POV Narrator:
The battle against The Council is intensifying as the leader ended up having his strength reduced, he took a drastic measure and merged with the other members, staying in an angelic form where he can maintain some invincibility for a while besides high powers, to the point that no common weapon is able to hurt him, Mary was having her memories back, slowly coming to her senses, remembering what happened and already becoming an ally against The Council, kind of hitting the angel with several shots.
POV Akko:
Whew, now we are safe, The Council's troops were reduced, but now their leader turned into that very bizarre and powerful thing, I need to find the Shiny Rod soon, it will be a useful weapon against that bizarre thing that they say looks like an angel, but angel itself is not, where did I leave that thing, I had to store it in the suitcases now, I open one of my suitcases and I'm taking the clothes with everything, nothing on the first suitcase, what frustrated me a little, I get another suitcase and I'm taking it too, now it seems like there's something, I take it out and I feel the Shiny Rod, when I get it I'm even relieved.
"Finally the Shiny Rod, now that thing will feel enormous power" I say with staff in hand.
Wonderful, now it's just taking me by surprise, I already know what I'm going to do, I'm going to run back, I hope that all of them are ok, the director all the time was very calm as if she was able to handle a battle like this, it even scares me all this, just imagining, what a fear.
I manage to go back to the corridor and I see that that terrible thing was grabbing Mary against the wall and I go up the walls, using my magic to make platforms, I even know how to get with everything in this cursed one.
"Phaidoari Afairyngor!" I speak the second word, which ends up catching the monster's wings, cutting them off.
I arrive in the dark souls style, jumping with an attack with the axe and I do the first word, getting into position as soon as the monster turns around and I could even tell that a lot of blood came out of those wings, and he stares at me with a deep anger.
"Damn you!" He said.
"Let's see if you can have an honest battle against this" I say as I aim the arrow and already shoot at the angel that ends up dodging and coming towards me.
"You may have a destructive weapon, but you are still a mere weak human, you are no match for divine power" he said intimidatingly in my direction and I continued to hold the pose, but I admit to being scared shitless here, this thing will come closer to me and catch me.
I already prepare one more arrow and he advances with everything in my direction, gives a wind impulse that throws me with everything against one of the walls, I in the middle of the impulse use the third word, where I grab the wall with the hook, I am not that dumb, I can have some strategy here, I use the impulse backwards as a pendulum and throw myself towards him that regenerated the wings and was coming back to himself, I say the second word on the way back and I go hitting one more axe on his body, but this time the wings block, which even causes an impact wave that throws me a little backwards, but it was enough for the wings to be glowing.
"Damn, that looks like his shield" I say as I fall to the ground and watch the monster transform once again.
"It's time to attack in a more serious way" He said when the wings become rings around his body, he even floats, bizarre rings full of eyes that circle his body, I am already more apprehensive, the first words are good for the offensive, but I don't know if I can handle it alone.
"Akko hold a strong arrow, I can handle dis ding" Hellene said getting in front of me, already preparing to fight.
"But you don't..." I ask her.
"I'm a bit weak, but I dink I can hold my own 'ere" McLaren said.
"I can help too" Marianne said and then a shot is heard and it catches the monster right in the head.
"Quickly kill that thing - said Mary getting up half injured.
I was starting to make the first word, my friends came to help, Lotte and Sucy hold the bow with me, Amanda too, Jasminka goes up to the angelic creature, as does Constanze who goes about using her weapons, even though they are not efficient, she still wants to distract a little, so much so that Mary throws one of the pistols at her.
"Oh I see you brought the whole team, they will all die together and be judged for it - Said the angelic monster.
He was going towards us, but Hellene came towards the creature, as well as Mary, he just kept on going knocking them both down, but then he was hit by shots and was stunned, until Jasminka goes up and she manages to simply activate her demonic power hidden since that day and holds on tight against the monster, how wonderful, even we got scared.
"Leave it to me, I'll manage on my own - Antonenko said.
"Let's give Akko some magic - Hellene said.
Jasminka was managing to exchange blows and also received some, enough for the angel to be distracted by her, I had never remembered that that monster inside her would be so useful in a fight, she is more powerful than we imagined, and with that we were gathering even more magical power that was being concentrated in the arrow that was joining the bow, now we will be able to defeat the monster.
