Sunday, 7 October 2018, San Francisco, California, United States
A few days passed since Chariot's wake, a time of mourning was declared by all skateboarders in the world, who made a point of leaving tributes about Du Nord, with many videos and montages about her career, being practically the biggest subject that was running around the world, even in news that were outside of skateboarding also spread about her death, which was touching by the way the young girl had left so early, with only 28 years old.
At the Cavendish mansion the atmosphere was also very heavy with the departure of the French woman, it was a great discouragement mainly on the part of Croix who was losing much of the reason even to live to lose someone so special, but that did not get to the point of trying something worse for the love that she also feels to her own daughter, already the others were kind of getting very depressed and gloomy, and one of them was the one who tried not to let that get her down and with this she made a trip to San Francisco to perform the work that she was already being kind of charged to do.
Hellene left for the United States, along with her girlfriend Marianne, accompanied by one of the house butlers, while on the other side of the world the people of the mansion were kind of gradually getting back to the phoenix plan of bringing Luna Nova back, which would be kind of a matter of honour to do.
By the end of the weekend the younger McLaren was already with the filming preparations done, talking a lot throughout with her sponsorship people, which yielded a bit of a cut of earnings due to the interruption due to Chariot's wake.
Just before the start the Irishwoman went to her girlfriend, where she had a nice kiss in the dressing room, where she was finishing up the last details on what she was going to wear and the equipment in general.
" Good luck my love, I know that your filming is going to be great, go on girl, go for it," said Marianne.
" Thank you Mari, I will go there and give it my all " said the redhead.
In the corridor Hellene was already hearing the sound of the helicopter, and at the same time she was waving to the producers who, before entering the scene, took a break.
" All right, Hellene, are you really ready for this? You know we've rehearsed a lot, even with you on the other side showing us what we're going to do, we can't go wrong, we've already managed to close off some streets, now it's up to you," said the director.
" You can rest assured that I will follow as in the script all the way through," McLaren said.
She is allowed to continue and with that the filming starts with the redhead walking slowly holding the helmet in hands, where she starts sort of adjusting her helmet while the wind from the helicopter was hitting, with the safety equipment placed she takes the skateboard in hands, climbs the helicopter that begins to take off, reaching a certain altitude, where the Irish woman jumps from the top.
" That's it, baby! I know you can do it! " said Leclerc watching the filming from her dressing room.
Falling 500 meters high, the girl goes kind of wearing what looked like a gliding suit going on a planned route, where she then activates her parachute, stopping all that momentum, where she would be directed near a ramp, where it's close to one of San Francisco's slopes.
She releases the parachute and everything, where she reveals the clothes underneath, goes up on the skateboard, where smoke effects start to give while she goes down the huge ramp which was 25 meters high, catching a lot of impulse through the mega ramp, she goes to where there was a ramp, where there were some cars parked in the middle and on that she starts to give an Indy which results on 1080 degrees of rotation, fitting right on the beginning of the slope.
" She did it... Wow to think Hellene was so despondent this week " said the Frenchwoman watching everything.
At this time, the cars that were in the middle of the ramp are leaving, there were four of them, four Mazda RX7s that are starting to smoke while they are drifting, while Hellene is starting to get into a grind already in her specialty, a Nosebluntslide one foot, while pyrotechnic effects were coming out as she was going down the slopes. In a point where it gets wider the four cars were kind of circling barrels, until the arrival of McLaren that ends up getting some momentum in the railing that had a curve working as a ramp, where she hits a quad heelflip in the middle of the whole scene, with smoke from the cars and she passes in the middle where she gets in another railing that was positioned on that slope and with that one of the cars goes out.
" That's it, baby! You're doing it! That's it! " said the excited girlfriend who was cheering up seeing that even after everything the redhead still managed to concentrate.
The smoke show was continuing, this time in the middle of a curved railing where Hellene was doing a darkslide, then she got out of there and started a route through a flatter part and there was one of the cars waiting, where she was holding on in the middle of one of the spoilers and with that the vehicle was going picking up momentum until it got to a much bigger ramp, where the Irishwoman does a 900 Airwalk in the middle of a parked truck until she gets to the other side with all the landscape of the city buildings in the background, and the effects of smoke and pyrotechnics.
" (I don't even know how I'm managing to do this yet, I'm just going on automatic, because honestly I'm still grieving over Chariot's death, but I'm going to make this the biggest show, you'll love seeing how I'm doing at my best).
