War of the Magical Girls

Magda glared at Ashley. "And for that you are lucky you have a magical liver. Seriously, that can't be healthy."

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"A novel, really?" Kat feigned interest to dodge the question. "What is it about?"

"Your mission is not to nuke the squid god." —Faramir

Hearing the other girls at the school getting up and going about their day, Prita made sure that her door was locked, then turned and burrowed under her covers again. She couldn't bear to deal with anyone, not right now.

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

"Yeah, maybe I do need some real medicine."

Or at least a Sprite, her grandma's go-to remedy for most ailments. Whatever Ashley had given her it sure wasn't soda. At leash her tongue was not as parched as before. Erica swung her legs of the bed. She had fallen sleep in her clothes. No need to change for a trip to the nurse's office, she decided.

"Which way is that again?"

"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim

"Ah!" Alice flinched. "It's, uh... it's about a Magical Girl and her friends fighting off an mysterious invasion by the Forces of Darkness, basically, and it turns out that the main villain is actually herself from an alternate timeline! Sound pretty stupid when I say it out loud, doesn't it? Eheheh..." She laughed nervously, twirling a strand of hair around her finger.

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"Nurse's office is a bit west of here," Magda said. "I can walk with you over there, if you want."

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She'd seen better liars at the Academy. When they were drunk (which, to be fair, was most of the time). "And you need to figure out a way for the heroines to break into this parallel dimension to rescue a friend who was kidnapped?"

"Your mission is not to nuke the squid god." —Faramir

"Huh?" Alice looked up and shook her head in honest confusion, then re-buried herself in Time Travel for Dummies. "Nah, just trying to make sure I can explain where the bad guys come from without it sounding like bullocks... Readers pick up on mistakes thereabouts, you know!"

edited 25th Jan '15 5:20:59 PM by darksidevoid

GM of AGOG S4: Frontiers RP; Sub-GM of TABA, SOTR, & UUA RPs

Erica's Room
"Hmm, if she's that sick I don't know if she's in any condition to walk," Ashley said. She started trying to carry Erica.

"You realize that pretty much everything in those books is guesswork, right? We have no scientific evidence to point toward the existence of other universes, except 'well, we don't have any proof that they don't exist! And we both know how much of a fallacy that is." She said, sounding almost bored.

"Your mission is not to nuke the squid god." —Faramir

"Oh, and I suppose ye'd know, because ye've read so much on the subject, right, ye blooming stroopy swot?" Alice snapped back and glared up at the other girl, her nerves suddenly grated to the extreme, "Either way, who gives a shite if we haven't any proof of it? That's not the point!"

edited 25th Jan '15 8:58:12 PM by darksidevoid

GM of AGOG S4: Frontiers RP; Sub-GM of TABA, SOTR, & UUA RPs

Kat gave her an unperturbed stare. "You are a terrible liar." She said. "If you are going to do research on our enemy, you are going to have to do it from first principles. Combat videos of our missions will yield more data than guesswork by mathematicians. If you need help doing that, I will help you."

"Your mission is not to nuke the squid god." —Faramir

The screaming in Victoria's head faded after what felt like forever, its final reverberating echoes sounding almost like a familiar voice. Stilicho went limp, or at least as limp as a featureless ball of light could go, in Victoria's hands, giving an impression like it was gasping for breath if wisps actually breathed.

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Faster than any normal human's eye could follow, there was a blade sliding past Ahn Xi's throat. The black blade of an elongated gladius rested on her shoulder, its edge giving off a faint reddish aura that illuminated the side of her neck.

"Heh, heh, heh..." the girl on the floor slowly cackled, pushing herself onto one knee without taking the blade away. "Remind me to thank you for the warning later," she said, flashing a predatory smile and drawing the weapon back toward herself at a suggestive angle toward Ahn's throat. "I'd hate to let the favor go unrepaid."

