"Yeah, we're getting quite the work out. Why don't you take a breather. I can stand guard" Eliza suggested

"Sounds good," Candice said and closes her eyes.

Eliza watches the surroundings while keeping a half eye on Candice.

After a couple of quiet moments, the all clear bells sounded.

"Looks like it's over" Eliza said as she assumed her normal form and sat nearby "You know without monsters, it's pretty nice here" she mused to herself.

"Yeah, but that monster ruined a part of it," Candice said.

Eliza looked towards the path of destruction that the beast had caused "Yeah, it did. But we stopped it before it got too bad. And plants are pretty resilient they'll grow back."

"What a day though, I still can't believe this is real," Candice said.

"It's different" Eliza agreed "They try to prepare us, but knowing about it and experiencing it are two very different things" she looked down at her hand "Knowing that we can be hurt and seeing it for example"

"I wasn't hurt badly or anything!" Candice said. "It looked worst than it really was."

Eliza waved her hand in apology "Sorry, just brought it home" she lapsed into silence for a moment then stood up abruptly "Anyway this gloomy stuff isn't like us. We're go getters and doers, right?" she said "We did awesome and should be proud of it"

"Yeah, hey, want to see if we can meet up with the Star Guardiands?" Candice asked.

Eliza nods "Oooh great idea"

As you made it back to the doors, you could see three other female forms approaching. After a bit of waiting it was clearly the Star Guardians. No other magical girls had so complex of costumes, and all three were tall, elegant and beautiful. First was Star Twinkle, whose purple costume with gold highlights went well with her dark skin and long black hair, to her right was Star Glimmer who was the palest of the three, but had a deep red costume with silver highlights and curly green hair, lastly there was Star Shimmer, who had a yellow costume with bronze trim and wavy red hair.

"It's really them" Eliza said in an excited whisper to Candice "They look even cooler in real life..." she added as she watched the Star Guardians approach.

Once they got closer she waved and called out "Umm hi.. We're the new magic girls that were assigned here. I'm Eliza and this is Candice"

Candice had stars in her eyes too.

"Nice to meet you," Star Twinkle said. "I hope things went well for you."

Glimmer and Shimmer smiled and waved politely.

Eliza gentle nudged Candice in the ribs "Things went well for us, thanks asking" she replied "Just some small fry monsters"

"What about you?" she asked eagerly, glad for an excuse to extend the conversation.

"Oh, well, we had this really weird and creepy monster," Star Glimmer said.

"Yeah, it was like a big blob of pink skin and flesh," Star Shimmer said.

You can see Candice's else bug out for a second, before recovering.

"W-we're both really big fans," she said.

"We could get you both tickets to our next show this weekend," Star Twilight said.

"Really?" Eliza said grinning "That would be awesome, right?" she replied turning to Candice.

"Yeah, that'd be amazing!" Candice said, super excited.

"We'll fine you in school tomorrow and give you them then," Star Glimmer said.

"Thanks a bunch" Eliza said the grin still on her face.

"No worries," Star Shimmer said.

"Guess we'd better get the tram to school, then head home" Eliza said to Candice unsuccessfully trying to appear business like and not like a starstruck teenager.

"We'll head back with you. After all, we're neighbours now," Star Glimmer said.

"Really?" Eliza voice squeaked in surprise and the visably gained control of herself "I mean sure.. That makes sense" she finished glancing at Candice to she how she was taking the news.