POV Narrator:
The girls arrive where Daryl's hideout is, but they are already facing traps, mainly after Diana and Hellene separated and started to get involved in several games that are equivalent to torture for Daryl, arriving to a room where they had to entertain the public while Laura was tied in chains by the arms and could take the risk of running in a molten iron pool and this way running a huge risk. The older Cavendish was already getting furious for the way Hellene and Diana easily managed to defeat the invoked manticore, even more because together they had a very intense synchronicity between them. This uncontrolled fury could end up being a risk for Laura.
POV Diana:
Now the manticore only needs one more hit and we'll be able tae defeat it once and fae all, I can't wait fae this creature tae have an end soon, damn it, Hellene and I stared at each other, she went up tae the monster and I just stood there waiting, holding a glyph, already with the sword in hand.
"Now!" Said my sister who held on tightly tae the spear that was attached and then used the third word of the staff tae lean on the ceiling.
I gave impulse and was arriving with all in direction of the creature, with a precise stab in the head I penetrated for the brain of that face of lion and later I was giving some jumps backwards nae tae be hit fae the claws, what my sis releases the hook and soon the manticore falls dead in the ground, I even breathe relieved with that.
[Daryl: This can't happen the audience hates it! I see no option but to activate the instant punishment, now Laura will swim in the molten iron and there's nothing you can do about it because I set it up]
A golem appears in front of us, right where we were going tae save our mother, then I see the chains loosening from her hand, which we are already getting devastated watching the scene, but out of nowhere a figure passes by her side pushing her and this figure falling tae the ground was precisely Mariannne, who appeared tae save mum.
"Mari!" We all said.
"Now we're going to defeat this thing" she said with her whole ninja way of being, I hadn't even noticed her.
We agreed with our heads, with that Mari was already takingAkko and mommy tae a safe place outside of there, me and Hellene stayed at the most focusing on the golem, I was already preparing the ground making several glyphs, well lined up tae give impulse and thus make the creature go back, my idea is very simple and Daryl sae far dinnae seem tae have noticed anything, good.
[Daryl: This isn't right! Things can't be like this! You were supposed to watch Laura McLaren melt down! Now more of you are showing up, but it's not gonna stay that way]
We went without calling or anything, my glyphs were working exactly as I wanted, my sis slowly pushed the golem back, until it was falling in the middle of the molten iron pool, this way we managed tae get rid of the creature that would be difficult tae defeat only in punching, it would even tire much more than normal, now let's go.
"Ye three get out of here I'm going with Hellene tae continue here, we'll get tae Daryl and defeat her" I tell them.
"Diana, but that's dangerous" Mari said.
"Dangerous is losing our mother, we will manage to get out alive, don't worry about us, you three will manage, besides, two of you are already very weak, it is better to go to a safe place" said my sister and they nodded.
"Anyway good luck girls, put an end to all this" Akko said and I soon see mum moving.
She woke up! On the spot me and my sis go running tae hug her, relieved that mamma Laura was finally waking up, she was still a bit dizzy from all this, but it's what I believe tae be the effect of something that made her unconscious, we even felt a bit bad for putting her in danger, we even held her hand.
"Sorry for everything Mum" We said together.
"Sorry for what?" she asks, still all dizzy.
"We split up and ran away from ye, now Daryl almost killed ye, I'm glad we managed tae save ye from all that - I tell her who keeps remembering things.
"Ah yes dat, we are already at a point well ahead from what I understand, I really wanted to stop you kids, but dis is our fight, I trust you two to defeat dis witch at once" She said waking up.
[Daryl: Look who just woke up after a long nap, it's almost like she was sleeping like an angel after all this, she almost literally went to sleep with them soon, but things don't end there, Diana can sign a document and end all this, but she's not willing to cooperate].
"Blow dis witch's face off once and for all, I will be with you on dis, but not together, I will be cheering from afar, unfortunately I am too weak for all dis, I only say one ding, in case dings get too tight? Don't forget de story I told you about dat society where traditional and modern forces mingle to open a gate to a new world, this word will be very useful to you in case things get even tighter, when you 'ave to run away, don't hesitate to use it, now hug me again just so I can feel confident with you" Mom said and we did, feeling mommy Laura's hug is the best thing in the world, I love her sae much.
