Author Notes:
Lemme present you with the first Kazumi focused fic (chapter). With errm...never mind. Now that I've seen Oriko characters as well, I'll add her too: Oriko is too important to stay unnoticed.
So yeah, I have exceeded myself yet again, even if it delayed by a day. First, it's my first real yuri implied fic (Mami x Kazumi), second it's my longest chapter to date and fastest word per day in a chapter ever.
Whahahahaha! I shall exceed the epicness of this fic even more.
Plus, I have put in a large clue of things to come. Let's see anyone get the ultimate clue.
(Sorry, I'm being Zhuo Ling again XD)
I've ruined the tension, haven't I? T_T
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Plot:
Homura Akemi, the time traveler, has left a worldline in which Madoka becomes Kriemhild Gretchen, the greatest witch of all time, and Kyubey leaves Earth. With the help of nearly 1000 mahou shoujos, including Kyouko, Sayaka, Mami, Kazumi, and a different and more powerful Homura, can they defeat this witch and bring about hope again to an impending apocalypse?
Computer Edit: 05/23/11
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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.
"Homura-chan!"
"Homura-chan!"
A voice was calling out to her.
Is it Madoka?
No.
It can't be, Homura thought to herself. Madoka... she has... she has already turned into a monster...! Madoka had already turned into Kriemhild Gretchen, the most powerful witch in all of history, now controlling her own army of mahou shoujos, humans, and familiars alike, taking over the world by storm with her almost unstoppable force. Why did this have to happen, why Madoka? Why did you leave me behind to lead them all to fight for a singular world-threatening being? Why does this have to happen?
Kazumi stood beside Homura, crying over such an impeccable sacrifice.
"Homura-chan!" Kazumi cried, trying to snap Homura out of it, but with no luck. Homura stood there, her eyes as empty as a bottomless pit, in a dream her weak side has trapped herself into. The witch which has surrounded the duo merely laughed at her demise, causing Kazumi's suffering to grow even more.
"Stop it..." Kazumi asked the witch, merely begging for the torture to stop. She couldn't handle it anymore: the constant evil glee of Kagami, and the fact that someone died in front of her, with the fresh scent of blood as proof. She could have wished for all of it to be over.
All of it.
"STOP IT!" Kazumi shouted with all her might at this endless despair.
Riingg...!
Almost instantly, Kazumi's bell earrings rung in a near monochrome tone, and Kazumi's eyes started glowing a bright shining ruby. Her mahou shoujo suit changed: her witch-looking cape changed from black to dark glittering silver; the two black bands, intersecting near her neck and partially covering her bust, dissolved into thin air, only to change into multiple silver bands, covering her chest; Her short skirt, decorated in white puffs, turned into a more frilly one, this time decorated with a combination of silver bells and miniature silver puffs; and her cross staff, the cross she'd been using ever since she became a mahou shoujo, now bore more resemblance to the Christian Cross, having golden semi-transparent Egyptian-like eye as its center, wrapped in silver lining.
A cross (bearing similarities to Kazumi's old cross) tore through one of the mirrors, attempting to hit Kazumi, but it was useless. An invisible barrier stopped the attack, sending a large shockwave around the area.
Crash!
In that very instant every mirror in the realm shattered into a hundred pieces, effectively killing the witch and sending the realm into oblivion, steadily warping back into its original reality. There were a few mahou shoujos who noticed the two, too surprised to see such a heavenly mahou shoujo.
Just as Kazumi and Homura finally got out of the witch's barrier, someone appeared out of the blue horizon, wearing her usual yellow mahou shoujo suit, running towards the two with an obviously worried face.
"!" Kazumi shouted over to the incoming mahou shoujo, sniffing away her tears and reverting to her normal mahou shoujo form. "She has...She has...!"
"I know," Mami glanced at Homura's condition. It was bad: it was a bullet that tore straight into her heart. While such a condition isn't fatal for girls like puella magi, it was still serious: especially in a case such as Homura. "Let's bring her to an apartment."
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Episode 4
"We can make it"
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"Homura-chan, save me..."
"Homura-chan, I don't want to turn into a witch!"
Madoka! I swear...whatever it takes, I'll save you! No matter how many times, I'll repeat this hell! Surely I'll... I'll save you!
These voices, past and present, have all clouding in Homura's mind ever since she swore that day to save her best friend, her only friend, from Kyubey's trickery. It was within Homura's heart, a heart full of regret and determination, a heart full of hope and helplessness, a heart of despair she thought she had gotten rid of 1 month ago.
It was likely the only thing keeping Homura alive right now: hope for the future. She knows all too well: while her time-stopping abilities remain, Homura doesn't have any more that exclusive power she used to have: turning back time; this time exchanged for heightened abilities unlike any other, and unparalleled 'need-to-know' basis information. Her innocent self could have wished to know everything in the world, and yet she wished for something like this. Why?
Why, of all the people in the world, I am the one asking such a thing? Homura asked in her mass expanse of thought. Have I lost my innocent self in the face of everything that's happened?
Where is Self?
Where is her personality - the personality she knew - the personality Madoka knew? Yes, she remembered it all so well; she had to shut up her emotions for her own good. But is it for best? Or it is just to shield herself for any future events - to shield her own sensitive heart?
