I'm not even sure why I am actually uploading this as this was basically based on part of a Skype role play me and a friend participated in. Some details are changed to make it fit in better with the "Real World" so to speak, since my friend used an Anime crossover in certain places.
Well, here goes nothing I guess.
Everyday is the same mostly for me. Wake up, go back to sleep for another few hours and wake up again in the afternoon. Put on some clothes I probably wore yesterday and hop straight onto the computer downstairs where it's located.
If I had to be brutally honest, my social life is an absolute wreck. I haven't "hung out" with any of my friends from High School for a couple years now. What social interaction I do participate in is either through friends I have made online or through the few times my parents speak to me throughout the day, either asking for the time, what I want for lunch/dinner or semi-pestering me to find a job.
What can I say about myself? I'm 19 years old, male, not particularly good looking, introverted and generally a very lazy person.
I also happen to be quite a big fan of my number 1 escapism - Anime
I'm one of those many who grew up with Pokemon and Dragon Ball as their "Gateway Anime" so to speak, so I've been a fan of the genre ever since I was a little kid. There's just something truly magical about it, whether it's the characters, the story, the plot or even the music. Bonus points if I happen to like every one of the above, which is limited to quite a few anime that I can name off the top of my head.
Particularly an anime that goes by the name of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Funny story about how I had gotten into this one. I had heard and seen things about the anime way before I had actually watched it and probably spoiled me a little bit before when I finally did decide to watch it. I actually went into this one witha risk: Buy the home release before watching anything about the series.
Best money ever spent on an Anime, that's for sure.
If not for Dragon Ball taking my number 1 spot for nostalgic and personal reasons, Puella Magi Madoka Magica would easily dominate the top spot as my most favourite Anime of all time.
I get a knock on my door. Hopefully this is the door knocking I have been waiting for all week and not just another door-to-door jackass!
I answer the door to be greeted by the delivery man, wearing a blue trucker's cap, and a white mustache on his face. He's carrying a package! "Yes.. Mr. Inika. Your.. action figures have arrived." I sign and take the box from him, closing the door. Quickly, I open the door again and utter a 'Thank you' before shutting the door completely. Best not to be rude.
Oh man, I've been waiting AGES for these to arrive! After having finished the Anime, I knew I had to have the next best thing: Action figures of the main cast.
Luckily with the amount of merchandising this show had gotten, tracking down exactly what I wanted was easy enough. Over the course of a few weeks, I researched for the best prices online and saved up enough cash so I would be able to buy the 5 main characters. With the news of another character from the recent movie coming soon for pre-order also getting the same treatment, I knew I had to have her as well!
Expensive and the international shipping is ass but it's oh-so worth it!
Suddenly, I hear several voices inside the box! ".. Are we inside?" One voice mumbles. This confuses me greatly. "I don't know!" the other speaks. This was truly beginning to scare me. Grabbing a knife from the kitchen, I tear open the tape binding it together and open the flaps to see...
Kyoko and Sayaka!
"WE'RE INSIDE." Kyoko yells, jumping out of the box, and onto my face. "What the hell?!" I scream, falling backwards to the hard floor. Definitely going to leave a big purple bruise later. The Sayaka figure hops out of the box, and climbs onto my chest. Kyoko pulls out her spear, and pokes me in the eye.
"Motherfu-" I can't even finish because this damn action figure just poked my eye like trying to pop a balloon! I don't make it a habit of cursing due to certain circumstances in upbringing but goddamn it if I ever needed to say it now!
Suddenly, the front door rattles again. Quickly reacting, I picked up the two figures-seemingly-come-to-life and dumped them inside the shipping box, covering the top with a cushion.
Clutching my eye, I open the door to see the same delivery man from before, carrying another two boxes.
"Mr. Inika, it seems I forgot to give you your other packa- is everything alright?" He steps back, gasping at the sight of my slightly bleeding eye.
Sucking in a breath, I mutter back. "Yeah, just accidentally poked my eye with... one of the other things I received in the mail...". He doesn't look convinced. "Hidden firing gimmick. Forgot all about it" I add, speaking in a tone that meant I was done with this conversation.
He eyes me up for another few seconds before handing me the two boxes in his arm. Quickly I shut the door and put them on the couch before heading to the freezer to grab an icepack for that rapidly growing bruise on my back, my eye starting to clear up a bit.
The box holding Sayaka and Kyoko was rattling, most likely them attempting to escape again.
Sitting down and applying the ice pack, It was another few minutes of me just laying there, contemplating on what exactly just happened while a box to my left just banged away.
Why the fuck did two action figures I bought online just suddenly come to life and just what-
I was interrupted at the sound of something beating on the other side of one of the other two boxes.
"Let us out!" a particularly higher pitched voice called out. Staring at the box for a few moments, I grabbed the knife I had from before and prepared myself for another "Attack on Titan" as I've come to call the previous experience. Tearing away the tape, I opened up to reveal another two action figures. This time of Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi.
More like a deathly afraid and panicing Madoka Kaname and a particularly pissed off Homura Akemi.
"Hey! Madoka! Is that you?!" Sayaka called out from the other box with the cushion on top. Madoka held Homura's hand. "W-What happened to Kyoko and Sayaka? Are they okay?" Kyoko could be heard slamming the box with renewed effort.
Homura glares at me. "Don't talk to him, Madoka. He's one of them!" She aimed her plastic gun up at me, and shot me with tiny bullets.
"Yeow!". Okay, it didn't particularly hurt, more like stung. "Can I stop being attacked by these damn pieces of plastic for once!?" my voice rising with my growing temperament. Madoka whimpered, clutching onto Homura. "Homura-chan..".
