Illusionary Hope: Worlds in Red Darkness

by Illusionaryhopestories

A few months after Reimu and her friends save the Holy Quintet, a new Incident has begun. Reimu and her friends embark on a new world travelling adventure to stop a mysterious new foe with the help of new friends. (Sequel to Illusionary Hope fangame. Contains multiple series other than PMMM like: Re:zero,RWBY,Kill la Kill,Senran Kagura and Blazblue. Contains 2 OCs)

2. Chapter 1

Chapter 1: The Beginning of a new Incident

Reimu sat down on a fancy chair at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Remilia was holding a party after Sakuya asked to bring guests to the mansion. Remilia accepted, as she was curious about meeting new people from the outside world.

Sakuya had also told Remilia about the recent incident in the outside world, which led to Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya and Sanae meeting the Holy Quintet.

The front yard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion was fairly calm: Mami was talking to Marisa about Spell Cards and how they name their moves. Kyoko was discussing the Gungnir with Remilia, who was interested in how it worked, and Sayaka sat down next to Madoka, still amazed at the beautiful scenery of Gensokyo. Homura sat down next to Reimu, "It's nice, getting to see Madoka and everyone happy," Homura said while smiling, "I'd never really thought I'd see something like this." Reimu smiled back at Homura, "well, it wasn't easy getting it this way. I'm glad we stopped you and the Incubators before something worse could happen." Reimu smiled as she looked around at everyone having a good time. From afar, Yukari was observing the party.

A mysterious voice rose up behind Yukari, "Are they having a fun time over there?" Yukari turned around and was greeted with a tall man in a black coat, he wore a red scarf and his face was hidden by a Yin-Yang mask. Yukari, confused, asked the man: "Who are you?" The masked man shrugged, "I don't think that really matters at the moment. I'm here to ask you a question." The man walked over and looked at the mansion, a condescending tone echoed in his voice, "Why is it that you send them to fix a Magical Girl's problem? You know that other worlds exist, why send them there?" Yukari looked at the man with a stern look on her face, she angrily says. "that was for the sake of protecting the bord-" The man cuts her off, "Be honest, you just got bored and sent them in for fun, didn't you?" Yukari stood there, silent. "Well... that's all I needed to hear." The man begins to walk away, "there are more worlds out there that are gonna need saving." He turns around, "so... while I'm here..." A red aura began to surround the masked man's hand, pointing at the mansion. A red portal appeared next to the gates, looking like a door to Hell. "Hopefully, they will get curious enough to walk in, and see what we have in store for them." The masked man waves at Yukari, "Bye bye! Now, hopefully we will all see each other again." The man disappeared in instant leaving behind red fog, the air chilling as the fog dissipated. Yukari looked back at the mansion, everyone was already curious about the portal outside the gate.

Reimu and everyone else at the party gathered around the weird red portal, and began investigating it. Yukari appears next to everyone in an instant, "Stay away from that!" Everyone turned to Yukari. "What is going on?" Reimu asks with a curious expression. "What is this thing doing here anyways?" Remilia also asked. Yukari looks at the Magical Girls, "Whatever we did to help you guys, it clearly pissed someone off. And they aren't from around here." Yukari looks at the portal, "I don't know who though..." Reimu steps in front of the portal, "Well, whoever they are, they left this here for us, and it leads somewhere..." Reimu speaks up again, "Should we go investigate it?" Marisa asks Reimu. "If you do go in, I suggest we tread carefully... Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, you three go in and find whoever is in charge there, warn them that someone might be out to cause trouble. Everyone else will stay here, who knows what else might happen if we leave this place unguarded." Reimu looked at Yukari, "What's wrong? Compared to the 'Magical Girl Border Incident, you seem a lot more worried." Yukari sighs, "Whoever we are dealing with, they are above my power. I don't think I could do anything with my powers this time." Madoka and Homura walked up to Reimu, "Please be careful," Madoka says nervously. Marisa tries to encourage her, "Don't worry, we've taken on stuff from your world, so we can totally beat stuff over there!" Reimu, Marisa, and Sakuya walk into the portal as everyone waves goodbye. From far away, the Masked Man watches, "So, it begins..." The masked man vanishes, and leaves nothing behind but red mist in his wake.

Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya arrive in a forest. "Hey, we didn't get split up this time!" Marisa says jokingly as she looks around, "so, what should we do now?" Sakuya chimes in, "there seems to be noise coming from up ahead." She points towards the direction of what seems to be some light in the distance. They move through the forest, making their way towards that lights. Upon arrival, they found themselves in a small village filled with people. Clearly not used to strangers, the townsfolk begin to gossip. "What is that outfit the one in red and white wearing?"

"That blonde ones outfit, is she a witch?"

"The other one is a maid, does she work at the mansion?"

"Well, we're certainly attracting attention..." Reimu sarcastically remarks as she looked around. She walks up to a villager and asks, "Excuse me, but is there anyone in charge here that I can talk too?" The villager responds, "Hmm… The man that owns this land lives up ahead, if you follow the trail you'll be led straight to the Roswal Mansion. Roswal himself should be there." "Reimu gives her thanks as she and her friends followed the path ahead to the Roswal Mansion.

Meanwhile, somewhere deep in the forest a cult has been plotting a attack on the Village and the mansion. "At long last! Tonight will be the night I take another step closer to Satella's love!" A tall man with pale skin, black eyes and dark green hair said as he contorted his face, "The attack on the village will surely bring out Satella, I'll show her how much I love her! I will earn her Love!" The tall man laughed, but his joy was interrupted.

"This 'blow up the village plan' sounds good, but I feel like Satella is leaving a few important details out about this attack."

The green man turned around to the Masked Man, "Who... are you?"

"Me? Why, my good sir, I'm here to help you and your little friends here with your attack!"

The masked man shrugged as he walked towards the green haired man. With his condescending tone returning to his voice, he spoke, "Your little Gospel might say things about the future, but it doesn't say anything very important. ...What was your name again? Betelgeuse?" The masked Man circled Betelgeuse, as Betelgeuse gave the masked man a disgusted look. The Masked Man continued, "There a lot more problems than Satella has written down in her sacred writings, huge threats to our plans." Betelgeuse began to speak, his voice shaking and stuttering, "A-are you saying, that Satella is wrong?"

"Well yeah, She's missing a lot of-" Betelgeuse cut the Masked Man off, trembling in fury, "You dare question the power of Satella? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! I WILL NOT LET THE NAME OF SATELLA BE DISGRACED WITH DOUBT!" Betelgeuse bent his whole body backwards, head nearly touching the floor. Suddenly, the Masked Man was flung up in the air. The masked man's bones were crushed by an unknown force, and his body fell down to the ground. Betelgeuse laughed as he walked away from the Masked Man's mangled corpse. "As I was saying before you so rudely cut me off..." Betelgeuse quickly turned around, and to his surprise, the Masked Man was standing up again completely unharmed. "I want to help you reach your goal." The masked man said, knowing that he had surprised and outwitted Betelgeuse. "I understand if you took offense to me discussing Satella and I apologize, but just think of this as me adding a little more information to the Gospel. It's a little... improvement." The Masked Man's smooth talking echoed through the chamber as Betelgeuse stood silently, trembling. As he walked towards Betelgeuse, he continued, "Come on now, trying to kill me won't work. Although you may be insane, I don't think you want to spend a million years killing me. Now, you got two options: Let me help you revive Satella and strengthen the attack on the village using my powers, or suffer an agonizing defeat..." Betelgeuse stared at the man, and finally began to speak, "...Very well... But! We go by the will of Satella, and no major changes to the attack! The general idea of the plan must stay the same!" The Masked Man's voice was tinted with a slight bit of joy, "Of course.. You won't regret your decision, and I'm sure Satella would do the same. Now if you excuse me, I have to go observe some people, all for the sake of the plan..." The masked man vanished again. Betelgeuse let out his anger, "That guy… He gets on my nerves… My brain, it trembles!"

