Author Notes:
It is best at this point if you start reading Puella Magi Kazumi Magica: The Innocent Malice chapters 1 - 5 at this point. I was supposed to add the history for Oriko, but if I do so, you're all gonna have to wait for July. D:
I tell this to you now. The whole save the world from a witch named Madoka is merely scratching the surface. To truly understand the real story behind the facade of stories I've set up to make you at the very least read it, questions must be asked: why the different times in each chapter? Why Kazumi? Why Juubey? What does Oriko have to do with the plot? A lot. Don't be surprised if you find yourselves not wanting to read it any further, but don't be surprised either if you find yourself gripping against your seat, because that is what I intend to do. Just writing it made me cry, knowing in full detail what happens to Kazumi and Homura as the chapters go by. Can Madoka be defeated? Can Homura's plan work? Damn it.
Conclusion: It's heartbreaking using almost the same style as Urobuchi Gen in writing the plot.
Effect: 1 week delay.
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Plot:
Homura Akemi, the time traveler, has left a world line 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?
Android Phone Edit: 06/12/11 ~ 06/13/11
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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.
"A... Type... 2." Mami muttered. "So, Homura did find her..."
Mami could barely hold onto her own consciousness, as if, with the constant grip of Pollon over her, it wouldn't take long before she'd faint back again...but...
Can you cling to it when I say it's a one in a million chance?
Mami could still remember that statement. She knew at that point that there was such a thing called hope, even in a world full of despair. Insomuch as to how such hope can be realized is most often another thing.
Hope?
Does it exist? Yes.
Despair?
Does it exist? Certainly.
They always co-exist, side by side, in an endless recurrsion of emotions, in an endless cycle of life, an endless melody of life.
"Ehhh?" Umika's eyes widened at the scene as she tried reaching her book with the state she is now, being tied in arrow-pointed light blue flat squid tentacles that seem to tighten by the second. "What just happened? And where's her Soul Gem?"
"Her Soul Gem?" Mami looked around Kazumi, looking for that strange glow they called Soul Gem. "Y-you're right...! Where is-"
"It's inside her body," a voice came from behind them, followed by additional slashes that cut Pollon's tentacles to and fro.
"A-Akemi-san...!" Mami flinched at the sight of Homura Akemi, in her mahou shoujo dress, slicing away every capsule she could see. A sharp pain in her chest caused Homura to curl a bit as ahe kept on freeing the girls, but all in all she was still intact.
"Oii, you," Sayaka shouted over as she held her Soul Gem near her cut hand, getting ahold of her other hand and watching as her hands carefully stick back to where they came from, as a part of the human body. "Don't you dare force yourself...!"
"I'm fine," Homura said in a monochrome tone.
"No, you're not," Mami shouted.
A sudden attack from Rimi F caught the still recovering Mami, Sayaka, Umika, and Kaoru off-guard, attempting to slash them off from thier right, and Homura, quickly seeing the situation, instantly blocked the attack with her shield.
"Thanks, Homura-chan," Kaoru smiled, just before she herself and Mami started treating her wounds, of which she twitched in reflex.
Homura turned to Kazumi, merely protected by an invisible barrier, of which Pollon kept on attacking her with her squid tentacles, as if she were a special edition item. Kazumi had just regained full consciousness of herself again.
Kazumi's eyes were focused on herself in amazement, "Wh-what happened to...-"
Kazumi's eyes caught Homura's figure, standing in her shield against Rimi F's persistent attacks. Rimi F kept on slashing with her fancy daggers, often side-stepping in an attempt to tear through Homura's one-girl defense, only to fail as Homura merely used her time shield to compensate for her wound disadvantage and still be able to block Rimi F's attacks. However, an attack from Rimi F caused Homura to lose balance for a bit, steping backward and nearly stepping on one of the unconscious mahou shoujo.
"Homura-chan!" Kazumi ran towards Homura, only to be blocked by Pollon's tentacles.
"Just focus on finishing the witch," Homura said. "Your help is unnecessary..."
Kazumi wondered for a while, though. For a while Pollon merely stopped attacking her. Why was that? Why wasn't she attacking?
And then she remembered...
How many did they fought?
1 (Rimi F) ...
2 (Ika F)...
3 (Tukasa R F)...
4 (Angel F)...
5 (Yuki F)...
Wait...that's wrong. Kazumi thought. There were supposed to be 6!
Starlight...
Kazumi looked directly above her, in a place nobody, not even Homura, would have expected without help from her ability.
