After that traumatizing night for the girls, they even managed to sleep, even after the death of Athena Meridies, Hera spent that whole night sleeping with her face over her mother's chest until she was woken up in the morning by the girls. They took Meridies' glued face from there.
In the morning, as soon as they woke up, the girls took Athena's body and held a funeral, besides burning Meridies' dead body and putting the remains inside an ash urn, putting it in Rhiannon.
After this funeral the girls decide to eat and have a breakfast and also talk about the decisive battle they would have against Wu Tang. Hera was very determined to kill and end the bloody empress, but Ling said it was better that Meridies control herself and that the desire for revenge could end up killing her.
1st November 625, After finishing feeding and with all full energy. The girls prepare themselves to go out into the decisive battle, the battle for which they will define whether or not they will become the new goddesses. Hera takes her mother's ashes and uses a familiar spell, just like she wrote a letter, so that her familiar dove could take her to Pavia.
"Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite, I'm bringing this letter to tell you that I have some news that isn't very good to tell. I'll be blunt here, Mom, she died, was murdered by Empress Wu Tang, but please don't come here, stay where you are, I promise I'll avenge and honor our mother's death, this damn thing won't go unpunished, I ask you to guard her ashes with all affection. Our mother's sacrifice will not be in vain! With all the affection in the world: Hera Meridies". In this Hera ties the urn of ashes on the pigeon's back, which was not so big and heavy due to the spell of shrinking Anna's things along with the letter that Meridies wrote, from there the pigeon goes away and leaves towards Pavia.
- I don't even want to imagine my sisters' reaction... They don't deserve it either.
Says Hera crying.
- Don't imagine, let's focus on our mission and give pride to your sisters...
Says Marianne with her hand on Hera's shoulder.
- Shall we?
Says Ling taking her broom.
- Let's go! Now that Wu Tang will pay for all the crimes she has done!
Says Hera determined.
The eleven witches take their broomsticks and begin to fly, already with the two books of Lilith in hands left inside a bag, where they were in the hands of Beatrix and the other book in the hands of Harriet. The trip to Tibet would still be very long, no matter how fast the girls were flying.
Meanwhile, far away from there is the portal to the portal where the books would be used. Wu was waiting for the girls to arrive and was leaning on one of the pilasters. It was a very remote place in the middle of the icy Himalayan Mountains, there was not one person around, only the structure where the portal is. A kind of circular shaped floor made of rocks, which was a little covered with snow, besides twelve pilasters that had a fitting for each one of the twelve books, which Wu had already put the ten he had in hand and was just waiting for the girls.
- (Wonderful, I got this far so easily, but well I gave a vacillation, I could have taken the book that was in the palace and left with all twelve at once, but this is a concern of less, these eleven girls do not know what awaits them ... I was just taking it easy with Ling, I let her save the ten girls, since I ended up discovering in the worst way that she was alive. But now let's see what these girls have to offer, I want an intense battle before I get to Lilith, to trick this goddess to get her powers and thus kill her and take the place of goddess of magic).
The time was passing in a journey of 2300 km, which took four and a half hours in the brooms going at an average speed of 500 km/h, gradually they approached the Himalayan mountains and the ten points where the books were, until they reached the structure where the portal is and in this Wu who was looking at the horizon begins to wait for the girls to land. The eleven finally land in place of the portal and face Wu who was with a more serious expression.
- Apparently the eleven were brave, I'm surprised they didn't run away, from here only one side will come out victorious, but we won't fight here, I don't want the portal to be damaged, the books are in the doorway, but if you want to give the two books to me, I'll spare your lives.
Says Wu with her hand out.
- Like you spared my mother? You bitch!
Says Hera getting angry.
- Your mother didn't spare my pussy sucking hot, so I didn't spare her life.
Says Wu shrugging and laughing.
- You what? Ahhh! I'm going to kill you so gladly now!
Says Hera exploding with rage.
- Hahaha! You had to see your mother's belly gushing blood, she really had enough to write on that wall.
Says Wu laughing.
- You bastard!
Says Hera walking forward, but being held by the girls.
- Hera! Stay calm! She's just teasing you.
Says Ling.
- Good since you won't give the books away so easily, so let's get ready to know the real terror, let's fight in a place outside of here, I don't want the portal to break with my power.
Says Wu spinning her staff.
The girls then take their broomsticks and fly to a nearby mountain, where Wu begins to concentrate and enter a fighting pose; the eleven also do the same so that the final battle between Wu Tang and the eleven witches begins.
Wu was only with the staff and a normal kimono, already the eleven were wearing staffs and also special tunics for the magical power to be amplified of some of them, other tunics served to increase the resistance, defense, besides also Harriet and Beatrix were with the books of Lilith tied at the waist.
- Now it's time for you to know the real terror!
Says Wu with all the magical power causing a current of air.
- Intimidating, but it won't make us give up so easily.
Says Ling.
