War of the Magical Girls

"Great! Thanks!" Alice responded, grinning toothily. The taciturn girl's relatively rapid assent came as a pleasant surprise. Honestly, she'd halfway been expecting the Russian to reject her plea outright. "So, I guess what I'm looking for is... anything about alternate timelines or parallel universes or that kind of thing. I mean," she added quickly and a little defensively, "not science fiction necessarily, but more like theoretical physics for the layman or the implications of time-travel or something."

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

Katyusha raised an eyebrow and stood up.

"It would be in the Physics section. This is Theology." She said. With a snap, she closed her book and began to lead the way to the section in question with a deftness more usually reserved for Sherpas.

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

Dead silence out of Julia. Absolutely nothing stirred her.

Uh

Elsewhere

"Great! You'll be so happy you did this!" Ahn exclaimed, skipping out of the mirror room after guiding Giz to the center. From the doorways she looked it, a perky smile never leaving her face. The sliding doors began closing, leaving Giz in total darkness.

"Oh, by the way!" Ahn said before her face disappeared on the other side. "I lied about it not hurting! Hurts like a bitch, actually!"

Dark. Silent. The room felt like a coffin six feet underground, the very atmosphere oppressive and dead. The deafening silence smothering even Giz' breathing and heartbeat. Were it not for her fee on the ground, she might not have been able to tell which was was up and down.

The room was getting hotter. Annoying at first, then growing more unpleasant with each passing minute. Sweat trickled down her body, dampening her clothes. No amount of movement of attempts to release the heat proved effective. If Giz moved in any direction, the heat followed, never letting up. It was becoming unbearable now, like fire. Fire from within? The room was not getting hotter. Giz herself was the one burning up. Being consumed from within with the intensity of the sun. Burning needles piercing every fiber of her being.

Giz could see herself now. See herself own warped reflection a million times over in the mirrors encasing the room. Her entire body radiated a red and orange glow, like the fire within was trying to burn it's way out.

Then came the cold. Not from her body, that still raged like an angry inferno. Cold from outside, from the room itself this time, invading through her ears, nose, and mouth. Streaming into her body and invading her mind. No, it was more than her mind. Her very soul was under attack by this cold, malevolent force.

You will serve us. The words were imprinted on her very being.

You will fight for Drakan. You will be our champion. Through you, we shall save all and rule all.

Power awaits you. Unlimited potential is in you. In the name of Drakan you shall go forth and conquer. You are us. We are you. It lies inside you! The Power! The Will! Your New Self! NOW BECOME MORE!

And then there was nothing of Giz.

---

Ahn tapped her foot on the floor, trying to keep her impatience in check.

"Why does this have to take so long?" she grumbled. Waiting sucked. She could be out fighting, winning, fulfilling that unquenchable thirst for conquest that had afflicted her ever since she had come out of this room. How long ago was that anyway? Ahn could not remember. Not like it mattered, her old life was some boring blur of a memory that she did not care to recall. No one around here did. All that mattered was fighting for Drakan. And making Evergreen happy.

"Ooh, she's gonna be so proud when she sees I got one all by myself!". Ahn squealed. She would have danced too, but at that moment the doors to the room opened, indicating the process was complete.

Ahn peaked in.

"Hey, you alive in there?" She called out. "I'm coming in! Don't hit me like the last girl did!"

Stepping in as the lights came back on, Ahn soon zeroed in on Giz laying on the ground. She walked over to her side and knelt down.

"You awake?"

Hallway
With a long, drawn-out creak, the door to Hannah's room opened, and the magical girl stepped out. Her naturally-blue hair was now dyed jet black, and her eyeliner and blush were painted to match. In place of her usual school uniform, she was wearing a fishnet shirt, black fingerless arm-length gloves, black boots that went up to just below her knees, and some sort of chain-riddled black skirt that looked more like it came from a metal foundry than from the mall.

She shut the door and stared forward, her face blank.

"Yo," she said to Victoria, expressionless.

Magda looked at Ashley's wrist. "An astrolabe watch? Wow." She shook her head in mock disappointment entirely unsuited to someone who had the Dicta Boelcke on her wall and more than one Snoopy-as-WW 1-pilot T-Shirt. "Anyways, yeah, mail room sounds good."

---

Victoria barely noticed that Hannah had come out of her room, because she was currently occupied with screaming loud enough to wake the dead.

Ohgodohgodohgod It felt like her brain had freezing claws dug into it and everything besides the horrible fear and panic and pain was being burnt out of her, she was going to die -

edited 24th Jan '15 7:37:30 PM by KarrinBlue

Exist, pursued by bear

"Hmmph, whatever," Hannah said as she walked off. She went over to Julia's room, and finding the door open, let herself in.

"Hey," she said to Julia, voice still monotone. "You're back. I'm gonna go beat the shit out of Prita. You want to help? Or are you gonna be a dork?"

