A short oneshot which i created because i was bored. An first time try at stuff you could say.

Dinner

It was a normal night. The Scarlet Devil Mansion settled in for the night, a red island in the green sea of the surrounding landscape.

Inside, at the dinner room, the occupants of the mansion, the rational ones anyway, sat and ate their dinner. Forks and spoons chimed as they did their purpose, the food guided into the mouth of their wielders.

Remilia took a sip of red before turning to her good friend and respected librarian, Patchouli Knowledge. "So Patchy, how was your day?"

The purple haired magican sighed. "The usual. Another attempted 'borrowing' by the black-white and a day of teaching Flandre how not to Kyuu in her anger. I will let you guess which one ended in sucess."

Remilia nodded, familiar with the trouble of her friend. At least the black-white was human, meaning that she slept during the night and spared her the problems of the day.

She turned to her gatekeeper. "I suppose you have to say something about the black-white?"

Meiling groaned as she nursed a battered body. "Punches and kicks do very little when you have a master spark. I just wish I had more assistants."

Remilia clicked in annoyance, her eyes echoing the same sentiment. "From that I heard, your problems lie in your sleeping, not your skills. Am I wrong Sakuya?"

The silver-haired human bowed, looking every inch like the perfect maid of her reputation. "No Remilia-sama. Meiling-San could be more attentive in her duty. That would certainly be able to make up for any lack of numbers."

Meiling trembled in anger. Everyday, they bemoaned her supposed incompetence. Why don't they take over for a day and try it out for themselves?

Remilia turned to her human servant. "What about you Sakuya, how was your day?"

"The day was normal, Remilia-sama. The cleaning of the mansion was completed at normal speed with a majority of the work finished by me. All food stocks are still at optimum level although we are running low on several stocks of wine and blood. Damage from the black-white was repaired within the hour of the attack and all properties of the mansion were recovered before they left the premises." Sakuya reported with a tired voice, making the events sound as if they were everyday occurrences. Well, in Gensokyo at least, they were.

Remilia smiled. "Excellent work Sakuya. Do you think that you require more assistants? To do such a large amount of work has to be exhausting for you."

'She only cares for her human. No one cares that today, I fought off the Moriya shrine maiden or that I held off a fairy attack led by that idiot ice-head.' Meiling thought bitterly.

Somewhere in the lake, Cirno sneezed.

Remilia directed her attention to a mansion occupant that she rarely spoke to. "So how about you Koakuma?"

The red-haired succubus blinked in surprise. While she was a common appearance during dinners, it was rare that Remilia would even pay her any attention.

"Ah well, I managed to catalogue several new bookshelves and I helped Patchouli-sama to stop the black-white." Koakuma said, looking embarrassed in the way she flapped her head wings as if she could bear tell Remilia such boring stories.

Remilia smiled warmly. "Keep up the good work."

The succubus blushed, looking even more embarrassed from the praise. Her head-wings flapped faster.

'Even that she-devil got better treatment than me. I hate this!' Meiling growled.

Unable to take it any longer, Meiling stood up and turned to leave. Her chair scraped across the floor, making teeth gritting sounds that gave a feeling of on edge.

"China, what are you doing?" Remilia questioned, looking at the insolent gatekeeper who dared to leave the table before she, the mistress of the house, did.

Meiling blurred around, her face a mask of fury. Snatching her fork from the table, she hurled it at the 500-year-old vampire with all her might, raw burning anger driving her every movement.

The fork barely made a meter in flight before it was driven in another direction by another flying object. It came to a stop by the side of a pillar, a silver blade pinning to the marble support.

"My name is Hong Meiling, not China!" Meiling screamed.

The dining room was encased in silence from Meiling's outburst. Patchouli looked interested at the sudden turn of events but those who knew her closely know she too was shocked by Meiling's move. Koakuma simply displayed her emotions plainly on her face, her mouth open. Sakuya looked like a person ready to kill from the way her eyes locked onto Meiling and her hand twitched to her knife holster.

Remilia on the other hand simply looked calmly at the Chinese youkai, her hands interlocked in front of her. A pair of scarlet slit eyes faced off against defiant ones.

Meiling turned around and stomped to the dinner room doors.

"Hong Meiling, you will sit down this instance!" Sakuya shouted, sounding as if she was talking to a child, not a youkai well versed in martial arts.

Remilia held her hand up. Sighing, she did something she wished her would never have to do.

"Chinabot Hong Meiling override SDM 495!" She commanded.

Meiling froze, her fluidly moving body stopping until she was as still as a statue. Her eyes turned glassy as the light in them died.

Remilia turned to Koakuma and smiled sadly. "It's so hard to get good help this days." She said.

Koakuma simply kept her mouth open, frozen in her shocked look. A spark burst in light in her mouth, dying as it came in contact with the wetness on its surface.

Remilia groaned. "Sakuya, condition check."

Sakuya froze robotically. A dead monotone arose form her mouth. "The Custom-made Nitorin tech Perfect maid model type Sakuya Izayoi reports all systems in the green."

Remilia let out a thankful huff. "At least you are trustworthy."

She turned to her good friend. "Patchy, can you call Nitorin tech tomorrow? Tell them we have a gatekeeper model that is going against its master programming and a faulty librarian assistance model."

Patchouli nodded resignedly. "A shame, I was starting to grow on this one."

"Sakuya, have the maids bring up the spare models from storage and keep this two until Nitorin tech gets here. Oh and more wine please." She commanded.

Sakuya bowed like the perfect maid that she was. "Of course, Remilia-sama."

So how was it? Review and tell me your thoughts. XD