Set during the middle of the second season of K-ON! The Ho-kago Tea Time are set for success with some great new songs. Yui notices Mio is acting stranger than usual and encounters a funny little creature named Kyuubey. Kyuubey will introduce Yui and the others into a world unlike the kind they are used to, with dark fantasy and strange evil monsters called 'witches'. Does Yui have what it takes to become a Magical Girl and save the world from the dreaded despair of Witches? Only one way to find out I guess
魔法少女軽音楽部マギカ
Mahou Shoujo Keiongakubu Magica
夢が本当に現実になるか
It was like something out of a strange Anime...
There I was standing on the edge of a burning building, staring wide-eyed at the strangest monster I had ever seen. Its tentacles were swinging around the destroyed city like a crazy octopus. I was frozen, paralysed by fear. What was this strange thing? Why was it here in my town? What did it want with me and everyone here? I could only stand in shock at it smashed everything to pieces; the very foundations of my existence. The sky was crying as a grey shadow cast over the heavens. The giant had no eyes or mouth, it was more like some sort of giant amorphous grey blob, forged from some cheesy horror movie, cut and pasted together like a pre-schooler's collage. But its roar was magnificent in its power and subversion. I suddenly had a feeling it was looking at me with its imaginary eyes. What on earth should I do? I am going to die right here without ever accomplishing anything in my life? I never even managed to fill out my University Choice sheet.
"Somebody please save me!"
SLASH. A whirr of light brushes past my vision just before the beasts tentacle can erase me from this fallen world. Its limb falls heavily to the ground as dark purple blood oozes from the remaining stump.
I catch a glimpse of my saviour as she stabs her sword into the beasts shoulder. Long, flowing black hair. She is the most beautiful girl I have ever come across, she glides alongside the beast's back with elegance and grace. She must be an angel, sent down to this parched earth to rescue me. She turns briefly, showing me her face – a face of sadness and despair. Why would such a strong and beautiful girl bare such sadness?
"She might not be able to defeat this one...she may need you're help..."
A voice speaks inside my head. I whirl around and discover another strange creature – though much smaller, hopping over to my position. It looks kind of cute with its long rabbit like ears and fluffy squirrel like tail, but its expression never changes when it speaks. The creature stares at me with its curled feline lips and opal red eyes.
"If you make a contract with me right now, we can beat this witch! All you have to do is offer me a wish and that shall be granted..."
Wishes...Witches...Contracts...I don't get any of this critter's words. How could I possibly wish for something at a time like this?
The black-haired angel is slowing down, she is getting exhausted from her battle with the Goliath 'witch'. She produces several more swords and stabs them into her opponents shin (well if it had shins I guess it would be called that part). The beast roars – no screams in agony as it flings its tentacles towards her, throwing her a hundred metres into a building. She coughs up dust and holds her shoulder, but soon recovers, summoning a dozen or so swords from nowhere and sending them flying at the monster. She darts across the edge of the collapsing building dodging every tentacle as it slams down like a falling beam. When she reaches the corner, she leaps off the concrete platform and lands a hundred or more metres onto the next building, landing gently on her feet. She is caught off by yet another rogue tentacle and blown away into a giant grey wall. This time she struggles to reach her feel as the enormous paper-mache blob stomps slowly towards her.
"Oh my God! That poor girl's gonna die!"
The creature hops over to my right side. "Then you must decide...let her live or die...it's your choice...Yu-"
'''''
"-I! Yui! That's enough! That has to be the most ridiculous dream I've ever heard of!"
"But I swear it was all real!" Yui Hirasawa tried to convince the other members of the club.
"Well I thought it sounded like a very exciting dream." Tsumugi smiled in her warm gingerly manner as she poured everyone another piping hot cup of royal milk tea.
"It's just her imagination running wild as always" Ritsu threw her hands behind the back of her head in annoyance. She must have expected Yui to tell her a real adventure.
"Well I swear it all happened." Yui persisted. "It might be like one of those dreams where you think it's a dream but the you wake up with scar or even dead!"
"How in the hell would you wake up if you were dead?' Ritsu could not help herself but laugh at Yui's stupidity. "My-my Yui-chan whatever would we do without your crazy anecdotes?"
"Grmph." Yui pouted as she left the table, no longer interested in her tea and cake. She resumed what she and the others were supposed to be doing. Practising on their instruments. They were after all the Light Music Club – the Keiongakubu or K-ON for short.
"Alrighty, where was I?" Yui began talking to herself as she lifted her Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar onto her shoulder. "Let's go Gitah!" she spoke to her guitar with the name she had given it when she bought it a little over eighteen months ago.
She began strumming 'Gitah', playing some soft notes until she entered into some harder chords and began losing herself in a heavy riff, bouncing her head side to side with the careless glee of a normal schoolgirl. Soon she began losing herself into the music, playing some wilder notes and jumping on the spot until she spun around and tripped over the lead.
