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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,714 Views)
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Sukuna on Ice

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Sextum kept on glaring up at the pair of giants, carefully, silently deciding her course of action upon this new development, measuring each factor in her head. Homura waited behind her, regaining her breath and strenght, antsy and annoyed but also unwilling to move under her mistress gave her orders. All the while, she shot murderous stares at the group with Negi half a block away.

"Okay, so that didn't work like at all, " Yuuna was grumbling. "Now what?"

"We need getting closer to the head!" Haruka said. "Then we'll attack all there at once! That should do it! Our problem is we didn't hit the single same spot!"

"That won't work, " Deathnote said, while she and Haruna kept a domed shield all around them. For all the good it'd make if Sextum decided to attack, and she knew it. "I'm telling you guys Sukuna is way too strong for that, and that's without putting his new playmate in the equation."

"Then I'd suggest a strategic retreat, " Batman said. "Regroup, gather our allies and try again. It's obvious those beings are too powerful for us alone."

"I'm with that plan!" Sora nodded quickly. "Please heed the sensible man in the Dracula suit!"

"Thirded!" Keiichi said, keeping Makie secured under an arm, protectively.

"Fourthed, " Roberta droned.

"No, " Sextum said then, slowly hovering towards them, making most of their skins crawl. Negi, Yue, Haruka, Roberta and Batman moved to the foreground in tense alert, shielding the others with their bodies. "While I calculate they are, indeed, too powerful to be defeated by you..." she batted a few of Misa's needles already flying for her off the air with just a hand wave, the air generated for them derouting them, no touch needed, "Even now, you can be of inconvenience. My apologies, but I have decided to must be deal with."

Walking close behind her, Homura made a satisfied smile.

Negi growled, readying his staff, already running the spell for the most Sagitta Magicas he could pull off under his tongue. "Forget it!"

"It's done!" Skuld's voice chirped thriumphally.

"What?" Everyone gave her, who had been hanging at the back of the group behind Keiichi and Makie, a look. She grinned impishly and lifted the small glowing device she had been tuning.

"He was juiced up, so it took me a while to recalibrate this, but..."

Just as soon as Sextum had half raised an eyebrow in mild confusion, several thunders boomed through the sky at once, and long glowing straight lines appeared between the clouds, converging over the lake, far above Sukuna's head. The demon growled, lifting his head, and then a single thin luminous light fell from the convergence point and between his eyes, faster than he could react.

"What is this—" Sextum turned around to stare at how Sukuna's body became quickly cris-crossed by several more lines of holy glow, making him roar in pain. Small and translucid holographic screens began floating all around him, displaying complex messages written in Norse runes, from the lake's surface to the clouds themselves.

"What have you just done?" Psycho Purple asked Skuld.

"I called home, " she said.

Up at the Yggdrasil Command Center, alarm lights pulsed all over the holy chamber, making Peorth rush behind her subordinates, Chrono and Ere. "Situation report, now! What's that little troublemaker doing this time?"

"She's plucking power from our reserves to create a containment field!" Ere said. "It's only an acceptable amount, not enough to jeopardize anything, but...!"

"It's manifesting itself as a combination of sigil seals!" Chrono added. "And it's entered outside lockdown mode! We can't turn it off from here!"

The taller goddess folded her arms. "She hacked us. Not surprising, considering she wrote half of the new codes. Very well, allow her to carry on. In her current status, she might die if the situation down there explodes. Let's see if she can carry out whatever she's attempting there..."

Sukuna, before a snarling and shifting Type-Moon's eyes, became rigid in place, his arms binding themselves to his body, stumbling in place without falling down. He shook his head wildly and roared in deafening impotence, even as Chigusa, as if waking from a feverish dream and into a nightmare, freaked out and howled something not nice at all.

Negi, Haruka, Yue and Batman, all seeing she had been the first one to actually put a dent on one of the beings, quickly moved around Skuld to protect her as Sextum focused her attention on her.

"How have you done that?" the pale girl asked quietly, even as Homura fumed and flamed on again, ready to lash out at any moment. "Never mind. It'd be unwise to wait for an answer..." She was about to shoot deadly freezing mist from her outstretched hand, and Negi was about to cast his chain of spells on her, when a bullet flew towards the Averruncus' hand, forcing her to pull it up in the nick of time.

Negi's party briefly looked aside to see how Mana had just arrived with Asuna in tow.

"Asuna-san, " Yue breathed easier. With a magic canceller around, their odds had just improved considerably. And Mana being there didn't hurt either.

"Girls!" Negi breathed out. "Wait, Asuna-san, wasn't Setsuna-san with you?"

"Iinchou, " Mana called out. "I warn you, my budget for this job has just gone up through the roof!"

"Negi! Girls! Batman-sama! Ah, we made it in time! Thank God! But where's Konoka?-!" Asuna asked, harisen ready.

Misora sheepishly pointed up at Chigusa and the Konokas. "Up there..."

"WAH! WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON HERE?-!"

Sextum hummed softly, once again pondering Asuna's appearance before thrusting a hand ahead. "Princess, " she said, and then, just to test her hunch, shot a big stream of compressed icy stream out of her fingers and straight towards the redhead.
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Ako: The Pain

She didn't notice the other girl's presence until she was about to leave. Then she saw her, kneeling before those other two graves down the cemetary. She had been whispering something, perhaps a prayer, while softly placing a bouquet of pale pink roses over the gravestones.

Even her bouquet was bigger, richer and fuller than Ako's, and her black dress was far more elaborate and elegant than Ako's simple number.

Ako knew she shouldn't dislike that girl. In her mind, she knew well she had never done anything wrong to her. And sure, she liked Negi too, but then who didn't, and it wasn't like she chased after him, and Ako's liking of him was just a casual one, wasn't it...

She was polite and well mannered, and the few times they had talked, she always was very considered and gentle to Ako. And Ako never thought of herself as the envious kind. She had never envied Ayaka's riches or Chizuru's figure or Natsumi's talent or Misa's charm or Mana's confidence or... Well, the point was, she wasn't the envious type, so it wasn't like she envied Tomoe-san's fame and figure and beauty and intelligence and...

No. She disliked Tomoe-san for reasons that were even more shameful.

She disliked her for something her parents did, and it was something that likely wasn't even their fault, actually.

Accidents do happen, after all.

Unfortunately.

Ako couldn't help it. She knew it was wrong, and still, the dislike, borderlining hatred, wouldn't stop coming, even as she saw the girl drying the corners of her eyes with a white tissue.

Even so, realizing your mistakes is the first step towards fixing them, so she walked in silence towards the older girl and offered her a hand.

"Good afternoon, Tomoe-san."

"Ah, " softly, she looked up at her and took the hand to rise back to her feet. "Good afternoon to you as well, Izumi-san."

"Well, as good as things can ever be here, " Ako commented in a somber tone.
And the blond girl made a small melancholic smile. "Why wouldn't things be good when we are with our parents?"

Ako sighed, unsure of how to reply. Okay, since she still didn't like the girl, she'd just be honest. "Our parents aren't here at all. Regardless of if there's an afterlife or not."

"Yes. You're right, of course, but then, we often owe ourselves those small self-delusions. Or else, why would we be here at all?"

"Point."

"You look tired. Would you come with me to have some tea?"

No, she didn't want to. At all. She still disliked the girl fiercely. She disliked her perfection despite never hating anyone else's perfection. She disliked how she made Ako feel inferior and low, despite never hating anyone else just for outstaging her, because then she'd have to hate the whole human race. She disliked, most of all, the living reminder she was. The reminder of how her parents had killed hers, and themselves, and almost killed both of them as well.

"I'd love to, " she said, out of civility.

