Entry 30: The gathering of the Witches

Sherrie looked in dismay as from the Grief Seed, which had clover patterns, dark smoke came out.

The body of the Witch formed. It looked like a blue sphere with a rainbow fox mask and a black crown. A ghostly looking girl was hugging the sphere. It also had six floating scythe claws; three on either side. Her name was Virgo.

"Sayo, you fool!" Sherrie yelled at the Witch. She summoned her Puella Magi costume, knowing she'll have to face the Witch.

Yuri picked up Homulilly's Grief Seed, which had a diamond emblem on the top. She looked in dismay at Insert Name Here. Alongside the Witch was a giant black skill burning green.

"Stella!" Yuri yelled, though she knew that Stella was long gone. There was nothing she could do, except kill her. Yuri quickly cleared her Soul Gem and prepeared for a fight against the Witch.

I frowned as I saw Kyubey apporaching me and Yukio. We were actually on the way to a Witch's Barrier.

"What do you want?" I asked.

'There are three Barriers. You'll have to choose. One of them is formed by Stella, the other by Sayo and the last by a very powerful Witch, being equal to Walpurgisnight.' said Kyubey. 'Yuri is in Stella's Barrier while Sherrie is in Sayo's.'

"Who's Walpurgisnight?" Yukio asked.

"Walprugisnight was mentioned in Goethe's Faust. It's the gathering of the Witches." I explained.

'See the storm on the horizon?' Kyubey pointed at the thunderstorm cloud which neared. 'That's the Witch.'

I gritted my teeth. We again lost two girls and now this.

"Good, we'll face whoever this Witch is." I said. The storm neared.

Yuri struggled against Insert Name Here. The Witch reached out for Yuri, using her hair against her. Some of the hairs pierced through Yuri's arm. Yuri cried out in pain. The black skull, for which she assumed it was a Familiar, fired green flames at her.

Yuri, with an another yell of pain, managed to free herself from the hair, though she had several cuts on her limbs, and escape the flames. She fired red thunders at the Witch, keeping her busy.

"Saya no Kage!" Yuri then vanished in the shadows, but she runned towards the Witch, who apperantly didn't see her.

She finnaly jumped out of the shadows, creating a huge sai to cut the Witch apart. The skull appeared in front of Yuri so she cut it apart instead the Witch. Yuri gritted her teeth in dismay.

"Hateshiganai..." she chanted as she held out her hand. On the sky appeared dark thunder clouds. "..Yoarashi!"

Blue thunders stroke the Witch, killing her for good.

Yuri breathed heavily as she picked up Stella's Grief Seed and used it on her Soul Gem. Her wounds soon vanished. As the barrier dissapeared, she noticed the thunderclouds.

Sherrie jumped to escape the claws with which the Witch slashed at her.

"Take this!" She cut the girl's head from the body. "And this!"

She cut the fox mask. There were X-shaped marks left. A tear runned down Sherrie's cheek.

"And this!" She again created a cut on the Witch. With every cut she created, she created also a rip on her own heart. Most people didn't like her because of her arrogance, but Sayo was a true friend to her.

With a yell, she crossed her swords and fired an orange beam at the Witch, killing her. She picked up the Grief Seed as the barrier dissapeared.

Then, she noticed the thundercloud.

I and Yukio walked into the barrier. It was a westland shaped barrier and I gulped as I saw the Witch. She looked like a massive, giant, mountian-like being. Her head was a sun disc-shaped, her open mouth resembled the moon, and her right eye resembled the earth.

"S-summon Analyzer." I gulped.

'Kriemhild Gretchen. Witch of salvation. Her nature is mercy. She absorbs any life on the planet into her newly created heaven - her barrier. The only way to defeat this witch is to make the world free of misfortune. If there's no grief in this world, she will believe this world is already a heaven.'

'The strenght of this Witch is of such a magnitude that she could obliterate the planet within ten days.' said Kyubey, who acompanied us.

"If this Witch is so strong, how strong is Walpurgis then?" asked Yukio.

"And the only way to defeat this Witch is to rid the world of misfortune." I muttered. This was bad.

Suddenly, a red thunder and an orange beam hit the Witch.

"Kaen, don't stay there so dumb, do something!" I turned around and saw Yuri and Sherrie running towards us. Yuri was the one who yelled.

"This Witch is too powerful." I said. "It can only be defeaded when misfortune is rid out of the world. There's nothing that can defead her."

Yuri froze, but Sherrie gave a sick smirk. She then walked towards the Witch, with the sick smile not leaving her face.

"So, you're too powerful to be defeaded? I doubt that." she gritted her teeth. "So, you'll die when mistfortune is whiped out of this world. Lemme tell you something! You can't do that! You can't rid out the misfortune of this world! I tried out to rid sorrow out of my world and I failed! You can't save the world!"

I, Yuri and Yukio looked at Sherrie, knowing something bad will happpen.

"I-!" Her face became blank. Sherrie suddenly stopped talking, holding her chest with one arm and with the other her SG.

It was black.

The SG cracked and turned into a Grief Seed. The emblems of this one was a broken sword with two horrified faces on each side on the bottom. Sherrie fell, but out of her Grief Seed emerged a Witch.

She was a grotesque monster with changing faces that show evil smirks and happy laughs and sorrowful cries in agony.

She was Tristillia, with her name being derived from the latin word for sadness. Now we all realized how much pain she bottled up to stay confident and happy.

The two Witches engaged into a fight, with Tristillia madly throwing swords at Kriemhild. Even as a Witch, she wanted to help us.

I and Yuri looked at each other and nodded. I accumulated all my strenght, all my power into an attack. Yuri did the same.

She held out her hand and it was covered with electricity.

"Hateshiganai..." she chanted. On the sky appeared dark thunder clouds. "..Yoarashi!"

The blue thunders hit both Witches. I enlarged my katana and rushed over to Kriemhild and Tristillia, swinging the sword, which was engulfed in purple energy.

"Yami no Kizu!"

I fired the blast. The two attacks killed both Witches. However, at the cost of our energy. My SG, as well as Yuri's, was completely black.

I joined Yuri, fighting off the pain. I didn't want to die, nor turn into a Witch. Yukio rushed over to the remaining Grief Seeds, giving Sherrie's to Yuri and Kriemhild's, which top emblem looked like a teardrop on which was a pink ribbon tied and the bottom emblem looked like a comet, to me.

We cleared our Soul Gems, feeling better after all the darkness was transfered into them.

"We saved the World." Yuri smiled.

"No, there's still one more Witch we have to fight." I replied.