POV Narrator:
The days went by, Laura came back home and soon she was traveling to Germany for one more event in the broomsticks Endurance championship where she won the 8 hours of Warsteinring, showing that besides being fast she is also a witch of extreme resistance, being able to run for hours in the German circuit, this way she guaranteed the contract to run for HSP team for the year 2000 in the Endurance championship and this way she continued to conquer not only one but two victories in the 24 hours of Ness. After this achievement she would go on to win the Salt Lake City 1000 miles twice, with everything confirmed for McLaren to win the broom racing triple crown in 2001 and to achieve the double treble crown in 2002, after that she would go after the quadruple crown and the most optimistic expectation is that she could start the curse cure in the year 2004, This way Laura McLaren wouldn't miss her daughter's childhood, and would be able to return once her nieces were in their early teens, before Daryl would start pushing his daughters to bully poor Diana, just to intimidate her even more, at the cost of nothing, just to intimidate the poor girl who doesn't deserve any of this. But it will not be about them that the chapter will talk, but about a girl named Chariot Du Nord.
Chariot born on February 20, 1984, is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Diana Cavendish III (1898-1936), which puts her with a connection to Laura's daughter, a very distant kinship after all. After an event known as the murder of Diana Cavendish III on August 11, 1936, at the hands of the witch Margaret Ford, the eldest daughter of the family, Adeleine Du Nord, was afflicted with the curse of the metal balls, just as Laura was by the hands of Daryl decades later. Adeleine didn't go alone, she went with her other mother Louise Du Nord (1898-1941) who passed the responsibility of caring for the other three daughters on to her sister-in-law Meredith Cavendish (1885-1950). Adeleine even had a happy and healthy relationship with Peter LeBlanc (1919-1940) a young Frenchman who lived near the town of Loperèc, where the Du Nord's lived, and even had a daughter named Anna Du Nord born on November 10, 1939. In 1940 Peter didn't even have a chance and was killed by German soldiers in a call to go and fight for France, but the army couldn't handle the German Blitzkrieg. Besides losing her husband, in the following year she lost her mother who committed suicide, all this in a space of only 5 years since she lost her first mother at the hands of Margaret Ford.
But instead of the family becoming more rigid and reclusive, with Anna becoming a conservative person and with Adeleine's fear of seeing her daughter have the same end that the lesbian mothers had, the eldest Du Nord never made a point of being intolerant, always letting her daughter like whatever she wanted, after those sad years came better years in the family, Adeleine worked as a policeman, Anna graduated as a doctor and soon had a daughter named Elliana Du Nord better known as Ellie, born on December 1, 1969. Anna did not have a very nice marriage and was divorced, but even so the family continued with an excellent relationship, until the year 1984, unfortunately Ellie did not know how to preserve herself very well and ended up dealing with problems of an early pregnancy and ended up becoming a mother during adolescence, Chariot grew up with all the freedom in the world, to be whatever she wanted, her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were always giving her all the support and care, because they always prioritized her being happy instead of being perfect. Chariot wasn't the most skilled and powerful of witches, she didn't even know how to perform a verbal spell, but that was because her mother and grandmother never prioritized the use of magic, and didn't even teach the little girl about it. Adeleine at most showed her great-granddaughter magic, but never managed to make her perform any spells. But this all changed the day a certain couple came to visit the Du Nord's after a magic relic that only the Du Nord's possessed, and with that Laura McLaren's demonstration of magic ignited a desire that had not been seen for many years in the Du Nord family, and that was magic, not since Adeleine had the Du Nord family seen such strong magic and a willingness to use it, so the little Chariot was quickly placed in a local witch academy and was learning from the very beginning how to become a witch.
Chariot from that moment on would study hard to be that witch she had seen as a child, she grew up watching her on television winning broom races and was becoming more and more admired by the greatness of Laura McLaren, practically feeling privileged to have met her before all this fame she had, when she only came to seek the fertility stone. Chariot then started to train a little more the ability to fly on the broomstick and leave the others aside, because she was getting a little more excited with the broomstick flight aiming to be as fast as the runner in which she was so inspired, with this she was becoming a very focused girl, but at the same time she did not draw much attention because she was not that studious, With this her mother noticed a drop in her grades and made a demand: "You can become a professional broom runner, but only if you study as much as possible." This was the necessary motivation for Chariot's grades to start getting high again, so much so that she even managed to win a letter of approval to study at the Luna Nova Witch Academy in September 1999. This way Du Nord would be able to advance in her life as a broom runner, if she got good grades she could even be climbed to become a professional broom runner. Since the academy had the event known as the broom relay that often caught the attention of British Broom Racing Tour team owners that would serve as a bridge for the Frenchwoman to become a World Broom Racing Championship runner.