---

"Alright!" Ashley said, heading to the mail room. When she arrived, she fished around in her shirt for a while until she pulled out a single gold-colored key. She stuck it in her mailbox to open it, and with a grin forming on her face, pulled out a carboard box.

"Ahoy!" she said happily. "This is it! Let's go - wait, no, let's go see if Erica's still in her room."

Julia's Room

The letter E in its most distilled and pure form was what Julia heard when Victoria screeched down the hall. Caesar poked her head out of her room, door still open.

Corridor

Julia's forehead nearly collided with this... person? "Uh... what did Prita do?" Julia asked, a little off put. "Do I know you? I haven't been at school for a while, so maybe you're new here..." Julia couldn't recognize Hannah with her new hair and her... interesting fashion choice. ''Could this be... Hannah?" Julia thought. "Hannah?" She said, barely above a whisper.

edited 24th Jan '15 7:53:00 PM by mrminun

Uh

Outside Julia's Room
"It's just Aitch, now, God, get it right," Hannah said drably. "Prita threw Giz under the bus and made her turn into a Dark Magical Girl. You can make yourself useful by watching the hallways when I'm pounding her."

"Giz turned into a dark magical girl? You mean like that Ahn Xi chick we fought at that restaurant? Prita shouldn't have done that... I guess I'll go with you!" Julia didn't want Prita to get hurt, but if she really did get Giz hurt in some way, maybe something should be done. "Hey, were you the one making those unholy..." and here the Roman made her best mockery of the shriek from earlier. ^note  It wasn't good per se, but she tried her best. She looked like a fool doing it.

edited 24th Jan '15 8:16:19 PM by mrminun

Uh

Outside Julia's Room
"Good, let's go," Hannah said, starting down the hall. "Those noises are just coming from some white girl who dropped too much acid."

By this point, Victoria had keeled over in the hallway. Unfortunately, this had resulted in her Boudicawisp being pinned underneath her directly on top of Stilicho, which did not help much and resulted in yet more continuous screaming.

Exist, pursued by bear

By the time Alice and Katyusha had finished their search, the British girl was wheeling her way over to one of the room's many tables with The Elegant Universe, Introduction to String Theory, Time Travel: A Writer's Guide, Time Travel for Dummies, and a few other tomes in her lap. "Thanks for the help!" she chirped, beaming at her new companion, "I would never have been able to get these on my own."

She took a moment to situate herself, dropped the books on the hardwood, and began skimming the tables of contents. "You're more of a theologian, though, huh?" she continued casually as she tried to figure out which chapters pertained to her investigation, "You practicing anything?"

edited 25th Jan '15 12:31:29 PM by darksidevoid

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

"No. I was merely reading a book that I found interesting." She said quietly. "Media that stimulates thinking is hard enough to come by, these days." Having sufficiently brushed off the question, she looked at the pile of books they'd collected. "So what prompts the sudden interest in alternate universes?"

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

Some Other Part of the Dorms
Ashley knocked on Erica's door.

"Iz open." Erica grumbled just loud enough to be heard from beyond the door. The girl herself lay unmoving on her bed, face buried in the pillow.

Some Other Part of the Dorms
"Erica...?" Ashley said cautiously as she opened the door. "We were going to go play Just Dance 11 for the Wii G in my room, if you're into that sort of popular music thing... are you okay?"

"Oh... ahaha, well it's not really a recent interest or anything," Alice half-lied, trying her best to avoid any tremors in her voice, "I'm actually doing research for a book I'm writing - a novel. I haven't gotten very far yet, but since I was thinking of introducing time-travel into the plot, I figured I better brush up on this stuff."

"How about you?" she queried, trying to steer the conversation away from her reasons, "Any hobbies?"

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

"'M fine." Erica said without raising her head. "Just feeling really tired. 'N cold. 'N hot."

Magda stuck her head in Erica's door. "Do you need to go to the nurse? You sound kinda sick."

Exist, pursued by bear

Erica's Room
"Sick?" Ashley asked, stepping towards Erica. "Let me check your temperature." She stuck a hand into the pillow to feel Erica's forehead for a moment.

"Hmmm.... It doesn't seem that bad. I think I have something that can fix that," she said. She fished around in her jacket for a moment and pulled out a metal flask - smaller than her usual one - and pulled off the cap. "Drink this, it'll warm you up."

Sitting up - Why do my bones feel so sore? - Erica gulped down the offered flask.

"Thanks. What was that?"

Erica's Room
"Captain Morgan's 100 Proof," Ashley said with two thumbs up. "It's medicinal. See? I told you you'd feel better."

Magda facepalmed. "Oh, Gott in Himmel, Ashley, alchohol is awful if you're sick, you lunatic. Erica, we should actually probably go to the nurse." Magda walked over and thwapped Ashley on the head. "Do you feel like you're going to throw up or anything?"

Exist, pursued by bear

Erica's Room
"I don't know what you're saying, it always makes me feel better," Ashley said.