Scene #9660: Demon Girl, Do Your Best!

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Petra Soroka	A couple bus transfers away from downtown San Francisco, the neighborhoods are populated by clusters of squat apartment buildings with trees sprinkled on the side of wide roads. There's a light misting of rain coming down, drawing out the acrid smell of the pavement, and people hurry every which way to get to where they're going, sullenly keeping to themselves. Except for one girl, who stands out like a raised blister against all the other citygoers. She has a pink and black dress, matching her hair that's pulled into one side ponytail today, with stubby black horns sticking out of them and a spade-tipped tail snaking out under the skirt. Her umbrella is a genuinely ridiculous thing, drawing the uncertain eyes of the passersby: foot-long fangs line the brim of it, with eyes on top and a vivid crimson underside like a maw. She swings a convenience store plastic bag by her side, tittering and talking to herself. "Kukuku... fools! The genius of Dokuga Kenshiko overwhelms mere mortal minds yet again!" Her tail snaps back and forth, the back of her hand raised up to her mouth. The bag in her hand has six individual cups of dried ramen, as well as one singular cookie in a brown paper slip. "It is to be expected that no mortal of this realm could match my tactical brilliance, but still, I'm quite impressed with myself. Fitting of a genius of the Army of Darkness to discover one fact that overturns the very fabric of society: by waiting until Tuesday's 2/$3 deal, I could purchase not simply two, but three instances of two meals! Nearly enough to last until the very next Tuesday, where it repeats anew!" Kenshiko's tail coils around herself as she snickers in a gesture of pure self-aggrandizement. Her villainous fit of laughter slowly trails off as she trudges through puddles towards her apartment building, occasionally flaring up again before she suppresses it. "Ah, but I have to be careful and not give myself away! I'm infiltrating this society still. For now, I'll have to content myself with discreetly pillaging (buying discounted) their halls of excess (7/11) to amass wealth (cup noodles + one treat) until my power grows." How is she speaking with gikun in a purely text-based medium, not to mention one written in English? The powers of the fabled Dokuga bloodline may continue to evade us yet. She turns to take a shortcut through a small park, all while still rambling to herself. "That's right, Kibakasa, I've made a friend today. Soon that entire pitiful school will fall under my thrall."
Angela	Love can't actually fly or teleport except for using Warpgates and so, the Queen of Hatred, has to take the bus. She pays for it with a mix of cash, jelly beans, and stickers. She is, of course, intending to go to a stop near the school and then to stalk this mysterious demon girl away from the school before finally ambushing her with bright pink energy. "I'm a fantastical magical girl, A magical girl capable of anything o/~, that name is, that name is The Magical Girl of Love! o/~" Love sings, her staff floating beside her head and occupying an extra seat. She's wiggling and singing happily when the bus passes by Kenshiko and Love gets a good glimpse of her. "Ah!!" She pulls the little hanging cord to get the bus to stop but the bus goes for another full block. "Ah wait! Wait! You have to stop--!" The bus finally comes to a stop and Love rushes out. The doors close before the staff gets out as well and it bumps lightly against the door. But Love pays that no mind, nor notices, as she runs across the sidewalk back down towards Kenshiko, intent on chasing her down. "Yokai!!" Love shouts. "I've been looking across all of San Fran Sis-Ko for you." She swings her arms wildly before bringing a peace sign across her eye. "I've heard of your ''villainous designs!'' I am here to fight for love and to triumph over evil so you best prepare yourself!" She raises her arm into the air and then points directly at Kenshiko. Then her eyes slowly slant towards the cup noodles. "..." Meanwhile, three blocks away, the doors open on the bus and Love's staff slowly floats back onto the street.
Petra Soroka	"Ah--!!!" Kenshiko whirls around in surprise at Love's voice. Standing between trees heavy with accumulated raindrops, rivulets of water spill to the ground and soak into the dirt between the stones of the path, and Kenshiko's shocked expression settles quickly into smug antagonism. "Mahou shoujo, I see you've sniffed me out." She folds an arm across her chest, plastic bag rustling, and her tail twists into sharp angles out to her side. "Did that girl (SOROKA PETRA) send you to test my powers? How cocky~ A little brat like you won't even feed me a morsel!" She lowers the fanged umbrella down hiding half her face behind the canopy, with one of the umbrella's bulbous, red-rimmed eyes overlaping where her own was. Without the shield of the umbrella, raindrops immediately begin soaking into her hair and the cardboard of her groceries. "I am the great devil Kenshiko, of the Dokuga bloodline! State your name, whelp, so I will know whose name to put into my calorie tracker for today! Kukukuku--" "Eh?" Her eyes go wide and her laughter stops abruptly. She pulls open her bag and finally notices that the entire time, she was holding it just under the edge of the umbrella, so a steady stream of water was directed right on top of her noodles. "Ah-- oh no no noooooouuu... ahhhhhh.... my ill-gotten spoils...!" In the span of a rapid two panel animation, she tightly wraps up the plastic bag to seal it from any more water and stashes it under a nearby bench, then resumes her posture at Love. "... Fool! Prepare to die!"