Friday, September 24, 1999, Luna Nova, Wales
Another normal day like every normal school day in Luna Nova, the routine as usual started with the girls waking up in the morning for another very normal and routine school day with nothing special, where the girls of the red team trio were getting ready for another common school day like any other. In those days Du Nord was beginning to nurture feelings around a girl named Croix Meridies, especially after a few baths they took together and many exchanges of secrets between them, especially that only Maddie and Chariot knew about Meridies being a Trans girl.
POV Chariot:
Another day wow, I have to say that here it is not bad, only the teachers that get on my nerves, especially the teacher Finnelan, she is always wanting results from us, especially as she is idolizing Croix lately just because she is an exceptional student, but even so she is always distilling the prejudice she has with people like Croix, I notice this very clearly in the exclusionist speeches when the principal mentioned having a trans student... Well, that's a shame... I soon go to the bathroom and I am greeted by Croix who ends up entering too and locking the door, I already knew well what it was about, soon she took off her clothes and I saw her whole body without clothes especially with things swinging. I also took off mine and noticed how her train didn't rise as much when she saw me without clothes, so it seems that before she felt this way because she found my nudity interesting...
- Good morning Chariot, I love showering with you, I seem to be getting used to nudity... I have more self control... Before I felt a strong urge... I mean, never mind, let's take a bath," she said, turning on the shower, and I quickly got in to take a bath with her.
Minutes later...
Wow... What a shower, we got out of there, after getting dressed and then as I still had a few minutes before class started I decided to turn on the MagicStation, and then I got to play a little Snakes with Croix while Maddie was in the shower, after all I don't want to see her naked body out all the time... Ahhhh... She is cute, but I don't feel comfortable with her changing in here, I don't feel the same way with Croix, it's like I've known her for years... Then that little sound of the MagicStation turning on starts to play, it's like the worst fear, I myself was terrified by that noise hahaha... And we started the match, I went with the team I made that my snakes had only silly names like "Sneaky", "Cobra", "Snek" and "SsSnaek" were the best names I admit. The Croix thing was all video game names, "MagicStation", "Mahoutendo", "MagicDrive" and "Kega", I thought these references were funny, especially playing on a MagicStation, the game started soon and my team was well positioned.
- Better be smart Chariot, or you'll meet the simple - I soon realize that I was near a slope that could hurt me a lot... Wow, what the hell, I didn't expect it, but you'll just have to see it.
- You're just counting your advantage, one hallelujah and all your fun is over, all your snakes will become scaly and go swimming with the fishes - She just laughs, tries to launch a bazooka shot, but it's no good and I'm saved by the terrain, so I pick a grenade and throw it into her field and perfect, just scattered the snakes inside a hole.
- Ah, but that was lucky, but I can do it - Croix used the teleport and took one of the snakes away from the group, at least one won't go to sleep with the fishes, it was in the perfect position to take the simple one.
- Simple? That's exactly what I saw, hahah, you were a little dumb on the strategies in this Croix, remember that you may be the owner of the MagicStation, but in Loperéc I was the best player on this train - I say all confidently wow! Because I arrive with my snake and make a baseball shot that almost makes it fall into the water, her snake falls on a very isolated hillside, just a step away from falling into the water? Ahhhh how lucky this girl is.
- Ahh, that was fucked up, I didn't expect that, but it was a strategy, girl, your team together with the most fucked up terrain just takes a bomb from the count - She said, throwing an explosive grenade that catches my terrain and makes me lose life with my snakes... What a clever girl.
