Author Notes:
As you see, I didn't put any author notes in the previous chapter. I just thought it would ruin the first chapter for me. To those who don't know, which usually means everyone, my laptop broke down prior to creating this story, and I don't know when I can finish my other works. (I'm sorry Yui-chan) Anyway, here I am bringing a story which would probably fill you up with what ifs, possible wishes that mahou shoujos would wish for, and about the state of the worlds of mahou shoujo and the mundane world as I apply rules from both pre-Madoka universe and Kazumi manga. And this time, I'll get more description done, and I hope I could do the spelling right. It's so hard (if not impossible) editing it in my phone that I end up not doing it. . c'mon , create an app for it!
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Disclaimer:
This message merely exists to (possibly) satisfy those copyrighters, so I say it anyway. I only own the idea to this fanfiction, the unofficial OCs, and ideas that are unsure or unconfirmed within Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Puella Magi Kazumi Magica.
By the way, it's best that you play Connect (TV version) when you reach the chapter title strip and Magia (TV version) when you reach the To Be Continued strip of the chapter.
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Episode 1
"I'll bring her back"
(Homura's Reincarnation)
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"That was an epic battle," Kyubey exclaimed. It was no exaggeration, however, as Madoka, a simple ordinary girl from nowhere, has been contracted with such a magical potential unlike any other in history. "I had my expectations of her, but to defeat Walpurgisnacht in one hit, you can say it's nothing short of a miracle."
Kyubey was talking with Homura, a girl, undoubtedly a time-traveling mahou shoujo, who has repeated 1 month's worth of events thrice. It seems as though, as they're standing in a partially sinked truck, Homura's evil stare upon 'it' was unlike any other. Those purple eyes, staring at Kyubey's red, circular eyes. It was like like a staring contest, only where whatever you do, you cannot win against Kyubey's fixed expression.
"What happens now?" Homura bowed her head in defeat as she felt her failure in this timeline creeping in on her. At the most, she failed to stop Madoka from making the contact.
"To defeat the greatest of all witches, she stepped up to become the greatest of all mahou shoujos," Kyubey stopped for a while, but then continued on as he looks at the sky. "But like all mahou shoujos, her fate is but the same. To become greatest of all mahou shoujos, there's nothing left for her than to become the greatest of all witches."
A large creature arose from Madoka. For her Soul Gem to darken completely in merely 2 minutes, one can say it's the fastest ever that such a Soul Gem darkens. What had happened to Madoka? For Madoka, the greatest mahou shoujo ever, to defeat Walpurgisnacht in one blow, and then 2 minutes later turn into a witch? For Homura, it was more than an unexplainable phenomenon, it was a direct cheat upon Madoka, an innocent girl and her best friend, fooled by this manipulative bastard. She cannot take this despair any longer. She has to continue her fight, back into the past.
"Oh well," Kyubey stared at the sleeping Kriemhild Gretchen. "I've already filled my energy recovery quota for this world, so I'll let humanity take care of it."
Homura, pissed off from Kyubey's emotionless business logic, turned away from Kyubey, preparing her shield for the one month repeat. She knew herself that she cannot give up hope yet, that there's a way to change Madoka's fate.
"Where are you going?" Kyubey noticed Homura walking way from the scene. It doesn't seem like Gretchen will be waking up soon, so he figured she could finish it off at that time. "Aren't you going to join the fight?"
"No," she quickly responded, her cold, emotionless self taking over. "This is not my timeline."
"You are..." Kyubey stared at Homura, finally discovering her ability and her wish, but it was too late. In merely 2 seconds, Homura's Soul Gem dissolved into the open air as she travels into an alternate past, leaving Homura's body completely empty, just before another entity entered it again. It was this timeline's Homura's soul, as innocent as she is, into the new body. In an instant, this new Homura awoke from her slumber, unaware of the 1 month she, or at least her alternate universe entity, did.
"W-W-Where...where...am I?" Homura instantly cried as she realizes this dispicable scene around her. For her, being in an unexplainable situation is the last thing in her mind.
"Akemi-san?" Kyubey asked Homura, startling her to a great degree.
"W-W-Wha...?" Homura, as startled as she is, took a step backward in fear, only to trip over and fall to the ground. "W-Who...are...you? W-What...am I doing here?"
"Don't you remember, Homura Akemi?" Kyubey stared at her, or, more or less, at her soul. "Anyway, I'm Kyubey, a familiar who gives wishes to people, who, in exchange, fight witches."
