POV Narrator:
The disaster that occurred at the 2004 Japanese Grand Prix had the proper investigations taken, regarding the death of Chariot, which was found to possibly have been sabotaged by the team, but it was not revealed the reason for the sabotage and not even reached a suspect, which only made things worse, leaving the case under investigation. Croix Meridies and Madeleine Watson were even suspected, but both proved their innocence, by showing that they did nothing too much in those days, with all the polemic around this the Australian even stopped running, because she didn't want to get involved with these sabotage issues anymore, because she was afraid, She was afraid of it happening again, so much so that she started to live only in Australia, satisfied with the three titles she owned, which bothered her older sister a lot when she heard her sister had given up, but Maddie didn't care about that, she just didn't want to be involved in all that. After all not only did she lose one of her best friends who died in a broomstick accident, but she also ended up losing Croix's friendship, since she never believed in Watson's innocence, even more so that she got all that suspicion before the race started with the sabotage warning, but made a point of putting it aside, just hoping that maybe one day Chariot would come back. So much so that he wanted to keep racing for a while just to win the championship he so desperately wanted to win for Du Nord. Things were not going well at all for the trio that was so close in 1999-2000 when they were being roommates, they all parted ways when the Frenchwoman eventually left this world, saying goodbye in a way that not even she expected.
Things in other places also changed with Chariot's death, the two little girls who watched that race were left with a trauma in their heads, one went on with a thing in her mind that even with Du Nord's death, she shouldn't stop loving her, she still kept that fan flame alive for a long time, the other was left with a trauma of seeing a death so close, Even more so with an abusive environment that she lived in when she was in her own house, made her think that this was just a phase that should leave behind this fanaticism for Shiny Chariot, at least lower it a little, since seeing anything related to it reminded her of the accident that marked her and even left a trauma in the girl. Diana ended up having quite a change after that accident, leaving behind a lot of things, mainly because her aunt made some of the girl's head, putting that she had to mature if she wanted to put up with all the bullying and intimidation she went through with her daughters, as if it was little Cavendish's fault in suffering all that. At the McLaren family home, it was an unparalleled trauma, even though they didn't personally go to watch the race, they were all watching the race and seeing Du Nord die was a huge shock to all three, the least shocked was Chelsea, but she felt the pains of Laura and Holly, But even with her death, McLaren said that it was not for her niece to erase anything in relation to her, that even if a trauma is left, it is always good to remember the good moments that they lived seeing the great Shiny Chariot alive, after all, that was all that mattered most.
Friday, December 11, 2005, Farnese House, Loch Ness, Scotland
Time went by, it had been a year since the accident that killed Chariot Du Nord, in the meantime Croix Meridies was the champion of the 2005 season of the World Broom Racing Championship. Little Diana Cavendish was having her first days at school and was also proving to be a very intelligent and prodigious witch, Laura was reading books and more books trying by all means to accumulate as much knowledge and words as possible, in that free time she even spent a few days at Farnese's house to fully focus on reading, the two of them in a little over a year managed to finish that initial book shelf, as other books were sent, in total it was practically 42 million words in 247 books from different years of the Lunarian era, which already gave an extreme knowledge of what they were reading, but the vast majority only mentioned even metal spheres totally different from the curse, so they were practically useless, there were really few that actually mentioned the curse, of all 247, only 28 mentioned specifically about the curse, in a still not very precise way, only talking about the effects and studies conducted with it, but no antidotes, at most they found reports of what happened, but it was already quite useful. Besides that, in the meantime, little Diana was beginning to have things put into her head by Aunt Daryl who wanted to emphasize even more that Bernadette was crazy, but still the youngest Cavendish was reluctant about it. With Croix after winning the championship she retired from racing brooms, because she just wanted to win a title for her loved one and then stop racing and with that she started to study a little more for a future role she wanted to do, she wanted to be a teacher of technological magic, she wanted to spread to the world about how good it was to mix modernity with tradition, which already irritated many older and conservative witches.
