POV Narrator:
Luna Nova's graduation had started, but nobody expected that in the middle of it would start a mass attack of The Council Revival that appeared by surprise to cause in the witchcraft academy, where the students went quickly running to hide from them, some of the girls on the other hand, mainly of the third year went to the fight, to face the mysterious cultists, surprised by the presence of Mary that was there practically without showing any expression and already going up to each one of the girls in some form of combat.
POV Mary:
This place is giving me things in my head, ahhhhh, I'm starting to remember some things, the girls I have to shoot target, they mess with me, but I don't know why, I was supposed to kill them, but I can't, even more this redhead that comes coming at me, she can hit hard, I better dodge, what I do using magic and giving a mortal back, going to a high part, at the same time I release an explosive grenade that hits the redhead and so I am safer beside one of my partners.
"You have shown what you are capable of creature, so willingly surrender to The Council Revival and we will let you live in our new base" Said the leader.
"Mary!" Said a target girl and I already aim the gun towards her, about to shoot, but I start to get a headache, walking backwards.
I see one of my allies aiming the gun at her and I start to shoot, but a magical barrier appears to stop it, they're really protecting her, which I go back to form soon and I keep trying to keep it still quite intimidating, already feeling the redhead's presence appearing behind me, I dodge, but she hits just the one she shot.
It was a hard enough hit to hit the barrier, with a glyph being placed and then bouncing down to the ground where the leader was, she looked straight into my eyes, I look at her and then at the other target, I'm getting half with things going through my head.
"Mary, we don't want to hurt you, don't you remember us?" Said the redhead giving her hand to me and I take out a pistol already shooting towards her, who manages to defend herself.
"I don't have any friends" I say as I shoot and see that the girl got scared and went running off.
"Go on creature, shoot that target, let's show that we are not joking, as for the others shoot the redhead" Said the leader.
Some barriers were around the target and I was trying to chase it, but I saw that the headmaster was protecting as well as one of the teachers, but damn, they don't want me to chase the target, so I aim a grapple gun on the ceiling, I manage to hook it and go towards them, already shooting without paying much attention, they still manage to defend themselves, until I get close to them and take a knife from the holster this time, I'm going up with a knife, but they disappear and I see the leader holding my hand.
"Not now, they are protecting the target a lot, I think we will have to show more of our power" said the leader.
POV Hellene:
Curious dat Avery was protected from de projectiles, but I wasn't, I had to turn around not to be shot, dere's still a bastard with a minigun trying to destroy me, now that it's hot it's time, I turn around using a magic pistol spell, which already guarantees me an extra boost, I go as if I were teleporting towards de Minigun guy, already punching him, without wasting time I cast another spell and see dat dere are others already aiming deir weapons in my direction.
"You can shoot the redhead" said de leader.
Dat same bastard from Valentine's Day, he is 'ere again, when I see de two snipers going to aim in my direction, I already use my magic to disappear, I go towards de first one that is caught by surprise, he already casts a spell trying to stun me, but I dodge, I give a punch in his stomach dat ends up being thrown a lettle backwards, I teleport behind him, but I have de knee stopped by his hand, what I don't stop, I throw a spell in his face and then I give a crawl knocking him down on the ground, dis almost taking a sniper shot dat could catch in my head.
"Bastard" I say as I notice the shot on de wall.
De guy was going to fall to de ground, but I kick him to throw him up and den I kick him again in de direction of de sniper, who shoots me again, which catches me in de face, but de worst part is dat it catches me in de middle of his partner, a shot like dat would be fatal, de body went to de other sniper, only not catching him because de leader used a magic barrier and signaled to give a break.
"You have killed one of our people, now that we will show no mercy, go full force to the witches," said deir leader, signalling.
I only see RPG rockets coming towards me, which I go throwing myself forward dodging dem, even using a spell to try to slow down time and at de same time dodge de sniper bullets dat come catching towards me, at de same time I fall facing de leader of De Council and also Mary who must be mind controlled or something, I see de lasers from de snipers already in my face.
"Don't shoot, I want to see how well she holds up against the creature, go creature, attack her with everything" Said their leader.
"It's going to be a very painful death, I'm going to go all out" Mary said in a dead voice, she was no doubt controlled by someone, she was already pulling out a knife and ready to go all out.
