A Fateful Encounter
Well, luckily it didn't take as long as I though to get out this chapter and it's probably because the
thing I thought would take a lot of the time didn't came up in this chapter after all, perhaps in next.
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Chapter 11: Transformation
She looked at Sayaka and saw that Sayaka face had lost some color and she was frozen in her tracks but she couldn't take her eyes of Aoi's damaged body. "Sayaka, we need to help them quick!" Kyouko said to Sayaka while shaking her shoulders to get her attention but she didn't manage to come through. Knowing she probably couldn't do something about Sayaka at the moment she ran up to Aoi.
"What… are you…*cough*…doing here?" Aoi whispered, but she sounded angry. She coughed up a small amount of blood.
"What happened here?" Kyouko asked back. "Can't you guys heal yourselves, like you did with Sayaka?"
Aoi chuckled slightly like Kyouko said something funny. "I would if… I could." She held up her gem and it was almost completely black now, and it didn't have the pretty deep blue it had yesterday. "If I use more magic I will die. I can't risk it, but I sure would… like to end this pain right now."
Kyouko looked around the area. Her eyes suddenly landed on a black gem in the alley in front of her. She gently put down Aoi on the ground and ran over there to pick it up. It was exactly what she thought it would be.
She then ran up to Aoi again and took her gem and put it against the Greif seed she picked up, and the gem slowly regained some color. As the gem has regained some color she gave it back to Aoi and went to the other girl. "Please give me your gem. I'm gonna cleanse it some." Kyouko said and saw the girl slowly pick up her gem. Her wounds were slightly lighter than Aoi's but it was still a horrible sight, and her gem was just as bad as Aoi's.
Her gem was also cleansing slowly but suddenly Kyouko was ordered to stop from the girl who owned the gem Kyouko was cleansing. "If you do… any more than that the witch might resurrect. We would be in deep trouble." She said in a serious tone so Kyouko quickly removed the gem from the Greif seed.
The girl was given back her gem from Kyouko and started to heal the worst wounds without spending too much magic. Aoi was doing the same and their wounds started to close. Kyuubey once again appeared out of nowhere and Kyouko threw the Grief seed at him so he could eat it with his back.
Sayaka suddenly had come back to her senses. "Sorry I spaced out while you were doing all the dirty work." She said apologetically while looking down on the ground.
"I'm just glad they will survive. It really seemed like they were fighting a strong witch." Kyouko said while looking concerned.
As they were looking on as the two magical girls were healing themselves the area around them were covered with thorns on both the ground and the wall and various kind of weeds were growing vines that sprouted up around them. The sky turned red and yellow and the area around them were looking like they were inside some sort of fortress overgrown by weeds.
"Ohh, fuck! I can't take another witch right now! How about you, Mitsuki?" Aoi asked the other magical girl as Aoi tried her best to stand up on the ground while leaning against the wall, but she fell down on her legs again. She didn't have any stamina left to fight with, and she couldn't even stand up as she was right now.
"I'm sorry to say that I don't have the strength to move at all." Mitsuki replied sounding really annoyed, probably because she couldn't do anything right now besides looking on while the four of them would be food for the witch.
From one of the corners a big shadow emerged and a big and rather thin walking tree walked in and showed itself. The thing was undoubtedly the witch and it was at least 4 meters high and had the crown of a tree as a head. They couldn't make out any eyes or ears but they were pretty sure that it knew their exact location. Its arms were so long they were being dragged along after the tree as it slowly approached them.
10 meters away it stopped and it looked like it was checking its sides for any more people around him. All four of the girls were on edge if the tree attacked. With no indication at all it swung its arm downwards at Kyouko, but thanks to being prepared for an attack she managed to by centimeters manage to avoid the hard hitting thorny vine aimed at her. The dress got caught up by the attack though and was ripped apart. From the other side it swung a wide swing that Sayaka managed to avoid by pure luck but Kyouko had focus on the other vine in front of her.
"Kyouko!" Sayaka screamed and Kyouko just saw it and tried to dodge but didn't quite manage to and her arm got caught up in the attack and the witch hit her hard which made her do an unwilling tumble.
Her arm now had a violent bruise that hurt like hell and as one of the thorns hit her she could feel her arm going numb. The witch was now going after Sayaka and Kyouko just couldn't sit back and watch as she did last time. She looked around for Kyuubey, and found him next to Aoi. Kyouko ran up to Kyuubey, picked him up and ran up in front of Sayaka when the tree attacked.
