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Chapter 7: It's a Sign that I've Gained Emotion

IT had been a couple days since well… Kyubey went bye bye. Well technically for the time being he was replaced by Ashbey… who wasn't doing well.

After all he wasn't used to having emotions. Combined with Gobey's thought process caused by the cause of the Witches Den, he wasn't in good shape.

He had become horribly depressed.

Yet that felt like a bit of an understatement.

He had pretty much attached himself to Sabrina after wanting to be alone.

He did hide if she with around Madoka but when she wasn't he was on her lap.

"You know you can't live on my lap forever." She muttered to the Incubator.

"Please don't make me leave…" mumbled Ashbey.

Sabrina sighed.

"This is weird." Said Sabrina.

Ashbey didn't respond.

"You know you can't hide this forever." She said.

"I die when you go." Said Ashbey, "So…"

"That's what I meant." Sighed Sabrina.

Ashbey didn't say anything in response.

"Look I also noticed you're avoiding Madoka." Said Sabrina.

"No I haven't." mumbled Ashbey.

Sabrina sighed at that response.

"She knows what happened…." Said Sabrina.

"I know…" said Ashbey.

"Look you can't keep running away from her." Said Sabrina.

Ashbey said nothing.

As the two were in the hotel room this talk, there wasn't much to it.

That was when Gobey came into the room.

"Seriously?" he slurred.

"You jealous?" asked Sabrina.

"Look…" said Gobey who was clearly drunk, "Sabrina… Sabrina is mine! And you can't… can't have her… "

Sabrina sighed and face palmed.

"Is everything okay?" asked Ashbey.

"Just the small realization that my life has become SUPER weird." Said Sabrina.

"It's been weird for the past two years and you only just noticed?" asked Gobey.

Sabrina's eye twitched.

"Just… never mind." She muttered.

The next day, Sabrina was waiting out the school for Madoka. As Walpurgis Night was getting closer they needed to talk about their plans, after all neither were Magical Girls. Ashbey was of course with her, she noticed that Ashbey's colors seemed to be changing slightly was now more of an orange color.

"I've been wondering about the color thing." She sighed.

"It's a sign that I've gained emotion." Said Ashbey.

"I see…" said Sabrina.

"Gobey never told you." Said Ashbey.

"Whenever I ask him he starts signing that song "I'm blue"." Said Sabrina.

"You should have asked him when he was sober." Said Ashbey.

"I did!" said Sabrina with her eye twitching.

"I see…" responded Ashbey.

That was when she heard a chime and Ashbey went and hid.

"You know it's going to take a few minutes for to get here, right?" asked Sabrina.

"I know, don't care." Replied Ashbey.

"If you're not going to reveal yourself just remember to keep a good distance." Aid Sabrina.

"I know." Sighed Ashbey.

After a few minutes she saw Madoka.

"Hey!" she called out.

Madoka saw her and ran over.

"So where do you want to go?" asked Sabrina.

"I don't' know." Said Madoka.

"Let's go to the usual place then." Said Sabrina who realized something about that nearby fast food place.

Madoka waved by to Sayaka, Homura and Mami who were planning to go search for some Witches who were meeting up with the other magical girls at the arcade.

Meanwhile at the arcade, Kyoko finished up her game of Dog Drug Reinforcement.

That was when the other three showed up.

"About time you made it." Said Kyoko.

"Sorry for having to have to go to school." Said Sayaka rolling her eyes.

"Why do we have to do it in one big group again?" asked Kyoko.

"It's about team work…" said Rosemary, "If want take down the strongest witch we all have to work together."

"Now's not the time to be fighting." Said Diana, "Besides I've been fishing all day just in case, and I already picked up on a witch.

"Fishing?" asked Sayaka.

"It's a technique I developed." She explained, "This way I don't' have to walk the city aimlessly."

"That's cool." Said Sayaka.

"She's just lazy." Said Lenora.

"That's a mean thing say." said Sayaka.

"Tis true." She said with a shrug.

"I see…" responded Sayaka unsure how to respond to that.

"Come on! Let's get this show on the road!" cheered Angelina.

Meanwhile at the fast food place Madoka and Sabrina mostly sat in silence. Unsure of what to say.

"So…" said Madoka, "How's Kyubey after what happened?"

"Doing better… he seems to be settling…" sighed Sabrina, "Since I deal with Gobey all the time, he latched onto me."

"I see." Said Madoka.

"Madoka… one of the reasons why I haven't become a magical girl is because I've seen the worst of what can happen to a magical girl…" said Sabrina.

"You mean dying?" asked Madoka.

"Something like that." Said Sabrina, "Because I held strong… I became the assistant…"

Madoka wasn't sure how to respond.

"For the time being he's Ashbey." Said Sabrina.

"Oh…" said Madoka, "What… what happens in the Witches Den?"

"It's better if I don't say." Said Sabrina, "Especially since you have a big heart."

"What do you mean?" asked Madoka.

"The cause witches den is… broken…" said Sabrina, "It can't be fixed… and if it could I doubt it would want to be…"

"What does that mean?" asked Madoka.

"Trust me… you don't know want to know…" said Sabrina, "We were supposed to be talking about what's going to happen, right?"

"Oh yeah…" said Madoka.

"Anyways I did my research. There's usually an evacuation when it happens… so it looks like we're join in on the evacuation." Said Sabrina, "No other choice…"

Madoka sighed.

"Besides we're talking about 8 magical girls… I'm sure it will be fine." Said Sabrina, "They're out friends but we just have to have faith it will be fine."

Meanwhile in a labyrinth, all 8 magical girls were fighting a witch that looked like it was made of shadows.

The Witch sent out it's familiars at them, which were creatures made out of shadows.

