Prologue[]
What in the name of the 6 wardens did we get ourselves into? Zane thought. Portals opened around Chris, Alvin, and Zane. "Oh hey Zane Battleblade!" Zane exclaimed. Taro tumbled out along with Aaron and Luke Darkshade. "What are you guys doing?" Zane Battleblade asked. "Trying to fight off an old lady," Alvin replied. A shadow darted across the room. "I'VE GOT IT!" Zane Battleblade exclaimed, freezing the figure...or so he thought. "Huh, that didn't work," Zane thought aloud. He turned around and jumped. "You're supposed to freeze the old lady! Not us!" Alvin exclaimed. "We really gotta work on your ice magic," Zane Goldencaster sighed. "Ok, no problem," Zane Battleblade started, "I'll just melt the ice!" His eyes glowed orange and fireballs hovered over his hands. "No proble-" Zane fell forwards, unconscious. "Well that's just great," Taro sighed sarcastically. The figure darted out of the room and locked the door behind them.
Chapter 1: Kyubey Appears!? Well, Guess It's Time To Become Magical Girls![]
A group of 10 girls were walking down a cobblestone sidewalk, having a normal day as usual.
What could possibly happen?
"AHHHHHH! WHAT'S THAT?!" Narcissa screeched, pointing to a small, cat-like creature. It had white fur and four ears, one pair representing the average cat and the other similar to those of a rabbit's. It had red eyes and golden rings around its long ears. At the bottom of the ears, it appears that it is separated into three, along with a pink-white fade and three red ovals. It had a large tail and pointy ears, the inside of them being pinkish peach color. On it's back was a hot pink egg shape. Kyle turned her head to face it. "Not sure. It's cute, though." She picked it up and started rocking it back and forth.
"Aw, thanks!"
"DID IT JUST TALK?!" Narcissa screamed.
"Nope! If I'm not moving my mouth, I'm not talking. I'm using selective telepathy." It said.
"Cool!" Harper said.
"I am Kyubey, and I've selected you all to be new magical girls!" Kyubey explained, hopping out of Kyle's arms.
"Magical Girls? Aren't they basically the same thing as witches?" Rose asked.
Kyubey spat onto the sidewalk. "No! Of course not! Witches are the things magical girls fight! Witches are absolutely evil!"
The girls had no words for this. This cat-rabbit, fox, whatever-was insulting their kind. But they didn't say a word.
"So, I ask, would you all like to be magical girls?" Kyubey asked.
"YES!" The girls cheered.
"Simply make a contract with me! Put your wish on it and your signature and you'll become a magical girl!" Kyubey explained. He put his long ears together and 10 papers formed beneath them. He gave the girls one each, and a pen. "Go on!" Kyubey exclaimed.
"Do you really think we should trust that cat?" Rose asked.
"SURE!" Narcissa said enthusiastically. "I wish for Zane to like me!" she said aloud while writing on her paper. Lyndia and Milly looked at each other and shrugged. Harper facepalmed.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You can't go back now. You didn't specify which Zane," Harper remarked.
Narcissa looked skeptically at Harper. "There's more than one?" she asked, confused.
Harper wrote her wish down on the paper, and her signature. She slid it over to Kyubey. "You didn't know already?" Harper asked, standing up.
Narcissa shook her head.
"Now, everyone stand back. I'm about to turn Harper into a magical girl," Kyubey ordered. Everyone took 2 steps back.
"Unfortunate. I bet Goldenhunter would like you," Harper said.
Narcissa's eyes widened as she finally understood. "Y-you mean..." she trailed off.
Kyubey exhaled. His ears rose and he put his ears together. He distanced them from each other and then a bright light surrounded Harper and Kyubey. If you looked closely, you could see Harper's soul floating out of her body and transforming into a blue sphere in a gold container. Eventually, the light disappeared and the progress was done. Harper's soul gem fell into her hand. It transformed into a ring, and Harper slipped it onto her finger.
"Guess I'll have to take my chances..." Narcissa sighed, giving her paper to Kyubey
"You're quite the unique one." Kyubey teased. "But let's go on with the process." Kyubey repeated the same process with Narcissa.
Amanda and Lyndia gave theirs to Kyubey. Kyubey did the same for both. Milly and Kyle did the same and were turned into Magical Girls as well. Leilani and Lei gave Kyubey their papers. They were turned into Magical Girls too.
"C'mon, Rose! Wish for something!" Priscilla cheered.
"You haven't even decided your wish." Rose spat.
"I have, I'm just waiting for you to write down your wish." Priscilla explained.
Rose looked pained. She still didn't know what to wish for. Rose sighed. She scribbled something onto the paper and gave it to Kyubey.
Priscilla grinned. "Good, you decided on something! Go ahead Kyubey, do your thing!"
Rose went through the process. She looked relieved.
Meanwhile...
