[center][i]Minutes ago, but not many...[/i][/center]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSP_n_BIe0w]Joanna's phone abruptly vibrated.[/url] Could it be from that girl from last night, the one in the delinquent's attire? She took a look at the Caller (Texter?) I.D., and... 

Oh! It was a text from Speedwagon.

[quote][color=silver]"Thirteen witches just started attacking the cathedral, and this lot look like they came from the wrong side of the Yellow Brick Road. There're a lot of God-fearing folk trapped inside. Can you get out of class?"[/color][/quote]

Joanna shot to her feet, raising the hand that wasn't holding her cell phone into the air. [color=gold]"Excuse me, Mister Lowe? There's been a family emergency! Is it alright if-"[/color]

"Of course," Mr. Lowe said. "Just make sure you have a copy of the homework before you leave."

Joanna nodded. [color=gold]"Thank you!"[/color] she said, already slipping between desks. As soon as she stepped into the hallway, her pace shifted from 'briskly shuffling' to 'borderline sprint.' The door to the outside wasn't far from Mr. Lowe's classroom, and within seconds she was in the morning sunshine. She began running away from the school grounds, pulling up Speedwagon's number from her speed-dial. 

[color=gold]"I'm on my way,"[/color] Joanna said, barely waiting for Speedwagon to pick up. [color=gold]"What's going on there now?"[/color]

[color=silver]"You'd better hurry. There's a fourteenth witch that just showed up, but something tells me she and the others aren't mates. And there's this shifty looking type who's ignoring all of them, slithering around like a snake for the sanctuary."[/color]

[color=gold]"I'm coming as fast as I can! I trust you'll do the best you can in the meantime."[/color]

[color=silver]"Of course."[/color]

Joanna ended the call there, and started her transformation.

[color=gold] “I can feel it: the burning beat of my blood, razor–sharp! It resonates with the heart of the Earth, and of the Sun itself!”[/color]

As her transformation finished, Joanna Fujo began gathering her power, running in the direction of the cathedral. As she ran into an alleyway, she looked up to the nearby rooftops. There! That building, with a suspended hallway connecting it to another one. Joanna hopped forwards, bringing both legs together midair. [color=gold]"Zoom Jump!"[/color]

Her feet, pointed together at the ground, collided with the earth hard enough to crack the asphalt underneath of her. The rapid extension of her legs, combined with the strength within those limbs and her forward momentum, propelled her upwards towards a fire escape! Even as she flew up, she gathered power once more, this time into her arms. [color=gold]"Zoom Punch!"[/color] The joints in her right arm loosened and dislocated, extending it like rubber. Her hand grasped the railing of the fire escape several flights higher, and the momentum of her leap combined with the re-location of her arm's joints pulled her even further.

As she rapidly caught up to her hand, though, she let go of the railing, soaring past that point as well! Joanna's acrobatics had carried her past the roof of the building, but a brief blast of fire magic gave her just enough forwards momentum to make it. She landed on the roof on both feet, skidding slightly as her momentum ground to a halt.

[color=red]"Oh? Come to watch the show?"[/color]

There was someone sitting on top of the covered bridge, a bucket of popcorn and a soda bottle nearby on the roof. They were wearing all black clothing - not black leather, but some kind of woolen outfit? Whatever the material was, it looked incredibly stuffy, like a fire breaking out in a sauna. There was something on their face, but Joanna's attention quickly slid past them to where their 'show' was. And sure enough, from here Joanna could see a number of dark shapes flitting about in the air above the cathedral. No doubt those witches that Speedwagon had warned her about. 

[color=gold]"I don't have time to sit around doing so,"[/color] she said, as she started walking again. 

Then the cathedral's roof exploded.

[color=gold]"!?"[/color] Joanna started running across the roof again. The building hadn't collapsed entirely, and there was still hope that the people had managed to avoid the rubble. But even then, that meant the witches could attack them without going into the building. Joanna whipped her head around. The next rooftop wasn't too far away, and if she timed her magic right she could clear it in less than-

[color=red]"Hoo! Now things are getting fun!"[/color]

Joanna kept running, trying to get the the right spot on the roof to jump from. She passed this rooftop watcher, making sure not to knock over them or their refreshments. While she didn't approve of their antics, she needed to get over there to help Speedwagon!

But apparently this rooftop watcher didn't approve.

Joanna found her way barred by a wall of bleeding wood - and no, she wasn't adopting Speedwagon's choice of expletives, it was a literal wall of wood that bled.

[color=red]"Now where do you think you're going?"[/color]

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Speedwagon ducked, casting a quick defensive spell over herself to deflect the incoming debris. [i]Bloody hell! They just punched holes in the bloody roof! Dammit! My chapeau can reach far, but not as high as those hags are flying![/i] Speedwagon ran for cover, ducking behind a nearby gargoyle. There was someone else there, cowering behind the second gargoyle to her right.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyP_rfIa8v0]Speedwagon's phone started to ring again[/url], and she froze for a second... but when she peeked around the gargoyle, the [color=92278f]strange girl[/color] didn't react to the sound. At all. She just kept moving around in zigzags towards the cathedral.

Well, alright then.

Speedwagon took a glance down at the phone. The caller ID read "Nina Kujo," that girl from the previous night. Interesting time to make a call. Keeping an eye on the mystery girl, she hit the [color=39b54a]Accept Call[/color] button, and brought the phone to her ear. [color=blue]"Ey, where are you two headed to right now? There's two incidents, one at the stadium and one at a cathedral,"[/color] Nina said. 

For some reason, Speedwagon couldn't help but compare that to Joanna, just a moment ago. [color=silver]"Good timing there. I'm at the cathedral, and Joanna's on her way from school. There's another witch here apart from the ones on brooms, one that's less wicked than the others."[/color] Speedwagon looked up at the girl she was walking towards, still moving towards the cathedral in that odd bobbing walk of theirs... with a bloody magnifying glass practically pressed up to their face. No serious investigator would be acting that oblivious... unless, maybe they were hilariously naive? [color=silver]"And there's someone else here who seems oddly uninterested in that fight. I'm going to deal with that one first."[/color]
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