smashcon | Musings of a witch, rise of a demon (2018 FanFic Comp)

Title: Musings of a witch, rise of a demon
Rating: PG
Prompt: 1, Destroying things is much easier than making them
Fandom/Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Word Count: 877
Disclaimer: I do not, in any way, profit from the story and all creative rights to the characters belong to their original creator(s).
Summary: All I wanted was for her to be safe. All I wanted was for her to live. So, I kept trying time and time again. In the end, the only way I could save her was to destroy everything and make her mine forever.

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Musings of a witch, rise of a demon

When we first met, I was a new student and you were the infirmary officer. You were incredibly kind and helpful towards such a sickly and useless person like me. For the first time in ages; I felt welcomed and secure in the sea of unfamiliar faces in a foreign place. I remember thinking wouldn’t it be nice if we could be together for a long time perhaps forever… But fate wouldn’t even let me have that.

It was by chance that I learnt about magical girls and their mission to defeat witches after you had saved me from one. I wouldn’t lie that I was tempted. I had witnessed your battles and I craved to become like you… Confidant, cheerful, cool. Everything that I wasn’t and wanted. Yet I was a coward… I fear fighting witches and I was ashamed by my indecisiveness. Despite that; you told me that it was alright and to take my time to decide.

I did, didn’t I…? I took so much time even right up to that fateful Walpurgis night that took away your life. Seeing your lifeless body, I felt my world crash and disappear around me. Nothing remained but hopelessness and despair. It’s ironic isn’t it…? It was only when you were gone that I found the one wish that I would sacrifice my soul for. To become strong enough to protect you, my dearest friend.

To see your smile, to hear your voice and to be with you again… I would do anything! For that one wish, I became a Magica Puella. I went back countless times to see you again, to protect your smile and rescue you from the impending tragedies that come fourth. It was so painful with each and every time leap... Every single time I went back; you would never know me because you had not ever met me. Every time I went back, I failed to protect you from realizing the horrors of becoming a magical girl. Every time I went back, I couldn’t stop the Walpurgis night and watch you once again being forced to become a Magica Puella and eventually becoming a corrupted witch. Yet I continued on, jumping through each and every timeline holding onto that one speck of hope that I could save you with or without your friends. When I finally reached a timeline where I almost succeeded; I could only watch on helplessly as you form a contract before me; leaving me alone on this very earth. An earth where no one remembered you… A world where you have never existed to anyone except me.

Why…? Why did you do it!? It wasn’t fair that you couldn’t live in this world, in this town that you loved so much… It wasn’t fair that you had to give up everything to save a world that is a lost cause…! A world without you is…is…

Yet… I continued protecting this world and the town that you loved so much because I could still feel you so close to me, whispering encouragement in my ears when I felt my hope slowly and surely fading away while corruption ate away at my soul. Even till the very end, I truly believed that you were finally safe from all harm’s way.

Alas, I was wrong. Those sick incubators wanted to confirm your existence and they used the one thing left to do it… My own corrupted soul… Why…? Why…? Why is it after everything I had went through and it still wasn’t enough to keep you safe!? Was everything useless right up to the very end? After all the deaths, anguish and pain just for me to become an accursed witch and become an energy source for those wretched incubators...?

Ah… I see now… It was impossible from the very beginning wasn’t it…? From the moment that we met, our fates were never meant to be. I should have realised during every time leap, that everything was unavoidable. That there was no way I could steer fate to be with you. That’s right… I remember now… I wanted to be strong enough to protect you so that we could be together forever…! Why was I so foolishly satisfied with this outcome where I couldn’t be with you to keep you safe…? Why did I let you remain in a world that would constantly place you in danger…?

If that’s the case, I will destroy everything around me. I will shred apart this world, this cycle and all of the incubators until there is nothing left that can hurt you. If I’m fated to become a witch then let me curse this land, the gods and this fate that drove us apart. If I have to… I will even become a demon in order to protect you, my precious and dearest one…

I promised to have hope, but it has failed me for far too long. The path of destruction is the only way for me no…for us to be together. As I ruthlessly held onto you, hearing your screams as I shred apart the law that you created. There was no remorse only joy as I finally achieved what I had wanted all this time…

We are finally together, forever… Madoka.

The end

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