A portal opened in a grassy meadow. Zane Goldenhunter walked out of it. He was looking for something. But what? He wandered around for a bit and looked around. An...UNUSUAL sensation swept over him. One of the Zane's caught Narcissa's eye. She dashed over to him. "Rose, hide me. I can't watch." Harper said, dropping onto the ground. Rose didn't do anything. Harper covered her eyes.
The girl approached him. "Uh...hi," Zane Goldenhunter blushed. "I-I'm Zane Goldenhunter."
"Hi!~" Narcissa said. "I'm Narcissa." Narcissa said in a flirty tone. "You're cute."
Zane scratched the back of his head. "I-erm-uh-the feeling's mutual," he blurted out.
Narcissa twirled Zane into the forest to the left of them. And that's when things got.......interesting.
"I'm going in and dealing with the situation. PLEASE do not come." Kyubey announced.
"Believe me, we weren't planning to." Rose assured Kyubey.
Kyubey comes back, dragging Narcissa by the leg with his tail. "I stopped her before she could do anything." Kyubey said, strongly implying something that he will not specify. "But that's besides the point. Come with me. I want you to meet some people." Kyubey said.
"Ooo! I hope this is gonna be fun!" Priscilla squeals.
Meanwhile...
Aaron is playing solitaire using gems. Darkshade wakes up and they create a little golem out of soul magic to play some poker.
Later...
"This is Christina and Mabel. They'll be your guide to everything magical girl." Kyubey announced.
"Kyubey picked you lot to be magical girls? Pathetic. You'll never get to my level," Christina snorted. Narcissa frowned.
"Don't insult them. They have potential, Christina." Kyubey said, flicking his tail.
Christina rolled her eyes. "Let's get on with it then," Christina stated bluntly. "I'm Christina Mayflower, and this is Mabel. Who are you all?"
"Well, I suppose we should tell you. I'm Harper the Firefly, the blue haired one is Rose the Wild, the blonde haired one is Flame Dancer Amanda, the black haired one is Leilani, the pink haired one is Lei, the one with the hood is Priscilla, the one with the orange hair is Kyle, the one with the purple hair is Lyndia, and the one with the short messy brown hair is Narcissa." Harper announced.
Christina nodded. "I'll try to remember your names."
In the metal room, everyone is just asleep. Nothing much to entertain themselves.
Zane Goldencaster sat up. "Alright, I'm done with this. Maybe we can find a way out?" Alvin shrugged.
"Where's Goldenhunter?" Zane Battleblade asked.
"Clearly not here," Alvin shrugged.
Battleblade heaved a sigh. "He's the only one who didn't get trapped then. Lucky."
Darkshade was glowing purple. Evidently trying to do something with his powers. A failure to boot. But at least the golem was having fun.
Zane Goldencaster stood up. "I just have one question. How did all of you end up here?"
"I remember being put in a tight bag. Then I was here. That's basically it." Battleblade answered.
"Wrong turn in a conflux full of dimensions of..." Darkshade tugged at his jacket collar, "strange, horrific things." He shrugged. "Then some rando threw me into the middle of the conflux and it transported me here."
"A portal opened up beneath me and I fell in," Taro stated. "How are you alive, anyway Axel?"
Aaron nodded. "You got skewered harder than Ozymandias got skewered by alternate-doomsday-me."
"I-I don't know. I-I really don't know!" Axel sputtered.
"Well now this is confusing," Taro muttered. "So if you're alive, then..." Taro trailed off. Zane Darkhunter emerged from the shadows. Taro jumped.
"Maybe.....nobody really died in the killing game? Maybe it was all just a act? A illusion?" Axel suggested. He realized Darkhunter was there, and then he curled up into a ball.
"That was no illusion," Darkhunter stated. "Everyone who died, died. Or so I thought..." he trailed off.
"I wonder what the girls are doing," Chris wondered aloud.
"Why should we care? Our primary objective is to get out of here." Darkhunter said.
Aaron gave a halfhearted swing at the steel door with the sword he doesn't talk about. It didn't budge.
Meanwhile...
"Kyubey is coming with us o-on our first w-witch patrol. R-r-ight, Kyubey?" Mabel asked. Kyubey nodded.
"This is gonna be so fun!!!" Priscilla cheered.
"Calm down." Lyndia begged.
Mabel gasped. "Two witches-in the same exact place-are near us. We'll go search for them."
"They're just beginners, isn't that a little too much for them?" Christina asked.
"The witches are actually magical girls that were consumed by grief seeds. Their names are Eugate and Hilda. Hilda seems to be unconscious. This could help them practice for the future when something else like this happens," Mabel whispered.
"You've got a point," Christina replied.
Mabel cleared her voice. "Everyone, follow me and Christina! We're going to take on the witches!" Amanda hesitated, then followed along.
"I wonder.....are we all going to be alive after this? Or are we all gonna walk out of here, unharmed?" Milly remarked as they walked towards the location of the witches.
