POV Narrator:
The journey to reach the sanctuary of the nine witches, that will still have a lot to go through, the eight girls are giving their all to reach the other side and win the title of being the new nine witches, making history since they will be the essential part of the great revolution of the witches, defeat Miranda Holbrook and also manage to revive Yggdrasil with the events they intend to do to bring magic back to popularity and regain faith in it.
Jasminka was chosen to be one of the eight who will form the nine with Diana who is still in the sanctuary tree. With the help of Anna Arnoux, another one of the nine witches who will guide her along the way.
POV Jasminka:
Entering the forest, I'm accompanied by one of the nine witches, I still miss Ramona a lot and think that all this happened because of the headmistress, I'm still kind of disbelieving that a whole journey led to all this, well I think I'll walk this way, try to get to the end.
It looks like a quiet forest, nothing dangerous, well I think I'll pass here quietly, as I'm walking I feel something in me, I'm feeling something like a burning sensation, it's strange, I stop and it doesn't get as painful as when I got close.
"You have to come through here without being in your human form" Anna said and off I went using the Metamorphie faciasse.
"There now it's really over, that's it from the looks of it, I have to keep myself as another animal" I say as I've transformed into a bear, this no more in honour of Ramona.
I go walking in this form in the middle of the forest, which helps a lot, I got a little bigger, besides the field of vision isn't that bad, but soon creatures that look like wolves appear, they go around me and it's time to use my magic, I'll use it while I'm in this form, it's easier this way, they keep surrounding me, growling, about to attack me, but I don't let me be intimidated by their look, I know that I'm bigger in this form.
One of them jumps in my direction and soon I change my form to a rat dodging his attack and then I change my form to an elephant crushing him and then I go back to the bear form, which I go up to another one with everything giving a kick, as soon as the other three come to me I change my form to a snake, making these bugs go straight through, I go back to being a bear and give a kick to each one of the bugs, which I then shrug.
"Well for a start you're fine, not bad, you've really specialized in metamorphosis magic" Arnoux said and I kept walking, I looked at some trees, and she nodded positively.
"This body is capable of getting hungrier than normal, I guess I'll have to get used to it" I say, grabbing some fruit and starting to bite it one by one.
"Well why not use a smaller one then, it uses less energy" said the red haired one.
"This here is for Ramona, I lost my demon who lived with me, my curse, but who was a great friend, out of homage to her I always take the form of a bear, it was her demonic form" I say as I continued walking through the forest.
"Oh how interesting, I never expected that I would help guide someone who lived in a symbiotic relationship with a demon, tell me more about yourself" Anna said and I am even willing, it might help to relax.
I get a bit pensive trying to remember from the first moment, because it's a lot, just remembering Ramona makes me emotional, those were good times, she was an idiot, but she was the idiot I loved, she was a loving and caring person, I really appreciate it, ahhh Ramona, she was an idiot, but she was my idiot, I'll miss her lines in my head.
"Oh mind you, it was bad to interrupt your reflection" I said to Arnoux warning that a pack was coming towards me.
I turn one of them just to mask, I stay in the form of those animals that seem a mixture of wolves and wild boars, it is strange, but it gave to adapt, they arrive and they are staring at me, I want to see if they perceive that it is me, they are staring at me and soon one goes up, I dodge, but the rest also, they come, what I transform into a bird, I raise a little of flight, I turn into an elephant falling in that little group, two are still looking, I turn into a rhinoceros and go all the way towards one of them that is running away scared, without hesitating I still transform into a cheetah, after I give a jump I turn into an elephant and only one last one that ran away is left, I go back to the bear form and I am even relieved.
"They don't seem to have everything today" I say as I see they're all on the floor, it's good to get out of here before they show up.
I keep walking along the path, at least now everything is calmer, I look to the sides and there isn't any danger, but it's good to always be alert, because if the worst happens, those strange wolves wake up and catch me from behind, I won't have that much energy, I take the chance to eat some of the fruit and they will recover the energy at least, that will be good to be able to walk around, besides that nobody messes with a bear, that's the most pure truth.