"Mary I don't want to hurt you, but if it's necessary to defend myself I will" I say looking at 'er in fighting stance.
She was starting to go trying to give me a punch, I dodge and den go with a punch in de direction dat she goes with de knife to hit my chest, I could see dat she is not stupid at all, as I expected too, I use my hand with de prosthesis to hit 'er blade dat goes a little up and almost doesn't get my face, I use de movement to give a backward mortal and she also does de same, what we are staring at each other for a while.
"Not bad for a target, as I imagined you would be the hardest to hit," Mary said.
She disappears, I turn around and see dat she reappeared behind me, what I had time to defend with my hand from de stabbing, which is going to graze my prosthesis, at least one good ding of not having a hand is dis, I take de chance to cast a spell towards 'er dat dodges, but I make a glyph on de other side, already expecting 'er to hit a cut in my direction, but on de contrary she jumps and de spell turns on me.
I almost get caught by surprise with 'er coming over de top with de knife too, but I prefer to be hit by de spell to give me a backward momentum, which I make a glyph behind me, de knife catches de dog and I use de momentum to return it with a kick, which even makes 'er give a fall back, but in the end she gives a mortal, right at de time I cast a spell dat she uses de blade of de knife with a little magic to cancel and cause an explosion with a lettle of a cloud of smoke.
"Excellent demonstration creature, you are doing very well against the redhead - Said their leader.
"Are they going to do nothing? Are you just going to watch? - I say to the girls who were just watching the fight then all I see is sniper fire in my direction and the leader waving his fingers.
"No, nothing like that, you are under my orders now, don't try anything funny or else you will end up dying, now I want to entertain myself, please creature, show what you are made of, kill this redhead in the most shameful way possible - said the leader.
I look up and see Akko and Amanda moving, dey are going to sneak up on us, dat might help us, as I see Constanze going into the shadows, well if dey try anything on me later I guess dey 'ave to worry about what's going to come as a surprise.
Mary comes towards me casting a spell which I dodge and I only see 'er later with de knife going to hit me, which in mid air, I use a glyph to throw me to the ground but she teleports towards me and with that I on de ground give a mortal and end up giving a kick dat catches well on de blade of de knife, luckily I am with a trainer.
"You're going to ruin my new trainers like dat" I say as I finish turning around and get surprised from behind, I almost felt de blade enter me, but managed to use magic in time to block it, which I elbow Mary. I really can't keep messing around here, I have to go up with all or nothing.
POV Akko:
I can't believe this is happening to Mary, it's like she's been brainwashed, she's no longer in control of herself, I'm really shocked, she's also managing to hold her own against Hellene who is one of the strongest,
if not the strongest of our group, Amanda and I manage to venture out, to the window, but shots are heard in our direction and narrowly miss us.
"Look, it looks like your little friends are trying to find my shooters, we're not being blind" said the guy with the ox skull when he noticed us and I even got nervous when I looked at Amanda.
"Don't shoot dem!" McLaren said.
"This little show of you two can't end, fight for your life, redhead, before its inevitable end and that none of your friends will interfere with us" said their leader.
I was even staying still with fear, Amanda didn't care, she jumped on a chandelier and was swinging and they were shooting towards her, but the shot caught in a magic barrier, which I could notice where one of the shots was coming from and already aim a spell in that direction, only it ended up catching in a barrier, they are really protecting themselves too, I jump too, only the shot is not defended, I had to use a magic barrier just like Amanda, but we could see where the shots come from.
"You guys are pretty stubborn aren't you? I think you'll want to be first before the redhead, I think the boss will like the target, let's make it a bit more explosive here" said the strange guy.
At the time he signals I only hear the sound of RPGs coming towards us, which Amanda and I jumped off the chandelier and got involved in the middle of a magic ball, falling from that height, I also saw the shots that were being given, the rockets caught well on the chandelier that ended up only falling right in the middle where Hellene and Mary were fighting each other, which ended up separating them and the two of us on the ground even lost a little hope, it was our chance to save Hellene from the worst.
"Do you really think we came unprepared? We have a map of what Luna Nova is, we know its escape routes, I am well entertained by the battles, but it is time to show that we are not messing around, you can come bring the others back" Said the leader of The Council.