The girl on the floor straightened up, stretching out her body from head to toe with a series of cracks from her joints, putting the fact that her weapon and personality weren't the only things to have changed in Ahn Xi's absence. Her toga had been replaced by a slinky, midnight-black garment with a deep V neck, flowing sleeves, and a bottom half that tapered down to little more than an elegant loincloth. Her simple bronze armor had turned to a mirror-like gold that reflected the black of her clothing, and its plain, functional forms had transformed into the shapes of bladed hearts. Her round shield seemed at first to have been replaced by a sickle-like weapon in the outline of an elongated heart, but at a closer look, a faint reddish aura like that around the blade of her sword filled the empty space inside the heart, creating an impenetrable force field. Most eye-catching of all, though, was the golden laurel-crown that wrapped around the pointed witch's hat atop her head, where her hair had turned from black to a dark, pinkish red that obscured her eyes.

"I can feel the power coursing through my veins," the newly-reborn Dark Magical Girl said, flexing her hands in the air. Indeed, the air around her had changed tangibly from before, radiating a new kind of power; although that might just be the ozone from the transformation process. She whirled toward Ahn and pointed. "Take me somewhere I can test my new strength! Giselle, Queen-to-be of the World, commands it!"

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Tammy placed her lunch tray on the stack by the garbage bins and headed toward the cafeteria exist with her doggie box. She hadn't been able to force herself to finish her breakfast, but momma didn't raise her to throw away perfectly good food. She stepped into the hallway and headed toward the dormitories, planning to leave the box in her room's fridge for lunch, but along the way she was distracted by the sound of some kind of scuffle from one of the rooms she was passing. She paused, and walked up to the door.

"Uh, everything okay in there?" she called, knocking on Erica's door.

What matters in this life is much more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. - F. Rogers.

Maya turned in her sleep. “Mhrr, no, Giz, don't let the otters eat you...” she mumbled.
She tossed and turned, obviously having a nightmare, then finally woke up with a start.
“Fuck” was all she said. Looking around as she changed out of her sweaty pyjamas and noticing Magda wasn't there, she sighed. Of course, that reminded her that her ribs still hurt from the fight. She put her uniform on and got out of the room, intent on finding Magda.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

Victoria whimpered slightly as Boudica's wisp finally, finally moved away from Stilicho. She curled up tightly on the ground while Boudica's wisp flopped in midair. Then, the wisp moved towards her and began shoving on her shoulder.

Get up. Now. Victoria glared at the Wisp. Get. Up. The Wisp began to claw into Victoria's shoulder. You can sleep somewhere better than an exposed hallway, I am not letting you lie here where anyone could come by.

Victoria groaned and crawled over to a dorm room she knew to be unoccupied, and after a few seconds of fumbling with the doorknob opened the door. She slipped inside and went over to one of the beds. Admittedly it had no sheets, but that didn't really matter as she flopped down and curled up on top of it, Boudica's wisp closing the door behind them.

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Elsewhere

Ahn's mocking smile had frozen in place after Giz's weapon made contact with her neck. Giz might not have heard the mental Eep! that crossed Ahn's head, but she might have noticed the other girl's slightly widened eyes. After Giz had removed the gladius from her throat, Ahn reached up to her own neck, rubbing the spot where skin and steel had met, checking for blood. After confirming a total lack of injuries, she finally scowled at the new Dark Magical Girl.

"Jerk." she muttered just before Giz turned to her and made her demand. Her scowl turned into a chuckle.

"Slow down there, killer. Before we unleash you on the goodie two-shoes out there, let's test out what you got here."

Ahn walked back to the entrance, poked her head out, and yelled, "Hey, you lot! Get over here!"

A few moments later, a pair of golems lumbered in. With her new change, Giz could feel them before she saw them. A vague feeling, like an extension of her own self was projected into the monsters.

"Before you can conquer worlds, you need an army." Ahn was saying. "With your power, you can control them absolutely. Tell them to do something. Anything!" There was a pause. Then, preempting Giz even thinking about it Ahn added, "You can't make them hit me so don't even try."

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Atlantis

"Can w'lk fine!" Erica yelled/slurred, batting away Ashley's hand. God, why was it so hard to even talk?

She pulled herself out of bed, swung her feet down on the floor and stood up. Despite her previous insistence, she found herself leaning on the other girls for support.

