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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
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Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,724 Views)
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Apr 27 2012, 09:55 AM
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Rebirth by Fire
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The divination sticks worked by predicting the immediate future. Wherever Konoeko aimed them at, they gave her a brief mental image of what would happen there in the next few moments. It was even more efficient than mind reading during battle, since it predicted even factors out of the attacker's original intent.
However, they had their drawbacks as well. For instance, they still didn't enhance Konoeko's reaction time, so when faced against something or someone that acted faster than she could react to, they weren't of much use but preparing for the unavoidable. Fortunately for her, in this particular case, they allowed her to navigate through the fire with relative ease, although she still couldn't go fast enough (or had free access to) every part of her surroundings to find the children. With the coughing, all but dead weight, beaten guard tucked under an arm, the still fit and healthy woman made her way between the flames, predicting at each step where it would be safe to be next, moving with an agility seemingly unfitting her lithe frame.
It bothered and alarmed her being unable to find the youngsters no matter where she went, and inwardly she cursed the relatively short range of her Artifact. She could get glimpses of the rest of the guards limping away to the exit, one of them trying to drag a still groggy and hurt Roberta with himself. Screaming for her young mistress, the maid elbowed the man in the face and pulled herself out of his grasp, venturing into the fiery inferno with maniacal, nearly suicidal drive. Konoeko's divination told her she should be safe at least for the moment. Even half-berserker as she was, she seemed experienced enough in matters of life and death to know what she was doing.
Then Konoeko felt the presence of the Miyazaki girl and her pet a few steps away. She turned her head in that direction and saw the student fidgeting with a card. The plush lion was perched on her shoulder, shouting advice that Konoeko couldn't hear over the flames and the demonic screams in the distance.
Nodoka didn't need Kero's advice, actually, to soon decide against using The Windy yet. In such a closed space, a burst of wind could only worsen things and send the fire directly against her friends. The Jump wasn't of much use if she wasn't sure if she was going to jump straight into the flames or not. That left her with The Create, but to write something useful down, she needed more time than she could have, having to move at left and right continously just to keep herself alive.
"Can't I write 'The fire disappeared'?-!" she yelled for Kero to hear.
"The Create only can make things appear, not disappear!" Kero shouted back. "It CREATES, it doesn't destroy! You'd need another card for that!"
"Okay, then..." Nodoka pulled The Create out, and idea already in her mind. She summoned the Clow Card as fast as she could, but before she could even touch the pages with her quill, Konoeko-san grabbed her and began pulling her along with herself, for the exit. "Ah! Konoe-sama!"
"This is no moment to write, child, " the woman chided her. "It's no time for your last will and testament yet, if I have something to say about it!"
"N-No, it's not that, I—" Nodoka struggled to be able to write something while the woman held her left arm and tugged on her amidst all the chaos. Finally, she could write 'GIANT SPRINKLERS APPEARED ON THE CEILING AND DOUSED THE FIRE OFF', somehow.
And just as soon, that happened.
Konoeko blinked as she saw a heavy curtain of water falling from above all around them, quickly extinguishing the flames, perhaps too fast to be believable. She looked down at the coughing and wheezing Nodoka, who had resorted to fanning her face with the book now. "Child, what kind of miracle is that? A Pactio...?"
"P-P-Puh-Pactio?-!" Nodoka's face became even redder than the flames. "NO! This... This is..."
"This is, " Kerberos announced as grandly as he could with a blackened face and a size that tiny, sitting on Nodoka's shoulder, "Clow Reed's legacy, the power of the Clow Cards!"
Konoeko blinked while ignoring the guards slowly gathering around her asking for her wellbeing. "Clow Reed? I see..."
Then she looked around and pinpointed Roberta's location. The maid was coughing violently, her braids undone, and several medium burnt marks over her face. "Ojou-sama..." she hissed.
The mistress of the house approached her. "Stay still. I'm a healer. If your mistress is still alive, she'll need you in the best of conditions."
Roberta grunted like a caged animal, but still allowed her to place her hands on her, muttering a spell in what sounded like really arcaic Japanese. Much to the taller woman's surprise, and a loud gasp of shock from Nodoka, her body fully healed back in a matter of moments. Even the spot where the mysterious pale boy had hit her didn't ache anymore. "Thanks..." she grunted reluctantly, working back to her feet.
Konoeko smiled. It was a beautiful smile, Nodoka decided, noticing it was the first time she had seen the woman smiling since meeting her. Not as pure and happy as Konoka's, but perhaps wiser and more actually sure of itself. "It's the least I could do for a friend of this house. Your devotion to Yukihiro-san is... certainly admirable."