Lenora stepped forwards and created a barrier between the group and the familiars. Then proceeded to trap the familiars into separate barriers and banished them from the labyrinth.

"That was a tricky one! But so worth it." She said with a smirk.

"What is she talking about?" asked Sayaka.

"She sometimes says really weird things when talking about banishing familiars." Said Angelina.

"Fight now, talk later!" said Rosemary creating her guns.

She shot at the witch, thanks to the star like ammos the witch really was hurt.

However the witched ended up growing a tree out of her causing the magical girl to scatter.

"Looks like the light was a bad idea." Said Kyoko.

"So will short range weaponry." Mocked Lenora, "So you better stay out of it."

"Seriously… don't you use daggers?" asked Kyoko.

Lenora created one of her dagger which sliced thorough the tree.

"How long range?" asked Lenora.

Before Kyoko could attack her, Mami had created a massive gun called out "Tiro Finale!" and destroyed the witch.

"Seriously! I didn't get a good hit in." muttered Kyoko.

"Neither did I." said Diana.

"Yeah, well you're too lazy." Said Kyoko.

Diana rolled her eyes.

"Now's not the time to be fighting." Said Homura.

"There's 8 of us… of course not everyone is going to get a good hit in." said Angelina.

"Also heads up guys! I'm already getting another witch." Said Rosemary.

"What seriously?" asked Kyoko.

"I've heard something about Witches increase right before Walpurgis Night shows up…" said Lenora, "So it makes there would be a sharp increase."

"She's right." Sighed Homura.

However on the inside Homura realized there was something off, in the past few days there was a sharp increase of witches. An increase that was never there before.

"Come on let's go find." Said Mami.

Lenora smirked as they went to find the other witch.

With Sabina and Madoka they decided to do some shopping.

"I still anything for my parents." She sighed.

"Aren't you planning to head to Tokyo after this?" asked Madoka.

"Yeah, but it would still be nice to buy them something here." Said Sabrina.

Madoka laughed.

As they looked through the store Sabrina got a bad feeling.

"Sabrina what's wrong?" Madoka.

"Hold on…" said Sabrina who began to look around.

She looked through the aisle of the store and that's when she found the source of the bad feeling.

It was Ashbey… with a distinct look on his face.

"Kyubey?" asked Madoka.

His breathing only increased.

"Ashbey it's fine." Said Sabrina pick him up.

"What's wrong with him?" asked Madoka.

"It looks like a panic attack." Sighed Sabrina, "Where's the nearest park… I some air might be good."

Back with the Magical Girls they fought off the witch, which a something that resembled a mechanic made of tools.

Durring the fight, Homura began to think there was something off about the witch… for one she had never seen this witch before… and another it was just something different about it… it was hard to describe.

She watched as Sayaka and Angelina teamed up to fight it using large wrenches to fight off their swords.

However Diana called out, "Now!"

Both sword shielding magical girls jumped out of the way. Only for the witch to be encased in a large globe of water.

It was unable top move.

It only got worse for the witch when it trapped by a Lattice barrier that Kyoko created followed by Lenora's barriers.

"Now!" called out Mami.

Homura nodded and took out a large machine gun from her shield while Rosemary and Mami created their guns and shot at the witch. The hail of bullets managed to destroy the witch.

"Yes! That's how we work together!" cheered Angelina high-fiveing both Sayaka and Diana.

"You know pinkie, this isn't permanent." Muttered Kyoko.

"Yeah, but it's better work together when a giant witch is trying to kill us." Said Angelina with a giggle.

"She's got a point you know." Said Rosemary, "Even if she is a little too eager."

"Either way I think I could use a break now." Sighed Sayaka, "That was what the 4th witch today?"

"Probably a good idea." Sighed Lenora with a smirk, "I could use a rest myself… I'm heading back to the hotel."

She left.

"Let her go." Muttered Gobey.

"4 witches isn't that normal for you guys?" asked Kyoko.

"It is, but we still are adjusting to the clock." Said Angelina.

"If you say so." Said Kyoko.

However Homura was getting a strange feeling.

Meanwhile with Sabrina, Madoka and Ashbey.

"I'm sorry… I didn't want you to me at all after what happened." Said Ashbey.

"It's okay… I know what happened." Said Madoka.

"No it's not that…" said Ashbey, "I just thought it would be easy to avoid you."

"While remaining close to act like a translator…" said Sabrina.

Ashbey didn't respond.

"It's fine… I don't care." Said Madoka.

"It's probably why you had a panic attack." Said Sabrina.

"Yeah." Sighed Ashbey.

Both of them got up.

"Anyways I should get going, I need dinner." Said Sabrina.

"Do you want to come over again?" asked Madoka.

"No, I'm in the mood for McDonalds… that shrimp sandwich is surprisingly really good." Said Sabrina.

"Oh okay…" said Madoka, "See you later then."

"Bye!" said Sabrina.

Once they were out of range Sabrina sighed.

"All right… spill why are you really avoiding Madoka?" asked Sabrina.

"Because… you know her enormous potential right?" asked Ashbey.

"Of course I know." Said Sabrina.

"Well I don't want her to be a magical girl." Said Ashbey, "And the reason why I'm avoiding her is because I can't let her know what I'm planning it wish for when it's time."

"Which is." Said Sabrina.

"That she will never become a Magical Girl." Said Ashbey.

Sabrina was shocked at this confession… well in a sense…It made a lot of sense…

But still for an incubator even if it he did gain emotions… that was a surprise to want to make such a wish.

After all even if he did become different, he was still trying to stop the heat death of the universe after all.

Next Time: Homura is growing more concerned by the high rise in witches, she also noticed a strange rash of deaths that have start Sabrina know the truth? Does it have to do with the Witches Den? Find out next time!

A/N: Remember: It might seem that way, but this is NOT a fix fic.