[Mari]

(( Maverick Hunter Zero Here you go! Sakura should be able to hear everything going on, though she won't be able to 'see' what's going on at first for reasons that will soon become obvious. ))


Raffina burst into the magical girl's society, still a little girl. She quickly tried to rush over to the sleeping area, avoiding attention--at least until she nearly ran into Amy.

“ Oh! ...Raffina?? Is that you?? Wow~! You're so tiny and cute!! Heehee~ Just like me~ ”

...Raffina winced. That was bound to get some attention. Sure enough, a gaggle of girls moved over to get a better view. She could spot Blue, Valorie, and Shin!Arle among them. "Uh... Yeah..." Raffina sheepishly replied, attempting to shift past Amy. However, Amy simply tilted her head, awkwardly getting in the way as she tried to get a better look at Raffina.

“ What's that in your dress?? ”

Raffina glanced down at the rather large, round bulge in the chest area of her dress. She just kinda blanched for a moment. She'd hoped it looked less unsubtle than that. It was a hot easier to hide things in your bra when you weren't... well... flat. Thinking quickly, she jumped for the obvious lie. "...M-My breasts??" she asked, holding a hand over her heart to partially obscure Amy's view.

“ ...All one of them?? I know I'm not human, but I know what boobs are Raffina. Maybe you never noticed, but I have them too! ”

"...Are you stuffing your bra?" Valorie asked rather suspiciously. Raffina shot her a glare, but hesitated a moment. "...Yes. I'm flat, okay??" she blurted out rather sorely. Blue chuckled. "...You look a little too young to be wearing a bra~" Blue remarked, moving over and affectionately brushing a hand across Raffina's head. Raffina angrily huffed and attempted to shove Blue away, but because Blue was now much bigger than her she wound up knocking herself over instead and fell on her bottom. Blue chuckled, moving in and scooping Raffina up into her arms. With a flick of her fingers, she invaded Raffina's privacy and deftly fished out a love ball from her dress, eliciting the tiniest squeal from Raffina, who promptly grabbed at the ball only to have it effortly held out of her reach. Blue promptly kissed Raffina's forehead, shocking the pinkette into silence and distracting her from her mission to obtain the ball. Raffina wilted slightly in Blue's arms, timidly whining in response to all the affection. It looked like she was going to cry. "...Now what's a sweet little bab like you hiding a harmless little thing like this for?" Blue asked, raising a brow lightly. Raffina was quiet for a long moment. "...Now Raffi, tell Mama Blue what's wrong." Blue affectionately cooed. "...You're not my mom." Raffina softly replied. "I could be~!" Blue remarked. "...N-No? How would that work??" Raffina sorely replied. Blue shrugged, putting down the love ball for a moment and producing a hungry cookpot, holding it up for Raffina to see. "Well, I could start carrying you around in my tummy! That seems like a good place to start!" Blue replied, smirking knowingly at Raffina. Raffina gasped in mild horror. "No!" she blurted out. "...Then tell me." Blue gently urged. "No!!" Raffina repeated. "Raffina..." Blue warned. "No!!" Raffina repeated. "Do you want to go in tummy time out??" Blue continued warning. "...N-No!" Raffina replied, quite red in the face. "Then tell me what's in the ball." Blue firmly stated. Raffina was quiet for a long moment again. Blue gingerly lifted her chin, forcing her to look into her eyes. "...Now." Blue sternly added.

Raffina began to cry into Blue's bosom. "I-I made a mistake! I thought I accidentally killed her and I couldn't lift her so I captured her in my love ball and brought her to a pokemon center to get her healed! I didn't want you to know I captured another human being!" Raffina sobbed. Listening, Blue blanched for a moment. She comfortingly rubbed Raffina's back, rocking her back and forth a little to help distract her from her thoughts and comfort her. "...Is that all? Sweetie there's nothing wrong with that. Pokemon are people too! All that matters is that you took good care of her. Whoever she is." Blue reassured. "...R-Really? I thought--...I thought you'd be really mad." Raffina murmured. Blue began to brush her tears away. "No~ I bet she appreciates what you did for her too. Buuuut, we should let her out so that she can speak for herself." Blue softly explained, holding Raffina and comforting her until she eventually calmed down. It was entrancing to Valorie, who was quietly watching by now. Finally, once Raffina was nice and comfortable in her embrace, she took Sakura's Love Ball and tossed it into the center of the room to release her! Amy hopped up onto the back of the couch and sat there to get a better view.

In a burst of light, Sakura would appear fully healed from her fight earlier! Blue was watching her with a smile, holding a somewhat tired looking Little Raffina in her arms. Valorie was watching from a nearby couch, where Shin!Arle also sat. Shin!Arle, on the other hand, was reading and seemed disinterested in what was going on. "Hiya! How're you feeling?" Blue greeted, waving with her free hand.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Sakura was resting peacefully inside the Love Ball, it was kind of awkward to her; one moment she was almost greiviously injured to the point of near death by Raffina when she used a literal Christmas tree on her, and the next moment she was placed in a spherical ball that can fit in the palm of a person's hand, unable to see her surroundings outside.

While she was in the ball, Raffina had taken her to a Pokemon Center the heal her back to full, and after that she was back at MGS HQ, it was only when movement stopped that Sakura would hear voices, one of them being the person who put her in the ball and the other a pink colored hedgehog, as well as two others, though one of them was slightly different.

