By the way, the title is supposed to be Magical Appuru-chan~ but the site keeps killing my hyphens and tildes.
There was a knock on Kyona's door.
"Kyona, I heard a scream…are you alright in there? …What happened today, anyway?" It was Kyona's mother, Akari. The little pink harvest sprite made a shushing motion with his hands and lips.
"Everything's fine, Mom!" Kyona called out. It was, of course, a lie.
"If you say so…but take a bath tonight. You're filthy!" Kyona heard footsteps, which indicated that her mother was walking away. Kyona looked down at herself, sudden remembrance dawning on her.
"Okay, little sprite," she said, pointing an accusing finger. "You'd better have an explanation for me when I get back!" She walked out of the room.
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A mysterious figure advanced toward Kyona's house, jumped on a tree outside on Kyona's window, and perched, waiting. Yes, it was kinda creepy.
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An hour later, Kyona emerged through the door, now in her rather skimpy apple-themed red pajamas.
The figure, who seemed to be a rather dedicated stalker, was still poised on the branch, a black silhouette among the leaves. Kyona, therefore, did not see him.
"Okay," Kyona smacked the poor creature to the floor and put her foot on him to trap him there. "Now, let's start with your name."
"I…am…" the sprite sputtered. It was not an attempt at suspense. Rather, it was a side effect of his dazedness. "… Hold on a second… give me a minute… I'm pretty sure it starts with a 'G'…"
Kyona impatiently tapped the foot that was not holding the sprite down.
"Oh, that's it! Now, I remember; my name is…Gonzalo!" Kyona stifled a snicker.
"That name is far too badass for you. From now on, your name is Gary." Kyona said, matter-of-fact.
"But… I…" the harvest sprite, dubbed Gary, protested in vain.
"So, Gary, what are you doing here?" Kyona continued.
"I'm here to make sure that you're safe!" This time, Gary was able to answer immediately.
"Safe? From what?" Kyona inquired, dimly. "…Does it have something to do with that giant turtle I defeated earlier?"
"We don't know…something…wait, you defeated a giant turtle earlier?" Kyona proudly put her hands on her hips and chuckled.
"Yep! I beat it with the mighty power of… uh… this pen someone sent me!" She held the red apple pen out to him. Gary managed to squirm out of Kyona's foot-grasp to inspect it.
"Hmmm… so it's a magic pen." He observed, still looking at it.
"You… you can tell just by looking?" Kyona said, dumbfounded.
"I can sense the magic in it. But I can't verify that it was from your dad." He said.
"Huh… I don't know of anyone else who would send them to me."
"Them? There's more?"
"Yeah!" Kyona held out the four other pens for him to see. "By the way, why didn't you want my mom to hear about you?"
"I have specific orders not to let her know that I exist. If she found out, she'd have to learn why I was created, and if she found out that you were in danger, she'd be worried and get ugly stress lines and allegedly 'ruin her beautiful face'."
"Tch. Nice to know where Dad's priorities lie. He must love her personality so much." Kyona scoffed, sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah. He mentioned something about that, too. He said 'it's not a reason, just a bonus'… do you think he's psychic?"
"Not psychic. Just all-knowing."
"Ha. Must sucks for you, then. I bet you can't get away with anything." Kyona smacked Gary downward, once again putting her foot on him. This time, she moved her foot in a motion that rubbed him deeper into the floor. She stopped, suddenly, finally realizing that something was amiss.
She rushed to her window and opened it, abruptly.
"MATT, YOU CREEP. I TOLD YOU, IF YOU'RE GOING TO SIT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT NIGHT, KNOCK SO THAT I KNOW YOU'RE THERE." The mysterious figure, apparently, Matt, who, by the way, was a childhood friend of Kyona, chuckled.
"Well, you were in the bath when I came, and when you got out, you seemed to be having a nice conversation with… yourself. I thought it would be rude to interrupt. By the way, nice pajamas." Kyona flustered, trying, pathetically, to cover herself.
"You jerk!" Kyona cried, like a true shoujo protagonist, and pushed him out of the tree. Which should have led to a broken bone, but…anime physics. Shut up.