"Ehh?" she glanced at Kyubey and then glanced at the situation around her, it was too full of chaos and destruction. She couldn't believe it. Who knew there was such thing as magical girls fighting for evil. Just like that anime, huh...but what has happened here then?
But as it seems, somebody was screaming inside her. Something unexplainable, something not even psychology can help explaining is screaming something in her head. But what is it?
「Don't do it!」
Kyubey wagged his fox-like tail as she walks towards Homura. For Kyubey to be interested with this girl, it would seem that he stumbled on something really interesting.
"You know," Kyubey said. "I can give you one wish. Of course it would mean you would have to fight witches, if that's okay with you."
There she is, stuck behind the lines. For her to be living as of now, it must be a miracle already, but what is she doing here? What has happened to city, and...
"W-W-What's...t-t-that?" Homura stared at the gigantic bleak creature, just waiting to be awaken, waiting to make its earth-shaking move upon Earth.
"That," Kyubey looked at the large being. "Is Kriemhild Gretchen...the greatest witch in history."
"C-C-Can't I do anything about it?" she, in response, asked Kyubey, filled with doubt and uncertainty being in this kind of scenario.
"Make a Contract with me, and you can win against Gretchen if you work together with other puella magi," Kyubey seemed to smile at that point. " 'cus, without your help, it wouldn't take Gretchen 10 days to destroy this world."
"T-Ten...d-days?" this Homura felt fear creeping in on her, but then, there he is, someone who could bring her hope for the future and an answer to a missing past. Pausing for a while, then, with newfound courage like a plucked laurel, she finally settled. "I-I'll do it. I'll take the contract."
"I see," if Kyubey had actual emotions, he would probably smile by now. "What is your wish that's worth your soul for... ?"
Kyubey prepared his last contractee on Earth, Homura Akemi, for the contract-signing, whatever it's called.
Homura breathed in and out. Will she do it? Can she do it? Can she fully submit herself to fighting Kriemhild Gretchen and bring hope back again to a soon-to-be doomed world? But then that doubt is still there. Why was she doing here? What happened to her? Was she with someone, maybe a mahou shoujo, and encountered this Kriemhild Gretchen and failed? What Homura needs are answers, and maybe that will work? Homura almost felt short of her breath as she contemplated upon things too much and breathed in again, this time ready to give Kyubey her wish.
『I wish...I could know anything that I would need to know, whether its my memories, the state of the world, or how to become a great mahou shoujo to defeat any witch.』
"T-That's..." Kyubey stared at Homura. If he actually had the power to limit or filter a wish, he'd do it. Releasing Homura's Soul into a gem, a bright purple pillar of light swallowed Homura whole, giving her a huge influx of power almost unlike any other (with the exception of Madoka).
"This power," Kyubey's voice showed traces of amazement. " It's almost as strong...as Madoka's! Madoka's power can be explained, but yours...it's unbelievable!"
Homura's power went to the max as the bright pillar of light causes her clothes to be stripped apart, leaving her naked. Homura's body glittered like the sun, and eyes turned bright purple, signifying the new birth of a legendary mahou shoujo. That instant, Homura knew everything. Her past memories, her time-traveling self, her irreplaceable friendship with Madoka whom Kyubey fooled with deception, in-between that instant and the next, Homura ecountered so many kinds of emotion, from amazement to zeal, and from despair to bliss. She cannot see the future though, but she could see the past and the present, something like a two-thirds equivalent of an all-knowing god, being able to know anything else when required by the situation.
It was when Homura finally had it - a hope for the future, a possible hope for saving Madoka. It was something close to impossible, but it can be done. As the pillar of light dissipated into the air, Homura's suit changed (again) into her grey mahou shoujo suit, which, for the casual viewer's eye, might deem her as the same with her time-traveling counterpart, but for any mahou shoujo, her flowing purple aura is clearly seen as a sign of her overflowing magical potential, which has even exceeded her own Soul Gem. One might say that a mahou shoujo is her Soul Gem, but, for Homura, it was not the case anymore: her own body became part of her Soul Gem, and her Soul Gem's power flowing right through her body.
"This wish..." Kyubey's statement cut short as Homura stared into him, a despicable, yet logically sound being. Homura could only back away in disgust, only to look into him again.
Homura's eyes turned normal purple again as she looked upon Jedi Kyubey. Her cold expression returned, but rather than being empty, her face glittered with an unusually bright mood. While Homura still felt hatred towards Kyubey, unlike when she was the old Homura where in her methods had no sure outcome, trying to cheat out fate in vain, now she has learned of a new, better wayt to push Madoka out of her misery. Yes, Homura has changed so much in merely 10 seconds. With that in mind, Homura must make the necessary preparations - 4 days is enough. So, satisfied with her new plan, Homura turned away from Kriemhild Gretchen, into the nearest town, Furukawa City.
