POV Narrator:
Friday, 6 October 2017, Luna Nova
After the Night Fall fair, the three girls got into quite a mess, having to be in charge of washing all the girls' clothes manually during the week as well, besides the punishment that teacher Babcock suggested, since they had committed a serious infraction, but also because magic in Luna Nova has been going kind of down in the last few days in a weird way, not only the red team's trio stopped there, but also the green team's for breaking some rules around stealing food from the pantry, being discovered when the witch academy's employees took Constanze's electronic devices.
POV Akko:
Seriously, this here is already exaggeration, all week long washing everyone's clothes, not even to be ashamed of themselves and wash their own panties, it's disgusting to have to put our hands in dirty underwear, not to mention that we don't even have a laundromat around here and we have to wash like this because it seems that here we are having problems with power distribution, what a drag, especially with Diana watching us.
"Hey what do you think you're doing Constanze, you know the rules here around mixing magic with mundane technology" Cavenboring said already starting to act just like the teachers, she even looks like a slave supervisor at that moment.
"If you helped us instead of just standing there complaining you wouldn't be there, Constanze did what this shitty school never brought" I tell them all who are somewhat shocked.
"Akko language! And why insult the name of our academy? We can't wash because we're having problems with magic" she said.
"The pretty one who doesn't even know how to wash her panties properly doesn't complain because it's not up to her, you must have never even touched a cloth to be washed or had wrinkled hands from having to wash other people's clothes, this is literally slave labour Diana, we don't even get paid for what we do and we are still forced to do it, you who are perfect will never know what it's like to go through this" I answer and then I hear the girls around us laughing too, she should be aware of how it is.
"Akko, honestly, don't try tae look innocent, you know why you are here and the girls from the green team also know, anyway, I won't argue with you about this because it is a waste of time, if you followed the rules you wouldn't be here" she said and I just got full of it.
"Diana just a word to you, fuck you" When I speak, showing the middle finger, everyone rises in astonishment including her, but it seems things have eased up a bit when I hear them calling for her and I get back to work.
"Diana! Diana! We need your help" said the headmistress walking past us.
"Okay, Director Holbrooke, but what about the girls, what are we going to do about them?" She asks.
"They finish the job, it's more important than a supervision let's go" said the director who was leading Diana out of here.
Honestly I just relaxed a bit more and went to rest my hands, they are horrible and aching, I never thought I would come here to work like a slave, honestly I'm beginning to understand a bit why Chariot isn't well regarded around here, maybe she hates doing that sort of thing too.
Soon Amanda arrives at me and she kind of points with her punch and I respond equally where she gives a wiggle of her fingers and then giggles.
"Look at someone who can barely fly on a broomstick, you've got balls Akko, you did what anyone ever felt like doing to Diana, you're lucky the headmistress nor any boring teacher listened" She said and I just shrugged.
"Oh please, I can't understand how they think slave labour is tradition, this is shit and has to change, if mundane people changed because this was shit too, why don't witches learn and also change this idiotic point of view" I answer her and she nods her head in agreement.
"I agree with you, I was forced to come to this place because of my parents, they don't want me to keep the money from my dead grandmother's inheritance, they wanted me to come here to learn discipline, even though I don't give a shit about witches, which I also honestly do, I've hated this place since I arrived"
"It's not that much either, I was just disappointed really, they didn't know witches were big conservative dick in the ass, I thought they were going to be the opposite of that, Chariot didn't show those things in performances" I say and then I hear some laughter, but then out of nowhere the light goes out.
The magic seems like it must be over, we looked out the tiny window of the laundry room, we saw some dragons and they were carrying the wizard stone, which made me think of one thing to do, we will get rid of this punishment is now.
"Girls, are you thinking what I am thinking?" I tell them.
"Chariot?" Sucy said sarcastically.
"No, damn it, let's get the sorcerer stone back, that's why our magic was so low, the dragons must have stolen it, let's get rid of the punishment and still go out as heroines" I tell them and they seemed to agree.
"Well there's nothing to do and no one will miss us, but we have to watch out for dragons, they've done horrible things to witches" Amanda said.
"True, they devoured the witches, made us a paste to drink, they are dangerous, but that's the interesting thing" said Sucy being Sucy and even with fear we started to group together.
"The dragons stay in the ruins of Rastavan, so let's watch out for them" Lotte said.
