A/N: This is my first time writing Touhou fiction so let me know how I did with the characters.
Hakurei Shrine
"Reimu! Where are you?" Marisa cried out from her broom. She hovered over the Hakurei Shrine yelling Reimu's name. In the distance fires burned in the Human Village and various other places around Gensokyo. Marisa herself sported several bruises where she had been hit by danmaku. She hopped off her broom and landed with a thud on the shrine grounds. In the forests surrounding the shrine youkai of all stripes gathered to demolish the shrine.
"Reimu!" Marisa held her broom in her right hand and her mini-hakkero in her left hand. She charged inside the shrine only to find a plain room, a lone table sat in the middle with two people hiding under it.
"Who's there?" Marisa raised the hakkero.
"Nobody."
"Ow, what was that for?" the second person smacked the first person.
"Be quiet someones here."
"Come out or I shoot," the witch called.
Two girls came out from under the table. A short blue girl with icicle wings and and a somewhat taller girl with green hair and antennae.
"What are you two doing here? Where's Reimu?" Marisa's grip on her hakkero tightened.
"We... uh..." Cirno began to cry.
"We came here because we thought it would be safe but some crazy ghost vaporized Mystia so we hid," Wriggle interrupted, "Reimu wasn't here when we got here."
"Are you saying Mima got out... again?" Marisa responded.
"If that's her name I guess." Wriggle dared to be snide.
"Reimu!" another person yelled. A dark haired girl with black wings crashed through the window, "Reimu!" the tengu known as Aya yelled again.
"She's not here. What's happening out there?" the witch demanded.
"It complete chaos out there. Youkai are attacking the Human Village. Myouren Temple is struggling to hold back the tide. Rumia has become a force of nature. Daiyousei is leading an army of fairies against the SDM and Eientei as we speak. Moriya Shrine has turned into a refugee camp and to top it off the there have been oni sightings."
"Things have gotten really bad really fast. These two just told that Mima's loose and she vaporized Mystia," Marisa facepalmed, "and there's something else. Since Reimu is gone, I guess the spellcard rules have gone out the window."
The gravity of the situation set into the group. Wriggle and Cirno reacted by crying and holding each other while Marisa and Aya simply dropped to there knees. Several distant explosions punctuated the atmosphere.
"Are the Kappa or Tengu kingdoms going to do anything?" Marisa asked.
"No they're just going to bunker down and wait it out."Aya answered.
"Yukari!" Marisa yelled at the top of her lungs, "I know you're listening so come out."
Two ribbons appeared in the air than space itself tore open. Eyes stared ominously from the void where a blonde haired woman stepped out followed by a nine tailed woman and two tailed girl.
"You called?" Yukari answered.
"What's going on? Gensokyo is falling apart." Aya began to panic.
"Reimu is gone. Gensokyo has lost its protector so now everything is falling to ruin."
"What do you mean gone? She couldn't just disappear," Marisa grabbed Yukari by the shoulders.
"I don't mean gone as in disappeared, I mean gone as in dead. Passed on." Yukari stated.
"Dead." Marisa's face became panicked. Her knees began to wobble. She dropped Yukari and fell back to her knees, "Dead. How?" Tears began drip from her eyes.
"It was a routine extermination. She beat a youkai in danmaku but it refused to back down so it punched its fist through her chest." Yukari as well as the others in the room became solemn.
"So what is going to happen now? What are we supposed to do now?" Wriggle broke the silence.
"Keep Gensokyo from completely collapsing. We have to protect this place. Without a shrine maiden if the shrine is destroyed the barrier could collapse." Yukari answered, "we'll also need to find a new Hakurei maiden."
"What are you talking about?" Aya interrupted, "I thought Reimu was an only child."
"She is but that doesn't mean she's the last of her family, the Hakurei bloodline survives outside Gensokyo."
"No," Marisa silenced Yukari's ramblings, "What are you talking abiut there's no time for that. If we get a new shrine maiden than what. She won't have any authority or any real power to fix this mess. I will do it myself." The witch began trembling with anger. Energy began coalescing around her. When suddenly the group of youkai finally decided to attack. The first threw open the but Marisa reacted much faster.
"Double Spark." Marisa fired a huge blast at the doorway. The attacking youkai simply ceased to exist.
