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Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

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Rania was about to talk some more, but stopped dead on her tracks as soon as Chiaki uttered a word. While listening to the echange, Rania examined her nails with great attention. Her eyes only left her hands to look at Kanbaru when the blue haired girl spoke up. ONce her last word left her mouth, a terribly heavy silence weighed on the group. It was broken when Rania, a smile back on her lips, spoke up;

"You're pretty, I will give you that much." she said to Kanbaru. Rania's gaze inspected the girl up and down. "...Although I do not know if you were the right choice as a Code Keeper. We'll see if you are worthy of my legacy."

Rania didn't have the look of a close quarter fighter, even less so in her transformed state. However, with impressive speed, a blood red whip appeared in her hand which she immediately lashed out to grab Kanbaru's right foot. Rania, or rather; Pharaoh, raised her left leg and pressed it against the girl's chest, pushing, while pulling on her whip, making them fall on their back. She licked her lips looking down. Nothing was more pleasing than putting one's enemies into submission. All the while, seemingly out of thin air, a long and very large cobra came slithering out of what pocket dimension it had been kept in. It's tail was spun around Pharaoh's legs, while the most massive part of it's body served as a wall separating Chie from Rania - leaving her alone with Chiaki behind.

"I've made up my mind; I'll test you here and now."

Hitting the ground as she did wasn't as much an issue as it was the whip slowly lapping at her magical reserves with its tight embrace of her ankle. There was a grunt of impact and not much else, seeing as Rania was greedily drinking in the sight of her with an unabashed arousal that even Kanbaru thought was exessive given the circumstances. However, if she was going to take the first strike then Kanbaru was to be certain her reprisal made certain this wasn't a game for Rania to luxuriate in.

"You're taking this far too lightly if you think you're in that good a position." Kanbaru fired back, only for her empty hands to grasp her Devil Arms and match her verbal assault with an all too real one. Each round blooming into a cluster of ice crystals upon impact with either wall, scale, or the lurid Egyptian's flesh. As this went on a pillar of ice rose between her shoulder blades, boosting her back onto her feet harshly without interrupting her reprisal.

"And I'm not going to let you slink away till I get that apology."

The empty black eyes of Apep fixated on Kanbaru as the snake moved to coil around it's master. The ice shots connected with it's scale, causing some damage. However, the absorbed magical energy had already seeped in the summon, making it somewhat tougher. The snake's head contorted back under it's own coiled body and came back up top side with Rania now standing on it, keeping her whip tense with both hands.

She laughed "If I took this seriously, it would be over way too fast. I have not had a proper fight in a long time." With a hiss, the snake uncoiled itself completely as it launched straight at Kanbaru, gaping mouth wide opened. The ice on it's skin shattering as the body and scales contorted and moved against itself. Hit or miss, Pharaoh would use the momentum of the snake's movement to launch herself on the other side of Kanbaru to try and lash the whip around the girl's throat.

Kanbaru was under no misconception Rania would be out just like that and still she persisted in not taking this seriously. Apep at least took the attack as enough of a threat to shield the former Code Keeper before lunging forward with jaws agape. Rather then take the beast head on the Icy magical girl dropped her devil arms and gripped the supporting pillar of ice behind her. The floor beneath her feet lost all friction beneath a sheet of creeping ice that spread down the hall in either direction and Kanbaru capitalized on this with a heave, swinging herself around the pole before flinging herself beneath the lunging serpent upon her back.

Coming up just as she had before, Kanbaru scowled beneath her mask upon finding Rania standing behind where she'd been, whip cracking harmlessly between them. "Your fast, but let's see you keep that up on black ice."

"But first, I think we can do without the cold blooded reptile." A snap of Kanbaru's fingers and a sextet of icy spears rose from the frosted floor, converging beneath Apep's head were it no doubt rested after colliding with Kanbaru's prior pillar in the hall. She couldn't be certain it would pierce but the snake hadn't consumed much of her magic and it was hogging up too much space to leave on the field long.

As Apep reached his destination, the icicles found their mark. However, instead of hitting below the head like anticipated, they hit the body...because instead of stopping at the pillar, the snake went right through, back into the 'invisible portal' hence it came. "Nicely done."

Rania cracked her whip at her feet this time. A quick look at the ground would reveal it slowly being covered in some black mist that came out of seemingly nowhere. It crept forward, but even as it would touch Kanbaru's legs she'd feel nothing coming from it directly. Rather, what looked like skeletons with black, misty bones raised from it. Yellow lights for eyes fixated on Kanbaru. Two of them had thrown themselves at Rania's feet for her to climb onto, acting as more solid ground.

"You move well - but this battleground does not really favour you, don't you think?" With a move of the short scepter she held in her other hand, the signaled the small army to go forward. The servants began running at their target as one; some fell due to the ice, but would get back up or straight up crawl towards their destinations. Other chipped at the ice with their weapon, sucking away the magic bit by bit.

In the confined space of the school's corridors, Kanbaru was under real threat of being overrun.

"Tch. You as well, but that's only to be expected." The Icy Magical replied in kind as Rania deftly mitigated her attempts to turn the environment against the Egyptian. She settled her hands on the lapels of her coat, straightening it out from the abrubt slide across the floor while her adversary raised a veritable army in the confined school halls. They were ragged things of bone, metal, and cloth and looked as brittle as any videogame skeleton. If the Serpent had been a priority threat superceding Rania, then these were the fodder she'd use to set herself up for a decisive blow from her whip.