We both are starting tae get out of there separating us, Mari is taking the lassies there giving a big help, me and Hellene are starting tae look for the way that opened, we were kind of looking at each other, we were walking straight, it was the only way tae pass, where we were getting tae what seemed tae be a empty room, but on the floor of it we could notice that it was very hot, it seemed that there was melted iron underneath what I dinnae doubt, and right after that a robot appears falling in front of us, a huge robot where in it was Daryl.
"What?" We said shocked.
"Did you really think I was going to give up that easily? I'm not stupid enough for that, now let's settle this once and for all, me against you!" she said, and Hellene didn't seem the least bit intimidated by the presence of a robot of that size.
"Hey sis, it's time to turn dat into old tin cans" she said.
I just nod my head, she throws the staff tae me and we start tae work out a strategy together right there, I position creating glyphs around and my sister starts tae go up jumping and getting momentum one by one accumulating enough magic, what she was getting in a punch right in the direction of the machine, but it kinda just caused noise and then we only saw the machine staying still in one corner followed by a laugh from Daryl.
"Did you really think I would let myself be defeated so easily? I knew you would go up like that, this armour is impenetrable, you will never defeat me" She's overconfident of that.
She was starting tae uncross her arms, which we go even feeling a little bit of a tremor, then a greenish aura was getting around the machine, really this gives fear, but I think me and my sister can handle it, then she was giving propulsion towards us both, with the raised arm it simply hits my sister making her fall on the ground and then it comes tae me, I go trying to run away with magic, but that thing is agile and even aims a machine gun at me starting to shoot several times tae the point that I had tae make a shield with magic.
"I'll crush you!" She said and I just saw her in my face afterwards, simply picking me up with her hand and throwing me full against the wall.
"Diana!" said my sister, all worried, I am in a lot of pain.
I see my mana trying tae be lifted, but she soon gets kicked by the robot and it's all coming towards me she even slams her body with her back into a metal pipe which ends up bending, I see nae other option but tae dodge, when the robot gets close tae us I decide tae slide underneath and then use the first word.
"Noctu OrfeiAude Fraetor!" I shoot the arrow at the machine, it even stays inside, but nothing happens, already my sis was having another difficulty which was tae be crushed by the foot of the machine.
"I will turn you into a lifeless Hellene Mclaren pulp" She said stomping away and I just prepared another of the words.
"Arae Aryrha!" I turn into a hook that catches at the creature's foot and I go pulling just enough fae my sis tae escape, she goes on top of that helping tae push what the machine is starting tae fall forward, but that's only until she activates the thrusters.
She was taking us, the hook was nae strong enough and we are very light, she was taking us around the arena, we soon lean on a lever that has there, but she stands up which reveals the floor around with the floor opening in the middle revealing that there is a sea of molten iron underneath us.
"That's why it was sae hot" I say as I look down at the floor and we soon get off the hook.
"Dis robot is indestructible, we have to find a way to make it fall into dis melting sea" I noticed the same thing.
But we have tae distract her enough, I have an idea here, she comes at us both, I use a teleportation magic, where I already get targeted with a magic arrow, my sister goes up anyway, still trying, but I notice it wasn't very smart that way, tae the point that she was punched hitting against the wall and falling tae the floor with everything, luckily it wasn't where the sea of molten iron was.
"You are nothing, I was preparing for this, a robot like mine is strong enough to finish you off" she said and I hit an arrow right where the glass of the machine is where she hides and it dinnae penetrate enough.
"Damn it!" I say this as I watch my sister about to be crushed.
She dodges with a teleportation and sae she starts tae hit right where the front glass is by punching, but it dinnae solve much, I make a glyph right at the time she was going tae hit my sis on her back with a hammer blow, which ends up bouncing with everything backwards and sae I went having a wonderful idea tae deal with this situation. My sister notices the same thing.
Daryl attacks her again, but together we do another mirror glyph which was enough tae bounce her backwards, sae I take the opportunity tae use the third word since I was right near where the molten iron is, but she's still pretty strong, but nae when sis uses a spell tae pin her feet tae the ground.
"Now I want tae see it come out of there" said my sis and I even use the hook higher up.
