Card Fantasy

'I think she is a real person?'

Taylor is unsure. It is true that she summoned her, but the girl seems to claim that she created her. She didn't even know what to think about it.

Still, the girl is showing some emotions. She is expressive enough that it felt so wrong thinking that she is just a puppet of some sort.

She is still unsure about the existence of the one she summoned. 'Is there a time limit to her existence? Maybe I can unsummon her or something?' She thought in wonder.

As a way to confirm it, she tried thinking about it. It didn't do anything and just made her look like an idiot as the purple clad girl tilts her head at her action.

She felt a bit embarrassed. 'Right. That's too stupid!'

Then another realization hits her.

'Wait, if I truly created her, then does that mean I am like her Mother? But I am too young for that!' She screamed internally.

The girl is just looking at her who seems to be in agony right now. She can't just tell her that she is feeling like this because of the thought that she just unintentionally created her own daughter, or something. It is an embarrassing thought, and so out of this world that it is unreal.

"It's nothing. Don't worry about it." She said, trying to dismiss the look of concern that she is directing her.

Beneath her mind, a thought takes root within her subconscious. As the one who made the girl, she felt obliged to take care of her. Trying to imagine putting her in danger felt so wrong that she instinctually feel revulsion at the thought.

'I don't know if she will permanently exist here or there is some sort of limit, but she looks so genuine that I am having a hard time thinking that she is just a product of my power. I'll take care of her... for now.'

With that decided, she is just going to talk to her when she heard the familiar sound of engine outside her house. She tenses up before immediately looking outside. Seeing the truck of her father, she almost panics as her mind settles on a single thought.

'Oh god! What if he sees her!?'

Thinking quickly, she turns back to the girl who is just looking at her curiously.

"Don't leave this room. Just wait for me."

The girl tilts her head before she slowly nodded to her. Taylor smiled before instinctually giving the girl a head pat. The girl seems to be curious but feels comfortable on her touch.

When she noticed what she is doing, Taylor immediately retracts her hand with a surprised look. 'What am I doing?' The girl seems to look like a bit dejected when she stop patting her. She felt a bit guilty stopping it, and almost tries to continue patting her once more before she quickly shakes her head. "Sorry, I'll come back soon."

She quickly left her room before she feels compelled to stay and reassure the girl, and go down the stairs to meet her dad.

On the entrance door, she heard the door opening before her dad enters with a tired expression. As she got there and saw him like that, she immediately greeted him.

Her Dad seems to have just noticed her.

"I'm home..."

"Yes. Hello Dad."

The two of them looks at each other for awhile and feeling awkward, she decided to continue the conversation.

"So.... how's work?"

Danny looks a lot more tired when he heard her asks that. Immediately noticing it, she quickly tries to retract her words when her Dad responds.

"It's fine. Just a minor scuffle at the streets. It's nothing to worry about."

Taylor would have become worried if her mind is not also occupied about the girl she summons. She just decided to play along while trying to think of a way to stop her Dad from knowing that she exist.

She don't know how to break that topic to her Dad. She can't just say "Hey, so I just summoned a girl in a weird getup on my room and I think I am Cape, but you shouldn't worry about that!" That will totally put her on a straight line to the PRT, possibly for a good or a bad reason. Also, she just learned today that she truly have powers and not just her imagination at work.

She is also not sure if she even wanted to tell her Dad about it. Her first instinct is to hide it and do things secretly.

Danny seems to have not notice how odd she acts. The two of them walks to the living room before Taylor told him that she will be going to her room and is just going to sleep when he came back.

"Okay. I won't hold you off anymore. I'll take care of this." He said as he takes a seat on the table where the food that she left for him lays.

"Great. Good night Dad!"

Without waiting for his next response, she quickly goes back to her room and opens it. There, she sees the girl just standing on the floor, seeing her touching the bed in curiosity. The girl turns to her before quickly stating her curiosity.

"What is this? This is so... uhmm..." The girl seems to be having a hard time conveying something.

"Soft?"

The girl looks at her uncomprehendingly before she slowly nodded. "Maybe?" She responded with an unsure look.

Taylor closes the door behind her before she moves close to the girl.

"Don't you know anything in this place?" The girl shakes her head. "Okay.... do you know what it's called?" The girl shakes her head again when she pointed at the drawer. Taylor winces, looking at the girl in pity. 'So she doesn't even know basic things like that.' Her eyes glances at the staff she is holding, feeling a bit curious about it. 'Next time...' She thought.

"Anyway. I will be sleeping now. Do you know what it means?" The girl slowly nodded. "Great. Let's sleep together."

She thinks her Dad won't just barge into her room without any reason. So she is not that concerned about the girl sleeping along with her.

