POV Narrator:
The countdown for the missile keeps on rolling, for the nine witches now it would be a matter of being able to defeat Fafnir in time of the ten minutes of time left for the missile to be launched in the middle of the skies of Luna Nova, passing through the portal of the Ley line towards the earth where it could end up hitting a place that could have many innocent lives, which starts a countdown of the nine witches to defeat the dragon with the huge mecha, a final fight, which they are winning, but soon Miranda would arrive with a huge sorcerer stone in hand to help her partner to win the fight.
Far away from everything around the world people were not having the slightest idea of what was happening, they were confused, suddenly what they used to watch on television changes to this exhibition of what has been happening, which even international defenses are with a great confusion, most of the screens change to only show this part of what is happening with the girls, along with this is also happening in places that have no television, people around the world are somehow watching the events and in multiple languages, almost in the greatest confusion of what it can cause.
Exercises of the whole world are already getting worried about the missile and they already think that it is a generalized panic, meetings between politicians of the whole world are happening and they are wanting in
the most to decide something that happened with the televisions and any device in the whole world to exhibit only the event of where the new nine witches are fighting Miranda Holbrook and the dragon Fafnir
Miranda arrived with the sorcerer stone, near the dragon, which sucks it up and then swallows it into its own body, getting even stronger. With that, Fafnir goes up the mecha, which even tries to dodge, but receives a dragon's tail, besides Miranda's presence, who keeps watching the battle and interfering using magic to hinder the mecha's vision.
"Now let's see if they will get the upper hand" Holbrook said as he went about producing more smoke to disrupt the girls' mecha vision.
They were starting to have a little trouble to have some vision getting more bewildered by where to attack, Fafnir took advantage of the gaps to go giving an attack or another and with that until managing to throw the mecha with everything in the middle of the ground causing a huge impact that makes some trees fall and also cause the flight of many birds.
"Holbrook go to my sorcerer stone mines and bring as much as you can nearby I will defeat these brats" Said the dragon and Miranda only nodded in agreement.
The Mecha gets up, Fafnir tries to attack, but the girls synchronized and seeing that they are not being hindered dodge and then go on to hit a nice punch in the stomach of the creature, then hit a hook and use a magic trigger in the chest that may have spent a little energy and the dragon is not intimidated by that in fact even receives open chest.
Fafnir glowers and then gets back up, even more agile, which already opens up the strangeness on the part of the nine who then get attacked but manage to defend and even feel the impact inside, being shocked by the dragon's strength.
"Don't cast magic on Fafnir he is absorbing it, defeat it another way, let's go faster, or else we won't have time to defeat it and the missile will be launched!" said Croix.
The girls decide to change the tactic to a more physical combat, going up this way the dragon will feel more pushed, it also tries to leave using fire to burn robot parts, but nothing works due to the protection of the magical aura trap of the mecha, but a rain is falling, it's a rain of sorcerer stones, which was making Fafnir even more huge as it was swallowing.
"We have to use the seven words here, so the dragon will not be defeated," Akko said.
"Will they stay at the adapted size or will it get small?" Diana asks.
"We have to try, so let's go together and test something" Kagari said.
"Noctu OrfeiAude Fraetor!" Together the nine speak the first word, the tiara of the huge robot glows and then a huge bow appears which will cause the girls to start aiming an arrow.
Fafnir is watching the sorcerer stones falling and incorporating in his body, which is very noticeable with the sorcerer stones appearing on the dragon's back, which is also getting muscles very evident. The nine witches launch an arrow that really causes a shock wave just by leaving the bow, hitting Fafnir that dodges, but still ends up being hit in the left wing that ends up giving a nice bleeding.
"Damned! Feel the wrath of Fafnir!" He began to blow fire with more intensity to the point where the flame became white with so much intensity.
The nine of them dodge by jumping and pushing upwards, then they create a path of ice to avoid being hit and this goes on passing over the whole dragon, which then stops blowing flames and starts blowing more balls of ice that freeze when they touch anything, which made the witches have to use fireballs to avoid being hit.
"We have to study the pattern of this creature" Croix said.
"Don't stop believing in yourself I know you can do it" Laura said to the girls.
The count was getting smaller and smaller and the rain of sorcerer stones kept falling, it wasn't coming out the way the dragon expected, he was even getting bigger and more resistant, he was already getting at least twice the size of the mecha of the nine witches, but they kept looking at Fafnir who was causing the biggest wave of wind while concentrating.
