Puella Magi Falsus Magica (A PMMM Quest)

[] Use the Memory of Nacht



She had your moves down pat. You had to switch it up entirely to get the upperhand. You had to rattle her so that you can get an edge in. Yukina was able to predict your attack patterns now so you had to go the other way. Yukina smiled as she raised her hands and dashed towards you. You raised your gaze as you weaved out of the way and took her bait by swinging at her.

You stopped inches away from her body as she had her eyes widen. Yukina took this chance to strike as you turned your body and absorbed her blow with Nacht's reinforced shield. You absorbed her attack as the barrier held on this time compared to the previous ones you used before. Yukina must have noticed it too as you pulled back and let her strike and hit your side in response to her advance. She had you on the ropes, that was true, but you weren't out of tricks just yet.

You stepped back and blocked a backhand and redirected a jab from below. Yukina jumped and performed a kick before delivering a vicious jab to your abdomen. You guarded your front and absorbed the blow, Nacht's Witch Runes shining in response to the blow. You guarded and defended from every blow before Yukina drew her sword to cut you down. Seeing this, you raised your barrier to the side as the blow rocked your body.

Channeling the latent kinetic energy you had absorbed, you used this opening to thrust out your arm, unleashing the force you had absorbed outwards and knocking Yukina back. She was surprised by this as you began your counter attack. You baited out her blows and blocked accordingly, redirecting her blows to land a few of yours.

"It's on now," you breathed as you used the blasts of Nacht's counters to create openings. You struck her hard as she weaved away, seeing her leg spring up and lash at you.

You ducked beneath the swing before you blocked her right and grabbed on to her. You drove your knee into her side before she twisted your arm and kicked the back of your leg. She had you on lock before you swung your left elbow and smashed it against her head. You went for a kick as a follow up but she defended against it.

Grabbing you by the leg, she pulled you close to drive her elbow into your face but you caught it before you locked your leg on her waist and swung her into the ground. Rolling to recover, you both got up as she jabbed at your head, forcing you to redirect it to the side of your shoulder. You smashed your elbow into her chest before she minimized the damage by having you strike her shoulder.

She was sent reeling and performed a kick to keep you at bay. This was a feint to hide her arm swinging down your legs and sweeping you off your feet. Her grab fell on your neck as she smashed you in the floor. Raising your legs, your foot managed to reach her and kick her away from you. You got up and caught her fist.

Wrenching it to the side as the two of you exchanged blows. You let her have the last hit as she overextended and allowed you to drive down her fist and smash your elbow into her face. Palming her chest, you pushed her away with a vicious strike before you perform a kick which pushed her even further. She smirked and swung her fist as you palmed it to the side, driving your palm across her face before she staggered.

You aimed a kick for her head but she blocked with her right arm and swung at you with her left. You dodged beneath her swing and caught her by the chin before her knee smashed into your face. She struck you with her elbow before you caught her by the leg and swung her through the air and into the ground. Yukina rolled to recover before she got up.

Her kick was absorbed by Nacht's magic as you weaved away from her follow up. Planting your foot on the ground, you punched her across the face as she did the same to you. The two of you exchanged blows which rocked the waters beneath your feet before she drove her fist into your stomach.

"Is that all?!" she roared as she struck you with an uppercut.

You reeled back before catching yourself and catching her arm to jump and knee her straight into her face. Your elbow fell and smashed her cheek to the side before you palmed her jaw, dislocating it. Yukina was sent staggering before she stopped and righted her jaw in place.

Yukina's eyes flashed as she went for a swing which incorporated the entire momentum of her body. You got her. Nacht's Witch Runes shined on your flesh before you timed your block perfectly to absorb the brunt of her blow. Lights appeared before you two before you forced her back and waited for her to raise her leg to kick.

"Royal Flush(Tiger Drop Royale)," you breathed as you released the latent energy within you with a cross counter. Yukina's leg never reached your side as your fist reached her first.

A thunderclap erupted behind Yukina as your fist buried itself into her stomach. She doubled over as you stepped forward and pushed your fist in, Tatyana's magic filling your body as you launched her through the sea, parting the waters and creating a crack through the Paradise that was Pandora. Yukina managed to recover by stopping herself before she could get too far.