It was the best tea she'd ever tasted, but also the most bitter one.
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Madoka: Bastion of Normalcy

"So, starting today, Mikuru-chan, after a juicy and honorable stint as our Brigade's mascot character, is promoted to Secretary at Charge of Maintenance and Brigade Aesthetics!" the President announced loudly.

Itsuki was the only one to clap, while Nagato kept her nose buried into her book, Kyon facepalmed and Madoka, sitting slightly apart behind Haruhi, felt yet another slight pang of dread.

"Does, does this mean I don't have to wear the maid outfit anymore?" Mikuru asked hopefully.

"Of course you'll have to keep wearing it!" Haruhi chided. "Haven't you heard the description of your new role?"

"So in truth, you've just degraded her to cleaning lady!" Kyon said. Well, truth be told, Asahina-san already filled that role too, but even so...

Ignoring him as usual, Haruhi went on, haughtily, "The current tendencies of the Moe market indicate big breasts are going out of mode! But at the same time, small tits might get us in trouble with Ishihara!"

It was at this point that Kyon decided to interrupt her again. "Since when are you worried about what Ishihara or anyone might think about us?"

"Oooohh, so you like small tits, you fiend, " Haruhi waved a finger at the blushing boy. Madoka made a sour, mortified face. "It's not that I fear the Ishihara Ordinance, it's just not following it for the time being might scare our future clubmates away. That's why, instead of using Yuki as the next mascot, I'll be handing those reins to new recruit Kugimin instead! I'm sure she'll do a bang-up job!"

"Don't call me Kugimin! And stop downright admitting you use people! It's creepy!" Madoka asked.

Haruhi silenced her with a throaty rasp that imposed silence upon the club room again.

And she placed both hands on her desk. "Anyway, Kugimin, we're counting on your contacts within 3-A and your personal charm to lure even more members into the Brigade. Everyone knows 3-A is synonymous with the strange and unusual! Through your classmates and cute Shota teacher, we'll expand our influence to the whole Academy!"

The ensuing evil laughter chilled Madoka to the core, but she only had one resignated question to ask. "What will be my seat during meetings?"

"Ah, since you're just a newbie, you'll sit next to the only member who hasn't made merits for a rise yet, " Haruhi casually pointed at Kyoto, making Madoka gasp just a litle, which the boy didn't seem to notice. "Well, since it's late and I'm hungry, we'll leave it here today. Tomorrow, you'll be informed on your duties and responsibilities, Kugimin. Bring on comfy underwear, the kind that wouldn't chafe under a bunny suit. Or better yet, come commando. It's less troublesome that way."

Madoka felt like screaming.

She didn't scream, however, until she rejoined Sakurako outside of the club room. Her two roommates had been away in their own weird club's meeting, Negi's English Research Society, and Misa had already gone her own way with Haruna and Misora, for reasons Sakurako hadn't explained well and Madoka had actually prefered ignoring. "I can't believe I'm doing this!" she yelled. "That abusive sempai! Deciding each step we give! Never putting anything to vote because she knows better than everyone! Honestly, she makes me so mad!"

"Then quit her club already, " Sakurako said while chewing gum. "Not even that Kyon guy is worth that much headache! Join our club instead and, well, Negi-kun's already taken by Misa-chan, but we can hook you up with Itoshiki-sensei..."

"Sakurako!" Madoka said.

"What? He isn't bad looking, and he's filthy rich!"

Kugimiya tossed her hands up. "Believe me, at this point, I would consider that if I could..."

"Why can't you leave?" Shiina arched an eyebrow. "They have dirt on you?"

"Of course not! Actually, it's hard to explain..."

Then, as they doubled a corner near Sakura Lane, Shiina had the weirdest deja vu of Misa's story about the night when she had learned Negi's secret. Something in her mind yelled at her to duck quick, and duck with Madoka-chan. So, never one to distrust her gut feelings, she pulled her friend down with herself, rolling around like she had learned during the practices at the resort. Shielding her with her body, and reaching for her Pactio card in her clothes. To hell with secrecy, there were knives being tossed at them, flying over their heads instead of through them just because they had moved in the nick of time.

But before she activated the card, she saw someone leaping over them, from the opposite direction the knives had been tossed from. She was a pale and short girl with short pale hair, which reminded Sakurako of Sextum-chan a little. As she landed cleanly on her feet at their other side, she gave them a brief back glare and whispered, looking at the card, "Don't."

The same gut feeling told Sakurako to obey. Gulping and nodding, she pushed the card back in.

Madoka was too busy getting his breath back to do anything but gasp, never noticing Sakurako's card. "N-N-Nagato-sempai! What are you—"

"Stay low, " Nagato Yuki commanded with soft words and a vague hand gesture, her cold eyes fixed on the darkness ahead. "Don't move. I'll deal with this by myself."
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Sextum on Ice

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"ASUNA-SAN!" Negi and Ayaka cried at once, lunging ahead for the save, but it was too late. The blast of freezing mist blew ahead faster than they could move, hitting Asuna squarely in the chest and making her yelp and shudder. From what had just happened to Kuga Natsuki, Nodoka and Haruna expected to see their classmate being quickly turned into an ice sculpture. Now they couldn't do anything but avenging her...

But much to their shock and then relief, Asuna didn't get frozen, although her shirt instantly turned into a thin layer of ice that shattered in all directions with the swelling of her gasping chest. Her brassiere suffered the same fate a split second later, giving everyone a quick eyeful before Asuna shrieked and covered her chest with her arms. "AIE!-!"

Almost everyone stood back in puzzlement, although those who already in Negi's group who knew about Asuna's cancels just realized they should have expected that before reacting.

Deathnote chuckled, while Valkyrie Black took a moment to elbow her in the ribs.

"Wha... WHAT!" Asuna fell to her knees, with crimson cheeks. "Why, you, little pervert...!"

Sextum hovered close, with a fist over her mouth thoughtfully. "Just as I suspected. So it's, indeed, you, impossible as it may seem. You must come with us..."

Without even looking back, she caught Ayaka's whip as it swung for her head, yanking it away from the Class Rep's hands. As she did so, however, Negi seized the chance and rushed her with a magically charged punch. The pale girl's barrier blocked the fist, however, and before Negi knew it, she had grabbed his wrist strong and painfully, threatening to crush his bones. He clenched his teeth and snarled.

"NEGI!" his Ministra and Nodoka all cried as one, dashing ahead to attack the girl from all directions, but they were forced to stop as a wall of fire burst all around the combatants, and Homura jumped on the girls surrounded by flames.
"You won't lay a finger on the Mistress, you filthy rabble!"

"You have no idea what are you doing, " Sextum whispered, craning her face closer to Negi's. "You obviously can't fight in close quarters, so why you chose to engage me this way? The Thousand Master acted like an idiot, but he wasn't one. Apparently, his son is the other way around..."

Then he grinned, just as she felt a thin trickle of red flowing from her forehead and pooling under her left eye. "Ah, " she said, still in the same dispassionate voice. You did this just from the pressure applied on my field? Congratulations. However..." she kicked him in the stomach, "Not enough at all."

Then she noticed her kick, against what she had expected, had not sent him flying away, because his free hand, extended ahead in a fist, had touched her chest, loaded with latent magic ready to explode and sticking him to her. He smiled past the pain and chuckled. "Hu, hu, hu..."

He winked an eye at her, enjoying her expression, which for the first time betrayed a mild bafflement.

"Release, " he said, and the power exploded out of his hand. "SAGITTA MAGICA! BINDING ARROWS OF WIND!"

"Ahhhh!" Chamo all but swooned. "Bro, what a trap you've set...!"

"Trap, yes. I see, " the girl said as the binds of magic flowed at full speed out of Negi and wrapped themselves all around her fron neck to ankles, tightening around her body and squeezing her hard. "You prepared a delayed action spell while I talked. Very impressive. I'll remember not making the same mistake again..." she said, with quiet appreciation.