"Well I refuse to die, and I refuse to let Mabel die," Christina bluntly replied.
Mabel sighed. "We've made it. Everyone, transform into your magicwear, and come with me. We're only 600 feet away from the witches."
"Let's hope we don't die." Milly said. "Don't jinx us." Lyndia muttered.
Christina's Titan Hunter Spear materialized in her hand.
"Welp, everyone, get ready. You're in for a wild ride." Mabel said.
As everyone made their way to the witches, the outside world started to.....change? Everything looked like it was drawn by markers. Some random things that looked like clouds and muffins child walked around them. They were chanting "Eugate! Hilda! Eugate! Hilda!"
Lyndia winced. "This place is so messed up....."
Christina simply shrugged and slowly advanced.
"We're near them now. Me and Christina will go first, and when I yell go, you will guys will come out. Got it?" Mabel asked.
Amanda nodded.
Mabel went through her epic clothing transformation and charged at the witches, weapon in tow.
Christina charged, spear in front.
Chuckles of laughter came from one of the witches. The other one stayed silent, however.
Christina threw her spear at the laughing witch, but it stepped aside, avoiding the spear. The witch swung a punch, only for Christina to slide under its arm. Christina proceeded to try to pull the spear out of the tree it impaled, while Mabel continued charging.
Mabel's cane changed into a sword. She slashed at the other witch who wasn't doing anything. But the witch Christina was fighting somehow tries to protect the other witch. The witch Christina was fighting failed, however.
"GO!" Mabel yelled. The girls charged at the witches, immediately deciding which one they would attack.
Amanda was hesitant about attacking the witches, but she decided to attack the witch who Mabel was attacking and fired flames at her.
"What's with this witch?! It isn't even fighting back!" Mabel exclaimed. She slashed it again.
"Is it even alive?" Rose asked, prodding it with her sword.
"I-I don't think so." Mabel said.
"We've defeated the witches!" Amanda cheered. The witches fell to the ground, and the world went back to normal. They left behind 4 grief seeds, but in their place laid two twins that had their bodies connected to each other.
"H-hello?" Mabel asked, shaking one of them.
One of the twins opened their eyes. "W-where am I-I?"
"On the ground, underneath us," Christina muttered.
"Of course I know that," the twin said, sitting up.
"You two were turned into witches." Mabel explained.
"Oh my! I'm so sorry!" the twin gasped, "And you mean I was turned into a witch."
"No, there's two of you," Mabel pointed out, pointing to the other twin that had their eyes closed.
"Oh, Hilda? Hilda's dead. She's been dead since the moment she was born," the twin said.
Mabel gasped. "Oh, I'm so sorry!"
"Her body has grown with me, because we're connected to each other. And by the way, call her Hilda. I'm Eugate. Pronounced oo-got. Non-binary." Eugate said.
"I-it's n-n-nice to m-meet y-you, Eugate." Mabel stuttered. The idea of a dead body on Eugate's shoulder was horrible, and it made her...afraid of Eugate. But only a little bit.
Meanwhile, Zane Battleblade was banging his head against a wall.
"You're gonna get brain damage, you're gonna get brain damage, la la la la!~" Darkhunter sung.
Battleblade glared at Darkhunter. "Shut up."
"Haha, no." Darkhunter said, then continuing to sing it again.
Battleblade's hands clenched into a fist. "You're the one who's about to get brain damage." He stepped forwards, but was stopped by Taro.
"We need to find a way out of here," Taro stated, "and our magic doesn't work, so that's out of the question."
Aaron stepped forward. "There was a substance in here. The crystal noticed it, but dissipated before it could remove it. I assume that's what's keeping us from just bashing open a door or making a portal."
"Hm. D-do you g-g-guys remember that o-our s-supposed k-k-kidnapper b-brings u-us food, a-and w-when t-t-they g-give u-us f-food, t-they c-come i-in through the d-door? M-maybe w-we c- can t-try t-t-to escape t-the next time they o-open the door." Axel stuttered.
Alvin snorted awake. "We get food?"
"Y-yes." Axel said.
"Were you sleeping the entire time?" Chris asked Alvin.
"Knowing the dimwit, he probably was." Darkhunter muttered.
Alvin shrugged and went back to sleep. "Tell me when it's time to eat," he muttered.
"S-so, d-do y-you think w-we could try o-out m-my idea?" Axel asked.
"It's the best we got," Chris shrugged.
Suddenly, the door started to open. Long story short, Everyone ended up chained to the wall, Luke was still thawing out and Alvin was still asleep.
"What the heck just happened?" Battleblade asked. "We learned that we are super uncoordinated," Goldencaster sighed.
"T-they r-really are s-smart...." Axel muttered.
Eugate stood up. "Let's go."
“To where?” Mabel asked.
“I was sent to defeat this woman who kills magical girls. I know where her castle is, so let’s go there.” Eugate explained.
“Not so fast.”
“Huh?” Eugate said.
