Fragment Arcana, Mato Magica [Black Rock Shooter X Magia Records]

[Footnote; Magical Girl; Ally to all those beautiful in the world, with Wishes...Witch: Enemies of those that are ugly in the world...Faerie; An often mischievous or assistive being mostly neutral]

The seas are calm and the skies are clear with both making way with the place , just being another day for the life of just another young girl who haven’t seen anything new for the likes of a young girl who have been standing there, and never moved... who haven’t done anything noteworthy, as he has been standing there seeing things all around her on the face of planet after for so long during the time of her life, as she finds herself sitting in a space with another girl...

...someone that she does not recognize, only for it to come off to an abrupt end as she can hear her speak out to her as if she wants something to say...

???: so ...have you forgotten all about what we have gone through?... Kuroi Matoi?

mato: huh? wait i don’t know what you are-kyagh!

...she didn’t know what to think of it as she is way too distracted from looking at the other girl aside from her to the looming shadow that is distracting her from answering the girl’s initial question ...

...as the robot now is walking back home with a crate full of his favorite flavored by his side, where she is there witnessing that there is something actually big enough to house someone as big as her big as that...

???: even though we are now apart, we will eventually meet again...and that is our promise...

...everything is now revealed to be nothing but a simple dream to where she is now starting the feel that her own vision is starting to blur up and slowly fade away into black...

Mato: ak-kyaagh!!... HUH?!

... she narrowed her eyes to take a look, and then that is where she thought that she can see, but now after catching a glimpse of someone walking away from her, and she cannot recognize her or who she is, as she is now being chained away by an unknown force, but she held on to a thing that she can grip onto, and she can only see a face covered in blue flames before he is being grabbed in full by a gauntlet by force...

TIMESKIP WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY, BLACK ROCK SHOOTER CRUSHING A SOUL GEM AND MAKING A GRIEF SEED OUT OF IT...

...now a girl has woken herself up by force to see that it is now in the early morning, seeing that this is just another one of those recurring dreams that she has been suffering aver since she has reached the age of thirteen and then fourteen...

mato: just another one of those dream again...

...she sat down on the vacant seat that she has been lucky enough to find as early in the day, as where she swore that she didn’t put a strange jewel necklace on the table back into the drawer back home in her little apartment, , the noise of the wind outside of the oddly advanced train racing along the rails fixed onto a set route, but as she is about to put down one of the gifts that she has been given to by her mother since moving out by her mother to an apartment...

mato: huh? ...did i just miss one of her own gifts before moving?

...she looked on the desk in the center of his room, there is a small necklace with a blue and white star in the center of it...

mato:... so...how’d you get in here?...

she thought to herself carefully, did she just get a necklace by accident, or is it something where being at play here, she just shrugged, maybe is a free prize for something that she has forgotten all about some long time ago, or just maybe she has gotten a plus one for her efforts in participating some club or just-... and then surviving it, maybe it is some sort of reward for living through it...

...she, now fully dressed in her school uniform, is ready to go out to her new school

mato: just how did this one get inside my old book?...

...she really needed to stop going to places that she really didn’t have to get involved in, and especially getting strange jewelry that appears form out of nowhere...that aside, form a simple glance, she is starting to merely feel that it is calling to her, she shrugged it off to where she locked it around her neck and then started her first day of school...as she gets ready and then left for mitakihara junior high that is her destination, ever since she has moved there... where her train ride there isn’t much to talk about to where she still can’t stop thinking about that dream, it isn’t leaving her any time soon with those dreams trying to tell her something that she isn’t getting in on the loop of hints...

mato:...just what in the world was that dream...last night

...but that isn’t the case though, as he was just about to eat it in one bite, as the little necklace just all had to now starts glowing in his hands getting brighter and brighter, forcing her to drop something else as it hit the floor, as she head her starting to feel almost as if it is being pulled off to somewhere, as she sees the item that has fallen from the bookshelf, a small book with a hand painted art style, that has her fascinated ever since childhood, the rainbow bird and her million colors...

mato; oh... didn’t mean to do that either- ... how long was it since i’ve read this book?

...she really wished that he knows what is happening here, as the light is now having him to feel as if something form the other side of the boundaries within of the train station that has already appeared right in front of her where the there is a pictogram of colors all over her surroundings imitating the space all around her and warping it to enlarge it, it is just all of a sudden for her to process it all in a hurry, as he now fell over on to one knee and now everything now turned black...and then a vast array of colors now emerged form all around her newfound surroundings...

mato:...!?

