Foreword: Finally got off my ass and wrote something new! Enjoy! Oh yeah, the whole copyright thing: Touhou Project belongs to Team Shanghai Alice/ZUN and Persona belongs to ATLUS please check out the official releases. Shuujinkou Hakurei, Gin Izayoi, Yoko Kamiyama and Mu are unofficial characters and none of these characters, themes and other things are related to real life events nor real people living or dead.

She was standing in the middle of a beautiful field of grass. Her golden hair reached her ankles, her purple night gown seemed very confortable, she was barefoot, her eyes were golden, like her hair. This woman stood before another girl, she had long black hair that reached her back, she wore a black shirt and shorts, her pale skin made her look like a doll.

"Greetings, you must be Shuujinkou Hakurei yes? I invite you to follow me." The woman spoke relaxed, as if she knew what Shuujinkou would say, she was sure the girl would comply.

"I refuse." Shuujinkou replied in an almost robotic tone.

"My my, you would throw away an opportunity to live in a paradise? Magic, adventure, mystery and drama await you Shuujinkou Hakurei." The woman replied somewhat surprised.

"I don't trust you, why should I believe a woman who appeared in my dreams and offers me to live in a fantasy world?" Shuujinkou spoke unamused.

"Aren't you bored with this world? Of how filled with hypocrites it is? Of the stupidity of the human race?" The woman spoke in a tempting tone.

"Running away doesn't fix the issue. Also, how highly you think yourself to be above other humans?" Shuujinkou replied bored.

"I am Yukari Yakumo, a Youkai. I am quite above humans so I have all rights to speak like this." Yukari's voice darkened.

"Youkai? Those aren't real, just fiction and if they did exist, they would've turned humans into livestock already." Shuujinkou stared coldy at Yukari.

"I seem to have misspoken, you are going to preserve tradition within Gensokyo, we Youkai need a Hakurei Shrine Maiden and thus we have come in search of your aid, can't you help us?" Yukari shifted into a false innocence tone.

"You don't exist, nor does this place you speak of. If it does, then I will personally make sure it disappears." Shuujinkou's eyes began glowing in a pale blue.

As if she was a weak Youkai, Yukari felt her strength leave her. Shuujinkou had begun removing her from existence, her power as "The Eyes" had awakened and nothing would change her mind. Yukari escaped, she didn't have much time left and if Shuujinkou remembered this dream, it would spell doom for all her hard work, all of her hard work until that point would've been for nothing.

Chapter 1: The Girl Who Dreamed of Paradise

Lunar Palace Kounan district in Sumaru City. An apartment complex north of Ebisu Beach, inside one of it's apartments lives Shuujinkou Hakurei along with her parents. The room was well illuminated, not too bright yet not too dark, Shuujinkou had fallen from her bed and made a loud *thud* upon landing on her own face, the pain of the fall wasn't too much, she had gotten used to falling to wake up.

"Gensokyo, I must find it and I must destroy it." Shuujinkou spoke emptily.

"Dear? Are you up?" A woman's voice spoke from beyond the door.

"With how loud that noise was, she is more than awake." A man's voice spoke from beyond the door as well.

"Make sure to put on your uniform, school starts today!" The woman's voice spoke cheerfully.

And so she did, a black colored, sailor uniform with a green tie and a short black skirt, she wasn't too happy to wear this uniform, but she would have to wait until she graduated to wear what she wanted. She exited her room and greeted her parents with her usual cold stare, it wasn't that she disliked them, in fact she loved her parents, her skills with people however are very limited. Her father Reiji Hakurei was a man in his late 30s, his black hair was tied up in a ponytail and he wore a black business suit that matched his wife and daughter's attires. The mother, Serafina Shefield was a woman in her early 40s, her attire consisted of a business suit like Reiji's. Her hair was black, short and wavy with her skin being as pale as Shuujinkou's giving her a doll-like appearance that her daughter inherited, which complimented their mostly deadpan attitude, although for different reasons.

"Eat breakfast, we can't have you sleeping in class so take your toast and run to school, you have an hour to arrive." Reiji spoke while handing Shuujinkou some toasted bread.

"Have a good first day!" Serafina waved goodbye as Shuujinkou left the complex.

She took a bus to reach the Rengedai district and walked the rest of the distance between Honmaru Park and Seven Sisters Highschool. Within a classroom in the school a man wearing a gray suit and had his long, black hair tied in a ponytail, he seemed like a teacher.

"Alright! Today we have a transfer student joining our class, you may step in!" The teacher spoke in a calming voice.