Just as the vine were about to hit Sayaka, Sayaka saw a fire-red big pony-tail moving in to stand in the way of the attack when she suddenly was blinded by a bright white light.
As the light faded the arm was struggling to get through with its attack through a long spear. Kyouko now wore a red dress with frills attaches as it opened up past the stomach. Her hair was tied up with a black bow, she also wore red boots with white stripes and she had stockings going up to her pink skirt she now had as well. In her chest there was a hole in her dress and showed a red gem.
While holding away the vine with her spear she turned around to Sayaka who now looked at Kyouko with wide open eyes. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't bear to go through with you being hurt again. I will protect you this time." She said with a face brimming with confidence. In reality, behind that face, she was truly scared. Her hands were shaking and her legs felt like they would give up anytime. This was her first time battling a monster using powers she couldn't fully control yet. But even so she felt like her new powers also gave her some knowledge in fighting. But she had to do something or else all of them will die.
She now had the full attention of the witch. Kyouko finally pushed away the vine and moved forward for an attack. The witch responded with a chop attack which was an attack with both vine coming from both sides. Kyouko noticed this and nimbly struck her spear into the ground, extended her spear and pole-vaulted over the attack so the vines only struck the spearhead. When she was in the air over the witch, she pulled the spear from the ground and made a long whip-like attack with the spear .
The witch quickly raised her arms and knocked away the spear but Kyouko proceeded with a dropkick to its torso. Landing in front of the witch she retracted the spear into one piece again and started to thrust attacks at the witch. The attacks were fast so she had the advantage, but as the ground were changed as they were in a witch barrier, her foot got stuck in one of the vines on the ground and she fell over.
Seeing its opportunity to attack, the witch started to flail away with its long arms at Kyouko. Kyouko quickly in return started to block all she could with the spear but it proved problematic as the attacks were powerful and with really short intervals. As she thought she found an opportunity to get out of there, she tried to jumped away but the witch quickly caught one of Kyouko's legs, as Kyouko were unable to do anything in this situation.
With a wide swing she crashed and dragged Kyouko against one of the building's walls until she threw her across the alley into another building, making a huge slam as Kyouko bounced to the ground. A stream of blood ran down her right arm and head and she spitted out a small portion of blood as well.
"Kyouko!" Sayaka screamed as she ran towards Kyouko from a short distance away.
"Don't come over here! This is my fight and I don't want you to get caught up in this as well!" Kyouko replied harshly and Sayaka could see Kyouko's determination to take this witch down in her eyes that were burning like a fully lit fire.
The witch was charging Kyouko and swung its arms against Kyouko who was ready for the attack and was guarding with her spear. As the attack came in Kyouko deflected two attacks away but the third one hit her in her left arm and pushed Kyouko in to the wall where she got thrown into a moment ago. As Kyouko felt the thorn pressing into her arm, and slowly making it numb, she saw the witch preparing for a thrust attack. Just as the thrust were about to hit Kyouko, she grabbed the witch's arm that held her put with her nearly completely numb left arm, and pushed it aside and the thrust just barely scratched her stomach. As she got a hold of the witch's arm, she pulled the witch towards her and with a swift cut she slashed the left arm off.
The witch's response for this was a sharp screeching sound, which probably was a scream of pain. As Kyouko proceeded to cut off the next arm she was disrupted by a series of hard-hitting and unpredictable strikes by the witch. The witch was now mad and just started hailing attacks on Kyouko. Now Kyouko's left arm has gone completely numb and she couldn't feel it at all anymore, which was very problematic as she could only block the attacks with one arm, and controlling the long spear with one arm as well was a pain.
As the barrage of attacks from the witch didn't stop and it kept raging on, Kyouko took a strong jump back from the witch. She needed some trick to finish the witch off. The witch had superb defense and just as great offense. Kyouko was a greenhorn Magical girl who has not fought in any fight up until now and she had no experience regarding tactics and strategy. It was amazing that she could keep up with the witch at all.
The witch charged against Kyouko with its arm flailing after it. As it then swung its arm at Kyouko, Kyouko made a tumble forward and got under it. With a firm step Kyouko swung her spear against it and with a flick of her wrist, the spear separated into a long whip-like weapon. The spear caught around the witch and the arm was caught in it as well. Kyouko took a power jump to the side and used her weight to get momentum to throw the witch into the wall.
