Beginning author notes: Hello to all. This is my first fanfic in the Touhou project section, and is a change in pace from the crossovers that I usually do. Recently, I was introduced to the fandom of Touhou and it impressed me to say the least, to such an extent that I felt a story coming along, something that I've been hoping to happen for quite some time now.

This fanfic is very loosely related to my crossover series known as "The Defender Chronicles" but it has a "what if" bad future twist, which I have wanted to implement for some time now. Upon understanding and learning a little more of the characters and settings, I feel like I'm finally ready to put this story into progress, and at the same time, combining my twist, with this fanfic.

Despite this being a Touhou fanfic, the characters don't start appearing until at the end of this prologue.

Disclaimer: Anything mentioned in this fanfiction, aside from the initial design of the Defender Blade and my fan character Andre, does not belong to me. The ideas and concepts shown here belong to their original creators. No profit is made from this fanfiction.

Crimson Spirit Bolero

A Touhou Proyect Fanfic.

Prologue

I was running through the forest, running for dear life, no, running for the sake of my existence.

The massive beast, the legend that some people declare a god, was closing in on me.

I am Andre, and I used to be known as the Defender. I used to be a proud protector of peace between the dimensions and a valuable ally to the Dimensional Federation. It is all still so vivid. The war against the Dark Alliance, the small pockets of peace between that war. The times I had with other comrades, other friends from other worlds, and the times I had with my family. Lilo, Victoria…everybody.

But that all ended 6 months ago on that fateful day, a day which I curse with all of my being, and I curse myself for not being fast enough to stop it.

The day the legends of time and space were consumed by shadow.

Yes, the Dark Alliance had captured Dialga and Palkia and transformed them into shadow pokemon. After that, it was only a matter of three weeks and the Dark alliance had wiped out the Federation.

All, my allies, my friends…my family, were either dead, incarcerated, or dispersed…

…or even worse, erased from the face of history and existence.

I shed a tear as I keep on running.

Why was fate so cruel as to make me see such a tragedy befall my family? Why?!! They can't even be called my family anymore! They didn't and don't exist anymore! They never did! Shadow Dialga made sure of that.

Even though my other friends and allies weren't banished in such a manner, it might as well have been.

Sonic, due to an explosion, is now an invalid paraplegic.

Lan and Megaman's remains are dispersed in the Undernet.

Professor Oak has been incarcerated and left to die.

Queen Yuki of the Magical Kingdom was assassinated.

This is only the beginning of the unfathomable horror I've seen in those short 3 weeks. After that I went into hiding, hiding from the Dark Alliance itself, who was scouring the dimensions for me.

And finally, after 6 excruciating months, they have found me, and the chase was on.

"Why am I running? I have nothing more to live for, so shouldn't I just let him erase me? Wouldn't that end all of this for me?"

No, that would be suicide, and my moral value, which is somehow still intact, is stopping me from taking my own life. Now I wonder if moral value is a curse.

But for now, morals were the least of my problems.

Being a Human/Experiment/Netnavi hybrid, my physical prowess is much more than that of a normal human, but being hounded in this manner was overwhelming me with fatigue. It was then that I was able to see my destination.

There it was; my gummi ship.

I rush at it, open and enter it.

"If I can lift off and jump dimensions, I might be able to lose it, and save myself."

(Normal POV)

It was just then that he heard the roar of the legend and froze in terror at the controls as he saw what seemed to be a Roar of Time just missing the ship on the left side. The gigantic redwood-like trees that once obscured the left side, were now nothing more than simple saplings just beginning to grow.

This filled Andre with a new found form of rational terror. He immediately lifted off and took to the skies. He set his coordinates and started opening a portal for dimensional jump, but just as he was entering the portal…

"VWHAM!!!!!"

The ship was rocked by a violent hit. I fell from my seat in the cockpit. He looked around, and it seemed like the time and space of the ship was fading!

(Andre's POV)

"It hit the ship! Oh my God, it hit the ship! Lord preserve me!!"

Everything in my mind was gone, only the terror remained. I was going to die, but not from falling back into the previous world, but by being torn apart in the inter-dimensional abyss. When the ship started fading into my section. I did the only thing a person could do in my situation.

I screamed my soul out, and I fell.

I had accepted my fate, but that did not make the terror go away. As I fell…wherever down was, it felt like my whole body was burning and being twisted all around, even though my eyes proved me wrong in this instance, but the excruciating pain contradicted the eyes. In my heart, I was begging anybody or anything, supernatural or otherwise, to save me, or at least to rid me of my consciousness so that I do not have to feel this torture.

It seems like something heard my plea since I promptly blacked out.

"Young warrior, where you are going they will not be able to follow you. You will be able to rest, free of persecution. Weather you try to reverse the fate of your comrades or not is up to you, but you will be at peace…for now."

I woke to what seemed to be air stinging at me, and the realization that my pain was gone. Opening my eyes I saw that I was falling! I wasn't in the dimensional rift anymore, but falling back to the earth this way would prove dangerous, if not deadly.

"Salamance, go!" Andre shouted, but when he went to his belt his hands only grasped rushing air.

"No! I forgot I released all my pokemon three months ago! I didn't want them to live the life I had do live. Was I mistaken to do this on my own?"

Then, I did the next thing that I could think of.

"Lifeaura, Chip Data in! Download!"

But my Defender Blade never activated, to my horror.

Was this some kind of universal joke? Saving me from the wrath of the rift only to have me die when I slam into the earth?

It was then that I saw myself slowing down. It was enough to prevent death, but not enough to avoid slamming into the trees below me.

And slam into them I did, and saying that it hurt was a considerable understatement.

The trees had broken my fall and now I was sprawled on the ground, bleeding considerably. I took a bad blow to the head and that made my vision very blurry, and I could swear that I had my arm and leg broken, but I couldn't concentrate any harder to fully understand my injuries.

Despite my poor vision, I still could hear quite well, and in the distance I was able to distinguish two voices. At first I thought they were angels coming to take me away, but as they got clearer, I was able to confirm against that, as horribly dazed as I was.

"Marisa, here he is! I found him!"

"Dang! He's really in bad shape!"

Then I felt a hand pass lightly over my head, neck and upper body.

"I think…he's in shock! Get Reimu over here, and we're going to have to call Eirin soon enough. He definetly needs a doctor."

"I'm on my way, ze!"

The other voice left.

"If you can hear me, don't worry. Were getting you some help." The second voice said.

That comforted me to a certain extent, and then I faded into unconsciousness

"Young Warrior, this is your new home. Gensokyo."

"Welcome, Andre, Embodiment of the future."

Touhou: Crimson Spirit Bolero: Start

End of Prologue

Author end notes: Yeah. Andre is the Embodiment of the Future. I decided to play off the identifications for the characters in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (Ex. Alice is the Seven Colored puppeteer, Suika is Little Pandemonium, etc.), and that was the best thing I could think of that somewhat describes what he is. Please review. I don't need reviews to continue, but I love the feedback, even if it's negative, and it does hype me up to create more chapters.