The seas soon calmed and she fell down her knees and held her stomach. Blood. Blood left her lips to mix with the clear waters.

"Let's get this over with," you growled as you held your side.

"Eager to finish it now? I'm not even half done yet," Yukina said as she staggered towards you. She spat blood from her lips as she had her blue eyes shine with power. The magical energy of the waters... No, the ground, the air, the sea, it was all bursting at the seams with Yukina's presence. So that's how...

Her magical reserve was already huge but she was also using the Barriers as a battery to reinforce her attacks. She could just get up over and over again no matter how many times you beat her. Unless.. You can influence this world. This mindscape. You already have your influence in the form of the desert you had brought in...

You needed more.

Clencing your hands into fists, you narrowed your gaze.



[] Use the Memory of Olga Sethiss
[] Use the Memory of Lachesis
[] Use the Memory of Angela
[] Use the Memory of Nacht
[] Use the Memory of Tatyana Empera

[] Use the Memory of Lachesis



You watched as Yukina gathered her strength from the Barrier before you. The Blue Skies brighter as Yukina displayed her strength as the world washed away the desert behind you. An endless sea of blue returned to your vision before you turned to see her hold up her swords while you got ready. You had your answer to her move by holding out your arm to the ground and drawing strength from within. The Memory of Lachesis lingered at the back of your mind before film reels exploded from your back and snaked down your body.

They latched on to the ground before Yukina's eyes widened, "What?"

"The mindscape of Magical Girls, a world constructed as pseudo Barriers, drawn from the depths of your psyche acts as a place of absolute authority for you. It's akin to a Witch's Barrier, giving you strength and allowing you to achieve your full potential when battling other Magical Girls," you breathed as sparks of purple light streaked across your face, "However you can't use it against a Witch for fear of their ego overriding your own."

Lachesis' Magic infected the Pandora, giving you the chance to rob it from Yukina's control. Her eyes widened as she looked down to see that the power being supplied to her was cut short. She grit her teeth and fell down her knees as she held her head. Blinking away tears from her eyes she let out a shaky breath and showed a face of confusion.

"However your ego won't easily be swallowed. You're just that strong," you continued as you channeled your will upon Lachesis' tendrils, "That's why I'll just piggyback while I'm here, and plunge deep where you're most vulnerable."

Yukina's eyes widened as she dashed towards you in a panic before cutting with her sword. You stayed where you were but she missed. You weren't there. You were behind her.

"And I have the right Witch on hand to take you on," You told her as you had the manifestation of Lachesis float behind you. Yukina slashed at you but you weren't there. You were nowhere, you were inside her mind. Her first mistake had been crafting this place from her mind... Her second mistake was leading you to this conclusion.

A physical battle could be won if you could outlast her... But a mental one was wholly different. Now if you combined the two, you could just beat her twice as fast.

"If you want to beat me! You'll have to tear Pandora apart!" you roared as the waters beneath your feet glowed and Lachesis' Witch Runes burned on your flesh.

Light swallowed Yukina whole before she raised her hand to protect her vision...

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You stood... In a desert. A ruined desert barren of all life. Ruins of ancient statues and pillars laid buried in the sand. Buildings and desolate cities were swallowed by the sand and the Blue Skies were replaced with the Darkness of the Heavens. Yukina's Blue Skies had been taken from her as you brought forth the Cloak of Night. Lachesis had dragged you both into this realm a layer further from the physical realm that Pandora had become. You dragged her into your own mind but at the same time not.

The Nexus in which your Witches existed was trapped in a limbo of conscious and unconscious. A world of Dreams.

You could think, feel and breathe here... And it was here you found yourself overpowering your Witches one by one until they submitted to you. Yukina stood in the barren wastes alone with just a single sword in her hand as you stood at the top of a sand dune looking down on her. Lachesis began to purr as you ran a finger along her film reels.

This whole world was just a stage for her film. A story with a definite start and end.

This world was yours.

A Desert of Dreams to contrast the Sea of Endless Blades.

