Location - Below the Hakurei Shrine
Doremy walked around the different areas of Gensokyo. Most people are not really doing naughty stuff, except for a few of them. One is Yuyuko often chasing after Mystia, hoping to swallow her whole. Then there's Kaguya and Mokou. Just like everyday, the 2 of then still kill each other even though they know it's just not possible. And then there's Marisa. She always tries to sneak in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's library, hoping to steal more of Patchouli's books. She often insists she's only borrowing them, even though she doesn't even return them. It was then that she finally knew what's best for a punishment. Through her ability, she can use it to cause the ultimate Christmas Nightmare to the naughty people of Gensokyo. She looked up the sky. And then she saw a monk directly staring towards the shrine. She was the head priest of the Myouren Temple.
"Byakuren?" she thought to herself. "What's she doing here? And how come she doesn't look so happy?"
Byakuren seemed like she's staring at something bad. So Doremy asked her what seems to be the problem.
"Hi Byakuren," Doremy told her. "You don't seem so happy. Is there something wrong?"
Byakuren looked towards her right and saw Doremy. She greeted her and explained everything.
"Oh hi Doremy," she said, slightly gloomily. "Knowing that you're the dream youkai, you probably know about my dreams right?"
"Umm... is that your dream about humans and youkai treating each other with kindness?" Doremy asked.
"Yes."
"That's a good dream. What seems to be your problem?"
"I don't think I'll ever be able to achieve that dream with what I'm seeing right now."
Byakuren had Doremy stare towards the shrine, where Byakuren was looking at. There she saw the 3 fairies of light (Sunny Milk, Luna Child, and Star Sapphire). The 3 tied a very long slingshot around 2 of the cherry blossoms. At the middle, they placed a custard pie. It was facing directly towards the entrance of the shrine. The three fairies stretched the slingshot as far as they can and waited for Reimu to come outside. It was then, Reimu stepped out, stretching her arms up in the air.
"Alright," Sunny Milk signaled. "FIRE!"
The other 2 fairies released their grip from the slingshot and the pie was sent flying, hitting Reimu directly at the face.
"HA HA HA HA HA," the fairies laughed. "You should've seen the look of your face."
Reimu wiped away the custard and was filled with revenge and fury.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" she shouted.
She shot tons of paper bombs directly towards the three fairies of light. Some of them were dodged and were shot towards the end of the shrine, where Doremy and Byakuren were. They had to dodge those attacks. But some of the paper bombs hit the three fairies of light. With that, Reimu unleashed the explosion, causing the fairies to get burned. Luckily, they didn't die. But they suffered from very serious injuries.
"Wow!" Doremy expressed, surprised. "It really will be hard."
"What am I gonna do?" Byakuren asked herself. "With all this fighting, everyone will be part of Santa's naughty list because of this."
Doremy thought of it for a while. She thought and thought, until she came up with an idea.
"I KNOW!" she said.
"What is it?" Byakuren asked.
"Listen, you're one of the first of everyone who will find out about this. But just so you know, I was able to talk Santa Claus."
"Really?!" Byakuren was shocked.
"Yep. and he assigned me to a very important job. He told me that he was too busy with the outside world. He can't accommodate Gensokyo."
"Gee. That sure is unfortunate."
"He told me, take his job for now. I will become the Santa Claus of Gensokyo for this year."
"Wow! That's good to hear. Soo... any problems with the job?"
"Yeah. With all the naughty people of Gensokyo, including this shrine maiden "hero", I don't think anyone will receive gifts from Santa Claus. You know the rules. You're nice, you are rewarded. And if you're naughty, you don't get anything."
Byakuren was surprised that their goals for Christmas were almost the same. They want peace and to stop the fraud.
"Hey ummm... listen," she insisted. "I think I might be able to help you."
"What do you mean?" Doremy asked.
"I want Gensokyo to be peaceful during Christmas too. In fact, that's the only thing I want from Christmas. We practically have the same goals. We both want humans, youkai, and any creature here in Gensokyo to get along. So I have a plan for the two of us.
"What's that?"
Byakuren whispered to Doremy the whole Christmas plan.
"Have everyone gathered at the Myouren Temple?" Doremy asked, quite doubtful. "I'm not very sure if people will even come to attend the meeting. How can we convince them to come?"
"They have to," Byakuren replied with a rising passion. "This is Christmas we're talking about. The whole concept of Christmas is about the spirit of togetherness. It's not about the gifts. It's about being there together and caring for each other. I want, in fact, we both want people to stop the unnecessary feud between humans and youkai. We want everyone to be in their best behavior during the season. I don't think that "spirit" will be prevalent if we don't learn to get along."
"I can understand those words. But how can we convince them to come?"
Byakuren whispered another plan to Doremy.
"Flyers to convince eh?" Doremy thought. "Well, what do we put on it?"
"We'll discuss it on the way," Byakuren answered. "Let's get started."
Then Byakuren and Doremy flew away and headed towards the direction going to Myouren Temple.
"So...," Byakuren started a conversation. "Do you already have an appropriate punishment to whoever may fail to stay well behaved during Christmas?"
"Yeah," Doremy replied. "You know how I'm the dream youkai right?"
"I know."
"On the night before Christmas, as soon as the naughty ones go to sleep. what will happen to them is the biggest Christmas Nightmare they will never forget."
Byakuren was startled by those words.
"Ummm...," she mumbled nervously. "Don't you think that a bit too... insane?"
"What's so insane about it?" Doremy asked.
"I'm not sure fear is the right way to make the people change their naughty ways to niceness."
"Relax! It's just a dream."
"But what if they're kids? Don't you think such punishment will only traumatize them?"
"It will only happen if they don't stop their naughty ways," Doremy answered with no second word.
Byakuren was quite worried with Doremy's plans. But they have to work together for Christmas. They headed for the temple and began to work on some flyers.
Hello. This is Revived Hero here. I was once known as 44angelheaven. But that's my former username. From now on, call me through my new username. And some more things, I will be VERY SLOW PACED with this story. I will put this story on hiatus until December when Christmas draws nearer. This story was already planned since last year. But due to lack of motivation and planning, I had to take several breaks from it. I want this story to become a good Christmas special and I will do my best on it. But it will be a while before I work on it again. I will prioritize two of my other ongoing fanfictions. I'm sure this story can still wait. Thank you for understanding and hope you continue enjoying the story.
Revived Hero - Signing Out
