I'm finally trying on writing again. I hope I can still write as good. Anyway, if you like it(or not), let me know. If you wanna criticize my writing, I'll gladly let you though don't be too harsh or "troll-y" please.
It was a silent night in Gensokyo. Despite the night being clear skies with a bright moon shining over it, there wasn't a single creature in sight aside from Rumia, and everything was quiet. Why is that, you ask? Well, that's because it's midnight, and that was the perfect time for a certain witch to put her plans into motion.
"Alright. Considering it's midnight now, everyone should be asleep by now and Patchy would be too. Hehe~ This is perfect."
Breezing through the night on her trusty broomstick, Marisa was on her way towards one of her favorite places to go to besides Reimu's shrine, which is the Scarlet Devil Mansion or SDM for short, and she was planning to "visit" the huge library contained within it, The Voile, to "borrow" some books from the owner, Patchoulli Knowledge, who was a "friend" of hers. But she didn't plan on going away with just a few. Oh, no, she was planning to "borrow" a lot of book tonight, hence the burlap sack she had slung over her shoulder.
"Alright, it's almost 1 am now. This should be the time Patchy either sleeps or goes to have a midnight breakfast with the vampires. Better make this quick and quiet." said Marisa before speeding off towards the mansion. When she arrived, she noticed that they had installed some watch towers with maid fairies patrolling the nearby areas and a few of them also appointed to the gates with Meiling, the gate guard, acting as the squadron leader. "Security's getting tighter and tighter every week, huh? And just where do they find all those fairies anyway?" said Marisa as she observed the situation at the front gate. Luckily she knew of a secret entrance that leads straight to the library and it's located at the side of the mansion that's hidden from the guards and patrols at the front gate. There was a small compartment where the old storage room used to be, and that's where Marisa had been going to sneak into the library unnoticed. It's only a matter of time before the place is discovered and she knew she had to find a new secret entrance soon, but for now she's not that worried about it.
"As abandoned as ever, huh? Well, at least you're not abandoned by me." said Marisa with a chuckle as she entered the room and pulled a lever hidden behind a large crate to reveal a secret elevator. Marisa walked into the elevator and pressed a button to go down to the only other floor available down, which is the library(the only other floors available upwards are the inner storage room and roof). It was an old run down elevator, so it's not the smoothest of elevator rides, but it would do. Around 30 or so seconds later, Marisa has reached her destination, the back parts of the library that's often overlooked. Once she got out, she checked her surroundings to see if anyone was there, but as expected not one creature in sight.
"Nobody's here. Perfect. Let's get this show on the road~" said Marisa in a soft spoken voice before she would start flying around swiftly to nab as many books as she can without being seen. Just as she was about to make a corner though, she managed to notice 2 girls sitting at a large table, both of them seeming to discuss something. "Huh? They still haven't slept? That's interesting." noted Marisa as she watched them from behind a shelf.
"Now that we've installed night security at the front gate, what else could we do to keep that Witch away, Master?" asked one of the girls, a red-haired with small wings on her head known as Koakuma, to the other girl, who has long lavender hair and wears a purple pajama-like dress known as Patchouli.
"Hmm... We may or may not have to install security in our library too, but I really don't want any damages to the library. It's already hard enough that we have to rebuild this place almost everyday..." said Patchoulli with a hint of frustration as evidenced by her rubbing her temples. "Believe me when I say this; one day, I will make a trap so scary that she would think twice or thrice before coming here again!"
"But what if that fails?" asked Koakuma as she massaged her master's shoulders. Letting out a long sigh, Patchoulli nonchalantly replied, "Then I'll just try and take her out, either with a trap, a spell, or if worse comes to worst, I'll just cripple her for life or even kill her."
When Marisa heard this, instead of feeling scared, she instead felt amused by it. "Heh. Her, taking me out? As if. Not in a million years with that weak body of hers. Hehe."
"Wait, did you hear something?" Patchouli looked around her in surprise, now on alert. This prompted Marisa to hide back behind the shelf. "I think it came over there?" Koakuma pointed to a shelf that's close to Marisa's location. "I think I'll have a look." Koakuma spread open the wings on her back and began to fly over in that direction.
"Oh crap, gotta hide...!" Marisa looked around for a place to hide, but luck didn't seem to be on her side this time as there were no other hiding places to be seen. She could see that Koakuma was getting nearer and nearer, and just as she was just second away from her hiding spot, a voice called out to them.
"Lady Patchouli, Lady Koakuma, your presences are needed at the dining table. Mistress requested it." called out a maid from the library entrance. "Lady Patchouli? Have you slept already?"