I just kept seeing the first, second and third year students, together with the teacher, they were tied up and leaving the corridors, kind of screaming or asking for mercy, some girls crying, that scene was a horror, I can't believe what I'm seeing, I hope he really doesn't think about shooting them, I keep seeing the other cultists appearing armed with pistols in each of the groups they caught, there are four of them, apart from the two snipers, the leader, Mary and I don't know how many of the rest.
"We didn't come here to play around, you can decide, we will turn you into slaves and let you live or we will kill you one by one and execute you, just like we did in 1517, we still have plenty of weapons for that," said the leader.
"Do something Mrs Holbrook! The future of Luna Nova depends on you, we cannot surrender to The Council, you are a powerful witch" Said Professor Finnelan more desperate than I had seen her before, it is really strange to see how terrified she is like that.
It's even more strange the calmness of the headmistress in this whole situation, I really couldn't imagine that she was so cold in a life or death situation like this, she just keeps the same face as always, getting even serious, if she doesn't do anything we could die, she has no idea of the danger that these witches are, even more Mary, she is a threat.
"Everything is in your hand director" said the leader and I see that Hellene was already half injured also in the middle of the fight just like Mary.
"We will not give in to any of your demands, you should leave or else I will show you what my real power is" said the headmistress.
"Hahahahaha, you are just an old lady, that day you were lucky to catch us by surprise, even then you have no idea that The Council Revival is powerful, we did not come here for your little games, we came here to take what is ours, I think I will have to show this, you can execute the redhead" Said the leader.
Mary was already with the knife in Hellene's neck, I was getting a scared face, nobody did anything, at the time she was going to move the blade something strange happens, Brooks starts to get a headache and at that she releases the knife, leaving Hellene open to attack and as she did, she gave a great punch throwing Mary backwards with everything, meanwhile they were shooting at her that was creating a dome around her.
"Now! Attack!" said the headmistress.
We went en masse starting to attack going on top of the snipers, now the headmaster came to protect us, the RPG rockets kept being fired in our direction being many of them, even in the crowd of students that were protected thanks to Mrs Holbrook, which I was gaining confidence, together with Amanda we went to the snipers' hiding place, using barriers to avoid the shots, using the rockets launched from the RPG to give us impulse, what we ended up getting very close, they were each one well positioned inside the rooms making holes in the wall what we got with easiness to deactivate their weapons and then to break the wall, discovering them.
"Looks like your threat has come to an end" I say with my hands on my waist.
"Let's put those bastards to sleep" Amanda said and that's what we did, we hit a spell to leave them unconscious.
POV Hellene:
Dat was a close one, it almost kills me Mary, I left myself for surrendering to save magic, I knew she would do something like dat, but now she seems to 'ave something on 'er mind, I could help 'er, but I already know, I cast an air boost spell to throw Mary towards Avery and Blair, already I go trying to get outside, but I am surprised by de leader appearing in front of me.
"Where do you think you're going witch, you may have fooled the creature, but you don't fool me" he said to me all intimidating.
"Fuck" I say as I land a punch right in his ox skull and den see dat it had no effect, den he went on to grab me by the head.
"Do you really think I'm weak?" he said holding me and touching something on my belly.
He lets me go and then casts a spell that gives me a push backwards, it was just wind, I went trying to hold on but he appears right behind me taking me by surprise and hitting me with his staff where he throws me towards de ground and then I start to crawl on him and with de cursed one on my back, standing up as if I was some plank for him to lean on, that hurt a lot, even with de magic protecting me, he gets off me I go seeing him from below trying to get up but he steps on my head forcing me against de ground.
"Don't think I didn't come with anything, I am also a powerful witch, now that you have challenged me you better hold on, for you will die a slow and quite painful death" He said and den stopped stepping on my head, I went trying to move, without spending so much magic, unfortunately he hurt me enough dat I couldn't use it right. He lifts me up by de collar of my dress, holding me by de hand.
"Hellene!" Dey say the lassies going towards me and den casting a spell towards him who even lets go of me.
I might be hurt but I have my gimmicks, I cast a spell on him and den as he falls to de ground I trip him, as soon as he falls I use a glyph to hold him on de ground and dat's my chance, de girls signal throw me up with a glyph and den down while he's clinging to de ground, but he breaks and I already with my hand going towards him end up hitting him in de skull which he gets up on de spot, enough at least to crack, but he den hits a punch spinning his body and then a kick dat leaves me on the ground for being strong which he starts running and my direction.