POV Laura:
Finally finished... That was the last page of this book and yet again another encyclopedia that only mentions what this curse is about, but no cure... In none of these books I actually found this cure... even after a whole year, we are still stagnated collecting knowledge about this curse, I really hope that we find the cure soon, because every year that goes by I feel as if Diana gets further and further away from me... As if I will be further and further away from my daughter... As if she will be even more furious with my return, which I am sure will happen... What the hell, well it looks like Farnese is finished too, she closed the book and looked at me.
- I finished with all the first books... I see you are finished too, Laura... That's great, but tell me what information did you gather? - She asked until I took a deep breath, because it wasn't that much.
- Enough to have a complete idea of how it works, and I even got an idea of their system of measurements, which is the same as the metric system but with different names... Well, I just figured this out, just how the curse works on someone's body and the horrible experiments performed on these witches, but what about you?
- The result is not so optimistic, I actually read these books more than once, I was expecting you to finish them all, but nothing, not even the second time I read some of the most important ones, I only found experiments too, but I left them reported, but I have good news, some of them mentioned the Enatite, a magic element that composes the metal spheres - she said until I got a little confused, but then I remembered that in some books they talked about this Enatite, as an element that was very resistant.
- You mean to say that I have unbreakable metal spheres... I figured as much, some experiments involved opening people up and trying to break the sphere... From what I have seen also this element varies with the life force of the witch, meaning I am fucked, my biggest problem is being a powerful witch... I make these Enatite balls even more resistant - I say to Farnese.
- Exactly, but then, I've never heard of this Enatite, I believe we should study more about this element, because an antidote that takes it out of the body is great, with this we already have the element, I'll send here for Harriet and Freya to send books about Enatite, I'll do the studies with the Enatite and you with the books that are being sent here... Okay? - she said as I nodded and picked up my cell phone to send a message to Harriet and Freya.
POV Narrator:
The main element by which the metal spheres are made, it was already found the powerful metal Enatite, which has a fluctuating resistance, it is a biological metal that varies the resistance according to the power of the witch, and it collapses as soon as she dies, its stability is very big, but it still had another property that happened in the curse that was the magnetism between the spheres inside Laura and Bernadette that get in reaction when the two get close. Enatite is a metal that is resistant to corrosion, rust, weather, shock, breaks and gets a spherical shape on the person, practically being a kind of material that parasitizes the person. The research then turned with the focus on Enatite by Farnese and with Laura reading other books that were sent as the months passed about the curse of the metal spheres. It had been 8 months now, it was another year practically. Diana was getting to be 8 years old, she was no longer the same sweet and gentle child she used to be at the GP in Japan, until then she used to be more playful and really wanted to make friends, but after that moment, it was a trauma that marked her, as well as the influence of her aunt, who said that things like that happen, She didn't want to share anything about the Shiny Chariot witch because she would be ridiculed, even more so because her cousins kept ridiculing her, even though they were already 14 years old.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006, Farnese House, Loch Ness, Scotland
And Laura together with Farnese read another series of books, they had read the equivalent of 86 books for Laura and 114 for the immortal witch in this period, they were all the ones sent between 2004 and 2005, since others were sent with time and soon the pile was growing, the old ones were returned where they came from, with this they were filling more reports, it was enough to fill at least 40 notebooks with 200 pages of so much information they had. Since they summarized each of the books they read, in order to have an idea and precise documentation, after all, something might happen that could erase their memory. Farnese collected a lot of information about Enatite, just as Laura learned a little more about the curse of Enatite, an affectionate nickname she decided to give her.
POV Laura:
Surgically it would be impossible to remove from what I have seen, they have already tried to do this with the ones the Lunarians call rejects, the Enatite spheres grow back and regenerate, but what the hell, just when I was thinking of learning to be a surgeon to open Bern, just to try to find a cure for this curse. It seems that things have become very complicated... It has been almost two years of research and so far the results are only getting closer to being finished on paper... We need to get to the experimentation phase soon, but how are we going to accomplish this? I don't know, but I have managed to find out more... This sphere is not only of Enatita, but also of other elements, it seems that we are reaching a result here, I soon go to Farnese, she was finishing her report, as she writes the last line, she closes the book and faces me.
