Touhou ~ Mystic Star Raid
Summary: The residents of Makai are acting up again. More and more youkai are pouring through the border. However, they are acting peaceful, unlike the time before when Shinki was trying to take down the Border. Reimu, Marisa, Yuka and the recently reincarnated Mima head to the depths of Makai to find out what's going on, but they don't see what they expected.
Chapter 1: Highly Responsive to…Pocky?
A girl sighs as she flies through the depths of what looks like a dangerous world. This girl is the Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise, Hakurei Reimu. She and her "rival turned best friend", Kirisame Marisa, "enemy turned acquaintance", Kazami Yuka, and the Mysterious Immortal Spirit of Gensokyo, Mima, are travelling into the depths of Makai, for the second time.
"When will we get to Shinki's lair already, ze~?" Marisa complained for the twentieth time that hour. "I'm bored and Makai isn't exactly the ideal hangout spot, ze."
Reimu's eye twitched. "Marisa, if you don't stop complaining, I can, and will use my Gensou Fuuin -Spread- on you." The Red-White Miko turned to Mima and said, "How could you put up with her for as long as you did? She had to have been worse than she is now."
Mima shook her head, "She was never this bad when I asked her to do something." Yuka pitches in, "Maybe it was after she STOLE MY MOVE, and stopped learning from you and started living with Reimu that it happened."
Marisa flinches at the statement, "Yuuuuuuuukaaaaaaaaa, I didn't steal it, I just…borrowed it. And made it better, da ze."
Yuka's red eyes glimmered with insanity as she slowly turned to Marisa, the grip on her parasol tightening, "Would you really like to test that statement against my Double Spark?"
Reimu and Mima, both having had enough, yelled, "THAT'S ENOUGH ALREADY! SHUT UP NOW!"
There was silence for a few minutes, followed by the sound of a child's giggling. A male child. A male child safely standing on one of the spires pushing its way into the air, in the middle of Makai.
Reimu's eyes widened at the sight, "Who would leave a child to fend for itself in MAKAI, of all places? That's absolutely despicable."
The 6 year old child merely smiled in an 'I-know-a-secret-that-you-don't' way before saying, "Hiya! That is how humans greet each other right?" Gold eyes full innocence and playfulness stare into the shocked face of the four women before him.
Reimu was surprised. She never expected the boy to be a youkai. Considering the fact that every youkai she had faced was female, most males were human and never harmed except by accident, or an insane youkai attacks them.
Marisa was rather excited. She could feel the power he radiated; it was equal to that of an Extra Stage Mid Boss right now. She HAD to fight him. That or she wanted to kidnap and rape him, one can't be too sure of these things.
Yuka was in a state between sexual lust and absolute disgust. She could feel the power wafting off of the child. It made her youkai blood howl with excitement and lust. However, her brain was retching at the fact that a mere child was doing this to her.
Mima was not totally shocked. She remembered bits and pieces from all of her previous lives, some of which involved rather…raunchy moments with male humans and youkai. So seeing another was just another drop in the pan.
The Gold Eyed Youkai of Mysteries spoke up and said, "Ya know, this is mom's territory and she's gotten stronger since the last intruders. So has everyone since Alice-neechan left. By the way you wouldn't happen to have any Pocky on you, would you? Any flavor would do."
Marisa opens her mouth to shout something, only for Reimu to interrupt and say, "Your mother? Who is your mother? Oh, and here, I guess. I had it saved for later, but I guess you can have it." She threw a box of pocky to the child as she said this.
The boy smiled and flew over to the box and, after opening the box and removing one to put in his mouth to eat, he says, "Thanks a lot Kohaku-neechan (Red-White Big Sis). I thought Shirokuro-nee (Black-White Big Sis) would have some. Oh, I almost forgot, I'm Orion. Hoshizora Orion. I'm Shinki's adopted son. Who are you girls, anyway?" The recently named Orion look questioningly at the group before him.
Yuka answered his question with, "We are simply curious people from Gensokyo. Youkai have been pouring through the border and acting peacefully. We were going to ask Shinki if the border was destroyed, but it was fine."
Orion moves to respond, but four female voices call out simultaneously, "ORION! WHERE ARE YOU?"
Soon after the voices are revealed as a girl with blue hair, a girl with blonde hair and red eyes, the silver haired Shinki, and a girl with red hair fly out behind Orion. He then calls, "I'M OVER HERE!"
The girl with red hair, that appeared to be the same age as Orion, flew over and smacked him upside the head, "YOU BAKA! Why the crap are you all the way out here! Yuki and Mai were worried when you skipped the lessons. AGAIN. Honestly, sometimes I wonder if you want to stay and idiot."
"Priiiiiism, don't do that! You know I think those lesson are useless. I already have my patterns set and my spell cards created! You've seen them! Plus, I would have just skipped out in between anyway." Orion whined while holding his head from the smack.
