[22:38] <Circa> The setting sun hung low in the sky, casting a warm orange glow through the windows of the large appartment, illuminating the inside fully and all its contents. This was the home of a very particular girl, and she was about to get an ininvited guest show up... Seeminly appearing from the ether, a white, foxlike being hopped onto the balcony, the light shimmering off its fur as it padded
[22:38] <Circa> along the railing, eyes trailing down to the cityscape below, seeing the odd collection of neon signs and tv screens seemingly sprawling around at random, flickering the latest advertisement from the walls of buildings, and railings between them, and even sign poles standing from the street. It was an archaic mess down below, but here up above the mess, the sunset was visible, perks of
[22:38] <Circa> the penthouse as it were. Circa however did not take in the view for long, spotting the one he was seeking instantly, a girl looking out from the balcony into the distance, white hair and tanned olive skin, looking out into the light... "You sure picked a nice place to retire Avari."
[22:42] * Lily is now known as Avari
[22:44] * Avari felt the sun on her skin, the light soothing her ails like it always did. She loved the sunset, the sun attracting her in general, but at this time of day it was at its most beautiful. The overcity may have been a strange place for the girl when she had first come here all those years ago, but after getting used to it, she had come to enjoy its quirks and oddities, and the overall difference from her old home. It helped her to forget, helped her to ignore the past and move on with her life... However it seemed today, the past was going to be catching up to her once more, and the patter of pawsteps on the railing behind her caught her attention, the girl wondering if it was a cat. However as she turned, her eyes widened in horror and her tanned skin seemed to grow pale. "No... you cant be here... why are you here...?" her voice was distressed as she took in the sight of the puchuu in front of her. She hadnt seen the white animal in years... though she had no idea how long it had been in the mortal realms, time had a habit of acting off in the universe of magic. "Where is she?" her eyes drifted, as if looking for someone frantically.
[22:51] <Circa> The white creature merely sat on the railing, defying physics seemingly as it raised its paw, licking it nonchalently as its blue eyes cast a gaze over the girl in front of it. "You and I both know there is only one reason I would seek you out." he did not look very taken with the encounter, as if it bored him slightly, gaze training more on his paw than the female as he licks over it once
[22:51] <Circa> more. The puchuu did not like this part of the overcity, it was disordered, chaotic, and was too close to a magical fault line, hence why it seemed to be home to a large number of the so called "dimensional homes" of the magical girls. Sahara had once had a home nearby, and thus the puchuu had come to deal with this place on a frequent basis. But right now, there was another reason that
[22:51] <Circa> brought him here. "Do you remember the last thing I told you before we parted Avari? The circumstances that would bring me to you." His voice seemed monotone, flat, devoid of care.
[22:56] * Avari felt a sudden stab of pain in her chest, the young girl clutching her chest as a gasp burst from her mouth. She gripped the handrail in front of her before she seeminly lost the strength to stand up and collapsed against the wall beside her, a tear beading in her eye. "All of them...? All of them Circa... H-How is that possible..." She looked up at the small creature, the pain seemed to come straight from her heart as flashes of memory burst in her mind. "Even Sahara... I just dont understand..." she seemed in utter disbelief, paralysed by the grief that was creeping in her veins. The sunlight no longer felt comforting on her skin, in it filled her with shame.
[23:05] <Circa> The creature walked along the rail until he was perched above the magical girl, gazing down with a less than sympathetic look. "There have been a staggering number of deaths recently, all in the mortal world." He speaks with a calm tone, the familiarity clearly showing between them. "Sahara was the last to fall. She had always told me she felt she was fated to die in her homeworld, I had
[23:05] <Circa> thought it was just sentimentality." He itches his ear with a hind leg, contiuing to speak. "You are the last Magical Girl ally Sahara had that is still alive... and the only one who I feel has the magic to deal with our current threat. Sahara needs your help still."
[23:11] * Avari chokes back a sob as her own blue eyes lock onto those of the puchuu. The young girl could not believe what she had heard... all of her former allies... dead and gone... She looks down at the ground, memories flashing in her mind of the last time they had all been together... "I hope they are at peace. They all deserved it so much..." she makes the sign of the cross on her chest, wishing her friends happiness in whatever afterlife they had arrived in, the white haired girl wishing she had been able to stop it. "I should never have left them... I just couldnt do it... I still cant Circa, I just cant go back..." She pauses, as if noticing something about what the puchuu said. "Wait what do you mean still needs my help...? Did she leave something for me to do?"
[23:15] <Circa> Looking down at the girl, the foxlike being turns up his nose with a frown. Avari always had been a sentimental one more than any of the other girls, always referring to them as a family. But the stress of magical girl work had broken her spirit and she had left the group, the white creature had no choice but to seek her out however. "The past is the past Avari, nobody can change that.