Ever since the mission Erica had felt like this. Why was she the only one sick? It was not like she was the only one sitting in the sea water for most of the fight. Stupid sickness. Stupid battle for making her sick. Stupid Ashley for not being sick with her. Stupid...

"Are we there yet?" Erica mumbled before they had even reached the door.

"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim

Erica's Room
"Yeah..." Ashley muttered back. "Sure, whatever you say. We're aaaaaaaaalmost there"

Maya wasn't very successful in her search, so far, and it was beginning to annoy her. Add to that her aching ribs and the general feeling of “I hate being useless in battle” and her mood was souring, fast. She went on looking, but wasn't really paying attention, it being divided between her wounds and generally being annoyed.
So when she opened the half-closed door to the room Victoria was lying in, she closed it and continued onward for a few moments before realising that holy shit that girl looks rather beat up and returning back to that room.
“Uh, hello?” Maya asked. “Are you alright?”

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

Erica's Room

Magda sighed. "Hm. Ok, getting you to walk down the stairs may not be the best plan." She looked out the window. "Well... I could probably carry you straight to the nurse's office. But you might get airsick, and you'd have to be careful to hold on tight."

Victoria's Comandeered Meltdown Room

Victoria winced as the door opened. She rolled over so that her back was to Maya. Boudica's wisp floated up from her side and flew over to sit-float in front of Maya, and attempted to communicate via tail-pointing, ear-twitching, and expressive dog noises the state that her magical girl was in.

edited 7th Feb '15 6:03:01 PM by KarrinBlue

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“No, you're not alright,” Maya stated. “In fact, you look pretty beat up...”
Hanzō's Wisp, orbiting Maya's head, didn't bump into the other Wisp. It grazed it on its circling. That was enough for Maya to reel. “The hell you've been going through?!”

edited 11th Feb '15 1:53:09 AM by desdendelle

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

"Stupid otters..." was all the response Magda got from the sick Magical Girl. However random her sentences were though, her brain was still working enough to swing her arms around Magda neck. "Sail away." she said, the closest thing to affirmation to Magda's offer to fly her down she was probably going to give.

"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim

"That's not what this is about at all!" Alice grumbled in protest. After a beat, however, she sighed in defeat. "I guess I might as well draw inspiration from real life... but I was trying to avoid that!" she hurriedly added. "Combat videos would be pretty useless, though. Know if we have any maps that mark where "DMG"s have attacked? I bet some internet conspiracy theorists have one if we don't, but theirs would probably be less accurate."

edited 12th Feb '15 8:02:03 PM by darksidevoid

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"Those would probably be in classified archives." Kat said. "Not in the library. Do you have a clearance?"

"Your mission is not to nuke the squid god." —Faramir

Erica's Room

Magda walked over to the room's balcony, half-dragging Erica as she did so. "OK, hold on a sec." She pulled Erica's arms off her. "Don't want you to get hurt when my wings happen!" She concentrated for a moment, and her clothes were replaced with her black-and-red magical girl uniform as her wings snapped outwards. "OK then! So, hold on tight. If you let go I can probably catch you before you hit the ground, but it won't be fun for anyone."

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Victoria's Comandeered Meltdown Room

Victoria rolled over to face Maya. "...I have no idea, I had Boudicca's wisp touch this guy - this one's Giz's, right? - and then I, I felt like I was burning and freezing and being torn apart and -" She squeezed her eyes shut. "...my throat hurts."

edited 12th Feb '15 2:42:03 PM by KarrinBlue

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Erica's Room
"Uh... bye?" Ashley said to an empty room after Magda and Erica had left. Left her alone. In someone else's room.

"Arrr," she growled, looking around the room with a mischievous grin. "I be after the booty...." she muttered to herself, nodding approvingly at her wisp as she started to write a note.

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Victoria's Comandeered Meltdown Room
...a few minutes later, Ashley was walking down the hall, whistling innocently when she heard some commotion coming from one of the rooms. She poked her head through the door, and saw Maya and Victoria.

"Wow," she said. "I think I can recognize a hangover when I see one. Bit off a little more than you can chew, huh?"