Author's note : Hello, readers! Welcome to my first story that I make! (Even if i posted it in the description.)
First of all, thanks for showing interest in this story. I have been thinking of posting a story in this site, but never got the chance (More like guts) to do it, so once again, thanks for showing interest in this story!
Secondly, I have some habits in writing stories, so I'm going to try to fix it, but if I can't, well, just get along with it.
Lastly,...Well, there's not much I want to say other than that, since I don't have anything particular to say, so let's just get on with the story.
Disclaimer : Anything that had to do with Touhou belongs to ZUN. I do not own it.
A soldier opened his eyes weakly as he wakes up, and was surprised that he was now facing the ground. The first thing that came into his mind was that someone pushed him out from his bunk, or he falls during his sleep, but he quickly gave up on both ideas as he immediately feels tired, much to his confusion, and he also felt as if there's something different inside his mind, but he passed it out as if he was feeling things.
The soldier quickly got back up, using his hands as a support, and looked to his front, and what he saw confused him, and as weird as his mind is feeling right now, both rage and anger. In front of him was several girls and woman, all appeared to be talking quietly with each other, and he's confused why is there so many people in front of him, or rather, where's the tent he has been sleeping upon for several weeks.
Must be a dream, The soldier thought. A really weird one.
He looked to his back in case there's more person around him, and he is right. A teenage girl was leaning her back towards the tree in a carefree manner, as if watching the whole ordeal in amusement. And then, he realized something. The girl has white, angelic wings on her back.
He immediately shot his view back at the people in front of him, and immediately realized that every single girl and woman in front of him had several out of ordinary things around them. One of them had bat wings on her back, while the other girl in front of her had a metallic looking stick with several crystals hanging to it, much to his confused and anger, in which the latter was not the soldiers' thought.
He scanned his front entirely towards the girl and woman, and all of them had something totally off, be it just from the feeling he had, or they had some sort of things that clearly tells him that he knows for sure that was supposedly not meant to be there. But his scan narrowed him into three people that were in his view lane, and this makes him boil in rage and anger, much to his confusion.
Weird, I keep raging and getting angrier by each passing minute, but I'm not sure why… The soldier thought, and examined the three even further.
One of the tree people was a teenage girl, looking at him with a grin as she throws a black ball the size of a tennis ball towards the air, and catches it again as it falls down, before throwing it up again, repeating the cycle all over again. The girl has a really long blond hair and red eyes, and was wearing a black dress with red wave pattern around its outline, and she was wearing a caplet tied together by a red ribbon and a pointed hat with another red ribbon on one side, all except the ribbon had the same color and pattern, and was also wearing black shoes. The girl also had a pair of black wings on her back, and just looking at the girl was more than enough to make his rage boiling, even if he was still confused why.
The second was also a teenage girl, but he was pretty sure that other than her pose, she was nothing out of the ordinary. Well, save from the girl had a stick with glowing inscription on it, that is. The girl has blue eyes and green hair that is longer on the right side, and was wearing a dark blue, black and white dress with gold decorations, also a dark and blue hat with another gold emblem in front, and some red and white bow that somehow balanced equally, and wears a black shoe with red bow on them. This one looks at him as if showing pity for him, and looking at her was making her angrier by each passing second.
The third one, however, was a woman who looked like around her twentieth or thirteenth, but if a person doesn't know her, then no one would that she actually has lived longer than her looks. The woman has dark golden eye, long, golden colored hair, wearing a pink mob cap, and wears a purple tabarb with trigrams over a western-styled dress, and was holding a long parasol with her, as her other hand was busy inside a gap. This, of course, makes him even more confused, but at the same time, setting both of his rage and anger even further, and after examining the three female, something gnawed inside his mind.
His sense of fear.
This confuses the confused soldier even more, but he just can't find the reason why he is feeling the three emotions that he kept feeling was there. And then, he suddenly coughed. He covered his mouth using his hand, but his eyes widen as blood also rushed out with each cough.
"I've put the antidote inside his stomach, and it looked like it was starting to take effect already." The woman said as she pulled her hand from the gap. "It's your turn now."
A woman with a scythe nodded, and immediately walked towards him. He looked at the girl as he kept on coughing, before a black ball suddenly flew to her direction. The girl managed to dodge the ball, however. Right after that, another ball was launched towards her, but this time, she dodged it again by lunging forward, and stopped in front of him.
"Well, this is the end of your borrowed time of life," She said, putting her scythe on the back of his neck. "I assume you allowed me this, right?"
"You can go ahead, I didn't actually need him anyway." The girl with white wing replied coldly, and then flew somewhere the soldier doesn't know.
"Well, you're certainly one hell of a person to be dealt with," The woman said, lifting her scythe.
"Kotomi Horikawa."
SLASH!
"AAAAAAAAH!" The soldier, Kotomi, screamed as he wakes up from his dream, and of course, shocking a soldier in the room, if a tent can be called a room, that is.
"Lieutenant! What happened?!" A soldier immediately asked, his voice have thick American accent.
"*Pant* *Pant* Weird, horrible nightmare…" Kotomi answered. "I don't actually even have the slightest idea what I just dreamed earlier…"
"It's rare seeing you like this, sir." The soldier commented.
"Well, I wouldn't scream if I didn't get decapitated in my dream."