POV Narrator:
After a more relaxed moment between Chariot and Croix playing together Madeleine arrives from the bathroom and starts to change, this time she was already changed, seeing that both girls felt uncomfortable with that she started to leave the bathroom already changed and with that the three girls play a little more and go to the classrooms, The classes in the morning period were very calm, different from 1987-1990, the order of the classes changed a lot, so on Friday there were no more physical education classes, starting to be on Wednesday. Only the afternoon classes on Fridays became the worst, the levitation class with teacher Anne Finnelan, the same one who was intolerant years ago with Bernadette Cavendish and Laura McLaren, was still present in the academy's faculty, she was one of the teachers who made her presence felt, After the girls had a relaxing moment during the break, all the students went to their classes, in this case Chariot and Croix were the ones in the same class, while Madeleine would have physical education classes, since different from the two, Watson was already in her last year, while the two girls were in the first of three years.
POV Croix:
Another week with this teacher with the crooked ideas, I don't understand why she loves me so much because of my grades, and if she really knew me she would think I was the worst person in the world? That is if she thought I was a witch, being that I'm a woman like any other, not to mention her talk about being totally against technology, as if it was something that would kill magic and all that, but it's nothing like that, we soon sat down in our chairs, Chariot and I were looking at the class and soon the teacher arrived to start the class.
- Very well students, I wish I could refuse to give the class today due to an undesirable presence of a boy among the witches, that's exactly it, all this drama about the possible invader and impostor is not over yet, I demand to know who is this cursed man, or else I will have to take drastic measures, one of you is pretending to be a girl, I think it might be you Miss Du Nord, your name is not very traditional and your magic is by far the most clumsy among us, you can only be the impostor - said the teacher subduing Chariot as if she were the Trans girl... I was feeling all bad about it, the girls were looking down their noses at her... And the teacher continued with her Transphobia speech - Okay Du Nord, you may not want to reveal to us that you are the boy, but if you really are a girl then pro - She when she said this and I noticed Croix half humiliated made me slam the table and stand up in front of the whole class.
- Professor Finnnelan... Chariot is not... And even if she was a girl like that, she is not a boy, after all nobody will stop being who they are because of what they have between their legs, an example of this was the student Scarlet Taylor who studied here 12 years ago, she was a trans girl and that doesn't make her less of a girl because of that... You're just wrong with your prejudice, teacher - I say to her with all my conviction and everyone stares at me as if I had committed a crime by saying that right in front of the teacher who looks at me with a bit of disgust.
- I can't believe you stand for this kind of thing Miss Meridies, honestly, I expected more from the most prodigious student in the class... Then sit down, I won't try to talk about this impostor anymore, since it seems that the class supports his outrageous behavior, but don't say that I didn't warn you when I say that there may possibly be a boy around the academy - said the teacher giving a relief in her transphobic way, I honestly can't stand this kind of person who only distills prejudice and thinks he is the owner of the reason.
Hours later...
The bell rang and with that the boring teacher's class ended, now we were finally free on a Friday so we could do whatever we wanted and I can already imagine spending the whole day with Chariot and Maddie playing Snakes or something else... Until after we leave the classroom I feel someone coming from my side and it was Chariot who was a little bit down, but at the same time she felt kind of grateful just for the way I was acting with her.
- Thank you for everything Croix... Really girl, you were beautiful standing up to Professor Finnelan. I don't understand why she is so against me. Just because I'm a lively and cheerful girl... I've only been clumsy once and she's judging me... Well, I just want to study normally... And then graduate as a broom runner or be able to bring joy to children... The same way Laura McLaren gave me an inspiration for a train to be the person who would help children to be motivated to have magic I also wanted to do the same, but I don't know about that yet? - Said Chariot, who was a little bit discouraged until I cheered up the girl a little bit, who was only walking a little bit gloomy, which was not at all common for her.
- Don't be like that Chariot, relax girl, today is Friday, we have a whole weekend free to have fun, but seriously... Follow whatever you think is best girl, your magic is to believe in yourself - I tell her putting my hand on her shoulder which made the redhead smile more.
I admit I blushed a little, but we continued our way through the halls of Luna Nova, this time going towards our room, until we arrived and we both threw ourselves on the bed relieved after the fatigue of another lesson from Professor Finnelan, we lay down facing each other, I looked deeper into Chariot's pairs of red eyes? They are wonderful, like rubies, she is all cute... I love the way she is a very naive and silly girl, as if she has no idea about anything we talk about.
- Croix... And as for you, what do you intend to do? Do you really just want to continue broom racing or do you have a bigger plan? - Chariot asked the question I was most looking forward to answering, so much so that I sit down with my back against the wall of the room, take a deep breath, and then start counting.
