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OOC: This is a joint post between
me and
Katsucha and
Zandorf, we wrote this together through
Pirate pad, something awesome that everyone wanting to write a joint post with someone should use.))
After lunch had ended, Soju had to go back to the council room, since they had to start planning on which clubs would have to be disbanded or their funding cut. They argued back and forth, though it was mostly one-sided. The VP, Secretary, and Relations members of the council were all guys, and they were a part of that accursed fan club they started about her. Even with the council president on hrt side, every time Soju brought up the idea of cutting that fan club's budget, they would threaten to disband the pole-arms club, which Soju and the president were in. All that was needed to disband a club was a majority vote. With only five council members, you'd be able to guess who was at a majority. And that fan club had the largest budget out of every club, what they spent it on, was anyone's guess. At the end of the school day, everyone could only agree to disband the drama club, as they only had two members, and to cut the funding for the touhou game club. They still had to decide what to cut to keep them out of the red. A cut that would come close to an additional ¥200,000.
"That was long, boring and unproductive. I guess I should go home now." Soju said as she stretched her muscles out.
The gates to the school were crowded as people were starting to head home. As Soju passed through the gates on her way home, she forgot that she needed to get some groceries for the dinner tonight. She started her walk towards the shopping district, using the branch she had found, and hidden, earlier as a walking stick.
About halfway to the shopping district, Soju saw a girl that was starring at something on her hand. The girl looked a couple years older than herself, just by the size of her bust, and she was wearing the uniform of someone who went to Mitakihara High School. Due to getting curious, she decided to follow her, just to make sure she was alright. She also noticed another girl who was following the strange girl. She looked about the same age, and had the same uniform on as the other strange girl. Soju decided to remain as quiet as she could as she followed the two strange girls. It was the weirdest thing, following these girls, the first girl never once looked up from what was in her hands. She never ran into anyone, and for the last ten minutes, she took roads no one was on, except the three of them. The second girl, just as quietly as her, followed the first. And finally the first girl looked up from what she held, to look at the strange, empty and abandoned house in front of her. The house wasn't in too bad of a condition. In fact, the house looked recently abandoned.
"This is strange." Soju said as she looked around,
"There should be people around, even during this time of day.".
She got more curious as the time went on, and decided to continue to spy on the strange girl.
After arriving in the shopping district, Usami bought some vegetables, fruits and meats that she needed.
"I guess now I can head home and make dinner. I wonder if Manager-san would like some," Usami smiled at the idea when she suddenly tripped and fell,
"Ouch!! That hurts...", Usami said as she held some of her tears back. After getting back up, brushing the dust off of her clothes, Usami started walking back home. Though on her way home Usami caught a glimpse of who seemed to be Aoi
"Was that princess? I wonder what she would be doing out in this area." Usami decided to follow her for a bit.
Aoi saw the round gate to the witch's barrier before her, and walked forward; entering the gate.
As soon as Usami got to where she thought she saw Aoi walk to, she was gone.
"Was I seeing things?", Usami thought to herself, but upon a closer inspection, she noticed something strange from where she thought she saw Aoi disappear. She then approached the abondoned house
"What is this thing?", Usami said as she examined the strange rift in front of her.
Soju suddenly saw the first mysterious girl disappear into what seemed to be some sort of a gateway. After she went through the gate, she saw the second girl approach the same place the first girl went through. she saw her examining the gate, as if contemplating whether to go in or not.
"What is she doing?" Soju said as the second girl continues to look at the gate.
"Did princess really go through this thing? Hmm, I wonder if I should follow her," Usami said as she put her hand on the rift.
"I guess here goes nothing!".
All of a sudden, Soju saw the second girl disappear into the same gate the first did. Now, her mind starts racing.
"I don't know what is going on, but I should probably go and see if the senpais are alright," Soju said as she mustered up her courage.
She walked over to the gate and hesitated as she saw it. She then slowly raised her hand to the gate and slowly stepped through it, and entered into one of her worst nightmares.
Aoi looked around on the layout of the new world she found herself in after entering. She could see the silver sky and the abnormal environment, filled with tools, wrenches, and all the items that can be found on a garage or a workshop, and realized how everything within the barrier was moving at high speed, while she was walking forward, the gem on her hand was aglow all the while, and then a
Dora appeared before her.
"Heh, bring it on!", then, Aoi the Mahou Shoujo, transformed, her cloths were replaced with a blue dress, a cape materialized, and her shoes transfigured into pink boots. On her right hand, a heavy
broad sword appeared.
