Homura fired where the witch had stood, but the energy bolt struck empty air, detonating into a cloud of purple magic. She felt warmth pass her cheeks as Mami fired a shot dangerously close, striking their foe away from her in what could have been a painful strike.
She nodded her head in thanks while firing several weak bolts of magic in an arc to keep the witch at bay as it darted around them trying to get close, each shot only just missing it and detonating either against a wall or the side of the strange faux wooden room they were in.
Bullets fired at an equal pace as Mami, back to back with Homura, attempted to catch it's legs or tails. But both of their tasks was made all the harder as one of the familiars, a shapeless humanoid blob wearing a stereotypical witch hat, spun forwards nearly crashing into Homura and Mami. Thankfully, it was not as fast as the witch. The duo easily batted it away with bow and musket handle alike to keep it away and focus on the much faster, much angrier witch.
The doglike monstrosity suddenly stopped and the cotton like energy suddenly began to swirl faster and faster. Mami's shots rang out only to be met with the bow like items being flung through the air at high speed, detonating with the bullets in clouds of what seemed like pillow stuffing.
The witch let out a howl as more of the projectiles where flung forth, and it's minions constant spinning began to increase to a worrying degree. The two Magical Girls were forced apart as one with semi melted cat ears sped through them, very nearly taking off Homura's head in the process.
She raised her bow to take another shot, but another plasticise figure with a beret zoomed in front of her. Meanwhile, the one with the witch hat span into her back, the speed knocking her to the floor, thankfully putting her under another barrage of multicoloured bows.
Mami was faring no better. While she was weaving between the familiars with ease, each attempt to constrict the witch was met with either her bullets destroyed or the bindings reduced to shreds.
"We need to remove these familiars!" Another spray of bullets, another barrage of bows.
"Even when I manage to get a few shots through, the familiars are destroying the ribbons!" Homura quickly dodged to the side of another spinning familiar and found herself back within the centre of the room where she again had to avoid the witch-hatted familiar.
Suddenly, as she watched it reduce the few ribbons Mami had produced to tatters, comprehension dawned.
"Tomoe- " Homura watched the familiars spin and ducked to the side of the cat eared familiar, taking note of the beret and witch hat familiars taking notice of her turn. "Tomoe, they're following a set pattern!"
Understanding washed over Mami's face as she dodged one with large boots. "I'll take care of them! Keep the witch off my-" She was cut off as another familiar got dangerously close to colliding with her stomach causing who knows how much damage.
"Got it!" Mami quickly began to fire with earnest, the knowledge of a pattern led to her dodges becoming more precise and exact, and more of the bows being destroyed before they could even get near Homura.
Homura began to almost dance between the familiars, and while not as graceful as Mami, her legs moved her out of certain injury over and over as she tried to figure out the pattern, tried to figure out how to-
The cat eared familiar swished to the side. Homura turned and fired a shot at where the beret familiar would soon be, sure enough her shot grazed through the air and was headed straight for the path of the beret.
A sudden blur of pink weaved through the familiars. The witch deftly dodged towards the beret familiar, its attack forgotten as it leapt through the air, body intercepting the arrow and acting as a shield for the familiar-
Only for the arrow to fly over the witch's head and skewer the plasticine familiar through the chest.
The witch stared at the melting blob that had been a familiar, as if in shock. The energy had begun to swirl faster and faster with a malicious intent. It faced Homura and let out a harrowing BARK!
All the familiars ceased spinning and collapsed into puddles on the floor.
The candy stopped swirling. It pulled back from where a snout would be, where a mouth or ears or anything remotely normal would be... but what greeted Homura was a single bleeding eye. The blood gushed like tears from it, the eye shining a sickly yellow, with parts of it seemingly stitched together from other eyes, and the thread holding it together bulged out painfully. Homura watched transfixed as the eyeball burst, splitting down the middle to reveal human teeth gritted in a grimace and black foam bubbling like tar as the witch let out a loud, guttural growl.