A tall, pale girl with black hair looked at them. She looked like she was also a magical girl.
"Who are you?" Christina asked.
“I am Laurel. It is time for you to die.” Laurel spoke. She pulled out a pair of nunchucks and charged at Christina.
"What the-" Christina blocked the nunchucks with her spear.
Laurel grunted, and kicked Christina in the shin. Knowing this was a good time to attack, Laurel bent her nunchucks, and a shadow ball came from the middle of it.
Christina staggered to her feet and saw the shadow ball. "Oh fri-" she was blasted backwards into a tree trunk and had her breath knocked out of her. She collapsed on the ground, gasping for air.
“S-STOP! Don’t h-hurt her, y-y-you monster!” Mabel shouted, sliding in front of Christina.
Rose drew her sword.
"Monster, you say? I'm just following orders." Laurel chuckled. She bent her nunchucks and another shadow ball came from the middle of it.
Rose slashed the pair of nunchucks out of her hands and pointed the edge of her sword at Laurel. "Who. Are. You. Working. For."
"Gretta Hayward." Laurel said.
"Who's that?" Amanda asked.
"None of your business." Laurel chuckled.
Rose raised an eyebrow.
Laurel grabbed her nunchucks and wrapped them around Rose's neck. "I told you, none of your business."
Narcissa tackled Laurel, causing her to drop her nunchucks and the two rolled around on the ground like little kids. Eventually, Laurel pinned Narcissa to the ground.
"Testing me is foolish. It is foolish to abruptly attack me as well." Laurel said calmly.
Suddenly, a brown furred wolf and a black cat tackled Laurel. The cat slashed Laurel on her cheek, leaving a bloody gash in her cheek. The wolf pinning Laurel morphed into Zane Goldenhunter. "Then, I guess we're fools," he growled. The cat hissed. "Pan agrees as well," he laughed.
Laurel got up. "You guys are strong. I'll go against Gretta's orders and not kill you all."
"You work with her?" Eugate asked.
"Worked. Now I work on the good side, but I may turn back over." Laurel said.
Pan tilted his head to the side, then walked over to Kyle and rested on her foot.
"Pan!" Kyle exclaimed. She picked him up and cradled him in his arms.
Rose was rubbing her neck where Laurel wrapped her nunchucks. "You know her, Eugate?"
"No. I know she was a dirty spy for the person I was sent to find." Eugate muttered.
"Her name is Duchess Gretta Evvie Hayward." Laurel announced.
Eugate ignored her.
"Where is she, exactly?" Narcissa asked.
"Her castle is in a hundred miles. We could take the tour bus there." Laurel pointed out.
"Alright then! Let's go!" Priscilla cheered.
"We need to wait for it." Eugate murmured.
Everyone waited for a while. Then a green and white bus appeared.
"Hop on in!" Cheered a man who looked like he was in his early 20s.
Everyone got in the tour bus.
The tour guide drove around, commenting on a lot of places. Zane started to fall asleep.
After a long drive, the tour guide said "This is the Hayward Castle. Rumor has it that a serial killer lives there,"
"Sir! This is our stop!" Eugate called.
Zane jolted awake. "Did you say serial killer?" he asked.
The man chuckled, and stayed silent. He opened the bus doors.
Everyone walked out.
Everyone looked up at the dark gray castle. Christina's spear materialized in her hand. "Let's get this over with," she muttered.
Everyone walked towards the door.
"Hey, did anyone else hear footsteps?" Chris asked.
Goldencaster shook his head.
They heard a woman say "Ugh. The magical girls sent to kill me are here. I better hide."
"What's a 'magical girl'?" Taro asked.
"It's a magical girl, duh." Xl4rx said.
Battleblade rolled his eyes.
A loud bang was heard. "What was THAT?" Battleblade exclaimed. The magical girls had broken in.
"That wasn't hard," Rose said bluntly.
"Let's head up to the first floor. Hey, brown-haired girl, check in the basement." Eugate ordered.
"Uh....okay." Harper said. She walked over to the door and broke it down.
"Nice to see you!" Zane Goldencaster exclaimed.
"Hi. Get out. Of the castle." Harper ordered.
"We're a little...hung up at the moment," Battleblade sighed.
The chains snapped in half.
"How did you-nevermind," Taro questioned. The boys dashed out of the room.
Meanwhile, on the first floor, the other magical girls were walking down a hall, with Zane Goldenhunter-in his wolf form-trotting behind Narcissa.
"Hope Harper's alright." Lei said.
"She'll be fine," Rose replied.
Lei sighed, and continued walking.
A figure darted in front of them. "What was that?" Amanda asked nervously.
Luke had already well vooped out of existence and was currently rigging the hallways with traps for funsies. The "Allies" could not trigger these- but for some reason, the figure didn't either. Weird. And It didn't have an imprint in the void, meaning he couldn't just trap the imprint. More weird.