Reimu and her friends arrived at the gate to Roswal Mansion. Marisa looks around, "Huh, so this is the mansion? Looks a lot like Remilia's." Sakuya, as she walks to the gate, gives her opinion, "Maybe on the outside, but I imagine it's much different inside." She tries to open it, but to no avail. "It's locked," she says as she turns around. Reimu shrugs and says, "I guess they don't allow visitors." Marisa shouts,"No stupid gate will stop me!" She had already past the gate and started flying towards the mansion's front door. "MARISA!" Reimu shouts, but is ignored. Sakuya sighs, "Maybe I should've seen this coming, she does it to our mansion all the time." Marisa was already walking through the halls of the mansion, "Sakuya was right.. this place definitely does look a lot different. It's a lot smaller, cleaner too." Marisa looked around and turned to the first door she saw, "Let's see what's in here!" Marisa turned the doorknob and walked inside, "Wait... Am I back at the Scarlet Devil Mansion?" Marisa was surrounded by books,"This looks a little similar to the library." Marisa walked around with the neverending books still around her. A quiet but forceful voice spoke behind her, "What are you doing here?" Marisa jumped out of shock and turned around, and in front of her was a small blonde haired girl sitting on a chair with a book on her lap. "Oh, I'm just... looking around for some books!" Marisa said, hoping the girl wouldn't call her bluff. The girl, with an annoyed look on her face, responded, "This isn't the type of library where you check out books. Someone will come in here eventually to kick you out, I suppose." The small girl continued to read her book, Marisa looked back at the books around her.

Outside of the library, Reimu and Sakuya looked around inside the mansion for Marisa. Reimu expressed her annoyance as she looked around, "Damn it, Marisa. Where did you go?" Reimu and Sakuya continued to walk down the hall, until a voice from behind stopped them. "Excuse me," the voice called Reimu and Marisa as they turned around. On the other end of the hallway was girl with short pink hair in a maid outfit different from Sakuya's. She asked them, "who are you two?" Sakuya stepped forward, and began explaining the situation, "We're sorry to intrude on what might be private property, but me and my acquaintance here are looking for Roswall and another friend of ours who rushed in here without permission." The pink girl spoke in a slightly more aggressive tone as she walked towards Reimu and Sakuya, "I'm sorry, Master Roswall isn't here right now, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you two to leave." Reimu, upset, yelled back, "But our friend is still here somewhere, We can't just leave her!" The pink girl, now even more aggressive, continued, "I'm sorry, but you two will have to leave, if you both wait outside maybe I'll find-" the maid was cut off by the sound of someone walking downstairs.

A silver haired girl walked downstairs, "Ram?" "Mistress Emilia!" The pink girl responded to the name that was called. The girl, Emilia, looked somewhat confused as she asked, "Who are these people?" Ram explained, "They came here looking for Roswall. They are just leaving." Emilia spoke directly to the intruders, "Why do you two wish to see Roswall?" Reimu tries desperately to explain, "We came here to warn him about something! I know it may sound crazy, but we come from another world!" Emilia and Ram gave Reimu a confused look, in disbelief of what she said. Emilia spoke after a few seconds of awkward silence, "Alright, I'll here what you two have to say. " Reimu is ecstatic, "Thank you, Emilia!" A voice is heard from further down the hallway, "Hey guys!" Marisa walked up next to Sakuya and Reimu. Reimu, clearly angry with Marisa, asked her where she had been. "Oh, well this place also as library! Nothing caught my interest though." Marisa said, clearly unaware of Reimu's annoyed expression. "So, do you two know where we are yet?" Marisa asked, still looking around the hallway. "Lugnica," Emilia answered with a smile, "Welcome to the Kingdom of Lugnica."

The masked man was looking through a bag in a carriage, "Where's the damn letter? How much longer do I have to dig around in here?" The masked man pulled out a letter, "This is the one", I can feel it..." The Masked Man opens the letter. "Perfect, lets just get rid of this." He says as the letter instantly bursts into flames, "and replace that with this." The Masked Man puts in a new letter in the envelope and puts it back in the bag. He steps out of the carriage, and shouts to the heavens, "Chronos! Time shall resume again!" Suddenly the world started to move again, and the carriage with mail was pulled off by the Land Dragon pulling it. He laughed to himself and sarcastically said, "Subaru and Reimu, I hope you're both prepared for this."

"Emilia, are you sure we can trust these people? Their story about them being from another world sounds odd." A small cat creature was resting on Emilia's shoulder. Emilia responded, "Puck, you don't feel any malice from the do you?" Puck reluctantly replys, "Well no, it's just… It just sounds weird to me." Emilia sat down on a chair behind her desk as Reimu, Sakuya, and Marisa walked in. Emilia begins questioning them, "So, what is it you three needed to warn us about?" Reimu tries to answer, "Well, we don't know exactly... Our goal here was to warn someone important about something or someone causing trouble." Marisa rudely interrupts with a cocky smile, "The plan is to stick with you guys until that person or thing shows up, so we can kick it's ass!"