"Introduce yourself, you want people to know your name." The teacher smiled as he spoke.

"..." Shuujinkou knew how to speak, she just didn't know what to say or add to her introduction.

"Hey Teach! Does she even know Japanese!?" An annoyed girl spoke from behind the classroom.

"Let her be, she's just different, try to respect others if you want attention so badly." The teacher spoke in a stern tone.

"..." She was pondering for a full five minutes on what to say, until she decided to keep it simple and general.

"My name is Shuujinkou Hakurei." Shuujinkou spoke in a cold tone of voice.

"Nice meeting ya' weirdo, you look like a damn toy, act like a shy girl and are a total Ice Queen." A red haired girl spoke from the back of the room.

"That's enough Marisa." The teacher scolded the girl from the back.

"Hakurei-kun, seat on the center part of the classroom, next to Kamiyama" The teacher instructed Shuujinkou to sit next to a girl with bobbed, black hair and soft-looking skin.

"Do not pay much attention to Kirisame-san's comments, she just intends to show the worst of you." Kamiyama tried to break the ice once Shuujinkou sat down next to her, Shuujinkou however, didn't answer.

"Stand!" The teacher ordered the students to perform their morning vows and class began.

During lunchtime, a student wearing the same uniform Shuujinkou and Kamiyama with short, wavy and red colored hair approached the two, her face had a mischievous smile.

"Sup' Yoko! Buttering up the new girl?" The girl spoke teasingly.

"Kirisame-san, is there something you wish to discuss? If not then you can kindly leave." Yoko replied in a respectful and dignified tone.

"Geez, here I came to apologize to her and you just kick me out? Shame on you." Kirisame shrugged.

"Who are you again?" Shuujinkou asked bewildered.

"Huh!? Well, get that wax of yer' ears cuz I'm only saying it once!" Kirisame began to boast.

"Alright." Shuujinkou replied while sticking her fingers in her ears.

"Are you making fun of me?" Kirisame's tone darkened.

"No, if you paid attention to other people besides yourself, you would have heard that Hakurei-san here is unable to understand double meanings." Yoko pressed her thumb and index finger against her eyes.

"Hey, where do I put all this ear wax?" Shuujinkou asked with a small ball of ear wax on her hand, it reeked horribly.

"Ze?" Kirisame had a face that just screamed: "It's not a joke is it?"

"Just put it inside the trash bin." Yoko spoke rather annoyed at Shuujinkou's mindset.

"Alright." Shuujinkou stood up and put the small ball of disgusting material inside the trash bin and returned to her seat.

"Okay then, that aside. My name's Marisa Kirisame, future Prime Minister of Japan and hottest girl at Sevens!" Marisa posed dramatically as she spoke.

"In Japanese, she wants to be important." Yoko sweatdropped.

"Okay." Shuujinkou answered with very little interest.

"If that's all, then we shall take our leave. Come with me Hakurei-san" Yoko quickly stood up and dragged Shuujinkou away from Marisa.

As the two left, a strange piece of paper flew into Shuujinkou's hands, it read: "I await you at Sumaru Prison in Hirasaka" from Captain Death.

"A Kasugayama student is aware of your presence? Something seems strange about this." Yoko spoke as she read the letter.

"Cause your gay ass mama?" Shuujinkou tilted her head while asking.

"Ka-soo-guh-yu-muh, some just call it Cuss High." Yoko corrected as she shrugged.

"Welp, you're done for then. Captain Death isn't one to send pointless invitations. So I recommend going now before his flunkies beat you up tomorrow." Marisa spoke from behind the two.

"How do you know that!?" Yoko turned to Marisa and asked with a piercing glare in her eyes.

"Unlike you, I pay attention to what happens to others besides me." Marisa smiled mischievously after repeating what Yoko told her.

"Where is Sumaru Prison?" Shuujinkou asked from behind the two.

"Oh! I forgot you existed for a second, it's in Hirasaka, northwest from here." Marisa smiled and left to eat.

"Come with me, I have a means to arrive there quickly." Yoko dragged Shuujinkou to the back of the school.

In the back, aside from many bikes there was a gray motorcycle among them with two helmets near them. Yoko took said bike and prepared it to leave school.

"Put on that helmet and whatever happens. Don't. Let. Go." Yoko put on a helmet and gave Shuujinkou the other one, with both helmets on and a key inserted into the bike, the two rode to Hirasaka.

As they rode towards Sumaru Prison, Shuujinkou saw a red motorcycle pass by them with it's rider seeming familiar to her. The two pass by Smile Hirasaka and head straight for the Prison. Sumaru Prison, inside one of it's cells was a young man with a blue uniform, he wore glasses and had rather messy but short, black hair. He had an aura of authority and leadership.

