Chapter 1 Kuoh City

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I do not own Puella Magi Madoka Magica or Highschool Dxd

"Madoka, shoot the seal!" Charlotte shouted as Madoka walked on the musical staff towards the hole that Oktavia had created. "Shoot it!"

Madoka took careful aim at that, that god forsaken seal that was binding everyone here, everyone here in Homura's soul. She'll, she'll save everyone! Including Homura!

She pulled back the bowstring and shot.

"I, I just want to be with you, Madoka." Homura said as she was freed from Homulily's embrace, "I, I don't want to let go of you!"

"I know, Homura-chan." Madoka hugged Homura, the normally stoic girl crying, "But, you don't have to worry anymore. I won't leave you, no matter what happens."

Homura buried her chest into Madoka's chest. "Don't leave me." She broke down, and Madoka looked at the sky, where giant white cats stared into the dome.

"Homura, let's do this together." Madoka pointed the bow to the air, "Let's, let's break this seal and be done with this nightmare."

Homura nodded. "Alright." Homura relinquished her hold over Madoka and grabbed Madoka's hands, "Let this eternal nightmare finally end."

That statement forever destroyed the Incubator's Planet and with it, ended the salvation of the universe just to have hope.

"Thank, thank you." Homura said quietly as Madoka approached her, "I, I believe that my introductions in order because this is the first time I'm meeting you. Hello, my name is Homura Akemi. I am from Mitakihara City, and am a Magical Girl who uses time power."

This had taken everyone back, and then they all started to laugh. It was true. This was the first time they had met, just physically.

"My name is Madoka Kaname." Madoka recovered from her laughter, "I am also from Mitakihara City, and am a Goddess."

"My name is Sayaka Miki and am also from Mitakihara City. I am a Magical Girl, and am a hero of justice." Sayaka smiled "Nice to meet everyone."

"My name is Mami Tomoe, and I am the veteran Magical Girl from Mitakihara City."

"My name is Nagisa Mome, and I am a witch who loves eating cheese!"

"Geez, we're doing this all again?" Kyoko snarked, and everybody glared at her, making her relent. "Oh fine, my name is Kyoko Sakura, I am from Kazamino, and I am a Magical Girl. Happy?"

Madoka nodded. "Let's get off this plaent, shall we?" Madoka raised her hand and grabbed Homura's hand, "Let's go, go home."

Homura nodded, her eyes filled with tears. "As long as I am with you, it doesn't matter where we go. I, I devote my entire life to you."

"Madoka."

"Homura."

"Madoka."

"Homura."

"MADOKA."

"I'm sorry." Madoka rubbed her back of her head, "Um, I think I missed?"

"What made you think that you missed?" Homura sarcastically replied, and Madoka smiled, nervously.

"Um, maybe because we're outside the fictional city of Kuoh? And there is no Mitakihara city?"

Homura placed her hand on her forehead to stave off the incoming headache. "Is there anyway to get off this, um, dimension?"

Madoka shrugged her shoulders. "My powers as a Goddess is recharging. I accidentally jumped into another dimension, so not for a while?"

"And, pray tell me, do you know where everyone else is?" Homura's eyebrow twitched.

"Um, I have honestly no clue." Madoka bonked her head in a cute way, "Tee-hee?"

Homura groaned, and looked to the sky. "And, will you please tell me why a massive red dragon is staring at us like we're its prey?"

"I also don't know wait what?" Madoka looked into the sky to see the red dragon that Homura was talking about. It was just its head, but, it was huge! Like, like city huge! It was so, so cool!

"Oh my god it is a dragon!" Madoka grabbed Homura's hand, "Oh my god dragons exist!"

Homura was not amused at all.

Not amused at all.

"It's opening its mouth." Homura said, a shield appearing on her left arm, "Don't think that is a good sign."

"Oh." Madoka stopped shaking Homura's hand and looked back into the sky to see massive teeth. "Um, whoops?"

"Please learn how to aim properly when flying through dimensions." Homura sighed and grabbed a pipe bomb.

"WHO ARE YOU?"

"Huh?" Madoka looked at Homura, who also mimicked that action, "Did, did you hear that?"

"No. It seems that this dragon has telekinetic powers, so he conveyed his thoughts to us." Homura said, "Looks like this dragon is smart. Let us introduce ourselves. My name is Homura Akemi."

"And my name is Madoka Kaname. We come in peace."

"What were you doing, trespassing on my domain, foolish mortals?"

"Domain?" Madoka asked, "What do you mean by-"

"We're trespassing on his world, aka the world we are walking on." Homura placed a shoulder on Madoka's shoulder. "I'm sorry, but we have been involved in a dimensional incident."

The dragon in the air paused, and closed his mouth. His green eyes analyzed both Homura and Madoka, a bit too closely.

"I see. I was blind; I didn't notice that one of you is a Goddess with unimaginable powers." The dragon said, making Homura pull out a bazooka from her shield and putting herself between Madoka and the dragon; like hell she'll let go of Madoka without a fight!

"Don't worry you idiot." The dragon growled in midthought, "I have no interest in, in your charge's power. I possess magical potential also, and I have no reason to take it. Others will though."

"What do you mean others?" Homura interrogated the dragon, "What do you mean –"

"Homura," Madoka placed her hand on Homura's bazooka and aiming the tip downwards, "I think, I think that he's trying to help us."

"Help you, hmmm, not so much. More like satisfying my curiosity." The dragon idyllic stated, "But, it seems that I will be helping you after all. The world that you landed in is filled with supernatural mythological creatures that always lust for power. If you want to live a perfectly normal life, try steering clear of them. However, that pink girl's energy will attract these creatures to her, so, no chance.'

Homura grunted. Typical. "What are those creatures are you talking about?"

"It's your turn for you to explain. Who are you?"

"My name is Madoka Kaname." Madoka bowed to the dragon, "My friend next to me is Homura Akemi. We are what people called Magical Girls."

"Madoka." Homura hissed, "We don't know whether or not we could trust him."

"I think we can." Madoka whispered back, "He, um, looks friendly?"

The dragon roared in laughter. "I look friendly?" The dragon asked, "How does, a dragon, looks friendly?"

"You haven't killed us yet." Madoka said, "And, you really have a personality I always imagined dragons to have. Grand, majestic, huge, and, um lazy? And dangerous?"

"Alright, Goddess, I am officially dubbing you as the Goddess of Humor." The dragon stated, "I haven't introduce myself yet. My name is Great Red, and I am Dragon God of this dimension!"

Madoka nodded. "Alright, Great Red. We come from…."

"That's one deep story you have." Great Red muttered as he looked at the two little girls, "You shouldn't suffer that much. Your Goddess power will recharge in, hmmm, approximately a year. However, that'll only work if you don't do anything at all, so realistically you'll stuck in this universe for the rest of your lives."

"It is no worry." The black haired girl said, "It's over. The nightmare had finally ended."

"Yes, we are alive and there is no more incubators!" The pink goddess said, "And in this dimension there are no witches!"

"Wait, what do you mean there is no witches?"

"I am a goddess. I sense there is no witches –"

The black haired started shaking the pink haired. "You might not worry because you're a goddess, but I rely on Grief Seeds. I only have one on me, and I can't replenish my supplies!"

The goddess's eyes widened. "Oh." The goddess said, "That, is worrying. Um, maybe if we ask Great Red?"

"May I see that grief seed?" Great Red asked, "I may be able to find a way to, um, reverse the corruption on your soul?"

The black haired nodded and pulled out a little black sphere. "Don't destroy it." The girl threw it to Great Red, whose claw grasped the black ball.

Great Red carefully analyzed the grief seed. Hmmm, this is interesting. It seems that, inside this seed is a magical girl's soul. But, that soul was dyed with darkness, so dark that even Great Red recoiled. But, but inside the grief seed was a little light of hope. As he said, interesting.

The whole concept of the grief seed provides the answer to the plight of the black haired Red closed his eyes and withdrew what previously he thought was an useless item; a pitch black queen chess piece. It dropped when a foolish demon attacked him, and he haven't found much use for it.

"Here." Great Red dropped the queen piece on the time traveler, "Try using that piece to purge the corruption of your seed."

The black haired girl touched the chess piece to her soul, and the corruption started shifting from the soul gem into the chess piece. That confirmed it. He knew where they should go for maximum entertainment.

"I can give you more chess pieces." Great Red said, dropping more of the useless pieces that he had gathered over the century, "In exchange, may I take this Grief Seed?"

The black haired girl nodded. "Of course. These, chess pieces proves to be more effective in purging the corruption. Where did you get this?"