Akko and Amanda go for him but de cursed one only raises de arms and knocks 'er down, den he arrives in my direction giving one more kick dat takes me of de ground, what he throws a spell in me, until it seemed de Broly in dis, I block de explosion dat is strong enough to throw me to de outside side, where I see de funny guy with de RPGs, I even give a little smile
"Now it's time to make someone stop attacking Luna Nova" I use a healing spell and give more momentum towards de Arcturus forest.
He dedn't expect dat, de plan was to just be thrown to dis cursed, now I want to see if de cursed will escape, he even starts to run from me, but I won't leave dis one easy, I'm weaker because of de healing, but it will be enough to cause a little, I boost myself enough to appear in front of him and I use a tree to give support and I already make a well charged glyph, I could see his face of fear, I charge well one punch with my only hand and with all the magic he is thrown forward.
"Now it's time to fly a little damned, like to blow things up, because I'm going to blow you up" I say as I launch de damned ding towards de inside.
He must already be on de wall of Luna Nova's courtyard by now, but now let's see if de guy from De Council will find dis funny, I'm already going through de trees, getting an RPG, putting it on my shoulder with a common rocket inside, I'm already starting to aim towards him, who stands still on his corner, he's going to beat Akko andAmanda, but not on my turn, I shoot with everything and now that the rocket will cause, I also take de chance to get a shotgun dat was on de side.
"You may be powerful with magic, but dis shotgun will put you in place" I say as I take it in hand and take de opportunity to grab some ammo dey left behind as well as some grenades, plus some pistols, I dink I'll leave it with de lassies, I'll be out of de bush in a moment.
I'm walking back to Luna Nova, armed to de teeth, now let's see if he's going to intimidate me, I'm healed and with a bigger firepower, I don't need magic for dese dings, I was even walking more slowly, I could see that he is still quite whole, but dat's less, I could see dat Amanda, Jasminka joined forces and now de three of dem are kicking his ass, besides seeing some spells being thrown towards him that gives a few steps back, getting close to me dat I just give a shot with de twelve dat ends up making him be thrown with everything since I used a lettle magic.
"Who is de weak witch now?" I say to him after shooting.
"Hellene! You're all right" Akko said cheerfully.
"Well armed, take it, you'll need it for dis" I say as I hand the weapons to them as well.
"Thanks McLaren, I wanted the Shotgun, but the pistol is good enough" said Amanda.
I go to see that around and it seems dat de members of De Council are all surrendered, which only seems so, but I see de weird guy with de ox skull head, he was getting up after de shot, his clothes 'ad some blood on dem and he turns to all of us, still laughing, which we were weirded out and a lot, now dis guy is going to want to be a threat.
"Hahahahahahaha, this isn't the end, you haven't defeated The Council, you may have surrendered my men, but I still have something waiting for you, and this is it!" he said, ripping de sleeves of his tunic.
His body was revealing scarification marks on his arm, which were quite scary, dey were glowing, as were de other limbs, dey were starting to glow and go towards de leader while a light was wrapping itself around dem, in a very strange way, turning into something much bigger, it all came together in a very strange mass of dings, quite monstrous I would say, looking even like a jelly, dis while Mary still remained with a headache.
"What are we waiting for?" I say to dem and start shooting, but soon dat ding was returning de bullets it was shooting so I stopped, as it grew into de mass.
And den it was kind of forming into something like a sculpture, looking like a man, only much bigger, with four wings and those wings had several eyes, how strange, until de statue breaks and reveals de guy, who was in dis form with a crown over his body too, looking like a hideous ding on a wing full of eyes, what is dat? is really weird.
"What is it?" Akko asks.
"I say de same" I'm even scared to see such a spell.
"The spell of combining bodies to become an angelic form is something forbidden among witches and wizards because it involves a permanent exchange and killing everyone involved, leaving alive only the consciousness of the one who started the ritual, he basically became partially an angel of the Bible," Mari said.
"But angels are not like dat, they are cute creatures" I say shocked.