Wu begins to walk slowly towards the eleven and soon they concentrate spells and jump backwards and all together cast purple energy spells towards Tang who only uses a barrier of the same purple energy that makes it bounce towards the eleven witches who dodges on the spot.
- One would imagine that you would learn from Ling how to manipulate purple energy, but only I Wu Tang have the greatest manipulation about purple energy.
Says Wu.
While Wu was dialoguing Ling appears very face to the sister and hits a purple energy spell that punctures her stomach, but does not hurt because she used a quick spell to get the energy through and then kicks the sister away.
- The same blow does not work with the same...
Says Wu until she gets a kick in the back of the head.
Chenoa had hit the nape of Wu and soon Beatrix and Harriet hit the Tang calves with magic arrows, Woodward uses the little vegetation of the place to hold the empress by her arms and legs and in this Freya is the next one who appears facing the Chinese and begins to hit her several times. Hera is another who appears behind Wu holding her by the neck.
- Now I will give you the change for what my mother did!
Says Hera trying to strangle Wu.
As Freya was punching Wu she was struggling with pain and trying to breathe, but Hera was giving Tang a lion's jungle, until she starts to get angry and explodes into a wave of purple energy that throws Freya and Hera with everything and with this she casts another spell to impale the girls who even being thrown used a barrier spell, but the impact made them both into a free fall.
- Freya!
Says Harriet extending the arm to Freya who can hold himself in time.
- Hera!
Anna says she can't arrive in time.
Hera pushes a button on her glove and with that the boots that she was wearing start to release some fire and with that Meridies managed to "fly" back to the fight site. Wu was getting angrier and angrier and exploding in anger and throwing several balls of purple energy which the girls just diverted and at the same time tried to attack back by throwing weaker spells on Tang.
- (Those damned hurt me! Now they're going to pay more than enough for it! Nobody hurts Wu Tang! Those blonde punches were the most painful I've ever taken in my life! Shit! )
- You will die! You are going to die! And never again! I should never have let you come here! Ahhh!
Says Wu while she got madder.
Wu was getting more and more irritated to the point of starting to float in the air and little by little the purple aura emanates around her and everywhere purple energies start to be fired from all sides, the wind was also intense to the point of leaving the hair being carried behind. Beatrix puts her hand on her chin and begins to form a plane.
- Hey Wood... We can take advantage of her anger to put the book.
Says Beatrix.
- Do that I will keep Wu distracted.
Says Ling.
Beatrix and Woodward take their broomsticks and start taking off trying to go towards the other side, but Wu ends up watching this and soon casts a spell in both directions which is diverted by another spell cast by Ling.
- Ahhh! You damned! You're not going to Lilith!
Says Wu continuing to cast spells toward Beatrix and Woodward that diverted.
- Hey you idiot, you can destroy the portal with your nerve attacks.
Says Ling casting spells to prevent Ling's spells from coming, until Wu noticed that he still had a girl with the book on her waist.
- (At least there is one left, so I'm not losing, I really didn't have much control of what to do. It's time to show that I can't waste time and kill them all).
Ling as she sees that her sister starts to get more powerful starts calling the girls to get close to her whispering in Tang's ear to give her all the magic power they can, since she would fight Wu alone, in that the eight begin to extend their hand to Ling giving the magic power to the witch. Until after a while they give all the power they had to Tang, while Wu kept concentrating even more magical power, in this the older sister casts a powerful spell on the younger one who is thrown with everything against the mountains.
- You damned! But know that you have given away your magical power in vain!
Says Wu floating back to the mountain.
- How we will fly to the other...
Says Harriet until Ling casts a spell on them on the other side.
- So, now prepare Wu! This fight will be just between you and me!
Says Ling pushing and with that a current of air starts to come out towards Wu that was floating.
Ling starts to float and go towards Wu and with this begins to strike the younger sister who defended herself with the purple energy spell, but the older one's magic was so strong that it broke the purple energy to the point of causing a huge wave of impact.
- (Ling is even more powerful... I can't stay here just on the defensive! Those ten are on the other side! Does that mean she will stay to fight me? Shit! They were much smarter than me! Why did I hesitate to wait for them to fight? )
Wu begins to fight back Ling's powerful punches by dodging and hitting a few kicks as they floated in the air and were in a battle of enormous proportions which with each blow you could see the impact wave, sometimes with some purple energies being thrown everywhere.
The girls were watching the whole struggle from the place of the portal, and most of them were surprised to see that, but at the same time they were focused on putting the books in the right places, since Wu was not dumb either and ended up changing the order of some just to fool the girls.
- Do you really think I wasn't prepared in case you stayed to fight Ling?
Says Wu as she cast a spell that stopped on Ling's face that he reverses with a kick that grabs her arm.
- What did you do?
Says Ling dodging a punch and hitting a knee in Wu's stomach.
- Ahhh! I left the books with the different order and out that your little friends will still have to speak the words correctly!
Says Wu hitting Ling's chin with an elbow followed by a kick on her back and a few spells being cast towards the mountain where the eldest ended up colliding.