Great Red smiled. "These pieces are generated from beings called Demons. They are very common around here. No one had truly figured a way how to use it, so they tend to destroy it."

The black haired girl groaned. "Really? They destroy it?"

"Yes. There seemed to be no use to them. But I'm sure that you'll find a way of harvesting these Chess pieces. Kuoh City recently has been receiving an influx of demons, so I'm sure that you can gain a lot of pieces."

"Um, so should we live in Kuoh City?" The pink haired goddess asked.

"It will be risky, but you should live in Kuoh City." The dragon stated, "This city is under the protection of devils, but if you guys managed to establish a strong relationship with them, which should be relatively easy, and as a bonus the attraction of monsters would most likely be contributed to the presence of two dragons. I'll create a background for you to blend you into the school where the devils attend school."

"Thank you so much." The goddess bowed, "May I ask you for one more favor?"

"Shoot away."

"Do you know if our friends had landed in this dimension?"

Great Red hummed. "They landed in this dimension; however, where they are I cannot interfere without causing too much of a ruckus. Don't worry, they are in good hands. Well, maybe the red haired girl would be in danger, but judging from the ass kicking she just gave to a stranger I think she'll be in good shape."

"How about Sayaka, Nagisa, and Mami?" Madoka asked.

"Don't worry about them. They had all fallen into the hands of angels who will treat them very well." Great Red mused.

"Will we meet them again soon?"

"Yes. But, not now." He said, "Now, I better go before my presence is noticed. I'll arrange for transfer papers into Kuoh Academy, and I'll arrange for you to have a lot of money."

"Thank you so much." The pink haired said.

"Hmph. This is the least I can do for you." Great Red muttered as he went back into the Dimensional Gap.

Both of the little girl's stories are very interesting. One who had struggled against the world to break free from the predestination paradox (1) while the other had sought to end the greatest evil in the world with just hope.

Great Red gave out a billowing laughter. Yes, this is going to be very interesting!

Now, what currency does Japan use again?

Meh, he'll just give both of them a hunk of gold and watch the resulting chaos.

"Um, Homura."

"Yes Madoka."

"How much yen would that much gold could be traded for?"

"If this is pure gold, approximately fifty billion yen."

"…"

"…"

"…"

"I don't know whether to thank Great Red or curse at him."

"Um, Homura, why would you want to curse him?"

Homura tapped the hunk of gold that Great Red just dropped right in front of them. "Because, how will we be able to trade it? Imagine two underage teens selling this much gold to a pawn shop; it'll cause too much ruckus and we may be arrested for stealing."

The gold instantly vanished, and a pile of currency appeared in its place alongside with two earpieces.

Homura and Madoka looked at each other, and each put on an ear piece.

"Madoka, can you hear me?"

"Yes I can! Wow, Great Red is truly the best! Thank you!"

"Good. I hoped that you enjoyed it."

"Eh? Wait you can hear us?" Madoka asked.

"Yes. Took me a long time to find these. With this, you can communicate with me and your girlfriend much easier."

Both Madoka and Homura blushed when they heard 'girlfriend.'

"I would like to apologize the gold." Great Red said, "Didn't realize that it would be a little difficult in trading it."

"It's alright." Madoka quickly replied, "This showed how generous you are when it comes to complete strangers."

"Hmph. I'm just doing It for my entertainment. Anyways, I'm finalizing some papers. This is the story; you and Homura are adopted children from the, um, what do you want as your family name?"

Homura and Madoka looked at each other. "I have no lingering attachments to my family." Homura said, "Let's go for Kaname."

"Are you sure?" Madoka asked, "I mean, to throw away that you are an Akemi-"

"The moment that I made my wish as a Magical Girl, I threw everything away, including my family. I have no regret in being a Kaname."

Homura than started to blush a bit. "Also, it makes me, it makes me, it makes me sound that I am married to you."

"HOMURA!" Madoka shouted out loud.

"Sweet, but not the point." Great Red interrupted in the argument, "Alright, the Kanames. Tatsuya Kaname and Junko Kaname, your parents right? Are your legal parents, but right now they are working as businessmen flying all over the place with barely enough time to care for you two. The Kanames are extremely rich, so that's why you live in such a luxurious mansion-"

"Mansion?" Homura asked, "We would rather remain very low key."

"Oh." Great Red sounded depressed, "I just found a house that can have up to eight people at the same time; four master bedrooms and three guest bedrooms. Also, it had a large basement that have a swimming pool. And also, a very luxurious kitchen with all the equipment that you ever need. Also, it has a secret bat-cave-"

"Now I'm feeling bad." Homura muttered, "Alright, fine. We'll take it."

"Oh Great Red, you're too kind!" Madoka said over the earpiece, "Thank you so much!"

Great Red immediately brightened up. "It is located at *****, on the outskirts of Kuoh City, got it?"

"Yes." Homura muttered, "Is there anything else that we need?"

"I'm going to take care of all the maintenance men of the mansion, and once per week two maids will drop by your mansion to clean it. Can you guys cook?"

"I cannot." Madoka spoke up, "I mean, I can help in the kitchen-"

"I can cook." Homura interrupted, "There is no more need for more outside interference other that."

"Alright. On the fridge will be a schedule in which all the fancy maintenance men will come and tune up the whole mansion. Every morning there will be a limo to pick you guys up to go to school and return back. On the trip back the driver is instructed to drop you off at the supermarket for thirty minutes where you buy whatever you need. You can call him if you want to go anywhere, for example a restaurant or a generals store, and he will be informed never to ask questions about your family. Understood?"

"Understood." Homura said, "Thank you."

"You're the best uncle!" Madoka said.

"Oi, who're you calling uncle!" Great Red roared, but it wasn't as terrifying as a roar as before. It was more, gentle.

"We'll see you again soon." Homura said, "Come on Madoka, let's go."

"Alright uncle! See you again soon!"

Both Homura and Madoka took out their earpieces and looked at each other. And than Madoka smiled, smile that'll melt the hardest of souls.

"Let's live our new lives here," Madoka held out her hand, "Homura."

Homura closed her eyes. "Of course." Homura accepted Madoka's hand, knowing that she'll gladly die to protect Madoka from everything in the world.

"So, today we will be having two new transfer students." Issei's teacher said in the beginning of the class, "Say hello to two new transfer students."

"Ah?" Issei said, interested. Do they have, do they have oppais?

That prayer was left unanswered as two nearly flat girls walked into the classroom. Shoot. Not worth looking at.

"My name is Madoka Kaname." The pink haired girl said, "I's nice to meet you. I hope that we all could be friends."

The reaction of the classroom was dramatic. The boys were shouting "My god it's a goddess in disguise!" and "She's too bright!" while the girls were saying "How cute!" Pew. Like they truly understand the value of beauty in oppais.

"My name is Homura Kaname." The black haired girl stated.

"…"

Huh?

She's not going to say anything else?

The reaction of the classroom wasn't as dramatic, as the boys started whispering to each other "My god a tsundere has appeared" and "She's mine," while the girls were fawning over Homura for being a cool beauty.

"Alright, these two transfer students are adopted children." The teacher stated, "There parents are wealthy businessmen who just recently moved to Kuoh City. However, due to the nature of their work they tend to travel around the world often, so would anyone here be-"

"It is of no worries." The black haired girl said, "We'll adapt to the school often."

"Homura-" Madoka started, but was immediately interrupted by Homura clicking her tongue.

"There is only one person here who won't try and molest us." Homura said, "And it is that brown haired person looking out of the window this moment."

Yeah yeah, let the whole class deal with the issue as he spots the jiggling oppais as the track club ran outside – wait he was looking out of the window?"

"Me?" Issei asked as he pointed to himself, "Why me?"

"Um, Homura, aren't you being a bit too mean?" Madoka asked, "I mean, all of them are looking glad to help-"

"Madoka, you trust people too much." Homura replied back, "They all look like tigers pouncing on their prey, so I rather have an uninterested spectator lead us around."

"Homura!" One of the girls stood up, "You can't trust Issei! Because he is the pervert among perverts!"

Issei turned to look at Homura to confirm that when he got in contact with Homura's eyes. And his survival instincts kicked in, telling him to obey every order that girl is commanding to live!

"I'll do it!" Issei stood up stiffly, "I'll show them around the academy?"

"Are you sure Homura?" The teacher asked the transfer student, "I mean, as stated, he is a pervert-"

"I doubt that he would do an lecherous activities on us." Homura said coldly, "Hmph. If he try, well, I am extremely proficient in martial arts."

Homura closed her eyes and looked away, prompting Madoka to cool the situation down. "I'm sorry for Homura's behavior." Madoka said, "As orphans, she was always the protective one of us."