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The next morning, there was a sudden change in point of view. This was to show that a character was going to become important, also, to tell us more about the soon-to-be-important character.
And so, we see Vivian waking up from her luxurious bed. She did come from the richest family in town, after all—though that wasn't saying much, in Harmonica Town. She changed out of her long white night gown, at which time the camera, were it to exist, would pan away, only to pan back when she was fully dressed in her school uniform.
Vivian sat at her vanity, combing her hair, which was entirely unnecessary, as the lucky betch doesn't get bed head.
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Breakfast with Vivian's family was quiet, once one learned to tune out Mayor Hamilton's incessant yammering, which meant that everybody but The Mayor had a quiet breakfast.
Vivian, of course, ate only toast, and ate like a bird; a very prim bird at that.
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Erstwhile, back in Kyona's perspective, the aforementioned girl had no time for breakfast. She ate her toast on the go, as it took her considerably longer to get to school. Zack casually sauntered behind her.
Of a sudden, she tripped and fell down over a small cliff, somehow triggering her magical girl transformation. Gary flew out from somewhere-or-other.
"Whoever designed those pens really didn't put much thought into them…" he commented. Kyona stood up, rubbing her sore backside.
"Owwww…" she moaned. "Why'd it do that?"
"I guess it triggers at the first sign of danger."
"That sucks!" Kyona cursed. With a red flash of light, she transformed back. "Garyyyy, fix it. Fix it. Fix it."
"Okay, shut up!" Gary said, taking the red pen and its writing utensil sisters from her.
"Oh, and by the way, you can't go to school with me." Kyona informed him.
"WHAT? Why not?" Gary whined.
"'Cuz there's an off-chance that someone might see you." Kyona explained.
"Well, what am I supposed to do, besides fixing your stupid pens?"
"I dunno…Mom will be gone all day…watch TV, or something, 'kay, bye!" And Kyona ran off.
Gary sighed, going back inside to continue his sad little life.
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Back to Vivian, she stepped outside after breakfast, hurrying, so that her timing was just right.
On cue, Zack walked past her.
Vivian blushed, making a shy and anti-social stance. Zack completely ignored her. Vivian then decided that she would have to make the effort.
"Uh…morning, Zack," She tried. Zack didn't seem to hear. "Um…Why don't you ever come to school, anymore?" Zack ignored her again. Finally, he was a few feet away and about to turn somewhere, when he stopped, suddenly.
"Don't waste your time trying to be nice to me." He said, coldly, and he left.
"What was that all about?" A meek voice wondered from behind Vivian. Vivian jumped.
"How long have you been there!?" Vivian demanded.
"Just long enough to hear your heart shatter to pieces." Angie said, quietly. "Was he being a jerk again?" Vivian's eyes cast downward, sullenly.
"I wish he would just return my feelings." She said, sighing. Angie shuffled her feet.
"At least you don't have a stalker." Angie murmured.
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And yet another perspective change, to Kyona; this one bearing a shiny new time skip.
So, it was after school, and Kyona got home (her OWN home, this time) to find a zombie-fied Gary fixated in front of the TV.
"G-Gary…?" She said, a bit worried. Gary turned his head around, exorcist-style.
"So…much…action. Where's the plot? Why does it take him so long to get his attack powered up? Why are the females such weaklings? It makes no seeeeeense, but…so alluring…" Gary babbled.
"Uh…Gary?" Kyona poked him. Gary shook his head, snapping out of it. Kyona turned the TV off.
"You're home!" Gary said, pointing out the obvious.
"Uh… yeah, so did you fix my pen?" Gary nodded, procuring the thing.
"From now on, it only works if you write 'MAJIKARU APPURU-CHAN SUTAATO!' with it." Gary explained. He was smacked for his troubles. "What was that for!?"
"Why'd you make the pen such a pain in the ass to use!?"
'You told me to fix it!"
"You could've just made it activate through saying a phrase! That's what I expected you to do!"
"It's a pen! It's for writing! You can't just say something with a pen, that's just stupid!"
Kyona and Gary sat on opposite sides of the room for a few minutes, huffing in stubbornness.
