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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 (11,722 Views)
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May 5 2012, 07:24 PM
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The Boy who Cried Wolf
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"I'll finish you right here and now, pampered baby!" Kotaro roared, claws extended while charging towards Negi.
Charging as well with Misa in close pursuit, Negi kept his shields up. "I've heard that before, and I'm still standing!"
"NEGI!" Chisame shouted, finishing blasting the demons in her immediate vicinity, and trying to rush to his side with Matoi in tow, despite Calculator's strangled screams to stop her. However, she was stopped on her tracks when Kotaro, in mid-sprint, raised his arms and yelled.
"JUGENKAI!" he said, whipping several paper charms out of his pants' pockets and tossing them up. Instantly, a translucid magical barrier extended itself all around him, Negi and Misa, leaving them trapped in a relatively small squared space. Chisame clashed face first against the wall, fell down comically, and got up quickly as Matoi bandaged a cartoony bump on her forehead.
"What the hell is this?-!" Chisame blurted.
"Heh, heh heh..." Kotaro chuckled, him and Negi having an intense staredown. "This will keep the noisy hens away. Well, one of them slipped in, but it's obvious she's a non-factor bimbo anyway..."
An angry Misa tossed a needle at him, but Kotaro caught it effortlessly between his fingers. "Tsk, tsk. This is the best you can do for your Master? And people asks me why I never bothered with this! You girls are only loads!"
"You are no man!" Negi told him.
Now that made Kotaro stop chuckling all of a sudden, and the canine boy turned a truly vicious glare at his opponent. "What are you saying...?"
"Real men are always polite with ladies!" Negi barked. "Real men don't need to put others down to stress their own worth! You aren't a man, and you can't even be called a dog! Even dogs know better than to kidnap girls and ally themselves with demons!"
Chamo, still on Negi's shoulder, sweatdropped. "You were doing fine until you hit those final metaphors, Bro..."
Kotaro sneered, actually blowing hot air off his nose. "Like hell a midget with nerd glasses is gonna lecture me on being a man!"
"You barely are any taller than me when you aren't in that wolf form!" Negi countered.
"Maybe, but you'd be the same nerd even if you grew taller than a house, gaijin geek!"
"You're rude and discriminative!"
"You're a prissy nancy smartypants!"
Outside the barrier, Valkyrie Black watched on with a sweat drop attached to her head. "Well, at the end of the day, they're still only ten..."
"ASUNA!" Chisame called out. "You can break through this damn forcefield! Drag your ass here!"
"A BIT BUSY RIGHT NOW!" both Asunas said at once, from where they were slashing and whacking at demon surrounding them from all directions.
"There's no escape now!" Kotaro thrusted his hands ahead. "Kuon Garoku Sen Miadure Uchi!"
A wide volley of ki sparkles and bolts blew from Inugami's palms, forcing Negi and Misa to roll out of their way together. As they did so, the boy briefly touched his own forehead with Misa's card.
I'll hold him still for you. After you hit him, please leave the rest to me, he asked through the Pactio link.
Oh... Okay! she answered.
Kotaro leaped towards them, tossing a powerful punch Negi had to block with a Deflectio shield. The wolf boy punched the personal barrier several times, making Negi back away, straining himself. "Solid defense, but you can't win this fight just by dodging! I'm stronger, bigger and more experienced than you!"
"Being bigger just makes you and easier target!" Negi threw an arm over the barrier, using his staff to hit Kotaro's jaw. "Rastel Maskil Magister! Sagitta Magica Una Lux!"
The single, but big, arrow of light hit Kotrao across the chest, sending him flying back and setting him up for a followup attack.
"Sagitta Magica Series Lucis!" Kotaro heard before at least four more arrows hit him in different parts of his body, making him crash against the ground. He grunted and punched the air.
"Garyu Inugami-Ryu! Kuga!"
A compressed burst of ki capturing lots of air into itself exploded from Kotaro's fist, making an instant airbone bomb that struck Negi down, sending him stumbling back into Misa's arms. Kotaro coughed and stood back up, panting. "See? You aren't that bad for a squirt, but the abyss between us is huge!"
Negi kicked down and impulsed himself back up. "You know, the most painful part of fighting you is how you never shut up."
"Then come here and close my mouth down, wiseguy! Wait, don't bother, I'll go there for you!" and he stampeded ahead.
Negi jumped up, feinting to kick Kotaro's head by the right side. As Kotaro readied his claws in that direction, Negi quickly switched the staff to his other hand and slammed it against the temple on the side opposite that his adversary was defending, with all his strenght. Now he was briefly dizzy, Negi caught him in a headlock, muttering another empowering spell for 0.5 minutes under his breath, to squeeze tightly, forcing the larger figure down. "Now, Misa-san!" he yelled.
"Yes!" she said, and tossed the two handfuls of light needles she had been saving into Kotaro's wide hairy chest.
"Gah! Whaaaaaaaat?-!" the wolf shook Negi off himself, feeling a sudden burst of forced laughter coming up his chest and throat. "Henh heh heh... Cheating ha-ha weakling! I thought we had ha hagreed no relying on girlies! You are no—"
"Silence!" Negi hit his face with the staff. "I'm through with hearing honor lessons from someone who gangs up with demons and mercenaries to kidnap helpless girls and ambush their friends!"
The small boy ducked easily under a claw slash of the towering Kotaro and hit his stomach. "You're a hypocrite, and I won't fall for your cheap tricks! The reason why I have partners is so we can help each other, no matter when or where!"