The whole class stopped shouting and calmed down due to Madoka's words. Seriously? Two sentences, and that was enough to silence the whole class?

These two transfer students were unusual.

On the trip around the academy, Issei made sure to avoid any girls with large breasts. Otherwise, he felt that the girl that was currently staring at her back would slam him headfirst into the nearby wall and, well, castrate him. He knew that she would do that; she slammed him hard into a wall just for drooling at the sight of a red haired beauty with massive oppais...

Seriously, Homura was so scary!

In contrast, the other girl, Madoka, was an absolute angel. When they sat down to eat lunch, Madoka offered to share some food. When Issei realized he dropped his phone, she helped him search for it (though Homura found it). She even offered some of her water from her water bottle. It was an indirect kiss opportunity!

On the downside, well, he had to decline to drink when Homura gave him a sharp glare that promised a painful death if he even dared to think about drinking.

In Issei's term, Madoka was a kuudere and Homura was a combination of a tsundere and a yandere. He'll take Madoka over Homura any day of the week.

"Well, that was the end of the tour." Issei said as he reached the gate, "I presumed that you have a way back home?"

"Yeah, he's right there." Madoka pointed to a sleek, black suited tall man standing right next to a limo, "He's driving us back home."

"Holy-" Issei started as he was about to curse, but Homura's hand clamped over his mouth.

"Language." Homura muttered, "Watch it, or else…"

Or else what? Damn, she can scare Satan himself!

Madoka remained oblivious when it came to the exchange. Oh, she's so innocent. No wonder why Houra was fighting so hard.

"Hey, Mr. Shiro!" Madoka called, "We'll come in thirty seconds!"

Madoka turned around to Issei and bowed to him. "Thank you for that enlightening tour of Kuoh city." Madoka said, "It was really fun! I hoped that the rest of the year will be as fun as this!"

Madoka smiled, making Issei's heartbeat jump for a moment. "It, it was my pleasure." Issei looked away from the smiling goddess, "Ask me if you need anything."

"Alright. Come on, Homura! Let's go!" Madoka grabbed Homura's arm and dragged her to the limo, and Issei saw, for a brief moment, Homura's lips a bit upwards. Was she, was she smiling?

Issei scratched the back of his head. Wow. If it was any other person, he was sure that they will die from a nosebleed. If it was Matsuda or Motohama, he was sure they will die the moment they embarked on their tour.

Speak of the devil. There they are.

"ISSEI!" Matsuda roared, "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS, ESCORTING TWO LOLIS AROUND THE CAMPUS!"

"Yeah, isn't this a violation of the Bro-Act?" Motohama said, "This was Matsuada's territory!"

"I'm into –" Issei quickly looked around, just to make sure that Homura left, "OPPAIS!"

"Geez." Homura placed her head on the headrest as the limo drove away, "I hate this school already."

"What do you mean?" Madoka asked, "Everyone seemed so nice."

"There are simply too many unknown factors around here." Homura replied, "I don't know how to react. It unsettles me."

"Just relax already." Madoka replied, "Soon, the devils will contact us and we will be able to live here in peace."

"True." Homura quickly smiled, "Already, I feel a load off my shoulder."

"Should I inform Great Red about our school day?" Madoka took out the earpiece, "Or do you think that'll annoy him?"

"Most likely annoy, but give it a shot. Maybe he'll give us some useful information about who we should be careful for here." Homura replied, and Madoka nodded as she put on the earpiece.

Homura closed her eyes. She would never admit it, but Issei had a good heart. Even if he is a bit overzealous with the concept of oppais, he wouldn't hesitate to do anything to protect what he believed in. Even if it was oppais.

"Uncle Red had said that Issei was going to become the next Demon King with massive harem." Madoka said, breaking Madoka's thoughts, "What is a harem?"

Homura's eyebrow twitched. "Seriously. He, getting a harem?" Homura said, deadpan.

"Great Red is currently roaring in laughter as he, what is a harem?" Madoka said, and in all her horror, Homura knew that Great Red was…telling her about what harems are!

Immediately, Homura put on her earpierce and roared, mentally "DON'T YOU DARE TELL!"

"Too late." Great Red quipped, "I already told her a harem is where a boy character has gained the attractions of several women and all the women are willing to do sex with him, even doing some lesbian stuff."

"How, how dare-" Homura growled, but was broken by Madoka.

"What is sex?" Madoka asked, and immediately there was a loud sound as something large crashed into a wall. Did, did Great Red crash into a wall?

"You, um, you never had the discussion regarding the bird and bees?" Great Red asked.

"What do you mean bird and bees?" Madoka asked, making Homura sigh.

"I need to talk to Homura quickly, in private." Great Red demanded.

"Alright?" Madoka said as she took out her earpiece, leaving only Great Red and Homura in communication.

"Homura, how innocent is Madoka?" Great Red asked. "On the scale of 10, she's a prostitute, and one, she's a toddler?"

"Pretty sure it's a two." Homura replied, "It would have been one but she does know that a kiss is a sign of affection."

Great Red breathed heavily. "That might pose a massive problem."

"In what way?"

"You know Issei? Well, he's the main protagonist of Kuoh City at this time, and his goal is to build up a massive harem while he sexually molest everyone around him."

Homura coughed. "Run that by me again?" Homura asked.

"Yeah, you didn't hear wrong. If this is a show, the show will definitely receive a M rating. Originally, I was planning to have you guys become devils-"

"WHAT?!"

"But now, I put protecting Madoka's chastity over everything else. This should be very interesting. So, tomorrow follow Issei around the school and he will lead you the devil. Once you do so, than that devil will most likely ask you to become a devil also, and you should accept. However, request the devil to keep your sister out of the supernatural aspects of the world; she'll agree to do so."

"Alright." Homura said, "But, I'm going to tell her that I'm becoming a devil."

"Hmmm, wouldn't that want her to become a devil also?" Great Red questioned.

"Yes, but I highly doubt that any chess piece can turn Madoka into a devil. She's a god, remember?"

"Ah yes. Just out of curiousity, how many chess pieces do you think is going to turn into a devil?"

Homura hummed. "I have no clue, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be a rook or bishop. I doubt that it'll be anything else."

"Whatever it'll be, I wish you good luck tonight." Great Red said, "I will try and not mention the issue involving sex, but you got to breach it soon before you do it with Madoka."

Homura blushed. "Oi! Stop talking about our love lives! It's ours, not yours!"

"Alright alright, tell Madoka that if she wanted to talk about life in general, she is welcome to any time of the day."

It was 6:00 PM when Homura started making moves.

She raided the nearby Yakuza stronghold for more weapons just in case if she needed them. While raiding the stashes, Homura tested a theory with the chess pieces that she gained from Great Red.

Apparently, the queen pieces hold up to eight max charges, the rooks five charges, the bishops four charges, the knight three charges, and pawns one charge. Huh, seems to follow chess standards.

All the weaponry she found were of the same type back at Mitakihara city. Thus, she was confident that the weapons she stole were enough for her to last for a year if she doesn't come upon Walpurgisnacht. If she ran across Walpurgisnacht, well, she'll be forced to involve Madoka in the battle, which she hated.

Anyways, back to the park. She had been staking out the park since 7:00 PM, where she was hidden underneath one of the bush, her magical girl outfit on. Or more like, a variant of it was on. She was wearing the shield on her left arm, and that was the only thing that was reminiscent of her normal magical girl gear.

Wearing white in the night was like waving a flag and screaming "Here I am!" so, wearing a school outfit was a big no no. Instead, she was wearing the uniform of a US ranger, green with a dash of black, meant for camouflage. For her head gear she was wearing a bandana around her face, and a black cap to tuck in her long hair. In her arm she was cradling a Howa Type 64, typical weaponry of a Japanese sniper.

It never hurts to be overprepared.

From what Great Red had said in her conversation, Issei will turn into a devil tonight, and that was necessary for Madoka's presence to be masked.

It was regretful that Issei must die, but, Madoka's safety overrides everything else. She, she will protect her even if it meant killing the whole world.

However, she had set up a boundary field around this place which warded off normal people from coming. A minute later, and she had the foresight to allow the exception of Issei into the barrier; after all, he was still normal human being.

"Great Red." Homura put on her earpiece, "I will like to have some information on my targets."

"Targets?" Great Red asked, "What the hell are you doing?"

"Staking out the area around the park. I wished to know what I should do if I am forced to assassinate the Devil and Issei."

"You don't have to assassinate anyone! Just, watch the exchange happen!"

"So, should I remove the explosives located around the park?"

