The group of witches were now on the run to the core where the shiny rod was and there was no doubt that there would be some obstacles that would stand in their way. The ancient dragon that was captured was defeated by Jasminka and Ursula managed to free Fanfir. The old dragon joined them on their quest to stop noir rod from falling. There was sudden shaking and everyone tried to keep their balance. "What was that shaking?" Amanda asked
Croix checked it on a watch that she had.
"This is bad. The Noir rod just changed its form" Croix said
"Changed form? What do you mean?" Diana asked
"It can change into different forms. Right now its in the form of an aircraft. It's speed is slightly increasing by at least 5%" Croix said
"We need to hurry!" Jasminka said
Along the way there sere several enemies that tried to get in their way. There was way too many of them.
"There's too many of them" Ursula said
There was bright beam that hit some of them. The grouped looked over and saw that it was Hannah and the others.
"Leave those things to me! Get going!" Hannah said
"We can't leave you here by yourself to face them alone!" Jasminka said
"You have to. If you don't then the entire world will be destroyed" Hannah said
"Don't worry, I'll be backing her up" Barbra said
The others left. Hannah and Barbra stayed behind to deal with the army of small demons.
The Noir rod changed form again. This time in the form of a giant spider.
There was another ancient dragon and it was in their way.
"Now what? That thing can absorb magic!" Amanda said
Sucy and Constanze stepped forward.
"Leave that thing to us. It might be able to absorb magic but our best abilities involve creating things and it can't absorb that" Sucy said
Constanze nodded in agreement.
"All right but be careful" Lotte said
There was now a small army of robots that were getting their way.
"Anyone know how to get past them?" Diana asked
"I'll take care of them" Lotte said
"I'll stay and help too" Jasminka said
The others left and continued their journey towards the core. At this point the noir rod changed into a dragon.
They were finally at the center of the core.
"Well we're at the center but where's the shiny rod?" Amanda asked
Fanfir looked around and then saw where it was. It was just up ahead in some sort of shrine.
"Over there" Fanfir said
The others looked over and saw that it was right there.
The Noir rod shook again and this time it was in the form of a missle.
"We need to hurry!" Croix said
They were about to run towards the shrine like structure but a bright light stopped them. They saw that it was the divine dragon.
"The Divine dragon" Diana said
Amanda tried to attack it but the dragon put up a barrier.
"Don't attack it recklessly! It can see through time and knows when you're going to attack" Diana said
"Then what are we supposed to do?" Ursula saked
"Leave that thing to me" A voice said
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Akko.
"You!" Fanfir said
Diana looked at her rival.
"Akko, what are you doing?" Diana asked
Akko stood in front of the dragon.
"I'll distract it while you go towards the shiny rod" Akko said
Everyone was shocked at this statement. Akko was the one that wanted this to happen and now she was helping them stop the Noir rod.
They didn't really have time to question her and nodded. Diana was suddenly worried about her.
She hoped that Akko would be okay.
"Akko are you sure that you'll be okay taking that thing on by yourself?" Diana said
The brunette looked over at her.
"Don't worry, lady Diana, that thing is prototype of me. I can take care of it myself" Akko said
"You called me that back then too" Diana said
"Well, I do need to show you some respect after all" Akko said
Akko then attacked the dragon. The divine dragon roared and attacked her with energy beams of ice. She dodged them and attacked back with a lightning spear. The attacked made contact and the dragon roared in pain.
"It should've saw that coming right? I mean it can see through time" Amanda asked
Diana focused her vision on Akko. She then noticed that the red eyed witch was surrounded by time energy.
"She's surrounding herself with time magic" Diana said
"What?" Amanda said
"It appears by coating herself in time magic prevents the dragon from seeing her attacks coming. The divine dragon has to rely on it's senses to detect her movements" Diana said
The dragon breathed blue flames at her. The young witch responded with a blue fireball. There was an explosion when the two flames collided with each other.
The dragon then froze the floor with ice magic. It was hoping to throw her off balance, but the witch was prepared and used fire magic to melt the ice.
The witch the hurled blue lightning at the dragon and this caused it to roar in pain. The dragon recovered and fired a blizzard from it's mouth. Akko countered with lightning and the two magic spell canceled each other out.
