Wandersong chapter 4 intermission but it's a narrative
This is for my Magical Girl May adventure in Wandersong. I thought I'd write the intermission for chapter 4 as if it was a narrative! And, for a little Magical Girl May bonus, it will have my magical girl bard in it! Here you go!
I walk through the halls of the castle, thinking about that dumb bard and the end of the world stuff. Stupid bard, thinking she’s a magical girl, when she’s CLEARLY not. I mean, who said SHE was a hero??? I think back to our first meeting…
“I’m a magical girl, on a quest to meet the overseers…” The bard explains. “To learn the Earthsong! Eya already picked me!”
Who said SHE was the chosen one? The only thing SHE seems to do is sing and be annoying. While singing.
“No…” says a familiar voice. “You definitely don’t understand, lil bard…” Eyala appears before us, with hair as colorful as ever. I guess this “Magical Girl” person only knows who this messenger is. Maybe I should tell her Eyala’s name… but not while we’re in an overseer’s castle… Maybe another time.
“WHhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” The bard says in shock, trying to process the whole “This jerk killed the overseer, is friends with the rainbow girl, and I’m not a hero after all” situation. And it doesn’t look like she’s working it out. “WHAT is going on??”
“Um, well…” Eyala tries to explain to CLEARLY both of us. “Basically… The Earthsong isn’t gonna work.”
“It won’t??” The bard replies in a confused tone.
“No. In every cycle of the universe, every single time, it’s never worked. The world is too filled with discord, especially when it gets this old.”
“And that’s where I come in!” I barge into the conversation between Eyala and the dumb bard. “To destroy each overseer, and free the world of their corruption!”
“And that is gonna save the world…?” The dumb bard wonders. I think I’ll start calling her that. Dumb Bard. Because she’s CLEARLY not a magical girl, that’s for sure.
“No.” Eyala explains. “The overseers hold your whole world together. But when they get old and messed up like this, there’s no way to fix them. The moment the last one dies, that’s how the world ends, so the next cycle can start.”
The dumb bard and I are CLEARLY in shock. Well, she is physically, but I am mentally. How come Eyala has never told me this before? Couldn’t she have saved that until I killed the last overseer or something?
“Sorryyyyyyy…” Eyala apologizes to the dumb bard. “I know it sounds sad, but that’s the way it’s supposed to be. I didn’t really think you’d make it this far…”
“So I was supposed to give up? And just let the world end?” The dumb bard asks. “Why’d you even tell me about the Earthsong in the first place?”
“Because I really like you!” Eyala replies, not knowing that I’m clearly PISSED at both of them. The dumb bard for getting in my way, and Eyala for telling me all this now instead of saving it for later. “And… I didn’t want to tell you no… I still don’t!! But I have to be realistic. I’m an angel of Eya and the guide to the hero. My job is to usher in the end, and pave the way for a new beginning.”
“SHEESH, quit being such a dumbass baby!” I interrupt the current conversation. “This is just the way it works! You really thought you could sing some shitty song and solve everything? How about you leave it to the REAL heroes?”
The dumb bard turns to me, pissed because I killed the overseer and we’re “saving the world”.
“How about YOU…” The dumb bard replies as I point my sword to the sky. “Leave the… shutting up…!” Lightning pours into the sword as I prepare to slice.
“To… YOU!!!” The dumb bard runs to me, and I swing my sword at the right time, severely injuring her with a lightning-charged boost.
Why…? WHY did Eyala tell me all that? And WHY was the dumb bard even THERE to witness it? Whatever. I just gotta focus on killing the Queen of Winds. Not like it even matters, anyway.
Ahead of me, I suddenly spot three black bat-looking creatures. Their bodies are shaped like basketball-sized eggs, but black. They each had one big eye, with a black pupil. Their purple bat wings were outlined in black, and they had three sharp teeth, ready to tear me apart. I ready my sword to attack. The bats fly towards me, and I slice one of them. It turns into black dust that flies away as soon as I kill it. Another bat sinks its teeth into my shoulder, so I grab it by the eye, throw it to the ground, and pierce its eye, finishing it off. I turn to see the last bat behind me, and charge my sword. The bat charges after me as I blast it with lightning, killing it.