Kagurazaka briefly paused on her demon massacring to sniffle a tear. At that point the demons were scared enough of her to avoid attacking her from the back. "He gets it! There's hope for this world after all!"
"Is there?" the younger Asuna asked.
Negi punched Kotaro in the already damaged chest, truly hoping it wasn't overdoing it. Something, however, kept bubbling and chanting Rage Rage Rage in the back of his mind. "Come back to lecture me when you truly are a man of honor and not a hired attack dog! In the meanwhile, sorry, but I'm not renouncing my precious link with my partners for your liking! And I don't care what you think of me for that!"
Kotaro all but foamed off the mouth now. As a matter of fat, he was starting to foam. "Now you made me mad—!"
Misa tripped him with a leg sweep from behind, which normally wouldn't have sufficed at all if Negi hadn't kicked him in the gut at the same time. At a sign from her teacher, the cheerleader moved behind him fluently, as Negi prepared a finishing spell.
"Rastel Maskil Magister!" he shouted while Kotaro coughed and stood back. "Kenotetos Astrapsato DE TEMETO!"
Kotaro briefly wondered what that Greek or Persian sounding junk was about before a gigantic ball of light swallowed him whole.
Oh. It mean that! he thought while crazy bells began ringing in his head.
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May 6 2012, 05:36 AM
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Wait, now I'm wondering, what the hell does that mean?
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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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There there. Go do evil things in the name of the government to feel better.
There Be Whales Here
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May 6 2012, 06:10 AM
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La Cancion del Verdugo
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"The enemies we face, " Konoeko grimly said as she led the seething Roberta (eyes pumped with bloodshot lines), Nodoka and Kero down a narrow side coridor. Nodoka felt an icy shudder down her spine, as if Roberta-san was going to snap and try to kill them at any point, unable to tell friend from foe anymore, "are far more diverse and stronger than we thought. They have us fully surrounded as well, so escaping isn't a choice anymore. We'll have to stay and fight to the end, whether ours or theirs."
"Fine with me, " the maid hissed inhumanly.
Konoeko stopped and gave her a stern glare. "Before we proceed further, get a hold of yourself. You'll only be a bane to us, rather than a boon, if you are armed and out of control."
Roberta breathed heavily, hands clenching. "I can't help it. This is why I tried taking the calm life of a house servant. My time in the jungle made me a monster, as much as those who wait outside. And without Ojou-sama, all my reasons to remain human would be gone—"
"Control, " Konoeko replied, unflinching, while Nodoka discreetly hid behind her.
"My wild blood boils cruelly, without the innocent light of my life at my side, " Roberta recited the words like an obsessive mantra. "My faith crumbles, my resolve weakens, and all I can think of is—"
"Control!" Konoeko repeated.
"But—"
The elegant woman stared sharply into her eyes, the way an animal tamer would look at a lion. For a moment, Roberta's features distorted into a truly vicious mask of hatred, before melting down in exhausted defeat. "You're good, " she admitted. "Your strenght of spirit..."
"My husband and me are leaders. We wouldn't be worth our post if we couldn't do that, " she turned around and restarted her way down the corridor, Nodoka stuck to her heels and Kero sitting on Nodoka's head.
Soon they arrived to a dead end. Konoeko placed her hands on the wall at the end of it, whispered a chant in ancient Japanese, and then kicked the wall. It opened from the inside to reveal a floor-to-ceiling arsenal of weaponry, both magical and mundane. There were wands, bottles, potions, shotguns, sub machine guns, spiked bats, Colts, nunchakus, grenades, grenade launchers, a (relatively) small 'mini' misile launcher, brass knuckles, wards and seals of all kinds, rifles, hunting knives, shurinken, kunai, darts, Magnums, Desert Eagles, and even a slighshot or two.
"Pray for a safe and uneventful future, " the lady of the house lectured, "but be ready for the flames of war all the same."
Roberta's eyes became those of a child before a candy store window for only a moment before returning to dry form. "Why didn't we come here from the start?"
"Our priority was escaping here quickly, at all costs. This is only a unfortunate detour, " Konoeko answered, grabbing a star tipped wand and handing it over to Nodoka. "A humble gift of this house, so keep it. You won't get any mileage out of it tonight unless you're a prodigy, but you'll need it if you are to follow on the path of magic."
Roberta already was equiping herself with every piece of heavy weaponry she could carry. "Ojou-sama, Ojou-sama, please wait for me, Ojou-sama. In the name of Santa Maria, a hammer blow of righteousness shall fall on all injustice..."
Nodoka looked at Konoeko and whimpered out a choked whisper. "She scares me even more than Joker-san, Konoe-sama..."
The woman petted her head. "You study with the Dark Evangel, child. Believe me, that should scare you far more than this..."
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May 6 2012, 12:39 PM
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Ice to Meet You
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As Kotaro woke up slowly, he found himself pinned against the ground, his mouth tasting dirt. He could smell and hear the battle still raging around him, from the demons' howls to the screams of anger Yami was directing that girl with glasses, but he had to struggle to lift his face and look at what was before him. The first thing he saw were the shoes of Negi, who stood over him panting, breathing in and out loudly.
Kotaro tried to claw at him, but found his hands had been tied behind his back, and he wasn't in his wolf form anymore, which mean he was shirtless and barefoot with a girl's foot firmly planted on his back.
Misa, the girl in question, spoke then. "Oh, he didn't stay unconscious for long."
