Niiubey jumped from Aiko's lap to the table. Aiko gave him a piece of cake and after he finished chewing he said.

"Well, Violet, I think we owe you an explanation to what happened." He waged his long fluffy tail, "First things first. You are now a puella magi, the bringers of hope, girls who asked for a wish in exchange for fighting witches, bringers of despairs, they are the cause for the suicides people think had no reason, they usually target people with low self-esteem."

"People like you, Violet..." Aiko said, "I was looking for the witch of a familiar I fought earlier and I saw you with a witch's kiss on your neck, before I could try to talk to you, you entered a witch's barrier..." She sounded pretty worried.

"A witch's kiss? Familiars? Barrier?" I asked them, they were asking things a little too fast.

"Let's slow down things a little, Aiko." Niiubey said. "A witch's kiss is a mark a witch places on a human that has been targeted by her, witches target people with low self-esteem and make them feel even worst. Familiars are the witches minions, they are usually just wondering around inside the barrier, but sometimes they separate from them and create their own barriers. A barrier, also called maze, is where the witch hides, to say it that way, they are invisible to humans."

"I see..." I replied, "So I was targeted by a witch." I placed my hand on my neck. "I cannot remember any of it..."

Aiko smiled at me and patted my head, in my mind I heard her voice telling me everything was going to be fine and that I no longer had to worry about it. I raised my sight to her, Aiko turned at Niiubey and patted him too.

"Did you talk into my mind?" I asked them.

Totally, with Niiubey here we can speak using telepathy. It's quiet neat. Aiko told me.

Yeah, maybe we cannot stop time, create illusions or tie life to death, but we can speak like this!~ Niiubey commented.

Niiu, I think you just made yourself look quiet useless.

I did? Ohoho my bad.~

Unlike the two of them, I did not say anything telepathically, I just giggled slightly. I remembered a question I had.

"Umm, Niiubey I-I wanted to ask you something?" I said, shyly. Both turned at me, "You said these egg-shaped crystals are called soul gems, right?" I stopped for a while, Aiko looked quiet serious, I am sure she knew what I was going to say, "Are our souls kept inside them?"

Niiubey and Aiko both looked quiet shocked after my question. Perhaps I was too silly to think that. Aiko gave me a kind smile and Niiubey nodded.

"You are completely right, Violet Kaminari. Though it should be obvious by its name, most magical persons do not even think about it until they somehow discover it."

"Violet, you should always carry it with you, do not let anyone take it away from you and don't even think of breaking it." Aiko told me.

Aiko finished her cake and sighed, sliding down a little. I giggled a little, she looked like a small child in that position, even though I am sure she was older than me. I took a sip of my tea when I felt some strange energy nearby. The other two also reacted to it.

"Aiko, Violet...!" Niiubey said.

"Yes, I feel it too, a witch's near." Aiko said, standing afterward, "Violet, get ready."

"Two witches in one day?" I asked, surprised while also standing up.

Non of them answered me, they just began running out my house. I followed. We dashed to the barrier, Aiko held her soul gem, which shone brighter and brighter as we approached the lair. I felt mine was also reacting. My fellow puella magi opened the barrier without having to stop.

"It's been activated recently, familiars may be inactive." Niiubey stated. We nodded and kept running, in front of a door, some trees began to grow. Aiko transformed and shoot magic out of her book. It cut through the trees, the door automatically opened and we were swallowed through various rooms until finally standing before the witch. It was funny, it had the head of a deer, the body of a snake and had roots instead of feet. I transformed after laughing at it. Aiko's locked magic book-or grimoire- opened, the ribbon she gave me earlier was back on it, she began to speak in another language, probably Latin. I summoned my feather fan and held it tightly. It turned into the crystal-shaped sword again. When I was about to attack, the witch, who had apparently not noticed us, suddenly trapped us with some vines. I was startled and accidentally dropped my weapon, I couldn't free myself nor be able to see Aiko.

Will... Will this end like this? The same day I become someone... I die?

I sighed as I became hopeless, I was no longer able to breath as the vines did not allow me to.

"Ahaha, two silly magical girls were trapped by a puny bug, how lame." A male voice said. The three vines were cut in a second. Niiubey's convenient wing-shaped ears helped him stop his fall, Aiko and I fell safely thanks to the physical condition a puella magi has.

I looked at the boy. He was dressed in black and navy blue, he had wore knight-like clothes and his weapon was a long sword, which he held with his left hand.

"Now ladies, I came here first!" He said, "This is MY prey!"

"Oh yeah?" Aiko said, confidently, "Are you one of those who think Puer Magus are stronger than Puella Magi?"

"Hell yeah, there's no other way!"

Aiko let out an evil laugh, opening her book, "Oh dear, stop joking like that, Ray." Her book began to shine, "I thought I had already taught you." A capsule made of magic trapped 'Ray.'

"What the? Not again... you damned zombie! Didn't I told you not to call me Ray anymore? I am Raymond!"

"Oh I am sorry," Aiko replied sarcastically as I ran toward the witch now holding my weapon again. "I think I forgot.~"

"Oh for..."