Raising your hand, they manifested. Beings of the Unconscious. You called upon them one by one until they numbered from five, ten, and then thirty. The number swelled up as fifty more joined, sixty, sixty five, seventy... ninety five... a hundred. Yukina couldn't help but watch as Lachesis showed images and memories in the sky.

These were Witches... Or at least the Shades of Witches but Witches all the same. All it took to call them here was Lachesis asking nicely, drawing them in her world and weaving a path for them to manifest to your command. Abstract monstrosities and hideous reflections of the human psyche, these were the images of Magical Girls past their prime. The ultimate End for anyone bound by Kyubey's system.

It was an Army of Witches called upon this Night.

"So you're planning on fighting me with these Paper Weights?" Yukina asked as she narrowed her gaze at you.

"Not with... Together," you corrected her.

The Witches all turned to you as the first Five Bound to you took your side. The Witches simply looked at you once before one by one turning their heads down. They bowed down in your presence and made path for you to go through into their ranks. They weren't as strong than when they were in their barriers but they were still vicious creatures.

If a lone Magical Girl were to take them on, they would be overwhelmed. Yukina couldn't help but smile as she raised her head and rested her sword over her shoulder.

"I see," she breathed as her sword began to glow, "You're using Pandora's power too after regaining control of it, drawing upon the appearance of the Witches that have had their Barriers taken."

"Lachesis connected with each layer of the Barriers, drawing upon the memories of the Witches that had been robbed of their homes... They were then drawn back here..." you told her as you held up your hand, "Normally it'll be just my five Witches... But now, a hundred strong are howling for justice, WishBorne."

Yukina smiled your way as she stepped forward, "You've gone ahead and done it... GriefBorne."

You raised your hand, "Then... Let's begin the Parade of a hundred Witches! Walpurgisnacht!(Great Night of a Hundred Witches)"

The Witches howled and charged as one to attack the lone Magical Girl. Yukina took her stance and had her eyes flash azure. She stepped forward as the Witches of great and small rushed her. They wielded the elements and bent the world to their will, and here they could go all out against the Legendary Girl whom assimilated their Barriers in her grand amalgamated one.

Yukina stepped forward and slashed, "Azure... Emptiness!"

She cut through the fabrics of time and space, vanquishing everything within the direction of her blade. She cut through the light and dark and erased a row of Witches in one sweep but that was all she was going to be able to do. The Witches got to her and started to attack. Scores of them were cut and reborn at the same moment as your world provided them with the strength to keep fighting barring being struck by Yukina's most powerful blow.

So you fought with them as they slashed and crushed the lone Magical Girl, the lone light in the endless darkness of grief and madness. She cut and fought her hardest, she cut down rows upon rows of powerful creatures born from the despair of Magical Girls. She fought like a demigod possessed with endless power.

You were going to snuff out that light.

You dashed out of her blindside as she turned to cut you down. You dodged at the last second and kept her from taking a hit from her sword, holding down her arm before you kicked her in the gut. You summoned a mechanical sword and parried aside her blade just as it came for you. You didn't back down and clashed with her, locking blades as the Witches around you cheered and jeered.

Pushing her back, she dodged a tendril and shielded herself from a blast of crystal. The Oni Witch you fought threw her club at Yukina, forcing the girl to kick it aside and land on her feet. The Witches renewed heir charge as you blended with their ranks. Yukina cut them down at a faster rate before you slipped by her blindside.

"Gotcha!" she snapped.

You blocked her blade with your own as the two of you exchanged gazes. Her blue eyes stared down your red ones.

"Isn't it funny? Two of us monsters fighting the last battle. It's almost like a joke!" She hissed before you were pushed back, sliding on the sand as she lunged at you. Dodging her blow, you parried her sword to the air before locking blades once more.

"Monsters... Being at the top has truly warped your thoughts if you think that," you told her with a somber tone, "We're not monsters. Not you or me. We're people too. Why? Just because you have strength you've come to see yourself that? Don't be absurd!"

Yukina went for a feint and struck your side with a kick. Flipping over your next swing, she threw her sword at you, forcing you to swat it aside as she drew two more swords. You charged her and the two of you exchanged blows.

CLANG

CLANG

"I have a lot to teach you. A lot for you to be reminded of. There may be turmoil in your heart now but once this is over... I'll definitely make you see! Only then will Yuri be happy!" you roared as sparks flew between you both.