"Long enough for us to tie him, at least, " Chisame said, with Calculator warily satnding behind her, Mint and Chitose guarding her sides. "Okay, wild brat, call your friends back! Tell them to stop their attack!"
Kotaro had to chuckle. " Do you think I have any authority here, Nee-san? You girls are so silly! Even if you beat me, you still aren't getting out of this one!"
Negi clenched his teeth. "How can you say that? From what Nodoka-san told us, I had thought you'd be a better person!"
"What can I do?" Kotaro snorted. "Your fate's already decided anyway! I just came to have my rematch with you before it was too late!"
"Let's toss this little jerk between some bushes and go help Konoka already, " Chisame sighed with resignation.
"But, everyone else...!" Negi looked at where the rest of his party still was fighting. "We've got to help them!"
"No, what we have to do is strike the problem at its source!" Calculator told him. "Once we stop Chigusa, all of this insanity should cease! Even Eva's rampage, once she isn't mind controlled anymore! But we've gotta do it FAST! The ritual must be going on right now, and once Chigusa wakes her demon god up, there's nothing we can do!"
A blur stopped right beside him, revealing itself to be a shaky, wheezing, sweaty Misora as soon as it came to a halt. Her Mysterious Sister mask was firmly secured on her face. "I'm ready to go anywhere, as long as it's far from here!"
The boy teacher still looked back. "But there are far too many demons! The others need us!"
"Dammit, we have everything under control here!" Kagurazaka growled from where she was slicing at a minotaur looking fiend. All the while, Asuna kicked another demon in the gut and bashed his head down. "Between the Setsunas and ourselves, we can't lose! Just GO already!"
Misa put a hand on Negi's shoulder. "They're right, Negi-kun. Just trust them to do their part while we do ours, okay?"
Chamo, Chisame, Calculator and Misora all nodded with varying degrees of agreement.
"Well, " Kotaro sighed. "If you aren't going to fight anymore, why do I want you around..."
"Don't make me kick your teeth in, " Chisame threatened him.
Negi took a deep breath in. "Fine. Let's go ahead!" he began to run for Lake Biwa. With so many winged demons raining from the skies, flying on his staff wasn't an actual option. It limited his attack and defense possibilities, and he couldn't protect all the students with him from that distance.
"Negi-kun! Look out!" Misora yelped, running to him and pulling him out of the way just as soon as a trio of large ice spikes shoved themselves into the spot of ground where he had just been stepping a moment before.
All of them looked up in alarm, to see the beautiful pale girl with short white hair descending and landing softly on her feet before them, her small hands swirled by ice cold air that almost looked to move as a living entity.
"Good evening, " the girl in the boyish outfit said, in a very polite tone, crossing her arms behind her. "I am Sextum, the Averruncus of Water."
"You've be gotta kidding me, " Chisame made a truly stressed face, biting her lower lip. "Is this the same girl who kidnapped Konoka? One of those super-living weapons you told us about?"
"Ah, yes, that's Sexy-chan!" Deathnote cried from where she was holding a whole battalion of Oni with her own army of buff shirtless angel constructs.
The newcomer lifted an eyebrow at that, but disregarded the comment before addressing Negi specifically. "Negi Springfield, son of the Thousand Master. I cannot allow your progress from this point. No matter what, you won't disrupt Lady Amagasaki's ceremony."
Negi huffed and stood ready to strike. "Allow me to disagree, please..."
"Be careful!" Kagurazaka shouted, swinging her sword in a circle as to sweep the whole area around her from opposition, and beginning to run towards them leaving Asuna behind to cope. "You aren't ready yet, idiot!"
"That's the truth, indeed, " Sextum's hand moved ahead again. "I'm sorry, but you all must be dealt with..." Then her eyes truly caught on Asuna's appearance as she came closer. Long filed memories of past events implanted into her flashed back. "But, you are..."
Then she casually moved a hand aside to block a large stream of water tossed her way from her left, freezing it in the spot and shattering it into thousands of tiny pieces that fell at her feet. She, along almost everyone, looked up at another area of the hill, where three figures stood on top of a gigantic boulder.
Well, actually, two of them stood; the third one was ridding piggy back on the tallest of the three newcomers.
"Soldier of Water, defender of the weak!" the girl carrying the one NOT in the stylized Sailor Fuku said. "The pretty sailor suited Senshi of Mercury is here to punish the wicked! I'm Sailor Mercury!"
Calculator blinked. "That's Sailor Mercury?"
"Guardian of the Gates of Time, soldier of the revolution of ages!" the blonde next to Sailor Mercury exhibited her long staff threateningly. "Sailor Pluto has come to protect the proper course of history!"
"That's Sailor Pluto?-!" Calculator yelled.
"I can see their undies from here!" Chamo cooed. "White as snow!-!"
The girl on Mercury's back jumped down and tried to strike a badass pose as well. "Um, well, I'm a kickass athlete, so don't mess with me! Akashi Yuuna will punish you in the name of, huh, for Mahora!"
"... You...?" Calculator and Chisame sweatdropped at once.
"Yuuna-san! That's dangerous!" Negi called out. "I'll have to give you a demerit!"
Akira sighed and gestured for Yuuna to go down. "Join Negi-sensei and the others. We'll handle things here."
"Um, sure. Be very careful, " Yuuna gulped before sliding down to ground level. Sextum watched her coldly for a moment, but allowed her to run to Negi's side as she looked at the two Sailor Senshi instead.
"Must I suppose you have come to stop me?" the pale girl asked very quietly.
