[Semi-Twinning, Brattification, Corruption]
“Aaaah! Why’s Aunt Himiko gotta bully me like this!?”
In one of the dorm rooms in St. Freya laid a frustrated young white-haired lady, one who had just been told to do three month’s worth of homework after flunking her latest exam. “It was for her own good”, the teacher had told her, but that didn’t make it sting any less.
The girl, Kiana Kaslana, yelled into one of the pillows on the couch before tossing it across the room, sighing while the red shade on her face slowly faded away. If not for her own mistake, she would have an entire summer just to her and her beloved Mei, but instead here she was, stuck doing a ton of homework…
“I don’t wanna do this, I don’t wanna!” She shouted, biting into her lip as her tender blue irises suddenly turned orange, the braids in her hair unfurling as something within her heart started to awaken. Thanks to her uncompromising anger, she might’ve just awakened something that should’ve stayed asleep…
Kiana smirked ever slightly as she waved her hand, her casual battlesuit being replaced with a more delicate dress emblematic of the being that had just been awoken, while the pile of homework on the table was suddenly swallowed up by a void. A girl like her, who had so much power, didn’t need to do something so silly as homework.
And once Mei came home, she’d understand that neither of them needed to listen to stupid teachers any longer…
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“Kiana? Are you okay?”
It had been a few hours since the younger of the two girls arrived at their shared dorm room, and the red-clad Valkyrie, Raiden Mei, had just returned from her own training and chores. She had seen the complete defeat that had washed over her friend’s face when she flunked her latest assignment, and hoped to maybe cheer her up with some of her cooking. That is, if she was allowed to come into her room. Normally, she locked the door and didn’t let anybody in for a week… which just made things worse, frankly. Still, she needed to ensure that the girl could handle herself…
“Kiana… It’s okay, I’m sure we can talk to Major Himiko and cut a deal with her. You don’t have to do everything on your own!” Mei tried to speak through the door as she knocked, only to notice that it sounded like the door hadn’t been properly locked. Perhaps if she just took a look inside…
The raven-haired girl took a deep breath and opened the door, taking a quick peek inside… Only to notice a bright orange eye staring right back at her, causing her to gasp and stumble backward.
Right into a certain girl’s arms. “Mei-Senpai, how nice of you to join me!” The white-haired girl cackled as she wrapped her arms around her friend’s waist, rubbing her cheek against hers affectionately. “You don’t have to worry about helping me with homework, I don’t need to do homework when I’m like this!” The confident girl’s laughter continued, making it obvious that something had happened to her, something that the other girl was quite familiar with.
“You… You’ve got a Herrscher inside of you too, Kiana? Why’d you let it out?” Her senior asked, sounding more worried than anything. That kind of concern didn’t seem to jive too well with the white-haired girl’s current mindset, as a bunch of void-like holes opened in the air, sending out chains that yanked the girl out of her grasp, keeping her trapped in midair.
Kiana scoffed as she crossed her arms. “Here I am, trying to be nice and everything, and you have to play the goodie two shoes. Well, so what if I awakened my Herrscher, Mei-Senpai?” The cute girl with the flowy and almost-living dress pouted, the chains around the bound girl’s limbs tightening in response. “She gave me power, so I don’t have to do anything! You should just give in and let yours out too, I’m sure she’d have much more fun than just being a student!”
“We can’t just let them out, Kiana! They’re monsters that want to destroy the world, they’re with the Honkai!” Mei tried to protest, which just caused the chain around her throat to tighten instead, leaving her with barely any air to breathe with. Her worried words were just causing more and more grief…
The orange-eyed girl grit her teeth as she opened a hole on the other girl’s chest, clenching her fist. “I don’t care anymore, I don’t wanna do homework! I just wanna have fun and play games!” She cried out as she stuck the hand into the hole, reaching straight through her friend’s chest as she tried to grab something from within.
Her friend could feel her hand squirming around inside of her, most of her body pulsating with a sensation that was similar to pain with every second that passed. Then, she felt that hand closing around something. She could feel her heart stopping at that very same moment, almost as if her friend had managed to grab ahold of it, but as her eyes darted towards her chest, she could see something glint as it left her body…
The Gem that powered the Herrscher that was within her. Kiana had just yanked the thing out, her fingers clenching tightly around it as it started turning orange, just like the girl’s eyes. She could feel her breath growing fainter as it changed, with her eyes fluttering between open and closed as she struggled to keep herself conscious. She hoped that it would all be over sometime soon…
“Here, you’ll see things my way now, Mei-Senpai! You won’t have to worry about chores or anything, you can be as wild as you’ve ever wanted!” The mockery of her friend chimed as she shoved the corrupted gem into the hole once more, before closing the hole once she pulled her hand back out. She cackled and grinned as she watched the resulting changes sweep across her friend, now that her Herrscher half was infested by her bratty energies…
Instead of those drab and boring pink and black colors that signified the duty that she devoted herself to, Mei’s outfit quickly changed in hues to the same kind of white, black and orange that Kiana wore. The bodysuit, while generously tight around where it mattered, was far too constraining. No, she needed a dress much like the one the corrupted girl wore, as the armored parts of her suit turned into more cloth that gathered near her hips, where it spread out into a dress that was just as alive as the girl that had turned her.
The rest of her body was almost too impressive, but the energies inside her didn’t change them. No, she didn’t need to have her pride and joy changed at all. Instead, her purple hair gained the same shade of white as her friend’s hair, while her irises turned orange to match her friend as well. She needed to look like she had enough power to devastate anyone if she cared, and with those gentle changes, she looked the part…
So much so that when she opened her eyes, it was almost like looking into a mirror, with the mockery of Kiana giggling in her face. “How do you feel now, Mei-Senpai?” The younger girl chimed, happy to see the changes taking over her friend. Changes that she hoped would make her see things her way…
Which then made her awfully surprised when the older girl managed to break the chains that bound her. “Kiana.” Mei muttered with barely constrained rage as she glared into her younger friend’s eyes. “Did I tell you that I would like this?” She asked, stepping closer as her new dress fluttered in the faint wind. “How are you going to tell anybody else about what you’ve done, getting both of us corrupted?” She asked the hard hitting question, ones that the girl couldn’t possibly answer.
“I-I wasn’t going to bother, they don’t need to-” The younger girl tried to speak up, only for a finger to meet her lips, shutting her up prematurely.
The corrupted version of her friend smiled. “You are going to bother, little lady. If you’ve corrupted me, then you have to do it to everyone else. Are you sure that you can take out Major Himiko?” She remained as displeased looking as she could, while reaching for her katana with one hand…
“Y-Yeah! Of course I can! She won’t even get a hit on us!” Kiana cried back, neglecting to note that she got beaten so hard that she couldn’t walk last time she had a solo training session with the older woman…
Mei just sighed at her endless confidence. “Very well. I suppose I have to help my little Kiana spread her will and whims, just so she doesn’t need to do her homework. That sounds good, doesn’t it?” She chimed, her tender smile returning. She only acted so difficult to make sure that the girl she loved was still somewhere underneath all that brattiness.
“You’re the best, Mei-Senpai!” Kiana’s mood turned around quickly as she started giggling, already plotting how to take down the other Valkyries and abolish the stupid school system in the process. Not realizing that the newly corrupted girl had managed to weaponize her brattier aspects for evil. Well, it didn’t matter in the long run, because all of her friends would be so much happier when they didn’t have to do anything!
The two Herrschers giggled together, as their plans would soon come to fruition...