The sparkl aventurs of Blakwill Kuntinoos

In this all new chappie!

So Blackquill's already met Yukari (though he has no idea what her name is). This time, he meets the person almost EVERY outsider meets first: Reimu Hakurei. Hopefully this meeting goes a bit better.

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-GinstaWimp

Chapter One

Crash Landing

What the HELL is this!?

Blackquill considered the appearance of those woman's gaps odd enough, but the sensation of being inside one was definitely...new.

First of all, there were a LOT more eyes than he thought. All around him, under him, in every possible direction were eyes. What perturbed Blackquill was the fact that he couldn't judge how far those eyes were from him. Even as he was moving, the eyes never seemed to get any closer.

Second, he was floating, but didn't feel weightless at all. He...you know what, never mind. He never even had time to finish his thoughts before he found himself surrounded by blue sky.

It took but a moment for his brain to realize the implications of such as observation.

He looked down. Trees. Hopefully he could survive this fall—he'd learned some useful ways to soften a landing in the past. He was only about thirty or forty feet off the ground, so executing such a saving maneuver wouldn't be too difficult.

Of course, in reality, all of this was instinct to him. He prepared himself as he neared the tree tops. At around fifteen feet he kicked against a nearby tree and curled, rolling as he hit the ground and narrowly avoiding smashing his head into another tree's trunk.

He lay on the ground for a while, panting.

"...Well."

I suppose that was an...entrance test of sorts? I passed, then.

His back still hurt like hell, though. His body was rather cut and bruised, but at least he wasn't dead.

"Oi! Are you alright?"

Turning his head from his position on the ground, he could see a Japanese girl running towards him dressed in red and white. He stood to get a better look; he recognized that outfit. This girl was a miko.

But aren't miko Japa—oh, hell.

He groaned, startling the stranger.

"Oh. Are you hurt?"

"...I'm not in the United States anymore, am I?"

The girl blinked. Oh. He's an outsider. "Wherever that is, no, you aren't. You're in Gensokyo."

Blackquill swore. "There's that word again! I know Gensokyo isn't the name of a country. Where is this place?"

"In Japan."

"...more specifically?"

The girl looked thoughtful for a moment. "Hm. I actually don't know. I do know that no one in Japan or anywhere else knows that Gensokyo even exists. After all, this place is a haven for youkai—" She stopped herself. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't—"

Blackquill shook his head. "I've already been informed."

"Oh! That's convenient. By whom?"

"A woman in purple, with...a parasol. A very odd individual." Blackquill almost spat out the word 'odd.'

The girl scowled. "I know exactly who that is. Yukari Yakumo."

"So that's her name, is it?"

"Indeed it is. And I'm quite aware that I'm odd, thank you very much."

Both miko and prosecutor immediately looked around for the source of the voice before the former looked up. "Dammit Yukari! Stop eavesdropping!"

Yukari was sitting on a gap (A/N: Yes, it's perfectly normal that she can do that. Check PCB.) with a demure smile. "But this conversation concerns me, doesn't it, my dear Reimu? And can't I come and see how the outsider is faring after that fall? It was from around thirty-three feet, after all."

The girl could not possibly have looked more indignant at this point. "Says the person who dropped him in the first place! You knew he couldn't fly and you still did it!"

Fly...? Blackquill wondered.

"He survived like I knew he would. I was confident in his abilities."

"Oh, that confidence of yours always gets me into good situations, doesn't it," Blackquill grumbled.

"I heard thaaaat~" Yukari sang.

"Why don't you just get the hell out of here?" Reimu snapped.

"Very well," Yukari said, still with a smirk. "I'll drop by later, okay? Try not to get hurt, Blackquill."

Before he could deliver a scathing reply, the woman conjured another gap and just like that, she was gone.

"...and she's very powerful, probably the most powerful youkai here. No one ever finds out why she does something unless she tells them, so I'm afraid I don't know why she brought you here."

The miko, whose full name Blackquill learned was Reimu Hakurei, had just finished explaining Gensokyo's conception and history to him. Unfortunately, she reaffirmed what he already knew about Yukari: she was mysterious and cunning. And powerful. Oh gods was she powerful.

What kind of normal being could create a barrier between Gensokyo and the outside world that literally defied reality!?