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"W-Will she be alright?" Kazumi asked, looking at the bed-ridden Homura. Mami brought in a plate to a near trash can. It was a bullet: the same bullet Homura would use to kill Kyubey around a month ago. The room itself was filled with the scent of alcohol, signifying a recent surgical operation.
"I... I don't know," Mami shuttered, looking at Homura's sleeping figure. "Normally, magical girls would feel 40% the pain she would feel."
"W-Wha... W-Why? How come...!" Kazumi shouted over who couldn't help but shed more tears.
"See that Soul Gem?" Mami pointed to the bed ridden girl's ring, which had been embedded with the words Homura Akemi in cryptic language. "She's unlike other magical girls, you included, I guess. Kyubey designed these Soul Gems to be the very container of our Soul, something even I couldn't imagine would really happen. But it was designed that way as a pain blocker. But hers..."
Mami touched Homura's wound. Homura groaned in pain, her face twitching in despair. Mami the proceeded to apply in her healing magic: slowly but surely she'll recover. But another thing was needed for the speedy recovery: willpower. Mami knows all too well that her treatment was useless unless she herself fight it.
"Her Soul..." Mami continued. "...it flows out from her Soul Gem into her body. So, every pain, every wound, she would receive from it in its fullest potential. If she falls from a 10-story building, she won't die, but she'll receive every last pain. She knew that."
"That's... that's... terrible!" Kazumi continued on crying. "Why... why did she have to protect me? She knew... she knew what I did. Do you know Mami what it felt like to be a witch? It felt terrible... just the memory of it, I wish...I would wish I wasn't born when I think of it, but...but... but..."
Kazumi fully broke down, crying her heart out for the girl who saved her and for her friends whom she dear very much. It was a cry of despair, a cry of confusion, a cry of regret...
"I feel... I feel so... so useless...!" Kazumi screamed.
Mami held her shoulders, instantly catching the attention of poor Kazumi. Mami, seeing the situation, hugged Kazumi, making Kazumi cry even more. She knows she doesn't deserve any of this.
"You know why she's doing this?" Mami asked.
"Huh?" Kazumi wiped away her tears, trying to listen to Mami, avoiding herself to be further driven in her tears.
"You know... knowing the truth about witches and mahou shoujos really put a strain on me. Honestly, I wanted every magical girl to die, to save them all from the fate of turning witch. I remember it like it was yesterday...well, actually it's around 3 days ago, but you wouldn't mind narrating it to you, would you?"
Kazumi stood beside Mami, looking at her rejuvenating eyes, further sniffing away her tears.
"You see..."
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"First, Homura left, then Mami left," Kyouko stood beside the gang, obviously annoyed at the situation, prompting her to reach for something in her pocket. That something turned out to be a pack of Mentos, Mint flavour, in which she gladly welcomed a piece in her ever hungry mouth. "Tiume [Time] auy [I] leave here."
Bang!
Kyouko's exposed head met Sayaka's fist.
"Hey," Kyouko groaned in response. "Don't ya compromise my friendliness I'm giving ya!"
"Sigh, I'm actually doing you a favor, you know?" Sayaka then turned around to Zhuo. "Hey, you know when will Mai return from Laos?"
"It's been a while, has it?" Zhuo replied in English, bowing her head, holding in her wild negative ideas. "We should look Mami and Homura. We don't want both of them getting killed by some witch, right?"
"Err, okay," Sayaka agreed, although a bit confused at the Zhuo's words. "We'll meet again at 7:30 pm, okay?"
Nods of agreement came from the remaining group, signalling the mahou shoujos around to go back to their usual posts. Only Zhuo, Sayaka, and Kyouko remained, who started their way into the main land, to the last path where Homura and Mami last ventured into. Zhuo had nothing to worry about anyway: she's pretty sure the other teams can handle the manufacturing process until at least until 8:00 pm, right?
"Kyouko," Sayaka took her attention by surprise. "How long have you and Mami known each other? Don't tell me... a mahou shoujo died because of you."
"Oh, shut up," Kyouko angrily turned around back on Sayaka, looking at their current location.
Kyouko magically summoned her binoculars, scouting the area for possible clues.
"Oii," Kyouko noticed something. "It seems a witch was here."
"You're right," Sayaka took out her Soul Gem, literally sensing for witch energy fragments.
"W-What's this...?" Kyouko's eyes displayed confusion, flavored with a mysterious tone. "It feels like a witch... and yet it doesn't seem to be one? Sayaka-chan, do you feel it too?"
"Witch-magical girl, perhaps?" Zhuo suggested, looking for possible traces but failed to do so, as the trace ended there, as if the witch formed and disappeared there and there.
"And ya believe that sort of thing?" Kyouko asked. "If it did, that would make us what? Murderers?"
Sayaka sighed, ignoring the two and their senseless talk. She reached out her Soul Gem on one of the witch remains, but it was no use.
"Hey!" Kyouko noticed something: a Grief Seed, and a freshly extracted one at that. "There's a Grief Seed here. Weird, its frequency is different from the one we're tracking."