"I see," Emilia looked at the three slightly confused,"I don't quite understand, but I doubt that you came here just to tell lies, but I do wish you could give me more information..." Emilia closes her eyes and thinks to herself. Reimu pulled out the Yin-Yang Orb, she speaks to it, "Yukari, are you there?"

"Hmm? What is it, are you both ready to go home?"

"No, we need more information about what we are supposed to be looking for." Reimu shook her head as she responded.

"Well, I saw a man wearing a mask that that looked like your Yin-Yang Orb, and he wore a dark robe and and some red scarf." Reimu spoke to Emilia, "The only information I have at the moment is, that this person wore a mask and a dark robe."

"A dark robe..." Emilia closed her eyes and began to think again, "I have a feeling I know what this danger could be... But for now, we will just have to wait for more information."

Reimu, Marisa, and Sakuya began walking on the path back to the village. Marisa is deep in thought. Sakuya asked her, "What's wrong Marisa?"

"Well, this place is kinda huge isn't it," Marisa said looking around, "wouldn't it take us a while to find this 'Masked Person?'" Reimu chimed in, "Well, probably. But they would have to be around here at least..." As they walked down the path, they noticed carriages and people frozen in place. On the side of the path, behind a group of trees, there was someone with a white robe with a hood covering their face. Reimu ran over to the shady looking figure, she began shouting, "Hey! Who are you? What did you do to these people!?" The white robed person turned around, and a small girl with pink hair was under the hood. Reimu asked, "What? Ram? What are you doing?" Marisa and Sakuya caught up with Reimu, and Marisa began scolding Reimu, "Don't just run off like that!" Sakuya quickly spoke up "To be fair Marisa, you ran away from us earlier." Marisa gave her a angry look. Ram finally answered Reimu, "Reimu, these people here have intruded on this property, We gave you three a pass because you three seemed to pose no threat to us. These people however, have brought an army and have been holding someone captive." Ram looked back at the frozen people, then continued, "although he may be affected by this spell too, it might be the only way to save him without any problems." As Ram continued to watch, one of the frozen people began to move. "He got out of it..." Reimu said while watching. The man walked over to another person and freed him by touching him. They began to speak to each other. Sakuya asked, "What are they saying?" Reimu replied, "I don't know..." Suddenly, the person who was set free was kneeling on the ground covering his head as if something was hurting him. Ram jumped out from hiding and landed next to the person, "Hey! Wait!" Reimu shouted as she ran after them. Marisa and Sakuya followed as well. Ram began to grab the person who was in pain by the arm. As she did, she was interrupted quick by an old man who drew his sword against her. His stern voice chilled the bone, "That will be quite enough..." Ram stood there thinking to herself, as the person that Ram was holding onto began to speak, "R-Ram? What are you doing?" Reimu and the others caught up behind Ram. Marisa angrily shouted, "Yeah, just what the hell do you think you're doing? If these people are our enemies you can't just go charging in there alone like that!" The person, confused, said to Ram, "What? These people aren't our enemies, the letter I gave you earlier explained that, remember?" Ram let go of the person, even more confused, "What? Your letter said you've been held captive. And these people were going to plan an attack here and blame it on the Witch Cult, so they could get a lead in the election."

"Oh... that's a little disappointing Ram.. I thought you were gonna be more aggressive about this whole thing."

A shadowy voice surrounds them. Ram turned around, and behind her was a sitting on top of a carriage. Marisa recognised him instantly, "It's the guy!"

"Hmm? Ah! yes! Reimu, Marisa and..." The Masked Man looked at Sakuya, his gaze moving back to Ram and Reimu as well, "Anyways, Ram... I expected more, a group of people show up with weapons, even your missing friend, and all you do is set a non-lethal trap? That doesn't make any sense! I thought you cared about this place, especially Roswal." Ram's eyes widened, she begins to shout in anger and despair, "You know nothing about me or Roswal!" The Masked man let out a small chuckle before responding, "Ah, that's where you are wrong... I know everything about nearly everyone here. For example, I believe the reason why you weren't more aggressive is because your mana has been used up and Roswal hasn't been here to restore it."

Ram, now afraid, took a step back, "what? how could you-"

Reimu began to grow frustrated, "That's enough, who are you?!"

"A little rude to be interrupting a conversation, don't you think Reimu?"

The Masked Man returned his sight to the old man, and the man with Ram's friend. He asked them, "You two, Julius and Wilhelm correct?"

