A/N The next Chapters here! Thanks to anyone who read the first chapter and special thanks to James Birdsong for giving me my first ever review!

As a note Maisie is 14 and Jack is 15.

Also when you see speech enclosed with three speech marks "' "' that means that the characters are communicating telepathically.

I hope you like the latest chapter!

Maisie's POV

That annoying, selfish… human. He's just human through and through. Although a more 'helpful' human in his opinion anyway. He followed me round the whole day! He did all my communicating for me, as well as the explaining. He even ordered my lunch for me! I am perfectly capable of ordering my own lunch!

I mean I may not be able to speak but I am not completely helpless you know! I have a notebook and a pen for a reason. He was either trying to be helpful – and failing a might add. Or he was being purposely annoying and using me as a way to make himself look good in front of the teachers. 'Oh, look kind Jack is looking after the poor helpless mute girl.' I. Am. Not. Helpless.

I'm a Puella Magi for crying out loud. I fight the phantoms that kill people, every single day and I'm good at it too, one of the reasons I came here so that I could have a bigger territory. Mitakihara is a large city with plenty of phantoms for me take down. Far better than the small village I was at before. Besides that village has got a new Puella Magi so it was time I moved on.

I'll admit that I was happy to be coming to Mitakihara too. I doubted that I'd be able to stay because Mitakihara was the territory of Homura-san, Mami-san, Kyouko-san, Yumi-chan and Sayaka-san. between them there was more than enough to cover the large city. However, upon my arrival I couldn't find them anywhere. I knew that sometimes some of them would go off to find other Puella Magi and spread the word about Madoka. After all that was how I had met Homura-chan and Mami-san. Homura-chan's story about Madoka was now being widely accepted although there were many who still doubted her story. Not me though, I knew about Madoka even before Homura-chan had come. I was privileged enough to even meet her and now she communicated to me every so often through my soul gem.

The phantoms though had me very worried. Almost instantly upon my arrival at Mitakihara I was swarmed by phantoms. If some of the Puella Magi had left to talk to others then I had a bad feeling about those who were left behind. So I stayed. I got myself enrolled at school because it would be suspicious if I wasn't and also I figured that it was my best chance to meet any other Puella Magi.

So far though my plan hadn't been going well. I've found no Puella Magi and I've been followed around all day by a jerk who has no respect for my feelings on this matter. At least he isn't in my last class, if I'm lucky I'll be able to get out of the school without him following.

I glance over at the clock. Great, I've still got 15 minutes to wait. I sink further down into my seat. I'm barely listening to a word the teacher says. What's the point? I'm not going to live very long anyway. Besides even if a miraculously make it through high school who's going to hire a mute girl?

After what seems like hours of waiting, the teacher says that we have a couple of minutes to pack up our stuff before the bell goes before leaving the classroom. I stand up relieved, the lessons finally over. Behind me I can hear a group of girl's whispering irritably. I sigh inwardly. This was problem 2 that the jerk had caused.

From what I picked up from eavesdropping on conversations it seems that Jack aka the jerk is popular. Really Popular. He's smart, talented, handsome and mischievous. Their words I would like to point out, defiantly not mine. In fact I can prove them wrong. He is not smart otherwise he would have made sense of all the death glares and leave-me-alone looks I've been shooting at him all day. Talented he is. He's very talented at annoying the heck out of me. Handsome, I don't know? He's got brown hair that looks forever messy along with brown eyes the colour of chocolate. He's fairly tall too. You judge that, I'm honestly not bothered. Mischievous he is, I've seen him pull pranks on the teachers and he gets away with it too, simply because they don't suspect there 'star student.' Ok so I haven't really been able to prove them wrong but who really cares. I would much rather have him nowhere near me rather than suffer the glares of jealousy that every other girl is shooting at me because he's been with me all day.

I almost want to go over to them and tell them that I'm practically a Zombie and the real me is right now inside the ring I'm wearing on my finger. I want to tell them that chances are I'll die before I finish school. I want to tell them that I wouldn't be threat even if I wasn't a Puella Magi. I'm invisible, almost. The green hair a got when I contracted is bit of an eye-catcher.

As soon as the bell rings I'm dashing out of the class and I'm out of the front gate before two minutes have passed. Great, maybe I shouldn't have shown off my enhanced speed, they'll just want me on the sports teams now. At least there's no Jack.

I'm stood at the front gate to the school looking around desperately for Kyubey. He said he was going to meet me here! Why isn't he here? I really need to get away from here as quickly as possible.