Out of nowhere the robot releases something that when falling on the floor generates the biggest flash, it was a flashbang, enough fae her tae let go of everything and when I least realized something was holding me by the body, the robot hand where she put me against the wall, making my ribs hurt a lot, she still looked me right in the face when I came back to my senses.
"Come on Diana just take a contract and I won't hit this on you" She said and I was even getting scared trying tae get loose from there but my body hurt and also she is too strong fae me tae have a chance tae get rid of these claws.
"I dinnae care about any contract, ye can't kill me" I say showing my middle finger and even laughing at her.
"But I can do it" she said letting me go, then I just felt a strong punch in the stomach, which gave me a strong pain in the ribs, then several punches in a row in my body that I was feeling as if each part was breaking me, tae the point that she knocks me down on the floor.
I am weak, with few hits of this I can really faint and all this is my end, but I dinnae lose hope, I look tae the side and see that my sister was also on the floor she was knocked down by a punch falling beside me, we take the staff together, we can't lose faith in any moment now, I see the foot of the machine going up tae stomp on my sister and we both think the same.
"Phaidoari Afaryngor!" we activated the axe of the second word and with that we could feel the strong magic flowing in it.
Tae the point that we passed cutting the leg of the machine with everything, without leaving the rest, this way we even fell forward and with this I breathe a little relieved, we were nae stepped on, she may be strong, but together we are more, the machine even without leg active another way that removed them and was just floating like a ball, still with arms.
"So you managed to leave me without a leg, but that's nothing" she said.
Both of us are panting, even bleeding from the blows tae our bodies, I even take a deep breath, the machine still went flying over us with Daryl's control, my sis and I take a good look at each other and we use the first word, we aim the bow right at her and that will make her even worse.
"ShinyArc!" We said together.
The arrow flew towards the robot which ended up giving a backward impulse hitting the wall and even causing tremors all over the place, I'm worried about this, this place can fall like this, anyway, me and my sis go up, the glass is shattering thanks tae the arrow, she gave impulse with the glyph going up, but when getting close the robot started tae machine gun her tae the point of having tae use the magic shield and with that almost being pushed to the molten iron sea if it wasn't for me using the third word and with that I even went saving her from being hit like that by Daryl.
"Now let's go!" said my sister.
"Separately we are nae match for this thing, we have tae get together sis" I tell her who nods in agreement.
"Well then it's time to split up" Daryl said, activating a mode on the robot.
The arms turn into blades and one part starts tae spin like a saw, going towards us, sae we started tae dodge as the machine got closer and the cuts really do a huge damage when they hit things, I'm even scared of it, but I'm keeping calm, I just need tae think of something while I dodge, I'm kind of doing my best, but this machine scares me.
"I'm going to make them become mincemeat if you don't sign the contract soon" She said and I already see a plan in mind, the machine was only going tae go on Sis after me, she was starting tae run away, even going sae far as tae teleport.
I take advantage of this distraction and I go preparing an arrow, using a lot of my magic, waiting fae the perfect moment, my magic will be strong enough fae that the machine turns in my direction which was perfect, I shoot the arrow against the glass where Daryl was and with that the machine even ends up hitting the ground falling with the impact and stopping spinning, what I already celebrate a little, but still has a lot of ground ahead.
"I did it!" I say celebrating.
I celebrated too soon, Daryl still makes the machine go up, even with one of the arms destroyed, it goes floating with the propulsion, besides being full of glass cuts after the dome that protected it got broken, it's our chance, my sis goes straight tae the rest of the machine that simply collects the damaged limbs becoming a ball and starts showing machine guns, shooting towards us that had tae take cover.
"Damn, I forgot it had those" I say as I see the shots being fired and try tae hide.
My sister gets out of there anyway, she goes protecting herself, I see that also Daryl starts shooting rockets and I had tae dodge tae nae be hit, what she soon starts shooting against me, but my magic shield protects me, tense was when a rocket came and the explosion broke the magic barrier besides leaving me with some bleedings and half wounded.
"She can't have ammunition forever" said my sis.
"Die!" She said and kept firing and we just kept dodging and creating more magic shields.
"Let's just waste her time" I tell her who nods in agreement.
We start to use the space around us, remembering a lot the advice Mama Laura gave us, we take iron plates and defend ourselves from the shots by creating covers, they only dinnae last long because of the rockets, but it's our tactic, tae gain time before the worst happens, it can't have ammunition forever, it will soon run out.