[23:15] <Circa> But you have a chance to do the right thing again." He pauses, wondering how best to answer her question, before deciding to be as blunt as possible. "No, but the new Sahara is inexperienced and naive, I cannot rely on her alone to complete our mission."
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[23:19] <Avari> "New... Sahara?" The girl was confused, but she had heard troubling rumors from other girls who had passed through... surely this couldnt be true... "Circa what are you saying? Sahara was my friend, I want to know what happened." a hint of anger flashed in her eyes and she begins to struggle to stand. "Are you saying you replaced her just like that?" she had never really liked the white animal, and knew he was not above doing just that. The fact he could have done it to one of the best friends shehad ever had... it filled her with rage.
[23:26] * Circa sighs as his ears flick up and down at the sound of the girl's voice raising to annoyance. Why must humans be so emotional about everything all the time, it confused and exhasperated him how short sighted they were at times. "Sahara died doing what she always did, playing the hero and saving lives. I still needed her, so I recruited a replacement, is that really so hard to understand."
[23:26] * Circa He paced along the rail from side to side. "The live of magical girls are fleeting, but the missions they must undertake are not, you would have understood that if you didnt run away from your responsibilies and leave your allies alone."
[23:38] <Avari> The girl could not believe what she was hearing, the tears running down her cheeks seemed to sizzle slghtly as they burned with anger. Now standing up fully she faced the puchuu on the other side of the balcony, eyes narrowing as her outfit flickered around her, the cloth blooming out into a flowing white dress that almost touched the floor, and left little to the imagination in terms of figure. It was surprisingly beautiful, but the girl within it looked deadly. "You think thats all we are Circa? Tools that can just be bought and replaced? How dare you... how... fucking dare you." The anger boiled within her, the girl snapping from the anger and grief. She seemed to reach into mid air, and in the next moment, a rather modern looking pistol was in her hand, pointed directly at the white creature as she pulls the trigger. Trails of pure light seem to burst from it instead of bullets, arcing towards the puchuu as it sits.
[23:44] * Circa sighed internally as he watched the girl transform, why did humans have to make everything difficult... His body leaped into the air, spinning as it dodged through the streams of light arcing towards him, the foxlike creature touching down on a wire that ran between one building and the next, tiptoeing along it in violation of the laws of nature before hopping onto one of the neon
[23:44] * Circa signs as more shots came his way. "You dont have to be angry, rest assured I would preferred if your friends had lived too. But this mission is far more important than the lives of a few humans. Sahara understood that, why dont you?" He mocks her slightly, if the girl wanted to be unreasonable then he would have to try and explain.
[23:48] <Avari> Another flash engulfed the young girl, blinding light surrounding her body as she went through another stage of transformation, white wings bursting from her back and spreading wide, the rather angelic looking girl leaping from the balcony in pursuit of Circa, contining to fire at him until she was out of ammunition. "Shut up! You cant imagine how this feels you monster." she spat, her wings carrying her under a sign as she takes another weapon out of thin air, firing blindly at the rapidly moving form of the puchuu. "Knowing one day you and your friends will just be replaced like you dont matter."
[23:55] * Circa leaps from sign to sign as his previous platforms explode into fiery shrapnel, sparks flying across the area as the two magical beings continue their merry dance throughout the dazzling lights of the city. Taking a flying jump, the creature lands on the vertical wall of a building, trotting downwards quickly, his paws seeming to stick to the surface, allowing him to run vertically
[23:55] * Circa with very little effort. "All humans die Avari, and are replaced by their children. Is this really so different? There is work still to be done for humanity, each generation contributes to the goals of the species." he tries to logically reason, wishing the girl could just see his side of the coin.
[00:00] <Avari> "I didnt want this! None of us wanted this!" She cries out, hovering in the air as she pulls out another gun, the air flickering around her as ethereal copies of her firearm seem to manifest out of pure light, the barrage openning up at once as beams of light tear a swath through the clusters of neon signs, shattering the windows of the buildings around as the girl cries openly. "I cant go back to what I did, I WONT!" her yell echoes through the explosions all around as her rage builds, genuinely trying to end the puchuu for the torture she had suffered over the years she had worked alongside her allies... the things she had done... nobody deserved that what had happened.
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[00:07] * Circa feels his frustration with the girl build as he leaps effortlessly through the air, pursued relentlessly through the heights of the city by the vengeful female, beams of pure light arcing around his body, though he dodged every single one with ease. "You know you must, the alternative is chaos and death. You fought to prevent that for years, and now we face the biggest threat the
[00:07] * Circa overcity is likely to ever face." He bounces from sign to sign the sparks and explosions filling the air around him as he continues along. "Its what they all wanted. Sahara, Heide, Katherine, Amber... They all fought for order and what was right. You must come back."