I tug irritably at my skirt while a wait. Overall I quite like the school uniform, it has a white shirt with a cream coloured blouse with puffed shoulders and long sleeves with a large red bow on the front and frilled edging. But the skirt while a nice colour is very short. Very, very short. I tug at the hem again as if it would magically make it longer. It barely even reached my mid-thigh. I'd worn tights thank goodness, but it still bothered me. I glance at the other girls as they chat happily. How can they not mind how short these skirts are? Amongst the crowd I spot Jack surrounded by his friends who I met at lunch thanks to the fact Jack literally dragged me over to them so that I had to eat lunch with him. I so wanted to squash him but I daren't let anyone see how strong I am. Any second now he's going to look up and spot me. Oh, hurry up Kyubey!

I'm yelling at him telepathically when I hear an annoyed sounding voice echo in my mind.

'"I'm right here"' Kyubey states, jumping on to my shoulder

'"Finally"' I retort '"Did you find any of the Puella Magi?"' I ask glancing behind me then running off at a breakneck pace.

'"No, I couldn't find any Puella Magi"' Kyubey answers.

"'Can't you just ask one of your other selves? Surely they have one with them."' I whine, I really need to talk to another Puella Magi.

If Kyubey could frown I feel sure he would be right now the disapproval is there in his tone of voice. "'You know that I can't communicate with my other selves. They are independent. If one self dies then another self would automatically now that it needed to be there to devour the knowledge left behind."'

"'Right, I get it."' I moan.

"'In that case can we start hunting phantoms? You need more Grief Cubes."' he asks.

I roll my eyes, Kyubey thinks that I should spend the whole time hunting. He was openly against the 'school nonsense' as he called it. I mean sure I still don't enjoy school, and it is as Kyubey put it a waste of my time as I didn't find a Puella Magi, but even so I plan on carrying on going because really, school is the last link to humanity I have left. The last sense of normality in my life.

"'There's one place I want stop by first"' I tell him.

I stop outside a large building. Its right by the outskirts of town so I can see the green fields and forests that seem so bright compared to the darkness of the city.

I push open the door and enter and wait at a counter, it isn't long before someone comes through from a door at the back, called by the bell that jangled as a pushed the door open.

"Hello," he calls "are you here about the archery lessons?"

I shake my head as a reply 'no.' I open my notebook and flick through to the page I wrote on this morning to introduce myself to the class and show it to him. The confusion on his face is evident. I flip over the page and show him the next thing I wrote. Mute. The confusion is replaced by understanding and he doesn't seem to be looking down at me either like most people to when they discover that I'm mute.

"If you're not here for lessons, then what is it you want?" he says, a smile on his kind face.

I flip the page over in my notebook and start writing.

I would like archery sessions please. I'm new here and I used to do archery lessons in my last town, and I want to continue my practice.

"I see, well you're welcome to use the archery range, if you don't want lessons then it will cost less, but you will still need a supervisor to use the range so it will, of course, still cost I'm afraid" he tells me.

I shake my head and carry on writing.

That's fine. I would like to come after school most days. I also have my own bow and arrows, however they are awkward to carry around, may I keep them here?

"Of course!" he beams at me, "I'll be seeing you tomorrow then!"

I nod and smile and wave before leaving the archery range.

"'Why are you still continuing with these lessons?"' Kyubey asks.

"'Because I want to improve. The bow and arrow is the weapon that Madoka used after all, I want to make her proud."' I tell him.

Kyubey rolls his eyes at me. "'You're already good"' he tells me "'but now can we go and fight some of the phantoms, there are so many around here, you would not believe how many times I was attacked this morning"'

"'We?"' I mock, "'since when did you do anything in a battle?"'

"'Fine, can you go fight some phantoms and extract my revenge for me"' he says

A smile crosses my face, "'alright then, let's go!"'

Jack's POV

I yawn as I get home, I spent all my time after school chasing after Maisie, wondering where she had gone. According to some of the other students, she had gone tearing out of the classroom, then stood at the school gates as if waiting for someone, then gone running off despite not having met anyone.

"You're late today." Dad says walking through, holding Jamie in his arms.

"Yeah," I reply "I was looking for someone."

"Chasing after a girl were you?" Dad chuckles.

"Sort of, there was a new girl at school today and she's a mute, I sort of worry about her a bit because of it." I answer

"A mute?" Dad asks

"Yeah, introduced herself by writing in her notepad, she doesn't seem to know sign, like we do" I murmur taking Jamie from Dad, he's nodding off peacefully, his head resting on my shoulder.

"Green hair?" Dad questions

"Yeah, how did you know?" I ask shifting my attention from Jamie to Dad.

"She came in here enquiring about archery sessions" Dad replies.

I groan outwardly. All that time I spent looking for her and she was here at my home!

"Why don't you supervise her when she comes tomorrow" Dad suggests.

A smirk crosses my face "why not?" I answer heading through to the kitchen. Why not indeed.

A/N Thanks for reading! Please rate and review!

This Chapters book recommendation shall be...

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

It's an amazing trilogy. I really like the first book in particular. The link to the chapter being archery of course!