I don't own Mahou Sensei Negima nor do I own Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I do not even pretend to own them.

Special Thanks to the guys at All Purpose Negima Fanfiction Forum on TvTropes. Look up Ala Iridia to see what most of them are working on.

Extra Special Thanks to Sinclair and Iniquitus the Third for translating for me!

EDIT: Fixed a translation error.


Surrounding Mahora was mountain and forest. A place of nature peace and serenity, except for the occasional wild bear attacks. Most people preferred the hustle, bustle, and lack of bears of the town and would rather be there than in the forest. This makes the forest an excellent place to be if you want to avoid wandering eyes, which is exactly why Nodoka and Sanbey were heading there.

"Um, Sanbey?" Nodoka asked nervously as they left the outskirts of town. "How did you know where the Witch's Barrier was yesterday?"

"Your friend mentioned a murder took place there." Sanbey explained. "Witch's tend to hang around places where crimes have happened. As soon as I heard your friend, I began looking around."

"I see." Nodoka thought with a sigh. Maybe if she realized there was a Witch there, Yue would have been alright.

"You have only encountered one Witch before then. It is only logical that you would not have been able to identify their patterns." Sanbey consoled. "Are you sure you are alright with leaving your friend alone?"

"Not really." Nodoka admitted. She had really wanted to stay with Yue, but the stoic girl had ushered her away.

The conversation came to a halt. For several minutes they wandered the woods in silence. Eventually the two came upon a clearing in the woods. A stream flowed down the edge and several boulders were on the far side.

"Transform so we may begin." Sanbey stated as he leaped onto one of the boulders.

Nodoka did as she was told. In a flash of light, she was transformed to her Puella Magi state. With a thought she willed her shield into existence. She placed a hand on in it and imagined it changing form. The shield changed to a buckler styled shield, then a targe shield, and finally a riot shield before it returned to its original form.

"I can only turn it into other kinds of shields." Nodoka disappointingly said with a sigh.

"I thought as much." Sanbey stated. "The shield was given to you as part of the contract."

Nodoka let out a sigh. She needed some way to actually combat Witches instead of annoy them. Maybe she needed a different approach? Nodoka knelt down and placed a hand on the ground. She was suddenly standing on an island as a pit formed around her. Moments later spikes rose up around the outer edge of the pit.

"While interesting, I do not know how effective such attacks would be against a Witch." Sanbey stated.

"Only one way to find out." Nodoka replied as she returned the landscape to how it was before they arrived.

"Shall we, then?" Sanbey asked as he hopped behind the rocks.

Nodoka walked over to him and saw it. A symbol made to look like a stylized snowflake.

"Quite convenient." Sanbey mused.

Without hesitation she placed her hand on the symbol and entered the barrier.


Haruna let out a sigh.

The answers she was looking for were just behind this door. But should she open it? She could just walk away and pretend those horrible things didn't happen, just like what Nodo-chan was doing. But that wouldn't be fair to Yue. She could knock on the door and fall down the rabbit hole, but how much could Nodo-chan ignore before she went insane and try to mimic what Haruna herself did?

"Gah!" Haruna growled. Her indecision made it difficult to keep her temper. She ended up slamming her fist against the door out of sheer frustration.

…Wait a second…

"Greetings." Chachamaru greeted as she opened the door. "Is there something you wanted, Haruna-san?"

"Um, yeah." Haruna admitted sheepishly as her choice was taken from her. "I need to speak with Eva-san. It is really important."

"Master will not pose so you can draw nude pictures of her." Chachamaru said with a slight edge to her voice.

"It's nothing like that!" Haruna protested. Was her reputation really that bad?

"Then please come in and have some tea." Chachamaru said as she led Haruna inside. "Master will be with you in a moment." Chachamaru seated Haruna at the table and served her a cup of fresh tea, before heading up stairs.

Haruna stared into her cup and grimaced as she saw her reflection. In her cup was the image of how she was yesterday, laughing mad and covered in her friends' blood.

"Gods, I finally get a day to sleep in and this happens." Evangeline complained, which knocked Haruna out of her thoughts. "Oh, it's you again. Come to give me another black eye, have you?"

"I came to get help, actually." Haruna said with a seriousness that would have shocked most who knew her.

"Why should I help you?" Evangeline asked with a raised brow. "Don't forget, you wanted to kill me just the other day."

"PLEASE!" Haruna shouted as she stood up. She ran over and grabbed Evangeline by the shoulder and began to shake her violently. "I need your help!" tears leaked from the artists eyes.

"Get off!" Eva commanded as she shoved Haruna to the floor. "Why are you so desperate anyway?"

