Entry 18:

I was such a fool!

Stella was walking through the town. She was bothered by the kidnapings. She was sure the Witches had something to do with them, yet she doubted the Witches actually caused the dissapearance of the girls.

'There must be more behind this.' Stella thought.

Miku looked at Kalin. They were walking through the streets and talking. There were plenty of opportunities to tell him about her true feelings. Yet, she couldn't gather the needed courage. Still, she was happy to be with him.

They passed a poster.

"Hey, an amusement park is opening today. Maybe we should go there." said Kalin.

"That would be great." Miku smiled. She already made a plan in her head. They'll go to the amusement and she'll make him ride with her in the big wheel. Then, she'll confess her feelings to him. 'It will be perfect.'

"WHAT?!" Yukio and I exclaimed in unsion. Yuri and Yumi just explained us about the Soul Gems.

"You want to say my soul is inside this gem?!" I asked in disbelief. Yumi cried quietly. I felt like my legs were cut and was about to fall unconsicious hadn't Yukio held me.

"If you destroy your SG, you'll die." said Yuri. "And if it gets away from you more then 100 meters you'll get unconsicious, since your soul ain't near your body. Kyubey told us the body will need two days to start to decay if the SG ain't brought back in time."

"This is horrible." I said.

"Asuna is shocked too." said Yuri. "The other girls don't know about it."

"Okay..." I whispered. "I'd like to be alone now. Is it okay for you?"

Yuri nodded. She wanted also to go home. Yukio closed the door after the two got out, while I sat on the couch.

"Kaen..." he quietly apporached me.

"I don't want to talk about it." I said.

"You know, this ain't different from a so called deal with the devil. I know about this, since I made them many times." said Yukio. I didn't reply.

"I just want to go to sleep, and never wake up again." I said and started to cry. "I was such a fool!"

Suddenly, I felt hands wraping around my body. I lift my head in surprise and saw that Yukio hugged me. I first didn't understood what he wanted from me.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"Don't you need an warm embrace or something?" he asked right back. I simply leaned my head on his chest and countined crying.

'This is so great! I'm a Puella Magi, a heroic figure. And soon I'll confess my feelings to Kalin. Then my life will be perfect.' though Miku, with images of happiness in her head. 'He'll sure be excited once I tell him I'm saving innocent lifes.'

'You're dreaming.' she heared a voice and looked around the amusement park.

"What is it, Miku-chan?" asked Kalin.

"Oh, nothing." Miku replied with a smile.

'Tsk, your happy image of life is just a delusion. I bet he'll soon find an excuse to leave you.' she again heared the voice. It was a female.

"Why don't you go and buy some icecream? I'll come soon." said Miku.

"Okay." Kalin nodded, confused. Miku then looked around.

'Where are you?' she asked angrily.

'At the roller-coaster.' the voice replied. Miku went towards it.

'Warm, warm, warm...' the voice lead her.

"Ultimate heat." Sherrie said as Miku apporached her. "So, you think Puella Magis are heros. Wrong!"

"What do you want?" asked Miku.

"There are no enough Grief Seeds for 8 Puella Magis in Akari City. So I need to make sure there will be less Puella Magis." said Sherrie.

"There are more Magical Girls?" Miku was surprised. She thought she and Yuri were the only ones, but there seemed to be, besides Sherrie, 5 more.

"Yes, so prepeare to fight!" Sherrie extended her Soul Gem.

"No!" suddenly, Sayo emerged and grabbed Sherrie's Soul Gem and threw it away, right into the train which passed.

"What are you doing?" Sherrie yelled angrily at Sayo.

"I don't want to see you two fighting. We're Puella Magis, we're fighting Witches, not other girls." said Sayo.

"You..." Suddenly, Sherrie fell. She seemed to be unconsicious.

"Sherrie, Sherrie? Sherrie!" Sayo grabbed the girls arms and shook her. "Wake up!"

"What's going on?" asked Miku, now equaly worried.

"I don't know." said Sayo, now panicking. "Wake up!"

Suddenly, Stella appeared, holding Sherrie's Soul Gem. She put in Sherrie's hands.

Sherrie woke up.

"Are you alright?" asked Sayo.

"I-I guess so. What happened?" asked Sherrie.

"Sayo-san threw away your soul. I had to get it back before it was too late." said Stella.

"How do you mean it, soul?" asked Sherrie.

"Your soul is inside your Soul Gem. Without it, your body is nothing more then a willess puppet whose strings were cut." said Stella.

"WHAT?!" All three exclaimed in unsion.

'She's telling the truth.'

They turned around and saw Kyubey.

"You! You knew it all the time!" Sherrie yelled angrily.

But before she could harm him, a barrier appeared and engulfed them. In the barrier were several giant Soul Gems floating. Several structures resembled parts of the amusement park.

In front of them was a giant two headed dog like creature. She was the Witch Zweiköpfiger Böser Flügel (Twoheaded evil wing/s), and her nature was maginificience.

"A Witch!" exclaimed Miku.

"Just what I needed." On Sherrie's face appeared a sick smile. She and the other three transformed. The Witch roared, though the girls knew, since they were 4 against 1, that the battle won't last long.

Sherrie darted first towards the Witch taking out her dual swords. However, as she was about to strike against the Witch, it snapped at her with her claws, so Sherrie had to withdraw.

Stella jumped in, drawing the attention of the Witch, as she started to run circles around her.

"Sheesh, she's fast." commeted Miku. Sayo didn't comment but rather rushed over to the Witch, holding out her daggers.

However, the second head of the Witch noticed her and it slammed Sayo at the ground with one of her paws.

'This is not good.' thought Stella and rushed over to the Witch. "Cutting-Point Needles!"

She jumped slammed at the head of the Witch, making her roar in pain.

Miku summoned an arrow. She could pinpoint via the locator where the Witch's weak spot was.

"Guys, distract the Witch!" she yelled.

"And how?" asked Sherrie.

"I have no idea, but I found her weak spot: the chest! I just need to fire an arrow at it." said Miku. The other three girls looked at each other.

"Sayo, you take the left head. I take the right. Sherrie, you distract her from behind." said Stella. The other two nodded and seperated. Stella turned to the Witch. 'Return to Zero!'

First, the two heads watched Stella, but the left head turned to Sayo as she stabbed the left paw with her daggers. Sherrie appeared from behind, jumping on the Witch's back. She then stabbed the Witch with her swords into the back.

The Witch roared in pain, giving Miku an opportunity to fire her arrow.

"Go!" Miku exclaimed, putting her magic into the arrow. It pierced through the Witch's chest, killing it.

The barrier started to flicker and slowly dissapeared.

Much to the girls' surprise, two Grief Seeds appeared. The top emblem of one was a crescent moon with circle in it while the other had a circle with crescent moon in it.

Sherrie picked them up and threw one to Stella. Stella, whose expression remained unchanged, cool and serious, looked at Sherrie.

"This is for saving me." she said, reffering to the SG incident. She then left, with Sayo following her. Miku looked at Stella.

"How did you know about the Soul Gems?" she asked.

"Yuri-san told me." said Stella. She then gave the Grief Seed to Miku, who, since she still was a begginer, used too much power.

The one thing Stella bothered were the Soul Gems in the barrier, strenghting her theory about the connection of the Witches and Puella Magis.