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[00:14] <Avari> The girl's attacks remained strong, but they were noticably dropping in frequency as she flew onwards, firing continuously with her pistol as light-copies formed around her, shot, and disappeared, blinking out as quickly as they formed. She was furious at the puchuu for bringing up the names of her friends, how dare he speak of them after what he had just told her... The girl was glowing brighter and brigher, her wings casting an aura of almost blindingly bright light as she flew onwards, the setting sun not holding a candle to the pure white of her aura. "Just SHUT UP!" she yelled,as the light erupted from her body, a beam of pure energy ripping down the street, smashing signs, tv screens, concrete and glass alike as she rained destruction down on the puchuu, half knowing she couldnt kill him, but wanting to try. However the emotional drain was becoming too much, and her body drifted down onto a rooftop nearby slowly, no longer pursuing the puchuu.
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[00:19] * Circa feels the drop in pace from the girl behind him, leaping into the air as the beam of light carves a swathe through the gaudy lighting all around them. His eyes blinked closed for several seconds as the attack of the light magical girl whited out his vision. However the creature remained untouched by the assault, and as her rage burnt out, the creature let out a sigh of exhasperation,
[00:19] * Circa maybe now he could finally put some reason order into this chaotic situation... "What you had to do was unpleasant for everyone I know. But you know the consequences of what happened to those who were not 'treated' by you. Nothing but death came out of that."
[00:26] * Avari collapses in a heap on the ground, her wings folding around her body as if to hide her from the world around and all of the feelings that came with it. She was a kind girl at heart, and what she had been forced to do to some girls in the past had left her hurting internally more than she cared to admit. Sometimes the fact it was for the greater good, and the satisfaction she felt from fighting chaos was just not enough of a reason for her. "I wish I had never been given this power, I'm not strong enough, I'm just not..." She screws her eyes shut, the blinding aura fading from her body as she lays on the rooftop. "I wish there was another way..."
[00:30] <Circa> The puchuu hopped onto an air conditioning unit nearby the girl, looking down at her form with an unreadable look. "Well there is always the option of just killing them." The foxlike being said simply, knowing it wasnt really an alternative for either of them, Sahara and her allies had always been against murder, and Circa saw little need to waste a life that could be brought back into
[00:30] <Circa> the fold.
[00:34] * Avari let out a long and pained sigh, knowing that for many other magical girls, that was indeed the option they eventually ended up deciding on when dealing with those who had been tainted or corrupted... It pained her to think of how many had died needlessly, and no matter what she had to do, it was more humane than that... "I just wish... I just wish it was easier. I wish the others were here..." she looked visibly faded now, her costume a much more muted shade of white, almost grey in colour.
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[00:41] <Circa> "One day I am sure we will find something else. But as of now, you are the only girl I know and trust who's magic can purify the corruption in a girl permanently, and sever and restore the bonds between magical beings and mahou shoujo." He had known the girl for a long time, and in the past, Sahara, Avari and their allies had worked together, closing portals, capturing monster girls, dark
[00:41] <Circa> magical girls and tainted girls, and purifying them. It was not a pretty process, and the girls were often left traumatised... but they were no longer a threat to the realms... "If you wont do it for the sake of the universe, then do it for the memory of your friends."
[00:49] * Avari felt the sudden rush of coldness as her costume and wings dissolved into light around her, leaving her wearing just her nightgown like before as she lay on the cold, bare concrete in the light of the setting sun. She knew what had to be done, she had to go back no matter how much it hurt... if things were really as bad as Circa claimed, and none of her friends were alive to set things right... then it was up to her to do it after all. She didnt know if she could live with hearing the screams again, but she had to try, she had to do it for them... "Okay... Just please... I need some time alone..." She curled closer in on herself as she lay there, feeling the cold and the dread seep into her as the puchuu looked on.
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[00:58] <Circa> The white foxcat continued to perch on the AC, gazing down at the increasingly pitiful looking girl, a far cry from the vengeful angel that had chased him down the street only minutes earlier. It seemed however that he had finally gotten through to her, and relief made itself known in his body. "Good, I'm glad you have come to see things my way Avari." his tail flicks from side to side in
[00:58] <Circa> affirmation. "When we need you, we will contact you, she has your number still after all." the little creature turned around and walked to the edge of the rooftop, casting one more gaze back at the girl. "The new Sahara is very different from the old, I hope you two will get along." he speaks in a light, musing tone, before hopping off the roof out of sight, leaving the girl to her sadness.