"In a minute...!" replied Patchoulli. "Well Koa, let's go have our midnight breakfast."
"Coming!" Koakuma happily went over to Patchoulli's location and they both started walking out of the library.
"I can't believe I've become paranoid to the point where I've started hearing Marisa's voice everywhere." "I can't believe you were even paranoid in the first place." "Shut it, Koa. Don't make lash out my frustration at you again." "But you do it so very often..." Marisa waited until she could no longer hear their voices before she would come out of hiding.
"Phew. That was close." said Marisa as she released a sigh of relief. "Alright, now that they're not here, time to get nabbing~" And with that, Marisa took off on her broom and started taking books left and right and placing them into her burlap sack. She never cared what kinds of books they are as long as they're spell books and tomes.
Meanwhile, in the dining room...
"...So am I to understand that you still need more manpower to keep the Witch away?" said a vampire girl as she munched on her breakfast of waffles. "Do we really need more manpower though? How about we set up some magic barriers instead?"
"We already did that 2 weeks ago, Remilia. She bypassed through them like hot butter through knife..." said Patchouli, feeling slightly sleepy yet restless. She was clearly struggling to even stay upright.
"I think you meant "hot knife through butter", Master..." corrected Koakuma as she went over to support her.
"That's what I said..." Patchouli then slumped over on the table, looking as if she's tired of living. "Sakuya, one more cup of coffee please..." she called out with a less-energetic voice.
"Yes, Lady Patchouli." replied the maid from before, now introduced as Sakuya, before she disappeared in a blink of an eye and reappearing with a cup of coffee along with refills.
"Thank you..." Patchouli took a sip of coffee and sat upright again, feeling only slightly energized. "I got this feeling that she might be in the library right at this moment and is probably stashing away half of my library in her magical bag or something..." said Patchouli, looking very worried.
"She can't really be there right now, can she? But still, if she is in there right now, that would make it the 4th time this week..." said Remilia before she drank her cup of blood-infused tea until it was empty. "To be really honest, I think it's us being comfortable around her that made it easy for her to sneak in and steal, especially since you seem to have a thing for her."
Patchouli spat out her coffee at the mention of the last part. "I-I do not... I-I just found myself wanting company, i-is all..." retorted Patchouli as she turned her face away, a blush visible on her face, which in turn garnered a smile from the vampire.
"Sure you don't...~ Then what's with all those pictures of her I see on the walls?" said Remilia in a teasing manner.
"T-Those are for target practice for my spells..." replied Patchouli, starting to feel embarrassed.
"Then what about the doll of her that Alice made that I sometimes see you hugging in your sleep?"
"Y-You were watching me sleep!?"
"Or that body pillow that has a picture of Marisa in lingerie on one side and school outfit on the other?"
"I-It was a gift from her. I-I can't just throw it away..."
"But you threw away the dress that I gave you on your birthday."
"I-It was too small..."
Patchouli's face was turning redder and redder with each thing Remilia brought up, Remilia clearly having fun with it while Koakuma could only nervously watch their exchange.
"Fair enough. So what about that book that's filled with various pictures of her and you, some lewd, that I stumbled upon the other day?" asked Remilia, expecting a flustered reaction again, only this time Patchouli replied differently.
"I'm sorry, what? I don't have a book like that." replied Patchouli, looking rather confused and surprised. "What kind of book are you talking about?"
"Come on, don't play dumb with me, you closet stalking pervert." said Remilia in a playful manner.
"No really, what book are you talking about?" asked Patchoulli, now getting more confused.
This got Remilia surprised. "Alright then. Sakuya!"
Sakuya returned to her side to await any orders. "Yes, Mistress?"
"Left closet, third drawer from the top, under my nightgowns. You know the book." Remilia instructed the maid before she disappeared and reappeared with a small book with a white cover.
"Here's the book, Mistress." said Sakuya as she gave her the book and bowed before she left.
"Thank you, Sakuya. Now, as I was saying..." Remilia slid the book across the table until it reached Patchouli. "Take a look."
Koakuma flew to Patchouli's side as she grabbed the book. Already they were blushing as the front page of it has a picture of a naked Marisa trapped inside a slimy bubble clasping hands with... you guessed it; Patchouli, who seems to be smiling and almost as if leaning for a kiss. Though Marisa's naked body is blocked by Patchouli's clothed body, they both got the gist of what it was trying to portray.
"J-Just where did you..."
"Read first, questions later," was all that Remilia said before she went to enjoy more of her tea.
"Alright...?" Patchouli and Koakuma proceeded to read the book. They found out that the book was actually a manga, and whatever it is inside, it involved Patchouli and Marisa.
