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Superman Owned by DC Comics created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shoster.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica owned by Akiyuki Shinbo / Gen Urobuchi / Shaft Studio.
~"Hey, Are you okay?"~
A girl with black long hair woke up from her slumber.
"Dream about that mysterious person again..." The girl thought. "I wonder who is he..."
Chapter 4 : As If I Ever Met Him Before.
My dear Kal-El...
I know that with your incredible power, you can became either God for this planet's people or devil that destroy everything in your sight.
But I don't want you became something like that.
I want you became their savior, their light, and their hope.
Became the guardian that protect their world, became their role model.
I'm glad that our decision to entrusted you to this world, to your foster parents is right.
They give you love that I can't give you
I'm sorry my dear Kal-El for everything ..., until we meet again in the afterlife.
I love you...
*BEEP-BEEP-BEEP*
Kenta slowly open his eyes. He turned off his alarm clock immediately. He opens the windows curtain, let the sunlight comes to his room.
"Another weird dream again..." Kenta said to himself.
"Kenta wake up!" the door suddenly opened, Tatsuya entered his room running and hug Kenta's feet. Madoka followed Tatsuya from behind.
"Good morning, big bro." Madoka greet, she still in her pajamas.
"Good morning, Madoka." Kenta smiles.
Mitakiara Middle School, eighth grader's area, Madoka's class, Morning.
"I have something important to discuss with all of you today. Make sure you pay attention." The homeroom teacher, Kazuko Satome, getting attention from her students. "Should a sunny-side up be hard or soft!? What do you think, Nakazawa-kun?!" She said as she pointed her teaching stick at one of her student.
"I, uh... I-I guess either's fine?" the student said.
"That's right! Either's fine! If you think a woman's value is decided by how she cooks her eggs, you're horribly mistaken!" Kazuko said as she breaks her teaching stick. "You girls out there, make sure you don't associate yourselves with anyone who says they don't really think they can eat a sunny-side up that isn't fully cooked!"
"It didn't work out huh?" Sayaka said to Madoka.
"Yeah, it didn't." Madoka said, then laugh together with Sayaka.
"And you guys out there, make sure you don't grow up and become someone who nags about how they want their eggs cooked!" Kazuko added. "Also, I'd like to introduce all of you to a new transfer student that'll be joining us. Okay Akemi-san, come in."
A female student with long black hair entering the class. "She's cute! She's cool!" The class became loud as the female student walks to the front of whiteboard.
"Wow, she's really pretty." Sayaka added.
"That girl..." Madoka looked at the transfer student. She felt that like she met the transfer student before. "Is she's the one who appeared in my dream?"
"Okay, introduce yourself." Kazuko said.
"My name is Akemi Homura. Nice to meet you all." The transfer student, Akemi Homura, introduce herself.
Kazuko writes Homura's name on whiteboard, but Homura quickly corrected the wrong letter. Then Homura bowed to the students as the student's clap their hands. Then she quickly set her eyes at Madoka, makes Madoka nervous.
Ninth grader's area, Kenta's Classroom, in the same time.
"Kenta-san, good morning." Mami Tomoe approach Kenta who read a lesson book at his desk.
"Good morning, Mami-san." Kenta greets back.
"Eh?" Mami's cheeks blushed. It's the first time a boy calls her first name.
"I'm sorry, it must be weird that I call your first name instead your family name." Kenta said while scratching his head.
"Ah, no, it's just..." Mami's cheeks blushed again. "This is the first time a boy called my first name."
"I-is that so?" Kenta said blushed too, somewhat happy that he is the first boy who called Mami with her first name.
"Hey, you know there is a new transfer student?" Kenta and Mami hears a conversation from their classmates.
"A second grader right? I heard that she is cute." Another student said.
"A new transfer student huh? Maybe she will became Madoka's friend." Kenta said.
Break time.
Homura surrounded with many female classmates, asking her with many questions
"Akemi-san,where did you go to school before?" One of the female classmates ask.
"A Christian school in Tokyo." Homura quickly answered.
"Were you in any clubs?" Another female student ask. "Did you do any sports? How about art?"
"I never joined any." Homura quickly answered again.
Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi looked at Homura from Madoka's desk.
"Akemi-san has a kind of mysterious aura about her." Hitomi said.
"Hey madoka, do you know her?" Sayaka ask. "She's staring at you wasn't she?"