The exchange of blows continued, punches, shutes, even some attempts to hit with the tail, the two huge titans were battling and people didn't know who to cheer for, some already had an idea that the dragon was on the side that wanted to cause the nuclear war and others not so much.
"You are very stubborn, give up is the best for you, it's useless, I have the power of several sorcerer stones in hand" Said the dragon while stepping on the mecha that was on the ground already being well intimidated by the huge dragon that was 300 meters high, almost triple the height of the robot.
"Don't give up girls, believe in yourself, 'ave faith, you can do it" Laura said over the radio trying to motivate them.
"You will die right here, Arcturus will be your cemetery! You will die without seeing the end of your world! Only your friends will see the biggest nuclear war of all!" said Fafnir and without having any idea that they are appearing on television some people will be in shock, even more from governments around the world.
Sounds can be heard of a flute, which the dragon strange for a moment, time stopped, the mecha then teleports itself getting right behind the huge dragon, which goes firing several times using machine guns with magic filled weapons leaving the bullets kind of stopped in the air, but soon time rolls again.
Fafnir feels the shots, at the most just like tickles, but that because the real dish was coming, when the nine witches in dragon shape attack with an axe of the second word and this one catches well on the dragon's ass that tries to use to defend itself, but ends up being hit by the sharpest object than it could imagine.
"Damn them!" The enraged dragon makes a huge wind current, which throws the mecha away.
"Damn that thing keeps growing, this way we'll never defeat it" Akko said in frustration seeing that Fafnir was causing a wave of wind sucking in more sorcerer stones nearby and getting bigger and bigger.
They are already 500 meters high for the giant dragon, the nine witches were well intimidated by the creature that was even regenerated, the fear took over the nine, they did not know what to do the rain of sorcerer stones was continuing intensely the dragon was getting bigger and bigger, all were going to the dragon that was facing the robot that before huge, now became minuscule near the colossal dragon.
"Miranda don't use up all my sorcerer stones we will need for our big mission, so I am sure I can beat these cursed ones, they will be crushed like cockroaches" Fafnir said.
"Do not stay down, his huge size can intimidate, but you 'ave de power of de nine witches in your hands, you 'ave de faith of de whole world do not let dis dragon intimidate you" Said Mrs McLaren to all the girls and they were already preparing another attack.
The dragon went on top of them, the third word was activated, with the hook attached to Fafnfir's neck the rope is pulled down the dragon falls in the middle of the ground and goes dragging several trees in the process as it was also gathering wounds and the rain of wizarding stones is still gathering, it wasn't what the creature wanted but what the girls were wanting.
The magic indicators were going up, instead of decreasing the charge what was too strange with the hook still activated they throw the dragon in the air and return to the first word, where they shoot an arrow that was caught in the huge monster right in the stomach, then the mecha goes flying towards it and hit a punch making the arrow go through all the rest, Using the sound of the flute they teleport upwards use the second word and with the axe they go falling with Fafnir but before they could reach the ground and cause more
damage the monster shoots the scales and makes the axe disappear, just like a wave of air throws them back.
"Did you really think I would let it go so easy, damn you, that axe is hurting me" Said the dragon.
"Ahhhhhhhh, sae the mecha will get damaged, we have tae find a way tae repair it, those scales hit vital circuits" Diana said.
"The fourth word!" Lotte said.
"Let's use it before Fafnir takes de power of de sorcerer's stones for himself" Hellene said.
"I don't know if this will really work girls" Croix said and they were still motivated.
"Mayenab Disheebudo!" All nine witches say.
"Miranda I already told you not to throw more sorcerer stones, this way I won't have power for our plan, I need many of them to suck Lilith's vital energy, how will I reign if I continue in this horrible form? Stop sending more!" The dragon was getting too distracted with this and was not going to notice that the fourth word was activated and a huge funnel appeared.
The several sorcerer stones started to join in the middle of the funnel, entering it and fusing together, the funnel was right on top of it and the wizard stone was becoming one, huge and the size of the giant mecha's head, but Fafnir soon noticed and saw that and was shocked, there was a huge portion of mecha and it formed a similar format to a mask with the wizard stones, with a reddish colour.
"By the hope of all mankind we will defeat this dragon and save the whole world from this catastrophe, by the nine witches we will save magic!" They all said together.
The piece that looked like a mask goes up higher, the "small" mecha is in the middle of a huge aura that grows up to 1km high and the shape of a witch with a hat and a mask, the nine girls went up and they were exactly in the top part of this aura, with their eyes closed.