"Where is she?-!" Roberta looked in all directions, madly, mouth about to boil in foam. "If those bastards killed her, I'll—"
Kero flew high above the scene and hummed. "I don't see anyone hurt or dead anywhere from here, although the structure collapsed in several points. I think everyone else must have managed to escape..."
"I'll kill them anyway. With my bare hands if I need to, " Roberta roared viciously, in such a way it made Nodoka's skin crawl as much as the Joker's daughter. "But first, finding her. I won't rest easy until I see her again!"
Nodoka found herseld nodding. "Y-Yeah, we will..."
Konoeko placed a hand on the schoolgirl's vacant shoulder. "Truly, my daughter is fortunate to have classmates like you. You might have just saved all our lives, heiress of Clow Reed. My eternal thanks."
Nodoka blushed again even as Kero's chest puffed up in pride. She looked down. "Oh, oh, it's n-nothing. At-At the time, I was just saving my own life... I... I was so scared I think I forgot everyone else... Sorry, I panicked, and..."
"No, you thought of the right thing to do under pressure. And in range of the fire everywhere, so even if you didn't realize it, you were thinking about everyone's safety. Never undersell yourself, Miyazaki Nodoka."
Nodoka gasped and nodded as best as she could. She was unused to any praise from adults that didn't involve her academic output.
It felt actually great, as Haruna would say.
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Apr 27 2012, 07:40 PM
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The Cavalry's on their Way, Please Hold On There
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"Ha ha ha, Old Man Nitta will kill us if he ever learns we escaped away in the middle of the night, won't he?" Ku Fei laughed, sitting between Kaede and Mana and eating happily yet another of the meat buns Satsuki had given them for the train trip.
"Pretty much, yes, " Mana nodded stoically.
Kaede nodded. "The real danger is not what waits for us where we're going now. It's what waits for us at our return."
"What kind of enemies are we going to fight, anyway?" asked Ku.
"Strong ones, " Mana said.
"Yes, but what kind of strong ones?" Kaede insisted.
"Strong and ugly ones, " Mana surmised. Ku Fei drooped down a little.
The train was going rather slow.
"This train is going rather slow, " Kaede noted.
"I noticed, " Mana droned.
Ku Fei yawned. "By the time we get there, the bigh fight will be over!"
"And we'll come back to face Nitta-sensei, all for nothing, " Kaede mused.
"What do you expect me to do?" Mana asked them.
"You could have called to rent a car, " Ku stretched. "That'd be way faster than this!"
"I'm not of legal age to drive, " Tatsumiya reminded her.
Kaede shrugged. "You know both of us are always mistaken for adults. I'd bet they wouldn't even have asked for our credentials, especially if we had worn some deep cleavage..."
"It's all the same since none of us knows how to drive!" Mana dryly barked. "Now shut up, everyone in the car is looking at us!"
Kaede laughed. "I'm sure that's just because of our fine looks!"
Mana scowled. "No one looks at me that way when I'm alone, I can tell you that."
"Ah, this one meant only this one's looks and Ku-dono's, " the ninja easily replied.
Mana said nothing, but her left eyebrow still twitched.
The long, long train trip inaction sequence went on...
"Ah! I ran out of buns!" Ku Fei cried.
Bonus Madoka Magica URAE flashback.
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The Wish
Under other circumstances, she would have made a completely selfless wish for the wellbeing of every Puella Magi in existence. A self sacrificing wish that would bring ultimate stability to the system.
In another world, in another time, that would have happened.
But there and now, with Homura-chan lying broken and wheezing at her side and Mami-san's life vanishing slowly in her arms, Kaname Madoka could only think of one thing to wish.
"I wish... I wish we can live forever free of your influence!" she cried, squeezing her teary eyes shut.
Kyubey's head tilted aside. "Oh?" the short interjection came out naturally, as a small habit picked from several iterations of contact with mankind. It was a simple, stock response to a situation out of his normal observation parameters. "A very unique wish, Madoka-chan. It is self contradicting to some degree, since just keeping your wish active would mean, to some degree, we will continue influencing the conditions of your life. Still, I assume from your phrasing you only wish for us to stop directly intervening in your existence."
"Forever!" she added, with a desperate nod. Homura looked up at her with an unreadable expression. Mami coughed up blood again.
Around them, a whole world was dying.