She then crafted spear made out of fire and hurled it at the dragon. She threw more fire spears at the dragon. It was trapped by a wall of fire. The young witch then transformed into lightning bolt and hit the dragon head on. The dragon got knocked out and it appeared to be defeated.
Ursula managed to finally to get the shiny rod out of the core.
"We did it!" Amanda said
"Things should be back to normal now" Fanfir said
Everyone then heard a roar. They looked back and saw that the dragon teleported away.
"It teleported!" Akko said
The entire rod shook again.
"We got the rod out of the core but we're still headed towards the planet. I don't understand. Taking the shiny rid should've stopped it" Diana said
Croix then got a look at what was happening on the outside.
"The divine dragon is still alive. Not only has the noire rod changed into its final form but the dragon wrapped its entire body around it. It's pulling us toward the planet" Croix said
"Great! Now what are we supposed to do?" Amanda asked
"Its simple, we use the shiny rod to stop both the Noir rod and the divine dragon" Akko said
"But the dragon's outside now. We can't fight it in place where we can't reach it" Diana said
"Don't worry. We will stop it. Just focus your magic on the shiny rod" Akko said
Diana did what she was told to do. Akko did the same thing. The shiny rod then started to shine brightly and its power was sent into the two witches. Everyone shielded their eyes from the bright light.
Diana felt different. She felt more powerful than before. She looked at herself and saw that she was wearing her witch outfit like she wore at Luna Nova except instead of it being purple it was white. She also saw that she was hovering in the air without a broom.
The young prodigy looked over and saw that Akko was in the same state that she was in. She saw that the young witch was looking at herself in amazement. Diana suspected that she knew how the processed worked but never underwent the transformation herself.
"Let's go, we don't have much time" Akko said
Diana nodded. They both teleported away and reappeared outside the station that was now in the form of a giant missile. The divine dragon saw them in their state and roared.
"We need to get rid of the dragon first" Akko said
"Agreed" Diana said
"Surround yourself with time magic so it can't predict your movements" Akko said
Diana did just that. Both witches surrounded themselves with time magic.
The dragon fired off blue beams of light. They both dodged it.
The dragon then created multiple blue orbs and had them attack the witches. They both avoided them in time. The dragon then released a giant blizzard at them.
Diana countered with a fire spell and Akko backed her up with a fire spell. The two spells overpowered the blizzard and hit the dragon with full force. It roared in pain and anger.
It then sent out multiple blue lasers and they were thrown at them.
Diana and Akko created forcefields to block them.
Diana then charged at the dragon's long body with incredible speed. She then noticed that the dragon's hold on the Noir rod weakened.
"We need to make it let go of the noir rod" Diana said
"Agreed. We can weaken it enough so that it can let go and that's when we go in and finish it off" Akko said
They charged at the dragon again. The beast unleashed a powerful water spell that knocked them away. They were blown back again by a blizzard spell and then hit again by a powerful wind spell.
"It's getting more aggressive" Diana said
"It's determined to make sure that we don't interfere with the plan to destroy the earth" Akko said
"There's must be something that we can do to weaken it" Diana said
"It's body is incredibly long. We won't get anywhere if we just attack it directly" Akko said
"What should we do?" Diana asked
"We attack it from different angles" Akko said
"You mean we attack it from a different direction?" Diana asked
"Right. You will have to pick a side to attack and I'll do the same. One of us will distract it while the other attacks when it's guard is down" Akko said
"Alright, let's do this" Diana said
They charged at it again. The dragon released a blue flame. Diana and Akko dodged it by going in different directions. The dragon seemed to be focused on Diana and attacked relentlessly. She dodge the assaults that were coming at her.
Akko was directly below the dragon and charged at it with lightning speed. It's underbelly was attacked and that caused to roar again.
Diana then attacked the right side of its head. It's grip on the missile loosened again. The dragon then decided to put up a shield to prevent itself from being attacked again.
The two witches charge at the shield with light speed and broke right through it. They attacked it again. It put up another shield and the two witches teleported inside the shield and attacked it again.
The dragon finally released its grip on the missile.
"It let go!" Diana said
"Now, Diana!" Akko said
They used their light speed and attacked with everything they had. The huge explosion that came upon impact literally ripped the dragon apart.
