POV Narrator:
Saturday, 9 December 2019, Luna Nova
Some days have passed in Luna Nova, already marking the beginning of the week of exams for the end of the first term, Akko is calm, not feeling pressured, after all she is managing to keep up with her studies, in the middle of these days they take advantage of the weekend to start doing one more thing, this would be involving the mission of going to get one more of the sounds of the Fluit An Near, Diana even went to sleep in the red team's room, since the next day they would already start carrying out such a mission.
POV Akko:
Wow this bed is kind of tight to sleep with Diana, I thought it would be the ideal size, in her room it's better, but I wanted it to be here to make an adventure with Lotte and Sucy, it's been so long since I did something like this with the two of them, I've been giving Diana a lot of attention lately, besides the adventures I give with Hellene who always shows up with something to do.
When I wake up and move a little, Diana turns to me, she is really a cutie, you can see by her face, how cute, I give her a kiss and then we get up and go together to the bathroom, where we start to do our personal hygiene.
"Morning love, looking forward tae today?" Said my Cavendish.
"I am more than eager, it will be great to explore Lake Doras with you, what will the second sound do?" I say already full of curiosity.
"I dinnae know, but at least it will help a lot, the first one already gave a teleportation of the best it had, I dinnae doubt that it will be something great, I can't wait tae see what it will be like tae swim in the form of mermaids" said my girlfriend and I don't even want to know about that, I look horrible in that form.
"By the nines, that horrible thing, I'm glad it's only useful for that, but soon we'll get the mermaid shape which is cute, I believe I can do it" I say all excited.
"Well, I dinnae know, love, now come here, let's take a shower before we get really wet" Diana said and I started to take off my clothes, getting into the shower with her.
We hug each other, and begin to exchange caresses, even during the bath, she begins to be more affectionate, how sweet, I even give a little smile, then I begin to rub the soap over my beloved's body, first on her back, and what a wonderful back, I adore my beloved's body.
After the couple's bath...
We left well relieved, we see Lotte and Sucy already awake, which is Diana's time to give her line and how cute, I love to look at Diana's hair all cute like that, those curls and waves, make me want to squeeze and put my face, we sit down and my girlfriend gets up, she starts to get a board, where she shows a map of the lake doras and everything she can study, really a magic nerd, but the nerd that I love.
"Very well lassies, we are going tae start adventuring in the doras lake, I was able tae gather enough information from there and ye have tae be very careful, it is a lake that is quite safe, but about something related tae sound I did nae find, we will need tae explore a lot, there are nae complex aquatic creatures around, just the simplest ones, besides being too small tae cause any threat tae our integrity, we just have tae watch out fae those eels, they can give us shocks just by touching them" said my Cavendish.
"Oh and poisons, do you have any poison from Lake Doras?" Sucy asks and she obviously wants to know about the poisons.
"Ah yes, the poisonous fish, ye also have tae be careful with the more colorful ones, they are obviously poisonous, dinnae think about touching them or it may be something that kills any witch, even the old legends said that the roosterfish poison was used tae create the most dangerous potions in history, But anyway, stay away from the coloured fish, and just remembering, the water of Lake Doras is sweet, it's even very clear, it's a very little explored place and a nae very big lake, we will be able tae swim through it very quickly" Diana said and we just nodded.
"I get it, we'll get it soon, it's going to be really cool, gee, I can't wait to go on those crazy adventures and outings with you two, it's been a long time since we've done anything crazy, huh? No doubt it's been a long time, I really can't wait for all of this" I say full of happiness.
"Well, I didn't miss it that much, we always ended up in detention on their wild rides, so I'm just more worried, but anyway I just want to get the poisons from the roosterfish so, it will be interesting for my research" said Sucy, being Sucy as always, I knew she was going to say something like that.
"I am also worried about the trouble, but with Diana by our side I can be sure that we will be very safe, after all she is not much of a troublemaker and thinks a lot before acting" Lotte said and I even fell backwards on the bed.
"Oh come on, I'm more mature now, I'm not as dumb as I used to be, now I have the notion of how to act without causing trouble and Diana is also with us, besides we'll be in Doras, Sifla will love it" I say
"Anyway lassies that's it, let's get there and try tae find some suspicious place where there might be the second sound, for sure we will find it soon" Said my girlfriend.