"That, " Kyubey said, "was a foolish wish born out of primal emotion. You could have wished for power to save this whole world, although given the magnitude of the forces involved, I have no knowledge if even us, the Incubators, could guarantee that outcome. Still, I don't think it really matters. You have served our ends well through all these iterations, Madoka-chan, Mami-chan, and yes, even you, Homura-chan."
Homura tried to reach for her gun to shoot him. Then she painfully remembered both of her hands were broken. "Y-You...!"
Kyubey looked up at the red skies. "Since we exist out of this plane of reality, we have been able to keep the energy we collect out of you all in each iteration of the continuum. That, in part, even thanks to you, Homura-chan. Whenever an unauthorized time traveler like you makes a jump, they help to create a new timeline that overwrites the previous ones. Then we can repeat the whole proccess again and accumulate even more energy to prevent Entropy. So in a way, you've been our best trump card, Homura-chan. You must be commended on your drive and efforts."
The only thing Homura could do now was spitting at him, so she did it.
Kyubey didn't seem to even register the meaning of her action.
"Ah?" Madoka blinked helplessly, while Mami stirred weakly in her arms.
"Still, " the small white creature continued, "there's a possibility the continued reboots of the continuum might bring a premature Entropy along, so in the end, I suppose Madoka-chan's wish might be for the best. Yes, my calculations say it's better if you don't perform any more timestream jumps, Homura-chan. The three of you, as the last Puella Magi of this iteration, will, as per Madoka-chan's wish, are free from your obligations from now on. Forever."
He turned around and began walking away.
"Goodbye, Madoka-chan, Homura-chan, Mami-chan."
"W-Wait!" Madoka called out. "Is this all? Th-The world's about to end anyway, isn't it? Then what's this 'forever' you're talking about?"
He looked over his shoulder at her. "Like I mentioned earlier, our concept of eternity goes beyond this particular timeline's limited scope. Basically, I mean you will be free from your Puella Magi duties even in the next chain of events. You, and those who would directly affect you through their contracting. It's a waste of valuable resources, though. Your daughter would have supplied us with even more energy than you could ever give, Madoka-chan..."
"Eeeeeehhhhh?-!-?"
Kyubey sat down to look at the giant naked Ayanami Rei towering over all Japan, a whirlwind of dead superheroes slowly turning into red essential liquid orbiting her. "A certainly interesting spectacle. We will learn a lot from it."
Mami rested her head against Madoka's throat and made a small sad smile. "You know, Madoka-san, Homura-san? It's funny, but... I feel physically much better all of a sudden..."
Working back to sit up somehow, Homura had to silently agree it was true. Only physically, however.
With nothing else left to do, she pushed her face against Madoka's, and their lips met one first and final time.
Madoka's eyes widened impossibly.
Then the three of them exploded in red.
Kyubey's physical form followed suit almost immediately, but his data was already safe and stored away, ready to be used in the next iteration.
That was then.
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Apr 28 2012, 05:10 AM
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For some reason, I can't stop thinking about the three of them making a campfire and singing the campfire song.
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Yes I am. I said I would, and I hate going back on my word. IANCE, you pustulating whoreson, I am going to find you when this is over. They will make a torture porn movie about your death, and they will have to tone it down to maintain suspension of disbelief.
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Apr 28 2012, 08:57 AM
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In the middle of the train? Well, I guess two of them are Baka Rangers.
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Ryouga Quest
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Apr 28 2012, 07:54 PM
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The Cutting Edge
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By the time they finally made it all the way down to the bottom of the chamber, Quartum had only a slight cut on a shoulder of his jacket. He sneered at the sight of the podium before them, on top of which rested a large transparent case holding a long katana blade on red cushions.
"And we came all the way down here only for a miserable sword? What a waste of time, " the boy grunted. "What can this thing do for us that my own power can't?"
Stopping right behind him with several scorch marks over his suit, a black eye, his green hair messed up, and his hat run through by an arrow, the Joker pushed him unceremoniously. "The words of a conceited kid who doesn't know anything about life yet. No offense intended! Or rather, yes! You know, Quarty, all your power wasn't exactly of that much help against all those traps!"
The boy growled at him. "What are you saying? I saved you from death more than fifteen times!"
"Yeah, yeah, you'll have your medal tomorrow, Muttley. Anyway, if raw power was all that mattered, then you wouldn't have needed me and Ruri-Ruri to get here. Since I doubt you could have stopped to think before just razing the whole place, sword and all, to ashes, " Joker carefully examined the case, finding it was surrounded by a thin webbing of red beams, both magical and laser powered. "Ah. Best of both worlds. Much like our delicious partnership. How ironic. Ruri my dear, can you deactivate these pesky defenses here?"
