Okay so this update is a little earlier than expected, well that's because I've actually managed to write a lot more of this thing in a short period of time than I originally expected I'd be able to, so now updates are Tuesdays and Fridays, if I ever start getting behind on chapter due dates then I'll just go back to only Fridays.
"Yoake, you have to go witch hunting now!" Kyubey said, waking Yoake from her sleep.
"What? Why?" She asked.
"Witches are dangerous creatures, if allowed to do as they please they'll destroy everything, for one thing." Kyubey started. "For another, if you kill one you get a grief seed, which can take the pollution out of your soul gem. Now come, I can show you where you can find one, but I'm only helping you this one time, since you've never done this before."
"Okay, okay I'm coming..."
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Yoake followed Kyubey through the dark streets, waiting for him to show her this 'witch'.
"Witches can usually be found in places where people die or where people go to kill themselves, such as car accident sites, hospitals, or abandoned buildings. Remember that for later." Kyubey told her. As they walked the scenery began to change, it became abstract, images resembling everyday objects appearing everywhere. The ground looked like a surreal painting.
"We've walked into the witch's labyrinth." Kyubey explained. "Humans often walk into these and get eaten by the witches. You'll have to find the core of the labyrinth to find the witch."
"Okay, but how do I get to that?" Yoake asked.
"You'll have to navigate the labyrinth to find it."
They continued to walk through the labyrinth. Yoake found the whole experience rather unnerving. All the abstract imagery around her made her eyes hurt, and every now and then a strange surreal creature would scurry past her. Kyubey had said they were called familiars, they were usually hostile, but if they weren't attacking they shouldn't be bothered with since they don't drop grief seeds and would just be a waste of magic.
"This is it." Kyubey announced. They had reached an opening, in which was a creature completely made of surreal images. "That is the witch. It might not look like much, but they're very powerful. Try to take it out as quickly as possible."
Yoake changed to her magical girl form and prepared herself for battle.
'Not really sure how I'm going to do this... I only know how to stop time... Is there anything else I can do...?' She thought to her self. 'If only I had a weapon...' At that moment a stereo system dropped down to Yoake's feet. She picked it up. 'What's this? Is this a weapon?' She pressed a button on it and sound waves blasted out of it and at the witch. It shrieked and dodged away from the sound waves. 'Alright, so I can use this to hurt it! Now if only I could get it to be still...' Yoake chased after the witch, blasting sound waves at it.
"Dammit! Stop moving!" She yelled. Black wires stretched out of either side of her head phones and wrapped around the witch, holding it in place.
'Perfect!' Yoake thought to her self. She blasted the witch dead on with the sound waves until it crumbled. The labyrinth dissolved around them, leaving Yoake and Kyubey standing out in the road. A small black gem remained where the witch once was. Yoake deactivated her magical girl form.
"Good job." Kyubey praised. "That was much better than I was expecting from a newbie." Yoake picked up the small black gem. "Press that against your soul gem, it'll take away the pollution." Yoake did as Kyubey instructed, and the black fog subsided from her soul gem. "That seed should be good for one more use, then I'll have to take it before it's reborn as a witch."
"So I'm going to have to do this every night from now on?" Yoake asked.
"Yes." Kyubey replied.
"Alright then, I think I can handle that."
"Good, then remember to keep hunting witches and collecting grief seeds, you'll be just fine, for now."
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Two girls stood on top of a building, watching Yoake. One girl had rusty red hair, brown eyes and a scar stretched over the left side of her face, the other had magenta hair and purple eyes.
"So Kyubey has made a contract with another..." The red haired girl commented.
"Sure looks like it!" The other replied enthusiastically.
"That's troublesome..."
"Sure is!"
"We don't need any more competition for grief seeds around here..."
"We sure don't!"
"It's a real shame, but we're just going to have to kill this one."
"We sure are!"
At this point I'd like to apologize if I made any errors involving how magical girl powers in relation to their wishes and such work, before writing this entire story I tried to figure out exactly how the whole thing works but everything was pretty vague, and made much more complicated due to the fact that Madoka's main magic type is the same in every different version of her wish, so I'm trying my best, and if there's something you now that I don't, I'd appreciate you sharing with me, thanks.