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[April 4] [Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Tales of Legendia] I Want to be Strong!
Title: I Want to be Strong!
Day/Theme: April 4, 2011 "MY SPINE"
Series: crossover - Puella Magi Madoka Magica x Tales of Legendia
Character/Pairing: Homura, Shirley, Chloe, Kyubei
Rating: PG-13
Author's Comments: Part 2, continued from the story on April 1st. I have a couple of ideas in mind, but I'm really making this up as I go... Continue to presume there could be spoilers up through Ep. 10.
They hopped through the passageway, into a psychedelic mess of colors. "It's this way!" Shirley declared. Her self-assuredness gave Homura the feeling that at least word of her experience in this field was not exaggerated. Together they rushed up a spiral staircase with steps that appeared to be made of lashed together blades, although the metal was rusted over and didn't look likely to cut through anything anytime soon. The stairs started inside and wrapped around to the outside of a pink, ivy-covered tower. "Someone's at the top!"
On the platform that made up the top of the tower stood both the fairy tale princess-like familiar, her long hair rising up behind her and swaying like the tentacles of a sea anemone, and a dark-haired schoolgirl wearing a blue beret. "No, it can't end like this!" the girl yelled, a broken wooden practice sword clenched in one hand, "I just wanted to protect Elsa! Why can't I do it? Why am I so weak? I want to be strong like Shirley!"
There at the girl's feet- Kyubei. A bomb would be too dangerous. Homura pulled her gun and aimed. Whish. A flailing segment of the witch's familiar unintentionally blocked the blow. "Is that your wish?" Kyubei asked. Over the noise, his intended target was the only one who heard him.
"Chloe!" Shirley screamed.
"You know her?" Homura didn't take her eyes away from the frightful scene unfolding atop the tower. From the sound of Shirley's shaking breath and tapping feet, her colleague, for all her personal involvement in the event, was steadily running along too.
"Friends from school!" Shirley gasped, "Love the same boy!" She swung back her arm in a drawing motion, releasing a glowing blue butterfly shape. It flew through the air more like a real butterfly than Homura would've expected, but it slapped against the familiar with the weight of a fishing net, dragging down a portion of its dangerous locks, more Medusa than Rapunzel now, and holding them against the stone.
"Yes!" Chloe answered her tempter. "I always thought I was the brave one, but now no matter what I can do, I can't manage anything useful. Shirley could confess her feelings to Coolidge and I was too shy! Shirley became a magical girl to protect the people she cared about believing she could beat the odds, and she did! I refuse to be any weaker than Shirley! I wish I was strong enough to protect all the people I love!"
"Strong enough, hmm?" Kyubei remarked. Chloe's scream ripped through the air as Kyubei tore out her soul, creating for her a pulsing blue and white gem.
"Chloe!" Shirley reached her friend's side too late to change the results of Shirley's true feelings.
"Hello Shirley," Chloe greeted her. All of a sudden, she felt almost preternaturally calm. With a flip of her wrist, the broken weapon became a glowing blade of silver steel. "Don't worry. You, or...your friend," she glanced at Homura. "I can handle this all by myself now."
Transformed, Chloe looked very much the knight she had always longed to be. She raised her sword in a practiced stance, crying out in dojo-style enthusiasm as she rushed forward. "I hope that whatever you've managed to do to save yourself can also help your friend," Homura commented.
"Nice to see you here," Kyubei finally acknowledged the other magical girls' presence.
Shirley winced as Homura blew him full of holes without a word, but the better part of her attention was held by Chloe, slicing off the monster's attacking tresses, evading swing after swing, and once she was in close enough, driving her sword, with a flash of silver light, into the pseudo-princess's visible pink heart. "You won't touch Elsa!" Chloe continued to yell wildly, "Get away from her house! None of you will hurt any of my friends ever again!"
"That's one way to defeat them," Homura observed softly as the otherworld began to fold in around them. Back in the alley, her boxed lunch was still sitting beside the fence where she had left it.
"C-Chloe..." Shirley gasped at this new and frightening sight of her friend. "There's still so much," she admitted to Homura, "That we don't understand about what it means to be magical girls."