"On it, " Hoshino's voice told him, while Quartum muttered angrily, hands crossed behind his back.
"Like I wanted ever being down here in the first place..."
Half of the protection beams around the case went off. "Done, " Ruri said. "The rest's on you."
"Well, at least some hired help here is of help, after all, " Joker mused while placing a few wards he had been given beforehand around the case, nullifying the rest of the light beams down.
"You didn't hire me, you kidnapped me, " Rurui reminded him.
"Same difference! Why must you always be so nitpicky? Is it a woman thing?" Joker shook his head disapprovingly while pulling some power tools out of his garishly colored utility belt, working carefully on the locks and other safety measures placed on the case. "So close, we're oh so close...!"
"I could just break that thing for you..." Quartum offered.
The man waved a hand at him. "Shoo, shoo! This demands for a subtle touch! A professional expert's handwork! It's like handling a baby!"
Finally, the last lock was open, and Joker pulled the case's cover up slowly, his grin widening to levels Quartum had thought anatomically impossible before. His eyes glinted maniacally as they fell on the shiny blade. "Oh, why, yes, come with Jokey Daddy, Susan... I'll buy you a pony and we'll skewer it out together... What if we name it Trixie...?"
Then he closed the case back without grabbing the sword. With a suddenly solemn expression, he put his tools aside, pulled a mallet out, and smasked the case open, shattering the glass in all directions and laughing savagely as he did so. Only then he grabbed the katana and held it up. "Hya-HAH! Never give 'em what they expect! That's the key to a good punchline!"
Quartum blinked. "Now what was all that about being subtle, and a baby...?"
"What of it?" Joker snorted, holding the weapon close to himself. "This is how I'm subtle, and this is how I treat babies! Gotta problem with it, Boy?"
Quartum tossed his hands up. "Whatever tickles your fancy, old man. But, the important thing about that sword is...?"
"Say hello to the Hina Blade, friend to all children, especially gutted out children of the Shinmeiryuu, Quarty, " Joker began his own version of a Lecture Mode. "She'll be joining our happy extended family from now on."
"What, are you the fencing type now?" the construct mocked him. "Those scrawny arms would be better handling a toothpick!"
Joker humphed in his general direction. "It's not for me, actually. Those things are beneath moi. It's leverage for the next member of our troupe. I have a gut feeling they'll get along really well."
"I repeat: What's so special about it?"
"The Hina holds the spirit of a warrior demonic in all but origins... and maybe even that, " Joker tried to taste the edge. Once he found out it tasted horrible and it wasn't as cool as movies made it look, he scowled and lowered the blade down a little. "He was the bane of the Shinmeiryuu, slaughtering them and almost finishing them all back in the day. He killed them one by one with this very same katana, and even after his death, his angry soul took residence here. Now it will power anyone who touches it, enhancing their fighting prowesses greatly, but it'll also consume their own souls slowly, absorbing them into its own, and pulling them into unending, glorious madness. Much like drugs, but far less expensive."
"What was the old man living here doing with this trinket?" Quartum still wasn't impressed.
"The Hina used to belong to the Aoyama family, but a few years ago, the youngest daughter of the family foolishly allowed one of her stupid friends take hold of it, and a really big mess ensued, " Joker narrated. "Ashamed of their failure to protect Hina, or rather to protect people from Hina, the wusses placed it under the care of their trusted allies, the Konoe clan. And now here we are. Oh, poor Hina! Cursed to have incompetent caretakers until today! Allowing any monster off the street pick you up! But don't worry, I'll take you with the last of the Aoyamas truly worth holding you..."
Quartum looked carefully at Hina, feeling something truly strange about it after all. "Yes. There's some sort of aura enveloping it..."
Joker chuckled, holding the handle tightly. "Of course. I can feel it, it's alive. Actually alive. So much, it can feel me too. Our souls are resonating against each other, and do you know the best part about it, Quarty?"
"No. What is it?"
"I can feel..." and the laughter broke out again, "... it fears me!"
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Apr 29 2012, 05:54 AM
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Yes I am. I said I would, and I hate going back on my word. IANCE, you pustulating whoreson, I am going to find you when this is over. They will make a torture porn movie about your death, and they will have to tone it down to maintain suspension of disbelief.
