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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,716 Views)
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... that was the most surreal thing I've seen all week.
"Hello! I'm Rurin, the Magical Mouse! My favorite food is cheese! My favorite pastimes are tormenting cats and facilitating romance! I have the power to bind the souls of guys who mistreat women to the depths of hell and subject them to everlasting karmic suffering! Isn't that cute? Pleased to meet you!" -- Rurin, the Magical Mouse, Magical Patissiere Kosaki-chan.
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Twice the Konoka, Twice the Fun!

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Konoe Konoka tried to pull her neck up as much as she could, screaming "Negi-kun! Negi-kun!" at the top of her lungs. Tsukuyomi was going relatively easy on him so far, but only to toy rather than because of any goodness of her heart. The whole situation was so absurd and over the top it made no sense at all, but the only obvious thing was her teacher and friends were all in serious danger.

Also ignoring the sharp pain, Maga Alba tried to struggle against her binds once more, to no avail. Like they said, the worst try is that you don't ever do. But where was her Negi during all of this, and no Setchan in sight anywhere either...
Then she felt something small, warm and furry crawling on her chest, and two shiny black eyes looked down at her face.

"Hey, Neechan!" Albert said with comforting glee. "Never fear, your dashing savior is here!"

"Chamo-kun!" she smiled, truly thankful.

"Ah!" the other Konoka said, turning her head to look at them. "No way! On top of everything else, Negi-kun's pet TALKS!"

"Actually, he isn't the Bro's pet, " the other Chamo climbed up to her side, sniffing the binds to try and find a way to break them. From what he felt, chewing on them would be an unwise decision; they were rigged with enough magical charge to kill an ermine elf if they were destroyed. "Well, neither of us are pets. Long story, I'll tell you later!"

"Another one?" Konoka wondered. "Oh, I get it. The whole thing with the other world, right...?"

Just like the ermines had sneaked their way through the battles, unnoticed, a blur of fast motion in black and white all but vibrated carefully around the fights, until stopping moments after between the Konokas. "Oh wow, I made it through. Go me, " the sweaty mini skirted nun in sneakers began examining the binds as well, frantically trying to remember anything Sister Shakti could ever have taught her on the subject. "Good evening, fair maidens, never mind me, just an ally of Heaven doing the Lord's job..."

"Misora-chan!" Konoka cheered.

"I don't even know any Kasuga Misora, you can call me the Mysterious Sister..."

"... I didn't even mention your last name, you know..."

"Look out!" Konoe cried, and Misora was warned right in time to duck as the dark haired shapely woman with the sad eyes appeared behind her swinging her metal pole, aiming for the girl's head and barely missing.

"Aiiieeee!" Misora shrieked, briefly dashing back to relative safety. "I'm a soldier of peace, I abhor violence, surrender please don't kill me give it up you have no way out!"

Skillfully, the tall woman twirled the pole around to intimidate Misora, then swung around it herself to complete her confident and self assured flaunting. It was disturbingly similar to professional pole dancing, something the Chamos appreciated deeply. "Good evening. Please forgive my manners, but it's you who shouldn't be here. Leave, and I promise not chasing you. You seem likable; I had a friend like you back at my nunnery..."

"You worked for the church too?-!" a bewildered Misora asked.

"Actually, I meant the other kind of nunnery, " Fasalina explained gently. "A geisha house."

"Unhhh..." Misora said.

The adult kept striking ahead trying to hit her, but while she was far more skilled and fought smarter, Misora's speed edge was too big. The girl kept appearing and disappearing around her and avoiding all her attempts, even when Fasalina switched to wider, more violent sweeping whacks to try and compensate.

"Okay, so you're, fine, a geisha. Or former geisha, whatever, " Misora said uneasily, now circling around Fasalina to try and tire her out. The problem was that could take time, a resource they had very little of. "I'm not going to judge you, she who is free from sin, yadda yadda, you actually seem a nice enough old lady after all... But really, don'tcha think it's wrong, having these girls prisoner like this? I mean—"

"I do. But it still must be done, " Fasalina interruped her, swooping down and changing strategies, doing a leg sweep instead all around herself. Sure enough, that was a case where Misora's being everywhere at almost any given moment worked against her, and she couldn't help stumbling against the woman's legs even before really noticing them, falling on her face and chest. The older female slammed her pole down to try and finish the fight, but Misora had very quickly rolled out of the weapon's way, lifting a leg up to kick Fasalina in the stomach.

The woman gasped for air, but steeled herself and tried to bat for Misora's torso. Even as both Chamos leaped on her shoulders to bit her, she shook them off with a sudden full body motion, once again spinning gracefully around the pole. Then she wasn't grabbing the pole anymore.

What—

Misora had now the pole in her hands, and used it to retaliate against Fasalina by hitting her legs with it, making her fall on her back. Then the girl was standing over her, tossing the pole away into the lake before pressing a foot on the woman's chest. Damn, they were so big and soft it was like stepping on water pillows. How depressing. "Give it up now? Now you're unarmed, and if you had any magic, you'd have used it alr—!-!"

That sentence went unfinished since Fasalina had grabbed her left leg and swung her aside with that newfound grip, slamming her against the ground.

"Okay, so you aren't that harmless even now, " Misora spat grass. "Sorry."

Then she tackled Fasalina at full speed and her ramming into her threw the woman against a tree's trunk. She moaned in a languid way and struggled to get back into the fight for a moment, but then was knocked down and out when Haruna dropped on her from the sky, in a parachute with passion red heart stamps all over it. "Yo!" Haruna waved in a flippant Saotome manner, with the hand that wasn't holding a mortified Nodoka against herself, Kero fluttering around both of them. "Looking fine there, Konoka-chan, Alba-chan! Paru-sama and the others stayed back to cover our backs against that Sexy-chan girl, so we could get here with style!"

"Haruna! Nodoka!" Konoka gasped. "Hm, nice to see you, but... where's Yue? And what's that little cut flying pet?"

"Yue is safe at the Inn. Don't worry about her, " Haruna moved closer. "Well, now it's just cutting them loose and running back, right?"

"Not so fast, " Misora warned, keeping them at bay with a gesturing hand. "These binds have safety seals imprinted on them. Cut them the wrong way and Konoka will lose a limb or worse. Ah, if only Asuna was here, she could neutralize them..."

"Where's Asuna-chan?-!" both Konokas echoed each other.

"T-They're on their way, I'm sure!" Nodoka reached for The Create. "Kero-san, can I just write a magic canceling scissor into existence and cut those ties off?"

"You could try, but it's a risky move, " Kero warned, rubbing his round chin in contemplation. "The Create isn't that powerful, neither are you yet, and it has never been used that way as far as I can remember!"

"Then forget it, " Haruna sighed. "We aren't risking Konoka-chan's safety and beauty. Setsuna would kill us...!"

"Where's Set-chan?-!" both Konokas echoed each other. Again.

"You know, now that's a darn fine question, " Haruna exhaled. "Maybe they're just stalling for the moment to make a fitting and decisive dramatic entrance."

"Or maybe they're still just swamped in demons, " Misora grunted.

"Or maybe that, yeah..." Haruna allowed.

"Set-chan is WHAT?-!" Konoka cried.