"Um..., I'm sure that I never met her before. But..." Madoka confused. She never met Homura before but she felt something familiar from her.
"I'm sorry... I guess I was really nervous. I don't feel very well." Homura said in flat tone. "Would you mind if I went to the nurse office?"
"Oh, then I'll take you there." One of the female student said.
"No, don't worry about me. I'll ask the person in charge." Homura said as she began to leave her desk and walks to Madoka's desk. Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi are stunned when Homura walks at them. "Kaname Madoka-san, you're the health officer for this class right?"
"I, uh..." Madoka nervous and confused about why Homura know that she is the health officer.
"Could you take me to the nurse office?" Homura ask, but her sound is more like demanding.
Madoka can't say no so without saying anything she take Homura to nurse office. But Homura walks in front of her as like she already know where the nurse office is.
As the Mitakihara middle school's classroom wall are not brick or cement but transparent glass, every student from another class can looked outside without leaving the classroom. Now they're looked at Homura from their own classroom, stunned with her beauty.
Madoka still nervous and a little bit afraid at Homura. "Umm, how did you know I'm the health officer?" Madoka star the convertation.
"...miss Saotome told me." Homura answered.
"Oh, I see. The nurse's office is.."
But before Madoka give the direction, Homura already know where they went. "This way, right?"
"Huh? Yeah, but..," Madoka's intuition is right. Homura already know where the nurse's office is. It somewhat terrified her. "You... just kind of seem like you knew the way." Homura not answered. Madoka is more nervous now. "Akemi-san?"
Now they're walked at the bridge with glass wall that connected the two school building.
"You can call me Homura." Homura suddenly said.
"Homura-chan?" Madoka tries to call her again.
"What is it?" Homura suddenly answered.
"I, uh... that's a unique name." Madoka tries to hide her nervous. "No, I didn't mean it was weird..., I-I think it's a cool name you had."
Homura can't hold it anymore. She turns her body, now looked eyes to eyes at Madoka. "Kaname Madoka, do you value your current way of life? Your family, your friends- do you think dearly of them?"
Madoka startled at Homura's sudden question. "I, uh... do. My family, my friends- I love them. They really mean a lot to me."
Homura clenched her hand. "...Is that true?"
"It is. Why wouldn't it be?"
Homure gritted her teeth. "Then, if that's true why you- "
"Ah, Madoka?" Suddenly a voice came from behind Homura.
"Big bro!" Madoka said as she ran at Kenta. "What are you doing here?"
"Want to ask you, Sayaka, and Hitomi to eat at the rooftop." Kenta said as he shows his lunchbox. "And what about you?"
"Ah, she is the new student at my class. Her name is-"
"My name is Akemi homura, nice to meet you." Homura quickly introduce herself. She looked at Kenta with curiousity yet suspicion glare.
Kenta a little bit nervous with her glare. "My name is Kaname Kenta, Madoka's brother. I hope you can get along with my little sister, Homura-san." Kenta said.
"...I beg your pardon, but for siblings you and Madoka are not identical at all." Homura said.
"Oh, that's because we're not blood related. Our parents adopt me when I was a baby." Kenta said.
"...Adoptive son, hmm..." Homura said still curious. The situation became awkward. "Madoka-san, I already know where the nurse office is. You can go and eat your lunch with your brother. The time you spend with your family is important after all."
"Umm... if that what Homura-chan want, then alright." Madoka said.
"Then, I'll take my leave." Homura said as she went to the nurse office by herself.
Madoka and Kenta looked at each other. "Umm..., what was that?" Kenta said.
"...I don't know either big bro. But she somewhat terrifies me." Madoka said.
"...Somehow I felt that I met her before but..." Kenta thought.
Nurse office.
Homura sat on nurse office's bed.
"I don't even know Madoka had big brother. Only on this timeline I've met him." Homura thought. "Why I met him now? And why Kyuubey interested in him?"
Homura takes a glass of water and drink it. "...Kaname Kenta." Homura whispers while lays her body on the bed. "...Somehow I want to meet him again."
Homura doesn't know that a creature that looks like fusion of rabbit and cat looke at her behind the window.
School rooftop.
"Huh, what's that about?" Sayaka said. She, Hitomi, Madoka, and Kenta eat their lunch at school's rooftop.
"Doesn't make any sense does it?" Madoka said.