"I-T-T-T-T-Ta!" Yui made a strange howling noise indicating her pain as she face planted onto the wooden floorboards. The other girls laughed as they got up and helped her back to her feet.
"Settle down Yui, you really had me worried back there with that dark music." Ritsu patted her friends shoulder as she made her way to the drum-set. She crashed onto the stool and picked up her sticks, twirling them around like a fancy musician. She crossed her sticks together and yelled out. "O'right! Let's go!"
"Hai!" Mugi – who was on the keyboards and Azusa – the second year student who played rhythm guitar joined Yui who played lead as they bashed out an awesome tune. They called their little band Ho-kago Tea Time (After School Tea Time) and normally jammed together during their breaks from class. Entry exams were just around the corner and the band was fortunate to have an avenue to let off some steam.
"Hah! That was awesome!" Yui beamed with joy as did the others when they finished their song. It was almost spontaneous, they had not even practised this particular song before, yet when Ritsu started hitting her drums and Yui burst out some riffs, the other's music just flowed naturally alongside theirs, like a wild river carrying the branches of trees several miles upstream.
"Wow, that was freaking random eh?" Ritsu clapped her hands together. "Shame Mio-chan isn't around to enjoy this..."
"Speaking of...where do you think she is today?" Mugi sensed some concern at their Bassist's absence from the clubroom. "She was in class this morning but hasn't shown up to the clubroom at all."
"Maybe she knew about Yui's scary dream and was too afraid to show up." Ritsu laughed in her deviant manner. She always liked to pick on Mio-senpai, conjuring up her trivial fears about almost anything.
"Well maybe we should go and look for her? She might be upset about something." Azusa suggested as she put down her Fender Mustang guitar.
"If she's upset about something, I'll kiss her and make her feel better." Yui declared as she held her hands to her chest.
"Please spare us Yui." Ritsu shook her head. "Well anyway I suppose Azu-nyan's right." Using the affectionate nickname they gave the second-year student. We best go and find poor Mio-chan." Ritsu packed up the drum-set as the others set their instruments down as well. "She's probably stuck in a dark forest by which of course I mean the park out the back of our school." Ritsu made herself laugh again as she held her hands to her hips. "Ho-ho-ho!"
"Ricchan, you're mean!" Azusan couldn't find the humour in Ritsu's joke. She was probably the only member of the band who truly felt sorry for Mio's irrational phobias. Perhaps that was because Mio was the only one who understood Azusa's personality as well.
Ritsu clung her arms around Azusa's and Yui's shoulders."C'mon now I was only messin' around! You know I love all you guys."
"Mm." Yui nodded as she led the others in a search to find Mio-senpai.
'''''
"So have you all decided what you're gonna do next year?" Ritsu waved her head towards Yui in a stirring manner. "Hmmm...Yui-chan?"
Yui brought up her hands defensively and laughed nervously. "Etooooo...I uh, put down that I wanted to be musician, but Sensei rejected it."
"Hahaha! Yui you crack me up too much." Ritsu slapped the ditzy girl on the shoulder as they continued walking down the halls and out towards the front of the high school.
"It seems awfully strange though for Mio-senpai not to show up for band practice." Mugi raised a suspicious finger to her chin.
"I could just text her or giver her a quick call." Ritsu slapped out her mobile and started dialling her friend's number.
Ritsu held the phone close to her ear and blurted out a loud message. "Yo! Mio! We're all back at school worried about ya! Pick up okay?" She hung up and turned back to the others. "No answer huh?"
"This is troublesome." Mugi sensed something odd about Mio's absence, especially since she was normally the most enthusiastic of all the club members.
Yui made a fuzzy smile and hopped in front of the others. "Don't worry about it, I'm sure Mio-chan's alright. I'll stop by her house later and make sure she's feeling okay."
"Arigato Yui-chan." Mugi sighed with relief.
"Well let's call it a day and head home." Ritsu pounded a fist to her chest in a manner of leader's pride.
"Sure thing President!" Mugi nodded. Her thick brown eyebrows lowered as she made her farewell.
"Roger!" Yui saluted like an private soldier as she marched out of the school's premises.
"Goodbye Ricchan." Azusa still showed signs of concern as she averted her gaze. Her black pigtails seemed to slump as she left.
Ritsu was now left alone, contemplating Mio's situation. They had known each other since pre-school, she should know all about Mio's whereabouts. Jeez Mio now I really am worried about you too.
'''''
"Hmm-Hmm-Hmm-Hmm Hmmm Hmmmm Hmm-Hmm-Hmm-Hmm Hmmmmm...Hel-lo there tur-tle...Mr Tur-tle...Noth-ing moves as slow as you...Why oh why are you so slooow?" Yui sang the Turtle Song for the forty-eighth time during her calm walk home. The sun was descending from the horizon and a mellow orange haze painted the sky. As she reached the railway crossing she noticed a schoolgirl with long black hair standing by the other side. She seemed to be in a melancholic mood.
