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Sharp, deadly slashes scored themselves across Fortuna's palm, digging into the ice and threatening to tear it asunder. The wires splurging from Red Wire's maw acted almost like vomit, quick and without focus. Each one vibrated and tensed with dark energy, Wire's rage spilling forth hatefully as she continued glaring at Yui. It was only through Fortuna's quick thinking that the motions slowly died down, negativity being siphoned off towards her. Even so, the sheer force of darkness entering into the ice girl was potent and manic.

At once, thoughts of deathly, disturbing actions would filter into Fortuna's head. Thoughts of mania, bloodshed...these temptations found the easiest target they could latch on to. A young girl who sported hair similar to Fortuna's. As soon as she came into view, the thoughts deepened, goading her on to perhaps commit terrible acts. Be it murder, ruination, or perhaps worse. But whatever forcible ideas the darkness had in mind for Fortuna, it was all halted by the actions of the sole light girl among them.

With Fortuna wretched away from her, Wire was free to rage once more. Almost instantly the negativity feeding into her had reflected right back into Wire, bolstering into a well of darkness. Though it seemed Gaia had other plans in mind, swiftly using her own magic to restrain and incapacitate the two dark girls. As she gave her little speech, pointing her blade right at Wire's head, the dark girl sputtered and gasped, sharp teeth finally curling into a sentient smirk.

Fortuna would feel it before anyone else, and there was no doubt Gaia could hear it; the sound of cracking ice, bursting into shrapnel as Wire's severed arm emerged from its icy prison. Wires still holding it, the limb swerved once before snapping itself around Gaia's throat, clenching in an inhuman fashion. [b][color=springgreen]"An....eye for an eye,"[/color][/b] Wire finally spat out, some form of intelligence leaking in. Be it from Kanbaru's intervention or Gaia's, it hardly mattered now. [b][color=springgreen]"And who the hell are you to tell me what I should be responsible for,"[/color][/b] Wire sneered, strangling Gaia just as hard as the vine around her throat.

The sound gave what would follow away, but the light girl was too slow on the draw. A vine did wrap itself around Wire's arm, but too late to have any real effect. Stuck in the awkward web of metal and plants, there was a small moment of silence where you could only hear the crackling sound of the 'ropes' tightening. Through the pain of being choked, Yui managed to break the silence with a smile. [color=a2d39c]"I'm only someone who doesn't want any more pointless loss of life..."[/color] she answered, her free hand holding Touka's arm at her throat. [color=a2d39c]"I also don't seek...conflict."[/color] Taking a risk, Yui released the binds that were holding the blue haired Dark girl against the wall. Her 'calmness' had impressed Yui earlier, and while the light girl did not know who she was to Touka, they seemed to be close enough that she thought now that the Dark Girl's leader was a bit more mentally present, her companion might be able to defuse this whole thing.

Kanbaru hadn't been certain that it would even be feasible to siphon off Touka's power but it was working beyond her wildest expectations. Too well, perhaps, for the power lacked the aimlessness of Nightmares that was so easily absorbed. Tainted with the President's psychosis that had terminated their partnership, the bluenette ground her teeth as images flashed into prominence before her mind's eye. The ache to return home after a long day magnified by malevolence, a twisted desire to wrap her hands around her sister's neck and claim the power she long denied. She wanted to reject the violent impulse but the more she siphoned off the stronger it grew, till Yui's intervention snapped the connection between them. 

[color=aqua]"You dumb bitch!"[/color] Kanbaru screamed, not grateful in the least to be snapped free from Touka's influence when it entailed full on vine bondage at the most precarious of times. True to form Touka showed a complete disregard for her own body and reacted with a savagery that overcame Yui's vines. The bluenette was about to burst the gauntlet of ice she formed and slip free of the vines to shoot her way free as well, only for Yui to panic and free her as soon as the vines had settled. There was no relief to be had when she could already feel her restraining ice fracture under the pressure of a slightly more intelligent but still rampaging Touka. 