- Another series of books that we have finished... You seem to have finished a part of it, we still have a lot more to read, but tell me, what progress have you made so far? - Farnese asked me, and I will go into more detail.
- Enatite, Magstenium and Kultite, these are the elements by which the metal spheres are made, the Enatita we know, but the Magstenium is responsible for the reaction between the metal spheres, imagine if the book falls into the wrong hands and a person goes around putting this curse on random people, this thing has a huge attraction for objects of similar elements, and inside a person the spheres keep moving from one side to the other quickly trying to get out, but that's where the Kultite comes in, it is a super glue that sticks the enatite sphere to the person's stomach, so it should be originally released inside people in the first experiments, but no cure, I didn't find anything that was about a cure, only about the elements that are made, besides the magic... Which keeps this set of elements even more powerful - I say to her, who is impressed.
- I even found how to corrode Enatite, but it's too risky, that corrosion could end up opening a hole in your body... After all if it is able to corrode a metal as strong as Enatite then it will be able to pass through your flesh easily, the Hinjar acid, it corrodes everything, made with a chemical mixture that takes at least 2 years to be made, able to corrode Enatite and other materials much more resistant than it, otherwise I only found things about them using Enatite in inhumane experiments, but nothing about the curse just knowledge about minerals - She said until I end up having an idea... I wonder if... I think I'll ask Farnese to collect information about this.
- Kultita! Try asking Harriet for books about Kultita and how to get rid of it, I had an idea, I think it might work, if we get rid of the Kultita it would make the Enatite loose, with the Enatite loose in my body I would just need to let it out... That means an antidote plus something to make me vomit would be great, something that washes the Kultite out of my stomach and followed by some Tonic water, so you can get the ball of enatite regurgitated out, since it would be much quicker to vomit it out.
- Are you sure about this? So disgusting... I don't think vomiting would make the enatite spheres leave your body, plus I don't know if drinking something that technically removes a glue will do your stomach any good? But come on, I'll try to find some book about it," said Farnese, still thinking my idea was stupid, because I think it would be an excellent idea, after all I would vomit out everything unnecessary, I think it would be the best possible approach.
POV Narrator:
Some more time of research was passing and Laura continued reading about the curse of the metal spheres, still making sure to read as many books as she could to be more sure, as well as Farnese started reading more about Kultita, due to McLaren's request saying that it would be good to deepen the studies about her for an attempt of a removal of the element from the girl's body. With this another time went by, another year practically and again the distance in relation to Diana was becoming a reality, the youngest Cavendish was nine years old, she was already very smart in relation to everything that happened in the world, having the idea that the world was not the thousand wonders she thought it was, It was also during this time that the girl's cousins gave a brake on the bullying and also the certainty that the Scottish girl had, that she was a lesbian for sure, after all, she felt disgusted to be around boys and got all embarrassed around girls, she even felt more attracted to girls than boys. With this she even asked her mother Bernadette what she was going through and she said that her daughter was a lesbian, what even left her with a little smile on her face, but the relationship of the two wasn't all good either, after all Diana stopped a little bit to believe in the stories of the fertility stone and believed a little more in Daryl's version that the girl's father abandoned her, which was totally a lie with no head or tail in an attempt to erase Laura's story even more, everything to leave her feeling worse than she already was. The curse cure stuff was still in the summary reports of the books they took, it was still a lot of stuff before starting the experiments for good, after all they both knew it was something very risky.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, Farnese House, Loch Ness, Scotland
And once again Laura finished reading another huge amount of books about the curse of the spheres of Enatite, these books were improving a little more of the knowledge, which was great, after all it was a good way to find even more progress, but there was also another factor which was the fact that they were in the last years of the Lunarian age of magic, in a few decades that civilization would collapse, so much that the books mentioned the Enatite spheres as a weapon, extremely efficient to try to decimate an entire Lunarian island without having to get into a huge war, and the worst was the pictures of how they did that without even hesitating, what before was even forbidden to conduct biological weapons wars between Lunarians, ended up having an agreement broken by the witches of the Hylon kingdom that until then was one of the biggest Lunarian kingdoms to exist and with this the books started to grow more and more, Due to the desperation of other Luanrians in trying to find a cure for that curse, which until then was not shown as a weapon being used only as experiments, but became something very present in Luanrian wars to the point of overthrowing even the great kingdom of Hylon, causing the largest to become Jin Jin. It was stories like this that fascinated McLaren a little more than research for the cure, because she was seeing the history of a civilization that did not have a remnant left.