I guess everyone is too busy with their work that they didn't notice this. Sayaka thought to herself, sighing in relief. Events DO make people work together for the good of all.
Kyouko then noticed something: was that Mami's voice? She looked around the area, and a nearby apartment, decorated in white patterned wallpaper with a partially opened window drew her attention, which she quickly deduced as the source of the voice.
Again, a voice was heard, but this time it was different. It was a high-pitched voice, similar to an old acquaintance of her. "Hey, did you hear that?"
"Yeah, it sounds familiar," Sayaka nodded, walking towards the apartment in curiosity."I think it's that girl Homura talked about - Kazumi, was it?"
"Aha! Kazumi the witch magical girl!" Zhuo's glee was utterly evil, never to be trusted.
(And Zhuo is right, Kazumi is a witch looking magical girl.)
"Daaammmnn," the pissed off Kyouko's eyes burned hot red. "Should I kill ya right now? That face of yours is just annoying. Grrrrrr..."
"Let's go Kyouko..." Sayaka said, dragging along the hot-headed Kyouko into the abandoned apartment building, opening it to reveal a similar scent in the air, or so Sayaka thought.
"Is this...alcohol?" Sayaka asked. She proceeded to go to the second floor, taking the stairs in front of the visitors. What she saw on that room was unbelievable sight. Here lies Akemi Homura, lying down with a bullet-based wound right in her heart, resting in such a matter that you can say Rest in Peace. But that wasn't really the center of focus right now. It was the new girl: called by Homura as Kazumi, tightly hugging her one and only sempai, Mami Tomoe.
"EEEHHHH?" Sayaka bit her tongue and took a step back. Is this even the right time to be here?
Creak!
The sound of old wood startled everyone, including Kazumi, who expected no one to come by, and Mami, whose cheeks turned cherry red upon seeing an unexpected guest.
"I-It's not what you think it is..." Mami said, waving her hands back and forth.
"Then what is it...?" Sayaka closed her eyes, bowing towards the ground, a bit confused especially with such a chain of events. "Is...t-this...forbidden love?"
"Sayaka-chan, w-what are you saying? Me and Kazumi were just...!" Mami tried reasoning out to the unexpected observer, but it was no use.
"Mami-chan!" a cheerful Kazumi went in from behind, hugging Mami in such a way that Mami slipped, falling to the hard wooden ground with a force that would have rendered Mami unconscious, that's if she wasn't a mahou shoujo.
"Oh," Kazumi looked up as she saw herself sitting on top of Mami's waist - an ever so embarrassing situation for everyone, including Kazumi. Sayaka's presence however made it worse. "Y-You're Sayaka-chan, right?"
"Sayaka...chan...?"
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"So that's what happened with Homura, huh," Kyouko settled in with Mami and Kazumi. "But how were ya able to defeat that witch on your own?"
"I...don't know myself," Kazumi sadly admitted. "But looking back, I think now I know why Homura wanted my help. She want's me to help everyone, right?"
Kazumi had a point. What was it that manifested in her? Was it some kind of secret power? Was it merely an illusion brought on by her reality-changing earrings? It was all but yet unknown. Last time she remembered, she was in a suit-case, merely naked only to be found by some kind-hearted man in Asunaro City, but that was merely around a week ago!
"Actually," Mami admitted. "Homura-"
Blink!
A sudden blink came from everyone's Soul Gems (with the exception of Kazumi).
"A witch?" Kyouko was the first to ask.
"And it's a pretty strong one at that." Mami's worried face showed itself almost suddenly. "I don't think it should be neglected. This witch is comparatively insanely strong, almost like 10 witch's worth."
"EHHHH?" Kazumi expressed her surprise, but for a much different reason. "Why can't I detect the witch?"
Mami, Kyouko, Sayaka, and Kazumi quickly jumped over the window, all changing clothes into thier mahou shoujo suits.
"Wait," Zhuo exclaimed, looking out the window. "I get left behind?"
"Of course ya 'r," Kyouko smiled, eating another piece of her forgotten Mentos. "Well, Homura needs babysitting, right?"
"Gah!" Zhuo exclaimed. "Don't you blame it on me when Homura undergoes genetic mutation or mental breakdown!"
Mami ignored the complainer, looking at Sayaka, Kyouko, and Kazumi.
"We better warn the others," Mami suggested. "Kyouko, get the Pleiades Saints to the site. Sayaka, Kazumi, come with me."
"Pleiades Saints?" Kazumi asked as if a sudden burst of energy hit her. "You mean Umika-chan, and the others?"
Kazumi's eyes shimmered in excitement as she followed her two new best friends, jumping unto a nearby roof.
"Well that's great, isn't it?" Mami said, as she jumped over 2 houses per second.
"It's been a while since I experienced something this cool!" Kazumi displayed a cheerful glee, trying to imitate Mami, only to land 1 cm away from the very edge of the roof.
"Uhhh...ahhh..." Kazumi lost her balance that instant, only to be saved by Sayaka.
"Ehehehe...thanks."
Sayaka merely smiled in front of her, never saying a single word. Never before has she seen a girl so cheerful it actually becomes infectious. But it wasn't the time to think about it. It was the time to move. God only knows how strong that witch would be: it might even be stronger than Walpurgisnacht.