Then Lotte went to the bathroom to bathe and Sucy stayed, she was kind of taking a look at the poisonous fishes, grabbing some bags and putting them on her backpack, since we took the chance to get backpacks that are waterproof to be able to get something that can help us explore better there, even the flute, we wrapped everything in plastic to not get anything wet.
I'm taking advantage and preparing my bag, I'm leaving everything sealed inside the plastic, putting the flute too, our soon we will leave to explore the lake, I love to swim in the water even being very cold, we left what was most necessary, some torches, I also leave food, I leave equipment to communicate, in this case waterproof radios too.
After they're all packed and ready...
Diana signals, we all nod our heads, we get the brooms, we fly outside, taking the Ley line towards the hills of Doras, I miss the trip we made in the summer, it was another time, I barely knew how to fly, I miss Sifla and now we are finally going to see her, I am really anxious for everything, we landed there and I was already noticing that the house was close, we are getting closer, we knock on the door, waiting for Sifla, we woke up very early, I think she must be sleeping, but nothing, she answers us, she even grew up a little, how cute.
"Sifla! You have grown up!" I say excitedly.
"Oh Akko, Lotte, Sucy and... Diana!" She said and came to hug me and we could notice that Feoras and Alan were also there, how nice, I missed them.
"Hello Feoras! Hello Alan!" I say to both of you.
"What brings you here? Have you seen the presents that Diana's mother gave me? She visits me here all the time, I don't know why, but she wants something here, she still didn't explain so much, she told me that she is your mother, a short and red-headed lady" said Sifla.
"My mother? Around here? That's strange, but anyway, I'll talk tae her later, I just want tae know if we can go tae Lake Doras, we have a special mission there" Diana said.
"You can, you have passage cleared by the queen of fairyland, whatever you want to do, you are the heroines of the kingdom, won't you come here to have a look at my house?" she said and we nodded.
We enter Sifla's house and we notice that this time she has electricity, how cool, Mrs. McLaren brought news for her, it really only got better, I want to see when the girls come here and find out that Sifla now has electricity, until we get to the living room and there is a TV, she was playing on the PS4 that is cool, so that is interesting, now that I wish I could go on a summer trip here, just to play games.
"Woah, a Playstation 4, it's nae every day that we see one of these, especially in this dimension, but how do ye use the internet?" Diana asks and soon she shows a modem.
"Mrs McLaren and Mrs Jordan think of everything, they say they guarantee internet for me and it works really fast, I can play without any lag, I can always have the games I want, it's really nice, they let me have a lot of fun, and I can also take better care of the fairyland - said Sifla and I get all excited.
"Diana, we have to stay here for a day, let's try to find the sound of the bizarre Flute and then we can play with Sifla, how about it?" I say all excited.
"Oh it's ok, it's just weird that my mum spoils this lassie sae much, I dinnae expect that one, it's really shocking news, well it must be a bigger reason" Said my girlfriend and it was evident her jealousy.
"Your mother is great, she said it's something important for the witches' revolution and that this is where it will start, so I trust her, this witches' revolution must be very special, but anyway, I'll love to play with you guys around here" said Sifla and I understood and so did Diana.
"Oh mum, always in this witches' revolution, we're going, take care Sifla, later we'll play with ye, we're going after the sound of Fluit An Neart, do ye know anything about it, or Feolas and Alan?" Diana asks.
"I have never heard of this Fluit An Neart" she said.
"Neither do I" said Feolas.
"I so little" said Alan who still gave a yawn.
After these answers we walk outside, we keep walking, the lake is very close to the hills of Doras, we climb the hills and we could see it at the bottom, from the map it looked tiny, but it wasn't that small, I even give a look at Diana who starts rubbing the back of her head, how the fuck are we going to find this today? Look at the size of this lake.
"Diana, you didn't say the lake was huge" I say shocked.
"In geographical proportions it dinnae look that big, on the maps it looked small, well anyway we can still do it, it's only 25km long on one side by 34km on the other and some branches, it's nae the kind of thing we won't be able tae explore, apart from the fact that the Arcturus lake is much bigger than that, but we managed tae find it" Diana said and I'm already discouraged.
"Okay, now is the time to start exploring this place" Sucy said.
"Wow, we really have to get into the water, we couldn't wait, I don't know... Summer? Now that I remembered it's really cold and we have to get in the water" Fuck, how I am so dumb.
