The instant you knew the shit had hit the fan was when what was distinctly the roof of
your house landed on the track field and spectacularly crushed the gym teacher and half your class. You survived the opening attack because you had been tripped by the spoiled rich kid that had just been impaled by flying debris. You huddle under her corpse just long enough to watch the giant...
thing plow through the main school building.
Resembling liquid flesh, the giant plows through stone and mortar like it was made from toothpicks and sheet paper. Screams filter through the air as you watch the beast suddenly inhale what looked to be the entire student body. Blood fountains from the gaping maw as your survival instincts finally stop gibbering in terror and you scramble to your feet and sprint for your life. You ignore the gore raining down around you, instead focusing solely on the little voice in your head screaming at you to
get the fuck out of dodge!
You manage to make it to what's left of the school fence and out into the street filled with corpses before the monstrosity realizes you're on the run.
"▂▂▂▂▃▃▃▃▄▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▅▅!"
The sound hurts your ears. As in literally, physically hurts your ears. You feel a wet sensation drip down the sides of our head as you continue to sprint away from the titanic beast. Lines flash across your sight as the pain you can't feel tries to rob you of consciousness. Adrenaline is all that stands between you and a sudden and brutal death.
The beast plows through everything to get to you. Buildings, reduced to rubble, vehicles smashed like tin cans. You can hear the screams of the poor souls it had consumed, echoing from it's body as it chases you, but somehow you manage to ignore them. To focus on escape-
"Get down!"
Instinct screams to trust the voice and you dive. You land heavily. Chin cracking against the pavement and consciousness swimming for a moment, but the move saves you. A hair-thin tendril of mass swings over your head, slicing through everything in it's path. A light pole falls to the ground in front of you as you roll over, and the sight of your savior greets your eyes.
She's not even half your age. Painfully obvious, the girl isn't even nine yet. Frilly pink tutu, with glittery knee-high boots, and a heart-tipped wand in hand she's the epitome of 'cute little magical princess'. Her beautiful red hair is done up in twin pig tails with a sparkling tiara adorning her forehead with a shining sapphire placed perfectly in the middle.
For a moment. You sit there and gape. Poor girl doesn't even last a second.
"I'm Magical Girl Candy Heart! The slaughter of innocents is something that I cannot abide by! And in the name of Love and Life! I will- Gaaaahhh!!!"
A tendril snaps out from the beast in the middle of her introductory speech, wrapping around her ankle in an instant. "▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅!" Lifting her up into the air the beast roars again. This time part of the pain hits you through the adrenaline induced haze, but it fail to drown out the girl's shouts.
"H-hey! What do you think you're doing? Put me down! Hey!"
A ripple along the tendril holding her. A wave in the flesh like someone snapped the end of a tied down rope...
"AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHH-"
*CRUNCH*
Blood spatters you, and you flinch. The kid is driven into the ground inches from you. The concrete of the sidewalk cracks under the blow. Your surprise and hope breaks into mute horror at the same time her face meats the pavement.
Her hand twitches. She's still alive.
Pure reflex begins to move you to try and free her from the tendril still wrapped around her leg, but it's too late.
More ripples travel down the length of the tendril, snapping the girl violently into the air before immediately slamming her into the ground again...
Then again...
And again...
And
again...
Four times the monster slams the child into the ground. Blood covers you, and you taste some of the liquid that splashed into your mouth. Viscera and pieces of bone are mixed in with the mess. Your hand hangs limply in the air as the tendril lifts her one last time. A squelching sound, as fragments of what's left of the road are torn from where they impaled her. She rotates slightly in the air, giving you full view of her brutalized body.
A tear streams from her remaining eye. You gasp, and the beast reacts: a maw opens up, and a final tendril lashes out, to wrap around the girl's neck. You can see saw-like teeth lining it's gullet.
"
Run..." The girl's last plea is barely a whisper, before the tendril retracts as suddenly as it had appeared...
And drags her head-first down the thing's throat. She has no more blood left to spill as she's torn apart on the way down to it's stomach.
You sit there stunned, as the beast enjoys its most recent meal.