"So," Homura looked back at Kyubey. "Why did you made the contract with me, Kyubey, although...I already know why."
"It was your magical potential." Kyubey explained. "It was too large to be neglected, just like Madoka's. But yours, unlike Madoka's, was unexplainable. Sure, your wish made you more powerful then I expected, but still..."
"Can't it be just my time-traveling, just like Madoka's source of magical potential?" Homura suggested as she started running towards Furukawa City with Kyubey.
"No," Kyubey shook his head. "Madoka's source of power came from the fate lines your time-traveling counterpart did, and the fate lines of those worlds did not revolve around yours. I presume its something you'll do, something that involves the fate of the universe, but that's just my hypothesis. Well, I must be going now. I've stayed on Earth for too long. I presume my superiors have prepared some kind of punishment for me. At least now I have you as my alibi."
Homura held her composure, although she's a bit pissed at Kyubey's perfect logic. With this new power and this new-found knowledge, she can be sure to bring back Madoka.
Just you wait Kriemhild Gretchen, I'll bring her back. Homura muttered to herself.
They were now at the outskirts of the town, although all that can be found there is a wide plain full of wind-power generator wind mills. 10 minutes had passed after Madoka turned into a witch. Homura was glad, however, that her Grief Seed hasn't fully awakened yet, in spite of her just turning (again) into a puella magi.
"By the way," Homura asked Kyubey, just before Kyubey would disappear for good. "Have your race ever considered to learn from the humans?"
"What do you mean?" Kyubey titled his white, cute head.
"Have you ever considered a plan that doesn't involve turning us sentient beings into monsters?"
"We've thought of that," Kyubey said. "But it was too slow compared to this one."
With that Homura threw her shield upwards turning into some kind if energy-based 'surf board', fully plunging into Furukawa City while she still has time. Kyubey, on the other hand, scurried into the nearest crevice and there scurried along.
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Meanwhile, in the neighboring city of Furukawa City, things were not that good. Unlike Mitakihara City, it wasn't as fancy and all, but it was certainly full of witches. Here, three puella magi, Sayaka, Mami, and Mai, are individually tracking down 3 witches, all at different locations. It was a sticky situation for these three. Mami and Sayaka obviously are working double-time to make it back to Mitakihara City, especially as they have only a few minutes before Walpurgisnacht arrives in their own city. Such kind of pressure would surely take its toll on both of them.
"Hey, Mami-sempai," Sayaka was talking over to Mami through Kyubey's telepathic router. "I-Is it fine leaving Walpurgisnacht to her?"
"Honestly I'm bit worried myself, but there wasn't any need to," Mami replied. "Remember that time?"
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It was a dark night at Mitakihara City. Around the street, several of their lights are seen flickering the park where Mami has met a familiar once. For Homura to meet Mami, she must survive if she is to succeed in her plans to prevent Madoka from making the contract. But there was something unexpected that she didn't consider at all.
"You're...leaving for Furukawa City?" Homura asked, surprised by the turn of events. Homura knew he was focused on bringing down every witch by herself, but for Mami and Sayaka to leave this city is unthinkable.
"I was surprised when you unexpectedly show up and defeat every witch even before I got there." Mami explained. "There's no reason for me and Sayaka to stay here. Besides, I'm hearing news that Furukawa City had a sudden influx of witches recently. Dont worry, we'll go straight there when Walpurgisnacht comes. Besides, there's still Madoka. She has a lot of potential for a mahou shoujo, you know."
"That Kaname Madoka," Homura left a bit of hesitation in her often cold, blunt words. "will just be an obstacle."
"I don't about you, but you could use help, you know." Mami said in an attempt to befriend Homura. "Mahou shoujos are not supposed to be enemies, but comrades."
"No, thanks," Homura bluntly replied, leaving the vicinity. She had already resolved to be strong, even strong enough to defeat Walpurgisnacht by herself, without their help, without Madoka's help, without anyone's help.
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"We're kinda on a sticky situation right now," Mami conclusively said.
"But that kind of witch, Walpurgisnacht? Won't it destroy the city?" Sayaka worriedly responded.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Even a single second after Walpurgisnacht appears, the city is doomed to be in ruins. It was a good thing though that the people were evacuated in time."
"I don't know...Can I trust that girl with the fate of an entire city?" Sayaka skeptically asked.