The huge mecha was in a position where it was the "heart" of the aura witch, what everyone was in shock, the people watching it on television were jumping for happiness, thinking that it was just a show of special effects
"The Believing Heart Aura!" They all say with the name of the enormous aura that made a half-greenish light and stared down at the half-kilometre tall dragon with its arms crossed.
"Miranda send everything! They're huge! They've absorbed the sorcerer's stone! Go on!" Fafnir goes into despair and even goes flying.
Facing the huge witch head on, with the vision that she had only of the immensity of the sky while the forest of Arcturus was tiny below, the huge witch remains just watching everything, while the dragon is concentrating a more powerful flame to attack her that remains with her arms crossed.
In the middle of this the girls of the laboratory in Doras see it in shock, without having notion of the magical power that it caused, it was possible to feel it from that distance of so strong that they were, it was something that transcended beyond what was possible for a witch
"Burn you wretched witch!" Said the dragon who launched a powerful wave of flames.
The white flames could cause a huge effect on the skies of Luna Nova, a white light could be seen at a distance that cut the skies right in the face of Believing Heart Aura that remained in the same pose, the flames were getting more intense and causing a huge flash then spreading and with that the dragon turned and started to run away flying.
Aura came out unharmed, without a scratch, and ended up staying practically as if nothing had happened, looking at the dragon running away she raised her hand.
"Civilladura Lelladibura" Said the aura that made a broom appear on her feet making her fly at high speed reaching the dragon and facing him that is trembling with dread, without even having time to reach Rastavan to get more sorcerer stones.
"What? How can you be so fast, die!" The dragon was trying to go up, but the witch was letting herself be attacked by several punches and kicks that did nothing, she only kept her arms crossed.
The dragon was then flying back and starting pumping with a wave of fireballs towards the aura, which goes forward mounted on the broomstick towards the monster without caring much, it was hit but it didn't have any effect, it was kind of coming right in front of the dragon that tried and tried to attack, but nothing affected the witch.
The whole world was cheering for her, enchanted with such power and effects that made that aura, the aura decides to finally give some attacks and this time it takes only one hit with the staff on the dragon and that throws it towards a mountain and due to the impact it ends up collapsing very close and still by the size causes a huge landslide.
"Damn you! Where is Holbrook I'm going to die right here? This giant thing is much more powerful and bigger than I thought it was" Said the dragon already looking up and seeing the witch slowly descending into the sky.
"Lyonne!" When the witch's aura speaks this a rain of magic begins to fall, but she ends up no more going about restoring the nature that all around had been destroyed by the fall of the huge 500 metre dragon.
Everything else seemed that the aura of the witch was something above the dragon in all aspects, that even forgot the existence of the creature that was getting up and flying until healed of his injuries what was all very strange, the witch had healed the huge Fafnir that is even laughing that he was healed, thinking that he won something.
"You really wasted a lot of time on this, by now the missile is about to be launched and there's nothing you can do to stop it, hahahahahahahaha! On top of that you healed me, you witches are pathetic!" said Fafnir laughing
And it was really less than a minute until the missile launch, that was the reason why Miranda was absent to deliver the wizard stones to Fafnir and that was the biggest mistake the dragon could make, meanwhile in the laboratory the despair took over the girls there when they saw the countdown lowering more and more, when they realized that there was not much time left.
"By de nine lesbian witches, we've only got a minute, dat giant aura just curls up, won't these girls listen to us?" Said Laura in despair.
"I think not, it seems that they have transcended to another plane of existence, look how the mecha even forms a heart and not a mecha, the format even became different, I hope they defeat soon" Croix said.
"Holy shit! Holy shit! Everyone's going to die if dis witch of light keeps stalling" Laura was still in despair.
Back in the forest of Arcturus, the dragon was laughing, but that huge aura witch puts her hand on the shoulder of the creature who doesn't understand anything, the dragon just looks deep into the eyes of the aura, he ends up having the visions of Lilith, the nine witches, everything he was tormenting the most and things from humans, which the dragon was getting quite shocked and frozen, then the aura witch just raises her other hand.
"Fafnir, you will return one day, but no longer as a dragon, you will be a human and you will remember nothing and not even the genocide you want to cause, goodbye dragon, you will have your wish of admiration for humans being fulfilled, but not the way you want, Fasannciel Shearilla" Said the voice that was by the aura.
A sword of light comes out of one of Believing Heart Aura's hands, which gives only one strike to the chest of the draconian creature that practically crumbles around where it was hit, getting a much reduced size, returning to its original form of an old dragon and before it could reach the ground, the dragon also disappears becoming only a dust that joins the nature.