"These boys look pretty hungry for magic. Do you not feed your peasants or are you in the habit of controlling gluttons?" She noted, eyes taking in the way her ice was broken down with each attack from the growng horde and figuring they had the same properties as their Master. Beneath her hood there was a gleam of dark amusement in Kanbaru's eyes, her arms encasing themselves in thick gauntlet's of ice as she had when restraining her edgy Club President. Holding them apart with the palms outward, she welcomed the coming horde as ice rose to swallow her whole, a sphere or murky frozen matter dominating the hall's width.

"Dessert is on me tonight." Kanbaru's words barely escaped the orb, but her intentions were clear when she shot a pillar up 45 degrees from behind her, launching herself bodily down the narrow hall like a pinball to trample the skeletons before her and close upon Rania

Rania looked unfazed by everything that happened, but upon closer inspection her eyes were following Kanbaru's every actions with utmost attention. That being said, the ex code keeper kept her composure and didn't move a muscle. Rather, as soon as she understood the bluenette's plan, she smirked.

With another grand movement of her scepter, the skeletons all altered their course and began amassing in front of Rania. Those furthest away evaporated into thin air to re-spawn at Rania's feet. The skeletons began climbing atop one another in a grotesque scenery of desperate servitude until, eventually, they formed a thick wall of bones - weapons at the ready. Rania crossed her arms, confident.

"Bold move." she laughed "Come then. Deliver all of your sweet, sweet nectar onto me."

The greed of her adversary was apperant in every lustful curve of her lip or the lidded gaze that bored into Kanbaru's approaching form. If the situation wasn't what it was she half expected Rania to start tearing off her clothes instead of siphoning off her magic, though judging by her sadism she didn't believe the possibilities to be mutally exclusive.

With Rania withdrawing her skeletons for a single condensed wall of bones and weaponry Kanbaru had nothing to abstruct her path forward, the ice sphere gaining more and more momentum till at last the fated meeting of metal and frost drew imminently close.

"Too easy." But ultimately, Kanbaru didn't intend to bull rush Rania at all. An orb of ice never impacted a waiting wall, but a torrent of shrapnel certainly had. Her fists clenched and the sphere shattered around her, jagged shards and obong chunks larger then her head throw forward in a storm of minutie too numerous for the eye to track. With it she herself rocketed forward, an ice wreathed gauntlet leading forward with claws outstretched for the general location of Rania's neck to punch through the barrier and take the Pharaoh in close range where her whip would do her little.

Rania's smile faded away as she realized what was coming. Instead of receiving the girl's body onto her laps, her minions were shot at by a multitude of chunks of ice and icicles. Some skeletons were dissipated by the attack, indeed weakening the wall. Yet, despite the fragments passing through her minions and landing around her, Rania didn't move.

Her eyes widened slightly when she saw the icy hand actually pass through the wall. Surprisingly, Kanbaru would feel her fingers wrap around Rania's neck. After the initial surprise, Rania quickly let go of her scepter, which seem to disintegrate, and grabbed her whip with both hands to wrap it like a rope around Kanbaru's forearm. The wall of skeletons all simply vanished in black fog, blocking Kanbaru vision for a moment.

"Pretty and daring. Alas, as much as I enjoy rough games..." Kanbaru would feel her magic being drained through the whip. Rania kept on going as she pulled on the whipe to bring Kanbaru closer. As she did so, she twist and turned on herself to pass the whip around the arm twice more until she was almost pressed against her target. With one hand, she ran the back of her finger against Kanbaru's cheek.

If she had previously wished for Rania to take this more seriously, her wish was now granted. The girl could feel the full extent of Rania's magical aura now as they got this close, and she seemed un-bothered by the cold hand grasping at her neck.

"You might earn that apology yet."

The wall came down and brought Rania and Kanbaru face to face, the both of them flush with the excitement of conflict and flush with their perceived successes. In Kanbaru's grasp was Rania, held firmly enough she wouldn't have the chance to bring her snake to bear. In Rania's grasp was Kanbaru's arm, the limb wound thrice over by her whip which made short work of melting through the ice and digging into the magical girl's coat. An unpleasant sensation of her power being drained creeped up the limb like a slow ache, but she kept her focus on the slowly encroaching ex-code keeper.

"I could say the same of you, though I think you're aware enough that it's unnecasary." Kanbaru replied, oddly at ease despite the positions growing increasingly in Rania's favor as she was drained by the whip. Already the fingers around Rania's throat where down to her gloves, water seeping between them as the ice in contact with the whip melted. However, that had no effect on her other arm, which she rose and brushed against the Pharoah's cheek, the tip of her clawed thumb grazing dangerously while rest of her fingers cradled the back of her skull. "How about we call this whole thing a wash, you apologize to my partner later, and we can...compare notes. We don't need to be total brutes like our partners now, do we~?"

The contact of the ice on her skin did little to cool off Rania's battle lust. Locked in this rough embrace, her eyes scanned Kanbaru's in silence, wearing her almost constant smirk of superiority. Then, the foreigner leaned in closer until she was just a inch away from the bluenette's face and almost whispered; "Agreed."

