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Magical Girl Meme

Pretty basic concept here, sometimes teenage girls have magic powers for fighting evil (or doing evil if that's how they roll) and that's just how it is. Usually it's a secret but maybe it's not?? Maybe there are also ways to get magic that don't require you to be a girl.

Who knows, it's up to you, this is a loose-concept/AU meme! Just warn for your violence/existential horror/embarrassing teenage sexual tension in the subject lines.

1. First Transformation: Surprise, you've got magic powers! And they come with a costume that you… probably like? Maybe you don't, I don't know your life.

2. Into Battle: Possibly connected to that last prompt, oh dang, there’s some kind of monster or something. Whether you’re new at this or not, you might wanna fight that before it wreaks too much havoc.

3. Confrontation: Those monsters (or disasters, or brainwashed minions, or whatever) have to be coming from somewhere. Whether it's the first time or the fiftieth, it's time for the hero(es) to come face to face with their nemesis.

4. Prep Time: Teams, whether they're good or evil, tend to work better if they have some kind of a game plan. Or maybe you can't predict your opponent's next move so you're just doing some team-building exercises, who knows.

5. Hostage Situation: Someone's been captured! Maybe the villains have taken a heroic magical girl prisoner, maybe the good guys have siccessfully captured one of their opponents, or maybe you're just a bystander/non-magical ally/love interest who… may or may not know why you've been kidnapped. It's a little awkward, but maybe this could be a good chance to talk.

6. Slice of Life: Not even magical girls can fight all the time, alright - but there's always a risk of worlds colliding. Maybe you're getting some well-deserved downtime, trying to go on a date, or just going to school like a normal teen. And… well, time will tell if it stays normal.

7. The Secret Come Out: You probably hoped this day wouldn't come (unless you were actually kind of hoping it would, like a weirdo), but here it is. Someone's found out who you are. Is it worse if they're a loved one or just some rando, who knows!

8. Wildcard: I can't tell you how to live your life, do what you want!

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The two are both silent- one looking defensive, the other looking more anxious, and perhaps even fearful. Glances are being traded constantly- their eyes flicking from Ginko, to the ground, to each other, and tension seems to do nothing but rise in the air.

"B...Bloom..."

'Bloom's fists are clenched tight as her jaw seems, and it is some time more before she does speak.

"...P...Prove it..!" she finally yelps, no longer clinging to the paper thin facade. "...Prove your 'help' isn't the same as what got us here..!" she adds, the pilot curling a bit on herself as Bloom says as much.

"...Hard to answer that, since I don't know what got you here to begin with." She hums thoughtfully, glancing out over the street. "And I don't know what you'd consider proof to begin with... I dunno, there something you want me to do to show you?"

Further silence- and the two familiars again settle into staring at the other. And then...

Well, they wait until Ginko looks away at least, but it's going to be hard to miss the backs of the two as they book it down the street. They're kind of colourful.

Not to mention unused to the risk of being followed- if Ginko keeps quiet, it'll be pretty easy to follow them to the park. The two seem to get themselves plenty distracted with yet another familiar- dressed as a witch, she's being scolded fiercely for 'playing in leaves'.

Not far from the three is some kind of play structure with a difficult to 'immediately' find entrance though...

Oh goddammit.

Ginko almost protests the two familiars' sudden departure, but thinks better of it. Clearly, she wasn't going to get anything useful out of them - which means she's better off trying to work this out by herself.

Unfortunately, they're still her best leads for that, even if they don't know it.

She follows in silence, some way behind them, until they reach the park and... of course they get distracted. Shit, how many of these guys are there? At least their bickering gives her a chance to look around - and to identify the only roof around here.

She can't believe this.

Ginko edges around the side of the park, staying out of the familiars' view as well as she can, and starts searching out the entrance to the structure. If she can just get in, maybe this girl will be more reasonable than the familiars looking after her.

The structure is...odd. Like a dinosaur, if the head was cut at the base of the neck and replaced with a clock. But there is an entrance- on the underside anyway. It requires a good hop for most children to get in.

