POV Narrator:
Saturday 12 September 2020, Colinas de Doras
The girls were already advancing more with the Fluit An Near missing only two sounds to complete the flute, in the middle of this time the things are already getting more ready for the next part of the flute, in this one it would be a long trip, since they just found some regions where can be near the location of the fifth sound, some things by Doras were also getting ready showing an advance more in the revolution of the witches, since the Mechas were getting practically ready and with the presence of the people that would pilot only helped even more to have bigger advances since Croix, April, Brooke and Constanze working together could get more results.
Another weekend was coming to Doras, which signaled that it was time to move forward in the mission of finding the sound of the flute, on a day that was starting like any other
POV Akko:
I just woke up, it's today that I'm going out with Diana once again to find the next flute sound, we'll just need to take more people with us on this journey, it's going to be a bit icy but I trust we'll make it, as long as the waters are less frozen I think we'll be able to find it soon and get home.
I look at Diana and she was sleeping like a little angel, which I give a little kiss on her forehead, which she ends up waking up and notices that it's me right in front of her already giving a little smile all affectionate to my side.
"Good morning my love" said my girlfriend.
"Good morning baby, today is another one of those days heh" I tell her as we were getting up.
I was going to the bathroom, already starting to do my personal hygiene, when I received a hug from behind from my girlfriend, that's so cute, I love being like this, it makes me feel all happy, this contact full of love and affection, I love it, I really love all of this, she is a caress, a love of person, then I looked at my Diana all full of affection and I'm caressing her, it's been wonderful to spend these days lying down with my girlfriend.
Then we left the bathroom and she wouldn't let go of me, we walked together all over the house, even down the stairs until we reached the kitchen, and my girlfriend wouldn't let go of my back.
"Looks like de couple is full of grub for today" Said my mother-in-law preparing some pancakes.
"She's my sweetie" Said my Cavendish who still took a bite of my collarbone, ahhhhhhhhh.
"Oh, how cute, what brings so much excitement to de couple today?" I really don't know what's gotten into Diana to make her needy.
"I had a dream where I lost ye Akko, I ended up getting really needy and scared of this happening, sae I want tae stay close tae my cutie as long as possible" Said my cutie and now everything makes more sense, poor thing, the nightmare must have been too real.
"Oh honey, I'm right here beside you, don't worry that I will never disappear from you, you don't need to hold me in your arms, no one will take both of us away" I say holding Diana's cheeks, who looks all cute.
"Bernadette had de same, she dreamed about something and out of nowhere she got all needy, I loved it, I'm not going to lie, I loved it when she got all affectionate like dat, it was a cute moment dat I could enjoy a little more, at last de pancakes are ready, today will be the day dat you will go out to de Arcturus Arctic ice" Said Laura and I can't even imagine.
Diana let go of me and I could finally be freer, but she was still all cuddly, wanting some affection, I went to get the cereal, also the milk and I was already preparing for my breakfast, already Diana on the other hand was eating the pancakes, from time to time I even gave her some spoonfuls, knowing that my girlfriend loves when I do that, I love it too, these little chocolate balls with milk are giving me a lot of energy lately.
I also eat some pancakes that my girlfriend gives in my mouth, how cute, I really love these family moments, I hope that one day this revolution comes to an end and we can start our lives again as a family of witches with our dreams come true, today will probably be one step more.
"Before you go travelling and call more people to go out with you, it will be very nice to see our progress" Said Laura and we nodded in agreement.
We finished eating and I was getting full, so we got up from the table and went towards the laboratory, since that was where my mother-in-law wanted to take us, when we arrived we saw that they were giving some touch-ups on the locks and they seem to be almost ready, it is impressive the work they had to do to get to all this, it is really wonderful, I see that Amanda was there and got down from one of the locks.
"It was a great idea to use them as a way to intimidate the boss, and it all works out great" said O'Neill.
"What did you want to show us?" I ask Mrs McLaren.
"De Mechas are ready, dey will only need magic to work from afar and with all de energy, dat's where you come in, try to find if dere is an energy source with a sorcerer stone around there, you will arrange a camp and check de surroundings better and find de next sound, it will be interesting, good anyway take some people with you" Said my mother-in-law.
"I can go with you, we can find some way to have fun out there in the middle of the ice, anything, if we can find more wizard stones it will be wonderful too" said Amanda walking into the middle.
"You already 'ave one with you on dis journey, it is good to go in four or five to be safe" Diana's mother said and she is right.
