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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      F/F
  Fandom:
      Mahou_Shoujo_Madoka_Magika_|_Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica
  Relationship:
      Akemi_Homura/Kaname_Madoka, Kaname_Madoka/Tomoe_Mami, Kaname_Madoka/Miki
      Sayaka, Kaname_Madoka/Sakura_Kyouko
  Character:
      Kaname_Madoka, Tomoe_Mami, Akemi_Homura, Miki_Sayaka, Sakura_Kyouko,
      Kyubey
  Additional Tags:
      Multiple_Pairings, Magical_Girls, Series_Spoilers
  Stats:
      Published: 2015-10-24 Chapters: 2/? Words: 2226
****** Endless Euphoria ******
by SilverDeadnight
Summary
     Kyubey offers Homura the chance of a lifetime, yet there is always a
     price to pay -- what would she give to save the lives of her friends?
***** A Deal with the Devil *****
The darkness continued around Homura never seemed to cease, there were times in
which she'd find a source of light from a street lamp or two but finding a
working one was rare in itself, after all.. she was inside of the destroyed
city that she had lived with her friends inside of for the last month, yet for
Homura this was the sixth month that she had failed to save Madoka. Five times
previously she had to watch her dear friend give up her life, now once more she
had witnessed it. Her resolve was waning and her legs felt weak, she knew that
she had to do this and that she absolutely must save Madoka but, Walpurgis was
so strong and even in some of the timelines where they had all fought together,
things always seemed to go wrong. Homura had begun to lose hope in all of this,
was her efforts in vain? Would she never be able to save Madoka?
While those thoughts lingered inside of the girl's mind, they were soon swept
aside and hidden deep within herself when the sight of a certain individual
left her with nothing but cold rage. It was the very same devil in disguise
that had caused her to end up in this predicament -- who made them all end up
in this. Kyubey was sitting atop a large piece of one of the building's rubble,
his pink eyes piercing the darkness as they met with the hardened gaze of the
time-using magical girl. Homura spoke no words to the creature, she felt that
he didn't deserve any acknowledgement with how he treated their lives. To the
creature, the girls were just a fuel source, something to be taken care of and
then harvested at their prime. It made Homura sick to her stomach even thinking
back on it all, wishing that Kyubey lacked the amount of endless bodies that he
currently had just so she could end his life and be done with it all.
                   "Would you like to change your wish...?"
The voice was as high-pitched as it always was, lingering on the mind for a
couple of moments before the question really sunk into Homura's mind. Even when
she had begun to contemplate his words, she had already removed a .40 Calibur
Glock from behind her shield and lined it's sight with the creature's body. A
single shot rang out throughout the air, ripping across the lifeless city and
resounding through hundreds of broken walls and destroyed streets. Kyubey made
no sound when his body began to fall down off the slab of rock, crumpling onto
the concrete below -- not that it mattered much anyway, as another version of
himself had appeared to replace the previous, residing next to the old body as
it had begun to eat it's own remains until nothing was left.
"There's no reason for me to trust you anymore, you already take enough
satisfaction in watching me fail over and over again, don't you? What more
could you hope for in giving me a chance at changing my wish? Hmph.. it has a
cost to it, just as all the wishes do, I'm not too eager to learn what that
cost is either." The girl replied after the new Kyubey had arrived, letting her
eyes watch the creature feast like some parasite.
While hypocritical for her to think, Homura believed she had no time for this,
every second that she could spend in her existence could be a single second
that could be used to save Madoka's life, as well as the lives of her friends
as well. She'd begin to walk further down the street, attempting to scope out
better vantage points in the city's structure for the next battle with
Walpurgis. If there was anything she could be confident with, it was the fact
that every time she turned back the clock and cycled through the month again,
she learned a little more against the Witch and the city their battle took
place in every last time.
Kyubey lingered where he had been when the Magical Girl had turned her back on
him and had begun to keep walking, but he did raise his voice again after
several steps were taken by her, presenting the very two questions that would
lead into the most drastic change of events that could ever have swept Homura
and her companions.
"What if your battle with Walpurgis never had to happen anymore? What if Madoka
                     would never have to die to it again?"
Homura stopped almost immediately and felt her heart almost completely stop
when Kyubey produced those possibilities towards her; It was too good to be
true, wasn't it? Even so, the creature had her attention again, leaving the
raven-haired girl to turn back around and put her gun back inside the void of
space within her shield. She'd remove it again only if she felt it necessary -
- Kyubey wasn't worth wasting anymore bullets anyway. With a sigh slipping past
her lips, she'd stride herself towards Kyubey and lean down to grab it by the
scruff of it's neck. A strong pull hoisted the long-eared being up until he was
eye level with the girl as he had been in the previous body.
"You've five minutes to explain whatever it is you're going on about and if I
don't like what you have to say then I'll toss you into the nearest sewer
drain." A mediocre threat at best but Homura wasn't privy to giving out empty
threats when it came to Kyubey. Knowing that, Kyubey thought it wise to speak
up quickly if he wanted to avoid having his 'lovely' white fur tarnished by
whatever muck lay beneath the streets of the city.
"I can reverse all of this and erase the existence of Walpurgis. Not only that,
  but I'll also avoid any contact with Madoka and her friends which will give
                             them average lives."
There was no hesitation in Homura's mind at this option, speaking up almost
immediately with the knowledge that Kyubey had little to lose in betraying them
all. "What is the catch? There is always one with you, nothing is ever free. So
get to the point! What would I have to sacrifice to make your words reality?"