The huge aura of magic goes flying to a different route than the witches were expecting, meanwhile the screens start to show no more Miranda Holbrook looking at the missile admiring the countdown and more despair came in Doras, noticing that the witch's aura was going back towards a place that had nothing to do with Luna Nova.
It was less than ten seconds until the missile launch and everyone watching on television was just getting tense and thinking it was a joke.
"Excellent, you may fly my girl, change the world in the best way" Miranda said and the countdown was appearing in front, the portal to Ley's line is opened revealing the skies of Glastonbury what people in a square around there see that and are shocked.
They were watching by their mobile phones and some of them took pictures and sent it to the internet saying that there was a huge hole in the city of Glastonbury and after it a huge missile was flying and everyone on television was amazed to see that it could be more real than it seems, especially those who were from the city.
In Doras there was nothing else but despair and frustration to see that the missile was launched and they could do nothing, since the aura was going to another direction, it seemed that everything was heading for the worst.
"Oh, shit! So what now? Are we going to let de missile kill millions or billions of people?" Laura said.
"The defences will know how to react Laura, there's no way the British don't know how to use missiles to intercept that one" Croix said.
Miranda soon shows on the screen that within two hours the missile will be arriving around Washington DC and that it could cause a blast radius that could vaporise as far as New York, which was frightening everyone around, as those at Glastonbury knew it was real and the imminence of a third world war could be real, while in the midst of many countries in meetings ministers discussed what to do.
"Fire missiles now!" Said the UK defence minister.
"Sir, we can't activate any missiles it's like our computers are failing to do that" said one of the commanders.
"Sir, the missile is going at a speed exceeding mach 2, not even our best fighters would be able to get close in time to intercept the missile" said another commander.
"We have to try" the defence minister said.
"We have to appeal to the Americans on the other side, they have to defend themselves, you heard the witch, she intends to attack them and not us" Said Paul Hanbridge who was in the middle of everyone.
"If we did that the Americans will take it as a provocation of war and act..." The phone starts ringing.
When they answer the phone it was exactly a call from Washington saying that they will send fighter planes to intercept the missile that is coming and has already left several aircraft carriers positioned near the route to intercept the mysterious missile that was coming close and if they couldn't do something they would cause a war.
It starts there a mass evacuation of the city of Washington and all the surroundings, congested streets of cars, to the point that the people preferred only to leave running since the traffic was the worst, the people were desperate in the panic knowing that that was real.
"So what are we going to do? Let's just let the missile kill innocent lives, this is all the witches council's fault, we should arrest Dorlin and Miranda Holbrook, the witches are declaring a war on us, I see no other option but to start bringing back the hunt" Paul said and the minister goes agreeing.
"I will already arrange for a dissolution of Appleton's agreement with Luna Nova, you are the only one capable of breaking it Paul" Said the defence minister.
"Unfortunately the power to do this lies with my son who I invited here precisely to sign the agreement to be revoked, apparently there has to be an agreement between all living members of the family, as his mother disappeared and must be dead, it only remains that he and I agree" Said the older Hanbridge.
"No!" Andrew interferes and angrily refuses,
"Boy how dare you? Witches are evidently criminals!" Said the boy's father.
"I am sure that no, these witches that you spoke are yes, but you didn't see anything on television, they incriminated the witches that will fight this, they will fight and defeat them, they will stop the missile, just believe in them!" Andrew made no effort to praise them and saw everyone practically laughing at his face with the exception of his father who displayed a look of disgust.
"Boy, don't embarrass me, some little witches who only know how to cause trouble are going to stop a ballistic missile of unknown destructive capacity? Did you see the size of that thing? It is 50 meters long and flies at mach 2 with ease, it can cause an explosion that will kill hundreds of millions of lives, not to mention the billions afterwards. They will use the excuse to attack us and say that we are on the witches' side, we will attack back and it will be in a cycle, then the other countries will go to war with each other to get a slice of
power, this here is not your book of witch stories, do you really think that this will be stopped?" Andrew confidently agrees with his head and then gestures with his hand showing a light.
"I know the potential of magic more than any of you here, I have seen it and been taught it by the witches themselves, just believe in yourselves, I'm not going to incriminate the witches for the actions of real criminal witches, we should arrest them that's for sure" Said the boy and saw his father annoyed.