"Y-yes" Julius responded, although still somewhat confused about the current situation.

The Masked Man voice slightly raised, as if excited, "You two are swordsmen, right? I sure hope so, because I'd love to fight someone like you. I wanna know if my father's technique is as useful as he said..." He composed himself as he stood up, "Of course, not right now."

The Masked Man looked over at Reimu again, "Now, for you three, welcome to the start of a new Incident. I hope you enjoy the festivities!"

Reimu and the rest of the crew assumed combat stances, shots ready.

"You three look like you're all ready to fight me. It's a shame we can't play our little game now, however... I wouldn't mind showing you the danger that lurks in the shadows of this world." The Masked Man snapped his fingers, and as he did red mist began to engulf the ground the group tread on. The mist suddenly took form, the form of hooded men wielding knives.

Julius was taken aback,"W-What? What is this?!" He still drew his sword as his knight training taught him. Everyone else prepared to fight. Ram stood there, her mind racing. She had so many questions, and couldn't even move until someone snapped her out of it.

"Ram! You need to go back to the Mansion! Hurry!" Ram shook her head as a wake-up call and nodded, then took off back to the mansion.

"I hope you know what you're doing Subaru." Ram said to herself.

The Masked Man laughed to himself, "This will be fun to watch!"

"We have to keep them from harming anyone here, the spell is still active!" Wilhelm shouted as he began to attack at a hooded figure, Reimu swung her gohei at one of the figures after dodging one of their attacks, as she swung it, she made a strange discovery "what the?" Marisa said as her shots only left holes through the figure as if nothing happened, "Danmaku doesn't work on these guys!" Marisa shouted "Swords won't work either!" Julius shouted. "Who the hell is this guy?" Reimu began to think to herself as she dodged the attacks of the hooded figure Reimu looked up at the masked man "Wait a second..." Reimu noticed that the masked man's hands were giving off a red aura as he watched "Sakuya, attack him!" Reimu shouted, Sakuya kicked the hooded figure that was trying to attack her back as she threw a knife at the masked man. The knife was thrown at such a high speed that barely anyone saw it, and it struck the masked man right in the chest. The masked man stood up, and the figures slowly began to disappear, it was dead silent. The masked man looked at Sakuya as to removed the knife from his chest, his breathing was getting heavy. "Hey.. are you okay man?" Marisa asked "I'm fine" The masked man said almost sounding as if he was trying to hold his anger back. The masked man took another deep breath and proceeded to speak calmly again "I see now that you all have noticed how this power works, I'm sorry that the fight didn't go on for long. Next time we meet I'll be sure to have more protection than just puppets made out of mist." The masked man vanished again. "Who.. who are you guys?" a person asked from "Well it's a bit of a long story" Marisa responded as the three began to explain the situation and introduce themselves as Julius helped everyone move again.

"Huh, so you three are from another world?" A person with black hair asked "Yes, and judging from your clothes, you also seem to be from a outside world Subaru" Sakuya replied, "What, how could you tell?" Subaru asked surprised "Well.your kinda clothes give it away." Reimu said "Well, fair enough" Subaru responded. "Reimu, what can you tell us about that masked man?" Julius asked "Well, that's the problem, we don't know nothing about this guy." Reimu responded as she thought to herself "What is that guys problem anyways?" Marisa asked "The moment Sakuya hit him, he looked like he was gonna lose it." Marisa began to scratch her also trying to figure out the situation,. "We all need to move to the village now." Julius said "We don't know when or where this guy will come from, so we have to hurry and get people out of here." As Julius gave instructions Subaru looked shocked and worried,"But that's not part of the plan, what if the witch cult-" Subaru was interrupted halfway through "It's fine Subaru, these three people here have shown amazing skills in magic over a short amount of time. On top of that, the masked man seems to know about the Witch Cult and could be working with them." Julius said as he looked around "You heard him right? how he managed to know my name and how he knew about Ram? He hasn't even met us." Subaru closed his eyes, "You're right. I don't even know what will happen anymore..." Subaru and the rest made their way back to the village.