"W-Wow... I-I didn't know you were into t-this kind of s-stuff, Master..." said Koakuma nervously as she looked at the manga in close detail.
"It wasn't me... J-Just who would make this...?" said Patchouli as she looked at a scene where the Patchouli in the manga trapped Marisa inside a slimy bubble, rendering her immobile. She turned over the next pages to see what would happen and then she found a scene where Marisa's clothes started to melt in the slime, and soon enough, the manga Patchouli entered the slime with Marisa and her clothes started dissolving too before she would make love with Marisa. "J-J-Just what kind of... How... Why did this get published...?" At the end of the manga, the two were seen sleeping with each other, holding hands. Clearly the two were in shock.
"Well? What do you think?" asked Remilia as she patiently waited for their answer.
"R-Remi... where did you find this?" asked Patchouli, her face beet red now.
"I told you, in your library. It was even on your studying table." replied Remilia.
"B-But I don't even remember this book being there..."
"Hmm..." Koakuma inspected the book in a closer look. "From the materials alone, I can say that this book came from the Outside World..."
"So how did that get here?"
"Beats me."
Both of them sighed and placed the book down in order to try and forget it. But as Patchouli sat down thinking of what she just read...
"Wait, you said this was in your room, right? So how long do you have this book on you? And what do you usually..." The look on Remilia's face just told her pretty much everything she wanted to know. "No... you didn't..."
"Yep~ And I found it last week, so you know what that means, right~?" said Remilia before she licked her lips as she watched Patchouli fluster about.
"I-I can't believe you..." And with that, Patchouli stood up with her face even redder than before, and started walking away towards the library.
"M-Master Patchouli, wait!" Koakuma then followed her to the library, not wanting to be left behind.
"Poor girl. It's so fun to tease her like that~" said Remilia to herself as she helped herself with another cup of tea.
Patchoulli was angrily storming back to her library, angry and embarrassed at what Remilia had shown her. She's also upset and embarrassed to find that Remilia had been in possession of the manga for a week and had been reading that thing for a while, maybe even did more than just read. She just can't believe it right now. Everything seemed to happen so fast for her tired mind to comprehend.
"Master Patchouli, wait!" shouted Koakuma as she finally caught up with her master. "Please just calm down, Master. Your asthma's going to act up again if you walk so fast."
"I know, Koa. I just can't believe Remi had that thing for a while and not tell me. And to think she may have even... well, did *that* when reading it..." Patchouli covered her face once again and drew in a few deep breaths until she could feel herself calming down again. "Koa... do you know why I've been so adamant in wanting Marisa to keep away from my library?" Patchouli suddenly asked her partner just as they reach the library doors.
"Aside from not wanting her to take your books?" asked Koakuma to confirm.
"Aside from the books, yes. Well, you know how a lot of those books and tomes are of high-level magic, right?" said Patchoulli.
"Yes. So you're saying that you just don't want the wrong spells to fall into the wrong hands?" asked Koakuma.
"That's correct, but that's not all the reasons for it." said Patchouli before pausing for a bit. "Remember that monster that we had accidentally released that we had to call for the shrine maiden to help exterminate?"
"Oh, I remember that one. It's the fish-like humanoid thing, right?"
"That's the one, the Merking." said Patchoulli. "The thing about it was Reimu never fully killed it."
"She didn't?"
"No. It was still standing though not that strong, and Reimu had already drained herself of all her powers, so I had to do something."
"What did you do?"
"...I sealed it away in a room I quickly constructed into a part of the library. The room is pretty much the size of a regular bedroom, but it's all filled with water so it can survive."
"So it's alive..."
"Not only that, while most of its strength are gone, it's still too powerful for me to send it back to where he came from. It has even developed resistance against magic, so it's hard for me to weaken it to even send him back to its home."
"Oh my..."
Patchouli let out a sigh. "And that's why I don't want her to wander around in my library. I just don't want her to discover that thing and die because of it."
"I see..." Koakuma walked up to her master and hugged her from behind. "It's alright Master, I'm sure you'll get to send that thing away one day. Maybe if you tell her about it she'll understand and leave? You do need to lay it off a bit though."
"Thanks Koa, but I-" Patchouli was cut off before she could say anything else. "I gotta say though, with you being worried about her like this, it's no wonder people seem to think you two are an item." teased Koakuma, which made Patchouli blush in embarrassment and only replied with, "Whatever. Now let's just get inside," and they both entered the library to rest up for the night... only to find it in wrecks.
"...And of course, she still manages to break in..."
Next part's coming when I can write it, so no definite time of upload for it.