"... Okay."

The young magical girl moves to her side and sits on her bed. Taylor takes the furthest side of the bed and beckons her to take the remaining side. The girl obeys and lays her head on her pillows, sharing it with her. Taylor took off her glasses and put it above her head, hidden on the pillows before she looks at the girl.

Her sight is a bit blurry, but it is still clear enough to see things nearer to her. She can see the girl just lying on the bed while still looking around in wonder. She also seems a bit uncomfortable as she tries to move on a comfortable position with her staff in hand.

"Why don't you put it on the wall. It's not like someone will take it."

The girl nodded before she stood up and put it besides the drawer. Then she goes back to the bed and lies besides her once more. Taylor felt almost compelled to pat her once more before she shakes her head. 'Not now!' She frowns.

The girl is silent, just looking around without making any noise. Surprisingly, she is very good at being silent. Though, she still seems pretty uncomfortable. Taylor thinks it might be because of her outfit.

'I have to find a change of clothes for her tomorrow. Maybe some of my old clothes.'

Her mind turns back to the cards that is still presented in her mind. She have been holding off to that because she wanted to talk to the girl first. Now that she is going to sleep and the one she summoned not trying to cause any noises, she decided to deal with this.

'Okay. This thing is my power. I don't know why it looks like some sort of card game that Greg might have liked, but I'll take it.' She frowns as she takes a sidelong glance at her summon. 'Should I really summon someone again? I still don't know how my summoning works.'

'Well. If nothing else, I'll just deal with this and think about this next time.'

With that, she chose the Archer card. The Warrior card inside her mind lits up, the image of a person wielding a bow changes into that of a cute girl with blonde hair with half her face hidden by a wolf mask that is half unworn by her head. Her red cloak flutters to the wind as her hood connected to it is down. She have a noticeable pair of wolf ears and she seems to be carrying a hunting bow.

Taylor almost gawks at the image, feeling oddly nostalgic at the familiar look of the Red Riding Hood. 'Why does she looks like the bastardized daughter of the Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf!?' Imagining it makes her convulse in repulsion.

She shakes her head and decided to stop thinking about it for now. She continues on, seeing that the Consumable Cards can be chosen while the two Summoning Cards have been discarded to her imaginary void. She picks one, and seeing that it is still available, she picks all of it.

Now she can see six cards being held by her imaginary deck. It contains the Archer who looks like a certain popular fairytale character, and five cards of varying pictures.

As she was drifting off to unconsciousness, another shuffling of cards were overheard by her ears, making her almost snap her eyes open. 'Fuck! That's too fast!'

It once again presented her the three basic cards, and another five cards that shows different images. There is the Fireball in there, but the four others are different.

One of the cards shows an image of an eye that is pretty common on hieroglyphics. Another card shows an image of a broken chain. The fourth card depicts two person with two arrows pointing to each other, and the last card is that a semi-transparent person.

There is also a vague feeling of choice within her, the card she held beckoning her to choose something to it. Feeling so sleepy right now, she just decided to pick whatever she thought of.

Cards
[]Deck
-[]Female Archer (N)
--[]Evolve
---[]Ranger (R)
---[]Hunter (R)
---[]Thief (R)
--[]Summon
[]Draw
-[]Warrior
--[]Hold
--[]Summon
---[]Gender
----[]Write-In
-[]Archer
--[]Hold
--[]Summon
---[]Gender
----[]Write-In
-[]Mage
--[]Hold
--[]Summon
---[]Gender
----[]Write-In
-[]Fireball (1 CP)
-[]Reveal Info (3 CP)
-[]Chain Break (10 CP)
-[]Swap Position (1 CP)
-[]Invisibility (1 CP)

Next Action
[]Write-In

Voting time is open until 12 ~ 720 hours.

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The next day, after her Dad left the house, she told the girl that she can leave her room now.

"Okay, so we have a lot of time on our own. I think I can think of something..." Taylor mutters to herself, while glancing at the girl who is now looking around their living room in curiosity.

Once more, she is clutching that stylish wand of hers. She seems to be strangely fond of that wand, despite not having any memories at all.

She have already thought of it. She knows she can't hide her from her Dad forever. Even if her Dad is barely interacting with her, she knows that someday, sometime he will learn about the existence of the girl whether she likes it or not.

Having thought of that, her eyes settled once more to the girl who is now gazing blankly on the unplugged TV. Thinking about it, the girl looks weird. Her outfit, while looking a bit stylish and not that appropriate to a young girl as it shows some of her skin, it looks like a costume.

Something that a Cape always have.

It doesn't matter if the girl lacks a mask. She looks like a Cape, so it is also right to think that the girl might have a power.