POV Jasminka:
Ramona thanks for saving me, I didn't expect you to show up and give me protection and control, I just thought I'd get some of the power, now I'm going to defeat this thing once and for all. [Look I honestly just want to kill an angel, that will give me even more admiration, not to mention that if you die I die too] Now let's defeat this monster.
"What's that? You guys have a demon around here too?" said the frightened angel.
"We are demoniacs, you didn't expect that? Now we will show that hell can also defeat heaven" Ramona said using my body to speak, giving him a little fear that was defending himself from my attacks.
We kick him and he goes floating backwards and we could see that the angel was getting furious, unfortunately we can only hurt [Crap, I wanted to defeat this guy, but your friends will have to do it] At least we can hold on here.
"You may even be strong, but one thing I am sure of, you will never be able to defeat an angel like that, I am beyond what you have, you can hurt me, you can do whatever you want, I will come back" Said the angel.
"Hahahahaha, yes, excellent, I haven't had this much fun in years! Tell me what's your name?" said Ramona getting quite excited using my voice.
"My name is a mystery, but my divine form is Samael, I did the ritual to become like this, now let you witness my true strength, no more playing games" Said him and I don't care [let the fun begins].
He went at us, which we even felt all the power in our hands when he hit us with his hand even gave us a burn [curse, he will end up killing me here Jasminka, release more power] I allow Ramona to have more power and so she will start the fun too, on the second blow she gets my face which ends up getting scratched on the side and at that time I reveal a bit of Ramona's part, with her eyes showing and then on the third blow when he raises his hand we make a square with our hands and make a pentagram nullifying his attack.
"So it seems hell doesn't have such weak demons finally, now I can have more fun with this" he said, then turned the rings into a sword and we even managed to dodge them.
I was getting scared, this here can do me a lot of damage, I keep dodging the stabbing attempts, I even hold the blade, but it makes my hand burn, ahhhhh [What are you doing Jasminka? That's divine power, he's blessed, you want to kill me? Leave it to me, I already know what to do] I'll give way a little more to Ramona the control, she ends up making my hands turn into bear paws, which I go starting to give a paw back that catches the angel's face that even flies back a little.
"Don't think we came unprepared for this, feel what hellish power is and also from the union between a witch and a demon, witness my power!" Said Ramona in my voice.
"Time to get serious with this thing" I say motivated.
"Oh what a honeyed thing, too bad I'm going to separate the demon from this body and you won't be able to have that power so much heretic little witch, I'll burn you and your friend with pleasure" He said pointing the sword at me.
We went up to him using our paws and starting to attack with more speed, every now and then the sword would catch, but it would only give a superficial bruise on my hand, which I can handle the power of the blows with ease, even giving a burn, I could see that it even opened some wounds on the angel [We can hold a lot of ends here, soon your friends will be able to defeat you with an arrow] I hope so, I will use my power to hold as much as possible, I could even see that more girls joined to give strength to Akko, holding her hand.
Meanwhile the angel uses a stream of air to push me away, I could notice he turned his sword into what looked like a hook, with a chain.
"I think I've had enough fun, let's see if you guys will be able to beat this" He said spinning the hook.
"A hook what a pathetic weapon" Ramona said and he went straight away attacking us.
We hit him with our paw using the hook, but I ended up feeling an immense pain in my hand which prevented me from attacking and it seemed that a hole was left and with that he was pushing something and my bear paw was going forward my hand was already bleeding, what is it? [Jasminka, he's pushing me, do something, he's taking me away from his body] I try to cast a spell on his face, but the curse continues, and pulls a lot harder to the point that Ramona came out entirely I only saw the hole in my hand that was hurting a lot.
"What?" Said ramona shocked and out.
"Now let's see if the witch is that powerful without that demon helping her" he said to both of us.
"Jasminka, join the girls, I can handle this one, I don't have much time, it will be enough for me to have time to return to your body, if I die it's no problem, you get rid of me that bothered you for so many years" She said smiling at me.
"Ramona no!" I tell her who then casts a spell of air pushing me backwards, close to the girls.
She went up to the angel, I could see Ramona out for the first time, it wasn't possessing my body, she is very similar to me, but ok, I can't allow her to die and stay out of me, I have to defeat her, I'll give her some more magic and we'll defeat the monster [Sure you will, this angel is powerful, but I can make this sacrifice for you, now go] I see the angel hit a blow leaving Ramona well wounded on the floor and was looking at us, until laughing.