"I thought she was one of those smart and beautiful girls who are well-read and athletic, but instead she's one hell of a nut." Sayaka said while munching her sandwich from her lunch box. "Just how big of an impression do you have to make on people!? Is that moe!? Is that what moe is ?!"
"Hey, that's a bit much." Kenta said.
"Madoka-san, is this really the first time you've met Akemi-san." Hitomi said.
"Hmm, I guess I'd have to say yes." Madoka said.
"You guess? Is there some weird reason why you'd say no?" Sayaka ask.
Then the school's bell's ringing, the break time is over. Kenta and the girls packing their own empty lunch box.
"I'm sorry I can't go home with you all today. I need to go to-"
"To meet Kamijou-kun right?" Madoka cut in.
"Like always..." Kenta tease.
"He-he, you know how it is?" Sayaka rake her head.
"Sayaka-san. Can I go with you too?" Hitomi asked. "I want to meet Kamijou-kun too."
"Ah, errr, why not?" Sayaka said.
After School.
Kenta and Madoka are on the way to their home. They stopped at playground and sit on the park bench. Kenta went to vending machine, he buys cola for himself and strawberry milk for Madoka.
"Here." Kenta said as he touch Madoka's cheek with strawberry milk's can.
"Wehihihi..., thank you." Madoka said.
Kenta chuckles. "Always with that weird laugh."
"My laugh is not weird!" Madoka pout. Then she looked at the children who play together at playground. "It's been a while that we came here."
"We used to play here together." Kenta said."You always clings on me, following me wherever I go back then."
"And you used to be mischievous. Remember when you put sand in my clothes." Madoka said.
Both of them laughed together. "Back then when I realize my own power and strength, I became know that I'm not a normal boy or maybe not even a human." Kenta looked at empty cola can at his hand, and without ease crush it. "I feel excited yet I became afraid that I hurt someone dear to me or became alienated so I try to hide and restrain my own strength while train to control it too. "
"Big bro." Madoka rest her head at Kenta's shoulder. "Whatever happens to you or where you came from, you always became Papa and Mama's child and Me and Kenta's big brother."
Kenta smiled, then he petting Madoka's head. "Thank you, Madoka."
Madoka and Kenta looked at the sky that slowly becames darker.
"Big bro, about Homura-chan..." Madoka said. "I can't say that we've met before, but she's appeared in my dream. Remember the weird dream I told you before?"
"Ah, your secret weird dream." Kenta remembers.
"In my dream, she appeared alongside me, fighting a humongous witch that destroy this city." Madoka said.
"Wait, with fighting you mean Homura-san is a magical girl too?" Kenta said.
"I know, weird isn't it?" Madoka said. "Ah, speaking of witch I almost forgot."Madoka's ring suddenly transforms to a thing that looked like small egg made by glassess appeared.
"What is that?" Kenta said in amaze. He still not used to magical thing.
"This is my soul gem. The source of magical girl's power." Madoka said.
"Soul gem..." Kenta somehow doesn't like the name." Why it use word soul in english? Is it related with magical girl's soul?"
"We can located the witch's barrier whereabouts with this soul gem." Madoka said. "Basically we need to walk around the city to search where is the barrier."
"That's sounds unpractical." Kenta said.
Madoka chuckles. "I know, right?" Then suddenly, Madoka's soul gem is glowing. "These are rather strong pulse of magical energy. It might be close."
"Alright then." Kenta said suddenly carried Madoka in bridal way.
"Eh-" Madoka can't said anything as Kenta runs with his super speed while carrying her.
Abandoned ex-office building.
Mami and Kyouko who now wearing traditional black sailor-style school uniform with long sleeves, already arrived at the location of the witch's barrier.
"Hey, you came!" Kyouko said to Madoka and Kenta who just arrived. Madoka still gasped in panic, she still not used to Kenta's super speed.
"Hi, Kyouko-san, Mami-san." Kenta greets while try to calm Madoka. "so, this is the witch's house right?"
"It's witch's barrier, Kenta-san." Mami corrected. "Kyuubey's is not with you Madoka-san?"
"I thought he is with you, Mami-san." Madoka said. "I never met him these days."
"He never seen him this days too." Mami said, worried.
"That cat, go whenever he likes without telling us." Kyouko said. "Don't worry senpai. That's Kyuubey we talk about, he know where he goes."
Kenta really want to know the Kyuubey guy they talk about.
"Everyone look!" Madoka suddenly shouts as she pointed her finger at the top of the bulding.
