Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete is the creation and intellectual property of Ononaka Akihiro and Takeshobo.
Innocent Emissary of Love Utena-chan.
Act Six:
Fair and Fancy.
Kagurazaka Asuna, a contrite Negi Springfield, and an extremely angry Hasegawa Chisame (still wearing a blanket over her shredded bunnygirl outfit) walked back towards the Mahora dormitories.
"Ah ha ha ha, don't be harsh on Negi!" Asuna laughed, apparently finding Chisame's ordeal incredibly funny. "He's just a dumb brat after all!"
Chisame growled viciously. Negi lowered his head further and closed his eyes.
"But why were you wearing that thing in the first place?" Asuna asked.
"Asuna-san, please, no..." Negi said.
"I was cosplaying, okay!?" Chisame growled. "Why else would I be wearing a stupid Playboy bunny suit!? Do you think all of that was to entertain you!?"
Asuna blinked. "Cosplaying?"
"Are you deaf, Kagurazaka?" Chisame grumbled. "It's just a hobby, it shouldn't have been anyone else's business, but the brat idiotically barged in..."
"I shouldn't have done it. Sorry," Negi said.
"What good are your apologies now!?" Chisame asked as they entered the old building.
"He won't do it again," Asuna promised while they went up the stairs. "Cosplaying, huh... You a Vtuber or something?"
Chisame resorted again to just growling.
"Fine, don't answer me, as if I cared!" the other girl threw her hands up.
Chisame sulked. "It's the only thing I've ever been good at..."
"Eh?" Negi said.
The next thing Chisame knew, she had stupidly let them in and they were sharing a hot drink while she mumbled. "I never was popular, even as a kid. Of course, you wouldn't understand, Kagurazaka."
"Hey, I wasn't always as popular, perfect and humble as I'm now," Asuna said. "Just ask Sakurako, she was there with Iinchou and I from the start!"
Chisame sighed. She looked out the window. "I only could mingle with the worst rejects from the class..."
The girl with long hair sang terribly off key in her small microphone, winking an eye at them and swinging her hips.
"She... She is awful..." Chisame realized.
The gloomy girl with blueish hair nodded. "I know, right...?"
Chisame smiled to herself. "Freaking idiots."
Asuna blinked. "Okay, so are they someone we know from another class, or..."
"No, I moved to this area after that and I never saw them again," Chisame mused. "They must be doing okay, they both were prettier than me after all. I don't even remember their names anymore..."
She shrugged it off eventually. "But I doubt they're doing it any worse than I am..."
Somewhere else, Leberblume looked away. "We won't be getting anything else from her, Loco," she said quietly. "Finish her already."
Her partner in crime breathed in, braced herself, and then swung her weapon down.
"Hey, hey, Kiwi-chan!" Tohsaka Himiko said happily, approaching her after classes.
"What do you want?" Kiwi asked warily. She stopped putting her things back in her schoolbag.
Himiko grinned. She held two tickets up. "Tickets for the fair! And I was thinking Utena-chan and you could use them!"
Kiwi snatched them from her, looking at them with bugging eyes. "They're real!?"
"Oi! Why would I lie to you?" Himiko asked. "Just to trick you into a trap, ambush you and suck your blood?"
Kiwi gave her a look. "What was that?"
Himiko shrugged. "Just a jooo-ooooke! I got them... somewhere. Not by beating anyone up!"
Kiwi scowled. "Huh, I see!"
Himiko fidgeted. "I wanted to go with Izuku-kun, but he'll be busy with his stupid hero training and they'd better get put to use while they're good!"
Kiwi looked at the tickets, her eyes watering, and she threw herself on Himiko, bawling. "I was wrong about you...! You're a good friend...!"
Himiko laughed. "That's what I always tell everyone! But do you think they listen?"
Utena walked in. "Sorry, but I forgot my favorite pencil, Kiwi-ch-" She froze as she saw Kiwi hugging Himiko.
Himiko smiled dumbly and waved at her. "Hi again, Utena-chan!"
Kiwi paled and then tackled Utena against a wall, rubbing her cheek against hers. "UTENA-CHWAAAAAAN! HIMIKO JUST GAVE US TICKETS FOR A DATE!"
Utena blinked. "What."
And so now there they were, strolling along the street towards the fair. "Sorry about that, I think I was too grateful!" Kiwi laughed. "But Himiko's not my type, she always smells of trash and has those sinister yellow eyes!"
Utena smiled. "That's fine, Kiwi-chan, you don't need to reassure me!"
Kiwi scratched her own head. "My feelings are honest and I'd never betray you! Even though we've known each other for a short time!"
Utena gave a benevolent laugh. "Y-You always wear your feelings on your sleeve, Kiwi-chan!"
"Literally!" The blonde pulled her sleeves up, showing her the LOVE UTENA LOVE UTENA LOVE UTENA LOVE UTENA LOVE UTENA LOVE UTENA strewn on them. Utena sweatdropped. They were reaching the entrance to the fair now. "Wanna eat something before we enjoy the rides? They are enjoyed better when you hold the vomit back!"
"That's... a true thrillseeker mentality, Kiwi-chan!" Utena said while giving the tickets to the woman at the gates. They stepped in and went to the small restaurant close by.
"Photo, photo!" Kiwi set the phone before them while waiting for the waitress. "So everyone can enjoy this with us!"
"K-Kiwi-chan, please!"
"You're right, that's not enough! Video, video!" she shifted to another function of the phone.
"P-P-Please don't post it in the social media!" Hiiragi whined.
"Eh? Why not, Utena-chwaaaan?"
"Because.. I still feel embarrassed when I have to be seen eating," Utena put her fists on her own knees. She looked down and said, "I'm working on it, with your help and Haruka-chan's, b-but it's not easy!"
Kiwi pouted. "Please don't talk about that person while we're in a date." They were brought their desserts. "Oh, thanks! Look at them! Our first date pudding! Isn't it just too kawaii, darling?!"
"It's... very cute for a pudding!"
Utena eyed it and took a shy bite. "Tasty, too..."
Then she noticed the grinning Kiwi filming her while she ate, and her face went flushed to her ahoge, which stood up and flailed. "N-NO! I must look so dumb like this!"
"Silly, you're just adorable!" Kiwi pinched her cheek and began eating. "Sweet, so sweet..."
Utena hewed. "Kiwi-chan, this isn't the best moment to talk about it, but..."
Kiwi blinked. "What is it? You can trust me with anything, darling!"
Utena awkwardly looked at the souvenir store that was across the street, by their window.
"I know you hate Magical Girls, b-but that Magia Azure doll in that window..." She lowered her voice. "It's a limited edition, and I need buying it before anyone else who is a true fan sees it and buys it..."
Kiwi's eyebrows twitched.
Utena made puppy eyes at her.
Kiwi sighed. "The things I do for love." She pulled her wallet out. "How much would it cost?"
"N-No, I'll pay on my own money!" Utena gulped.
"I insist!"
"But-!"
