The sheer irony of the situation that Akemi Homura was in right now was indescribable. Here she had hoped, to lessen her days of demon fighting with her allies Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura. Instead, she had only increased them. In front of her stood a large demon. From Homura's estimate, it was four times as tall as them and could have smashed them with a single punch of its fists. It was heavily damaged, but it was still standing strong. The ammunition on Homura's regular firearms was depleted, leaving her with her magical bow and arrow. While those were indeed powerful, they consumed a good deal of magic, so she had to be precise on where to shoot.

Kyoko wasn't doing so well either. The magic in her soul gem was becoming more and more tainted with every blow she was able to land on the demon with her spear. Mami was in a similar condition, with every magical bullet of her guns being able to strike the demon, but not being able to fatigue it much.

"This isn't looking good." Mami said, while breathing heavily from her last attack. "I'm running out of magic fast, if I push it too much-"

"We can't give up now!" Kyoko shouted. "Are you out of your friggin' mind? We take this thing down and the cubes it drops will give all of us enough magic to last all of us an entire month without a demon fight!"

"It's either us or it at this point." Homura sighed. "I'm going to put everything I have left into this one attack." She said, while readying her bow, lining up three magical arrows inside of it.

"This is a mere estimate, but from the way it looks now, it might go down if we strike it together at once." Homura continued. "Keep stalling it while I charge up an attack. Strike it with everything you have when I give the signal."

As much as she hated to follow her orders, Kyoko complied along with Mami. Stalling the beast was going to prove to not be an easy task, as its massive grey body with its massive hands threatened to crush the girls with a single smash to the ground. The building they were in was surprisingly had a good enough height to hold the beast, but unfortunately was not as good in the width and length category to give the girls too much running space.

Thankfully, the demon needed time to pull its huge fist out of the ground every time it struck the ground. That was the moment that Homura was waiting for. She watched as it raised its fist, and prepared to smash Mami into the ground. Mami saw this coming, and mustered every last bit of strength to dodge the fist as it came hurtling down at her.

This was it.

"Now!" Homura shouted, as she released the barrage of arrows she had prepared in her bow. They all struck the demon in its shoulder area. Kyoko went all out with her spear, not holding anything back as she slashed at the demon's legs with all the might she could summon from her body. Mami took this opportunity to use her ultimate attack with her guns, she summoned her favourite bazooka.

"Tiro Finale!"

She fired a blast of pure magical energy that struck the demon head on in what one would think is it's chest area. It was hard to tell since its body barely resembled a human constitution with its many deformities. After that, the demon started to fall. Mami and Kyoko nearly pulled muscles in their effort to get away from the massive body that threatened to crush them.

Homura breathed heavily. The job should be done now. In a few moments, the beast would dissolve and leave behind sixty grief cubes, as Kyubey said it would.

Kyoko sighed. "Well that one sure didn't wanna go!" She said while wiping her forehead of sweat. "But we got the job done! Finally I can spend a month without having to worry about taking down a couple of deformities."

Mami chuckled. "We'd probably be finished a lot sooner if you didn't eat that ice cream bar right before the fight."

"Hey, the thing was gonna melt! And you know how I feel about wasting food!"

"Girls-"

"Yes, I remember you almost strangling me for dropping a piece of cake before." Mami retorted, putting her hands to her hips and looking away with a smile.

"Girls-"

"You expected me not to lose my cool when you waste a perfectly good piece of cake?"

"Of course, I expected you to sit there and wait for me to get another piece."

"Why you-"

"GIRLS!" Homura shouted as the other two looked in her direction. When they did, they knew something was wrong. The demon had a strange white glow from its body. Homura didn't think much of it as first, but it started to grow. The light kept expanding from the demon's body.

What happened next the girls would never be able to comprehend. The light suddenly shot out and expanded everywhere like an explosion. The girls had no time to react as they were engulfed by it along with the building. The only thing the girls could feel at that point were their bodies falling into a bottomless pit of light of some sorts. Mami and Kyoko were knocked unconscious by it, leaving Homura as the only one to wonder what was going to happen next.

"So this is it then. Our time has come. Madoka, I'm sorry I couldn't protect this city…" Homura thought as she closed her eyes as her body fell into the shining void beneath her.

"mura...omrura…Homura-san! Wake up!"

Homura's eyes slowly slid open, allowing her to see Mami looking down on her in her regular outfit. Homura looked down and realized that she had turned back as well. She turned her head both ways when she realized that something was wrong. They were no longer in the building where they fought the demon, but rather in a forest, filled with lush, green life. A far cry from the dark corners of the city that Homura was used to.

"Where are we? How are we still alive?" She asked. Her fear of Mami not knowing the answer was sadly confirmed.

"I don't know. Kyoko is up in that tree over there." Mami replied, pointing to a tall tree in front of them. "She's trying to get some sense of where we are, if you were wondering."

"I see." Homura responded. It wasn't long before they saw Kyoko jumping down from branch to branch running over to them.

"Okay, I don't know WHAT cheap trick that demon used, but thanks to it, we're completely lost. There is absolutely no city ANYWHERE in sight." Kyoko said. Homura looked down. That was not the answer that she and Mami were expecting.

"Then what do we do?" Mami asked.

"The only thing I saw was some kind of small building in that direction." Kyoko responded as she pointed behind them. "I don't know what's there, but whatever's in there probably has more information as to where the hell we are than there is here."

"Then we should start making our way over there. How far do you suppose it was Kyoko?" Homura asked. Kyoko shrugged in response.