Angela	''I see you've sniffed me out.'' Ah, Love thinks, happily, it's been so long since she had a true blue magical girl battle. She's so ready. ... She's so ready except for that her staff isn't here so she can't immediately blast Kenshiko. ''Did that girl (SOROKA PETRA) send you to test my powers?'' "That's right!" Even though Love mostly offered and wasn't told no recently which is why she's here. "She's too busy and cool and doesn't need you distracting her from her studies, and so I will defeat you and restore peace to her college life!" ''State your name, whelp'' "My name is Love (Ai!), I'm the Magical Girl of Love and Justice...! And I'll punish--" ''Ah-- oh no no noooooouuu... ahhhh...'' Love's finger droops as her staff bonks lightly against her head as if letting Love know it finally caught up--a bit testily. ''Fool! Prepare to die!'' "...Um... Do you want to have lunch first?"
Petra Soroka	"She's too busy and cool and doesn't need you distracting her from her studies . . ." "Hahhh?! As if!!! Her?!" Kenshiko stomps both of her feet one after another. "All she does is slack off around the lawn and complain! She's not cool at all!" She lets go of the umbrella and it starts floating over her head on its own, one eye blinking, freeing up both of her arms to fold brattily over her chest. Kenshiko looks to the side and sniffs haughtily, tilting up her chin to look down at Love out of the corners of her eyes. "She says she can't even be bothered to protect the school~ poor little lackey, sent on the menial jobs your pathetic queen bee couldn't care less about." This is clearly on her mind because it's been living rent free in her head ever since it happened, because she goes on. "Ahhhh-! What a bother! I'll show her, you see...! That school life where all her friends pay attention to her and not the clever and beautiful new transfer student will come crashing down...!" "...Um... Do you want to have lunch first?" "Then, Magical Girl of Love and Justice, prepare to meet your...!" Kenshiko throws her arms wide, and little devil wings pop out of her back. A glow of purple-black magic begins to swirl around her, coalescing into solid black bombs with the kanji for FANG scrawled on them in red, that-- are about the size of golf balls. One explodes prematurely into a poof of smoke on contact with the rain. Kenshiko puts her fist up to her mouth and coughs. She grabs her umbrella again, pulling it down so that the canvas 'mysteriously' hides her face. "Heh. You're lucky. My magical energy hasn't fully recovered ever since... er...." Breakfast.
Angela	''All she does is slack off around the lawn and complain! She's not cool at all!'' "If she wasn't cool, you wouldn't be trying to be her rival! She's done so much cool stuff!" Love re-points her finger at Kenshiko. "She has a castle! You wouldn't stand a chance, you're ''lucky'' I'm here! If she used her full power, you wouldn't stand a chance!" ansi243,''Then, Magical Girl of Love and Justice, prepare to meet your...!'') "Nhhh!" Love grasps at her staff, rapidly spinning it in a circular pattern before bringing it forward, eyes narrowing as she prepares for a fight!! No Arcana Slave just yet--she has to get a feel for how dangerous this youkai is first...! But then one of the bombs prematurely explodes right next to Kenshiko and it's pretty much at this point that Love becomes incapable of seeing Kenshiko as an actual threat to Petra or, for that matter, to the Magical Girl of Love. "MmMmMmMmpmpphh....!" Love battles an internal conflict of her soul before ultimately lowering her staff. "I can't fight you before you're at your full power, what would be the point of that?? We have to get you some lunch immediately--!" She looks to the cup of noodle, "You weren't just gonna have soup and a cookie right?" She looks around from side to side, for the first time paying attention to her surroundings.
Petra Soroka	"MmMmMmMmpmpphh....!" Hiding behind her umbrella, all Kenshiko can hear of Love is her muffled groans of indecision. Weakly, she scoffs, and her tail is crunched up into all kinds of crazy angles. "... Heh. I've so thoroughly astounded you with my strength that you can't even speak." She slowly inches backwards, scooting towards the bench where her cup noodles are sheltering. "Let that... be a lesson to you, Magical Girl. I won't go so easy next time. Tell your boss that she should... prepare, mentally, for two or three weeks before daring to face me again...!" "You weren't just gonna have soup and a cookie right?" "Of course not!!!" Her thin black tail flicks out straight like a measuring tape. Kenshiko raises the umbrella again, face revealed, with one hand smugly below her chin. "The treat will be saved for another day. Worm." She tries to squat down and pick up the rain-drenched plastic bag as dignified as she can, which isn't very at all. Kenshiko's haughty expression doesn't waver, but Love can see how her tail just flops lifelessly against the ground at the idea of picking wet cardboard out of her microwaved ramen. She narrows her eyes and glares out of the corner towards Love, the spade tip of her tail perking up slightly. "What are you plotting, Magical Girl...?"
