together, your plan of love until eternity worked " Benson's creation said.
" Let me go! I don't want to end up like this, those bastards won't kill me! Ahhhhhh " said the Englishwoman struggling.
" Shiny Arc! " Said the three that shoot the ballista against Ford, the arrow went with force towards the two, crossing both bodies making a lot of blood come out, also leaving it crossed in the body of both until it hit a wall and with that the Cavendish goes running towards the other.
" Diana! " Said the Scottish girl all excited seeing the creation smiling and some blood coming out of her mouth.
" Don't be so dramatic, thank you for giving me a little more happiness in this return to life, but my place is not here, it is with Louise in paradise, I hope that one day we can meet again in many, many years Diana... You are proud to have my name, I am sure you will still do great things " Said the other Diana who hugged her descendant and then the arrow simply disappeared.
" Let's go Diana! " Akko and Amanda said.
" Goodbye Diana, thank you for saving me again " Said the current Diana who went with her friends following the path outside.
The rescue mission has begun, things have intensified a lot from inside the cells, from the dungeon after the old Diana saved the life of the current one with all that blood that was given, a sacrifice that can be made in the name of freeing these heroines who have strongly endured the abuses of Margaret and are heading towards freedom.
See you, rescue witches...
