POV Narrator:
Monday 6 April 2020, Luna Nova
In Dublin the way they dealt with the pandemic was the same that was happening with the whole world adapting the classes to start a more distance learning, instead of what is happening in Luna Nova, still the only place in all Europe to keep the classes in person, because there was already a student infected with Covid 19 and soon the disease could spread more, especially with the intention of infecting Akko. One more week was starting, with only two months left to the end of the classes before the summer and the graduation, which the girls were dying to get to.
POV Akko:
One more day of class, I still wonder why we're in this class, I wish I could be at home, although I would be far away from home, the worst of all is that today is the day of class with Finnelan, it's going to be a pain, she said she's going to review an important content today, I can already see that it's going to be a pain in the ass, I hope it ends soon, I go to the bathroom, I do my personal hygiene, I change, so I'm ready for what's coming in class.
With the shower taken I put on my uniform and leave the bathroom, going back to the room, where one of the girls goes inside.
"Look at Finnelan's first class of April, we are almost at the end Akko" Lotte said while still having a tired expression.
"I just wish there weren't any more, well at least we only have two more months of classes, after that I'm going to Diana's house to enjoy it, I just hope the boss doesn't get any more students here to try to infect me like last time" I say while I was packing my things for today's class.
A while later, already in line for the classroom...
We arrive at class on time, as always Diana makes sure to be the last one, she keeps an eye on me, so that no student sneezes around and spreads the virus, it's a concern she has been having, even a little exaggerated this overprotection, but it is necessary and I will end up being expelled for nonsense, my turn arrives, the teacher takes my temperature, she also gives me alcohol gel, I am released and enter the classroom, walking to my desk.
"Whew, finally, this is the most tense part, I wonder what would happen if the thermometer beeped" I tell Lotte and Sucy who were at the desks next to me.
"Surely we wouldn't get in, then we'd have a covid test, but it might give us a break from classes if we got a no, have you ever stopped to think?" said Sucy.
"As much as I hate having to do the classes I wouldn't find it so great to miss them, no more fear of being failed, it's not even because I'm committed" I say shrugging my shoulders.
I'm waiting for the other girls to come in and the class to start, I'm already hungry just imagining food, the worst is that I woke up in the morning and ate at most a pack of Ruffles, that won't hold me for a three hours class of Anne Finnelan, I hope I don't end up dying here, I really hope not.
Soon the teacher is coming in too and now the class is going to start, I better not sleep, hopefully there will be something interesting today, Ms. Finnelan arrives in all seriousness to the middle of the stage and starts to adjust her wand, looking at us.
"Very well class, today we're going to give a review on the great witch Jennifer, open your books at page 59, that there we'll start by starting with the context of what those times were. In September 1699 the Blackwell Berger agreement is signed, which ended the witch hunt thanks to the supreme leader of the time who managed to make a beautiful agreement to prevent this kind of thing, I'll even write here on the board so you have a notion of what was this timeline starting here" Said the teacher.
There went Professor Finnelan putting the year 1699, with the so called agreement that ended the witch-hunt, then she went forward the years until 1716, from what I remember that was when Jennifer was born, I think it was exactly that and the professor immediately gives a cough.
"March 7th 1716, Jennifer Campbell was born, she is a descendant of Sarah Campbell the witch who freed Luna Nova from the hands of The Council, she was already from a more detached part of the Cavendish part of the family as they say she also has descent, but we will show here that since her childhood she already
demonstrated an intellect and magical talent far superior to the girls of her age at all times, But at that time the things for witches were very disorganized, it was a mess, there weren't the things we have today, they barely had schools of magic that taught properly even those didn't have an iota of discipline" Diana stood up beside her to interrupt her teacher.
"It is confirmed that Jennifer is a Cavendish descendant, she is the great-granddaughter of Sarah Campbell who had also been the wife of Diana Cavendish I, that part has been erased from the Cavendish history but it was written by the Cavendish themselves in their diaries and biographies, I could read it at my house" Diana again sits down and I thought the teacher would give an angry reaction for this, she has always been as homophobic as possible.
"Well Miss Cavendish, we can not know the veracity of these sources, but even if it is proven still have to continue with the content passed by us here in Luna Nova, returning here Jennifer, spent much of adolescence trying to study magic in an organized way, coming back to the mansion of Cavendish in Scotland, where she had classes with precisely Diana Cavendish I in person, when she was still alive, that was when she was 13 years old and was specializing there, It was seven years in a place that nobody knew, but it was the best that could be at that time to teach a witch the basics of magic and in this Jennifer excelled, even in relation to the Cavendish of the time, but there was one thing that she was more motivated to do, she had more commitment than the other great-granddaughter of the family, Eleanor Cavendish, who despite being a Cavendish she acted like an immature child" Again my girlfriend interrupted the teacher.