...Older teens with enough height could just stand and look up through the hole, however. And what's in there isn't much. It's rather dark- but the girl stands out significantly. First glance would say the girl is wearing scrubs- but these aren't quite hospital scrubs, not when there's a definite collar alongside it all.

She turns slowly to the sound- or even lack of sound- of the other's presence and stares, blankly and widely.

Fortunately, Ginko has plenty of height. Enough so to see in easily, and take in the, frankly, somewhat distressing sight before her.

She rests her arms on the hole in the structure and stares right back, her mouth twisting thoughtfully. "...Hey."

Reira doesn't answer. The girl instead stares, unlbinking, and unmoving, as if petrified to the spot. Faintly however, one can see her grip on the knee of her pants tighten.

Perhaps she's scared.

Mostly just uncertain.

Jeez this kid is... young. Way too young. Younger than when Ginko's powers kicked in, and she was too damn young for that.

"I'm not gonna hurt you or anything. Just want to make sure you're okay; I ran into one of your familiars out there." She jerks her head in the general direction of... where those three were, last time she saw them. "What's up with that, anyway?"

Yet again, she doesn't answer. Or at least, she doesn't answer the questions. Her expression unchanging, she asks-

"W.... ...Who... ..?"

...so who the heck are you, Ginko,

Ah, right, her name. That whole thing.

"My name's Ginko. I'm a magical girl, like you. What's your name?"

"...."

One could almost say she didn't hear the other. Almost.

...She still seems afraid. Perhaps more than before. "...magic..." Deep breaths- in. Out. In-

"...She said...magic..." It almost looks like they'll get somewhere.

And then they don't. "...no." Uh oh. "...no. ....No..."

'Do you hear something Bloom?' 'What would we hear? I... ...She hasn't spoken at all since we ran...' 'But I thought I heard-'

There is a short trio of screeches from outside, which seems to line up with when Reira presses her back against the wall of the shelter. ...Still repeating 'no' under her breath.

Ah, fuck. That's not good.

Ginko swears under her breath, considering her options for the moment. She doesn't really have any way of avoiding the familiar squad by now, and running would just look suspicious. She doubts she's gonna be able to calm the kid down before they get here, either, and trying would probably be riskier than it's worth.

"...Sorry about that. Hang on." Decision made, she ducks out of that entrance and stands by the structure, turning to face the familiars directly - and to address them.

Perhaps weirdly, given that she followed them here to talk to their charge behind their backs, she looks kind of annoyed.

"This is the 'roof' you were talking about? This is no place to leave a kid."

"No-!" Bloom yelps first, and the others follow quickly. But while winds whirl around them, that's about all they can muster. "Reira-!" she starts, only to cover her mouth. She looks fearfully at Ginko, and then back to where the girl is hidden away...

And then darts past, shoving at the shoulder to get Ginko 'away' while she heads inside.

"Eh!! Bloom-!"

"Tell them nothing, I need to help her away..!"

"But, but..! It took so long to find this one..!!"

So they say, before looking to Ginko themselves. They seem just as consumed by fear as Bloom- and indeed Reira- was. The witch and pilot both nervously huddle, and gulp.

Eventually- "Y...You know, w...We're a lot more than we look..!" the pilot tries.

"Um, um...That's right..! I...We've still got things, even without real partners-!" the witch fumbles, brandishing her broom/bell.

Ginko watches the familiar dart by, frowning - though she supposes any of them would probably have a better chance of calming the kid down than she would. She just hopes she can get some answers before they pull the girl somewhere else.

Then she turns back to the others and just... sighs. She's only been getting involved in this shit for like twenty minutes and she's exhausted. This is so stupid. "Relax, I've got no interest in fighting you. Actually, I'd... really rather not. You guys don't really seem evil or anything, just..."

Well, to her credit, she trails off instead of just calling them stupid outright. Hell, that might not even be fair; she doesn't know how long these guys have been doing this - and, judging by their charge's age, it probably isn't long.

Stupid or not, though, the fact remains that she really doubts this kid is going to be safe in their care for long. "What do you mean, you don't have partners? Is that why there's three of you hanging around one girl?"

"Well we've always been-"

"Hey hey wait, we're not supposed to answer questions..!! And how do we know you're not the 'evil' one..!!"

