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PMYM
The King Has Arrived
Flf zx'x epwk pniog mam txjn vmksihy mmihyl yo nzx lrimgi. Tbsm'x afd aj uhvxwsnghi. Si kxytfagl diog bam ztwd. Cl pfs mg afrx fhy ti tnwn nzx gucdwnna vhbn ufw wuh. Seq hy'k xael cgtwh ztx bywg yeujbsg nzbsgm sifrn. Laft'm seq. Si oajn bw yjlf ag qopw mmihyl belw wtogww. Me njbjd mg ojrs ztwd ng nsdyjlyahv. Tql bw'eq epwk pnio bx ruyx yhul uzrhk mt tbw vtry.
I am concerned about Jack; there's a bad feeling in my chest, in my stomach. I don't want him to be dead. I don't want him to die. That would be a crying shame. A shame that I can not deal with. Pearson gave us a bed last night. That was nice of him. I still heard him arguing with his teammates through the walls. They were debating plans of attack. Bolger just wanted to run up and bludgeon the Majo to death, Saiga favoured stealth and Pearson was the unwilling tiebreaker.
"You do that and you're gonna get us all killed! You're the weak link here!" Saiga screamed.
"Pfft, maybe you are, favouring sneaking behind people's backs rather than confronting them head on." Bolger said in response with amusement in his voice.
"Can we not argue about this? How about you both do your own thing." Pearson sighed.
"We need to work as a team! We are one after all!" Saiga snapped.
"Fine with me. I'm going for her in the morning. I'm going back to bed." Bolger growled.
The door slammed shut.
"We're all gonna die."Saiga said.
"Stop being so negative, you say that before every Majo." Pearson replied.
"And ya know, one day I'm gonna be right."
"Go to bed Saiga."
"Wait you mean with him? No way! I'm staying right here. You and kids, Pearson, always giving em the best."
"Well fine. Here are the blankets."
I fell asleep around here.
Crow slept like a baby. He hasn't had a real bed in a long time so he must have been taking advantage of it I think. I'm glad for him. Maybe he'll stop being so sour with enough compassion. I'm glad he can enjoy himself. Even if he is so rough.
Crow shakes awake.
"Mmn nmn." He grumbles.
"Good morning Crow, how are you?" I ask.
He doesn't answer. I hope he isn't still angry at me. It's a terrible thing to strain bonds.
"I'm fine, hungry though!" He laughs with a voice tinted with a pumpkin colour.
He stands up and heads outside. Saiga is still asleep and snoring on the couch and wearing a pair of boxers I a checker print. Pearson has already started cooking and is properly dressed in a pair of ragged jeans and a white shirt, he's a nice man, how wonderful. It's rare to meet people that try their hardest to be nice. Some people are just a little lost.
"Morning you boys!" He yells a little too loudly.
Crow stares closely at the stovetop.
"What's that?" The pumpkin coloured voice asks.
"This, this is eggs. Haven't you ever had eggs before?" The man with a black colour replies.
"Yeah I have but, these eggs look different. They've got spots." Crow frowns.
"Ah, that's cause they ain't from chickens." He smiles and ruffles Crow's hair.
Crow pouts though he seems like he's enjoying the comfort. The smiling older man continues his cooking.
I wonder about the Majo; is it dangerous, what type is it, how many people will die. I'm always worried about Majo, they, they were everywhere in Satellite. I heard there was a gang that dealt with them but, I'm not sure. I think there could be but, I've never seen them. I heard there were two gangs actually. Never seen either of them but I suppose they'd look like normal people. There was this strange Violent Running Tribe a while back but they didn't look like the types to help out with the community. I shouldn't think about this. Someone has to deal with them. Someone has to protect the place that everyone else has forgotten. The people there deserve to live as well, live happy lives. Some people are a little lost, but they can be saved. That's what I've learnt.
"Could you get Bolger, Yuusei? He's gonna be late for breakfast and he'll be angry bout that." Pearson questions.
I walk over to his room. The door has several holes in it, as if someone was used to slamming against it. It is a of a wood that I do not know. The handle has dulled from use. I walk into the room and look around. The walls have similar holes. It seems like he has some sort of anger issues. A lighter is on the table. I walk over to the single bed, two people sleep in this? They must be very close. Very close indeed. I shake the lump in the bed and it is very soft. He's not here. Oh. I walk quickly out.
"He's gone, I'm sorry." I stumble as I look down at the ground, the carpet has several holes in it as well though these a different, more like stab marks.
"Don't be sorry boy, there's no need for that. He's probably just gone to get the Majo, no issues with that. You two stay here Saiga and I'll go and we'll be back with him in no time." The black coloured man reassures me.