Then something snaps.
The world turns red and you let out your own blood curdling scream! But instead of horror, or even fear, what come out of it is rage.
A red hot
RAGE. The world parts. A pillar of light engulfs you as part of the sky seems to almost
crack.
The light starts red, then turns white. Before fading to purple. Power wraps around you as you feel your mortality almost
melt off you.
"
KNEEL IN THE DARKNESS, AND BURN IN THE LIGHT! I AM MAGICAL GIRL SOLID CORE!"
Your school uniform literally disintegrates and is replaced by a form-fitting white armor. But it doesn't stop there. You feel wings of energy burst from your back as a weapon form in your hand. It resembles a hand-held beam cannon with an energy blade mounted to the underside.
The change happens between breaths.
Pure rage guides your hand as power floods into your weapon. The beast lunges at you as you pull the trigger.
(Purifier Beam: +10 base damage, +4 dice, +5 RAGE = 19 total damage
Spawn of Mayhem: +50 Base Resilience, -10 Weak to Purification Effects, no dice roll due to focus = 40 Total damage reduction
Spawn of Mayhem Health: 5000 - 0 = 5000)
The beam that comes from the weapon is hilariously anti-climactic compared to the power your transformation released. Barely the width of your torso, it spears at the raging monstrosity and burns an even smaller hole clear through it, but the damage doesn't even seem to register on the creature.
"Gah-" A vague instinct you never had before causes you to move. But the unfamiliarity leads to hesitation, turning what would have been a leaping dodge into a stumble to the side. It costs you, and you fail to completely avoid the wall of flesh that swings at you. Enough power to pulverize a brick wall hits you full on and you feel your arm dislocate as the limb tears through an air-thin golden barrier that flashed into existence for less then a second. "-Urk" You're flung over two blocks with enough force to shear off the top of a parked car with impact alone.
(Solid Core: +5 Base Resilience, +7 Dice, +2 Dodge Attempt, +0 ??? = 14 Damage Reduction
Spawn of Mayhem: +100 Base Damage, no dice bonus, -70 Not really trying to kill you yet = 30 Total Damage
Parked Car: +5 death on impact = 5 total damage
Magical Girl Solid Core Health: 100 - 21 = 79)
You gasp from your position on the ground where you landed. The pain is new. Your average life meant that you never really experienced this kind of pain before. The agony is stifling.
You force yourself to your feet as the beast moves again. You're barely to your knees before it reaches you. But your saved yet again!
This time? A tank literally bursts out of a wall and rams the sonuvabitch!
The half-formed roar turns into a squeal of surprise as the silver-lined front edge of the tank hit its head on!
(Templar Anti-Demon Tank: +25 Base Damage, +22 Dice, +15 Ramming Speed = 62 Total Damage
Spawn of Mayhem: +50 Base resilience, no dice bonus, +10 Solid Wall, -25 Blessed Silver = 35 Damage Reduction
Spawn of Mayhem Health: 5000 - 27 = 4973)
The damage is negligible. But the real assault from the tank isn't so easily shrugged off. The turret rotates with speed, pointing it's three nozzles straight at the beast and unleashing an inferno!
(Templar Anti-Demon Tank: +25 Base Damage, +39 Dice, +50 Blessed Napalm = 109 Total Damage
Spawn of Mayhem: +50 Base Resilience, no dice bonus, -25 Weakness to Holy Napalm = 25 Damage Reduction
Spawn of Mayhem Health: 4973 - 84 = 4889)
The fire is almost white in it's brightness, but the blue is easily identifiable as the inferno washes over the creature. It squeals in agony as the fire burns away at it. It a desperate bid to get away, the beast lashes out with it's tendrils, trying to push it's attacker away-
(Spawn of Mayhem: +100 base damage, no dice, +15 Desperation = 115 Total Damage
Templar AD Tank: +100 Base Resilience, -25 Covering You = 75 Damage Reduction
Templar AD Tank Health: 1000 - 40 = 960)
The blow dents the armor significantly, but fails to pierce it. Instead the blow simply rocks the tank enough to allow the creature to retract the piece of itself that had been under it's silver-lined treads in order to quickly retreat. The breath of air this allows you gives a chance to realize that you had just been saved by what is likely the Counter Force. Humanity's answer to the Forces of Darkness.