"Yes! You don't have to do that, you just have to watch the exchange!"

"Understood. But in exchange, do you have information about them?"

The dragon sighed. "Geez, you're giving me a headache. Fine. The boy that will become a devil tonight, he has a Sacred Gear, if you remember correctly from the lecture I gave you previous. That sacred gear is a Longinus, one that can kill gods, and its name is the Welsh Dragon. However, you do not need to know about this, but rather about the other two individuals that will be in the park. The devil that will appear is not the head devil you're going to make a deal with, so thus it is absolutely vital to stay hidden, is a blond boy with the ability to make blades with different effects. You can take him head on for sure, but if you do your presence will be revealed."

"Affirmative. Any ability to detect?"

"He does have some swords that he could use to find you, but they are weapons of mass destruction, so most likely he wouldn't use it. The other person in this park is a Fallen Angel. Do you remember their weaknesses?"

"You never said anything about them."

"Because they don't have any. However, if you treat them as an overpowered human being, you should be able to kill them."

"Understood."

"Just, don't interfere with tonight's events, will you please?"

"No promises guaranteed."

Homura took out the earpiece and focused on staking out the scene.

Twenty five minutes later, the devil had walked into the scene. He looked perfectly normal, and was the definition of a bishounen. But, Homura knew that looks can deceive. He had managed to waltz through the barrier that Homura had set up without any hesistation.

He was the devil alright.

That devil in question was searching the rest of the park for lurking intruders. He was close in discovering her, searching through the bush that she was in for any hidden cameras.

However, Homura was completely still and didn't move an inch as Kiba's hand came three inches from her face. Didn't even blink.

Kiba was eventually satisfied with his scan and moved to the opposite bush that Homura was in and sat in it. He wasn't as perfect as Homura, but he was good enough to avoid detection of most other people. Too bad that his eyes kept moving around, allowing Homura to get a good track on his position.

Five minutes later, and her victims walked into sight. Issei and a black haired woman walked into the park, talking.

Homura barely managed to reign in a snort she had when thinking about the naivety of the young boy. Seriously, to think that somebody was willing to date a pervert like that? Either that boy was an idiot, or the girl was a pervert herself. Most likely the first.

It was at that moment when the woman revealed four black wings, all of them with raven black feathers. Issei was confused as that woman soared into the air. More dialogue ensued, and a spear of light was formed in the Fallen Angel's hand.

Now, all Homura had to do was to let that spear kill Issei and that-

"Homura-chan, you shouldn't, you shouldn't kill people for me!" Madoka screamed as Homura exploded the building where Elsa Maria was, a building filled with innocents.

"It doesn't matter-" Homura brushed the issue off, but Madoka returned it back to full force.

"I'll hate you, and I'll hate myself if you kill people for me. Just, please, try and save as many people as possible. Can you promise?"

"I can't make any definite-"

"Promise?"

"…Fine. I promise."

She made a promise hasn't she? To an imaginary Madoka. Homura let loose a breath that she had been holding on, smiling as that breath caught the attention of the Fallen Angel and the Devil.

With a little adjustment to her aim, Homura pointed the sniper rifle that she held pointed to Issei towards the Fallen Angel and shot as she stood up, revealing her location.

"What-" The Fallen Angel only got that word out as the bullet tore through one of her wings. That made the angel instinctively throw the light spear held in her right arm towards the aggressor, but Homura stopped time and moved out of the way of the spear. And, while time was stopped, Homura fired four shots; one right in the Fallen Angel's head, two into the Fallen Angel's body, and one right above the blond devil's head.

It was at that moment in which Homura smiled. The Fallen Angel has been neutralized, and the devils had been warned of her presence here. And, as a plus, Issei will not experience the sensation of dying. Her job tonight was done.

With that, Homura stored her equipment back into the shield and ran, ran away from the park while time was still stopped.

Kiba…wasn't too sure what the hell had happened here tonight.

There were several signs of something was wrong, yet he failed to notice any of them in time.

First, there were no one at the park when Kiba arrived. That was good news, because he didn't have to do anything. That was also bad news, because that was unusual. However, he just chalked up the absence of people to the late night.

Second, he heard someone breath, but he dismissed that as an animal's breathing.

Third was when someone stood up from a bush and shot the Fallen Angel dead.

That person in question was wearing a Ranger's outfit, and his face was concealed by a bandana and a hat. He was holding a sniper rifle with both his hands, and with it he just gunned the angel down.

Kiba was a hundred percent sure that he checked that bush! Twice actually! And yet, how did that person remained undetected the whole time? Either Kiba was unlucky and he didn't check the bush thoroughly, or that man was a through and through professional who happened to be in the area and was just sitting in a bush the whole day!

And, like a gust of wind, he was gone! There were no traces of him left, other than the fact that his target had was dead!

There was only one explanation for this. That person was related to the supernatural. How he managed to slip into Kuoh city without anyone realizing was beyond Kiba.

The mission was a complete failure. The Fallen Angel was dead, Issei had ran off, and the mysterious assailant was gone. He should proabably report-

Kiba suddenly felt the top of his hair. Something, something was wrong! Kiba stood up and examined the tree that the bush was in front of. There was, there was a bullet hole in the tree. But, that tree was far away from the action between the Fallen Angel and Issei. So, why did a bullet –

Realization came dawning on him. The stranger had realized that Kiba was there, watching the whole scene, and shot a bullet to warn him off. He didn't even realize it!?

Yes, he have to report to Bucchou as soon as possible.

They had to deal with this new problem soon.

"Homura, what did I say about not interfering in tonight's affair?"

Homura had placed the earpiece on and had told Great Red about what happened that night. Needless to say, he was pissed.

"I'm sorry, but I made a promise to Madoka to never kill for her sake." Homura replied, "If Madoka found out that I had let Issei die to mask her powers, she will never forgive me."

Great Red sighed. "Should have expected. I assumed that you were still the hard-core Homura from the past, but you're the one who just recently was freed from hell. Of course you'll hesitate to jump straight back into that hell hole all over again."

What Great Red said was true. If, if this was another time loop and someone tells her to kill an innocent man to save Madoka, she wouldn't have hesitated and shot. But now, with Madoka safe from the incubators, Homura focused on having Madoka smile day and night. Even if it meant taking the hard route of life.

"I have no regrets." Homura replied.

"This would certainly change the whole story line up for this dimension." Great Red muttered, "Now, since you had killed Raynare, you have attracted the Fallen Angels to you."

"Great. Where are they?"

"Hold on for a moment, don't kill them all!" The dragon roared, "If you do, the devils in this city will definitely get suspicious on you, and both the Devils and the Fallen Angels will be hounding for both your blood?"

"Damnit." Homura muttered, "How are they able to track you?"

"Even if you are a professional, there are some stuff that simply can't be covered up." Great Red responded, "For example, your smell."

"Smell?" Homura asked, "They can detect me via smell?"

"Magical traces more like." Great Red said, "You did use some magic on the scene, right?"

"Yes."

"Than they'll find you and kill you."

"Is there any way to shake them off?"

Great Red pondered for a bit. "Yes. You can change your magic by making it devil's magic." The dragon concluded, "You can buy some time by becoming a devil."

Homura grimaced. "Even after I nearly killed one of the devils?'

"Oh, that'll show you how strong you are." Red muttered, "Ah yes, I remembered something. The big devil in this area is engaged to some other big devil, and the devil of this area wants power as quickly as possible."

Homura smirked. That'll work. "I'll negotiate with him to offer my services in taking down devil. "

"The devil is a she, and she is attending this school." Great Red yawned.

"Do you know who it is?"

"Of course. I'm Great Red, the strongest dragon there is. It is Rias Gremony, the head of the Supernatural Club."

Homura raised her eyebrow. She had met Rias for a moment, just a simple name exchange, before they went back on the tour again. "The red haired girl with watermelons stuffed inside her bra?"

Great Red roared in laughter. "Never heard some one describe Rias like that, but yes."

"Damnit. I thought that I could save Issei from becoming a devil."

"Yeah, with that kind of size? You shouldn't even try."

"Well," Homura said, "I gave him a choice."

"And in the process, screw yourself."

Homura smiled wryly. "Yes, I screwed myself over and sentence myself to a life of fighting. At least I won't be killing for Madoka; she will be upset with me anyways."

"Upset? Yes I'm upset!" A familiar voice joined the conversation, "Homura, why didn't you tell me anything?"

Homura recoiled. "Madoka, why are you listening to our conversation?"

"Because you never came back!" Madoka whined, "I was, I was so worried about you!"

"Maybe she thought that you were doing some late night activities." Great Red snickered.