Saiga says something indecipherable to his teammate. The older man's eyes grow wide and he snaps them shut.
"Unless you two would like to come." He says with a tone that I do not know.
Crow grins and hops up.
"Course! We need to learn what we're dealing with before we make those wishes, right Yuusei?" His voice of a pumpkin colour asks.
I frown. I think me going there would be a burden. I, the weak link, would be picked off and others would suffer to rescue me. I need to make a wish soon, but what wish is suitable? I want to make a selfless wish and do some good. That's all I want.
A flash of that impossible colour and black and the fully transformed Meguca stand before us.
"Alright boys, if you're gonna come you best be careful. I don't want you two getting hurt now. Saiga any ideas on what Majo we're looking for?" The black coloured man asks the impossible one.
"We're looking for The Riding Witch as the call it. It's Labyrinth is a highway in a desert lined with gas tanks. It rides a modified sidecar." Saiga informs as all with an emotion I don't understand.
"What area?" Pearson asks.
Saiga shrugs. Crow frowns.
I could help with this I think. I read that Majo appear in spots that fit their theme. I can use statistics to find what fits it's theme and maybe, I can help for once. I'm just a burden really but if I can lessen that, that would be wonderful. I walk over to the table as my shoes make thuds on the carpet, Kiryu insists we wear steel toed boots. The laptop is chipped and old but it can be used. It's colour has peeled off showing black and the remaining hints of silver. I flip it open and begin to search for information. Majo in the Neo-Domino area, The Riding Witch. So far it has appeared on either roads or highways and they've been getting closer to... this area...
"Um, pardon me." I speak out from where I stand.
"No need to be so polite boy, there ain't no one of importance here." The older man smiles.
"Al-alright. The Majo must be on a road within a less than a one mile radius according to the records on here." I mention as I look down again.
"You figured that out? Yourself?" The impossible colour pursues.
He comes over and takes a look at the screen to which he lets out a small yelp.
"You hacked into the MSO database? Even I can't do that! How did you...?" He questions.
A skill of use, hacking, I never thought...
"I, I just did it." I confess with fear.
He looks at me blankly.
"Well boy that's some real talent you got there!" The black coloured man smiles. "You're a real help you know? Well I guess we'll go take a look-see for the Majo. You two be careful now, I don't want you to be injured."
The two walk into open the door and descend down the stairs. Crow follows closely and I grab the laptop and follow at a distance. This laptop holds my worth, the lessened burden, perhaps I could be needed by someone.
I climb down the stairs as fast as my legs will carry me and as fast as I can allow as to not drop this precious object within my hands. We reach the bottom. The three colours stand here with shock in their body posture. I push to the front with a confidence I thought was impossible before. Saiga looks horrified. I stare ahead and the entire area around us is a yellowed desert with no plant life and a highway with no end. Large gas tankers lie on both sides going all the way up and the horizon is green.
I walk slowly up the highway. It is never ending I think, the place where one could ride for all eternity I think. Crow is running up ahead for the want of sight of a Majo up close or more likely the desire to rescue Bolger. Pearson is also running up ahead, I can't actually see Saiga at all. It must be his stealth tactics. Pearson looks as if he's in a panic. I run as well, still holding my precious thing to me chest. I don't want to lose it.
A large set of words in gibberish shove themselves into my face.
Znmtlwexb
I walk down the highway when the high pitched squeal of tires is made known. I move off to the side. A figure clothed in black leather without a head rides past as it screeches and swivels it's arms all around the elbow. I feel ill. It screeches as it rides up and down. Impaled on the spiked front of it is the scarlet tinted man. A small projectile flies past and strikes the machine. It doesn't stop. The screeches grow louder as does the roaring of the motor as it gets closer. Another set of screams joins in from the hood ornament. I stand ever farther back and examine one of the gas tankers. Engraved in a blazing deformity is more gibberish.
Iezgkrex. Vxkolexi. Bylkfyyv ytr cl? Gt nynxw. Dyxhwmyv ytrg xktm vwmwasse. Dem sebask.
I'm not sure what it means. Perhaps it is a clue to defeating the Majo. Sadly I'm not sure how to decipher it.
More screaming. Pearson takes out a long mechanical object that looks like a, a chainsaw. He charges for the Majo with a speed that is understandably inhuman. He strikes a lucky blow to the neck portion of the Majo and sends it even faster screeching.
"What the hell do you think you're doing Robert? You could have missed! You could have taken my head off!" Bolger screams towards his companion.
"You know that wouldn't have happened." He sighs in reply as he strikes the figure again.