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OOC; Rise-chan: Just imagine that sword on the linked pic on my OC's arm. ^^;;))
"What is this place?" Usami said as she saw the abnormal environment.
[/b]"I need to get out of here."[/b] Usami said as she started to step back and started running back where she came through.
"This isn't happening, this isn't happening..", Soju said repeatedly as she started to traverse in the abnormal environment. As she moved further and further into the environment, she suddenly saw this huge monster appear from no where. Soju freaked out, she dropped the stick that she was holding, while pissing her pants, she ran in the opposite direction.
After not being able to find the gateway she came through, Usami started to panic even more. She then started to run off in a different direction, but after a bit, she stopped, frozen in her tracks.
"What is that thing...?", she said, as a strange creature started approaching her, tears began flowing down from her eyes, as soon as the monster got a bit more closer, she was somehow able to force herself to run away.
Aoi, charged towards the
Dora, with her strength, she wielded her sword in great speed, and slashed it a few times and it died, after which it vanished from existence.
While Soju ran in the opposite direction of that horrible monster, she couldn't escape the one that now appeared ahead, in the middle of the environment, before her. At this point, she broke down and didn't care anymore. she only stared at the incredible monster, and wept, thinking that it was the end.
After Usami ran away, she no longer paid attention to where she was running. In her mind, she just wanted to get away from that creature. Then all of a sudden, Usami tripped on something and hit the floor, face first.
When something hit Soju, she fell onto her face and looked at what hit her, and it turned out to be the second girl that she saw entering this place.
"Ouch!! That one really hurt." Usami said as she went up onto her knees, rubbing her nose from the pain she felt from hitting the floor.
"What did I just hit!?. Usami said as she turned around to see what she hit and to her surprise, there on her knees were a girl that looked around her age and was wearing the same uniform as her.
Soju got onto my knees, and scramble over to the girl. With at least two people together, this place should be less scary, thought Soju.
Usmai noticed the girl had gotten closer to her, but she didn't back away. Usami didn't want to be alone in this place anymore.
Kyubey could see the two girls, from far away,
"Who would have thought, that the both of them would be in such a place at the same time?".
When Aoi saw the other Dora, she threw her sword towards it, stabbing it to death. The same sword materialized on her right hand.
Soju then saw the monster die and tried to get closer to the girl.
"Hey, d-did you s-see th-those things... those m-monsters?!" Soju stuttered as she scrambled closer to the girl, tears still flowing down her eyes.
"Yes I s-saw them, but what were they and what is this place?", Usami said as she hugged the girl after seeing the monster die.
"I think we should get out here together! I don't want to stay here anymore!".
Soju hugged the girl back, crying a little more onto her shoulder, but feeling a lot better now, since she was with another person in such a horrible place.
"I-I think we should leave here too... b-but is there a way out? Soju said as she looked at the girl's face.
"I-I don't know! Earlier while running back to the way I came in, the exit was gone and I haven't seen anything that looked like one either. Why did I follow that stupid princess?! I should have just gone home!!", Usami said as she hugged the girl tighter and crying more.
"How can that be?! The exit disappeared?! What do we do now? I don't want to stay in here for the rest of my life!, Soju said as she now started to hyperventilate from an oncoming panic attack.
Usami started to wipe the girl's tears away as soon as she saw the girl hyperventilating,
"Hey, are you okay?! Please calm down a little. I don't want to be here alone, so please calm down," Usami said with nervousness in her voice.
Soju couldn't hear the girl's voice anymore. she clutched onto the girl's shirt as hard as she could, trying to take deep breaths, but to no avail, it was a full panic attack, and she didn't knew how long it'd last.
When Usami saw that the girl's breathing weren't calming down, she raised her hand and gave her a slapped to her face.
"Please calm down! We need to calm down, the both of us!", Usami said as she tried holding back more of her tears.
That slap was all that was needed for Soju. It snapped her right out of her panic attack, granted she stopped breathing for a moment, her heartbeat rate settled back down.
"Th-Thank you for that, I always have really bad panic attacks when I get really scared!", was all Soju could muster up to say, though she still had tears filling up her eyes.
"It was nothing. But now I think we should get out here. I don't want to be near those monsters if more of them were to come," Usami said as she tried to get back up on her feet while trembling.
As the girl tried to get back to her feet, Soju let go of her.
"B-But if there's no exit, where should we go?! We can't stay here, and there's no where else to go to either...", Soju said as she curled up, hugging her legs in a sitting position, crying on her knees.