Chamo sniffed proudly. "My Bro's first time tying a pretty girl up! I look forward to more of this in our future!"

"Ah?" Negi blinked, while trying to catch his breath back.

"Nothing at all!" the ermine piously said. "Just innocently congratulating your talent!"
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Homura on Fire!

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As the fight between Negi and Sextum was going, the Ministra and assorted hangers on were tangling with Homura, who was proving to be a match for them depite the massive numbers disadvantage she had. She used her pyrokinesis to shield herself while also pushing them back, burning several chunks of ground around them to trap them, forcing Akira and Nodoka to keep putting them off constantly, so much they couldn't directly attack her.

Through the clash, Konoeko used her divination sticks to keep herself barely one step above the fast moving horned girl, shouting orders to the girls of where she'd be next. "To your right! No, now she's going to back away! Forward! Hold on, she's luring you into a trap!"

It annoyed Homura greatly, so much that she was starting to seriously think about setting the whole area around them ablaze. She knew it was a potentially lethal move, but they were driving her off her wits.

As it was right now, she was doing a good job of keeping them apart from Sextum and Negi. Most of them were close range attackers, so she had a good reach edge over them, and she could dodge the ranged attacks of the others with relative ease. In turn, she couldn't hurt them as she would have wanted, either, since there were too many of them and they kept moving in all directions around them to confuse her.

Chisame couldn't help thinking of the dodgeball game. Back then, they had learned the hard way numbers advantages were of little use when you kept stumbling into each other. But now they were handling that issue considerably better, even in the dark. Mainly because they had more room to move around, but also because they moved faster now, and with more agility. Even Roberta-san, who had no magic powers whatsoever, moved around the battlefield like a pro... which she was, apparently.

Roberta wanted to shoot that little skank's head off her shoulders, so badly, but she knew Ojou-sama would be mad at her then. She kept on tossing knives her way instead, aiming for the tendons and eyes, but the fast and precise little naked bitch just kept burning them off in mid-air. Roberta was starting to actually fear maybe she could do the same thing to bullets, too.

Sora was lost without room to maneuver her mini car around, so she stuck to the bad of the group with Keiichi, Makie and Skuld. Makie had her ribbon in a hand and seemed eager to lash out with it, but she couldn't do it with everyone in between her and the angry fire girl.

"Chisame-chan...!" the female college student gasped.

"A little busy now, Sora!" her sister yelled while trying to find a good aim angle, and failing miserably at each try. The girl was forcing them to move around too much to take a single good shot, which also was a problem for Yuuna and Ayaka.

Asuna mumbled sourly while she was getting close to Ayaka, swinging her fan in a hand while covering her breasts with the other. "I guess you're happy now, right? You kissed the brat, didn't you?"

Ayaka sighed in ecstasy despite having just failed another swing at Homura with the whip she had just recovered from where Sextum had tossed it. "It was so wonderful, I can't understand why you aren't a changed person yourself...!"

Asuna grunted. "I'm changed, I just don't think it's been for the better."

Homura clenched a fist up and swung it towards a charging Haruka's midsection, burning part of her clothes right before the snarling blonde ripped the flaming piece of her front off, tossing it aside, large breasts held back by a white bra popping out. She threw a long leg, the reinforced boot landing its sole on Homura's exposed stomach, making her stumble back.

The fire user, furiously, lifted her arms to summon flames upon Haruka, but Sakurako jumped in between waving her pom-poms. "Go Negima team! The cream of the cream! We won't tire until you're on fire!"

"Wha—" Homura began growling, before the spell somehow failed, collapsing in her hands and dropping back on herself, stunning her for a moment, but only because of the impact itself, not the heat or the flames. "Fools! You can't harm me with my own element!"

And then, as the others moved back, a black and white blur, moving so fast both tones were mixing together in confusing gray shades, was zooming in circles around her, so fast it created a a loud boom of wind and dust, which flew up dousing her, making her cough and stumble blindly, her flames flickering lower.
"WINDY!" Nodoka cried as soon as Misora stopped at her side, sweating rivers after running in a few hundreds of circles around Homura. The card's spirit flew up higher, deployed in all her glory. "Let your c-currents consume her blaze!"

The next thing Homura knew, she was caught in a minature hurricane, which snuffed her fire out and sent her flying into a massive metal fist, face first. Then she felt liquid running down her nose, and hitting the grass at Hakase's feet as sleep overtook her. "Gnh!" she said, and closed her eyes.

The girls gathered around her quickly to make a fast debate on her state.

"W-W-We haven't killed her, have we?" Misora asked.

"She breathes steadily. She'll live, " diagnosed Konoeko.

Roberta held a gun thoughtfully. "Perhaps, it would be best for everyone's sake to..."

"No, " Konoeko and Ayaka bluntly said at once.

Roberta pointed at the statue of ice that used to be Natsuki. "I believe it's what she'd have liked..."

Ayaka then sighed and made her way towards Negi, who had already caught Sextum. "Haven't you learned by now NO means NO with me, Roberta-san? And... OH MY GOD NEGI-SENSEI YOU DID IT YOU'RE SO BRAVE!" and she tossed herself to hug him tightly.

From where the three Ala Alba librarians were flying overlooking Sukuna in case anything went wrong, and contacting Erebus, Valkyrie Black took a moment to sigh with relief. "Good. They didn't need our help after all..."

"However, I think Negi-sensei also had Fate-kun trapped like that at one point, " Nodoka cautioned. "From what I remember being told, he—"

Then they saw Yuuna pointing her guns at Sextum's head. "Okay, smart girl, no funny moves or you'll regret it!" the 3-A student was saying. She felt tempted to shoot if those things really only cancelled magic like the other Yuna's, but she didn't feel like gambling on it. Still, she loved looking the part. It made her feel so badass!

Sextum only gave her a hauntingly even glare. "Shoot, " she said.

"C'mon, " Yuuna grunted, "Are you going to play the 'First dead than telling you anything' card? That went out of style two decades of movies ago!"

"Yuuna-san!" Negi told her, sternly, actually grabbing her by a arm and pulling her two steps back. "Please, she still could be dangerous! Keep your distance!"

Sextum nodded slightly. "That would be a correct assumption."

And she flexed her muscles, and the binds holding her flew around in all directions, ripped apart like paper.

"... Not fair!" Misora whined.
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Fate: You should have been there

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They took their respective cups of coffee just as soon as Shirabe had served them, and thanked her with twin short nods and nothing else. After waiting for a moment for any word from them, or even the slightest sign they had noticed she was in Naked Apron, Shirabe sighed, turned around, and left.

We should know it by now, they don't even realize it... she thought.

Indeed, not even realizing it, both Averrunci continued their less than passionate conversation.

"Are you completely sure it was her?" Fate asked.

"Yes, " answered Sextum. "Against all reports, she is not dead, although she appears to have been deaged."

"She might be a copy."

"Even if she is, she displayed the same powerset of the original Twilight Princess, even if less developed. My theory is she suffered brain damage, most likely coupled with memory loss."

"Brain damage?"

"She certainly did not display the same tactical acumen the Twilight Princess used to exhibit in combat. Although she seemed to be getting the basics of it. All the same, she should be useful for the project."

"True. It is an intriguing possibility, " he allowed. "Now, as for the fourth model..."

"I regret reporting he escaped as well, but I consider him a secondary concern in the whole picture. I do believe he can be recovered, but even if he cannot, any of us can defeat him. I did it with ease, so could Quintum, and although he is one upgrade above your baseline level, you have amassed more battle data and experience. I could see his fighting style was still unpolished and inefficient. I recommend focusing on the plan as scheduled, but also searching for ways to retrieve the Twilight Princess."