"Where have you been!" Betelgeuse asked as the masked man appeared "I said I was going to check in on things didn't I?" the masked man responded. The masked man and Betelgeuse were watching the village from far away, "It doesn't matter anyways, the rocks down there will soon explode, I saved you from losing a few of your men and having to change bodies." The masked man said as he continued to view the village "Anyways I'll be going." The masked man said as he walked away "WHAT!? YOU'RE LEAVING AGAIN? WHAT KIND OF HELP IS THIS!" Betelgeuse screamed "Hey, calm down, I said I'd help and I did." The masked man responded "I want to make my visit to this world short and sweet, there are many worlds out there that just sound more fun to mess around in." The masked man shrugged "And besides what I'm leaving for is going to help you all greatly!" The masked man walked began to slowly fade away "also.. hehehe three...two...one..." A large explosion was heard below them "Your attack begins now, I wish you luck Betelgeuse." The masked man faded away completely as Betelgeuse gave a sinister looking smile and jumped down to the village below.

"Wh-what? Already? This wasn't supposed to happen this early" Subaru said in shock surprised by the explosion in the distance, "We have to hurry!" Wilhelm shouted as everyone began to quickly make their way to the Village. Meanwhile, back the Roswal Mansion "We have to go see what that noise was" Emillia said as she began to walk out the door, "Emillia, you know what Ram told you, there's something weird going on. I'm sure those three girls have it taken care of." Puck said to Emilia concerned about what could happen outside "I know, but I just need to check on the-" Emilia was cut off by what she saw, it was the Masked Man, blocking her path and trapping her inside a transparent box"You should've just listened to your cat." The Masked man said as he held out his hand and as he did so a wall of mist appeared behind Emillia and Puck and materialized into a wall blocking the door, "Now I suggest we all wait for Subaru." The Masked Man said "What do you want?" Puck asked in a angry tone "What do I want? What I want is a peaceful world, this world has so much beauty and wonder in it. Yet it's plagued by cults,fiends and horrible creatures." the Masked Man responded as Puck and Emilia looked confused "I need Subaru here for his decision, this world will and can be perfect but only if agrees to what I have to offer." the Masked Man said "now I have no intention of-" suddenly the Masked Man's left arm knocked straight off his body "Well, I had no intention of fighting." The Masked Man walked over and picked up his arm "Now this a surprise! You aren't even supposed to be here yet!" The Masked Man reattached his arm to his body and turned around and behind him was a girl similar to Ram, but with Blue hair and Blue eyes, she was holding a Flail covered in the Masked Man's blood "Rem! You're early! What are you doing here? this wasn't part of the plan." The Masked Man asked "I came here to be sure my sister and Emilia was okay, I know that this is not part of the plan, but I am sure that Subaru can handle whatever happens at the village, I believe in him." Rem replied The masked man began to chuckle at Rem's reply "You -heh heh-you, have too much faith in that man." The Masked Man said as he laughed "What's your problem?! You want him here for what?! to laugh at him?!" Rem yelled at the Masked Man "No, no.. he has a decision to make, I was going to wait for him peacefully, but it seems you rather fight then just sit and behave." The Masked Man held out his hand as a sword appeared. "You don't use swords, but I'm sure you can entertain me while I wait." The Masked Man said as he charged at Rem.