"It's my treat! All this date is my treat, to apologize over that Himiko thing!"
"But I told you there was nothing to apologize for!"
They looked at each other across the table.
"50/50?" Kiwi extended a hand.
Utena nodded and shook it.
The blonde was in the sky again. "You're the noblest evil soul I've met! A national treasure!"
Utena laughed very happily as they left the store, with the large box of the Azure doll in her hands.
"What's so special about this figure anyway?" Kiwi asked.
"By pressing a button on her staff it becomes the famous Azure Sword!" Utena gushed. "It's much bigger than all previous Azure dolls!"
"And...?"
"It comes with a Magia Magenta exclusive card for collectors!" Utena's eyes shone.
"Shouldn't it come with a Magia Azure card?" Kiwi grunted.
Utena wagged a finger smugly. "That one comes with the Magia Sulphur figure!"
"And the Magia Magenta figure comes with the Magia Sulphur card, doesn't it?" Kiwi asked blandly.
"Exactly! You learn the ways of the Fan quickly, Kiwi-chan!" Utena praised her.
Kiwi took a hand to her upper stomach. "Those are the true evil organizations, toy companies."
"Shut up and take my money!" Utena laughed, holding her prize towards the rays of the sun. "Um, that wasn't aimed at you, I'd never tell you to shut up, it's just that there is this reference-"
"That's okay, Utena-chwan, I know the meme too!" Kiwi forced herself to smile and waved a sleeve at her. The smile became genuine, as she saw the true happiness in Utena's face. "You're so different, you know?"
"Huh?"
"From what you were... back there," Kiwi said, putting her hands in the pockets of her jacket. "While fighting, you are so... intense. When at school, or hanging out, you're so gentle and soft. But that's fine! I love both Utena-chwans."
Utena blushed. "Sorry..." she said. "I lose control when I have to hit someone."
"That's not it, you didn't act like that when fighting that robot." She sat on a bench and patted it. Utena sat next to her. "You were so confident, but you didn't... lose yourself into it." She licked her own lips. "The way you did with me, darling!"
Utena hid her face in her hands. "Oh, Kiwi-chan! Don't say that!"
"We all go a bit wild every once in a while," Kiwi mused, and looked at the blue sky. "I was about to go actually kill Magical Girls, and I'd have done it if you hadn't defeated me. Thank you, Utena-chwan, for not letting me become like that Uchiha guy!"
Utena nodded. "But Kiwi-chan, why would you hate Magical Girls so much, to begin with?"
The blonde rasped and fiddled. "If you need to know..."
"This one for my fans! This one as well!" Kiwi took selfies in her bedroom. Coquettishly, she blew a kiss to her phone. "Now to upload them and see the likes storm in!"
She waited and checked the media.
Tres Magia are the best!
Tres Magia are even better than Sailor V!
Magia Azure is the best of the best!
They are so beautiful and kind! I met them once!
Magia Sulphur is a sweetie!
Mere online idols can't compare. Except Chiu-sama.
Yeah, Chiu-sama should become a Magical Girl!
"NANI SORE?!" Kiwi roared, squeezing the phone in her hand.
Somewhere in Honnouji, Jakuzure Nonon sneezed.
"I hate Magical Girls! They're always taking the spotlight off us normal people! Arrrrrrrrgggghhhhhh!" She stomped around the room.
A floating small animal appeared from a black portal before her. "Hey, hater! Wanna become a hunter of Magical Girls?"
Kiwi stared at her and nodded.
"That was it?!" Utena cried.
Kiwi shrugged. "What were you expecting, for my parents to have been killed before me in an alley by a Magical Girl?"
"That's... That's not a-" Unable of yelling anything insulting to Kiwi, Utena instead bawled, "That's not the best of reasons, you know!"
"But now I've forgiven those Magical Girls and Chiu since I have you and you're all the public I need!" Kiwi said lovingly.
"You'll still fight them, though!"
"So will you," snickered Kiwi.
Utena sighed. "I suppose. But we won't hurt them too badly!"
"Japanese society sure is beautiful, everyone only cares about their own business without meddling," Kiwi smiled, seeing passerbys go on before them.
"By the way, Kiwi-chan, who is this 'Chiu' person?"
"Eh? You mean you don't know?"
"If she isn't a Magical Girl... I'm afraid I have no reason to follow her online. She's some kind of celebrity, isn't she?"
"You could say that, she's a cosplayer. But she also does Magical Girl cosplaying! I'm shocked you wouldn't know about her!"
Utena folded her arms and folded. "Please, Kiwi-chan, please! If I thought anything good about Magical Girl cosplaying, I'd cosplay as them myself!"
Kiwi blinked.
Utena stood up and tightened her fist, now all Hot Blooded and growling. "I don't approve of pretenders! There's only one Tres Magia!"
"It's more like there are only three," Kiwi crossed her slender legs. A few passing boys glared, she gave them a hostile look.
"That is, if Tres Magia sign off on actresses to play them in the stage plays and movies and a live action TV series that's different!" Utena panted. She had gone Full Ham mode without realizing it. "But so-called fans who use their images with no authorization, those are the worst! They only care about their own fame and prestige! If this Chiu is using Tres Magia's beauty for her selfish purposes I'll find and punish her!"
Then she sat back and blushed again. "S-Sorry, I didn't mean that you only cared about your own fame and prestige!"
"That's fine, it's right what I did," Kiwi said easily.
Utena bit on her lower lip. Punishing that Chiu person? First she would have to find Archer-san and free him from that awful Master of his. All through that week she'd pretty much forgotten about him, caught in her own affairs! Truly, she was the worst...
Kiwi looked around. "Hey, Utena-chwan," she smirked impishly. "Wanna take a selfie together... as Magical Girls?" she whispered.
Utena blinked in an exaggerated way. "Eeeeehhhh!"
Kiwi giggled, grabbed her by a hand, and pulled her into a nearby bush.
Two flashes of light flew from the bush.
"B-But-!"
"Relax!" Leopard laughed, pulling her back out, now the two of them transformed into their super powered identities. "It'll only take us a minute! It's not like they could feel us and jump on us that fast!"
"Of course we wouldn't jump on you, that's not how Magical Girl things are done!" said a voice from above. "We'll fly down and vanquish you instead, fiendish foes!"
Utena smiled slowly, looking up towards the source of Magia Magenta's unmistakable gorgeous voice.
She, Magia Sulphur, and a frowning Magia Azure hovered in the air, overlooking them.
Magia Sulphur gave them a tiny wicked smirk. "Oh, there is another one?" she said. "That's good, one butt more to kick..."
Leopard growled, baring her teeth.
As everyone else around began running away, Utena grinned and walloped on the bush she had just stepped out from.
That was what life was about!
"A vegetation based monster again? Such lack of imagination, Magia Baiser!" Magia Sulphur said.
The bush grew thrice as told as a man and stood on its roots as if they were legs. It tried to roar, but since it had no mouth it only managed to scatter leaves all around.