"I will shoot you in the head." Homura threatened, "Unless you stop talking. This is between me and Madoka. No need to butt in."

"Oh crap. I forgot." Great Red apologize, "Well, you two enjoy your lover's quarrel. I'm out."

With that, Great Red left the conversation.

"Late night activities?"

"Not now Madoka." Homura sighed, "At what point did you start to eavesdrop on me?"

"The part that Great Red said that some evil people are going to come after you." Madoka replied, "What did you do?"

"I have done some actions that I deemed necessary." Homura replied, thinking about how to conceal her assassination from Madoka, "You shouldn't worry about anything."

"I am worrying. I, worry for you." Madoka said, and Homura closed her eyes. She could already imagined Madoka on the brink of tears, "I, I don't care about what you do. Just, just be safe."

Homura's heart broke at this moment. "Madoka, you don't have to worry about me." Homura coldly replied, "I'm protecting you, not you protecting me. I had jumped back in time over a hundred times just to save you, and I'm not going to ever ever let anything dangerous come to you ever again!"

"But, but you too had suffered." Madoka said, "You had suffered way more than I had. You should deserve a chance to be happy-"

"If you're happy, I'm happy as well."

"But are you truly happy? Your happiness, should be not fighting at all! You despised it, because it would bring pain to others. But, you just picked up a weapon and used it because it was a need. Now, it was no longer a need, but can't you just drop it already?" Madoka pleaded.

"There will never be a time when-"

"Right now!" Madoka strongly stated, "Right now you don't have to fight any more!"

"Madoka, -"

"We just freed you from your nightmare, and now you're plunging into another one! You won't be happy that way-"

Homura smirked. "I know." Homura said, "I know that I'm exchanging one nightmare for another. But, I know of this and I am gladly accepting this."

"But-"

"Because, in a way, this is a way I can feel a bit selfish in two ways. One, I feel like I'm protecting you against the world by drawing attention to me, not you."

"But-"

"And secondly, this is the reason why I fell in love with you."

Homura knew that Madoka was blushing at this moment. "What?"

"It's because of this personality I loved you. We are two contrasting ideologies; yours is centered around friendship, while mine is centered around war. But, in a sense, this is the reason why I love you. Because, when it came to war, you will lose all of your humanity as you plunged deeper and deeper into the depths of despair. But, as we wage on, we remember just one thing. We will protect those whose hearts are not tainted at all by war, but rather filled with hope and peace."

"But even those people waging war requires a much needed respite!"

Homura chuckled. "A soldier can never rest, for a mission still awaits. I have, at the moment where the whole world was dying, seen a light in you that I can never attained. I, I have fallen in love with that small, innate part of your personality, and I am willing to wage an eternal war just to protect it. I'll give up my whole being, body and soul, just to keep it burning bright."

"I, I understand. But, it doesn't mean that I like it. At the very least, let me-"

"Let you stain yourself with darkness? I would rather execute myself than have your bright soul tainted by it." Homura shook her head.

"Just let me love you."

Homura froze. "That was not what I expected."

"I have come to love that part of you, that devotion to a single cause and your willingness to do anything, even killing yourself. I won't deter you from that path."

"Than why-"

"But just remember. My happiness…is with you. I don't care what happens to the whole world around me, but as long as I be right next to you, everything is fine."

"Madoka…"

"If, if you are hurt in any way, my heart will break. So, for my own selfish reasons, don't leave me. Ever."

Homura looked at the night sky. "The stars are pretty, aren't they?'

"I know, right? You can see all the constellations up there. There's the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper, there's the 12 Zodiac…"

For the next minute Homura and Madoka talked about the night sky, naming all the constellations there are. It was, kind of a distraction from the serious topic they had before, but, in Homura's eyes, a much needed distraction.

What Homura truly wanted…was to enjoy the stars in the night everyday with Madoka, to hold her hands and keep her close to her heart until the world burns around her. But, she knew that reality wasn't this happy, and they had to keep on moving on. They couldn't rely on Great Red on any more assistant than this; they had to find their own way in this world or else they will die.

And, though it breaks her heart, she knew that she must become a devil to protect Madoka's happiness. And her own happiness as well.

"Homura, have you figured out your choice?" Madoka broke off from the conversation.

"Yes." Homura closed her eyes, "My decision has not changed, but, but remember this, I will never leave you."

There was a sigh. "Pinky promise?" Madoka asked, and Homura had to chuckle.

"Yes. Pinkie promise." Homura said, raising her own hand and imagining Madoka in front of her, with her pinkie extended.

And just like that, Homura made a promise underneath the night sky. A promise to a Goddess.

"Bucchou." Kiba said, entering the school building, "I have a report to be made."

"Yes? Kiba? Did my plan work?" Rias greeted Kiba.

"Unfortunately," Kiba grimaced, "There were some interference."

"In a good or bad way?"

"I'm…I'm not too sure myself." Kiba replied, "The moment in which the Fallen Angel tried to kill him, someone appeared and shot the Fallen Angel multiple times, killing her almost instantly, and shot right above my head, than disappeared."

Rias was caught off guard. "Huh?" Rias said, "A devil maybe?"

"As I said, I'm not too sure." Kiba replied, "He appeared, killed the Fallen Angel, and got the hell out of there."

"So, what happened to Issei?" Rias asked.

"Ran off. Scared by the supernatural. I thought that it was unwise to reveal himself when he was in a shocked state, so I just stayed hidden in the bush."

"Figures." Rias frowned, "So, can you tell me about this intruder?"

"Well, for one thing for sure it's definitely not from someone from our's or Sona's peerage." Kiba grimaced, "I'm pretty sure that he is most definitely skilled in weaponry, for he was wielding a sniper rifle. And, he was either insanely good and shot five times in one second, or he was using some supernatural powers to increase the firing speed of the weapon."

"A sniper rifle?" Rias asked, "How did he aim so fast – no, that isn't the problem. I thought that you did a check around the park for any intruders?"

Kiba put on a thoughtful face. "Yes I did. I made sure that there were no one in the park, and set up a barrier to stop any unwanted intruders."

"So, I'm guessing he waltz right in and just shot the Fallen Angel, and waltz right back out?"

"He was there the whole time." Kiba muttered, "He was good. I had checked the bush he was in two times, and both times he stayed completely still and thus, I didn't notice. But, I'm sure that he definitely teleported out or made himself completely invisible, for he disappeared from my eyes right afterwards."

"Did you manage to get a trace on his magic power?" Rias asked, and Kiba nodded.

"Yes. If I am right in front of him when he uses his magic power, I am most definitely able to identify who was the intruder that night. However, you know me when it comes to magic, so I'm not able to identify him if he's not using magic."

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

Kiba placed his hand on his chin. "Well, there are three defining traits that I managed to catch about the intruder. One, his eyes were dark. I didn't catch the true color, but it was not bright. And two, he was about, hmm, as tall as right here?"

Kiba placed his hand around his neck region. "Yeah, about that tall. And three, on his left arm was a shield, a fancy shield that looks very...unique. Other than that, that's all I have for you Bucchou."

"That is more than necessary." Rias smiled, "Thank you for your information. You may go home now."

With Kiba walking out of the club building, Rias thought about the situation. Issei was exposed to the supernatural world, so she had to persuade him to willing join her peerage. That might be harder than reviving him after he died, but shouldn't be hard.

After all, she had caught Issei goggling at her boobs.

And being slammed into a wall by the new transfer student. Youch, she has a lot of power. Even Rias winced at that slam.

Any ways, there were two problems that she had to deal with. The Fallen Angels and the mysterious intruder.

The Fallen Angels were much less of a problem in terms of practically, but in terms of political wise…yeah. This may take some careful maneuverings, but she was sure she could expel them from Kuoh City. Especially with their head gone.

The stranger…not so much. Rias doesn't know the extent of the stranger's powers nor motives, but not knowing who she faces against is much more terrifying. It could be anyone from a lonely devil wanna be to a high ranking archangel. But, most likely that person wouldn't be as in touch as the supernatural world.

Who uses guns in this modern age to fight demons? It reminds her of Hellsing a little bit.

Back to the main issue. Rias could only deduce two abilities so far; the fact that she can wield a weapon proficiently and that she was a superior hider. Oh, also that she could teleport from a situation. That was too general of a description for her to base anything solid off.

Geez, she should talk to Sona about this, and co-operate to find out the root of this mess. And, who knows? Maybe she can gain a powerful servant to fight against Riser.

"Madoka, I'm home." Homura said quietly as she entered the mansion, "Madoka?"

"I'm in the kitchen." Madoka shouted, but to Homura it sounded very faint, "Just – GAH!"

