Yet again, I have to start a chapter with a content warning... Swearing, heavy swearing. I don't think I've actually used any swear words up until this point so that's why I'm telling you now.
Two weeks later...
"If you don't mind, I'll be taking tonight's grief seed." Ember said firmly. "My soul gem is getting pretty polluted."
"That's fine, I'm still good for a while." Yoake replied. A thought then came to her mind. "Hey Ember, how come you act so differently when we're out witch hunting?" She asked.
"What do you mean?" Ember replied.
"Well you act really shy and stuff when we're at school but the moment we get out here you turn into freaking Barb-wire*" Yoake tried explained.
"Oh, that. What can I say? I just take this really seriously, you should too. You could die any second doing this." Ember explained.
"Wait... What?" Yoake exclaimed. Ember sat down on the edge of the building, pulled a chocolate bar from her pocket, snapped it in half, and held a piece out to Yoake.
"Want it?" She offered.
"Don't change the subject, what do you mean we can die any moment?!" Yoake yelled.
"Kid, didn't you know what you were getting your self into?" Ember asked. "Did you think this was all just some fucking game like the ones on your PSP? Or that this would be like Sailor-fucking-Moon and every one would live and be happy and shit? Well guess fucking what? This isn't a game. This isn't Sailor Moon. This is a disoriented version of what we once called reality. You won't live to see your self be married, hell, you probably won't live to see your self graduate! You'll be lucky to survive the first year!" Ember yelled back. "WE WILL ALL DIE AWFUL DEATHS AND THEN THERE WILL BE NOTHING FOR US BECAUSE OUR SOULS WILL BE GONE! AND WHAT FOR?! FOR SOME FUCKING STUPID ALIEN WHO THINKS IT'S OKAY TO PLAY WITH HUMANS DESIRE LIKE IT'S SOME KIND OF TOY! THIS IS IT FOR US YOAKE! THIS IS FUCKING IT!" Yoake cowered, unable to come to terms with what she was being told. Ember sighed. "You know... I didn't want to do this... I really didn't... I should have let myself bleed out in that ally way instead of taking up that stupid creature on his deal..." Ember buried her head in her hands. "I wish I met you before you chose this life, Yoake... You're a good person... You don't deserve the eternal nothingness that follows us..."
"Why would Kyubey tell us all this when we made our contracts?" Yoake asked.
"He only says what he thinks will make us want to make a contract with him... But he does so without lying... He only says what you ask him... Since it wouldn't come to any of us to ask any of those things, we'd never find out..." Ember clutched her soul gem in her hand. "Yoake, we've sold our souls to the devil, all for a single wish... And we will suffer because of it..." Yoake sat down beside Ember.
"I understand everything you've told me, and I can't begin to explain how terrifying I find the idea of an eternal nothingness..." Yoake started. "But, that being said, I don't regret my wish. Even if it means I have to suffer, I don't regret saving the life of my cousin." Yoake said firmly.
"That's good... You keep that mind set." Ember said, struggling a smile. Yoake grabbed her hand and held it tightly, both of their soul gems were held together.
"We won't go into eternal nothingness without a fight." Yoake smirked. Ember smirked back.
"Damn straight."
Yoake woke up the next morning. It was a Saturday.
She got up, got dressed, brushed her hair, and went down stairs for breakfast. No one was awake yet. Yoake grabbed a piece of bread and toasted it, then began to eat it as she headed towards the door.
"Yoake...? Where are you going?" Hairi asked, still in her pyjamas, as she walked down the stairs. "It's Saturday... We don't have school..."
"I'm just going to go for a little walk, that's all." Yoake told her.
"Oh, okay." Yoake began to open the front door. "Wait, Yoake, before you go, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"If something came to you and offered you a wish, what would you do?" Hairi asked. Yoake's eyes widened. Had Kyubey gone after her little sister? Everything that Ember had said the previous night was coming back to her, the hell that was the life of a magical girl, Yoake was yet to experience it, but she knew deep down inside it would catch up with her soon enough.
"I would refuse the creatures offer, and tell it to leave and never return!" Yoake yelled. Hairi cringed, she wasn't expecting that kind of answer.
"But Yoake..."
"Hairi if something ever offers you a wish don't take it! If you enjoy anything about your current life and everyone around you, you won't wish it away!" Yoake then left and slammed the door behind her. Maybe Yoake was fine with being a magical girl due to her wish being what it was, but she was not going to let her little sister become one too.
"Why did you say that to your sister back there?" Kyubey asked, now walking beside Yoake. Yoake mustered all her strength not to foot ball kick the little bastard where he stood.
"Don't try and pull my sister into this!" Yoake snapped.
"Why not?" Kyubey asked. "I thought you enjoyed the life of a magical girl?"
"Not nearly as much now that I've learnt what it really entails! Why wouldn't you tell us that when we die there's nothing for us anymore?!"
"You never asked."
"Right, just like Ember said, you only tell us when we ask even though this type of thing is extremely important to know and no one would think to ask!" Yoake yelled.
"Well of course." Kyubey replied. "Look at it from my point of view, I need more girls like you to make contracts and soul gems, and what I've learnt is that most of you humans are very particular about your souls, so it's in my benefit to only tell you this stuff if you ask me." Kyubey explained. "I never lie though, nothing I've told you is anything short of the truth. The way I see it I'm doing no wrong."
"What is wrong with you?!" Yoake snapped. "You deceive us! You may not lie but not telling us stuff like this is just as bad!"
"I will never understand you humans..."
"What do you gain from taking our souls anyways?!" Yoake asked.
"Firstly, I didn't take your soul, you still have it, it's just not inside you anymore." Kyubey corrected. "Second, what I gain is when you magical girls die and become witches the energy given off helps power other planets far away from here."
"So what? We're nothing more than a resource to you?!"
"Exactly."
"You're awful! Stay away from my sister!" Yoake yelled, then ran away from Kyubey and towards the park.
This chapter made a Barbwire reference, I doubt any of you will have got it because the Barbwire movie kind of sucked. For the record, Barbwire acts all badass and stuff and that's what the reference meant. I was going to put Shera but she's never really struck me as badass. I apologize for the obscure movie reference. It won't happen again... Unless you're one of my readers of Forest mew mew, then it will happen many more times because I don't know any better.