Then, Rania turned around. Using what magic she stole, and her own, she pulled on the whip while pushing Kanbaru upward with her own leg, leaning her whole body forward. With this level movement, she overpowered and slammed Kanbaru on the ground on the other side, knowing full well she could take it. She had better be. She then walked around Kanbaru and landed her foot on the girl's chest again, looking in the direction of the fighting still on going.

"That is, if you still have a partner. Unlike me, Chiaki was not in a playful mood." Briefly looking down at the girl laying before her she added "...and had a much less desirable opponent. I would not bet on her chances of survival."

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

The Mascot bounded up her arm quickly, setting itself down as if her shoulder was just a chair it could sit on whenever it pleases. Normally Ami wouldn't mind this at all, but she really didn't have the luxury of just sitting down and cuddling with her favorite tv headed cat at the moment. Not when there was still a clear and present threat right in front of her. Now of course it would be easy to just let the poor little thing go, she was outmatched and outgunned on every level.

But Ami had already let one Light Girl go today. Imagine how she would look if she let another one go not even five minutes after the last! It would make it look like she almost liked the little shitheads! She would be the laughing stock of the Detention Club, well probably not, but she would feel like the laughing stock of the Detention Club! So what Ami did was she gently grabbed the Mascot on her shoulder and set it on the ground, nudging it away with her foot in an attempt to make it leave.

"Looks like your friend doesn't really care about you all that much huh?" Her eyes darted to the side for a brief moment, something catching her eye that only further cemented her resolve. "It's too bad for you, but I'm feeling really pissed off today. Not only that but I've got someone I need to impress right now- Ami then threw her hand into the air, a wall of fire flaring up from behind Rose as she kicked off the ground towards the Light Girl with sword ready to bifurcate her completely. -so I hope you can last!"

To no ones surprise Ami's restraint had at last snapped and Tsuruga was going to have to go along for the ride if she didn't want to abandon her partner to the battle. Fully aware that they weren't going to last a minute without the intervention of others, however, compelled the normally more reticent magical girl to dive into fray with an explosive burst of repulsion at her back.

Overtaking Ami in the blink of an eye her arms wrapped the firey swordswoman's back, the force of their collision jarring but not impeding her rush. Together they crashed forwards towards Rose with every intent to do battle, but first, a change of locale.

"Get lost!" Tsuruga screamed over the shriek of straining metal as with a mighty heave her wings snapped forward, their momentum halted with a thunderous wave of repulision sending everything not nailed down before her hurtling off the building to clear a city block. Fencing surrounding the roof was uprooted and scattered like great streamers of chain link, the spartan streets spared any collateral harm by the unforgiving cold of the season.

"Now you can cut loose." She placated her partner as they swooped down the road to confront the Light Girl on less crowded terms.

“Computer please play ‘What’s up danger’ from my playlist” Rose said as her magical sense not only mapped out Ami and Tsuruga’s movements to the tee it also showed her a list of possible attacks. While Ami’s action was right on the money what they didn’t account for was the winged girl’s attack which caught her off guard and sent her sailing over the edge, just as her song started to play, shooting her so fast passed the wall of flames it made it worthless.
“WHOOOHOOO!” Rose howled as she allowed herself to be carried through the air obviously having a little too much fun.

//That wasn’t wind magic…its more akin to force magic// Her computer chimed in informing her of the winged one //Also in the future not please do not call me computer, we share the same name//

Rose ignored the comment, but took the information using the boosters on her back to control her flight, the fact that her body was made of a hard-magical metal gravity wouldn’t allow her to fly far thus meaning her boosters had to be on a whole other level of propulsion being that she flew to Japan from America on them alone. Lighting up her back booster the Solid Witch shot herself upright in an arch just enough above her foes to avoid them, as she passed over her cannon fired off a fully charged shot right at Ami’s back, the force of which would blow Rose right back to the school’s roof just as fast as she sailed off it.

“I’m right here at your door, I won’t leave, I want more!” she screamed clearly singing along to the song now blaring so loud the dark girls could hear it playing as she passed right by them.

//Suggestion: The flying girl is more of a support than anything, take out the fire user and the other can't do much//

The support from her partner was unexpected, appreciated nonetheless, but it definitely caught Ami off guard as they rushed down Rose full force. Of course Tsu wanted to get away from the school, not that she minded. It was just another annoyance when the Light Girl ignored her partners wishes and retreated back to the school to continue battle.

A quick application of fire to her legs boosted the two of them out of the way of Rose's blaster shot with ease, Ami quickly signaling for Tsuruga to make a quick turnaround. "Keep us in the air, let's show this loser what real aerial superiority is." When Tsuruga complied Ami would let loose with a quick volley of fireballs, looking to knock Rose out of the sky and turn the heat up.

Being aware of the attack made it easy to push herself out of the way, and Ami's 's help all the more so, with the pair leaving a crimson streak as the banked up and around to face the school once more. Discontent roiled and frothed in her stomach, a lead weight that reminded Tsuraga letting this girl linger on their school endangered everything they'd built in their daily lives.

For her peace mind, Rose needed to go down fast and hard.

"We can't be indiscriminate here. One wrong spark and we'll light a tree that has the entire school shut down on account of arson. Grr, this bitch..." Tsuruga growled, the light refracting off her glasses providing an air of menace as they circled the roof. "If I could get my hands on her this would be over in a second."