[color=aqua]"You've got a hilarious way of showing it."[/color] She scoffed with excessive bitterness, moving into Touka's field of view and wrapping her gauntlet around the vine at Touka's neck. It steadily froze over before growing brittle enough to snap under Touka's own strength. [color=aqua]"Oi. Boss. Eyes on me. If you can talk, you can think. Now quit throttling the idiot and cut yourself loose. We can sort out this shitty night at your place, but not here."[/color]

An animalistic hiss bubbled out from Wire's lips. The strings of black veiny wires that had been barraging out of her maw were still leaking out in shreds, and they only streamed forth more now that the pressure around her throat was ceased. Ignoring the bruising on her neck caused by the vines, Wire whirled her hateful stare from Gaia to Fortuna now. She spent a good moment or two glowering at the other dark girl before finally evoking yet another hiss. [b][color=springgreen]"Fine. We'll do it your way,"[/color][/b] she snarled. Almost immediately the arm holding Gaia let go and flopped to the pavement like dead prey.

There was no telling what would have happened had Fortuna not been present; no, that wasn't entirely true. Even now as her arm was slowly being reeled back to her body and she was hacking away at the remaining vines with a chopping hand, Wire replayed all the bloody scenarios she could have enacted over and over again in her head. The bolstering negativity was dying down again, this time for good as Wire settled back into an apathetic state of disregard for their enemy. [b][color=springgreen]"You're lucky I'm hurting like a bitch, you bitch. I have half a mind to break that pretty face of yours into a wall,"[/color][/b] Wire spat towards Gaia.

The lack of thanks did not bother Yui. Not only was she used to this kind of behaviour but, here, she expected it. While it was easy to see her intervention as hardly any help at all, she knew what she saw and what she felt leaking from Touka and the effect it had on her friend. She did not regret her intervention. If their words and attitude wounded her in the slightest, they could never guess just from looking at her. 

Gaia's sword disappeared into thin air as she looked in the distance, feeling like the night was dying down. She was glad to have saved those she did, even those dark girls, but couldn't brush off the feeling she could - [i]should [/i]- have done more. Her stare fell back onto the duo, more so the leader of the two.[color=a2d39c]"This anger that you bear towards me..."[/color] she began while straightening herself and dusting off her costume [color=a2d39c]"...What is it's origin, truly; the fact that I was right, that you lost a fight or simply because you know you were slipping away?"[/color] 

In the absense of conflict Kanbaru could breath easy,  dispelling her icy constructs as Touka disentangled herself from the vines grasp and ended the standoff before any more bodies littered the Miso City Streets. This rising ease staggered a touch as Yui offered another sanctimonious rejoinder to end their confrontation upon, causing the bluenette to flinch from Touka to Yui and expect a haymaker to follow. [color=aqua]"I'd think it obvious someone would be pissed when they are literally backed into a corner and confronted by an enemy. Touka's the amputee here. What's your excuse?"[/color]

With her coat whirling behind her she stepped past Yui and straddled her parked motorcycle, a flush of magic starting the engine and setting it into a low rumble. [color=aqua]"Get on Touka. I'm taking you to your place and I'm not taking no for an answer."[/color]

Had she been in any other mentality, she might have mangled Fortuna here and now for letting slip her real name to the enemy blatantly in front of them. But Wire chose to bemuse the light girl's sentiments with more sneering reproaches. [b][color=springgreen]"For someone on the opposite side of the spectrum, you do like worrying about your enemies. Who knows why you piss me off. Probably because you don't have any idea what you're talking about."[/color][/b] As Fortuna moved to mount her bike, so too did Wire step forward until she was inches away from Gaia. As much as she would have loved to, she didn't make to tear apart the other Magical Girl.

[b][color=springgreen]"Maybe it's cause you smell funny. Your magic really, [i]really[/i] pisses me off and I don't know why,"[/color][/b] she breathed, uncaring if her iced breath was blowing directly into Gaia's face. [b][color=springgreen]"It's an itch that makes me want to mangle you more and more so there. That's your answer. Why don't you crawl back to your so called friends and think it over for the both of us, eh?"[/color][/b] With those words spoken, she shoved past Gaia before taking the space behind Fortuna on her bike. Soon enough the two of them were speeding away, leaving Yui left alone with her thoughts.

The Light girl was quick to regret her words. Simply because it was unnecessary and aggressive, which was unlike her. She was about to answer the icy one, but Touka's answer came quick and sharp before she found an answer. Again, nothing surprising. As much as she tried, Yui was not able to grasp Touka's logic of pure hatred, it seemed. She was reminded of the other dark haired opponent she faced in the park some weeks ago; she remembered feeling the same madness in her.

At the very least, the idea given was not a bad one. Gaia spread her wings to the sound of the Motorcycle driving away and took to the skies, heading back to where she had previously left Tama and Soma, hoping they were unhurt. 
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