"The mermaid shape guarantees us a warm body at any temperature, now let's go" said my girlfriend.
We put the mermaid necklaces on our necks, we started to walk with the backpack on our backs, I was already noticing that I had a horrible shape and the girls were looking at each other, at least they were ugly too, we looked like each other, we have no hair and nothing, only the fins that remind us a little, what I notice is that Diana has some well designed ones on top of her head, wow, that must be good for swimming.
"Ye say it's the end of the world, but it's really nae as horrible as ye sayAkko, these creatures must think they are beautiful among themselves and us humans being horrible, it's just a standard ye have in yer head of what's beautiful based on yer view as a human, now let's go" Said my Cavendish.
We walk towards the water and I see that Diana enters the water at once, just like Sucy and Lotte, I'm still a bit afraid, I put my foot in it and notice that it wasn't that cold, which gives me courage to enter with everything, it's even warm, I didn't expect this, I went swimming until I was more comfortable, too angry, I thought I would freeze here, but I have the feeling of a hot bath.
"Oh I was forgetting, the waters of Lake Doras are warm and hot, this is due tae the fact that there are hot springs underneath, an underground volcano exists here, sae the water is very warm" Diana said and I can understand what she says underwater.
"Well come on, where do we start?" I ask her.
"Look down here, it doesn't look sae small, Lake Doras is a bit deep too, but we managed tae find a way, I think it must be in the depths, I dinnae doubt it" said my girlfriend.
We start swimming and it's really fun to swim like this in a group, I feel the water passing over my body, it's a unique sensation, which gives me a relief and a freedom, it's as if I were a bird flying, only that I'm swimming through the water, that's great, we get deeper and deeper, the lake starts shallow and gets deeper, in the middle it seems like an abyss, I get scared.
"Wow it's lit up in here" I'm impressed.
"Yes, plants with bioluminescence, Lake Doras is 231 metres deep, that's where the submerged volcano gets hot, sae get ready fae the water tae get really hot" said my girlfriend.
"Well we are fishes, so we won't sweat" I say laughing.
And no doubt we won't sweat because of that, we went down that abyss, the water really warmed up a little, we saw some fish passing by and I just watching Sucy opening her backpack, taking one of the fish and putting it in a bag, she really wants to have a poisonous fish in her collection, it doesn't surprise me.
We are arriving where it seemed like a cave, when we entered it was much more illuminated, it even looked like we were in a place full of treasures and when we arrived there was a cave, how cool, we went up to the surface, where we saw a boat full of gold coins, we came back to the human form after leaving the lake, it was safe, we took some torches out of our pockets, since it was a little dark, only being illuminated by some plants.
"Lux!" Diana has illuminated everything, making it very clear, we think it's gold, but we just ignore it.
"Are you really going to let this gold go? Look how much it is, it must be worth thousands of pounds" said Sucy.
"Whatever, we just want to find the music" I say walking through the cave.
"I'll take at least enough to fill a small bag, I don't know about you, but I'm not going to pass this up" said Sucy, ransacking the baku.
"Do what you want, but let's not loot, the real owner is still alive and around" I tell her.
We go walking and through the walls we go looking, there was nothing on the sound, that strange, at the same time we go getting very close, where we saw that there was a door, we decided to open it, Sucy was still looting, when we opened it we saw that there is a place even more full of gold, that strange, we entered in the room, what Sucy got excited to go running in it, seeing that there was more gold, how greedy, but I don't judge her, money is good to buy things.
We look at the walls, there wasn't anything until then, until in the bays there was what looked like a map, we take it and now it will be interesting, let's see how far we can go, when we see the map, we could see that there was a musical note on it.
"We found it!" we said excitedly.
"But where does this map lead?" I ask myself.
"The X is right here, how strange, well anyway... Ah let me see something" said Diana who gave her hand for me to make a heart.
"How cute" I complete the heart but she slaps it away, I'd swear it was meant to be a heart, she doesn't do something like that.
"The flute love, the heart ye will see later" Diana said and I was laughing and a lot.
"Ah yes" I say handing over the flute.
At that time, when we put the flute against it, the paper started to light up, we followed it floating alone, creating a path to where the sound goes, we walked through the cave that was dark, but the lanterns illuminated, the map shined, until it arrived in a wall and it went all inside, what we found strange, because nothing appeared, how strange.