Kiwi snickered, pulling her small gun out. "Leave the midget to me, Baiser-chwan! I'll show her some imagination!"
"So you spent that time looking for an accomplice," Magia Azure said. "Tell us, newcomer, how should we call you?"
"Leopard! That's the name, Prissy!" Leopard's portals blinked into existence all around her. From each, the barrel of a gun peeked out. "Like the big cat that eats sissy little girls!"
Sulphur moved her hands and summoned a small bubble shield into each. "Magenta, go tackle Magi Baiser. Azure and I will declaw this cat."
"A-Actually, I'd like to have a rematch against Baiser to redeem my honor!" Azure said.
Sulphur gave her a little weary glance. "You serious?"
Magenta sighed. "Let her do it, Sulphur-chan. She's gotta take it out of her system." She flew next to her blonde friend. "I'll fight with you!"
Sayo gulped. "T-Thank you, Magenta-chan!"
Sulphur rolled her eyes. "What a bother. Well, then, let's do this fast and-"
"Three on two?" laughed a loud, annoying voice from a sideline. Tres Magia's heads whipped that way. They had just felt another evil presence. "Magical Girls are supposed to be about fair play, you scams!"
Magia Azure bristled. "Who dares-!"
Magenta gulped. "Azure-chan, that is the quintessential villainous line."
A young woman strutted into sight from around a corner, and Leopard groaned. Magia Baiser smiled brightly.
The newcomer tossed her long black hair back, walking with the sway of a supermodel. She was marching on high heeled boots, her showy uniform all black, generous curves accentuated by it, a large chest jutting up.
She stopped and her glasses shone. She flashed them a white grin.
"Introducing Enormeeta's newest and most promising recruit!" she said. "The one and only... Great Paru-sama!"
Magia Sulphur grimaced in disgust. "Another lowlife."
Leopard whistled in a childish fashion and began looking away. "Paru-sama? I don't know what are you talking about. We've never seen you before!"
Paru-sama frowned and slammed her foot down. "Oh, come on! That's what you call team spirit?!"
"Magenta, my defense is best suited to dispose of the kitten's toy guns," Sulphur said. "I can deal with her on my own! You take that one."
Magia Magenta nodded, seeing Paru-sama pull a booklet out, doodling on it with a giddy expression. "Is she... Drawing?! Why whould she draw in a moment like-"
Then a huge battering ram with a Hello Kitty head-shaped top emerged from the book and flew upwards, hitting her in the stomach and sending her flying higher.
"Ma-Magenta!" Sulphur gasped.
"Hey! You were supposed to fight me. Remember that?" Leopard said, opening fire. Sulphur stretched her hands and her shields widened to block it.
Magia Azure's hand tightened on her chest, following Magenta with her eyes until she became a twinkle in the sky. A moment later the twinkle returned, swooping down towards Paru-sama, who cackled and started battering on her with a pair of floating giant paddles. Magenta heroically blocked each blow with her staff, but she couldn't come close to her foe either.
Only then Azure looked down at Magia Baiser and her monster. "W-Well, it looks like we can focus on each without being troubled! Our allies seem to be evenly matched, so don't think about them, and neither will I! I trust them, I know they can prevail on their own without my help! Can you say likewise?"
Magia Baiser waved a hand, and shrubbery jumped from her monster, squeezing Magia Azure around the limbs and face and immobilizing her.
"Mmmmmpppphhhhh!"
Magia Baiser blinked as the tendrils of green lowered her foe to her level, the Magical Heroine squirming and struggling in their grasp. It was too easy! Utena told herself in disbelief. She must be setting me up for a trap...
Very cautiously, she approached her enemy.
"RrRMMMpppHhhNGGT!" Magia Azure struggled to breath. Delicately, Utena reached with a finger, and she pulled enough vines off her nose to save her.
The girl exhaled and inhaled adequately now, but her mouth was still blocked, and she could not move arms or legs beyond pulling on them pointlessly.
Magia Baiser's eyes stopped on Magia Azure's chest. The vines were oozing around to frame Azure's breasts, making them jut out. Utena's eyes bugged.
Fascinated, the black haired deviant cupped one of those mammaries in a hand and fondled it.
"Gyy!" Azure chewed on the vines in her mouth.
Once again, Magia Baiser's pupils stabbed at the corners of her eyes.
"It's a honor to be fighting Magia Magenta! The actual Magia Magenta!" Paru-sama squeed while sending tiny airplanes towards her, Magia Magenta batting their bullets and then the airplanes themselves off the air with her staff and pink blasts from the heart at the end of it.
Magenta laughed honestly, blush stickers on her cheeks. "Oh, thank you! For a newbie you aren't bad either!"
Then she got into a closer range and began swatting at her drones more brutally, making Haruna wince in phantom pain. "But I've noticed it hurts you when I strike them down, right? Sorry. That's something you should look into!"
Paru-sama flinched, griiting her teeth. "Ugh, you little! I take back what I said!"
"Nothing personal!" Magenta shot a heart-shaped attack at Haruna herself, forcing her to dodge out of the way. The taller girl panted heavily. "And you grow tired fast. You don't have any training, do you?"
"Who do you think I am, the daughter of a martial artist?" Haruna said irritably. She was preparing another drawing when Magenta shot a blast through her sketchbook. "Yeeeeeekk!"
Magenta gave her a little sigh. "And you need that to attack, too! That's two Achilles' heels you have!" Her advice sounded completely sincere, and lacking any arrogance or taunting intent. "Your doodles are very good, why do you employ them for evil?"
"Sheesh, that kind of adorable Mahou Shoujo behavior is really annoying in real life!" Haruna threw her charred sketchbook aside. She summoned a new artifact to her hand. "Did you think you'd crippled me so easily? Think again!"
Magia Magenta sighed. "Artists always have a temper, I suppose!"
Meanwhile, Leopard laughed as she blasted on the barriers deployed by Magia Sulphur. "Magia Baiser told me that you like beating people up with your fists like some uncouth savage, but guess what?! You can't punch and keep those shields on at the same time!"
"Your point being?" Sulphur smiled slyly, without yielding under pressure.
Explosions kept on rattling her shields. "You'll grow tired, and once you have to lower them, your flat ass will be full of holes!" Leopard boasted. "Your friends can't help you, so all I have to do is to keep on shooting until you drop!"
The sly smile intensified as Sulphur squinted at her foe. "Precisely. You have made it clear why you'll lose. You don't have unlimited energy either. And attack magic drains more power than defense magic, which is passive and demands less movement. If anyone here loses that stamina duel, it's you."
Leopard gulped, but also grew annoyed and shot even more wildly. Shit, this punk's correct, I'm already tired, she thought. Gotta blow a hole through her shields already.
"How long have you been doing this?" Sulphur teased her. "Weeks? Is this your first outing? Because we'd never heard about you, nobody. I'm a veteran, and I've killed more monsters than you'll ever spawn in your pathetic career as a lapdog. Experience has made me a lot stronger than you."
