The skateboarding championship had a surprise, but this one was not very pleasant, during Hellene's batteries against Diana, the lights went out, as well as the internet in a very sudden way, until they realize that what happened was a fire in the place, a arson caused by Daryl in Luna Nova, where the girls were desperate trying to get out, but things were already pretty ugly, the fire was already taking over the building, even more after all the communication that Cavendish was doing to scare everything.
Things in the corridors were tightening, fire was consuming the whole place, which made things even worse, when suddenly an explosion rolled and with it the access to the corridors in the main hall were blocked with the structure burying the exits, this just in time when they came out of the magical listening for a breather.
" Oh, shit! She's planted bombs all over the place here " Laura said.
" This fire is consuming me already, I can't stand this heat," Hellene said, taking off her coat and becoming a little more affected by the heat like the others.
" Don't take anything off! The heat stored inside your clothes is lower than the heat here, and you can burn yourself, I know it is difficult, but it is better to be protected " McLaren said.
Then the Irish woman and her wife use a very powerful spell that makes the whole environment begin to snow intensely, cooling what they could in the main hall, but still the dark smoke was passing through the seats, amid the holes that remained of the corridors with the structure that fell, but that served to alleviate some of the fatigue and heat, where then Croix and Chariot do a spell to bring a little more air from outside so the girls can breathe better.
" We have to find a way out of here and not waste so much magic, without dying, the firemen may even arrive, but getting through here will be impossible " said Du Nord.
" We'll try to get out on top and jump out the window, we'll take one of each of you " Croix said.
" It might be a good thing, Daryl might have planted bombs just on the sides where they are near the exit, but he won't wait for us to get out the window," Bernadette said.
From there they went towards the corridor where the staircase is, using in group a spell to open the way through the debris at the same time they were using spells to put out the fire with water jets or snow, relieving little by little as they climbed that staircase, only as soon as they stepped a little more. Away from there was Daryl kind of watching from the surroundings, with a camera, she pulls a button and activates another bomb, right near the staircase. Leaving them all in shock as they were hit by the whole explosion, besides debris and rubble going all towards them.
" Do you really think I am going to let you escape anyway? I am watching every step you are making here from afar " said Cavendish hiding in the middle of the woods.
The fire trucks are another thing she hears and soon the attack starts there too, when the cultists next to the woman pull more buttons activating landmines along the path where the trucks were passing, causing the biggest bang and shock as they passed.
" Burn some more, you will stay there until you die, I will not let one of you stay alive " Said the one with the ponytail.
Temporarily those trucks nearby were being overturned with landmines, three of them had come on the same route without waiting, which ended up killing some firemen on the process, besides covering some of the road, causing more attention to the seriousness of the situation.
Meanwhile inside Luna Nova, the girls were trying to get out in the middle of the construction, some of them already with visible injuries after being hit by pieces of wood and bricks. As they got out little by little, many were coughing, getting weaker due to the so much that the fire was affecting them, they got up from there, Laura was relieving the things when she got out and use a spell to bring the air out in a bubble, thus guaranteeing more survival while some of them already got out weak.
" And those firemen who never arrive... How can we stay so long in here, it seems like an eternity " Akko coughed.
" The fire brigade won't be here any time soon, we have to be smart, I don't have enough magic to do a group teleportation, we need to get out of here the old fashioned way " Said McLaren who then dispelled the spell and went about putting out the fire all around, as well as making her way to the top floor, which most of the girls have already got out of that environment of being buried.
" We are going to die here " said one of the girls crying.
In the midst of this fire, Claiomh Solais appears floating and reaches Akko's hands, who reaches out and grabs him, kind of giving him a glow, which caused a strange feeling in the girl, but at the same time a certain relief.
" Why did that thing come here? And how are we going to get out of here with it? " Kagari asks.
" We can try one of the next words to clear the way " Chariot said.
" Phaidoari Afairyngor, you don't get what you dream, you get the things you worked for " Said a voice in Akko's head who stood looking around half confused.
" Did you hear that? " asks the Japanese woman.
" What? The sound of fire breaking through concrete? The sound of explosions in the corridors? " Amanda asks.
" It was a voice, it said about the next word " Atsuko said.
" No we didn't hear that, let's keep going, we have to get out of here " Laura said and kept walking.
They were walking in the corridor to arrive in a room, but when they went in the first door they were almost taken by an explosion, at the same time other explosions were being given practically in sequence, making the biggest tremor inside Luna Nova, all over the corridor, to make impossible the maximum their passage for inside these rooms with windows, besides the ceiling that fell down burying a little with the debris the way ahead.