Then the proper goes kind of continuing a line going from a railing to the other kind of alternating between flips and maneuvers that were in the middle of the streets, until another car appears and this time the redhead leaned in the middle of the spoiler where the proper went in the middle of the streets doing some demonstrations of drift around a small obstacle course.
Then Hellene throws herself from the spoiler and continues the course where she takes another slope going down it, doing some maneuvers in the middle of the rails and improvised ramps, while the tram was passing and it was where she was kind of balancing on top of it upside down holding it, until the street where another car was waiting.
This time it was a climb, where she held on to him using a rope that she launched towards the spoiler and at the top of the slope there was also a ramp, where she took the opportunity to send a benihana 720, fitting the manoeuvre at the top of the slope where there was a tunnel and in the middle of it she was grabbing the handrails.
" Now she's getting to the end, that's really good to see my girl doing so well " Marianne said, enjoying what was going on in the shot.
Hellene was getting some more maneuvers on the way down another slope, where she was grabbing a handrail doing a BS Darkslide which is even more complicated, where she was facing a skateboard track, which she got off the skateboard after and was walking towards the entrance to which they threw a can of energy to the redhead who took it kind of with style as if they had not seen.
" It took you long enough to arrive hein " Said the boy sitting with his skateboard in his hand.
" I won't even tell you how it went " said Hellene who was drinking the can of energy until all the filming was cut off.
Relieved, Hellene sat down on the benches, finishing her energy drink and took the opportunity to greet everyone on the skateboarding track, where she even signed autographs for some children and teenagers.
" Congratulations Hellene everything went according to plan " said one of the directors who was at the skate track.
" Look it was crazy, but that's what I had in mind plus a bit of your lapping, in the end it all worked out " McLaren said.
" For now we'll just put a few touches on the editing, your part has already been done " said the editor.
After a while, the girl kind of took a break to eat, while her girlfriend arrived as well as the main director who was clapping for the whole production, and some of the businessmen who were kind of paying the girl for the presentation also arrived.
" Very well Hellene, your presentation was perfect as expected, the publicity for our product is going to explode with your ideas, here is your payment and don't forget to participate in the championship that will take place in Los Angeles in a fortnight, make sure you win and we will continue with you in our program " said the manager.
" And can I give the suggestion of two friends of mine who are as talented as me? They are also young and doing very well, it would be amazing to have both of them together in our shoots " said the girl.
" You are still too young to make any contract suggestions, we can't risk hiring some other talent that might spend our money without knowing that they are really talented enough to act with you, we will have to take a look before drawing any conclusions and then we can maybe call them to do this work together " Said the manager.
" They are good yes, I have competed against them in championships for years, they deserve a chance for a better sponsorship, Atsuko Kagari and Amanda O'Neill, keep an eye on these two and you will see the gold you will have on your hands, or will you let the other energetic one take them from you? " Said the Irishwoman shrugging her shoulders.
" Let's think about it, and this behaviour of yours is a bit inappropriate, a girl of your age by contract doesn't have to be making these demands on us, well here's the payment for everything, we've already passed the money to your bank account, now we're going for it " said the manager leaving the place and handing over the receipt.
From there she herself stood with an expression kind of showing certainty and also a strong mentality, while holding the receipt where it showed the payment in 25 thousand dollars for the whole performance, since they had cuts and high discounts for the delay and also for the cost of the filming.
" Woah love, you really aren't afraid to go head to head with them are you? " Marianne said.
" No, they have to do things my way, they know I'm much more important to them than they are to me, it's a matter of showing them where we stand cat " Hellene said.
" I don't even know if I could stand the coldness and still send a sadistic smile like that, just by your face I could understand the message, I love your way of being and not caring how big the jump is, you still try and show it's easy " Leclerc said.
" I do it because deep down I am scared shitless, but that's what you have to do, show that you have confidence, don't let them put their hands on you, maybe that's why Akko and Amanda are doing so badly with their contract, they have to impose themselves a little more, anyway, let's eat something else, enjoy the tasty snack that they must have here " McLaren said and his girlfriend nods her head in agreement.
The two kind of go around eating together, enjoying the moment together, also to create more romantic bonds with each other, besides giving some autographs to the people at the skateboard track and at the snack bar, who were chatting with the girl about the manoeuvres she was doing, already kind of enchanted with everything.
" Wow what an honour it is to have someone like you here " said one of the skaters.
" I don't know, I'm going to spend a little time in the United States, if you can see me in LA, I'll be competing there.
" This is going to be great! The amount of names that will be in LA, and even more you Hellene, let's go, we are dying to see more of you here in America " said one of the skaters.