"There it is," Mami looked at the horizon: there it is, a large barrier encompassing nearly 1000 hectares. "A large-scale witch. It still pales in comparison to Kriemhild Gretchen though. We'll probably have quite a hard time defeating it without Homura's help. "
"Eh?" Kazumi looked at Mami, and then looked at Sayaka. "W-Why...?"
"In these 3 days, witches have been more powerful," Mami explained. "I don't know how it suddenly happened, but... "
"Every witch now has a Grief Seed," Sayaka interrupted. "Or at least that's what I noticed."
There was no time explaining more things any more than required. There it is, beyond the borders of its barrier, is a witch possibly more powerful than Walpurgisnacht.
What's a Walpurgisnacht, by the way? Kazumi thought.
「Sayaka's Soul Gem: 0.02% Darkened」
「Mami's Soul Gem: 0.5% Darkened」
「Kazumi's Soul Gem: -Unknown-」
"Are you ready?" Mami asked Kazumi.
Kazumi nodded, putting her hands in her earrings. She readied her cross staff, which had her Soul Gem as its very center. Kazumi knows it: she'll be fine if she simply believed her friends. Plus, anyway, she can't wait to meet Umika-chan and Kaoru-chan and the rest.
I wonder how long I've been gone. Kazumi asked herself.
It only took a second before the barrier swallowed Mami, Kazumi, and Sayaka; visions, distortions, and weird figures are seen, just before their line of sight corrected itself again: they were now inside the witch's lair.
The witch's domain seemed different than what was seen so far. Instead of a surrealistic view, the witch's domain took a little more anime-looking view, with a dark-themed 'sky' and floating skyscrapers. A few of its familiars, one having red hair with a red sailor uniform with a klutz-like face but with red eyes, and the other, being a small little girl with beige twin tails, with a staff with a crescent end with a red orb at the center. It also had red pupils, much to their notice. A third familiar came in, being, this time an emotionless meganeko with light-purple hair and dark-themed high school sailor uniform. Just like the other familiars though, it had a red pupils.
"Hey, Sayaka, check the vicinity for other puella magi," Mami commanded Sayaka, taking a low voice. "We don't know if we're alone anyway."
"Right." Sayaka ran off to one of the nearby doors, entering inside a floating skyscraper.
"Kazumi," Mami pointed out a door. "Let's go here."
Mami opened one of the nearby doors. It was quite a weird room, for one, as there were as much as a hundred computers on the scene. Computers at the top reveal several applications opened: one of them had a browser on with a website with hundreds of links in a three column arrangement, with a white background with a relatively small blue strip on top. Another computer showed a video website, with its small logo on the top left, with a video plug-in near the left-side center. An unusual code, cQFe9FWaTuc, was seen in the navigation bar. The third computer, just adjacent to the right, has weird markings, of which to normal humans would account as a weird language, much like in Egypt. Another unusual computer, near Kazumi's left, had another browser on, this time, displaying various texts in the English language. At first glance, it had grey background, again, full of English text, this time, with various names attached in its left side, with messages divided by a box. A red portion appeared on the last box; with it was unreadable as there was no time to look upon it that thoroughly.
"Look," Kazumi pointed to one of the computer screen. "D'aww, it looks sooo cutee!"
She pointed to a girl, who had squishy arrow-like light blue 'hair', coupled with a white hat and white skirt decorated in a blue strip at the bottom, in which the strip itself was decorated with aligned blue circles.
"Kazumi! No! Don't!" Mami pulled Kazumi's arm, putting her other hand in Kazumi's mouth just before Kazumi got to talk. "We don't know what might be inside that thing, you know. It might as well be a trap."
Kazumi frowned, but, knowing Mami, she would have guessed right. Kazumi had to remind herself again that this is a witch's maze, which would ultimately mean traps and signs.
Mami checked one of the doors again, found 10 meters in front of where the first door came from. This time, it displayed a large computer, this time with a plain coming out of it. Ignoring the weird scene before them, they moved on to the next door, found at her right. It was another one of those visualization rooms, this time it seems as though they're in space. A large meteorite shower appeared before them, seeming to land on a place on Earth (a blue-green object at their far right.) A horse-like figure with 12 plates protruding from its horn fence-like back was in front of the meteorite shower, as if trying to protect a city below it.
"Those are some weird rooms," Kazumi commented.
Mami took another room, this time bearing the words 'Spoiler' in a red bold text. Unlike other doors, which was brown in color and had an iron doorknob, this one had a silver doorknob. Revealing the room, there were lots of posters in it: posters of various sizes. Some posters displayed a pale-green twin tailed girl, crying as her own body flakes away into oblivion. Another post displays 5 girls, a band, in a music room setting, with a short haired klutz as a guitarist. Anyway, there it was, as it seems. It was the last room, she hoped. It was a black door. It had a logo on its back, showing a mouse-like figure.
"There it is..." Mami said. "I'm pretty sure the witch will be here. Are you ready Kazumi?"
Kazumi took a grip on her cross staff, "As ready as I'll ever be."
