So, I have a lot to explain.
Originally, I wanted This to be a part of s trilogy of Magical Girl Loud House stories, the third serving as the final conclusion to the series.
Then I discovered My Hero Academia and Archive Of Our Own, and I went nuts there, leaving behind ffnet except for the occasional Chains of Reality update.
I was even thinking of cancelling the story or put it in adoption... and then, I had a dream last night.
A dream that convinced me to leave this as a duology, and gave me the perfect idea of how to end it.
So, this "Movie" is the end of L-UMA, or at least Lily and Girl Jordan's stories. Whether there's more stories to tell, I'm gonna focus on finishing this one first, and then, I'll let the future decide what happens next.
So, let's answer some reviews:
1) Nobody245: You get an answer this chapter, I believe.
And now, to the chapter!
With both teams having been decided and all the luggage done with, the teams promptly began their respective searches: Lily's team would go to wherever Stella was at and try to recover Leni, while Darcy's team would search the ground for the Crepusculum Vulpes, or Twilight Fox.
Lily had tried to get one more member on her team in Girl Jordan, but the woman hadn't answered her calls. In fact, she hadn't seen her at all these past week, at school or anywhere else.
All she was hoping was that she was okay.
"Right, we'll be there soon enough," Lori said to her phone, before hanging up and pocketing it. "That was Stella. she'll send us a vehicle that'll take us to her flying house."
"I still don't understand how she got our number, or how she knew to call exactly when we decided to go there," Luan sighed. "As if she wasn't scary enough as it is..."
"Just be glad that she understands we can only do so much," Lynn said. "Can you imagine if she left us to find this flying home of hers alone?"
The sisters didn't have time to ponder this question, as a futuristic helicopter arrived outside to take them to their destination, as seen through the window.
"It's time for you to go," Lisa told the group. "Remember: get Leni back, no matter the cost."
Lily smiled. "You still care for Leni?"
"Eh, It's a mix between genuine love and fear that things will go wrong if she stays under Stella's control," Lisa chuckled. "Anyway, you should get going."
Lily nodded, and she and her group left the house and entered the helicopter.
With the vehicle full, Lily, Luan, Lucy, Lynn, and Lori were sent off to Stella's flying island-home-thing, Lincoln chasing after them, while Darcy and the rest of her group waved goodbye.
"Well, there They go," Darcy turned to Lisa and clenched her fists. "Okay, we got our goal! We need to look for the Cracalculus Bulpix!"
"Crepusculum Vulpes," Lisa corrected. "Twilight Fox would be the correct translation."
"Right, that!" Darcy raised her fist. "Let's go look for it!"
Lisa and Clyde exchanged looks before shrugging and leading the way, the remaining sisters, Darcy, and fox creature following behind.
"I can't believe they agreed to come!" Stella exclaimed in the middle of her laughing fit. "Dawning Dusk was right, Lily and her family would drop anything if it were to help one of their own!"
Leni said nothing, and just stood at Stella's side.
"You know, it's times like these I wish that mind control spell Dawning Dusk told me gave you some sort of autonomy, or at least forced you to do certain things without my explicit command," Stella snapped her fingers. "Speaking of her, we should give her the good news!"
Leni and Stella reached for their backs and took out the "Dawning" and "Dusk" swords they used prior. They threw the swords at each other, and they conjoined and merged together, recreating Dawning Dusk, who was now sporting a middle school uniform and a spiked collar.
"So, you summon me again," she growled. "What do you want this time?"
Stella turned to the readers. "For those of you who don't know-"
"THEY KNOW WHO I AM!" Dawning Dusk yelled.
"Aw, they do? I was hoping they wouldn't, I had a song ready and everything!" Stella shrugged. "But since they know who you are, I guess I'll skip the part about what happened to you during the ten years before now, like how was the Twilight World for you-"
"Huh?"
"Or how you were discovered by Tetherby Enterprises."
"What?"
"Or how you were beaten into submission and transformed into a pair of swords made to be used by me as punishment for killing Tetherby!"
"Now you're just skipping important things out of spite! Look, did you summon me for something or not!?"
Stella snapped her fingers, and a screen turned on, revealing the helicopter flying towards the island.
"Lily and her sisters have agreed to come here and free Leni."
Dawning Dusk looked shocked for a second, but quickly regained her composure. "See? I told you they would do that."
"And I thank you for your cooperation," Stella clasped her hands. "I hope you're just as cooperative when I hand Leni back to her sisters."