" Have you ever thought of doing a shoot on the LA canal? It would be another one that everyone would love to see, there's so many spots to send some trick shots " Said another skater boy wearing a plaid shirt.
" Hey you who said that, tell me more, you will participate with me, I give you credit for your idea " Hellene said.
" I don't know, man, in the canal in LA there is all that stuff, in GTA in racing games, even in Tony Hawk, you could film there doing some jumps in the middle of the river, also go on the edges kind of trying to lean on the sewers, I just gave the idea " said the boy.
" Ah that's a good enough idea, we'll build more on that and in a few days we'll see, it could be a good way to promote here in the States, kind of a bit of a video presentation around here, still making a whole bigger montage, genius! " McLaren said.
" Yes, Queen! Do it! Kick some ass! " They all say.
And there Hellene kept talking to everyone, kind of gathering ideas with the help of Marianne who was writing everything down in a notebook, then she was going to the skateboard track, where she was giving some demonstrations of maneuvers where everyone was filming her doing some of them, kind of getting jaw dropped.
Meanwhile on the other side of the world, back to Europe, at the cultists
base, another plan would start, Daryl was gathering with everyone in the middle of an invasion plan to cause complete terror to finish with the witches' plan.
" Now we will do an action that is not to forget, we will put heavy troops to the mansion of the Cavendish, this for December, thanks to the information we got, their equipment has a certain limit to how much they can handle magic, ours are better and can already cause a great damage, this time there will be no stone left on that mansion " said the Cavendish demonstrating how the formation would be in the middle of the mansion.
" Pulcher Magus, my liege, but how are we going to make an attack of this magnitude, without causing and drawing the attention of the authorities? " One of the cult members asks.
" Simple, some of us will make a mass attack here, we will cause attacks on Edinburgh castle, and with everything already planned, we will leave landmines planted and activated as soon as some of us notice that police cars and firemen are going to come around, this will all cause a great deal of nervousness, besides that we will plant some rocket launchers to shoot down some helicopters as well, the panic will all build up in the castle while the main group will kind of focus on the attack on Cavendish mansion " said the leader.
" But then it might cause too much sovereign, wouldn't that cause the risk of being discovered? " asks another, and with that, she herself laughs.
" Let's leave a little mark of who we are in the world, with a little taste, but nothing that gives away our existence, just to cause a greater mystery, one day we will end up showing who we really are, we can't simply lower our heads, being just a mere isolated group, we have the power to have this whole world in our hands " Said the witch while she was sort of making the demonstrations.
In that demonstration it had all the way to the firehouse to the Edinburgh castle, as well as to the Cavendish mansion, where some mines would be planted along the way, preventing whatever was necessary for some of the forces to arrive, gaining the necessary time for the attack to finish and with that the whole plan of eradicating the witches would come true, at least in the demonstration that Daryl did, even calculating the time of the mission.
" On the 15th of December all the most important witches that are in the Cavendish mansion will disappear, from here we will spread to the rest of the families that kind of had survivors, we ended up discovering many of them splitting up after what we did to Luna Nova " Said the witch to everyone who was impressed with the geniality of the leader.
" That's going to be a great plan Pulhcer Magus, but only one question remains, what about the witch who helped us? " Said one of the members.
" She went to sleep with the fishes as well as any of you will go if we don't do this mission right, we have to train and produce the best devices to make the mission a success " Daryl said already causing terror to all of them.
" Understood sovereign, so we will make sure to practice everything right, we don't want you to be disappointed, our mission will be the greatest success " said the same member with fear.
And with that the meeting was kind of adjourned and Daryl is walking towards the throne room where she's kind of laughing about the whole plan while watching the fish in the lake she kind of called one of the cult members to the throne room.
" To what do I owe the honour mister pulcher magus? " The member said.
" You have been selected for my special training, come to my quarters and you will be a part of this " Said the leader what himself went to the leader's quarters seeing Daryl taking off his mask.
" Pulcher Magus is a woman? " Said the shocked man himself.
" I am in need of a moment of relaxation, be a good member and satisfy your leader " Said the self half removing her tunic as the self went about surrendering to the charm.
In the midst of that moment of pleasure for Daryl she ended up killing him without any mercy, kind of because he knew too much what resulted in another casualty in the group in favour of the leader's pleasure that could not resist the lust desires.
Hellene does what she does best, but still the world is kind of living in a tension to happen, through Daryl's plan that may end up destroying yet another place, this time she has power in hand and a secret also kept where no one has a clue who she really is behind the mask of leader.
See you, skater witch...