"Come with me I'll find two others to go with us, we'll have a lot of fun there" O'Neill said.
And we go out to the outside, I am really looking forward to see what will happen in this journey, it will be fun, well we arrived outside and as usual there were people working on the plantations and also some others in hiding the houses better, so nobody will notice that we are hidden in the trees and they will think that we are not here, in the middle of this we saw that Mary was with her friends and she can be a good one.
"What do you think about Mary coming out with us?" I ask Amanda.
"Is she any good at it?" O'Neill asks.
"She came here from Arcturus, so you can imagine she did" I answer my friend
"That's fine, hey Mary come here" Amanda calls her and she comes over to us.
"Hi, you called me?" she asks and we just nod our heads in agreement.
"Do you want to go with us on an adventure through the arctic of Arcturus, we will find the fifth sound of Fluit An Neart" I tell her and she nods her head in agreement.
"Ah get back to using my Sniper and doing some hunting, I think it's nice, it's been a while since I've been out to act, even though I have my memories back I still remember everything I went through in my training, so if there's a threat I can be a good help to you guys" Brooks said and that will be wonderful, it's true Mary is a bit stronger than me and Diana, so it could be a good one.
"Great, we just need one more, or I think the four of us can go out" I say cheerfully.
"I would tell her to call my girlfriend, but Hannah is too nauseous for these things, I don't know if she will enjoy being in the snow like this" Amanda said and I see Hannah coming after her girlfriend.
"I'm what? Come on Amanda, if I'm going on an adventure with you guys I will, don't think I'm just a delicate little girl, I can be more different too" England said and I can only think of her saying "I'm such a tomboy" being as fruity as possible.
"Oh sure, I'm just saying that we're going to be camping in the snow, so you can imagine, we're going to be in a tent in the cold" said O'Neill, who was slapped by his girlfriend.
"Fuck you Amanda, come on, you accept that I go with you, I know how to cook well and I also know how to keep the place tidy, after all you will need someone to keep order, you are nothing without someone who can cook" Hannah said.
"We can cook too" Diana said and so can I.
"But they can't cook with class, it's quite different, and I'm not that delicate, I'm witty, I'm clever and I'm a strong witch, I can be useful on this journey" England said and we shrugged.
So let's go, let's just pack our things since we will be spending a few days out in the cold" I tell them.
"Come on, will it be possible to take a video game at least?" Amanda asks and it's a good one.
"Sae much important stuff and all ye guys can think about is video games?" Diana said and I shrugged as did O'Neill.
"I think it will work, we will take some magic stones and use magic generators, we will be able to use them as if they were normal, so I don't doubt it, we will take a television and a video game for us" I tell Amanda.
"We won't risk taking something sae expensive either, if we go then it's good tae take an older television and an equally old video game" Diana said.
"Leave it to me, we'll take a tube television and my Xbox 360, we'll be able to play a lot of games in our free time" And that's gret i can't wait to see it.
After that we split up, each one going to her house, in this case we went to Sifla's chalet, which has been our house these last times, we arrive there and we go packing our bags, putting cold clothes, we are also preparing to wear some, since it will be very cold when we leave here to the Arcturus Arctic.
Bags ready, we take clothes and also the necessary things, we are going to prepare everything to build a shelter, in this case many wooden boards shrunk to make a small house, we go outside and I see that Amanda and Hannah arrive too.
"Well it's time to go out" I tell them.
"Before you go I wish you good luck, and don't forget to take Pisces with you, she may know how to guide you through the sea underneath dese glaciers" said Mrs McLaren, handing us an aquarium with Professor Pisces inside.
"So shall we go?" I ask the girls.
"Let's go! We'll just put some jackets on too, and leave Pisces' aquarium hidden sae it dinnae freeze" Diana said.
And we were doing that, since we had left the coats ready, putting a good layer, as well as in the fish tank we left it well protected so it wouldn't end up freezing, with that Diana was starting to play the sounds with the flute, and we were already feeling the energy of magic circulating in us, all this to give one more step in this mission, who would say, we should have come in the middle of the summer, but now I hope it's not that cold. We reappeared in an icy immensity, it was windy enough, what we were already taking the wooden boards from the bag and making them return to the normal size, some thicker trunks would serve to make a structure that could stand, I observe in the thermometer and notice that it is doing 2ºC, at least it is not as cold as I thought it would be.