"Wriggle and Cirno you two are coming with me," Marisa commanded.
The pair nodded out of fear more than anything else.
"Aya go back to the mountain and tell your superiors to relax. Yukari, I don't want to see or hear you until this all over. If I even smell you had anything to do with this I will vaporize you without a second thought," The witch glared at the ancient youkai. Magical energy continued to collect around her adding to her already fearsome presence.
Forest of Magic.
Alice stood on her roof firing lasers trying to fend off the fairies and youkai attacking her home. Magic booby traps triggered everywhere blasting fairies into oblivion while Goliath dolls fought youkai toe-to-toe. The smaller dolls, Shanghai and Hourai tried to rescue as many dolls as they could from Alice's burning home.
"How many are there?" She growled to herself firing another wave of lasers. A group of wolf moved into the clearing around the house.
"Shanghai, Hourai bring the book." The dolls appeared shortly at their master's side each holding one side of the Grimoire of Alice. Alice open the magically sealed lock and the book fluttered open. The rescued dolls began to rise, some attempted to put out the fire while the rest joined the battle. More youkai rushed into the clearing nearly pushing back the goliath dolls until Alice finally found a spell.
"Marionette Dance: Burial Dolls." Formerly invisible stings suddenly became visible everywhere. They wrapped themselves around the remaining youkai and fairies. Explosions filled the air like a symphony of destruction. Alice hopped down from the roof surveying the area.
"Let's go." A small army of dolls followed behind her. Thirty small dolls floated in formation with eight goliath dolls bringing up the rear.
Scarlet Devil Mansion
Hundreds of fairies charged the gates of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Hong Meiling and Sakuya Izayoi stood fast as the tide moved toward them.
"Get ready," Sakuya fanned out a deck of cards.
"I know," Meiling drew a line in the dirt with her foot. She squinted trying to mark the tide's progress in the dark than it hit like bus. Fairies surrounded the pair firing all the danmaku their tiny bodies could muster, creating a literal wall of bullets. Sakuya dropped her cards and vanished without a trace. Meiling on the other hand threw up a wall of chi to block. The maid reappeared behind the fairies attack line. Knives in hand she ran toward the unsuspecting fairies.
Unbeknownst to Meiling and Sakuya a second force of fairies broke into the mansion via library windows.
"Koakuma, is that witch back?" Patchouli asked barely lifting her head from a book.
"No, it seems that a group of fairies are attacking the mansion." Koakuma placed several books on a shelf.
"Oh," the magician waved her finger creating several golems out of books, "Find the intruders. Destroy them." Patchouli returned to her book.
"Would you like me to lead them?" Koakuma asked.
"If you like. It won't matter either way."
On the other end of the library fairies entered the sprawling city-like complex of bookshelves.
"This place is amazing." One fairy said to another.
"I know one of my friends worked here for a while."
"Hey, back in line," a larger fairy interrupted.
Following magical sensors, Koakuma and the golems reached the break-in and the steadily growing mass of fairies. The little devil fired off a stream of purple spheres while the golemi used it as cover. Elsewhere in the library, Patchouli giggled slightly. She watched the ensuing battle with a scrying mirror trying really hard not to start a coughing fit. Golem fists turned fairies to dust while Koakuma vaporized any stragglers, than maniacal laughter filled the air. For Koakuma it shook her very being.
"The mistress is up." Koakuma muttered.
"Remi's up." Patchouli redirected her scrying mirror.
Above the mansion a young, blue haired girl spread her wings. She raised her fist for her spear Gungnir to form. Remilia Scarlet, mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, she threw Gungnir at a mass of fairies. After a great explosion fairy bodies littered a crater. Sakuya and Meiling began to fight with renewed vigor. Remilia flew into the fray spearing fairies left and right with her bare hands. Blood splattered everywhere turning this descendant of Tepes into a scarlet devil.
"Can I go out to play with Onee-san?" Flandre Scarlet asked Patchouli.
"Maybe later,"
"Okay," Flandre picked a book off Patchouli's desk and sat down on the floor.
A/N: I also wanted to do a part for Byakuren but I wasn't too sure about how to write her so maybe I'll do a side chapter for her. Should I continue Marisa Rising, Alice's Journey or the Siege of the SDM next?
