Inspired by the 'Sailor Moon' anime series.
MAGICAL BOY
「魔法少年」
{=TSUBASA=VS=Turtle=}
{By: Emerald Sonata}
[~PART 2~]
The high school boy, Tsukasa Basara, and the talking pink cellphone, Celestia, continued to walk down the street roads together. His faced was buried deep within the thick open book that was in his hands, all the being berated by Celestia while she was sitting in his chest pocket.
"Haaaa…Please give it a rest, Tsukasa. No matter how much you wish for it to happen, there is no way you can absorb all that information in a single day. Even if you were to do one of those so-called 'all-nighters', it's pointless if you lack the mental stamina to properly take on the exam itself."
"Seriously! Isn't there a mute button on you or something?! I'm the boss of my own life, alright! I'm free to do whatever I want with it! If I'm going to study my brains off, just to up my chances in passing the course – I'm gonna do it!"
"You really are a complete mystery, aren't you vagabond? You seem to study like any normal student, even more than average I will admit, but your results always come up as being a fruitless pursuit. Why don't you put some of that effort into fighting the real threat – the Bakemonos?"
Bakemono, living creatures that were beyond the realm of nature and reality. They were unstoppable as well as unpredictable, appearing at a moment's notice when you least expected it. Their one aim in life is simple: wipe out all human beings.
And somehow, Tsukasa was stuck fighting them – rather, he was forced against his bitter will.
Scowling, he grabbed out the pink cellphone and began to reel back for a nice long throw.
"I need your help with this question, Celestia: how far can a small cellphone fly when a force greater than itself were to throw it like an Olympic javelin shooter?"
"You – wouldn't – dare!—AH!"
*BRRRRRRRRRRR~RRRRRRRRRRRRR~!*
"H-huh?!"
At the T-shaped intersection the two were at, a sea of cars came surging down a large road. They came rolling in like wild waves at a stormy beach, crushing and grinding each other into mangled bits and pieces before ultimately slammed into one end of the intersection with a mighty screech.
It was if a flood struck everything without mercy…but it was no flood.
"GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
A massive being ploughed through the pile of cars with large arms – as if a walking bulldozer. Its entire body was covered in thick green skin, clad with a giant tortoise shell around the body and two smaller ones clipped to its arms like makeshift boxing gloves. Its head also resembled that of a turtle, save for its all-yellow eyes and hanging jaw that does not move when it talks.
It was a mutated crossbreed, between a regular turtle and a regular body-builder – becoming one devastating entity.
"BAKEMONO!" Celestia cried.
"…" Tsukasa could only flinch.
"GIIIIIIIIIIIIII~IIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Tons of damage – tons of damage – tons of damage!"
In a flash, the turtle beast raced off – literally. Screeching at high speeds, it charged through a thick wall of cars, buses, and vans, crushing them all through its wake with its shelled-arms. It was more like a rhino than a walking turtle.
The turtle beast did not even bat a second glance when it bashed aside a police cruiser or two that belonged to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, sending the officers scattering.
"Confirmed! It's a beast-class, tortoise type! Target's primary focus is hard defense. Tsukasa! You need to transform into Magical Girl Celestial and—GET BACK AND FIGHT THAT BAKEMONO, COWARD!"
Ignoring whatever Celestia was saying, Tsukasa was making a break for it.
"SCREW THAT! We're going to leave this for the Japan Self-Defense Force to handle – I'm just a regular high schooler who can't do squat in a situation like this!"
"What about the civilians? They're innocent in all this! Both adults and children alike!"
"Well, if they don't get the hint to run the heck away from a monster like that – it's their problem! I said it before, and I'll say it another thousand times: if I can't take care of myself, how in the world can I help others! And I definitely do NOT want to turn into that hideous alter ego to fight the creep!"
"…I see…I understand…Then, I guess there is no need to save the science text book you somehow left behind."
"That is freaking corre—HAH?!" Tsukasa skidded into a burn-rubber halt and whipped around. At the edge of the growing chaos, laid his science text-book the size of a phonebook – his one and only copy (and it does not come cheap). "…AAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The high school boy exploded off at breakneck speed, taking a huge dive for his text book. His fingers could almost touch the large spine of the book, and once it was in his hands everything's safe—
Until a Volkswagen Beetle came crashing down nose-first in front of him, taking the innocent text-book with it before he could even touch it.
"…" The high school boy blankly stared at the cruel reality in front of him. He could see a clip of paper tucked under the car's nose, a speck of what was left about the definition on heat conduction. After a short pause, the Volkswagen Beetle fell away and back onto its creaking wheels.