The figure darted down the hall. A small object fell off of their head and clinked down the hallway. Christina picked it up. "A pumpkin hairclip?" she asked.
Lei and Kyle looked over Christina's shoulders and gasped. Christina turned around. "Am I missing something?" she asked.
"Puck. She's here." Kyle muttered.
"Basically, we know this horrible girl named Lucy who is a serial killer. She owns that exact hairclip. If it's here, then she's here." Lei explained.
Aaron's crystal claw formed, glowing radiantly, as if distressed. Probably from the souldust of dead-Zane. It didn't matter. What mattered is that Bloodshard be defragmented.
Chapter 2: Confronting Gretta-then Lucy appears?![]
On the third floor, Lucy Bloodshard was listening to the magical girl's footsteps. "How close are they?" A woman with short blonde hair asked Lucy. "Not too close." Lucy responded. "Someone's broken out the prisoners, though."
Gretta gasped. "WHAT?!"
Luke was having a nice stroll around to the tune of Coconut Mall from Mario Kart and death-trapping doorways.
Zane, still in his wolf form, heard Gretta gasp. He barked and sniffed down the hallway.
"It sounds like someone's on the third floor." Lei pointed out. "We should hurry up there."
Aaron snickered. "What if I punched a hole in the roof? Think that'll work for us?"
"Oh, shut up." Kyle answered.
"Hey, where's my boyfriend?" Narcissa asked.
Zane was nowhere to be seen. Everyone heard thumping sounds on the floor above them.
Aaron looked up. "Hm. Bet you 6000 gold that's one of our enemies and Zane." He continued down the hall until reaching a stairway and began ascending it.
Narcissa's eyes lit up. "Deal." She followed Aaron.
"C'mon guys! Are we gonna let them leave us behind?" Kyle shouted. The girls shook their heads, and followed Kyle.
When they finished ascending the stairs, they saw Zane clasping Lucy Bloodshard's knife, barely preventing her from shoving her knife into his chest. "A...little...help...here?" he grunted.
"Not again."
Aaron's claw floated forward and b-slapped Lucy's knife out of her hand.
The knife cried in pain. How could this have happened? It never wanted to stab anyone. It just wanted to cut an orange in half, how did it come to this?
"Thanks," Zane sighed heavily.
Narcissa tackled Lucy. "That's my boyfriend you're attacking!"
"DAMN YOU-Ugh, whatever. I've been sent down here to kill all of you, so......make these moments the best, as they will be your final!" Lucy explained, then dashing at the girls (and boys) with a new knife in tow.
The floor rose up in the pattern of a bear trap 5 feet in front of the group. Luke phased back into existence and started rigging the walls with plaster spikes.
"Sh-rizzle fluff balls! Stupid wizards!" Lucy moaned. She tried to maneuver her way around it.
"This is what you had to deal with? Ew." Luke turned back down the hallway. "I'm gonna go grab a pizza, I'll leave the rest to you." Aaron stared at him, somewhat peeved.
Zane laughed.
Lucy had made it past the beartrap, somehow. She went for Laurel, ripped something-wait, was that her soul gem-out of her hand, and she then stabbed it aggressively. Laurel fell to the ground.
Lei checked Laurel's pulse. She gasped. "L-laurel......."
Christina threw her spear at Lucy, trapping Lucy's arm between the spear and the wall. Lucy dropped the pieces of Laurel's soul gem and Amanda picked them up.
"M-m-maybe I can w-weld them t-together?" she stuttered.
"No. Once the soul gem is broken, the owner of it is dead." Said a voice. It was Kyubey, flicking his tail back and forth.
Darkshade returned with an imprint. "Dead? No, voidwalkers don't use the term dead." He disintegrated the imprint. "As long as there's an imprint, we say 'out of order'." Laurel materialized... albeit no gem. And probably half brain-dead. But that could be fixed later. "Uh, cat-dog-fox? I leave this thing to you." He threw Laurel at Kyubey with floor-tentacles.
Zane had a blank look on his face. "Uh...okay."
"So, what should I do with her?" Christina asked, pointing to Lucy, who was struggling to pull her arm out from between the two antler-shaped parts of her spear.
A figure of some sort quickly took Lucy out of the spear's antlers, and then dashed off with her.
"Whvat's thvis thving?" Brain-Dead Laurel asked.
Christina gasped. "What the-"
"After it!" Leilani shouted. They began to run after it, curving many corners and running up many staircases,
"This is getting ridiculous," Narcissa panted, after 5 minutes of running.
Eventually, the figure was trapped in a room on the third floor with the girls (and boys).
The figure turned out to be a woman with short blonde hair and piercing red eyes. She was a fair-skinned woman. She wore a red ball gown with black dots. She also wore a crown with a magenta heart at the very front of the crown. She additionally wore long, black heeled boots
"Let's just get this over with." Narcissa collapsed on the ground, exhausted.
"Uhuhuhu.....it looks like you came." The woman chuckled.