If one didn't know any better, that could almost say that Kyubey was giving a
tiny smirk instead of his usual smile. He had ascertained the girl's interest
yet again and was sure that this would be his greatest offer yet and the last
he'd need to make for a while if all went according to how he wanted.
"Your life will be the cost. It will not be given immediately, there is no need
to fear that happening. I will give you a full six months with your friends, to
 enjoy your daily lives together like you would have if I had never arrived to
your planet. Once those months are over though, I will return to claim what is
                             mine from this deal."
Once Kyubey had finished speaking, Homura had dropped him onto the cold, hard
and not to mention cracked ground. She had begun to pace back and forth while
thinking over the ramifications of this 'easy route'. What would Madoka think
about her if she were to take this opportunity? Would she be happy with a life
that meant the loss of one of her friends? Homura wasn't even sure she was
worth being thought of as a friend anymore with how selfish her wish had become
-- rewinding back time to see her alive again and again, only to intertwine the
pink-haired girl with a stronger responsibility in fate. She was about to
decline when the idea that this could be a chance to redeem herself and end the
cycle rose from the depths of her brain.
"I'll do it.. but only under the condition that we will meet where Walpurgis
first spawned in this city." It was an odd request to be sure but Kyubey nodded
his head to it in agreement, to the creature it made no difference where they
would meet -- only that in the end, Homura's life would be gone.
With their deal struck, reality began to warp around them by Kyubey's influence
                       and the wish was now -- Granted.
***** The First Day of Tomorrow *****
Chapter Summary
     Having made her deal with Kyubey, Homura is sent into an Alternate
     Reality where Walpurgisnacht would never occur and the lives of her
     friends are to be uninfluenced by Kyubey. With six months to do
     everything with her friends that she could wish for, what will
     happen? How will their relationships form now that they would never
     become Magical Girls?! With only Homura remembering what has happened
     to them all, will she be able to live normally?
Violet eyes begin to open, a new morning had started for the girl named Akemi
Homura in a reality that is now her's for the next six months. Hardly believing
it herself, the girl sat up from her bed whilst having awoken in her nightwear
beneath the covers. Her gaze turned and fixated onto the curtains of her room
that danced along the air beside her bed from it's open window, a sight that
she was all to familiar with when she had reversed time back to the beginning
of the first day of that dreadful month. Should her memory serve her right,
today would be her first at the school if everything was to go as it would have
without Kyubey's meddling. Without delay, Homura pushed herself free from her
covers, stood straight and began to stride her way to her dresser to prepare
her clothing for the day.
Thousands of thoughts ran through her mind, paranoia clutching at every fiber
of her being on what she would witness when she got there, would they really
all be able to live peacefully now? "Calm down.. you're just overthinking
things." Homura reminded herself verbally while popping on her school top,
brushing her hands at the underside of those long black strands of her hair to
flick them from out of the shirt's interior and along her back once more. "Just
breathe.. you can handle this, no matter what happens.. do it for her." Those
words rang out through her room and was an attempt at self-confidence -- she
was going to need it.
                                      --
Click, click, click, click... the sound of her footsteps were prominent among
the empty hallway of the school as Homura headed her way to the Classroom for
the first time, but for her this was the seventh time, wasn't it? She stopped
in front of the door and checked the clock at the middle of the hallway,
protruding down just a little ways from the ceiling to mark the time at 8:14AM.
Good, she had a minute before the teacher would call on her to come inside of
the room, things were going well so far and there was no sight of Kyubey yet
either so that was definitely a plus to all of this at least. Seconds were
counted in her mind while watching the long hand of the clock move, waiting
until it was directly a minute before she entered inside the room to catch the
teacher in the middle of her introduction of a new student.
The students of the room all cast their eyes onto her for their first time but
it was all nothing new for her, they each had the same gaze towards her as they
did the second time she had run through this, befuddlement and awe in their
irises like she was some alien among them all. She ignored all the eyes set on
her save for one pair, which when met with her own had still left her tight in
the chest.
                         There she was, Madoka Kaname.
Madoka was watching her with that smile on her face that was always enough to
make the time user's heart melt on the inside into a pile of bliss, but Homura
would never tell anyone that -- she'd be more inclined to shoot you if you
asked. It wasn't just that Madoka held this aura of innocence about her that
made Homura want to just run to Madoka and wrap her arms around her friend, it
was also the fact that to her, Madoka was probably the most beautiful girl that
she had ever laid her eyes upon.
Waiting until the teacher had asked her to take a seat after introducing
herself, she made her way to the available chair right behind Madoka and
lowered herself down at the desk. She was about to put her bag's strap on the
back of her seat to keep it safe and away from everyone else's grasp when she
heard Madoka's voice raise up in a soft whisper in front of her.
"Akemi-san." Madoka spoke, grabbing the Magical Girl's attention. "My name is
Madoka Kaname, let's try to get along together, okay?" Having finished
speaking, Madoka offered nothing less than a smile towards who she had thought
was the new girl at the school, but for Homura to hear those words.. it meant
so much more.
"I can't wait." Homura returned, fixing her bag onto the back of the chair and
then facing forward again in her seat to face the slightly turned girl ahead of
her. For the first time in all the times she had gone back in a while, she gave
a smile that was honest and true. She was happy to even just get to see Madoka
alive and for her to be the one to initiate a greeting instead of her? It was a
pleasant new experience and perhaps the greatest way to start off this new life
that she was bound to live for the next few months.
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