Unaware of what happened, the turtle beast was enjoying itself with squishing steel-framed cars and kicking over street-lights – like a little boy on Christmas day (to an extent).
"GIIIIIIII-HII-HII! Breaking stuff is just too fun! I want more things to break! Things that go 'boom' and 'krrrrrrkkkk'! Hah-hah-hah! Tons of dam—"
*BAM!*— *BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP~!"
"Hrm?" The turtle beast perked its head up to the sound of a certain stomp on metal, followed by the triggering of a rampant car alarm. It turned around to a particular Volkswagen Beetle that was behind the creature, which had a certain high school boy grinding an angry foot across the dented front. Black hair covered the boy's eyes, so it was not possible to see what was wrong…but there was definitely something bubbling inside of him.
"…Give it back…"
The turtle beast tilted its head in confusion.
"I SAID GIVE ME BACK MY SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK, YOU BIG FREAKING-UGLY KOOPA TROOPA! ERYAAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAH!"
Tsukasa ran, scrambling across and over the entire Volkswagen Beetle with a mighty cry. Jumping off the car's roof, he twisted around to slash a head-snapping spinning kick straight at the turtle beast's cranium.
*SNAP!*
"…Guh!" The blow connected – Tsukasa's shin hitting the turtle beast's shelled arm, who casually held it up to block him. An audible snapping sound could be heard from the boy's leg.
"…D…darn it all~!" Crouched by a curb, the high school boy gripped tightly at his burning shin while fighting back unmanly tears.
"…Beginning transformation sequence," Celestia sighed.
Tsukasa paled, even more than the pain in his leg.
"G-GUH! N-No! No transformation sequence—AH! S-STOP GLOWING THAT GREEN LIGHT! STOP IT! I REFUSE! OBJECTION! ANYTHING! JUST STOP—NOOOOOOOOOO~OOOOOOOOOOOO~OOOOOOOOOO!"
The pink cellphone snapped open, unleashing a green vortex that swallowed the panicking high school boy whole. Showers of sparkling glitter and green energy filled the air and so much as reaching for the sky. In the throng, Celestia's clear and prideful voice could be heard.
"Universal Make-up! Activation!"
The vortex slashed itself apart, revealing an entirely new being.
It was a hero, a hero clad in a magical pink dress with white frills, a ruffled skirt, white thigh-high stockings, and pink shoes with ribbons on them. A large bow-tie of silk was connected to the back of the dress, reminiscent to a giant and elegant butterfly with long wing-tails. Crowned on the head was a pink and white-laced new-style maid's bonnet.
The hero…was a certain high school boy wearing a magical girl costume.
Celestia also changed her form, metamorphing into a trust magical stick with a heart-ring scepter-head and carried an oval-shaped green gemstone in its core. She completed the whole transformation with:
"Magical Girl Celestial, has arri—BPPHHHHH?!"
…And received a punch to her 'face' in the end – courtesy of the magical girl clad Tsukasa.
"V-VAGABOND! How dare you strike a lady like that, you vile, vile, vile brute!"
"#1: I hate your guts. #2: I need to relief my pain in losing a good comrade of a text book. #3…Screw it, let's get this thing – OVER WITH!"
"Huh?" The turtle beast jumped and instinctively brought up an arm – catching a high-powered fist covered in an elegant white glove dead across the center of its shelled-hand.
The Bakemono was sent skidding backwards on its feet, ripping open the asphalt like a surgical knife on skin. It came to a smoking halt, never dropping its guarding arms.
Tsukasa panted like a mad man, his fist still hanging in the air.
"…Screw…you…"
"Tsukasa! Your hand!"
"Tch!" The boy in magical girl clothing retracted his fist – which was shaking violently. The knuckle area of his glove was ripped open, exposing fresh blood and his torn skin. Despite the enhanced power of a magical girl, the turtle beast's defenses were miles ahead of him.
That was why the Bakemono was laughing as it slowly lowered its arms, revealing its grinning hanging jaw.
"Gi-gi-gi-gi-gi-gii…So you must be the one who goes about destroying my comrades from dealing tons-of-damage fun – gecko."
Tsukasa and Celestia raised an eyebrow, "…Gecko?"
A giant turtle ending his sentences with 'gecko'…what a concept.
"I'm going to have tons-of-damage fun with you, girly."
The boy in the magical girl uniform visibly flinched.
"…Oi, Celestia…Give me something to kill this douchebag with."
"Roger! Magical Sword – Materialize!"
The magical stick began to change. Rings of sparkling green light floated around the magical stick's body, digital particles beginning to gather together. With a short mechanical and gear-like transformation, the magical stick became a pink-colored magical longsword with a white edge.