"You are in no condition to release this arrow and do some damage to me I am greater than everything, I am divine I am perfection, let's see if this arrow will be a match for what I am going to do now" he said extending his hand.
Out of nowhere Ramona disappears, now things are getting worse, the arrow is not ready yet, I didn't give all my magic power, this way we are in the worst [No you are not Jasminka, it was very nice to have you as a friend during these years, I'm sorry for being a bit of an annoying demon during your life, but hunger always got me, goodbye friend] I see Ramona simply holding on to the angel, a bit of steam is coming out of her body, she is holding on tight to the angel.
"What? You're not going to be that stupid? This is a foolish sacrifice, you will be punished for eternity for this!" Said the angel and I can't believe it Ramona! [I know you're devastated by my departure, but this sacrifice is necessary for the good of you witches and yours too, well I guess I've never been a competent demon, I'm too nice for one, goodbye Jasminka]
"Go! Use all the power finish him off!" Ramona said.
"Let's not hesitate, this is person now" I say even giving a little more power [I think I can hold here for a couple of minutes until I weaken, you can do it, I trust your power] Ramona! Ramona! No.
POV Akko:
Jasminka's demoness is helping and we have enough magic power, she sacrificed herself for us, she could be an essential piece to defeat the boss, let's make that effort very worthwhile, we held hands and engaged with magic, the angel could barely get out of her seat, I could see she was steaming, it was a huge pain.
"You witches can't hold on forever, this demon will sacrifice himself in vain" Said the angel until I decide to shoot.
"Say that in hell, you bastard" I say, shooting the arrow.
This time the kick was strong enough to throw us back a lot, the arrow went all the way causing a trail on the ground opening a hole where it passed, hitting the angel, and going towards the Arcturus forest, where we could only see a huge explosion in front of us, with a flash, then creating a dome, green of magic, we can feel the magic here, it's a lot of power, by the nine witches, I think that after this one we can't stand it.
There was even a shockwave here in Luna Nova, which broke all the windows and we just felt a tremor in the whole building, followed by a very strong wind, and the effect of all the explosion with the leaves flying and falling all over Luna Nova, we even breathed a sigh of relief
"Whew... I think we made it" I say as I see the trail of damage in front of me.
"We defeated de creature from De Council" Hellene said relieved.
"Ramona" Jasminka said.
"I'm sorry for her Jas, her demoness must be proud of you now, we managed to kick that thing's ass, now we're totally free" Amanda said running her hand over Jas' head.
"You and Ramona were de heroes today, you deserve all de recognition" Hellene said.
And soon we saw Mary walking out of Luna Nova, which we were quick to question, this as she went about putting a gun to her back and looking out at the vastness of the Arcturus forest, she looked back, sort of with a neutral expression, and soon Avery and Blair walked over to their friend.
"Where are you going Mary?" Avery asks.
"I will go wherever fate takes me, I have nothing left of this life, I have no parents, no memories, I have nothing, I will get out of here, this life doesn't belong to me anymore" she said, and was launching herself with magic towards the forest.
"Wait, wait, wait! Mary!" Said Avery with a little desperation as she saw her friend leaving.
"She'll go her own way, but I'm sure she'll come back friend, she's still very confused" Blair said, I imagine she is very, at least we managed to defeat that thing finally.
POV Narrator:
That's what they thought, far away from there at the exact place of the explosion, the angel was destroyed, but still alive was the leader of The Council that was very injured after the attack he received, getting up from the ground and looking at the trail of destruction that the arrow had done, he was walking to the forest of Arcturus, taking cover and leaning against a tree, with many pains, bruises and injuries, after being defeated, he saw his ox skull falling and was looking at the ground full of shame for the defeat.
"Witches, I hope they die, they may have defeated my divine form and all my members, but I'm still alive, I'll come back even more powerful, they're the ones who ask to wait, especially the traitor Mary - Said the angry leader of The Council with clenched fists until he was surprised by the presence of the boss who showed up right in front of him who didn't expect her right then.
"You have failed in your mission The Council, as expected by my plan" Said the boss and the only remaining one of The Council raises angrily.
"So you really betrayed us? You bastard! I'm going to kill you too" said the furious ex-angel.