"In New York it's much colder than that" said Amanda.
"It's in Celsius Amanda" Diana said.
"I know, I thought it was going to be extremely freezing, but you can handle it, plus we've still got the sun" she said.
"Ah that's because we are still in summer in the Arctic and the days here tend tae last a long time, it dinnae get dark in summer, while in winter it dinnae dawn, it's something like that, we must be in the transition period of this, finally let's build the house, wood is an excellent thermal insulator" said my girlfriend.
"Come on, we just need to get everything ready, luckily we have a long journey ahead of us, a pity Sifla can't send us here since it is beyond her reach, but let's go, the sorcerer stones are activated" I tell them.
We started making the house with magic, we used some thicker trunks for the structure, the wind is really the biggest problem, so I made sure to leave the trunks well buried inside the snow, the structure was made very fast, with magic you can make everything very fast, as the floor was being made by Hannah and Amanda, leaving everything in the scheme.
And so we did more things, leaving the walls with thick layers of wooden boards, so we were protected from the cold, even if we are going to put some electric heaters around the house, and we will install some generators that transform magic into electricity, with the help of wizard stones.
"I thought we were going to put up tents" Amanda said.
"In the snow? In the arctic? Windy like this? We can't do something like that, only if we think about setting up an igloo, but fae the rest we'll play it safe" Diana said.
"It's a comfortable little house, it's the size of all the ones we've been doing in Doras" Hannah said.
Soon we finished everything that we could do, the house already has what we need to be ready, we entered by the door and we could already feel the difference, it is a little warmer in here, I see by the thermometer and it rose to 8 degrees, which is already an advance, but I believe that with a heater it can rise to at least 20, we have space here to have where we can sleep and do our things, what we were doing the next step.
"Time to leave the house tidy" I tell them all.
"You can play here now" Amanda said.
"I'll just install the generators and we'll be able to play" I tell her.
And we were doing that, we got four generators, one that will be in the living room and will be where we'll put the TV, another one in the two bedrooms and also in the kitchen, besides having space left in the bathroom, but then we'll still get the water with some pipes and defrost it to have it at home, The heating of the shower can be done with magic, so it's quiet, we were also installing lights, putting in the sockets and everything was being illuminated very calmly, the wires are a little exposed, but it's a temporary home, until we find the sound of the flute or a mine of wizard stones.
"We have energy!" I say excitedly.
"Great, we'll be able to play an Xbox in a few minutes, I'll just set it up here," said Amanda.
"And how is the internet going?" I ask Diana.
"Everything is going well, we already have a signal, now we just have tae call my mother and finish the rest of the house, let's turn on the heaters and say that we are fine" Said my girlfriend.
"Wow this quiet little place is wonderful, I'm going to love the time here, it's going to be an interesting experience" Hannah said.
"I brought my laptop too, if ye want tae use Netflix feel free Hannah, the internet here is pretty fast" Diana said.
"Oh that's very good, I'll just finish tidying up here, it'll look wonderful the results of it all" Hannah said.
And we were giving the last details, we turned on the heaters too, who knows this way the house won't be so cold, even more because during the day it's already cold, imagine how cold it's going to be at night, Pisces even feels more comfortable than us, that's really good.
Final touches were done, the house is really nice, Hannah is good at that, we all sat down on the sofa and had a good rest, meanwhile Amanda was already playing COD, she's really addicted to it.
"HeyAkko, come and play too" O'Neill said.
"I want to play too, it looks like fun, by the way, what's with the sniper scope?" said Mary.
"I didn't say, I'm good at sniper" Amanda said thinking herself.
"Because you're running around, you're just wasting time on it, or shooting like that out of nowhere, without using a scope" Brooks said.
"Hahahaha, ah you have no idea, that's how we play, I do several in scope or just spin around to make the kill more beautiful, it's the weapon I know best by far" I see it's going to be a sniper competition.
"Oh, that's interesting, but I wouldn't go spinning around like that, it's important to hit the target accurately and ensure a safe place, I speak from experience" Mary said and we were left laughing.
"This is just a game Mary, here you can make fun all you want" said Amanda.
How cute Mary, she really is very naive about these things, but we'll see playing, I think we'll get some guaranteed kills, meanwhile I see my girlfriend talking to my mother-in-law by the looks of it and Hannah was going into the kitchen, she's going to try and convince us that she cooks better than the Laura McLaren school apprentices hahahaha.
