It was the only thing on his mind after Iris had told him she wanted him to be the successor. He’d spent an entire day daydreaming about fighting alongside the other magical girls, transforming, using magic to seal evil demons…
It would be like a dream come true. It would be everything he had ever wanted.
But… Could he really take it? Did he truly deserve it?
These thoughts warred inside Max for a couple of days. Even though there was no rational reason for it. He ...
2023-07-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Whoops…” Jessica murmured to herself as soon as she read the message.
The message read ‘Jessica we can’t unfreeze Iris! Get over here!’
It seemed that she had gotten carried away a little. She hadn’t expected a throwaway spell to be this effective.
Either way, she still had to go through some paperwork after the attack, so she couldn’t go free Iris immediately. Luckily, there was another perfectly capable person around.
“Max?” she...
2023-07-14 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Jessica huffed as the four looked at the diagram she had drawn.
“Well, in theory, it should be possible then. But…” she trailed off.
“Only a person can be the fifth weapon,” Sally finished, scowling.
“In theory! Maybe there is a way to transfer it to an object, but right now… yeah.” Jessica couldn’t help but slump down a bit. It has been weeks of secretly working on a solution and they’d barely made any progress.
“This is still good,” B...
2023-07-12 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The entire reality froze around Max as he heard those words. Everything else disappeared. There was only Iris, the second generation Pretty Frost, leaning on his window sill, looking him in the eye with a serious expression.
“Wha-- How… what?” Max choked out.
“I want you, Max, to be the third generation Pretty Frost,” Iris reiterated, still looking straight at him.
“But I’m not even a girl!” he blurted out the first thought that came to mind.
Iris shook...
2023-07-10 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“I’m surprised you’re taking the initiative,” Sarah said. “Very unlike you. Are you sure the trial didn’t do anything to your mind?”
Jessica rolled her eyes. “Well, it’s only fair, isn’t it? If anyone deserves to know, they do.” She shrugged before glancing at the four girls. “But I’m not sure why you all are also coming. You will have to leave the room before I tell them anything, you know that right?”
“That’s fine,” Iris – Pr...
2023-07-08 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Peace? How could there ever be peace?!” Jessica shouted whilst hefting her surprisingly well made plastic spear painted black and pointed it in Flame’s direction. “After all, we’re enemies!”
“We don’t have to be!” Flame pleaded. “You don’t have to follow the demon lord! You can be free!”
“I am free!” Jessica bellowed as the special effects team flickered the lights around her to mimic magic going out of control. “You know nothing about me, F...
2023-07-06 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Sooo, our club is doing the first play of the school year,” Jessica casually mentioned.
“Yeah? What are you doing?” Sarah asked.
Cody – who had joined them all at the table – fought down a grin, already knowing where this was going.
“We’re doing a contemporary piece. Something about the magical girls and all that.” Jessica eyed Erika. “I was wondering if you wanted to help out with it.”
“Huh…?” The girls blinked. “About u-- About the magi...
2023-07-04 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Jake wasn’t sure how to feel anymore. Ever since Cathlyn had died and the dubious demonic spirit had invited him to join the demon army, he had been almost obsessed with revenge and getting stronger. So much so that he had more or less abandoned the one person that still connected him to his late wife, his daughter.
And then it turned out that she had done exactly as he had and joined the demon army. And not just joined it, flourished in it so much that she had been nominated...
2023-07-02 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Little Red Riding Hood? Hmm… How about a twist where the wolf and the grandma had a secret affair and the protagonist misunderstood the whole time?” Jessica suggested.
“So… the wolf would get shot because of an affair? Seems like quite the extreme punishment.”
“Well then, why not make it a love triangle between the wolf, the grandma, and the huntsman!” Jessica grinned.
“So the girl is just an awkward third… fourth wheel then? The story is already getting...
2023-06-30 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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“So… Jessica’s… dad…” Erika breached the topic they had all been avoiding.
“He’s a total prick,” Sarah summarized.
“I’m sure he had his reasons…” Nicole tried, before turning to Max. “Right?”
“She… didn’t tell us about that bit. I never even knew that her dad abandoned her after her mom died…” Max admitted.
Sarah groaned at that. “Can’t wait till he shows his face so I can punch it. Can we really not take Jessica’s offer to...