"Actually this was a change they made in the medieval era to not scare the faithful and also pass a cleaner image, but we know their true form, angels are witches who broke the laws of magic for power, they are extremely powerful creatures, with only the goal of intimidation and power, when they appear any human being gets scared" Mari explains more and I'm not dat nerdy to understand dis.
"Looks like someone has informed themselves very well about, you may have defeated me in human form, but now in angelic form, you will witness my true power" He said and I shot anyway giving de little fuck to de asshole.
"What?" I can see dat de bullets 'ave no effect.
"This can't have any effect, only a weapon with divine powers can destroy me, mundane weapons can't hurt me" he said, already giving up.
"'EyAkko, you know what de cue is, let's beat dis bastard" I tell 'er.
"Hahahahahaha! Do you really think there is something like that? I am scared to death, I am even waiting here, since the end of you will be inevitable, you will all be my slaves before my divinity, look at the perfection I have reached, Creature please come and worship me" Said de bizarre angel.
POV Mary:
I go on remembering everything practically, they are my friends, The Council manipulated everything so I would kill them, I come back to myself, but I won't let myself be carried away by this, I remember I was handed a special pistol, by the boss, I take it from the holster, and I go walking to the leader of The Council, slowly reaching him.
"Finally your show is over, what happened creature?" said the angelic being.
"I was only being fooled by them, but now I know who I am, my mission here is only one" I tell him already lying.
"That's right, come closer, I will be honoured to join you" He said opening his arms to merge.
I get close enough to take a shot that catches him and makes him fall backwards, I stare at him with a mischievous smile as I see his blood dripping and then he takes the bullet from above his forehead and gets a furious expression, even the eyes of the wings become red from the fury he got.
"What is it? How dare you, creature? Are you going to betray The Council?" said the leader.
"I don't care about The Council anymore, you cheated me and now you will pay with your blood, you didn't expect that one did you?" I say as I shoot his eyes out of the wings and watch him fly further back.
"The boss will hear about this, he won't let this betrayal go unnoticed" The boss is here with us now, but I'd rather not reveal yet that I know who she is, I'll pretend I'm still in control of her.
"My memory came back little by little, my name is Mary Brooks, I have to say one thing, you would never succeed in your plan, me and the boss talked before the attack on Luna Nova, she didn't reveal her identity or anything, but she is a woman, you subjected yourselves to the orders of a witch, that's right, and were betrayed by one, she gave me these pistols able to do a damage to you if it reached the angelic form in any way, she knew you were planning something like that, she only used you to cause panic" I say reloading the pistols' comb while the angelic creature became even more furious.
"What? You've got to be lying about this!" he said, trying to process the information.
"The truth is that you were only useful idiots in the superior plan of the boss of new times for magic, she only used to cause panic and stop other witches that are against her, that's the truth, but now it's too late, I will gain time here and soon you will feel the power of Claiomh Solais that you are no match, you can even withstand my shots, but Claiomh Solais is unbeatable" I say still shooting him that was getting kind of kneeling and I was just buying time for them to come with such a staff to finish with this angel.
"You all will pay for this witches, I can't believe we were betrayed, the boss gave us money, gave us everything, even a safe place and magic power with unlimited knowledge, we would be able to dominate the place that belongs to us, damn it! You and that so called boss will pay dearly for all of this, as well as you witches that will have the divine judgment" He said that irritated he started to force himself more with an aura in votla of him, I even reload again the pistols seeing that he had regenerated completely.
"Mary angels regenerate, even if you use a weapon that causes divine damage it will always regenerate" I know that, but I don't care, I want to see him getting full of holes, especially since they killed my parents, those bastards.
"That's for what they did to my parents" I say continuing to shoot him fast, who was still going to keep pushing harder.
POV Narrator:
The attack on Luna Nova is intensifying, The Council shows that they are not messing around and were willing to kill anyone who was in the way and came to attack them, but even so with a teamwork of all Luna Nova, they could be defeated, but soon the leader showed that was not the end and was soon entering a more serious fight, this time going to a more angelic form becoming an angel biblically accurate, something that is a spell extremely forbidden by the consequences that can bring to the witch and also who is involved in the transformation, which will be an intense battle, since Mary returned to herself and is ready to defeat the angel and get revenge for everything that The Council caused to her.
See you, angel witches...