"Yes, " Sailor Pluto said grimly while jumping down to face her, Akira coming close to her. "What you're trying to do is dangerous to everyone in this world, and I won't allow you to continue from here."
Yuuna inhaled and exhaled as she arrived to the others' side, giving Negi a short but warm hug. "Thank God you guys are all okay! Negi-kun, Chisame, um, other Chisame come out of nowhere, Misa, Misora, other two girls..."
"I'm not Kasuga Misora!" Misora spoke with a falsetto. "I'm the Mysterious Sister! As mysterious as those Magical Girls who brought you here!"
Yuuna gave her a disdainful look. "Sure thing, Misora."
"W-What are you doing here?-!" Negi demanded. "Coming to this place, with everything that's going on...!"
Kagurazaka began herding them away. "Ask later! We've been bought some time, don't waste it! If Sailor Senshi are here like they're at home, Sextum will waste them quickly!"
They do have a quite high mortality rate, yeah... Calculator told herself as she followed. Time and time and time again, actually...
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May 6 2012, 01:27 PM
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Preview of URAE's next Akira-focused chapter, once the action returns to Mahora.
Inspired by the take of Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon.
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"Okay, so this is how it goes: one week ago at 18:05, a bus unit leaving the Five Slopes was reported missing after last being seen taking on passengers near the Tatsumiya shrine, " Mizuno Ami, wearing a simple, plain blue ensemble of sleeveless shirt and shorts to her knees, her feet in light blue socks, was reviewing the incidences as they all sat around the kotatsu table in he room she shared with Minako. Her eyes were nailed on her laptop. "Four days ago, at 18:31, another bus disappeared, and once more, it had a full load of passengers."
Ookuchi Akira paid the utmost attention to each word while a yawning Minako fished potato chips out of a bag, with Artemis sitting on Akira's blue jeans-clad lap. "And finally, yesterday, the incident repeated itself at the same general area, this time around 18:19."
Minako made a huffing sound. "The way those girls and Sakurazaki are always on our case, you'd think they'd have taken care of it themselves by now."
"I have checked on the recent bank transactions of the shrine, and I've found no payments made in the last week, so I'm assuming they never researched on it... because they weren't paid to, " Ami said.
Akira sweatdropped. "Isn't that... slightly illegal?"
"Just like vigilantism, yeah. And breaking into private property to investigate. And a million other things we've already done, " Minako yawned.
"I'm just saying, " Akira said, "We can't lose our perspective like this. If we start crossing lines, we'll become as bad as those two Sailor Senshi I met at Kyoto..."
Elsewhere, Harley and Ivy sneezed in the middle of a fittingly Haruka-Michiru-esque personal bonding session.
"Regardless, every three days, a full bus load of people vanishes without any explanation, all of them in the vicinity of the shrine, and leaving no clues behind, " Ami went on. "Every last one of them was only carrying females between the ages of thirteen and forty four, for some reason. Apparently, the police didn't want a state of panic, so they're allowing the mas media to report only the first bus' vanishment, filtering no data about its passengers or destination. I haven't been able to learn the local mages' reaction, and I have no idea how actively they're working on it, but if the police isn't talking, they naturally won't, either."
"Well, isn't that like a monster movie, " Minako said between munchings. "I'd be a hoot if the end was like in the movies too and the monsters got the obstructive burocrats, but that never happens...!" the blonde sighed.
"Minako-chan...!" Akira, Ami and Artemis chorused.
"Like I'm saying a lie, " Minako got up and dusted herself off, wiping tiny chunks off her short skirt and orange sweater. "Well, now we confirmed a pattern, we do the sensible thing, go snoop around the shrine like good girls, invade private property like sneaky girls once the elusive Miko don't give us clear answers, and get to kick Youma butt at the end, don't we?"
"Just remember doing it in that order, please, " Artemis pleaded.
"Piece of cake!" Minako winked an eye. "With Sailor Venus, Sailor Mercury and Oracle in the case, those creeps are done for now!"
Ami blinked. "Oracle?"
"Well, yeah!" Minako nodded. "It was Akira-chan's idea after you lent her that Mythology book for her classes! If I'm Venus and Akira-chan is Mercury, then you're our Oracle of... of..."
"Delphii?" Ami asked.
"Right, that. I was testing you!" Minako waved a hand. "Then, do you like the name?"
Ami smiled slowly. "To be honest... Yes, I do. Although I almost feel like it'd be best suited to someone else..."
"Nonsense!" Minako laughed. "There's no one more qualified! Right, Akira-chan?"
"Right!" the taller girl nodded.
"Well then, to the Shrine we go!" Minako shouted and pointed for the door. "And I'll also pray for a nice boyfriend! And for Akira-chan to get Negi-kun! And for Ami-chan to understand the concept of love, before going anywhere else!"
"I-I'm not in love with Negi-sensei!" Akira transparently said. Even Ami wasn't fooled.
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May 6 2012, 01:34 PM
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To rush the series' output before I die of old age or something, I'll be posting preview segments of future chapters as they come to me. Followup to the prior scene here.
Darkenning, I took one of your DH lines since it works fine as a standarized practiced welcome to the shrine. I hope you don't mind.
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As Akira, Minako, Ami and Artemis approached the Tatsumiya shrine grounds, they heard a beautiful but throughly melancholic flute music coming from between the nearby trees. The white cat was the first one to skip over there, and after a moment of Minako looking annoyed, the girls followed him into a small clearing where the petite, red-haired shrine assistant to Mana sat on a chopped tree trunk in her traditional robes, playing the flute for a huge, misshapen, one-eyed old crow perched on her lap. There was a broom at her side, clearly telling of how she was supposed to be sweeping the path instead.