We went first of all walking stealthily to the Cons' room, with everything dark nobody noticed, the staff wasn't even there to tell us off, neither were the teachers, which was easy to get to the girls' room, looking at each side we managed to get in and now it's just about getting ready for the attack.
Meanwhile in the boardroom...
POV Diana:
This Akko, how can we have accepted her here, she keeps talking all these crooked ideas and breaking the tradition of Luna Nova, but I can even see a little of her side, are we really the wrong ones tae do this? They are not here for free and yet they work for free, besides they are very exaggerated jobs, but I dinnae know too, I never had to work, because I dinnae deserve any punishment.
Well, better think what the director wants, we arrived at the room and the light turned off, but soon I turn on the lantern of my wand, when we enter the room I light the candles around and there were the teachers, what they seemed to discuss about something.
"At last she has arrived" Professor Babcock said.
"Why my name, lassies?" I ask them.
"Diana we are in a huge trouble because of Luna Nova, teacher Ursula had given the suggestion to use a language interpretation spell, but we all denied it because it is a waste of resources, so I remembered you" said the headmistress.
"Me? But why would I be that person?" I say kind of confused.
"As our prodigy student you could probably interpret and read the text of that contract right?" Said the teacher and I soon went on to see that it was in draconian, which I had learned in a way to amuse myself at the age of 12, I soon gave a nod of agreement.
"Yes, I can read it, it's draconian, I understand, it will just take some time for me to interpret it, but I'll be as quick as possible" I tell them that they were showing an expression of relief, but I noticed that Professor Ursula did not seem very pleased with this decision of the other teachers, anyway let's go.
Outside Luna Nova, the girls of the green and red team had already prepared themselves and are going into action.
POV Akko:
How wonderful, I love to fly on the broom, even more holding a weapon Constanze made with magic so I can get something out of it, since I decided not to risk losing the staff on this one, it always misses me when I try to use it, so let's see if these dragons are something.
We were getting closer to the ruins of Rastavan, soon the first dragons started to appear, we all started to join the attack.
"Let's go! Now!" shouts Amanda.
Cons and I go shooting with our wand guns, which goes so far as to hit a few dragons on her part, but I am left suffering from the shaking and recoil of the gun trying to find a balance point on the broom.
"Ahhh! This is too strong to shoot, I don't have any support" I say as I go shooting like crazy, and almost catch one of the shots in Amanda.
"Hey watch where you shoot Akko! I didn't know you were such a bad shot" she complains.
" Sorry, it's stronger than I thought it was " I tell her trying to balance myself holding the broom and trying to shoot with one hand, I could start to notice one thing about the dragons, they were robotic.
But it was in this distraction that I could see them capturing Amanda, I go trying to hit the dragon, who lets her go, but another one catches her taking her deeper into the ruins hole, another one goes to Jasminka, she doesn't even fight, she just caught her, then Sucy who was even showing a little smile, all weird as usual, it seems she has a hard"on for these things.
"Damn it, we're the only ones left" I'm getting a bit desperate, trying to shoot, so much that I hold it with two hands and manage to be more precise, but even so, at some point the ammunition ran out and I got desperate.
"What happened Akko?" Lotte asks.
"I'm out of ammo, there's no magic in this fucking gun!" I say furiously and a dragon catches Lotte, then the broom starts to fall, where I go falling along, only I'm caught by a dragon, I see Cons being caught in the back.
I'm seeing the place and getting scared, seeing what looked like torture machines, I was half swallowing my saliva, seeing that we've just been caught and it might be our last time alive, now those dragons will devour us... If the fake ones are that good I don't even want to know about the real ones.
The dragon was leaving us on top of a place until we let go, what surprises me a little, I go looking still with fear for the surroundings, until the lights goes on and I see kitchen appliances only in a bigger size, where one of the dragons arrives from there, he looked old, wearing a dressing gown, he caught me first.
"Let me go, you're not going to eat me, you bastard!" I say trying to struggle.
"I'm not going to eat you, who said we dragons eat witches, not to mention that you're not even appetizing" he said, then let me go, that was to hurt my ego.
"Ah I am delicous, come on" I say furiously and the dragon immediately got the things from the kitchen and making a giant lemonade, where he walked as if it was in his house and then took us to another corner of the house where there were several computers with various graphics.
