[BitP:R] Episode 4: A Heritage Revealed! Awaken, Ayase!

[Prime32]

This episode takes place in the days between the pool party and the start of the school year.

Ayase pats at her head. "I think it's okay now." Carefully, she starts to remove the bandage from her head. The only blood she sees is a dried brown colour, so she continues.

Setting the wrapping aside, she walks to the mirror in the corner of her room to examine the wound. "Looks like it's completely healed."

She flops back onto her bed and sighs.

[KnightDisciple]

If and when Ayase goes into the kitchen, she will find a few notes scattered around.

One on the fridge says:

Plenty of food inside, between leftovers and other things.

Another note was attached to an envelope:

Money in case you need food or anything else.

Another had several emergency contact numbers, both for her father, and a few family friends.

Finally, there was a note sitting by itself on the counter.

Take care, take it easy, and don't be worried about school. You're a smart girl, you'll do great. I'll try to keep this trip as short as possible. Love, Dad.

[Prime32]

Ayase shifts starts to get up when she hears a muffled thud by her left ear. She looks down to see that her phone has dropped to the floor.

"So that's where I left it. Ah!" she withdraws her hand as she receives a slight shock. "Must have been rubbing against something."

She presses the power button and the screen begins to glow. "Let's see if I got any messages."

Immediately, the phone begins to ring. It seems oddly loud.
Calling: 93443 3424
Ayase blinks in surprise. What weird timing. She presses the button to answer... and finds all of her senses assaulted. The screen of her phone grows blindingly bright as its contents begin to scramble, the light somehow spreading through the cracks along the back. The noise from the speakers is a screeching louder than she thought the device could produce. And at the same time another sense is struck bluntly, one she didn't even know she had. She drops the phone on the ground in shock, where it continues to enact a miniature disco.


When Ayase called her father at the pool party, her hands were bloody. Some of that blood got inside the casing of the phone, and as it is exposed to an electrical charge it now surges with reiatsu, strong enough for passers-by to notice.

[Kuroimaken]

Meanwhile...

On the outside, a small garganta opens into a garden. A small-ish, pig-sized Hollow steps through. It has eight legs, and what looks like a round, skeleton mask grinning widely with several eyes where a spider's head out to be. Its hole is through the lower abdomen, from where one might ordinarily expect to see webbing shoot out. It skitters across the garden until it senses a strange alteration in the local Reiatsu, turning its attention to Ayase's home.

[Prime32]

The glow from the phone intensifies, and the phone begins to shake violently. Ayase throws her arm in front of her eyes to shield them, as there is a loud bang. The light is gone. Ayase is wondering whether it's safe to open her eyes when she feels something brush against her leg.

"A... cat?" She reaches down to pet it in confusion, her brain still rather busy processing that event with the phone. "Where did you come from?" But... wait. This thing doesn't have the right proportions for a cat. It's almost like something from a-

[Kuroimaken]

*stroke, stroke, stroke*

It might take Ayase a little while to realize that the cat is actually stroking her leg a little more than it's normal. Heck, a LOT more than it's normal.

"Such supple, smooth texture... I'm in tactile pervert's heaven..."

Wait a sec, that kitty can TALK?!

However, perhaps the one thing that will actually startle Ayase is when it cranes its head around to try and lick her leg!

[Prime32]

"..."

Ayaka stares at the cat and blinks for a moment, then shoots up so fast she almost hits her head on the ceiling.

"Cat! Cat talk!" she blurts.
It is fortunate for her that she is apparently so shocked that she did not make out exactly what it said.


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[Kuroimaken]

Just as she did, the cat stared upwards, and her face filled with what could only be described as a look of bliss. One could almost see her bringing her paws together as pink, sparkly bubbles floated in the background.

"...panties..."

And then it had a nosebleed.

[Prime32]

Originally Posted by Kuroimaken

Pantsu

"Panku?"* Ayase slowly eases herself down, still with a rather freaked out look on her face. "Are you alright, um... cat-san? Oh, you're bleeding!" She picks it up.


*Dammit Kuro, tone it down, I can't have her misunderstand everything.

[Kuroimaken]

The kitty stares upwards in bliss for a little while longer, until she finally snaps out of it and shakes her head, quickly drying her nose.

"Oopsie! Sorry, guess I must've been out of it for a minute."

The kitty looks up at Ayase and smirks widely, apparently content to dispel the girl's fears regarding her health.

[Prime32]

"Um, cat-san, why... how are you talking? How did you get into in my room?" Her expression still says "What."

[Kuroimaken]

"...I came out of your cell phone, silly. I live there, don'tcha know?"

The kitty sounded as though her answer was obvious.

[Prime32]

She glances at the phone on the ground.
"You... you live in my cell phone. Okay."

It is a moment before Ayase realises that this would explain the lightshow she saw earlier. Why must her hallucinations be so consistent?!

[Kuroimaken]

"..."

The kitty stares up at Ayase, then leaps up in front of the girl waving her paws. "Hel-LOOOOOO? I'm right here, honey!"

[Prime32]

"Oh. Well, I, uh, didn't really notice you in there before."

[Kuroimaken]

"That's because I didn't really have the energy to manifest myself yet. But now I'm out here, ready to rock and roll!" The kitty leaps into the air, one paw extending as though she were punching the air with the excitement of victory. She landed on her hind paws.

"Now you listen, Ayase-chan, and listen very, very well. You're in danger right now. You need to get out of the house."