Breaker...
A feminine voice in full English came from above. It was the beige twin-tailed familiar, simply waiting and gathering the most perfect opportunity to strike her. The beige twin-tailed familiar, displaying a cute, yet creepy smile as the surrounding light converged with a large circle of pink light, with light pink wings protruding from her staff.
"Starlight Breaker!" the familiar shouted, firing a gigantic beam of pink light, surrounded by several pink magical circles.
(A/N: Oh damn.)
"Kazumi!" Umika shouted out.
"Don't move," Homura said in reflex, readying her shield for the worst.
Almost instantly, the flash of light converged into a single point, fired in a single strike as the blast hit the ground, creating a large pink explosion that dyed the whole arena in pink, and like glass, shattering the space-looking walls, revealing dozens of skyscrapers floated right after, only to get mashed to smithereens merely by the shock wave of the blast. Almost every windows in the skyscrapers shattered, along with the hundreds of computers inside it, and even so, Pollon's final barrier, the sole barrier separating the witch's dimension to that if reality's, broke from above, shattering the very foundations of the barrier, slowly breaking up, revealing a nearly turning yellow sky, partially covered with white clouds - it was the real sky.
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Episode 6
"Nothing comes without a price"
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"Kazumi!" Kaoru shouted over.
"Stand back!" Umika yelled, bringing out a barrier in her front.
"...!"
Almost instantly, Homura saw the barrier breaking, much like how a hammer would break into a door. It was Rimi F, who was still alive and still trying to attack them.
Homura didn't even flinch, and, while partially blinded at the pink-filled explosion, instinctively drew out her shield as Rimi F's attack finally broke the barrier, and with it the sudden burst of energy waiting to vaporize them all, but, Homura, in quick response, switched over her back in the blink of an eye, slashing her with her purple light-saber, all while her shield is facing the explosion.
"She'll live," Homura's emotionless face could have pissed off anyone right now, but it didn't matter to everyone right now. What mattered was Kazumi, however, and their remaining hope.
It didn't take long before the explosion would finally resolve after that sudden surge of an attack. Obviously, such a damage had already succeeded in ruining much of the arena, save the exit door where Mami came from. Light pierced through the now yellow sky into the large opening on most of the sides and the roof, with full indication that the Starlight Breaker did more than break the starlight, it even broke the witch's barrier.
"Owww...oww..." a voice came from the resolving smoke in the explosion. It was Kazumi, still intact, although her hands are smoking white from that attack. Her suit hasn't changed at all: no scratches, no tears, no damage, except for a few dust.
"Wait..." Kazumi instantly realized the onslaught of the familiar's power, looking around the now open arena. "I... blocked... it?"
Kazumi simply couldn't believe what she's seeing right now. Now just then, is a girl, who managed to repel such a gigantically powerful attack that could have destroyed an entire city if allowed. Just what happened to her? What was this strange power flowing from within her? Was it like last time, when they fought Yuuri? Or was it something else, something more than that, and something more suitable to call a real magical girl, one that actually gives hope.
"Do it, Kazumi!" Mami shouted. "Show us what hope is!"
Kazumi couldn't understand what Mami meant, but she knew now what was happening: she was the only mahou shoujo who remained that can fight Pollon. But how can she defeat it? Can she defeat it? She already knew that everything has changed, but to actually do it is alway another different thing. If you were the old Kazumi, what would you do?
"B-But...how...?" Kazumi asked.
Kazumi looked at Homura, looking for an answer. This girl, who was searching for her as her only hope of this world, must know what to do right now, right? What is it though? She knew herself enough to know she had lack resolve. She even turned into a witch for Pete's sake. But...
Just before Kazumi's thoughts materialized, Homura's seemingly empty eyes stared back at Kazumi.
"You can only do what you think you can do," Homura said. Whether it was her own way of rejection or encouragement, God only knows. "Do you want to be a burden or an asset?"
A sudden cold breeze swept the two girls.
"N-no..." Kazumi placed her hand in her upper left, blocking an attack from the remaining girl familiar. "I don't want to be a burden, never again!"
She pointed her staff towards the unsuspecting familiar.
Limiti Esterni...!
Her eyes glowed red as she released a dark beam, patterned with a witch-like mark. Firing at point-blank range, Kazumi saw the familiar's silhouette, almost instantaneously dissolving in the said attack.
