CURSE YOU, RED!
EDIT: ALSO RAISETH
While the fight between the Guca level warriors raged, leaving many a Witchbait gaping with awe, and thus standing around uselessly, a smaller, larger battle took place within the confines of the omake Barrier.
"HUE HUE HUE!"
The gigantic, spinning marionette's laugh resounded continuously as the behemoth crashed on its back, razing a path of deforestation through the forest.
"Damn it!" yelled an outraged Sayaka, fighting to keep her footing. "Stop spinning, you dumb thing!"
Only more insane yelling answered her as the Boss Summon raiseed back into the air.
"We're getting nowhere," Sayaka stomped her foot repeatedly on the giant gear, "until we lear to work together! You hear- SHIT!"
She dived as a humongous gout of flame shoot overhead, her hand-me-down Summon lazily spinning out of the attack's path.
"HUAAAAAA HAHAHAHA!"
Sayaka clung for her life on the giant's blue dress as this one sped away to a side, letting a similarly sized horse made out of linked chain charge pass.
"Stop that!" yelled the blue haired ninja girl, "stop moving! You're gonna throw me off!"
Just as she said that, the giant horse turned -its comparatively tiny red haired rider listless, slumped on its back, her long mane covered in spectral flame- and reared, its metallic -wrong- neighing making Sayaka's bones shake.
As as if she had chosen that exact moment to listen, Sayaka's problematic Boss Summon stopped.
The metallic war horse charged, enveloped in wraiths of flame.
Sayaka's blue eyes widened at the approaching, charging behemoth. She stomped again on the giant gear!
"HEY! REMEMBER WHEN I SAID STOP? I MEANT DODGE!"
"HUE HUE HUE!"
"FUCK YOU!"
The world shook. The giant horse's empty eyeholes shone with malevolence, the stallion leaped straight at the small, blue dot that was Sayaka...
"AND FUCK YOU TOO!"
A blue sun erupted from Sayaka's belly-
Metal hooves crashed against light.
And stopped.
The light dispersed.
A giant, gauntleted hand held the chain link horse leg still, holding back the gargantuan beast.
Where a marionette of gears and crazy laughter and an irate, desperate blue haired girl had stood, now an equally gigantic armored mermaid glared down at the wild war horse.
"ILLUSSION TECHNIQUE COMPLETE!"
Sayaka's distorted voice resounded from the new giant's helmeted head.
"NOW TO PUT YOU BACK TO SLEEP, YOU SCRAGGY DOG!"
The horse pulled back, dragging the mermaid down, its lack of legs doing it no favours in the razed forest. Not paying heed, its other hand drew a gigantic cutlass, raising it high in the air for one simple, decisive strike.
The chain link behemoth erupted in flames!
"NICE TRY! HUE-HE HA HA!" the distubring laugh burst from Sayaka's illusionary form, "BUT YOU'VE GOT MY FRIEND ON YOUR BACK, AND WE PROMISED TO SHARE LUNCH!"
The slumped girl on the horse's back stirred. Her eyes half open watched, listless, as the giant cutlass dropped and the frantic horse neighed and pulled and its neck's chainlinks shrieked and were cleaved apart in one fell swoop!
With a last groan, the metallic beast stumbled, its head falling on the forest's ground with a crash that shook the omake village, shortly followed by the rest of its body.
At exactly the same time, its opponent vanished in a poof of smoke, replaced by a weary Sayaka and her still laughing Boss Summon.
"HA HA HA HA!" with a final laugh, the marionette vanished as well.
Sayaka sighed, glad for appropriately dramatic timing, before she felt a pull on her gut and the rush of wind on her face and realized without her giant ride she was falling.
"BITCH!"
She plummeted to crash on the devastated forest floor, only a few blue sparks answering her panicked faliling a mere second before she hit the ground.
"Owwwwww..." she groaned pitifully. "Once I find Sabrina, I'm gonna kick her so hard. Her and her fucking crazy Summon. Then I'm gonna burn that summoning contract..."
"You're telling me," a rough voice interrupted Sayaka's improptu revenge plotting.
The blue haired girl raised her head from where it was closely inspecting a grain of dirt, staring up at the similarly prone, red haired girl resting a few metres in front of her.
"You're hair isn't on fire anymore," blurted Sayaka.
"... It does that," shrugged Kyouko. Neither girl said anything for a moment. "So... we still on for lunch?"
Sayaka grinned.
"Believe it!"
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