Touhou ~ Mystic Star Raid

Here's the next chapter. This one will contain an actual fight scene and displays two of the spell cards I made for my character.

Oh and since I wasn't clear last chapter, the only people to go back and forth to Makai were Mima and Yukari (who shows up this chapter). Why? Cause I said so.

Chapter 2: The Gears of Time Begin to Turn

It's been ten years since Reimu, Marisa, Mima, and Yuka went to Makai.

The flow of youkai slowed three years after, and Reimu stopped caring. However, she did notice that Yukari started showing up less, but passed it off as something wrong with the borders…or Yuyuko acting up again. Reimu shook her head, 'There's no use thinking about it. Yukari's really weird like that.'

Then, she hears a pair of arguing voices above the shrine. She knows she was alone and Suika left earlier to go get drunk with Yuugi on the Mountain of Faith. She moves closer to the voices, holding her charms in her hand. As she gets closer, the voices start to distinguish themselves.

"I told you to follow me. Now look we're lost because YOU didn't want to listen to me!" The male voice spoke accusingly.

"Well, if you'd actually paid attention when I said that we were looking for YUKARI's house so you could return that spell card you STOLE from her, then MAYBE we would be there by now!" The female voice sounded angry at the first voice.

"And I TOLD YOU I didn't steal it! She GAVE it to me!" Reimu went fully toward the two voices, which seemed familiar, and said, "Who are you and what are you doing in the shrine?"

The male blinked, and said "Oh, hi Reimu. We aren't staying long we're just looking for Yukari. Have you seen her?" The person, who looked about sixteen, sounded sincere but Reimu was suspicious. She doesn't remember meeting anyone like him except the kid from ten years ago.

The girl rolled her eyes, and said, "Oh suuuure, ask the miko for directions. I'm positive Yukari would show herself to her." She said sarcastically. She then smacked the man upside the head. "Don't be stupid. Why would a youkai of all things do something like that?"

"Well, us technically." The male's gold eyes sparked with annoyance at the question she asked. 'Wait, gold eyes?' She only knew one person with gold eyes. "Orion?" Reimu was skeptical, but if she was right… "Yeah, that's me. Why the questioning about who I am?" The girl, whom she suspected was Prism, twitched her eyebrow, "Oh, GREAT. She knows who you are. Way to go genius."

"Then you must be Prism. So you are those kids from ten years ago. Why are you looking for Yukari?" Reimu was slightly surprised. They looked different and acted slightly different, but she recognized their looks.

"They are probably looking for me because of the little present I gave Orion." A disembodied female voice says. A gap opens above the three and Yukari rises out from it. Orion smiles slightly, Prism frowns, and Reimu was surprised. "You know them, Yukari?" Yukari, having already moved the gap to the ground before stepping off and walking toward the two youkai, turned to Reimu and said, "I've been teaching these two how to make spell cards. I gave Orion one of my many spell cards as a guide to what one should look like. Was there a problem with the card?"

Orion shook his head and started to speak, "Well, I was-" "Wait, he didn't steal that spell card from you? He was telling the truth, you really gave it to him?" Prism interrupted his explanation with the question. Yukari raised an eyebrow. "Yes, is that a problem?"

"Well, no. Sorry, I jumped to conclusions since he just had it the day after our lessons." Yukari smiled and patted Prism on the head, causing her to pout. She hates it when people do that. Yukari looks at Orion and asks, "Which card was she talking about?" Orion pulls out a card with the words "Yukari's Arcanum 'Danmaku Bounded Field'" on it. "This one, Yukari. The one you said was your strongest spell card. I studied it and actually created something similar."

"Did you now? Such a talented student I have." Yukari praises his accomplishment, causing a blush to appear on his face.

"I-it wasn't that good. Just a basic spell card is all it is."

"You don't truly know that until you test it against someone. Now where to find a test dummy?"

Orion opened his mouth to make a suggestion, however he was cut off by a scream of "THERE YOU TWO ARE! I'M GONA RIP YOU TWO TO PIECES!"

All turned to the screamer, Orion and Prism sweatdropping already knowing who it is. Reimu also sweatdropped recognizing who was speaking, "What did you two do to Marisa to get her so pissed?"

Marisa, having finally landed, stomped toward Orion. She started to pull out her signature mini-hakkero before Yukari stopped her. "Get out of my way Yukari! That kid your protecting is gonna taste a full powered Final Spark down his throat!"

Reimu asks, "Why are you so pissed at them? What could they have done to you?" Marisa glares at both teen youkai, Orion specifically, and replies, "The girl I don't really care about. But that boy needs to die. NOW!"

Orion has an idea a few moments after that. They have the perfect test dummy and only he saw it. He grinned and says, "Come on, slowpoke. You know you can't catch me anyway." Reimu looked at him like he was insane. Calling Marisa slow was the equivalent of signing your own death warrant. NO ONE called Marisa slow. The last person to do that was sent to Komachi, the Guide of the River to the Afterlife, and she felt sorry for him.

Marisa only got angrier. "WIL YOU STOP CALLING ME SLOW, ALREADY! I ALREADY WANT TO MASSACRE YOU!" Orion merely grinned and thought, 'That's right, fall right into my trap. Stupid witches thinking their stronger than everyone else.' Orion then said, "Then why don't you prove it, Miss slowest person in all of Gensokyo? If you can dodge all of my Spell cards, then I will acknowledge your speed as fast. But not as fast as me, after all you can't out speed a falling star. "

"Bring it, ze!" Marisa replied, her speech tick returning showing she was calmer. She rose to the air above the Hakurei Shrine. She yelled, "Come on, ze! I don't have all day!"

