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Unable to move, I glanced over at H. It soon became clear why Lily was letting herself get pushed back. She wasn’t risking death when her disgustingly pastel friends weren’t there to help her. As I watched, a new one arrived, creating a sphere of water in the path of H’s whip, freezing it when it made contact. The whip dropped to the ground useless, H unable to do anything other than try desperately to lift it. “Nice job, Lotus, Lily said, jumping forward suddenly and bringing her sword to bear, carving through H’s chest, sending spurts of blood onto her bright green costume before bringing it around and beheading her. Her corpse fell to the ground, spurting blood and twitching
“NOOO!!!” Itami yelled, struggling desperately against his own bonds, thorns digging into his body, sending trickles of blood down his arms as he thrashed about. Damn. I realized that over our years of working together, I’d never heard my partner scream. Up until now, I didn’t even think he was capable of it. His scream was cut off though as a gout of flame erupted from one of the tube slides, blasting him in the head, slowly burning his hair and melting his flesh, boiling away and popping his eyeballs until he slumped over, only being held up by the brambles he was entangled in. “Good shot, Haba, Lily said, looking over at the slides, as I slowly pieced together what happened. She must have shot Pretty Deadly while we were blinded by Lily’s transformation
Speaking of Aika, she was struggling to stand up, clumsily drawing her gun and trying to aim it at Lotus. “No! Run!” I said, wanting at least her to get away. The other magical girls turned to her, alerted to the fact that she wasn’t quite as dead as they thought. She ignored me and I screamed as she pulled the trigger and shot at Lotus. Lotus barely had time to react, creating a sphere of water a foot wide, enough to slow down the bullet, but not enough to prevent it from lodging itself in her stomach. She too dropped down, a look of shock on her face as she clutched her wound and writhed on the ground. At almost the same moment, Cherry, the pink girl, summoned a massive, barbed vine from the ground, impaling Aika, the love of my life through the chest. She struggled weakly, grasping against the bamboo shoot to try to hold herself up, then fell to the ground as Cherry retracted it, the barbs tearing flesh from her as it shot back into the ground.
I tore myself free of the brambles, gathering up all my strength and taking advantage of Cherry’s distraction, barreling towards her, filled with rage. I drew my knife and was about to lodge it in her pretty little throat when I suddenly saw a flash of light and found myself on the ground. I looked down, seeing my own entrails spread across the ground, bleeding out. as Lily appeared next to me
“W-what happened?” I ask, laying on the ground, surrounded by the corpses of my teammates. “You... You don’t fight like the magical girls I know. What happened?” “Strange. All the magical girls I know fight like this.” Lily said calmly. “No! You… You’re supposed to stand still while you call your attacks, take forever to transform, and use magic wands and stuff.” I said, thinking back to when I first started this job, at how easy it had been in comparison. How many we had killed with so little trouble. How many magical girls had died before our guns? This must have been how they felt.
Lily stood above me, smiling as she looked down at me. I weakly looked up at her as she leveled her hand and charged up a magic blast. “That was then, this is now.” she said, before unleashing her blast, a bright flash of light, followed by nothing.
Lily smiled, satisfied with her job. Already, Cherry was tending to the wounded. Sunflower had been avenged. The corrupt asylum manager had been dead, assassinated in order to replace his representative with Lily herself. All that was left to do was investigate the tunnels beneath the asylum.
A/ N This story is based off an old improfanfic called Magical Girl Hunters which, although well written, I have a grudge against after it traumatized me 12 years ago after I found it when I was only 10.
Improfanfic - Magical Girl Hunters In case anyone is interested
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