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Apr 29 2012, 08:22 AM
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The blond girl in black stepped ahead calmly, her left arm already turning swiftly into a bladed weapon. "So, we meet again. That's good, because I really need settling things with you after what you did earlier."
Haruna chuckled, and the tip of her tongue stuck out mischievously. Haruka waited tensely behind her. From what she had heard during the dinner, this girl was part of Chigusa's elite, and the stupid mangaka would probably need help now the other stupid mangaka was supplying backup to her friends. "Oh, still burnt over that, Yami-chan?" Haruna teased. "It wasn't even a squirting model! It could've been far worse!"
Haruka frowned. "A squirting what? Exactly what did you do to this girl?"
The Golden Darkness stopped and lowered her gaze slightly, the blade growing longer and sharper. "She... dropped a huge ecchi thing on me."
Haruka looked at Haruna. "You did? But, but what kind of thing..."
"Man-thing, " Haruna waved a hand around. "Look, I just drew the first thing that cu—came to my mind, okay? And frankly, I thought it was what she needed, too..."
"Shut up!" Yami told her. "This is why I hate ecchi people like you."
Haruka was aghast. "Wh-Whu-What sort of latrinous behavior was that?-!"
"Lascivious, " Yami corrected her.
"See, you know the terminology!" Haruna accused her. "You aren't as innocent as you pretend!"
"You can't pretend following a good person like Negi-sensei while you pursue activities of indecency and immorality!" Haruka accused Haruna in turn. "It's a shame, calling someone like you my teammate! Shameless pervert! You'll get ten demerits over this!"
Somewhere else, Kotegawa Yui would have sneezed if we were still doing the sneeze gag that much. Wait, just referencing it is just as bad, right?
Yami nodded. "Still, I won't go easy on you either."
"Yeah, well, I don't think too highly of you, either!" Haruka stood her ground, readying her morningstar. "Your skirt is far too short!"
"Your outfit is too skintight, " Yami countered.
"Those black leather bands around your legs are too suggestive!" Haruka said.
"Your clothes emphasize your bust too much, " Golden Darkness replied.
"Why so much self-despise? Just embrace your sexiness!" Haruna suggested.
"Shut up!" both of them told her.
"Big breasts and small breasts are just as nice!" Haruna said with a hand on her heart.
Somewhere else, Paio Zi would have sneezed if we were still doing the sneeze gag that much. Oh. Oh, we did it again.
For a moment, Haruka felt really tempted to join forces with the Yami girl against her.
"Here I come, " Yami said flatly, jumping in a flash towards Haruna, taking Haruka by surprise with her speed. Haruna, who had been expecting it, finished the doodle of a snakelike Chinese dragon, which flew out the page just to be neatly sliced in two by Yami's blade. Haruna clenched her teeth, noticing Paru-sama's news about the 1% of damage hadn't been idle warnings, but just as soon, finished the second doodle she had been sketching. Another dragon sprang up after the one set as a distraction, not bothering to leap at Yami but instead vomiting fire upon her. Golden Darkness quickly created a shield with her own hair protecting her from the flames, but in doing so, she left herself open for a third dragon from behind, which wrapped itself around her, immobilizing her arms and squeezing her like a python.
The squeeze wasn't that hard. The ecchi girl, most likely believing her weaker, was going easy on her, aiming for knocking her out.
Grave mistake.
Even though she couldn't free her arms, Yami's long hair still snaked around, and each strand's tip became a tiny whirling saw. All the saws came down on the dragon's coils at once, cutting through them, making Haruna wince. Once Yami cut enough flesh down, she pulled her arms free and tugged her lower body out of the grip as well, giving everyone below a glimpse of white panties under her skirt. She bounced on the dragon's body and leaped down, punching the fire breathing dragon's maw with a giant fish born out of her scalp to close its mouth, while her hand still made into a weapon extended itself, reaching for Haruna...
Then metal clanged against metal, as Suzushiro Haruka's spiked ball blocked the edged weapon's path.
"This student is my exclusive responsibility to punish!" Haruka shouted. "As the woman who forced me into a kiss that changed my life, and now a seductress of the enemy, she has proved she deserves proper disciplinary action!" And she pushed Yami back. "But YOU aren't authorized to do so!"
"Are you girls fighting over me?" Haruna blinked. "Oh, I feel flattered!"
"We told you to shut up!" both of them roared at her again.
