The shock was huge at what Laura ended up revealing in a few movements, of the eight girls, five were extremely shocked, the other three who knew of the existence of magic also exhibited some shock at what had occurred, it was an unexpected day as they were planning everything to try and get the book Lotte had taken that day, only it was all in front of them, the room was with a spell that was used to inhibit sound, all that was done so they could hear without spreading it to other people.
Hellene and Marianne are not far behind either, they even get up and start to perform a demonstration of spells, then comes Akko who is trying at all costs to do something, but the lights only end up flashing in a totally suspicious and mysterious way, which Laura ends up signalling them all to stop.
" Is there anyone else who was already using magic? " Laura asks in a rather serious tone.
" Only these three, we didn't believe them, they went deep into this idea that magic was real, the rest of us just stayed in ours, not believing much, we even thought that this was all just a role"playing game or something like that " Diana answers and the other five also agree with their heads, which McLaren takes a deep breath passing her hand on her face.
" Very well, some of you haven't awakened the magic yet, so you will have a harder time, you may cause these flickers in the light, this is still your body still trying to accept the magic " Ursula said.
" Listen to us carefully, you will need to if you want to take this forward," said Croix.
" The future and the fate of magic depends only on you " Bernadette said.
A huge shock still remained in the room, the girls remained silent, still shocked by these messages, so much so that soon Diana is the first of them to stand up showing even a little bit of an expression of indignation.
" How long have they kept this from us? Since we were born we've been living in this lie... Because... Because mothers... What we did... " Asks the older, still discredited Cavendish, Laura soon makes a point of getting up to tell the truth.
" It all started in 1999, until that year we could have our academies of witchcraft, although in secret, we lived in an era that was already dark for magic, since our practice had to be done in secret because it was ordered by the Ministry of Magic. Me and her mother already wanted to change that, to bring magic to be something for everyone, to change the stigma that was created, even to demystify it, but it was a fight in vain, the Ministry of Magic is simply much more powerful than we could imagine, they never listened to us, me and my group of friends... On the 6th of June 1999 was when the bomb dropped, the Ministry of Magic was attacked by a group of cultists that until today we still don't know the name, they took over everything, killed dozens of witches, starting to dissolve magic all over the world in every corner, which was forcing some places to close, to hide their magical origin, all this by the hands of this cult that today is in charge of all the magic in the world... They are hidden and concealed by the eyes of everyone, you never know, some witches are even with them, it is a constant danger that we experience, using magic around exposes us to be hunted, because that is what happens to any witch who uses magic, we are experiencing the new witch hunt " Explains Laura showing all this with a movie that was happening through magical illusions caused in a wall.
" Luna Nova was never an orphanage, Luna Nova was always one of the most renowned witch academies in the whole world, among witches we were the biggest, when all this happened, we gave Holbrooke a suggestion to turn this into an orphanage, close the doors completely," Bernadette said.
" Here we come, we were the first children to come here, much for the prevention of magic, we are not in this place by coincidence, as we even thought we were when we were your age, the reason why we are here is because we are descendants of what once were the nine ancient witches " said Croix.
" Akko, why do you think we are your biological mothers? Saori and I used magic to have you with Laura's help, she is a long time friend of mine, we are not descended from witches, but we had that little help," Morgana said, which soon Diana stands up even more confused and in shock.
" Wait a minute! Is there anything else you guys are still keeping? You mean my existence has also been a secret all this time? " said the older Cavendish almost in tears.
" I am sorry Diana, but it is the truth, Laura and I are your biological mothers, thanks to magic, the fertility stone, which we went out in search of it, to have you two, it was a long journey, it was a tiring journey, but we never hid that we are your mothers, I understand your indignation my little cabbage " Said mother Cavendish.
" No! If you understood, you would never hide it from me, much less from Hellene! Do you know how long I have nurtured this idea of logic about my origin? Do you know how long I denied magic? And now it's not enough to be the Cavendish heiress, I still have to carry one more burden... Even this skateboarding thing... Did you ever stop to think that I... That I never wanted those things... That I just want to be able to live my life " Said the blue-eyed woman tearfully, but soon mother McLaren comes to calm her nerves by placing her hand on her daughter's shoulder.
It was even a bit heavy around, nobody had ever seen Diana crying like that, they had never seen her so moved, besides also being practically without reaction with the revelations told by the girls about magic, what Laura and Bernadette arrived at the daughter, involving her with an embrace, even Hellene joined in this, it was remarkable the revolt of the older one.