A woman atempted to end her life by jumping from the top of building. Without further ado Kenta jumps as high as he can, leaves big crater on the ground and gust of strong winds.
Madoka, Mami, and kyouko looked at awe. "Wow, he can jump that high too?" Kyouko said.
Kenta successfully catch the jumping woman, then he landed on the ground like a big rock, leaves crater on the ground again.
"You really surprised me, Kenta-san. I don't know you can fly either." Mami said.
"No, I can't fly. It's just a super jump if I called it myself." Kenta said.
"You never try learn to fly, Kenta? Jump from high building and shouts 'Up, Up, and Away'?" Kyouko said.
"That's impossible. Big bro is afraid of height." Madoka said.
"Really? So lame." Kyouko said as she, Madoka, and Mami laughed together. Kenta just scratch his head felt embarassed.
Mami then checking the woman's condition. "Alright, she's okay. Just unconscious." Then she looked at the woman's neck. "A kiss from a witch. I knew it."
"Then, what we're waiting for?" Kyouko said as she materealize her soul gem, and transform into her magical girls form. Followed by Mami, then Madoka.
"Wow..." Kenta looked at their transformation sequence.
"Okay, then. Let's go." Mami said as they entered the abandoned building. Then the group found a dimensional circle in the top of first floor stairs.
"That's the witch barrier, Kenta-san." Mami said. "You probably already knew it since you already entered one before this."
The grup entered the entrance of the witch barrier. But they don't know that Homura watching them from the building's entrance door.
The witch's barrier.
What the group saw is a barrier that look like a surreal pictures with bizarre cut-and-paste-style photo collages, full of roses, and full of minions or witches familiar ready to attack the intruder. The barrier had two kind of witches familiars, there are a ground attacker (Anthony) and flying enemies (Adelbert). Both of them had mustaches.
"This is the second time I entered witch's barrier but I still can't stand the design of it." Kenta said.
"Same for me, even thought I already entered the barrier several times." Kyouko said while prepares her spears.
An Adelbert try to attack the group with headbutt, but Mami quickly summons her muskets and shot the flying familiar.
The group ran at the labyrinth of barrier, Kenta and Kyouko attacked the Anthony's while Mami and Madoka attack the Adelbert's.
Mami swing her muskets like a baseball bat, hitting two of the Adelberts. Madoka shots five arrows simultaneously and all of them kills five Adelbert's.
Madoka use her bow as a melee weapon, kills five Adelberts with it. Then behind her, three Adelberts fusions itself into one big flying familiar. But Mami suddenly drop kicked the familiar, killed it.
"Thank you, Mami-san." Madoka smiled at Mami, Mami respond it with smile back at her.
"Kent, watch my back." Kyouko said as kills ten Anthony's with her spear.
"Roger." Kenta said while punching and kicking ten Anthony's, killed them. "What's with that nickname?"
"Because you're not look like a Kenta, I mean Japanese." Kyouko grins. Kenta just sighing in defeat. Then Kyouko attacks the Anthony that try to strike Kenta from behind him. "I'll watch your back too, Kent."
"Everyone, please step aside." Kenta tries to make a typhoon with his super speed. As the typhoon formed, many familiar sucked to the typhoon. "Madoka, Mami-san, this is your chance!"
"Okay!" Mami and Madoka said in unison. Mami summons ten muskets simultaneously and shots all of them, while Madoka summons fifty arrows and shots all of them simultaneously. All of their shots are hitting all of the familiar that sucked into typhoon that Kenta's make.
Their perfect combination attack success as Mami and Madoka high five each other. "We already close at the core of the barrier, let's go." Mami said.
The group ran at the door that guarded by many Anthony's. Kyouko kills it all with her spear that can be extended. They reached the door, and then they met the witch of the barrier. Gertrud.
Gertrud looks like a surreal painting of the rose's tree and fusions it with the body of butterfly, with it wings too. Gertrud sits on giant sofa while it's room filled with rose, like a twisted version of rose garden, and many little creatures that looks like butterfly but with mustache.
"Look Kenta-san, I know this is not your first witch battle but that's the witch of this barrier." Mami said.
"Ughh..., It look gruesome." Madoka said in disgust.
"So, this is the final boss huh?" Kyouko grins.
"Then, let's clear it without continue." Kenta said.
The group jumped at where Gertrtud stand. Gertrud becames aware of the groups advent, and roaring angrily as it hates humans the most.