She then released the witch as she threw it into the wall and as the witch was slightly dazed, Kyouko took the opportunity to cut off the other arm of the witch. As it did the same kind of screech as it did when Kyouko cut off the first arm, she then shoved the spear into the head of the witch and dragged it down through its body and it finished with a seriously painful screech that was so uncomfortable that it sent a shiver down Kyouko's back. Kyouko then finished it off with an additional thrust in the face of the witch.
The witch did twitch some before she stopped moving and the body slowly withered away. Its body left a Grief seed that Kyouko happily picked up, as a proof of that she defeated her witch.
With a happy while slightly worried smile on her face Sayaka ran up to the slightly rugged up Kyouko. "Kyouko, are you okay?" She asked worryingly. Aoi and the girl they still didn't get the name of slowly stumbled their way over to Kyouko as well.
Sayaka was greeted with a slightly strained because of pain but still a genuine smile. "Yeah, I'm good beside my arm being totally numb from the hit on the arm earlier but I am good otherwise." Kyouko replied and dispelled her magical girl clothing and just as she did that she suddenly fell unconsciously forward, but Sayaka was quick to catch her.
"Kyouko? KYOUKO?!" Sayaka screamed as Kyouko didn't respond. In panic she hastily turned around to Aoi and the other girl and she had a horrified expression as she held Kyouko. "Can you save her or anything?"
Aoi gave her a chuckle back. "I guess you haven't looked at her face yet." She said and Sayaka then turned the unconscious Kyouko up so she was facing Sayaka. Sayaka then noticed that she was just sleeping with a happy face in Sayaka's arms.
"She was just exhausted after the prolonged fight against the witch. It puts a strain on your body fighting something new with a power you can't handle to 100%, so your body can't quite handle it well the first few times." Aoi explained to Sayaka.
Sayaka then cried a few tears that then fell down on Kyouko's cheeks while she broke a relieved smile. "Stupid." She whispered quietly while she embraced Kyouko and she buried her face in Kyouko's neck.
They moved to a park nearby after carrying Kyouko there, with enough care to not look too suspicious carrying an unconscious girl out from an alley. Sayaka was princess-carrying Kyouko to make it look better and she thought it would be more comfortable for Kyouko to be carried this way. They sat down by a bench in the park to take it easy for a while in the gazing afternoon sun.
"By the way, how did you find us deep in an alley? There is no way you would have just taken a stroll through an alley just at random." Aoi asked.
"Well, I saw you and… umm… What's your name?" Sayaka carefully asked the other girl that she didn't know the name of yet.
Sayaka looked over a little and she wasn't sure if she was the one that Aoi talked about that was so aggressive and hard to approach. But she couldn't see that at the moment. All she could see a normal middle school student sitting on the same bench as her. Perhaps she was so nice and all because she was with Kyouko who saved their lives.
"Mitsuki. Asakura Mitsuki." She replied politely with a slight bow with her head and reached out her hand to shake Sayaka's.
Sayaka was a little taken back by this girl's level of politeness. "This couldn't possibly be the same one that Aoi was talking about, right." She thought to herself. But just as politely she shook Mitsuki's hand. "I'm Sayaka. Miki Sayaka. And the one here is Sakura Kyouko." Sayaka said with a smile.
But now that everything has calmed down she could inspect the girl that she didn't know and she then noticed how naturally pretty she was. Mitsuki was taller than most girls their age. Her hair was of the whitest of white she has ever seen, albeit slightly dirty right now. She wore it in a ponytail just like Kyouko but Mitsuki's hair was not as wild. She also had long bangs covering her forehead and with even longer bangs at the sides the sides of her face. Her face pointed to that she wasn't fully Japanese, probably half, and her eyes had long and pretty eyelashes, and they didn't look fake at all. Her clothes were a little more exclusive and expensive than what most people are wearing, which probably means that her family is pretty well off. She wore an open purple sweater from a popular brand with a cute white t-shirt under it. She also didn't wear skirts like the others and instead wore tight jeans and on her feet she had Converse shoes.
She actually looked like she would act rather arrogantly but she was one of the most polite people she met. "Well, back to topic, I saw you and Asakura-san running in this direction and being worried because you two looked exhausted we decided to follow you. We asked around to some people to follow your trail. Then we ended up there."
Aoi chuckled a little. "You two have the strange ability to get into trouble two days in a row. I just hope your friend will be able to stand up to the challenge. It isn't easy to be a magical girl. It is nothing for the weak. I hope she has the conviction to continue like she did today."
