It was another hot, undisturbed summer day in Castle Machina. Unless you call a loud explosion disturbing. Said explosion emanated from a particularly large room inside; inside was a mess of various metals surrounded by a radial scorch mark and one rather surprised adolescent currently lying upside down against a wall about several meters away from the mess. At that moment, a rather strongly built woman rushed in like a bandit raid was after her and went over to aforementioned boy. She asked "you alright Lloyd? That was a big one I heard."
"Worry not Labrys, I am just a little stunned from that rather unfortunate failure."
"Honestly, I come over to let you know breakfast was ready, only t-"
"Ah! Maybe I was thinking too much about breakfast, let us not procrastinate any further, artificers need to eat to!"
And with that, the little inventor righted himself and ran off, followed by a rather exasperated subordinate, "honestly, he's weirder than a colourless rainbow, sometimes having that over-sized sword as a guard is pointless when he's more likely to kill himself."
Despite there being a rather long dining table with sixteen chairs to match; only four were occupied. The occupants were Labrys, Lloyd, a white haired little girl wearing an open, black coat over a white, long-sleeved, ankle-length dress with frilled edges and an equally young looking black haired boy sporting a large black cloak covered in burning red symbols over a matching black robe, next to him was a large, black cleaver like sword with red markings similar to its (supposed) owner's cloak. Laid in front of them was plate of bread accompanied with pate, ham, butter and a bowl of cold cucumber soup. "Excellent work Labrys, I was just craving for something chilly earlier."
"Ehehehe, you don't need to say that."
It was another hot summer day in Gensokyo, two girls, one blonde in a witch outfit and the other, a black haired shrine maiden, were simply lounging on the porch sipping ice cold green tea, "you know Marisa, I've been kinda worried lately, something's up with Yukari."
"Why's that? Nothing weird's been happening lately."
"She hasn't been pestering me lately, plus something's up with the Barrier, it's been feeling a lot weaker recently, I'm certain they're linked, and not in a good way."
"Oh lighten up Reimu, what's the worst that could happen? A castle just drops in?" Marisa laughed like it was nothing, leaving the exasperated miko annoyed. "This is serious airhead, what if that does ha-"
A great explosion sounded in the distance; followed by an equally distant whistling and subsequent thud of a several hundred ton, venerable castle. Reimu's first reaction was of course to shout. "Great! You had to go say that!" she said "moving onto other things, Yukari! Get your reality warping ass down here!" Seconds later, what looked like a rip in space opened up, accompanied by a weird humming sound; with aforementioned reality warper, Yakumo Yukari exiting. "Yukari, what did you do?" Reimu asked in a dangerously low voice. "Why are you accusing me of this Reimu-chan?" Yukari pouted.
"Because when it starts raining houses, you usually know something about it."
"I can assure you, I didn't do anything,"
"Mark my words gap hag, I'll beat the answers out of you if I have to."
"You're really pushing it Reimu-chan."
They argued for several minutes, Marisa simple watching because since she lacked anything better to do, then she noticed something weird. Yukari and Reimu stopped arguing after noticing that Marisa just walked away. She went towards the torii gate where the two immediately noticed that they had a visitor, a pale, red-eyed little girl with long, white hair. "Hello there little cutie, what's your name?"
Words spelt out midair in front of her, they read "excuse me but my business does not pertain to spell-casting fruitcakes like you."
"Wait, what did ya just call me?" Behind her, a certain miko and reality warper where currently laughing there asses off at the insult.
The girl simply walked past the flabbergasted witch, towards a side-clutching Reimu. More words appeared in front of her, inquiring "do you know where I am?"
"Hey, don't ignore me you little-"