...now making her commute form her little apartment, where a formerly unconscious a young girl now pants in her spot now unaware of him falling down form the sky above, into the sea below, once he has touched the salty sea water a soft glowing has made him safely encased in the form of some kind of a giant hull that is floating on the waters all around him as she is in a deep sleep...

mato: huh?...where am it!?...what is this place!?

...then the alarms in her head, now rings all over the place where several strange creatures now are looking at the lunar surface all over the place being shocked at this sudden turn of events that lead them to see what is going to happen in the form of the big red dot in the middle of the strange surface that looks like an artistic representation of the moon...

mato:...wait...th-this is the moon!...

...The night in this little realm is fresh with not a soul in sight, with the moon with the streets being free of anyone, with the sole exceptions of two giants standing in the center of a battle of their own proportions where the pure white cycloptic being is over there as they are one hiding away a beastly nature within, who us fighting up against a pitch-black creature with skeletal protrusions coming out of its entire body that prove itself to be stronger than it in raw power, where the young girl on clearly struggled to comprehend it...

...where it is being beaten with the utter inability of fighting back against the creature that it has no real means of fighting back against such a creature with nothing to use as a weapon aside form their own two bare hands where the voices of people insulting her as the creature with a sword impaling the form of a heavily distorted caricature of a woman impaled by a sword... Now roars with a scream in pain...as it now chased after her in this twisted and warped space that they have been dwelling in for so long...as the girl is now forced to do nothing but to try her very best to run and flee from the monster whose domain has been trespassed by her unintentionally...only to be found fruitless when she tripped and fell over to where the creature alone now has caught up to her, as she is now closing her eyes and see to that the black void that is her closed eyes is now enough to spare her of what if she gets killed by whatever this is...her necklace starts to glow softly and then building up the brightness of blue flames...

...as her clothes now changed into that of a hooded parka, clashing visually volently clashing against her school uniform on her torso with a pair of tights on her legs, until she corrected herself on finding out that they were a pair of boots...

mato: what the heck am i wearing all of a sudden!?

...and if that isn’t jarring enough to realize what has even happened to her, her eyes are now being focused to what looks like screens on the sides giving her a good look of the outside the eldritch location that has been able to suck her inside...the strange creature still hellbent to have her killed for apparently trespassing...

mato: k-kyaaaaaaahhhh!!!!...

...she failed to realize that there are a series of soft thread-like strings that are tied to her fingers, as she is now being able to albeit to slap the creature to the ground, as she opened her eyes to then see that there is a giant hand in front of the space that she is standing in wearing strange clothes... where she soon came to a certain realization...

mato: eeeeeegggghhh!?!?!...i’m in a- ...as a magical girl!? what is happening here!?

...she has watched just about enough battle shounen Anime in her lifetime to realize what has happened to her, but she has been brought back to reality, unfortunately, whereas the creature held onto its head and then started pummeling it with a giant retractable arm, as she found out is now feeling that this is almost like a dream to where that thing on her arm is punching it on the head repeatedly back and forth and then throwing the creature of flesh and steel back down to the ground, crashing onto a nearby building within the domain of the unknown creature...

mato: aaaaarrghhh!!!

...with the mysterious metamorphosis, that has saved her looked at the creature that has now pulled out the same sword that has been impaling itself through its chest, where the sword that was originally meant to kill off the girl that has herself in here by absolute random for no reason aside from using an obscure alleyway that no one has any knowledge to use, but right now she is inside of an unknown magical construct of sorts as it defended her form the sword strikes of the eldritch thing that she has trespassed herself into... with no real way on as to how she can figure whatever this is all supposed to be...

mato:...what in the world-...

...the creature soon retaliated against the giant of light to where she it has attacked forcing it to come crashing down, and the girl’s mind isn’t her own at the moment to where the metamorphosis is now complete, her struggling ceased, and the creature that turned to glare at her ferociously made a mad rampant dash to where she is putting the saber impaled on their chest where their heart is supposed to be, and putting it to good use in hunting down the intruder no matter who it may be, as they swung with exact precision...

...only for the target herself, abandoning all unnecessary emotions parried the attack, as the giant blade was parried to where the larger blade has stopped to the instinctive shock of the creature, with a sword as small as she is tall, only for the target herself, abandoning all unnecessary emotions where the unknown hooded figure parried the attack, as the giant blade that was being parried, as the giant’s own massive blade where her school uniform’s sailor and skirt both has been replaced by a parka and a pair of shorts with a belt on her leg, as her hair grew longer into twin tails tied asymmetrically to the sides, as a blast forced the creature to tip over backwards against the non-Euclidean quartz pillars being crushed along the way... as she is now being shown with a cannon on her arm pointing to where the monster crashed down, as the blue flames soon died down...