And Jasminka went on her way until the dusk came, she didn't have any problems, besides thebizarre creatures that looked like wolves sporadically appeared to attack her, but with magic she wasbeing versatile and knowing the best ways to turn around, only that night came, She needed a placeto rest, with the form of bear it would be impossible, so she changed into a mouse and hid in themiddle of a tree trunk that she made home, opening it using the form of other animals, waking up thenext day to follow the path ahead...
One more day, it was even good to walk around like a bear, it gave me a feeling that invigorates me, I'm leaving the den, I start to pick some fruit, going back to being a bear, now I'm going to stuff myself, I'm eating several, one by one, they look like small potatoes so small that they stay in my bear hands, at least they fill my stomach, imagine if I were to hibernate, it must be complicated to sleep for so long without eating anything.
I go walking after, I leave near my place of shelter, until then calm, nothing of the pack, only the way itself, what I get calm, it seems that everything is leading for a cave right in front of me, what I go arriving at the entrance, I get already a little frustrated.
"You can't go in that bear form, you have to go in more shrunken" Anna said and I'm already well into it.
I turn into a wolf, this time like them, I'm entering the cave and until it has a crystal illumination, that's good at least, I look around, beautiful place, it's enchanting, I hear sounds of drops too, it seems that here there is water too, that's good, it's been a while since I drank water.
It doesn't take long and I find a water fountain, which I drink and it's very fresh that's delicious, but it's a pity that's the only way ahead, it seems that the challenge of passing here as a land animal will end.
"Wow I really needed some water, I was getting a bit thirsty" I say as I drink it all and become more satisfied.
I turn into a seal, now it's time to start swimming, I hope there's room, when I get in I can already see that inside the water it's not that dark, there are some fish swimming that were scared away, but I wonder why, I'm not a predator, I just love seals, they're very cute, I go swimming around and wow it's really good to swim like that.
So far the water is very calm, I can see where it's deeper and also shallower, so far no problem, I'm watching very well so that no giant fish appear and attack me.
"It seems that here in the water it is quite calm even" I say as I go swimming.
"And what about the air, how do you intend to breathe?" Anna asks.
"As long as I can be a seal I will be, then I'll become a fish" I say swimming and enjoying myself.
I know I can stay at least an hour swimming like this, what I go after seeing some of the bizarre wolves appearing and they swim too, they even have fins and can breathe under the water how bizarre, they go swimming towards me like a defenseless seal, but I have something for them.
I transform myself into a shark, I practically dominate the magic and even so they went without fear wanting to catch me, I went swimming towards them to attack them and I give only one shock, what they go feeling the impact and swimming kind of running away from this my form
"Woah surprising" Arnoux said.
They reappear but with a bigger one of them, it must be mum or dad, I don't know but it's not that small, which I decide to use my magic to transform into something more intimidating than a shark, getting bigger and more fearsome I become a Dunkleosteus, gee, my metamorphosis magic is good to the point where I become an extinct fish.
"That's a high level of magic, only a very skilled witch can do that" said the witch.
"Now you better back off" I tell them and yet the biggest one still goes up.
I attack the biggest one with a bite, this time without mercy, the bite of this thing is powerful enough to take off a piece of its paw, then I go on biting the rest of its body, and with that the smaller ones even tried to get on top, but I made sure to kill the rest until there was none left, leaving the water red, I go back to being just a peaceful seal, leaving this cloud of blood on the water, which then disappear.
"There's no need to be afraid, it's to attack anyway" said the red haired one.
"At the beginning I was, but now it's good that they don't come close" I say as I continued swimming.
The hours were passing by swimming, it was no longer possible to use land animals in this tripthrough the underground waters of the cave, which she was going in the form of a fish, with theconscience of the dangers, in a cave that was getting narrower and narrower until there was a verysmall exit for only one fish, She went out and noticed that it was already dark, inside the caveJasminka takes shelter and stays in the form of a bear, since she could fit in there, spending thenight until the next day, already starting the third day getting something to eat...
Very well fed, now free, it's been quite a night, swimming as a fish is even fun, although I prefer to be a seal, she's much more mannerly, now it's time to leave, I follow in the forest in my bear form, I won't hesitate to change, only if the occasion asked and if she asked for no pity then I won't have it, it seems it gives nothing to kill the bugs that attack me.
"It's already three days and you still keep those animal forms very well, it's impressive your control of magic, it took me a long time to learn how to become an extinct animal, or the ones here in Arcturus and you manage even with ease" Anna said.
