We're all Magical Girls

[EldritchMermaid]

The day the world changed was marked not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with silence. Or at least nothing that anyone would notice. But nevertheless, it happened, as seven crystals, each the size of a large apple, appeared in hidden places across the world.

They weren’t the only things that appeared, though. Somewhere deep under the surface, somewhere in Japan, a massive library willed itself into existence. The librarian, a young man with waist-length blond hair, glasses and a well-pressed green suit looked up from his desk.

“Well that was… strange.”

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For other people, the arrival was met with a little more… pronounced effect.

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It was a cold and slightly frosty morning as Jon stepped off the train. OK, that’s a lie, it was a very frosty morning; ice clung to just about everything, from the lampposts to the signage to the pavement. Naturally, this made the going underfoot very slippery.

And this is why I hate winter.

After nearly losing his footing on the ice for a fourth time, despite the hiking boots he was wearing, he noticed something odd. He sniffed at the air.

What’s with the strange metallic smell?

And then, with a strange high-pitched whistling noise, everything went black, and he vanished.

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When he came round, it was dark. That, or he was underground, or inside, or… something. Logic could come later, just as soon as he figured out what had just happened. He was lying on his back too.

Not all that unusual considering I apparently passed out.

Slowly, he lifted one arm and waved it in front of his face.

So there’s enough light to se- Wait, that isn’t my hand.

Sure enough, the hand in front of his face was smaller and slimmer (although not by much), more befitting a teenage girl than an adult male. And yet it was responding to what he was telling it to do, so it had to be his hand.

With a sigh, he pushed himself into a sitting position, revealing the next clue that things weren’t quite right when a lock of long purple hair fell down and hung in front of his face. After shifting into a kneeling position, a quick pat-down revealed that yes, for whatever reason he was sat there in the body of a teenage girl, but was apparently still dressed the same way he... she had been before this started.

“W-what happened?” She wondered aloud in case anyone was listening.

[Rain]

Rain rolled over, expecting to find herself a rather large pillow to hug, but instead... nothing. The familiar feeling fabric in her hand showed she'd accidentally grabbed her hat at some point, but now... where the hell was she? Looking around didn't show her anything of interest, and neither did standing up.

Unlike the other abductee, she didn't really notice the age change; two years was rather negligible. More important was the fact that she wasn't at home, someone else was behind her, going by the sound of her voice, and she wasn't dressed for the situation.

[Tachi]

It was a warm, pleasant summer's night in Australia. Well, in some people's opinions at least. As far as Tachi was concerned, this kind of temperature this late at night was horrible and unnatural.

Sighing, the man turned his attention back to the computer monitor sat on the messy desk in front of his bed. As he did, he noticed something, a strange smell in the air. Looking around for the source of the metallic scent, he heard a high-pitched whistling noise and then everything went black.

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Opening his eyes, Tachi couldn't help but wonder where he was or what just happened. This definitely wasn't his bedroom and he didn't think he'd fallen asleep. Glancing around to get a better look at the area, two things quickly became apparent. Firstly, it was dark, not dark enough to be impossible to see, but still dark. And secondly...

"Where are my glas-"

He paused mid-sentence. That definitely wasn't his voice, it sounded like it belonged to a teenage girl rather than a grown man. So, someone fitting that description must've been talking at the same time...about the same thing, right? Not seeing the phantom speaker in the immediate vicinity, he resolved to find his glasses and then look for her. He lifted one of his hands to brush a few stray strands of long brown hair from his face. This in itself wasn't unusual for him, he'd been growing his hair out for several years now. However, when the hand entered his field of vision, he stopped and stared.

The somewhat pale tone was familiar, but aside from that, the hand was nothing like what he was used to. It was small, slender and overall, far more feminine.

Getting off her back and into a sitting position, Tachi looked herself over. Well, as well as she could in the darkness without her glasses on anyway. From what she could gather, she was still wearing the Iron Maiden t-shirt and black cargo pants she had on before...whatever had happened...happened. Unfortunately, the clothes had been a bit too big for the 22 year old man and now, on the teenage girl, she could probably almost make do with just the shirt. And it seemed that she was barefoot, that could be annoying. On the plus side, her spectacles seemed to be beside her. At least her luck wasn't all terrible.

Then she heard another voice. From the shakiness and...well, the fact that whoever it was was asking what had just happened, she assumed that whoever it was might be in a similar situation. Or was responsible for her being here and female. Either way, this was no time to be shy. "I-I'd like to know that too..." she stammered, before picking up her glasses and putting them on.

