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Fate/Transcendent Paradigm—Take 3 (Closed)

Saber

For a few moments, a brief pause in battle, Saber stared in muted shock. The figure that had intercepted Fenrir... it was a bear, and that bear was commanded by... it couldn't be. How could she be here, wielding such powers? But there wa no mistaking it. There wasn't the tiniest bit of doubt in the blonde swordswoman's mind about the individual she had laid eyes upon. That was, absolutely, unquestionably, the daughter of Irisviel von Einzbern.

Illyasviel.

And yet she possessed the power, the strength, the speed of a Servant. She was even capable of using her bear to knock the great wolf off its attack course, just like that! Saber was only pulled away from her shock when she noticed the surge of mana, as Archer used her Noble Phantasm to toss the massive wold high into the air and pierce it with a great, flaming arrow! But it didn't appear to harm the beast very much, rather it melted the ice around it, and briefly stunned the enormous creature.

But...

The battlefield was cleared.

Fernir was unable to respond quickly.

It was clear that a legendary monster of this size and strength could not be slain so easily.

It needed a great legend to destroy it.

Perhaps using this in an enclosed space was dangerous, but the King of Knights had concluded that not only was the vastness of the cavern sufficient space, but there was little other choice. A monster like this would be able to run rampant if not killed quickly, and given that it swallowed the sun in legend... it was possible this was not even its full size.

"Clear the area around Fenrir!" declared Saber. She could question the presence of Irisviel's daughter(a pang of pain echoing through her heart as she recalled the woman's face). For now, she had to strike this beast down.

She had to deliver a strike from which it could not recover.

Gripping Excalibur's hilt in both hands, she raised the blade skywards. Invisible Air was dispelled immediately with a burst of wind, revealing the brilliant gold of the divine sword.

Fenrir was beginning to rise. The moment that there was space cleared around the massive wolf, however...

Golden light, piercing the reddish hue of the cavern, suddenly began to build. Like particles of dust they drifted and gathered, coalescing around Saber's blade more and more, building into a brilliant glow. A shining, resplendent beacon that blazed across the battlefield, calling to all warriors past, present, and future. A light of hope to the suffering, singing victory to all those who needed it.

The unquestionable Noble Phantasm of King Arthur. One of the greatest weapons in human history, standing as the pinnacle of all Holy Swords second only to the Sword of Rupture.

There was a second blast of air, pushing a wave of wind away from the sword.

The greatest of all Holy Swords, indeed. And its name...

"Ex..."

Saber drew the sword back...

"CALIBUUUUUR!"

A wave of golden light exploded from the sword, erupting through the cavern! What little remained of the shadowy beasts that had emerged from the blackness was annihilated, vaporized in an instant as the cleansing light tore towards the Sun Eater!

@Raineh Daze@KoL@PKMNB0Y

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

Hikari stared, in mute shock, at the sight of the girl perched on her spear. Even more shocking was the fact that Honami wasn't surprised at all. In fact, she was talking about... magic? Normal? What? Rules? Nothing made sense. Everything had been perfectly normal right up until this point, but all of the sudden everything had gone completely mad, utterly and totally insane in every way. Was this some sort of magical girl or something?! But those were only in anime!

The spear girl looked back over her shoulder, towards Honami.

"Eh? Eeeehhh? You're a magical girl, too?" she asked, perplexed, "I had no idea! That makes this a lot easier."

Hikari watched as the girl hopped off of her spear, which suddenly withdrew from the wall and flew into her hand as if it was nothing.

"Fairy-chan's got her eye on this one, and there's no way I'm letting her make even more competition," explained the girl, still looking towards Honami as she spoke, "So, I'm just going to put her in the hospital for a few weeks."

"Wh-what?!" cried Hikari, wide-eyed. Nothing made any sense, but she froze for a moment when the tip of the spear was pointed directly at her.

"That way, she can't become a magical girl until after the Hex Night is over!" declared the spear girl, grinning.

Hikari scooted back, and... out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw a feathery wing... But the spear girl approached, the tip still pointed firmly at the brunette...

@Anza

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

"..."

Grade schoolers. Grade schoolers. All at once, Hikari's anger reached its boiling point and exploded.

"Grade schooler?! I'm sixteen, you... you idiot!" she cried, seething as she stepped after the taller girl. At first she'd mostly been upset at almost being bumped into, and then at the fact that the taller girl(who now seemed to definitely be someone who at least went to the same high school... Honami? A star student in her class, or something like that) had walked away without seeing if she was alright. But now she'd been directly insulted like that... There was no way she would let this go. Hikari didn't care if Honami had to go somewhere, she was going to give her a piece of her mind!

"Just because I'm... I'm small doesn't mean I'm young! And that doesn't mean you can treat me like this!" she snapped, following after her. By this point, they seemed to have entered a somewhat more secluded location, "I'm not about to put up with being called a little gi-"

There was suddenly a rush of wind, a sound like a gun being fired.

The tip of a spear had suddenly embedded itself into the wall between both girls, and the sheer force of its impact knocked Hikari off her feet, sending the small brunette girl tumbling backwards, knocked off her feet.

"Ah?!"

Heavily, with a yelp of surprise and some pain, Hikari landed on her back. As quickly as she could, bewildered, she sat up, and saw...

A strange girl with some sort of winged outfit, perched on the shaft of the spear.

"I'm sorry about this," she began, cocking her head to one side, "But I really don't need more competition!"

