The canoe race was something that livened up the morning in camp, where later in the afternoon the girls were going out in some groups with Ursula to learn a little bit about how to get firewood, besides returning to camp, where Croix was teaching the other girls a little bit how to make knots, and also there was some wood carving activities using knives and some pieces of wood that Meridies brought, a way to spend time feeling a little bit of the nature connection.
Besides a little bit of the admiration they had with nature throughout that afternoon with some explanations from Croix and Ursula about life, even observations of some bird nests that had families, flying, with the help of binoculars they could appreciate a lot of life happening in that little end of summer.
The day even seemed too short, as the girls were enjoying that day of camping quite a lot, even Hannah and Barbara the ones who found themselves complaining the most managed to have an appreciation for the moment.
But soon the night was falling and the day was getting darker, the second night arrived, this time the girls were taking the opportunity to feast on a dinner of what they still had of leftover food that Croix and Ursula had made.
After a while the girls were gathering in their tents to sleep until the last day of camp, in the reds' tent, there was Akko who was packing her things, getting blankets, since she would spend the night in Marianne's tent.
" Look at Akko, securing herself in camp, the second day and she's going to sleep and still at three " Sucy said mocking the situation.
" Ah Sucy don't be so mean, Akko will only spend time with her sister-in-law and her girlfriend, she will bond with her family, you know how it is " Said Lotte who was also joining in to mock the girls.
" Oh you guys are the worst, I just wanted to see Hellene hearing these things and turning into a tomato, as for Mari she just seems that nothing happens, it's funny how natural she is " Atsuko said.
" Or the sluggishness, this girl has to be too dumb not to notice the insinuation Hellene gives her side " Sucy said teasingly.
" Ah you two are impossible, see you tomorrow morning " Kagari said laughing.
From there the Japanese girl goes walking around the camp seeing the tents scattered around the camp, in front of the green team girls' tent there was Amanda playing a ukulele sort of making a music round, listening to these songs there were Hannah and Barbara.
" Hey Akko come more, even the two nagging girls are enjoying it " Amanda said.
" Not at all, come on " said Barbara.
" Oh sorry, I'm going to do something else, Hellene and Marianne called me " Atsuko said.
" Lotte told me you brought a sweet flute, we could have a little music round, eh?
The crimson"eyed one walked until she reached the brown tent, from there they were well apart, Marianne and Hellene, both girls were with an expression as if something had happened, besides being a bit dishevelled.
" What happened here? " Akko asks.
" Eh... Nothing, we were just training... " Cavendish said.
" Spells, that's right, spells, Hellene ended up accidentally making a mistake " Leclerc said.
" I didn't know you were using love spells on her " Kagari said laughing as they both blushed, just then the Japanese girl could notice the spilled bottle.
" I tried to make a love potion I admit, I just didn't know it would go too far, she took it, kissed me with everything, I kept trying to push it away and gave an antidote on the spot, I swear I feel horrible for that, ahhh " Said the redhead hiding her face.
" Ah it wasn't bad, it was an experience, at least you didn't kiss your sister"in"law, it would look ugly for Diana if she knew that " Said the dark haired one laughing.
" Hey! Are you even in on this? " said the Japanese woman.
" It's like saying water is wet, you're the only person I know who's messed with my sister like that and that's wonderful," said the Scottish lass as the crimson-eyed one's cheeks went puffy.
" Let's stop fooling around, and get to what we're really here to do " said the Frenchwoman taking the binder from her bag.
Until then the pages were a little crumpled, since Atsuko had lent them to the girls to learn the spells, until she decided to leave the whole binder with them, since she couldn't even learn the basics of the spells.
" And why did you call me here when I barely do these things? " Akko asks.
" We trained a lot, we managed to understand how magic works and everything else, what we can help you with, we will manage to make you a better witch according to what we have learned, I am sure it will be very fast " Hellene answers, holding Akko's hand.
" We know a way that can help you have magic," Marianne said.
The two begin to take a pot of ink and with a brush begin to draw something on the hand that is emitting a glow, even Kagari is a little strange about that element, a greenish and shiny powder, which was being passed on the hands of the brown girl, who was already feeling something.
" This is our magic, we managed to use a spell that turns into a powder that comes out like paint, this way we can spell something, now we will try to pass magic to you, who knows so you can wake up " said Cavendish who after painting the hand of the Japanese woman touches her hand.
Both she and Marianne do this, both close their eyes, which even raises the strands of hair a little as if something had rolled down, even the clothes felt a little wind, but in a few seconds, the three move their hands away as they feel pain, then the very drawing made on their hands of a triangle was being absorbed into the skin.