//Your suit is fireproof to a certain extent, but don’t push it we have a limit of what we can take and that girl could reach it easily, also that girl has much better mobility in the air than you do, however, you can rocket yourself in a straight line she has massively more omnidirectional options, aerial combat is not advised//

Rose’s body hurled itself through the sky like a bullet while she loudly sang her song looking back at the rapidly approaching institution of learning just long enough to know when to shoot off another burst of her thruster rockets to rapidly change her direction. Now, instead of flying towards the school, she was speeding into a completely separate section of the city, pulling up her arm cannon firing off a shot at the three fireballs once they were completely lined up piercing them with one shot causing what looked like fireworks in the sky.

“Play ‘Rise’ by glitch mob and turn the volume all the way up,” she laughed careening above the city buildings flipping her body over landing on an unremarkable building.

“Welcome the war we’ve only begun, so pick up your weapon and face it!” she sang along shooting off four weak energy pellets to cover the sides the duo would most likely fly in one higher up, one lower and two side by side all four were sailing to an area if they continued to fly in a straight pattern in an attempt to force them into changing their attack patterns.

“Could we connect the air pumps and valves in the left arm directly to the booster in the palm to create a super-heated blast of air, we might be able to counter that force magic being that its just throwing air with a magical force, fast air but air all the same” Rose muttered to her inner machine.

//It is possible, but I’ll need time to re-arrange your body structure thankfully we run mostly on magic so the technical stuff can be forgotten//

The Solid Witch was having fun ‘fighting’ even if in reality it did look she was trying in the slightest.

The energy pellets were hardly even worth her time, simply batted aside with her sword as she and Tsuruga continued their bullrush towards their opponent. Once she landed Ami would quickly follow suit, having Tsuruga let her go so she could dive head first into battle. Literally. Ami fell from the sky, poised to smash Rose underneath her as she delievered a crushing blow from above with her sword, easily cratering most of the area around her landing zone.

Of course that wouldn't be the end of it, as the crater began to glow red with heat Rose would quickly notice a rise in temperature not dissimilar to a volcano. "You know, your voice is super obnoxious. I think I'm going to crush your windpipe first." Ami rose up from one knee, glaring at Rose with murder in her eyes. Not even a second later she was on her, delivering several flurries of blows, intersperced with quick disengagements for Tsuruga to engage and keep the pressure up.

With Ami countering Tsuruga could focus on what she did best, her flight a mad dash to close the distance with hellion Light girl who'd blessedly averted disaster and found a more isolated rooftop to engage them from. They could all afford to cut loose and leave the bill to some random company they had no intimate connection with.

"Break some legs already!" The Iron Winged magical girl said, sending Ami off like the bombers of yore dropping a payload before streaking past. Except Tsuruga didn't need to waste time circling around. Flaring her magic halted her forward momentum, and another burst sent her spiralling upwards with her wings curled above her head. The metal gnashed with a high screech lost in the rising altitude till it came together, the tips joined in a nasty tip.

Then with a flip, Tsuruga's feet faced the sky while she hurtled headlong towards the rooftop battlefield. Putting her focus fully upon her flight controls, she aimed vaguely behind the adversarial Light girl, hoping to stagger her with the force of her descent and make an opening for her partner.

It seemed the situation had taken a turn for both the better and the worse. Feeling the flaring auras hurtle away from the school, Tama gave a sigh of relief as she ran towards the exit. Now she, Soma and Honoka could help without anyone getting caught in the crossfire. Of course, reaching their friend would be a lot easier if not for the combatants' speed.

"Whew. That's the school's safety taken care of," she said, rushing outside as fast as she could. "Now for Rose's."

The sight of her teammate rocketing back, followed through the sky by the two dark girls, indicated she might have spoken too soon. Just as dread churned through her, though, Rose zoomed off in another direction, even further this time - so far she left detection range. It was only thanks to the attacks blazing through the sky that Tama was able to track them down, the building they'd chosen as their new battleground coming into view.

As soon as it did, Honoka half-ran, half-staggered forward, open-mouthed at the smouldering crater. Despite her aching legs and the red-hot agony of the cuts on her side, she leapt from building to building and stood tall, aiming her Divine Arm at the winged girl who swooped like a bird of prey. "Hey! Don't you dare harm our friend!" she yelled in a breathless rush, shooting a pick-shaped energy bullet at the dive bombing dark girl. At the very least, it could distract her. "Or anyone in this city!"

The corners of Rose’s lips curled up into a smirk as her magical sense detected two more signatures belonging to two other light girls, the information assaulted her brain but still didn’t impede her fighting capabilities. The short version, it was completely okay to ignore the flying enemy and focus on eliminating the burning wicker woman. Waiting until Ami made a wide horizontal swing with her broad sword Rose leaned heavily into the attack bring up her folded right arm to block the sword that would crash into her metallic body. The sword struck, cutting deep, but not quite all the way through, had she not prepared herself and tensed her arm to the blow she’d lost it right there, but that didn’t change that the flaming sword was fairly deep into her cannon arm. The sword itself was so deep that it was actually stuck in the metal arm and would take some considerable force to pull out this made it hurt all the more along with the fact it was on fire.

//Megaton punch ready//

“Prove yourself and RISE!” Rose sang her smirk turning into full-on smile clenching her fist, released the piston and air valves within her arm delivering a devastating blow aimed directly at Ami’s body more precisely her center mass.

