A week ago.
"Keine! Keine!, Hurry up damn it! Moniji is probably in here!" Kai's father yelled towards the distant Keine who had struggled to keep up with Sasuke Kona.
"Wait up Sasuke! You are far too fast for me"
"Well, maybe you should of remained behind if you're saying that..."
"Hey! You ran into my house and dragged me into out here." Keine caught up with Sasuke, huffing and panting after running in the forest.
The pair had only recently heard new of the disappearance of Moniji after she had went to pick mushrooms in the forest. The Forest of Magic lies quite the distance from the Human village which lies in a valley of Gensokyo. The pair had already travelled through the the many fields of Gensokyo and the two arrived at the Forest of Magic's grove.
"Da~ze!" A excitable cry emits from the forest as an black and white wearing magician flew across the forest on a broomstick but she had no control on the broomstick and then she slammed face first into a tree and fell in front of the pair
"Ow. Damn it, who put that tree there?" The witch begun to rub her face and then she shot up, staring at both Keine and Sasuke, almost embarrassed that they had seen her smash face first into the tree.
"Oh, visitors to the forest... Hey, you two are from the human village right ze?"
"Have you seen a woman who went in here a night ago to pick for mushrooms? Before the vampires just attacked the village?" Sasuke finally asked.
"Huh? A woman going to pick mushrooms at night? Do you mean that youkai that had ignored the signs saying, do not come into the forest at night."
"Yes! That was my wife, she went missing last night and I wish to check it out."
"I can lend you a hand, if you wish, I know the way around the forest ever since Mi- I mean my master left our world..."
"Wait, who are you?"
"Marisa! And you?"
"Sasuke, and this is my loyal friend Keine!"
"Sasuke and Keine, are you ready for adventure into the forest?" Marisa pointed up towards the warm mid-day sun and stood on a root, ignoring the fact that she has a bruised face and splinters in her face. The small group of a half-hakutaku, an youkai and a human magician begun the trek, deeper into the forest. Marisa was the cheerful person of the group, humming a simple tune as she begun to weave her way through the forest that was famous for their magical mushrooms. Sasuke however was in a rush, being ahead of Marisa and Keine, he wanted to find his wife.
"Sasuke!" The slow Keine yelled from behind the two. "Wait up, you know for an fact that I'm slower than you!"
"Come on Keine!" The average Marisa yelled from the front, trying her best to keep the group from being lost. The Forest Of Magic isn't a maze compared to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost but travellers can get lost to the similar path travellers will have to travel to get the centre, where the rarer mushrooms lies.
But, Sasuke rushed ahead, moving trees branches away from his path as he pushed his way through the forest, he had grown impatient of the slowness of Keine and Marisa. He was determined to make it through to the centre of the forest.
"Don't worry Moniji, I'll find you and I'll bring you home!" The thought rushed through Sasuke's head as he pushed through a final tree branch, at that point, he turned back, realizing that both Keine and Marisa are way behind him.
"How far did I exactly run?" Sasuke muttered to himself, looking around, there was only patches of the beautiful sunlight that weaved it's way through the evergreen leaves of the trees. Sasuke begun a small jog, he knew that he was getting closer to the grove, where most of the edible mushrooms laid.
"So, Keine, how long have you known Sasuke?" Marisa asked Keine as the two travelled through the forest.
"I've known him since we were both young. He's always been an energetic kind of person."
"Well, he certainly seems determined to get his wife back..." Marisa sighed, thinking about all the trouble that she is causing to herself to help these two. "Also, I'm curious, why did he run off like that. He should know better than to run away in a maze of a forest..."
"Well, he never really thought ahead so I cannot blame him... That trait carried on to his children..."
"Chi-" Marisa stopped dead in her sentence as a panicked Sasuke ran through the clearing.
"Keine! Marisa! Come quickly! Please!" The panicked Sasuke shot his left hand towards the clearing that he had burst through a mere second ago. The group followed Sasuke through the clearing, being disturbed by the panicking Sasuke. The group found themselves in a disturbed clearing. The group found their most shocking discovery...
There was a corpse.
A corpse, lying in the middle of this clearing. She almost looked like she was asleep expect for one detail, there was a trail of blood surrounding her, she had clearly not been here when she actually died. The woman was a young woman with the appearance of a 20 year old with silver hair that runs down the lifeless body. She was wearing a pink flowered dress that had one major difference to it, there was a giant hole at the back, clearly where the vampire killed her.
"...Is that your wife?" Marisa put a hand on the left shoulder of Sasuke, her hand looking towards the ground, paying respect to the dead. Keine ran towards the dead Moniji, slowly picking up the corpse, and then a small bloodied diary would fall from her pocket, it was Moniji's diary
Present day
"That day, although it was only a week ago, it's still fresh in my mind." Keine sighed, finally finished treating the wound of Kai. She smiled, looking towards the closed door.
"So Kai, how's your father doing, coping with the death of Moniji?"
"He's doing fine, still very upset and he gave me Moniji's diary to read..." Kai sighed, rubbing the treated wound. Turning towards the door that remained closed for now.
"Well, see you later Keine, I think I should go now, time for me to go back home."
"Be careful Kai, keep your eyes and ears open so you don't get blind sided by a vampire's attack along the way."
As Kai begun moving towards the door, a weird sound was heard outside the door, it almost sounded like some sort of weapon being unsheathed. Kai's ears pricked up as she lifted her scythe. And then, the door had a large crack appear and the door exploded into splinters that flew across to her, there were aimed for her and she threw her scythe towards her chest, protecting most of the splinters whacking off the scythe but a few hit her.
A shadowed figure appeared in the door way, Kai brought the scythe to her side, as the person came into view.
"Master Muse wants you dead." The mysterious figure spoke in a straight tone, knives appearing in her hands and then...