The wielder scowled, however. "…Bigger…"
"Ugh, how picky of you. Very well – Hup!"
The blade of the weapon was blown up two times bigger than its original size – instantly becoming more of a thick-bladed greatsword. The wielder's frown stayed, but it loosened up a little with an eager air.
"Much better—ERYAAAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAH!"
The boy in the magical girl uniform charged head on with a roar, dragging the tip of his massive sword through the ground to burn up a trail of fire in its wake. He stomped a foot to the earth as an anchor, cracking the concrete, and used his entire weight to swing the weapon about at its sole target: the turtle beast.
*CLO~NG!*
"TCH!" Tsukasa clicked his tongue hard. His magical greatsword struck its target's chest, but much to the boy's chagrin it was encased in an even harder shell-casing. Like smacking a metal pipe against the wall, the recoil came back at him with equal force. But he did not stop there. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The boy swung the sword, Celestia, in a different direction, to try and break though the Bakemono's guard. Once again, it was parried by either its shelled-arm or the shell on its back. The Bakemono was really enjoying himself as it laughed at the boy's folly of an attempt
"Gi-gi-gi-gi-gi-gi! You're good, better than I thought! It seems you can deal tons of damage too! What's you're name girly?! – Gecko."
The Bakemono brought up his shelled-arms in a cross, stopping a certain greatsword from slicing its head up in two equal halves.
"…I'm neither 'girly' nor that stupid-as-heck of a name 'Magical Girl Celestial'. So listen up because I'm only going to say it once…I am…TSUBASA!"
The blade-lock snapped apart, raining sparks and firing a deadly pulse through the air. Tsukasa, recognized as TSUBASA in his magical girl form, was sent skidding back across the ground and away from the Bakemono. He jabbed his sword into the ground, using it as leverage to stop himself. He then pulled out his mighty weapon and held it at the ready…but his one and only plan of 'beating the green douchebag senseless' was going down the drain.
"Darn it all! Is there no weak-point to this creep?! Seriously, what does it have to take for anyone to smash through armor like that?!"
"Focus, Tsukasa! Always know that everything as a weak point – for example, you to studying and school grades."
"DON'T USE ME AS AN EXAMPLE YOU IDIOT OF A WITCH!"
…*BRRRRRRRRRR~RRRRRRRRRRRRRR~!*
"Huh?"
"Tsukasa! That blue car over there!"
TSUBASA and Celestia turned their attention to a certain SUV nearby. The front part of the vehicle was twisted in, wrinkled like a crushed can, and it adopted an awkward forward tilt across the broken roads. The driver looked like a young woman (a single mother) and she began to pull herself together from the recent crash.
What happened, she thought? A moment ago she could see the unnatural sandstorm racing after her and now this…Uh-oh.
"Gii-gii-giii. I can see you – gecko."
The single woman was fully awake now, staring at the turtle beast that was crouched in front of her tipped car. Instinctively, she yanked at the gear-stick to put it into the reverse slot and slammed on the gas pedal.
*RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~!*
A miracle. The engine was still functioning despite the punishment it had received. Even the back wheels spun at their top speed…but she was not moving at all. That miracle was instantly shot down when she realized the back wheels were lifted off the ground, due to the SUV's twisted form. They were running on pure air, rendered completely useless. Escaping like this was impossible.
Just as the single mother thought about jumping out of the trapped wreck…she saw the Bakemono swinging its shelled-arm down on her. At that moment, she recalled the image of her three dear children…and felt that her time spent with them was suddenly cut short.
*KLAAAAAAA~AAAAAAANG~!*
The sound of crashing metal rung into the sky…
…And the single mother could not help but peek open an eye – before widening them entirely.
"DARN IT AAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAALL!"
TSUBASA stood on the hood of the broken SUV, struggling to keep up his sword that held back a shelled-arm from laying further destruction.
Regaining her lost strength, the single mother immediately took her chance to get out of her car and escape – thanking her lucky stars that such a hero was there when she need one the most.
"G-Guuuh! I'm almost at my limit, Tsukasa!" cried Celestia, her body used as a barricade against the monstrous force.
"Bite the bullet! I'm having just as much trouble in pushing this creep back like this!"
"Ugh! Even in a time like this, you still won't cease to be an unruly vagabond!"
"JUST SHUT UP AND—"
Cracks appeared across the asphalt, around the two forces and the SUV. The ground sunk by an inch…then it instantly collapsed into a deep and pitch black hole.
In the center of the empty circle of air was: the SUV, TSUBASA, and Celestia (sword).
"Ah…UWAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAAAAAAA~AAAAAAAAH!"
For once, TSUBASA and Celestia acted together as a team – screaming their lungs off as they fell in unison.