Honoka stood her ground and shook her Divine arm at the sky as is to damn the winged one with as much strength as she could muster, which wasn’t much but still admirable all things considered. A hand seemed to just appear behind the girl grabbing her by the collar and yanking her off her feet, it was Soma who stood to take her place.

“You’re in no shape to actually fight, take a breath and assist from the sideline” The blond looked down at Honoka then back up at Tsuruga snapping her fingers created four large shields in the air all layered on top of one another making each layer denser than the last. “Take shelter from the angry gods, heed the call of safety beneath the behind the walls of your Bastion and prey your walls hold against their wrath” Bastion chanted stabbing her flag into the roof of the building, if Tsu didn’t change course she could smash her way through the first layer and possibly the second, but the third and fourth were as dense as she could make it, not to mention she’d have to exert that same strength to come out of the other end.

Ami smiled as she took first blood, cleaving into her enemy's arm like a hot knife through butter. It was all part of Rose's plan obviously, but it mattered not. Because she had already fallen into Ami's trap.

Rather than pull the sword out and retreat from the punch, Ami instead twisted her body to the side to make it a mere grazing blow. Yet she still did not retreat, holding onto her sword tightly and staring Rose in the eyes.

"Boom."

If Rose had been paying any attention to the crater below them she would have quickly realized the temperature was still rising, the ground glowing white hot as Ami set up the knock out blow. Ami wrenched her sword into the air with all her strength, Rose attached, and then slammed it into the ground, planting her right foot onto the Light Girl to minimize her chances of escape.

Then their world exploded. The crater beneath them erupted into a massive pillar of flame, the intensity of which could be compared to an erupting volcano. The flames would do nothing to Ami of course, but Rose would be plunged into the hottest pits of Hell.

Yet it ended just as quickly as it began, only five seconds of this heat in total. [color=crimson]"Now stay down."[/crimson] The metal of Rose's body was undoubtedly softened by this heated assault, letting Ami easily push her sword the rest of the way through the arm, cutting through cleanly. "Killing you would be breaking the rules, but I could probably claim self defense if you keep it up in this state."

To her detriment the fight was joined by more of the Light girls, her effort to distance from the school insufficient to keep Rose from being joined by three more of their lot, and by some stroke of fortune they all prioritized the one falling like a meteor as opposed to her stab-happy partner. The first attack was a pittance, a projectile plinking off her folded shields like a snow ball against the a plow.

That her target became obscured through multiple layers of shielding, however, put an end to Tsuruga's diving finisher. A shame, as it would have looked rather spectacular following up the conflagration that was Ami's magical onslaught. With a wordless growl she repelled herself to the side, her own momentum too great to control with enough finesse she'd attempt to circumvent the shields.

Rather, Tsuruga changed targets and crashed in the vague area of the newcomers with her folded wings obliterating the roof beneath their feet as she carved through, ultimately punching out through a wall to hover above the street caked in plaster dust from the waist down.

"You lot just can't keep your noses out of trouble, can you?" The Iron Winged magical girl spat, rising up to roof level to survey her damage with arms crossed. "Stay down, or I'm not going to regret a few rules violations."

"Rose!" Tama could only stare in horror as flames engulfed her friend before she could react. She only had time to shove Honoka aside. Crystals began to spread over her skin, but before they could form any substantial defense, Tsuruga's attack smashed the paltry amount of armour, along with a good portion of the roof.

Her surroundings rushed past as she and the others plummeted, crashing to the ground. By some stroke of luck, Tama landed on her side, not her back where her emblem was, but cried out as her own rock shards embedded themselves in her flesh. "Uggh... Honoka! Soma!" She tried to sit up, only for jolts of pain in her ribcage and left arm to force her back down. She coughed, blood splattering on the floor.

Through the haze of dizziness, she saw the winged figure rise up, heard the threat she hissed. "T-Trouble?" Tama growled, her voice sounding weak even to her. "Like you're one to talk." Gritting her teeth, she dislodged her wingtips from her skin, easing her torso up as much as she could and crossing the gem clusters. A shield formed in front of her, Honoka and Soma, irregular facets gleaming. No matter how one sided this fight was, she'd give it her all.

"Stop! That's enough everyone."

Time stopped for all of the Magical Girls, though not of the external worlds. Instead of their surroundings being frozen in motion, it was their own bodies that had been turned rigid and held in place by an invisible force. Even their magic, the bellows of the Black Knight's flames, paused in their fiery inferno before slowly dissolving away.

A green aura suddenly outlined the forms of Tama and Honaka. It left with it a warm sensation that mended injuries and slowly but surely rejuvenated them. The source of this magical output, one that could halt Magical Girls from either sides, hobbled out into view on the roof they all stood on.

"Goodness, you girls travel quick!" said Miss Tamashi in a huff. She bent down at her knees and rested a hand on her chest, panting to catch her breath. "Now then...ahem, I'm sure you all must be wondering what's going on with a million questions! But lunch period is over and I think we can discuss it on the way back."

She turned her gaze onto each girl, dark and light; with a smile towards the light ones. "I'm happy to see so many familiar faces here! But unless you all want extra dentention, I suggest you stop this fighting amongst yourselves and get back to class."

