Anneza fluttered quickly to the front door, carrying her package. This was the house she had to deliver to. She rang the bell while floating above the poach and waited anxiously.
The man, a human, opened the door with some surprise. "That was awfully fast... well, you won. Okay, what's your name girl? Let's get your details." He happened to like testing the potential recruits like this, and was quietly impressed.
The space girl blinked at the manager, then tried to use sign language on him.
"Oh... deaf? No hear?" he asked gesturing to his ear. He frowned a bit. Did the agency screw up? This job had certain demands after all.
Anneza shook her head. "Amaris, Amaris Jenanta," she explained in her language.
The man groaned. Oh hell a foreigner?! The advert was clear that you had to be able to understand instruction! Someone was going to get fired for this. Now he had to turn her away. "Okay look, I can't employ you. This job you need to understand English."
Anneza looked blankly. "Karsari?" She asked. Did she get the job? By the look of the manager's face, it was probably a 'no'.
"No. Understand? N.o. Job. Need English. EEEENG-LIISH." He repeated very slowly.
Anneza looked down quite hurt. She somewhat understood what he was trying to say. It was quite obvious now.
The man looked at her some as an idea struck him. "Hold on... okay... well... I can probably employ someone like you for minimum wage. You know how to make coffee, right?"
"Coff...eee?" asked Anneza carefully.
"Yeah. Coffee. You make coffee, tea, and all that. Minimum wage. Take it or leave it." he said with a shrug.
"Coff..eee.." Anneza repeated with a quiet nod.
Lilly stood in the garden, under her tree, with the blue stick in hand. If she was going to fight the Enemy with it, she needed a magic girl uniform. A real one... could the stick provide that? The uniform was not just for show, it was a barrier against the power of the Enemy too. If she had it, then she would not have just been put to sleep so easily. So... how to get it? She had heard Jenny counted up to her number, and that was how she transformed. Would the same work for her?
"One Two t'ree Fo'r!" She shouted holding the stick up high.
... nothing.
Lilly frowned a bit. Something else maybe? "By the Pow'ar of Greyskull?"
Still nothing.
The squirrel girl's ears drooped a bit, as she twirled the stick around. She ate another of those curious chocolate nuts saving a few more. She realised that if there was something 'magicky' about them, it might do well to plant them next to the other piece of the blue stick.
She ran up her tree, to her window sill, and planted them carefully around, smiling a little. "I'm gonna make chocolate nutty trees!" she said giggling a bit as any child might. Actually... now that she thought about it, she didn't feel at all like she was anything else. Even if she didn't quite feel like she was a girl, she did feel her age...
It was like at this moment...she realised that the other person she was, might be...
...gone.
Lilly sighed a bit as she got back to focusing on the stick. A quick and easy jump back down to her garden and she was ready to keep trying. She still remembered vaguely who she was, even if not the
details much of it any more... that older boy. His friends, his thoughts... well... that was still there, but... all just a bit jumbled. Not that she could be sure actually. Still, Lilly was here, and she had a job to do now. She held up the stick again trying to think of something else she could say. "It's morphin' time?" she said hopefully.
'Meow' Said Sakura nuzzling to her feet.
"Hey..." she said petting her. "So you wanna be my compa'ion?"
'Meow' said the cat plainly, allowing its belly to be rubbed.
"Ha, you ain't as bad as Tetra you know. She can be so mean." She knew the cat-girl was just looking after the bigger picture... but they were all just kids. What exactly did Tetra expect from them?
After a while, Lilly knew she had to go back inside. "Why can't I do that part of it Sakura?" She asked softly. "Is it cause it just ain't a thing the stick does?"
The cat didn't really respond, as it went to drink water from it's bowl.
Lilly sighed. Well... there was still time. Even if she couldn't 'defend' herself... the stick was capable of a massive attack- maybe more so then the magic girls if she understood how it worked. Maybe a strong offense would be a strong defense for her.
Jeff was a little more stunned to be suspended then he really let on.
He knew he had done quite a few bad things... but it was...
"...Damn it!" He said hitting his locker. Just... why?! Why did this affect him at all? He could be home schooled, he could go to another school if he really wanted to. Probably one where there were just humans around.