[to be continued.]
Day/Theme: April 4, 2011 "MY SPINE"
Series: crossover - Puella Magi Madoka Magica x Tales of Legendia
Character/Pairing: Homura, Shirley, Chloe, Kyubei
Rating: PG-13
Author's Comments: Part 2, continued from the story on April 1st. I have a couple of ideas in mind, but I'm really making this up as I go... Continue to presume there could be spoilers up through Ep. 10.
They hopped through the passageway, into a psychedelic mess of colors. "It's this way!" Shirley declared. Her self-assuredness gave Homura the feeling that at least word of her experience in this field was not exaggerated. Together they rushed up a spiral staircase with steps that appeared to be made of lashed together blades, although the metal was rusted over and didn't look likely to cut through anything anytime soon. The stairs started inside and wrapped around to the outside of a pink, ivy-covered tower. "Someone's at the top!"
On the platform that made up the top of the tower stood both the fairy tale princess-like familiar, her long hair rising up behind her and swaying like the tentacles of a sea anemone, and a dark-haired schoolgirl wearing a blue beret. "No, it can't end like this!" the girl yelled, a broken wooden practice sword clenched in one hand, "I just wanted to protect Elsa! Why can't I do it? Why am I so weak? I want to be strong like Shirley!"
There at the girl's feet- Kyubei. A bomb would be too dangerous. Homura pulled her gun and aimed. Whish. A flailing segment of the witch's familiar unintentionally blocked the blow. "Is that your wish?" Kyubei asked. Over the noise, his intended target was the only one who heard him.
"Chloe!" Shirley screamed.
"You know her?" Homura didn't take her eyes away from the frightful scene unfolding atop the tower. From the sound of Shirley's shaking breath and tapping feet, her colleague, for all her personal involvement in the event, was steadily running along too.
"Friends from school!" Shirley gasped, "Love the same boy!" She swung back her arm in a drawing motion, releasing a glowing blue butterfly shape. It flew through the air more like a real butterfly than Homura would've expected, but it slapped against the familiar with the weight of a fishing net, dragging down a portion of its dangerous locks, more Medusa than Rapunzel now, and holding them against the stone.
"Yes!" Chloe answered her tempter. "I always thought I was the brave one, but now no matter what I can do, I can't manage anything useful. Shirley could confess her feelings to Coolidge and I was too shy! Shirley became a magical girl to protect the people she cared about believing she could beat the odds, and she did! I refuse to be any weaker than Shirley! I wish I was strong enough to protect all the people I love!"
"Strong enough, hmm?" Kyubei remarked. Chloe's scream ripped through the air as Kyubei tore out her soul, creating for her a pulsing blue and white gem.
"Chloe!" Shirley reached her friend's side too late to change the results of Shirley's true feelings.
"Hello Shirley," Chloe greeted her. All of a sudden, she felt almost preternaturally calm. With a flip of her wrist, the broken weapon became a glowing blade of silver steel. "Don't worry. You, or...your friend," she glanced at Homura. "I can handle this all by myself now."
Transformed, Chloe looked very much the knight she had always longed to be. She raised her sword in a practiced stance, crying out in dojo-style enthusiasm as she rushed forward. "I hope that whatever you've managed to do to save yourself can also help your friend," Homura commented.
"Nice to see you here," Kyubei finally acknowledged the other magical girls' presence.
Shirley winced as Homura blew him full of holes without a word, but the better part of her attention was held by Chloe, slicing off the monster's attacking tresses, evading swing after swing, and once she was in close enough, driving her sword, with a flash of silver light, into the pseudo-princess's visible pink heart. "You won't touch Elsa!" Chloe continued to yell wildly, "Get away from her house! None of you will hurt any of my friends ever again!"
"That's one way to defeat them," Homura observed softly as the otherworld began to fold in around them. Back in the alley, her boxed lunch was still sitting beside the fence where she had left it.
"C-Chloe..." Shirley gasped at this new and frightening sight of her friend. "There's still so much," she admitted to Homura, "That we don't understand about what it means to be magical girls."
[to be continued.]