...revealing a massive cannon that shot out the many parts the grew and even emerged the component parts as individual beams of superheated blue flares that explode into flashes that caused great pain for the creature, as they raised its sword to face off against the intruder as the cannon on her arm shielded her from the attack form the saber, and upon a blink she dashed out of sight, zigzagging back and forth, then, left and right...

...as she landed after making a leapt backwards with a few flips and kicks against the air itself, as she landed on top of the creature’s blade to where she pointed the cannon on her arm to their cycloptic head, as she dashed forth not thinking just raw instinct alone justifying her current actions, as she made a swing ...

...as the tip of her Rock★Cannon, as a bayonet appeared at the end of the Gunbarrel replacing it’s firing purpose to becoming a more all-rounded arm-mounted great sword ...on one swiftly made stroke ...a “Violent Finish” to a violent creature, as its bodily functions died down as the creature’s eye was impaled by this one anomaly, as it dropped seemingly dead on the ground...

...as her left eye flashed up, as the creature is now becoming more and more enraged after what she has done to it, as it was just the beginning of the true fight as she sidestepped, evading many more calculated swords strikes with her dismissing the weapon on her arm to where she runs further away to craft some distance with the creature lifting up its other weapon, a ball and chain swinging it around like a hammer, using it to cover the distance as it blindly crashed it relying on the slightest hair of a sound to trace her on the spot, as she is now shooting at it with powerful repeated blasts form her cannon held on tightly by her hands, with her seeing the creature’s new disability, it’s impaled eye caused by her... as she leapt up impossible heights to where she first summoned her cannon and one full powered blast blew up the moon with a large hole in the center shattering it, as well as scattering the fragments of the false moon into so many small and tiny pieces... as the girl parried the sword’s strike to where she now landed once again on the creature’s sword to where she repeated the process, but her instincts tells her that there is someone else in the area, someone else who is powerful, and is almost as comparable to her own power, as she looked up after hearing a rather faint clicking sound, as the blast connected...

???: Tio Finale~!!

...and then she suddenly stopped dead in her tracks...

...and she saw what is really going on, as strings of yellow ribbons webbed the gloomy Greek marble and stone pillars that had lined the labyrinth as the creature looked away from her, ot focus on the favor of the newcomer...

...and she glared upwards to the sky and faded out of the view of someone who has entered the vicinity of the newcomer she saw holding onto a massively proportioned flint locked pistol, with its gargantuan bullet is now being aimed towards the monster, as the one behind of the trigger fired the gun with a soft wink...

???: my my~! oh, dear what a mess ... and i didn’t expect that someone didn’t tell me that there would be two witches in here, no?... i supposed that i must be seeing things...

...she caresses gently a yellow egg-shaped decorated jewel being held in her hands that is telling her of the appearance of a second, to where she eyed at the blinking glows of light brightening twice for each life sign of each creature who or what denizens that are lurking down here, wearing clothes that opposes her dark aesthetics in general...

...as she gracefully landed on one of the surviving marble pillars with a Greek aesthetic to where she is still sure that there is still something out there, looking all over for the culprit that has weakened the thing that she has called a “Witch” and then she is looking at the strange glowing egg sitting at the palms of her hands to where she is certain that she was beaten to the chase...

???: i guess... i suppose that my little new friend ... is a magical girl too as well? am i right?

... she pointed the egg in a certain direction; her intuition is correct it is blinking only once after the creature has been exterminated on the spot, literally piggy backing over the work of someone else, who has arrived late to the whole fight and did the finishing act...

...where she lifted her skirt and curtsied, and a pair of muskets dropped down from the sides of her skirt to where they sunk to the ground all around her as she picked up one of them and shot near at a seemingly almost at random as she then took note as she responded to lasers soon returning the fire back to the sender...

???: so it was you ...

...she caught the glimpse of the girl in a bra covered by a hooded parka jacket with shorts, as she slowly turned her head to stare her at the eyes, not too long after parrying her black blade with one of her rifles skillfully, to where she parried it again as there was a distance made between the two...

???: You’re quite skilled for someone fighting alone, but do you truly understand the danger you’re facing? Who are you, and why are you here?

...no response, all the being calling herself the name of black ★ rock shooter pointing her black blade back at her, as she studied the newcomer, but she is outright taken aback by her hostility upon meeting her for the first time the strikes and strokes are dodged by her skipping gracefully backwards...

???: You’re not like any magical girl... or witch... I’ve ever seen... What are you hiding? ...If you’re here for a greater purpose, I need to know what it is... Lives could be at stake ... so why don’t you just simply surrender?

...no response, she only gets either a mix between cold dead silence, or a couple of attempted slashes...