Jeff turned slightly thinking he heard a noise. Something just seemed... off? He felt a little dizzy, but shook his head of it. The pressure of this was clearly getting to him. He was trying to put himself in the shoes of 'L', the master detective of manga- of course Jeff was hardly like him. But then, was anyone? 'Kira', the person responsible for turning people into these freaks existed.
Somewhere...
In some country, in some town, there is no reason to believe it would be this one... but there was no reason not to believe it either. "three days," he mused to himself. Why three days? It felt right. If he didn't do it he could extend it to three weeks... three months... three years... decades... but at some point, he would have to accept it could not be done.
"No! Just try!" If he had any worth left, he will find this person and do the right thing and stop him from hurting any more people! From destroying more lives, and... and...
"I have to..." he said quietly. "For Belle's sake... Ricky's..."
They all hate you. Why do it for them?
... Jeff shook his head of that. Maybe, part of him hoped they would be his friend again... if he... stopped the person ultimately responsible. There was someone he could pin this to... he could feel it in his bones! It was like a sense was telling him to keep going. Something... just look for the signs. Some other sign must be here.
He left the locker room, to go to the refractory. Curiously enough, he saw an angel girl there. "Well that's a sign if I ever saw one," he thought to himself. "Okay angel, give me a sign." He said looking at her from a distance.
The angel girl seemed to be rather self conscious of something, then started walking away. Jeff decided to follow her. She appeared to be heading to the chapel room. It was rarely used these days, just a simple room where people of various faiths could pray. (Though it seemed to be getting more use these days.)
Jeff wondered if the girl was into religion before her change or became a convert. He hoped she was just always that way. It would seem hypocritical to suddenly become religious after turning into a divine being. But then again, who knows... Jeff wasn't sure what he would do in such a situation. After a while he decided to go in and see what she was doing-
.... but the room was empty.
Jeff glanced around the empty room. Maybe she flew away? He glanced to the windows quickly, but found they were locked from the inside. There was no chance she could have flown... All of a sudden Jeff laughed.
"Thank you God," He said smirking. Okay, now that he had seen something impossible, he had to find out how it happened... and maybe it would lead him closer to Kira. He searched the room, looking at every possible hiding place. He searched for a full hour, before pausing in exhaustion. "God... okay... so... you got me. How did she get out of a room with only one door, and not through the window?"
Brittany observed Jeff a little pitiably. Few were aware of this particular ability of the angel and devil changed... but while most people would have shrugged it off, Jeff seemed to be obsessing. He waseven trying to open up floor boards now! "You won't find her. She's not here. Just... give up." she said to him in the end.
"I'm not giving up!"
Brittany tensed again. The kid was just talking to himself, but it was eerie the way he seemed to... be in some sense... or some measure... able to perceive her. He was clearly just a normal human though...right?
Then Jeff started staring at her.
Brittany tensed staring back. As always, this got very creepy. It felt like Jeff was haunting her rather then the other way around. Jeff then ran right at her, and- straight onto the wall behind the ghost girl. The very wall that once had the special angelic door at one point, where reality was at its most altered. A coincidence maybe?
"It's here... It has to be here? Urgh who am I kidding. This is just stupid." Even he knew this was bordering on insane. He started to walk away frustrated that his investigation lead him into a wall. Literally. He should go somewhere else.
Brittany wasn't overly concerned- at least until she started seeing strange 'holes' in reality appearing. Then she knew something was seriously wrong... very... very wrong. Reality itself was shifting, between what she knew and... some kind of weird oblivion. Brittany called out to Jeff "Go back! Get back to the wall!"
Jeff turned slightly, and wondered back to the wall. He didn't respond to her voice this time, but now... the strange holes in reality were receding, with each step. Like small bubbles, bursting with normality once more as Jeff did what he... what he was doing before.
It took a lot to shock Brittany but this was certainly one of them. This was not an attack by the Enemy... this was the enemy winning. But they had not won- they had not even had their final battle. It didn't make any sens-
Jeff was pushing against the wall, and like a crack, he was slipping through the seams of reality that seemed to blister at his touch. He gasped and kept pushing, thinking he would find the truth. "Angel girl? You... there?"
Then the teen boy disappeared through the crack of reality.
Brittany decided now was a good time to get Lady Haru, and try to work was going on now before Jeff somehow killed them all.