As I continue to walk through the castle, I spot another monster floating above me. It has slate blue hair, to (sorta) match with its cylinder-shaped lighter slate blue body, and its short horns of the same color. It also has the bats’ purple wings, but without the black outline. On the bottom of its body are many more teeth, ready to consume me. As it lowers to the ground, I dodge just in time, and stab its head, allowing me to continue.
As I continue, Eyala appears next to me.
“Pssst! Hey Audrey!” Eyala reminds me. “Don’t forget, you can point your sword straight up to charge it with lightning.”
“Augh! Shut up!” I silence the messenger next to me. “I would have figured that out myself!”
“Oh.” Eyala responds. “Ok.” She disappears as I notice the endless pit below me. I look up and see a bridge on the other side, and behind it is a dim lightbulb. I know what I have to do. I charge my sword and point it at the lightbulb. It lights up as the bridge extends towards me. I step on the bridge and continue my walk towards the Overseer.
Eventually, I come to five large tubes, symbolizing that I’m close. A crow wearing a yellow scarf floats towards me, with a bored look on its face.
“Oh, great. Another human. You here to be all loud and annoying like the last one? That sure was a riot. Fat lotta good she did.” The crow is clearly not amused. This bird is probably the overseer’s fairy, since the Queen of Winds is also a bird. “The Queen of Winds is doing just awful, if you were wondering. Acting all dark and spooky. She keeps birthing monsters.” Like the monsters I fought during my trek.
“Well, that-” I WAS going to reply…
“It’s so gross.” But the fairy interrupts me. Jerk. “She’s getting worse every day. This place just isn’t the same anymore.”
“Aaaaargh, shut up!!!” I interrupt the fairy back. “I’m here to take care of the Queen of Winds.” I point my sword towards the fairy. “Tell me where she’s hiding.”
“Like, take care of…?” The fairy realizes. “Oh jeez. Well, I am obligated to stop you-”
“Shut uuuuuuuuup!!!” I interrupt the fairy AGAIN.
“...Okay. I see where this is going, and I don’t want to be here for it.” The fairy flies by me. “Just… Try not to make it painful for her, you know? She’s really so sweet. Or… she used to be… “
And now, it’s just me and the Queen of Winds. She appears before me, speaking random gibberish;
“༄▲🌀༄☽♡☀☽💧☆༄”
Clearly, I don’t understand her language, so I point my sword to the sky, ready for battle.
The Queen of Winds then turns smaller, and the battle begins.
Note: I’m not gonna narrate the battle, because I’m not really good at it. But here’s after the battle!
The Queen of Winds falls to the ground, lightning surrounding her body. She explodes in a field of light, and turns into a lime green crown, similar to Queen Chaos’s crown.
“Two down.” I wipe the sweat off my forehead, relieved from my victory.
“Yeeeeeeah gurl!” Eyala appears before me, proud of my performance. “You da bomb!”
“I know, right?” I respond.
“~♡~”
“Can I ask you something?”
“Yeah girl?” Eyala is confused. I think back again to my first meeting with the dumb bard, to Eyala telling me that we were ending the world, to my first overseer dead, to all that…
“I just don’t get why you never told me we were going to end the world, until that dumb bard was around.”
“It’s comp-”
“Not that it’s bothering me! Heh.” It IS bothering me. A LOT. I just don’t wanna tell her. “I was just curious.”
“It’s complicated. Sorry you found that out in such a lame way. I’m not really supposed to tell the hero that until like, the very end. Cause it’s hard for normies to understand why it’s important.”
“‘Normies’?” I’m very confused right now.
“Y’know, like… mortals?” Eyala tries to explain. “Your planet bein’ doomed is kinda sad… But we’re clearin’ the path for a new. Better universe.”
“Hey! I completely get it. Nothing normie about me! Someone has to stop the spread of the Overseers’ corruption, and kill them before they all become horrible monsters! May as well be me, right?”
“~♡~” Eyala smiles. “That’s why you’re the hero!”
“Yeah girl!”
“Hehe yeah girl!”
“We’re a team, right? So anything you tell that dumb bard, you can tell me too!”
“Noted.” Eyala starts to fade. “Aight, well I’m out. I’ll hit you up later, k? ~♡~” And with that, Eyala disappears, leaving me with the dead overseer.