towerofanimus | oo2 | But those days are gone forever

Characters: Mami Tomoe and anyone who wants to see a suffering girl (aka YOU)!
Setting: Backdated to the 17th, the day after her network post. Floor Forty-eight in the morning, Floor Six in the afternoon and various monster-infested areas at night
Format: Action, but I'll match!
Summary: Mami snaps. In a Network post, she finds out about what Soul Gems and Grief Seeds really do, and the fate of all magical girls. Oh, and that conversation with Lancer didn't help at all.
Warnings: TL;DR because meguca feels. Violence, suffering, the usual! Also spoilers for anyone who hasn't watched Madoka Magica.

Graveyard
[ To anyone who knows Mami Tomoe, they would find the air around her to be warm and inviting. Not today, however. Today was different - very different in fact.

One could see that Mami was leaning on one of the gravestones. Besides the leaning, her posture was stiff and the air around her was depressing overall. Like she just found out something awful. Well, that's actually not far from the truth.

Her ring transforms into her Soul Gem and she stares at him. The emotionless look turned into a more horrifying one. The fate of Magical Girls was to grow into witches. The very thing she hunted. She was killing people like her.

She didn't want to cry. Didn't want to regret. So her eyes cast downwards and her expression changed to a tired one. ]

Forest
"Did you find anything else out? Anything.... Jyuubey failed to tell you?"

"Yes. The truth about Puella Magi. About Soul Gems."

I should have guessed this. To think it took me ten years to figure this out.

[ Mami was out hunting.

Not for food or anything like that, but she needed to calm herself. If she didn't, she would lash out at people. She didn't want to hurt anyone. She didn't want to hurt any of her friends, even if it could save them.

Lifting her musket, the magical girl aimed at an unsuspecting deer. There was silence as she concentrated on her target, wanting to think of nothing but shooting it down. She was a master at this, not even needing to venture too far from the staircase to spot her target. ]

"That we grow up to be witches."

[ The trigger was pulled, and after a few shots the deer withered in pain before passing on. She dropped the gun and suddenly began to cry. It was hard to determine what she was crying about, but she couldn't stop.

This feeling was bothering her. ]

Various floors
[ Mami's movements were slow, so she didn't make it back to the dorms in time. The ambush of Monsters was great, but she was a veteran at this. She was bloodied after killing them, something she still wasn't used to. After all, witches didn't shed blood. Even if they were once people.

People like her.

She seems to be in a daze and certainly not scared to raise her gun once she hears footsteps. She wasn't sure what was this feeling was, but her finger was placed on the trigger. ]

It's dangerous here. I advise leaving.

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[Raphael had started exploring the Tower a little bit, and the forest floor did please him. It reminded him of home a little..even if it was no longer there. However, as he was walking through, Raphael heard a loud noise. He wasn't sure what it was, but he walked toward the source, ready to heal and help out.

When he got to the source, he saw a dead deer lying at the feet of a..oh dear. This girl in the fanciful costume..her soul was ripped out of her body and put into a gem she wore in a hairpin. This was..horrible. Did Belial or some other monster do this to her? Before speaking to her, he tried to revive the deer..and failed, which only served to make him more worried. However, his face still looked calm as he looked back at Mami.]

Child..what is wrong? What happened to you..and your soul?

[ The sobbing had eased down a bit and now, only dried tears stained her cheeks. Mami looked up at the male and then back at the deer. She didn't want to feel bad for a mutated deer that would probably die by another member of the tower. Maybe it was just her emotions running loose. ]

My... My soul... [ She touched her hairpin before her fingers curled up, gripping at the golden locks. ] I... I didn't know... I...

[Oh..poor girl. She must have been tricked..or unknowingly cursed, like the humans that lived in the Grigori's Tower. His face grew kinder and he put a hand to hers, trying to calm her down. This was how you calmed down a human like this, right?]

Child, please..calm yourself. It is alright. You have nothing to fear from me.

[ She tried her best to calm down. A shaky breath left her mouth and slowly, her breathing and body movement returned to normal. ]

I apologize.

[As she spoke and calmed down, Raphael knelt so that she could see him better. His hand did not move.]

You have nothing to apologize about. If anything, whoever did this to you should be apologizing. If it does not pain you too much, can you tell me how this happened to you?

I...

[ A sigh. ]

It's my own fault. I wanted to live, so I trusted that... That thing. He saved me, but he also lied to me. Never told me the truth...

It is not your fault if you were tricked. The blame should fall on whatever demon did this to you.

He... He's not really a demon....

[ Alien was the proper term. ]

[Pardon Raphael. He knows about the concept of other worlds, but he's still getting used to them a little.]

No?..Then tell me, what did do this to you?

He's...

... To be honest, I'm not sure what he is. An alien maybe? I know he's certainly not a demon.

[..He was also a little unfamiliar with aliens, but he'd work with that.]

..Well, whether he is an alien or something else, it is his fault that you are like this. Please, do not blame yourself.

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Forest

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