Homura ran through the complicated corridors to find the kitchen, only to find Madoka with…a blown up kitchen?

"Homura, I tried to make you some eggs." Madoka whined, "It didn't work out as well as I intended."

Homura's eyebrow raised. "You blew up the kitchen, in an attempt to make eggs?"

"Yes." Madoka looked like a puppy who just did something wrong.

"Didn't you read the sign?" Homura pointed to a post it note on the fridge, "I had already made you some food; your favorite cream stew."

"Yes, but I wanted to cook something for you!" Madoka bowed, a ladle in her hand, "I thought, I thought you would appreciate it."

For a moment Homura was thinking Madoka in nude naked apron, saying "Would you like a bath, a dinner, or me?" And immediately a mental figure of Homura whacked the image out of her head.

"Although I do appreciate the gesture, you don't have to burn your hands in doing so." Homura gently held Madoka's hands, treating them in a gentle fashion, "It hurts me to see them."

"It's just," Madoka's voice was barely heard, "It's just that I feel a bit useless."

Madoka looked at Homura in her eyes, tears in them already. "I have the power of a goddess, yet it seems that I can never do anything .So, so, I decided. Please, please let me do something that is necessary, however small the action is."

"Madoka…" Homura looked at Madoka, the girl who was trying too hard, and decided to take a little pity for her. "Here. You don't turn the stove on at this temperature."

Madoka looked at Homura, who was turning down the temperature of the pan. "Also, if you found out that using viniger oil is too hard, use butter instead."

"Homura?"

"I'll show you how to cook some simple eggs." Homura smiled at Madoka, "I'm sure that it'll taste good. Now, instead of cracking the eggs over the pan…"

"That was a long day." Homura said as she walked into her room, one of the master bedrooms in the mansion, "Never knew that Madoka was such a bad cook."

Homura shook her head and smile wryly. She slipped off her school uniform and got into new pajamas, a cute purple dress, that both Madoka and Homura bought in the afternoon.

Madoka had bought a two piece yellow pajamas which, in Homura's eyes, made her extremely cute. Though it did reveal a tiny bit too much, so no inviting boys to the mansion during the night.

Homura sighed and got into the bed, ready to call it quits for the day. So, she closed her eyes, and focused on getting some sleep.

Homura was a in a pitch black environment. She looked around, saw in the distance, a bright sphere of light. Inside that sphere, right in the center, was Madoka, reaching for a tiny tendril of darkness that had wormed its way through.

"Madoka!" Homura called out as ran towards Madoka, "What are you doing?"

And, it was like that in which Madoka touched the tendril. "I wish to save Homura!" Madoka pronounced, making Homura run even harder to get to Madoka! But, every step that she had taken it seemed even more farther away.

That black tendril than turned into the blond devil that Homura saw at the park. "Your wish will be granted." That devil said with Kyubey's voice, "Now, you shall save the universe."

And, that bright sphere of light collapsed, leaving Homura in pitch black darkness. "NO!" Homura screamed out loud, running towards Madoka's direction, "WHY!"

A single light appeared in the darkness, making Homura temporarily freeze. It was high in the sky, so Homura looked upwards. And another light appeared, illuminating the body of a massive witch. A massive witch that Homura was all too familiar with.

"Madoka," Homura looked at the Witch of Salvation, "No, why?"

"All for you." Madoka's voice rang through the whole world, "I shall save you. There shall be no more grief in the world."

Homura cried a little bit. "No, no nO!" Homura sorrowly shouted out loud as she summoned her shield, a shield that instantly broke, and with it, her last hope.

"MADOKA! NO!" Homura screamed out loud, and all she knew was darkness.

And thus, she kept on screaming Madoka's name out loud.

"Homura, Homura! Wake up!"

Homura promptly woke up, and saw Madoka standing over her, a very very concerned look on her face. Homura blinked a couple of times.

"Did something happen?" Homura asked, and Madoka shook Homura.

"Did something happen? Yes! You were having a nightmare!"

Oh. She must have started screaming out loud.

"Just a passing nightmare." Homura brushed it off, "Nothing that is important."

Madoka grabbed Homura, and hugged her. "You were shouting my name out loud in your sleep." Madoka said, "You were shouting Madoka, Madoka, Madoka out loud so many times."

Homura was tempted to hug Madoka back, but she hesitated. Madoka shouldn't see her in a moment of weakness. "It's nothing."

Madoka just held Homura much closer, and stayed in that hug for a minute or so. "I know that you're suffering." Madoka spoke up, "And you're keeping it all pent in."

"Yeah." Homura decided to tell the truth, "But I'm used to it."

"You were dreaming about me suffering huh in the other timelines?"

"No." Homura replied, "I dreamed of not being able to protect you."

There were tears on Homura's back. "You don't have to worry anymore."

"I have to worry."

"You don't have to worry about being taken away." Madoka said, "We're no longer in that universe, where the incubators existed."

"Even more dangers in the shadows here." Homura argued.

"But we can face them together now. You don't have to fight in the shadows to protect me; I'm willing to jump into the darkness to fight for you also."

"That was my nightmare. My nightmare was you saving me at the cost of your life." Homura revealed.

"You were thinking about the past me, the past me who is afraid of everything and willing to trust everyone. But, but now? I'm no longer afraid. Because you're right by me."

"Yes. You're right by me." Homura decided to break down and hug Madoka, "I, I, I love you Madoka!"

"I love you too, Homura." Madoka patted Homura's back, reminiscent of how a mother hugs a crying child, "I'll keep all those nightmares away from you. You don't have to keep it pent up any longer. I'm here for you."

For the rest of the night, Homura cried. And cried and cried. And cried. While speaking gibberish about the pain that she held bottled in. It was a lot to release, about a few hundred months worth of suffering.

When she finally fell asleep, a pleasant dream about a bright future came and visited Homura; her first dream of her and Madoka in a world of light.

When Homura woke up, the sun was already up. After yawning and stretching a few times, Homura opened the door to be greeted with… the smell of toast and eggs?

"Good morning Homura."Madoka said, carrying a tray with scrambled eggs and toast, "Breakfast is ready."

Homura was surprised. From the often hurried entrances that Madoka had in the morning when she came to school, Homura deduced that Madoka has the habit of oversleeping.

Homura was no grouch in waking up early; she had to do it often to eliminate as many witches in the area as possible. But, to think that Madoka woke up earlier than her…

A thought came to her, and she grabbed the clock right next to the bed. It read 7:26 AM. And school started at 8:00 AM. It wasn't Madoka waking up early, it was her oversleeping!

"We have to get ready for school!" Homura shouted, making Madoka panic also.

"Um, here!" Madoka placed the tray down on Homura's homework on the desk, "Eat it while it's hot! I have to clean the kitchen!"

With that, Madoka rushed out the door, leaving Homura inside her room alone once more.

Homura nodded in thanks as she sat down and analyzed her breakfast. The toast was dark and burnt and the eggs were undercooked and too much seasoning was poured on top, as seen evident as it was very yellow and pepper seemed to cover the whole egg.

To put it blunty, it was a combination of being sour and being very raw.

It was the best meal in her life.

They barely made it to school on time, and got to class the moment the bell rang.

The moment the bell rang, the teacher started teaching about how the gunpowder works which Homura already knew. After all, she does make pipe bombs at home.

That reminds her. There was an armory in the mansion, a hidden one, but an armory alright. One that is equipped with a forge and a metal refinery. Meaning? Homura could burn any metal goods down into liquid metal, which than could be transformed into guns and bullets.

Big improvement from just making home made pipe bombs. Unfortunately she can't make any nukes. Although she does have some blueprints stored in her shield. She doesn't have any of the right materials, mainly the military grade uranium. She'll start producing munitions tonight.

Madoka was taking down the notes diligently…and after Homura saw a doodle on her notebook more like she's just drawing instead of taking down notes. Typical Madoka. Can't pay attention to class.

When class was over, Madoka approached Issei. "Good morning Issei!" Madoka said energetically,

Issei was anything but energetic. "Oh, good morning." Issei replied, having dark eyes, "Sorry for being rude, but I'm not in the mood."

"Mood?" Madoka said, "Oh, okay. I thought that maybe we could have lunch together today…"

"I'm sorry, but I'll pass." Issei looked at Homura, who was quietly observing the whole conversation, "I have some stuff to do."

"Oh, that's a pity." Madoka frowned, and than smile. "Well, will you like to accompany us to go shopping maybe? Homura and I still have to buy a new cellphone -"

"Appreciate the offer, but I'll pass." Issei quickly replied, "I didn't have enough sleep last night."