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Anno was very confused and somewhat distraught. She had just been getting ready for bed, and now she was somewhere else. Somewhere completely different. There were other girls around her, and she didn't recognize-

Wait, that girl looked... really familiar... like...

Hanako?!

What was going on?!

She was in some weird place her her oversized pyjamas, and she had no idea what to do.

"I... um... um... h-hello...?"

[Mahou Moerin]

...This must be a dream... Right?

It was the only explanation that made sense, after all. Why else would she suddenly be a teenager again, and even better one surrounded by cute girls?

Wake up, Moerin. If you sleep in you'll be late for work.

"...Ow." The bespectacled girl winced slightly as she pinched her arm. "...Must be a really deep sleep, then..."

Propping back her glasses, Moerin took another look at the surrounding girls, and... Immediately latched onto Rain.

"Haaanaaakooo~! So adorable~! Eeeeeh~! And those pajamas... Uwaaah, so cute~!" A bright smile beamed from her face as she fondled the poor pajama-clad girl.

[EldritchMermaid]

The opening door bathed the room in light.

“OK, what happened here then?” Came a voice, apparently the only male voice in the room. “Where did all you girls come from?”

He sighed, then snapped his fingers, causing the lamps in the room to glow brighter, banishing the darkness.

“This is all because of the diamonds, isn’t it?” He pulled a large book out from under his arm and flipped through it. “I guess it is.”

The purple haired girl stood up.

“So that’s why we’re here. But that doesn’t explain what happened to some of us…” She trailed off as she realised her trousers were now sitting around her ankles. She blushed heavily and pulled them back up as fast as she could.

[Rain]

"I-I'm not Hanako!" Rain protested, pushing against Moerin's chest and feeling a curious lack of any embarrassment about this action, "S-S-Someone help me! Yuuno! You help!"

Not questioning for a second that the person probably was Yuuno with their magical lighting abilities, and also not at all interested in such things as 'diamonds', Rain kept up her desperate attempt to wrest the girl groping her butt off of her. That felt weird.

[Tachi]

Tachi stared up at the blonde and the burned girl for a moment before quickly turning away, unsure of how to react to something like that. Her sight fell upon the purple-haired girl...just in time to see her trousers fall. Averting her gaze once again, she settled for looking up at Yuuno.

"Um...umm..." A little distracted by the molestation and pants-dropping, the brunette took a moment to realise that this person seemed to know about what was happening. "W-what happened to us?" she asked, remaining on the floor for the moment. She didn't want to risk giving a repeat of what the purple-haired girl had just done, after all.

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Anno stared blankly at what was going on before her. Someone who appeared to be Yuuno had just appeared seemingly out of no where, and the blonde girl was molesting Hanako who was not Hanako. Had she not noticed that she's fallen asleep at some point and she was in the midst of some kind of very bizarre dream?! What was this craziness?!

"Um... um... wh-what's... wh-where... um... th-this is weird..." she looked away, blushing, and swallowed. "Wh-what's going on?"

[Mahou Moerin]

"But why wouldn't you be Hanako?" Moerin said, refusing to let go of the girl's backside. "You look just like her, and this is my dream, so... Hey, quit pushing there!" A faint redness spread across her cheeks as Rain pushed her sheer cliff of a chest. "St-stop th- Oh, hello~"

She momentarily forgot about the Hanako lookalike when she noticed the incredibly handsome and girly looking man. He looked just like Yuuno... So he had to be Yuuno! New molestation target acquired!

"Hiiiiiiii~!" she said, immediately latching onto him from behind and stroking his leg. "What's this about diamonds? Silly, you don't need diamonds, since you've got something infinitely better... Moerin! Who is me, and who wants your cute little ferrety butt, eheheh~"

[EldritchMermaid]

"I'm afraid I don't know everything about what's happened; I can only assume you were transported here for the same reason I was transported to this world. Although I assume from the way you asked the question and what has happened to you since arriving that transportation is only the first problem. And I'm not entirely sure how you know who I am."

Then he sighed as one of the girls latched on to his leg.

"Please, cut that out. I've got a girlfriend, you know."

There was a pause, before the purple haired girl spoke up.

"Um... I'm pretty sure your girlfriend... S-she's a... Well, she's a lesbian."

Another pause, before Yuuno went completely white and hit the floor with a bang.

"Um... D-did I break him or something?"

[Rain]

"M-M-Moerin?" Rain stammered, glancing down at her nightgown and smoothing it out, being very glad of a choice that she'd made that evening before going to bed, "Well, umm... I guess this is kind of awkward to explain, since the whole resemblance is weird and all and I've kept quiet about it, but, umm..."

