"What the heck is this?" She asked no one as she picked up a yellow cube. She raised an eyebrow as she felt the thing start to actually try and drain her magic. Considering the trickle it was getting from her, it would take the thing a few thousand years before it was able to drain anything significant from her. Smirking, her eyes glinted as she pumped a large amount of raw magic into the object. "Let's see..." Her eyes widened as it floated away from her hand before racing off in a random direction.
Pouting, Riksfalto sighed and continued walking. That was a fun few seconds of distraction.
"What was that thing for anyway?" She asked herself.
(---)
"My car!" A middle aged man fell to his knees in anguish. "That one was brand new too!"
"Poor Mr. Tanaka." One of the women on the street shook her head as she saw the grown man weep at the remains of his car. "He just hasn't been the same since his last car was destroyed."
Another woman nodded. "Yeah... Though, what kind of person falls into a car and leaves a mark like that?"
They shrugged as the man cried harder.
(---)
Arisa stretched as she, Suzuka and Arf walked into the mall. She and Suzuka were wearing tan shorts and short-sleeved shirts, hers was yellow while Suzuka was wearing a light blue one, Arf, on the other hand, was wearing her normal shorts and shirt that she wore when she went out. Thankfully she was still in her child form.
The last time she was in her adult form in those clothes, she was nearly arrested... Twice.
First time because the police thought she was a prostitute and the second time because she tried assaulting the officer in question.
"So, what do.." Suzuka trailed off as she saw something unusual, even for her.
Walking around the corner was a human-like... Thing. The only reason that it was a thing was because it was mostly yellow-orange with black covering its hands, feet and middle front. Its glowing yellow eyes looked around at the walls before it opened it mouth, grinned and let out a screech before suddenly turning and moving fast as it slammed into and through a wall, terrifying the employees and customers, causing them to dive for cover as the thing rebounded, destroying displays and sending glass flying everywhere.
Arisa, Suzuka and Arf all stared. "Uh... Well, it looks like a wrecking ball..." Arisa muttered before the thing slammed into the standing clock, causing it to shatter to pieces.
"I'll call for help." Arf said as she closed her eyes. She just hoped that someone was close enough to help out. Hey, mom, Chrono, Filia, auntie, if any of you are near the mall, care to give us a hand? I'm not sure what's going on, but there's something down here that's tearing the place up and we have no idea what it is!"
"I'll be right there." Chrono sent a reply back a few moments and two stores later. "Try and keep it from destroying everything."
"Oh sure, easy for you to say!" Arf snapped but was thankful for the reply. It was times like these that she wished that Nanoha, Fate and Yuuno were still around instead of on Mid-Childa finishing up their training there. "Chrono's on his way."
"That's good." Suzuka nodded and gulped as the thing barreled towards them before turning and slamming through the ceiling.
Arisa growled before her body started to glow blue and wings of fire erupted from her back. "Stop ruining the mall! I won't let you get away with this!" Suzuka and Arf stared as Arisa took off into the air.
Sighing, Arf picked up Suzuka and flew the two up into the higher level and gaped as Arisa was racing after the thing, well, trying to race after it would be a better term for it, because the thing put on a burst of speed and started tearing down walls as it zipped down the long hallway.
"Stand STILL!" Arisa yelled out as she created her weapon and threw it at the thing, missing as it suddenly went straight down, destroying the floor it was over and causing the impromptu spear to miss completely before fizzling out moments before it hit the wall.
Arisa growled and launched herself through the hole after the thing.
"I don't know why, but I think I'm watching a bad Looney Tunes cartoon." Suzuka muttered as Arf put her down. "Well, this isn't going to work if Arisa chases it down, got a suggestion?"
Arf grinned and nodded. "Yep. I got an idea alright, just need it to come back up..." Just as she said that, the floor shook and caused the two of them to fall to their butts. "Or we can go down." She grabbed Suzuka and flew through a nearby hole to the floor below. When they got down there, they stared as mall looked more like swiss cheese than a building. "Okay..." Putting Suzuka down, Arf raced forward, trying to stop that thing and Arisa from destroying what was left of the place. Snapping an arm out, a small glowing sphere formed in mid-air where she was a moment ago, a few moments later, she did the same with her other hand.
Suzuka blinked as she saw several glowing spheres, all of them were pretty small, decorating the hallway soon enough. "What the heck are those for?" She asked, yelping as the thing came barreling right at her.
Arf let out a yelp as the thing barreled into her stomach, knocking the wind out of her and causing her to tumble over and over until she crashed into some debris. "Owwies..." Her eyes swirled as she looked at the stars above her head.
Arisa, covered in dust and dirt, barreled out of some debris and shook her head. "Darn it! Get back here and take your beating!" She was about to take off after the blur when suddenly hundreds of binds snapped out of nowhere and wrapped around the thing, causing it to slow down, though now it was partially made of stone, glass and wires sticking out from various places. "What the?"
"Hee hee..." Arf giggled as she stood up. "Need to catch a speedy target, make sure that you hit from all angles." She couldn't wait to use that on Fate when she got back from training.
After all, it was better to show something off by doing it than just explaining it to people.
Arisa grinned as she walked towards the thing. "Well then, I think I'm going to vent some..." She trailed off as there was a creaking sound. "Uh..." Looking around, she gulped. "Arf, I don't think that the walls can support the upper floors anymore."
"Ya think?!" Arf shrieked out. "Suzuka!" She yelled down the hallway. "GET OUT OF HERE!" Grabbing Arisa, she flew straight into the air and through a hole in the ceiling. "There's got to be a few more people upstairs."
Arisa nodded and took to the left as Arf flew right.
(---)
Outside, Suzuka gulped as the building started to crack and crumble. "Arisa-chan, Arf-san..." She mumbled helplessly. Even with her strength, she really wasn't too much of a help in this sort of situation.
Unless they needed her to punch a wall down, but other than that...
"Suzuka!" She turned as she saw Chrono rushing through the crowd to get close to her. "What happened?"
Suzuka shook her head. "I don't know, we got in, there was this person wearing metal, or made of metal, and then it went crazy and started acting like a wrecking ball and then Arf put it in binds and Arisa was going to beat on it I think but then the whole place was about to fall apart and I ran out but they're still in there and..."
Chrono nodded and grimaced. If there wasn't so many people, he could easily slip in undetected. Sighing, he shook his head and was about to run in when the lower walls gave out and collapsed, causing the upper level to crash down into rubble. "Arf! Arisa!" He gasped, his eyes wide as he rushed towards the crumbling remains of the mall. Once he cleared the outer wall, he was greeted with two domes, one of fire and one of orange magic. "Arf! Arisa, you two okay?" The two domes dissipated, revealing two dirty, but otherwise okay girls, and four people on the ground beneath them, looking on in shock.
Arf nodded. "Uh huh, just fine, but..." She gaped as the thing from before suddenly popped out of the debris, still wrapped in binds, before it let out a scream and did something that Arf and Arisa never thought possible.
"It... Fell apart?" Arisa gaped as a small cube floated into the air. Chrono grabbed it before sealing into S2U. "Chrono?"
Chrono sighed and shook his head. "Let's get them out of here, then you two need to get cleaned up, I'll see what this thing really is."
The girls nodded in agreement as police sirens were heard in the distance.