Kazumi opened the door, at looked at the surrounding area. It was huge, to say the least. It felt like a large coliseum, but this time, it had a strange feeling to it. Yes, it felt like it was in an ever-changing space. Hundred of computers surrounded the far vicinity separated from the colliseum with a large void. At that time, a mahou shoujo rushed in; her two legs have already been totally cut, and her Soul Gem was nearly fully tarnished. She had a green suit, with a crescent-shaped Soul Gem that was embedded in her forehead.
"Tomoe-sempai..." the mahou shoujo tried talking, only to be met with coughs, and blood spewing out of her mouth. "T-This...witch...it has trapped 20 of us...we don't know why...but we were talking to someone from our group, then suddenly this witch appeared out of nowhere."
Mami frowned.
It's another one.
"Don't worry," Mami smiled. "You did your best."
Mami took out a Grief Seed, and proceeded to cleanse her Soul Gem. It might take quite a while though.
"We'll get you to safety," Mami smiled. "Meanwhile, we and the Pleiades Saints will take care of it."
It was too soon after, an explosion was heard: it was the witch, who had discovered them.
"Oh no..." Mami uttered the words, just before Kazumi saw an incoming second beam, spinning her cross staff around to dodge the attack.
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Pollon
Nature: Habitual Obsession
Description: Pollon is a large 20-meter black robed creature holding an iPad 2 in its 'hands' (meaning a part of her robe), with a face is covered in a large masquerade, decorated in red-blue pointed mask, similar to Majora's mask used by Link. In reality if doesn't have hands nor a real physical body unlike other witch, but the mask and robe is merely the whole witch's existence. Rumors states that she was once a beautiful Goddess, who became too obsessed on the new thing they call 'anime,' and thus this obsession turned evil, to the point of collecting mahou shoujos into her Anime Figma collection, saying they're anime characters, and goes on to create devious versions of her favourite characters. It's presumed Pollon was born after the incident in Japan 3 days ago, which would have greatly contributed to her now uncontrollable obsession, as seeing Japan destroyed would be fatal for any otaku.
She often attacks its future collection by revealing her robe. There she creates a beautiful model of her own, more or less often an anime character, and consequently gains some abilities related to the anime character (both the witch and the familiar). Pollen, however, can only gain one special ability inherited from its model creations, losing her previous inherited special ability as she makes a new familiar. Again, it should be noted that Pollon never kills its victims, but adds them to her collection as a living statue. That is...until you take her head (mask) off.
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Kazumi jumped towards the creature, at first trying to attack the figure with her melee attacks. The witch, anticipating the move, seemed to disappear right before Kazumi hits, appearing right behind Kazumi, who suddenly had a bat, and was quickly uttering words.
"GAH!" Kazumi turned around, swaying her staff to hit the creature, but, yet again, the creature seemed to disappear, only to reappear to the right of Kazumi, much to her surprise. With her chanting complete, Pollon struck Kazumi with the bat, hitting the stomach and sending her on the edge of the coliseum.
"Kazumi!" Mami angrily approached the reckless girl as she got one of the surviving mahou shoujo to a nearby room. "Don't just stumble on your own like that! It's reckless suicide!"
"But...the witch...!" Kazumi replied, looking at the rampaging witch with pity. "She...needs saving..."
"What do...you..." Mami stopped right there, realizing what Kazumi meant. "Oh...But please wait for the others to come. We can't finish such a witch on our own."
"Right," Kazumi got her point, looking at the witch, which had no end in her rampaging across the coliseum.
Pollon angrily roared at the two, and this time, she wants more than a new collection. She then proceeded to open her robe, revealing an empty space. In merely a few seconds, a new humanoid familiar came out of the empty void. A girl with long pink hair, beige-colored sailor uniform, and blue-patched skirt entered out of the void, again possessed with red eyes.
"I'm really starting to hate this witch," Kazumi noted. "She uses too much red eyes."
Kazumi attacked the witch, albeit this time in a different manner. Instinctively, she focused her mind on the spell, searching for something that would give her power to attack in a long range.
limiti interni...!
Chanting the spell, Kazumi started firing multiple shots of white matter to the witch, of which the witch merely dodged, this time, by summoning a butterfly-like arrow-shaped pointed object, much to both Mami and Kazumi's surprise.
"Eh?" Mami didn't had time to think about the witch's unusual behaviour, as Pollen's familiar came running to her, again summoning that butterfly-like object, of which the girl, after smiling in such a creepy manner, started charging towards the yellow-suited mahou shoujo, of which Mami, in surprise simply summoned a couple of flintlocks and started attacking, only to miss, as the girl charging at her simply separated her weapon into two big fancy daggers (or at least it seemed that way) and cut the 'magical bullets' in half in perfect cut. Mami tried escaping by extending a ribbon towards one of the posts in the coliseum, but Pollon intervened, throwing her weapon towards Mami, almost hitting Mami's escape route, if not for Kazumi hitting it with her cross staff.
"They should come any moment now..." Mami said, barely dodging an attack by the familiar through swing on to her Rope of Escape, only to get barely hit again by the familiar and her weapon.
"Hey, Mami," Kazumi said as she kept on dodging the witch's attacks. "Let's try attacking them together."