"Ah, the Dunkleosteus was a lot of practice to get there, there are no fossils of the rest of the body, so it's more a matter of imagination, after you find out how it was, it helps a lot, magic helps to reveal the true form of many of these animals and it's surprising, one day in the future it will be an essential part for palentology" I say while walking in the middle of the forest.
"Ah that study of yours on extinct animals, it's quite interesting, do you intend to join the mundanes for this modernity to come?" I just nod my head.
"Yes, that's the intention, we want to make magic for everyone" I tell her.
"That's beautiful, that's what I wanted to do, when I was younger I used to make presentations showing my magic, turning into several animals where I lived in Gaul, at that time they didn't persecute witches yet, there were only wars all the time, between my people and the Romans mainly, but both of them were at peace to see a girl who kept transforming into several animals, it was a magic that enchanted them" Anna said and I was amazed.
"Tell more" I say interested and it will be a good story.
"I was only fifteen years old, that was my passion, I went from town to town with my book of Lilith, where I learned the magical metamorphosis, I was known as Brillant Anna, a witch that enchanted everybody turning different creatures, the children were amazed, the adults, even the Romans that were already very Christian didn't miss it, I traveled a lot, until I was found by the nine witches, before we were the nine, they met me in a presentation in Paris, it was already a city in the domain of the Gauls, so we made sure to let those Celts come" She said.
Anna went on to tell in detail about her past becoming one of the nine witches and Jasminka waswalking along the path, but soon she was coming across a threat, this time it wasn't a wolf, but amanticore...
It's a manticora, a bizarre lion with a scorpion tail, bird wings and a lion body, let's see if I can handle this big one, I'm already going up in the form of a cheetah, getting close I make a jump and become an elephant, the animal dodges and then almost hits me with its sting, which I have no doubt is poisonous, I even stay back a little, it seems that the manticora does not want to attack me.
- Woah, that was close, you have to be careful, one sting from that thing and you're dead" Anna said.
- I know, that's why I try to avoid it, the worst can happen and I go to the hat house" I say turning into a bear again.
I keep looking around, the creature comes at me with everything, I turn into a gorilla, I get very close to the stinger and that's the focus, I then bury the stinger I turn into an elephant, severing the stinger with a stomp, before the manticora could do anything, I narrowly miss being attacked, as I turn around and go transforming into a mouse, so I escape a little and go back to being a bear.
"Now it's time to put the little lion to sleep" I say in bear form.
I go up in bear form and the manticora jumps on me and surprisingly tries to attack me with the stinger that is still dripping blood, but I decide to take it hard, I give a paw in the face with the bear form, I get even more parruda by imitating Ramona's, I hit the feline creature with extreme violence to the point of disfiguring a little the face after, I bite the neck and that makes Manticora slower, I felt some scratches on the back, but then the creature only weakens until it falls.
"I did it, now one more has gone on Jasminka Antonenko's kill list" I say relieved.
"Wow that was clever, where did you get that bear shape from it's quite unique?" Anna asks.
"This is a reminder of Ramona, my guardian and demon, she had this form when she was ready for the attack, I always pay homage to her" I say while returning to normal bear form.
Jasminka was continuing on her way and was talking to Anna, as she was talking too, about theirpast, more about ramona, as she was facing more manticoras that were just common enemies on theway, until the sunset arrived, where there she was going to rest in a burrow in a trunk in the shape ofa mouse, leaving already for the following day where she was giving a beautiful walk for there untilarriving in the middle of a path full of manticoras and the bizarre wolves mixed with wild boar,arriving until where it had a stone hill with several of them, with a chimera on top...
I come across the place, full of various creatures, I can't stand these manticores and wolves, now there's a bigger chimera, and wow not for nothing but it's an angry chimera, a lion with a dragon tail, demon wings, huge claws, with eagle legs, he comes being the first one down, the others even walk backwards, on that whole rock.
"So you're a big guy?" I point him out and it makes no sense to talk like a human, they don't understand.
"That's a creature Jasminka, I don't know if you can speak no" Still worth it for the moment.