"I came here just to explain what happened, you were never going to make it, I only used you so that I could use you to cause panic, to keep a certain person from graduating, so she couldn't be an influence for other
worldlings to get involved with witches, in the end my whole plan with this worldling failed, I don't know if I'll ever be able to do it again, but I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again, I'll never be able to do it again" Said the angry boss and the leader of The Council just shrugged.
"We are not to blame for your lack of competence, we did what was within our plan and were betrayed by you, at least I can say that I have seen how you are not as perfect as you think boss, you failed and you still throw those failures on us, in fact you will end up swallowing your own failure" Said the former angel simply showing a little more tranquility.
"Oh it looks like you want to get the upper hand, little do you know that right now you might die, don't forget, I can kill you with a snap of my fingers, but before that I will give you the pleasure of knowing who I am, which might surprise you a lot" Said the boss who was lowering the hood and showing her face to the only remaining of The Council that when recognizing the face simply gets scared.
"What? You're the..." Without him being able to complete the sentence, the boss points her fingers which simply blows the head off The Council's leader who ends up dying right there for good.
"It's not time yet to tell who I am, soon everyone will know, you were another piece of my chess that failed, but now it's time for my moment to come and prepare myself to give my face in the best way, may you have a good rest in hell, I would never allow you to kill one of my people, only those that are considered disposable" said the boss that then put the hood and left the place as if it was nothing.
The leader of The Council had his end and that way in Luna Nova the girls celebrated among themselves for his defeat, not knowing that it was the boss who ended up finishing the job, killing at once, ending there a worry they had.
POV Akko:
Finally the curse is dead, now we can be in peace, Mary was found, but she came back to the shadows, I think she must still know some things we don't know, for sure, well anyway I think it's good we finish everything, the director appears in the middle of the Hall and I even forgot we had to do the graduation ritual.
"Well girls, the event just now was quite shocking, but we still need to finalise one last thing to confirm you as trained witches, come with me" Said Mrs Holbrook who as always was very calm.
We all went, my gown is a horror, I was so beautiful and now it's full of dust and dirt, not to mention some blood, it was quite unexpected all this, until we got to the courtyard and there were some strange pillars that I never thought about, it's even strange, we are getting in the middle of them and the headmistress starts to do a spell.
"From now on you will be trained witches and with the blessing of the nine witches I will be giving you the definitive title of witches!" said the headmistress.
Lightning was wrapping around the pillars, right on top of them, gathering on top and forming a blue dome that was wrapping us and after that we were feeling something inside us, it even gave us something, it's kind of strange, but anyway, soon it passed and with that we even found it little, for being Luna Nova and everything being exaggerated.
"And here we finish your graduation, good luck in your adult life, you can take your bags and go home, Ley's lines are open for you to leave" said Mrs Holbrook.
"Aren't you going to have a party or something? Last year there was" says the headmistress.
"Last year there was no pandemic, the students' parents were able to come here, so there is no need for so much ceremony" Said professor Babcock
Well it's not like I want to stay one more minute here, so well it's time to go, I still have to tell these things to Diana and Laura, they will be relieved to know that The Council was finally defeated, me and the girls went up to our rooms.
When we arrive there I had to put away again what I ended up playing after using the Shiny Rod that I keep with all my care, I take off my gown and my capel, I'll leave with my uniform, at least this one wasn't that dirty.
"Thanks buddy, you saved our lives today" I say putting it back in the bag.
"Our Akko you have made the biggest mess here" said Sucy.
"In desperation we do everything, I could only find it in another suitcase, but anyway, I'll fix it quickly with magic, just do this and that's it" I say using magic that made my clothes get folded and fitted inside my suitcase and thus everything was getting very well organized, to my relief.
"Well it's time to go, let's meet in Glastonbury Square, say goodbye, it was fun hanging out with you guys" Sucy said.
"I say the same" Lotte said.
Together we were leaving the room, which at the same time we saw the green team leaving, we touched their hands for the last time, walking through the corridors, then we went down the stairs to the courtyard, that there would be the moment of farewell, which we waited for the girls from the blue team to come too, they hugged us.
"Calm down people, we'll say goodbye at the square in Ley Line," I tell them.