" Phaidoari Afairyingor! " Said Akko making Claiomh Solais become an axe and with that she started to hit the rubble which was opening the way more quickly.
" Yes! Good Akko! Use that second word to open the way better! " McLaren said.
" Shit! The firemen said that a terrorist act happened near here, someone planted landmines and the three trucks that would go here were blown up, they had some casualties and are calling for reinforcements besides the police " Croix said putting the mobile phone back in his pocket.
" If they don't show up we'll go, we'll get out of here, she'll keep closing the path, but we can try to make our own " Kagari said.
They followed the corridor, making their way through the debris, Laura guaranteed air for all of them, Chariot guaranteed a little less heat, while the Japanese girl with the second word axe opened the way. Daryl watching everything even gets a little frustrated of anger, noticing that the plan wasn't flowing so well, he ends up pulling another button just to cause more explosions and tremors, this in the upper floors, what ended up making part of the structure fall again by the corridors and almost didn't submerge all the girls, leaving them far away from the walls, kind of isolated in a pile of rubble.
" Damn, that was a close one, Luna Nova could end up falling on us if we don't get out of here soon," Diana said.
" I'll try to make my way to the wall and then break it, we can't give up hope," said the Japanese woman, and they all continued, only for more explosions to come.
This time others on top, with Daryl doing everything to bury the girls amidst the structure of the building, which was eventually happening, with more top parts starting to fall, on the spot Laura, Chariot, Bernadette, Croix and the girls join together to create a bubble around the surroundings, trying to hold everything on top so it doesn't fall on them.
" Shit! She really had plenty of bombs around here. She really had plenty of bombs around here, this structure is going to collapse on top of us, sorry people, but fire is the least of our problems, we have to pull together so Luna Nova doesn't fall on top of us " Du Nord said pushing upwards with magic.
" Hold on as long as you can, I'm going to dig our way out with that axe! " Said Akko with the axe starting to swing towards the outside.
Meanwhile in the middle of the forest, the cameras were going off, losing the signal because the structure was starting to fall down, even though many things were still standing, it was the power of the girls' magic that held her, besides the heat also starting to affect everything, which the witch simply gave a last smile.
" Bye"bye, you guys are now going to meet hell " Said Daryl who then pulled all the explosion buttons, then sneaked out of there, going to talk to the other cultists.
[Daryl: Alef, let's get out of here, they're going to be buried anyway, I've sent everything, I've managed to isolate them, there's no way they're going to get out of this alive].
[Alef: Mission accomplished Daryl, that's what we wanted to see, now Luna Nova will finally be taken down, along with everyone else in there, inside, now let's get the hell out, no one can know we did this].
Daryl and the cultists were leaving the surroundings, where in the background was the building of Luna Nova on fire, being observed from afar, which was soon appearing some more fire engines, besides ambulances and police cars, this time coming in mass, in a way that was never seen in that place, even some news vans came to see the case more closely.
Back inside Atsuko was little by little getting more used to the axe discovering how things were going stronger to open the way, but the tremors increased even more, which was joining more of the girls, all 39 were there holding with magic to not let the structure fall, showing how that all had a huge expense of magic.
" Akko! Go Akko! We can't take any more love! " said Diana.
" I am trying! But that's as far as I can go! " Said Kagari hitting the path hard, digging her way out bit by bit.
" This damn thing knew everything, we can't even do anything else... " said Croix.
It's the only way to get a better idea of what's going on in the world," she said, "but it's not the only way to get a better idea of what's going on in the world, it's also the only way to get a better idea of what's going on in the world.
" We believe in you Akko, you will save us " Alice said.
" Let's get out of here now! " Atsuko said.
The Japanese girl, more motivated, gave a stronger axe, which even made her be thrown back a little with a strong impulse, opening a huge hole that was reaching the outside, the girls from there went kind of running, only that when they reached the other side they noticed that they were still one floor away from the exit.
" They're not leaving yet! Hold on as long as you can! We'll still have to have someone to rescue down there " Laura said and the girls were holding on, which soon the first fire truck appeared outside.
The brownish girl with crimson eyes was signalling for the trucks to come to her place for the rescue, the truck arrives nearby and the firemen arrive with a net to catch each one of the girls that start jumping, first the ones that are not practised with magic, that even the firemen get relieved with the amount of survivors.
" You come down too girl! " said the fireman.
" I can't! I have to save everyone " Akko said until the mothers can jump out too.
" Now! " said Laura.
" You can let go one at a time, we'll go a bit further back " Bernadette said.