The magical force holding everyone down let go. Those who were transformed suddenly found themselves back in their normal clothes. "And I'm taking these with me for the rest of the day," Miss Tamashi said with a wave of her hand. "You can have them back after the school day but I expect you to be on time for classes regardless. Is that understood?"

With another huff, the teacher turned around and click clacked away with her heels towards the direction of Miso City High. She was already dreading the prospect of walking back.

Whenever the students arrived back, they would notice the tarnished roof of the school had suddenly been fixed back in place. Was it Miss Tamashi? And speaking of which, just who was she anyway.

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

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Somehow Kanbaru had a feeling this meeting wasn't going to end all peaceful like with them waltzing off to a diner like Chie suggested and talking out their issues. Fortunately they were all transformed so no poor sap would walk out and see this stand off in the making. Her muscles tensed alongside a surge of anger that both of them knew and disregarded her partner as some soulless familiar of Touka's.

"Oh come now Rania, you should no better then to insult a Magical Girl infront of their partner. It's bad manners, a rule of commen sense, and unlike Chiaki you don't have the excuse of grief to blind your better judgement." An icy wind wafted through the corridor, tugging at the edges of her billowing coat and pulling her hood taught against her head. Her feet naturally slid apart with hands opened as though to grasp her Devil Arms at a moment's notice. Chiaki was older and stronger then her sister, and Kanbaru knew she didn't want to be upclose with Luna. Beneath her mask Kanbaru smirked, knowing she wouldn't be the one taking that bullet when shit hit the fan.

"Can I get an apology from my sempai? I appreciate the opinion of my elders."

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

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The two of them were anything but slacking, finding themselves quite physically active in the nurse's office all by their lonesome with Kanbaru enacting her duties to their fullest. Keeping the Detention Club safe from threats within and without required constant vigilance anda dogged pursuit of one's goals till the job was done. If that just so happened to leave her licking her lips clean as she pinned Chie beneath her, then all the more power to Kanbaru.

It wasn't easy work either. Chie could be a biter when the mood struck her, and the surges of bloodlust Touka was sending her way made that a cerainty to be contended with. The bluenette took all of this with a grace and dignity unbeffiting their horizontal stature, right until the feeling of someone walking over their own grave struck her cold and she turned to the doorway. There passed a specter of death...or more accurately, the specter of a grieving sempai clearly on the war path if the drawn weapon was any indication.

"Touka's pissed. Chie's frenzied. Now Chiaki is here looking for blood? Oh damn it all we're going to level a city block at this rate, never mind the school." Kanbaru said, panic springing forth almost as fast as she did from the bed, dragging Chie to her feet alongside her. "Come on, Touka's in no shape to get involved, so we're going to have to play at being responsible here."

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Tsuruga Deishuu

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The mascot was spared any further abuse, a small weight falling from her bowed shoulders as the tiny applaince creature bounded onto Ami's person. Tsuruga couldn't say she adored the fuzzball but it was hard not for a girl to get attached to an intelligent, fuzzy animal that hung around and didn't pea in the corner. Even better, the strange senior saw them all as being so beneath her notice she made to leave rather then press the issue.

Tsuruga wasn't going to run away with her partner grounded but that didn't mean she wasn't relieved to have the choice taken out of her hands. This feeling, though, was tempered by the vicious impulses that were seizing her as the rather bizarre light girl she'd accosted earlier made her presence known in full transformed state, looking the most eager of all of them for a fight.

"Don't look tough? Try saying that when she isn't here to cover for you!" The Iron Winged magical girl seethed, pushing up her glasses with a trembling hand. She could imagine the scolding she'd get for perferating the roof with her pinions but thought it would be worth it to silence just one of the uppity Light Girls invading their territory.

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

Tsuruga Deishuu

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Above all else, Tsuruga hadn't been thinking at all when she flung herself at the window and screamed threats of bloody murder upon her partner. Petrified via the power of hindsight she realized she could have easily been shot out of the air if the situation had been any tenser, a casualty by merit of being the first to move into line of sight at high speed.

Then again, that sounded like a blessing to her compared to the reality of being embraced in a claustraphobia enducing embrace with her arms pinned to her sides, warbling madly against Ami's deluge of excited rambling. "Gah, not so tight, Ami! Oh god everyone can see us too!"

Tsuruga's pitiable whines went unheard by the common masses and blessedly ignored by her cohort, with some of the Light girls leaving now that Ami wasn't holding someone at sword point. Clearly her sacrifice went unappreciated but she wasn't going to seek their acknowledgement either. Of course, there was one little matter that to deal with: Ami opened a window in the middle of winter, and no one can see either of them. Knowing it was only a matter of time before a student got fed up with the chills and tried to slam it closed on Ami and get mule kicked for their troubles, the Iron Winged magical girl beat her hardened pinions against the air and pulled Ami along with her.

"Umm, let's just go shopping now. It's not like anyone can see us take stuff off the shelves now, right? All they'd have is footage of a ghost cart rolling down the isles." Tsuruga offered, face scrunched up in tension as her hands dug into Ami's sides to keep her from falling. It shouldn't have been difficult to go about reaching a servicable store, but there was a complication.

She flew upwards, and thus both she and Ami ascended to roof level, staring at a terrifyingly familiar Paragon of Light throttling an innocent mascot. It would never even occur to one of the Dark girls to strangle one of the engimatic creatures and the sudden shock had her drop Ami a few feet onto the roof while her wings rattled with the sound of gnashing steel. "You l-let him go right n-now!"