As soon as she noticed their presence, the small girl jumped back to her feet, startling the dark bird. She hid the flute behind her back, rasped, and said, in her best essayed formal tone, "Welcome to the Tatsumiya Shrine! We offer a variety of prayer services, including prayers for health, wealth, love, or finding lost objects!"
"Hey there!" Minako waved a hand nonchalantly. "Where's your boss? We wanted to talk with her."
Munakata Shiho scowled at the perceived slight before forcing herself to say, keeping her composture, "Tatsumiya-Oneesama is... out on important reconnaissance. But I can handle all your spiritual needs in the meanwhile. Do you need amulets, talismans or wards? We sell a wide variety of those, as well..."
Minako folded her arms and hummed. "They finally paid her enough to take on the case, didn't they?"
Shiho grumbled, losing her cool again. "That isn't for you to know or ask. We're a completely religious and non-mundane couple of servants of the Kami. Your assumption we're mercenaries offering our holy services for the highest bidders is simply insul—"
"I'd be glad to offer a substancial contribution for this wonderful shrine in exchange for a little bit of simple but kind assistance, Munakata-sama, " Ami said very humbly, bowing and pulling a checkbook and black pen out. Shiho's eyes shone; like master, like disciple, after all.
"What... What kind of divine enlightment are you looking for?" she doubted.
"Ami-chan and me are doing a paper on the recent disappearances of buses for our Social Studies classes, " Minako lied. "Since Akira-chan here studies with your lady boss, she offered to work as a middlewoman..."
Shiho shot the much, much taller swimmer an annoyed glare. Akira flinched instinctively. "What do you know about those buses, and why should we have anything to tell you about them?"
"W-Well, " the 3-A student started, "Since all the disappearances happened near here, and Mana-san is said to have spiritual sensibility, we thought we could help each other..."
"You? Help us?" Shiho let out a short bitter laugh. "Please. I don't know who told you about the buses, but if you're any smart, you'll stay out of it. I can't help you, not even for a fee."
"But why?" Akira asked.
Shiho sighed. "This morning, the police was here making questions, too. Stupid questions, as if we had anything to do with that! Just because Oneesama is tall, intense and the silent type, people always misjudges her and says there's something creepy or demonic about her. But I know Oneesama better than anyone, and I can say she'd never have anything to do with any innocents' disappearance!"
"How about the disappearance of non-innocents, then?" an amused Minako asked.
Shiho turned her angry glare at the blonde with the red bow. "What are you trying to imply?"
"Nothing!" Minako waved a hand. "You were the one making strange specifications first!"
Shiho huffed. "A smart one, huh? Listen, I can tell you this; all the people who disappeared were young women with no criminal records. Even if my Oneesama did mercenary jobs on delinquents, none of the kidnap victims fit the type. Their parents have come here, first to pray, and then when the gods wouldn't answer, to blame us. Oneesama is a very patient woman, but she just can't be happy with this situation. No one would pay us because they don't trust us anymore, not that I'm saying we're a mercenary unit or anything, so Oneesama set out to learn the truth on her own account. Otherwise, it'd be bad for the business... that we don't run."
"And she left you behind, " Akira said.
Shiho looked aside dejectedly. "Someone needed to stay to watch over the shrine."
"Ah, so that's why your music sounded so sad!" Minako deduced. "Feeling abandoned by your adoptive big sister figure, you sat here to cry your eyes out while playing emo music!"
Shiho tossed the flute at Minako's head. "OW! Hey!"
And then there was a rustling of bush leaves behind them, and Tatsumiya Mana stepped into the clearing, wearing casual clothes that also could pass as combat fatigues, complete with a military cap and tall thick boots, and a compressed air rifle in a hand. "Shiho? Ah, and Ookuchi-san, as well. What are you doing here?"
"O-ONEESAMA!" the little redhead sweated seas. "I, ur, urr, well, I was just taking a break, only a second, and then I head noise over here, and I came to see who it was, and these girls were wandering around, lost...!"
"Shiho and Ookuchi-san?" Minako mused. "Sorry, but we're here, too!" she snapped right afterwards.
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May 6 2012, 01:37 PM
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Pervert. Also, Witch.
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That's pretty much how I intended it, so no problem.
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"Hello! I'm Rurin, the Magical Mouse! My favorite food is cheese! My favorite pastimes are tormenting cats and facilitating romance! I have the power to bind the souls of guys who mistreat women to the depths of hell and subject them to everlasting karmic suffering! Isn't that cute? Pleased to meet you!" -- Rurin, the Magical Mouse, Magical Patissiere Kosaki-chan.
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May 6 2012, 02:01 PM
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Oboy. Whee.
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Crack Snippets on the expanded URAE-verse.
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Fourth Grail War Abridged, Part 1: Gilgamesh and Kirei
"All things in this world belong to me!" proclaimed the proud warrior in golden.
"Even the line no man should ever cross?"
"ESPECIALLY the line no man is ever SUPPOSED to cross!" a hand firmly ran over the outline of Kotomine's butt crack.
Sex Ensued.
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"And that's the way it happened," Peorth dutifully reported to the Almighty. Being Omniscient didn't mean He always had His Omniscience focused everywhere, and that's why Good Things happen to Bad People and Bad Things Happen to Good People. So He still needed reports on the really important stuff from time to time.