- The broomstick race is just a way to raise some money, I honestly don't want to be a second Laura McLaren, I just want to collect my money... And use it in the future in a plan to show that technology and magic can mix... I was even thinking if I could be the witch chosen by Claiomh Solais... But I don't know Chariot... Magic is not in such crisis that it is necessary for this legendary staff to appear, this thing is what will change the whole course of magic, a witch with the staff in hand, will make other witches respect her and that leaves me in the gap to try to start a new era of magic, an era where technology and magic can coexist in a way that one allows the other to advance, until because what we have is just the basics of the basics, we practically have to deal with the intolerance of some older witches who still want to keep magic the good old fashioned way, but that is not the future, that is taking a step backwards Chariot, so magic will never advance, we will stagnate and technology will swallow magic... Imagine in the future we won't even be able to use magic being outside the zone of a sorcerer's stone because magic is too weak to circulate all over the world... I am really afraid of this and I want magic to have a new change, I don't want things to stay the same - I say to Chariot who is all surprised, meanwhile Madeleine entered our room and she had her hair a little wet, I think it was because of the shower she took in the physical education class.
- What a day people, these physical education classes really give the body a good workout, and your classes? Did you put up with that annoying Anne Finnelan again? - said Maddie sitting on her bed and I quickly nodded.
POV Chariot:
Wow! Croix has a very amazing idea of the future of magic, she not only wants to make magic stay alive, she also wants to keep tradition, she doesn't want to kill magic, she wants both together... I support her without a shadow of a doubt, I don't want magic to end up dying in a few years because older witches don't listen to younger ones as if we were a well of ignorance and they were all the time the voice of reason, now I understand why Croix doesn't intend to be a great broom runner, but now that Maddie is here I will ask her too, I think the answer will be quite obvious.
- Maddie, Croix and I were talking about plans for the future, but what about you, do you have any plans to do besides broom racing? - I ask her, and she just shrugs.
- I just want to be a great champion of the World Broom Racing Championship and no big deal, I really dream to be bigger than my sister I want to clean the Watson's name that got hitched to dirt because of the controversial actions my sister Lucy committed, seriously, I may even like all the love and care I get from her, but I can't swallow that she caused a lot of Laura McLaren's abandonments just to make it harder for her to win titles... So much so that if it wasn't for Lucy, Laura McLaren was supposed to have seven World Broom Racing Championship titles and she might even take them and that's what I admire Laura for, she simply said she didn't want championships handed to her and that she was going to win them by the arm. I really want to be a great champion, to win fair and square, and to become the greatest racer in the family at least... I just want to clear the family name and run, because I like to raceun with brooms.
- Wow, I was expecting this one, but I think your motivation is beautiful, Maddie, I'm sure you can do it, but let's still make sure you try to win, just to see if you really are the big champion.
- So get better, you're both good, but you're both kind of lazy, sorry to exaggerate a bit, but you've both trained almost nothing since Laura McLaren came here the first time and there's no point in waiting for Laura McLaren to come here, you're not going to get better depending on her, you have to do it on your own - she said motivating us, I already knew that would be Maddie's answer, she's all methodical when it comes to racing.
- Well, let's play a little and relax, but this time, let's play something that is not only Snakes, I'm getting a little tired of playing this stuff - said Croix, already assembling the video game and so we went straight to play.
This time we got a different game from the collection, it was Explodearena 64, I love this game, put the bombs to try to beat the other two in an arena, so we quickly turned on the Mahoutendo 64 and started playing, I went with the blue one, Croix with the white one and Maddie with the black one, the game started soon... Let's go... Now I just want to see.
- May the best one win - said Maddie who was already prepared to try to beat us, or try something, but I was only paying attention to my field, and there were still two others who were from the machine.
- Yes! - I got the egg! Now I'm going to win, I have the extra life train, there's no way they can kill me that easily, and it's the fast one, from what I realized when I used the power, so I could dodge their bombs much more easily.
- Crap! - I'm sure it was Maddie talking about the monster deflection that I gave the bomb she placed and I'm almost hit by the blast radius, she already wants to come and surround me, wow, what a bandit this girl is.
