[IC] Mahō No Ko, the Magical Children

[Kautalya]

Aya Komichi a young girl who had a snake covering her face. It was sleeping soundly until it got startled by Aya's muffled scream. It leaped off of her, slithering next to her. Her eyes abruptly opened, still laying down, her eyes darted around the place. People. People everywhere. Aya slowly sat up, rubbing both her eyes. Her long blonde hair flowing behind her. After lifting her eyes open, she scanned at her surroundings. Walls. No windows. Just walls. Just as she was about open her mouth, something crawled on her arm. It felt scaly and rough. Aya yawned and looked down, staring at her arm. Which was covered in blackness. A black snake crawled on her arm, looking up at her. She screamed. Well, at least that's what she thought. The only thing that came out of her mouth was a 'eek.'

Confused, Aya turned around, stayed still, and manged to whisper out.

"Where am I?" She asked in a soft quiet voice.

[Grey]

A dark cat paced back and forth before him. An omen on a day of omens. Now, Levi wasn't really much of a spiritual or superstitious sort, but what else could you call waking up in some dank basement-esque structure with no windows along with a few other folks who seemed not to have their shit together? It surely wasn't some regular occurrence, that was for sure. The people were speaking, questioning their reasons for being here. It wasn't his place to speak, so he just listened. A few foreign loan words, a rather odd claim about defending the town like some Saturday morning cartoon, and an exchange of names. Nathan, Erebus, Taimu, Katherin, and then the other guys who didn't say a thing. Each had some kind of beast before them. How interesting.

Suddenly, a scream. Slightly muffled, but still audible in the room given its general echo-yness. The blue hoodied young man turned his head to look towards the blonde kind that looked like she was kind of just trying to make herself seem smaller. He'd barely heard it, but the question was there. "Underground by the sound of it," Levi drawled nonchalantly, "'Maho Underground' the girl over there - the one that seems know what's up - said." He shrugged. "No idea what that means though, but I heard something about defending the city."

[metagros]

"thank you nice lady whos name i dont know. i have been trying to figure that out for a while" he turned twards Nathan. "and i ges we are introducing our self. Hi im Erebus."

[joeycbee]

metagros said
"thank you nice lady whos name i dont know. i have been trying to figure that out for a while" he turned twards Nathan. "and i ges we are introducing our self. Hi im Erebus."

Nathan stare at Erebus for a little then realize that he was talking to him "o, um...my, my name is Nathan." he looking down at the ground still holding his arm.

[BlackCat]

metagros said
"thank you nice lady whos name i dont know. i have been trying to figure that out for a while" he turned twards Nathan. "and i ges we are introducing our self. Hi im Erebus."

"If you had been listening at all you would have discovered my name is Katherin." Kat told Erberous.

Taimu was looking at her fox. It had a ribbon around it's neck. Taimu got a strange feeling and pulled the ribbon off and tied her hair with it before saying,
"Time, Past, Present, Future," Time stopped during Taimu's transformation, so when time resumed Taimu was already transformed.

[joeycbee]

BlackCat said
"If you had been listening at all you would have discovered my name is Katherin." Kat told Erberous.Taimu was looking at her fox. It had a ribbon around it's neck. Taimu got a strange feeling and pulled the ribbon off and tied her hair with it before saying,"Time, Past, Present, Future," Time stopped during Taimu's transformation, so when time resumed Taimu was already transformed.

Nathan back up from Taimu who just change in front of him with no explanation. He hid behind Erebus because it was the only place to hide.

[metagros]

and the cialings gravity returned. Erebus floated back towards the cialing as one of the girls changed appearance. hopefully he will return back to the normal floor.

[BlackCat]

Kat looked up at Taimu.
"SO your time, huh,"she said before staring up and transforming herself.
Once she was done there was a patch of nature around her and she was transformed.

[joeycbee]

metagros said
and the cialings gravity returned. Erebus floated back towards the cialing as one of the girls changed appearance. hopefully he will return back to the normal floor.

Nathan looked around for another place to hide, but there was none. he took a few more steps back and ask "w-what are you?" He didn't know if this was normal or not all he knew was he didn't like it.

[BlackCat]

"Not us, we, we are Maho no Ko, magical children. The animals you have with you are your spirit animals. Their color indicates your power. Black for Darkness, Red for Fire, Green for Nature, Silver for Light, Dark-Gray for Space. Oh, we have both time and space here. You two should team up. So basically we have to fight Kemono which are the manifestations of evil. Yup, that about sums it up," Kat said. Taimu just looked around hesitantly till she whispered "Past, Future," and two double bladed scythes appeared in her hands.

[joeycbee]

"um...that sounds dangerous....why would we want to fight though kamona things or whatever." he asked backing even further away from them now that she pulled out blades from thin air.

[Vindle]

"I think it's better not to question it. This sounds really fun, actually." Vindle said. He played around with his sword as the seagull watched him.
"Oh, right, I should probably give you a name." he said to the bird.

[Kautalya]

"Underground by the sound of it,"

"Underground..." Aya mumbled to herself, why exactly were they underground? Why did she have a snake with her? Many questions flooded the poor girls mind. She stared back at the boy who responded to her. He seemed calm. Before she could ask anything else, the boy spoke up again.

"'Maho Underground' the girl over there - the one that seems know what's up - said."

Aya tilted her head. Maho? Honestly all she wanted to know is as to why she's here. Her snake slithered above her arm and wrapped around her neck. Hissing. Aya noticed that she wasn't the only one with an animal with her. Everyone had one beside themselves. Plus, one girl transformed into something different. She thought that maybe this was a dream. This is a dream...Right..? Right!?

