Part 1: One Missing Mansion, One New Mansion

AN: And... here we go!

LOCATION: Garden of the Sun, Gensokyo

All of the flowers in the massive sunflower garden seemed to bend downward, as if attempting to express sadness. Yuuka Kazami, the Flower Master of the Four Seasons, was very sad, grumpy, and ever-so-slightly angry, not to mention distraught. Very distraught, and would not allow herself to speak to anybody at all. Reason being? Her mansion, Mugenkan, had mysteriously disappeared only a few minutes before, and almost all of the other residents of her mansion had disappeared with it, except for Elly, the mansion's gatekeeper. Yuuka was normally there, controlling a projection that let her "stay" in Gensokyo, the location of her massive sunflower garden. When Mugenkan disappeared, the real Yuuka disappeared with it, leaving a "hollow" Yuuka in the garden remaining. Meanwhile, Elly was making many rounds throughout Gensokyo to explain the problem, and she had not yet returned to the garden.

LOCATION: Yakani Household, Kannapolis

In the outside world, all was well. It was a boring day, an average Wednesday, during your average spring break. "Hey, Alex?" Travis asked Alex. "What is it, Travey?" Alex sarcastically responded. "Ugh... I told you to stop using that name... regardless, what do you want to do today?" Travis continued. "I'm messing with you, you kn- woah." Alex started to explain, but suddenly stopped talking. "What? What is it, Alex?" Travis worriedly called out. "There's this... weird purple hole in the kitchen floor!" Alex shouted out. Alex and Travis Yakani were brothers, ages 14 and 12 respectively, and they were your average middle schoolers. When they were younger, they always used to go into the forest behind their house, going deep enough to even get lost once or twice. "Let me see..." Travis muttered, as he ran towards the kitchen to see the strange hole in the kitchen floor. However, he tripped on a book that was laying on the floor, and he fell into the strange hole. "TRAVIS! I'm coming!" Alex shouted, as he jumped into the hole after Travis.

LOCATION: ?, ?

Alex soon found his bearings in the strange violet-colored world, and eventually found Travis. "So... where... are we?" Travis asked. "I've got no clue, but these eyeballs all over the place are kinda freaking me out." Alex explained. "Me too." Almost as fast as the brothers entered the strange world, they simply disappeared.

LOCATION: Mansion, ?

The Yakani brothers then found themselves in a strange building. "What... was that?" "I... have no idea." Travis answered. "I suppose we should look around for some sort of clue on where we are?" Alex proposed. "I... suppose." Travis, still confused about the events of the past 5 minutes, conceded. Alex and Travis looked throughout the building, after Alex went outside, he figured out that they were in some sort of mansion, located in a forest that seemed to go on forever.

Eventually, Travis found a small box in one of the mansion's rooms, it sounded like the sound of rustling papers. Shortly thereafter, the brothers met back up in the room that they had appeared in. "So, what's in the box?" Alex asked Travis, looking at the box in curiosity. "Well... let's see." Travis stated, as he opened the box. Inside the box were many papers, they all looked like they came from some sort of book, except for one, which seemed to be printer paper. "O...kay... this is strange..." Travis grabbed the piece of printer paper, got Alex's attention, and began to read the note. "'To: Alex and Travis Yakani: Hello... welcome to Gensokyo, the land of Illusion. I am Yukari Yakumo. In this box, along with this note, you will find pages of this world's Chronicles. The pages will explain some of the people-'" "'People' is crossed out here..." Travis quietly noted, and continued to read the note. '-major players that you may or may not meet. If you wish to go back... I'm sorry. You cannot return. Welcome to the Land of Illusion. Signed, Yukari Yakumo.'" "...oh, dear." Travis muttered. "What... what is it?" "If we're in the land of illusion... wonderful... we're stuck here..." "What's wrong with the land of illusion?" Alex asked, he did not know of the legend of Gensokyo.

"Listen. This is a Japanese legend from long ago. A thousand years ago, the island of Japan used to be much bigger, before the Valley of Gensokyo disappeared from it. If we're in the valley... we may be stuck here." Travis cryptically paused his explanation, before Alex spoke up. "That note did say that we can't return, right?" "Yes, it did." "...That's... great." Alex sarcastically responded, as the two siblings began reading the pages of "this world's Chronicles", as "Yukari" called it. About 10 minutes later, there was a loud knock at the door of the mansion. "...A visitor? Who out of anyone in Gensokyo would want to visit us?" Travis asked out loud, and Alex looked up from the page he was reading. "Well, couldn't hurt to see... right?" "I suppose, I'll need to answer it. Stay behind me. Just in case." "Okay, that makes sense." As the brothers walked up towards the door, Travis simply stated, "Don't expect the residents here to make much of it," before opening it. Who he saw... was not who he was expecting.

LOCATION: Front Entrance, Yakani Mansion, Gensokyo

In front of Travis stood Reimu Hakurei, Yuuka Kazami, and another creature, this one looked much like a crow. Yuuka started the conversation, loudly saying, "What did you do to my mansion?" Travis had no words, and simply stepped back, as did Alex, who simply said, rather quietly, "We... did nothing to your mansion..." The crow-like creature stated in response, "Well, you're the last one out, you're newcomers too." "What does that have to do with anything?" Travis asked. "You two... seem suspicious, that's all." Reimu explained. At the same moment, somebody walked by the doors of the mansion, only to stop and look back at the growing commotion. "Hey, what's going on?" the mystery woman asked. Yuuka turned around, and said, "Stuff involving these new people and my mansion." At this, the mystery woman walked towards the front doors of the mansion. "Move outta the way of the time-stop maid..." the crow-like creature muttered, and the maid responded, "I have a name, Aya, use it." At this, "Aya" and Reimu moved to the side. The maid stopped, and spoke to Travis. "Sakuya Izayoi. I'm the maid at the Scarlet Mansion. As you... probably heard, I can stop time." Travis, too confused to say anything else, simply answered, "Okay." In response, Sakuya simply said, "Now, I must be off. Goodbye." and left, with Reimu, Yuuka, and Aya leaving not long after. The doors then shut.

LOCATION: Dining Hall, Yakani Mansion, Gensokyo

"This... this is a predicament we've gotten ourselves into, haven't we?" Alex and Travis had sat in the dining room, they began to talk about what sounded like their new home. "Yeah..." "Now, we're in Gensokyo... we're going to have to learn the fighting style around here." "Fighting style?" "Danmaku. Bullet curtains. They're not lethal, but it takes some getting used to, it sounds like. Apparently uses magic."
"Magic? Really?" "Yes, really." "...Sounds... interesting." "Apparently, according to this, you have to... just make them appear." Alex tried and tried again, but he was never able to create danmaku. Travis, on the other hand, eventually was able to make danmaku, but it became very tiring for him to shoot more than three shots at one time. "So... you can do that?" "I guess I can, it's not much, but it's something, I guess." "Maybe there's some sort of tool that could help us?" "Maybe, but how are we going to get one?" "Good point. Maybe we could ask somebody from that Scarlet Mansion, the one Sakuya mentioned, but I can't be certain what they'll think of us." And so, the two of themselves thought up ideas on how to improve their danmaku ability, but the few options they thought of had major issues that prevented them from proceeding with those options.

AN: And there goes Part 1. Who will the Yakani brothers turn to in this situation? Will Yuuka spark them halfway across Gensokyo? How will the other humans react? That is for me to know, and you to figure out...