AN: And here's another attempt at me writing a Touhou fanfic. I actually wrote the entire thing while I was at university at the beginning of the year, but decided it wasn't good enough to post. Just recently, I went back to it and edited a few things. This is not a novelization of the game, but it details the events that led up to it. Including this prologue, there are six chapters, the other five which will be uploaded in time.

Disclaimer: Touhou Project is the property of ZUN, and I am merely playing in his sandbox for fun.


-Prologue-


Summer is drawing to a close. Soon, chirping crickets will take over for buzzing cicadas. Gensokyo's hot nights are cooling down, making it a comfortable time for Humans and Youkai alike.

Times are peaceful as usual. From a human perspective, anyways.


It was the only thing that she could do. Eirin Yagokoro glanced nervously up at the sky, as she spoke. The others knew everything that they had to do, to prevent the three of them from being found. If the three of them were found, then everything that they had done so far would be for nothing. Kaguya Houraisan needed to be protected. Reisen Udongein Inaba and those adorable Earth Rabbits, led by Tewi Inaba, had pledged themselves to it.

Today there had been an especially close call. Something like that couldn't happen again.

She wasn't going to allow it. She wasn't going to allow them to be caught. Even if it meant revealing themselves to the ones that lived on this rock.


"It's dark! It's dark! We can play!"

Fireflies flew in the darkness once the sun set and the moon came out. This was their territory, this was their playground. Without the sun around, they could shine their lights, and have fun the darkness.

This darkness, it seemed it would last forever. Wriggle Nightbug hoped it would it would, because then they would be able to play all the time!


"I need to practice my song, a little more~."

Another night, another time to finally catch something.

Mystia Lorelei was incredibly bored as she rested on a branch, her wings folded up against her. So few people wandered across this path at this time, and usually it was only during the daytime when they did.

But perhaps now she would see some more people walking. That way, she would be able to finally catch some better meals.


"I won't let anything happen to you. Not now, not ever."

This was dangerous for the humans. If Keine Kamishirasawa didn't act now, they would all be lost.

She peeked inside some of the windows, smiling as she saw them fast asleep. They wouldn't know what happened for now, but if this continued, then all of those peaceful faces would have expressions of terror.

It was for the best that she do it.

That she make it never so.


"Ugh... I hope I'm closeby. I need a village."

As much as Rin Satsuki tried to heal the moon, it would just not do so. Perhaps she was much too far away to actually do something.

She was traveling, but none would attack her. Why should they? She wouldn't be there to help if they didn't. As long as she reached her destination, everything should be fine.

'Should' being the keyword there.


"If this is her, again..."

Fujiwara no Mokou could tell that it had begun. An ordinary Human would not have felt it, but she was not an ordinary Human.

And she was just going to let it happen. Why should she stop it from happening, after all?

Perhaps it would make things easier for her in the long run.


-Prologue End-


AN: Rin Satsuki is an official character that was cut from the sixth Touhou game, Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil. Almost nothing is known about her, though she is believed to be a kirin working as a nurse. In my headcanon, all four teams went out and encountered one opponent before the fateful fight where they met each other (which would be Stage 4 in the game). Since there were only three opponents beforehand (Wriggle, Mystia, and Keine), I added Rin in as the 'fourth' opponent.