"What do you want Captain Death? Why call a transfer student?" Yoko asked while on edge.

"Huh? I'm not Captain Death, Captain Death was a rumored student in 2000. You're thinking of Gin, The Southern Gale, he's the most feared student in school this year, but he's actually real sweet. Just don't mention the incident three years ago." The student replied in a very easygoing tone.

"Then who sent this?" Yoko interrogated the student while showing the letter.

"Hmm? Oh I see what's up. Hahaha! You got pranked by Mishina from Sevens." The student laughed and smiled at the two.

"A prank? What is that?" Shuujinkou asked innocently.

"A prank is a jest of sorts, immature students pull them on others to make themselves look good." Yoko shrugged.

"Oi, Ren! What's with the Sevens girls!? Didn't you already have a girl living in Tokyo!?" A somewhat feminine voice spoke from outside.

"Oh! Hiya Gin! I was just talking about you." Ren replied to a young, handsomer man with fair skin and black hair in the same messy style as his, he too wore the blue Kasugayama uniform.

"I told you already, I'm not interested!" Gin snapped at Ren angrily.

"Come on you two, introduce yourselves to Gin here. He doesn't bite, just tell him why you're here." Ren smacked the backs of both girls, startling Yoko and making Shuujinkou turn around to face him.

"Ahem! My name is Yoko Kamiyama, we came since the rumored Captain Death had challenged us to come here." Yoko spoke at a high speed from the nerves Gin's intimidating aura provoked.

"..." Shuujinkou remained silent.

"And her? What's with her creepy stare?" Gin pointed at Shuujinkou annoyed at her silence.

"Ahem! Hakurei-san, can you introduce yourself please?" Yoko cleared up her throat signaling Shuujinkou to speak up.

"Hmmm,where have I heard that name before? Don't mind me, just thinking something!" Ren smiled awkwardly.

"Shuujinkou Hakurei." Shuujinkou introduced herself in a cold tone, she didn't know how to express herself at that moment.

"I'm Gin, Gin Izayoi. This dumbass here is Ren Amamiya, a fellow delinquent." Gin replied angrily and left for the school grounds.

"Gin's not a bad person, he just has a hard time with girls. Kinda shy." Ren smiled and left after Gin.

"Guess that's our cue, let's leave Hakurei-san." Yoko dragged Shuujinkou towards the exit.

The two rode the motorcycle back to Sevens with enough time left to eat lunch. Classes had ended for the day and Shuujinkou was thinking of returning home as quickly as possible to avoid trouble. Mysteriously, all light was starting to fade away, the school was enveloped in darkness, students were panicking and running around school, chaos was rampant in the building, teachers trying to keep students under control and students attempting to escape the building but finding themselves unable due to a mysterious force.

"We're all gonna DIIIIIEEEEE!" A student screamed in fear as he ran past the unfazed Shuujinkou.

"First Kyoto, then Inaba, Tokyo had similar happenings last year too. Why here and why now!?" A teacher spoke angrily.

"S-stay away from meeeeeeeee! Waaaaaaa!" A female voice screamed from behind Shuujinkou causing her to turn around.

"What are you?" Shuujinkou asked coldly to the creature that had torn the student to shreds, amidst the blood and innards there was a figure of a small girl with brown hair tied with a white headband, she wore a white dress and had a strange mark on her left hand.

"Me? I'm Nadja! Hmmm, wait are you perhaps a Hakurei?" The girl calling herself Nadja asked playfully, she had enjoyed tearing the girl apart, this was apparent since she was playing around with said girl's guts as if they were some sort of toy.

"Yes." Shuujinkou replied coldly.

"Can I eat you? Your blood should be good enough for me to become strong enough to take over the city." Nadja prepared to lunge at Shuujinkou.

"Save her! Deathbringer!" A female voice shouted as suddenly Shuujinkou had been teleported to another spot of the area.

"Huh!?" Nadja started to look around the area trying to find Shuujinkou.

"Vile demon! I have come to purge the world of your evil! Prepare to be exterminated!" A girl wearing the Seven Sisters uniform with a red ribbon instead of a green tie like Shuujinkou's jumped out of the darkness and posed as she delivered a very cheesy speech to the girl, her hair was black and is wavy compared to Shuujinkou's straight hair, even if they're the same length.

"Oh, you're one of those types of people, the ones who think that they're special and jump straight to battle and die first, how quaint." Nadja smiled devilishly and focused her sights on the girl before her.