He turned His gaze to Rind, Goddess of War, who stood stiffly next to Peorth. "I assume Peorth's continued inclination for romanticism and sensuality has colored her report, has not it?"
"Actually, Sir," Rind rasped, "It wasn't that far off from reality..."
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As Good as the Real Article
"There's something those stupid games will never get over a real woman anyway, Sempai!" Suzuhara Touji smirked smugly. "The actual smell of a girl near you!"
The bespectacled, handsome even if throughly weird Katsuragi Keima gestured for him to come closer. Then he scratched the tactile screen of the handheld a few times.
Touji sniffed the screen and scowled. "People in the gaming industry is sick," he decided.
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May 6 2012, 03:23 PM
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Creature of the Deep
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Scratch-n-sniff video game screens? :lol:
But then you'd keep needing to get new ones, because your old ones were all scratched up...which means the company keeps making money! Brilliant strategy.
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Let's Watch Nanoha Wits, magic, and hardboiled monologues. My other claims to fame.
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May 6 2012, 06:51 PM
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Oboy. Whee.
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The World Skuld Only Knows
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The kiss didn't last long. To be fair, it was over as soon as it had started, and it felt like Skuld's lips wanted to touch his as little as possible. Keiichi was momentarily blinked by a flash on his eyes, and then he felt something fluttering against his nose, hitting it gently while Skuld made a snorting sound.
Keiichi opened his eyes and grabbed the object on his face now. It was a card portraying him wearing a deep gray version of his Nekomi Tech racing outfit. It even had Nekomi's logo on the front of his zipped up jacket. He had his arms folded there, with a helmet at his feet, and under him, there was his name and a title written in Latin.
Morisato Ceiiti.
Infinitus Coegi.
He felt his cheeks still hot and flushed as he looked at the similarly blushing Skuld. He hadn't ever kissed a girl before that, save for that time he wasn't sure he even should remember, so it actually took him a fair amount of effort to be able to formulate a question.
"S-So... This is a Pactio, like the ones Negi-san's partners have, r-right?"
Skuld only could nod, her cheeks puffed up, her gaze low.
Keiichi looked down at the card again. "I don't know if this is worth going to jail for..."
She kicked him in a shin.
"Let me see, let me see, let me see!" Makie made his way to him, staring at the Pactio card. "Wow, it's so shiny! It isn't like the girls'! This one's like chromed or something..."
"Naturally, " Skuld lectured, lifting her chin. "That wasn't a Pactio with a mere mortal, but with a Norn goddess! A simple temporary Pactio with a divine being is the equivalent of a permanent Pactio with a human!"
"Huh?" Keiichi had to blink. "Then, then this Pactio will make me twice as powerful as Negi-san's partners, or more?"
Skuld rubbed the back of her head. "Well, actually, eh, no, since I haven't learned how to use most of my magic yet. I can float around, travel through water, shout words that etche themselves on people's faces and manipulate water when I'm under stress, but that's all."
Makie gave her a sympathetic look. "That's kind of a crappy power set..."
"Are you sure you're a goddess?" Keiichi asked.
"IDIOT!" Skuld yelled. "Give me a break, I'm only thirteen eternities old!"
"Ah, you're 13! Younger than me!" Makie marveled.
The boy cringed. "Okay, then what sets this card apart from those the girls have?"
"It's chromed and reinforced, like a Midgard permanent Pactio, aren't you seeing it?" the Norn asked.
"And...?" Keiichi wanted to know.
"That's it."
"That's it."
"That's what I said, yes! Are you deaf?-!"
He took his hands to his head and began bashing it against a wall. "I've left my life be ruined all for this thing!"
"Don't be a crybaby!" Skuld hissed. "That contract is your key to survival, and maybe the whole world's, too! You have no idea how serious this situation is! You need me, believe me already!"
Makie looked down at the floor, and the still glowing, albeit more faintly now, circle still surrounding them all. "Goddess-san, so, are you saying your Pactio with Keiichi-san will keep him safe forever?"
"That's right, although he doesn't truly deserve it."
"Will it defend him even against cute talking animals who are really evil?"
"Of course it will!"
"It protects his family too?"
"I suppose you could say it does..."
Makie sighed, took a very long and deep mouthful of air, and closed her eyes for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Skuld asked her.
Then Makie grabbed her by the shoulders, leaned ahead, and planted a loud "CHU!" sounding kiss on her mouth.
Skuld's eyes popped out of their sockets. The sockets then filled themselves with tears that overflowed before the eyes pushed themselves back in. Her long black hair stood up in point, and her skin changed from creamy white to red, then green fucshia, purple, corpse like gray, back to red, deeper red, and finally complete white.
Keiichi jumped back, pressing his nose close as he felt a stream of warm liquid struggling to jump out. He wasn't taking any risks of dying because of massive blood loss.
The Pactio circle collapsed on itself, its lights dying down in silence.
Makie withdrew her mouth with a wet slurping sound, absently catching the new card in the air, before Skuld hit her face with that mallet of hers. "WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?-!"
"Uwaaaaaa!" Makie sobbed. "You kissed Keiichi-san without any warning, too!"
"That's different! I'm justified on my highly questionable and regrettable rash actions! While you... you are human!" she pointed a frantic finger at the gymnast.