"Lotte use some spirit spell tae see if there's anything here" Diana said and Yanson goes to do it.
"Wow, it's good that Lotte came with us, so we will be able to find the sound" I said excitedly and she began to use her magic, the spirits were reading everything on the stone and soon were coming back to Lotte to tell what they discovered.
"You will find the sound, by touching the flute on the wall and showing that it is worthy" She said and we went about doing that, only the stone only sucked the flute in, what do you mean? And now.
Damn, we were trying to fix it, but that stone only swallowed our flute, until a creature fell on our side, wearing a tunic and it was staring at us with eyes that looked like lights, very deep, how scary, under that hat, it only summoned two keyboards, one on our side and another on his.
"If they want the flute they'll have to beat that in sound" Said the creature in a half distorted voice and started playing on the keyboard, which came Sucy to appear and play.
"Do you want to do a synth battle then?" Said our pink haired friend who went looking with a smile on her face at the creature.
The music was playing and it was really cool, I could see Sucy calmly, how could she stay calm in a situation like this, even more than the creature is kicking ass in the music, much more than Sucy who was just standing there, we were even amazed.
Sucy was starting to contradict the melhodia, she was going with a tremendous tranquility, I didn't know this side of her, it was something very soft, but we saw the notes starting to fly towards the creature that was creating a huge brightness, until the creature appears playing against it.
"I can't believe they sent this one" Diana said, I really don't understand anything.
The battle of synthesizers was getting intense with the notes even getting close, causing some tremors, the two were going practically in two ways, Sucy with the calmness, while the creature in the quickness, we were even cheering for her, that was keeping a cold look in front of that thing, that was starting to walk backwards, now it's our turn to burst, some instruments start to appear for us, a drum for Lotte, a bass for me and a guitar for Diana.
"Come on" I say with my hand up.
We play along with Sucy, giving an extra song in the background, keeping the rhythm, I was improvising, I know very little how to play, this is from my school days when I was the bass player of the class, but I think I can keep in line, I'm facing the creature and it's just feeling the notes.
We keep playing with our soul, everything was going with something as if it seemed that the floor was going to shake all around us, if we continue the cave is going to collapse, so much that it was getting too preoccupying to the point that we finished the sound and together we even formed a musical note that hit in the direction of the creature that only made the instruments disappear.
"You guys kick ass, here's Fluit An Neart and the next sound" said the creature that disappears inside its own hat while only the flute and a piece of paper with the last song which Diana takes.
"They were on Stoirmeacha, the sound of the storms, let's see if it works" Said my girlfriend who started playing the sound and was getting involved with a magic, she was getting a kind of bluish light around her, even floating, as she accompanied the score, until she made the sound more in rhythm and it seemed to work.
"Wow! Now there are only four more sounds to go and we'll get more back" I say excitedly.
"Now hold on we're going outside" Diana said and we nodded.
We started to hold on to it, which was playing the first sound, teleporting us back to Sifla, we stopped inside her house and saw that it was raining outside, a sign that it's working, how cool, the sound really does these things, Sifla even gets a fright with our presence so suddenly.
"How weird that you guys came back so fast, I could only hear a song coming out of nowhere and you guys in my face" she said.
"Well look at that then Sifla" Diana said picking up the Flute.
She started to play the sound of the storms, which made the brightness come back, I looked at the window and saw the storm dissipating, then the plants and everything around started to look like they were growing, the flowers were being born, the grass was getting greener, wow, I didn't expect that, even more so since it's autumn, even the trees got more colour out of nowhere, as if it was out of season.
"Woah! you can make it rain, my kingdom is beautiful now, even in autumn, the leaves are not so dry and dead, they are alive, this will help a lot, this music brought a bit of life to my garden, I love it" said Sifla and I was also unaware of these effects.
"Wow, the Fluit An Neart is impressive, we have tae really use it wisely, it's nae just any thing, we have a powerful thing in hand, together with Claiomh Solais the things that can change the world with magic and spread happiness" Diana said.
"Wow I'm really excited and happy to see you guys have something like this, I want to know more about Fluit An Neart, it's the kind of legend my grandma never told" Sifla said.
"We'll tell you, we'll enjoy it and spend the day playing with you" I say excitedly, and she gets a glint in her eye.