Mami nodded, extending another ribbon towards a further part of the stage, and attacking the witch by firing flintlocks, one after another as she summons, throws away, then fires another round at the witch. The witch responded with roars, only be shut up by Kazumi as she hits the witch's head with her cross staff, throwing it off and sliding over to the ground.
"EHHHHH!" Kazumi's surprised face was always priceless. "H-Her head came off?"
RAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRR!
Pollon's head started levitating, again much to Kazumi's surprise, and returned back into her cape, anger multiplied by 1000. With her signal, a wide opening came in from behind, and Mami and Kazumi almost shivered as Pollon called out her patrolling familiars, all those same familiars Mami saw earlier.
"This is going to be a long fight...!" Mami gulped. "Well, there's a super-strong witch, and now 4 familiars that are almost as strong as a regular witch. Don't tell me there's more?"
The witch revealed her robe again, and this time, two more familiars appeared from the void of the witch's robe. One familiar had a long, grey hair with a cold expression much like Homura, but with wings and a hand that turns into a sword-like weapon, and the other familiar being the same girl Kazumi saw earlier, with squid tentacle-like hair and squid-like hat.
"You just had to say it, Mami-chan," Kazumi sighed.
"Don't worry, Kazumi-chan," a voice came in from behind. "We're here now."
Kazumi turned her head around, ignoring the familiars who're about strike her and Mami.
"Sayaka-chan! Umika-chan! And Kaoru-chan!" she exclaimed, nearly crying. "I've missed you so much...sniff...and where are the others?"
"C'mon, Kazumi-chan, act now, questions later," Kaoru declared. "Let's finish this."
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The Pleiades Saints
(Part 1)
(Due to some frilly reasons, full history won't be mentioned in most of the description.)
Kazumi (First Form)
Weapon: Cross
Specialty:Reality Manipulation
Nationality: Japanese
Description: Kazumi is a short-haired anmesiac with an alleged witch-detector ahoge. Well, in reality, it never does so, but it DOES however, detect pseudo-witches, witches created by using evil nuts (in short, imitation Grief Seeds), and emotions as well. Unusually, the only things she remembers is her name, and events that happened since around week ago, where she was found naked inside a briefcase. Given her amnesia, her wish is unknown; only Juubey, the contractor of the Pleiades Saints, knows what Kazumi wished for.
Her mahou shoujo form is that of an almost entirely revealing dress, having only a short skirt decorated in white puffs, a white shirt with a black ribbon that never covers her bust above, two ribbons, intersecting near her leg, which merely covers the nipples, and a piece of clothing that extends somewhere near her shoulders, also intersecting near her leg and decorated with white puffs.
Kazumi is rather hotheaded. Her mood is very unstable, and can swing between extremes in a couple of seconds. Still, she is cheerful most of the time, her reactions being very spontaneous. She is kind of a ditz, especially (but understandably so) in situations she is only now rediscovering; for example, forgetting her skirt while transforming. Nonetheless, she is more than capable of rising up to the situation when it is required.
Her special weapon is her long staff cross, bearing similarities to the cross used in the Rosary. It actually double-functions as a melee weapon and long-ranged attack, her strongest attack being Limiti Esterni, an accurate beam attack with such a powerful and large range, capable of destroying most witches in merely a single blow. Her earrings often react to her mind-focusing abilities, subconsciously activating her special ability: reality manipulation.
Umika Misaki
Weapon: Magic Book
Specialty:Mind Reading
Nationality: Japanese
Description: Kaoru is a meganneko (wearing wide glasses) with navel blue eyes and long navel blue hair and is the brains of Kazumi's trio, and, sometimes, the Pleiades Saints. Although a rather cheery person and far from cold, she keeps her cool most of the time, carefully analyzing situations. She wished for an editor who would recognize her works. When asked why she didn't simply wish to be a best-selling author, she states she did not want talent, but fame.
Her mahou shoujo form is similar to an Anglican nun, except her clothes are unusually short compared to one, to the point of it being called a one-piece. She also wears purple stockings as part of her mahou shoujo form.
As a writer, she often has episodes of writer's block. When this happens, her personality changes dramatically: she becomes extremely frustrated and grows visible horns, going on a cooking frenzy. When this does not work, she goes on a shopping spree with her friends, and given her wealth, money is not an issue. Still, she can be quite stingy: it is said she will go anywhere to save one Yen in groceries.
Having made a wish related to writing, her weapon is a magical book, and its main function is to read the opponent's mind, their thoughts being written on it. She can then use that information to identify the enemy's weakness, and come up with a plan. She can also summon objects from the book, most often a ball for Kaoru's attacks. For close range attacks, she can transform the book into a double-edged pole, with the covers acting as blades. As a nice addition, she can also summon a protective barrier around her, but she can only maintain it for a limited period of time.
Kaoru
Weapon: Ball / Football Boots
Specialty: Powerful Football Skills
Nationality: Japanese
Description: Kaoru is a tomboyish girl with short bright yellow hair and yellow eyes with bangs forming quite nicely in her forehead (it looks like ocean waves) and is the brawns of Kazumi's trio. She's one of those strong-willed types. Even though she wants to become a great football player she merely wished for a strong body so she could always play, as she wants to do it with her own ability.