"RRRRRRRRRR!" the Leopard roared, veins bulging on her forehead as she shot on and on at the small blonde.
"Of course," Magia Sulphur cooed sweetly, prodding the villainess into exhausting herself, "if you want to flee with your tail between your legs now to save your flabby hide, I'll let you do that. Why, it's the only thing Magia Baiser is good for too!"
"GONNA KILL YOU BITCH!" Leopard howled, guns of every size booming around her. Shouldn't a Pro Hero have shown up by then?
At the same time, Magia Baiser was fondling Magia Azure's breasts.
"MMMPPHHH!" Azure said.
The dark Magical Girl drooled. "They are so meaty and supple, youthful..." she said, sounding eerily like a dirty old man. "So big up close..."
"BBBNNNN DWNNNKINNGG MFFLKKKK!" Azure attempted to explain.
"Wonder what... Shouldn't, and even so..." Utena breathed raggedly, ripping the shirt off, then pulling on the pink bra. A nipple greeted her, and she pinched it.
"YYTTTTTYU!" Azure said.
Utena looked aside, then at the other aside, whimpered, and kissed the nipple briefly.
"?!" Azure jumped in place.
Utena stumbled back and took both hands to her head. This is going too far! What am I gonna do? Keep it professional, keep it professional! I know, whipping her again would be less perverted than that!
She stopped trembling as much as she could. Then she whacked Azure's chest with her weapon.
"HWGGW!"
"Sorry, it's not due to any Bra Size envy!" Magia Baiser said, hitting her breasts at left and right. "It's just that I don't want to be a pervert that much!"
This is much more perverted than what you were doing before, though...! Azure yelled in her psyche.
And then, Hiiragi Utena snapped back to her actual duty as Kiwi's scream pierced through the air. "Leopard-chan!"
She rushed away from the scene, leaving Magia Azure in the grasp with no initiative of the bush.
Azure braced herself for the next impact that didn't come.
Why did you stop doing the less perverted thing that was more perverted than the other perverted thing you were doing? she wondered after several moments of waiting.
Leopard's guns clicked empty, and the girl grimaced while Magia Sulphur descended to her level.
She had not dropped the shields yet, as if expecting for a feint.
"Weren't you calling me out on being a coward?" the busty blonde said. "Do you actually have any offensive at all?"
Sulphur dropped the barriers, slammed her fists on her legs, and the gauntlets appeared on her arms. She lunged at Leopard and hit her in the mouth, so the scream Utena heard was produced.
The little witch punched like a ton of bricks. Leopard reeled back, running a fist over her own lips. That blow would have destroyed a normal person. Like Araga Kiwi in her civilian guise.
Magia Baiser was on her way, but Magia Magenta had already dealt with Paru-sama, knocking her aside, and the pinkette jumped into her way. That delayed her, as they were at the middle of a boulevard with nothing to hit with the riding crop at hand. While Magenta had a much more useful weapon when it came to default long range magical fire.
"You only get another one," Leopard hissed, standing on slightlyh shaky legs.
Magia Sulphur brought her fists together. "Another one is all I need!" she said, and ran at the weakened girl again.
But Leopard was not really groggy yet, and another tiny revolver sprang from her sleeve. Barely leaping over Sulphur's arm and shoulder, she spun in the air. She took aim at the back of Sulphur's head and pulled the trigger, breathing deeply.
I'm sorry, Utena-chwan, but this crazy whore would kill me if I let her.
The bullet barely grazed Sulphur's scalp, most of its trajectory intercepted by one of those cat ear-like accesories on her hair. The thing was metallic, Leopard saw it now, and the Magical Girl ducked just in time to prevent being hit in a vital point of her skull.
Leopard dropped on her knees and hands, with Sulphur being faster to spin back to face her. To Leopard's mild surprise, she didn't seem angry in the slightest. Not even when she ran her hand through her hair and looked at the blood in her fingers from touching the tiny wound. "Congratulations." That was not what Leopard expected her to say, much less in an amused tone.
There's always something at hand to hit, Utena realized as she ran from one side to another to dodge the blasts from Magenta's staff, and so she slammed her own weapon down, on the pavement. The bricks she had just impacted rose, flying towards Magenta, who shrieked as she was slammed against a tree, splitting it by half. Magia Baiser took advantage of her brief knockout to keep on running towards Kiwi.
Then she saw the bench where they had been sitting.
"You got a lot closer than Magia Baiser did," Magia Sulphur told Leopard. "You can go with pride!"
She raised her fist and swung it down towards the exhausted Leopard, but Magia Azure appeared on her way, with her arms open.
"Sulphur, no!" Azure said.
Sulphur stopped immediately before her hand could collide on her friend. "Azure!?"
Then Azure exploded in a puff of smoke. Sulphur staggered around, coughing and taking a fist to her mouth. "What the flipping- Oh, we've been had again!" she roared, stomping through the smoke towards where Leopard had been, and finding nobody there. One of the Magia Azure dolls was on the ground right there, and Sulphur picked it up, humming. "Why would Magia Baiser have something like this on her?"
"Maybe she's started carrying decoys of us to trick us," Magia Magenta said, walking next to the blonde and shaking tree leaves off her pink hair.
"That would make sense," Sulphur said, tossing the doll aside. "The third one didn't hurt you, did she?"
Magenta shook her head. She looked towards where she had dropped Paru-sama. "But she escaped in the confusion too!"
"Three peas in a pod!" Sulphur said. Then she glared towards where Azure was squirming tangled in vines, with a sheepish bush monster left by her side. "We used to be like that too, but looks like one of the peas is rotting."
"MMMHPPPP!" Azure protested as they walked to her.
"Rude, Sulphur-chan," Magenta said.
"Just calling things as I see them," Sulphur said, casually punching a hole through the monster and making it collapse on itself. Without Magia Baiser around, it didn't have any willpower of its own to protect itself. "Are you okay, Azure?"
Azure wheezed and choked, dissolving vines all over her face. "I think so... Thanks..."
Magia Magenta shrilled. "M-Magi Sulphur-chan! Y-Y-Your head!"
"Just a flesh wound, Magenta-chan. It'll heal in no time," Sulphur said indifferently. "Don't sweat it!"
"Sorry I couldn't contribute more," Azure closed her eyes in shame and shook her head. "I was blindsided again! It won't happen a third time! Or is this the fourth one? Hmmmm..."
Should she count the times all of them were caught, or not?
"Maybe next time we should switch enemies and you can fight Paru-sama," Magenta offered. "She's not a difficult enemy!"
"Grrrrrrr," Sayo said quietly.
Haruka blinked. "Sorry, what was that?"
Utena, Kiwi and Haruna breathed raggedly, taking refuge behind a hastily abandoned merry-go round.
"That... That was a close shave, girls!" Saotome panted.
"And whom do we have to thank? You!" Kiwi told her. All three had changed back to civilian attire.
"What? Why?" the manga artist protested.
"Utena-chwan had hers literally dominated, and mine saved her life through sheer luck!" Kiwi said. "You lost fair and square!"