"Everything is going well here, my mother said that now we just need tae guarantee an access tae the sea underneath us, we will have tae open a big hole, but that is nae a problem, my mother arranged some pipes sae that we can do just that and reach the sea, here where we are there are nae many meters tae the water, in a little while we will get the pipes and we can jump in the shape of a fish and then take off the spell and enter as mermaids, surely this sea hides many secrets" said my girlfriend.
"I hope the water is bearable, because it's already very cold up here, let alone down there" I said already scared.
"In our aquatic form we adapt tae the temperature Akko" Diana said and I know.
"Come on Akko, come on Mary, let's see who's better of the three of us" Amanda said as she was put into Nuketown.
"Seriously, Nuketown" I say, already rolling my eyes.
"Best map in the game don't even come with that" O'Neill said.
"Hijacked is better for a sniper contest" I tell her who shrugs.
"Skill Issue?" Ah now go check it out.
"I don't understand any of this, for me any map is fine, I'll see if it's as good to use sniper in the game as it is in real life, I've never been to play COD, not even to play video games actually" Brooks said.
"Trust me, you'll love it" Amanda said.
"And how do you shoot and move?" She just hits me with a headshot in the scope and asks me a question like that.
"You're joking aren't you?" O'Neill said in shock.
"Seriously, I just know that the trigger shoots, what the other one does... Ahhhhhh, so this is where it activates the crosshairs" She hits one on Amanda simply at the time of activating the crosshairs.
She's just looking at the screen in the biggest concentration and we keep trying, but it seems that she has extra eyes, I see that she barely looks at our screen, she just looks at her screen, while we kept looking at each other's screen, even so we got a lot of free kills, it's even scary.
I manage to hit one with the knife and get excited, first kill on Mary, but then she gets a little confused
"How does she use the knife?" She barely knows how to play and she's winning?
"It looks like ye two need tae train more" Diana said.
"Ah come here then hot girl" I say to her.
"Hottie huh? I'll show ye who's hot later" said my girlfriend already getting on my nerves and teasing me.
We kept playing, I even taught the other buttons what they do to Mary and now I know I made one of the worst mistakes in the world, Amanda even got some kills on us and stayed ahead, but that's when things started to change.
Mary was starting to come out like a steamroller on us, she knew how to use grenades, how to use still the knife and shoot better, she learned how to use the items that come after many kills, this will become a real massacre.
"I told you it wasn't good to teach her" O'Neill said.
"This is too much fun, in real life it's more, I'm just loving it" That's great Mary is liking a lot.
After a while Hannah arrives with the food...
It looks like Diana has swallowed all the words now, even she couldn't handle Mary being a sniper, that's because she didn't even try another weapon, we should try a gun game just to see if this will nerf her a bit, I'm sure it will, I hope.
"I'm here, come and see what my food is like" Hannah said bringing a bucket of popcorn.
"Popcorn? Is it serious?" I ask her.
"Yes, you're going to eat the best popcorn ever, there love, open the Netflix on your Xbox, I know there is also" I didn't even know that, but then I saw that she actually managed to open it.
"What are we going to watch?" I get a bit confused.
"I don't know, put something good on there Amanda" England said.
And there she went, scrolling through Netflix, while I was enjoying the popcorn and I hate to admit it, but Hannah England really outdid herself on this one, she knows how to make a high quality popcorn, I wasn't expecting something that good, this is really good, it's like a movie theatre popcorn, the best ones there are, I honestly loved it, there's no greasiness or anything, it's just a normal popcorn, that's the best of all.
In Doras...
POV Hellene:
I'm arriving at de mecha room, I can't wait to see what dey've prepared for me, I'm really looking forward to pilot one, I dedn't imagine I'd be one of de nine chosen, when I get dere I see my mother riding de shooting star broomstick and I'm already getting anxious to enter de mechas.
"You can come Hellene, we made a special mecha for you" Croix said.
"Am I really going to ride?" I say all excited and anxious.
"Not only you but also Marianne" Meridies said and I was already jumping for joy.
"Woah, that's cool" said my girlfriend.
"We finished everything and also left each lock with a specific function for when we did the ultimate nine" Croix said.
"Ultimate Nine? Is it serious Croix, don't you 'ave a better name, like de one I was talking about?" said my mother.
"Well that's the nickname, the name is going to be that thing Laura chose, but anyway, you two will be the arms of the mecha when it's ready, the legs will be five, the chest only one, as well as the head, which will form the most advanced Mecha, it will be a huge power that no witch was able to match" Said Mrs Meridies and I'm really looking forward to it.
