13th Magic Bullet

[drank_the_milk]

[Well, the milk has worn off and Yuna's basically done cowering in her room and moping.  She still feels bad, but she knows it won't do any good to just keep sitting around feeling sorry for herself.  The first thing to do is apologize to the town, and then try to get on with her life.]

[Phone]

So, um... I wasn't really feeling like myself last week.  I know I did and said some bad things.

...Really bad things.

But I wanted to at least say I'm sorry.  I guess that's about it.

[Action; rec center]

[Yuna's got her basketball uniform from home back now, so that's some small consolation for what the town put her through.  She's got it on at the rec center today as she practices her shots on the basketball court.  It looks like she's trying to give it her all, but she's missing way more shots than usual.  Easy shots that even a beginner wouldn't have much problem with.  It should be pretty clear to anyone even remotely familiar with the sport that there's something on her mind holding her back, but Yuna just keeps on trying anyway.  It's the only way she knows to keep her mind from wandering to bad places right now.]

[Action; 1446 Mitchell Road]

[After several hours of failed basketball practice, Yuna heads for Negi's house.  She clutches her pactio card tightly to her chest, walking up to the house and ringing the doorbell.]

Hello...?  Negi-sensei?  Are you home?

Comments

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

That still doesn't make what I did right.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

I guess not, but ya can't beat yourself up too much for somethin' you couldn't control.

Least I'm tryin' to tell myself that too.

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Well, there is one thing I can do.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

What's that?

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Give my weapon back.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

[There's a moment of silence. A good idea, but she's really attached to her hatchet.

But she killed a bunch of innocent people with it, drones or not drones. Even though they come back. She was feeling guilty, but really doesn't understand it as that yet.]


... Yeah, maybe that's a good idea, huh.

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

At least then I wouldn't be able to hurt my friends again.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

....Maybe I should turn in my hatchet too. [She really really really doesn't want to.] But then what happens when ya want a weapon to defend yourself?

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

I guess that's a good point too... but I made that contract to protect my friends, not murder them.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew what to tell ya. This place makes shit like this hard.

Contract?

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a magical contract. That's where I got my gun. It's actually a magical artifact.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

Huh. You can really make contracts for magic powers where you're from? Don't work like that for us.

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Yup! Most of the girls in my class have one, actually.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

How big is your class? They seriously all can do magic? Who do you make contracts with for it?

[Don't mind the line of questions, it just works pretty differently where she's from.]

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Uh, there's 31 of us in Class 3-A, and I'd say probably about half of us? I mean, between people that could already do it and the ones that made contracts with Negi-sensei.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

That's a lotta people. And it was all a contract with one guy? Does everyone do somethin' different then? Different magic, I mean.

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all with our teacher, Negi-sensei. Everybody gets something different out of it. It's called a 'pactio,' and you get a cool magical artifact that you can summon.

[nosoul-nomind.livejournal.com]

And you got guns? That's pretty useful.

[gonnamarrydaddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're pretty cool. Everybody gets something based on their personality or what they're already good at, I think.