"Don't fight, don't fight," Utena sighed.
"But Utena-chwan, think about it! If she had won, she would have helped me and we'd have won in a sweep!"
"Sometimes, winning isn't everything," Utena said. She looked at the empty box she was hugging. "You're fine, and that's what matters!"
The blonde blinked. "Utena-chwan..."
She hugged the brunette and sobbed. "Sorry you lost your precious doll saving me! It's my fault!"
"Good thing I'm not at fault anymore!" Haruna smiled.
Utena put a hand on Kiwi's head. "You're more precious than any doll. Let's go home."
They walked out the fair grounds before being spotted, and made their way downtown while patrol cars and a Pro Hero agency arrived.
"It was a disaster date!" Kiwi began weeping in her hands. "I didn't want it to go that way!"
Utena put a hand on her shoulder and blushed. "It, it doesn't count. We can have another date later! D-Don't you think so, Haruna-san?"
Kiwi looked at her with reddened orbs full of arteries. "You mean just the two of us without her, don't you?"
"Of, of course! Um, not meant to offend, Haruna-san!"
"Hey, I have been called worse!" Saotome raised her hands. "Who am I to get in the way of love? Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I'm still a newbie."
Kiwi sniffed. "Apology accepted."
Haruna smiled and patted her head. "I'll train to be better! Next time we meet Tres Magia we'll defeat them!"
"Don't treat me as a kid, I'm as old as you," Kiwi pouted.
"Ahh, that should be an interesting discussion for later." Haruna looked at her smartphone. "But I've gotta leave! Ku's waiting with dinner at Mahora!"
Utena smiled and waved at her. "See you later, Haruna-san. Thanks..."
Haruna blew them a kiss and ran off, laughing. Kiwi looked after the tall girl jealously.
"You like her too. Don't you," she told Utena. "You like everyone."
"K-Kiwi-chan, don't-" Utena stuttered.
"You're a stud even when you're being shy." The blonde made kissy mouths at Hiiragi. "If you're so horny, then try your Kiwi-chwan all the way!"
"K-Kiwi!" Utena said, several passerbys giving them odd looks.
"Your Kiwi-chwan is woman enough to match a whole harem!" Kiwi boasted, trying to kiss her. "A hotel! Let's hit a hotel, Utena-chwan!"
"KI-KIWI-CHAN, THINK OF WHAT YOU'RE BLURTING OUT!"
A gorgeous young woman with long light blonde hair stared at the half-destroyed fair. The ricochets of the fight between Magia Sulphur and Leopard alone had broken many of the attractions, and Magia Magenta's blasts had taken many chunks of the boulevard off.
"Sorry we arrived this late," the masked beauty in that colorful costume told the owner, who had just arrived himself in a limousine. "But we can't sense 'magic' the way those girls can, so they always beat us to emergencies of this kind! But if we could help you some other way..."
The tiny, hairy old man lit a cigar up and puffed on it. "Well, the rides aren't going to fix themselves." A photographer stood next to him and readied his camera with a smile. "Think about it this way, it'll be good publicity for both of us, as long as you know anything on mechanic reparations?"
Mount Lady looked at the wrecked grounds and shrugged. "I was raised in the countryside and helped Dad with his equipment, how different could this be anyway?"
"Ah ha ha, don't take everything so seriously!" Kiwi giggled while walking along holding hands with Utena. "Anyone could see I was just kidding, silly!"
"S-Sorry, I'm that socially inept!" Utena said.
"Well, I heard they hold very good social seminaries in that building!" Kiwi pointed far ahead of them. "What if we register you for one?"
Utena squinted at the sign on the facade of the building. 'LOVE HOTEL NABE-NABE'.
She broke in a fit of blushing panic and clung to a traffic sign. "No! No! That's a hotel! Y-You want to rape me, Kiwi-chan!"
"It's not rape, it's just social encouragement!" Kiwi salivated and pulled on her.
"No, no, I'm not fine with that yet!" Utena shouted.
"What if we just cuddle a little bit, Utena-chwan!"
"No, no! I'm not letting go of this sign!"
Utena blinked as she found herself standing at the lobby of the hotel moments later, with the uprooted traffic sign in a hand and Kiwi's in the other.
A tall, lanky, smiling man in seventies clothes walked to meet them, smoking a cigarette and sporting a brown afro. "Hello, I'm Nabeshin," he said.
"That's great!" Kiwi waved it off. "My girlfriend and I would like to rent a room, the most erotic suite you have!"
The man raised an eyebrow. "And your ages are...?"
"Oh, come on, you directed Excel Saga, as if you cared about that!"
More moments later after those moments, Utena and Kiwi sat on the sidewalk right outside the hotel. "There oughtta be a law...!" Kiwi bristled.
Utena looked at the street sign she was still holding. "We're strong even when we don't transform, aren't we?"
Two nights passed, and then Kiwi rang on the front bell of Utena's apartment.
While Haruna looked at her in embarrassment, the blonde hopped in situ like a child on a sugary high. "Oh, my first visit to Utena-chwan! My first time in Utena-chwan's room!"
"I never thought anyone would call me over to her room to make sure they wouldn't be deflowered," Haruna told herself.
"What did you just say, Megane?"
"Never mind."
Utena's mother opened the door with a sweet smile. "Oh, you must be Araga-chan and Saotome-chan! Welcome!"
"Hiiragi-sama!" Kiwi bowed. "It's a honor meeting Utena-chwan's mother, such a graceful bloom of youthful beauty!"
"Oh, I feel like having some oyakodon too," Haruna said slyly. Kiwi discreetly tried to kick her shin and failed. "Saotome Haruna, ma'am!"
"Utena-chan, your friends are here for their visit!" the woman led them into Utena's bedroom, where she sat watching something in her PC.
Utena smiled, waving at her friends in EVIL. "Good evening, girls! Glad you could make it...!"
Her mother merrily skipped for the kitchen to get them treats. Perhaps she won't die alone after all! Even if I never get grandchildren this still is an improvement...!
"Utena-chwan, Utena-chwan!" Kiwi threw herself on her, rubbing her cheek against hers. "Your room is beautiful and smells of you, Utena-chwan!"
"It's like Iinchou's room but replacing all of Sensei's merch with Magical Girls!" Haruna looked around. "I guess Iinchou's has more merits. She commissioned all of hers herself after all."
"Shaddap!" Kiwi said. "If you aren't going to be kind go take a hike!"
Haruna sat on the edge of the bed. "I'm afraid you'd rape Utena and her mom. When did I swerve towards moralizing anyway? This sucks..."
"You have just realized you do have some morals after all. Don't worry, they'll go away," Venalita said, appearing by them.
"Please remember, if Mom walks in while you're doing that, we were playing truth or dare," Utena meekly told Kiwi as the latter kissed her under an eye.
"Why are you watching cartoons?" Haruna asked, looking at the computer's screen. "Because that isn't even anime."
