Kanon shut the doors to her apartment building and climbed up the stairs. The sun was dipping farther down into the sky, and it was time to meet up with Sakura. She was very surprised to see another magical girl in the same school as her. Oh well.
She slid her magical phone out of her pocket and transformed, leaping through the balcony window and off into the night.
...
"That was so cool!" Sakura exclaimed to Kanon. Kanon shrugged.
"I just didn't want anyone to be hurt."
Sakura smiled, "such a pure purpose for being a magical girl."
Kanon looked at her with a puzzled look.
"Why are you a magical girl?"
"..."
Kanon sat back to lean on the metal railing of the water tower. "You don't have to tell me..."
"No, it's fine. I'm not over it yet."
"Huh?" Kanon said, perplexed at what she said.
"Let's build trust. I'll tell you my story, if you tell yours." Sakura paused, then continued to talk.
"About two months ago, there was a car crash, piling up, about 6 cars involved. One crashed into a gas tank, causing the explosion of a lifetime. Remember hearing about that? Anyways, that was caused by my... sister. She was a drunk driver. People felt really bad for me, to be related to such a failure. I was the top student of my class, and my grades started to drop a bit. To a B, at least. Not a D or C, but enough for teachers to notice. I, became more and more isolated from my parents, secluding myself in my room and spending all of my time in my room. Then I got this game. It made me want to be someone, someone that mattered in this world. Not the little sister of a drunko who killed at least 10 people, and a newborn baby. It...It never dawned upon me that I would be chosen. So I did. Besides, my parents stopped caring about me and kind of forgot about me."
"That's awful, if you don't mind me saying."
"It's fine. I've never told anyone really, well, they knew, but not like that."
Kanon straightened up a bit.
"I don't have a story. You wouldn't believe it if I told you."
Sakura shrugged, "Okay. Whatever you say."
Just then, there was a loud boom, followed by smoke climbing higher and higher in the sky.
"We gotta go!"
Kanon and Sakura dashed off the tower and leapt on the rooftops to reach the place of emergency. There was a house that was on fire, and people surrounding it.
"No one's home. I saw Minami and her sons leave this afternoon for vacation. At least their not inside," said a bystander.
Kanon slipped through the crowd quickly and took out her wand, making circular motions which summoned sheets of water to douse the flames. She felt herself being lifted higher in the air, and saw Sakura giving her a better point of view. The sirens of fire trucks echoed through the air.
Now, Kanon's water was different. It didn't evaporate as fast, so by the time she had covered the entire area, it was only sizzling embers once the emergency crews were there. The crowd clapped when they had spotted the two magical girls doing their thing, but both had disappeared.
…
Galaxy growled at Stara.
"How come you timed it to explode an hour before!"
"I'm sorry. My tabs are filled with all of the things you asked."
She bowed again, but this time Galaxy kicked her. She fell to her side and stayed silent.
"Hey, cut it out," Luna said, rushing to Stara's side.
"Hm, how about no? Look, the regulations of this game are changing, and we must have more candies than everyone else! Don't you know what happens?"
"I don't."
"They die. And I was the second magical girl in this game."
Galaxy turned away and left, leaving Luna to comfort Stara.
…
"Hello, pon! Today we look at the rankings, pon."
All the magical girls had assembled in the chat room.
"Dj Raver in first, followed by Frozen Lily and Sakura Bloom. Fleurdelis is after, then Wave Witch, Daisy Killer, Mistral, Kiki, Ruru, Luna, Stara, and finally Galaxy."
"NO!" screamed Galaxy. All the girls looked at her. Her digital form began to glitch and waver. Her dying echo faded out, and all that was left was her sun hair clip.
"W-What?" Kanon stuttered.
"Your human self dies if you don't have enough candies, pon. It's an order from the new master, pon. She's here with you all, pon." The girls suddenly looked at each other. Suspicion was a strong tool in the game.
"Now, I have also given you all weapons, pon. It's your choice to use them or not, pon."
Kanon felt her back get heavier, and she drew out her wand. It had gotten longer in length, to the point to where it was an ice staff, and had a sharp spear end. Sakura gained a bow of thorns.
"This isn't right!" Kanon exclaimed.
"Then you can stop living if you wish, pon."
Kanon jerked back, almost crashing into another girl.
Mistral stepped forward, who caught Kanon from falling.
"What does a creature like you get out of this game?" she asked.
"I can't tell you, pon."
"Why not?"
"Classified information, pon."
Mistral turned away, and logged out.
Luna and Stara just stood there, staring blankly at the place Galaxy was.
The rest began to leave.
…