" I think it worked. Try Akko! " said Hellene.
" Metamorphie! Faciasse! " Said Kagari, which was making the tip of a wand she picked up glow.
Only again with no results, it just ended up glowing, the wand, with that Akko kept trying more and more times, waving the wand saying the same word, which suddenly ended up giving in some result, making her gain mouse ears.
" Again it ended up going wrong " Said the Scottish woman and the Japanese woman went to try again.
" Metamorphie Faciasse! Let's go! Let's go works go! " Said the brownish one swinging her wand with everything,
It was in this that another dust was rising, when it lowered it was possible to notice that finally the girl was completely transformed into a mouse, so much so that it was observing around everything large, which was jumping with happiness in that form, a brown coloured mouse, which was soon caught by Hellene's hands that held it by the tail.
" Hey let me fucking go! It's me Akko don't crush me no " Said Kagari nervously.
" Woah and now it's worked out, you've really done it Akko, you've done pretty well for a little mouse " Cavendish said laughing.
" That's it! I did it, I wish I had a camera now, just to record the moment " Atsuko said celebrating.
Then she returns to normal with a spell done by Marianne, which made the girl fall over the redhead, returning to human form, almost crushing her, but they soon took off, then the crimson-eyed one went celebrating jumping all over the place and with that the other two went trying to calm the tempers.
" Akko jump less they will think there is something else going on here " Hellene said trying to calm the Japanese girl's excitement.
" Oh I'm happy, finally the spell worked for me, why is it all this? Why do I have these barriers, I do spells just like you do?
" Anyway let's try some more " Marianne said and the crimson-eyed one agreed with that.
They still tried to train the spells, kind of to see if Akko could do it, but always the results were the same, she tried and tried, but nothing worked, she just ended up failing as always, usually after many attempts she would get a result.
In another bigger tent, where Croix and Ursula
were, both could feel something different coming from the camp, noticing that something was rolling under the cloths without both of them knowing.
" Croix, I'm sensing the presence of magic here " Callistis said.
" I've been noticing it too, I wonder if it's the girls discovering more of the magic, soon we won't be able to hide much " Croix said.
" The summer is almost over, soon will come the best time to tell, we can't delay more than next week, soon Diana and Hellene will go back to Scotland, and Akko will go back to her house, who knows what can happen, these girls certainly won't receive well this news " said the blue haired girl snorting.
" Do you think this is a good time to mention that you are Chariot? They may not be ready yet " Meridies asks.
" That's what I thought, I think it's better to leave it for later, I'm just going to reveal the past here to them, reveal that they are all potential witches, that there is a destiny waiting for them, all that we have to put faith in these girls " Answers Chariot.
" Unfortunately I also think it's better not to kill the girls that much, they need our trust, who knows what can happen with magic and its future if we lose the trust of all of them, we have to try our best to get them to ally with us, we can't let magic fall apart " said Croix.
" Unfortunately that's what rolled our turn, there were only the two of us left, all the others had broken, we had to saddle some girls to prevent her coming... " Said Du Nord who felt a hand on her shoulder.
" Above all let's keep our calm, we have to think about telling them the news of the magic, this camp and the last games were a matter of showing them that we are nice, that we have friendship, but who knows what will happen from now on, let's be patient, be as cordial as possible, I know they will understand everything " Answered the lilac haired girl trying to pet her wife.
They go kind of looking at the window of the tent, where it had this glow, trying to find who was using magic, still with the suspicions in the air, they noticed that by the camp Amanda was outside, with the girls of her team, Hannah and Barbara, already in the red team's tent Lotte and Sucy were lying down and it was notable that by the shadow of the light she was reading a book, In the blue team's tent the light was on with only the presence of what seemed to be Diana reading, from what the shadow showed, in the purple team's tent it was apparently off, in Marianne's tent the lights showed something, but they were just the trio taking a look at the books.
" They're just relaxed, it's really strange this presence of magic, isn't it something coming from Luna Nova? " Meridies asked.
" It could be, they don't represent any suspicious movements and it's very likely that they are just relaxing, why would they want to do magic here? " asks the blue haired one.
" I don't know either, I think that was just a false alarm, it must really be Luna Nova and the seal opening wider, it's the call for them to come to accept magic soon " Said the Italian as the French girl nodded in agreement.