Almost immediately as though she was being hidden, she was plucked out of Raffina's hands and placed down where she still heard Raffina and the other person talking, it was when Raffina spilled the beans about what happened that she felt anxious to get out of the ball so she could calm Raffina down, though whoever was with the pinkette had done the job much better.

The person who held onto Raffina would then toss the Love Ball into the center of the room, and in a blinding flash, Sakura was released. " Now I know how a Pokemon feels when it's inside a capsule the size of a baseball..." Sakura thought to herself as she shook the cobwebs out of her mind. She would then take a look at her own body, it had literally been fully recovered at that Pokemon Center, no visible scars, no broken bones, nada. The only thing a Pokemon Center couldn't do was purge Sakura of the emotional scars that had been caused by the fight with Ashe.

"I feel much better now from both that nap and the Pokemon Center, thanks." Sakura said to Blue, kneeling down and patting Raffina on the head in a gentle motherly fashion. "I'll let you sit on me when you feel like it, just not on the face, suffocation isn't exactly a good thing." Sakura told Raffina before giving the pinkette a genuine smile.

But now that she was here, the question that bugged her was plain and simple as her curiosity. "Where am I, and what is this place?"

[Mari]

Blue just kinda hesitated a moment, looking at Raffina and raising a brow. She would've questioned why she was on Sakura's face if Raffina hadn't already blurted out her story. "...This is the Magical Girl's Society." Blue explained in a theatrically dramatic tone, holding her arms out to express the full breadth of the magical girl's society lodge in all its glory. She then promptly dropped the dramatics. "...It's just a house in Brightwing Lane. A big house, but a house. Most of what's in it is just what we were able to pick up on our own." Blue explained rather leisurely. "This is sort of a safe place where we can all hang out and take care of each other, since some of us aren't so great on living on their owns. It's really something the Life Sphere wasn't prepared to deal with, so we made our own solution!" Blue explained, patting Raffina on the head. Raffina brushed the hand off, feeling a bit insecure for reasons hopefully clear at the moment.

“ Sometimes that means having each other's back out on the battlefield. ”

"

And sometimes that means getting training from other magical girls. I didn't even know I could use magic until I came to Li and Princess Peach taught me Love Magic!

"

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

"Interesting... I just might learn a few things about this, and maybe even see if I can enhance my skills. But considering that I never heard of love magic, this might prove useful in the long run." Sakura said as she placed what appeared to be a sheathed katana on the ground, where she would be sitting in that one position before picking up the weapon and placing it on her lap, unsheathing it to reveal the blade itself.

Sakura would take only a few moments to examine the blade of the Arataka, the blade itself was not even chipped or dented, to which she breathed a sigh of relief, she wasn't in her home realm, so finding a way to repair the Arataka would be near borderline impossible since there were no weaponsmiths on Planet Li to begin with.

"I wonder how Ashe is doing right now?" Sakura thought to herself. If someone had the ability to read her thoughts, they might be able to figure out what she was thinking.

[Mari]

Blue considered this for a long moment before shrugging. "...I'd offer to teach you myself, but I had a hard time learning Love Magic." Blue replied. "Apparently you need to be able to open your heart on command, and... that's a little hard for me!" Blue awkwardly explained, before gesturing to Valorie. "She's actually Peach's top student though." Blue remarked. Valorie put on a rather big, proud, toothy grin at that comment. "If you don't want to wait for the princess to come around you could ask her and some of the other magical girls for help. I think Raffina might need a nap, though~" Blue explained, passing a rather sassy smirk down at Raffina. Raffina crossed her arms, sorely pouting at Blue in response.

“ --Oh yeah! We could like, do something like that if you wanted. A bunch of us know at least a little love magic. There's me, and Arle, and Raffina, and Iris, and Amitie... The sisterhood is all about helping each other, so they don't even charge anything for training! ”

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

"I don't mind waiting, besides I think me wandering around the place might get me confused... In fact it got me into a spot of trouble at one point back where I came from." Sakura said, shuddering a bit when she reminded herself of the time she wandered the imperial theater when some of the members of the imperial defense force were doing the 'Romeo and Juliet' skit.

Sakura would simply give Lil' Raffina a simple kiss on the lips to show she wasn't mad at her or anything, just a bit glad that she was able to have a good time with someone in the arena even if she didn't win any of her actual fights.

"I guess I'm the only person who could understand the situation about learning to open your heart, it's kinda similar to how I channel my spiritual energy." Sakura added as she calmly sat down on the floor in 'the position', and calmly closed her eyes as though she were sleeping, however a bright pink aura of spiritual energy had formed around her as she concentrated on calm steady breathing, this aura seemed to be the reason for near survivability in battle situations stemming from her realm, pity she never used it in arena fights after coming to the Life Sphere because she preferred to avoid using it out of a sense of pride for her heritage.

[Raffina]

Raffina froze up where she stood, her words stolen right off her tongue and her thoughts driven to the back of her mind as Sakura kissed her. All at once, a strange feeling she hadn't wanted to address slammed into her. She was stunned into silence. Her first kiss, stolen just like that.

[Amy Rose, Yours Truly~]

Amy paused for aa moment. Huh. Did they just kiss? She could've sworn Raffina was straight. Could two girls kiss without it being gay? ...She wasn't sure about that part, but decided not to ask. Not right now, anyway. “...Alright! Let's wait for Princess Peach then! She usually comes by every day to check up on everyone and hang out for a bit.”

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