WARINING: Contains violence and gore.
Disclaimer: I do not own Touhou Project.
Reimu's Shrine: 12:01 AM
"Damn it!" Patchouli spat. "Damn it! Where could she have gone?"
Alice sighed. "Marisa's house, probably. I think they're sleeping together," Alice whispered sadly.
Patchouli's eyes brightened up. "Then let's go there. That's where she probably is, don't you think?"
"Well...yeah. Let's go. But once we get there, we have to be REALLY quiet. I'm pretty sure Marisa has sharper hearing than Reimu, so she'll be woken up much more quickly," Alice informed Patchouli.
The purple mage nodded. "Right. Let's go."
The two proceeded to leave the shrine, careful to make sure that nobody could tell that they were there by shutting the door and tidying up the rug on the floor.
Marisa's house: 12:06 AM
Patchouli and Alice landed on the ground for the second time that night. They were smack-dab in the middle of the Forest Of Magic, right in front of Marisa's house. There were no lights on inside, and at first, Alice was afraid that Marisa wasn't home either, like Reimu hadn't been.
Alice watched Patchouli gently put open Marisa's door. It wasn't locked. Silly Marisa, Alice thought to herself.
When they entered Marisa's house, they both gasped in surprise. Stuff was everywhere; in every nook, corner, and cranny of the house. Alice was surprised that Marisa didn't have an award for her messiness. She surely deserved one because of how large the mess was.
"Okay. You've been to her house before; where's her room?" Patchouli asked the doll-maker.
Alice had to think about it for a moment. Then she remembered: "This way," Alice whispered, pointing down a less messier hallway. They finally made their way to Marisa's room, having almost tripped on a few things on Marisa's floor.
When they entered Marisa's room, Alice was surprised to see it clean and tidy. The floor was not messy at all, and Alice could see the floor, which was wooden. A rug occupied the area around Marisa's bed. And when Alice glanced at the bed in the room, she felt like she was going to cry.
There lay Marisa Kirisame, bare breasts sprawled out over her, mouth open, drooling. Marisa had her face turned to the side, toward one side of the bed, so it was kind of hard to tell that she was drooling. Marisa was also butt-naked as well.
Then Alice saw Reimu. Reimu, curled up next to Marisa, sleeping so peacefully, naked as well. Reimu, drooling and breathing in harmony with Marisa. Reimu, her hand on Marisa's back, cradling her with her arm. That goddamn miko! SHE DOES NOT DESERVE MARISA! Alice wanted to scream and cry with all her might, but something stopped her from doing that. She had a job to do, and that job was to get rid of the pest that was stealing her Marisa away.
"I know, Alice. I know how you feel," Patchouli whispered suddenly. "I do. I try so hard to get Marisa to love me. But I can never tell what she's thinking."
"I agree. I never no what goes on in her head."
"Now, are we going to do the deed or what?"
Alice looked at Reimu and Marisa peacefully sleeping together. She then looked back at Patchouli and nodded, an evil grin plastered on her face.
Alice whipped out a shot and crept quietly over to Reimu. Then, before inserting the drug, she looked over at Patchouli. "In the neck, right?"
Patchouli nodded. "In the neck. Just insert right in the vein."
Alice grinned and turned back to her prey. She knew that this was only a sedative to make sure that Reimu didn't wake up while they were "operating" on her. Alice inserted the sedative and Reimu jerked in her sleep. Alice was almost afraid that she'd wake Marisa up, or even worse, wake herself up. But then Reimu calmed down a bit and relaxed her shoulders as the sedative kicked in.
"Good. Now I'll lift her, and we can proceed to Marisa's magic-making lab. I'm sure she has a table down there, doesn't she?" Patchouli said, and then pointed her finger at the sleeping Reimu, who drifted lazily toward Patchouli, captured in the mage's magic. "Lead the way."
Alice left Marisa's room with Patchouli in tow, not bothering to close the door behind them. Alice's adrenaline level was sky-rocketing. She couldn't believe what she and Patchouli were doing. It was against the laws of the spell-card rules, and she knew she would go to hell for the sin she was about to commit. But Alice shook the thought away. She would just make sure that she could commit a lot of good deeds, so then she could return her ticket to hell.
Marisa's magic-making lab was a big one. It had a not-very-messy table in the center of the room with counters and shelves lining the walls. There were a few potions lying around, labeled with tape and a marker.
"Damn. Alice, would you mind clearing the table?" Patchouli suddenly said, which startled Alice out of her thoughts.
Alice cleared the table and then Patchouli set Reimu down. Patchouli grinned wickedly. "Now, it's time for the REAL fun to begin!" Patchouli whispered evilly. Patchouli took another drug out of her pocket and then inserted it into Reimu's neck.