"W-Wait, weren't you planning to use to get the sisters?"
"I already did: they're coming here, and as soon as they set foot, I'm not letting them go anywhere," Stella smirked. "Besides, I don't care about the sisters at all."
Stella flipped her chair and snapped her fingers again, changing the screen to show Lily sitting inside the vehicle.
"Lily's the only one I need."
"You nervous, Lily?" Luna asked. "You've been fidgeting around for a while now."
"Yeah, I guess I'm a little nervous," Lily sighed. "I mean, once we reach the island, who knows what's gonna happen?"
"A magical adventure that will let us relive the glory days from ten years ago," Lynn said. "Well, "glory days" is a way to call it, anyway."
"All I hope is that once we arrive, we find a way to put an end to all the magical stuff once and for all," Lucy spoke. "I don't know about you, but I'm not really ready to jump back into the magical stuff after ten years."
"Yeah, you gotta write books that only I ever read to my kids." Luan quipped.
"Now, Luan, that's not very nice," Lori remarked. "We all know Lucy's a good writer."
"Doesn't mean many people read her work: I've never seen anybody read them anyway."
"Attention, passengers," a female voice spoke from the driver's seat. "We've arrived at our destination, Tetherby Islands."
"Ugh, the jerk even named an entire island after himself," Lily grumbled. "Well, let's mentally prepare ourselves."
Everybody agreed, and the rest of the flight to the landing pad was spent by the sisters trying to calm themselves down.
Once it had landed, the helicopter opened its doors, and the sisters walked out to be greeted by Lincoln.
"Hi, Linco-"
Lily collapsed as soon as she jumped off, a dark energy leaving her body as everybody ran to her side.
"Lily! Are you alright?!" Lincoln asked as he helped the girl stand up.
"I... think so?" Lily answered as soon as the dark energy stopped leaving her body. "I mean, I felt an intense pain just now, but it vanished all of a sudden."
"That was just me taking precautions."
Everybody turned around and saw Stella standing nearby, arms folded behind her back.
"I'll take it over from here, Paige."
The helicopter driver nodded and flew out of the area, leaving the siblings alone with Stella.
"In case you're wondering what just happened, Tetherby Enterprises created and installed a device on this osland that would absorb all dark energy from someone's body, and I reverse engineered it so it would only contain Lily's," Stella raised a hand and turned around. "If you look above your right, you'll see it."
Everybody obliged and saw in the horizon, on top of a large tower, a crystalline object which absorbed the dark energy and glowed as it did.
"It's like a cocoon," Lincoln remarked. "Like Dawning Dusk all over again."
Lily, however, focused on the important thing. "Where's Leni, Stella?!"
"My, aren't you impulsive?" Stella giggled. "She's okay. But I wonder, what would be your reaction if I said Girl Jordan wasn't so lucky?"
"Girl Jordan?!" Lily exclaimed, her shock quickly being replaced by anger. "What did you do to her!?"
"Nothing yet, but I can guarantee something will happen to her if you don't do something for me."
"Yeah, I got a counter argument!" Lynn growled, pounding her fists as she summoned her gauntlets. "How about we beat you up and you tell us where Leni is!"
"Lynn, wait!"
But it was too late, Lynn dashed straight for Stella, who smirked as the tomboy launched a punch... and it phased right through Stella, along with Lynn's whole being.
"May I continue?" Stella asked as she turned to the stunned Lynn.
She simply took a deep breath and unsummoned her gauntlets as she simply nodded.
"Thank you, now where was I? Oh right, I got a couple tasks for each of you, and with these tasks, not only do you get Leni and Girl Jordan back, but you also get to destroy the thing on top of that tower!"
"Before or after its released?" Lincoln asked.
"Ahahaha! Being turned into a light creature really made you funny, Lincoln!" Stella chuckled. "Anyway, since you're stuck here, I assume your answer's yes, so I'll take you there myself!"
Stella snapped her fingers, and everybody but Lily got teleported by having their bodies enveloped in light, and taken elsewhere.
"Lily, you have possibly the simplest task: just go around the island and look for Girl Jordan, that's it," Stella smirked. "Of course, with a twist at the end."
Lily frowned. "Why are you doing this?"
Stella's smirk was replaced by an intense scowl. "Why aren't you moving?"
Stella was seemingly teleported as well, leaving Lily alone to behold the massive island she was supposed to search, and she summoned her mace before she began said search...