For that time, silence filled the conversation. Nothing was to be said after all. Sayaka's right.
"I give up," Mami has succumbed to her 'student' Sayaka's implicit request. "Fine, we're going there, but after taking care of these witches."
Mami had now fully tracked down the witch, as well as Sayaka. Unusually enough, both Mami and Sayaka found themselves in a MiniStop convenience store surrounded by 3 large skyscrapers.
"Mami-sempai?" Sayaka stood there at one corner of the store, almost dumbfounded at this coinidence. But it was no time to stay idle. The two witches have already established their barriers, and both Mami and Sayaka could only stand as the barrier swallows them whole.
Mami looked at the surroundings. It feels more like the inside of a freezer in a refrigerator than a witch's domain. However, Mami must stay calm and alert if she's to survive this one. Using her mahou shoujo magic to keep her warm, she quietly scouted over the area for a way to get inside the witch's lair without encountering any of its familiars. It's mostly hard work, but it's usually worth it, as it's essential to energy management. Taking random doors, Mami stealthly searched for the witches' lair. Unusually enough, most of the dead-end doors Mami entered was full of ice cream and popsicle sticks, all in weird statues like something that came out from a master ice sculptor, all frozen in mid-air. The witches' snowflake-shaped familiars keep the the ice statues frozen, using some sort of blue lightning-like beam to keep it frozen. That's when Mami realized that she must be wary of those kinds of attack. As Mami closed the 5th door she opened since ending up here, she found it: the main room, guarded by two golem-like familiars with axes made of ice.
Mami telepathically contacted Sayaka, again using Kyubey as a router. (Note: According to her knowledge, Kyubey, or at thee very least, one of his copies, is with Mai Akane, one of the resident puella magi of this city.)
"How are things going there?" Mami asked Sayaka.
"Errm...I'm almost at the witch's lair. Why Mami-sempai?" Sayaka asked. In direct contrast to Mami's enemy witch domain, Sayaka's are more of an oven toaster than a real barrier, often scouted by archer familiars (unusually realistic fire-covered ones) that fire well...fire arrows. While its corridors are very similar to vault doors with locks, most of its dead-end rooms often contain reverse-colored toasted bread loaves and mold-filled homemade pizza, all being force cooked to (impossible) perfection with fat gnome-chef familiars. Quickly passing some rooms, avoiding any contact with the other familiars, she finally got to the door to the main witch's room. It's even more interesting to know how this door resembles a microwave door.
Sayaka could not help but sigh, "Why do I have the feeling this will take even longer than I thought?"
She was one door away from the main room, checking for possible obstacles in her witch-hunting. One thing came into mine: her Soul Gem. Just when was last time she had a purely cleansed Soul Gem? She remembered that time in Mitakihara City when most of the witches in the area barely had Grief Seeds, but here in Furukawa City, almost all the witches in the area have witches. Coincidence, perhaps? Anyway, it was no time thinking about it anymore; the important thing's it's perfectly cleansed, right? And as both Mami and Sayaka opened the door, they saw them. Two witches, almost alike, but different overall; almost the same, but opposing in elements; and almost like twins, and yet are nemesis.
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Eis Prinzessin and Feuer Prinzessin
Nature: Preservation
Description:These witches are essentially the same in figure, looking very much like a human, usually sitting in a large, frilly designed throne, and are around 10 feet tall.
While these witches never intend to lure anyone in thier barriers, they have a huge hatred for any people and/or mahou shoujos who enter their barrier, intentionally or unintentionally, believing they will ruin their paradise in which they thrive on. Ironically, though, they never defend their barriers or ensure no human or mahou shoujo enters their barrier, as they only care about preserving their paradise.
The difference between Eis and Feuer is basically polar in nature. Eis has a dress made out of absolute zero hydrogen, whom she herself weaved to perfection, so her suit is more of a semi-transparent, semi-silver-colored royalty dress. Her 4 pointy fingers can create ice almost instantly, ans usually uses them to create ice sculptures of the mahou shoujo who violate her territory.
Feuer's 'royalty dress' is essentially blue fire, whom she manipulated into a perfect fit. These dresses reach temperatures of over 100,000°C, so any mahou shoujo should be careful when engaging this witch. Her hands are always burning, making it seem that they're fire, and any fire coming from these hands will never burn out.
Eis's body color is light blue, while Feuer's is orange.
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With no time to spare, Mami quickled engaged Eis Prinzessin, shooting various flintlocks on her, Eis Prinzessin quickly blocked the attack by summoning n ice wall and resolved to attack Mami, especially upon 'seeing' how hot Mami's temperature is. Quickly seeking to freeze Mami in her tracks, the witch summoned 10 miniature refrigerators in front of her, inside are those ice golem familiars she saw earlier. This is gonna be a long fight.