We sat down with her, she was going to play Fortnite, how cute, I've never played Fortnite before, nor any Battle Royale to be honest, I loved her doll, she has some cool skins, we went to get the chips that were in the backpack, I can't wait to play, I'm hungry too, we sat down and watched her playing, she seems to be more knowledgeable than us.
"How long have ye been playing Sifla? And how long did my mother show up?" Diana asks, alays curious about her mom.
"Ah she showed up about 3 months ago around here, I didn't even know her, but she claimed to know my mother and that she told her what happened to her... She knows where my mother is and that I was cursed so I can't get near her but I'm healed, so is my mother, I was still a newborn when it happened, she told me that she had a good friendship with my mother Sifla that the two of them were colleagues and were trying the witch revolution, but that apparently a certain boss came to give the faces, I remember it was a voice, she came here and appeared, she came with my mother, now Mrs McLaren wants to find my mother and this boss, she has no idea where she could be, she only remembers the curse being put on her and forcing her apart, I don't know so clearly, I just know that she will help me find mum" Sifla said and I think these things are getting interesting, Diana even gets shocked, even myself gets a little too.
"Sae now I understand, Sifla mother is a revolutionary witch and the boss must have found a way tae get rid of her, we are with ye tae find her, now I understand why my mother wanted tae talk tae you, I imagine it must have been horrible tae throw up everything, but it is a sign, yer mother is alive, but we dinnae know where" Diana said and looks like we have a new mission to do.
"Yes that's what your mother said, she also had the same, now I understand well how it is, but anyway, tell me more about the flute" She said and let's agree with the head.
"The Fluit An Neard or as I like to call the Bizarre Flute is one of the three relics that compose the Triskellion of Lilith, it is much more than the Gran Trisklellion itself, the legends say that by joining the three relics in the maximum potential is able to change the world of magic, appearing just when the magic is in crisis and needs a heroine that will save everything from not dying, is a very interesting thing, we will cause the witches' revolution one day" I say confidently and also excited.
"Ahhhhhhhhh, so that's what she does, I trust you can do it, but be careful, the boss must be quite dangerous, I think you have to be careful before the worst happens" Sifla said.
We nod our heads in agreement, taking a good look at what was happening on the screen, wow, Sifla really knows her stuff, look how easily she kills, her shots are precise, that's because she's only 7 years old, this girl is a monster playing, I couldn't even do it like that, but it's good to see that she can, she'll be a great player in the future, wow, look at that, that's four and even so she managed to lose a few lives.
"Anyway, I really can't wait to see what this will lead to, she said that the future will be better for me studying here in Luna Nova, she said that she already helped my mother a lot, her mother Laura said that she was her voice here in the 90's, studying here from 96 to 99, And then she started planning the revolution in Doras, but her disappearance ended up shaking Feoras and Alan to the point where they returned to their bipedal forms and started warring, I had to carry this nugget of being responsible for the kingdom, while the king was either a Cu Sith or a Cait Sith" said Sifla.
"I remember it well, it was really hellish, apart from that it was at the time of Feoras and Alan before us, but now that we have solved everything thanks to you things will improve, we will make this boss swallow her words and she is affecting us here in Arcturus too, we should have the option to live in peace" Feoras said.
"Apart from that it's really good that Mrs McLaren comes, she always brings toys and extra things for us to eat that we never even saw because of the rules that were said to be imposed but weren't true" Alan said.
"I'm just afraid of them finding out and taking everything away from me, I don't want to lose my Playstation 4, it's been one of the things I've been having the most fun with these days, it's my biggest safe haven, I loved the gifts, it really keeps me entertained, before I had nothing to do, just read books and books, I've read them all several times and I'm bored" Sifla said.
"That explains why ye know sae much about magic" Diana said and she nodded.
"Yes, I learnt everything I had here, but now I don't have to bind myself to the books, I can just play, it's cooler, and I've made a lot of friends through the internet, although they are a bit thick, they really don't know how to behave, especially when they hear my voice" she said and we even stroked her head.
POV Narrator:
The second sound of Fluit An Neart was discovered, even by a musical dispute that showed Sucy had talent with a synthesizer, plus more revelations of Sifla and Laura McLaren's past, where it is narrowly not revealed yet about Croix's possible escape that will happen in a few days, when the stone comes to be delivered to Margareth.
See you, Doras witches...