- (It was a genius idea to leave the order of the books changed, so I can gain time and who knows in this short time that the idiots organize the books for me I take advantage to kill Ling).
- Ahhhh!
Says Ling exploding with rage and leaving the mountain and flying towards Wu
Wu is hit with everything with a punch to the stomach, followed by a kick to the back of the neck and after another punch to the weaker stomach only that followed by multiple punches and kicks to the whole body of the younger Tang who was beginning to get hurt.
- (This shit is already starting to hurt! Damn it! That way I'll end up getting killed! I can't allow this bullshit).
- Ahhhh!
Says Wu exploding with anger making Ling go a little backwards.
Wu starts to concentrate more and more magic casting a spell against Ling who had no time and was soon hit as soon as she touched with her hands feeling a huge explosion that the spear backwards with this the youngest appears right behind to hit a blow, but the oldest disappears at the time Wu hit the blow and with this reappears casting a spell on the youngest sister who is thrown to a mountain, in this Ling starts to bombard spells towards that mountain.
Meanwhile in the portal structure the girls were starting to sort the books by the colors they had on the ribbon next to it, each slot showed a different color and the symbol of a different animal and they had to see the book cover or the color of the marker tape to get the slot right. What they didn't take long to do since they were in 10 for the 12 books.
Red book hare, light blue book unicorn, green book turtle, orange book fox, brown book owl, yellow book monkey, gray book snake, purple book dolphin, white book pigeon, black book horse, magenta book peacock, dark blue book fish.
After all the books were positioned in their respective places a bluish green light began to emanate in gaps from all the pilasters, even the floor gaps, which left the girls amazed to see that.
- Woah! We did it!
Says Woodward impressed.
- This will be the first moment to become goddesses!
Says Beatrix.
In the mountains while Ling keeps bombing thinking that Wu was there, the eldest has a surprise when she is hit by the youngest with a kick on the back and with this she turns around and notices that the empress was looking down.
- It can't be! It can't be! This is a lie! I don't believe it!
Says Wu starting to charge a big energy ball.
Ling hits a kick that makes her release the ball in another direction and with this ends up causing a huge explosion to the point of causing a small tremor in the surroundings, with this Wu turns to the younger sister bubbling with rage.
- You will pay dearly for this Ling! You bastard!
Says Wu getting angry as her eyes started to lose Iris and pupils, getting a totally white background.
- (At least the girls are getting it, so I can just hold on to Wu until she kills me or I kill her, the important thing now is to make sure the ten go to Lilith).
- Ahhh! You are dead! You're dead!
Says Wu exploding into a purple aura that launched even a sharp air that eventually gave some cuts to Ling's cheeks and arms.
Wu starts to flirt towards Ling with everything hitting a stronger punch in the older sister's stomach to the point of making her spit blood and soon after that he takes her by the lapel of the tunic and starts to punch her sister's face with violence, to the point of even breaking Ling's nose and some teeth, until she manages to let go after constantly punching Wu's arms.
- Ahhh! You bastard!
Says Ling screaming in pain and letting go.
- Look how fucked up she is, but still that's not much!
Says Wu concentrating her aura even more.
Ling does the same and starts to go towards Wu, but this time she casts some spells towards her younger sister who was more focused on defending herself from the spells and with this she didn't notice that the older one was going with everything towards her, hitting a very precise punch on the arm of the empress who ends up breaking the defense, with this she makes room for the Chinese woman to start punching and then bomb Wu with some spells that hit Wu and throw her against a mountain. With this Ling begins to concentrate a ball of magical energy in her hand.
- Bye Wu...
Says Ling.
Ling takes a deep breath and throws the ball of magical energy which is fired like a bolt of lightning towards the mountain that Wu was thrown, which the youngest one ends up throwing a purple energy back and this causes a huge collision between powers.
- (Don't think I don't have those tricks in hand! I am much more powerful than you Ling! )
The two spells stay in collision until such a magical energy that both sides were sending is caused an explosion so intense that the shock wave generated avalanches in several mountains nearby, even some earthquakes. The smoke generated by the explosion was still dissipating, but Wu soon went flying at full speed towards the Ling which also did the same and with this both continued to exchange punches and kicks, this time flying towards each other, or carrying each other, which caused some shock waves that were seen in the sky.
Meanwhile in the portal to Lilith's book the girls were watching the fight and were also waiting for the portal to start working, as it was just with the pilasters starting to turn slowly around the whole floor, until Chenoa remembers that she had to speak the words.
- Open Sesame!
Says Chenoa.
With this, the pilasters stop spinning and begin to turn on a stronger light, at the tip of all twelve pilasters a light towards the sky began to be pointed out just as energy emanated from the tip of them. This energy begins to release some rays and with this the rays go against only one that is fired towards the sky. The girls were amazed that finally after four long years since the journey began the portal to reach Lilith was finally triggered, their mission was being accomplished. Ling was managing to stay in a fierce battle against Wu, although little by little the younger one was starting to win a little over the older one.
See you, almost goddess witches...