Yuki, the blond with red eyes, crossed her arms and said, "That's still not an excuse not to at least leave a note or something." Mai nods, "…you could have gotten hurt, Orion-sama." Shinki, who finally notices the girls who were staying silent, says to them, "And why are you talking to my old punching bags anyway?"
Marisa, who managed to stay silent through everything except Shinki's insult, shouted, "Hey, we were not your punching bags, ze! If anything, you were our punching bag, Shinki!"
Orion and Prism rolled their eyes and Orion, turned to Prism and smirked, "You want to something bang out of order?" his response was a similar smirk and a nod as he grabbed Prism's hand and flew toward the Border Space.
Neither, the Mystic Square Makai group nor the player group noticed, too caught up in the argument about who was whose punching bag. Only when Mai looked over to where the children were supposed to be, did she tap Yuki on the shoulder and say, "Ano, Yuki-chan, Orion and Prism are gone," did everyone else notice.
Then came the freak out. Oh, what fun.
Reimu's reaction was looking around her rapidly, Marisa blinked, Yuka raised an eyebrow, and Mima clapped like an air head, "What fast young children!"
Shinki was already flying toward the Border Space along with Yuki and Mai, all three calling for the young children that seem to love causing mischief. Reimu, wanting to make sure the three didn't do something destructive to Gensokyo during their desperation, chased after them having Marisa, Yuka and Mima follow.
"Orion, you know how mad Mom's gonna be when she finds us. Why are we still out here?" "Calm down, I'm just trying to see if I can make a mental map of the general area. Since we know she'll come sooner or later, we'll just go back through the border once mom's looking for us."
The short conversation came from Orion, who was trying to memorize the landscape, and Prism, who was trying to get him to go back into the Makai gate. Orion finished memorizing the area and landed, saying, "There, I'm done. Now all we have to do is wait for Mom, Yuki, and Mai to pass through the gate we walk in, then walk out and get their attention. We don't get in trouble for leaving, and we get to see the outside world once. "
Prism is silent then says, "That has to be the riskiest plan you've come up with to date. It's also the smartest. Who are you and what have you done to the idiot named Orion?" She says jokingly.
"That, my friend, is a mystery that even Yukari-neechan can't solve." Orion responds as they hide near the gate. Only moments after Shinki and her Mystic Square entourage fly out of the Border Space and look for them.
Orion signals to Prism to be quiet and follow him. They successfully sneak back into the gate and turn to call out to them. Unfortunately, Orion never anticipated running into Reimu and the others.
Literally.
The sound of the collision caused Shinki to turn toward it to see the two on the ground near Reimu and Marisa, all four of them holding some body part. Shinki immediately flies over and asks, "Are you two alright? Where did you go? Why didn't you say anything?" She continued to bombard them with questions until she paused and said, "Well? Aren't you going to answer me?"
"You were bombarding us with questions without giving us time to answer. Now that you've stopped, we will." Orion stated in the closest thing he could get to an absolute deadpan. Prism giggled and added, "We were kinda surprised too. You did fly right by us after all."
Shinki blinked, "I did? I didn't see you before now. When?" "Right as you were leaving the Border Space. We were watching the Youkai move through the gate. You flew right under us."
"And in order, we're fine-"
"To the Border Space-"
"We tried but you were to into the conversation you were having-"
"They just flew out of nowhere-"
"And we're hungry!" The two switched of answering the questions until the last one were they spoke in unison.
Shinki laughed at that. "Well, then I guess we'll have to go get you two something to eat won't we?" She lifts the two children youkai up to her shoulders and lifts off the ground. She remembers the intruders to Makai and turns to them. "I don't know or care why you came to Makai. All you need to know is this: I convinced the Makaian youkai to not to cause as much trouble as they did years ago. Now leave, I need to get some food for these two."
With that last parting message, Shinki flew off, followed closely by Yuki and Mai. Reimu simply stared after the five as they left back to the recesses of Makai where they made their home.
It would be the last time anyone from Gensokyo saw the children of Makai for ten years.
Well, what do you think? It's my first story so please be somewhat gentle. Oh, and for those who don't know, Orion and Prism are OC's created by me and my friends. Basically they are the closest thing to friends they've had so far.
Orion's basic outfit right now is a white t shirt and black shorts. Prism's is basically a smaller version of Shinki's outfit in Mystic Square, the fifth Touhou game and last of the PC-98 era, just being a crimson red, not the light red it is in the game.
Shinki, Yuki and Mai where the same thing they do in Mystic Square, Reimu, Marisa, and Yuka are wearing the Phantasmagoria of Flower View outfits. Mima's wearing what she usually does.
I don't own Touhou, or any references I make. Nor do I own any other series I reference.
I do however own Orion and partially own the Prism in this story. She belongs to another of my friends.
Please give some advice on how to make my story better!