Her mahou shoujo form is yet another revealing one by Juubey (makes you wonder if Juubey is a pervert). She wears a long head cape and quite a loose shoulder guard put together with a ribbon, but elsewhere it's quite a tight dress, and a very tight one at that, almost like a swimming suit.
Kaoru applies her football skills in battle, mainly attacking by striking her foe with mighty kicks. While teaming with Kazumi and Umika, her job is to stun the opponent with her kicks to provide the others with an opening. Her most powerful attack is Palla di Cannone, an extremely powerful football kick, driving a ball onto the target with amazing strength.
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The purple-haired familiar a.k.a. Yuki F was the first to strike, chanting several unknown and surprisingly fast monologues to Kazumi, all while she continued on trying to stab Kazumi with a dagger. Kazumi, in response, continued on dodging as well, only to barely dodge a secret attack done by the pink-haired familiar a.k.a Rimi F.
The third familiar to attack was Ika F (the squid-looking girl), extending her blue hair towards Mami, only to be shot by several Dutch-sequential shots, and wonderful flintlock melee attacks. But suddenly, a second familiar a.k.a. Tsukasa R F made quite an astonishing move by hugging Mami, only to be quickly shot with a backhand hit and shoot.
The fifth familiar a.k.a Angel F, charged for Sayaka, spreading wide wings which she quickly used to engage the sword-bearer Sayaka, who quickly summoned a second sword, effectively defending himself against Angel F. This plan quickly backfired however, when Angel F used her Cloning Program to duplicate more evil versions of themselves, simultaneously attacking Sayaka with enough power for a large shockwave. This attack inevitably sent Sayaka several meters away, only to be nearly hit by Pollon's light-blue tentacles (yes, she has one now), if not with the help of Umika, who went by slashing away the tentacles with the help of her book-turned double-edged pole.
Kazumi knew it was no time to deal with this any further, and that Pollon was her best option of winning, so taking the opportunity, she tried hitting Yuki F through her stomach, but it didn't however do any good, with Yuki F taking no damage at all, as if her whole body's been reorganized into a brick-hard being. Smiling like a creepy yandere, Yuki F directly punched Kazumi and attempted to stab her, only to be met by Kaoru's powerful drop kick, but is quickly sent off by Rimi F with a triple left-right dagger-like combo, sending both Kaoru and Kazumi around a meter away from Rimi F in opposite directions.
Mami had no time to waste in these familiars, and she knew herself that Pollon was her target. So spawning around a hundred flintlocks, she redirected everyone of them at every familiar in the area. While Kazumi's unsubconcious reality manipulation helped a lot in making the rifles a lot stronger than it would have, it did every much nothing to the familiars, except for them all to target Mami, who sent a go signal at Sayaka: it was a signal for backup. Sayaka followed Mami into a nearby crevice, followed by Yuki F, Rimi F, and Ika F.
"Let's go, while we still have a chance!" Kazumi exclaimed. "Let's do this, like the old times!"
"It was just a few days ago, Kazumi," Kaoru commented.
Her two very best friends nodded, making a go signal to weaken the witch. With Angel F still around, it'll still be hard, but then again, it's better to try and partially fail, than not try and fail altogether. With enough time, Umika changed her pole back into her magical book, opening it forwards to the witch.
Ex Fille...!
At that instant, Pollon's thoughts have been converted into written statements, ready for Umika for reading, but sure enough, it wasn't over just yet. It took her merely a second before she got herself surrounded by Angel F's clones.
Limiti Interni...!
Kazumi fired 20 simultaneous shots of white matter, effectively killing 90% of Angel F's clones, who were screamingly frantically as they scream for help as their bodies disintegrate inside-out.
"You...!" Kazumi's focus came on Pollon, who roared in response as she stares upon the being that threatened to ruin her collection. "Let's end this, witch!"
"Yes," Umika looked at her book, only to look back upon the witch with colorless eyes.
"Umika-chan,what's wrong," Kazumi, worriedly asked as she contiues on firing at the clones.
At that point, Umika nearly lost her mind.
"What the heck is wrong with this witch?" Umika frantically flipped the pages of her book. "It's almost only about anime?"
"Wow, she's that obsessed?" Koaru couldn't help but giggle, as she attempted to kick Angel F, only to be blocked by her habd weapon.
"Ah! Whatever...!" Umika flipped her book, as if to display it's contents. Instantly, a white glowing ball appeared from above the pages, bouncing towards Kaoru in the speed of an incoming train.
"Nice pass!" Umika said, jumping over the ball.
Palla di Cannone!
Koaru back-flipped just before hitting the ball downards to the witch, gaining an amazing speed, as if the ball had the power of a bomb, hitting the witch's mask, cracking it.
"Now, Kazumi!" Umika shouted.
Limiti...
Kazumi focused her energy into a highly concentrated point in her staff, which he quickly pointed towards the witch's head. Angel F attempted to stop the incoming attack, but was interrupted by Umika, who turned her book into a pole and blocked the attack of Angel F.
...Esterni!
And with a bang, a large pure white beam, with a radius almost twice as long as the width of her staff, shot its way into the witch's mask. Pollon, at that instant, responded in pure agony as the explosion send a large EMP through the rooms, destroying nearly every computer on site. Seeing the computers destroyed, Angel F, screamed in agony. The three watch as her body dissolves into dust, only to be carried away by the wind .