"I know, but I had to, I need to learn about Archer-san."
"Who?" Kiwi asked.
Utena sighed. "Sorry I didn't tell you about him before, but it was such a long story, and I didn't know what to do about it..."
Utena's mother was coming back with a tray of snacks and drinks when Kiwi's yell prompted her to jump out of her slippers.
"A GUY ENTERED YOUR ROOM!? I'LL KILL THAT-!"
Utena's mother stormed in, tray spilled behind her, wild eyed.
Utena was covering the furious Kiwi's mouth with her hands. Haruna sat by, quite apathetic. "S-Sorry, Mom! We're playing truth or dare, and, and a dare was, was was just making up a story that would make Kiwi-chan angry...!"
Later!
"See? It wasn't even a real guy, it was a talking cartoon duck who plays superhero. A perfectly normal happening that shouldn't raise eyebrows," Haruna said once Utena's explanation was over, her mother having excused herself away to swallow more sleep pills and snore the headache away. Saotome sat aloofly, watching the cartoon with mild detachment. Kiwi still bristled.
"But even so, ducks are the rapists of the bird world! They'll jump on geese, hens, turkeys!" Araga fumed. "But nobody will ever ruin my Utena-chwan! Or else!"
"First time I hear they are," Utena said. "Anyway, since he helped me out, and his story made me feel bad, I promised myself that I'd help him out. While I know that's slightly in contradiction with the spirit of being an evil villainess, Venalita gave her say-so."
Venalita rubbed her sleeves together and said, "If Utena-chan should get a Heroic Spirit of her own, she might corrupt them into an Alter! Alter Servants are just the most awesome ones and have a high market value!"
"Oh, is that so?" Utena said wearily. "Then, I've spent these two days looking for info on caped ducks. Finally, I found this online image that matched Archer-san's looks, and it led me to uploading this old American anime, apparently the source of his legend. It's... kind of awful, really," she said with a grimace of disgust.
"It was a different time and Americans are less enlightened than us," Haruna said benevolently. "You cannot expect them to understand fine genres such as tentacle molestation, harem antics and collectible pocket monsters."
"But now, through watching all sixty five episodes in a binge the likes of which I hadn't experienced since Mimiru The Original Series, I can talk with him knowing what is his deal, what drives him, what motivates his heart!" Utena said, reentering ham territory. She shook a fist at her ceiling. "I'll save my newfound friend, the disinterested soul who aided me despite having no reason to do so!"
"But I also aid you despite having no reasons to!" Kiwi said faintly.
"You do have a good reason," Haruna said. "She is hot."
"Point," Kiwi said.
"Never rewatching his series afterwards, though," Utena took a hand to her stomach. "Seriously, what a drivel."
"And you want us to help you with that..." Kiwi said.
Utena blushed. "N-No, it's a self imposed task that has nothing to do with Enormeeta... If I wanted to drag you into it, I'd have told you before, but I shouldn't demand that much from you!"
"Oh please, what kind of girlfriend would I be if I left you alone in something like that!" Kiwi said. "So what if you want that duck as your pet, why would I be jealous of a duck anyway! I'm not even jealous of Saotome, and she has better legs than his!"
Haruna smiled and caressed her own legs. Utena followed her hands' movement with captivated eyes. Kiwi pouted. "Shouldn't have said that..." the blonde mumbled, although she looked on too.
"Hey, when you are right..." Haruna said. "But Utena-chan, how does that help you know where to find him? For all you know, his Master might be anywhere in the city, right?"
Utena thought about it.
"Sorry, but I'm not going to help you with side projects until I've been proved they contribute to our main mission," Venalita said. "I'm not obstructing but neither helping."
"No, I wasn't expecting you to tell us," Utena said, somewhat coldly, which surprised Kiwi. "No need for it anyway. I think I have an idea!"
Haruna grinned.
Kiwi sighed. "Who would have thought something as simple as being evil would be such a complicated thing?"
Sakura Edelfelt smiled as the silver haired gentleman with slightly pointy ears brought her a cup of fragrant tea.
"Thank you, Alphonse," she told the aged butler, and began sipping elegantly. "It tastes a bit different," she observed.
"Indeed it does, Mistress," he said. "It took the liberty of putting two drops of the soothing potion in it, so you would take tonight's report calmly."
Sakura frowned and lifted an eyebrow.
Alphonse rasped and put a fist on his mouth. He stood in a very formal way. "As instructed, I have been keeping an eye on the local news. In the event that any new incidents involved any of your enemies in this current Heaven's Feel. As it happens, there is a possibly irrelevant-"
"Please don't waste my time during times of war, Alphonse!" the normally placid young woman grabbed him by the lapels of the suit. "Will you?!"
Seconds later, she ran into the next room to watch the news her servant (not her Servant, that was a different person, obviously. As was her junior servant, even more obviously) had recorded for her, staring at the television screen with wide eyes.
And, over at the Tohsaka Manor, Illya walked in nonchalantly. "Hey, Archer-san, Rin! Do you remember you made me study that whole list of dogs made of water and clown ducks just in case someone else summoned a cartoon?"
The news had famous TV celebrity Rikdo Koshi standing before the Clock Tower of Mahora Academy. "Here we are, live at the scene of this most perplexing crime!" the reporter said while the cameras closed up on the defaced facade. "Hooligans have left a taunting message and fled with no explanations! Tres Magia, the city's resident heroines, made it to the scene, claiming being drawn by their longtime foes, the Enormeeta organization..."
The scene cut to Magia Magenta being interviewed on the subject. "Ah, well, yes, we could feel a burst of evil magic in these grounds, and quickly, we flew here to stop Enormeeta! But for once, they had left already when we made it here! That's odd, normally they stay so they can try whipping Ma-"
Magia Azure shoved her aside, blushing, taking over the speech. "It, it was a hit and run tactic, unusual in Enormeeta, but then again, they try many varied and different and exotic and... wicked ways to try and... lick us... and... uhhh... They have a perverse imagination, but we will protect you from them, taking whatever sinister intentions they have for you and blocking them if neccessary with our own-"
Magia Sulphur smiled, swiped the microphone from her, and explained smoothly. "What my beloved friends are trying to say in the... heat of the moment is that often Enormeeta's vandalism appears to make little sense. From our fights, we have come to realize that figuring them out is like trying guessing the motives of unruly children. They are slippery, yes, but they will brought to justice soon because of that complete lack of brainpower."
Watching the transmissions in Utena's room along Utena herself and Haruna, Kiwi bristled. "The nerve of that midget! Calling us dumb on TV!"
"Let her enjoy herself, Kiwi-chan," Utena smiled pleasantly. "The important thing is that Archer-san would receive the message as well."
Tres Magia themselves were reunited in Haruka's bedroom, sitting in a circle on her floor.
"What if we jumped to conclusions? What if it wasn't actually Enormeeta?" Haruka was biting her fingernails. "We'll lose face before the other Magical Girls if were wrong in live TV!"