Aya pinched herself, squinted her eyes. She scratched her arm. It didn't work. She didn't wake up to the lovely sun greeting her. The young girl sighed, she had to realize that this is real. Not fake. This isn't a dream. Whatever she is experiencing right now was reality. Aya stood up, her short blue dress covering in beautiful white lining across the top part of the dress; as she walked the dress trailed behind her giving everyone a exquisite feel to the atmosphere. The bewitching violet ribbon lining intoxicated everyone in the dresses beauty - the radiant silk ran down to the bottom of her magnificent feet. Her snake hissed and hissed until it slithered above her head. Planting it's body in a comfortable pose. Closing his eyes. "H-Hey!" She softly called out to the boy who gave her the information, now standing in front of him.
"U-Um. My name is Aya. Aya Komichi."

[metagros]

Erebus floated back down. He was actually able to control this disent a bit, deciding when to return to normal gravity. He dared to think he was getting a hang of this when the balancing uper gravity gave out, causing him to land face first on the ground. Worst still was that gravity seemed to increase. The others seamed though to have been introducing them selves before the crash, so he weakly muttered "I'm erebus"

[joeycbee]

He looked all around at everyone. They all seemed to have special powers and knew how to use them. "I want powers too" he mumbled getting jealous now that everyone but him has powers, so it seems to him. The panther keep rubbing its fur on his legs and for whatever reason he wasn't afraid of it.

[Grey]

Superpowers. Not as crazy as it seemed. 'Specially since there was a kid floating in the air, and a Power Rangers-esque transformation sequence. Yup, definitely saturday morning cartoon territory. Hopefully this wasn't a dream. Real life was hardly... Real life was... It was...

Why couldn't he remember anything?!

Levi took in a few deep breaths. Wouldn't do to spazz out now, and he was generally a reserved kind of guy. At least he thought he was. He probably was. It just felt instinctual, so that might've been a decent sign of what things were like before. Yeah. Anywho, best to listen to the one who had all her shit together.

...

Huh, interesting. So this cat pacing before him like... Well, any cat actually, was dark gray in color. Which meant he had space. Cool. Sure it wasn't 'calling down meteors' space, but the kind of space that physicists talk about could be fun to screw around with. He had to say he was pleased with this turn of events.

"Hmm?"

Levi looked up to Aya from his seat on the ground. A lady with an elaborate dress and a boy with a ratty blue jacket. On a regular day, it'd be a rather odd sight, but it was hardly a regular day, was it?

"Levi, ah, Fletcher. Nice to meet'cha," he nodded.

[BlackCat]

joeycbee said
He looked all around at everyone. They all seemed to have special powers and knew how to use them. "I want powers too" he mumbled getting jealous now that everyone but him has powers, so it seems to him. The panther keep rubbing its fur on his legs and for whatever reason he wasn't afraid of it.

Taimu looked at Nathan,
You probably have powers too, I mean you have a panther with you," She then looked at the group in general. "I'm Taimu Kitsu"

[Kautalya]

"Levi, ah, Fletcher. Nice to meet'cha,"

"Oh uh, it's nice to meet you too!"
Aya smiled, nervously rubbing her hands. She turned around to see everyone greeting each other, they each had interesting names. A sigh escaped her mouth. She was, for some reason, already getting used to the animal thing. But saying that we have powers? It was too had to believe. It was as if we had to say something out like magical girls.

"Nice cat?" Aya said, pointing at his cat. She didn't really know what to say. She did go up to Levi and bothered him, might as well keep talking to him, right?

"I have a snake..Hahah.." Aya chuckled softly pointing at her head, slightly tipping the snakes head. Pretty obvious that she had one in the beginning. She twirled her blonde locks of hair, taking some steps aside and turning around, facing the other people waiting for his response.

[LaXnyd]

She never returned.

No matter how much she assured him that she would be fine, no matter how powerful she claimed her powers and her spirit animal were, she did not return. All that they ever found was a dead body, killed by the monsters nobody knew existed. Nobody but him knew the truth, and as such, he was the only one who knew that there were monsters that existed which could strike any time, any where, suddenly, viciously, monstrously, without warning.

There it was again. He was remembering that night.

Araragi Kai sat in a cafe, watching the cars go by past him as he had a book in his lap. Sipping a cup of coffee, he stared outside the windows as the noise of traffic and vehicles permeated the peace and tranquility of the cafe. Fear and paranoia gripped him yet again as the images of his late sister flashed through his mind as well as the images of the monsters she had died fighting against. His hand began to tremble, sweat began to trickle down his neck and his heart began racing as he was reminded yet again that at any moment something could attack and he could die in a flash.

Opening the Araragi Anthology of Haiku with his hands and taking out a pen, he began composing.

On a windy day
A man lives to his fullest
Hanging by a thread

Unbeknownst to him, his fear and paranoia was seeping through his words. Gathering strength with every letter, the energy broke free of the book and began forming into a Kemono of fear and paranoia, unseen by its creator. The Kemono then went off, leaving Kai completely unaware of what he had done.

Setting down his book, he took another sip of coffee.

[BlackCat]

Kat noticed a sense of fear outside. A kemono was outside. They would need to combat it. Kat decided her best bet would be to go with the new kids so that they could not only beat the kemono but the newbies would learn how to use their newfound abilities.
"Kemono, were going outside follow me. We'll be fighting it, just make sure not to try and take it on by yourself. That's what gets Maho no Ko killed..." Kat then started towards an elevator hidden in the corner.

Taimu undid her transformation and put her fox on her shoulder and followed after Kat. Partially prepared for whatever was ahead of her.