Stray magica || AU

★ 2.0

Once they made it to the agency , Dazai yelled out for someone.

"Fukuzawa , I brought the guy!"

"Ah , well done. And you got the stone aswell , yes?" The grey haired man , Fukuzawa , Atsushi guessed.

"Yep!" Dazai smiled , holding out the suspicious gem.

It made Atsushi sick. He felt the urge to grab it. He heard voices telling him it was his , he needed it.

His throat burned. The ability to seem to shine and beg for him to take it , but the second he almost gave it that burning sensation came back.

He felt sick. Horribly sick. It was painful , there was blood on the floor. From where?

He could barely understand. Dazai's mouth moved. He looked concerned , but nothing was reaching his mouth.

He couldn't unhear the voices , he couldn't stop staring at the crystal and it was horrible.

The last thing he remember was throwing up.

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"Don't go on that mission." He heard a voice calling out to him , he didn't recognise it.

"Please , I'm begging you-"

There was a crackling sort of glitching noise , and he felt as if he was sinking.

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He awoke with a start , sitting upright. He was in a bed. A hospital bed?

"Atsushi? Oh , good.." Dazai exclaimed. His voice was still weirdly fuzzy.

"What happened..?" Atsushi questioned sleepily.

"Good question!" Dazai responded. He really didn't know? "Well , once I took the ability stone out , you tried to steal it. Then your nose started bleeding , actually so did a few other random cuts on your body , and then you threw up and passed out."

"..why? Huh?"

"No idea , that was.. a strange reaction." Dazai chuckled. "Hey , do you mind telling me how you became a magical girl?"

".. some person turned up at my orphanage and gave me one of those stones , when I grabbed it I felt a burning sensation all over my body like I was going to faint and then he disappeared." He sighed , explaining it the best he could.

Dazai looked oddly concerned about this.

"Right.. that.. isn't normal." He huffed. "The person who gives your stone is meant to explain the contract at the very least. Guess you got given one by a bad person."

"Contract?"

"Yeah well , about the death thing. I don't know much myself , I was told the bare minimum after all and it's not easy to get that information."

"Right.." Atsushi processed what he was saying the best he could.

"In any case , your special. Transformations aren't normally painful.. because you're meant to be prepared. As you're meant to be told."

"Well I wasn't.."

"Yeah.. Well, get some rest. I'm going to go try break my sceptre." He grinned and waved goodbye at him , walking away.

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Atsushi was able to go on a mission a while later, he met some.. random people.

The most rememberable being Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

He was harsh and cold , but always seemed to try and protect Atsushi, though claiming to hate him.

Atsushi hated Akutagawa.

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A few months later , Dazai and Atsushi had been assigned a mission.

To deal with.. Chuuya?

He didn't understand it at first , but he almost choked at the sight.

"I'm sure you understand , yes?" Dazai mumbled. "This isn't "Chuuya nakahara" now. This is "Arahabaki" , a witch."

"But how?" Atsuhi mumbled through strangled coughs.

"Once a sceptre collects too much negative energy , witches are born. Did I not tell you that?"

Atsushi couldn't remember. Did he?

"Alright , get off , we need to fight." He said , making Atsushi float above the witch.

"I-" Atsushi couldn't bear this. It was strangling and intoxicating.

He had been killing people like him , for ages. He had been slaughtering people who had just had enough and-

Crash!

Atsushi fell to the ground in a blur. He was , bleeding? What?

Arahabaki had attacked him. While he was distracted? He could assume.

"YOU IDIOT!" He heard someone scream in tears , holding Atsushi's body. "WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN?" Akutagawa. He was crying.

Listen? Listen to what? Atsushi tried to ask , only to be met with the sound of himself coughing up blood and nothing else.

It hit him suddenly. The dream.

Huh.

"So.. it was you.." Atsushi sighed , maybe he should have worked it out sooner.

He shut his eyes , nothing else would happen here.

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