Alida slumps down, breathing heavily, and taking a look at her bleeding arms. Now that the combat is over, she notices all the blood.
"Uh.. Can anyone help me with this?"
Medical attention? Find bandages and try to stop the bleeding.
Alida slumps down, breathing heavily, and taking a look at her bleeding arms. Now that the combat is over, she notices all the blood.
"Uh.. Can anyone help me with this?"
Asha's heart was still throbbing vigorously from the fight. But the moment she heard Alida and noticed her bleeding wounds, all echoes in her chest seemed to have vanished.
"Ah... Wait, let me help."
She approached Alida, despite still feeling an unconscious wariness toward her. Yet she crushed this feeling deep inside her, and moved on to treat the girl. That was more important.
Soothe!
She focused on that past sensation of giving up part of herself to mend what was wrong. Expanding more of her powers, she healed Alida. For a moment, she noticed it was a little hard to breath... Probably my imagination, thought Asha.
When her focus on the wounds was no longer needed, she looked toward Pumsy with an inquisitive look. She also couldn't decide if she was supposed to get mad or relieved at his remark on their survival. Anywa, if no one had asked the question yet, she said:
"Sorry Pumsy but... can you explain? What is that 'Grief Seed'?"
Mina rushes over to Alida, but then Asha takes the healing into her own hands before she reaches there. "I-I said it before, but I'm sorry for leaving you e-earlier..." she stammers. "T-The illusion thing made me think you were behind me... oh, and does anyone have some water or something?" the last bit comes as she realizes just how much blood is on her, that's not hers.
She'd need to be rushing home as soon as she could - how long had they been in there? She wanted to be sure to get home before her father did, and if she was too late then it'd probably be better not to arrive covered in blood...
Asha approaches Alida carefully, still somewhat afraid of Alida, but unwilling to let her suffer.
She reaches out and takes the wounded girl's hands in her own, then closes her eyes, focusing her magic like she had done for Tooru before. It comes easier this time, after only a second she can sense Alida's body, and her wounds, unfolding into countless strands of woven magic in front of her. Unexpectedly, Alida's wounds look much worse like this, despite being far less severe than Tooru's had been; the cuts along her arms look like blackened razorwire knotted into the threads, disrupting and tearing at her natural form. Even more deeply buried, Asha can see more wires winding through Alida's legs.
Asha starts to pull at those black wires with her magic, but as soon as she touches them Alida writhes in further pain as the tangled blades tear away at Alida's soul. Asha lets go immediately, and then pauses, unsure how to help--if she removes the obviously bad wires, she'd do far more damage to the girl than she could repair. Eventually she decides to simply re-weave the loose strands of Alida's soul caused when the wires were buried inside the girl's arms, closing the bleeding wounds that had been all she expected when she cast her spell. Feeling guilty about her inability to repair the true damage, Asha sets to tracing every strand of Alida, ensuring the girl is completely and utterly whole, if not pure.
Finished, Asha ends her spell, and collapses backward, suddenly exhausted. Tooru rushes to her side, having no idea what just happened. From her perspective, Alida's wounds just closed up, her clothes were cleaned of blood and repaired, and then she seemed to get a complete makeover within half a second--all before Asha collapsed backward in sudden exhaustion. Mina just watches silently, having already seen a seemingly identical process when Tooru had been healed near her. After Asha seems to have catched her breath, Tooru asks if anyone has any water--Asha shoots her a glare as if she's insane, while Tooru and Alida both chuckle lightly at the inane question. Alida points out that the store probably has a bathroom, which Mina immediately leaves to go find, worried about how long she's been gone already.
Asha, still somewhat winded, turns away from Alida, and looks at Pumsy, who's now close and sniffing at the tarnished tiara.
"Sorry Pumsy but... can you explain? What is that 'Grief Seed'?"Pumsy looks up, and tilts his head slightly in confusion.
"Don't you know...? I usually tell girls before they make their wish... oh! I remember, you were gonna be killed by the really big witch, so you didn't have time! That explains why you healed Alida, I thought you were just stupid, but you actually don't know how things work! A grief seed is the soul gem of a magical girl who has fallen to despair, after she's lost all hope. That's why it's so black--it's just full of hatred, now. The only thing it's good for is purifying the soul gems of better magical girls; if you touch it to your soul gem, it'll suck all the darkness right out!" Pumsy sits down and puffs out his tiny chest proudly, his tail lightly waving behind him. After a moment, his eyes widen, and he quickly adds on
"Oh! You can also feed it to me, and I'll use her last bits of power to strengthen your own soul, but that won't actually purify it any. It'll just mean the next grief seed will help you more. Don't do that, it'd be really really stupid." He glares at Asha sternly with that.
((If the next actions are just more kitty questioning, the next update will probably be really fast. Trivial to write speech. Hard to write powers, traveling, and animal abuse. 
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Soul Gem: Glowing with a
dull light.
Age: 14
Hair Color: Salt-stained blonde.
Health: Fine!
Inventory: A club.
Shoe status: Like new!
Totem: A fishing club.
Stats:
Bravery: Talented~ Joy: Skilled! Innocence: Amateur...
Purity: Amateur...
Mercy: Skilled! Creativity: Cursed ;-;
Love: Cursed ;-;
Abilities:
Mobility Lvl2
Close Combat Lvl2+1
Totem Manipulation Lvl1
Berzerker Lvl2
Painless Lvl2
Effigy Lvl1Soul Gem: Glowing with a
fading light.
Age: 13
Hair color:
Ashen Health: She's quite banged up, with a lot of bruises.
Inventory: A ribbon.
Totem: A Ribbon. The one her late sister wore.
Stats:
Bravery: Skilled! Joy: Cursed ;-;
Innocence: Cursed ;-;
Purity: Amateur...
Mercy: Talented~ Creativity: Amateur...
Love: Skilled!Abilities:
Mobility: Level 2
Close Combat: Level 2
Totem Manipulation: Level 0 (+1)
Heal and Steel: Level 2 (Active: Mercy++, not that that will ever be rolled.)
Soothe: Level 2
Flagellation: Level 2 Soul Gem: Glowing with a
vibrant light.
Age: 14.
Hair Color: Bright green.
Health: She's never been wounded,
somehow, though she's got a lot of Alida's blood on her.
Inventory: No more halberd.
Totem: A halberd.
Stats:
Bravery: Amateur...
Joy: Skilled! Innocence: Amateur...
Purity: Skilled! Mercy: Cursed ;-;
Creativity: Talented~ Love: Cursed ;-;
Abilities:
Mobility: Level 1
Close-Combat: Level 1 (+1)
Regeneration: Level 2
Sixth Sense: Level 2
Semblance: Level 2
Projection: Level 2Soul Gem: Glowing with a
dull light.
Age: 13
Hair Color: Bright scarlet.
Health: Fine, physically!
Inventory:
No talismans!
Totem: Ofuda talismans, primarily thrown as manabolts.
Stats:
Bravery: Cursed ;-;
Joy: Talented~ Innocence: Skilled! Purity: Amateur...
Mercy: Cursed ;-;
Creativity: Amateur...
Love: Skilled! Abilities:
Mobility II
Mana Bolt II (+I)
Regeneration I
Gourmand I
Outburst II
Duet with Reality II 
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Topic: Pumsy's Seeds - A ~MAGICAL GIRL~ game inspired by PMMM (Read 149887 times)