"I tried to kill Yue and Nodo-chan!" Haruna answered as she broke down into hysterics. Evangeline snapped her out of it with a good hard slap. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Evangeline responded. "Now explain."

"Well, Nodo-chan found a note from Negi-sensei that said he wanted to meet her alone. So, Nodo-chan went to meet him and they almost kissed, but then Asuna showed up and Nodo-chan ended up in the infirmary. We went to town and Nodo-chan explained what happened and then I decided the best thing to do would be if we all died together then and there, so I lead them to the old abandoned build where a student was murdered like sixty years ago and I molested Nodo-chan and broke Yue's arm before I snapped out of it." Haruna explained before taking several rapid deep breathes.

"I see." Evangeline said with a thoughtful expression on her face. "But why come to me?"

"Be-Because I remember you saying something about a bastard when I attacked you and thought you knew what was going on." Haruna admitted.

"Take a seat. We have much to discuss." Evangeline said as she sat at the table and pored herself some tea. As soon as Haruna took her place at the table she continued. "What do you know about magic?"

"I know you're a vampire" Haruna stated.

"So not much at all." Evangeline commented. "Then let me explain…"


Snow. Snow as far as the eye could see. The problem was there wasn't much else to see. The Witch's Barrier was a barren wasteland devoid of life and movement except for stray flakes that descended from the sky.

"Um, wh-where should we go?" Nodoka asked nervously. Even if this was only the third Barrier she entered she could tell something was seriously wrong.

That was when she heard it. It sounded like rattling chains. Nodoka looked around but she couldn't see anything but the snowy waste land. Nodoka began to feel uneasy. The noise was steadily growing louder and more violent. She began to panic as her mind wondered what could possibly be making that horrible clatter.

And then a bunny popped out of the snow.

It looked like an ordinary white furred bunny. The only difference was that its ears were replaced with icicles. Soon another bunny popped out of the snow. Followed by another. And another. And another.

Soon, Nodoka found herself facing what must have been at least a hundred of the mutant rabbits. It suddenly dawned on her that the sound she had been hearing this whole to was the chattering of their teeth.

One bunny pointed its icicle ears at Nodoka and lunged. The Puella Magi summoned her shield. The bunny collided with it and a resounding clang echoed throughout the Barrier. As if that was a signal, every bunny lunged at her. Nodoka hid behind her shield. The force of the bunny horde, while not enough to break her shield, knocked her to the ground.

"Ah!" Nodoka cried out in shock as her bare skin made contact with the freezing snow.

Nodoka's form blurred as she shot straight into the air. The bunnies that were on top of her were sent flying through the air. The magical girl hit the ground running. There was far too many of the Familiars to fight. She needed to find the Witch.

Nodoka was forced to constantly change course as more of the bunnies popped up in her path. Eventually she realized they were herding her somewhere. But why? There was nothing here but barren snow. Why didn't they all just rush her and overwhelm her with their numbers?

Suddenly and without warning, Nodoka fell through the snow. The bunnies stared at where she had been before one by one they silently faded back into the snow. Soon there was no evidence of Nodoka having ever entered the Barrier at all.


"So that's why you attacked Nodo-chan?" Haruna asked for clarification after taking another sip of tea. It had a bit of a strange taste to it, but wasn't that bad. "To try and get Negi-sensei out and alone?"

"Yes." Evangeline replied as Chachamaru poured her another cup of tea. "Admittedly, I could have taken what I needed right then and there, but after fifteen years of imprisonment I found myself enjoying the role of the Gospel of Darkness a little too much."

"I gotta admit that this is a lot to take in." Haruna thought aloud. Evangeline's overall explanation had been thorough. Sure she skipped some details on the politics and nuances between the different styles, but Haruna doubted she would have fully understood those anyway. "So, you'll help me?"

"I never said that." Evangeline replied.

"What?" Haruna cried out in shock. "Why?"

"Because there's nothing I can do." Evangeline admitted, although somewhat reluctantly.

"Come on!" Haruna pleaded. "There's gotta be some sort of spell or charm or something that you can teach me so I can protect myself?"

"No, there isn't." Evangeline stated bluntly. "What you have been affected by is referred to as a Witch's Kiss. The only cure for it is for someone to kill the caster."

"So what you're saying is…"Haruna trailed off.

"Your friends would be dead if it wasn't for some passing mage." Eva finished.

"But what about before?" Haruna questioned. "You said it was fading on its own when I tried to kill you."

"The school uses me as its guard dog." Evangeline stated before she took another sip of tea. "I've killed plenty of Witches over the years. They probably wanted it to look like I killed you in cold blood, and try to force the headmaster to put me down like a rabid dog."