"Come on, come on, " Konoe tried to calm her down. "In that equation, the unlucky ones are the demons...!"
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Chizuru: Dutiful Daughter

Despite everything, it was nice visiting. Especially after so many days without seeing him.

"— and I'm positive Saotome-san and Suzushiro-sempai have alliances with him as well, " she summed up, standing behind him, her head just the slightest bit down. "I saw her cards the morning after. But theirs were different. Their designs were far more stilized, less childlike..."

After staring at the card some more, he handed it back to her without turning around. "They are true Pactio cards. This one is nothing but an oddity, a Suka. Completely useless tactically and strategically speaking."

"I'm sorry, " she said, in such a sheepish tone Natsumi wouldn't have believed it was truly her if she had been listening to her now.

"Never be, " he spoke, not sounding altered at all. That was a relief. "It's still a first step in the right direction. You are on the doorstep to his world, and the daughter of Yukihiro should be even further in from what you told me. Perhaps all the way into it. Her family's assets would be a valuable tool, and after enduring her father's rejection for so long, gaining control over his empire through his daughter would be a most delicious revenge, " he commented with detached amusement.

Then, as she nodded docilly, he added, as an afterthought, "And of course, I know of your feelings for her."

She felt a brief shudder, but she was not actually surprised. He knew everything, especially everything about her. How did he know something she had kept so close to her chest, so secret, all these years, was something she couldn't begin to guess, but probably had something to do with how well he was able to read her.
He ran a fond hand through her hair. "Chizuru. You deserve anyone your heart might crave for. Pursue that freely. People like us was born for that."

"Yes, father. By the way, how is everything going with Fujimura-sensei?"

"Oh, a most interesting woman. They don't call her a tiger for nothing. Too simple, perhaps, but she makes up for it with spirit. Of course, her family's connections don't hurt either. I always have wanted a part on the Fujimura ring..."

Chizuru nodded again. No one could ever accuse her father of being an impractical man.

"Chizuru, will you get yourself a real Pactio with young Negi?" he asked.

"Would you be okay with that?"

"Quite. His legacy is something he can't leave unexplored, and there is no one better to guide him along than us, don't you agree? Konoe and his shortsighted fools would let his whole potential go unexplored through his entire life, but like us, he is called for better and bigger things. Become his partner, and help him accomplish his destiny."

"While he helps us accomplish ours?" she mildly accused.

He chuckled, thinking of how much she was, indeed, blood of his blood. And yet so different. "It's the only fair thing. Not too much to ask, I think."

"But he is—"

"I know, I know, " his tone grew slightly exasperated. "I was under the impression you didn't mind such vague inconveniences, however."

"Father, that's a different thing. I don't mind our agreement at all, and even treasure it, but Negi-sensei is... not ready yet."


"But you still find him appealing, don't you?"

Again, how did he know such things? She tried shifting her gaze aside. "That's of no importance. Natsumi has deeper feelings for him, and I wouldn't ever hurt her. Not that way."

Toying around with her, subjecting her to daily little humiliations and confusing and scaring her, that all was amusing and pleasurable, but in the end, Chizuru wanted Natsumi's ultimate happiness more than anything else.

He sighed. "But you will think about my suggestion, won't you?"

"Naturally, " she replied quickly. And honestly, As a matter of fact, she most likely couldn't shake those thoughts off even if she wanted to.

"That's enough for now, " he nodded, apparently satisfied. He knew it was only a matter of time to shift her views enough to get her do what he wanted; he had been doing for her whole life, and decades before her birth, he already was an expert on doing it upon others. "Then, " he said, moving towards the penthouse's dinning room, "Care for dinner, my dear Chizuru?"

She nodded and followed along.

"Thank you, Father."
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Yuuna: Casted Out

"Wow, Dad, " she whistled as she walked in. "Your house's surprisingly clean and neat! You hired a mad or something?"

"Oh, calling it 'your house' now?" Professor Akashi said, closing the door behind her. "It's yours too, you know. It always will."

"I guess so. It's just I've spent so long away..." the girl sighed, heading for the kitchen. "Well, I think I can make us some dinner before heading back home. I just was passing by from buying some clothes..." she explained while dropping her bags next to the kitchen's door. "Whoa, even the kitchen's squeaky clean! Alright, where are you hiding that woman?"

"I have no woman here!" he tried to laugh it off. In a sense, it was true. But, I had extra free time while everyone was away. So, um, how did your trip go..."

"It was... interesting, " she said, looking through the cupboards to see what she could cook. "I saw a lot of Kyoto, that's for sure."

"Ah..."

After a brief pause, she added, "I visited Konoka's house. It's very big."

He blinked, and she noticed that over her shoulder. As expected, it had elicted a reaction from it. Immediately, she chided herself for saying something like that so impulsively. What if she had compromised everyone's secret? To try and fix it up somewhat, she changed the topic. "W-Well, you're even better supplied than usual!"

"I was expecting you'd come to tell me how did you do at the trip, so I stocked extra..."

"Right, right. What would you like to eat?"

"Oh, nothing fancy. I'll be fine with some tempura and curry."

"Okay! I'll get to work on it!"

There was a whisper in his ear. "Ooohhhh! She is even cuter in person! I like her so much already...!"

Akashi grunted to try and silence her.

"Don't concern yourself, Master, " the disembodied voice whispered. "As long as I'm in this form, only you can hear me. Our private secrets are safe, as long as you don't compromise them yourself."

He nodded stiffly. Yuuna was bending down to pick something she had dropped, and he thought he heard a brief pleased sound from Caster's lips as she eyed the girl's firm and round shorts-clad posterior. Then it dawned on Akashi that, in an unconscious answer to Caster's reaction, he had been looking there as well, and he looked aside uncomfortably. This all was simply stupid.

"Dad?"

"Yes, dear?"

"You... You could bring a woman into your life if you wanted, you know, " she said, in a quiet and distant tone. "I've been thinking a lot lately, and I decided you definitely could use that. As long as she's a nice person, of course."

He laughed weakly again. "Yuuna-chan, I'm far too busy to even think of that now..."

"But you still do, " she accused. "You still keep all those porn magazines under your bed, don't you?"

Awkwardly, he cringed. "Yeah."

He had been mortified as hell that time Yuuna had found them while cleaning. And then almost as mortified when Caster recently stumbled upon them. Yuuna had chewed him out back then calling him a perv, but Caster had just read them all with fascination and used them as inspiration for that night's 'recharge session'. Akashi was starting to suspect that much recharging was not necessary.

Either way, the incident made him even more convinced Caster and Yuuna shouldn't meet.

"It's okay, it's a natural need of men, " Yuuna said while preparing the ingredients. "Sorry about being so bitchy that time."

And then he knew he should be worried. "Yuuna-chan, are you okay?"

"Why do you ask? I have to be feeling bad if I decide to be more understanding and mature?"

"N-No, of course not! It's just you are... quiet."

"I had a very active day at the court today, Dad. I'm tired, that's all."

"Oh, then let me help y—"

"No. You still can't cook anything worth a darn. I don't want to spend the night with a stomach ache to boot. Just sit back and relax."

Caster massaged his shoulders from behind with ethereal, ghost like hands and purred. "That is an excellent idea. She is intelligent in addition to being gorgeous..."