"What is this? Why did you capture us? What do you want with us witches? Because you took our sorcerer's stone" I tell him, sipping my lemonade quietly.
"Oh, my name is Fafnir, your school of witchcraft is in debt to me and since we haven't been paid I decided to take the sorcerer's stone as a guarantee of payment, but I think that will be the end of it, magic is dated and very old fashioned, witches don't want to modernize, which I have been doing for some time now with my actions, which give much more return than this debt of Luna Nova" He said and then this dragon wants to charge us.
"Oh so it's a charge? Since it's not that important why don't you let it go, we witches need it, besides magic is like this because of some witches that don't let it go forward, you never saw how Shiny Chariot could change all that with his presentations and captivate a different way of seeing magic" I tell him and all the girls around put their hands on their foreheads while he stands kind of laughing.
"Oh please brat, don't make me laugh, Shiny Chariot was a passing fad, why do you think she would work on modernizing magic? The magic would still be dated, you are really deluded, we have to be realistic, magic is a dated art, I would be doing you a favor by taking the wizarding stone from you" Said this creep which was making me even more angry.
Seeing all those graphics and everything, I couldn't believe that the dragons are actually a bunch of thieves and I was quickly starting to think of a plan to steal the wizarding stone from him and take it back to Luna Nova so I'll be seen as the heroine who saved the day, but all this came to a halt when I see Principal Holbrooke, who was with Diana and the teachers arrive where they kind of notice our presence.
"What are you doing there? I'm not even going to ask questions" said teacher Finnelan.
"Fafnir give us back the wizarding stone I beg you so you can give it back to us and we'll be even" Said the and that was quite rare to see.
"Not while you don't pay our interest, so bring my money and I'll release your witch witchy stone" Fafnir's rascal said.
"It won't change anything in your life if you get rid of this debt for us, we're kind of in financial difficulties, please Fafnir, could you help us with this debt, we promise to pay double the next time" said Lady Holbrooke and the rascal still shook his head until Diana arrived carrying a huge parchment and opened it in front of the dragon.
"Miss Holbrooke, allow me tae intervene with this, but I have tae say that this dragon is nothing but a swindler, in the contract itself the value was given as correcting for current values of a loan of 5 million pounds, these installments were being paid over a long term with abusive interest by Fafnir for years, by the value of the installments and the time it took this loan of 1000 years would have already been paid in 1505, Since the term was exactly 500 years of interest-filled installments, by the way, what Fafnir profited in that period was three times that amount with interest, but the fire of Luna Nova of 1517 happened and documents about the discharge of that debt also, he took the opportunity again to take money from the great witch Jennifer for years, when she was rebuilding Luna Nova in 1743, but even then thanks to the achievements of the golden age of magic, we had already paid this debt 150 years ago, only it seems that some witch at the time misinterpreted the contract and kept on paying the installments until today, you wanted tae bypass us until 2243, Fafnir, but you are having your scheme exposed in front of us all, You're the one who owes us for taking even more money out of our hands, the dragon lord may end up being arrested for extortion of this level" said Diana, which I honestly almost slept through most of this explanation.
We all stared at him angrily, the dragon was even scared shitless, I didn't even know that Diana would be able to interpret the contract and even expose the dragon's scam, he was profiting on our backs and still living a life full of luxuries and privileges on top of us.
What a dirty little dragon he is, to think that in reality things are like that makes me think that life is an irony.
"I... Well I don't know what to say, you really unravelled my contract little witch, they can have their wizarding stone back" He said.
"Hey, are you going to leave it at that? This dragon bastard has been taking your money for years and you're just going to think it's no big deal, the bastard has been earning money behind our backs for I don't know how many years" I tried to intervene and then Professor Finnelan came to interrupt us too.
"What are you ladies doing here then? You escaped from detention and you could have put your lives at risk by getting into trouble with a dragon"
"I also think the ideal would be for us to take action against Fafnir Mrs Holbrooke, he's been robbing us for years, who knows how much better off we'd be if it wasn't for him ripping us off, this since Jennifer's era, he's just doubled the amount of money he's made" Diana said and finally she spoke to my side.
"That won't be necessary, Fafnir give us back the sorcerer's stone, leave us alone and we'll get it over with soon" Said the headmistress and I went away feeling all dull.