"So there's nothing you can do for me?" Haruna asked once more. "Teaching me how to use magic won't help me build up a resistance?"

"Hardly." Evangeline scoffed. "That would only make you even more of a danger to everyone. You would go from being a psycho to a psycho that can use magic." Evangeline took another sip of tea before continuing. "Witch magic puts a big emphasis on emotions. As long as you're so open with yours, you will always be an easy target. To put it in terms you can understand, a Tsundere is far more vulnerable then a Kuudere."

"I see." Haruna replied with a sigh before she finished her tea. "Sorry for wasting your time."


"Ouch." Nodoka mumbled as she rubbed her now sore rump.

She had fallen through a hole hidden in the snow and was now in a very spacious cavern. Unfortunately, the cavern was coated by a sheet of incredibly hard ice. Nodoka stood up and began to look around. Icicles hung from the ceiling and came up from the ground in frozen mimicry of stalagmites and stalactites. This had to be the center of the Barrier, so where was the Witch?

That was when she found it. In the center of the ceiling was a giant snowflake that looked like it was being impaled by the icicles. Nodoka found herself blushing as she spotted what looked like a naked woman crucified to the snowflake. The woman's ankles and wrists seemed to have melted into the snowflake. The woman locked eyes with Nodoka and then began to sing.

"Oh mein liebliches Kind, warum wanderst du so? Die Sicherheit deines Hauses hast du verlassen. Der Tod schleicht näher, die Bestien jagen ihre Beute. Dort draussen ist kein Platz, wo du sicher spielen kannst. Komm her, Kind, lass mich dir Schutz geben. Dann können wir für immer und immer zusammen sein."

As the woman sang, the snowflake began to change colors and became a hypnotic aurora. Nodoka was completely mesmerized by the beautifully display that lovingly caressed her senses. All thoughts of bring harm to the Witch had left her mind.

"Nodoka!" Sanbey mentally shouted.

The magical girl snapped back to her senses. Nodoka began to panic when she discovered she was frozen from the waste down and the ice was steadily climbing higher. In desperation she slammed a hand against the ice and willed it to change. Suddenly the ice surrounding her became a spear, which Nodoka threw at Witch. Unfortunately, it was intercepted by an icicle that fell from the ceiling.

"Oh liebliches Kind, warum kämpfst du? Willst du nicht nur für die Nacht ein Heim? Allein in der Welt, deine Freunde verraten. Gibt es eine Schuld, die du bezahlen musst?'"

Nodoka struggled to keep herself from fall under the Witch's spell once more. The giant snowflake descended from the ceiling and floated in the middle of the cavern. Lances of ice shot forth from the holes in the snowflake. Nodoka blocked them with her shield but slipped on the icy floor. Nodoka put her hand to the ground. A spire burst from the walls and headed straight for the Witch. Unfortunately it only managed to clip the edge of the snowflake, which didn't seem to bother the Witch at all.

"Oh mein liebes Kind, warum sträubst du dich? Bitte erlaube mir dir das ewige Glück anzubieten. Die Außenwelt ist kalt und grausam. Aber an diesem Ort herrsche ich."

The aurora of the snowflake shot forth in as a massive multicolored beam of light. While Nodoka's shield protected her from being directly hurt from the attack, the beam struck with enough force to slam her into the wall of the cavern. The attack held for several seconds. When it finally stopped, the magical girl was imbedded almost a foot into the wall.

Nodoka had to end this now. She didn't think she could keep her mind much longer. Focusing on the cavern, the magical girl removed a portion of the ceiling from the rest. The chunk of rock and ice slammed into the Witch from above. The Witch was pinned to the ground completely crush from the waste down.

"Oh mein liebes Kind, warum hasst du mich? Kannst du nicht einsehen dass ich dich retten wolltet? So lange wie du inmitten unter Menschen wanderst, wirst du immer allein sein."

Nodoka felt guilty as she stared at the crying Witch. Seeing the literally broken woman crying left a bad taste in her mouth. She had to do something.

"How can you feel sorry for this Witch?" Sanbey asked as Nodoka pried her free from the rock. "You saw for yourself how many Familiars she had. How many lives she had taken."

"Oh mein liebliches Kind, erlaube mir, die Wunde zu heilen. Ich gebe dir dies als Geschenk, und gehe dann."

The Witch leaned forward and gave Nodoka a quick kiss on the lips before she and her Barrier faded.

Nodoka sat there with a hand on her lips while she wondered if that really just happened.

"It did happen." Sanbey stated. Nodoka thought there might have been some disbelief in his mental voice.

She stood to leave but found herself staring at the tip of a sword pointed at her face.