Chapter 1 A Spark of Rage

It had been a full month at this point since Broly had fought Goku and, Vegeta for the first time. Now he was living peacefully on planet Vampa with Cheelai and Lemo, along with having a healthy friendship with Goku and, his allies. At the moment it was the night-time the planet's inhabitants had long learned not to tread near their home in fear of becoming Broly's enemy.

Broly had given the beds to Cheelai and, Lemo who both had offered the man to take turns. He denied it though, he found the wood flooring more than comfortable for himself, and in a way, he was showing his gratitude to them.

They had risked their lives to save him, something he was sure his father would have never done if it weren't for his power as a weapon. That's when as he was resting in peace, a small smile on his face still happy because of the fact he had made friends, it came to him.

It was a small jolt not unlike that of electricity except there wasn't pain, there wasn't a will trying to control him, instead, there, was a feeling, not of anger nor pain but, of desperation. It was energy like his at that, and it felt desperate and, on the verge of dying. He was spooked awake by that pulse and, rushed out of the home to the entrance to the cave, looking up into the black night sky.

"Broly what's wrong," Cheelai had noticed his sudden leap to his feet and, followed him with Lemo not too far behind "Do you sense something dangerous coming?"

He nodded no before telling her "No, not dangerous but, strange, maybe even familiar." that made her look at him not sure what he meant.

Lemo who had just caught up decided to ask the Sayian " What do you mean by familiar?"

That's when Broly explained what he had felt, stuck on how close the energy he had sensed for a brief moment, felt like his own just changed somehow. The two ex-Frieza Force members looked at one another before, Cheelai sighed out "Well that's not creepy at all."

She then looked at Lemo asking him "So old man got any clue on what's up with that, I sincerely doubt it was a nightmare."

"Well I'm no Saiyan expert or anything, heck the first time I met one was with Broly and, his father so it isn't like I'd know," he then rubbed his chin before saying "Goku's coming on over tomorrow with some of his little group maybe they'd know somethin, actually bein sayians in all."

Cheelai responded with "Guess your right," she then put her hand in Broly's saying "Well let's get back into the house, I've got a nice idea on how to block any more bad dreams if that's what it was"

Lemo chuckled to himself as he watched the large Sayian get dragged off by the smaller girl, following behind with a smile thinking "In all my years in the Frieza Force, I never thought something like this would happen," he kept his thoughts going as he entered the house "It's a nice thing living with these two."

"Hey, Lemo come on over here," Cheelai's voice snapped him from his thoughts, making him look at probably the most innocent scene he'd ever seen "Hurry up, the under the blanket with us hehe." The girl giggled to herself while holding a large comforter open.

She had it draped over her back and around Broly as well "What are you two doing?" Lemo muttered putting a hand to his forehead.

Cheelai responded with a pout on her lips "Aww come on were trying to make sure Broly here doesn't have any more scary, wary nightmares~."

"Wasn't it you who said it couldn't be a nightmare,"Lemo pointed out, she rolled her eyes responding on a dime "Just get over here you ol'coot I bet Broly would like to cuddle with us, wouldn't you Broly~?"

The sayian nodded saying "please would you Lemo," the older alien put a hand to his face walking over while saying "Tch, that's just cheating." he complied, however, getting into the bundle with the other three, only slightly flinching as Broly pulled them both closer.

Lemo could only smile at how Cheelai happily snuggled into Broly's chest while he just rested against a strong arm, his eyes wondering to the Saiyan's own small smile thinking "Yeah I'm more than fine with these lot being my family."

(Gensokyo)

Guard duty was effortlessly the most boring job at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but a needed one nonetheless to the chagrin of Meiling. Honestly, it was a love-hate relationship she could sleep pretty much the entire day away, at the cost of getting a couple of knives lodged into her head after being caught.

Today though was supposed to be one of those lucky days where Sakuya would have been to busy to check on her. As Meiling was sleeping happily, a bolt of magic smashed into her face, making her wake up in a panic. Her head turned from one side to other thinking in slight fear "Oh crap, Sakuya's here why is she here!?"