Back at the village, Reimu and everyone else has arrived, thankfully some knights were already there fighting back, they wore the same outfit as Julius, however the village was badly damaged and not everyone was safe "Who, who would do such a thing?" Marisa asked, A sinister laugh could be heard in the distance "If I had to guess I'd say that guy." Sakuya said as she said pointed over to the middle of the village, in the middle was Betelgeuse around him was flying pieces of debris "Woah!" Marisa shouted "Does this guy have Telekinetic? Telekinesis? What was it called again?" Marisa said as she scratched her head "The word you're looking for is telekinesis" Subaru said nervously "And it isn't telekinesis, this is something else entirely." Subaru and Julius approached Betelgeuse "Huh?, OH! IT'S YOU TWO! THAT LOUSY MASKED FREAK TOLD ME ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WITH YOU TWO!" Betelgeuse shouted. "What? you know already, who the hell is this Masked Guy?" Subaru asked "HAHAHA EVEN I DON'T KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT HIM IN THE GOSPEL!" Betelgeuse continued to laugh, suddenly he looked up at the sky "OHHH, WELL THIS IS NEW, LOOKS LIKE WE WILL JUST BE STAYING IN THE VILLAGE." Betelgeuse said surprised, "What?" Subaru turned around and in the sky near the Roswal mansion was a huge red fog "Emilia!" Subaru ran back to the mansion, "Subaru!." Julius began to run after him, "You three better know what you're doing!" Julius said as he ran off "Well then..." Reimu said as she and Sakuya and Marisa got ready to fight "OH HO HO! YOU THREE, YOU ALL ARE NOT FROM HERE ARE YOU?!?!" Betelgeuse laughed to himself "Well it won't take long to beat you!" Reimu throws a talisman at Betelgeuse "OW! OW OW OW OW OW !" He screamed in pain as it landed and suddenly giant dark arms appeared attached to Betelgeuse. "Huh, so that's what his power is." Marisa said "WHAT?!?! HOW COULD YOU!!!!" Betelgeuse began to scream "WHO CARES IF YOU CAN SEE IT, I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Betelgeuse began to bite his fingers as black holes began to appear under Reimu,Marisa and Sakuya. "What?" Sakuya said in confusion looking down as everyone quickly dodged out of the way, "NO!! HOW CAN I DO THIS IF YOU CAN SEE IT!?!?, HOW CAN YOU SEE THIS?!!? HOW CAN YOU SEE THE UNSEEN HAND!?!??!" Betelgeuse continued to scream "His advantage is gone forever, right Reimu?" Marisa asked "Yeah, as long as the talisman isn't removed, we are fine" Reimu responded. Sakuya jumped up into the air and faced towards Betelgeuse "CLOCK CORPSE!" Sakuya shouted as she pulled out a card "WHA-" Betelgeuse was stopped halfway through his sentence as suddenly thousands of knives appeared around him and instantly flew at him. "Well, that was pretty easy" Suddenly Marisa and Reimu were swept off their feet "What? No!" Sakuya shouted as she looked back. "hehehehehehehehehehe, YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THAT EASY!?! I WILL NOT STOP TIL I PLEASE SATELLA THIS IS NOTHING THAT I CAN HANDLEEEEE!" Betelgeuse "MY BRAIN TREM-" Suddenly Betelgeuse was stabbed from behind and then immediately cut in half "Are you three alright?" Wilhelm asked "Y-yeah we're good." Reimu responded "The situation is taken care of here, you three need to go catch up with Subaru." Wilhelm responded "Right." Reimu nodded and began to go back to the Roswal mansion as fast they could, "That, crazy guy didn't really get a lot of time to speak huh?" Marisa asked "perhaps it's for the best, you saw him survive my spell card." Sakuya responded. all three of them continued to hurry back as fast as they could.

"Is that really the best you got? Aren't you a knight or something?" The masked man said as he knocked back Julius. Rem was lying down injured from the battle with the masked man, all Subaru and Emilia could do was watch. "Who the hell are you?!" Julius asked "Why do you have connections with the witch cult?" The Masked Man shrugged "I wouldn't really call it a connection, I just offered to help although took some convincing, they agreed, I got to slow you guys down while they got a head start." Julius ran at the Masked Man and swung his sword at him, but the Masked Man blocked it "Damn, this guy is just as good as Reinhart!" Subaru said as he watched the fight holding onto Rem, "Just as good? Pfft hahahaha" The Masked Man laughed "Reinhart relies on his magic to finish the job, If we brought magic into this, he would lose." The Masked Man pushed Julius back on the ground, and as he fell mist surrounded his arms and legs turning into chains, pinning him down to the ground. "Now,Subaru you have a choice." The Masked Man said as he turned to Subaru "Wh-what is it?" Subaru asked nervously "I've come here to restart this world, hehe, restarting from zero as one would say, Subaru sat there completely still, shocked and afraid by what was going on "There are two ways to do this, Option one is the easy option, I kill you right here and now, and the world will be forced to restart, or I kill everyone else who's important in this world forcing the world to restart that way." The Masked Man stared at Subaru "Go ahead, kill me." Subaru said now sounding confident. "Let me guess." The masked man said as he got his sword ready, "I'll let this freak kill me, I'll just return by death anyways, and I'll find a way to stop him!" The Masked Man said as he did a poor impression of Subaru "What? How do you know?" Subaru said shocked "I know everything about you Subaru, now, say your goodbyes, this will be the last time you see this world the way it is." The Masked Man pulled out his sword and was ready to strike. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Reimu shouted as she finally managed to catch up "You all are already back?" The Masked Man said as he turned around "That's enough you creep, who the hell are you?" Marisa asked. " The Masked Man put away his sword and bows "You shall call me, Janus. My real name is something I shall not give away." Janus takes a deep breath and looks around "I should've known you'd be able to defeat the witch cult Reimu.. with powers like yours, They aren't really that special." Janus looks at Reimu, "Next time we shall meet in a world where legends are scattered and heroes are trained, A world where monsters loom and war is very close to happening." Janus disappears and the chains and box restraining Julius and Emilia also vanish. "But... I didn't give you all a proper challenge did I?" Janus said, despite not being here. Suddenly a large ball of mist appeared and began to take shape into a monster, the monster had long skinny arms and a robe with a hood covering the monsters face, under the hood was glowing green eyes and and red mist could be seen coming out. The monster growled as it pulled out a scythe with chains attached.