Chapter 3: A Epic Battle With The Duchess Ensues! Who Will Win, Who Will Lose?[]
Zane looked at the crown's gem. "Is that Spinel's gem?" he asked. Everyone looked at him. "Have NONE of you watched Steven Universe?"
"You're breaking the fourth wall again, Zane." Luke said blandly.
"Oh, sorry," he replied.
"Will you all shut up so I can introduce myself?" The woman asked aggressively.
The woman raised a eyebrow. "How do you know I'm a Duchess-but, anyways, I am Duchess Gretta Burr Hayward! But you can call me Duchess Gretta. And I'm going to slaughter you, so don't even try to fight back! I'm also older then you, more powerful.....yeah, we're very different."
"The broken sign outside said 'Dutchess Gretta Hayward's castle.'" Zane shrugged.
"Oh. Okay." Gretta responded. "But....before I kill you.....Lucy, go!"
Lucy launched at the magical girls, slashing at them one by one. A few dodged, but some didn't.
Lucy sighed when she saw Zane. "Ah, it's going to be so nice to stab you again."
"Last time I also broke your arm," he shot back.
With that, he morphed into a wolf, and rammed Lucy in her stomach, sending her staggering backwards.
"And? I've grown more skilled since then." Lucy chuckled, grinning. She pulled out her knife and charged at Zane, slashing at the air like it was second nature.
Zane morphed back into a human. "Ok, bad idea!" he exclaimed as Lucy chased him around the room.
Zane morphed back into a wolf, and sped up.
He sank his claws into the wall, and quickly climbed up.
Lucy began stabbing the wall. She really got into it.
Once he reached the top, he morphed back into a human, keeping his hands like that of a wolf's paw. "Hey, Lucy! Come and get me!"
Her knife somehow morphed into a katana. It reached all the way to Zane's ankles.
Zane instinctively pulled his feet out of harm's way.
Xl4rx lifted Lucy to where Zane was. "Hi. Time to die." Lucy began to stab in Zane's general direction.
"I hate you," Zane climbed to the other side of the ceiling.
Xl4rx moved to where Zane was again. Oh god, not another endless cycle.
This repeated for a while. Zane sighed and proceeded to quickly grab the katana out of Lucy's hands with his feet. "I'm tired of this. Time for a circus act!" he exclaimed, tossing the katana upwards. He caught the spinning katana with his teeth and bit into it, shattering it. "Haha! No more stabbing for you!" he laughed.
Lucy was apparently a magical girl, too.
Her soul gem was in her weapon.
She trembled to the ground and stopped breathing.
"...did I do that?" Zane asked, confused, dropping to the ground.
"Yes. Yes, you did." Xl4rx said blankly.
"Uh...karma? OH FRICK-" Zane barely dodged Xl4rx's claw.
Xl4rx kept slashing in Zane's direction, with no emotion on his face whatsoever. Zane scrambled backwards. His hands grew wolf claws. "Hey! I've got claws of my own too!" Zane met each of Xl4rx's relentless blows. While Zane and Xl4rx battled, Amanda was kneeling next to Lei and Kyle. She shook them. "Please wake up. Please wake up," she whispered. "They'll be fine," Christina plainly stated, "The only way to kill them is to break their soul gem." Pan licked Kyle's face. Kyle shifted, then sat up. "What happened?" she asked. Lei sat up as well.
"You were stabbed by that serial killer girl." Mabel said bluntly.
"Seriously? Lucy is such a meanie...." Lei said, rubbing her mostly healed stab wound.
"She's also dead," Zane replied, still battling Xl4rx.
Zane slashed the left side of Xl4rx's face leave a deep gash in it, exposing circuitry. Sparks flew from it. Xl4rx grimaced then charged at Zane.
"Invteresting. Muvst watchv thvis epivc battlev." Brain-Dead Laurel said, beginning to watch the fight.
Xl4rx fired his guns at Zane. Zane avoided most of the bullets, except the one that pierced the top of his right arm, two inches below his shoulder. "Argh!" Zane tumbled to the ground, leaving bloody splotches on the ground. He clutched his blood-stained arm, writhing on the ground. Xl4rx pointed his guns at Zane, and prepared to pull the trigger. Zane's tail sprang into action and grabbed one gun, and smacked the other gun out of Xl4rx's hand with it.
"Yes! Go Zane!" Harper cheered.
"Good tail!" Zane patted his tail. Zane ducked under Xl4rx's claw. "Haha! You missed!" Zane's tail smashed the gun it was holding on the ground, shattering the front end, exposing wires. It handed the gun to Zane's left hand. "What the heck am I supposed to do with thi-" Zane was interrupted as Xl4rx grabbed him by the throat and started to choke Zane. Zane gagged.
Zane whacked Xl4rx's hand with the gun, trying to get him to let go. It had no effect.
Zane whacked harder. Xl4rx just laughed.