Then it was going one by one of the 38 girls that were witches, what the structure was getting weaker, what the firemen even were shocked, while the trucks extinguished the fire and were warned that those were the only people in the whole building.
Until only the twelve main ones were
left where it was possible to notice a glow coming out of their hands, they were leaving one by one of the younger ones.
" Go! I can still hold what I can get " McLaren said.
They were jumping from there and getting more safely, after that only the four adult girls were left, that was right at the moment that the structure started collapsing and falling down on top of them, nobody had any idea of what happened to them, just to have seen the things falling on top of them besides the structure raising smoke and debris everywhere.
The fire was extinguished, but around everything an avalanche of concrete was rolling, catching everything around, without mercy, most of the girls saved themselves, but who was closer ended up being reached and buried amidst the smoke that was raised by the fall of Luna Nova.
" And we are here for a shocking emergency, the old Luna Nova building collapses entirely after a suspected fire where three fire trucks were blown up by landmines on their way to the rescue " The reporter said.
Then people started to come out in the midst of all that burial, Akko and Diana were soon seeing each other, half full of that dust and hugging each other relieved, just as the others who were closer and were hit appeared, luckily alive, apart from the firemen nearby, only no one had yet found any sign of Laura, Bernadette, Croix and Chariot, who were left.
" Akko! " Diana said hugging her.
" Diana... We made it " Akko said, coughing a little.
" I don't know how I survived that, but I saw a strange light coming from your hand " said one of the firemen.
" Strange no... Well you will remember one day who saved you were also someone you haven't heard of in a long time " said Hellene who also appeared there coughing.
" And Mrs McLaren? Mrs Cavendish? Chariot and Croix? I saw them being crushed by Luna Nova. " Marianne said.
At this point, even all of them are in silence, even tears are coming, especially from the daughters that are being hugged by their girlfriends, while the whole team was getting closer, rescuing the rest of all girls and firemen buried, the structure was no longer on fire, but turned into a huge pile of rubble that spread concrete dust everywhere.
In the midst of this crying, the four appear leaving in the middle of the earth, holding hands and with injuries quite visible.
" Whew, I thought I was going to die on that one, but it's good that we managed to save everyone," Laura said breathlessly.
" Mothers! " Said the two Cavendish girls who went running to their mothers giving them a hug who were then in a bit of pain.
" Chariot! Croix! " Akko said.
" I'm never doing that again! It was the limit of the limit " said the Irish girl all tired.
" Luna Nova... So many years, so many generations have built this place and now we are sitting on the rest of a legacy of history, now we don't have what's left, that damn thing just wiped out everything that is ours, wretch " said Chariot.
" Now we have nowhere to go " Alice said.
" Yes you do, whoever wants to go somewhere else can go, whoever wants to come with us, we'll go to Scotland, we'll all start again at Cavendish Manor, we can't give up because this happened, the worst has now happened, we'll find the culprit and make her pay," Bernadette said.
" Who is with us? " Said the redhead.
At the time the thirteen main witches put their hands together, but then none of the others wanted to do that, they just kept coming back from there, kind of outraged by what happened, they kept going to where the ambulances were, the support of the other witches was not possible to get. Du Nord even tries to stop it, but Meridies puts her hand on her shoulder.
" Leave it... They will go their own way Chariot... It was their choice, they've been through the most trauma, now we have to do what we can between us " said the Italian.
" I will not give up this fight, we will still bring a new hope for the future, I am sure " Akko said.
" I won't shrug at that either, Daryl will pay dearly for everything he has caused us," Diana said.
" I swear our aunt will go back to where she should never have left," Hellene said.
" We will remain united, our fight is the most important thing, for the future of everybody! We have lost the battle, but we have not lost the war " Marianne said.
" I'm with you too, this damn thing destroyed our chances and we're going to destroy her too, when everything was going great, this happens," Amanda said.
" My father should never have done what he did to bring this monster back to the streets, he will pay for it too," Andrew said.
" For a new time for witches, we will not separate, we will always be the team of Luna Nova, we will bring this place back and also new times " Chariot said.
They all hold hands, hugging each other, until the doctors came and took care of one by one to see if they were ok and needed to go to the hospital, what to a huge shock they were, only with injuries on their bodies, but inside their lungs were intact, as if they had barely inhaled smoke, what was even causing a huge strangeness, but at the same time it was a relief. With this fire things will change and a lot from now on in this journey, it was the sign and point that I needed for things to be more put into action by the change and the new times of magic.
Hold on, if Love is the answer you're home