"I see. I will trust your first hand experience on the subject and support your suggestion to Lord Dynamis."

"I am thankful, " she flatly said, extending a small package over to him. "On that venue, I brought this for you. A souvenir from the locals."

"My gratitude goes to you, " he replied in the exact same flat tone, unwrapping the package and pulling a shiny and brand new coffee pot out of it. "Ah. You remembered."

"Indeed. You had mentioned interest for purchasing a new one during the latest raid."

"I will treasure it, " he promised, his voice always the same.

In truth, since that day, he also had gotten sets from Tamaki, Koyomi and Shirabe, but cold as his heart was, he didn't have it in him to tell his sister unit that.

If there was something he had learned well during his existence, even more than fighting or destroying, that was to never insult a female's gifts.

Of course, that didn't ever stop him from not noticing the other gifts his followers kept offering him, but that was hardly his conscious fault...
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The demons were defeated, at last. The landscape around them was a complete wreck, and there were two gigantic, even more evil looking beings towering in the lake not too far, but at the very least, they had finished with the demons. Ku Fei was gasping in awe, staring at the two giants, turning her back to the others.

"Whaaaaa! Hey, hey, let's go fight those two now! These ones barely were a challenge at all-aru!" she said, very cheerfully and never minding the fact half her clothes were ripped apart and she had a black eye, as she tugged on Kaede's similarly ripped clothes, threatening to perform a wardrobe malfunction in any moment now.

Kaede calmly gestured to her with a hand. "In a second, Ku-dono. I think our newest friend has important things to do first. Let's wait for her out of respect-de gozaru."

The pink haired Sailor Senshi walked over to the ice-encased woman who dressed like Sailor Pluto, raised her wand, and sighed.

"There'll better be a good explanation for this..." and she held the wand high, yelling "Moon Healing Escalation!"

Ku and Kaede stared on as the wand summoned an almost blinding flash of light upon the froezn woman, undoing Sextum's ice without even melting it; it just vanished in thin air like mist, leaving the blond woman dry and dizzy, falling to her knees and gasping for air.

"Nice trick, " commented Kaede, rubbing her chin.

"Sorcery!" Ku Fei wondered, with an open mouth almost as wide as her head.

The young girl in the Fuku placed her wand on the older woman's head, as if to hold her back. "Who are you, and what have you done to Puu?"

The woman finally looked up at her, as her eyes blinked several times. "Ah? Small Lady! It's... It's really you? But how— The specifications for this timeframe didn't include absolutely nothing on your presence in this period..."

"Are you Sailor Pluto?" the girl asked again, still not letting her go.

"Oh? Don't you recognize me, Small Lady? Why— Oh. You either come from a different dimensional frame, or an erased prior iteration. Please don't tell me you come from a future iteration where I don't exist. My life is hard, but I still like existing..."

Then, calmly, she grabbed the wand gently pushed it up to stand back. The girl narrowed her eyes, but let her do so.

"I am, indeed, Sailor Pluto, " the blonde coolly said, colder than even Puu used to sound. "I suppose you were expecting for Meioh, but I deeply regret informing you she has stopped existing, My Lady."

With all the subtlety of a scientist used to give catastrophe predictions.

Chibi-Usa rattled in place for a second. "What?-! Puu!"

The woman nodded austerely. "Yes. I'm sorry. With her dying breath, she trusted me with her post. Since then, I have watched over time from the beginning to what lies beyond the end. I watched you being born and grow, as well. You have become a charming young lady, if I may say so."

The girl was still so pale Ku and Kaede thought she was going to cry, in contrast with her attitude moments before. "How... How did she die?-!"

"The universe collapsed around us. To prevent it all from crunching down, she sacrificed her existence and Star Seed to the timestream itself, " Ritsuko informed. "It worked, but barely..."

Chibi-Usa took a hand to her suddenly dry throat. "My God... Poor Puu... I knew she never could fall because of anything less than that..."

Akagi nodded. "She was, indeed, a remarkable individual. I only knew her personally for a very brief time, but through the journals she left behind, I came to know her, perhaps even better than myself." And she looked around, blinking fully of her stupor as she noticed the two giants. "Damn it all. The situation has gone past the Kaiju War Threshold, and we don't even have the Moon Princess or a Justice League yet. But at least, with you here, Small Lady, the odds may yet change to our favor."

"We're here too, aru, " Ku waved weakly, with black round eyes.

"Where are Mercury and the others?" Pluto chose to ask, skirting over Ku's statement. "I don't see them here, so I must assume they are at ground zero, correct?"

"I think so, " Kaede scratched her head with a complete Baka expression. "Asuna-dono and Mana-dono went ahead of us, but we haven't seen any—"

"The Princess. Of course, " Ritsuko sighed, beginning to stomp ahead for the lake, shaking any leftover signs of frostbite she ever could have had. "If she dies falls in the enemy's hands, at least one world will fall. Speed is of the esence!"

Kaede pointed at Honami and the others still frozen across the valley. "What about them?"

"Later, " Chibi-Usa promised, following the older woman closely, still not fully trusting her. "Hey. Pluto-san."

"Yes?"

"I never called you 'Puu', did I?"

"As a matter of fact, yes, you honored me with that nickname."

Chibi-Usa shuddered. "I can't imagine that at all..."

"We were very close, actually. I babysat you when your parents and Mercury-san went into their... holiday retreats."

"Wha?" Chibi-Usa babbled.

"I have revealed too much about the future already."

Chibi-Usa rubbed her nose's bridge. "I think we can agree there, actually, yeah..."
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"I'm late, I'm late, I'm late..." the White Rabbit kept repeating while running downhill through the forest, eyes fixed on her pocketwatch, false bunny ears flapping in the breeze, full breasts bouncing up and down. "Oh my nose and whiskers..."

"Shut up. Just... shut up!" the Carpenter yelled, rubbing her right temple with a hand, trying to block her horrible headache out. "I swear, keep it up and I'll nail your head to your ass!"

"Where's the boss? I'm pretty sure..." Twedledee started, struggling to keep up with them despite his portly shape and short legs.

"... he was right behind us, " Twedledum completed the sentence, fanning himself with a hand. The night was still cold, but even so, he was bathed in even colder sweat.

"Forget it the freaking boss!" Carpenter growled. "It's his whole fault we're in this mess! Not only we're lost half the world away from Gotham, but the Bat must be right after us, too! That's it, I'm taking Query and Echo's advice and joining the Riddler's gang!"

The Walrus panted, dropping on his butt at one side of the narrow pathway. "I'm done. Can't, can't keep it up. Go ahead without me..."

Humpty Dumpty passed by next to him, absently plucking a flower's petals while sniffing it. "Ah. This place is so pretty..."

Then White Rabbit ran into a series of strings suspended between the trees, making her stumble back into the Carpenter. Both women fell with twin shrieks, and the rest of the gang stopped behind them, reaching for their handguns. A few huge knives fell from the treetops, landing sharply between them, tip-first into the grassy ground.

"What the..." Dee began.

"... Hell is going on here!" Dum completed, swallowing hard.

"Kek, kek, ke ke ke..." a sinister, mechanical and mirthless laughter came from above.

"That ain't the Bat, " Carpenter gulped, aiming madly in all directions. "Damn this crazy place!"

"Those who follow Evil without understanding it must pay the price!" a tiny but omnipresent voice cackled, full of malice. "You all are nothing! Headless puppets!" and as that was said, the strings between the trees tightened all around them, more and more of them popping out of everywhere, trapping them in a short segment of the path. "Pitiful humans who don't deserve the attention of the Queen of Darkness!"

"It's the devil! The devil came for us!" White Rabbit hid behind the Walrus, shrilling hysterically.

"Not yet." A pair of glowing perverse eyes flashed from the trees.

And it dropped before them, holding a blade five times longer than itself, and tossing several small knives around with its free diminutive hand.