It was a very disappointing decision, he came with his robots bringing the sorcerer stone and then we were called by the headmaster and the teachers to accompany them, I kind of went after, where the dragon only stops at me which ends up creeping me out because I thought I was going to be devoured because he was in a rage, so much that he caught me, leaving me near his own mouth.
"Little girl, you're messing with big people, the hole is much deeper than you think it is, I'm just saying that to you, because you're the pawn in this whole scheme, one day you'll understand all this if you get there" He whispers and then releases me near the girls and I'm even a little perplexed by everything that happened.
On the board of directors...
If it wasn't enough that now the dragon rogue simply had his schemes spread and nothing happened, now we will be punished again and again, another weekend that I spend in detention, how can this be happening right now to me, what the hell... Fucking injustice, I was only trying to save Luna Nova.
"They got out of detention, took their chances in the ruins of rastavan and could almost have been killed by the dragons of Fafnir, how reckless will you continue to be" Professor Finnelan said.
"We just wanted to save Luna Nova and help get the sorcerer's stone back, we wanted to help!" I answer them and right after that Diana answers for us.
"We just had to wait for the authorities to solve it, justice with our own hands never works, your attempt was noble, but it was stupidly taken on impulse and that could result in worse things, you really don't realize that you are in a place of risk" said the starched girl.
"Well for the heroism attempt it would be unfair to punish the six of you, after all we used you only to comply with the rationing of magic, I think we even went too far, but now the clothes are largely clean, anyway the magic laundry has now been reactivated, your help was useful in this, but still due to these events, I have to say that Atsuko Kagari will be away to attend the visit of the Count of Appleton that will take place this Sunday" Said the director and I was kind of broken.
"Why only me? And why am I going to be left out of the visit?" I say indignantly.
"The Earl of Appleton already has a crooked view on witches, you are just about all that can make a bad impression on them, so we recommend that you stay out and that can count somehow towards the individual punishment for the escapade last week and the theft of pies, since you begged so hard for an individual punishment, that will count towards the punishment of the others as well" Said the headmistress to me.
"What? But this is absurd, my hands are aching until now because of the slave work you made me do all week and on top of that my back is aching because of the troll latrines, it's absurd that you keep slave labor here in Luna Nova and think it's the most normal thing in the world" I tell them and the teachers all went into shock, starting to stare at me with a bit of anger too.
"Miss Kagari, do not come to tarnish the name of our renowned academy of witches with thoughts that are out of our tradition, if you contradict Luna Nova so much, why don't you jump out, you can barely perform even one spell, you wouldn't be missed" Said teacher Finnelan and at that moment teacher Ursula appeared in the middle.
"Woah! What's this Finnelan? I know you are already picking on Akko a lot, but this is exaggerating, woman, Akko is a student like any other, this is already being harmful to the girl herself, can't you put yourself in her place for a minute, haven't you ever had difficulty with magic?" Thank you teacher, she is the only nice one who stays by my side.
"Let's stop this off-topic discussion, the decision has already been taken, Akko will stay out of the event of the visit of the Earl of Appleton, now that the decision has been taken you can leave and please without causing anything else, at least you won't be punished for what happened now" Said the director and we went to our rooms after that.
In the red team's room...
I wonder if they are trying all the time even to put me down... What Fafnir said to me before he left... Well anyway this is no reason to give up, I will persevere and keep on doing my best so that I can become the best witch, I will show everyone that even with my difficulties, I still know I can do it, Chariot must have had those difficulties too.
"Akko are you still mad about this? We weren't punished, we'll have a weekend to rest, which is a miracle since we got here, it's the first time we have a weekend off since the first weekend"
"Seriously, Sucy, you say that because you are going to the event of the Earl of Appleton's visit, I'm going to stay here alone and do nothing... I am an embarrassment as a witch, so much so that everyone is even repulsed to show me to the world just because I don't know what it is to be a real witch"
"Akko I do not think so, you have your difficulties, but despite everything, I wish I had your motivation, I wish I had your determination, even with all the barriers you seem to have, you break them all and I am sure that one day you will learn magic, it is just a matter of time" said Lotte.
"I think that despite everything you show that you don't need magic that much, you have your little ways, you even seem a bit dumb, but even so you are our little dummy, despite everything you have been the fun for us in this place, even though you think outside the box" said Sucy.