"Eleanor was only ten when Jennifer arrived, she's three years younger, plus she became a mother extremely early, it's nothing compared tae Jennifer" Cavendish said.
"Eleanor got involved in a homo-affective relationship that could have killed her, it almost didn't happen and the other witch involved who ended up suffering this, but returning here, from 1729 to 1736 were the years that Jennifer dedicated herself to study to be a better witch and with her great grandmother's stories she became enchanted by a specific place, simply Luna Nova, it was in this that she started a new plan and this involved the return of the place to be as it was before, she would have the support of the Cavendish themselves for that, but kind of Diana I was already very debilitated at the time, age comes to all, she was already 104 years old and very experienced, what Jennifer can only stay there for another year until the death of Diana Cavendish I, the following year, she decided for motivating herself to rebuild Luna Nova, as a way to return the gratitude for all the help Diana had given her, with a mission in mind, in 1737, Jennifer leaves Scotland and returns to England, she goes to her hometown of Glastonbury, where she knew there was a very strange portal and there she starts to try a way to reopen the portal, she was studying deeper and in a short time she gained access, but Luna Nova was still in tatters, the whole construction was in ruins, it was very different from what it was today, she knew that she couldn't just reform it, it would take a complete reconstruction, and so alone she dedicated herself for three years in going building stone by stone, She focused her work only on that, at least the basics she was still doing, besides a house to stay, but the problem was that she didn't have so much monetary support anymore and for that she would travel back to Scotland to make an appeal to the Cavendish, that was in 1740, when the actual Luna Nova already had 40% of construction already don" said the teacher that was starting to show on the board.
She was drawing the timeline and showing the important years, such as emphasizing that Jennifer spent three years building Luna Nova alone, until it was arriving in 1740 and she separates the timeline in other events, putting even as if something terrible happened in that year. Putting the town of Preston with an emphasis and also writing two names, Victoria and Julia.
"September 2, 1740, in Preston in England, Jennifer simply decided to take a different route to Edinburgh, passing through some towns where the Campbells lived to try to raise more funds for the reconstruction of Luna Nova, what ended up spoiling her destiny were two children she met on the way, Victoria and Julia McLaren, being the benevolent witch she always was she protected the two children from being murdered by a witch who was chasing them, something that has connection with personal rivalry issues of the witches McLaren and Williams, which is nothing important, but it was precisely this of taking in these two girls that was Jennifer's biggest mistake, she took the two for her trip to Edinburgh, got the necessary funds what she already had a good relationship with the Cavendish and there she went returning to Glastonbury and then dedicating 3 years to rebuild Luna Nova, with the two children to look after, if it wasn't for the two, Jennifer would have finished in a year, but she made sure to put Victoria in the middle and on top of that she made sure to travel to Ireland to take satisfaction from the Williams, on the way she took another child there that had been expelled by the Williams, Esther, another child that she wanted to take to Luna Nova, but even with these children hindering her progress, Jennifer could still finish everything in June of 1743, the reconstruction of Luna Nova was done and she already started to spread news all over the United Kingdom and Ireland of the opening of the new academy of witchcraft, Jennifer with only 27 years old rebuilt the most prestigious academy of witches in the world and the reopening of Luna Nova was a success, She called witches from
everywhere to study there, already starting with the system that we know today of 3 years and at the time the minimum age was 15, only making exception to the two children who were there, which soon I'll get into her topic, the opening of Luna Nova drew attention and was what revived the golden age of magic, it was a constant rise that did not stop ascending, simply Jennifer's leadership helped bring magic back on top" Said the teacher and I had heard this before, gee it's an exaggerated adoration of Jennifer.
She went on to start doing more parts of the timeline, now adding the years 1750 and talking about the Victoria thing, where she's already put an X over her name and how it showed that she wasn't that accepted.