Akashi frowned.

No, they definitely shouldn't ever meet.

In that moment, he had fatally tempted fate with just a thought.
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The Secret Origin of Unequally Rational and Emotional Arima Miyako

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Nerima, Years Ago:

The tiny brown haired girl looked up in awe at the gigantic, fluffy, black and white figure standing over the beaten thugs who had assaulted her on her way back from school.

"Wow, " she said.

The panda turned around to look at her, and other than a short recoil, she didn't panic, unlike most children who met him for the first time. He held up a sign that read Hey there, kid. Are you okay?

Miyako nodded. "Y-Yes, I'm fine." She swallowed saliva and asked, "Can you teach me those martial arts, Panda-sama?"

He spun the sign around, now asking her via what was written on the other side, Huh? What do you mean, girl? I'm a world famous expert! I can't teach anyone who asks me!

Miyako was not the kind that gave up easily, however. "I'll pay you a lot! My family has a lot of money!"

Genma shook his head. Children and their delusions! No way she could pay even half as much as Bruce-kun paid back in the day, or even pay him enough to make him drop the job at Doctor Tofu's clinic. On that subject, he was getting late, and...

Miyako opened her wallet, and its contents sprang up into sight. Genma's beady eyes became Yen signs. "W-Will this be enough for a first fee, Panda-sama?"

Later, at the Arima household, a fearful Fumiomi and Keiko looked way up at the furry behemoth their daughter had brought. "A-And you're saying this animal will..."

"Don't call him an animal! He's my Sensei!" Miyako protested.

From where he was working on his homework, Shiki gave a token bored nod. "It's all right, he's Ranma-sempai's father..."

Somehow, despite her teacher being, well, Genma, Miyako did manage to learn a lot on martial arts without having her mind (fully) broken.

But the food fees went so high up, the Arimas had no choice but sending Shiki back to the Tohno household.

Because, like you're going to tell a bear who knows martial arts he's the one who has to go.


... and the Character Notes for the chapter!

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Character Annotations: Konoe Konoka

- Looking back, maybe I should have added more twists to the Konoka/Setsuna relationship. I once developed an AU where Konoka's bodyguard with a crush was Kaede instead of Setsuna; it would have been fun to play with that in URAE. But it's too late to go back on it, I guess...

- Konoka is another character I don't have a lot to say on, even for these notes. The thing with her is she's a naturally reactive rather than proactive character, so it's difficult to have her kickstarting any plot point; she tends to be taken along by them instead.

- Early in the developing proccess, I gave her a small father complex, even before deciding her mother would be alive in this continuity. But it's nowhere as big as Yuuna's, or even Haruna's.

- In contrast, although she loves her mother too, she isn't too fond of her company.

- She and Asuna were actually the first two students to ever meet Negi in this continuity, too. In Lesson 1, Asuna is introduced grumbling about a replacement teacher; that's because, like in canon, she and Konoka ran into Negi before anyone else in the class. But since the POV was Chisame-centric, that scene was skipped over, and it wasn't key to the story anyway. Maybe someday I'll write it as a flashback, but I have no fresh ideas on how to tackle it yet.
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An Iced Tea Party

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As the Mad Hatter slumped down to Batman's feet with a typical loss of consciousness moan, and Type Moon twiched and trembled even more with one of her puppeteers down, the Dark Knight turned around sharply, noticing the sneaky steps on the grass behind him. He saw the redhaired boy from Cinema Town, the one driving Tsukuyomi's carriage, and narrowed his eyes at him in the way that typically put the fear of God into them. It worked this time as well, but not at full extent.

He had a gun aimed at Batman's jawline. "I've read all on you, " he said, managing to keep a steady voice. "You cover your whole body with armor, but you leave a window. I'll kill you if you don't leave immediately!"

Clever boy. He didn't lose his mind at the drop of the proverbial hat. But being clever also meant he was aware of the consequences of his actions.

"You won't shoot me, " the Batman said. "Or else, you'd have done it already. This isn't a moment to take hostages."

Like always, that was a bet. He spoke both camly enough to avoid pushing him into a panic and pulling the trigger, and firmly enough to impose his authority. A delicate balance in every case.

"I mean it, " the young man said. "The cause is everything."

"No cause is worth becoming a murderer. Drop the gun."

"No."

"You're wasting both our times. Drop it, before the girl behind you shoots you."

"What girl behind—" Michael asked, before feeling the cold metal of a gun against the back of his head. "Ah."

A dead man who hasn't fulfilled a single plan wasn't worth anything for the cause, so Michael breathed in and offered his own handgun to the Batman. "Thanks, " the Caped Crusader said, grabbing it and tossing it into the lake without a second thought. Disgusting, perverse things...

"Yeah. A million, " Natsuki grunted, pistol whipping Michael from behind with a single good whack, dropping him unconscious. Very strong for a girl her age and size, Batman took mental notes. The black haired teen smiled ironically at him. "I heard you hate guns, but as you can see, they have plenty of uses, don't you think?"

"I could have handled him myself. He was about to surrender. It could have made him rethink his ways, but now he'll only believe he was a fool for not shooting first and asking later."

"My pleasure, " Natsuki dryly replied, before Batman turned around to shield her with his body and cape. A moment later, she learned why, as the rest of the Wonderland Gang stepped out of the shadows ready to pose resistence. The White Rabbit, Twedledee, Twedledum, Humpty Dumpty, the Carpenter, and even the pet chimpanzee, making spastic angry noises.

"I have a feeling this won't go well this time either, " Carpenter was muttering nervously, at the back of the group, holding her nail gun tightly. "I mean, it never goes well! I have his footprints tattooed on my butt already..."

Dee and Dum silenced her with well synchronized hisses.

"Still thinking guns are always bad?" Natsuki casually asked, fingers on triggers.

"Yes, " he said. "Leave this to me. I'm used to them."

She shrugged callously. "Never liked friendly reunions. I have better things to do anyway." And she backed away quickly, turning her steps into a dash while she approached the critical area.

She only turned around once she was out of immediate shooting range and the sounds of violence between the Bat and the Hatter's underlings had started.
With the place under attack and Chigusa busy with her chanting, the altars had been left open to access. Kuga jumped over the downed and knocked out body of Fasalina and came next to Haruna, Nodoka and Misora, who were heatedly debating what to do while the ermines continued sniffing and feeling around the captives' binds.

"What? You haven't freed them yet?" Natsuki asked, with supreme annoyance. "What's taking you so long?"

Misora rolled her eyes. "You don't know anything about this, so don't shoot your mouth saying it's that easy! These binds are state of the art! Where's Konoka's mom? Maybe she can undo them!"

"I don't know, I lost track of her on my way here, " Kuga grumbled, crouching down next to the younger Konoka and touching her forehead. "You okay?"

Konoka smiled and nodded, her face a stark contrast to the biker's fierce frown. "Yeah. Thank you for coming too, Kuga-sempai. Even though you had no obligation to..."

Kuga sighed bitterly. "Little idiot. Don't mention it. I... Look, I have something... that I think I'll have to..."

Words failed her, and both Konokas looked at her in puzzlement.