"Oh, how cute, " Humpty Dumpty observed, with a naive smile.

"Rabble like you..." Chachazero said, bringing the blade up as she jumped for them, then swinging it down with all her strenght, "... deserves nothing but being put down like dogs!"

"AAAIIIIEEEEEE!"

Not so much later, Chachazero sat idly on top of a pile of unconscious human bodies, a few with them with smelly and stained pants. Watching the dawning sun, she waved a passing butterfly away with a thin arm.

"Ah, how sad! That Boya is a real bad influence on my Master. I'll have to see what can I do about him!" she mused to herself.

She didn't even flinch when she felt the huge shadow looming over her, from behind.

"Alive, I expect, " the Batman said in a tone that left no room for mistaking him. All the while tucking a knocked out chimpanzee under an arm.

Chachazero waved a hand in circles. "I like your look, but you're a no-fun party spoiler. But since they're your mess, you deal with them. What are you planning to do with them?"

"The only thing I should be doing."

Half a hour later, at the main Kyoto Police Department Precint, Tsujimoto Natsumi smiled, arms crossed, as the gathered officers watched in general disbelief what had been just dangled from their roof. Packed tightly inside of a net, all with Bat-notes pinned to their chests, all but one of the perps who had assaulted the precint the day before were there. Even the chimp.

"You know, " she mused. "Bad past experiences with vigilantes aside, I think I like this one. Do you think he could stay for a while?"

Her partner Miyuki only shrugged. "I only hope this doesn't mean we're getting Clayfaces next."

Chachazero let that lack of credit slip by since she didn't want anyone learning she had pulled a good deed.


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Asuna: Follow your Heart

"Like I could ever like a brat, " Asuna told herself. "I mean, yeah, I admit liking him as a pal of sorts, even though he bothers me so much with all those tests and homework. Because you can't deny he has a lot of guts, and yeah, if he ever gets his act together, maybe he'll make Chisame or some other girl a happy nagging wife someday. But my type? Hah! Not even when he grows up, I think. I don't like any grown man, I like them fairly older than me, and more so, distinguished. Negi may be formal and stuff, but he isn't distinguished the way Takahata-sensei or the Elder are."

"You're talking about my dad, you know, " a sleepy Konoka quietly interjected from the bunk below, with a smuggled in Ryo-Ohki asleep on her chest.

"I'm just putting him as an example, " Asuna made clear.

"Ah."

"Anyway, I'll never forgive Negi for stealing my first kiss!"

"Wasn't that something you agreed on, Asuna? Something you did to save your own life, too?"

"If he's so smart, why couldn't he think of any alternatives? I'm a Baka Ranger, I couldn't be expected to come up with anything myself! But he should have!"

"Well, I'm glad to be his partner, " Konoka fondly said. "I prefer him over any of those old guys I meet in my omiais."

Asuna frowned and kept on staring at the ceiling.

"Konoka-chan, " she finally said.

Her best friend stirred from the sleep she had just entered. "Yeah, Asuna?"

"Who do you like best, Setsuna-san or Negi?"

"Why, that's a very private question, but since it's Asuna-chan, I'll answer it, " she giggled. "I like Setchan best because she's been at my side almost my whole life."

"Yeah, but... Well, you know..."

"I like Setchan best, then Daddy, then Asuna-chan, then Negi-kun!"

"V-Very funny, Konoka. Har har, " she mumbled, not noticing the faint pink washing over and around her own nose bridge.

"And then there's Yomi-chan, " Konoka sighed.

"What?-! C'mon, now that isn't even a joke. That psycho kidnapped you and tried to kill Setsuna, the girl you just said you love above everyone else. Remember?"

"I know, " and now her voice sounded sad, which was so rare in her, it made Asuna take notice. "Still, I can't help it. Whenever I think of her, I only can think of that sweet crazy girl who played with us. And how she always smiled, but her smile was shallow and sad. The three of us once meant so much for each other, Asuna. In a perfect world, Yomi-chan would come back to her senses, and we'd be happy together, as if nothing happened, the way we used to be. But I know that'll never happen."

"Konoka-chan, I... I..."

"Good night, Asuna-chan."

The next morning, Asuna noticed Konoka's slightly reddened eyes during breakfast, but didn't dare to comment on them.
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Sayo: The Empty Grave

"Haven't you ever wondered where's your body buried?" Kiri asked as she, Sayo and Oshizu sat after classes at Classroom 3-F, wondering why Rukia and Ichigo were taking so long. Probably another ghost hunting business. "I mean, now you can move out of campus with the doll, you could ask someone to bring you to the cemetary, to look there. I'd do it myself, but... you know..." the hikikomori wrapped her blanket tighter around her body and trembled.

Sayo's face was one of pure fear. "B-B-But cemetaries are scary! They are full of dead people!"

"I was buried in a common grave and now there is a mall built over it..." Oshizu said somberly.

"Uh, " Kiri said. "That's, hm, I'm sorry to hear it."

Oshizu waved a hand. "It's okay. Your burial site doesn't really matter.It only has your empty shell, so for all it's worth, all graves are empty graves. So it doesn't matter at all. Unless they use voodoo magic on it or something."

"Voodoo!" Sayo shrieked.

"Yes, it's very bothersome to watch your corpse shuffling around, biting people's scalps off to suckle on the brains underneath. It makes you feel dirty, you know?" the older ghost wrinkled her nose in disgust.

"Didn't you die four hundred years ago?" Kiri frowned while Sayo hid behind her sobbing. "There were no voodoo mages at Japan around that age!"

"Actually, now I remember, it wasn't a voodoo mage, but a necromancer who said she came from some sort of magical world in another planet..." Oshizu put a finger on her mouth.

"What?" Kiri blinked several times.

"Never mind. I'm sure it isn't important!" Oshizu shrugged.

"... I-I-I've decided it, " Sayo said. "I'll find my grave and have my remains burnt into ashes, just in case..."
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"Haruna, draw me a shirt or something, " Asuna growled as she seized the calmly approaching Sextum with a fierce glare, still pressing her left arm over her breasts while her other hand gripped her fan tightly.

After opening her mouth to voice a protest, Haruna closed it back, deciding that wasn't the moment for it. She complied, quickly drawing a colorful long sleeved shirt that Asuna quickly pulled on, with Sextum respectfully waiting as the girls surrounded her from all sides, with Negi and Ayaka placing themselves behind her after pulling themselves from the lake.

With a roar of Amazonian fury, a recovered Homura charged towards them from the sidelines, but by now Sailor Mercury knew her fighting style well enough and jumped into her way to stop her, once more engaging her one on one to stop her from interfering.

"Go help her, Nodoka-san, " Negi commanded with a tense, nervous voice. From what he had seen of both Sextum and Homura, the fire user actually seemed to be the lesser danger, stopping herself from cutting loose with an element that was, at first sight, more dangerous than her mistress'. Sextum was much faster on the draw, as well, and while his Ministra all had enhanced reaction times thanks to the Pactio, Nodoka still only had average human reflexes. And Nodoka's Windy already had proved being useful against Homura.

"Y-Yes!" Nodoka gulped, using Jump to leap near Akira, then using Windy again to blast at Homura's flames, combining it with Akira's bubbles to keep the enemy at bay. The rest of them kept watching over Sextum, in an expectant silence only broken eventually by Yuuna.

"Okay, " Professor Akashi's daughter said, guns trained on Sextum's head. "Not that we aren't grateful, Hon, but really, you've gotta stop with the habit of kidnapping our classmates. First Konoka, and now you want Asuna? Who's next, Satchan? Let me guess, you'll want her to cook you pancakes each morning, right?"

"Pardon?" Sextum moved her head aside for a moment.