"Alright," Kazumi turned to the witch, her red burning eyes displayed a generic mix of anger and compassion, an emotion she herself cannot comprehend. What kind of feeling is this - this feeling of wrath, coupled with mercy; and this feeling of anger, coupled with pity? "Time to finish you off!"
Kazumi walked towards Pollon, with her cross staff ready for a direct melee attack. Never wiling to surrender, Pollon roared, opening her robe yet again. This time 15 familiars sprouted out of the void inside it, each very different qualities. One familiar was dressed in a black robe with eyes of crimson red, with yellow blonde hair barely visible due to her long dark cape, with a height nearly as long as Mami is. Another short twin-tailed familiar held a short cute-looking staff with 3 gems at the front with small angel wings forming at the front with a cute, pink fluffy dress full of frills much like Madoka. Another one of the long light pink twin-tailed familiars wore a red sailor uniform, equipped with 2 short samurai swords and 2 0.5 mm caliber pistons. Orders: to kill, capture, or be killed.
A familiar fired a black beam towards Kazumi, only to miss as Kazumi's image faded from the familiar, only to appear in her back. At that instant, a sharp pain pierced through familiar's body, and just like that, the familiar's body disintegrated into the air like dust. The other familiars, although slightly intimidated, followed the first familiar, firing several shot of all sorts to Kazumi, may it be bullets, magical shots, or ice shards. Only to miss as Kazumi dodge them like a ghost, appearing almost instantly merely a few centimeters behind their backs, stabbing them with a few strikes of her cross staff.
"Don't make it hard for me...you damn thing..." Kazumi's eyes glowed red yet again, this time with a pattern similar to an S pattern.
"That...pattern...that's...!" Before Umika could talk any further, everything around them stopped, much like a stop button ina video player.
A certain hand reached out for the two: it was Homura, the same girl who can, instantly freeze time with her shield. Noticing her holding Mami's hand, it was clear now how they managed to move in spite of time stopping on them...
"We should not stay here any further," she declared.
She glanced at the exit, then, looking at Umika and Kaoru, reached out her other hand towards them.
"We should leave while we have the chance," Homura further suggested. Wait, repeating the same thing?
Nothing was to be said however, as it was all true. Just by looking at the situation, it was obvious how insanely strong the witch is right now, and just how they made a mistake, underestimating its power when in fact it's really around 20 times stronger than Walpurgis.
"Will Kazumi be alright?" Kaoru asked.
"She will," Homura assured, and glancing at Kazumi, she noticed a slight movement in Kazumi, as she was too fast to be fully affected by the time freezing. "We'll just be a burden if we would stay any further."
Umika got up, holding Mami's hand, with the recurring pain in her both legs still lingering. Kaoru followed just after Umika, holding on to both their hands to avoid getting frozen by Homura's time magic.
"We should also bring them," Homura pointed to the unconscious girls, whose Soul Gems have been fully cleansed of grief.
"Sure..." Umika agreed. "But we should rather do that later..."
With enough stamina, Homura, Kaoru, and Umika started running towards the exit, dropping Mami's hand in exchange for Homura and passing through several doors. Passing through the same rooms as the 2 went before, they saw several cracks in the walls, much to Umika and Kaoru's surprise. They passed through the same computer room as Mami and Sayaka did, but it now changed into a junkie's paradise, filled with crashed computers, most of which have shattered monitors and CPUs filled with sparks, that is if ever they actually moved.
"Is... this... Kazumi's full power?" Umika shivered.
"Umika...chan..." Kaoru tried saying, only to stop for utter lack of words.
A flutter echoed the entire room; it was Homura, who turned around, staring at Umika as her eyes shimmered in bright purple for merely a second.
"No," Homura shook her head. "Her real power... is more than that..."
Her words couldn't help but totally silence the two.
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Meanwhile, in the midst of now open sky, Kazumi's eyes continued to peer into the familiar's movements, gracefully dodging them all at once while the 14 familiars and Pollon all attack in perfect synchrony. A familiar attacked Kazumi using a double miniature samurai towards Kazumi, followed by consecutive fires of her double 0.5 mm pistols with enough accuracy to pierce a hole through a 1 mm x 1 mm cloth 50 away without fail. A sharp gunshot bended through Kazumi's cheek, leaving behind a sharp, yet shallow wound.
"Damn you...!" anger had fully engulfed Kazumi; her eyes had fully been marked with a dark crimson 'S' symbol. "DIE!"
