To a Magical Girl, a grief seed is everything. These small seeds that refill the source of a Magical Girl's power; the Soul Gem, can only be found inside witches. They are naturally very valuable items to Magical Girls, who are the girls that fight the witches born from the curses. Magical Girls often don't get along because of this issue. Some fight for power, while others fight for justice. Mami Tomoe was one of these girls who fought for the latter.

She had not been having much luck recently in finding grief seeds. She had been coming across familiars more and more often. Many other Magical Girls would let those beasts roam free so they could become witches and produce grief seeds. But Mami knew that the beast would only kill innocents, which is why she killed them off. That was starting to have a negative effect on her. She was in a witch's labyrinth right now. She could tell it was a witch this time, as there were plenty of familiars around her. Add that to the fact that a witch's labyrinth looked much darker and unpleasant than a familiar's labyrinth.

The labyrinth she was in had unpleasant colors of red and black. The surroundings were those of a distorted children's playground in a massive wasteland, and the familiars were hideous little dragon monstrosities with huge mouths. But the more they tried to sink their teeth into Mami, the more they got either shot or whacked away from her guns. Mami slowed down a bit to catch her breath. She knew she had to save some magic for the upcoming witch, or she'd be in trouble. She continued on in the distorted labyrinth, knowing the witch was coming closer.

Suddenly, she heard a strange sound. It sounded like…someone yelling? That wasn't good. Someone must have gotten trapped in the labyrinth. She immediately set her guard up and ran towards where the sound came from. Sure enough, she found someone else inside the labyrinth. However, this one was acting quite differently than others. A man stood in front of her, waving his sword at the familiars. He was a very tall man with blue hair and he wore a giant cape with the image of a flaming skull with glasses.

"Eat this, cannon fodder!" Yelled the man. "You think the mighty Kamina is afraid of the fiery pits of hell?! Well you've got another thing coming!" He swung the massive long sword through multiple familiars, unaware that two more were closing in on him from behind. The time for being surprised was over, thought Mami, as she shot the two familiars behind him.

"Don't worry." She said. "Just stay close to me and everything will be fine." The man turned towards her and whistled.

"Hey blondie! You end up biting the dust too? Man I gotta tell ya, hell sure ain't an easy place to live!" That caught Mami off guard. He thought he was dead? That would certainly explain his attitude.

"It's hard to explain, but I can assure you that both of us are very much alive. Now stay close and follow me." She assured him as she ran off. The man followed her.

"What? Get real. Where else could we be with all this red madness around us?" He yelled as he ran alongside her.

"I'll make sure to tell you as soon as I finish up business." Mami replied. "Stay close, the witch is here." Now the man looked really confused.

"Witch? What the hell is a witch?"

"That is." Mami pointed to a grotesque creature in front of her that looked like a massive version of the familiars that they fought earlier. The only difference was that this had an evil smile on its face and it had giant wings that flew through the air. The giant monstrosity looked down on the two humans and roared. Mami wasted no time. She summoned her guns and took aim, and fire-

"HEY! YOU WITH THE BIG UGLY MUG! WE'RE ABOUT TO TAKE YOU DOWN, SO SAY YOUR PRAYERS!"

The yelling of the man shocked Mami and she accidentally fired her guns too soon, missing her target. The dragon-witch shot down at her, and it was coming towards her fast, she quickly jumped to the side to avoid it.

"Please, just leave this to me! I don't want you getting hurt by it!" Mami cried out to the man. But her cry fell on deaf ears.

"Sorry, but the mighty Kamina would rather die than run away from a fight!" He screamed as he charged forward with his sword and took a stab at the witch. The beast roared as it reared its ugly head towards the man, apparently named Kamina. Wasting no time, Mami summoned more muskets and fired all of them at the dragon-witch. It angrily went after her next.

"If you get yourself involved in this, you'll only end up getting killed! Please just let me take it down!" She pondered restraining him with her ribbons, but went against it as it would have just made him an easier target for the witch. She mentally cursed herself for not doing it earlier, now she had to focus on the witch before it killed both of them. She continued to fire wildly as the witch continued to close in on her despite getting hit.

"Eat this you bastard! Man's wrath…Explosive Slash!" Kamina shouted as he ran up behind the monster and took another slash at the witch's tail. The witch roared again, and looked back at Kamina who was grinning at it like a madman. Mami knew that she couldn't afford to mess around now that the witch was distracted again. She summoned her two guns and merged them together and put as much magic as she could into her attack.