"Never mind that, " Ayaka said. "What could you possibly wish for with an unkempt, rude and reckless simian like our Asuna-san?"

"Don't make me consider actually going with her, Iinchou, " Asuna deadpanned.
Sextum shook her head the slightest bit. "There is no reason to tell any of you. The information would not do you any good anyway."

"We'll decide that, " Negi said. "Now, please surrender peacefully or—"

Then it happened in the wink of an eye, literally before any of them, even Misora or the Ala Alba librarians, could react. Sextum was moving in a perfect sweeping circle kicking at their legs in a clean arc, bringing them down like dominos while ducking under their attacks, Misa's barrage of needles flying harmlessly over her head. She took a few extra split seconds to incapacitate those with the most exotic and potentially dangerous attacks, twisting Yuuna's wrists, almost snapping them and forcing her to drop the guns. Before Yuuna's yell of pain had even finished, Sextum was kicking Sakurako's stomach, pulling her pom-poms away from her and tossing them back into the water. Artifacts could be summoned back, but they'd spend valuable moments recovering before even thinking about it.

Haruka, rash and impulsive as ever, was the first one to think of aiming lower, growling savagely as her mace went for Sextum's head. The pale girl flipped aside effortlessly, tossing mini darts from between the fingers at the blonde, forcing Asuna to jump in between them, blocking the darts with her arm. They froze and shattered her sleeve and part of that shoulder of the shirt, but otherwise did little else; they had been intended as little but bait anyway, as Sextum proved when she grabbed Asuna's wrist and headbutted her. A quick, easy way to strike her down without magic, and it proved to be successful as Asuna, with a low groan, fell ahead, dizzied, into her arms.

Screaming posessive and incoherently, Ayaka swung her whip around, aiming for Sextum's neck, but the girl dodged again, bouncing back with her new prey. She pirouetted between a barrage of arms wielding blunt weapons the Harunas sent their way, not even bothering to fight them back. Finally, when Negi finally found a good shooting angle and tossed a few Sagitta Magicas her way, screaming "ASUNA-SAN!", she avoided them too. Fighting in close range with so many allies around, and while she held a prisoner, he couldn't risk unleashing too many arrows at once, which limited his efficiency greatly. He tried directing them her way without hurting Asuna, using the homing ability and aiming for Sextum's legs, but her barrier stopped them before they could be an issue.

However, right then, Asuna herself reacted and heabutted back, hitting Sextum's chin and then kicking her across the chest, strongly enough, not to hurt her, but to make her lose some momentum. Valkyrie Black seized the chance and blasted the Averruncus' head with three precise Sagitta Magica, Negi doing the same a moment later, when it was clear she could take it. Asuna acted accordingly and kicked again, managing to free herself and roll back to the others, panting and leaving her ripped shirt in Sextum's hands. Back to being topless again. Life was unfair...

Makie finally used her ribbon, swinging it across Sextum's chest at the same time Ayaka's whip joined it, leaving twin deep rips into her gray jacket. Haruka tried again, jumping up to bring her mace down, and although Sextum blocked it with her forearms and pushed the blonde back, that gave an opening for Chisame's electric blasts to rattle her shields, which were taking assault from all sides. They barely inconvenienced her at all... Right before Sora's speedster rammed into her, pushing her back and crusing her against a tree that snapped by half.

Sora sobbed a little to herself as her head spun around madly. "I've just killed someone, haven't—" she had her answer as, a moment later, Sextum effortlessly kicked the vehicle at the other side of the field. "— GUESS NOT!"

"SORA!" Chisame cried, even as Sextum blew her freezing mist all around, forcing everyone to dash back. The mist had a wide range, however, so it was about to wash over everyone when Konoeko, extending her arms open, ofuda between all her fingers, muttered a prayer and extended a shield before all the others. That, in any case, left her open to the mist herself, and in a blink, she was turned from head to toes into an ice sculpture. The youngsters, especially Negi and Asuna, gasped in terror. Konoeko's move reading had told her that would happen, but not being fast enough to defend both herself and the children, she had decided for the latter.

Sextum stepped ahead faster now, slapping an (again) charging Haruka and attempting to sneak around Batman aside like flies, the bored expression never leaving her face. Negi and Ayaka both fell squarely in her path to Asuna. A softly exhaling Sextum just gestured and sent more icy darts their way. One of them grazed one of Negi's shoulders, instantly leaving a large chilled gap there, causing him to yell and everyone else to gasp aloud in shock. However, much to further shock in the back of Chisame's mind, the hit didn't fully freeze him like it had done to Konoeko and Natsuki. Other darts were about to hit Ayaka in several points when Roberta jumped in to take them, shaking for a moment before falling back, frozen solid, into a shrieking and panicking Ayaka's arms.

While Negi was wincing in pain, he still swung his staff with his free hand, aiming for Sextum's throat, but she blocked it with a hand just as she reached for Ayaka and Asuna. "Why must you force my hand so much...?"

"HEY, SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER PAYS ME IN TIME!" Deadpool of all people had jumped in on her then, katanas ready to draw blood, landing on Sextum's back and slashing at her shoulders, only to leave minimal cuts. "Oh. Didn't see this one coming..." he blinked, before being shook off into a charging Hakase, making them roll across the dirt, all balance lost.

Sextum was only turning her attention back on the girls when she felt Negi's small fist connecting against her face, and then, like a rabid animal, Mana was on her, wrestling her down to the ground. Mana knew her guns would be useless against this target. She had bided her time, waiting to see if the others could handle her. They couldn't, now that was clear. Stopping herself just short of unleashing her demon within yet, she still allowed herself to flow out in a raging stream of violence, punching and even clawing with no pause. But it was like clawing at an adamantium wall, and then, a few moments later, Sextum had kicked her up into the air.

The Averruncus came back to her feet quietly even as everyone around was either reeling or panting, or just too confused and scared to react properly. "I congratulate you all for your courage, " she told Negi, Ayaka, Chisame, Sakurako and Hakase, who had all managed to gather before Asuna defensively, despite her screams of Let me Fight you Idiots I'm in This Too and her attempts to break through their defense and back into the fore. "But you are only wasting your own time and mine."

She gestured with a hand again, so quickly no one, again, had the time to react as she chose a target. Someone to hit to open a hole through their defenses. The single, thick ice arrow flew through the night, paralyzing everyone with dread for a moment even before it looked like it was actually about to hit someone. In this case, Chisame.

The net idol jerked in place, again unable to move even as she registered the screams of Negi, Satomi and a returning Sora.

And then another one...

"CHISAME-SAMA!"

She didn't see Tsunetsuki until she was being hit by the arrow in the chest. Until Tsunetsuki was the one hit, that was. She had just jumped out of the darkness and into the way, stopping the projectile with her body in the last possible second.

And then falling, motionless and cold, at Chisame's feet.
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Satsuki: The Beautiful People

All through the night, she served customer after customer, just like always.

That new girl, Tokiha Mai-san, with her wide but weary smile. Satsuki could tell it was weary in the inside, since often, when people wanted to show they were happy but they weren't, their smiles only curved up in the outside, but never in the inside. Satsuki could tell when that happened. It was one of her gifts.

Regardless, like always, Mai-san was with her odd but likable friend, Mikoto-san, who was very pretty as well, in a wild child way. She ate a lot, prompting Mai-san to muse she was going to drive her to bankruptcy (Satsuki chose not asking on why she would have to pay for a friend's bills). Mai-san asked if there was a job available in the restaurant, and Satsuki answered she'd consult it with Chachamaru-chan, who apparently would have to keep on taking breaks for some reason.

Then there was Saki-sempai, who came ith her friends Aya and Rin, like always, drawing everyone's stares.