???: ...so, well then... my soul get says that there are two witches lurking about down here ... and so it was you all along, no?

...still no response, as she dodged and parried, she is now starting to breathe harder during the encounter as she hopped on top of an unstable marble pillar, as the place all around them cracks open and undistorts itself and she is now back in the alley near the train station can be seen up in the sky, unravelling slowly at the minute...

???: this is-... just great!

...she eyed down her item that she has called a “soul gem” as said in her own words, as she coped in the fight by subtly taunting her mysterious opponent, while keeping her distance while firing to try to ward off the stranger...

???: huh!? ...she looked at the grounds all around her, it is starting to impale the ground around her, replacing the caricatures of a moonlit temple for something else entirely during the whole transformation as the girl who was returning fire now has seen what is going on here, unable to comprehend the total takeover, as the moonlit temple is now crumbling with her seeing a skywards facing gate with blades spiking from out of the ground, and a massive gun barrel...

...as the temple crumbled down to dust, as it’s monuments now are being replaced by the sheer magnitudes of an arena of spiked fences with the center being decorated with blades form all over as she had just now appeared in the middle of the domain of the supposed “second witch”, much to her intrigued shock...

???: hmph! i guess i can’t truly beat you in an unfair fight like this one, so this is where i take my leave- ...!?

...she then looked at the creature that has been standing there, where the strange thing that her soul gen is identifying as a witch, is now holding onto a blackened decorated jewel like her soul gem, as she crushed it in her hands, as that sight though impossible, spooked her to the core...

???: is that-...!?

...then she made the realization on the spot that this is different from what she is used to seeing right now...

???: impressive! ... she looks obviously like a magical girl, but my soul gem says otherwise...

...she stared off onto the cold azure, blue eyes of the girls who looks so human, but she can’t think of anything else as the witch’s labyrinth is now replaced by her domain, a “Hollow World” by overriding the already existing one not too long after the death of the creature that the blonde girl called a witch upon arrival, who is still shocked to seeing and wondering on as of why someone has to crush a grief seed at the palms of their hands, and she knew that she has the home field advantage right now...

mami: too bad then... i have a trip off elsewhere, and if you’re curious my name is mami tomoe, and i didn’t catch yours? may i simply ask? or is it a little too much? ...

???: ...Black ★ Rock Shooter...

...that is the name that she has heard by listening closely and tracing the movements of the stranger’s lips as eerie as it is, she falsified a smiled on her lips as yellow ribbons appeared and grappled her up away, knowing that getting into a shootout is meaningless if she didn’t know fully what she is looking at, leaving while carefully eyeing the being that appeared right in front of her, as the “girl” that has been identified by the soul gem...

TIMESKIP WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY, BLACK ROCK SHOOTER STANDING IN FRONT OF A NOT ASSASIN’S CREED MAGICAL GIRL...

With the girl going by the name of Mato Kuroi running out of the alley near the train station to where she has absolutely no memory of how she just found herself taking a random dirt nap down there as she went out on a hurry to go to her first day of going to her new school; Mitakihara High...and unbeknownst to her something is watching her form the safety that is her own peripheral vision, as if they are studying her from the safest distance while being further away so that way she does not even notice that they are there to begin with...

???; A refinement to becoming a witch, how intriguing... This could represent a deviation from the system... or an unintended evolution. I’ll need to study this further ...

...they are talking to someone from behind them as they continued to speak to whoever was being spoken to...

???: Fascinating... the Mechanization suggests deliberate evolution, a deviation from entropy’s natural flow... This could represent a challenge to the system or a more efficient way to harvest energy... I will observe much closely... Mami Tomoe...

...there is the same girl who calls herself a “magical girl” standing there right there by the rooftops with them, listening to what they have to say...

...As she is now looking down at the white creature with a pair of red eyes orbited by pink beady eyes looking up to her...

Mami: she calls herself Black Rock Shooter... so i was wondering if you’ve heard of her somewhere?

Kyubey: so, this “Black Rock Shooter” is an anomaly; a byproduct of despair refined into something functional... Her existence doesn’t disrupt the cycle, it’s simply a deviation and whether she’s a threat or an opportunity is up to your interpretation... and if I’ve heard of her, sorry i do not know about what you are talking about...

mami: i see ... so let’s talk some prep time; she can take over a witch’s labyrinth and make it her own, i’ve seen it happen myself and she can make weapons, and wearing things- so who brings a bra and an open hoodie?...

kyubey; i’ll take note of it...

...she looked at the walkway below with the path overlooking the park-like campus to where he smirked, she has found just about two or three people she can recognize form the looks of things, as she parted ways with kyubey for the time being to go ahead to greet them...

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