2023-06-28 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“So you lost the attunement a few months after leaving the demon realm,” Jessica asked as she looked up from her notes.
The ever-frowning woman in front of her nodded.
“And Trish lost it after she got pregnant.”
This time, the woman scowled but still nodded.
“Hmm…” Jessica narrowed her eyes.
“Before you ask, no, I never got pregnant myself,” Sally interrupted before her former minion could get any ideas.
“Right, I figured.”
I...
2023-06-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The three watched from afar as their target left the premises. They exchanged a brief glance and a nod before following after her.
They slipped out of the front entrance of the school, keeping an eye on the black-haired girl from a distance, making sure to stay far enough to avoid her notice.
No matter what she had said, no matter how well she had acted, they knew something was off about Jessica. There was no denying that something had changed, but neither one of the thre...
2023-06-24 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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As Nicole made her way to the school, she couldn’t help but to look around and extend her magical senses around her just in case.
No Jessica… Or Tepes.
Yesterday had been a huge shock for everyone. Max telling them was one thing, but actually seeing her as a general, many times more powerful than before, and decidedly not pulling any of her punches? It really hammered it in.
Although part of Nicole felt something was off about this. Maybe… this was an...
2023-06-19 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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This was definitely cheating. She didn’t really even have to do anything. Just pledge her soul to an ancient demon spirit and bam, her total magical power nearly quadrupled.
Before, she could almost handle fighting all four magical girls at once. Now? Well…
“Nightfall!” she shouted as she spread out her arms.
Dark magic flowed out of her and enveloped the entire school in a swirling vortex, blocking out light. Panicked screams reached her ears as she marvele...
2023-06-17 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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First day of high school. Normally, this would be a big and important day for anyone. But for Max? Well, a lot of big and important things had been happening all the time in his life lately.
It was hard to get worked up about Math or making friends at school, when just the other day he had fought a demon alongside the magical girls and then his newly appointed demon general boss had told him that, yes, the world was, in fact, gonna get destroyed if things went south.
Another thing...
2023-06-12 05:53:18 +0000 UTC
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The demon lord – he’d said to call him Baugh in private – walked at the front. Behind him, three of the four current demon generals. Tepes, the enchantress; Salem, the moon witch; and Hecate, the princess knight.
It felt quite strange to finally be one of them. Up until recently, Jessica had been a faceless minion, after all. She still wasn’t quite sure why they had to be so nondescript as minions, but… Well, whatever.
Now that she was a general herself, she had...
2023-06-10 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Cody wasn’t sure what the fuss was about at first, but when Salem officially announced that two new generals had been named, he couldn’t help but smile and feel a bit of relief.
Jessica had made it, then.
As soon as she returned, she gave a little speech in front of all the gathered minions. It was quite good. Half the minions felt fear and the other half awe. Something about her felt different. Her expression, her posture, her presence. Gone was the snarky conspiracy leader t...
2023-06-03 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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The trials were pretty straight forward. Kind of cliche, as well.
First she had to face off against some golems – who Jessica crushed – to prove her strength, then she had to solve some puzzles – it reminded her of video games – to prove her mind, and then finally she entered the last room where the great ancestor or whatever waited for her.
Long story short, Jessica understood about one tenth of what the ghost said because of his weird accent and ancient word use...
2023-05-27 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey there everyone! I found my old drawing tablet and decided to doodle for a while, but before I knew it, I had a complete cover art on my hands. Anyway, here's your regularly scheduled chapter.
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Jessica was stunned.
Really, what even was there to say?
Apparently, the demon lord and the first Pretty Flame had a kid together. She had gone through pregnancy and childbirth while in a magical coma… somehow. And that kid was
2023-05-20 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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A kid. A kid with a dog's head. A shadowy figure that looked like a kid with a dog's head.
What the hell was this?
“Human,” the thing called.
“The fuck are you?” the man snarled at the thing, inching away from it.
“I am like you. Betrayed. Thrown away. Forgotten.”
A strange unsettling feeling bubbled up in his gut. As if the creature’s words should mean something significant to him, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.
“...
2023-05-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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One last burst of magic and the surrounding ice shattered.