"Nyehhh..." Haruna fully stuck her tongue out, drawing at high speed again to create a volley of strange looking white balls that shot themselves through the air for Yami. The target managed to slice most of them down, but one of them managed to hit her squarely in the face, blocking her view and gagging her long enough for a Haruna-created can-can dancer to kick her in the stomach against a wall. "Thanks for giving me your weakness! Since you hate ecchi so much, I'll attack you with nothing but ecchi until you surrender crying!"
"You'd have attacked with nothing but perversion anyway!" Haruka cried, veing pumping on her head. "What's that thing you just shot at her?-!"
Haruna looked at her. "I'd tell you, but then you'd have an aneurysm..."
Haruka began choking on her own saliva. "You... YOU FIEND!"
Yami wiped the goo from the face and looked up at Haruna with terrifying red glowing eyes, blades sprouting from every part of her body. "I'd never been this offended ever before..."
"Well, " Haruna shrugged, "True art must aim to inspire strong reactions. Even if it disgusts you, future generations will hopefully think differently of it. Look at the bright side, you're safe since nothing of it fell into your—"
"DIE!-!-!-!" Yami charged at her.
Management wishes to reassure you the sticky white substance was just the result of Haruna drawing 'generic white goo', and anything she might have said hinting at it being something else was just to mess with Yami and Haruka's minds.
Really.
Would I lie to you?
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Yes I am. I said I would, and I hate going back on my word. IANCE, you pustulating whoreson, I am going to find you when this is over. They will make a torture porn movie about your death, and they will have to tone it down to maintain suspension of disbelief.
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Apr 29 2012, 09:04 AM
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What If Omake.
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Nine months later, Ku Fei came back from the doorstep while Haruna continued drawing, completely absorted by her work. "Haruna, it's for you."
"Oh, yeah?" Haruna hummed, still not lifting her gaze up. "It's Rito-kun?"
"Not exactly."
"Nodoka and Yuecchi?"
"Not at all." Ku gestured for the girl to walk into the room.
Paru blinked, recognizing the petite blonde with the baby in her arms. "Oh, it's you! Heh heh, n-nice to see you after all this time... N-No hard feelings, right? That's why you came visit with your little brother, right?"
"Some of it did fall there. Take responsibility, " Golden Darkness said.
"Oh, fu—"
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Yue gasped loudly over the phone. "What do you mean with 'I'm a DAD'?-!"
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Apr 29 2012, 10:41 AM
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As expected of Haruna Saotome.
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- rikalous wrote
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Yes I am. I said I would, and I hate going back on my word. IANCE, you pustulating whoreson, I am going to find you when this is over. They will make a torture porn movie about your death, and they will have to tone it down to maintain suspension of disbelief.
- Shadow Crystal Mage wrote
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There there. Go do evil things in the name of the government to feel better.
There Be Whales Here
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Apr 29 2012, 02:22 PM
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A Matter of Perspectives
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The Inn:
Yotsuba Satsuki was baking something in the inn's main kitchen when Izumi Ako walked in, stepping carefully all the way before sitting down at a small table, with a tiny groan. "Good evening, Satsuki-san. You can't sleep either, can you?"
"Ah. Good evening, Ako-san, " Yotsuba smiled as kindly as ever. "No, it isn't that, actually. I just want to have some pastries ready for when..." then she got stuck, which was something Satuski never did before as far as Ako could remember. "For when..."
"For when some of our classmates return?" Ako guessed.
Caught in the act, the quiet chef nodded and blushed a little.
Ako sighed. "Looks like it's a night for everyone to sneak out, " she mused, sounding fairly worried. "Satsuki-san, can I ask you something?"
"Of course you can."
"Do you think I'd be justified to change classrooms if I learned my best friends were keeping key secrets from me, and not only that, but I had to keep secrets from them too?"
Satsuki blinked. "You can't be serious. Are you really thinking of leaving us?"
"It's just an idea, and I'll most likely forget it tomorrow, " Ako said sadly. "But right now, I feel so hurt I'd just want to escape away somewhere else, far from everyone... No offense."
"None taken."
"Thanks. It's just, what kind of friendship are we leading if we have to lie each other? Is it worthwile going ahead after that? I don't know what to think anymore..."
Satsuki offered her a muffin. Ako looked at it, repressed her urges to tell her not everything was solved with food, and grabbed the muffin, since no one had the heart to ever reject one of Satchan's offers. It tasted marvelous as expected, and that alone made ako feel already much better, but that wasn't the point, dammit. This wasn't about food, no matter how good, blast it. "Thank you very much."
"Everyone keeps some secrets from the others, " Satsuki said. "I know my best friend keeps very big things from me, but since I trust her, I know she'll tell me when we both are ready."