"Thanks, I just wish all the girls here thought the same as you think of me, that they were less cruel, seriously, it's not my fault for not being able to do the spells, I speak everything right, I try to study, but nothing seems to come out, then I become a joke in the room, this thing of the ball really got me, I wanted just to be able to eat something different, I wasn't even interested in the visit of this count, but in the food, having to eat potato, potato and potato with potato every day is a shit" I tell them.
"I'll steal some pests for you, you bet Akko, I'll tell Amanda and Cons to do that one for you" said the pink haired one and I even got a bit of a smile on my face.
"You are really priceless friends, thanks anyway, let me know how it goes, unfortunately I'll be here alone..." We heard knocking at the door, I walked to the door and answered it, it was teacher Ursula.
"Oh Akko, I just came to tell you that on the day of the ball I will be keeping you company, it was a request from headmistress Holbrooke herself, I can try to guide you to do some spells, maybe, it will be fun and the headmistress allowed me to get the food from there for you, so it won't be all bad" said the teacher, which was nice to hear and I even hugged her.
"Thank you for your help teacher, I don't know how I could stand this place too without you being the only nice teacher with me, I will fill you with questions about Chariot, since you seem to be the age she would be today how old are you?" I tell her and the teacher adjusts her glasses.
"27 years old, I was classmate of Chariot Du Nord yes, but we'll talk about it on the day, bye-bye" she said then leaving all clumsy, the only teacher that really represents us, I was even happy with her presence.
In the blue team's room...
POV Diana:
What was that today? Man, this dragon lad exhibition was the most obvious thing, but it is still suspicious, there is no transfer tae it dated from the last 150 years too, I think the director must have left the receipt somewhere else, since she herself is 150 years old, or maybe Fafnir got the upper hand again and managed tae hide the receipts, anyway we are finally free of this scam.
"Oh Diana, thanks for the help, you saved our bath, do you want to go with us now?" Said Hannah, who was wearing a bathrobe, and I stared at her.
"You know I hate tae expose myself this way, nae like you who do everything together, my privacy people, I don't know how you don't feel ashamed to change in front of each other" I tell them and they just shrug.
"That's because we are all women" England said.
"I like women and I don't stand there blushing" Barbara said.
"I am a more intimate and reserved person than you are, anyway go and have fun in the bath, it was a silly conclusion"
"What do you mean silly?" Parker asks.
"I am only 15 years old, I am nae supposed to know these things of the contract and they who are older witches should know, it is strange that I know these things, too strange, I know I studied a lot, but it is not for so much, I am not a perfect witch, I just had to force myself tae perfection because I am a Cavendish, even so I still manage to fail" I tell them.
"It's very different from Akko who fails all the time, she's a figure, come off it Diana, you're the best witch in Luna Nova and probably will be of all time here, you even got another merit for your yearbook" Hannah said letting go of her hair.
I'm nowhere near what my mother and her other witch friend were in the past, the two of them together have a lot of achievements too, imagine what it's like to have to match that perfection, because I as a Cavendish can't really fail, if I'm less than my mother here, it might even cost us our reputation and you know how the situation there is not the best" I tell them and kind of get a snort.
"It's really complicated, we're going now, stay there with your thoughts, you've been thinking too much these days" said Hannah, who then went with Barbara tae the bathroom where they both went tae take a shower and I stayed there looking at the moon.
Soon I will have to fulfill my duties as Cavendish, unfortunately I dinnae know if in such a short time here I will reach the same level as you mother, but I will do my best, I will try tae get the best and have the recognition that is, unfortunately I can not let our family end the way it is, it hurts me having to leave them, having tae leave this place, one of my dreams of graduating here by merit and by what the astrology has been predicting, it will be broken with the coming of the blue moon soon, Holy Lesbian Beatrix, it could appear in 3 years, I am still too young tae carry this weight.
POV Narrator:
Fafnir, the dragon that had been under the thumb of Luna Nova for a long time, had his scheme exposed, but not only that, he became a recurring news in the corridors of Luna Nova in the next edition of the school newspaper, where the front page has a huge picture of the dragon with a report written by Kimberly revealing the dirt on the extortion scheme that was done with the witches of Luna Nova, shocked by the event and praising the presence of resolution that was arrived with the help of Diana.
See you, scam witches...