The creature comes up and in fear, it also shows that it has crab claws coming out of its front arms, what do you mean, and goes trying to attack me, I dodge becoming smaller creatures, but I decide to give an escape and so I become a creature inspired by Ramona, the huge bear, if it is to solve this, let it be by giving pride to my great friend.
"It's time to hit this thing" I say confidently.
I go for top of the Chimera, but I am held for the claws of crab in the arms what I try to escape, with them forcing a lot and later the tail comes moving with a sharp point this monster wants is to stick me and to give a blow, but I do not let me for beaten, I go dodging of the cuts, but I take many of grazing, what I go forcing the arms more for the sides to burst the claws that were forcing.
I dodge a slash on the face that grazes me and then I hit a bite well given that makes the monster loosen my arms in this it almost gives me a slash, but I manage to hold with the paws and with that I go finely my nails in the tail that I go giving a spin and I throw it against the rock.
"Woah, impressive that you have so much strength in this form that you created yourself" Anna said.
I go dodging the monster that came towards me, half flying towards me I crouch and then I stand up with the claw grabbing the stomach of the monster that falls a little on the side and gets a good opening in the side, I'm also with some scratches,but I think I can handle it, the monster stands up already limping a little and I see that it will kind of regenerating.
"Ah so there's a little secret there, regenerate with that inside you then" I say going up.
He came with the tail preventing me to get close while he regenerates, I catch the tail as I wanted, I stick it inside the hole that was left and he was regenerating, sticking it somewhere that he left well stuck, to the point that the bug was trying to force take it, he even flew trying to escape, what I almost hit a good paw that could tear.
He couldn't take it off, regenerated with the tail inside, now it's time for the bear to attack with everything, he
came up even so I dodge the crab claws and give paws on them that are only scratched and with that we keep walking around one another, about to meet for an attack, it was all or nothing, he was going to hit me one way or another, I go dodging, but the claws are strong, the eagle legs catch and the bites hurt until I decide to do something, I hit a kick on the face.
"Now that's enough" I say already bruised.
Caught by the tail stuck in it I push it out which caused a huge scream and then I pull the whole tail out with a bite, I am then hit by a powerful paw with the carangeijo claws,but with the rest of the tail in hands I go up and we meet head on, it grabs my arm but I had already thrown the tail that ends up catching it with a single blow to the head, which even makes the creature get loose from me and be falling in the blood with blood.
I become a gorilla, I take the tail that was on the head and I go stirring inside as if it was a blender until the creature disappear and only the blade of the tail was left, what I go just watching the rest of the other bugs.
"I guess it's not over yet, is it?" I say, already panting heavily, I just hope this doesn't make me die, I'm already very hurt by this chimera.
I take a deep breath and get ready, I dodge most of the attacks and with the gorilla form I have the movements of a human, so I can use the blade of the animal like a sword and that's what I did, the wolves were the first ones, I take advantage of the huge strength of the gorilla and detonate the animals that get close, the manticores start to come.
Now I fly like a bird, I decide just to climb to the top of the rock and then I go to the bear shape which I go punching the whole quarry, until it collapses and start to fall, thanks for the help ramona, your strength is what brought me here, now I just run away, I become a cheetah and start to run with everything, I'm going at full speed, since I can't fly so high it's hard to fly fast like a past, but on the ground you can still get distance, then I hide in a tree in the past form and take the opportunity to eat some fruit, I'm already well hurt.
"Woah, excellent fight Jasminka, you showed how you have good control of your forms, you were very versatile in changing your forms, but be careful the dangers may still appear" Anna said.
"When I'm healed then I can take care of these guys, but right now I'm just too wounded to do anything, what the hell, I thought I could even take down everyone at once" I say as I eat the fruits, in bird form it takes much longer.
"Careful anyway, there are still many challenges ahead of you" I can only imagine, those alone were already quite tricky, but I could see how I can reach my powers.
I will recover and now they will feel what the power of a ferocious bear is, I will not be pitied, I will be without pain, without hunger, getting in shape and I will take the opportunity to leave the middle of the trees already running over in the form of a rhinoceros a small army of bizarre wolves, then I will be in the form of Ramona's bear and I will give strokes that deform the face of anyone.
And the time went by, the hours went by, Jasminka defeated the creatures followed the path whenshe had a big surprise when she arrived at a part of this journey, it was someone in human form, butwith some horns coming out of his head...