"I'm afraid! I want to escape here alive! I don't want the world to end! I want my Mamas, my Dad and Kagehisa-kun survive! And Negi-kun, Ako-chan, Yuuna-chan, Akira-chan, Yuuna-chan's Dad and Iinchou and that funny guy living on our sidewalk, and the weird but kind guy always checking me out during gymnastic pra—"
Skuld turned back to her as soon as she was done spitting until her mouth became dry. "I'm never going to forgive this!"
"Now, now, " Keiichi tried to impose peace. "What's done is done, right? What matters now is getting out of her alive!"
"My card is very pretty, " Makie said, examining the card in question with awe.
"Weren't you sad and despairing only one minute ago?" asked Skuld.
"I can't ever stay that way for long. Dunno why." She showed Skuld the card, which depicted her in pink gymnastics leotard, folded upon herself striking a difficult pose, and holding a long pink ribbon in a hand, and two juggling pins in the other. Standing tip toe on a foot, her other leg was propelled up behind herself, holding a red ball on the tip of that foot. It read Sasaci Macie: Armatura Quinquiplex. Much like Keiichi's, the card shone wonderfully. "Wai, wai, wai, it's so cute! I still can get myself another one with Negi-kun, can't I?"
"Don't push your luck any more, " Skuld snarled, repressing her ringing urges to murder her. "You can't be my Ministra and a mage's at the same time."
"Ehhhhh? Whyyyyyyyy?"
"Because."
Makie put a finger in her mouth, bit on it and whimpered. "Oh, no! Had I known, I wouldn't have wasted the kiss like this! I'd have waited to get back to Negi-kun and kiss him then!"
"Kissing indirectly with Akashi Yuuna, that big pervert, how gross..." Skuld grumbled, still wiping her mouth with short sleeve as best as she could. "Some millenia you just can't get out of bed at all..."
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May 7 2012, 10:18 AM
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Oboy. Whee.
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Chance Encounter
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"This feels wrong, so wrong, all so wrong..." Negi repeated as he ran next to a slowing down Misora, with Yuuna, Misa, Chisame, Calculator, Mint, Chitose and Sakurazaki following him in that order. Those up to Calculator based on physical endurance, the later three staying behind on purpose to watch the back of the group. "I feel like we're leaving everyone to a horrible fate..."
"Technically it's no Fate..." Calculator muttered.
"What are you saying?" Chisame asked her.
"Nothing."
Then Chisame heard a short yelp behind herself, and turned around quickly to grab Matoi's hand before she slipped down a treacherous edge of the path. "Tsunetsuki!" Then she blinked. "Wait, you were here?"
"Yes, always, " the stalker nodded before helping herself back up. "Oh, thank you, Chisame-sama. I felt something grabbing my foot and pulling me down! To be honest, I still feel it..."
"Down here!" a voice called from, well, down there. "Negi-sensei!"
Negi looked at the person who had accidentally grabbed Matoi's ankle while trying to climb up. "Iinchou-san? Sora-san?"
"GAH!" Matoi shook her foot. "The deceiving aristocrat tried to pull me to my doom!"
"Don't be ridiculous!" Ayaka growled while she supported herself on Negi's helping hand, assisting Sora on her own way up. "I didn't even notice you were there!"
"Chisame!" Sora caught Calculator in a tight hug as soon as she found safe footing. "You're alive, thank God!"
"You got the wrong one, " Calculator deadpanned.
"Ah. Sorry." Sora let her go and caught the other Chisame in an even tighter hug. "Chisame-chan!"
"Maybe we really need bonding more, " it was Chisame's turn to deadpan.
"What are you guys doing here?" asked Misa. "Weren't you supposed to be with Konoka's mom and Honya?"
"We were separated by the Joker and an awful boy with spiky hair, " Ayaka recalled with disgust. "They attacked us burning our escape way, and we barely escaped alive."
As Negi paled horribly and gasped aloud, Sora nodded. "I fell unconscious, and Ayaka-chan saved my life getting me out of there. She was very brave."
Ayaka blushed briefly at the recognition. "It was the least I could do..."
Chisame blinked and finally bowed respectfully to the Class Rep. "T-Thank you very much, honestly..."
Ayaka waved a hand in a dismissive fashion. "I've told you, think nothing of it..." "We must go save them!" Negi urged. "Who knows how could they—"
"I'll handle that, " the other world's Setsuna sighed. "You have no chance in a confrontation, direct or not, with an Averruncus, not yet."
"And you do?" Calculator asked her.
"I can at least sneak my way around him, " Sakurazaki sounded sure of herself.
"Of course, " she grumbled, readying Yuunagi again, "That might have to wait either way..."
Demons had started to appear out of the shadows in all directions, surrounding them.
"Oh dear God, " Sora swallowed hard.
Chisame instinctively shielded her with her body, scepter ready. "Stay back, no matter what."
"Okay, " Misora backed away behind her.
"NOT YOU!"
"Too many of them everywhere, " Chamo breathed deeply, popping out from behind Negi's shoulder.
"Yeah, we'll never get past them at this rate, not in time, and not with the muscle we have, " another Chamo appeared on Negi's other shoulder, as the demons approached sinister and slowly, as if intending to play with their prey. Negi already was chanting under his breath. "Unless..."
"I know what are you thinking. That's you answer for everything, isn't it?" Chisame muttered. "Well, let's clear a path here first, and then we'll think about it..."
"Hey, we've got some prime material ready here, don't we?" the first Chamo eyed Ayaka, Matoi, Yuuna and Sora.
"Eh?" Sora blinked.