"Wh-what the hell?!" Subaru shouted "I'm not scared of some Grim Reaper looking monster!" Marisa shouted and ran up "STAR SPARK!" Marisa pulled out the Mini-Hakkero and fired a beam at the monster, the monster teleported and dodged it "Uh oh" Marisa said realizing her mistake. the monster whipped its chain at Marisa causing it to coil around her, the monster whipped the chain again, throwing Marisa on the ground "Ow.. that hurt.." Marisa said in pain "Reimu, everyone here is too tired or injured to fight." Sakuya said "And everyone else is busy protecting the village. This is something we're gonna have to do alone" Reimu looked at Sakuya and nodded "Hey! I'm not out of the fight yet!" Marisa said as she ran back "Alright, lets beat this thing and go home." Reimu said as she readied her talismans to fight "I'll get it's attention Reimu, get your strongest spell card ready!" Marisa said as she hopped onto her broom and flew by Reimu "Hey Ugly! I bet you can't hit me again!" Marisa shouted "The monster screeched at Marisa swinging the scythe at high speeds "Woah, I wasn't really ready for this!" Marisa said she dodged the attacks. Sakuya ran behind the figure and threw knives at it, the monster flinched in pain from the attack, The Monster instantly turned around to attack Sakuya, but with the power of her time abilities she managed to dodge it. The monster began to whip it's chain around again "heh, He's getting pretty angry now!" Marisa said "Reimu! You ready?" Sakuya asked "Yeah!" Reimu flew up and and threw a talisman at the monster 'DEMON BINDING RING!" Reimu shouted as the talisman began to glow, suddenly millions of talisman's began to surround the monster launching at him at high speed, the monster screamed in pain as it began to slowly fade away, the spell card continued however, leading to a very pretty light show for a while.

Later inside the Roswal mansion, everyone gathered around to discuss the situation "There was a few casualties at the village, but everything turned out alright." Wilhelm said as he stood around " Julius looked at Reimu "If it weren't for you three we'd all be dead. That masked man is some sort of monster." Julius said "What is his deal anyway?" Puck asked "He shows up talking about killing Subaru and resetting the world like some sort of weirdo, and then he just shrugs off getting his arm taken off!" Puck continued "I don't know what his problem is either, but he definitely knows a lot about us." Marisa said "I think we need to go tell Yukari about this." Sakuya said "Right" Reimu nodded in agreement "What? We are leaving already!?" Marisa asked looking disappointed "But these guys are so nice!, and the place even has a Library!" Reimu nodded "I understand Marisa, once this is all over we will just do what we did with Madoka." Marisa smiled, "Right." Marisa walked over to Reimu "I'm sorry that we couldn't get to stay much longer, I know few people who'd love to see this place" Sakuya said. Emilia smiled "I hope you three manage to catch that man." Emilia said, "Don't worry! We got this!" Marisa said as smiled back "Yukari, Take us home." Reimu said as a gap appeared below them, sending them back to Gensokyo. Suddenly Subaru and Rem ran downstairs panting and looking worried "What's wrong?" Emilia asked

"Now Chronos, I assure you next time will be different!" Janus said to a mysterious figure in a dark place made out of metal. "You let them get away though, your technique of creating a monster out of negative energy failed." Chronos said sounding disappointed "It's fine, it was just a test to see how much I needed to prepare the next attack! They are strong but now that I know exactly what I'm dealing with, I'll just do something extra special for the next attack." Janus laughed as he said this "And besides, while I was out I found someone who understands our purpose" Janus turns around and Looks at another hooded figure. "Next time will be very interesting..." Janus said as he disappeared with The hooded figure