Finally, Gary spoke up.
"Wanna go to the forest to investigate your giant monster sighting?"
"No."
"Wanna go find another giant monster for you to fight to boost your ego?" It was essentially the same question.
"… Let's go."
And they did.
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Elsewhere, at the tailor shop, Vivian excused herself to get some fresh air. In other words, go to the forest in hopes that Zack would be there.
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Tam-Tam forest was exactly the way that Kyona had left it. Which didn't say much.
It seemed peaceful, but still, something seemed amiss.
This became painfully evident when two gigantic weasels jumped out of nowhere. Their brown vs. white fur had a sort of yin-yang feel to them.
"Heeeey, it's Fall. The brown weasel isn't supposed to appear in Fall." Kyona whined.
"Let's just assume it's magic and RUN FOR OUR LIVES." Gary suggested. So, they did.
"Wait a minute!" Kyona said, stopping. "I don't need to run! I'm Magical Appuru-chan!" She pulled out the red pen. "…Crap. I didn't bring anything to write on!" In a desperate panic, she wrote on her arm where no one would see it through her sleeve.
And thus, there was a shiny transformation sequence, ending with Magical Appuru-chan.
"Your evil deeds shall not go unpunished! I'll show you the consequences of ganging up on little girls!" She said, now slightly more well-rehearsed. The pen once again turned into a scepter.
"SHINING APPLE ANTIDOTE!" She called out, throwing the scepter at the brown weasel. She had spent the whole night in bed figuring out a name for her attack. It didn't help, as the white weasel deflected the scepter and they both came at her again.
Magical Appuru-chan ran, trying her attack again, but to no avail.
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The weasels chased her through the forest, eventually leading her up a tree, conveniently where Vivian was. Another convenience: she dropped the yellow pen, with the cocoa fruit charm.
"What the—you look really familiar, who the hell are you?" Vivian demanded, looking up at her. She then noticed the pen on the ground and picked it up.
"Hey! That's mine!" Magical Appuru-chan objected, but it had no effect, because the yellow pen started glowing and suddenly Vivian transformed.
Vivian's transformation sequence was far more elegant—not to mention more yellow—than Kyona's. Her outfit was also yellow, and also more elegant.
"Magical Koko-hime!" She called out, when it was over.
"Hey, why does she get to be a -hime when I'm just a –chan!?" Magical Appuru-chan whined.
"I think it's because she's the obligatory rich girl." Gary said.
Suddenly, the yellow pen turned into a considerably un-elegant maraca. At least the shaker was a cocoa fruit.
"Perfect cocoa shimmer." She said. She shook the maraca, which seemed to cause the monsters to become dizzy.
"How come she can come up with an attack name on the spot like that!?" Magical Appuru-chan demanded. Gary snickered.
"Ahem," Magical Koko-hime said, catching Magical Appuru-chan's attention. "I believe you'll have to finish them off." Magical Appuru-chan lapped up the self-importance.
"SHINING APPLE ANTIDOTE!" She threw the scepter at the brown weasel, and then repeated the process with the white weasel. The weasels shrunk down to normal size, and the brown weasel ran off to wherever-the-hell-he-goes-for-fall-and-winter, and the white weasel wandered around happily.
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This isn't a perspective change, or a location change. It's just a time skip, because someone doesn't feel like detailing Kyona's explanation.
"A magical girl… huh. Never heard of them." Vivian finally said.
"That's one thing that I have that you don't." Kyona muttered.
"Well, then, I guess we're a team from now on. After all, you wouldn't stand a chance without me." Vivian started to walk away. Kyona raged from behind her.
"Hate… her… so… much…" Kyona seethed. "I DON'T NEED YOU! YOU'RE ONLY TAGGING ALONG BECAUSE I LET YOU!" When Vivian ignored her, Kyona ran past, determined to leave her in her dust. From behind Kyona, Vivian caught a glimpse of a pink harvest sprite, struggling to follow her.
"Is that…?" She wondered aloud. "No, it couldn't be. That's a childish idea."
And, as shoujo episodes often do, they faded into the sunset as the chapter ended.