"Oi..g..g...get y..er..yerself tog..together Chi...China," A voice groaned out in pain.

Meiling blinked before looking at the owner of the voice before going wide-eyed and crying out "M..Marisa!? Wha...what the heck happened to you!?"

The witch in question was covered in scratches, her hat was singed and smoking, clothing was torn, her left arm was pressed tightly against her chest seemingly broke and, her legs were shaking. Blood was running out of her wounds painting her and, the clothes she wore with a dark red.

Marisa went to respond to Meiling but, her legs collapsed under her and, she nearly ate the dirt if it weren't for gate guard catching her. Quickly Meiling steeled her nerves that at first, had been overcome with shock at the young witch's state. She quickly hauled the girl inside of the mansion instantly calling out Sakuya's name.

"Hm, what do you need Meil...!?" Sakuya appeared with her arms crossed going to question the guard why she was yelling opening her eyes and, silencing herself the moment she saw Marisa.

Sakuya's eyes narrowed asking "How did this happen?" She got an instant reply from the witch "Help first...explain la..(cough, cough)..later." the girl coughed out some blood on the tile flooring and, Sakuya nodded putting a hand on Marisa's shoulder.

"Meiling, I want you to go inform our lady of the situation then, get Eirin over here understand," The Gate Keeper nodded now afraid since Sakuya was using her serious voice "I'll get this mess of a girl cleaned up and, ready for examination," She then used her power to move Marisa in such a way to avoid harming her, while the witch herself finally fell unconscious.

(In a dream)

At first, there was nothing but, a black void she didn't feel anything or could do anything. Marisa just sat there suspended in darkness when suddenly, her eyes flung open in a panic she had started drowning. It was like she was locked in an egg made of glass, surrounded in strange reddish-blue liquid.

She still couldn't move her legs but, with her arms, she slammed against the glass as hard as she could. It was ineffective, however, the glass didn't even start to crack, she tried to scream out. Her mouth was saved, from the liquid rushing in as she felt something made of metal, cover her mouth, raising her hands she went to touch what it was stopping as she heard a voice.

"I'm leaving this thing with you, don't go blowing your little prison to hell now, woman." the voice gave the warning casually as if it really didn't care what happened, and, the voice that replied sounded familiar " Oh please you underestimate me, besides you said that she was "disarmed" so to speak."

Before she could hear more another shift occurred in the dream, suddenly she was bound to chair. As she struggled against the invisible bindings, a mirror that sat in front of her spun around three times and, after it stopped there was a growl. She looked at the strange emerald eyes that gleamed at her with ferocity, the body of the eyes owner covered in shadow.

The mirror cracked as the figure slowly leaned forward, and dread welled in Marisa's core. Terrified the girl attempted to move, literally lunging against the what was holding her down.

(In reality)

Marisa felt something soft collide with her face a loud eep filling the room. It bothered the witch when the relaxing cushion quickly fell away and, she decided to pull her eyes open seeing Eirin look at her with the "business" look going.

"Eh..Ei...Eirin? Wh...what happe...ouch!?" Marisa tried to pull her left arm up to brush some hair out of her face but, yelped in pain when she tried to move it. She looked down at her arm, seeing it locked in a cast before noticing all of the bandaging on her skin thinking "Right, that thing attacked me and, somehow I barely made it out..."

The doctor noticed the witch's disbelief at how she was awake, reading off her list of injuries " Lacerations, cuts, several puncture wounds, 1st, and 2nd-degree burns, fractures in the legs and feet all on top of a left arm that is broken in four places," Eirin dropped the note pad at the foot of the bed continuing " 340 stitches,12 entire packages of burn ointments, 5 rolls of bandages, 3 internal bleeding operations and a single cast, all in all, probably the most I've ever spent on a single patient."

":O" Marisa's face was in complete shock before thinking "Forget making it out, how in the hell am I still alive,?" she then looked to the right side of the bed to see Reisen who was holding her chest with downturned ears. Marisa looked at the moderately sized breasts of the bunny girl thinking back to the cushion she felt when she woke up and, flushed apologizing "Ah s..sorry Reisen...ow."

