"I beg of you…"
"This time, I'll finish you!"
"My servant who lives somewhere in the universe!"
For a brief moment, time stands still…
"Oh sacred, beautiful and strong familiar spirit!"
Only to resume, with the addition of several hundred missiles.
"I desire and here I plead from my heart!"
The witch laughs, unharmed by the barrage…
"Answer to my guidance!"
"HUEHUEHUEHUEH-GURK!"
Only to be rudely interrupted by a gigantic green portal that swallows it whole.
"…What?"
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The explosion was glorious, Louise noted idly. The fact that there was an explosion by now came as no surprise to the diminutive mage in training, but the sheer scale of it far surpassed anything she had thus far accomplished. There was now a massive pillar of smoke that rose from the point of the magical discharge, fanning out into a vaguely mushroom shape above the tallest towers of the academy.
As the smoke on the ground began to clear, Louise moved closer, hope rising in her chest, to see the results of her dramatic summoning. Such hope was dashed just a moment later, as the black cloud cleared sufficiently to reveal an empty crater. Tears filling her eyes, it took all of her remaining willpower to remain standing in the face of this; her greatest and quite possibly final failure. "They are going to expel me" she thought "they are going to send me home in disgrace, and mother will-"
"What in Brimir's name is THAT?"
It was Guiche, ironically, who noticed it first. Too busy fussing over his familiar to pay attention to the Zero's latest failure, he was the only one to search the skies for whatever was casting the shadow his new companion was cowering at. Louise spun around, glad for the distraction, to find him sat on the ground, his legs having failed him in his shock, his face set in a mask of absolute terror, and one hand shaking pointing into the sky.
It dwarfed anything Louise had ever seen; hanging in the sky, large enough that, should it ever decide to stop blatantly ignoring gravity and fall, the entire school would be crushed underneath. It vaguely resembled a doll like those she had played with in her infancy, if a very disturbing one. Clothed in a blue dress trimmed with white frills, with a gigantic clockwork gear extending out of its body in the place of its legs. Its face, adorned with a terrifying parody of a grin, leered at the group of students. "No" Louise corrected herself, gazing at its eyes with a mixture of horror and fascination, "At me".
"Louise wins" came the quiet statement from Tabitha. Kirche, beside her, sighed and handed over a small bag of coins.
"HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE!"
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Meanwhile, on another world in a ruined city, a certain time-traveller was busy hiding all the weapons she never got the chance to use, all the while silently bemoaning the fact that she never got the chance to blow her nemesis up properly.
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An:
I came up with this crazy idea and simply had to write it down! I can't see myself continuing it as any further scenes would inevitably consist of Walpurgis curb-stomping everything in sight.
Any and all positive or constructive feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading my first story and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!