Croix was quietly eating, just collecting the items and she had the purple kangaroo, which was one of the best, it was the one that let all the bombs at once lined up, the way Croix is like a crazy person getting bombs and more bombs that means she will surround the whole map almost. Until she throws a row of bombs just to test and I end up falling into her trap losing my kangaroo, but I didn't let it go cheap because I had a glove, when Maddie planted a bomb I threw it at exactly the right time and the explosion made her die and so the fight is just between me and Croix, she had a kangaroo that gave extra life and I was in the salt, without any extra life, she soon threw that row of bombs again and I tried to throw a bomb to pass over, but without success, so I took advantage that I also had the business of kicking bomb and soon tried to use it going further away from Croix who was still trying to blow up the rest of the little blocks. I managed to surround her and so she lost the mount, which is great, now all that's left is to win, but then came the warning that time was running out, but damn, the arena started to close right on top of us and we both kept killing each other, no way. But Croix was much smarter than me, she took advantage of the gap to surround me with my own bomb and so she beat me in the first round... Nice one... But I'm the one who wins this train! No way, then the second round started, I was opening the way as usual, but things were getting complicated for my side, nothing was coming, but how angry and on the other side the girls had everything, I then focused on killing the two guys in the machine, but they were not stupid, I surrounded the red one and got some items from him that were scattered on the map, now the train is heavier ... I will go through this mess yet...
Minutes later...
Go! Go! Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Yes! I did it! Take that Croix! I beat Croix just in time to become the overall winner, whew... After a few disastrous matches I won this one with skill, it was too complicated... I won 5 against 4 from Croix and 4 from Maddie, it was very competitive and any of us could win, but I was lucky enough to be the big winner... Whew... It was one of the biggest battles I have faced today... What a complicated thing to play in this train against these girls, after these matches we started, there's no time to waste, I'm just going to celebrate, after all it was complicated.
- I won! Yes! You see girls, I did it! Whew... You are not bad players either, any one of us could win - I tell them while both of them are laughing.
- I wasn't expecting that bomb... You were pretty cunning in that Chariot, I thought you were just going to push to trap me on my side, but I didn't realize that the range of your bomb had increased a bit and caught me right on the edge, I almost didn't survive," Croix said until Madeleine started to make a bigger fuss.
- It was a mistake, but we consider it, Croix screwed up well now, he didn't go for the bomb's range, when in doubt he just had to stay safe, even more so because the bomb wouldn't hit you, although you tried the one before I won, only I killed it beautifully by pushing the bomb that exploded in the exact corridor where you hid it - Said Maddie feeling like the last cookie in the package just because of the last move she made, it was beautiful, but I don't doubt that she will tell everyone about it.
POV Narrator:
Just a normal day at the Luna Nova gym, with the three girls of the red trio, Chariot and Croix were already strengthening the friendship between them a lot more and maybe even feelings can blossom, even more with the constant baths together that both girls have been taking. The dreams of the two girls have little to do with broom racing, but despite everything they have not made a point of giving up their dreams of becoming great racers with the encouragement coming from Laura McLaren who would soon come to see them and train some more.
See you, Du Nord witches...
Full name: Madeleine Watson
Date of birth: 12/04/1982
Birthplace: Adelaide, Australia (Australian)
Height: 1,65m
Weight: 58 kg
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Occupation: Student (Luna Nova 1997-1999)
Body sizes (bust/waist/hip): 93/59/95
Hair color and appearance: Dark brown, reaching to the waist line, straight 1C, some bangs across the forehead and sides of the face, usually parted in the middle.
Eye color and appearance: Water blue, western.
Physical appearance: Pale skinned Caucasian, thin, large breasts, freckles all over her face and body, round nose.
Lucy Watson's younger sister, but the total opposite of her as well, was practically grown since childhood being trained by her older sister, even more after the death of her parents in 1990, which made Lucy become the person who took care of the house and educated her sister. Lucy, despite being a dirty runner, was only doing it all for the good of the family, so much that she wanted to train her sister Madeleine to be a great runner as she herself was, she wanted to give her the chance to become a great champion and beat Laura, since the prediction was optimistic that Madeleine would probably enter the World Broom Racing Championship in 2000 with 18 years old, but what she didn't count on was the fact that Laura retired two years before, it was Lucy's attempt to beat Laura McLaren once and for all. Madeleine is very different from her sister and even had an admiration for the Irish racer, she is a very outgoing person who enjoys socializing, chatting about broom racing and also making friends, she is the smoothest person in the world with others, being a friend who is always supporting her roommates Chariot and Croix.