I began to attack the witch, dodging vines. I got in a position where I was able to see Aiko and Raymond, both watching me. They were talking about something, but I was not able to listen. I jumped back, angel-like wings came out of my back, preventing me from falling. My weapon became a feather fan again. I threw it at the witch as the fan became various feather needles which mercilessly cut the weird witch. I landed slowly, watching the witch suffer. I ordered the feathers to come back to me, as they did, they began to take the form of a fan again. I have to admit I enjoyed watching how the monster felt immense pain.

Step back, Violet, I am gonna finish this. Aiko told me telepathically. She opened her book and began preparing the same spell as before. Aiko was obviously a magician. Raymond was no longer trapped, he was just standing there, watching Aiko as well. After charging, Aiko said a few final words I was unable to understand. A giant lightning bolt finished the witch. The barrier vanished, Aiko and me also changed our clothes back. Aiko walked to the grief seed then turned to Raymond, throwing it at him. Ray caught it skillfully.

"Thanks for saving us." Aiko said.

"Yeah... Thank you." I said with a sigh.

"Hmph... I am trying to reduce all this monsters." Raymond said as he threw it back at Aiko, "So I'll make sure you stay like this, be careful." He walked away.

I watched him leave. I turned to Aiko who was focusing a lot on the Grief Seed. She threw it up in the air and caught it, she turned at me. Aiko smiled as Niiubey climbed on to her shoulder. We smiled at each other.

"I can't believe how good you are at fighting!" Niiubey told me. "Perhaps it's the intention that makes you strong, Violet Kaminari."

"Oh yeah, that reminds me, what did you wish for? Most likely, why did you make a wish?" Aiko told me, she reminded me of my mother, she was still at Kasamino along with my father.

"I wished for.. I wished because..." I replied nervously. I took a deep breath and then sighed, "You see, I have always been quiet... Useless, when I was left here with my aunt and uncle, I could never finish the works they gave me. At school, I was always unable to help my teams, I had always had to be helped and protected but it really meant nothing to me until today, where I suddenly woke up in a mysterious place, I felt lost- I was lost until a pink haired girl, You, came here to help me..."

"Wait a second, you couldn't help me there because that's the job of a Puella Magi not of a normal human!" Aiko interrupted me.

"I know, after I saw you having no more strength to fight and told me to run away, Niiubey was there and told me I could save you, I could stop being useless! So it's quiet obvious the answer now, I wished to be able to protect those who protected me once."

"That wasn't the correct wording, Violet!" Niiubey told me, "You wished to be 'like and angel'"

Aiko slapped me, then took my hand and raised her other hand to hit my soul gem, which I was holding, or so it seemed. She actually, when was about to hit my soul gem, she stopped and used the grief seed. Aiko looked quiet mad and also disappointed.

"Such a cliche wish." She finished cleaning it and kept the grief seed in her pocket, "Why did you make contract with another GFN?" Aiko asked Niiubey.

"Because they are so easy to found, plus, despite being a good for nothing, she's daughter of an important someone so... you know, Karma." Niiubey replied.

I once again felt insulted and confused. I returned my soul gem to a ring and sighed, I shook my head and walked back home. Someone like them simply did not deserve my attention.

Stop thinking out loud, Violet. Aiko told me telepathically. You just didn't understand that-

Yes, I did!

Shut up, even if you did have a cliché wish, you are a special, very talented puella magi, you saved my life even if you had only minutes of being contracted, that does not happen often.

Oh really? You are just saying it.

Aiko sighed and ran to me. "Weren't you paying attention to our conversation before? Niiubey did mention you were talented!"

I stopped and turned to Aiko, "I am sorry, Aiko, I just enjoy when people beg me to forgive them."

"What? Violet you are so dead!"

We walked back to my home while laughing, I listened to Aiko's stories from when she had just become a magical girl.

In the distance, a girl watched.

"And we've all been wondering why there are so many witches, there have been many new magical persons!"

"With how miserable life's been to many, that incubator has been contracting with every person he founds. With how he's going, he might pay his quota even before me, and I have the best ally ever."

"You get the energy from the transformation into witches right?"

"Yeah, I remembered something a fellow incubator told me about something that happened in another universe."

"Oh really? May I know what?"

"You see, everyone of us have a different ability, this guys was to remember everything he has seen, to say it this way, to not be affected by any time-related wish-"

"Eww... sounds like a hack."

"He's not very liked, you know, though since he's one of the many who do not understand emotions and things like that, he just don't get that ome of us are being hypocrites."

"Get back to the point."

"Oh yeah, a girl wished to kill all witches before they were born, but that wish was only for her universe, for emotional incubators like me, she's a selfish bi-"

"And what about the demons?"

"Suubey said they are a result of her wish, she kind of sent grief all around and part of it became demons, demons are the male witches, if you understand."

After a small pause the pettite girl flipped her hair, "You had not told me where witches come from."

"It's better if I don't tell you, okay."

The girl just picked up the small incubator and jumped away.