Hecate hovered in place, staring down at her adversaries.
“Is that all you have, magical girls?!” she howled at them.
Just as always. Just as daddy had told her to do. The magical girls weren’t strong enough to seal her away anymore. It had to have been the attunement deterioration in Frost daddy had spoken about.
“Thunderstorm!”
Arrows of light flew at her from all sides, but Hecate nimbly dodg...
2023-05-06 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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A/N:
Here's something different. See, with the way I write, sometimes I take the story in a certain direction before realizing that it wouldn't work, backtracking, and having to delete entire chapters that would no longer work.
Here's a chapter I had to delete some time ago because it no longer fit, but I found it too fun to never share it with the world.
A would-be chapter 19 that isn't canon anymore. Enjoy!
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“So… what do yo...
2023-05-04 06:23:19 +0000 UTC
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“Are you sure about this, Max?” Iris asked the question on everyone’s mind.
“Well… Not really,” he mumbled. “But… I think this is important.”
The magical girls in civilian guise exchanged a glance.
“You said it yourself… Something big is waiting to happen. This is no time for secrets anymore.”
The others simply nodded in agreement.
With Jessica away and Cody brooding over… something, it fell to Max to make proper contact with the magical...
2023-04-29 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Jake grimaced as he watched his daughter’s back. She hadn’t spoken to him since they had left, and he hadn’t tried to talk to her either. What would he even say?
‘I’m sorry!’? Or ‘I can explain!’? Maybe ‘You’re grounded, young lady!’?
No, definitely not the last one. The last one might end up with his head impaled on her spear.
Still, he was surprised that she had gone ahead with the trial after finding out about him rather than stomping off in anger. T...
2023-04-22 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Jessica strolled through the castle in her minion outfit for what should be the last time. Her eyes scanned over the hallways and the various minions here and there.
Her role as a minion was over. All in all, she had done pretty well. Although rather than staying as a minor background character on the stage, she had become notorious among both the demons and the magical girls, while claiming the double agent role. It had been quite fun, honestly, but now… It was time for a different p...
2023-04-15 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Max groaned.
Of course. Of course, he would run into the magical girls fighting someone just one day after Jessica left for the trials. Why ever would the world let Max have a relaxing stroll through a park?
“I-glue!”
“Cleansing fire!”
“Raaargh?!”
What was he supposed to do? He couldn’t just leave now. Especially not since the magical girls seemed to be having a difficult time. But he couldn’t join in either. If ...
2023-04-08 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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“She’s still not answering?”
“... no. Not even the obligatory ‘I’m too busy’ anymore,” Erika answered with a frown.
“I guess that confirms it then…” her friend’s voice on the other side of the call replied.
Erika pursed her lips. Right after their fight at the concert, Jessica had messaged them, saying that she would be leaving on a short business trip because of her job.
They had never gotten the chance to tell her ‘Wait, we...
2023-04-01 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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“Can opener?” Max asked.
“Check,” Jessica confirmed.
“Toothbrush?”
“Check.”
“Spare underwear?”
“Check.”
Cody stared at his fellow conspirators stuffing the backpack in one of the castle rooms. “... Why are you treating this like you’re going camping? I thought this was supposed to be an epic trial or something.”
Jessica rolled her eyes. “It’s both. We’ll need to travel quite far from the castle through the demon rea...
2023-03-25 03:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Pretty Frost stared at their foe. Salem used to be the first Pretty Spark, or so the former magical girls had theorized. Frost wasn’t sure what to think about that.
She didn’t quite remember what first Spark had looked like back when she had handed over hers and the first Flame’s weapons. But then again, it had been years.
“Focused sunburn!” Flame shouted as her blade extended and went from glowing to radiant.
Salem, as always, swung her staff sideways and conjured...
2023-03-18 03:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Nicole paced in place, nervous. The roaring concert and the surrounding crowds of people weren’t helping in the slightest.
After all, they would be fighting their friend – and a former magical girl, apparently? – very soon. At least they had advance notice this time, but still… Nothing about it felt right, even if there were good reasons to do it.
Trying to focus on other things didn’t help either. Her mind immediately latched onto yet more uncomfortable topics. Li...
2023-03-11 03:00:01 +0000 UTC
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