Mami summon two muskets from below her skirt, while Kyouko spins her spear. Gertrud throws it giant sofa while the groups evades it with jump backwards. Mami destroys the giant sofa with double shots from two muskets at her hand.
With it wings,the witch flying with super speed. "Ah, it's flying now.' Kyouko said.
From her hat Mami summons thirty muskets and shots the witch with all of them one by one. Madoka tries to folllow Gertrud's movement while shooting arrows. The little creatures suddenly appeared below Madoka and Mami, huddle at them. Then the little creature transformed into vines that twist Madoka's and Mani's body. With it vines Gertrud swings both Madoka and Mami to the wall and hit it very hard.
"Madoka! Mami-san!" Kenta shouts.
"Don't worry big bro. We're okay." Madoka said.
"It's on ground right now. Attack him Kenta-san, Kyouko-san!" Mami said.
"Alright!" Kyouko and Kenta shouts in unison.
With her power Kyouko duplicates herself "Kent! Let's seewho would land hit first, my spear or your fist!"
"Are you challenge me?" Kenta said. With his super speed Kenta punched Gertrud at it's face. The power of Kenta's punch make it flying at Kyouko. "Looks like I win."
"Heh, show off!" Kyouko smirk. With her clones, Kyouko attacks the witch with the barrages of stabs.
"Don't leave us alone!" Madoka who already freeing herself from Gertrud's vines attacks the witch with a shower of hundred arrows. All of them hit it.
"Now, the desert." Mami release the ribbon at her neck. The ribbon suddenly transformed into giant gun. "TIRO FINALE!"
The final shots hits Gertrud and destroy it without any trace left. Mami landed on the ground as a cup of tea suddenly appeared at her hand. "Adieu." Mami side while sipping the tea.
"...How's a tea suddenly appeared at Mami-san's hand?" Kenta confused.
"Magic." Kyouko said.
The barrier slowly dissapeared and the building becames normal again.
"We did it!" Madoka said while cancel her transformation. Mami and Kyouko also transform back too.
Mami takes the grief seed that left from the witch. "You already saw this right?" Mami said as she shows the grief seed at Kenta.
Kenta looked at the grief seed, he thinks it looks like a dark version of soul gem. "Yeah, what is that?"
"This is a grief seed, it's a witch's egg." Mami said.
"Egg? So this is the witch's child?" Kenta ask.
"We can also called it 'witch seed' as a full grown witch will eventually emerge from it." Kyouko said.
"If you're lucky, sometimes witches will have one on them." Madoka added.
"And don't worry Kenta-san, it's safe in that form. Witches will not emerges after we beat them." Mami said. "Actually, it's really useful too purify the power of our soul gem. Take a look, Kenta-san."
Mami take her soul gem near the gried seed, and suddenly the Grief Seed sucked the dark aura from Mami's soul gem. Then Kyouko and Madoka purfies their soul gem too.
"It's now look brighter than before." Kenta said.
"In battle, our magic became depleted and the soul gem became less bright than normal. Grief seed returns our magic that depleted in battle." Mami said, then she clapped her hand. "Good job everyone. So, how about tea and cookies in my apartment?"
"Sounds good. I'm hungry now." Kyouko said.
"Before we leave the building, can we do this?" Kenta said as he point his fist. The girls looked at each other then laughs makes Kenta embarassed. "Eeh... it's really childish isn't it?"
"No, it's not like that big bro." Madoka said.
"It's just..., you really high spirited." Mami said.
"I-is that so?" Kenta said, embarassed. "I'm sorry, it's just... I'm happy that there are another people besides me who had a wonderful power. Suddenly I'm not feeling lonely anymore."
"Big bro, you're not alone..." Madoka pointed her fist.
"You have us, Kenta-san." Mami said as she pointed her fist.
And Kyouko pointed their fist too. "Feel free to relied on us."
"Everyone..." Kenta felt delighted. Their fist slowly bumps together. "Thank you."
Homura looked at Kenta and the others from the window at the fith floor of the abandoned building.
"So, Kaname Kenta is the rumored red and blue shadow." Homura said. She remembers the picture she found in the desk besides her bed at hospital after she restart the time.
"UGH!" suddenly Homura got a sudden headache.
~"Hey, are you okay..."~
The pain is gone from Homura's head. "What... who is that...? Is that my memory from this timeline?"
To Be Continued.