I can't believe it's her, I go walking in a bear shape until I reach Ramona, she snaps my fingers and I become human again, and we meet in a big hug, I feel really happy with all of this, I can't believe I could finally meet her again, I cry with emotion, my friend, my demon, she looks at me and smiles.
"Did you think you were going to get rid of me?" Ramona said.
"Ramona what are you doing here? I missed you so much, I kept thinking how I lost you" I tell her crying with emotion.
"Apparently you are one of those new nine witches, so they released me from hell so I can help you, if I do this my soul will be able to return in someone else and I will be able to reincarnate, not as a demon, but as a human, in exchange for that I lose my powers, but not that I don't mind that I just want to stay in this wonderful place that is earth" she said all smiling.
"I loved seeing you again, but there's a reason you're here and it's not for just anything" I say in surprise.
"Yes my old host has to kill me, do it for me Jasminka, kill me in honorable combat and let's together get what we like, I will revive as a human and I am sure you will get a gift like that when you are a mother" She said and I gave a smile like that.
"It seems that fate brought us back to my desire when I was still bothered by you, but I think we can do this together, to think that I once genuinely wanted to kill you because you made me fat" I say staring at her.
"Good time to put your childhood wish into practice, you can come up" she said.
POV Narrator:
On the first day there were fights just to get used to it, the more Jasminka was studying Ramona's movements and was alternating between animals in a combat that used a lot of the metamorphosis spells, but it was evident that the demon was really the strongest, so the two kept exchanging blows and always with Jasminka being defeated, but even so enduring many blows.
On the second day Jasminka was already improving a lot, she was able to go head to head in many moments, her defence was practically unbreakable for Ramona who was filling with pride and of course in the breaks between fights her friends were talking about how the life of both was going, in this case only Jasminka's as Ramona didn't exist alive, she was only living in hell like many souls and there she told in detail about everything that happened in hell and how the place worked differently from what was said.
On the third day Jasminka was already showing herself stronger and more versatile and as night fell she was already hitting more powerful blows and was practically defeating in a witch fight, which wouldn't take long for the point they wanted to reach, to be reached, with Antonenko riding over the demoness and being presented with something she gave straight from hell to put an end to that fight.
POV Jasminka:
A knife appears in my hand and I hold it close to Ramona's throat, I think this is the end, she holds my hand with the blade, but not in a way to stop her, but in a very soft way, she is even crying and smiling to me.
"Oh Jas, thanks for everything, I'll proudly be your future daughter someday, now finish it soon and continue your journey, change the world so that it will be better for me, I certainly always hoped for a revolution to happen, I haven't seen so many of you moving for something that can change the world since your great-great-grandparents in 1917 getting together with a good crowd, to think that all that wonderful place where we used to live no longer exists, but I hope that one day it can come back, anyway... Goodbye Jasminka" she said and I was all touched.
I shove my throat with everything in Ramona's throat next, I go seeing the blood coming out, my tears are falling over everything, I am emotional really, she was my first great friend, my best friend after everything, I was too happy in the company of this girl, I will miss you Ramona... I hope it's true.
"Goodbye... Ramona... I won't forget you ever" I say as she was dissolving and going through the floor.
"You have reached the end of it... Life is like that, she was a great friend of yours by the looks of it, I always saw the gleam in her eyes when she talked about her demoness, now you can continue the path to the journey of the revolution of the nine witches, I'm sure there you will find friends who are waiting for you a lot" Anna said and I'm getting up.
Ramona's body is gone for good now, they turned into butterflies that went towards a place in the forest that reveals to be a force field and this must be where the path continues, no doubt about it, I look already taking a deep breath, here there will be something for sure, I take a deep breath and it's time to go, I look back one last time, I can see that in the sky even though very thin I could see Ramona's face smiling for me, goodbye friend.
POV Narrator:
Jasminka's journey was the most specialised in metamorphosis where Jasminka practically became an expert in the spell after losing her demon friend who was so good at it and helped her whenever she was down, it was the moment where Antonenko was going to grow big and after defeating her own friend in an exciting battle she is one more of the chosen by the nine witches who is heading to one day become a great witch, with great achievements and a lot of history still ahead.
See you, demon witches...