"There has to be a way out!", Usami said as she tried to regain control of her legs. Then she remembered about the Princess,
"I just remembered something. There's another person here. If we can find Princess, maybe we can find a way out, at least, I hope so. So please get a hold of yourself and let's look for her!", Usami said as she reached out for the girl's hand while trying her best to stay calm. She knew herself, that even if they found the Princess, they might still be stuck there forever.
Wiping the remaining tears from her eyes, Soju looked at the hand offered to her. It took all she had to grab onto that gentle yet firm hand. As she helped Soju up, she still wasn't sure about what to do.
"I'll follow you. Though I think we should go in that direction," Soju said as she pointed to the darkest part of the environment from behind the girl's shoulder.
Usami looked behind her to see where the girl was pointing at. Usami just shuddered at what she saw.
"Why do you want us to head that way?!", Usami said as she looked at the girls face waiting for a response.
I wasn't too sure about why I pointed in that direction myself. I just had something like a gut feeling and felt that it'd be the best place to find the person this girl calls 'Princess'.
"I just have a feeling. I thought it might lead us to that girl... What's yours and that girl's name, if I may ask? Mine is Soju, Soju Kimura," Soju said as she tried to get the conversation off of all this sadness and pain.
"My name is Usami, Usami Hiiragi, and the other girl's name is Aoyama Aoi. We are both classmates. Well, we should get moving. Let's talk a bit more while walking. We wouldn't know when more of those monsters will pop up again," Usami said as she grabbed Soju's hand and started walking in the direction she had pointed.
Holding onto Usami-senpai's hand, Soju follows her into the darkness.
As the two girls walks closer and closer to the darkness, they find themselves in front of a small, white, and an odd creature.
"Soju, wait. There's another creature ther,." Usami said as her grip onto Soju's hand tightens.
At hearing senpai's voice, Soju stopped right behind her.
"What is that senpai... ?", she whispered to Usami-senpai.
"I have no clue, it looks like a cat, but it doesn't seem like it wants to attack," Usami said as she examined the creature from a distance.
"What are you!?", Usami asked with a louder yet nervous voice.
Despite senpai's reassuring words, Soju was still scared of the small creature in front of them. Of course, already wetting herself didn't help with her confidence either. And it was starting to carry the odor.
"Or, who are you!?", Soju yelled at it, asking timidly from behind her senpai.
"I'm Kyubey, its nice to meet the both of you, Soju Kimura-san, and Usami Hiiragi-san," Kyubey said as he walked closer to the girls.
"It knows our names... Soju stay close to me, though I need to ask you something about a smell coming from you later,".
"More importantly than it knowing our names, how can it talk!?", she said to her senpai. And when her senpai brought it up about the smell, Soju's face turns scarlet red.
"After being chased by a monster, seeing this strange environment, I don't think a talking creature can really be that surprising,".
"I speak through telepathy. If you want to be able to defeat these monsters, make a contract with me!", Kyubey offered.
"Contract? What do you mean by contract? What would I get in return for making a contract with you?!", Soju timidly ask the...no, Kyubey.
Usami stood there waiting for Kyubey's response after Soju asked it about the contract.
"The terms of the contract, is that I'll grant any one wish you make, whatever it is, I can grant it. But in return, you'll have to fight the witches and wizards and become a mahou shoujo!".
"What do you mean by a wish? And how would you be granting our wish and make us a mahou shoujo?".
"I mean what I mean, Soju-san, no matter what the wish is, I'll grant it for you if you agree to make a contract with me, I have the power to grant any wishes and turn you into a mahou shoujo, which I'm going to use, obviously,".
"Soju, listen, I know you're scared and want to get out of here but I don't think we should trust it. As far as we know, it could just be another monster trying to trick us,".
"Oh my, I'm being mistaken for a witch's familiar now,, Kyubey sighed with disappointed.
"I'm willing to believe anything at this point now, senpai, even th...Kyubey. I just want to get out of here, I don't want to be scared anymore, nor do I ever want to feel those pains from my panic attacks ever again. You know that I have about an average of 3 a day right?!".
"I'm sorry, but I just can't trust it. I still think our best shot is for us to find Princess,.
"No, I don't want to be here anymore. I'm going with Kyubey..." she said as she released her senpai's hand.
Just as Kyubey was about speak again, he stopped, and a sound of an explosion could be heard.
Aoi walked deeper into the dimension of the barrier, then faced
Gisela, the owner of the barrier, speedometers could be seen all over the place now. Aoi jumped towards the witch, in an attempt to attack it...
***
More explosions could be heard, suddenly, then, the dimension disappeared. And everything returned to normal.
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OOC: To those who don't color their character's dialogue texts on their post; see how useful coloring your texts are? :P))