"Then keep at it! I've still got some steam left!"

"Come on then! Give it to me! I'll take every doubt you have! Every single one of them!"

You both bounced away from another another as the hundred Witches witnessing your battle melted into the scenery, drowning the world in darkness. The world had been transformed once more, an endless void seemed to spread all around but you found comfort in it. Within the madness, despair and sorrow of Witches laid the raw emotion that truly showed their humanity.

Seeking the warmth of the emotion, you melted in the dark as you surrounded a single speck of light. A blue light...

Yukina was shining with almost divine light. It was the light from her heart, her soul, the grand majesty of her power made manifest was like a brilliant newborn star. It threatened to burn away the dark with its purity. It threatened to snuff out the memories of the Witches around you, cutting them apart to nothingness, consigning them into oblivion.

Even as you basked in the darkness, you hesitated. You were... Afraid.

Yukina's eyes opened and they showed divine azure.

You can do this. Everyone... Everything... You were a Magical Girl with Everything to fight for.

You dived. With the strength of everyone's Souls you plunged towards the light to contest it. You defied the cruel Blue Star and sought to snuff it out to bring back the night. You reached out and roared as you caught on to Yukina. Her eyes widened as she cut, splitting apart the space you were in and slicing through the darkness... Only for you to reach her and grab on to her clothes.



You had become one with the corruption of the Witches, their Darkness, their darkest human nature and you grabbed on to the Light which Yukina seemed to burn with. You held on as the two of you locked gazes and grabbed one another by the necks. The Light burned, defying everyone's collective wills but you endured.

Lachesis moved for you and latched on to Yukina as you kept her still. The light streaked through the darkness before slowly losing its shine. Yukina's eyes widened as Lachesis got to her and her gaze fell on you.

"This is... Everything. This are... My memories,"you told her as you plunged them all into her. You gave her everything, you gave her your memories, Yuri's smile, Sai's confidence, Reika's grief, Ayana's facade, Kaguya's longing, Kaito's trust, Kazumi's optimism, Kasane's desperation, Madoka's Hopes, and Homura's determination.

Everything you learned and knew of for this past month, everything that made you who you were, you showed it all to her. You showed her the good, the bad, the sad and the happy memories you had. Everything she had missed out on, everything that she had lost, everything that she could easily achieve if she just returned... You gave them all without a second thought.

The light was fading.

Slowly... Ever so slowly... The Light faded until only Dark remained...

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Pandora had halted in its advance to Kyoto. Darkness had spilled upon its surface and changed its color, halting it in place. Magical Girls fighting on the front line witnessed this just as the Witches running rampant stopped responding. The Chimeras causing havoc and chaos had started to lose their strength and become weak.

The Magical Girls watched as Pandora cracked.

A moment later, the Grand Barrier shattered into a million pieces...

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Yukina fell.

The winds howled past her ears as she slowly regained consciousness. She was about to fall to the ground when someone swooped in to catch her. She opened her eyes and had them widen once she looked at the girl that saved her. A beautiful girl with strange purple eyes and long black hair. An Angel...

"Hey. Can you hear me?" the dark haired girl asked as she secured her hold around Yukina, "Are... Are you all right?"

"I... Yes. I am," Yukina breathed before she turned her blue eyes towards the crumbling barrier, "I... I lost... To her."

The Angel blinked at that before grimacing, "I see. Then it's over."

The Night had come to an end... The Sun had begun climbing up at the distance. Dawn had arrived, heralding the arrival of a new day. The stars faded as the darkness broke way for deep blue as morning had come to the country. The fighting was over.

It was over.

"So what did you think of her? That girl you met," the Angel asked Yukina all of a sudden. The Magical Girl took a moment to reply.


[] "I want... to meet her again. But I guess it's too late now."
[] "Even in the end, she was kind. Even in the end, she was smiling... She never stopped smiling brightly."
[] "She was brave. I'm glad I lost to her. Even as we fought, she had nothing but the best intentions. She's admirable."
[] "One of a kind. I wonder if I could meet more like her since I was gone... Miss Reindeer."