"Damn it! Stop hiding! Show your faces!" She said and we really went about hiding, tae the point of fooling her.
"Yes," I say, celebrating.
We came up with a genius idea, spread several copies of us all over the arena and sae Daryl started using up ammo like crazy, tae the point where she goes crazy and sae she starts shooting from one side tae the other while the machine gun is on fire and getting very hot, sae we can have a breach, but then rockets started coming.
"I still have this little surprise" she said as we dodged the rockets, but there were still too many.
The place was getting more and more destroyed, our bodies are too sore, but we won't give up, Mama Laura wants us tae have a chance, she went up with everything, trying tae find us and we still eluded her, the rockets soon ran out too and with that I face Hellene with a smile.
"Let's go!" I say, arriving at my sister.
I arrive at Sis's side, we both use the second word, making an axe, but the robot even with a good arm was going up tae us, throwing itself at us and making us dodge, but we are already very attentive to the pattern that Daryl is doing, when she comes up again I catch and dodge, hitting the axe on the last arm of the machine then I throw the axe in my Sis's hands.
"You can't stop me!" said Daryl.
The robot falls on top of me, with all the weight, I go feeling all full of pain, holding firm the weight of the machine and squeezing against the wall, with that thruster, but it was only my mana appeared with the axe cutting her that Daryl fell on the floor, sae I saw myself free, but still falling on the floor half hurt, now we managed tae defeat the machine, at least this, sae much that Daryl gets out of it and is still laughing a lot.
"Did you really think this would be the end? I'm not stupid, I wanted to spend the maximum of their energies and forces against the machine, now you will know what real terror is" She said with her arms all open and showing a kind of intimidating pose.
"The worst is over" Said my sis panting and I notice that she was badly bruised as much as I was.
"I will not show any mercy, this is the last point, sign it quickly Diana, or else I will make you pay with your lives, Hellene will be killed by me without any mercy" said my aunt intimidating us.
"I already said nae" I say loud and clear tae her who continues tae smile.
"Well, if that's so, then feel my true face," she said, and started to walk towards us.
I was already trained and a lot, she was coming in my direction first, I am with my hand leaning on a pipe, she was running, just tae try tae hit me, I won't get in this fight, when she arrives close I hit her with the pipe, but she defends herself, when I notice that Daryl is with two blades in her hand, really she is nae fae playing. My sister arrives and hits a kick on my aunt that gives a few steps back, what my sister goes starting tae go up, until hitting well Daryl disappears teleporting, appearing right behind my sister about tae give a very cowardly attack on her, but I hit her with another pipe, I use the third word and hook on one that goes with everything towards Daryl making her fall a little tae the side and release one of the knives that my mana turns and kicks into the sea of molten iron.
"It's not because we are destroyed dat we are nothing" said my sister.
"Good because I don't either" She said drinking a potion.
On the spot she gets up and we could see her magic aura flowing and with that my sis went up with a punch and was held, they started tae hit each other more as equals, while I watched everything, still quite hurt, I'm already thinking here of a way, I use the third word and grab Daryl, throwing her against the wall, but she uses that as impulse and then throws the other knife, which catches well on my sister's prosthesis, I go trying tae go up also hitting tae save magic.
"Wrong hand you imbecile" Said my sister taking the knife out of her prosthesis and also throwing it into the sea of molten iron I was going body tae body against my aunt.
"Is that all Laura has trained you in? I thought there was more to surprise me," Daryl said.
I was trying tae punch and kick her, but she was dodging everyone with a calmness, as huge as my mother had, until my sister arrives and she gives the biggest volley, making my aunt give a few steps back, even getting kind of with the nose bleeding from the impact, she looked at us kind of with the face of anger, me and my sis smiled a little.
"Together we can do everything" I tell her.
"Now that the little sisters are together, they can die together too, I will have no mercy Diana, I'm tired of waiting for your contract, I will kill you and use your blood to sign this document" She said and we were nae that intimidated.
"And we will put an end to all dis" said my sis.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the factory, Akko, Laura and Marianne were arriving at the exit of thepath that Daryl had taken and coincidentally stopping at the exact place where the WCI agents werealso...