"Decapitated, sir?" The soldier asked, skeptical.
"Yeah, decapitated," Kotomi said again. "By a woman wielding a scythe. Didn't even have the slightest idea on how I ever dreamt that…"
"Well, that was certainly weird." The soldier said, holding his chin. "Maybe it's some sort of warning?"
"Seeing some dreams are, albeit the chance is as good as ever destroying a tank with a knife from the outside, the vision of one's future, then I'm going to have some hectic future waiting for me." Kotomi shivered after saying that. "Whatever the hell have I do to deserve that… dream?"
"You still need to learn to speak better English, sir."
"Like I care, at least I'm still understandable. You don't want me speaking Japanese, do you?"
"Uh… no, sir."
"Oh, did I tell you there's more people in the dream?"
"No, sir."
"Well, most of them are female, but almost every single one of them had-" His words are interrupted by a warning siren.
"Well, save the story for later, sir. Looks like it's time to kick other division's butt." The soldier said while looking towards a megaphone placed at a corner of the tent. "We're going to kick their ass like usual, right?"
"Just because we win most of the time doesn't mean that we're going to do the same each time." Kotomi reminded him. "And besides, I did the job most of the time by distracting them."
"*Snicker* You're right. Well, better get ready."
With a nod, Kotomi followed the soldier out of their tent, going towards a small clearing.
It's not often for Ran Yakumo, the nine tailed fox shikigami to look at her master's rather worried face. Usually something really is concerning her, or she's just over thinking something, which is really has a slim chance of happening. "May I ask what's bothering you, master?" Ran asked, her voice sounding worried.
"Well, winter's coming tomorrow, but the barrier is weakening at some point." Ran's master, Yukari Yakumo, answered. "It might be weak, but it keeps spreading with each passing second, and I fear it will become larger if left unchecked and not repaired. Ran, go and fix it for me."
"As you say, master." Ran bowed, before she sets off to find the weakening points.
"Let's just hope that humans from the outside world didn't happen to pass from one of the weak points." Ran hoped inside her mind.
But things will not go how she hoped to happen…
After Kotomi and the soldier gets to the site, the former started to explain rules and what-to-dos he has been telling his team for several weeks, since they're in a training camp with some more countries to train themselves.
"Everyone got it?" Kotomi asked after finishing his explanation.
"Yes, sir!" A group of soldiers replied all at the same time.
"Remember, don't forget to bring live ammos in case the time is much longer than proceeded. Who knows how long we will be there." Kotomi reminded them.
"That's just because you have a bad sense of direction," A soldier muttered under his breath.
"I heard that, donkey." Kotomi said, unpleased with what the soldier just said about him. His hearing is much better than most people, so he can still hear his sound very clearly, even if the soldier muttered it as lowly as possible, and had quite a distance from him.
"Sorry, sir,"
"*Sigh* Next time, try not to say that again." Kotomi knows that his sense of direction is bad, but he doesn't like it when people pointed it out.
"Sir, can I use my grenade launcher?" A soldier asked suddenly.
Kotomi sighed again. Even after he explained the rules, there are just some people that keep asking him if they can use their personal weapon. "If you want to burn the forest and kill the other members, sure, go ahead."
The soldier didn't ask again, since he has expected that his question will more or less be answered like that.
"Okay, let's get ready, soldier. Remember, use rubber bullets to take them down, and make sure you keep the live bullets somewhere safe."
Right after he said that, the soldiers immediately went to different parts around the open field, taking ammunitions, several bombs, kevlars, weapons, and some other stuff they think will be necessary for the next battle training. Kotomi, however, always brings in heavy payload with him.
He first went to take some protective gears, which always includes pads for joints, shoulder, and a rather heavily pocketed kevlar vest. Next, he makes his way to the weapons area, and always takes three weapons with him. One is a heavily modified AUG A3 for himself, another one is a P90, heavily modified too, and lastly, a handgun. And he also takes quite a lot of ammunitions for each weapon, with a minimum set of five, and a maximum of ten for each gun.
If that's still not heavy enough, considering he needs to be sneaky and agile to be the teams distraction, he also takes a maximum of five for different kinds of bombs, each consisting of five flash bangs, five smoke bombs, and three grenades. His weapon of choice for close quarter engagement was also out of the ordinary. If most soldier only had knifes, he adds a sword to his arsenal. He also brings quite a lot of equipments to help him with his "Survival chance", since he gets lost quite often.
Even with all the stuff he brings with him, he never seems to looks as if someone bringing a big payload, and is still pretty agile enough to dodge incoming bullets. His fellow soldiers always wonders why, but decided to just go along with it.
With each of the soldier got what they needed, they went back to the gathering spot.
"Okay, do some last minutes check, the siren should be off any second."
Right after Kotomi said it, the siren went off, signaling the start of the training. Kotomi and his team moved into the forest in front of them, and went into cover, waiting for any team that will be unlucky enough to pass right in front of them.
Author's note : Well, I hope you like what you read here.
Reviews and critics are welcomed, since they can help me with my writing capabilities.
Next Chapter : From the danger zone, into the safe zone.
I'll try to update it as soon as I can, but I can't guarantee it, since I have a massive amount of laziness, gets writers block rather often, and lastly, I'm nearing my finals for my school.