"Dunno, maybe about half an hour away. It's straight ahead. We just have to move through the trees, bushes and whatnot." That wasn't exactly what Mami wanted to hear, seeing how she was mostly an urban city girl; she wasn't exactly fond of forest hikes. Nonetheless, she figured it was better than losing hope and disappearing in the middle of nowhere, so she didn't argue and moved on. No one else spoke for a few minutes until Kyoko broke the silence with a groan.

"I can't believe how much of a fail that was!" She cried, throwing her hands in the air. "After all that damn effort, we get absolutely no grief cubes, which means even MORE nights of stupid exhausting demon hunting!"

"Wait a minute, after that attack; you didn't lose your Soul Gem did you?" Homura asked as she realized something. Kyoko froze. It WAS possible that the Soul Gem could have fallen out of her back pocket after the attack. Mami and Homura realized the same thing and quickly checked her head. Sure enough, the Soul Gem was in the same form as a ring before she fought the demon. Homura's and Kyoko's were still with them as well. However, Kyoko noticed something about hers as they continued walking through the bushes and trees.

"Hey, is it me? Or was this thing darker during the fight?" Kyoko asked, showing her Soul Gem to the others.

"I was too busy focusing on my own during the fight." Mami replied, pushing away a branch and looking at her Soul Gem. "But now that you mention it, I could have sworn that my Soul Gem was more tainted than this."

"Perhaps you two weren't using as much magic as you thought you were during that last battle." Homura replied. Looking at her Soul Gem, she quickly changed her answer. "But then again, maybe I wasn't as well. As mine did appear to be darker before."

"But I was giving that demon everything I had!" Kyoko retorted.

"It's the only explanation that I can think of. Soul Gems can only be cleansed with Grief Cubes, and that's it. It's not best to dwell on that though now. Is this the place Kyoko?" Homura asked as they stopped. In front of them in a large clearing, stood what appeared to be an abandoned house of some sorts. Due to its size, it may have been a mansion or a store, but its structure told otherwise.

"I think so. Looks like what I saw. That's for sure."

As Mami and Kyoko continued to look at the higher areas of the building, Homura noticed something on its ground level. It was hard to tell, but she could have sworn that she could see movement inside-

That train of thought couldn't continue, as the doors to the building suddenly burst open. To the girls' shock, a bunch of men armed with various melee weapons came piling out of the door. Before they knew it, they had gotten themselves surrounded.

"Well what the hell do we have here? A couple of little girlies who lost their way?" Said one of them.

"They sure as hell picked a bad place to get lost." Said a really big one as they all laughed.

"Lucky us." Said one in the middle, who had a poor hair-do and wore ripped jeans and a leather jacket with skulls on it. Homura assumed this one was their leader. "Whaddya say we take these lucky

"Dammit, we have to fight them!" Kyoko whispered as the men closed in on them.

"No we can't. Remember your Soul Gem." Homura replied.

Kyoko wondered for a moment before realizing what Homura meant. It was extremely risky to try using their magic to take all of them on. Although their Soul Gems were lighter than before, Homura realized that they may only have enough for one more demon battle, and their lives would ride on the next one with the state they were in.

"I could try becoming a Magical Girl and stop time for a quick moment to give us enough time for us to escape." Homura thought. As she began contemplating the consequences of that action, she realized it would not work as the men were too close. Whoever Homura touches while stopping time doesn't become frozen and she would have to be holding both Mami and Kyoko's hands because of that. She was struggling to keep her composure. These men were no doubt going to beat them down and attempt to steal whatever possessions they had. Then a horrible thought struck her. They might mistake the Soul Gems as some kind of bargaining tool for a profit, and when a Magical Girl loses her Soul Gem…

"Curses." Homura thought. Mami and Kyoko didn't do anything other than the occasional shake, desperately trying to hide their fear. Homura's mind scrambled for possible ways out of this, all of them going nowhere. She didn't lose hope though. She couldn't lose hope. She couldn-.

"BOSS!" Came a cry from a man. Homura couldn't see very well as she was surrounded with Kyoko and Mami, but she assumed he came from the building as she heard doors open.

"Whaddya want nitwit?" The skull-jacket man replied. "Can't ya see we got some good prizes here?"

"No Boss! They're coming!" Said the cowardly man as he waved his hands in the air and shook, panicking like a child.

"Stop panicking like that and tell us who it is!"

"I-It's that guild boss! The strongest one!"

"Guild?" Homura thought.

"Strongest? No… You're not talking about…" He never got to finish that sentence. An explosion of flames came from the building. It appeared that some men were unfortunately caught in the blast inside, as they were tossed aside along some debris as Homura and the others looked away for a second before looking back, the crowd around them had split and everyone looked at the smoke coming from the building. To the fear of the men, four human-shaped shadows we're beginning to form as the smoke from the blast dissipated. When it finally did, the shadows were no longer shadows, but rather five humans who looked on them with fierce, powerful eyes. They then shouted four words. Four words that made most of the men shake in their boots.

"WE ARE FAIRY TAIL!"

Greetings fellow fanfic readers! I have returned from the wretched abyss known as AFK land! I know what some of you are thinking, what the hell are you gonna do with your other fics? Well, unfortunately, those fics were a product of my inexperienced fanfic making days, so I'm deciding to just leave them be for now. Maybe I'll pick one of them up again in the future, but I don't know. Anyway, welcome to the first-ever crossover of Madoka Magica and Fairy Tail! So what's going to happen when the power-of-friendship characters of Mashima meet the tragic serious characters of Urobuchi? Find out next time!

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