"Who else could it be? Sailor V's Dark Agency aren't stupid enough to resort to random public property destruction, and Magical Patissier's Doctor Dunce has too much of an ego to sign his handwork under any other name," Kaoruko said. "We just helped the three Powerdumbs jail their chimp, so it can't be him either. And we wouldn't have felt any magic if any of those villains the Pros fight were responsible."
"Doctor Slug?" Sayo scowled and put a hand on her delicate chin. "Might that be the name of their true leader?"
"It sounds like a name one of those pompous evil overlords who are too self-pampered to fight themselves would call himself while sending his lapdogs to yap at us," Kaoruko blew on her just painted toenails. "Maybe he grew tired of his bimbos failing to achieve anything and decided to show his hand."
"Slug..." Sayo shuddered, looking at the ceiling.
"It does sound like a creature full of viscous substances that would ooze all over whoever he is taking prisoner, does not it?" Kaoruko mused.
"Aaaahhhhhh!" Sayo took her hands to her head.
"A sort of Jabba the Hutt, probably he likes taking those Magical Girls who have been disappearing as his chained up slaves," Kaoruko shrugged.
"Eeeeeehhhh!" Sayo trembled violently.
Haruka raised an eyebrow at Kaoruko. The blonde snickered in amusement.
Haruka sighed and held up the photo of the carved-on Clock Tower. Not that Clock Tower, naturally. Duh. "That still doesn't explain the whole message. Where does he want to meet up with us? And why does he call us 'his foe' when there are three of us?"
'DOCTOR SLUG CHALLENGES HIS GREATEST FOE TO A DUEL TOMORROW NIGHT, WHERE HIS FIRST HALF MEETS HIS SECOND HALF'.
"Doctor Slug!" Sakura ran a hand down her face. "Da- Archer-san's most feared foe!"
"So another person was strange enough as to actually summon a character from that animated program," Miyu said blandly.
"That would seem to be the case, wouldn't it?" Alphonse said. "And what would the powers of this Doctor be then, Mistress?"
Sakura had to shrug. "Nobody knows."
"Excuse me?" her butler said.
"Doctor Slug never actually appeared in the show other than a few quick cameos," Sakura explained. "That was the point, you see, it was a running gag..."
A small drop of sweat appeared on Miyu's head. "What... What is the point of summoning someone who had no feats at all?"
"I don't know," Sakura admitted. She smiled victoriously. "But I easily figured the second part of the riddle out! We'll be there just like Archer-san and Tohsaka!"
Rider appeared before her. "Do we really have to? It's not like any other Servant will need our help to dispose of Archer..."
"Do not question my leadership, please, Rider!" Sakura said.
"And if we are going to protect Archer again, I fail to see the purpose of that, as he is still our enemy and-"
"Please go back to reading books until tomorrow, Rider!" Sakura insisted.
Archer paced back and forth, arms folded behind his back. "Doctor Slug, my most tenacious enemy! More powerful than Taurus Bulba, more insane than Negaduck! HAH!" He actually stopped to smile. "Finally a worthwhile adversary from the shadows of my past!"
"Please don't talk as if you'd done anything through this war but taking beatings," Rin said.
"Where your first half meets your second half?" Illya hummed. "That makes no sense! He's insane, all right!"
"Oh, no, that part is easy!" Archer waved his hand. "He didn't know my secret identity so he must mean the first and second halves of my heroic name!"
"Darkwing and Duck, then?" Illya asked.
"Unlikely," Archer said. "He must mean Dark and Wing. Those are simple enough words that can be found anywhere in a city map. But I'm not that familiar with this city yet, so I don't know-"
Himiko raised her hand from where she rested on a couch, lazily checking on videos in her smartphone. "The Dark Dove Dancing Hall was closed last year, and it's across the street facing the abandoned Wing Theater. I slept in both of those a few nights after leaving home."
Everyone else looked at her.
Himiko held the phone up. "Look, terrorists beheading hostages."
Utena, Kiwi and Haruna hid next to a window in the top floor of the Dark Dove Dancing Hall. From there, they could overlook the lonely and badly lit street below. They were in a dilapidated neighborhood where many business enterprises had been failing.
"We should transform already. If anyone's coming, they'll be here any moment now," Haruna said.
"Not yet," Utena shook her head softly. "As soon as we transform, the Tres Magia will detect us. We have to time this carefully, Haruna-san."
"Do you think he will really come?" Kiwi asked with a small cute yawn.
"He will. I played to his ego," Utena said fondly.
"And what if he sneaks behind on us, while we're like this we can't fight," Kiwi argued. "And I know you don't actually want to fight him, but his Master will think differently, don't you think?"
Utena pointed outside. "Where Dark meets Wing, not inside of Dark, Kiwi-chan. He'll take it literally, so he'll show up there, and not here..."
Then someone appeared at the door of the room, frowning. "Good thing that I apparently can think out of the box better than this person, then," they said.
Utena gasped. "Yaah!"
Haruna blinked. "Sensei! H-How did you find us?!"
Negi Springfield shook his head in exasperation, walking towards them. "It only took me googling who Doctor Slug was, and I had a full day to do it! Who knows how many others did that and are coming here as we speak? What were you thinking, Utena-san!?"
Utena blushed, wincing back from him.
"And you!" Negi pointed at Haruna, showing more discipline towards her than ever before. "It had to be someone living in the Mahora campus, to pull a hit and run successfully before anyone could hit the crime scene! You are all painting targets on yourselves!"
"Where is Kagurazaka?" Kiwi asked while far from impressed at him. "She's always stuck on you like a tick."
"She's keeping Konoka-san company for an omiai," Negi sighed. "That's not important, you should-"
"What's an omiai?" Kiwi interrupted him.
Utena blinked at her. "You mean you don't know?"
"Why should I?"
"It's an arranged date. Wealthy people stuff," Haruna summed up. "Asuna often acts as Konoka's bodyguard so no guy gets fresh."
"Ah," Kiwi said. She waved Negi away. "You sure are funny! Telling us we're endangering ourselves when you went behind your babysitter's back after your sleepytime!"
Haruna nodded. "She's right, Negi-kun. At least we have magical powers! Asuna will be mad when we tell her, but we are willing to overlook that if you just leave already."
"D-Do you need money for a taxi?" Utena said, reaching into her purse, and then rotated back to the window, hearing something outside. "That's him!"
Kiwi and Haruna leaned over Utena's shoulders, peeking around her. "Huh, he actually was smart enough to figure it out," Haruna said. "You owe me, Kiwi-chan!"
"Funk," Kiwi said, looking into her pocket and handing the happy girl several bills. Negi also tried to get a view, Utena accommodating him.
He saw a cloud of purple gas dissipating at the middle of the street, with a humanoid waterfowl in the smoke and looking in all directions. "I don't understand!" Negi said. "Why is a cartoon character suddenly alive and well in the real world?"
