Despite my exams starting next week, and all the studying I've had to do, I will still be making an attempt to upload chapters on time, hopefully my exams won't effect that too much as I already have the next chapter written and ready to be uploaded by Tuesday.
The following day...
Yoake walked down the steps outside her school, ready to head home.
'God I hate school.' She thought to her self. 'I wish I could just drop out and hunt witches, at least then I'd be doing something of use, protecting people from them and stuff...' She thought to her self. In midst of her thoughts, she walked into a dark skinned girl with white hair who had stopped in front of her, knocking her over.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry!" Yoake said, panicking while attempting to help the girl pick up her stuff.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have stopped on the path!" The girl replied, equally as panicked.
"It's my fault! I should have been watching where I was going!"
"But I shouldn't have stopped all of a sudden!" The girl took her stuff back from Yoake, and adjusted her glasses, her blue eyes gleaming through them. "My sincere apologies..."
"No really it's okay! It's my fault!" Yoake insisted. "What's your name?"
"Ember Rosa Ezmerarudo." She bowed slightly. "A pleasure to make your aquaitence."
"Ah, well, there's no need to be so formal... I'm Yoake Lee."
"Yoake, please allow me to buy you a tea or coffee or something of that matter to apologize."
"No really it's okay you don't have to- wait, how about a hot chocolate?"
"Yes I can get you a hot chocolate."
"Hmm... Okay then... If you really want to..."
Yoake and Ember sat at a table in a café near the school. Ember had bought Yoake the hot chocolate she had wanted, and her self green tea.
"So Ember, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?" Yoake asked.
"Oh I don't mind at all. I'm seventeen." Ember answered.
"Seventeen?!" Yoake exclaimed. "Oh, uh, sorry. No offense but you look a lot younger than that." Ember giggled.
"That's okay, I know. Besides, it's good to look younger than you actually are, when you become an adult that's considered a blessing. Now how about you, how old are you?" Ember asked.
"I'm only fifteen."
"I see..." Ember returned her attention to her tea.
"So, uh, you really seem to like tea, huh?" Yoake said in attempt to keep a conversation going.
"Yes, I do." Ember replied. "I used to drink it all the time with my boyfriend."
"Whatever happened to him? Did you two break up-"
"NEVER." Ember snapped. Yoake sat there in shock. She hadn't expected Ember, someone who seemed relatively quiet, to raise her voice. "Anyways, no, we didn't break up, he just had to go back to England, that's all. His mother found out he was dating a black woman, and made him go back..." Ember burst into tears. "I MISS HIM!" Yoake wasn't entirely sure how to respond to this, for one thing she found it kind of silly to become attached to a boy while still in school, but she also didn't enjoy watching Ember cry. After a short period of time, Ember settled down.
"Sorry about that. I just get a little upset when I remember my boyfriend's mother is a racist bitch." Ember said angrily.
"That's okay..."
-
"I'm really sorry about my little episode back in the café..." Ember said as she and Yoake walked through an alleyway. "I'm a mess today..."
"It's okay..." Yoake said again. "Thanks for the hot chocolate though! It was great!"
"You're welcome, it was the least I could do... "
"Well isn't this our lucky day? Our target comes right to us instead of us having to go find it!"
"Sure did!"
Two girls emerged from the shadows, one with rusty red hair and a scar over the left side of her face, the other with magenta hair tied in low pig tails.
"I believe some introductions are in order." The red haired girl said.
"Sure are!" The magenta haired girl commented.
"I am Ayame, and this is Kazuno." The red hair girl introduced.
"Sure am!" Kazuno added.
"Now, Yoake, I'm afraid this is where you'll have to die." Ayame said firmly.
"Sure is!"
"I see... You're THOSE magical girls..." Ember said in a dark tone. Yoake was surprised, not only by Ember's sudden personality change, but by the fact that she was talking about magical girls.
"This does not concern you." Ayame said to her. "Leave now or we'll kill you too." Ember folded up her glasses and put them in her bag.
"So be it." She raised her left had to reveal a silver ring with a blue gem on it, a soul gem. Ayame and Kazuno did the same, Ayame's soul gem was white, and Kazuno's magenta. Blue, grey, and magenta lights flashed, and the three girls stood in magical girl forms.
Ayame was in a long, grey, ragged dress, which parted about half way down her thighs, revealing grey and burgundy stalkings with no shoes. The sleeves of the dress were so long they covered her hands. She wore a grey ragged hat, similar to one you'd see a fictional witch wear. Her soul gem was on her chest in the shape of a skull.
Kazuno now wore light pink cat ears on a head band of the same colour. She also had light pink cat paw gloves and cat paw boots, as well as light pink tail attached to her dress, which was a dark shade of pink. She had white and magenta stalkings stretching up from her boots, and a pink choker with a bell attached around her neck. Her soul gem was on her right shoulder in the shape of a cat head.
Ember now wore silver armour over her chest and shoulders. Under it was a navy blue dress that went half way down her thighs. A blue bow was around her neck, and a diamond shaped soul gem was on the middle of it. She had brown leather boots and fingerless gloves, with silver guards over them.
"I will not allow you to harm the innocent!" Ember said firmly. Nine tridents appeared in the ground around her. "If YOU leave now, no harm will come to you." Ayame held out her hand and a scythe appeared in it.
"That's not going to happen." Ayame lunged at Ember. Ember pulled a trident from the ground and used it to defend against Ayame's attack, the remaining tridents disappeared. Yoake watched them battle with a look of terror in her eyes.
"You don't get off that easy!" Kazuno said gleefully, daggers wedged between her fingers. She threw them at Yoake, who narrowly dodged them. She decided that she too should fight these girls who wanted her dead. She pulled her soul gem off her finger and-
"Nope! We sure can't have any of that!" Kazuno grabbed her soul gem and tossed it as far as she could. Yoake tried to catch it in mid air, but couldn't, she didn't even see where it landed. She suddenly felt faint, and toppled over.
"YOAKE!" Ember called.
-
Yoake woke up in an apartment she'd never seen before, her soul gem back on her finger. Ember sat before her, drinking a cup of tea.
"Good you're awake. I was worried when I returned your gem and you didn't wake." She said. "This is my apartment. I teleported us here when I found your gem, I had to get you away from those girls."
"Why did I pass out when I lost my soul gem?" Yoake asked.
"You just started a few days ago, so you wouldn't know this yet, but you see, your soul gem is your soul. The body you currently have is just a much stronger replica of your old one. You can't go more than 100 feet away from your soul gem, so when it was thrown away from you, you passed out." Ember explained. Yoake held her soul gem out in her hand.
"So this... Is me?"
"Yes, that is you. Your body can handle any amount of damage, but if your soul gem breaks, you will die."
Yoake clutched her gem. Knowing that her entire life now depended on this small object in her hands terrified her.
"Anyways..." Ember continued. "Those girls, they likely wanted to kill you because you're a new magical girl in their territory." Ember explained. "Some magical girls don't like having to compete for grief seeds. Until you're more experienced, you shouldn't be going out on your own, especially not witch hunting." Ember handed Yoake a slip of paper. "Here's my phone number. Call me when you plan on going witch hunting and I'll go with you. Who ever is in most desperate need of a grief seed gets to keep whatever we find."
"Okay, that sounds like a good idea." Yoake agreed. Ember took a sip from her tea.
"Alright then, give me a call later and we'll go witch hunting, now if you don't mind you'll have to leave now, I'm expecting my boyfriend to video chat me any minute now and I'd rather you not be here when he does. Here's some yen for the bus home, now leave." Ember said firmly. Yoake sighed.
"Alright..."