And the premiere fighting force of the Forces of Light.
Armed with weapons blessed by the clergy of religions around the world and backed by the most advanced technology that Humans could bring to bear against their extra-dimensional foes, they could go toe to toe with the nastiest monsters in the cosmos.
And when something came along that they couldn't fight, they had...
The sound of metal boots on cement breaks into your thoughts. As you turn a new sight greets you.
Clad in black cloth, and draped in resplendent golden armor your ultimate savior stands before you.
"Considering you only just awoke your powers, the fact you're still alive is rather impressive."
Magical Girl Goddess Gold.
The strongest Magical Girl to ever exist, and quiet possibly the sole reason that the Unified Darkness has yet to simply attempt to drown Earth in unending waves of Demons. She represented pure, unrefined,
power.
Her mere presence is almost enough to crush you like a bug.
"Don't worry." Her sudden grin is smug. "You're safe now, and this thing isn't going to get far."
She steps past you, and just like that, the air seems to forget it's desire to crush you.
"Now let's see." You look past her to where the Tank that had saved you is now fighting the beast with another two having joined it, along with what looks like a small platoon of soldiers.
One of the tanks spews fire at the creature, but in the open it is nimble enough to flow out of the way, and the bullets from the infantry seems to simply be pissing it off. Punctuating this fact, the beast takes another shot at the tank it had damaged earlier, but this time throwing it's all behind the attack!
(Spawn of Mayhem: +500 Base Damage, +76 Dice, +25 RAGE = 601 Total Damage
Templar AD Tank: +100 base resilience, no dice bonus, -10 Previous damage = 90 Damage Reduction
Templar AD Tank Health: 960 - 511 = 449)
The blow shears through armor and pierces deep into the machine. A shout, screams, and something gives.
(Templar AD Tank Critical Failure: +250 Base Damage, +225 Remaining Health, +50 Blessed Napalm = 525 Total Damage
Templar AD Tank: +100 base Resilience, no dice bonus, -50 Previous Damage = 50 Damage Reduction
Spawn of Mayhem: +50 Base resilience, no dice bonus, -75 Holy Stuff Blowing Up = +25 Bonus Damage
Templar AD Tank Health: 449 - 475 = -26 (No survivors)
Spawn of Mayhem Health: 4889 - 550 = 4339)
The blast vaporizes the tentacle that had impaled the tank. Flame and fire vomits out, and liquid napalm is spewed everywhere. The beast screams in agony as the death curse of the machine reaps more damage than any hit before had managed. But you knew that the soldiers in the tank couldn't have survived the furnace.
"That's enough of that." Goddess Gold's voice in enough to halt the battle in it's tracks. Soldiers scramble aside as she walks forward and the beast suddenly begins to back off. It knows what's coming. "It's about time you go back to the pits from where you came.
Chains of the Earth."
Golden links hiss through the air. And in the blink of an eye, the creature that once seemed unstoppable is rendered inert. It's almost liquid form is rendered immutable by the Chain's powers. And as it struggles Goddess Gold rears back her hand... and power floods into the space next to it.
"It's past over.
Oblivion Awaits!" What comes next is almost indescribable.
(Goddess Gold: +10,000,000 Base Damage, Dice Rolls Negated, -9,950,000 Trying not to wipe out the Earth = 50,000 Base Damage
Spawn of Mayhem: +100 Base Resilience, -1000 Chains of the Earth, Dice Rolls Negated, +2000 Highly Resilient to Annihilation Magic = 1,100 Damage Reduction
Spawn of Mayhem Health: 4339 - 48,900 = -44,561)
Red and Black light. The shockwave from the attack's release is nearly enough to send you flying on it's own. For the beast?
It doesn't even have the chance to scream. The wave of
erasure doesn't even slow as it sweeps over it. And just like that, the nightmare is over and silence is all there is...
