"Must. Keep. Running." I said in my mind as I kept running in a mysterious scarlet and black room, I was not aware of how I ended inside this place. I stopped and looked around, my tired eyes prevented me from being able to see the details of the place I was trapped in. There were things on the walls, I was sure of that, perhaps some paintings, though I really doubt that, they seemed to be moving. "Just were am I?" I said out loud, hoping for an answer.
"Shh, be quiet." A low voice said. I turned at the source of that voice, I saw a strong rose-haired girl wearing weird clothes and holding a locked book. "Take my hand, I'll help you get out of here." I hesitated to take her hand, so she took mine and began walking, I wonder if she was aware I could not see very well.
I saw lightning fall nearby even if we were inside somewhere. After walking for a while, I noticed the pink girl was causing the lightning using her book, I was very amazed, now thinking it was nothing but dream.
"Umm, I'm sorry for asking this but what's you..." Before I could finish my sentence, she placed her hand in front of me so I stopped. She opened her lightning-shooting book, it immediately shone with a blinding white light. The girl said a few words "Clear the skies and defeat my foes!" I gave a step back as the book became brighter. Despite having closed my eyes, I saw the light of the lightning, which struck just as the thunder roared. I opened my eyes a little and I saw various ghost like creatures appearing, floating comically toward us. I was scared, but I knew I was going to be fine, there was this girl protecting me. But... I was wrong.
I looked around, watching how the girl shoot magic out of her book and also hitting the ghosts with the book. The ghosts kept coming, both of us were beginning to worry. The girl threw the book in the air and it spun, creating a tornado, pushing back all the ghost.
"Okay, I did not think this would happen, but I am not enough to beat this thing." She panted and fell onto her knees, the book began to fall slowly too. When the ribbon the book had reached her hand, she took it and gave it to me. "Go away, this ribbon will help you be invisible for them."
"But... Can't I help you?" I asked her, feeling terrible for being unable to protect the girl who was trying to help me. "I want to help!"
"I am sorry, but for now, you can't." She replied slowly, obviously exhausted.
"W-why?"
"Just go away! I am running out of time!"
I gulped and held the ribbon close to my heart while running away. Tears began to fall down my cheek, as I fell on to my knees, blinded completely by my tears. As I cried, a ferret looking thing approached me. I raised up my sight to it but said nothing. It patted my hand with it's tiny paw and walked back.
"Now now, Violet, it's fine, you can help her!" It told me.
"Wha- How can you talk? And why do you know my name?" I asked it, but then said, "How... how can I help her?"
"Make a wish to contract with me and become a magical girl!"
"No time to waste, I don't want to know what you want in exchange, I want to protect this girl, I no longer want to be dependent and useless, I want to be like an angel!"
I began to shine, not sure about why, but I did. Something came out of my chest and caused immense pain as it did. I took that thing in my hand and a light enveloped me and changed my clothes into some weird purple dress.
"Now go back to save her, you have no time to waste!" The thing told me as we began to run back to the pink girl. I went through some weird place, all the things I saw as a scarlet hall were now mysterious checkered rooms with spikes that came out of the walls, it was no longer blurry. Those ghost monsters were now much more visible and scary.
"How am I supposed to help her?" I asked.
"You must fight the monsters!" The white creature replied.
I had a strong desire to save the girl and somehow, in my hand, appeared a violet fan made of feathers. I looked at it, amazed. We got back to the place I left the pink girl, she was lying on the floor, now wearing different clothes.
"Did she...?" Asked the white thing as we both walked to her.
"Is she dead?" I asked, even more worried.
The white creature walked around her and opened her hand, revealing that the girl was holding a mysterious deep pink gem, it had a very small, light which seemed to be disappearing.
"Violet, you have to defeat the witch!" The white thing told me. She is one of the most experienced magical persons alive, I cannot afford to loose her right now.
"Witch?" I asked as I hit the ghosts weakly with my feathered fan.
"Above of you, watch out!"
"What?" I turned up just to find an even bigger ghost, "T-that is... a witch?" I had always imagined witches as having long, crocked noses and ridding brooms, but this... This was something much more different, I am unable to describe it.
Out of what seemed to be a crystal, some needles were shot at the body of the girl and the white familiar. I growled slightly went toward both of them, raising up my fan, somehow and as if I knew that would happen, created some sort of shield that protected us from the falling needles, the last one caused it to break, I swear that was quiet painful, the crystal fell right beside me, making a hole on the ground.
"You learn quiet fast, Violet Kaminari." The familiar told me, I felt truly flattered.