"Deathbringer attack!" The girl posed as she spoke, Nadja backflipped away from a sudden hole that appeared on the floor, as if a spear had been used to pierce through the floor.

"Not half bad, but you lack the experience to win against me!" Nadja boasted as she pushed her open palm towards the girl, a strange burst of wind blew by and was avoided by the girl sidestepping to her left.

"Finish it Deathbringer!" The girl did an iconic pose from a rather popular anime at the time which involved pointing at the opponent with just her index finger on top while bending her arm in a V shape. Nadja was suddenly impaled in an invisible spear, she reached into the ceiling and disolved into gray smoke.

"Oh yeah! Extermination complete!" The girl posed by placing the back of her right hand on her hip while the back of her left hand was on her forehead, she was inclining her hips to her right and she smiled innocently.

"..." Shuujinkou was quiet, she was trying to piece together what had happened before her eyes.

"No need to thank me, I just happened to be near the place. I wonder just jow many are in your position now, it's not fair Senpai, if you were here, we could team up..." The girl spoke in a somewhat dark tone about an upperclassman, Shuujinkou wondered about who did she refer to.

"..." Shuujinkou stared at the girl for a minute trying to understand why she posed so much.

"Are you okay? You're awfully quiet." The girl spoke in a sisterly tone.

"..." Shuujinkou nodded.

"Hmmmm, oh! I know! I'm Sanae Yasaka, a second year student at this school! What's your name?" Sanae spoke in a friendly tone.

"..." Shuujinkou stayed silent.

"Uhhh, please? I want to know your name." Sanae sweatdropped.

"Hakurei, Shuujinkou Hakurei." Shuujinkou spoke out of the blue in her usual empty tone.

"Hakurei? Sounds familiar. It's also a mouthful so I guess I'll just call you Rei-chan or maybe Shuujin-kun, oh I got it! Shu-chan! How about it?" Sanae was smiling while thinking of a nicknae for Shuujinkou.

"..." Shuujinkou returned to being silent.

"No good? How about Reimu? Sounds similar enough right?" Sanae put her hands behind her neck as she spoke.

"No." Shuujinkou snapped at Sanae angrily, she wasn't shouting, instead her bored looking stare turned into one that exuded sheer intimidation.

"Eep! Guess just Shuu?" Sanae's eyes widened as she spoke nervously.

"..." Shuu didn't reply, however her stare returned to being the usual bored looking one.

"Fear not... Take my hand..." A muffled and dry voice spoke.

"Who's there!?" Sanae started to look around on guard.

"..." Shuu started to sweat uncontrollably, she was in immense pain, but she didn't show how painful her experience is.

"I am thou... thou art I..." The voice spoke once more.

"What the!? Deathbringer calm down!" Sanae became nervous, to make things even more unsettling for Shuu, a strange figure appeared behind Sanae, it was that of a woman with green hair styled similarly to Sanae's holding a ancient looking spear while hunched over, she wore a Shinto Priestess outfit that was torn up in many pieces revealing lizard-like skin, it's face was that of a green eyed snake's with sharp fangs.

"Tch." Shuu felt even more pain than before, her entire body felt like it was about to burst.

"From the sea of thy soul I cometh..." The entity behind Sanae also spoke extending the "s" sounds like a snake, her voice was arrogant and self-righteous.

"Deathbringer!?" The snake woman became a lot more visible, she floated in front of Sanae as if to guard her.

"I am Mishaguji, I shall Curse thine enemies and serve The Suwa Gods unwaveringly." The snake woman spoke extending the "s".

" I... am Hakurei-Kami… I shall exterminate all filth!" A featureless and genderless figure whose color changes between Black and White constantly wearing a blindfold, a mouth gag, a pair of headphones that contrasted it's current color and was hanging from it's scarf spoke in it's muffled and dry voice, it was holding a stick on it's left hand.

"N-no way! You had one too!? Why did it awaken now!?" Sanae spoke shocked.

"…" Shuu didn't respond, she was too busy observing the creature that floated before her.

"Follow me! If we can lift this darkness maybe the demons will go away!" Sanae dragged Shuu around the school fighting Zombie students, Ghosts, Pixies and even Hanako-san looking for the cause of the darkness.

Even after searching all the school, the two found no exit nor the cause of the darkness. After considering giving up and letting the demons massacre the school Shuu had an idea, she departed towards the clocktower the school had, it was the only place they hadn't investigated yet. The door was locked however.

"Awww, it's locked. I thought I could finally see normal lighting again..." Sanae complained, her mood had become rather dark after all the wandering aimlessly around the school.