The pilot gasps- as if she's totally uncovered something groundbreaking. "Oh!! That's right! Because Himika always says 'it's for good', but she wasn't good to any of us at all..!"

Apparently going into their own conversation, the witch puffs her cheeks and nods, focusing on her partner. "Exactly..! Exactly! And we know what Himika's good-things did..!"

Unless Ginko pays even an ounce of attention to business news, that name definitely means Zip.

Ginko has never paid attention to business news in her life, so if she's heard the name, it would have been vaguely and in passing.

She lets out a breath and pushes a hand through her hair, briefly exposing the patch strapped over her left eye. "Look, I understand being cautious, but if you could give me some way to prove my intentions here instead of just deflecting everything I say, that'd be great. I literally have no idea what you're talking about. All I know is that, apparently, a bunch of familiars are looking after a girl who's way too young to be in this situation. And, no offense, but from what I've seen I think I'm justified in being a little concerned for her safety. So, first off - would you mind telling me who the hell Himika is and what it is she did?"

Silence. Silence and fearful looks, and mutterings that don't really come to any words. And finally- "W-Well...You'd be too young too! Everyone would..!"

"Y..Yeah!" What. "It's safer here!!"

"Much safer!"

"No more shocks!"

"No more chairs!"

"No more fake ghosts!"

"And time transforms," "And weapons tests," "And 'levels'," "And-"

The chain of things that don't make sense is shortening, as both appear to be breaking down as they go. "And..." "An....mnhhh..."

Specifically they break into tears. "She can't go back she can't she can't she can't..!!" "W-We promised, we promised Luna when she left even..!!"

The more they talk, the more Ginko's brow furrows, and she tucks her hands back into her pockets as they go on.

"...From the sound of it, yeah, she absolutely shouldn't go back." She speaks more softly this time, though not too much for fear of not being heard over their crying. "But just because this is safer doesn't mean it's safe. Hell, if you're hiding from someone, a public park is far from secure; anyone can walk in here." She pulls a hand from her pocket long enough to gesture at... well, herself, for an example.

"If you want to protect her, you're going to need to find somewhere better for her to stay - and, like it or not, you might need to find at least one human you're willing to trust. One who's old enough to help."

The pair of them, naturally, pout and puff up immediately.

"Well it can't be you!"

"It can't be anyone, can it..?"

"Definitely not..! Because Himika can get to anyone..!"

"Oh! That was why we found a place with no people..." The only reason there were no people was because no small children are at a park this time of year,

"Alright."

Just... no hesitation. If they won't trust her, that's fine. She digs around in her pocket before producing a simple, threadbare wallet, and flips it open. "Not me, but you will need someone. It might be tough, if this Himika can get to people so easily, but there's a fair number of people who wouldn't want to send a six-year-old off to get electrocuted, y'know?"

"But, but, but..."

"E-Even if we trusted someone, it's not about her 'telling' them to do something..."

They're genuinely afraid for someone else's life it seems.

So that's a great sign.

Yeah, that's, uh... ominous. But not enough to dissuade Ginko, evidently.

"Then find someone who knows what they're getting into. I don't know what exactly this woman might be capable of, but there are some pretty powerful people around here." Herself included, technically, but she's not exactly the best when it comes to force and they've made it clear that they don't intend to entrust much to her.

She tugs a twenty-dollar bill out of her wallet, and holds it out to the familiars. "In the meantime, if you're gonna buy her food, this is probably closer to what you'll need than a handful of coins."

The witch is the first one to address the money. Neither, it seems, are willing to chat about...People.

"...Paper? What will paper do?"

"Yes!! People use coins for things, I saw them..!!"

Hooboy.

Ginko... is in hell right now. Here, trying to explain basic concepts like "money" and "housing" to a pair of familiars who don't know a playground from a secure safe house, is Ginko's personal hell.

She takes a deep breath, and asks, "What did you see them using the coins for?"

The pair chorus together- "Food!!"

"It smelled good..."

"M-Mnn!! Definitely nicer than the stuff from before..."

"Maybe she'll be able to smile again..."

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