I removed a feather from my fan and threw it at the witch, as it flew, it became sharper and went through the large crystal that shot the needles. The crystal began to crack and the broke into million of pieces.
"Dear angel, with wings as beautiful as those, can you create a wind for us?" The familiar told me, it was from a poem I wrote when I was younger.
"Feathered wings..." I said as I swung my fan as strong as I could, creating a huge wind that sent back the shards back to the witch. Most of them hit her while some got stuck on the roof. I fell to the ground afterward, I had no experience in fighting witches, I am also very clumsy, I obviously did not last much fightning.
"Come on Violet, defeat that witch!"
"I am sorry, I am too weak for this job! I quit!"
"You can't now. Plus, this girl will die if you do not clean her soul gem quickly."
"I... cannot let that happen, can I?"
"Its better if it does not. The others are completely aware this is Aiko's turf, if they discover she died and the new girl is a complete good for nothing, there's going to be a fight for this place."
I felt truly insulted, I had been called a good for nothing all my life, I could not resist the fact that someone who had just met me was already calling me like that. My fan's feather became just one and it became some sort of sword.
"Sinners were sent out of heaven by an angel with a fiery sword!" I growled as gave an amazing jump toward the witch, hitting her as strong as I could using my sword. Gravity no longer affected me, I cut the witch into pieces as the place I was in began to fade, it seemed like the walls were breaking. Everything disappeared, I fell back to the ground, a black thing fell along with me. I landed and caught that thing.
"What is this?"
"It's a grief seed, I will explain everything later, use it to clean your soul gem."
"Soul gem? Oh, this thing I have on my hand?" I looked at my left hand, there was a wing-shaped crystal on it.
"Yes, that is your soul gem when you are in your Puella Magi form."
I changed back to my usual clothes with just thinking on it and touched my soul gem, now shaped as an egg, with the grief seed. It began to absorb some black energy out of my soul gem and it began to shine brighter.
"Now do the same with hers." I was told.
I went to the girl who was at first going to save me and used the grief seed to clean her soul gem. It was much more darker than mine. The girl used to look as if she was in pain, now she was more like resting.
"Now what do I do with it?" I asked the white cat-like monster.
"Give it to me, it absorbed a lot of grief from your soul gems."
"Okay." I threw the gem at it and a blue circle it had on it's back opened and the grief seed fell in it.
"I had not payed attention to my surroundings, what happened to that weird place we were in just a second ago?"
"Let's talk about this in another place."
"Okay," I looked around and noticed I was near Mitakihara Middle School, my school, meaning that my house was near. "We should go to my home."
"Sounds perfectly fine." Said the white monster.
I went to the girl and lifted her body, I felt like a prince carrying a princess. I looked at the familiar and smiled, moving my head as a signal to follow me. It jumped to my shoulder. I had never carried so much weight, I must admit I felt much more stronger than before.
As we walked, the girl woke up and gasped when she looked at me, giving kicks to the air like a small child.
"Put me on the ground now!" She said.
"Sure thing~" I did as she told me.
"Well then, were are we going?"
"We are going to her house.~" Said the white thing. "We must explain things to her."
"Okay, fine." She replied with a sigh.
We arrived at my house, I lived alone in a quiet luxurious apartment, I was from a rich family and was old enough to take care of myself, but I admit I felt lonely sometimes.
"Woah, that's fancy!" I got told by the girl, who looked around amazed.
"Thank you very much, let's go to the living room." I told them nicely, "Do you want something to eat or drink?"
"I would like to have some water, please."
I nodded and smiled then headed to the kitchen. I took a glass and filled it with water, then cut two pieces of a cake I had and served chocolate mousse, I also served some tea and placed the two plates and cups on a silver tray. I took the glass on my hand while I held the tray behind me. I returned and saw both of them staring at some crystal decorations I had. They both walked back to the table and sat, I placed the glass in front of the girl.
"Ah, thank you ver-"
I placed the tray before she finished her sentence.
"It's all for me, don't touch it! Hahaha, I am kidding."
I handed the girl her plate and took mine along with the two cup and placed the tray beside us.
"Now, we should first introduce ourselves." Said the white thing, "I am Niiubey."
I nodded and smiled at Niiubey, that is quiet an adorable name. I looked at the other girl and smiled. She smiled back.
"I am Aiko Akahana, beloved child of a red flower, nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too, I am Violet Kaminari." I replied, I understood perfectly what Aiko meant with the last sentence of her introduction.
I am sure they are very nice people...