Sayaka looked down on her friend lying with her on Sayaka's lap. "I think this girl really has what it takes if she just puts her mind into it. I believe in her." Sayaka said with confidence and then looked back to Aoi and Mitsuki.
Both of them smiled back at her. "Then we believe in her as well. The problem will be the fiercer competition that will build up now, but with the increase of witches I'm really glad for whatever reinforcement we can get." Mitsuki said and looked out over the park and the people around.
"Mm..." Kyouko mumbled and her right hand started to move. She slowly started to open her eyes. It looked like she was drowsier than in the mornings, if that now was possible. But given what she had done today, she has earned it.
"Are you awake now, Kyouko?" Sayaka asked gently. Kyouko shifted her eyes to Sayaka and as she woken up enough to understand the situation that she was laying in Sayaka's lap, her face reddened up and she sat up in a flash. She then looked around and she was sitting between Sayaka and Aoi and the girl she didn't know the name of.
Out of courtesy Mitsuki reached out her hand to Kyouko as she did to Sayaka. "My name is Asakura Mitsuki. What's yours?" The white-haired girl asked with a smile.
Kyouko kindly shook her hand as well and smiled back. "I'm Sakura Kyouko. Nice to meet you. But what happened when I and Sayaka got there?" She asked and looked confused. Sayaka also looked interested as Kyouko bought that up.
Aoi looked at Mitsuki and then turned back at them. "Well, we have been fighting witches for about two hours straight. I told you yesterday that the witches in this city has increased a lot as of recently. But we barely made it past the last witch and then you two appeared. But I can for sure say that I haven't been as thankful to anyone before." She said and gave Kyouko a friendly hug.
"You were really incredible for just becoming a magical girl. You did better than I did on my first try. And also a lot better than Aoi. She got knocked out on her first battle against a familiar so I had to save her." Mitsuki said with a chuckle.
"H-Hey! We said we shouldn't talk about that to another magical girl." Aoi replied and looked incredibly embarrassed. "But yeah, that happened but no more talk about that." She then said and changed subject.
They talked on for a while with different topics and just had a good time until Natsuki had to go. "Well, I have a test tomorrow so I have to get practice a little for it. But thank you very much for saving me and Aoi. See ya later!" Mitsuki said cheerfully.
Kyouko stood up as Mitsuki were about to leave. "Wait just a second." She said and she still held the Grief seed that she got from the witch. "Since you two were so badly hurt from all the witches and since your gems are so dirty, I'll give you two this Grief seed so you can cleanse them. You will need it more than I do for now since my gem isn't really all that dirty for now." She held out her hand with the Grief seed in it and looked at the surprised reaction Aoi and Mitsuki.
"But… you got this. You earned it. And you should hang on to it. Because if you get in a prolonged battles or made contact with several witches in a row you should have a spare Grief seed just in case." Aoi said, and even though she very much wanted it, she just could not just accept it like that. She was for the idea that the one that slayed the witch was the rightful owner to the grief seed.
"It doesn't matter! I want you two to share this. What if you run into another witch? If that should happen you would not have enough magic to fight or heal yourself. So I am giving this to you and I really want you two to share it."
Both Mitsuki and Aoi could see that Kyouko meant every word that she said. Mitsuki walked up to Kyouko and carefully took it from her hand and then gave her a big hug. "You are really a good girl. So thank you very much."
After the hug the two magical girls carefully shared as much as they could before it would be too dangerous to continue to cleanse the gems. After that Mitsuki thanked her again and then returned home.
After a while after they couldn't see her anymore and Kyouko sat down again she turned to Aoi. "Just one question? Is she the one you were talking about being the hard to approach and aggressive person?" Kyouko asked.
"Hehehe, seems hard to believe, doesn't it. But yes, she is the one. Right now she was quite friendly but that was most likely because of the fact that you saved us. If you were to meet her during a battle with a witch it might not have gone so well. Our first meeting about 2 years ago when as she said I was knocked out by a familiar. She saved me and I am really glad that she did. But after that, whenever I came to attack the same witch as she did, she always tried to fend me of with violence while taking on the witch at the same time. And to new magical girls she tends to do the same to them even now. And about 3 months ago she and I had the chance to make up with the rivalry we had. It came quite in handy today, and it will most likely be in the future as well. Hopefully you will help us, Sakura-san." Aoi said and held out her hand.