POV Akko:
Now we are safe, the agents are around here, it could be our big chance here, we were coming relieved, the agents, mainly Morris, even got a little bit of an angry expression towards us, we broke all the protocol of the way, but it was the way, or else we would be stuck on the way without finding Daryl.
"Where have ye been? It is nae safe tae separate from the group, do ye realise the danger?" Mrs Morris said.
"It's my fault, I dink I encouraged dem too much to go after Daryl all dis time, I even trained dem for it, it was my fault for encouraging dem so much" Mrs McLaren said.
"No! It was me and Diana who wanted to break the rules, we wanted to get to Daryl and defeat her once and for all" I tell them.
"It dinnae matter whose fault it is, we all go tae where Daryl is or they could be in great danger, we are at a numerical advantage and also at an arms advantage, she may be a strong witch, but she has nothing stronger than the intimidation of a revolver, more than any little girl" Mrs Morris said.
"The Shiny Rod is more powerful than a gun' I tell her.
"In fact Claiomh Solais is, but in the matter of leaving a witch in fear a revoler always solves this better, well anyway, come on, dinnae invent tae split up, it seems that the path is tapering fae Daryl, we got great evidence along the way, if ye put this together with the dossier of evidence that she had she will be arrested in a matter of time" Said Mrs Morris.
Agreeing with her we all go on our way, coming back again and in many, I even get some food to replace the lost blood, we walk through the traps, with a little more easiness, now we'll get to where Daryl is and arrest her for good.
In the arena...
POV Diana:
I'm already getting kind of dead tired, I dinnae know if I can take this anymore, I stare at Daryl and she looks whole, she just took the blood dripping down her nose and laughed at both of us, she walked over tae where there was a lever, pulling it and making the lift go all the way up, which got us away from the heat of the molten iron sea, but there's still the hole in the middle.
"I can't afford to be caught by the WCI agents, now let's settle this once and for all" She said as she went tae press another button.
"Attention! This place will flood with molten iron in five minutes, leave immediately before the place destroys you! Attention!"
"What?" I say shocked what the real fuck this bitch tried tae do with us, she want to kill us all. Is that all.
"You have five minutes, just as you also have Diana, on top of you there is a compartment of molten iron it will spill all over here, do you think I was not prepared for this? Let the games begin - she said looking at us until she laughed, what a fucked up conclusion to the events, she really wants tae make things worse.
"We will den break your face in five minutes" Hellene said, and well said for my sis, Daryl deserves that, bitch
We both kind of got in an attack position, but she kept her arms wide open getting ready fae the attack, we got ready tae go up, I went all out towards her and sae did my sis, she dodged it and just kept laughing, like
it was the funniest thing in the world, I even use the staff, I start tae turn it into a hook where she holds on and pulls it back, hitting me with a punch and making me fall on the ground, I'm really sore.
"Don't hit my sister" said my sister all furious and saving me, I feel really relieved.
Hellene was going with more intensity hitting, but was being defended too, it seems that the aunt really got a magic power from somewhere, I had nae idea she was that strong, I even get up, half hurt, I'm starting tae do another one of the words, but Daryl uses a vortex of wind to scare my sister with everything back and then comes with everything on me, hitting a knee in my stomach, that was really painful.
"I already told you Diana, you have to give up the leadership, your life will depend on it, don't you want anyone to die? I just want to give you the chance to live and be free of all this, think well Diana, think, it's the leadership of nothing, do you really want to lead all this? You're not even old enough or mature enough for that, I promise I will restore the honour of the Cavendish family, I'll do it for you if it's so important, I'll do it for my sister Bernadette, you see how I..." On the spot, my sister throws a volley that catches Daryl in the face and she takes a few steps tae the side that's great.
"You're such a liar" said my sister and she's right, I left the room feeling weak, I can't hit properly, I have tae think of a way tae put an end tae this the time is going fast.
POV Narrator:
And the final battle against Daryl begins, but she has not come to take it easy, she will go all out to finish off Diana and Hellene just to have the slightest chance of becoming the leader of everything the Cavendish family has, a boundless ambition that the witch is having to get what she wants, going so far as to prepare an entire arena in case it ends up in a fight, which she is getting the upper hand.
See you, fighting witches...