[Prime32]

Ayase had just picked up the phone again and was examining it.
"I... what?"

[Kuroimaken]

"Danger! Danger, Ayase-chan!" The kitty leaps and waves her paws in the air.

And then this horrible-looking big honking spider with a mask leaps THROUGH THE WALL!!

"Come on, stop daydreaming and RUN!"

[Prime32]

"EEP!"

Ayase almost falls over on seeing the monster, but manages to catch herself on the door frame and run down the stairs.

"What the hell is that thing?!" she screams at the cat running alongside her.

[Kuroimaken]

"More running, less talking!" The kitty goes on as it looks for a way out of Ayase's home.

The spider-like creature lets out a chitter as it begins to scurry away towards the two.

[Prime32]

"Over here!" Ayase grabs the keys and runs to the front door (she's pretty fast). She begins to fumble with the lock.

[Kuroimaken]

The spider isn't particularly fast, but terror can make it seem so. When Ayase manages to get the door open, the two of them barely have the time to run away before, a few moments later, the creature phases through the door, continuing on its way towards them.

[Prime32]

"Oh god oh god what am I going to do?"
The street is empty. Not that Ayase was sure that random citizens would be able to help her.

She is already starting to tire, but the thing doesn't seem to be slowing down. If anything it seems to be getting faster. And then, while Ayase's attention is focused on her rear... she trips over a rock.

[Kuroimaken]

"Ayase-chan!!"

The kitty screams when it notices that Ayase has tripped. She starts doubling back just as the eight-legged terror nears the young girl. It raises one of its legs to swipe at Ayase, then leaps back as the kitty tries to tackle it.

Her newfound talking friend looks to be the very epitome of courage as it hisses towards the arachnoid fiend...

... even though on the inside it's bawling like a baby and running in a panic repeating to herself, "Idon'twannadieIdon'twannadieIdon'twannadieIdon'tw annadieIDON'TWANNADIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

This confusing state of affairs leads her to try for another pounce with her eyes closed, which the spidery monster replies to by skittering to the side and pinning it under its claw, which causes the kitty to release a comical, squeaky-like noise.

"Ayase-chan... Run...!"

[Prime32]

Things seem to slow down for Ayase at that moment.
She's going to die. I can't just...

Okay, how's about this? she thinks. She reaches for her phone but finds it already in her hand for some reason. I guess I'm the one who let her out. Maybe I can send her back to her 'home' and get her out of this. Better one than both of us, I can think of something, and... that thing probably doesn't eat phones.

Ayase stares at the screen. It looks the same as it always did. I have no idea how to make this work! Okay, stay calm. She raises her phone into the air, and focuses all her will on bringing the cat to her. Just...

"Save her!"

The cat Doll, inches from the Hollow's mouth, glows and bursts into light. That light streaks towards Ayase... and flows directly into her body.

There is a roar of rushing wind. The Hollow snarls in confusion as one of its prey vanishes while another is concealed by the sudden blast of dust.

It clears to reveal...

[Kuroimaken]

It might take Ayase a moment to realize that, shortly after the transformation, she somehow ended up on top of a telephone pole. A voice in her head, that of kitty she'd just merged with, seems to speak to itself.

"Ahhh... this feeling is the best! I'm finally one with Ayase-chan..."

The 'voice' snaps out of its daydream and tells her 'host', "What are you waiting for? You have an entrance speech to deliver! You're a magical girl after all! Say that attacking kitties is unforgivable and you'll punish him in the name of catnip or something."

[Prime32]

"Wh- what happened to my clothes nya?" Ayase says, pulling at the odd skirt she is now wearing. "...Why am I talking like this, nya?!"

The 'voice' snaps out of its daydream and tells her 'host', "What are you waiting for? You have an entrance speech to deliver! You're a magical girl after all! Say that attacking kitties is unforgivable and you'll punish him in the name of catnip or something."

An incredulous smile starts to creep over Ayase's face. "I'm a magi- Waaah!"

The Hollow strikes the pole, bending it and throwing Ayase into the air. To her astonishment, she finds herself landing on her feet.

She faces her opponent.
"I..."
And takes a deep breath.
"I will punish you!"
She points her phone, which has now become some kind of wand, at the beast. An orb of blue light fires from its tip.

...and bounces off the monster's mask to no effect.
"Eh... Not enough power?"

[Kuroimaken]

"You have to focus! Focus!!"

It might be easier it there wasn't a ditzy cat-like voice screaming into her conscience, probably.

"This is an evil monster from another plane of existence that feeds on humans! It seeks to devour the flesh and soul of the living! It's kinda like a zombie when you stop to think about it."

Suddenly, the critter spins around on its feet and shoots some kind of webbing out of its rear.

(What, did you expect it to shoot out of its paws?)

[Prime32]

Ayase concentrates on firing another shot, but before she can do so, it strikes. With her cat-like reflexes, she manages to dodge out of the way.

"Uurgh, take THIS nya!" The Hollow ignores the second energy ball... until it's hit in the forehead and knocked back as if it had been punched.

That was stronger... I get it, I need to let it charge up first.*

Ayase begins to build up energy for another attack.


*She's talking in her MIND - Kitty can hear.

[Kuroimaken]

The spidery monster rushed forward towards the magical girl, then suddenly vaulted forward, its mask splitting open into a horrific mouth filled with teeth dripping some viscous green liquid!