The sharp end of Kazumi's cross pierced the familiar's throat, with black blood spewing out of the familiar's neck into the air like a geyser, just before disintegrating into oblivion. The sight traumatized the spectator Mami, nearly vomiting just from the gory chain of events, not because of the familiar, but because of something, an unavoidable fact she noticed just too late.
Kazumi has completely changed.
"Kazumi?" Mami worriedly ran for her, completely ignoring those constant cries from her body to rest and wait for Homura.
A familiar, equipped with a dark saber-like staff and wearing a dark cape with black ribbons separating her considerably long twin-tails appeared right in front of Mami almost instant, as if to block her from interfering, and, as if it had an empty void-filled heart, pointed her staff in her forehead. Mami, in response, summoned a flintlock in her hand, firing it in her head, only to miss as the familiar's image disappeared in the background, only quickly appeared right behind her.
Blitz Impact...
A magical blast from her staff threw Mami sideward, and like a chain of signals, Mami's body collapsed altogether, nearly crying in pain as the familiar took her Soul Gem, attempting to slowly crush it right in front of her.
"Mami!"
Kazumi almost instantly tried stabbing the familiar with her staff and reaching for Mami's Soul Gem, only to miss and appear near her side, hitting her with the sickle form of her staff. Kazumi, however, anticipated the move, disappearing right after and appearing right at the familiar's back, this time with the eye of her staff just in front of her.
Limiti interni...!
A dark magical ball formed inside the familiar, engulfing the familiar whole and, consequently, dropping Mami's Soul Gem.
"Kazu...mi..." Mami had crawled enough to catch her own Soul Gem. "Don't... let... your witch side... control... you...!"
Her voice dissipated into nothingness with nothing returning as a reply. Mami had fainted.
It was utterly useless talking to Kazumi at this state, whose anger had totally engulfed her soul. Firing several similar magical balls of the sort, she fired it at several directions, never missing her target as it absorbed several of Pollon's familiars just before exploding.
"Now!"
That instant, her sudden move created several afterimages, stabbing several familiars in the way, just before moving just behind Pollon, stripping Pollon's robe with her staff. A ripping sound followed just before a stream of black ink erupted from the stripped robe, causing Pollon to roar in agony, as if quickly ordering her familiars to cover her in response.
A cute short familiar aka Meruru F appeared just beside Kazumi, attempting to strike Kazumi with her short 3 gem staff, only strike merely its afterimage. Kazumi appeared just ahead, but surprisingly, an unsuspecting familiar got a hold of her staff, instantly throwing it to the right, far for anyone to grab it back to her.
Kazumi quickly tried reaching for the staff, quickly moving from one area to the next. But the same familiar grabbed a hold of her two feet, appearing from the bottom just like a ghost. Unlike the other familiars, this had a semi-transparent body with a bluish tone, while her eyes glow red-violet and and wore 60-year old sailor uniform.
"Damn it," before Kazumi could realize, her entire body had been surrounded by countless ghost-like familiars (they all look alike), each touching her entire body, from top to bottom.
A blush escaped Kazumi's cheek, and her S mark faded for a bit. It was the ghost familiars, attempting to drive her off with their perverted tactics, but she knew it was no time to slack off. Far from a distance, 3 familiars stood around Kazumi, each preparing their signature attacks as ordered by Pollon. One of the familiars, Meruru F, stood at her front left side, pointing her staff towards Kazumi with light steadily converging at its front. The second familiar coming in from her front right side, wearing a black suit with a star in her left with a black bra covering her very much flat bust. Her eyes were of bright, yet exceedingly empty purple, with a resonating purple flame continuously engulfing her left eye. This familiar, alias BRS F, pointed her extremely large boozoka-looking gun at Kazumi, with a blue light forming at its center.
Kazumi instinctively pointed her palm at herself, trying to shake of the ghost familiars that continued touching every part of her body.
Limiti...interni...!
A dark magical ball floated right out her hand. Now to-
M F T S I...
Almost suddenly, Kazumi's magical ball moved on her own, hitting the exit door. With the door destroyed, rubble around it collapse into itself, effectively destroying it.
"What?" Kazumi's eyes dilated in surprise. She glanced at her far right. There it was: a familiar with long light-blue hair, with empty red - mint green eyes full of small inscriptions, with a long nun dress, coupled with needles that seem to keep her nun dress in place. The familiar, aka Index JP F, kept her distance, steadily floating in air.
John's Pen mode activated.
Target Threat: Kazumi.
Method of Destroying Threat: Dragon's Breath
Strange religious inscriptions surrounded Index JP F, all revolving around a mysteriously creepy occult-like circle. Wings protruded from her back, and she reached her hands towards Kazumi, with a heavenly white light radiating out of a small point in her hand.
