Hiroko looked back for a split second, to see the witch reaching towards Yuriko's body. No. She failed to protect the other magical girl, the girl who'd saved her, but she wasn't going to let this witch defile Yuriko's corpse.
"No..."
Hiroko raised her clockwork rifle, the bayonet glinting.
"No!"
She charge at the witch, her gear storm attack flaring into life. She began violently stabbing at the witch's stubby legs with the bayonet.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."~Natsuko Hikari~ Hikari saw the witch reach out towards Yuriko's body, and she began to panic. "Yuina! Please, help me get Yuriko's body!" She started to run towards it, not caring if Yuina would actually help.
~Tsukasa Suoh~ Suoh found that careful aim and timing would let him shoot through a bunch of tentacles at once, slowing down the witch's ability to attack. But he knew he couldn't keep this up forever...
Hiroko's attack would prove to be the Witch's downfall. Beneath the monstrous amounts of hair, there lay a very tiny doll like body from which all hair came and that now lay in tattered ruins due to Hiroko's attack.
The whole school and barrier slowly started to fall apart and vanish... The roof from which the signpost hung split and broke, leaving it and Yuriko's body to slowly fall from those heights before they too started to vanish... too high and far away for Hikari, a regular girl, to be able to reach in time.
Chiyo saw the barrier vanishing, bit noticing the way the parts around her were going just the slightest bit faster.
She breathed out the slightest sigh of relief as her gem stopped glowing. It's done. Hiroko killed it. Serves that monster right; doing that to Yuriko-san.
But no, she realized. There was nothing unique about that particular witch. Any of them would've done the same if they'd gotten the chance. All the other witches out there would do the same, to other people, if left unchecked.
"We can't let something like this ever happen again," she said aloud.
After Akira had left the area, he began to question exactly what he was doing.
"Why did I follow them? Why do I keep involving myself with this stuff? I know it's dangerous, I know that stuff like this could probably cost me my life much like that girl did today. So then why... why am I unable to turn away?"
edited 8th Apr '11 2:20:24 PM by HekirekiNoMakai
I will peel your skin off and put you in a box full of hungry rats. All because I feel like it.Yuina helped Hikari get back up. "It's difficult, be please try not to be sad. Remember what I told you before, about sadness. I've seen many people die that way. And in a way — this will probably sound strange to you, but it was a mercy that she died the way she did. I have seen things far more horrible than that befall magical girls. She, at least, died fighting bravely, for the sake of people she cared about."
edited 8th Apr '11 2:53:11 PM by Zudak
When he had gotten back to his box, Akira took off his diguise and placed it inside. He then crawled inside of it and curled himself up into a ball.
"I should probably take that Yuina girl's advice and not get involved with any of this. It's not my business." Thought Akira as he tried to get himself some rest. However, as he tried, images of that girl's dead body continued to appear in his mind, and would continue to haunt him in his dreams.
edited 8th Apr '11 2:51:15 PM by HekirekiNoMakai
I will peel your skin off and put you in a box full of hungry rats. All because I feel like it.Hiroko's transformation reversed itself, leaving her in her school uniform once more. Numbly, she fell to her knees. She... hadn't really even known Yuriko too well. But the girl had saved her life.
And Hiroko had failed to save hers.
She didn't speak. There was really nothing she could say.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

~Natsuko Hikari~ Hikari felt Yuina's hand, and despite her coldness, it was still enough to make her a bit more in the moment. "She won't come back. She can't come back, can she?"
~Tsukasa Suoh~ Suoh decided that instead of attacking the feet for now, he should protect Hiroko. He cried out to her. "Hiroko! You need to get away from it!"