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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,706 Views)
rikalous
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Dun-dun-dun! That's the sound a cliffhanger makes, right?
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Snippet capping the Kuro expo.

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"Well," Kuro finally said, really wishing for a glass of water by now. "I think that's all we really needed sharing by now..."

The Batman raised a hand dryly.

"Yes? The tall kid with the long ears?" Kuro asked.

Unamused, he only asked, "Why did the Joker become a woman?"

"Dunno," Kuro shifted her eyes in Skuld's direction. "Any idea, Divine Eyes?"

"Ah, that. He's basically become a Kampfer, a relatively new type of Magical Girl," the goddess exposed with a quick wave of a hand. "Kampfers aren't really very powerful, so that shouldn't be a very big issue in the full picture..."

"You know you have just messed everything up by saying that, don't you?" Chisame questioned.

As if she hadn't heard her, Kuro continued, "Kampfers receive their powers from 'benefactors' known as Moderators, through talking Entrail Animal plush dolls. Technically, there is no moral or ethic requirements to become a Kampfer; since they are faced against each other in competitions to achieve an ultimate magical prize the likes of which I'm not authorized to share..."

"... naturally...!" Asuna rolled her eyes.

"... they tend to come from different walks of life. Regardless, the Kampfer transformations often cause a great deal of physical and psychological changes upon the subjects. Often, a really nice and decent girl becomes a bloodthirsty psycho after changing, and while the opposite is rare, it also can happen. As you can see, even men can become Kampfers, although the transformation always triggers a gender change then."

"Hnh..." Batman grunted.

"Yeah. As if your relationship wasn't full of all sorts of uncomfortable layers already, isn't that right?" Deathnote asked.

"We don't have a 'relationship'," Batman warned, using the same tone the alternate Paru had used with that word. "Not only that, but Pamela Isley and Harley Quinn seem to have achieved supernatural powers as well..."

Kuro sighed. "Yeah, what kind of crappy reincarnation system do you have here? In our world, all the Sailor Senshi are good people, Sailor Galaxia and Animates incident aside, and corruption against their will was at play there. Granted, our Uranus and Neptune can be hard to work with at times too, but this...!"

"Hey, Sailor Mercury is an excellent person!" Yuuna jumped to point up.

Kuro gave her a knowing grin. "Oh, sure she is. And I say this without any trace of irony."

Yet her tone was one that made Yuuna frown and sit back without knowing what to say next.
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... I was supposed to write this part, rite, SCM?

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Negi, Chisame and the rest watched in baffled silence as a very thick layer of ice ran all over the lake's surface, extending itself from all sides and encircling the roaring behemoth at a high speed, almost faster than their eyes could follow. Both Evangelines laughed in a disturbing synchrony as the ice reached monster's lower body and began rising over it, expanding across its skin, encasing more and more of Sukuna under an increasingly wider frozen shell.

"No way..." Sakurako said. "She's even better at this than the pale girl..."

Ayaka rubbed her own arms, feeling them and the rest of her body growing colder just from the wind blowing from around the identical vampires. Dammit, but that Pactio outfit wasn't warm at all. "I only hope this doesn't worsen Negi-sensei's condition..."

"It's working!" Keiichi pointed up. "Look, everyone!"

As a matter of fact, the ice was reaching Sukuna's head now, having immobilized the rest of him already. And so, his three faces became rigid as well, two of them paralyzed in grotesque grimaces of anger, while the middle one rather looked as if his unmentionables had just been caught in his zipper. Even his massive arms had stopped in the middle of a swing, ice stalactites hanging from them.

"Way cool, if I may say it!" an impressed Chamo said. He wondered now how much he could net from a contract with Evangeline, regardless of who ended up being the Magister or Magistra. Or better yet, both Evangelines. With his so far higher rate of success, he was sure he could pull that off over Albert...

"Over my dead body!" Albert yelled. "That's my Aniki's to tap!"

"I didn't say anything!"

"You didn't need to! I am you! I know what you were thinking!"


To be concluded...
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URAE, Continuation.

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"Oooohhh!" Makie exclaimed, seeing the giant demon becoming completely frozen, towering over the lake like a terrifying statue from long gone times. "I can't believe it!"

"Believe it!" Kaede smiled, her voice tinted with a tone briefly copied from one of her instructors. "Ah, who would've thought such remarkable people could exist in a class with this lowly one, de gozaru?" she scratched the back of her head.

Suspended in the air before each other, as if about to engage in a graceful skyborne ballet, the Evangelines looked at each other and smiled, with twin perverse gleams in their eyes. In a perfect unison, they lifted their right arms together. They readied their fingers.

And then, in a way Negi could have sworn he heard in the sudden deadly silence, the fingers were snapped.

"Cosmique Catastrophe," the Evas whispered.