"I won't be there, I have bigger plans, from here I will use Ley's lines to build the mechas for the witch revolution, you already know where I'm going, I guess from here on it's goodbye, I wish you good luck" Said the cons stanbot.
"Oh that's right, you told us, so much so that's why last month the locks disappeared, you took them to them" Amanda said and Constanze nodded.
We hug Constanze as a group, we will really miss her, those were very good times we had together, I won't forget the things I did with Cons, she must have been very angry with my presence for sure, but I won't forget my great friend, after the hug she even smiles at us which is very rare and goes flying with the broom leaving, I will really miss her.
"Well it's time" We all hold our hands together.
We crossed the Ley line, now is a new moment in our lives, with new challenges and it was very fast to cross back to Glastonbury, I even missed this ambiance, looking around here, in the square, brings me great feelings, I see that many students were leaving there, I notice that there is a black car parked, with Diana and Laura pulled over.
"Diana!" I call out to her who immediately notices my presence and comes running towards me.
We both gave the biggest hug of all together, it was a mixture of emotions, she crying in my arms, gave me an enormous satisfaction, we lowered the masks and kissed right there, those lips, I missed them so much, it's a wonderful feeling, ahhhhh, I feel very honoured for that, then we returned the masks and looked at each other, Diana was touching my face, crying in my arms.
"Ye are finally here Akko, I have waited a long time fae ye my love" She said all smiles at me,
"I say the same, I have waited long enough for you here Diana, now I am here with you" I say stroking her face.
"Hey Diana, come here too, don't forget us" Barbara said.
Soon she went to hug Barbara too, and the other friends we had a group hug, all of us together crying of emotion, a little too close, I think that out here it must be a little bad, but then we move away to avoid the worst, now it's our time, we're going home and finally have the adult life we've been waiting for so long.
"Now we can say goodbye, the only thing missing here is Diana" I say, scratching the back of my neck.
"We're each going tae our own corners, I'm really going tae miss ye lassies, more than I already do now" Diana said.
"Those were wonderful times we lived in Luna Nova, especially with this one" Amanda said pointing at me.
"Me?" I say half embarrassed.
"Who else has gotten into trouble and adventures? Only you can bring so much to us, you seem to have opened up a lot of fun things for us to do, it's too weird, you and your way, before we go, let's reminisce and then go back home,"Amanda said.
"I'm going tae love it and I also learned about what happened at the graduation, Hellene told me and I was worried, but now seeing ye here well and defeating The Council together, it was the best graduation ye could have, I'm even jealous of nae being in it" said my girlfriend.
After a long time of telling about their time in Luna Nova...
We embrace together once again, now the farewell is final, it was very good the time I spent here in Luna Nova and I am grateful to have adventures with everyone, I will miss it all, now it is a new phase of life, but no doubt the days in Luna Nova will be unforgettable for all my life, it was a part I lived that I will not forget for a single moment, this I can be sure, for the nine witches.
"Goodbye to you all, it was great to be with you" I say waving to them.
"Hey Diana, you're going to Edinburgh aren't you?" Hannah asks.
"Aye, I will take Akko home, we have a long journey ahead of us" said my Cavendish.
"We can go with you, just to Leeds, then we'll say goodbye there, the bags on brooms get too heavy" England said and Diana nodded.
"Sure, there's room in the car, we'll go tae yer place, it's on the way, before we drive home" said my affectionate Diana.
"Thanks really mate" Hannah said.
"Thank ye, always nice tae spend time with ye lassies" she said smiling.
"Hey Mandy, we're going with Diana in her car" said Amanda's girlfriend calling for her and already going to put the bags in the boot of the car.
And so I think we can close the graduation day, it was pretty crazy, I was putting my bags in the boot, as well as Hannah was putting hers and Amanda's too, who was still saying goodbye to Jasminka, she really deserves all the support in the world, she lost one of her best friends, I can imagine how painful it must be for her to say goodbye to Ramona.
POV Narrator:
Luna Nova's crazy graduation has come to an end and it wouldn't be an Akko's graduation without some event that could cause a shock and confusion, since Kagari's bad luck always strikes and she with her friends had to face a very powerful enemy, but together they fought so that they could manage to defeat The Council at once, but they still have a long journey ahead since the last threat is still out there and it could be the battle of their lives that will be the boss that until then nobody has any idea who she is.
See you, graduated witches...