"Alright, let's start this off!" Orion was already in the air and pulling out the spell card before Marisa even had much of a chance to prepare herself. He pulled out his first spell card and activated by calling out, "Star sign 'Belt of the Stars'!"

As soon as he yelled that a ring of yellow orbs shoots out to the area between them. Marisa saw result, and believed that was the spell card's effect. She started to fly around the ring, which started to spin. Very fast, so fast that all you could see was a ring of yellow spinning. Then the bullets started flying in every direction.

Marisa's eyes widened as she started flying everywhere dodging the bullets sent at her. There were a couple close calls, and one even grazed, but didn't hit, her. After a couple seconds it stops, only for two, smaller circles to replace them. As the bullets started flying she noticed that there were way more bullets than before. She looks to where Orion is as sees him firing bullets as well, a large grin on his face.

From the ground, Reimu, Yukari and Prism are watching the spell card's results. Yukari was nodding appraisingly, Reimu was face palming at Marisa's impulsive nature getting her in trouble again, and Prism was shocked at the massive amount of bullets that were being shot around by the spell card. She had seen what some spell cards looked like and the one being used look way more advanced than the others. She immediately turned to Yukari to ask about it. "It's amazing what a change of difficulty setting on a card can do for it. Isn't that right, Prism?"

Prism was silent for a moment. Then she asked, "Wh-what difficulty level is it set to?" Yukari smiles mischievously, before saying one word that actually got Reimu to feel bad for the "ordinary" magician, and confused Prism to no end, "Phantasm."

Reimu looked up to where Marisa was getting bombarded with bullets. Reimu shook her head, "Yep, she's screwed."

Meanwhile, in the air, Marisa was panting heavily after the long period of dodging. She had gotten some direct hits on her and could only take about two or three more hits before unconsciousness. Orion grinned and pulled out his next card. "The next card will be worse than the last one. I hope you're ready for this one!"

Orion pulls out the card he made based on Yukari's card. It had the words "Stars Sol Arcanum 'Black hole, White hole'" written across the top. He activated it, with a quick call of the cards name.

After activating it, four white orbs shot out from Orion toward the four corners the two had stayed within. Afterwards, four black orbs formed a ring around Orion. He grinned and said, "Take your best shot."

Marisa knew she probably wouldn't be able to dodge this one. So she decided to make good on the promise she made before. She grabbed her mini-hakkero and started firing her own bullets at him. What she didn't realize was that all the bullets she shot were being sucked into the black holes surrounding him.

What she did notice, however, was the large mass of bullets launching from the white orbs he sent out earlier. She dodged as best she could, but was forced to launch a Master Spark to get rid of most of the bullets.

Orion grinned, she was acting exactly as he had planned she would. He had to take a couple of hits for it but the final part of the spell card came now. The black orbs absorbed the Master Spark, and the white orbs had laser markers for where the omni-directional laser blast would hit. A few seconds after, lasers shot out hitting Marisa, who had dodged into the path of the laser to avoid a mass of bullets.

Marisa, having not been expecting the laser, yelled in surprise, "Ah! Where did that come from?" Then she saw the laser pointers and the bullets heading toward her. "Oh, come on, ze!"

For another thirty seconds, to Marisa it was another two hours, the spell card died, the card's time length having finally reached an end.

He began to pull out another card, but Yukari interrupted with a quick, "That's enough, Orion." Orion looks down toward her and complained, "Come ooooon, Yukari! I haven't been able to let loose like this in a long time."

"I could tell, you were overly excited once it started. However, if you continue you'll run out of spell cards before you get back to Makai."

"But we aren't supposed to go back for another year! Shinki's preparing something important and we can't interfere with it."

"Oh, is she now? Well then, it can't be helped. Where are you supposed to stay?"

Orion looked sheepishly at Yukari. "Weeeeell, we were supposed to stay with some friend of hers named Mima, but no one knows that name. We asked around and found that Reimu knew where she lived so we just decided to stay with Reimu down here."

Reimu blinked. They…just decided to stay with her? 'THAT ISN'T RIGHT!' Reimu yelled in her head. Reimu was just about to protest with just that, but Yukari states, "That is a good idea, Orion."

"Don't I get a say in this, Yukari?"

"Oh, you do. I just thought that you would let them stay, instead of sending them off to fend for themselves. With the massive increase in insane youkai attacks, they would never be able to survive."

"W-well, when you put it like that…"

"Then, you agree. Quite generous of you, Reimu." Yukari smiles as though she had planned out everything, which she has for about 85% of the situation.

Orion, who had landed during Reimu and Yukari's short conversation, and Prism both looked at Reimu, and grinned an 'I'm going to prank you so hard' grin, and said, "Thank you for letting us stay. Please take care of us."

Reimu simply sweatdropped as she looked at the two teenagers that would be living with her for a year. 'How do I get myself into these messes?' She thought despondently.

…Well how was it? I know it might seem rushed; I was trying to get my ideas out quickly before I forgot them.

The outfits Orion and Prism are wearing (and will be wearing for the rest of the fic unless otherwise described) are pretty different than earlier when they were six.

Orion is wearing white pants with a black stripe down the legs, an open white jacket with a furred lining and grey star shaped patterns, revealing a plain grey shirt, and a small chain holding a drill resembling the core drill from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

Prism is wearing jeans, a short sleeved dark colored shirt, and a multicolored vest jacket.

Everyone else is wearing the most recent outfit. By that I mean the outfit from whatever game they were in last. Check the Touhou wiki for actual pics.

Please review and help me make this better !