Tomoe Mami-san, who due to some reason or another was with Ako of all people, both dressed in black. Mami-san smiled as beautifully as ever and asked for tea and snacks for both. Hers also was the outside only kind of smile. Ako didn't even bother with one of those, but that only added to her mousy appeal.

Siesta-san, Ayaka's charming maid, passed by with her boyfriend, buying an awful lot of sea food take out. He was cute, or so would Satsuki have thought if she had eyes for anyone but Akito-sempai. Okay, so she did. Since Kyoto, weirdly, and seeing how everyone seemed to be getting closer to Negi-sensei, a tiny part of her had started to think maybe it could pay to see what was that whole thing with boys be about. Not that she was naive or stupid, and she could understand the basics and theory, but she had never felt it. There simply handn't been any need for it. Even now, from her scarce attempts to think of the subject, romance only looked like a pointless gamble. Even if it seemed to be making Siesta-san happy.

As soon as they had left, a tired looking Chisame and smiling Negi-sensei passed by buying something to take home as well. Now, while Chisame wasn't a stunning beauty, she had a special kind of homely appeal, and yes, Negi-sensei was cute, although Satsuki still didn't understand the whole scandal about it. From what people used to comment, and everyone always commented a lot over meals, Chisame's popularity had gone up since that Valentine kiss with Asuna, not to mention her living with Negi-sensei. All of that would have outraged Chisame if she had known about it, but since she seemed to spend all her time indoors, Satsuki doubted she even suspected the first thing about it.

A stone faced Rukia-san came in, bought enough food for two, and walked out. Honestly, Satsuki thought, Kiri-sempai had to stop using her to get the food she wouldn't go out to buy herself. Satsuki was fairly sure everyone would like having her around the Chao Bao Zi at times, at the very least. Then again, maybe that also was part of her rumored frail, pale, reclusive charm.

Shortly after, Honsho-sempai and Orihime-sempai made the rounds as well, buying themselves the copious amounts of food Orihime-sempai always devoured. After asking if Rukia-san had been there, and learning she had, Honsho-san had lamented again how she didn't spend any time with them anymore. Satsuki told them she believed Rukia-san was with Kiri-sempai, and Honsho-sempai hummed and all but dragged Orihime-sempai away to Satsuki-knew-where, after giving Satsuki a thankful wink and grin. And blowing a kiss to her on their way out.

Yotsuba wasn't used to being flirted to, although lately, as she and her peers and sempai grew older, a few had done it teasingly now and then. Honsho-sempai was a staple of it, but then, she did it to all cute girls, and Mahora was full of cute girls (Satsuki didn't think she qualified herself, but she figured it was just special treatment, and she felt thankful over the light attentions). That new girl from the sciences lab, Rika-sempai, also had thrown occasional double entendres her way, but then again, she did it to everyone, not sparing boys either, unlike Honsho-sempai. Haruna-san, despite everything, didn't treat her that way, but she always was kind to her regardless, so Yotsuba figured she was only wary of offending her if she treated her the same way that used to annoy their classmates.

Having gone through all of that in her mind, Satsuki noticed she never had any boys flirting at her.

Not that she cared about that, really.

No, really.

But it might have felt nice, at least once. She wondered if Saki-sempai, Mami-san, Orihime-sempai or Ayaka ever got tired of it. She'd never know it, apparently.

But she was okay with that.

Really.

If she had wanted to know, she could ask them, right? In a way that didn't offend them, of course, but...

But...

"Are you okay, Satsuki-chan?" Ku asked her as she wiped her hands on her apron, walking back from the kitchen. "You've looked distant all evening long-arune."

"I think it's enough for tonight, " Satsuki said. "Let's call it closing time."

"You sure? We still have like a hour ahead of us..."

Satsuki only nodded, and as usual, Ku didn't argue her decision any further.
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"Can't you do something like what you did to that giant monster again?-!" Keiichi asked in more than mild desperation, trying to shield Skuld with his body and to find something to do to help the others at the same time. They had stayed fairly behind while Negi, his Ministra and assorted 3-A fought Sextum and Homura. "I don't know, do it to those crazy girls or the giant killer rabbit this time?-!"

"Shut up, shut up, I'm trying!" Skuld barked angrily while fidgeting on her device with fast and nervous fingers. "You're giving me a headache! They'll be expecting me this time, so it'll be harder to hack in this time! Besides, I wasn't expecting that other freak! Bad enough it's an unchained True Ancestor, but it's also of dimensionally alien origins! Its specifications don't match my records!"

"Let me see, " Chao looked over her shoulder, eyeing the small artifact with bright eyed curiosity. "Oh, I don't recognize half of these pieces! It's been a long while since I've been truly impressed by machinery of any sorts. Truly fascinating..."

"Shouldn't you try to help your friends right now?" Skuld grunted.

Chao batted her eyelashes. "Do I look like the kind of person who could hold her own at all in a fight as brutal as that-ne?"

"Before today, I'd have said no, but now I'll believe anything about anyone, " said Keiichi.

Meanwhile, Sextum had flung pretty much all of her opposition, including a weakened Negi, to one side or another. Valkyrie Black had raised a shield and was now healing Yuuna's wrists, hoping her anti-magic projectiles could be of any use. Enough of both Harunas' defenses had been destroyed to force them to retreat back before being unable to go on at all. Chisame was still shaking the shock off as she pushed the Matoi ice statue to relative safety between two thick trees with Satomi's help, while Misora, Misa and Sakurako helped Negi back up.

"You know, kiddo..." Deadpool was leaping back towards Sextum, tossing several flash grenades her way, making her shield her eyes with a forearm instinctively. He shot at her, but she pretty much hopped twice well out of the bullets' range. "... Your mommy and daddy should have a talk with you about making adults waste perfectly good bullets!" He grunted as she elbowed him in the stomach, sending him flying off into a tree. "Team DP is blasting off agaiiiiiiin!"

Now with that out of her way as well, Sextum marched towards Asuna as well, but the redhead charged and struck at her with her harinsen at the same time as Ayaka, her harisen cutting through Sextum's barrier, enough to also allow Ayaka's whip to get a hit along it, both weapons striking below Sextum's collarbone, barely agitating her at all.

Without missing a beat despite that, the female construct reached ahead for Asuna, only to have a few black ignition pellets tossed on her head from a side, making part of her hair to catch on fire. A normal human would have also suffered horrifying third degree burnts, but her perfect features only got the slightest marks as she shook her head, blowing soft puffs on her own face to extinguish the flames. Sextum lashed out with another freezing blast, one the Batman barely could jump over; but in doing so, he leaped up into a hovering Sextum's powerful grip, who held him up by the thick neck, lifting him high with no problems.

"Batman-sama!" Asuna cried out. Everyone began shifting back for a counterattack, working through their aches and exhaustion, but it didn't look like any of them could reach them in time before...

Up the hill, vicious green eyes grew narrow. "Go save him, " a suddenly unamused, hissing mad voice commanded.

Quartum gave his partner in crime an annoyed look. "But, I thought you'd be happy to—"

"No one plays with my toys, and most definitely no one breaks MY toys!" Joker tossed his binoculars down and stomped a foot on the grass. "Go stop that blasted sister of yours RIGHT NOW!"

For a moment, the sense of duty and the mission warred inside of Quartum with his desire for combat and carnage against someone who could be a mtach for his own might. Finally, accepting the Joker's order as a command from his superior at charge, he allowed himself a crooked grin and ran ahead, creepily laughing his head off.

No one but Misora, thanks to her link to speed itself, really saw him coming, at least not as anything but a blur of fire setting a trail of charred grass behind himself. Erebus might have also noticed him if he hadn't bee too busy way up handling Type Moon. Sextum only noticed his arrival in the last moment, when he was too close for even her to really react. She only could widen her eyes and whisper "Fourth model...?" before a great force slammed into her, forcing her to drop the Batman roughly, as she flew several dozens of feet back, over the waters and landing at the other side of the lake.