There were three flashes of light around him, startling him, and then he wasn't with Utena, Kiwi, and Haruna anymore. He was with Magia Baiser, Leopard, and Great Paru-sama. "He is a Servant, Sensei," Baiser said, already sounding more confident and sensual than she had sounded as the shy Hiiragi. "A Heroic Spirit summoned by a magus. I'm going to claim him as my own Servant, to save him from the cruel fate of a Hero..."
Negi blinked. "You mean... that there is a Grail War going on?!"
The girls looked at him, stunned.
"How... How do you know about Grail Wars, Sensei?" Magia Baiser asked the boy carefully.
Another person appeared at the same door. "So," a female voice called out. A hand was stretched towards them, several gems glinting in the grasp of feminine fingers. "You are the ones who set this ambush? Didn't even think of covering your backs, did you?"
Magia Baiser smiled and began walking towards the newcomer, while Negi pulled his wooden staff out, and Haruna prepared her pad. Kiwi drew out, grinning happily. This individual was very beautiful, with dark hair arranged in twintails, and long legs in black zettai ryouiki shown off by a short skirt.
"Just the person I wanted to see tonight!" the delighted Magia Baiser smacked her riding crop on her own hand. "Archer-san's Master! But before the night is over you shall call me your Master inste-"
Then their eyes met, and their jaws dropped involuntarily.
Walking in circles on the street, Archer scratched his head.
Himiko and Prisma Illya were in the Wing Theater, with the blonde wearing a thick scarf that covered the lower half of her face and goggles that hid her distinctive eyes from anyone who would recognize her as Toga Himiko or Tohsaka Himiko.
"See that seat?" she pointed at one of them with her favorite knife. "It's the one I liked best. It was close to the door, so you could slip away fast if needed, but not too close, so the chill breeze wouldn't bother you. You could sleep on it even better than I did, since you're smaller..."
Illya sighed stoically. "Sailor V said there'd be days like this."
The Archer stopped at a street corner and stopped scratching his head, putting his hat back on.
"That's not like Slug," he said. "For all his vices, he usually showed up in time!"
Then he felt the shift in mana behind him, and a chain flew, faster than he could react, to wrap itself around his neck.
"Ah, Rider," he said almost fondly. "I hope you didn't stage this. I want to believe better from you."
Then she swung him around, and slammed him against a wall.
"Ouch."
Inside of the dancing emporium, Rin shook her head. "What... What was that..."
"Yah, I'd like to know what was that myself," Leopard pouted.
Paru-sama smiled. "It's the call of love...!"
Rin stared at her, shocked. "W-What?!"
"You could tell if you are honest about your feelings! That's okay! I felt it too and I have no shame!" Paru-sama said, with a hand on her own chest. "And you felt it too, didn't you, Leopard?" She grinned at the blonde.
Small drops of sweat appeared all over Leopard's head. "Uh, of course I did! I love Magia Baiser with all my heart! But, but, that's not the same! This woman... she probably just was overwhelmed by dread, that's all!"
Oh, at least someone actually realizes what goes on after a zing, Utena realized dazedly, looking up and down at Rin's toned legs. I was starting to wonder.
"Welcome to Baiser's harem!" Paru extended a hand at Rin. "I'm the Great Paru-sama, this is Leopard, and this is our wife, Magia Baiser! What's your name?"
"Don't joke with me!" the stranger assumed a Chinese fighting stand. "Archer, come here, I spotted our enemies!"
I am sort of busy right now! Archer said, slamming a gas bomb on Rider and making her step back, coughing. Now that I need to be bailed out or anything, but Rider-
"So Edelfelt is in this as well! We should've known!" Rin said. "Well, I'll trust Rider to you then, Archer! I'll handle these people on my own!"
Thank you for the vote of trust, Master, Archer said right before Rider's fist collided against his face.
"Now, now," Magia Baiser said, stepping calmly towards Rin with her hands raised. "We haven't even done anything to you either, why so aggressive?"
"You just said you'd make me call you 'Master'!" Rin reminded her.
"That was just a come on, not a declaration of war. Why can't you tell the difference?" Paru-sama said.
"Paru, shut up," Leopard said.
Magia Baiser grinned wickledly at Rin. "I was just toying with you, to see what kind of face would you make. And I must say I love the one you are doing. It is so beautiful..."
Rin blushed, struggling not to give a few hiccups and to keep her eyes off Magia Baiser's chest. "W-Why are you stepping into the affairs of Magi? You are supposed to be some sort of valkyries, aren't you?"
Magia Baiser raised an eyebrow. "Valkyries?"
"Like in the Norse mythology?" Paru-sama asked.
Rin frowned and nodded. "They also call them HiMEs now, Highly advanced Materializing Equipment, but-"
"Shouldn't that be HAMEs?" Leopard asked.
"Aren't HiMEs those pseudo Magical Girls Vena mentioned once or twice?" Paru-sama wondered.
And then there was a soft whisper from yet another next room. "Gae Bolg."
Negi, who had just stood in silence studying the situation, jumped and tackled Paru-sama and a gasping Leopard down as a blue projectile broke through a wall, opening a large hole on it, and a very young girl in a swimsuit and cape stepped in throught it, holding a staff much like Illya's. Behind her stood a curvaceous and long haired young woman in a fancy long skirted blue and white dress.
"M-Miyu!" Rin coughed through the smoke of the explosion. "You could have killed us!"
"I didn't aim with a killing intent. Gae Bolg never fails after all," Miyu Edelfelt said softly. "My apologies, Tohsaka-san... san..." Her cute tiny mouth hung slightly open as her gaze happened to coincide with Magia Baiser's.
Baiser let out a soft, short chuckle of confusion as she felt herself lost in the soothingly gorgeous orbs of the girl. Oh dear, I'm a filthy lolicon again... she thought.
"... Miyu?" rasped the young woman who had arrived with her. "Miyu, what's wrong with you? Snap out of it!"
Miyu shook her head, a blush briefly bathing her fair cheeks. "I am sorry, Master. I don't know what came over to me..."
"It was love!" Great Paru-sama said happily. "Feel the love, everyone! Bow to our beloved leader's charms! Look into her eyes, fair maiden of delicious bazoongas, and surrender yourself to her will!"
Sakura frowned, looked into Magia Baiser's eyes, and shrugged. "What? Is she supposed to have Mystic Eyes? Because I don't feel anything!"
Magia Baiser blinked. "Oh," she said, sounding a bit disappointed.
Leopard punched Negi in the face to get him off her, and he stumbled back, rubbing his face. Then he stood upright and said, "Enough nonsense! What if we start explaining ourselves to each other before anyone gets hurt or-"
Archer was flung from the outside through a wall, zooming past them and slamming on Magia Baiser's back like a rocket.
Ah, it's him, Magia Baiser thought, clenching her teeth in back ache. Good, I finally found him again, the rest should be easy from here...
"Edelfelt, you treacherous hyena, we were supposed to have a truce...!" Rin roared, leaping towards her sister, and havoc broke loose.
Then again...
Next: Enormeeta vs. Team Rin vs. Tres Magia vs. Team Sakura.