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Slabs of broken concrete are briefly illuminated in a purple flash of light as the black-haired glasses-less girl vanishes, the rain still falling from the sunlit-clouds above. I sharply inhale, tasting gas from unseen broken pipes in addition to the water saturated air. This taste, the fact that I could sense and feel the weight of my body, which normally had that weightlessness that accompanied dreams, and the fact that everything was blurry around the rims of my glasses, told me something I did not want to believe. I grinned as a line from my favorite story enters my mind, a line that was only partially applicable to the current situation.
When you kill, you either live on in a dream, or go insane.
I shiver a bit, whether from excitement or fear as to what I knew the only way events would progress from this point on, I could not tell. Or maybe I was shivering due to the freezing water that I was now soaked in, my tennis shoes currently more relatable to a sponge than actual shoes with the amount stuck in them. I shuddered before shuffling my way over to the largest rock I could see as the rain began to increase in its downpour, making a fine mist that layered everything with a tinge of shadow. And sitting there on the very rock I was heading towards, was a familiar shadow around which the mist parted, revealing a really familiar white furred creature about the size of a normal cat or rabbit, or a very large rat, which was rather accurate with what I knew of the alien’s personality. The creature known as a Incubator sat there, calmly licking its paw and wiping it over the red part of its long ears, either ignoring me or attempting to deceive me with the so-called cute innocent action.
The two-tailed Incubator continues with its action of wiping a licked paw over its oddly patterned ear as I stepped out of the water onto a nearby slab of concrete. I frowned briefly at the evil furball’s continued ignorance of my presence before a splitting grin spread its way across my face. Naw, I couldn’t stay truly one hundred percent mad at the soul stealing furball, especially not with what I’m about to do.
“Hey Cueball, erm, Kyubey, argh no, Incubator!”
Urgh that was bad, but my words got what they intended done: the Incubator pausing mid-swipe as it opens one crimson eye to glance my way. That same eye flashes briefly as the light from the clouds above moves over it, then, a voice deeper but still just as monotone as its anime counterpart reverberates through my head.
'Yes?'
I stepped forward to the concrete’s edge, the water lapping less than a inch away as I held eye contact with the fluffball of despair-consuming, fluff... Hey, I could say with certainty in the moment of thinking my wish to the cat-rabbit-rat-hybrid with a uterus shaped head —meh, lets settle on ‘alien’ for now— that I am the self-proclaimed most craziest person in my normal family. Heck, make that the universe, especially knowing the contract’s fine print beforehand and still going through with it. The alien lowers his paw, thinking over the ramifications and possibilities of my wish being fulfilled. With its two tails flicking back and forth in a cat-like manner, it dips its head with a single phrase that often preluded many adventures and battles.
'It can be done. However—'
My breath hitched, my mind filled with the childhood wonder and excitement of a unknown story, no, world, —well, multiple stories or worlds in this case— mixed with the desire to explore while experiencing the unknown once again. I crouched before Kyubey, my hazel eyes now level with its own crimson ones. I spoke, my voice failing to hide any of my excitement in its babbling.
“However, due to the karmic fluctuations of my wish affecting multiple worlds and people that live, breath, eat, sleep, —you know, Live, — in them, you have no clue what my power level as a mahou shoujo, magical girl, or as you like to call them, ‘puella magi’ would be, right?”
The Incubator dips his head with a slow blink, giving me a soft final thought before its ears reached out to me, a grey glow emitting from my chest.
'That is correct. Regardless, the possibilities you have presented with such a wish, would aid many people and the universe as a whole. The contract…'
Its blinks the same pair of innocent-only-in-appearance eyes a second time before finishing the telepathic sentence.
'...is now complete.'
As the morning mist shrouded us, the grey light grew brighter than actual sunlight, causing my eyes to smart from the glare, so I squeezed them both shut, my hands moving upward to grasp the light’s source. A burst of darkness against my closed eyelids, something solid plopping into my hands, a weight not unlike that of a cat or dog settling on my shoulder as with a loud pop, the two of us were displaced into the realm of both unknown and known.