Hikari was at once stunned and at a complete loss. Where had this girl come from, and how? What was happening!? She had wings?! A spear?! What was this?!

@Anza

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

@Iceborne: Let's go with Tokyo, honestly.

It means we can have a fight on Tokyo tower at some point.

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

"Hmph, you were about to plow past me without even checking if I was okay!" declared Hikari, with a huff, firmly folding her arms across her slight chest as she spoke. It wasn't even the act of bumping into her that made the diminutive brunette quite as angry as she was, though it certainly didn't help. It was the fact that she hadn't been seen in the first place. Admittedly, Hikari herself could have been paying more attention, but the idea of someone overlooking her, well... no-one could say that the girl was secure about her stature, that was probably a good way to put it.

It had only been exacerbated by the fact that it seemed like the other girl had just plowed past without even stopping to check if she'd been hurt, but at least she did now. After Hikari had called out to her. And after snapping like that.

To put it simply, it didn't help all that much, but at least it was something.

Pointing directly at the taller girl, Hikari continued.

"I'm fine, but you were just going to run away without checking! I'm glad you apologized, but can't you look where you're going?!" she asserted, firmly, "Just going around and smacking into people like that is plain rude!"

Yes, it clearly wasn't because she was small, it was obviously because this girl was totally inattentive!

---

The girl on the rooftop, somewhat small and wearing an unusual outfit, her body adorned with symbols relating to somewhat morbid subjects, winced when she noticed that her target was no longer alone.

"Aah, jeez, she's got company now... I don't want to put even more girls in the hospital, one's enough... Oh well."

She sighed as she crept along the rooftop. If the other girl didn't leave, it got a lot more complicated, but she was going to do everything she could to get this wish...

@Anza

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

@ACHTUNG: Will take a look at yours again shortly, but I still really don't feel like your concept works well even with your explanation.

For everyone else, it seems I need to discuss the intended tone of the RP.

I didn't want to nail this down to a specific inspiration because I didn't want to give people too many preconceptions about the tone. I guessed that what would inform tone would at least be in part the rules of the Hex Night as posted in the OP.

The Hex Night itself was established to avoid magical girls being killed because of the monster that would form every twenty years.

I'm absolutely fine with darker moments and nastier, ruthless antagonists(some of the NPCs will be just that) but this isn't Madoka, it's much lighter than that. Even girls who are utterly ruthless in the Hex Night were people the fairy picked because she thought they had potential as magical girls who protect the innocent.

What I'm saying is the tone isn't super light, but it's not incredibly dark like Madoka. It's serious, with darker moments, but also lighter ones.

And super crazy fight scenes between cute girls with crazy powers.

Hopefully this clarifies some things.

Ah, and to help clarify: Magical Girls are pretty hard to kill due to protections granted to them during the transformation, so the no-killing rule isn't all that hard to follow at all. Disabling them and breaking their Hex Orb is the way to go.

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

Hoshino Hikari

Her home wasn't particularly far, and she had a little bit of homework to do. By her standards, it wasn't much and she'd have it done quite quickly, so there was no harm in stopping by the local convenience store for a snack. As Hikari made her way there, she found her thoughts drifting once again to the subject of the unusual dream she'd had. She couldn't remember the last time she'd had a dream that made so much sense while simultaneously making so little. It was as if it had been cut and paste out of a story, or real events, but she hadn't read or watched anything like that recently and obviously it couldn't have been anything real, right? So why was it that she had such a strange dream?

As she walked, deep in thought, Hikari's red pigtails bobbed. But even still, due to her small size she wasn't exactly an easy person to notice, and as such, when she failed to notice someone approaching her, they entirely missed her as well.

Moments later, the two girls collided. With a yelp of surprise, Hikari stumbled back and landed on her rear end. Thankfully she hadn't dropped anything, but...

"H-hey!" she cried, looking up at the perpetrator, "Watch where you're going! Get back here!"

The girl almost seemed slightly familiar, like the small brunette had seen her somewhere before a few times, but that didn't.

---

From atop a nearby rooftop, the girl who had been watching her continued her observation. On further inspection, it was unusual just how small she was, almost the size of a large doll. That and the fact she had wings made it unlikely she was human, really.

"... She looks like she has a bit of a temper, but that's not always a bad thing!" she declared, nodding to herself. Certainly, that little redheaded girl was going to be a great magical girl! She could sense it, the will to help people, the aptitude to wield magical powers... even if she was temperamental, that didn't mean she couldn't be great!

"Aaah, jeez, are you giving me more competition?"

The angel girl glanced back over her shoulder, to the source of the voice.

"You know I'm not the strongest magical girl, and you're piling on even more for me to fight?"

The blonde gave a small smile.

"I can't just ignore someone with lots of potential, I'm sorry," she replied.

"Aaaah jeez!" complained the speaker.

After a moment, however...

"... You know... you won't be able to make her a magical girl if she's stuck in the hospital for a couple weeks, right? As long as it's not too bad, just enough to keep her out of the Hex Night..."

"Eh?!"

@Anza

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

@Iceborne: Hex Symbols are just what signifies a Magical Girl's place in the Hex Night. When they're destroyed, a magical girl can no longer win the Hex Night.

They can choose to support other magical girls still participating, however.

Magical girls fall under the umbrella of human.

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

@Iceborne: Anyone who kills a human is immediately stripped of their abilities, as per the OP.

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

@LukasVolkov: Accepted.