Natsuki cringed, shuddered, and then slammed her hands down on the altar's edge. "What the hell! We don't even know if we'll get out of here alive! Better if you know it now! You're my—"

Then Misora trembled, as she felt something flying right above her left shoulder, passing past her without touching her. But that was only the first of many. Then, as if by instinct, she fell into what she guessed had to be a result of her training. She moved quickly to the best of her capacities to avoid every flying ice dart, and the world around her, including said darts, went into slow motion for a moment. Even so, the darts were still the fastest things around her, and there were so many of them it took her best desperate effort to dodge them, a few coming so dangerously close she thought she was a goner. Then one hit the back of her veil, and yelling, she had to take it off at full speed; even then, she barely could do it before the ice expanded itself up to her actual head and body, crashing and shattering against the ground as she dropped it down.

Then she made another mad lunge ahead. Save her classmates. Even Haruna. She tackled Nodoka with an arm, then Paru with the other, and pushed them out of the way with herself, in the nick of time before the barrage of miniature ice projectiles hit the ground where they had just been and converted it to ice.

But even so, she was not fast enough to save the sempai as well. Out of a corner of her eye, Misora could see Natsuki being hit by several darts at once, shaking for a moment before the frozen mass enveloped her, catching her inside of it without even giving her time to scream.

"KUGA-SEMPAI!" Konoka cried.

And then Haruna, Nodoka and Misora saw the pale girl in the boyish clothes stepping into the pier, with the strange blonde following her like a crazed sombie. It took all of Misora's effort to not faint right there and then. Same thing for Nodoka, actually.

The Averruncus girl said only one word. It was more a statement of a certainty than a command.

"Surrender."
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Nodoka: Bubble Bobble

A sopping wet Nodoka emerged from the cold waters of the practice pool, hair all over her face, kaffing and wheezing heavily.

"Nodoka!" Yue shouted, giving a step closer, but then the floating mermaid girl who was the card's spirit spat a stream of bubbles at her feet. The bubbles exploded in contact, and although they were rather harmless, they still forced Yue to back away in surprise.

That gave Nodoka the opening she had been waiting for. Running ahead while being careful of not slipping, she swung the Clow Staff up, hitting the young looking mermaid's back.

"Return to your true form, Clow Card!" she yelled, and then, with a choked sound, the magical creature was sucked into her card self, falling down like a dead weight into Nodoka's waiting hand.

"Hooray!" Kero cheered from the sidelines, pumping a paw up. "Nice job, Nodoka! You've caught The Bubble!"

The shy librarian nodded, breathing in and out, and gesturing for a pen. Yue handed it over dutifully, and Nodoka wrote her name on the card's back. It was done.

"It'd have been easier if Haruna had been here, though, " Yue observed. "With her Artifact, we'd have no problems at all catching the cards."

Nodoka shook her head. "It's-It's okay. The cards aren't evil, or actually dangerous. There's no reason to bother Haruna over this."

"You know she'd actually love to help..." Yue pointed out.

"Maybe it's exactly because she'd love it so much, " Nodoka sighed, trying to wring the water out of her skirt. "She'd take it all as a game, and besides, you know I'm required to catch the cards myself. Haruna is finding her own way, with Rito-san and the manga club and Ala Alba..."

Yue frowned. "Listen to yourself, Nodoka! Your way should be with Ala Alba, too! Haruna herself will tell you that readily!"

"Well, " Nodoka sighed sadly just to change the subject, "There's one thing I could use from a Pactio now... These clothes are too wet to walk back home through the night in them. And if someone sees me, they'll make awkward questions. If I had a Pactio outfit to change into, it wouldn't be a problem, but after I lost the Create, I can't make myself any spares..."

"There are still several hours until dawn, and tomorrow's a free day, " Yue said. "Just take them off and wait for them to get dry enough. This is an indoors pool, and no one will come for a long while."

Nodoka blinked, giving Yue a look of mild shock, before asking, "Really? I-I mean, you really think so...?"

Yue smiled a tiny smile. "Nodoka, maybe Haruna's right on something; maybe we should learn how to live a little looser. After all, we already are in the insanity, whether we want it or not, right?"

"R-Right."

Kero blinked. "I'm not sure I'm following you girls."

Yue kept on smiling, beginning to unbutton her top and keeping her weak blush hidden in the darkness. "I overheard a rumor Akira does this here often. If it's sane enough for Akira, it is for me too."

"R-Right..." Nodoka repeated, clumsily pulling her sopping top off.

After some quirks of an eyebrow, or what passed for an eyebrow in him, Kero turned around and began flying away at a stunned pace. "I think I'll go home ahead of you girls. Um, have fun."

Yue shuddered as she entered the pool in the bare. "I-It's colder than I expected...!"

Nodoka sighed, going in after her. "You get used to it after a while."
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Library Island, well past midnight:

Sakura Kyoko's wish to Kyubey had been simple. Her family was hitting hard times after people had deserted her father's church, and she wanted her father to find a new path for his broken faith, one that would bring him followers, and most importantly, happiness, back.

That, Kyubey nodded, is a very easy wish to grant. No matter how absurd the doctrine, mankind will follow it as long as it satisfies their wishes for self reassurance and comfort. It will happen shortly.

Now, Alan Rance-sensei dozed at the entrance of Library Island, alone with his pet crow since Akashi had left long ago. Hugging a thick book on psychology and surrounded by more, he didn't even notice when the man with the small brown beard walked in, saying "Excuse me, please..."

Rance grunted, his inner beast ruling over the cultured man in the edge of sleep. "What?"

"I realize it's very late, and I'm sorry, but... I was wandering across the night, with a broken spirit, feeling I had failed my family, my God, and everyone else, when I felt a strange presence guiding me here. It was almost like a small angelic light luring me, and in my heart, I felt it showed me the thing I'm looking for is here..."

Rance grunted again. Believers were such idiots. He waved a bony hand. "Go ahead. The wing you're looking for is nine wings away at left, then doubling the fifth corner at your right. There's no way of missing it, " the scarecrow of a man muttered, closing his eyes back.

Sakura-san nodded a perplexed thanks and followed the suggested path. Naturally, he soon got completely lost, not in small part after being attracted in what he thought was another direction by the same tiny light, which scurried away like a mischievous animal.

He found himself in a strange section full with all sorts of eccentric books on the occult. Once, he would have shunned them as filthy heresies, but now, jaded and exhausted, he read through them with little but mild disgust. The Bible of Crime, Claire Bible, Bible Black, Guide of the Evil Overlord... So blandly offputting, it all...
Then he found it.

The Sacred Teachings of the Mysteries of Aphrodite and Eros, the cover read. In regal golden type.

By the time he reached the final page, he was in tears.

He held the book up with reverent fascination. "And lo! He was enlightened, and he praised Heavens!"

Elsewhere, going through the city at night in a literal Witch hunt, Kyoko flinched.

"Something wrong?" Sayaka asked her, sword in hand.

"Nothing. Maybe it's just the Witch's proximity."

"Well, if we don't find her soon, I'm afraid I'll have to call this a night. I have to be back home before my parents wake up, and they wake up very early. Don't yours?"

"Eh, Dad's always out wasting himself now, and Mom's almost a zombie lately. It'll be fine..."
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Yue: Ripples in the Water

They floated together in the cool waters of the indoors pool, moving around slowly, just enjoying the moment despite their shared nerves.