"Except that there was her, Victoria, she wasn't a terrible witch, on the contrary, thanks to Jennifer's rescue, she had access long before everyone else to the most advanced that magic could provide, this from a very young age, which made her the best student shot in the first years of the school of magic, this with only 11 years old, she is to this day the youngest to graduate, with only 14 years old she finished her studies and took everything that was title that could be possible, her yearbook is one of the most complete in the history of Luna Nova, but why the controversy behind it, simply because this Victoria was an ingrate with everything Jennifer did for her, just like Esther, but let's go here to 1750, where grand events were held in Luna Nova and leveraged the Luna Nova academy for good, having the first witch Olympiad and also a combat tournament, The Olympiad was an event between schools of magic and was Jennifer's genius idea of promoting an event between academies of witchcraft that helped to leverage the emergence of more to beat Luna Nova, with the intention of winning the event that took place every 5 years here in Luna Nova, The tournament was Mildred Berger's idea, she wanted to get an advisor to help her with her leadership and her witch-cleansing business, but ungrateful Victoria won this tournament, which was already of very poor quality, since both finalists were rebellious witches, Eleanor Cavendish a homosexual who was a single mother and who only wanted her narcissistic right to have her daughter recognized and to be free from the other side even worse, Victoria McLaren, equally homosexual, who simply won and she went to cause terror to the witches what I will show later, but now it's time for good things, at least in these years Victoria's ungratefulness was working for Mildred Berger and also with her absurd plan" Said the teacher and Diana then stands up.
"The absurd plan was the liberation of homosexual witches, ye can nae erase the witch hunts homosexuals of that period, is something that has plenty of evidence that happened, the sae-called "cleaning" that Mildred promoted was a eugenics and genocide of witches that today we understand as LGBT, but that at the time thought it was all homosexual, Victoria was essential tae this struggle fae human rights, nae tae mention that she is a national hero in Ireland" Diana then sits down and soon the teacher takes a deep breath.
"As I said it's what the books say and let's work with what the books say I have to work with, even so she's not the heroine you think she is, that's McLaren influence stuff, no doubt her mother romanticized this story of hers, but let's reveal soon what she did, but first of all I'm going to explain here about how Luna Nova was in that time, The 1750's and 1760's were the peak of Luna Nova, with Jennifer's administration of the academy, there were Olympics every five years, there were major events all the time, the school showed incredible feats that witches could do and even parades were held all over the UK, which at that time became enchanted with witches, That image of the past was washed away thanks to Jennifer, she wasn't a boss, she was a leader, she went with everyone, she didn't think only of Luna Nova, she thought of all magic, she raised the reputation here to an astronomical level something that had never been repeated before, in that time she also had a daughter, the eldest that no one knows who her father was, only that she would have a greater importance, since in 1770, the elections for supreme leader would take place after the cruel murder of Mildred Berger and Jennifer being the incredible leader that she was, She had the charisma, she had everyone's adoration, she wanted to assume the position so that she could bring the witches even higher, so much so that she passed the position of headmistress to her daughter Layla, which was a bit of a fall there, due to Layla's inexperience and lack of competence in comparison to her mother, After all Layla was only 21 years old when she took over the position, but still had the help of her mother when she could help, even with an administration like that even so Luna Nova was overcoming herself, enduring the times, of course the 27 few years that Jennifer spent were more striking, But it was for a greater good, since Jennifer's competitor was none other than Victoria, but we know well that the ungrateful that even turned against who raised her since childhood to take that place lost, by a very expressive vote in favor of Jennifer, this in a very obvious way, Jennifer was undoubtedly the most competent supreme leader for the position, she promoted the maintenance of the traditions of magic, which no doubt she helped to save, while Victoria was the opposite and on top of that I will soon explain the reasons why Victoria was not chosen. Jennifer in the years she was the supreme leader helped the rise of magic even more" Said the teacher and gee, it's a never ending adoration of Jennifer, she's the immaculate goddess here.
And soon she was showing more, now she goes on the timeline to 1760 and starts putting the names of Victoria, Diana Cavendish II, Saoirse, a place called Terre Sapphique and Mildred Berger putting a cross
there, I was writing it down making such a timeline, I even looked at Diana's desk and it was evident how angry she was with the lessons.