The hug was eventually calming the nerves, by which Diana was gradually becoming less indignant, but still feeling that anguish of the discovery of the truth.
" Holbrooke was the last of the head witches of Luna Nova, she left the two of us to look after Luna Nova when she left, with that I... I had... I had to leave an entire career, a future ahead of me for the good and future of magic, against my will, but I knew I was doing the best, I wanted to save this moment for winter, but I know that because of the situation I can no longer... " Ursula said.
The girls had no idea what Callistis had said, until the glasses were removed, the magic getting wrapped around the blue hair that was giving way to red, that which was a very vivid tone.
Chariot Du Nord was showing her face to the world again, in front of the eight girls, causing even more shock, it was no longer the short hair in the wind, but it was recognizable the face and the reddish hair.
" I am Chariot Du Nord, that was the reason for my disappearance and sudden termination of my career... I was only 17 years old, when I was entrusted with the task of becoming the leader of Luna Nova, unfortunately Miranda was already very old, believe it or not, she was 144 years old when she died, she took care of this place since Laura's great grandmother's generation, when magic was living its best moments before the fall " Chariot said.
" Chariot? Is it really you? You're standing in front of us and you've been hiding the whole time being Ursula, but why? " Said Akko she was now in shock.
" I had to, I was starting to gain too much relevance, if they knew the reason for my giving up my career Luna Nova would be in the spotlight of the cameras, it would cause the biggest repercussions and that is dangerous for magic " Du Nord said.
" But... So that means... " Kagari said getting emotional.
" Luna Nova was never a holiday camp, this was my attempt to call you here, I already knew you from your mothers, you are one of the important parts of Akko magic, I called your attention by coming here, I wrote some of the reports, your mothers were all the time watching for you to come here " Said the red haired one.
" I... I was just an object in all of this... I believed this was a summer camp, I enjoyed every moment thinking I was living in the best summer camp in the world, when you hide this being a magic school from me... I had already come to my conclusions thanks to Hellene, why are you adults lying to us? We pay the highest sincerity and this is what we get? Lies! Yes we were curious to go there, we are teenagers, you create a myth of a place and we will break the law to pay the face " said the japanese girl crying, then starting to receive Chariot's hand over her shoulder.
" I'm sorry about all this Akko, we just wanted you to... " Du Nord said until she had her hand pushed away by Kagari herself.
" I don't believe it! Get your hand off me! You are manipulative, you make pawns of us in your chess game! " said the revolted brown woman.
" I agree with Akko, we didn't deserve to have the truth hidden from us all the time, now our lives lose meaning in the middle of this chess game you play with us," Diana said.
" We're sorry for all of this, but try to listen to us, try to know that we didn't do this for any reason to want to hurt you, not even... " Laura said as the eldest daughter stood up facing her mother.
" You six! How can you! We shouldn't have something on this level being kept from us, you're just going to create a stupid cycle, now the burden has been passed on to us because you didn't want to resolve it in the past, then it goes to our daughters and so on forever... I can't believe we are actually messing with something like this! " Said the furious older Cavendish.
" How can they be such powerful witches and never have stopped those cultists, if they had put an end to those bastards we wouldn't be here " said the furious Hellene, at which Laura's fists were noticeably closing.
" Silence! You kids know what it's like to lose your best friends of a lifetime to these bastards! Rosemary, April, Scarlet, Eleanora, Naomi, Velma, Aika, we've gone far, only almost all of us have died and of those, only Bernadette and I are left! We tried! But it's a suicide mission. Those bastards are powerful! And they also have witches on their side, they create biological aberrations that can kill anyone " McLaren said, starting to cry too.
Then a silence takes over the room, on one side the adults with the fear of telling things, seeing the teenagers showing a good rebellion, practically not agreeing with this way of approaching the older ones, wanting to act, Bernadette's two daughters were even a bit emotional when seeing their mother's reaction, crying, remembering the things that happened in the past, but right after that Croix is the one who stands up to say something.
" For all that Diana and Hellene said, they are not wrong, we will not achieve anything if we just stand here, staying here we just wait for the inevitable, they may one day or another come here, take some of ours, commit atrocities, we will need to restore the magic " said Croix.
" The Claiohm Solais, but for this we still have a long way to go, first of all we will need to break the seal of the three witches, when these three sealed witches have their magic revealed is when the Claiomh Solais awakens, but we have to find out who they are " Chariot said.