"Well let's test it out" I say happily and head for de mecha.
I'm getting inside de cockpit, it's full of buttons and everything else, I'm starting to pull some buttons and levers, but de most as I've seen my lettle sister testing I already know how it works, I can see everything as if it were a VR, I'm moving my arms and it's amazing how it seems dat it's all a huge prosthesis, it gets to be very fucking great. I notice dat one of my arms even comes out a blade of it.
"Dat's cool, I love dat on my arm" I said very happy.
"I made it with you in mind, April has made some improvements" Meridies said.
"Hey love, can you see me, I'm also in Mecha, can we test a fight between each other?" asks my girlfriend.
"Not yet, we are still in the testing phase, but you can try to move together, so we can see how your mecha is doing" I nod my head and just go.
I'm moving my arm, my legs, it's all so easy to move, it's strange, but even so, it seems like it's an extension of my body, I'm really prepared for dis, I see de functions of de mecha and dere are many, you can use de weapons, you can use de swordplay and dis mecha must be specialised for dis, I can see it.
"You see, the mecha is working exactly as expected" Croix said and we nodded in agreement.
I'm doing de quick test and den I stop in my position and den I get out of de mecha and I feel relieved, whether I want to or not it gives a weight inside me, de G-force on top of de body is tense, but one more progress, de test was a good one, I dink now I can try to show how I'm progressing, I'm managing to stay relaxed.
"And how was it?" Croix asks.
"It was too wonderful I loved de mechs, dey work so well" I say eagerly.
Meanwhile far away Miranda Holbrook decided to pay a visit to a more peculiar place...
POV Miranda:
I arrived here, I was going to visit the Du Nord to cause some damage to the family of Chariot to make them come out of hiding, but let's make a joke here in Japan, the night of the Kagari will not be anything pleasant, I enter at once, but when I enter the house, I see that there is no one, the house is empty, I went exactly by the information of the address that was passed to me, it seems that they have moved or something like that.
"Oh if you ran away there's no point in trying, oh Akko, trying to protect your family, what a shame, you must have used the little flute they got with Mary, I don't doubt it at all" I say alone as I go looking at the house.
A pity that this house will also have to say goodbye and I'm glad that there is still a lot of flammable stuff around here, I will enjoy it a lot, what a thing, they try and try to escape, but they can't stay like this all the time, I will find them and it won't be friendly at all, I will make each one suffer and it will be fun to see what will happen.
"Sayonara Kagaris" I say already starting a flame in their house.
Now they will get the end they deserve, the descendants of that criminal who tried to kill the supreme leader at the time and still praise her, for sure it was deserved, I am disgusted to know that she is a graduate student in Luna Nova, it will be the consequences of the acts of these witches, she thinks she is a real witch, but is nothing more than a descendant of a criminal.
"One day you will be found in your hiding place and I will show you no mercy, the witches' revolution will not happen" I say very menancly while staring to Atsuko's place.
Well apparently it's a shame Japan is marked by that, they never produced a decent witch, now the most iconic has to be exactly the one I tried so hard to sabotage, well let's put an end to this degenerated lineage, I hope they don't infect the Cavendish, but there's really no way on Diana's side, I'll have to use Maril or Merrill, but they also seem to have been brainwashed to be like that, the world is such a drag.
I open a portal through Ley's lines and go back to Luna Nova, seeing that the troops are still watching everything very well.
"No suspicious movements" I already ask one of my guards and she nods in agreement.
"No ma'am, everything is going as expected, it seems that you have put real fear in what can happen" said the general.
"Good, I'm going, keep watching, by the way, train more minotaur troops, I want extremely reinforced security, I don't want to risk the situation getting that way" I say clearly to her who agrees as well.
"I will do everything, you can leave that the best troops will come from here, they will be the most aggressive and obedient minotaurs that you can imagine" Said the general and I'm leaving.
POV Narrator:
Another step in the exploration to get the sounds of the Fluit An Neart, settling in the Arctic of Arcturus, also with the goal of mining more sorcerer stones around the place so they don't have to risk in Rastavan in the middle of the Fafnir front, these advances that will be necessary to defeat these threats that are to come, they will have to advance whatever it takes to unravel the mysteries of the mysterious flute that is one of the relics of the sacred triskellion of Lilith.
See you, cold witches...