"No way...could she be..." Yui rubbed her eyes to get another view but the boom gates came down and the eerie siren blared its own chorus as the train zipped past. When the boom-gates rose again Yui was relieved when she realised who it was.
"Mio-chan! How's it going?"
Mio's face suddenly changed to surprise when she noticed Yui at the other side. "Oh, it's you...I'm fine thanks." Her tone suggested otherwise.
"Hey Mio-chan, the others were worried about you. How come you didn't show up for practice today?" Yui crossed the rails and leant a comforting hand on Mio's shoulder.
"Oh..." Mio averted her gaze. "It's nothing really..."
"You missed out on this awesome story I told the others today." Yui offered her usual Genki mood. "I had this freaky dream last night and this crazy monster was destroying the city and then this white squirrel shows up and-"
Mio grabbed Yui's shoulders and faced her with alarming eyes. "Please Yui! Don't tell me anymore! Just forget about it okay! I know what you're like anyway, coming up with strange tales. Just let it go!"
Yui was startled by Mio's sudden outburst but nodded reluctantly. "Okay Mio just take it easy, it was only a dream, it wasn't like any of it really meant anything anyway..."
Mio loosened her grip and let her arms sway by their sides. "Gomenasai...I shouldn't have yelled at you like that...I've just been having a rough day that's all." Mio's long hair covered her face like a dark veil. "See you and the others tomorrow okay." Mio brushed past Yui as she left the other way, there was no heart in her goodbyes. Yui was confused more than anything else but decided not to follow it up and continued her way back home.
'''''
"Yui! Dinner!" Yui's reliable younger sister Ui yelled across the small house. Yui dived into the room, digging into her meal instantly.
"Oishii! You're dinners are so wonderful sis'." Yui filled her mouth with an assortment of edible goods. It didn't really matter what her little sister served up, as long as it filled up Yui's stomach she was happy every time.
"Onee-chan will get indigestion if she keeps that up." Ui laughed softly. "So how is the band going?"
Yui stopped stuffing her face for a moment and emptied her mouth to speak. "Well it was pretty quiet today, Mio wasn't there and it was kinda sad being there without her."
Ui frowned. "That does sound awfully strange of Mio. Is she alright? I hope she's not ill?" Ui's motherly nature carried over.
"Not really...I saw her for a little while after school, but she did seem a little ordinary..." Yui decided not to tell her sister about Mio's strange outburst, it didn't seem like a nice thing to bring up for dinner. "but that's Mio-chan for you..." Yui laughed it off as she took a sip of water.
Ui clasped her hands together. "Well as long as she's fine then I'm fine. I better wash up now." Ui smiled warmly as she went back into the kitchen.
Yui fell back from her futon onto the carpet. She stretched out her hands and reached for the ceiling, pushing her hands in the way of the light. I hope sis' is right.
'''''
Nightfall came and Yui relaxed in her room. She was safe in this fluffy paradise of wall posters and stuffed animals. All her day's troubles could be dissolved in this tiny piece of Nirvana. After practising a few more chords on Gitah and doing some 'light reading' she finally decided it was a night and turned off the lights.
The eccentric, bouncy and cheerful Yui slipped under the blankets and and sighed with pure happiness as she sunk into her bed for a pleasant night of happy dreams – well she hoped it would be anything other than the one she experienced last night.
Yui struggled to enter her sleep. She had too many thoughts buzzing through her mind. The University Choices, Final exams, the band and of course Mio. But what could she possibly do right now asleep in her room? Even though it was pointless to dwell on such things they remained hovering in her mind like pesky bugs. She had to distract herself by focusing on something else. She opened her eyes and scanned the room for something that would put her mind at ease. Something like...
"Ah..." She whispered to herself. "I never noticed you before." referring to one of the stuffed animals strewn on the floor. It's beady red eyes glared infinitely at the imaginative teenager.
"Good evening Yui Hirasawa." The stuffed toy communicated to her telepathically.
No way I must be dreaming now!
"Of course not! I am in existence right here and now..."
Wow...this is a wicked dream..and it feels so real too.
"You're not dreaming you idiot! I can test this theory if you want but it might hurt."
No I'll just go along with it for now.
The creature leapt onto the window, showing off its silhouette against the moonlight. "Miss Hirasawa, you really are an interesting girl, you have great potential and much to learn, I look forward to meeting you again sometime." And with those final mystery words the strange creature vanished. Yui believed she was really dreaming this time, however little did she know that the little albino creature, who she would soon know as Kyuubey, would transform her life and the life of her friends forever...
A strange encounter with a creature out of this world. What could this creature possibly want with an airhead like Yui? Find out in the next intriguing chapter!