POV Laura:
Great now they are using this curse as a weapon, and to think I didn't imagine that these Lunarians would get to send this one... Well at least we are reaching an interesting point in the story, the books are also coming a lot, I think it is the peak of this curse, but interesting, they are very cruel to use as a weapon, now there are more reports of war than in-depth studies, what a drug, worse that now they sent a type even worse that is the bomb that creates a gas that makes the person inhale the elements that form spheres of Enatite inside the body, almost instantly ... How cruel this civilization has to be... So it seems that was it... The power went to the head of this very advanced civilization that lived on floating islands... And now they will literally end up killing each other, I just hope that the cure will come soon and that this will not be the reason for the collapse of their civilization. I go again to Farnese, I want to know more if she found out anything about the Kultita, nothing was mentioned about it in this book besides more efficient ways to trap it inside the body. She quickly looks at me and puts the book down.
- Another year... No results yet... Or did you? - Farnese asked, but I was looking more frustrated.
- The only thing I found out is that this was used as a weapon of war to decimate others of their own, wars are starting, it seems we are taking books in chronological order and things are pretty bloody where I am reading, they have invented practically a mustard gas from these Enatite spheres, it is a horror what it can do to the person breathing, many of these get stuck in the lung and with that they keep conflicting inside until the person dies inside, with ruptured lungs... Other than that I didn't find anything related to healing, only cruder ways to kill the others with Enatita - I tell her, who shakes her head and takes a deep breath.
- I read that they collapsed somehow, the last year was 1962, after that year they disappeared... When are the books pointing to? - she asked me, and I was really close.
- I am in the year 1876, getting closer and closer to their collapse... The books at least have increased a lot, but I have also noticed that they have languages and writings that I have never seen before, and I am slowly learning new Lunarian languages thanks to this... If we had a time machine we would easily interact with them, but I also think I would suffer a lot of racism, if I didn't get killed for being a reject... You disguise it better Farn... Your hair is clearly the same color as the Lunarian's - I tell her and she starts to laugh.
- Hahaha... I already said I'm not a Lunarian, don't insist on that Laura, I was born in 1422, I don't know who my parents are and there are witches out there with hair my color... Maybe descendants of surviving Lunarian women... I don't know... But changing the subject, the Kultite can be removed easily, there are remedies from different plants, just perform the mixture and drink and the Kultita from inside your body dissolves, so the Enatite sphere can come out, but I believe it has to be fast, after all Enatite has a property to make its own Kultite, then your vomit proposal is right, but it has to be fast, because I also saw that there are liquids that negate the kultite in your stomach, if we are to accomplish something, we have to make you vomit, and on top of that a liquid that stays in the vomit so that the Enatite sphere doesn't get stuck inside some corner of your body - said Farnese to me... What a relief to know... I was a little sure about the vomit anyway, but how are we going to do this? Maybe a little modern medicine will help, if in doubt let's gather even more information.
