"I have no time to lose," Miana said as she walked outside. "Who knows what she'll do once her ritual is complete..."
"Well, how do you plan on getting there in time?" Artie asked.
"I haven't studied the magical arts for nothing, furball," the blonde sorceress grumbled. "Stay back and I'll show you how a real sorceress travels these days..."
She muttered a few words, and suddenly, started spinning wildly, until she was nothing more than just a blur of blonde and red streaks.
Artie blinked in surprise... and because the swirling colors made his eyes hurt. "She never showed me that one before..."
And in a sudden burst of magical powers, the wildly spinning whirligig called Miana took off into the skies, where she vanished among the clouds.
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Reine sat up in her bed. Something... made her wake up just now. She couldn't place her finger on it, but... she somehow felt a little bit of a... disturbance. As if the temple itself was warning her.
She silently climbed out of bed, tiptoed over to her grandfather's side and shook him gently.
"Grandfather! Grandfather, wake up!"
The high priest growled in his sleep, then he blinked and opened his eyes. "Reine, what the...? Damn, girl! It's the middle of the night, what is it?"
"Well..." the young ex-oracle fidgeted around nervously. "I have a really bad feeling, you know? And do you see this weird flashes coming from the main hall? I have the feeling Usagres is trying to do something horrible..."
"Oh, for heaven's sake, Reine!" High Priest Hinos grumbled. "You're paranoid, you know that? There's absolutely nothing wrong about that girl. She's a big help to our temple... wait a minute! Don't tell me you're jealous?"
"Of course not!" Reine blurted out. "Well... maybe a little bit, but that's not it! I can just feel it, grandfather: She is doing something to our temple I know it!"
"Oh, leave me alone with your mumbo-jumbo talk and go back to sleep, girl!"
Reine was about to protest, when they both suddenly heard a strange noise. It sounded almost like a...
They both looked at each other. "A tornado?" they asked at the same time.
Just seconds afterwards, something that was looking like a small, colorful tornado flew through the window of the small chamber, whirling around the two beds and the surprised high priest and his granddaughter for a while, until it finally came to a rest in the middle of the room, where it slowly stopped spinning and turned out to be a cute girl that was dressed in a red cloak and had a red bow in her blonde hair.
"Ooooooh... I'm always getting dizzy after that," she groaned.
Her gaze then fell upon the two stunned people standing near her. "Oh! Sorry about that, but... High Priest Hinos?"
"Um... yes, that's me," the High Priest said in a monotone voice.
"I am Miana, Sorceress of the Circle," she quickly introduced herself with a short bow. "I'm sorry to just barge in like that, but I came to warn you. Usagres... she is not who you believe her to be! She's going to ruin you and your temple!"
"What?" Hinos had to laugh at that. "Is that supposed to be a joke?"
"I'm serious!" Miana said firmly. "She is planning to create an amulet that is supposed to turn her into an all-powerful spellcaster, and for that purpose, she plans to turn your temple into a shrine for her true goddess: The goddess Hera!"
"Grandfather, maybe she is right," Reine spoke up. "Remember what I said? I could feel that the temple was in danger. Maybe... maybe Artemis herself sent me a warning."
The High Priest shook his head. "Have you girls turned crazy? Look, you can't just come in here and expect me to believe..."
"No time for that!" Miana interrupted. "Where's the altar room?"
"Here, it's this way!" Reine shouted and led the other girl out of the room, leaving the baffled high priest behind.
"Um, hello?" he asked. "Did you actually listened to what I said?"
----
"Okay, let's try this again..." Usagres muttered. "The cauldron is full again, I only have to add the final ingredients..."
"But be careful to make no mistakes this time!" Lunaria reminded her. "You know we are short of rhinoceros horn."
"Hold it right there!" a firm voice suddenly shouted. "Now it's payback time, Usagres!"
"Who? What?" Usagres turned around... and gasped as she recognized the blonde girl that came into the temple's main room, along with the former oracle.
"Miana? But how...? How did you get here?"
"Oh, for the love of..." Lunaria mumbled and crawled under a small table. "As if one clumsy, blonde sorceress wasn't enough... Great Hera, whatever did I do that you punish me like this?"
Usagres and Miana stared at each other. "Don't interfere, Miana! You and the others always wanted me to be one of you 'goody-goodies'... you would never realize what power the great Hera can give me!"
"I do... that's why I can't let you do this! You can't simply go into other diet's temples and make them your own."
Reine sweatdropped. "It's 'deity', not 'diet'..."
Usagres gritted her teeth. "Try and stop me, you, you... you big meanie!"
Lunaria hid her face in her paws. "She can't even give a proper evil speech... Just what kind of Hera priestess are you, Usagres?"
Miana smirked at her former colleague. "Just watch me!"
She uttered a short magical phrase, fell down on all fours... and turned into fearsome lioness!
Usagres laughed. "I can do that, too!" She repeated the phrase and...
...turned into a little kitten.
Usagres blinked. "Meow? Oops, that was a mistake. Let's try this again..."
Another spell... and Usagres grew into a feral tigress.
High Priest Hinos, who just entered the room, gasped. "M-maybe we should let them talk that over by themselves..."
Reine nodded nervously. "Good idea..." They quickly hid behind a pillar, while the two sorceresses started to circle each other...
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