The cracks in the ice ran wild far faster than most of the present could even begin to follow. In fractions of a second, they formed a complex spider web-like pattern both on the lake's surface and Sukuna's. And then, alll the fissures had burst from the inside, thousands of tiny and medium cracking sounds coming together at once to create a deafening boom, just as the light that exploded out of the shattering behemoth blinded everyone for a few moments. Out of all the locals, only Batman (who had special protection lenses built into his cowl), Sakurako (who had a hunch to cover her eyes in the right moment), and Eishun and his wife and daughter (both parents had shielded their eyes and Konoka's) escaped losing their eyesight for the time being.

Most of Ala Alba was just fine, however, excluding...

"Dammit, I forgot it! I forgot how intense that darn light was! And it was twofold now!" Twilight Red shouted, stumbling around and rubbing her eyes. "Why, memory?-! Why?-!"

"Oh, silly Asuna-chan...!" Maga Alba giggled even as Red clashed against the similarly aimless local Asuna.

Akira blinked to regain her sight gradually, seeing Sukuna was seemingly no more, or rather, what was left of him, alive or not, was sinking slowly in a myriad of shards and chunks swallowed by the cold waters. Impressed out of her wits, she exhaled hard. "Evangeline-san...!"

Yuuna was supporting herself on her swimmer friend, taking longer to recover. "I swear I don't know how I'm going to cope with these things from now on..."

"A-Are you okay, Chisame-chan?" Sora crouched down next to her sister and Negi.

"Y-Yes..." Chisame groaned, grabbing her throbbing temples. "Matoi. Matoi, is she still...?"

Haruna lightly knocked on the block of ice holding the stalker, keeping a spiral eyed Nodoka under her other arm, Kero unconscious at their feet. "Still in one piece and not going anywhere, Boss!"
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Complicated Bloodline. Post Kyoto.

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She didn't remember ever having that dream before, and yet she felt in her heart like he should have. Curiously, in her dream she was just waking up. Her eyelids felt heavy, and her body felt weak, and awkwardly... small. When she opened her eyes in the dream, she was staring up at a starry night sky, with a huge full moon, and it struck her it was the most beautiful sky she had ever seen. Yet she felt the voice she heard right afterwards was something even better.

"Are you awake already, Princess?"

That masculine voice was husky and rough around the edges, commanding and powerful, but at the same time kind and polite, considerate and warm. She tilted her head in its direction and drank on how handsome and mature the man sitting there, next to a small campfire, was; very similar to Takahata-sensei, but even taller and several years older, with wild graying hair, several days' worth of beard and moustache, sharp ice blue eyes under his glasses, and a pointy chin. He wore a white suit with black tie, and smoke a cigarette, with several more cigarette butts on the ground around him.

She came back to her feet, and he pointed towards a nearby lagoon, the only visible in the desert where they found themselves, for her benefit. "You can go wash your face there, if you want so."

Her feet carried her there, even though she didn't want to leave his side. Yet she did, powerless to change the course of her dream, kneeling at the edge of the water and looking at her reflection. Oh. She was small. Very small. That was annoying, because she hated children, really, she did, and...

Then she saw a ghostly, horrible shape, a hulking being with bright eyes, sneaking behind her, and her heart jumped.

"In two days, you will be ours," its inhuman and deeply evil voice crooned.

That startled her into waking up.

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"What a weird dream, " Asuna muttered, sitting up on her bunk and looking down. Konoka was nowhere in sight, and the bedroom was completely silent and still. Oddly, it felt like something was missing, and somehow, it left a vague sensation of lingering sadness in Asuna's heart.

She tried to put her mind into what could it be, but being a Baka Ranger mind, it didn't achieve much. It only made her feel, if anything, more confused. She looked at the calendar on her wall. Only two days until that day. That always made her happy, so why not now?

Why did she feel like everything was wrong? Konoka was okay, and even that Negi brat had survived his confrontation with the enemy. And most important of it all, in two days, she'd confess. Yes, she would do it this year! She would walk up right to Takahata-sensei and confess all of her feelings for him! No more hesitation, no more self doubts! If she was able to wallop demons around, a love confession should be no problem at all for her!

Her tiny inner Chisame nagged her, telling her planning that kind of hopeful things for the future was an invitation for disaster. After crassly telling Inner Chisame that only happened in movies and TV series, Asuna pushed her down her mental stairs, down into the Abyss of Baka along with her forgotten Math lessons, and dropped a load of English classes on her for good measure.

Her optimism regained, Asuna smiled and jumped off the bed to face the new day.
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Aaaaand here's the penultimate (before the Arcueid stinger) epilogue for the Kyoto battle chapter.

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Ohtori Academy.

Ohtori Akio's luxurious office smelled of roses and perfume, just like the man himself, who was a dark skinned Adonis, perhaps too skinny for some tastes, but making up for it with an unexplainable appeal very few could ever escape.

There was a liquid grace to his motions, a perfect elegance and aplomb to the way he did everything, from sipping on his drink to walk around. Something that was just unearthly, surreal even, if those who saw him stopped to actually consider him. Very few ever did that.