"Your son is a Hanbridge figure, we are really lost, he is going to kill everyone hahahahahaha, then I think I am going to have a drink because I can't stand this comedy anymore, since everyone is going to die anyway, there is no point in even trying" said the defence minister.
"Andrew, get out of here, I regret bringing you here, you only made us more embarrassment boy, get out, you still owe me explanations for having learned magic, what else is missing to disappoint me, will you say you are gay now?" Paul said and the boy shrugged.
"Well thank you for bringing things forward dad, I went, since you don't want to believe in the witches the problem is you guys in suits, I'm sure they will stop the missile, I bet even with you" Andrew said laughing and going to open the door until he was interrupted by the prime minister
"So let's do this boy, if your beloved witches win I'll give you honors and a medal for saving the world and even ask the queen to raise you to the noble title of sir, in fact I can even think of guaranteeing you an estate of your own, that's a great offer don't you think? But if you lose you will have to sign to revoke the agreement that protects the witches and we will arrest all of them to not cause our guilt in anything and the war does not start, besides that you will be responsible for the millions of lives that will die" Said the prime minister and Andrew gets a big smile on his face.
"I like your offer first minister I think I will stay a while, to see that I am right" said the boy who sat back in his chair confidently.
"Ohhhhhhhhhh, you've lost morale Paul Hanbridge your son has outdone you by keeping his tail between his legs, well we've got a guaranteed subscription at least, don't look so disgusted" said the defence minister and Andrew stared confidently at the television screen.
He knew that somehow the witches would show up and that through the screen even though everyone was seeing a missile and the news was running about a real witches missile, it was causing a general panic, the airports around Washington DC were crowded, people were trying to escape the city by any means to survive, desperate, The streets were deserted and crowded with cars, cars that did not move because people preferred to get out of the vehicles and run for so much traffic, there were millions of people running on highways and streets trying to evacuate the city and trucks and more trucks of the army that appeared filling the people evacuating the city, to get them out of any danger.
Miranda Holbrook smiled that her plan had worked, she looked at the map seeing the missile going in route to Washington DC in a good time could get very close, people near her were crying of terrified because they knew that the worst would happen, while she was the only smiling.
"Stupid Fafnir will die and I'm sure the brats will do the dirty work for me, I'm not going to reign that idiot in with me, you did well, but I don't even want to imagine being with a dragon like that, disgusting beast, all I want is just to bring back the golden age of magic again, who knows this missile will scare everyone enough to know who they should respect, I'll make humanity regret the technologies" Holbrook said while looking at the computers.
"You say that, but the missile and everything around here was built based on technology, even the girls who ran away and you took her weapons are made with technology, Miranda you are very hypocritical" said one of the scientists.
"This is a necessary evil, but after the mushroom clouds and the great mushroom cloud war all over the world, I will be able to reign and make my magic kingdom with the real traditions of magic, people will appreciate magic as it has to be appreciated and not run away from it, humanity has gone astray since it detached from using magic" Miranda said and the scientists just shrugged.
Meanwhile away from there in another laboratory in Doras, the girls were sort of seeing what Holbrook had said, without being so shocked, they were already expecting a betrayal from Holbrook to the dragon and they are even grateful for the defeat, but still tense because of the missile, it was a danger they were tense that could happen at any moment and that it was an extremely serious situation.
"Well Holbrook really helped us on dis one, but what good is it if de missile won't be stopped dat way? Where did de girls go?" Laura said.
"I'm sure that aura led somewhere important Laura, we should trust them, I'm sure something big will happen" Chariot said.
"Yes, something big like 150 million people and more just in de first explosion, you saw de size of dat ding, it could be de first explosion with gigatons in de world, we are not prepared for dat, it could reach even de other side of de ocean de blast wave, den I do not know more" said Mrs. McLaren.
"Laura believe in yourself, believe in them, remember you were saved by the nine when you least expected it, now is the time for it, I am sure they will make it, I believe in the girls, they will defeat Miranda and her missile, I am sure something bigger is at hand or the aura would not go in a different direction, and you saw the size of it, that aura could stop the missile with extreme ease" Said the Du Nord confident of victory.
Fafnir was defeated with the power of the nine witches, using their intelligence and coordination they were able to transcend beyond what they could with the help of the sorcerer stones that Miranda Holbrook took from the dragon's mine as a way to betray the creature and thus excel, but a greater fear and panic begins with a ballistic missile that is able to arrive and cause historical damage amidst the world if the explosion happens. It is up to the new nine witches to save the world with their enormous power and know where they have gone after defeating the dragon in the midst of an important mission.
See you, dragon witches...