They both were rule abiding, fairly proper girls. A few months ago, they would have choked to half death at the simple thought of doing something like this.

"Things have changed a lot, " mused Yue.

"Yes, " replied her best friend. "It's scary, but I'm... actually glad they have, " she shared. "It's like my eyes have been opened to so many things. Before, it was like I lived in a box, but now, the world seems so wide, so full of wonders to explore, I... I'm scared of it all, but I also want to keep walking this path forever."

Yue bobbed her head aside to smile and give her friend a placid gaze. Under the silver moonlight falling on them from the skylight, Nodoka's features were almost supernaturally beautiful and delicate. Yue felt her heart going faster. Dammit.

Nodoka exhaled a tiny sigh, and the sight of those pinkish lips half open while water droplets ran down that lovely face troubled Yue even more.

"I don't know how to walk that path, though..." Nodoka's voice cracked for a moment. She had been left behind in the race for Negi's heart, and Kotaro-kun was just a memory left at Kyoto now. Her feelings were a confusing mess, and while she felt confident while chasing the cards, once the thrill of those hunts was over the reality of her personal life sank back in.

Haruna never understood, and her parents couldn't even be asked. She was deadly afraid of telling Negi, and he always was surrounded by prettier, better, stronger girls. She wanted to keep going so badly, but how—?

"Together, " Yue whispered, and interwined her fingers with hers.

Nodoka's head snapped aside to look at her. For a moment, they only looked at each other's eyes, and finally, they shared a tender comforting smile.

Nodoka moved in for a hug, pressing the shorter girl against herself. Yue felt goosebumps all over her skin, and not only because of the cold water. But clumsily, she hugged back, resting her hands over Nodoka's buttocks, high enough to avoid giving the wrong (wrong?) idea, and her chin on Nodoka's right shoulder.

"Together, " Nodoka was echoing her whisper now.

"Yes."

They stayed that way for a few more moments until Yue pulled back uneasily. "I... I think your clothes must be dry enough by now..."

"A-Ah, yes, of course..."

Yue hung slightly behind while watching Nodoka pull herself up from the pool, walking back to her clothes and using a gentle draft from The Windy to dry herself before getting dressed back.

It dawned on Yue they could just have used the card to dry the clothes up from the start. She wondered if Nodoka had actually forgotten that as well, or it was just...

Well. It didn't matter. It had been better this way.
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"Woof! Woof! Woof!" the voluminous Walrus said as he lumbered threateningly for Batman, just to be punched between the tusks by the Dark Knight, then kicked in the round belly and finally put down for good with a capsule of sleep gas to the nose. "Wooooo—"

Now, with Walrus, White Rabbit, Twedledee, Twedledum and Hatter's pet chimp all unconscious around his feet, the massive vigilante stared coldly at the only remaining member of the gang. "Carpenter..."

The young woman swallowed hard and put the nail gun down on the grass. She smiled nervously. "Lovely night, isn't it?"

Batman nodded. "Yes." And he punched her in the face.

With the whole gang down now, he turned around to go help the children, but then the whole area trembled, and he was thrown off balance. Much like everyone else, actually.

"Wh-w-What the hell...?-!" Misora squeaked helplessly, while Sextum stopped looking at them to stare at the lake's waters indeed, the blond woman with the now pointy ears following her gaze with wild, hungry eyes.

"Oboy, " Haruna gulped. "Nodo-chan, behind me! This is gonna get real ugly, I can feel it!"

Kero's senses were going wild. "This power! I never had felt anything like it before! Only Master Clow's could compare...!"

As the titanic shape lurking in the lake's depths ascended steadily, growing faster by the second, the silhouette that had appeared over the lake at Chigusa's behest reappeared, and it matched the appearance of the lake's dweller, as if it was a projection of it or its power. Satomi would have inquired on the possible meaning of such phenomenon, had she been there, but Yuuna was only panicking, aiming both guns down and shooting wildly.

It was a huge as hell target, and missing was impossible. The bullets rippled through the liquid with a shrill hiss, and all of them impacted on the massive bulk of the demonic approaching figure, but unlike the lesser demons, this one barely flinched, its wounds healing just as quickly as they were inflicted. It roared, and its roar was enough to make Yuuna scream in pain, as the waters pushed her up, way up. Akira, who already had a groggy Homura secured under an arm, reached for her friend and tucked her firmly under her other armpit, somehow managing to roll around with the burst of shot liquid, like a mermaid, even as they all were flung through the air, landing roughly on the shore, the Senshi rolling around to take most of the hit.

"Aki-Mercury-chan!" Yuuna screamed.

"I'm... fine!" Akira coughed water up, even as Homura rubbed her own head and wondered what whaleship had just hit her.

"Ooooohhh!" Tsukuyomi stopped herself in mid-swing, her sword freezing right before reaching Negi's throat. Misa and Haruka also stopped on their tracks, the former pressing a needle against the swordgirl's right temple, the latter pressing her mace against the left temple. All of them plus Ayaka and Chisame watched in muted horror, or fascination in Tsukuyomi's case, as the waters split around forming a gigantic vortex, and from that vortex, a giant with a musclebound glowing body emerged into sight, its (his? It definitely wasn't feminine in appearance) tall shape matching that of the hovering silhouette perfectly as they became one and the same. "Cool!"

Haruka grunted and swung a foot into her stomach, taking advantage of her distraction.

The collossus was the most terrifying thing they had ever seen, armed with four powerful arms finished in gigantic clawed hands. Two heads grew from its single sturdy neck; both of them inhuman looking, with mighty looking jaws, fierce red eyes, and two long horns on the foreheads.

Again, it roared, and for a moment (almost) everyone was Misora.

Skuld clenched her teeth, tightening her grip on the device between her hands. "Too fast, it appeared too fast... Need more time for this..."

Watching from the distance, and crossing his legs where he sat on a large rock, Joker hummed. "Meh! We raise them bigger in America. Two-faced, huh? I wonder if he flips a coin to make decisions."

"Huh?" Quartum asked.

"Nothing. Only remembering someone of no importance."

Chigusa laughed uncontrollably as she started floating up, stretching her arms open, and gesturing for the bound Konokas. Moved by an invisible force, they were yanked from their respective altars, still immobilized by their hands and feet, as they began floating in circles around Chigusa, who hovered until reaching the height of the monster's chest. "Hu hu hu hu!" she laughed even more, somewhat resembling a monkey. "It's done! You were too late, son of the Thousand Master! Ryoumen Sukunanokami is MINE to control forever! The invincible demon god brought upon this world 1600 years ago now lives again as my servant! Hah! The legends said he was 180 feet tall, but he's even bigger! All the better!"

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Kaiju! A Kaiju! No visit to Japan is complete without sighting one!" an already recovered Deadpool pulled a camera out and began prancing around taking pictures. "Wait 'til I show these to Wolverine! All he got when he visited Japan was a foiled marriage and a dead fiancee!"

Ayaka finally noticed his presence and blinked. "Deadpool-san? What are you doing here?-!"

