[h2][center][color=crimson]♥[/color][color=black]♠[/color][color=crimson]♦[/color][color=black]♣[/color] [color=darkmagenta]Ayumu Harasawa[/color] [color=crimson]♥[/color][color=black]♠[/color][color=crimson]♦[/color][color=black]♣[/color] [color=darkmagenta]Phantasmagoria[/color] [color=crimson]♥[/color][color=black]♠[/color][color=crimson]♦[/color][color=black]♣[/color][/center][/h2]
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Phantasmagoria let herself relax a little. Had she worried about nothing? Was this Aegis girl all talk? When the blonde took a break from snarking, Ayumu snickered at the request she made.

[color=darkmagenta]"Hm? And what's in it for us?"[/color] she asked, amusement flickering in her eyes, although she took care not to taunt Aegis [i]too[/i] much. [color=darkmagenta]"Oh c'mon, do you expect us dark magical girls to help out of the kindness of our hearts? But I guess we could comply, as long as you don't try to pull anything..."[/color]

Whatever the request was, she didn't find out. No sooner had she spoken than a blur of green swept Aegis right off the roof, dragging her out of sight. [color=darkmagenta]"Why hello Touka, nice of you to pass by!"[/color] Ayumu called, although the Detention Club president was well out of earshot. [color=darkmagenta]"Thanks for dealing with that little annoyance."[/color]

With a chortle, she turned to Jin, releasing the crows' hold on her with a click of her fingers. [color=darkmagenta]"So much for all her tough talk. But geez, don't scare me like that again. You never know what to expect round here any more."[/color] Her eyes shifted to the green-haired girl, Gaia. [color=darkmagenta]"Although one thing [i]you[/i] can expect is that Kiru here must be rather disappointed that her target got away. So shoo fly, before you become her next one. Of course, she does like a chase..."[/color]

The temperature suddenly plummeted as waves of dark magic pulsed through the city, grotesque forms like none Ayumu had ever seen before rising up everywhere. The normally composed magician couldn't help but stare in shock at four armoured Nightmares clambering up the building. [color=darkmagenta]"Proves my point about the unexpected, huh?"[/color] In a flash, she reached for her cards, flinging them at the long-limbed forms. One creature fell, an arm and a leg sliced off, but the remaining three managed to pull themselves onto the rooftop, closing in on the girls.

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[center][h2][color=paleturquoise]✦[/color][color=aqua]✧[/color][color=teal]✦[/color] [color=darkturquoise]Tama Miyara[/color] [color=aqua]✧[/color] [color=darkturquoise]Angelite[/color] [color=teal]✦[/color][color=aqua]✧[/color][color=paleturquoise]✦[/color][/h2][/center]
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[hider=Nightmare battle music][youtube]https://youtu.be/3i0kDtxI7eI[/youtube][/hider]
Without warning, the recently-cleared space filled with Nightmares, ones nothing like the horde the light girls had just fought. Angelite spun round, eyes widening as the shadow blobs sprouted spindly limbs, claws, rows upon rows of teeth...

[color=darkturquoise]"There are only two words for this,"[/color] she said, breath rising as mist from the cold. [color=darkturquoise]"Oh. Shit."[/color]

No time to come up with a plan. Tama charged through the erupting panic, the rocky layers materialising around her arms once more. She raised her fist, the armour thickening and sharpening into one large spike, then plunged it into the side of a Nightmare snapping its jaws at a fleeing crowd. Its shriek ripped through the icy air as it twisted and turned on her. 

[color=darkturquoise]"Ah!"[/color] Tama raised a wing just in time, fusing the gems into a shield. [color=darkturquoise]"And we thought the ones earlier were upping the ante..."[/color] Not wasting a moment while its guard was down, Tama slashed the crystal point jutting from her hand across its neck. As it fell back, more leapt in front of her.

No matter how she or anyone struggled against the creatures, blood of innocents sprayed across the snow. Bile crept into the back of Tama's throat. She whirled, sending a barrage of crystal fragments into a Nightmare's mouth before it could go for a man lying in the snow, a red puddle pouring from several deep gashes on his leg.

[color=darkturquoise]"Alara, we need Alara,"[/color] she called, her desperate voice rising above the shrieks. [color=darkturquoise]"Someone needs to... agh... heal these people!"[/color] Plates of gemstone armour spread all over her body, blocking the enraged Nightmare's retaliation. [color=darkturquoise]"And Yui... If there's a time we've got to stick together, it's now!"[/color]

The others had to be alright. They had to. Tama clung to that hope as she fought, staying close by Soma. Alara, wherever she was, and Yui, atop the building... and Ayumu, and the other girls who'd gathered here... Dark or not, nobody deserved this.