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

Kanbaru Otoko

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Perhaps she'd been callous in her assumption but with Chie's nature Kanbaru couldn't take her words at face value. She could understand being hurt over the loss of a particularly enjoyable adversary given how much they both got into fighting each other, but it could just as easily be an excuse for Chie's own rampant battle lust. Regardless it did nothing to stop Kanbaru from reacting harshly in face of Chie's sudden surge of murderous intent amidst the wash of Light and Dark energy in the school.

Lurching to pull herself fully onto the bed Kanbaru straddled the red head, using her superior size to force Chie down while her hands closed around Chie's wrists in a tense grip. "Hey, eyes right here, Chie. Feel that tickle of murder welling up in the back of your throat? That's Touka, not you. You're right here and you're going to stay calm until the moment shit explodes on us. Then I'll cut you loose. You give me a hard time and I'm freezing you to the bedframe."

Her gaze flicked to the walls, trying to envision the confrontation that was no doubt causing this. If this does escalate we're liable to not have a school afterwards...

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Tsuruga Deishuu

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The Light Girls and the Holy Monster posing as a normal teenage senior had passed her by, Tsuruga petrified in the street by a simple fork in the more metaphorical road. On the one hand, they were heading to her school and that would blow up in everyone's faces when either side saw the other, and she should therefore be there for her faction. On the other, Aegis would be there and they would have no chance if something like her went all out, so she should therefore flee and wait for the others to do as well.

Then the inevitable occurred and she flinched as the geyser of power that was Miso High, normally dormant as the Detention Club went about their days, erupted with an intangible force of Darkness and Light warring against the others presence. "Che, this is just fucking fantastic..."

Tsuruga turned towards the school with eyes frantic and unsteady, her index finger being worried sharply between her teeth. Latching onto the mingling energies she tried to grasp the situation from afar, detecting that nothing had as of yet happened to level the school. Then she caught upon the familiar signature of her partner and screamed shrilly, abandoning her consternation and leaping into the air with a frantic heave of her wings.

"My idiot, meathead, touchy feelly, food for brains, caring partner! Idiot idiot idiot idiot!" Tsuruga screamed, lost in the jet stream of hurtling towards the contested class. Reason re-asserted itself and she hammered her wings hard. The windows of Touka's class shuddered in their frames drawing the gazes of mundane students who'd only see the empty air and think a particularly strong gale had come through. Everyone else would find the light of the sun blocked out by outstretched wings, Tsuruga's maddened face all but pressed to the glass as she zeroed in on Ami.

"I swear to all the Nightmare's in Miso if you start a fight I will burn your house down mid-sleepover!"

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

Kanbaru Otoko

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The bluenette tried to pay attention to the front of class, but she couldn't help herself in keeping a wary eye upon the Club President. Touka wasn't so consumed by rage as to attack in the midst of class but better to err on the side of caution. Fortunately Touka had mellowed out enough that her worries were unfounded and Kanbaru could sag into her folded arms like a contented feline.

And Ms. Tamashi chewing out Ami just brought a smile to her lips as she idled through the rest of class. Finding no reason to tail her glorious leader she decided to take her lunch elsewhere. Wearing an ear to ear smile she brought out a large bento box courtesy of her adorable sister and trotted down to the Nurse's Office where she felt a mass of darkness stewing all through the school day. The nurse's desk was empty so she slipped inside unannounced and ducked past the curtains to where Chie feigned illness throughout the day.

"Hiyo Partner, fancy finding you in here. Everyone sends their well-wishes and hope you feel better!" Kanbaru chirped, bubbling with saccharine excitement as she sat herself down on the edge of the bed opened her packed lunch. Only for her face to freeze with an imperceptible twitch in her cheek as she found the meal her little sister promised was, in point of fact, cold Chinese takeout stuffed into her box straight from the fridge. Poking the rise and finding it stiffer then she'd dare to eat, Kanbaru's bubbly enthusiasm deflated. "And here I was going to share with my ill partner. Ugh..."

Changing tact she set aside the 'meal' and leveled a stern gaze onto her partner. "So Chie, are we going to talk about you're actions recently? I seem to recall we're having a bit of a crisis over one dead girl, and you tried you're hardest to at least add another to that. And with how hurt Touka got I can tell you aren't emotionally settled either so don't blow me off."

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

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Tsuruga Deishuu

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The Dark Girl flinched under the weight of Aegis' vitriolic stare while her words set Tsuruga's teeth on edge. She couldn't be certain what exactly this Light Girl was threatening as she doubted even the most zealous of these uptight murder hobos would threaten to massacre civilians, but it wasn't a secret the Club President was roughed up pretty bad as well. "I don't want to fight you, but you're as abrasiveness as- "

Only for Tsuruga to gape as two more Magical Girls joined the first. At a glance she could tell the first one, while unfamiliar, was at least within her range to go against without being totally crushed. No, Rose's cheek wasn't the problem but rather the one that rightfully decided to just walk past. "Oh damn it all are all of you enrolling in school now? What's next, did you stop living under bridges too!?"