Blood spits up in a rain fall. Crow stands behind and looks at the scene with a bitter determination and an expression I do not understand. More projectiles shoot out and strike the machine though they are too small to do any really damage. Or so I think. The projectiles strike out at the wheels of the vehicle and causes it to crash. Yet another piecing screech that goes through my head as a railroad spike would and another angry yelp from the scarlet tinted man. Saiga appears from the shadows and runs forward over to the Majo. He has an expression that I can not determine. Pearson grabs the Majo and throws it to the ground as the machine keeps moving.
"Durchtrennen Anleihen!" Saiga says from a slight distance.
A large structure shoots out from the ground. Crow's jaw is hanging down, he's never seen a Meguca in action before, actually, neither have I. The impossible colour stands on the vast creation and hops up just as it swings a bolder towards the Majo and crushes it underneath it's girth. The structure sinks back into the ground and down comes the impossible colour. With a certain smugness on his face he walks over to the Majo and picks up it's Grief Seed. With a certain expression that I can not comprehend he looks depressed.
"It couldn't have been, it can't have been, impossible, not here, not after so long. Yuji..." The impossible colour stutters out.
A caring hand puts itself on his shoulder. Why?
"It can't be. Impossible. Yuji, it's all my fault." He mutters casting his eyes to the ground.
"What's wrong?" Crow asks.
The black coloured man bites his bottom lip and the other just stares at the seed in his hand.
"Nothing." He replies in a sure lie.
He turns from the scene and walks away. Bolger frees himself from the rubble as the Barrier vanishes. Pearson stays behind.
"He's going to need that Grief Seed." he mutters under his breath.
I head back with the other four with my precious object still clutched to my chest, I hold my worth tightly. I take the elevator this time. I reach the door and Saiga is holding the Grief Seed up and looking at it. He detransforms into a brown vest and pants and a white shirt and holds his Soul Gem in the other hand. He pockets the seed and turns the gem into a ring. He opens the door and smiles at me.
"There something you ought to know Yuusei." He says.
The other three arrive and Saiga closes his mouth and opens the door.
"I think I need to sleep." He smiles with a feeling I don't understand very well.
He goes into the room Bolger apparently sleeps in a closes the door with a soft click. Pearson detransforms as well and goes back to cooking with an expression I don't understand very well. Bolger also detransforms and is wearing a hooded jacket in a green colour and jeans that have seen better days as well as combat boots. The sunglasses are regular glasses now.
"Do you think he's gonna be okay Robert?" He asks in a hushed voice.
The older man nods slowly and continues his silent cooking. Bolger looks down and leaves.
"I'm going out." He says as his heavy steps carry him.
"Don't lose your glasses!" Pearson calls out after him.
He probably can't hear.
Silence descends. I wonder, what was it that Saiga wanted to tell me? Whatever it was it must have been a secret if he didn't want to say in front of the others.
I wish that Jack is safe. I wish that very much he hasn't contacted me yet. I'm concerned about it. Kiryu hasn't either. I wish that they are both safe. I need them. Kiryu is our bond and Jack is our strength, without them, we are nothing but fallen things. I need to make a wish and very soon. In order to protect those I love.
"The King has arrived!" A voice cries out with so much drama, a voice for me.
I walk out in my expensive clothes that a king deserves and watch as people cheer my name. This is the life I wished for. A selfish wish yes, but aren't we all selfish really?
Sagiri stands by one side and this newbie, his name's Jaz or something, stands on the other. They protect me from my fans, they get a bit over the top you see.
I met The Director, he is a kind man, the one that arranged for this all. He made me a king and for that I am very grateful. I am The King of Magica Duels, the duels that take place between Puella Magi for Grief Seeds. Yes, I will earn my kingship every day.
"Hello! Hello! Yes, your king has arrived!" I smile to my cheering fans.
This is truly a good life. I'll never regret this.
With a bag full of Grief Seeds I make my way up the stairs. Room #44 they said, that's where they are. My team! There's enough here for all of us, I made sure! They'll be happy to see me, right? I hope so! I hope they made their wishes but if not then, then I will encourage them to do so! We have to keep the city safe from all threats right? Right.
"Rire ba naq ba V pbagvahr pvepyvat
Jvgu abguvat ohg zl ungr va n pnebhfry bs ntbal
Gvyy fybjyl V sbetrg naq zl urneg fgnegf inavfuvat
Naq fhqqrayl V frr gung V pna'g oernx serr-V'z
Fyvccvat guebhtu gur penpxf bs n qnex rgreavgl
Jvgu abguvat ohg zl cnva naq gur cnenylmvat ntbal
Gb gryy zr jub V nz, jub V jnf
Hapregnvagl rairybcvat zl zvaq
Gvyy V pna'g oernx serr, naq"