"Tiro FINALE!" She shouted as she fired the massive gun the witch, bursting it into pieces. Kamina whistled with admiration. He only knew one other girl who was that good with a gun. The area started to distort around them, and the next thing he knew, he and Mami were in the middle of some residential area. At least, it looked like that to Mami. Kamina had never seen these kinds of buildings before.

"Oh great." He cried. "Now where the hell are we?"

"That was close." Mami replied as she walked over to where her long-awaited prize was and picked up the grief seed. "You shouldn't have behaved so recklessly in there. Most people who get caught in a witch labyrinth often never get out alive."

"Well, I'm not "most people!" Kamina shot back angrily. "Now I've got a couple questions for you blondie! Who are you, what is this place, and what the hell was that place there all about?!"

"Look, I understand how stressed you must be after that ordeal. Come with me to my apartment and I'll explain everything." She turned around and headed in the direction of her apartment. Kamina looked at her for a moment before sighing and following her. Hopefully, her "apartment" or whatever she called it wasn't too far away. Things had been really confusing for Kamina ever since he apparently succumbed to his wounds back at the battle for the Dai-Gunzan. The two had stayed mostly silent during the walk, with Kamina looking around at his surroundings in awe. Luckily, his wish was granted, as it only took about fifteen minutes to arrive to her place.

When they arrived, Kamina could only whistle at the sight of the apartment. The minute he walked in he deemed it better than anything underground could ever hope to be. The more he was there, the more he didn't regret coming to the surface.

"I gotta say, this is one fancy place you got here blondie!" Kamina complimented. "So this is what a house looks like on the surface huh? You better defend it good from the beastmen cause it'd be a real shame if a place like this went to waste!" This only earned a confused look from Mami. Surface? Beastmen? What on earth was he talking about? How hard did this man hit his head in the labyrinth?

"First off, allow me to apologize for my rudeness. I am Mami Tomoe." She bowed in respect as she introduced herself.

"I'm Kamina! Leader of the amazing team Dai-Gurren!" The smile on Mami's face only served to mask the confusion that welled up inside her. She had seen people who had acted differently from being inside a witch labyrinth, but no one had acted so happy and upbeat like him. There was a lot of explaining that the both of them needed to do.

"I'll…go get us something to eat, and then maybe you could tell me how you ended up inside the witch labyrinth."

"Sounds good to me! A man needs to refuel his strength after a battle like that!" He replied as Mami walked off into what he assumed was where she kept the food. He sat down on a cushion and took a better look at the place. There were chairs, and a small table set up neatly in the room, the walls had a nice white coat of paint, Kamina may not have had an eye for glamor, but he'd be damned if this place didn't look fancy.

With that thought coming to mind, many questions still lingered in his mind. He was sure he had gone to hell after his final attack on that beastman, so why was he in some kind of fancy place with a blonde kid wielding guns? He put his hand to his forehead in pain. All these unanswerable questions were enough to give a man like him a headache. When he lowered his hand though, something caught his eye. In the corner of the room stood a small white creature eyeing him. It had huge, long, flat ears with golden rings around them. It walked over towards him and looked at him in the eyes. It's expression was unreadable, as its eyes were completely empty aside from the color red filling them.

"What are you looking at fuzzball?" Kamina grunted. He didn't like that the look thing that thing was giving him with those big soulless eyes.

"How interesting. You are able to see me?" Said a voice that suddenly popped into his head.

"Wha?! How the hell are you talking with your mouth closed like that?!" Kamina shouted incredulously.

"Hm? That's even more strange. You can see Kyubey Kamina-san?" It only got more odd now that Mami's voice had popped into his head as well.

"Okay, someone please explain to me what's going on!"

"This truly is an unusual occurrence. A male human has never been able to see me before, much less share telepathic communications with another Magical Girl." The strange voice continued.

"Tele-what?! I'm not getting a word of what you're saying fuzzball!" He said as Mami came back to the room with food on a tray.

Hopefully now, maybe they would both be able to get some answers off of each other. But the two humans just couldn't shake the feeling that explaining their situations to each other was going to be extremely difficult. The upcoming conversation about who they were would have to be handled delicately. After Mami set the food and drinks down, Kamina spoke up first.

"So, you got any pig-mole steaks?"

Two crossovers. There are only two Gurren Lagann and Madoka Magica crossovers on this site and none of them are full length epic ones involving one of anime's manliest and awesome characters! So how will Kamina handle the concept of what a Magical Girl is? You'll find out next time. Writing this was harder than I thought it was, so expect an error or two. I'll probably come back and fix it.

Next Chapter: Magic is a girl's soul…right?

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