Both were just trying to leave it alone, staying together, in a night that ended up heating things up a little more and the climate between the couple, especially while Callistis' hair returned to the red tone of before, the touches between the fingers and hands of the two women intensified. Back at the three witches' hut, they were practically trying to encourage Akko to do the spells, sort of taking a break after so many attempts that were being made.
" Let's give it a rest, it's good enough to try that same spell," Marianne said.
" Tell me about it, we'd better watch something else, look Akko, we can show you some cool spells we learned," Hellene said to Kagari who was still very frustrated.
" Ahhhh, why is that shit with me? Just me who went through all the training, me who was with you guys, because the magic with me is so bad to have been awakened, it seems like it just stays asleep, I feel like there's a chain holding me down " Said the Japanese girl all depressed.
" Look we'll find out what happened to your magic anyway, let's not give up, maybe we can train together more often," Cavendish said with his hand on her shoulder.
" That sucks... I wanted to be a witch now, but even that has been a dream I can't fulfill, Chariot disappears, it seems that everything in my life is to be ruined " Atsuko said.
" Oh don't say that Akko, don't lose hope, don't stop believing, I know that one day you'll come true," Marianne said, also joining in to motivate her friend.
The three of them start flipping through the pages and all those spell designs, where they stop at one that was interesting between Marianne and Hellene, where they grab a small bottle of water.
" Murowa! " Said Cavendish hitting a spell that ended up blowing a hole in the little iron water bottle, as if he had practically taken a bullet.
" Sossome Tiddiare! " Said Leclerc making a spell in which the bottle concertinaed itself, piece by piece enveloped by a greenish light.
" Woah! An object repair spell! Does that mean you guys have learned a really fucked up healing spell? " Kagari asks curiously.
" It's a spell used only on objects, but healing spells I've seen some potions and spells, they have different effects, that's what I've found out now because I always used to go back too fast on skateboarding taking risks," said the redhead.
" What do you mean? " asked the two curious women.
" Medicines always cured me immediately, they were strange syrups that my mothers made, it seemed that I was cured in a short time, as if I had not even broken a bone, because of that I never had so much fear in risking manoeuvres, I always took it to the limit and my mothers always stimulated more, they gave more of these syrups and medicines, I was much better than before... Now everything makes sense... My mothers really are witches, they are not only witches, but very skilled witches, because there was a time that I almost died and was saved with their magic, I remember hitting my head hard, I saw them as if they were doing magic, it was not a dream, it really happened, I was 5 years old and I remember how it was " said the Scottish girl.
" Woah! then we could take Akko to your house, her mothers are high level witches, maybe they can help Akko to improve the situation of magic, maybe they know something? " Said the French girl.
" No chance, I even wanted to, but my mothers always said that magic doesn't exist, they always insisted that everything was science, that none of this was real, but it is very strange that Diana and I are only injured for a short time, everyone says that it takes weeks to months to heal a broken bone, but with me I healed in three days and was already calm, it was too strange, everything seemed so magical and now it makes a fucking sense, look Akko, I think they know that, but we have to play dumb, until I put my mothers against the wall about this, no doubt I'll try to ask them to help you " Hellene said.
" There is no need to rush Hellene, I feel that soon Croix and Ursula will also tell us this truth " Kagari said.
" Do you think they also... " Ask Cavendish
" Stop and think a little, how did they know we were there? I know it must have happened that the lights went out, but they knew we were in the secret place of Luna Nova, it could be anything, but they went towards us," said the Japanese woman.
" Yes! Now that I've thought about it here, they must both have some affinity with magic... " Leclerc said.
" And they have a connection with my mothers, they knew about this place since always, they didn't take Diana and me here by coincidence... Here was never a summer camp, that's what they used to say, but this is an orphanage that hides its past in magic " said the redhead.
" What do you mean? I always thought it was also suspicious that you have come here before, you both said that Lotte and I were the first ones... " Akko said.
" No and they never were, I always thought it was strange that practically most of the summer we came to spend a few days here, Diana always had a frown, I loved it because of the skateboarding track, this t-shirt thing, everything is new, before we came from time to time, my mothers left us here to trust Croix and Ursula taking care of us, they never left us at home with Anna and my cousins, that was always very suspicious, but I never complained " Answers the purple"eyed one leaving the crimson-eyed one awestruck.
Another night arrived at the Luna Nova camp, a night full of revelations, a night that will still be very full, at least for the things that were told to Akko, who was connecting the dots more and more, which is already making it more difficult for Croix and Ursula to hide from the girls all the truth behind the Luna Nova Orphanage.
See you, Magic witches...