"Oh, alright."

And the bell rang.

"So, what do you think the reason why Issei was asked by Kiba to visit the Supernatural Club?" Madoka asked Homura as they traversed the school building.

Homura sighed. "It's most likey got to do with the supernatural." Homura replied.

"Um, I already know about that. It's the Supernatural Club anyway."

Homura once again sighed. "You know what I mean."

"Ah yes. So, you're planning on meeting the devil?" Madoka asked.

"Yes."

"Is there any way for me to persuade not to?"

"No." Homura replied, "There is a bounded field right here. If I go past it, it'll tell the devil that I'm approaching. Please do not go past it until I say that it is alright too."

Madoka looked a bit crestfallen. "Oh." Madoka stepped back, "Okay. Just, just don't get hurt in there, please?"

"I'll try my best." Homura replied, taking a step over an imaginary line, "Wish me luck."

"Good luck!" Madoka cheered, and Homura walked forward into another battle.

Rias and Akeno stiffened as they explained the situation to Issei and was just about to give him the offer to become a devil.

"There's an intruder here." Rias stated, "And it's not anybody I recognize. Kiba, Koneko, please lead him away from the club house."

"Ara ara should I go as well?" Akeno asked.

"No, you'll just aggravate the whole situation." Rias refused, "Kiba and Koneko-"

Kiba stiffened. "It's him." He stated, "The intruder last night. It's his presence."

All chaos erupted at that moment. A supernatural being is attacking the school!

"Issei, you stay here!" Rias commanded Issei as they all rushed outside the building, leaving one very confused Issei.

Homura checked her gear over and over again. The moment that she triggered the bounded field, she made sure that Madoka was a safe way away and transformed into a magical girl.

If what Great Red said was true, the devils would be alerted of her presence and come and greet her.

Good. Let them come to her.

The red haired girl the Homura met yesterday emerged first. "Hello, Homura." Rias said, "Why are you here?"

Right, out of all the opening questions that Rias had to choose, she had to choose the hardest one. Homura…couldn't reveal her true reason for being here. But, she could reveal a partial truth.

"I'm here to check up on Issei." Homura flipped her hair, "I presumed that you made him a devil?"

"Not yet." Rias stated, and a black haired lady walked up. Again, another one with a watermelon stuffed in her bra!

"Ara ara are we going to punish her?" The woman said.

"Not yet Akeno." Rias ordered, "You have trespassed on my territory and had threatened to kill one of my peerage members. I could execute here right now, but give me one good reason why I shouldn't."

Alright, this is what Homura wanted. A question that would eventually lead to conflict, which lead to her showing off her true power. "Because I am strong, and I do not see a reason why I should not leave." Homura said those provoking words

Rias's eyes narrowed. "I see. Negotiations are over?" Rias said, with a smile.

Homura took out a double barreled shotgun from her shield. "I'm guessing so." Homura responded, and spun backwards to hit a white haired loli girl trying to sneak up to her. Unfortunately, the almost cat girl had gave off too much killing presence and Homura paused time to check where all her opponents were.

There were four in total. Two of them were in front of her, another behind her, and the last one was in the trees. Judging from how the cat girl tried to attack her using no visible weapons, it is deduced that the cat was either holding concealed weapons or uses martial art, but she was inclined to believe in the latter. So, she had smacked the cat off her to give her a brief respite.

The next strike was the one from the trees. Kiba. He had yelled a battle cry as he charged forward at Homura, with a massive broadsword high in the air. She had seen bigger swords than that, cough cough Kyoko's spear. And she had definitely seen weapons with more destructive power, also known as Mami's Tiro Finale.

"You're too obvious." Homura muttered as she aimed the shotgun at Kiba, pausing time at the same time. Kyoko would have much much more expertly done the sneak attack better, striking fast and quietly. Kiba reminded her of Sayaka, who, in the timeline in which Homura wasn't captured by the incubators, simply charged at the enemy and relying on brute force to win.

And so, she shot Kiba.

Rias was stunned and enraged. Both Koneko and Kiba were taken out in a matter of seconds! Both Koneko and Kiba had decided to sneak and try and surprise Homura, but they were simply decimated by Homura.

Koneko didn't pull off the surprise attack; it was Homura who did so. Even though the blow was glancing, it gave testament to Homura's ability to react or detect the opponent and to target for maximum knockback effect.

Kiba…Kiba wasn't as good as Koneko in ambushing but he was no amateur either. However, upon seeing Koneko getting taken down Kiba decided to go for the intimidation factor and created a massive sword that he held up high.

Normally, Rias would have applauded Kiba for his quick decision making. Unfortunately, Homura wasn't faze at all by Kiba's sword and proceeded to use the shotgun. At close range.

Kiba was blown backwards, and Rias knew that he was definitely heavily injured, for the shotgun pellets must have hurt him to the point in which he couldn't move.

"Akeno!" Rias shouted, "We're going to need help!"

With that statement, Akeno shot lightning in the air, hopefully warning Sona of the approaching danger. And, afterwards Akeno had to immediately take cover for the girl had swapped out her shotgun for an assault rifle. It also forced Rias to take cover.

The firing stopped for a moment, which led to Rias popping her head up from a tree that she was using as cover. Koneko joined back into the fight, and she was pissed.

In a series of movements that Rias thought was beautiful, Homura professionally took down a Nekomata with devil powers by slamming the assault rifle's butt into Koneko's stomach, knocking her feet over as she was preoccupied with the sudden pain, and placed her knee on Koneko's neck and slamming hard on the head with a pistol's stock – wait, she had a pistol now?

In most shooting games that she played, the pistol was one of the most accurate weapons and dangerous too in a game, only second to a sniper rifle's accuracy. And, since Koneko was down, Homura was going to point the pistol, which was a desert eagle, back at her…

Rias pulled her head back to be greeted with a whizzing noise of the bullet just passing by her ear. That was close.

Akeno decided to go on the offense and used a barrier to block all of Homura's bullets. She had started to advance, only for Homura to appear right next to her and slam the pistol's stock against Akeno's head to knock her unconscious.

"And now, it's just you and me." Homura said, making the pistol disappear, "Now what are you going to do?"

Rias sweated. Her power was much more useful in team fights, where there were multiple opponents. Using her power of destruction would most definitely cause some harm to her peerage, who were scattered all over the place.

Homura than jerked to a side as a ball of magic just flew by her. Rias than saw Sona and her full peerage.

"Transfer Student Homura Akemi?" Sona asked, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Student President Sitri? You're a devil?" Homura asked with mild surprise, "Huh, that'll make my job much easier."

"You mean by gathering all the devils together in one spot?" Tsubaki, Sona's queen asked.

"Rather, more like a voice of reason." Homura sarcastically stated, "After all, in the first place I wanted to negotitate."

"Not much negotiating when you shotgunned my peerage." Rias said coldly, causing Sona's peerage to send looks that could kill to Homura.

Homura shrugged. "I'm guessing, I have to fight you guys also?"

"It seems so." Sona said, water tendrils floating in the air, "Get her."

With that command, Sona's peerage ran straight into a massacre.

Ruruko, Sona's pawn, was the first one to fall. Her speed didn't do anything when Homura slammed the barrel of her shotgun into her stomach, accurately pin pointing where and when to swing for maximum effect, which, in it's right, was impossible. Ruruko didn't have a chance to correct her running course and ran straight into the shotgun which led to her spitting out some blood and flying backwards .

Tomoe, Sona's knight, also fell when Homura exchanged her shotgun for a pistol and slam the stock against her head while avoiding a horizontal slash with her katana. At first, Tomoe was still standing, although dazed, but that ended when Homura punched her straight in the jaw, thus knocking her unconscious.

Tsubaki rushed in using her nanginta to slash Homura, actually breaking Homua's shotgun as Homura swung it to avoid being decapitated. However, Homura's maneuver led to Tsubaki to stumble a little bit as she didn't really meet real force and more and less deflected, allowing Homura to pull out another shotgun and blast her at close range, causing her to fly backwards.

Saji tried to absorb some power from Homura, as evident as the line that he tried to connect with Homura. However, Homura had realized that Saji was trying to steal her power so she took out her pistol and shot him several times in the head and kicked him into a nearby tree, definitely dead.

Homura than leaned back to avoid Tsubasa's fairy shield, which than she disappeared and reappeared right next to the surprised rook, who was knocked out once again by her pistol.

Finally, Sona's two bishops, Reya and Momo were dispatched the same way as Tsubasa, with her suddenly disappearing and reappearing behind them, and both were knocked unconscious by two pistols, one in each hand.