It seems as though this fight cannot end anytime soon.
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Deactivating her time shield, Homura opened the door, now merely a pile of trash merely made heavy by the pile of rubble. Just how did they talk with each other, one would wonder?
"The wide sky, at last!" Kaoru would have jumped right now, if not for her still lingering wounds. "I just hope she can do it..."
"How can we say we're our friends if we don't trust her?" Umika responded. "We know she can do it, isn't right, Akemi-san...?"
Homura didn't respond at all, but rather look at the far horizon, all while several small buildings stood surrounding the witch's barrier. The sky, now dyed yellow, simply served to compliment the beautiful shore, which was barely visible from above. Several figures from the shore were scrambling atound thier places: it was most likely Zhuo, who went back to the shore to supervise the building of the system. That techy bastard.
"The shores of San Francisco," Umika smiled. "Must be nice, huh?"
If only they had enough time to see this scenery,
If only they had seen the wonderful world they all lived in,
If only they all hadn't gave in to despair...
Maybe there wouldn't any magical girl-turned-witch in the world anymore...
"If only that was the case," Umika sighed.
A black cat seemed to pass the two, sneaking in from the left side of the rooftop to the next. Two white 'ears' dragged on the cat creature as it passed by, trying to avoid any kind of notice.
Homura's attention turned to the thing that passed by, "I need to take care of something,"
"Akemi-" Umika's attention almost suddenly snapped to Homura's, trying to reach Homura's hand, but it was too late. In a click of a gear, Homura's figure disappeared almost instantly.
"That girl," Umika sighed, her eyes now fixed on Kaoru.
Koaru, however, looked around, with eyes the look like she saw a living ghost. Her eyes scouted around the vicinity, only to end up focused back on Umika.
"Did... I..." Kaoru shivered. "Just saw... Juubey?"
"EH? B-But..." Umika's eyes seem to twitch as she tried picking up the right words to tell Kaoru. "I... I thought... he was supposed to be dead...!"
Or so they thought...
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"I've finally caught you..."
Homura leaned against the wall as she fired a couple of shots from a pistol, missing their target as predicted. Juubey, the black cat-like Incubator, merely teleported instantaneously as Homura fired her pistons - even in mid-time freeze, appearing 1 m from where he original was.
"Tell me, Akemi," Juubey asked, jumping to the next rooftop. "Do you intend to kill me?"
With the click of a gear, Homura appeared right in front of Juubey, this time with a gun pointed in her head.
"It depends," Homura coldly replied with a gun pointed at point-black range. After a few seconds, however, Homura pointed her gun down. "I still need you fo my plans though."
Juubey wiggled her tail, "Well, it seems as though you had plan of your own after all, as expected of Kyubey's Type 2..."
"I'm not a Type 2," Homura said. "Or, maybe not yet..."
Homura stared at Juubey.
"You know you can't defeat Kriemhild Gretchen that easily, do you?" Juubey sat down for a while.
Homura turned her head to the ocean-filled horizon.
"I can," Homura assured, "But..."
Her hair fluttered along the sudden strong breeze.
"With Kazumi, we can create a miracle," Homura continued. "I can bring Madoka back."
Juubey's face turned serious.
"As much I'd like a third Type 2," Juubey's head turned back to Pollon, sighing a bit. "Do you know what miracles like that cost, Akemi-san? Nothing comes without a price. Everything good or bad... Even that miracle... has a price..."
Juubey referred to Kazumi.
"I can handle such," Homura monotonously replied. "I'm sure Kazumi can too."
Homura's attention diverted to two figures, whose heads kept on scouting out her location. It was Kaoru and Umika, presumably looking for Homura, and possibly for Juubey...
"I'm sure you can handle it," Juubey smiled, this time in a not-so-creepy way. "I do have human emotions like you, after all, but..."
Juubey walked towards a nearby door.
"Can this universe handle it?" Juubey sneaked in through the door at its bottom. Wait, what the hell is Juubey made of?
"Goodbye, Akemi-san," Juubey's voice tore through the door.
Homura's heartbeat thumped.
Juubey... the Incubator created... by Kazumi's... wish.
『To Be Continued...』
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Preview:
"What is reality? Is it when really when other people see it the same as one does, or is it, in reality, merely a shared illusion, made by the one who never accepted it in the first place?"
Next episode: "Nothing like it seemed to be."