"Uh, Patchouli? What was that?" Alice asked the purple mage, not being about to recognize the drug.
"Heh. Don't worry about that; it's only a mild pain-drug that will cause her heart to race rapidly. She may start leaking blood out of her mouth, but that probably won't happen. She's too strong.
"I say we cut out her stomach, liver, and kidneys first and leave the heart and lungs for last. Oh, and also, the eyes as well. That way if she wakes up, she won't be able to see," Patchouli explained.
Alice grinned evilly again. Then she stood by Patchouli, asking Shanghai for her knives, who gladly handed them to her. Alice then began to cut out Reimu's eyes, blood leaking out of the eye-sockets as she pulled the eyes out of Reimu's head. They were very squishy, and covered in blood as well. Long, red, bloody strings of tissue that used to connect Reimu's eyes to her head clung onto the eyeballs. Alice set them aside. It's like carving a pumpkin, only much, much, better! She thought to herself.
Patchouli then inserted another drug.
"What was that?"
"A stronger sedative," Patchouli replied, and then inserted yet another drug. "And that was a drug that will cause her to have a nightmare. I concocted it myself."
Alice picked up her knife again and then decided to cut out the Hakurei shrine maiden's kidneys. She cut a careful circle in Reimu's stomach, careful not to disturb the lungs or the liver, which she was not quite ready to dissect yet.
Patchouli also brought out a knife from her pocket and then cut open a hole in Reimu's stomach, not even caring if she hurt Reimu. She ripped out the stomach as hard as she could and threw it against the wall, blood showering her purple hair as the blood-covered stomach slid down the wall, leaving a bloody trail on the white paint. The stomach hit the floor with a blood-curdling splat and split open, oozing the contents of Reimu's dinner onto the floor.
Alice then cut out both the large and small intestines. She grinned whenever Reimu began spilling blood faster and faster over her body. Reimu's blood was everywhere; on the walls, on the floor, in Patchouli's hair, on their hands, on the table...blood was everywhere, and Alice couldn't help but let out a laugh of joy. She was enjoying this so much that she had forgotten to keep quiet.
Patchouli seemed like she couldn't hold back anymore. When Alice looked at her, there was a wild blaze in her eyes as she ripped out Reimu's heart, squeezing it between her fingers. Blood sprayed everywhere. Patchouli seemed to be covered head-to-toe in blood, and when Alice looked down at herself, she was covered in Reimu's blood as well.
Patchouli just kept on squeezing and squeezing. Blood was in Patchouli's hair. Blood was on Patchouli's teeth. Blood was all over Patchouli. And then Alice realized: We've been waiting to do this to someone for a long time.
Suddenly, Marisa's lab-door banged open, and there Marisa stood, wearing her usual witch's attire. She gasped when she saw the mess that had been made in her lab.
"Ah...ah...ah..." Marisa just couldn't seem to find words. Then Marisa glanced at Patchouli and Alice, who were covered in blood. She saw Reimu's body on her lab table, covered in blood. She saw that Reimu's stomach area had been ripped open, and she noticed how Reimu was missing several organs as well.
"You...you...YOU DAMNED SADISTS! DID YOU ACTUALLY TAKE JOY AND PRIDE IN DOING THIS? DID YOU HAVE TO LAUGH AND SHRIEK IN DELIGHT AND POSSIBLY WAKE UP ALL OF GENSOKYO?
"WHY DID YOU DO THIS? THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?WHYYYYYYYY!? WHY DID YOU TAKE THE ONLY PERSON I TRULY LOVED AWAY FROM ME? WHY ALICE? AND YOU TOO, PATCHOULI! I EXPECTED SO MUCH MORE FROM YOU! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SO MUCH MORE MATURE THAN ALICE!
"WHY? WHY? WHHHHHY!?" Marisa shrieked, holding Reimu's dead body in her arms, covering herself in blood. Tears were streaking down Marisa's cheek as Marisa bowed her head and bawled. She sobbed, tears splashing down on Reimu's body.
Alice decided that she should try to explain what had happened. "Well...you see...Marisa, we both love you...and you wouldn't love us back...so we had to get rid of-"
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT OKAY THOUGH! I THOUGHT REIMU WAS YOUR FRIEND! IF ANYTHING, YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY FOR US! YOU'VE KILLED! YOU'VE KILLED SOMEONE! I HATE YOU BOTH! I HATE YOU! I FUCKING HATE YOU BOTH AND I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR SHITTY-FACE ASSES EVER AGAIN! YOU KNOW WHAT, SCRATCH THAT! CLEAN UP THIS MESS! AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET REIMU BACK! GOT THAT? AND THEN I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR SHITTY-ASS FACES EVER. FUCKING. AGAIN. YOU HEAR?" Marisa shrieked, grabbing both of them by the collars, having set Reimu back down on the table.