"We did it!" Akko said
"That was close" Diana said
Akko then looked and saw the missile was still heading towards the earth. Diana noticed that too and was shocked. Why wasn't it stopping?
"What's going on? We took out the shiny rod, the power source that gave it a conscious and then we defeated the divine dragon that was pulling it towards earth. Why isn't it stopping?" Diana asked
"The Noir rod is being pulled in by earth's gravity. It's acting like an incoming asteroid" Akko said
"What are we going to do?" Diana asked
"We need to stop that thing ourselves" Akko said
The two witches raced towards the missile and got in front of it and used their magic to slow it down.
Diana was doing her best to slow it down but the pressure was overwhelming.
"This pressure is overwhelming" Diana said
"Don't give up Diana!" Akko said
The prodigy witch looked over and saw that Akko was struggling just as much as she was.
The other witches saw what was going on and saw that the two of them were trying to stop Noir rod from getting any closer to earth. They started to cheer for them.
"You can do it, Diana!" Barbra said
"Don't give up!" Hannah said
"Give it all you've got Akko!" Croix said
"We know you can do it!" Ursula said
"If you fail to stop this thing then the entire planet will be destroyed" Sucy said
"Tough it out you two!" Amanda said
"You can do it!" Jasminka said
"We know you can!" Lotte said
"Diana!" The witches shouted
Akko then heard a familiar voice. The familiar voice of her creator.
"Akko!" Beatrix said
The brunette's eyes went wide when she heard the voice of her master.
"Those people need you, Akko" Beatrix said
"I AM ATSUKO! ATSUKO KAGARI!" Akko said
The witch then released all of her energy at once. She was ready to stop this thing once and for all.
"You ready?" Akko asked
Diana followed suit and unleashed all of her energy at once too.
"You bet! Here we go!" Diana said
They then released the spell that would stop the noir rod once and for all.
"Spacious" Akko said
"Timeous" Diana said
This spell unleashed the full power of the shiny rod at once. The seven words were being used at once in the form of magic energy.
Together the two of them created a huge orb of magic and it covered the entire Noir rod and they managed to transport out of earth's gravity.
"Beatrix, I did it for you" Akko muttered
The Noir rod reappeared and looked like a space station. The original form it had before Croix found it.
Croix went over the Noir rod's system and was satisfied to see that it was back normal.
"The Noir rod has returned to it's normal state" Croix said
"They did it! They stopped Noir rod and saved the world!" Jasminka said
"Of course they did! There was no way that they would fail" Amanda said
The door opened and saw that Diana entered the room.
"Diana, you did an awesome job! Hannah said
"You were so amazing out there!" Barbra said
"I've got to admit that you did a great job out there" Amanda said
"You did a good job" Sucy said
"Thank you, everyone" Diana said
Lotte then noticed that another person was absent.
"Diana" Lotte said
The prodigy witch looked over towards Lotte.
"What is it?" Diana asked
"Where's Akko?" Lotte said
Diana looked down with a grim look on her face and shook her head.
"She disappeared after we casted the spell that transported the entire Noir rod back into orbit" Diana said
"Where did she go?" Jasminka said
Diana then held something up. Everyone saw that it was the shiny rod.
"The shiny rod?" Lotte asked
"I'm afraid that what happened it that Akko unleashed all of her magic energy at once. She most likely perished afterwards" Croix said
"She's gone?" Lotte asked
"Why do you even care about her in the first place? Did you forget that all of this was her fault to begin with?" Sucy said
"While that might be true, she's also the one who helped me stop it. No, I was the one who helped her stop it" Diana said
"We can have a little memorial for her when we get back to Luna Nova" Ursula said
"I will also make a gravesite for her at the manor. After all, she is a Cavendish since she was created by my ancestor" Diana said
All of them started to leave. Diana was about to leave when someone appeared before her. It was Beatrix.
"Lady Beatrix" Diana said
"Thank you, Diana, thank you for stopping her" Diana said
"Some of the credit goes to Akko. I wouldn't have been able to stop any of this if she weren't there with me" Diana said
"Of course" Beatrix said
Beatrix then disappeared.
Diana was at the doorway but she looked back into the room one more time.
"Sayonara, Atsuko Kagari, rest in peace" Diana said
Diana left then left room and returned to Luna Nova.