"Oh, hey there, Blondie-san! Fancy meeting you here! Nice dress, by the way. The whip's a nice touch, too. So that's how the Yukihiro Fortune is built—"

"Ah? What do you mean with that? We told the story of how he was today at Cinema Town, didn't we?" Chisame asked the Class Rep. "Furthermore, why are you familiar with this maniac— Ohhhhhh, forget it! Tell me later! First things first!"
Haruna looked haplessly at the now empty and broken altars, gulped, and said, "Well, on the bright side, now we don't have to worry about how to pluck them from those binds..."

The Chamos facepalmed.

Just as coldly as ever, Sextum asked from below, "Weren't you controlling the Mistress of Puppets as well? Don't waste time boasting. Finish this quickly, lest you lose control..."

"Are you implying this is too much for me, young upstart? Bah!" Chigusa sneered down at her. "I've had enough with you, believing me weak! I can handle all three of them at the same time with ease!"

Sextum gave the vampiric tall blonde a dubious bland glare before continuing addressing her superior. "At least focus yourself only through the strongest of the two Konoes. You'll burn the other one out, " she said, much to Negi and 3-A's horror. ""We only need one of them for our original purpose. There was no need to gamble on the results of activating a second one as well yet..."

"NO!" Chigusa growled. "This is a sign from Heavens, and I'm going to exploit it while I can! I must have them both!"

Nerima. Kuno Tatewaki. Sneeze. You know the drill.

"We didn't authorize any of this!" Skuld shook a fist up.

"She's gone mad with power, " a still shivering and weak Homura muttered, loud enough so her Mistress could hear her. She, however, said nothing, only looking up at Chigusa blandly. Homura looked down and sighed.

But then Sextum nodded, only once, and very slow.

It was enough to make Homura's heart soar in recognition fuel.

A young soul in love is easy to please.

Yuuna coughed and took aim up at Chigusa's chest. "Okay, there's no choice now but—!"

Albert overheard her. "What? No, Nee-chan!" he shouted at her. "Your bullets cancel magic, and if you cancel hers, that thing's gonna go out of control! It'll kill us all!"

Not to mention the Konokas would most likely drop down to the ground instantly, and he wasn't sure Negi and the others could catch them both in time.

"Fu fu fu, indeed, you're lost no matter what, vermin!" Amagasaki taunted them, hovering triumphantly. "Know the most bitter of despairs in this, your final— OW!" she said, as Maga Alba swung her head to hit hers. "Grrr! Ojou-sama! I swear this won't be forg— AGH!"

The young Konoka had also just heabutted her, with a very indignant cute expression on her face.

"Spoiled rich girls!"

Meanwhile, not too far, Setsuna, Asuna and the other fighters and demons scattered around the rod all stopped what they were doing to look up at the horned giant raising in the distance.

"What... What the hell is that thing?-!" Asuna gasped.

"Ah?" Ku Fei asked between kicks.

"Hell is the exact right word for it, " Mana grunted while unloading her handguns on a fat, bloated horned red guy with no pants.

Another demon looked up with gigantic adoring eyes and cooed loudly. "UNCLE CHESTER...!"

Both sides of the conflict gave him a very weirded look.

The demon rasped uneasily. "Uh, sorry. Not Uncle Chester after all. They only look kinda alike. Uncle Chester has darker eyes, is a few feet shorter, and has a bigger pe—"

Mana shot him in the head then. Even the other demons muttered a collective "Thank you."
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Chamo: Animal Crackers

"My life's so hard, and no one ever understands, yanno, " the ermine hiccuped between sips of his rice liquor. "I've single-pawedly improved the lives of all dose girls, and my Bro's, too! Yet no one ever thanks me! Haven't ya ever had dat feelin', 'Zero-chan?"

"No. Why should you bother improving lives when you could destroy them?" she asked.

"Well, I'm not dat kinda guy!" he slammed his tiny glass down and burped. "I'm a nice guy, gotta problem wit' dat?"

"Wanna know the truth? I hate nice guys, but I know you aren't one, so I don't really hate you, " she confessed. "You're a slimeball, but you're so pathetic you're funny. And I like people I can laugh at!"

He smiled dumbly. "Thanks. I like ya too... You're a real Sis, 'Zero-chan! You're freakin' honest, and me likes dat in a woman! Whaddya say to a Pactio with the Bro?"

"You're obsessed."

"Hell, yeah. Not like I have a life of my own."

"I guess you're right there, " she said, tilting her large head around with tiny clacking sounds. "You're just an appendage of others' lives, and when it's a doll telling you this, you know your life has gone terribly wrong."

He sobbed a little, head hanging down. "How right y'are. Dammit, 'Zero! You know how to say the cruelest things...!" he bawled.

"They're cruel because they're the truth!" the doll chirped. "Awwww, don't get so sad! What if I give you some pity sex to make you feel better?"

"Ummmm, thank you, but I don't think we're each other type..."

"Stupid ermine, I didn't mean that. I don't have the parts for it anyway." And she held up a very long for their sizes steel pole, which had several rusty spots of dry blood on both ends. "I mean giving you the ultimate pleasure with this! I call him Vlad, and after you enjoy it, you'll NEVER complain about life again!"

"B-B-Because I'll be impaled, right...?" the ermine trembled.

Chachazero made eyes at him. "Oh, give it a try! I promise you'll NEVER have to use it again if it goes the wrong way in! I like men who are sure about their sexualities, enough to try it!"

"I'm not a man!"

"I'm not picky! As long as you can bleed, I'll happily play with you!"

"... This has been a heartwarming date, but I think I'm expected at home like right now."

"But you'll come back tomorrow, won't you?"

"Of course I'll do, Hon..."
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Sakurazaki Setsuna kept her gaze up in silent... well, it was nearly impossible, especially for three Baka Rangers (or so Kaede liked to apparent. Asuna and Ku Fei were much more of a honest case) to say exactly what she was feeling right then. Rage? Fear? Awe? Urge? A combination of the former? Regardless, it was something very intense, as proved by the fact she had stopped fighting and just walked ahead for the towering beast in the distance while her classmates and Neo Moon continued covering her back.

A furious demon jumped on her, and absently, she sliced him apart with ease, before tilting her head back for the others. "Mana, " she said.

The dark skinned mercenary nodded grimly, never leaving to shoot the enemies surrounding her. "Do it."

And Setsuna nodded sadly, and began undoing the back of her clothes. "Ku-san. Nagase-san. Thank you for everything. We never were close, but I'll always cherish our scarce memories together. However, this is the last time we meet."

"Ah?" Ku blinked as she pounded a demon's face in the dirt.

Kaede only frowned in the middle of fighting thirteen demons at once, also splitting herself into thirteen copies of her own body. But she didn't say a single word.

"Setsuna-san!" a confused Asuna gasped in the middle of a harisen swing. "What, what are you saying?-!"

The black haired pale beauty finished uncovering her back. "This is my secret shame, exposed for everyone to see. I'm no better than these creatures, and I have no right to dwell between you. Sorry to have troubled you all this time with my presence."

And the huge white feathered wings sprouted from her back, deploying themselves with radiant beauty. Asuna's jaw slacked down. Ku made a brief impressed sound, which didn't stop her from connecting a kick to another creature's chin at the same time. Kaede smirked faintly, or at least one of them did, the others of her continuing unleashing a deadly array of punishment on those unfortunate dark souls around her.