"Whew," Kazumi wiped off her sweat with her right arm. "I'm glad it's over, right, Umika-chan?"
The two, however, stared at the explosion Kazumi caused, checking if the witch has been destroyed.
"N-No...way..." Umika stepped back from her stance, as did Kaoru. "She...she's...still alive...?"
Pollon rose from the explosion, as if it did nothing to hurt her. Her robe was still intact, although it burned in a red color. The mask, as burnt as it is, was still in place, in nearly perfect condition, with the excption of the crack caused by Kazumi.
Kazumi could only stay stunned as the witch's mask empty 'eye' turned laser red, and an opening came in from behind. It was Mami and Sayaka nearly rumning for thier breaths as a single being returned, holding thier hands captive. It was Rima F, who returned with her clothes almost torn apart completely. Judging from the scene, it seems as though Sayaka and Mami have managed to kill the other familiars, but was managed to be captured by Rima F.
"Sayaka-chan! Mami-chan!" Kazumi tried running towards the the two being held captive, but an impenetrable barrier stopped Kazumi in her tracks, electrocuting Kazumi as she touched the barrier.
Pollon took the opportunity to catch Umika and Kaoru by guard, extending squid tentacles to them. As if unavoidable, Pollon managed to capture Umika and Kaoru into her grip, strangling them in tje mpst sadistic way possible.
"Umika-chan! Koaru-chan!" Kazumi screamed for them, but it wad no good. Umika, Kaoru, Sayaka, and Mami have all been lost in thier delusions, thier eyes display nothing but a bottomless pit, a sight that further stuns the already traumatized Kazumi.
With such a victory coming from Pollon, she displayed her collection, with 20 capsules, all covered in a green fluid.
"Those...are..."
Kazumi glanced at the capsules. Inside are mahou shoujos, all of different appearnces, all with Soul Gems nearly 90% tarnished. There Pollon prepares her new collection, revealing a large computer out of nowhere, preparing to corrupt thier Soul Gems.
Ring...!
"Why...why..." Kazumi started talking, in spite of extreme trauma. "why would you do this...? You...just wanted a simple life, right?"
Pollon closed her ears, if she had one.
"You said you wanted to bring hope back to the world!" Kazumi exclaimed. "What happened to your hope! No need for despair...anymore...!"
That instant, Kazumi blinked, this time her eyes started glowing bright red. Her Soul Gem...it was fully dark, and that instant, a voice reached Kazumi's ears. Hearing that small voice, she recongized it immediately...yes...she knew it.
Hope turns into despair, and despair into hope.
Puella Magi Magica...superare!
Kazumi's eyes instantly turned ruby again; her entire suit changed. It was like that time...that feeling of despair...never-ending despair...she felt it again.
"AHHHHHH!" Kazumi writhed in pain as she gathers her power, merely her willpower was enough to keep her standing.
Pollon, angeed by the scene, extended her tentacles to Kazumi. This, however fails, as an invisible barrier bounced those tentacles back at her.
Kazumi released a large energy flux throughout the room, anf as if gravitated, everyone's dark energy started transferring towards Kazumi, making Kazumi scream in pain.
No, I must endure...more than this...! I know it...We can make it!
Sayaka, Mami, Umika, and Kaoru snapped out if thier trances, noticing the scene around them.
"W-What...happened?" Umika was the first to talk. "Kazumi...?"
Umika's fears are realized: she saw Kazumi, screaming in pain, her Soul Gem. Kaoru, Sayaka, and Mami saw it all, trying to break free. Sayaka attemptef to summon a sword, but Rimi anticipated hte move, using her weapon to cut Sayaka's hand by half.
"Sayaka-chan!" Mami exclaimed, summoning a flintlock, only to gt taken by Pollon's tentacles.
Don't worry, Mami-chan, Sayaka-chan, everyone...I'll save you...
Kazumi's eyes turned ruby, and her Soul Gem, overcome by a large influx of dark power, began absorbing into the very essence of her Soul. In that instant, dark cloak shadowed her body, and Kazumi's hair instantly grew in length. As the dark cloak dissipated, an new form of Kazumi appeared before the gang. Her clothes had greatly improved, and her ruby-colored, gliterring eyes glanced at Rimi F, then at Pollon. Her Soul Gem is nowhere to be found, and her staff now bore more resemblance to the Christian Cross, having golden semi-transparent Egyptian-like eye as its center, wrapped in silver lining. A semi-transparent white wing protruded from her back, just small enough to cover her chest if desired, but heavenly enough to be called wings.
"This...is..." Mami spectacularly watched the entire scene. "A...Type...2..."
Meanwhile, not so far from the colliseum, a being watched everything from the shadows, but, unlike his counterpart, he displayed an evil smile, looking at the girl Kazumi with utmost interest.
"Just as planned," It was Juubey, scurrying his way back into the darkness.
『To Be Continued...』
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Preview:
"Nothing comes out of lies. A white lie is a lie. Deception is deception, no matter what form."
Next episode: "The Truth always hurt."