Ako sulked. "These were bigger than very big secrets, Satsuki-san."
"And does that mean they were worth keeping for a while?"
"I suppose so, yeah... Sorry. Like I said, I'll get over this tomorow. Right now I'm not thinking with a clear mind."
"Do you want some soup? Soup tends to help with that."
Ako felt tempted to ask if she had a food for each kind of emotional trauma, but knowing Satsuki, the answer had to be yes anyway. "Th-Thanks, but... I'll go back to bed very soon. I only wanted to walk around a little, maybe confessing myself to someone..."
"I have a secret of myself, " Yotsuba said.
"Seriously? You?" Ako then bit her tongue, realizing how cynically incredulous she must have sounded.
Yotsuba nodded and pointed at the window. "I've been seeing a big red star very close to the Moon, but no one else can see it. Can you?"
Ako squeezed her eyes, tried to find the supposed red celestial body in the dark sky, and finally had to shake her head. "No. I don't see anything out of the usual. Sorry."
"It's okay, " Satsuki exhaled. "Maybe I simply have something in my eyes."
Ako lowered her head. "Sorry I can't help you. If I was an actual nurse, like Marikawa-sensei, I could give you a checkup..."
"Think nothing of it, " Satsuki replied easily, smiling again. "But please, no matter what, don't leave us. We're all going to graduate together, aren't we?"
Ako nodded. "Yes. Yes, we will. But anyway, Satsuki-san, your secret isn't that big compared to those I just learned."
"I'm sorry. I'm afraid I'm not a very interesting person."
"Oh, no, I don't mean that! Don't say that! Having only small secrets is okay. I think I kinda envy that. Well, I'm taking too much of your time away, and I really should be sleeping now, and I'm tired, so I think I'll be going back now..."
"Won't you wait for the pastries? There are enough for you, too."
"Save them for tomorrow, okay?" Ako nodded her way, smiling weakly. "I swear I'll eat them then. Thanks for listening, Satsuki-san. You helped me realize I was wrong."
"I didn't do anything. You figured it out on yourself."
"No." There was a sigh. "There's actually nothing important I can do by myself..."
"There is, " Satsuki spoke soft but firmly. "A lot of things, I'm sure. All you need is casting your fears and doubts outside, okay?"
Ako rubbed her nose and nodded reluctantly. "Fine."
"I mean it seriously, Ako-san."
"I know. You aren't the type to joke, Satsuki-san. Well, anyway, thanks for everything. Good night, " and with a polite wave of a hand, she walked back out.
Satsuki sat down before the oven to wait.
It was true she wasn't the joking type. Even when all the girls joked and laughed together, Satsuki stayed behind in silence.
And she was fairly sure everyone honestly loved her, but still, there was a level they couldn't connect at no matter what kind of food she served them.
For the first time in a long, long while, she wondered exactly how everyone else looked at her.
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Apr 29 2012, 06:45 PM
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Divine Encounter
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"Nuts, nuts, this is just nuts…!" Keiichi whispered frantically to himself, almost crawling on all fours, ducking into another room and jumping for cover behind a small table. "Makie-san!" he hissed, gesturing for the door. "Over here, quick!"
Breathing heavily, picnic basket hanging around an arm, the pink haired girl rushed into the room with Keiichi, a Beretta 92 in a hand. She quickly closed the door behind herself and knelt down next to Keiichi, offering him an identical handgun pulled from the basket. "Have you ever used one of these, Keiichi-san?"
"What? Of course not!" He gestured for her to keep her voice down, despite the fact she had just whispered while, in his fear, it had been him who had just yelled. "Keep it low and don't shoot again unless you really need to, okay? You could hurt yourself…"
"Homura-mama taught me all there is to know about gun safety. I'll be okay, Keiichi-san…"
"Yeah, well…” With trembling hands, he pulled out his cellphone. "Screw what the elder and Takahata-sensei said, I'm calling the cops…"
His teeth chattered as he heard the explosions and screams approaching quickly, and his heart became a pounding jackhammer in his chest. "Come on, come on…" he prayed frantically as he waited for an answer. "Please, God, don't let me down…"
"Hello!" Suddenly, a cute and perky young female voice rang in his ears.
"Ah, g-g-good evening!" Keiichi stuttered at who he guessed had to be a secretary or receptionist. "Sorry, b-but we have an emergency here—!"
"You have contacted the Goddess Relief System!" the voice sang happily. "Stay there, we'll send an operator directly to deal with you!"