Angela	''She should... prepare, mentally, for two or three weeks...'' To say nothing that Petra probably wouldn't bother for two or three weeks and to say nothing that two or three weeks definitely wouldn't matter in terms of preparation, but Love awkwardly tries not to look too disbelieving about the statement. She's honestly a little worried that for all of Kenshiko's haughtiness that she's like a few inches from just giving up and eating sad cold ramen for the rest of her life. And that's not fun for ANYBODY is it? ''The treat will be saved for another day. Worm.'' Clearly calling Love 'Worm' is having an effect because Love's haughtiness is being replaced by a concerned look of pity. Wait, no! That's not what's desired at all, is it?? Love sees the lifeless little tail plopping onto the floor while it's raining. "Well... I may be a magical girl, but I have honor!" Isn't that actually what's supposed to be expected? "I can't just blast you with pink lasers when you're too hungry to fight? It'd be a bad lesson for the children! And ... Petra will be sad if you aren't a challenge to her, she is always saying how people keep attacking her and then losing immediately and then thanking her for it! We have to end the cycle now before it's too late!" Of course, the other and more important reason for Love is that this wouldn't really be much of a showdown if Kenshiko busts down Petra's doors in a month and then gets her ass beat and thrown into the obstacle course. It's obviously true, Love realizes, that Petra's enemies need help so they stop depressing Petra with how bad at being her enemy they are. "So we'll start with a proper lunch! I brought... ''money''...! Because I have... a job!" She throws the peace sign into the air. "Then when you're ready, we can actually have a big showdown that will really make people wonder aloud 'can they do that??'."
Petra Soroka	"I can't just blast you with pink lasers when you're too hungry to fight?" "Pff! I'm not too hungry to fight!" Kenshiko laughs sharply, flicking her head to flip her ponytail behind her shoulder. She hoists the plastic bag up again, umbrella balancing on her shoulder through levitation. "Ridiculous. If I were a lesser devil, then I'd be taking advantage of that naive heart of yours, Magical Girl." She wiggles the bag back and forth to show it off. It sloshes a bit, and one of the cups inside falls over. "This mere vessel contains enough calories to feast for a week, without giving up more than one SINGULAR ten dollar bill in exchange! With these practices I have devised, I shall have three, no, FOUR weeks more to enact my domination upon this San Francisco!" "Petra will be sad if you aren't a challenge to her, she is always saying how people keep attacking her and then losing immediately . . ." Kenshiko gasps, hand held up to her mouth. Her tail kinks halfway through, angling down. "What a rotten attitude... this no-good magical girl..." "Because I have... a job!" "Truly?" Her red eyes light up, and she scuttles a few steps closer to peek at any money Love might be holding. Like a wary cat, she flattens herself closer to the ground, circling around her. "... Such a thing... I never imagined it was possible. Kukuku!" She straightens up in a flash, fingers splayed over her mouth when she laughs. "Then, perhaps I accept your offering, Magical Girl! You may bring me lunch, with the money you've earned!" She stays like that in freeze frame for five entire seconds, before her rigidly stuck-out tail begins wilting starting from the tip. "Please,"
Angela	''This mere vessel contains enough calories to feast for a week.'' "A week?" Love, despairing, mouths quietly. Oh no. ''What a rotten attitude... This no-good magical girl...'' "No good...?? Rotten attitude?? I'm a good magical girl! I've fought for happiness and justice my whole life except when I uh ... well my record's still good!" She reaches into her corset and draws out a ... little rat purse. As in a purse that is shaped like a rat and has little whiskers. She draws out a number of credits. "Hm hm! See? See? They insist I receive payment for it so Petra doesn't have to keep buying me clothes." ''You may bring me lunch, with the money you've earned!'' ''Please.'' "Okay! Then let's get food! And then work out a villainy preparation team!" She reaches to take Kenshiko's hand and lead her off to a dumpling place she saw while riding the bus. The staff, seemingly confused by the situation, follows a little extra behind than is strictly necessary. "They're very filling you know and not too expensive. Or at least they aren't expensiive when I go. But I do usually ask for--"