POV Narrator:
More information would be something extremely necessary for them, so they spent some more time reading the last books they had, it was much more than expected, so much that even together they took almost two years to read everything, it was an absurd amount just to find the cure for that curse in any way possible. With the Cavendish things took a turn for the worse, Diana became an extremely closed and quiet person, she couldn't create trust with anyone, having even a little mistrust towards her mother, even more with that thing that Daryl put in her head that she was crazy, that thing was what Diana started to believe because she used a little realism and this time with 11 years old she had a better understanding of how things worked, Besides the fact that the aunt was not such a bad person, she pretended very well to be a more tolerable person, even though the youngest still had eyes focused on the way her aunt acted, she did not have 100% trust in her aunt, always leaving the secrets to be partially told to her mother, since she still had some resentment for her aunt allowing her daughters to practice bullying when she was a child.
Sunday 29 July 2009, Farnese House, Loch Ness, Scotland
All the books about the curse of the metal spheres, around the Lunarian civilization ended, they had no more, due to the collapse of it, so much that the two witches ended in the same year of 1962 after Luna, when it was the last year of that civilization, that destroyed itself due to the power and collapsed all together, even internally when it had only one kingdom called Ull, the kingdom that conquered all the others and was until then considered as the weakest of the whole war, so much so that it remained neutral in all these years of conflict, without choosing any side and were very well protected despite the compact territory. The last story was about the Ull kingdom falling with everyone collapsing due to the curse of the spheres of Enatite, which scared the two of them even more and they were surprised to find out that it would end that way, as a weapon like that is extremely efficient.
POV Laura:
Nothing... The attempts to cure were in vain in all these books, at least they had the mention about the cure, they tried everything, but the reason for the collapse of their civilization was exactly a fucking curse like that... I'm even thinking about something... I think it might be something good for the future... But never mind... I wanted to know about the cure, but there isn't one, I think nobody thought about curing it all these years, they even had the idea of detaching the Kultite, but it wasn't efficient because it only lasted 5 minutes until the Enatita sphere stuck again, but what the fuck... Well, at least the knowledge part is over, since it will be something 100% experimental, I wanted to find some form of healing, but I only found ways to detach the Kultite, that's it, ways that detach for a good time, but it was not enough to open someone... Which leads me to believe that vomiting is still valid, I went to Farnese again, I wanted to know the conclusions she came to.
- They couldn't... What I imagined, had happened, they collapsed because of the curse of the metal spheres, they couldn't find a cure, but at least now it makes sense, at least I know that's why there's nothing left of them today because they all killed each other like that in the end until there wasn't a single one left but a few survivors I assume, who had no option but to join the humans and little by little they were erased - said Farnese telling their whole story... She didn't find anything either.
- Yes... But what's left for us to do is to perform experiments on our own, as I have the enatite in my body I can't perform them up close, but I just ask that we are all the time on video conferencing, I'll be in Ireland and helping... Okay? - I say to her, and she nods her head in agreement.
- You can help me a lot by collecting resources around the world, the resources on the list I'm going to make, so that the cure will be in our hands, I think I can even make an effective potion, but it will take me a few years and animal testing, but it can't hurt to try," she said, which I nodded, all the reports were in hand, I took the time to write in that time, to make a book about our own search for the cure to this curse. I want to help future generations going through this... I wonder where my Diana must be now... It has been 11 years since... 11 years... My girl must not even have empathy for her mother who abandoned her anymore, I hope that on the day she will understand the reasons why.
POV Narrator:
That's what Laura went to do, she came back to Ireland, after a long time that she always spent with Farnese, there were times that she stayed 2 or 3 months constantly in the house of the blue haired witch, just for the research of the books, she wanted at all costs to find a cure, but with that the years went by, the experiments could only be performed one at a time or with a mouse with the Enatite spheres very far away from each other on the level that circled the extension of the lake to accelerate the experiments, being very well hidden, the tests were always performed trying to find the best ingredients.
10/01/2010: The first prototype antidote was created, a mixture of Juioson (element that releases the Kultita), mixed with Nessie's saliva and the magic violets, with a vomit remedy, the first rat vomited, but it was not enough to regurgitate the metal spheres, since the amount of Juioson was very small and the element was very rare to obtain. Made with a mixture of petals from the Guntika flower located in the Arcturus forest, Nectar from the McLaren elves and some Cannabis mixed in and also some oil from the Hanwi plant that was also in Arcturus the trickiest part was the Arcturus plants as they were very rare to locate and also gave very little.
