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Chapter 1: Grif's Arrival

Grif stumbled tiredly into Red Base's barracks, exhausted from another encounter with the Blue Team. Their interactions with the opposing team have grown from hostile to just plain ridiculous, and Grif was beginning to think this whole thing was a joke.

Of course, he'd never tell Sarge that. If only because he liked his internal organs to stay internal.

Grif didn't even remove his helmet before letting his body fall backwards, waiting for his bed to break his fall and allow him a good two hours of sleep before Sarge woke him up for midnight-morning drills.

It never did. Grif opened his eyes, confused and startled, when he continued to fall backwards. He looked around, only to find he had been swallowed up by... something. He wasn't quite sure what it was. The darkness was broken only by the terrifying sight of dozens of eyes staring blankly at him as he fell. Above him was a strange rift, inside which he could see the barracks, that grew farther and farther away from him as he fell.

Suddenly, the eyes that surrounded him were replaced with blue skies as he fell through another strange rift. He could now see that the rift's edges appeared to be held closed by two red ribbons. There was a Donut joke in there somewhere, but Grif didn't feel like thinking about that.

After all, he was now plummeting at an alarming speed towards the ground below. He closed his eyes, waiting for the impact.

"I've lived a good life..." He thought, awaiting his end, "Shit, no wait, no I haven't. My commanding officer was a dickbag and no one ever listened to me!"

It was at this thought that he felt himself plunge into a body of water. He was saved for the time being, but he had absolutely no idea where he was. He surfaced and looked around, trying to locate the shore. Once he located land, he swam towards it. He was never a great swimmer, but then again, one could argue that Grif was never really great at anything. He was simply okay at most things, and bad at other things, but he never had anything notable he excelled at. Except being Grif, and being Grif in itself wasn't much of an accomplishment.

As he crawled up onto the shore, he felt a slight chill from behind him. This was unusual, because the weather had been pleasantly warm since he landed; even the lake was a comfortable temperature. He turned around, only to be greeted by what appeared to be a young girl. She had quite the unusual appearance. Everything about her seemed... blue. She had light blue hair that was cut fairly short, and in which she wore a huge green ribbon. She wore a deep blue dress over a collared shirt with puffy sleeves. Her collar was also adorned with a ribbon; red this time, tied with a sort of haphazard grace. Her eyes were also blue, and they were filled with amazement at Grif's own appearance.

However, the most interesting, and, indeed, most unsettling thing about her was the ice crystal-like clusters sticking out of her back like wings. This, along with the slight chill and wisps of cold mist, gave her an otherworldly appearance.

Having no idea where he was and absolutely no guidance about this place, he decided to break the ice, pardoning the pun, with the unusual blue haired girl.

"Uh, Hey. Um... I'm Private Grif, from Red Team. I'm new here... who are you?"

"Eye'm Cirno, the strongest youkai of em all."

"Um, the strongest what?"

"You know a youkai, eye'm a ice fairy."

"A fairy! I didn't think fairies existed! But then again, Sarge though pumas aren't real either... so I suppose I could have been wrong."

"Puma?"

"Oh come on! I can't be the only one who knows what a puma is!" Grif yelled, placing his hands on his visor and sighing. "Anyway, you said you were the strongest, so that means you're the commanding officer, right? Anyway, do you know where we are?"

"Well we're at misty lake."

"Well, I've never heard of Misty Lake before... Do you have any idea where Blood Gulch is? That's where I'm supposed to be stationed. Oh man, if I can't make it back before Sarge notices I'm gone, He'll probably use me as target practice again."

"Well if you're looking for directions eye think you should head to that mansion over there."the girl in blue then pointed to the mansion at the far edge of the lake.

"Oh man, that looks like a long walk..." Grif mumbled to himself, turning to the blue fairy, he replied. "Well, Cirno, thanks for the help. Maybe I'll see you again sometime."

"Well eye've gotta go freeze some frogs now. See ya around!"

Grif began walking along the edge of the lake. As he stated previously, it looked like a fairly long walk from where he was. He still didn't know where this place was or how he got here, but he only hoped that inside the mansion lied the answers to all his questions.

AN: Hey guys! This was a collaboration between me an one of my friends. I've got some pretty interesting ideas for this story. Tell me what you guys think. Reviews would be great.