Mana only rolled her eyes and muttered something to herself.

"Setsuna-san!" Asuna tried to reach for her, to say something else, but then Setsuna was jumping up high into the now windy and howling sky, using the string streams of violent air to gain height at an amazing speed, the wings spreading white feathers below her as they elevated her.

"Goodbye, Asuna-san, " she said fondly, bowing her head in a short apology. "Please keep looking after Konoka-chan."

And then she was gone, gone up and away in the wind, little more than a point in the night, flying quickly for the lake.

Asuna stood there with an open mouth and a quickened heart.

"What is she—"

Mana grunted between shots. "Forget that. That's the way she is."

"Forget that?-!" Asuna screamed.

Mana shrugged. "She did the same drama piece when I learned her secret, too. She returned the next day badly pretending nothing had happened. She just has a complex about her nature..."

Asuna blinked perplexedly. "What."

Sailor Moon, or whatever her name was, sighed while blasting a few more demons. Those were... very pretty blasts, all things considered. As if they were made of such a holy light, they looked more like they were blessing and purifying the demons into obliviousness, rather than fiercely consuming them. "I know we have only known each other for minutes, but couldn't she tell me goodbye too?"

"Who are you again?" Baka Red asked her. Then she, absently again, batted an incoming demon into the distance. "I mean, I know the name, but you came here because...?"

"She's looking for Chao, " Ku Fei informed, kicking a demon into another one.
"Which one?" Asuna asked.

"The one who talks in riddles rather than the one who barely talks as if she was hiding something important instead of teasing it, " the pink haired girl replied.

"Ah, the new one...!" Asuna said. "And you two are...?"

"Associates."

"That's all anyone ever can be with Chao, actually, " Mana mused dryly.

A Kaede chuckled. "Why so sure? Have you ever tried going beyond that-de gozaru?"

"Shut up, you!" Mana growled.

All the Kaedes laughed at her at once, and Mana winced. There could be no sound more hideous than that...

Over at Mundus Magicus, Lina Inverse suddenly wondered why that horrible flashback of her time with Naga's army of clones and their hideous combined laughter had struck her out of the blue...
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Kotaro: Chasing your Tail Around

It was just like in those crappy and boring police drama and trial movies his mother used to watch. They had sat him behind a huge table in a featureless room with white walls, then made him wait and wait to break his patience and toss him off balance. But in all matters not related to a brawl, Kotaro was patient to the point of apathy. They wanted him there, fine, he'd just chill there without any care in the world.

He was woken from his nap by a discreet but forceful rasp of a feminine throat. Kotaro rubbed his eyes and took his feet off the table to look at the young woman and taller young man now sitting at the other side of the table. "Yo, " he greeted them. "Then, let me guess..." he lazily pointed at the stern looking girl with freckles, short brown hair in a paigeboy style, and the black pointy wizard hat on her head. "You're the bad cop, full of bile, Tsundere, the typical strict and humorless Class Rep type. And you, " he told the placidly smiling boy with the cats, "are the good cop. Affable, happy go lucky, especially happy in the pants. You'll try flirting with me in the vaguest of senses, to make me feel uncomfortable, but not too much so if I complain you'll tell me I'm just projecting. But you'll still be helpful and will calm your friend here's outbursts, suggesting us to make mutually benefitting deals instead."

"How many times have you been arrested, Inugami-han?" asked the girl, with a Kyoto accent as thick as Tsukuyomi's.

He moved a hand in circles. "More than a boy my age should, far less a merc with my experience should. I didn't think I heard your name, Nee-san."

"Honmai Takase Ambler, president of the Youth Council of the Kansai Association, " she introduced herself with dry formality. "He is our vicepresident, Nekoyashiki-han."

"It's a pleasure, Inugami-san, " the tall boy, always smiling, bowed to him. His skin was pale and milky, and his hair was silvery white. Even his fine robes were white as well, so he looked slightly like a ghost given a body.

Kotaro snorted as he looked at all the meowing cats hanging around the older male, rubbing themselves against their master, some of them even climbing on the table to slink around before him. "Is that even a real name? I don't like cats. Did you bring them here to annoy me?"

"Rest assured, Inugami-han, I take them anywhere I go, no matter the circumstances. Now, since we were the elite members closest to your age available, we were sent to ask you a few questions. No wonder you'll feel more comfortable talking to us than to any stuffy older men..."

"It's the same to me, " he shrugged indolently.

"What's your real name?" Honami asked him.

"Kotaro."

"Is Inugami your actual surname?"

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Why, writing a book?"

"We can't help you if we don't even know your true identity, " she told him.

"You're getting it wrong, dumbass, " Kotaro yawned. "The good cop is the one supposed to offer help. You must belittle and insult me."

"Do you enjoy being put down by women, Inugami-san?" an amused Nekoyashiki commented. Kotaro only snarled at him, without any enthusiasm.

"Listen, " the freckled girl said. "Since you're a minor, you'll get away relatively scott free, but you still must pay for your offenses to some degree. You understand that, don't you?"

"Do you think I'm mentally damaged? Of course I understand! I knew this job was dangerous when I took it!"

"Right, " Honami said. "I'll bet your mother isn't too happy about it, is she?"

"I don't have a mother, " he replied. "The Wolf Tribe abandoned me when I was a kid to fend off by myself. It's what we do, you know, to grow stronger than fancy talking pretty girls like you."

"We have your blood test results. You aren't Wolf Tribe, but a Dog Tribe-human hybrid, " she told the mouthy boy. "And we know you have a mother, one you are fond of. Valkyrie Black-han and Psycho Purple-han handed that info to us before leaving."

Kotaro winced angrily. Those two stupid girls. How had they found that out?

He looked aside, in a semi-blushing way Honami had to admit inwardly was boyishly cute. "So what if I have a mother? You bastards are going to threaten me with harming her if I don't cooperate?"

"If we operated the same way Amagasaki Chigusa did, Amagasaki Chigusa wouldn't have left us, " Honami said very seriously. "We don't act like criminals. We only want her name and address to reunite her with you... and to protect her."

"Protecting her against what? Wait, now you'll tell me an elaborated lie on how my employers are going to eliminate loose ends, right? Well, joke's on you. I went into this alone. And there's nothing you or them can track down to find any family I might have. Besides, you have the old lady in prison too, don't you? Nothing the witch can do anymore."

"Actually, " Nekoyashiki said, "She was sprung out recently. We lost five men that night."

"Really? Huh, well, crazy as she is, she always has an ace under the sleeve. Still—"

"We don't think she had planned that. Surveillance footage shows she was quite surprised, and even scared, herself, " Honami interrupted him. "It looked more like a kidnapping than a breakout."

Kotaro blinked, then laughed. "No joke? Oh, that's rich! After spending so long to kidnap those girls, she's kidnapped herself!"

"Poetic justice, indeed, " the pale young man agreed with a nod.

"Justice, nothing. Five innocent men are dead because of that, " Honami hissed. That made Kotaro stop laughing. "Do you find the deaths of innocent people to be a funny thing?"

"No, " he moodily answered.