The rabbit girl picked herself before saying "N..no it's alright, I just was surprised is all." Marisa sighed before asking Eirin "So, doc how long till I'm able to get out of these things."

"Normally I'd say about 3 months, hell with the diagnosis I'd say about a year, " Eirin sighed through irritated lips saying "but, knowing you and, your inhumane ability to bounce back, I'd give it about 3 weeks a full month tops."

Marisa nodded as Remilia walked into the room while Eirin was going to leave, the doctor regarding the vampire by saying "Make sure she gets plenty of rest, no fighting or Danmaku and feed her soft foods, christ knows if her stomach can hold hard food."

"I'll have my staff see to it, thank you for your time doctor," Eirin nodded as Reisen innocently wave good-bye as, Remilia brought the chair that Eirin used over to the right side of the bed. Marisa looked at the vampire who seemed to have a shit-eating grin on her face before the witch could question her, Remilia commented: "Your blood's quite the delicacy, Marisa."

That made the girl want to face-palm before uttering out "Great to see you to Remi, even when I'm near death I can count on your stomach killing me quicker."

"Now, don't be like that Marisa I was part of the reason you survived after all think of it as payment," she then turned her head and, whistled out "besides Eirin wanted me to be on standby for if she couldn't stabilize you as a human."

"What?!" Marisa exclaimed, "You were planning to turn me into a vampire?!" Remilia nodded before with a shrug she replied "Quite, my sister is fond of you Marisa and, for that matter, Sakuya along with Meiling have taken a liking to you as well. Your life is an important asset to me whether you realize that or not, so turning you as a last resort is always being considered within my mind."

"Which is also why I've taken custody of you for the time being, and because of your living under my roof, I'll make sure you listen to your doctor." Marisa just sighed there was nothing stopping Remilia at this point, so, she did the smart thing and gave in. "This brings us to the next thing on my mind, what attacked you?"

Remilia had her big sister face on which screamed that someone's going to get their grave dug"Well first off calm down, I killed the damn thing before I dragged my corpse of an ass over here," the witch took a breath as Remilia seemed to compose herself a bit more "anyways the thing wasn't an average youkai that was for damn sure, it just didn't want to die."

(Flash-back Marisa Pov)

It was supposed to be just another youkai extermination, well I wasn't lucky enough for that to be the case. I get to the area I was supposed to be and, at first, there wasn't a thing there. "

"I hope that guy wasn't talkin out of his ass," I thought bitterly while checking for any signs of youkai activity. At first, I figured I wasn't going to find a thing when a strange noise brought me over to a tree that was to my left, and that's when it showed up.

It was crazy looking, what with its whole looking like a human thing, the wild claws and, beetle face. When I first saw it, I tried to talk it down, however, the thing was looking for a fight, so I gave it one. The creature tanked my magic like it wasn't even a problem and, it found forcing me to the ground to be even less of one.

Chittering like crazy I barely was able to knock the thing off of me with, a point-blank Master Spark. Couldn't run at all though, barely could even stand as it kept coming at me. That's when something strange happened...

(Back to the present 3rd person Pov)

"What happened Marisa?" Remilia asked the witch who rubbed her head unsure how to put it.

Finally, Marisa sighed saying "I...I don't know I kept thinking about how I was gonna die and, it just kinda happened." Remilia looked at Marisa with a look that wanted answers and, the witch complied starting off with a stutter " I...It was like something that wasn't magic came out of my hand because of I...I don't know I just knew I didn't want to die, held my hand out instinctively and boom a ball of weird energy sends the damn thing to hell."

The vampire looked at the witch as if analyzing her story, with a sigh Remilia seemed to accept it. Getting up the vampire told her "I see, well I'll talk this over with Patchy to see if she knows anything about this "energy", now get some rest, and call if you need anything."

"Kay, thanks Remi," Marisa told the vampire as she left to which Remilia simply smiled at her in response before closing the door after shutting off the lights.

Marisa sighed the pillow and, darkness lulling her to what she hoped would be a more peaceful slumber. Chapter 1 end