The girl sitting before his desk now, his younger sister, was one of those.

Hands primly placed on her lap, Himemiya Anthy listened in a neutral silence to his soft spoken recriminations, feeling well the acidic anger and insane frustration lurking beneath his seemingly kind words of warning. Tokiha Mai, sitting next to her with an obviously fascinated (even if controlled) look on her face, on the other hand, was too absorted on Akio to notice how Anthy's mouth occasionally tugged at its corners.

"All of that is true, Onii-sama," Anthy finally said, her voice just as calmed and yet as bubbling with hidden tension as her brother's. "However, the fact remains, by summoning Archer-sama, I must head wherever the Grail currently is."

"You always could pass the Command Spells around," Akio said, still smiling despite hating Mai's presence right now and there so much. She certainly was no Tenjou Utena, but he had believed, at first, he could use her all the same. Now even that possibility scurried away. Foolishly, Anthy had told her more than she should have, even if Tokiha still seemed to lack information on a few major points. Most likely Anthy had intentionally kept her in the dark about those. She was his brother's sister, after all. "Perhaps, even Tokiha-san here could make for a more fitting Master..."

"I know I can and must do this, Onii-sama," Anthy gently said, not wavering under him this time. She smiled, but he could see the horror in her smile where no one else could. It was like staring at a mirror. "Please, don't worry about me. I'll be perfectly fine."

He smiled back, trying to quietly impose his will again. "I always will worry about you, my dear sister. Always."

"Um, I'll do my best to keep her safe for you, Headmaster... Just like against the Student Council..." Mai dared to say. Akio had some morbidly fascinating influence on her, but he also intimidated her.

"I'm sure you will, Tokiha-san," he said, oh so charmingly again. "However, a Grail War is extremely different from all the duels you have fought so far. I am assuming Anthy has explained that for you...?"

"Archer-sama will protect us even if Mai-sama cannot, Onii-sama," Anthy promised.

Akio sighed. "An Archer. Not even a Saber."

Mai blinked. "A Saber?"

"Everyone wants a Saber," Anthy said, as if that explained everything.

"Yes, but the Saber always goes to the most unworthy, stupid and morally wrong participant of all the Masters," Akio philosophized with a languid sigh and leaning on his chair.  "Tell me, dear Anthy, if you should earn your wish at the end of the War, would you return to see me again?"

"Oh, you can be sure I would, Onii-sama," came the reply. "After all, is there a living sister that wouldn't like to show her accomplishments to her dear brother?"

"True, true," Mai nodded, completely oblivious to the hideously subtle sparkles between the siblings and their war of wills. "Ah! It's so good to see a big brother worrying so much about his sister! A rare thing, too, in these times..."

"You are talking like an old maid, Mai-sama," Anthy took a moment to tell her.

Akio frowned slightly, placing two fingers over his mouth in a pondering pose. His eyes scanned Mai and Anthy the way another man would eye a chessboard. Finally, his smile returned, and he graciously said, "Very well! Let me place a couple of calls, Anthy-chan. But rest assured, you owe me a favor now, and I will be watching over for your wellbeing and Tokiha-san's."

"That's very sweet of you, Onii-sama," Anthy nodded. And clever, as well. "I am sorry I have to add another favor of yours on my tab, troubling you so much..."

The first part of that last sentence was accurate, at least.
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She was his brother's sister, after all.
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"Yes, but the Saber always goes to the most unworthy, stupid and morally wrong participant of all the Masters,"
Kiritsugu would like a word.
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from sipping on his drink to walk around.


Should be "From sipping on his drink to walking around." Keep the verb tense the same through the sentence.

Only issue I see anyway.
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Kiritsugu would like a word.


Keep in mind it's Akio saying that. And his code of values and philosophies is... well...

Not that there isn't some foolishness on the path Kiritsugu drew for himself anyway.

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Nice to finally contribute to the pile of posts.

OM, I have a question to ask. Would you mind if I borrowed an idea from one of your snippets?

Specifically the snippet involving The Doctor teaching 2/3A? I think I am going to carry out a threat I made and make a short story with that. Basically spoofing the Red Nose Day 2011 short 'Space.'
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Go ahead, although I think I wasn't the one to write that. I barely have watched a couple of Doctor Who episodes ever.
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Shame on you! You really should watch some. Especially the newer episodes.

Considering that I grew up on the old style of Doctor Who, when the BBC barely gave them a budget at all, the new episodes look very well done.

Alright. I am going to start on the writing project first thing in the morning. Hopefully, I'll be done by the end of the day, depending on my writing speed and how badly I mangle the story.
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Wow, OM, this is hard. You can't just copy-paste this to word easily. The formatting gets messed up.
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(Sigh) Okay. Since it's got no Negima characters, I can't post it in the Negima TV Tropes thread anyway, but I can add it and reformat it myself to the rest of the chapter. I'll think of an alternative for the scenes to ensue, then.
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