09/02/2010: Second prototype, with a higher dosage of Juioson with the other ingredients the second mouse died, it didn't resist and the dosage was too high for it to resist, so the experiment ended up being aborted once and for all, giving way to another, always taking the same strategy of vomiting out the metal spheres.
06/29/2010: It was another time they had to wait for the Arcturus plants to bloom, with that the third mouse was made, this time with a mixture that took some of the saliva from Nessie for the healing properties leaving only the magic violet along with a vomit medicine, which made the mouse even managed to regurgitate the metal spheres, but they stopped right in the region of the larynx and with that the mouse died of asphyxiation, being another failed experiment.
01/07/2010: Without wasting much time, Farnese tried this time another approach she put a first dosage in the same way as the first and then put another one as soon as the rat tried to vomit and the sphere stopped in the larynx, but it didn't work, the rat didn't vomit and on top of that it died asphyxiated, both by the potion and by the metal sphere stuck in its throat, what made her a little scared with the result, after all it could happen to Laura.
29/09/2010: Another attempt with a slightly higher dosage, the fifth project went wrong too, the poor mouse died easily, so there was no way, it had to be a perfect dosage, not too much to intoxicate and also not too little to not catch, but still had to find a form of a liquid that was sticky enough, to keep holding on to the metal sphere.
11/02/2012: It took quite a while to find another project, but it was because Farnese wanted to form a more viscous potion, by making the very liquid that would make it spew in conjunction with the potion, with that it was put into the rat, this time it was a well done project, the rat spat out the metal spheres, with great success, The mouse spit out the metal spheres, with great success, the spheres even ended up coming out of the body and with this they were falling apart, the same animal survived, so the results were very promising, after six projects, finally one had to work, even after many years, the possible cure for the curse took a long 14 years, but it was with a huge path ahead.
09/11/2012: After performing on all the rats, Farnese noticed that they all healed that way, so she decided to do some calculations and come up with the most accurate dosage to be used for humans, after all the calculation was done only with animals and with that she takes a risk for science that no one has done before, the same gets infected with the curse and does all the calculations for an ideal dosage that would be for a human person. Still preparing the potion to be used, since she had to wait for the resources.
11/03/2013: In the name of science, Farnese tries on her own the potion with the dosage she considered ideal for her and soon it was showing a lot of promise, she vomited the metal spheres in the toilet and soon after she was 100% healthy, she no longer had the Enatite inside her body, to the point of even checking from the inside, so the ingredients for the preparation of the potion that would cure Laura McLaren and Bernadette Cavendish of the curse of the metal spheres were defined.
15 years after Diana was born, the cure was finally found, but things in the Cavendish family home were no longer as wonderful as they were in 1998 or even 2004, Diana made a point of erasing that she had a father and tried by all means to convince her mother to forget this story that he would return, she even believed the story that she would be a woman, she could not believe that the fertility stone was real and even believed in being a child story that she made to say about artificial insemination or dating a trans woman. Daryl's influence was already taking a lot of the younger Cavendish, but even so she didn't stop having a great relationship with her mother Bernadette, this time at the age of 15, she was studying at the Luna Nova academy for witches, since she was 13 years old by her mother's recommendation, in case history would repeat itself again, since the following year would really start Cavendish's most important year, which would be 100% focused on the study to become a witch.
As Farnese and Laura used all possible resources to find the cure, they again had to wait a long time, for the liquid that was a mixture of honey with holy water and some orange nectar, which made it a little more viscous, plus the presence of a single petal of Vomitinia, a flower that made anyone who risked eating it vomit on the spot with just a single petal, plus the mixture of Juioson and the magical violets from the Farnese garden that would be used to make the antidote mixture that cured the curse of the metal spheres, but it would still take a little over a year to gather the resources, which Laura waited patiently, after all she was very anxious to see her wife again soon.
Don't give up, lesbian witch...