"..." Shuu broke the door with a single swing of Hakurei-Kami's stick, it's puppet-like movements disturb Sanae to no end.

"Why is your Deathbringer so creepy?" Sanae sighed as she spoke.

"Because thou art graceful while Hakurei is more intimidating, thou hath already spoken it." Deathbringer spoke to her host.

"Hakurei-san!" A familiar voice spoke from behind the two girls.

"..." Shuu turns around to find a trembling Yoko armed with a mop of all things.

"You know her Shuu?" Sanae asked while smiling.

"I'm Yoko Kamiyama, Hakurei-san's classmate. Glad to meet you senpai." Yoko bows upon introducing herself.

"Ah, Shuu and Yo-chan. You should hide somewhere, Ghosts love this area for some reason." Sanae pointed towards a crowd of Ghosts near the stairs leading to the ccurrent floor.

"G-g-g-g-ghosts!? I-I-I-I-I'm n-not scared of them! Not a b-bit!" Yoko stuttered uncontrollably, she was not scared of ghosts, she was terrified of them.

"She didn't notice them?" Mishaguji spoke annoyed.

"Where'd that come from!?" Yoko jumped startled.

"Oh yeah, Yoko, meet Mishaguji, my Deathbringer. Shuu has one too, Hakurei-Kami." Sanae spoke nonchalantly of the beings that accompanied them.

"You can control them!?" Yoko spoke impressed.

"Kinda, Shuu has full control of her's, mine is a bit rash." Sanae sighed.

"Huh, Hakurei-san does seem calm about this. How'd y- WAAAAAAAAAHH!" Yoko was suddenly grabbed by her uniform's collar by what looked like a black appendage from within the clocktower and dragged her inside.

"..." Shuu walked into the clocktower with Sanae following suit quickly to save Yoko.

Afterword: Phew! A long chapter to begin in, a bit of behind the scenes trivia from me. Shuujinkou's name was at one point Reimu as well, she wasn't ever going to be the same girl, they're related, how? Shuu is Reimu's counterpart in terms of the Hakurei family in the outside world. Another trivia piece involving the protagonist, Shujinko translates to "Head of Family", " Heroine" or "Protagonist", however this protagonist is more of a pun in terms of name, Shuujin can mean " Inmate" or "Prisioner" the -kou is a pun since her mother would pronounce it as -ko which is a generic sufix for female names, which would make it be more along the lines of "Prison Child" why would her parents name her this? Because she is Fate's Prisoner, stuck as a target for the supernatural, or it could mean that she is trapped in her own mind, since she's not very socially skilled and thus stuck in her little world unable to be understood nor understand others easily. The Persona or Deathbringer as Sanae calls it is more referential to Shuu's personal philosophy, which I'll go into later. Though the stick is meant to be a broken Gohei(a wand used in purification, Reimu cleaved a dude in two with it thus it can too) and the rest of the design is meant to symbolize closer to the actual Deity and less Reimu herself since Shuu has never talked to Reimu. On the topic of Sanae Yasaka, she's a pure Megaten reference, Sanae is more of a Subarashiki kono Sekai reference(like Sanae Hanekoma) and the Yasaka is a nod to Nocturne's Chiaki Yasaka. Her Persona Mishaguji that she usually called Deathbringer is indeed a reference to Suwako Moriya from Touhou, although it borrows more from Sanae Kochiya in terms of appearance and Hazama's Ouroboros chains from Blazblue in terms of uses you'll see why later. The term Deathbringer is a reference to Eikichi Mishina who called his Persona Radhamathus Deathbringer or Death Spirit which is more of a JoJo reference as well since Part 3 Protagonist Jotaro Kujo mistook his stand Star Platinum for an Evil Spirit. Yoko is indeed a Youmu reference, her fear of ghosts, the haircut and being kinda stuck up at times, though Yoko is somewhat closer to Reisen since she's the type to avoid fighting if possible and has some shades of Marisa in terms of being the first person the plot's main Hakurei befriends. On the topic of Marisa, let's just say that Sumaru is the setting for a really good reason. Ren Amamiya is indeed the Hero from Persona 5 and I'm writing him as a misunderstood person with a tarnished record, he acts like a big brother to all around him but in a different way Narukami would, while Yu is nice and supporting, Ren is mischievous and makes one think their actions even if he can be a bit cocky and arrogant at times. Gin, hoo boy where do I start? Gin is a foil to Ren and an expy of Eikichi with some shades of Reiji by being actively intimidating and trying to push people away to contrast Ren. And being very stuck in his past and obsessed with atoning like the other 2.