"Alright, " Honami took a calming breath. "Even leaving that aside, the young woman you worked with, Sextum Averruncus according to the Elder's reports, is on the loose as well. She shares a last name with Fate Averruncus, a well known highly dangerous criminal and terrorist from Mundus Magicus, who hasn't been seen in years. They even look remarkably alike, from what we gathered. We still believe Fate is dead, but this girl could be his daughter or sister, and just as dangerous as him. What do you know about her?"

"Absolutely nothing. She never talked with anyone. Only with the girl who always hung behind her like a bootlicker."

Honami nodded. "We were told her name is Homura."

"Yep. From Mundus Magicus, no doubt. We don't have that kind of freaks in this world, " he said, apparently completely oblivious to the irony. "Fire Nation, I suppose. Never been there myself, but I've heard the stories. She never talked to anyone either, so that's all I know on her. When do we eat around here?"

"What about Tsukuyomi-san?" Nekoyashiki asked this time. "She escaped as well. Any ideas on her current whereabouts?"

"I'd suggest looking in strip clubs, whorehouses, love hotels and other places for perverts, " Kotaro said. His sexual urges hadn't awakened yet, but he was experienced at hunting his targets in seedy recreational places, and had a good idea of what people did there. His sneer made clear he found it all disgusting, the same way a normal child would talk about the girls' cooties. "Or alternatively, slaughterhouses. The freak just loves blood. But of course, I know you'll only give her a slap on the wrist, " he taunted. "She told us her tale about being the granddaughter of the Aoyama big fish. Or was that a lie?"

"No, " Honami replied truthfully. "Her real name is, indeed, Aoyama Tsukuyomi. Going back to that topic, then, what is yours?"

He grunted and tapped his fingers on the table, shaking his head. Finally, he spoke with great reluctance, "You harm a single hair on my mother's head, and I'll kill you all with my bare hands. Slowly. Got it?"

"Got it."

"Higurashi. Higurashi Kotaro. Dad had no last name, being Dog Tribe and all, but I took Mom's. We used to live in a shrine near Tokyo, but after Dad's death, we... had to move near Kyoto. The South side."

Honami nodded, softening her expression at last. "We'll need an exact address, however."

"Ah-ah. I don't trust you. I'll take you personally there."

"We'll have to get the Elder's permission for that."

"So go tell him already, " and he folded his arms. "But be warned, she's gonna chew us all hard. Even your precious Elder, most likely."

"Oh, I know. I have a mother too, after all..."
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"W-W-What are we going to do against an enemy like that?-!" the local Chamo despaired, running back to Negi's side. "It's taller than a building! I had never seen a monster that big!"

Negi clenched his teeth and began to mutter, "Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister..."

"Negi-sensei!" Akira ran to him, closely followed by a just as sopping wet Yuuna, while Misa, Ayaka, Roberta, Chisame, Misora, Haruna, Sora and Nodoka also gathered behind him. "Let's try attacking all together!"

"Mercury-san, " he nodded grimly, recognizing the mysterious beauty who had helped them at the subway. "Yes, please let's do it!"

"I third that motion!" Haruna hastily drew a large cannon aiming at Sukuna. "C'mon, Paru nee-sama, you too!"

Deathnote sighed and put hands to work, drawing a bigger, sleeker looking cannon aiming the same direction. "Oi, okay, but I don't guarantee complete results..."

"To quote Churchill, 'I never worry about action, but only inaction', " Valkyrie Black mused, raising her wand and chanting, "For Zo Cratica Socratica..."

Haruna pouted a little to herself. As cool as Paru nee-sama was, did she have to keep upstaging her with no effort at every turn? She was becoming as bad as Harumi-sempai...

"Alright! All together, then!" Misa whipped her needles out, hoping her toss could go high enough.

"On the count of three!" Yuuna also took aim while gulping.

Homura was stumbling her dazed way to Sextum, who waited standing still with her hands in her pockets. "L-Lady Sextum! Aren't we—"

"If Sukuna cannot survive this, he will be unfit for the tasks at hand, " the pale girl softly replied, watching on with detached calm. "Let's consider this his first test."

There was a loud boom of concentrated air as Negi readied his spell. "Gather unto me, Spirits of the Wind!"

"Windy!" Nodoka summoned her first card as well, lining herself next to Negi.

"Be careful, Bro!" Chamo shouted. "This spell is very powerful, but also very draining! You could exhaust yourself to collapse!"

"Fum Fulgastio Efulet Tempestus... AUSTORNINA!" the boy teacher continued, ignoring him as his left hand crackled and glowed surrounded by sheer rising power.

Chisame lifted her scepter up and gasped. "Let's hope you guys know what you're doing..."

Chigusa growled, and her voice was something horrible crawling with bitter agony from her throat. "Fools! Miserable fools! What are you hoping to accomplish by your useless—"

"VOIS TEMPESTUS FULGRIENS!" Negi roared, and a truly gigantic whirlwind swirled from his hand, shooting itself up and against Sukuna's chest, with an ear shattering kaboom that deafened all following attacks.

"MERCURY AQUA BLAST!" Sailor Mercury was crying as she also shot her most powerful blast, which hit a bit lower.

"FULGURATIO ALBRICANS!" Yue shouted, deciding to attack from her hand palm rather than the wand itself, even as all of both Harunas' canon shots also hit their common target.

"WINDY! A-A-ATTACK WITH YOUR BEST!" Nodoka decided she really needed to find herself better attack names as the Card also unleashed her power on Sukuna's torso.

"AIM FOR THE LOWER PARTS!" Misa followed her own advice, throwing her needles at the glowing, more or less featureless lower area of the demon, which were barely over the water. The fact they were closer and easier to hit helped in her decision as well.

"¡MUERE, MALDITO!" Roberta opened fire with both of her submachineguns on those nether regions as well. Yuuna followed her example, cursing herself for not having a catch one liner or catchprase ready.

Even Chisame joined in blasting that low, sighing to herself. "Good thing my fans can't see me now..."

Reeling from the combined attacks and slightly staggering back, the Demon God of yore took his head back and roared, chomping at the air twice, making Chigusa's skin crawl.

Then, as the wounds all over his front quickly healed back, he lunged ahead, opened his mouth even more, and screamed like all legions of hell, mighty bursts of power going out of his jaws in all directions, bowling the whole party over across the shore.

The shieldings Negi, the Harunas and Yue deployed at the last moment blocked the worst of the demon's retaliation, but still, they all were briefly stunned, leaving themselves open.

"I should have known this wouldn't work..." Valkyrie Black coughed, impulsing herself up from her knees. "This opponent is, well, Ala Rubra level. We need Eva or Erebus here..."

Negi wheezed horribly, clutching his chest for a moment before standing back up. "Konoka-san... We can't fail Konoka-san!"

"Huuuu, hu hu hu hu!" Chigusa cackled from above. "I knew it! Insects like you could never harm us! With this great power at my avail, all despicable Western mages and their allies will be felled in a single swift fell! Tremble and submit, son of the Thousand Master! Even your father would be powerless against us!"

Negi bristled and stomped a foot down. "Okay, now she's asked for it!"

"It occurs to me we should have attacked her instead, " Yuuna muttered. "Anything to shut that witch up."

"But then Konoka-san—!" a worried Akira began.

"Anything to shut that witch up!" Yuuna repeated herself.
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