Kyouko showed her a confident and strong smile. "You can count on me to 200%!" She replied and shook Aoi's hand.
Aoi then looked at Sayaka who has mostly listened for this conversation. "And if you happen to become a magical girl too, can we count on you as well?" Aoi asked in the same fashion as she did with Kyouko.
While not as strong or confident as Kyouko was she smiled as well, she also shook Aoi's hand. "Count me in too on this, if that should ever happen."
"That's reassuring to hear. But I have to go now as well to shape up a bit." She said and then looked at her dirty clothes and her hair. "And thank you big times again." Aoi gave them both a hug and gave them also a small kiss on the cheek to them both before walking away.
Sayaka and Kyouko laughed at each other. "We can be happy to have met some great people." Kyouko said and she leaned back at the backrest off the bench. She then started to try to swing her left arm around. The arm had not fully recovered yet from the numbness so it didn't move exactly as powerfully as she wanted but she can at least move it at all, and she can just be happy that whatever it was that caused the numbness from the thorns from the witch, it didn't last all that long.
Sayaka then saw the torn dress that Kyouko was wearing. "Kyouko? I think we should get to Mami and see if she can fix the dress. The rip goes up so long that we can see the panties." Sayaka pointed out with a slightly blushing face.
As Kyouko heard what Sayaka said she directly checked the dress. And sure enough, on the side on the dress, the rip went up past the thighs and went all the way up to the waist, and it did show the side of her panties. "Jesus, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Kyouko replied in a high-pitched voice and as she quickly held down her dress to cover it up, her face grew deep red.
"I was more focused on the conversation that was going on so I didn't notice it until just now. You want to cover it up with the bag on the way. You're lucky it was on the side of the dress so it is easy to cover it up with the bag."
With little struggle they started moving right after Kyouko lifted up the bag and covered up the ripped part of the dress. They walked through the park and a couple of crowded street, at least for being a Sunday. Kyouko were on high alert all the time and was blushing fiercely as she wasn't in the least happy to go around with such a torn dress in a crowd.
About 15 minutes later they were outside the grand building where Mami lived. They entered the building and called her room from the intercom in the lobby.
With a short spark they heard Mami's voice. "Hello, this is Tomoe Mami. Who is it?" She answered in her usually calm and friendly manner.
"Hey Mami-san, this is Sayaka, and I'm with Kyouko. Do you mind if we could live with you for a few days perhaps? There is a little problem at home so we have to stay somewhere and Homura and Madoka want some privacy so I wondered if we could stay here?
"I don't mind at all, but I have another guest here as well. So if you don't mind her it wouldn't be a problem. So please come up to my apartment." Mami replied and welcomed them up.
They took the elevator since they didn't feel like taking the elevator up to the top floor where Mami were living. There was only 3 people living on the top floor, and Mami was living here out of her parents huge fortune she earned since they died in the accident that Mami miraculously got out off alive.
Sayaka and Kyouko walked up to their senior's door and rung the bell. Soon after the door opened and Mami were standing there with an apron and it looked like she was so dusty as if she had been lying in an abandoned house for about 100 years. "Sorry I look like this right now. She wanted to help me make a cake and we knocked the bag of flour down on the floor and caused a dust cloud so I'm in the middle of cleaning up right now. But please step in and make yourselves at home." She said with a small laugh and opened the door wider. And as they had entered the door they can see that the explosion of the flour bag had reached out into the hall.
After Kyouko got the chance to change out of her dress to something else that was in good shape, she and Sayaka entered the living room where a small girl sat, eating cheese and watching television. As soon as they took the first step in the living room she quickly turned around facing them. The small girl was cute but she had a very unique outfit. Aside from her pink hair with pigtails on each side, she had a black thing around her neck with red dots. Under that she wore what looked like a big deep red robe covering her red/brown waistcoat, and her red dress under it.
Sayaka went up to her and sat down on her knees to match the small girl's height. "Hello, what's your name?" She asked kindly.
"My name is Charlotte." She replied happily with a brimming smile.
Chapter 11 End
I'm sure a lot, if not all know who Charlotte is. Otherwise i recommend checking it up. Too bad I couldn't end Please review, follow or favorite my fanfiction. See you all next chapter.
this chapter with a cliffhanger. I will also try to draw Aoi and Mitsuki and I will try to have them done to post
them next chapter, since it is better to have a picture of the characters than just a description.