"Say, do you know what you can do?" Taylor started with that, looking at her as she goes to her and takes a sit besides the dining table.

The girl in question turns her head to her, tilting her head. "What do you mean, Master?" She asks in curiosity.

"I mean, do you have powers? Anything you think you can do?" She asks once more, trying to sound a bit gentle as she didn't want to scare the child.

The girl stares at her for a moment, before looking down for a bit in contemplation. Closing her eyes for a bit as she seems to focus on something. As she is doing that, Taylor felt something weird on the girl.

Along with that feeling of weirdness, she can see some sort of translucent light slowly forming around her body. Taylor's eyes widening when she sees that.

"Wait!" Taylor said, feeling nervous as she felt something gathering on her body, and the light shimmering on her form slowly becoming brighter.

The air around them, that she just noticed is rippling for a bit, and the area that seems to shake softly suddenly stops when the girl heard her voice, opening her eyes and losing her concentration.

"Yes?" The girl asks, as if nothing happened.

"What is that?" Taylor asks. "There is some sort of light around your body when you close your eyes." She said.

The girl tilts her head once more, then furrowed her brows before shaking her head. "I don't know." She said with an apologetic look.

Quickly noticing that the girl seems distressed, Taylor immediately stands up and walks closer to her, unconsciously raising her hand and then gently rubbing the head of her summon.

"No, don't worry. I'm just curious what happened." She said before continuing. "Just tell me what you know you are doing." She said gently.

The girl nodded before explaining to her, as best as she can.

Despite the lack of knowledge about a lot of common sense and words, the girl managed to convey what she does.

Apparently, it seems like the girl felt some sort of energy within her. So she tugs into it. That's basically what she is doing.

"I see. So you can tug on that energy? What does that energy feel like?"

".... Warm?" The girl asks, though sounding unsure, as if not really knowing if the word she uses is right or not.

"... I see." Taylor decided to just nod, wincing for a bit as she notices that.

It is surprising, but she actually have an easier time understanding the girl. Taylor don't know why is that. It might have something to do with being the one to summon her, though that's just a thought besides her mind. Not really something she can prove.

"Hmm... I really want to hide you. Can't really tell my Dad that I am a Parahuman somehow." She muttered to herself.

She is just nervous, or maybe a bit distrustful to her Dad. It might be a stupid teenager thing, but Taylor felt that her Dad might do something she won't really like if she told him about her summoning abilities.

It is also unsure if she truly created the girl. The girl might have claimed that, but she might have just lost her memory when she summoned her from somewhere. She don't even know what's worse. Whether she truly created her out of nothing, or she summoned her from some other place and wipes her memories at the same time.

For now, she will see her as a real, living person. She is a thinking, breathing girl, that can think and speak on her own will. Not a puppet that only simulates human emotion.

'Wait a minute....' Taylor seems to have realized something. "What should I call you?" She asks.

"Hm? I don't know...?" The girl said with a tilt of her head. She seems unperturbed what she was called.

Taylor frowned. "No, you need to at least have a name I can refer to." Taylor said, before sighing. "I'll try to think about it." She mutters to herself.

Then, her eyes widened for a bit, before shaking her head as she heard the shuffling of cards once more. Seeing the usual three cards, and then the three cards. There is the fireball and the potion, but the three are new. One is a card that shows an image of a targeting reticle with a 100% written below it, another is an image of a pit hole, and the last card is a stickman covered in a block of ice.

As she is already used to it, she decided to get this over with, while also going to her own plans.

Cards
[]Deck
-[]Hunter (R)
--[]Evolve
---[]Master Hunter (SR)
---[]Assassin (R)
---[]Feral Hunter (SR)
--[]Summon
[]Draw
-[]Warrior
--[]Hold
--[]Summon
---[]Gender
----[]Write-In
-[]Archer
--[]Hold
--[]Summon
---[]Gender
----[]Write-In
-[]Mage
--[]Hold
--[]Summon
---[]Gender
----[]Write-In
-[]Fireball (1 CP)
-[]Potion (2 CP)
-[]Perfect Accuracy (5 CP)
-[]Pit Hole (1 CP)
-[]Freeze (1 CP)

Next Action
[]Name her
-[]Write-In
--[]And then find a way to hide her
--[]And then actually tell your Dad about this
--[]Write-In
[]Write-In

Voting time is open until tomorrow or if I find the time.

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This update has been edited because I mistook the Hunter vote as a Ranger. I don't know how it happens. Maybe because I am just getting back to this and trying to remember and making new things for this quest?

Anyway, sorry about this. This has been fixed now. What's been revealed on the Ranger tree will stay, as a way to compensate (and because I feel lazy deleting it just to put it back later if you try to go for the tree again....)

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