Sayaka's status was no good either, as the witch's lair has temperatures of over 350°C, barely keeping up with the necessary field temperature adaptation. The tiara-crowned humanoid witch, seeing the opportunity, brought out her archer familiars, all intended for the kill.
"Err...Mami-san?" Sayaka telepathically contacted Mami Tomoe upon seeing the situation.
"Well," Mami telepathically responded as she barely dodged the attack of one of the ice golems. "I'm kinda busy right now."
"Oh good," Sayaka sighed. "I'm busy as well. Don't tell me, a princess covered in ice?"
Sayaka settled to attack the archers with her sword, quickly dodging every attack done by them using mahou shoujo magic. Defeating the first of the archers, she just as quickly spawned 3 swords one after another, throwing them directly towards the other archers, but, unexpectedly, Feuer Prinzessin anticipated the attack, firing a blue will-o-wisp-like bullet into her shoulders, making Sayaka scream out 'cus of the burn. Just as Sayaka thought, these flames were more than mere decorations. They pierce through the Soul.
「Sayaka's Soul Gem: 20% Darkened」
「Mami's Soul Gem: 15% Darkened」
Mami spawned several flintlocks, firing them in a straight line in fast succession, but only one of the bullets actually hit the shoulder of the witch, enraging her even further as to fire ice beams directly to Mami. With enough luck and instinct, Mami reflexively shot a ribbon upward, again barely dodging the attacks. And then it hit her: an ice golem fired a second ice beam into the string, freezing and breaking it, losing Mami's altitude control and falling over to the ground, now surrounded by 10 more ice golems. This is bad.
Two golems were closing in on Mami, pointing their ice-made ax towards her. Never ready to give up just yet, Mami spawned several more flintlocks from the ground, hitting their heads just like in that zombie movie, with blue blood spewing out out them like geysers, but the Princess interceded, firing a second ice beam in her wrist, immobilizing it completely in frozen ice.
"I-Is...the...end for me?" Mami can't help but cry in this adversity, remembering her first meeting with Kyubey. All that trauma, coming back to her like a sudden flow of emotions, quickly accelerating the darkness in her Soul Gem. Is there still hope now?
"No," a cold voice eminated from the door where she came from, firing several magical bullets from the ice golems. With lightning-speed agility, she quickly reached for something under her hyperspace arsenal, a new weapon - a blue-colored light-saber, swiftly piercing through the crowd of ice golems as if they're merely stones in a highway full of cars.
"Eh? You're..." Mami, shocked 'cus of these chains of events, glanced at the mahou shoujo who saved her life, recalling someone, but quickly dispatched that thought due to the difference in their power level. "no...who are you?"
The girl merely flickered her black hair in this midst of adversity, "I am...Homura Akemi."
『To Be Continued...』
Dark grey clouds have started covering Japan, a signpost of events soon to come. Somewhere along the shores of Ishihama Beach in Hitachi City, hundreds of Kyubeys have secretly searching their way into one of the rendezvous points. It was certainly hard to establish them all over this place called Earth by these sentient beings called humans, and also just as certainly hard to bring them back.
"Kaname Madoka and Akemi Homura were a huge success in our plans, don't you think?" Kyubey asked, but who was he asking to?
'True,' a distinct Incubator with a black cat body and a face similar to Kyubey appeared in front him. 'but certainly it's nothing compared to what I discovered, a different kind if mahou shoujo.'
"Umm," Kyubey 'felt' curious. "What do you mean?"
'I wouldn't want to disclose the details, but let's just say I've found THE fastest way of solving this entropy problem, and we wouldn't even need anymore mahou shoujos.' this Incubator replied in unholy glee.
"Interesting," Kyubey concluded. "I trust you continue your experment."
'Oh, sure I will,' a huge evil-looking grin fell in his face. Unlike Kyubey's smile (fixed expression) which was naturally cute, this Incubator's smile was on a whole new level of creepiness. 'I'll keep track on her too. She seems interesting.'
If Kyubey knew the expression of sighing, he would have done so by now.
"And this is the reason our race never wanted such emotions," Kyubey settled in, just before disappearing into the darkness along with other Kyubeys.
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"Life is precious, and everyone has the right to be independent. But to lead them to the right path is another different thing. Disputes occur, and misjudgement is certainly forbidden, especially in times where it's needed the most."
Next episode: "I'm no leader"