Setsuna smirked slightly. "Sensei, please, let me handle the first strike, " she said, stepping ahead with natural grace.
"Oh-ho-ho!" the lead demon of the pack, a hulking furry beast with ram horns, chuckled at Setsuna. "And what, may I ask, are you to be so sure of yourself, little girl?"
She only said one word, "Shinmeiryuu."
"Oh, shi—"
Then he was sliced apart before he could even react.
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May 7 2012, 07:40 PM
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Oboy. Whee.
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"My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men..." Makie still doubted.
Keiichi grunted, slammed the driving wheel down, adjusted it, and kicked down with his right foot to turn the 'vehicle' on.
"This isn't a car, " he said as it started to roar up and up...
Yeah, I just watched that trailer.
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May 8 2012, 09:39 AM
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Tsukuyomi's Heart, Conclusion
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Tsukuyomi looked back and forth between both Konokas, who had gone to chatter animously now, the older one encouraging her younger counterpart. The Shinmeiryuu follower was fairly convinced by now she disliked the older Hime-sama, and grew even more convinced she'd have to remove her at some nearby point before she corrupted her precious loved-hated Hime-sama with her nonsense. But the old lady had paid her to keep both of them safe and secured for now, and until the ritual was complete, Tsukuyomi would follow the contract to the letter. She prided herself on her word, if nothing else.
"But why are we here in the first place? What's the point of keeping us here?" Konoka asked.
"You'll see, we both have a lot of magical potential, and Chigusa wants to drain it from us to awaken a demon god named Sukuna, " Konoe explained, still unaware of most other details of the actual plan. "Once she has him under her control, she'll be unstoppable, or so she thinks. But don't worry, our Negi-kun is strong enough to take him down himself when he arrives here."
"If he ever does, you mean, " Tsukuyomi smiled. "Chigusa-hand sent the really big heavy hitters but me there. "I must warn you I don't like your friends' odds!"
Konoe lifted her nose up to show her contempt. "You have no idea of how powerful my team is. Chigusa doesn't have anything that can stop them!"
"Then why aren't they here yet?" Konoka and Tsukuyomi asked at the same time, even if for different reasons.
Konoe paused for a moment before saying, "I don't know. Maybe they are waiting for the right moment..."
"... to die!" Tsukuyomi said with perverse glee. Konoe shot her a mildly annoyed glare. And that, oddly, was enough to shut her up, even if only because of bafflement after expecting a harsher reaction.
"I feel ill, " Konoka moved her lips awkwardly. "Is this supposed to be my magic coming out?"
"It's weird, it should feel actually good, " Konoe pouted a little. "Our excess power being drained off shouldn't trouble us. Unless there's something else going on with the ritual, like an external influence or something like that..."
Tsukuyomi smiled again. "Oh, poor darlings. Maybe you would feel better with a massage?"
"No, thanks, " both of them replied. Tsukuyomi's smiled melted again.
Konoe looked at Chigusa, who was chanting between violent motions of her arms and legs, as if trying to conduct the ritual and stage an imaginary fight at once. "I wonder what's going on with her. She's going to ruin the whole ceremony up if she keeps doing that. Maybe that's why we're feeling pain."
Tsukuyomi shrugged. "She's crazy, if you ask me."
Konoe gave her another mild glare she ignored, before continuing, "When I was in this situation, Chigusa never acted that way. She always was petty and unstable, true, but she had her act together for the most part..."
"Can't we use out magical potential to escape?" Konoka asked.
"No!" Tsukuyomi said.
"What she said, as much as I hate admitting it, " Maga Alba sighed. "After this is over, I'll have to learn more on— AHHH!" she yelled as a sudden burst of new pain rippled through her, Konoka doing the same a moment later. Tsukuyomi looked at them curiously even as Homura approached, attracted by the screams.
"You imbecile!" the fire user yelled. "Why did you remove their gags!-? You were told to keep them on! And—!" and then she stopped, seeing the catatonic blonde in the middle of the pier jerking awake, abruptly ripping her seals off as if they were made of paper mache, and staggering to her bare feet. The Wonderland Gang panicked, coming out of their hiding places to train guns on her, but none dared to shoot, as if paralyzed by a force beyond their understanding. Michael cursed briefly and pulled a gun of his own out of his vest, as Fasalina whipped out a long metallic pole she used to carry around, pressing a button on it to enlarge it.
The pale blonde ignored them all, walking like a zombie through the pier, until she reached the side of the too absorted to care Chigusa. She extended her hands ahead as if to strangle the dark haired woman, her face betraying the most hideous of hates... and then she fell on her knees before her, like a defeated slave or a broken puppet.
"I don't like this, " even Tsukuyomi had to admit.
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May 8 2012, 11:56 AM
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What trailer?
Also, I swear, if the whole thing about Arcueid doesn't pay off one hell of a smackdown on Chigusa, I'll shiv you in the balls.
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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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There there. Go do evil things in the name of the government to feel better.
There Be Whales Here
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May 8 2012, 12:08 PM
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Pervert. Also, Witch.
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The Dark Knight Rises; Catwoman and Batman exchange those lines.
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"Hello! I'm Rurin, the Magical Mouse! My favorite food is cheese! My favorite pastimes are tormenting cats and facilitating romance! I have the power to bind the souls of guys who mistreat women to the depths of hell and subject them to everlasting karmic suffering! Isn't that cute? Pleased to meet you!" -- Rurin, the Magical Mouse, Magical Patissiere Kosaki-chan.
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