"I'm Rain."

"Also, please refrain from playing with Yuuno's butt."

[EldritchMermaid]

As if to put a further halt to the crazy, at least for the moment, something else happened. A section of the floor in the centre of the room started to glow, before what looked like a small round table appeared. On it sat a number of items, ranging in size from a large book down to a pair of small keys.

On some sort of silent cue, each item lifted itself off the table and floated over to one of the girls.

The purple haired girl (A/N: Yes, she's getting a name eventually. Shut up.) caught the item that had levitated down in front of her face. It was a small bracelet, with a pair of purple diamond-shaped gems set into it. It floated out of her hand and over her right wrist, and at once something flashed in her mind, bringing with it at least a basic knowledge of what she could do with it.

[Tachi]

Moerin and Rain were here too? Well, this just kept getting stranger and stranger. Averting her eyes from the new scene of molestation, Tachi tried to work out what to say next.

"Umm...I-I'm Tachi." The brunette mumbled, fidgeting a bit in her uncomfortably loose clothes. She wasn't entirely sure if she expected anyone to believe her, but it wasn't like she lost anything by trying, right?

...And then a table appeared. Tachi blinked and tilted her head slightly in confusion as a number of objects on it began levitating. Today just kept getting stranger. She caught the item that had floated towards her and stared at it for a moment. It appeared to be a small golden key, shaped like a bird's head with red gems for eyes and small wings on the back of the head.

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"... M-Moe...? R-Rain...?"

Anno looked at the people around her in confusion. That was Moe and Rain? And... wait... Tachi?! Wasn't Tachi a grown man?! Why... why was he a girl... and what was that thing floating towards her... Anno was rather speechless from just about everything as she stared blankly at the small golden key that had floated towards her. ... Wait... was that really...? It was shaped almost like a bird's head, it couldn't be... it really couldn't be that, couldn't?

Slowly, Anno reached out to take the object out of the air. She grasped it tightly in her hand, then drew it close to her chest and opened her hand to look down at it. It... was it really? It wouldn't be the strangest thing that had happened so far. But... "... Is this seriously the sealing wand from Cardcaptor Sakura?!"

[Mahou Moerin]

"...Rain? Tachi? Huh... This is one weird dream indeed... And don't worry, Yuuno, I go both ways, eheheh~"

Moerin, completely disregarding Rain's request to not grope Yuuno's backside, groped Yuuno's backside. She was so preoccupied with this lovely dream (of course it had to be a dream; Rain and Tachi were here, and she had a delicious bishonen bottom to play with!) that she didn't notice the green buckle floating towards her until it hit her in the face.

"...Owies! Wh-what the..!?"

[Rain]

Rain reached out to grasp the book that was floating before her, greedily taking it in both hands. Who was she to object to free reading material? Depressingly, though, flipping it open revealed nothing of any significance: blank page after blank page...

And that's when the tome's design clicked and the scarred girl's eyes shot wide. This book... this design... oh god, she was going to be sucked dry of magic over the course of years and then the world would be blown up and it would all start again and she'd be dead.

This was probably a good time to tell Rain to start breathing before she turned blue and keeled over.

[EldritchMermaid]

The girl crawled up and hugged Rain.

“Umm… are you OK?”

[Rain]

"I'mgoingtobeparalysedandthenexplodeandblowupaplanet!" Rain got out, continuing to stare at the book in her hands in horror. Apparently, the thoughts that this might not be an out of control version and that it had taken Hayate years to get to that point and Rain knew in full detail what would happen when it filled had not entered her mind. Nope, all that mattered was she had the Book of Darkness and was going to blow up a planet from it.

At least she was breathing now, even if it was too fast to be reassuring in any way.

[EldritchMermaid]

"I don't understa..." she trailed off as she saw the book too, with its familiar golden cross on the front. She paused. "M-maybe it's its benign sister... rather than the artefact of doom one..."

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"... R-Rain!"

This situation was impossibly confusing, but Anno quickly shuffled over to the other girl. "U-um... first, I-I'm Anno! And.. um... I... um... it's... nice to meet you in p-person... a-and... I... i-if it's the Book of Darkness, um, um... maybe it's the one that's not out of control? M-maybe it's okay?"

Anno's frantic attempt to calm her friend down probably came off pretty awkward. She was kind of desperate for it to work.

[EldritchMermaid]

If... if they're all here is it a good idea saying who I am? Or was...