"Look here!" Tsuruga shouted to mask the shakiness in her voice, wings spreading wide to give her greater presence before furling back behind her. "If you go in glaring daggers at every Dark Girl the schools going to look a lot like downtown, so just, I don't know, promise to pretend you aren't looking to murder us? Seriously we do not need all of you pissing in our cornflakes."

Kurai Majoko: Dark Magical Girls

Kanbaru Otoko

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The buxom bluenette stifled a yawn before returning to her reposed position, both hands cupping her cheeks as she struggled to rouse her usual enthusiasm for the coming day. It just wasn't natural to be back in class before New Years and that was inevitably going to be reflected in the lessons for the day, but both teacher and student had to suffer through the panicked declarations of their seniors.

Kanbaru's eyes flicked towards her ex-partner and a flash of empathy went across her features. She found it difficult at times to consider Touka her ex-partner given all she knew, but it was a necessity with Chie's birth. They functioned as pairs, not trios, and leaving Chie with a fresh faced riddled with aggression and a flippant disdain for social norms was asking for exposure that none of them cared to invite. There was only so much to be done that could curtail Black Shot's aggression, an outlet of Touka's own darker desires, and after that short Christmas massacre Kanbaru felt a little too haggard for the colliding fates to follow.

Case in point, a Light Girl walked into class mere minutes before the bell rang, condemning them to the presence of yet another murder hobo. Kanbaru could think this with near certainty because she knew at a glance this was the one who nearly drove Touka into an apocalyptic fury with her attempt on Touka's life.

A glance two seats to her left told her all she needed to know about how the Detention Club president thought about this development, and with that came a jolt of mental anguish upon Kanbaru's creased brows. The inevitable sniping and grating on one another's nerves was already clear in her mind's eye and it was all she could do not to excuse herself to the washroom before a dazzling peppy teacher walked in.

"Nice to see someone has energy in the morning." Kanbaru chirped, some of her tension bleeding away as she folded her arms across the desk and lowered herself onto the waiting nest while she was of the few who appreciated the older woman's attempts to be vivacious. Were she only so blessed to be the same at Ms. Tamashi.

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Tsuruga Deishuu

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Suffice it to say, she was playing hookie. Tsuruga refused to be corralled back into the schools so soon knowing full well what the talk of the day would be. Either everyone would be begrudging the cancellation of their break or they would be whispering about the disaster she partook in.

No thank you, she got enough of that trying and failing to sleep. A better use of her time, and one that had no risk of being caught playing truant, was to take to the city in her transformed state and fly low between the buildings. Passing well clear over semi trucks, but still capable of window shopping in passing.

The joys of casual flight were still strong for her, even with the dreary weather and niggling worm of doubt that screamed at her to rush to class. Perhaps that was why she flew near the school area, supporting the fleeting aspiration of attendance yet knowing she'd likely not follow through.

"Hmm?" It was when her meandering parabolas drew closest to the school that she detected an alarmingly malignant force to her kind, in the form of a determined youth marching towards the direction of the school. Even at a distance she could tell by the squaring of her shoulders and the nigh palpable determination radiating from her that this was magical and dangerous.

And marching towards a school dominated by Dark Magical Girls and the uninformed masses. A veritable powder keg. Seeing a threat for what it was and knowing her kind weren't in the best of states at the moment, the only course of action was painfully clear. Banking towards her target, Tsuruga glided in slow and smooth, alighting before Aegis after her arrival was well and truly telegraphed for anyone with a bit of magical mojo.

"You don't want to go this way. My people aren't in the best of states this holiday season and you....you would start some fires."

Fire Emblem: Conflict

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The hardest part about mercenary life wasn't the combat. It wasn't the constant trudging from one warzone to the other, or the lack of infrastructure and support that went to a formal military unit. No, it was quite clear to Cecilia that the most miserable aspect of her new career was the sheer volume of downtime she was left with. Sitting the on the gentle rise of a hill with her knees pulled in and a healing staff laid beside her, she glared holes into the side of the Captain's tent and had been doing so since the messengers had walked in.

"Come on, finish already so we can get moving." The dark skinned cleric grumbled, her chin resting against her knees with an air of childish impatience wafting from her. She was a working woman, and she had gotten used to long hours with ample entertainment between patching up gruesome injuries. Sure, Cecilia could appreciate vacation time but it wasn't like she could just train the day away like the other mercenaries here seeing as that necessitated a near constant stream of injured and dying to get any progress in. "And it's not like I can even go into town and start selling my services cause then we'd be fighting healthy people. Gah!"

Overcome with nervous tension she flopped onto her side and tumbled down the hill, the lingering grass stains in her pilfered maid uniform speaking well to the repetition of this course in just this day alone. Coming to a stop with her cheek in the grass she didn't bother to rouse herself from the ground, content to wallow in her lethargy, till at last a miracle happened.

The messengers departed, riding off on their horses without a second glance sent their way. "YEEEEEES!"

With the speed of a mounted cavalier she tore across the camp on all fours, nearly barreling through the parted tent flaps onto the pause with her outstretched hand brushing the fabric. "Whoops, that would have been embarrassing."

Rising up onto both legs like a civil human being, she maintained said ludicrous speed in going back for her staff, collecting it, and rushing back headlong through the tent only to collide with the broad chest of Protelo. With a complete lack of consideration for personal space she buried her chin into ribs and gave the man a look like a puppy begging for a treat. "Do we have our orders? Well, do we? Do we?!"