A Sacred Trip

A Sacred Trip! is the twenty-ninth chapter of Season 1 and the twenty-ninth chapter of the Lorecraft series. It started on July 27, 2018 and finished on January 6, 2019.

Plot
The group of Lorecraft Academy student returns to their dorms after the festivities of their Talent Showdown victory carried on for a while, it having gotten dark by the time they get back. Sara, Carol and Natalie are greeted and congratulated by Amelia and Jocelyn. Carol praises Sara in particular while giving her a playful noogie. Jocelyn tells the trio she's glad they're back, Natalie and Amelia echoing this statement. Sara expresses relief to be back home in response, when Jocelyn changes the subject to their secret plan of going to the Sacred Sanctum in hopes of discovering information about the demon terrorizing Natalie, despite Darklaw's objections. Sara requests to postpone the discussion to the next day, desiring a good night's rest. Jocelyn complies, but not without letting everyone know she will be joining them, in contrast to her earlier objections in coming along, to everyone's surprise. Amelia questions her change of heart, but Jocelyn simply replies not wanting to see her friends hurt. Carol and Sara eagerly accept her, and everyone wishes each other good night.

The next day, the quartet of Jocelyn, Sara, Amelia and Carol have gathered outside the school, ready to depart on their journey. After a short conversation, they get on their way. As they're venturing through the forest on their way to the Sacred Sanctum, Sara complains about having been walking for 2 hours when in reality, only 40 minutes have passed so far. Jocelyn is playing her harp which worries Amelia as the sound might attract monsters. Unbeknowst to the group, Amelia is right as far away from them, seems to pick on the sounds of Jocelyn's harp. After arguing for a short while, Jocelyn gives in and agrees to stop playing. Sara then notices something in a bush, which seems to be a girl. The group discusses what it could be, Carol suggesting it's a corpse. Sara gets close and it looks to be a girl with her legs stuck in the bushes. Amelia and Jocelyn think for a second, and Jocelyn seems to realize something as she asks Carol and Sara to back away. Sara is confused and stays where she is. The other three then realize what is truly going on, and now frantically yell at Sara to get back to where they are. Sara still doesn't understand anything, and the girl suddenly leaps at Sara, tackling her to the ground and pinning her down. The girl's body changes, and it is revealed it is a Kerojo, a succubus-like monster engulfed in flames with the ability to disguise as a human girl, that feeds on humans. The girl taunts the pinned-down Sara, addressing her as a meal. Sara struggles but fails to escape, the Kerojo still enjoying herself. Amelia's attempt to free Sara with Water attacks also fails. However, Sara uses the moment of the Kerojo using an arm to block Amelia's attack to break free from the other arm and kick the succubus monster away, after which Amelia fires another blast of water to knock the Kerojo into a tree. Jocelyn follows up by attempting to stab the monster directly in the head. The Kerojo barely dodges the strike, avoiding instant death but still takes significant damage to her head, suffering a large gash alongside her skull, and screams in pain. In anger, the Kerojo retaliates by punching Jocelyn in the stomach, knocking her back before Jocelyn takes to the air.

Amelia rushes over to Sara to make sure she is okay. Sara still has no idea what this monster is. Amelia tries to explain it to her, to no avail, realizing they need to focus on the fight at hand first. The Kerojo sends fireballs at the girls continuously, Sara deflecting as many as she can using flaming punches, and makes a quip about fighting fire with fire. Amelia tries to counter with water balls while Jocelyn uses her Shiverspeare move to send a group of icicles at the Kerojo. The Kerojo, however, uses her high mobility to dodge everything with ease. Sara then decides to run up to her, flipping onto her hands and launching herself feet-forward, attacking her with Missile Kick. The Kerojo again dodges it easily and catches one of Sara's legs instead, holding her upside down in front of her. She taunts Sara again. Sara responds by using a lot of strength to quickly bring herself up and headbutts the Kerojo in the face. At the same time, Amelia closes her eyes and takes control of a branch of the tree behind the Kerojo and Sara, slapping them both with huge force. The Kerojo is forced to drop Sara, though the slap still sends Sara flying into a bush. She falls in head first, her legs sticking out of the bush rather amusingly. Sara thinks to herself, being glad Lewis is not here to see this and yells for someone to get her out, only for Jocelyn to poke fun at her in Lewis' tone instead. Which Sara responds to. Amelia, after apologizing, runs over to Sara and pulls her out somewhat clumsily.

A good distance away from the Kerojo battle, the Deathtalon from earlier takes flight, though it is not clear in which direction. The Kerojo taunts the group some more, and easily dodges the fireballs Sara throws at her, firing back with fireballs of her own, that Amelia extinguishes with her Water magic. The Kerojo seems extremely confident, flying around smoothly, showing off its high mobility. Then, from out of nowhere, Carol, who has been absent the entire time since the fight started, appears above the Kerojo and lands onto her, stabbing the succubus monster in the chest with her claws. Sara jumps at the opportunity to run up to her and grab the Kerojo's legs to truly keep her from moving. Carol continues stabbing, drawing more blood each time. Jocelyn then sees her opportunity to finish this fight, attempting her Shiverspeare attack once more. With two opponents keeping her in place, Shiverspeare succeeds this time, killing the Kerojo right then and there. The body goes limp, the flames disappear and the body falls to the ground. Sara declares the fight is over and that their enemy has been defeated. Amelia has been looking away the entire time since Carol started stabbing the Kerojo, not wanting to see the blood.

Jocelyn asks if anyone wants to be healed. Sara and Carol both state they're fine, though Sara's bruises suggest otherwise. Jocelyn heals them both anyway. Jocelyn then questions Carol's bloodthirsty maneuvers, to which Amelia agrees. Carol tries to defend herself by stating the Kerojo was moving around a whole lot. Before this conversation can continue, Sara calls out to everyone. When they respond, Sara is looking in a seemingly random direction, and nervously asks to get going. When Jocelyn looks in the same direction, she sees the Deathtalon flying around the girl's general vicinity, though it hasn't noticed them yet. As the others notice the Deathtalon as well, everyone is quick to agree, moving away in hopes of not getting spotted by the large bird-like monster.

Debuts (in order of appearance)
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Cast

 * DoubleDubbel – Sara, Deathtalon
 * AGNerd-Bot – Carol, Kerojo
 * Mistrala – Jocelyn
 * The Phoenix – Natalie, Amelia

Trivia

 * Chapters 29 and 30 were originally a singular chapter that was redone and split into two; Its original name was Jocelyn's Plan, and its original run was from April 26, 2018 to April 28, 2018.