Calming down a touch and acting out of some sort of pity for the poor girl, I ignored the pain and went over to grab the third box, which most likely contained the final member of the quintet. Not dwelling over any potential attack, I simply opened the box, plucked the surprised girl from her own box and placed her in the second box with Madoka and Homura.
Removing the cushion, I grabbed the red and blue duo, one in each hand. Kyoko raised her spear to me. "Let us go, now!" she exclaimed. "You should be damn well glad that you didn't rupture my eye with that stunt back then, otherwise you would be the next door neighbors chew toy!". I almost wanted to laugh but I simply placed them both down in the same box as the others, Kyoko a little more roughly than probably necessary.
"Sayaka!" Madoka happily cheered, hugging the confused Sayaka. "What.. happened?" Sayaka looked down at her hands.
Now was probably a good time to cut in before accusations started flying left and right. "I didn't do anything to you! I just simply thought I was buying action figures!". It was the truth after all. I do also tend to be a (mostly) horrible liar when the obvious truth was right in front of me.
"Action figures?" The silent til now Mami asked. She stepped forward, looking at the other girls. "Then the jump must have worked, and transferred our souls into these bodies.."
What?
"Into a bunch of dolls?!" Kyoko asked, lowering her spear. "How are we supposed to get what we came for, like this?"
Okay, now I'm considerably interested.
"If you don't mind me asking... what exactly are you looking for? And, uh... how are you all alive?"
Kyoko continued to look at Mami, and raised her spear to me. "Shut up, giant." Mami shook her head. "Be more polite to him, Kyoko.. He has yet to do anything bad to us.". Kyoko grumbled away. Mami looked up at me. "I guess we can trust you for now. You see, we come from another world, that was under heavy siege."
"You shouldn't tell him all of that!" Sayaka glared at Mami. "For all we know, he could crush us after you tell him that!"
"I don't think so, Sayaka." Mami looked back up at me. "We came to your world to.. see if there was anybody capable enough to help us. But upon arrival, we were attacked by an unknown man and his allies. As for how we are alive, and the body of dolls.. I cannot say."
"I see..."
It was a tense minute of silence before anybody said anything.
"I guess... you can call me Inika". Not exactly wanting to use my real name, I used an alias I used online, which has pretty much become one of two names I can without a doubt say I consider as official as my real one.
The Mami figure smiled. "I'm glad we are antiquated then, Inika-san". The concept of someone using honorifics on me was so foreign sounding, not that I didn't like it but it would definitely take some getting used to.
Madoka appeared to raise her hand. "U-uhm., you're not going to throw us out, are you", she asked.
Raising an eyebrow, the thought had never really crossed my mind. Not that it would ever seeing as I had spent a good chunk of money on obtaining these figures.
"No" was my simple answer.
"O-Oh..." Madoka seemed to express, relaxing a little.
Sighing, I quickly thought over just what exactly has happened. Apparently figures coming to life is becoming no big deal to me, what with me having to adapt as quickly as I did.
"I guess you can stay here, just so long as my parents don't spot you...".
And be honest, what sane Anime fan has never imagined such a scenario like this actually happening?
Madoka seemed to beam and Mami gave off one of her smiles. Homura, Sayaka and especially Kyoko however didn't seem convinced.
An idea popping into my head, I grabbed the box, slightly jostling it's "occupants" before heading off to the poor excuse that I call my room.
Along the way, I showed the many parts of the house. Nothing truly special since every modern house just so happens to also have a kitchen, dining, bathroom and living areas.
Generic and boring.
After climbing the spiral staircase and opening up the sliding door, I gently popped the box on top of the yet-to-be-made bed before shutting the door completely. Turning around, I already noticed that most of the girls had already gotten outside the box, the exception being Madoka, who seemed to have a little trouble.
I moved my hand to help but was promptly swatted away by another stinging bullet from the Beretta in Homura's hand. "That won't be necessary" she said, scowling a little at me before going over and helping the pink haired girl down. "Thank you, Homura-Chan!" Madoka beamed, hugging the dark haired girl. "It was nothing.." she said in return. Was it me or did I spot a small but of blush on her face?
Admittedly, I do ship Madoka x Homura and I enjoy the pairing but seeing it "up close and personal" like this sort of made me internally... not really squeal like some sort of rabid fan boy/girl but you get the idea...
Turning away, the 5 girls finally beheld the spectacle that is my messy room. Standing on the large bed, they can easily spot the wooden drawers, one drawer half open since it contained my collection of DVDs, the shelf I used to place my action figures on... and that's about it.
My room is pretty damn small. Same can be said for my house really.
"I guess this is where you all will be staying, circumstances and all..." I leave off, still getting over the fact that living, breathing, talking figures of 5 of my favourite characters were there, standing right before my eyes.
*knock knock knock*
"You seriously have got to be kidding me...". Face-palming, I uttered an apology as I went to attend to the door which everyone in the neighborhood seemed to be enraptured with.
Ah, it seems my Mother has returned with groceries. Wonderful. Taking a few minutes to help place everything away in the right places, I snuck away a small chip packet that I planned on eating later.
Thanking me for helping and be grateful in return, I quickly snuck back to my room before any more questions could be asked.
Sneaking back inside, I checked upon every one of the girls apparently surrounding a bunch of-... oh... well crap... it seems they have stumbled upon the Puella Magi Madoka Magica DVD's I have.
I can already feel the oncoming headache of questions I'm going to be assaulted with.
And there is the first and only chapter I have written so far for this story. Like? Dislike? Remember, this is based off a Skype RPG between me and a friend, so quality-wise, it might not be that great.
If you are interested enough and do want me to continue, please do mention so in any reviews you may leave. I might be persuaded to write more since I'm coming to like the concept but I do want to know if others like it as well.
Until next time then.
Cya!