Alice nodded, too afraid to speak. But whenever Alice started to hear Patchouli laughing, Alice's heart froze. The magician had transformed into a blood-thirsty monster, and whatever Marisa did to her, she wouldn't care.
"Oh, Marisa," Patchouli whispered, and then blasted her away with lightning magic. "You never should have lived anyway."
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Marisa, your birth was a mistake," Patchouli said, her tone as cold as ice.
"But...no, that's not possible. I'm here, right? So that means no mistakes...right?"
Patchouli chuckled coldly. "Wrong, Marisa.
"Back then, long before you were born and I was only around 80 years old, Remilia went shopping for some things in the market with Sakuya. Whenever Remilia went passed a watermelon stand, the watermelons inside the stand all fell out and rolled onto her. She tripped on them, fell, and tore her wing.
"Remilia wouldn't have been able to fly for a few years if she hadn't messed with fate and made someone else fall on the watermelons; your mother. She tripped and fell backward and would've had a concussion, but Remilia felt that this lady did not deserve to die, so she made it one man's fate to catch the lady so she wouldn't die; your father.
"The two humans fell in love and had a healthy human baby, which was you. Then, 10 years after that, they disowned you because you were practicing magic. Devastated, your parents tried again, and had another baby girl. They named her Remilia Scarlet Kirisame. Coincidence? They had never even met Remilia, yet they named her after your little sister."
"I...I have a...sister?" Marisa asked, unsure of what was happening anymore.
Alice remained silent as well. How much more did Patchouli know? How long had Patchouli known all of this? Luckily, Alice didn't have to ask those questions, because Marisa asked them for her.
"How much do you know about me? And how? And for how long?" Marisa interrogated the purple-haired mage.
Patchouli chuckled. "Oh, I know much about you, Marisa. How? I don't really know myself. For how long? I stopped keeping track," Patchouli answered, her cold tone unwavering.
"G-get Reimu back! If you can learn about someone's past, then get her back! GET HER BACK, PATCHOULI! PLEASE!" Marisa begged, down on her knees in front of Patchouli.
"Oh, no. I don't need to get her back."
"YES, YOU DO! DO IT, PLEASE!"
"But there's a much easier way. If you are willing to die for Reimu...well...I can certainly help you with that."
Oh. My. God. She isn't after Marisa anymore! She's just killing everyone! She can't kill Marisa, she just can't! Oh no, what do I do? Alice looked at Patchouli's pocket. Doesn't she have a cell phone? I can call Sakuya to stop time and make sure this night never happened!
Alice snuck up behind Patchouli with a large, thick book in her hand. Alice then knocked Patchouli upside the head and Patchouli fell face first on the floor.
"Sweet! Now what?" Marisa asked Alice, rising from the floor.
"Nope. You ain't going anywhere, Marisa." She ordered Shanghai and Hourai to pin Marisa down, then searched Patchouli's body for a cell phone. Luckily, Patchouli had decided to bring one along. Alice picked it up, and then tried to hack into Patchouli's phone. It was pretty simple, since the password was "ILOVEMARISAKIRISAME".
Once Alice was inside Patchouli's phone, she tapped the phone app and then pressed the option that read "Sakuya". Alice sat with the phone up to her ear, listening to the ringing of the phone-line. "Come on, come on...pick up...please pick up..." Alice mumbled to herself.
The phone stopped ringing and the ringing sound was replaced with Sakuya yawning. "Hello?" Sakuya grumbled, sounding like she had just woken up, which was probably true.
"Sakuya!"
"Alice? Is that you? Where is Lady Patchouli?"
"No time to explain! I need you to turn back time to before Patchouli and I left at midnight. Can you turn back time, or can you only stop time?"
"Miss Margatroid...there is a reasonable explanation for this, right? Because if you know in your heart that this is the right thing, then I will turn back time for you."
"Yes. This is the right thing. Patchouli has gone insane. We need to turn back time before Patchouli and I left at midnight."
"Okay. I'll be there in just a second." Sakuya hung up and suddenly the air in front of her flashed. Sakuya, the elegant maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, stood before her with her pocket watch in hand. "Alice, hold my hand if you want to remember what happened this night. Unless it's disturbing, I suggest you do."
Alice thought about it for a moment. It would be a good idea to remember that killing makes Patchouli insane... "I'll do it." Alice laced her fingers with Sakuya's and held on tight as she watched herself fly backwards through time. Alice closed her eyes as the world around her turned white.
When Alice opened her eyes, she was outside the Scarlet Devil Mansion gate, still holding Sakuya's hand, waiting for Patchouli to come outside so they could murder Reimu. But this time, Alice though, we won't be killing Reimu tonight. In fact, I'll invite her over to my place for some tea.