" And how are we going to find that out? " Diana asks.
" It's a bit complicated, but I think the best thing for you to do while I'm still young and can handle the worst is to train your magic, that's the only way we can progress, but I also need you to have a deal with us " Du Nord said.
" And even breaking the seal we still have the dangers, which is the release of the sealed witch, she who was the only one we managed to defeat, with the death of many of us, that's why we try to keep the magic seal... This witch is extremely dangerous, she does not measure efforts to achieve whatever it takes, she is not on the side of the cultists and much less of the witches, she works alone, the problem is when she appears in the way... Margareth Benson Ford, I don't know if we can still risk opening the seal " Laura said.
" So let's find this Margaret where her seal is, finish her off and then we'll open the seal of the three witches to get Claiomh Solais," Hellene said.
" It is not that simple my little rusty lassie, but we can try, only first you need to be trained with your magic, from now on you and cabbage patch will train with us to improve your magic " McLaren mother said.
" Yeah, and with Claiomh Solais we do what? It's a weapon, but it's not like these cultists aren't waiting for us," Diana said.
" You are right, that is why the legend of the Claiom Solais says that it is only a key to the true magical power, the Gran Triskellion, you need to discover the seven words of Arcturus and also understand what each one means, that way you will be able to open the seal and according to the legend, the Gran Triskellion is what makes a wish come true for the witch who manages to find the seven words " Bernadette said.
" So it's not enough that we're already in trouble with cultists, we also have a psychopathic witch to deal with, and we also have to figure out riddles of a mysterious staff, only to finally get access to enough magical power for that? How long do you think all this is going to take? Do I really have to kill my career like Chariot did for this? " said Amanda.
" If you want you don't have to, but please don't tell anyone about this, only that each one's help can be essential, we need to strengthen ourselves if we really want to secure our future and the future of magic," Chariot said.
" And why do we need to guarantee the future of something that is evidently a bit dated? I thought it was kind of cool in the first few seconds, but it's just ancient art, our technology does everything magic does and even better," O'Neill said.
" That was a lot of talk about magic in my time, if they had modernised it, who knows if we would be having this discussion, but unfortunately nobody ever listened to me and April with our technological magic machines, they were unbreakable, the energy used was infinite and still didn't cause any damage to the environment, but all this was ignored because it went against the conservative principles of magic " Laura said.
" My robots are all powered by magic, all the technology here does not use conventional electricity but a sorcerer's stone of infinite magic, magic is simply not dated, it is the future even of humanity, have you ever stopped to think that you hold the future in your hands? If none of you help us, there won't be magic for anyone, there won't be a guaranteed future, even more so because the emissions and pollutants only continue, only causing more damage to the environment causing more climate change, which causes wars, famine, disgrace, but with magic this can finally have an end, we can cause a revolution in the world, make a better place for everyone " said Croix.
" I don't know, I'm going to get into this because I want to see how far it goes and because there might be a fun journey there, well I don't care much for that, but hey maybe I'll have more fun, just knowing that I have authorization to give my hand on the face of one of these cultists, or even on any of them makes me happy " Amanda said putting her hand in the middle, then Jasminka and Constanze also followed.
" I didn't believe in magic until then, but it might be a chance to relive something wonderful that I've always had an appreciation for in books " Lotte said putting her hand together even making Amanda blush a little.
" I just want to see the circus catch fire," said Sucy putting up her hand.
" For the future of magic, for the future of humanity, I always wanted to use my powers of magic, I always wanted to live in something with powers " Marianne said joining in.
Only Hellene, Diana and Akko were left, the three were still a little silent, a little afraid of getting together, but they were staring at each other, watching the girls looking at the adults, thinking about what would be the best thing to happen.
" I will join, I want magic to stay alive, she saved me so much I trust her, I know we will make it together " Hellene said joining the girls.
" I, uh... I... I'm still disappointed by everything I've seen, but I'm going to do this for magic and not for you, I can't believe I'm just a piece in this " Akko said.
" Just like Akko I share her thought, you adults should be ashamed of what you did to us," Diana said and then joined her hands together.
The future of magic is in the hands of these eight girls who are already thinking of some way to put an end to all that has been happening, a discovery that is still shocking, that caused a good deal of disappointment, especially in Akko and Diana who were outraged with the truths told, they even felt a little betrayed by everything that happened. A journey that is about to happen for a grand event that can change the lives of many people.
See you, lesbian witches...