April 18, 2022

Magical Girl Luna walks into the forest bored out of her mind and slips some earbuds in. Then she basically silent raves in the middle of the woods while shooting the trees with lighning and ice.

There's a camera flash. And then a branch snaps. And there's a thud.

"What the?" Luna goes to investigate the branch snap and thud.

"ouguhhhh... auhghehhghhhhd.r...... aaAAAAaackkkk!!!!" There's a lump covered by branches and leaves and a blanket underneath those two things. A bit away from the pile is a rather old polaroid camera, now broken on the ground. There is a small journal seemingly full of polaroids now also on the ground.

"Uhhh you good there?" Luna removes the branches and the leaves and also the blanket.

The figure immediately sits up and bashes their skull against a tree on accident, falling forward again. "aAUHGHHHhh????!?!?!" They seem to cry a bit. They're wearing all black. But that's all Luna can really make out for now.

"Oof. Uhhh. Here." Luna hands the figure a handkerchief from her pocket, don't worry it's clean! And then she goes to investigate the photos spilled on the ground. They get up and take the handkerchief, simply holding it and staring. They're a humanoid figure nearly completely covered up. Black boots, black slacks, a black dress shirt underneath a large black cloak. They wear an incredibly well-carved bat-like gargoyle mask which they use the handkerchief to clean some dust off of. Their right arm seems... disproportionate to the rest of their body. Like a considerable amount so. While their left arm is normal sized and is hidden under a normal sleeve and fancy black glove.. Their entire right arm is wrapped up in black bandages, only visible part of their body being their.. Huh, that's weird. Their 'fingers' appears to be made of carved stone, possessing monstrous claws rather than more normal fingers for the most part. It seems.. inconvenient to move. The polaroids each seem to be paired with a page of sketch artwork.

For example:

A sketch of Luna, standing atop a tree, sword raised to the sky (which is being struck by lightning) while the forest around her is a battle between ice and fire in the style of an 80s Metal Album Cover

A sketch of a skrunkly and broken Knight layed beneath a leaking gas-pump while lightning and trucks loom around him, waiting to strike in the style of religious Renaissance artwork

A messy and borderline incoherent sketch of a god-like eminem gunning down grandmothers with a rocket launcher while the fortnite universe collapses into a blackhole.

"Holy shit. These are awesome. Why enimem though????"

"hhhe like..went on a..r ampage in the city???" The weird person sounds very androgynous. They pick up one of the polaroids and shows Luna a picture of Eminem hovering over a blackhole while a grandmother is blown up by an RPG.

LOSE YOURSELF IN THE MUSIC, THE MOMENT, YOU OWN IT, YOU BETTER NEVER LET IT GO.

Luna just gives the gargoyle looking figure one of these looks, "I... I- Isee.. Uhhh hey there, um... what's your name? I'm Luna."

"..uhh...well......GP#1." They say, "You can just call me Monopoly because I like Monopoly and the rest of the GP refuses to let me live it down..."

"Ah right on Monopoly. Guess it could be worse, it could be Boggle..." Luna laughs, "Sooooooo you're the one that's been taking pics of me?"

"..Yyyess...." They seem nervous, rubbing their right arm.

"Are you alright Monopoly? Did you get hurt?"

"Noimjustnotusedtobeingseen....."

Luna thinks it over then it clicks, "Ah right, GP equals ghost paparazzi. I'll pretend I never saw you if you'd like? Anyway, why the photos? I love the sketch you made of mine."

"Uhh!!! well!!!" They start to pick up their stuff, "My, uh... mmastter-museumcurator-madame-leader-boss-person-lady.. likes interesting subjects!! and you and your friend group are that! Very beautiful scenes, yes yes..."

Luna blushes at the idea of being art, "That's really cool Monopoly! And a museum? I'd love to see that someday. I'm sure there's some really cool works of art there!"

"Mhmhmh!!!! I'm one!!!!" They suddenly stand tall and proud, holding all of their things plus the broken camera.

"Really? That's so cool!" Luna has a really excited look on her face, "Wow, living art! Gods, that Madame whatsherface leader person sounds like an amazing artist."

"..hehhe... sorta. yeah!...It's less art and more incredible polymorphing skill! We're the great artists."

"Polymorphing? Never heard of it, but it sounds cool as heck!"

"..transformation, you feline!!"

"Then just say transformation next time Monopoly!"

"But big words!!!"

"Eh. Big words aren't everything." Luna shrugs. "So do you want more pics of me?"

"Do you have a camera I can borrow??"

"Uhhh, I have my phone? But I really need it back. Otherwise I can't get out of this form."

"Can you print out the pictures so I can pick them up later?"

"Uhhh I guess? I'd probably have to find a printer, but I could totally try," Luna says. Monopoly makes grabby hands at the phone. Luna swaps her wired earbuds for airpods and puts her usual battle music playlist on. Then she gives Monopoly her phone, "Let's rock."

Monopoly goes invisible.

Luna does really cool things using the elements she knows, shooting lightning in the sky ala He Man, snow, etc etc. Camera flashes from her cellphone. She be grooving, using magic, imbuing her weapons with the elements. It's like a dance performance except only she can hear the music. Paparazzi!!! DANCING! Oh she's grooving and probably looking like a damn idiot, but who cares? She's got a fan, and that's amazing. Luna begins to feel a little tired. She's basically just wasting mana for art.

"Hey Monopoly, do you got enough shots yet?"

"YEAHHHH!!!!"

"Nice. Can I have my phone back? I'm gonna take the photos to get printed tomorrow, right now I just wanna get back and take a nap." Luna is tossed her phone but Monopoly doesn't reappear. Luna catches it. She clicks the app and is transformed back into her base cat demon form. Afterwards, she teleports out and heads home, "Take care Monopoly! See ya tomorrow!"

No response.