Sona and Rias could only stand amazed as one girl just took down two peerages. True, they weren't professional peerages but all of them had some combat existence. It was only expected for them to last a bit longer than, than this slaughter.

Sona was the only viable player left in the field; as stated before, Rias's power of destruction would cause more harm than good. Water Tendrils were sent chasing after Homura, only for her to perform that cheat like maneuver and dodge them expertly, teleporting right in front of Sona with a pistol pointed directly at her forehead.

Sona stopped the water tendrils aimed at Homura. "What do you want?" Sona asked,

"I want protection." Homura replied, causing Rias and Sona both to look at her queerly.

"You're already so strong." Sona stated, "What did you need protection from?"

Homura sighed. "Politics. I killed a Fallen Angel last night, and I'm sure that the whole Fallen Angel faction is baying for my blood."

Rias looked at Homura. "So, how does, strong holding your way into this school and killing some of my peerage is your way of resolving this situation? You're just causing us devils to chase you down!"

"They're not dead." Homura pointed at a groaning Kiba, who just stood up, "I used rubber bullets."

"I see." Sona said, "You're showcasing your strength for us devils to accept you as part of our peerage."

Homura shrugged. "Kind of that way."

Rias and Sona exchanged a quick look. Sona jerked her head towards Rias, who thought about the situation for a moment. Homura was indeed an expert in taking down the enemy, but her potential is actually quite low. She has the ability to pull out weapons and teleport short distances, two mediocre abilities that can be found anywhere.

But…it may allow her to break free from the marriage with Raiser. But, Homura didn't have anything that could break the legend of the phoenix. Her presence wouldn't make a difference in terms of taking out the King and his bishop.

But, it'll play an important role in taking out the experience members of the peerage. Maybe taking down one or two before falling. Okay, she decided at that moment.

"Come inside the building for a while." Rias pointed to the building where Issei was, "I know that Issei is going to take a high number of pawn pieces, but if there are any remaining pawn pieces left you can take them. Understood?"

Rias didn't want to spare any of her more valuable pieces on a wild factor, and just giving her a pawn piece or two wouldn't hurt her much in the rating game at end, right?

Homura nodded, and put down her gun. "Understood." Homura said.

"Alright, Issei," Rias said smiling, "You officially became a devil!"

Issei grinned. "YES! NOW TO BUILD THE WORLD'S LARGEST HAR – GAH IS SHE A DEVIL TOO?!" Issei changed his sentence mid way when he spotted an all too familiar face.

"Not yet." Homura said.

"Unfortunately for you, Homura," Rias said, holding out one pawn piece, "Issei takes up seven mutated pawn pieces, leaving just one normal pawn left."

"Probably not going to do it." Homura took the pawn piece and touched it…to a jewel on her left hand? It's a diamond shaped one, and it was pretty to look. But, wasn't it suppose to touch the body and than contact to her soul?

For a moment, there was no reaction. "You're supposed to touch it against your body, not your gem." Rias said, "Do it properly next time."

Homura shrugged, and all hell broke loose.

The gem on Homura's hand floated up alongside with the pawn piece, and the gem broke, startling Homura for the first time. "What –" Homura could only get out when the pieces of the gem suddenly turned into tendrils of darkness that wrapped around the pawn piece.

Five seconds later, and the tendrils of darkness than condensed into a small black gem in which floated back down to Homura's hand. But, now that gem was much larger than before. And, in the middle of the black gem there was a white piece. A white queen.

Homura held her hand out to examine the gem. "It's completely dark." Homura muttered, "But, but why am I still existing than?"

"What are you talking about?" Sona, the student council president, asked.

Homura gave no response as she continued to examine the new gem. And than, she took out a black chess piece, a queen piece, and touched the gem. For a moment, there was no reaction. And than, if Issei could strain his eyes hard enough, he could see that the gem on Homura's becoming lighter and lighter until it was completely violet.

"Um, what just happened?" Issei asked.

"It seems that the chess piece had successfully fused with my soul." Homura said, "And it looks like that chess piece also had turned from a pawn to a queen. That will take further analysis."

Homura…was more than shocked.

It seemed that the bonding process had worked. In more ways that she expected.

She had expected for the pawn chess piece to be immediately rejected; after all, a time traveler had certainly more potential than just a single pawn. But, both the gem and the chess piece than floated into the air and the gem broke.

For a moment, Homura panicked. She wasn't sure if she was going to disappear or become a witch, for that normally happens when your soul shattered. But than, her soul wrapped around the piece and, the despair held within her soul, fused with the chess piece and effectively turned it from a pawn to a queen, a much better status befitting her. However, Homura doesn't view herself much of a tank when it came to fighting, oh wait, she forgot. She can't feel pain, so she can take on lethal damage without breaking a sweat.

Anyways, her soul gem had reformed itself, but it had became slightly larger and right in the middle of the gem was a white queen piece. And the whole soul gem was black, making Homura panic a little bit.

When she came to realize that nothing had happened even though her soul was tainted with darkness, Homura started examining the soul gem. Curious. Turning into a devil made it so that she could exist alongside with overwhelming curses, which made the necessity of grinding for, dark chess pieces? Let's go for that. Dark chess pieces unnecessary.

But, what happened if she used a dark chess piece to purify her soul gem? So she did that, and she was not disappointed.

The darkness receded into the darkness chess piece, but some of that darkness went into the white chess piece inside, turning it completely dark. So, now it was a violet soul gem with a black queen piece inside.

She'll need to talk to Great Red about this anomaly.

The rest of the room wasn't as calm as her when she revealed that the pawn piece is a queen.

"WHAT!" Everybody shouted, "How can this be?!"

Homura looked at Rias. "Rias," Homura asked, "Can you feel a connection between me and you?"

Rias frowned. "A faint one, but yes. I can feel that you are my piece." Rias stated, "But how does that work? it didn't bond with your soul."

"It doesn't matter, does it? You have now an extra queen on your side when it comes to fighting." Homura stated, "Now that I'm your devil, what do you want me to do?"

"May I ask you a question?" Sona asked.

"Shoot."

"Before you became a devil, what were you?" She asked, "I mean, your combat prowess is on another level, able to defeat my peerage without breaking a sweat."

There multiple things in which Homura could answer. She could answer that she was an ordinary high school girl. She could answer she was 15 years old. She could answer that she was a time traveler. She could answer that she was over 23 years old. She could answer that she fought witches.

There were so many things that she could say, and Homura decided, at that moment, to say who she truly was.

"I'm a magical girl."

Author's Note

YOLO on this crossover. Took me an entire week to finish, I hope that you guys will enjoy it!

This is a Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Highschool DxD fanfiction crossover, where this takes place right after Homura was saved by Madoka and decided not to steal her powers, and also in the very beginning of the Highschool DxD franchise.

Don't know what was on my mind when I made this, so meh let's go!

Madoka in this story had accidentally used too much power to teleport from a world to another world, instead she accidentally teleport between dimensions. The main highlight in this story is how Homura becomes a devil to draw attention to herself while leaving Madoka as a spectator.

The other Puella Magi Madoka Magica characters will also appear in this story, and they will paired like in the movie (Homura X Madoka, Sayaka X Kyoko, Mami X Nagisa). Please don't, please don't rail at me about not following Puella Magi Madoka Magica to the plot line exactly, it'll be a combination between an anime and the movie at times. Just, please don't.

When do they appear? That's a spoiler that I'm not going to reveal. I will reveal though, that Mami and Nagisa managed to land together while Sayaka and Kyoko were separate (Because Nagisa would most likely raid the nearby cheese store and stay there for the rest of her life, so she should need a little bit of guidance around this universe).

Homura right now is one of the strongest devils there are. She haven't revealed her power to stop time to anyone yet, and in this state, she may very well qualify to be a ultimate class devil who can easily beat anyone, including Sirzech if she got serious. However, if her weakness come out she'll have tough time fighting against a normal ultimate class devil, but still, she can beat them (after all, they can't be more difficult than fighting Walpurgisnacht, right?).

Well, please comment if you want me to continue or not. And this story will take me a long time for me to upload (wrote this in a week, so once every two weeks or so? Don't know). PLEASE REVIEW!

This is RusselH, signing out!

Spoiler!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. I might decide to put in a witch who turned back to a magical girl due to Great Red tinkering with the Grief Seed. So, put in the reivews who do you want to see! I'm planning for Elsa Maria to be the grief seed, but I haven't decided yet. I am not accepting Walpurgisnacht as a suggestion for a grief seed, for that will open a box of snakes.

(1) - The predestination paradox is a paradox in which a certain outcome must always remain the same, no matter if somebody travels back in time to change an event or something