So...new story! I was looking so hard for something I could crossover with Madoka Magica, and finally settled on (not the most perfect choice) Marebito. For those of you who don't know it, it's classic, Japanese horror with a little bit of fantasy. Also, since I couldn't find anything that was, as I would say, "perfectly perfect", I'm sure my characterization will be a bit off, so please feel free to criticize!
Homura looked over the tape the video camera had recorded. The apartment, with it's torn up shutters and slightly open window was a mystery to her. The woman who had lived there. What had happened to her? She was almost sure that the woman has been a substance abuser, living in a small apartment with her paranoia. Though the paranoia was of little interest. Slowly, she turned to the notepad sitting on her table and picked up the pencil. In small letters she began to scrawl words. By looking at her through the lens, I believe I've salvaged her soul.
The news sounded in the back corner of the room. "A tragedy occurred today at a Subway station in east Mitakihara. It was shot by freelance camera artist Homura Akemi , who happened to be at the scene of a bizarre suicide that occurred earlier today."
She turned, holding a finger to her lips as the voices of the recording were heard from the television. "Don't do it. Calm down." The girl on the screen was shaking uncontrollably. "Let go of the knife," one of the officers said.
And the girl shoved the knife through her eye. Homura paused the tape, looked back to her notebook. Sayaka Miki was without a steady income. She was paying no attention to anybody at the site, including myself. She paused, hand stopping. Should she assume...? The look in Sayaka's eyes had been clear enough. She was too terrified to notice them. Did she, perhaps, stab herself in the eye to avoid seeing... whatever terrified her?
Homura honed in on the eyes of the girl, the startled, terrified eyes.
"I want to see...what she saw."
Among the images she'd captured in her time, there were many strange mysterious things, that appeared to be such abnormalities as ghosts or unidentified flying objects. But to Homura, they meant nothing. She figured it was because such things had already been defined as strange. Seeing such things made the people nervous, unlike the absolute look of fear on Sayaka's face as she killed herself.
She paused the news, looking at the girl's face. It was a girl, being brutally beaten about the head with a metal pipe. The news reporter had assumed such a video was sent in by the murderer themself. Homura examined the girls eyes. The fear...doesn't seem quite real. If the ultimate terror was to have your own mind and body destroyed by others...she could go so far as to imitate a psychopath to examine the terror of a person on tape. Not that she would.
Whatever it was that had terrified that girl in the subway...was something far beyond the thought of death.
This is just an introduction, the rest will definitely be longer. But until then...