"LADY SEXTUM!" Homura screamed, giving Nodoka an opening to hit her between the eyes with a Create-spawned giant fist. Not very creative, but it was a wonder the shy libarian hadn't fainted in the struggle yet.

The living stream of fire followed Sextum across the lake, slowing down before her to reveal the human figure flying inside of it. He grinned cockily, with both hands in his pockets, and only the thumbs popping out. Any relief the Ministra and Negi could have had at having the fight taken away from them was subdued by even worse alert as Quartum clucked his tongue down at the pale girl who looked so much like him.

"Yo, little sis, " he mockingly greeted her, the taunting way he had learned in TV. "Fancy meeting you here!"
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Tsukuyomi finally finished wringing the most of the water out of her dress, helped in no small part by the furious winds howling around her. She was not in the area most affected by Type Moon's attack, but the gale forces surrounding her were still strong enough to strike terror in any sane heart.

Tsukuyomi was too mad to care. In every sense of the word. She had lost her hat and shoes, and a sock, in the drink. She almost had lost her glasses as well, and one of them had a large crack on it. The dress still weighed a wet ton, so to prevent it from being a liability in battle, she ripped most of the skirt off, leaving her with only some rags dangling under her waist and over her underwear and stockings. This was not how she wanted to look for her big fight with Setsuna Oneesama, at all. Why couldn't her sister's bloody annoying friends keep themselves out of her way?

Hansel and Gretel, still dizzy from the beating Batman had given them, were snapping out of their stunned state, limping to her side dutifully.

"Ahhhhh, you look so sexy that way, Big Sister..." her boy protege told her, wearing his twin's long wig. "You even have bruises all over you. Ohhhh, that one in your knee is bleeding so much..."

"You're wearing Gretel's hair, Hansel, " Tsukuyomi hissed coldly.

The other twin nodded and tugged the wig off, placing it carefully on her own head. "She's right, Brother. How rude of you! You knew it was my turn to be Sister tonight...!"

"Well, I guess it's true what they say, " an amused voice commented from the shadows. "In a family, if you aren't like one, then you are zero!"

Gretel spun around at the source of the sound and aimed her gun, pressing the trigger only to remember Batman had apparently taken all the ammo out and fused the barrel up with a portable torch while she had been out. That batdick.

But then all three of them were gasping hard as they saw the smiling, tall, thin figure stepping out of the darkness with his arms crossed behind his back.

"Oh! It's you...!" Gretel cooed, starry eyed, with the look of a child who has just met an idol.

"It's really you? The actual you?" Hansel all but babbled after a pair of moments of trying to keep a cold facade. "I mean, there have been so many copycats..."

The Joker rasped loudly, held his pointy chin up, and declared, in a very calculated and methodical, yet completely chaotic and disorganized, way: "Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight? Joke's on you! HYA HAH HAH! Why so serious? I am a man of my word. Let's bring a smile on that face... What doesn't kill us makes us... stranger. Wait until they get A LOAD of me... They laughed at my boner, didn't they? I'll show them how many boners the Joker can do! Stop me if you have heard this one before..."

The twins intertwined their fingers and joygasmed in the spot. "IT'S YOU!"

Tsukuyomi, although clearly impressed as well the way a reluctant teenager would act around a Hollywood star, managed to keep a more even attitude. "Huh. Well, assuming it's the real you, I mean, you are the real deal, it isn't that surprising. Maybe you came to settle a score with Hatter-sama, or the accursed black bat... B-But that doesn't have anything to do with us! Shoo! Shoo! I have better things to do than amusing tourists!"

"Well, shoot, " the Joker sounded really disappointed. "And after I came all the way here just for you! I even brought a gift befitting a lovely gorgeous young lady..."

Even as she blushed, he pulled his hands out from behind, showing her the majestic, yet dreaded sight of the Hina blade in his hand. She blushed far more then, letting out a melting coo that eventually rose up into a stammering, "B-B-But... How? I saw... I-I just saw... With her, with that petulant girl, she had it, and... and..."

"Sorry, I don't think I understand your Japanese, " Joker taunted her, playing slightly with the blade, making her drool. Even Hansel and Gretel looked interested. "Well, if we're going to play it this way, I guess I'll look for another charming girlie who will accept my humble offer of friendship..."

Tsukuyomi reached desperately for it. "GIMME!"

"Ah-ah-ah-ah!" he pulled it back to keep her out of her hands. "A young woman of honor and grace asks for things with pretty pleases!"

Tsukuyomi blinked, looked up at his smugly grinning face, and narrowed her abruptly black and golden eyes with murderous intent. Then, seeing the grin only grew, something tickled her heart from the inside. It felt... funny. The normal colors slowly returned to her eyes, and she smiled back, in a simply adorable way. She bowed like a perfectly elegant damsel, and then fell to one knee before him.

"Pretty please, dear mister?" she said, all sugar and spice and everything nice.

The Joker's grin softened down, and he patted her wet scalp fondly. "I can see we're going to get along!"
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Chisame: All in the Family

"Come on, Sora, " she said. "It was you who wanted to do this with me, remember?"

"I-I-I only said I wanted to get closer to you... but not like this!" her older sister whined. "It's wrong! I can't do it!"

"Nonsense. It took me the whole evening to get you ready for this, and you aren't backing away now, " she mumbled, grabbing her by a hand and pulling her close.

"But it's so mortifying! Oh God! And with Negi-sensei and Chamo-san watching, too!"

Sitting on Hakase's bunk, Negi sweatdropped. "It's okay, Sora-san. I think, um, you look good like that. You don't have to feel ashamed..."

"Y-Y-You think?" the older Hasegawa sister stammered. "Oh, but, oh God, I never had done something like this before, so it's my first time, and don't laugh, Chisame..."

"I'm not laughing."

"... But I'm not as pretty as you, and I think I'll die of embarassment, and... and...!"

"If I can do it, you can too! I admit it's a bit shameful, but you get used to it. And really, you aren't bad looking at all. Have some trust on yourself for a change."

"Oh... Okay, if you say so... I guess no one will know, after all... I mean, we aren't using..."

"We aren't using it, I swear. I never do myself, " Chisame said, "And I've been fine this whole time. No one will ever know but us."

Sora gathered a very deep breath. "All right. Let's do it."

"Great, " Chisame sighed, and turned the camera on.

Chiu spoke then. "Hello, everyone...! Chiu's Live Online Show returns today after Chiu's exciting holidays...! I bet you've missed Chiu as much as Chiu has missed you...!" There was a wink so strong it went 'blink!' aloud. "And to make up for my absence, Chiu has brought you a special guest! Say hello to Chiu's dear Big Sis So-chin...!"

All dolled up, wearing contacts that were burning in her eyes, pinker than she'd ever been in her life, and carrying a basket with flowers around an arm, Sora waved nervously at the camera. "Oh, uh, ah, hello everyone! I-I-I-I'm so glad to be with all of you tonight...!"

Chiu giggled in lenght while, inside, Chisame cursed a storm. Despite all the practices, Sora still had no handle over her stage presence at all. Stupid Negi and his stupid plan to reinforce her stupid sister's self-esteem. Why did they keep roping her in things like this...?

Sitting out of camera, Negi smiled to himself. This was working great! No doubt Sora-san would begin a merry path of self discovery and appreciation from there!
In truth, she fell so many times during the transmission, Chisame thought it would be a complete bust that would ruin her own Net career. However, the fan reaction shocked her when she saw a deluge of posts praising So-chin's Dojikko appeal and claiming for a spinoff.

Fortunately she hadn't fed her an age altering pill for the show, as they considered during the preparations, or she would have stolen Chiu's top position from within. Darn country was just so full of creepy lolicon...
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