2nd Recipe - Substitute Ingredients

[starofpleiades]

Characters: Kazumi witchofpleiades (in [OU] Jade's body semipotence)
Setting: Various parts of the body swap event, all over the tower
Format: Will match replies
Summary: Kazumi wakes up in the body of a different magical(?) girl. Confusion ensues. Replies from witchofpleiades.
Warnings: None planned...

[Room 3-11, Dorms - Day 1]

[At first, Kazumi barely even notices anything is amiss as she gets up - her body is, more or less the same, and she's half asleep. It's only when she goes to brush her hair and pokes her ears that she notices...]

Huh, what?

[And feeling around, she confirms that yes, she has dog ears. Staring in the mirror, she tries to clear her eyes but everything remains kind of blurry until she squints up close. That. That is not her face at all.]

What's going ooooon!?

[Floor 1, Cafeteria - Any Day]

[Dressed in Jade's dogtier godtier outfit and equipped with glasses, Kazumi is... down in the kitchens of course. She's cooking up a storm as usual, and more than willing to share. If you think it's odd that Jade is cooking so much, you recognize Kazumi's cooking (can people do that???) or are just hungry, come bother her!]

[Floor 25, Meadow - Any Day]

[Kazumi-in-Jade's body is out enjoying this one peaceful floor quietly... right until she sees one of the tinkerbulls go fluttering by. Normally she just feels kind of sorry for them but something about the way this one flies by just... makes her... want to...]

BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARK!

[Floor 10, Aquarium - Any Day]

[Kazumi is trying out Jade's space powers... shrinking things down or making them bigger. Mostly trying it on some of the fish, making tiny sharks or humongous minnows. She's giggling and having a lot of fun with it, though she jumps back in surprise when she accidentally makes a fish so big it bursts out of the wall of water, almost hitting her before she quickly shrinks it back down]

Aack! Geez, that was scary...

Comments

[witchofpleiades]

I guess that's true. I hadn't really thought of it that way much.

[She'd just had too many times associating night with bad things that had happened, with witches, and darkness with a soul-gem's taint]

[scorchedchivalry]

You need to change that as you serve me. I am no longer a knight of summer, but one of winter.

[witchofpleiades]

Ooh... well, that makes it easy! You're very- [Pretty? Somehow the "a knight before a woman" probably wouldn't appreciate that] good looking.

[scorchedchivalry]

It is acceptable to call me handsome; I have been called such before. ['Pretty' is not.] Your compliment is appreciated, m'lady.

[witchofpleiades]

Heheh, handsome it is, then!

Is that why you wear so many dark colors? [By which she means a whole lotta black.] Being a knight of winter.

[scorchedchivalry]

Yes. When I was a knight of summer, I wore silver and royal blue as was befitting of my station as the King of Knights.

[witchofpleiades]

You changed sides?

[scorchedchivalry]

Is it really changing sides when the summer transitions to fall and onto winter? Or is it a natural cycle?

[witchofpleiades]

Hmmm, I guess when you put it that way... so it was bound to happen?

[scorchedchivalry]

Perhaps. It is hard to say what the future holds, but among the fae, the Summer Court and the Winter Court reign for many years at a time.

[witchofpleiades]

Huh... so like, are you related to the fae or was that mostly just for comparison?

[scorchedchivalry]

The fae were a part of my life, though I do not bear their blood. Though I have been told I possess a soul like that of a dragon.

[witchofpleiades]

Heheh, I could see that. {Fierce and strong and with a bottomless stomach!]

I've only met one fairy in my life... I guess it's a big deal though since that's why I'm a Puella Magi.

[scorchedchivalry]

Will you explain what this Puella Magi is?

[witchofpleiades]

Well, its basically... a magical girl! In exchange for having a single wish granted, we're given magical powers and tasked with the job of fighting the witches that prey on humanity.

[Is the nice way of putting it... the consequences though...]

[scorchedchivalry]

[That alarms Saber, but for a different reason.]

...you seek the Holy Grail in your world?

[witchofpleiades]

Eh? No, no, it doesn't have to do with that! The wishes are granted, well, by the fairy who make the contract with, Jyuubey.

[scorchedchivalry]

That is not a name I know.

[witchofpleiades]

Well, he'd be way after your time, I guess? [Has no idea just how far back the Incubator/Magical Girl relationship goes] Since if you knew the Knights of the Round Table, I'm from... I guess a millennium and a half after you!

[scorchedchivalry]

The fae live a very long time, Kazumi. It is possible the name he goes by now is different than the name I would know him by. But how is it that one of the fae could grant wishes? That is not something the fae are known for. Not without severe consequences that are rarely worth whatever they are offering.

[witchofpleiades]

[She pales visibly at the mention of "severe consequences"]

Ahahaha, well, about that...

[scorchedchivalry]

[Saber's eyes harden immediately and she locks them on Kazumi. She knows that reaction.]

What deal did you make with the fae?

[witchofpleiades]

Like I said... in exchange for a single wish, we each made contracts to become Puella Magi and fight witches. That's all we thought it was when it happened... but being Puella Magi entailed more than we ever knew, until it was too late...

[scorchedchivalry]

What were the terms?

[witchofpleiades]

The terms we were told when we contracted were as I said. It was only afterwards that we found out that being a Puella Magi, who fights witches... means one day becoming witches ourselves.