As usual, Blackquill masked his true thoughts (in this case incredulous ones) with an expressionless face. He then masked his face with his cup of Japanese tea. "Hm...interesting."

"And troublesome," Reimu grumbled. "She can basically do whatever she wants. We're just lucky she's on our side."

"Are there any other interesting people—er, or youkai—around here?"

"Oh, yes," Reimu answered quickly. "Lots. Almost everyone around here has an interesting story to tell—after all, Gensokyo was created for the extraordinary. By the way, how did you survive that fall?"

"Pardon?"

"How did you—"

"OI REIMU!" A blonde girl who looked about Reimu's age slammed open the door and burst into the shrine.

"Gah! Marisa! Not so loud!" Reimu yelled. "Oh, Blackquill, meet Marisa Kirisame. My...erm, friend."

"Hey Blackquill! Cool name! Have you gotten bored of Reimu yet?"

"...that's an interesting friend you have."

"Yes, she's unique all right." Reimu sighed.

"Mhm~"

"Aren't you going to take your hat off indoors...?" Blackquill inquired. It was a weird hat, too, quite similar to a Western witches' hat. A white ribbon was tied around it seeming for no reason other than making it recognizable.

"Nope! I never take my hat off da ze~" Marisa chirped.

Blackquill quirked his eyebrow.

"She wears that hat wherever she goes," Reimu explained. "I think the only time she really takes it off is when she's sleeping..."

"Pretty much."

"But back to that question, Blackquill," Reimu hurriedly said before the conversation could get any more off topic, "how did you survive the fall with so few injuries? I mean, you could have lived with some luck, but you lived with no major injuries. How?"

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Marisa interrupted. "He fell?"

"Yukari dropped me into Gensokyo over thirty feet above the forest. A test of sorts, I presume. She wanted to see if I could survive in Gensokyo."

Marisa's jaw dropped. "And you couldn't fly?"

"...Is that normal!"

"Of course! Almost everyone in Gensokyo can fly! Well, youkai and powerful humans like me and Reimu, but still!"

"Hm. I suppose I'll have to learn how to fly, too."

"There's a power threshold for that, sadly," Reimu said. "Generally only those who have some sort of magical or supernatural ability can fly."

Though disappointed, Blackquill gave no verbal reaction as he continued to silently sip his tea.

"So if you couldn't fly...you must have done something else."

"I used a tree."

"You...what?"

Reimu and Marisa both voiced their confusion at the same time.

"I kicked off a tree as I was falling, and then I curled myself into a ball to cushion the impact and roll."

"And you thought of doing that...with no foreknowledge of that you would be in such a situation? And you did it perfectly?"

"It was either that or death," Blackquill said. "And I prefer the former."

Shortly after dinner with the two friends, Blackquill decided to get some rest. Understandably. Today had, to put it mildly, been unusual for him. He fell asleep within the hour.

"What did you think of him, Marisa?"

"Eh. He's all serious and boring. Kinda like you~" Marisa teased.

Reimu grumbled to herself.

"Just kidding, he's not really boring. The way he talks...it's like he knows things about you that you haven't told him. Kinda like..."

"Me?"

"AAAAH!" Marisa screamed as a face appeared in front of her. "Yukari! I'll kill you da ze!"

"Mmm...no you won't." Another gap, and Yukari took her place at the dining table. "I, too, find him interesting. He's very perceptive, and this trait of his has been enhanced by his profession. He's a prosecutor in the real world. His job is to condemn criminals by proving their guilt to a judge. His methods are quite efficient, I may add."

"Why did you have to bring him here? You know as well as I do that Gensokyo doesn't need the type of legal system the outside world does," Reimu stated.

"That, I'm afraid, is confidential information. But you are correct. It has nothing to do with his being a lawyer."

A large packet of documents appeared on the table in front of Reimu and Marisa.

"This is everything I could find about him. His life story is a very interesting read. Almost as if it were a dramatic fiction," Yukari said. "And Marisa, there's two copies in there, so feel free to take one. Come by tomorrow as well, he needs to learn how to fly and use at least one spellcard. It wouldn't do to have him running around completely defenseless."

"Oh, and one more thing. Don't tell him that you can send him back. I'd like him to stay for at least a while."

Chapter One is done! Next chapter is when Blackquill gets Taka back. And one other thing...

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