-/Line Break Identified\-
You sit on the curb across the street from what was once your house. The crater is all that's left of it. You had lived alone with your elder sister in the house, but you knew she hadn't survived. The leg sticking out from beneath the crushed pickup truck with her favorite keychain hanging out of the only visible pocket was all you needed to know the truth of that.
Your listless melancholy is interrupted by a beautiful blond sitting down next to you. Her presence, though muted, tells you that this is Goddess Gold without her armor. She wears a simple white shirt with basic blue jeans, but she somehow manages to make them seem like the raiment's of Queen Elizabeth herself simply by wearing them.
You're simply clad in your ruined school uniform.
"You alright kid?" Her question is as calm and collected as if she was talking about the weather. Or had just erased a High-End Demon with a fraction of her power.
It was more than a little unnerving.
"I... When I woke up this morning all I was looking forward to today was just another day in school. I was in the middle of gym class when... this." You wave weakly at the carnage around you. "And now... Everyone I've ever known or loved is dead and I'm apparently a Magical Girl? How the Fuck does that work?"
A CF Rescue team transport rolls slowly past you, the two guards several feet away waving them on past, making sure that the young woman sitting next to you isn't disturbed. Said girl merely leans back against the flipped sedan behind you.
"It's called Fate being a bitch." You blink and look at her. She's grinning at you from where she lay, "Fate's a bitch, Destiny is a Whore, and poor Karma gets blamed for their damn antics while simply trying to do her job. This? This isn't Karma. This is Fate being an outright bitch. Bad luck simply decided it's going to be you."
Your not sure if you should be insulted by that or not.
"Shit like this happens every day around the world. Best you can do is simply roll with the punches and wait for the chance to hit back. Roughly six out of seven Newly Minted Magical Girls tend to try going off on their own right after awakening their power. Half tend to die. Most of the rest join up with a sponsor, but every now and then, one keeps independent and makes it big. Like Magical Girl Red Rose."
You knew her. She was officially the tenth strongest Magical Girl alive. And the Second Strongest Magical Girl that fought for the Forces of Light.
She had no official backing from any of the Light Factions, but was Directly responsible for the deaths of not one, not even two, but a whole
three Lords of Darkness in open combat. And she didn't even have any legitimate combat spells save possibly one confirmed.
"Anyway, the CF are almost done here, so I'm leaving soon... -ish. I was going to ask you if you felt like joining up with the Counter Force directly, or if you were planning on trying to go at it solo."
You blink. To be honest, you hadn't really thought about it at all. More focused on the fact your everything had jut been wiped off the face of the map...
But... You were a Magical Girl now! You remembered all the news articles on Magic Life Today, but you had never really thought much about it, believing yourself to be just another girl!
You could go with the Government and get special Training, even funding... but that faced the fact you'd forever be compared to the other magical girls that already worked for the Counter Force. Or you could run the risk of going at it alone. You'd have a chance to make a name for yourself without having to worry about being stuck under someone else's shadow but...
Just looking around and the memory of Candy Heart is all that is needed to point out what would be the most likely outcome of that situation.
What to do?
[]Go with Goddess Gold and join the Counter Force. The safety is too enticing to pass up, and you're not sure if you can face this without some kind of support.
[]Strike it alone. Red Rose proved to everyone that you didn't need backup, so you could do the same!
-Survived First Encounter! +100 EXP
-Survived Encounter With Class 5 Demon! +150 EXP
-Met Goddess Gold +5 EXP
-Total EXP Gained: 255
(Unlocked Character Sheet!: Magical Girl Solid Core!
Unlocked Character Sheet!: Magical Girl Goddess Gold, LeveL 1!
Unlocked Data File: United Light!
Unlocked Data File: United Darkness!
Unlocked Data File: Counter Force!
Unlocked Data File: United Earth Front - Akasha!
Unlocked Data File: Basic Magic!
Unlocked Data File: Magical Girls!
Unlocked Data File: Magic Practitioners!
Unlocked Bonus Data: EXP!
Unlocked Bonus Data: Growth!)
A/N: I'll write up everything you unlocked before next update. You'll find it all on the first page.