"Deal with—?" he blinked, right before hearing the call cutting itself off. "Hey, wait! This is no prank! What the—"
Then he felt Makie pulling on one of his sleeves. "Keiichi-san!"
He looked at her. "What? I'm a bit busy right—!"
She pointed at a half-filled glass of water set on the table, which had just started bubbling furiously, as if it was getting hotter and hotter.
"Wh-what in the world—" Keiichi moved between the table and Makie to shield her with his body. Makie already was pointing both Berettas at the glass. "I don't think this is—"
Then a pillar of white light shot itself up from the glass, and a human figure appeared floating in the middle of it, with long and silky pitch black hair flowing all around… her. She was unmistakably female, petite, perhaps even a bit shorter than Makie herself, with an adorable rounded face. Her skin was creamy pale, and she had thick black eyebrows and strange dark marks on her cheeks and forehead. She wore a pink ensemble made of a blouse with red buttons, a short skirt, and sturdy looking shoes, holding a cross between a Norse war hammer and a cricket mallet in one hand.
Keiichi had the vaguest feeling she looked strangely familiar for a moment, before she landed on her feet before them, opening her large round eyes, dark but shining. Makie was so awed her mouth hung open, and her aim and guns were wavering low.
"Good evening!" the stranger said, giving them a peppy, carefree greeting. "I'm Skuld, Goddess of the Future!"
Makie weakly waved at her, which made Keiichi yelp since she was still holding the gun. "I'm Makie, Gymnastics Champion of the Future… Oh, sorry! I was handling this carelessly! Please don't tell Homura-mama!"
Keiichi just looked back and forth between them with a shocked face before settling on the self-proclaimed goddess. "You just came out of a glass of water."
"It was the closest source of water on hand,” the young female shrugged.
"A freaking glass of water!" Keiichi repeated.
"Well. That's because I'm, you know, a Goddess. I just said it!” She looked like was starting to lose her patience, and probably didn’t have a lot to begin with. Why is it that no matter what else what changed about the world, Keiichi had to be always that dense?
"Wait, I get it. You're one of those evil mages out to get everyone, aren't you?"
Keiichi accused. "Hakase-san said one of you could travel through water! I swear we don't have anything to do with this! Leave us alone!" He tried to protect Makie with his body even more.
"Keiichi-saaaaan!" Makie whined. "You're getting in the line of fire…!"
Skuld sighed before straightening up and yelling, "Morisato Keiichi! Man up!"
He jerked upright in place. "Yes, M-Ma'am!" Then, as the momentary reaction he had whenever anyone told him burned down, he blinked. "Wait, you know my name. How…?"
"Again, goddess…" Skuld grunted, waving a hand up in circles. "It comes with the work…"
"Then who am I?" Makie asked.
"Your name's Sasaki Makie, daughter of Sasaki Genburo and Kaname Madoka. Your stepmother is named Homura, and your half brother is named Kagehisa. You had a dog named 'Oto-san' who died two years ago…"
"WAHHHH! OTO-SAN…!" Makie sobbed, old wounds reopening.
"Calm down!" Skuld gestured at her. "All Dogs Go to Heaven!" A beat. "Your paternal grandfather is in hell, though. Sorry."
Makie shrugged after sniffling her puppy tears back. "Eh, no worries. He was a very bad man after all…"
Keiichi sweatdropped. "What does it take to faze girls from your class, Sasaki-san…?"
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IAmNotCreativeEnough
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Apr 29 2012, 09:35 PM
Post #73
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Apparently, killing a dog works.
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- rikalous wrote
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Yes I am. I said I would, and I hate going back on my word. IANCE, you pustulating whoreson, I am going to find you when this is over. They will make a torture porn movie about your death, and they will have to tone it down to maintain suspension of disbelief.
- Shadow Crystal Mage wrote
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There there. Go do evil things in the name of the government to feel better.
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OverMaster
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Apr 30 2012, 09:15 AM
Post #74
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Oboy. Whee.
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Well, notice how quickly Makie rebounded from that pain.
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Apr 30 2012, 11:05 AM
Post #75
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Hey, he didn't ask how to do long lasting harm.
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- rikalous wrote
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Yes I am. I said I would, and I hate going back on my word. IANCE, you pustulating whoreson, I am going to find you when this is over. They will make a torture porn movie about your death, and they will have to tone it down to maintain suspension of disbelief.
- Shadow Crystal Mage wrote
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There there. Go do evil things in the name of the government to feel better.
There Be Whales Here
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