"This girl here, this ungrateful Victoria, what was she doing while Jennifer worked hard? She put on a criminal masquerade, releasing criminals into the world and even taking them to her hidden city that turned into a crime den, which Mildred felt betrayed, evidently, McLaren took advantage of the legislative immunity she won in that tournament to make a criminal den, the supreme leader of the time then went and did what any sane person would do and went with all her might to Terre Sapphique, put an end to it all, Victoria's sister was a huntress and a good one, in the frontage hunt group that Victoria made where they had the best criminal huntresses of the whole United Kingdom and possibly of the history, only that McLaren invented to dismantle everything, coming back to Julia, she volunteered to attack Terre Sapphique and made a plan of creating a criminal city similar to Victoria's, but the intention was to grant freedom to these criminals if they helped Mildred, only that she betrayed Berger and worked with Victoria, together and combining the Mclaren sisters murdered the supreme leader, only that Victoria knew she could be convicted of murder, what who ended up killing was her sister, the two ungrateful for everything Jennifer did still bolted a plan of maximum betrayal to the council of witches and got away with their crimes for the rest of their lives, The council knew what Victoria did, besides her very unusual thoughts, things like modernizing magic, working with mundane people for the advancement of humanity, were things that would only kill magic, which is obvious the reasons why Jennifer Campbell became supreme leader" Said professor Finnelan before Diana interrupted again.
"Honestly just remembering that I swallowed these lies in the first year surprises me, this is full of historical inaccuracy, Julia and Victoria had a troubled relationship, she wanted tae continue being a hunter fae power, sae much sae that Homoland was a complete dictatorship, Terre Sapphique was a commune and freedom was one of the priorities, the community helped each other, Mildred was a criminal in power, dinnae anyone find it strange that she died at 163 years old with a youthful appearance, she circumvented the laws of nature and stayed young, she wanted tae remain forever as supreme leader, I won't even talk about Victoria's ideas, because magic would be better off if she was supreme leader, Jennifer was good administering Luna Nova, but she was never as good a surprema leader as when she was in Luna Nova" Said my girlfriend.
"Well now let's talk about that, without having to talk about what you believe or not of Victoria, you have to remember that thanks to Jennifer she gave the place to Victoria to be again a counselor of the leader, of so much love and benevolence that was in Campbell's heart she still helped the girl that she saw as her daughter, what did she do? Victoria still ruined everything, she didn't last even 10 years in her position, the last straw was the approval of the narcissist Homosexual Act of 1780, Jennifer saw that it was too much and took Victoria out of the power, but she kept the law still, what until today nobody took that away, I don't understand why, but anyway, they must have forgotten, as Jennifer was in power for a long time as leader, contrary to Miss Cavendish, Jennifer's times as supreme leader were the best in terms of us still being in the golden age of magic, witchcraft schools exploded all over Europe, Jennifer promoted the greatness of magic and was managing to keep even the mundane people interested, so much so that at the time she even made an exception to register new families of witches and bring some mundanes to greatness, but unfortunately everything has an end, Jennifer was already getting old, she still promoted another election for supreme leader in 1835, and no one less than the ungrateful Victoria ran for that position, but the competitor was someone Jennifer trained for 10 years for that position, her great-granddaughter, Bianca Campbell, she took the position with unanimous decision, Victoria was already 103 years old, the council did not want someone who was going to die at any time, they wanted someone young and who was also the height, with the defeat, Victoria did not try anymore, Jennifer even was a nice person and congratulated McLaren for the persistence and said that she also deserved that position, but unfortunately everything has an end, on April 12, 1837, at the age of 121, Jennifer Campbell was here in Luna Nova, visiting one last time she was well received and decided to leave in the grandest way possible, by transforming herself into a tree and until today we can see her here facing the tree of the great memorial Jennifer, at that time her daughter was still director and made sure to build the memorial all around that place, a great witch that could bemore in this world, after her the world of magic entered in a deep decline, what we experience until today, that was a very basic summary in timeline of what was the great witch Jennifer, now let's write down all the deeds she did one by one" Said the teacher.
Diana simply didn't even try to interrupt or anything, and there went the teacher erased the blackboard, luckily I could write down everything from the timeline, remember what was Jennifer, I remember that in this class I slept through everything, but now I paid attention and it seems that this story is very romanticized and fabricated, now come on, I'll have to write everything down, honestly it seems that Victoria in this story was only wronged, she doesn't seem to be that much of a criminal, even the way they try to talk making her seem evil she still seems like a good person.
With the end of classes much later, as they leave the room...
Whew, I was already getting starving, I don't think even with the class that came afterwards Diana ended up with a frown, she must have been annoyed with everything, I go up to her and try to talk, but she as usual puts her hand in front of me, which I distance myself enough, as usual, she soon takes a deep breath and looks at me.