Zane weakly tapped Xl4rx's hand with the gun, and dropped the gun. Unfortunately for Xl4rx, the exposed wires raked his claws, sending electricity through him, short-circuiting every mechanical part of him.
Xl4rx convulsed, then fell backwards, immobilized, but not yet dead. Zane collapsed on the ground, unconscious.
"ZANE, GET UP. YOU BETTER GET UP BEFORE I MAKE YOU." Harper ordered.
Christina poked Zane with her spear. "I think he is unconscious," she replied.
"Oh." Harper said. "Heh, sorry."
"Did you forget about me?" Gretta asked.
Rose tapped Gretta's shoulder. Gretta turned around, surprised. "Hey," Rose smirked, punching her across the room.
"Stupid magical girl." Gretta flickered a blinding light from her body.
"Gah!" Rose staggered backwards, blinded.
Amanda, blinded, fired flames at Gretta...or so she thought. "HEY! WATCH IT!" Amanda squinted and saw a torched Christina, part of her hair still on fire.
Christina patted the fire out.
Narcissa pulled out Laurel's nunchucks. She twirled them, and fired a shadow ball at Gretta, disabling the light.
Gretta frowned. A queen's staff formed in her hand and she shot a fireball out of it.
Narcissa deflected the fireball with the nunchucks, inadvertently sending it towards Zane's tail. The scent of smoke drifted to Zane's nose. He coughed and sat up. "Does anyone smell-AHHHH! HOT! HOT!" He ran around the room until Harper sighed and froze his tail. "T-t-t-thanks," he shivered.
Narcissa whistled and handed the nunchucks to Brain-Dead Laurel.
"Ooooov! Let's seev, whvat canv I dov withv thvis?" Brain-Dead Laurel exclaimed.
She ended up firing shadow balls all over the place.
Christina spun her spear and deflected some, Rose, Narcissa, and Mabel drew their swords and dissolved several by slashing at them, Amanda fired flames at some blowing them up, and Harper redirected every one that came near her at Gretta, who dodged them all.
"You guys have bad battling strategies. I did better back in the day." Gretta laughed, releasing a massive heat wave from her staff.
"It's ICE to met you!" Zane morphed into a wolf, and charged at Gretta, and drove his still-frozen tail through the red orb containing the fire magic, turning it into smoke, and melting the ice on his tail. Gretta whacked him across the room and chained Zane to the wall with glowing, magenta chains.
Meanwhile, Luke and Aaron were doing something in the corner with soul magic and void magic.
Christina charged at Gretta, and the handle of her spear and Gretta's staff collided, both trying to push the other back. Eventually Gretta got the upper hand, and kicked Christina into the wall, leaving a dent and cracks in it. Christina's spear spun across the floor.
Gretta stepped on the spear, and it shattered. Thank god her soul gem wasn't in her weapon.
Rose and Mabel dashed towards Gretta, swords in hand. Gretta whacked both of their swords out of their hands. She whacked Mabel away with her staff. Christina scrambled over to check if she was okay. Rose growled. The entirety of her arms grew claws and turned black. Her sclera turned black as well. She lunged at Gretta, slashing at her, snapping her staff in two. Gretta tossed the pieces away, and kicked Rose back.
Milly fired several arrows at Gretta, only for her to dodge all of them. "Alright, this is getting embarrassing," Lyndia sighed.
"I'm 25, and more experienced than any of you. Try to be more skilled the next time you take on someone like me." Gretta said, flashing the blinding light from her body again.
Luke and Aaron stood up. Green soulfire shot out of Luke's staff, a barrage of spears with Aaron. A massive kraken-like manifestation of void and soul appeared above the weapons, appearing to "wield" them.
They spoke in unison, "EAT A DI-"
*FLASHBANG*
"OH GOD DAMN IT"
The wizards got stunned. Luke stumbled onto the side wall, Aaron caught himself with some crystals.
A SANITY: 89%, decreasing 0.5%/min
L POWERSTRAIN: 10%, increasing 0.76%/m
The manifestation flipped the frick out, and caved in 3 parts of the roof while slapping 6 people, identities unknown. Probably at least 4 of the magical gals, Gretta, and poor Zane who couldn't do anything.
"WHO THE HELL SLAPPED ME?!" Gretta screamed.
The manifestation, peeved, did the thing from Hollow Knight where you finish off the Radiance by tentacle-slapping the hell out of her.
Rapidly decreasing in size, it flailed around in midair for a bit before dissipating.
A SANITY: 98%, not decreasing
L POWERSTRAIN: 5%, not increasing
It was super effective! Gretta was knocked onto the floor, briefly stunned.
"All we had to do was slap her?!" Zane exclaimed, with a slap mark still on his face.
"Those were as hard as brick tentacles. Of course they would stun Gretta. If it were a regular slap, then Gretta would still be on her feet." Harper explained.