"HonestlyAkko, this is all lies, but ye will need tae use these lies if ye want tae pass the year, Jennifer was nae this immaculate goddess that they think she is, yes she was a great witch, but she wasn't like that, Victoria was extremely wronged, my mother already told her story and I read Victoria's biography these days, she has a beautiful story of struggle, she was never ungrateful with Jennifer, on the contrary, she saw Jennifer as a mother, she always treated her with great respect, even when disagreements happened, the two were great friends until death" Diana said.
"I also found this story a bit fabricated, I don't remember it being like this" I say, scratching the back of my neck.
"In the days ye more slept in class than paid attention, but I confirm, Finnelan repeated the same words she said in 2017 tae us, I also believed this story, but today I realize how well everything is manufactured tae praise the image of Luna Nova" Said my girlfriend.
"The witch revolution will change that, I'm sure" I tell to Cavendish.
"When I am a history teacher I will go too, I want tae bring the truth, I was like Finnelan too, I thought Ireland over romanticised Victoria and even my mother when I first saw her, but today I know she is all that, she is much more even, a witch forgotten by history that only a country recognises her greatness" said my Diana.
"Love I'm a little hungry, can I go to your room and get some chips, mine are running out already" she agrees with her head and with that I go and get ready, I wave to Diana and go to my room today the day will have at least a few things to eat.
POV Narrator:
In a team's room the boss had appeared to surprise three students, who were not expecting anyone to arrive, so much so that they are startled and have the door of the room locked so that they cannot escape, just as a sound inhibiting spell is done and they stare at the boss half frightened by her presence staring at them.
'What? Please don't attack us" said one of the girls.
"I don't want to attack you, you're first year students right? Well you still have a long way to go and you don't want to risk staying here in this unhealthy place that at any moment the Covid can burst, well, I have a proposal for you three, it involves a letter to study at Harriet Benson Academy for the second year, I can enroll you there and still give a reward like that, a bag for each one, you just need to do a little favor for me" said the boss.
"Why do you want us to study at another witchcraft academy? Luna Nova is the best" said one of the students.
"Luna Nova won't last that long in the pandemic, do you want to graduate as witches? The Harriet Benson Academy has already adapted to the pandemic, I can send a letter to pass you there, they will accept your decision, look how much you can earn" said the boss showing the suitcase full of money.
"Look it's a lot of money, I'll even take covid for all of it" said one of the girls.
"Well that's my offer, you three will get Covid, but don't be scared, I have the vaccine, as soon as you fulfil the agreement I will vaccinate you and get rid of Covid, you will only take the risk, but it's something worth taking, I want you to infect a target, as soon as the symptoms appear, you can leave it to me that I will do everything to get you through your days through security" said the boss.
"Ohhhhh, wait a minute, are we going to be a biological weapon?" asks one of them.
"Is it worth doing that? We'll get expelled if we get caught" said the other girl.
"Well, you may end up having that ending, but you'll go on an early holiday, going on to the second year at Harriet Benson Academy, what do you think? And the money is guaranteed, you'll be able to buy things you could never buy before, you just need to infect the target" said the boss.
"You bet, we'll do it, it'll be worth it" said the blonde member of team.
"Kagari? She's the best here, she's a hero, I remember what they said about her being a worldly girl who didn't give her anything, but today she's one of the best students here, she just wants to do well" said the brunette.
"I think this is more than a question of money, a girl suffering because of us, is it worth it?" Said the other brunette on the team.
"It's fine by me, she's the one who got in the way, this is no time to be morally correct, apart from the fact that we might have the chance to earn money we never had before" said the blonde.
"That's one suitcase each, there's about 250 thousand pounds in here, you'll never earn something like that in your lives or it'll take you years working to match that earning, think about what you can do, it'll be 750 thousand pounds putting the three of you together, just sneeze or cough in Japanese" Said the boss and they all nod their heads in agreement.
Then the boss leaves the window of the room and starts spraying a little bit of the virus spreading around the room and infecting the trio. This will be another attempt of the boss to try by all means to take awayAkko's chance to graduate in Luna Nova, this time coming with more force, since a whole trio will be infected.
The classes were as they always were, still with the pandemic factor, reviewing the history of the great witch Jennifer where there is a very biased view by teacher Finnelan regarding the history of the witch that was quite important, but for Luna Nova she is seen as an immaculate and correct goddess, while Victoria as a rival and ungrateful, although she was quite disadvantaged in her time, which was leaving Diana indignant as she went back to see history in the point of view she had seen before, but this time with the mentality that she has more mature.
See you, great witches...