"Can we focus at the problem at hand?" Christina asked, pointing to Gretta, who had just gotten up.
"Bet one of you thought something dirty when you saw those tentacles. Sinner." Gretta accused.
"Why would we?" Zane asked.
Gretta shot a wave of fireballs from her....crown?
"Hey! Watch it!" Zane barely dodged a fireball by moving his had to the side. He attempted to wriggle out of the chains, but failed.
Amanda, being a master of fire magic, stopped every fireball, and brought them close together. They went around and around, turning into a torrent of fireballs. Amanda fired the torrent at Gretta.
And Gretta was dead.
"YOU COULD'VE DONE THAT EARLIER! WE'VE COULD'VE GOT THIS DONE A LOT SOONER!" Eugate shouted.
Amanda shrugged and picked up Gretta's soul gem.
Luke was regaining balance. "Stupid... tzitzi ya-ku wannabe..." He shook his head and stood up.
Aaron was rubbing the COLLECTOR CRYSTAL against Gretta's physical souldust.
The chains holding Zane disappeared. "So I guess this is it?" he asked.
Xl4rx stood up and pointed his gun at Zane. Zane's tail picked up a piece of a brick and threw it a Xl4rx, hitting him on the head, knocking him unconscious. Zane patted his tail, then ripped the locked door off of it's hinges and walked out. "Bye!"
He walked back in and grabbed Narcissa's arm and ran out again with Narcissa.
"Alright. I assume this is finished."
Luke nodded to himself, then realized something.
He peeked at Zane and Narcissa down the hall and yelled,
"YOU OWE ME 6000 GOLD, DEPOSIT AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE TEMPLE PLEASE!"
He then phased through the floor, the floor, and the floor.
Aaron encased X's entire body in crystal like a modern art piece, and then left.
Amanda looked at Gretta's soul gem. It was strangely still in one piece. Gretta started to sit up. "GET IT OUTTA HERE!" Christina whacked the gem with the remains of her spear, and it bounced down the stairs like a ping-pong ball. Gretta collapsed again. "NOW this is finished," she stated bluntly.
"Well, bye everyone!" Christina waved, walking down the stairs with Mabel, who also waved.
Zane Goldencaster was sitting outside with the other boys. He heard footsteps and saw Narcissa walking outside. He dashed behind a rock, peeking out from behind it. He saw Goldenhunter walking with Narcissa, who kissed him on the cheek. As soon as they were out of sight, Zane walked out from behind the rock and towards Alvin. "Was she with-" Alvin nodded, clearly surprised. Zane shrugged and sat down again. "Fine by me!" he exclaimed.
Harper and the girls walked outside.
Harper caught a sight of Narcissa kissing Zane on the cheek. Harper retched.
Rose looked pained. "What's wrong?" Priscilla asked.
"I-I can't take this anymore! All this responsibility, all this fighting-I'm gonna take it all away!" Rose shouted.
Time seemed to stop. And then everything was....gone.
CONSOLE_UNIVERSE
FATAL ERROR FATAL ERROR
VAR_RdW HAS EXECUTED SUBROUTINE WIPE
ERROR: COALESCE EXIST=0
ERROR: UNIVERSE EXIST=0
INITIATE RECONTAINMENT?
[Y/N]
USER FL: YES
CONSOLE INITIATING OFFSHOOT
LOADING...
>OFFSHOOT-MG-1: ALLWIPE
>OFFSHOOT-MG-2: RECONTAIN
>Libr[EXPUNGED]3
SELECT OFFSHOOT
USER FL: OFFSHOOT-MG-2
ACQUIRING DATA...
FOUND
ACT_TPOMGL5
USER FL_ RELOCATED TO O-MG-L5 "Void"
Zane Goldencaster sat up. "Hello? Anyone there?"
Particles zoomed around and collected together, forming Alvin.
The same happened for Chris.
Harper materialized as well.
"W-where are we?" Harper asked.
"I...I think we are in the void again," Zane replied.
Rose walked up to them. "That would be right."
The nothing spat out the voidwalkers one by one, each with an "oof" or "ow" or "get off me you idiot".
"But how did we end up here?" Zane asked.
"I may or may not have altered time to the point that I eliminated the universe..." she muttered.
Aaron left, presumably back to his own dimension, leaving Luke.
"I can just recreate it!" Rose exclaimed, then closed her eyes, concentrating on something. The world around them began to materialize. Zane looked around in awe. Alvin opened one eye and saw a giant tentacle about to grab Rose. "Behind you-" Alvin did not get to finish, as the tentacle grabbed Rose and everyone else was being held by tentacles as well. "What the-" Chris exclaimed. Everyone saw Luke commanding the tentacles. Rose, clearly having lost concentration, accidentally opened a tiny black hole that was quickly expanding, preparing to suck up the entire world. "Luke! What are you-" Chris was interrupted, being plunged into a portal, along with everyone else. Then, the portal closed.
TO BE CONTINUED...