Chapter 2

Beloved Tomboyish Daughter

"Yaagh…" He limped his way to the Misty Lake. Rumia's teeth had given his ankle severe lacerations, tearing through his flesh, causing agonizing pain as he dragged it towards the lake. As he finally soaked it in the water, he breathed a sigh of relief as the cool water relaxingly rippled against his skin.

"Aaaaah…."

His siesta, however, was quickly interrupted.

"HEY! YOU! Get your foot out of my lake!" A girl clad in all blue descended from the sky. With 6 wings of ice arranged in a pattern across her back, she was pre-tty clearly not human. And she was angry. The man recognized her as Cirno, the self-proclaimed "Strongest in Gensokyo". An ice fairy, who could summon ice and, had she not been such a stuck up prick, really could have helped him out right now. Unfortunately, it seemed she had no such intentions of doing so.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOW!" She screamed, punching him in the face. The blow caused him to fall on top of the lacerated ankle, spikes of pain shooting up from it and across his entire body. The agony left him completely incapacitated, helpless to do anything but stare at the irate ice fairy.

"Who da strongest? Eye da strongest!" Cirno chanted, a look of maniacal glee on her face. Staring at the downed man, she fired twin blue beams from her hands and froze the man inside a block of ice.

As the man felt the ice close around him and watched the demented fairy's victory dance, he thought to himself. (Well…at least someone's happy…)

Cirno's foot powered into the ice, with a resounding crack. It also slammed into his midsection. "AGGGH!"

This man had never been in this…much…PAAAAAIN! It was so bad that if his mouth wasn't frozen shut, he'd be screaming bloody murder!

"So. Eye'm. An. Idiot. HUH?" Cirno punctuated each and every word with another blow to the poor, injured, unarmed, and overall defenseless man. And she wasn't content with hitting him in the face or gut. No, she had to hit him in a different spot each time. She broke his nose, gave him two black eyes, and slugged him twice in the jaw. Black spots began to play at the ends of his vision. "Eye'm. The. Strongest. Don't! You! Forget! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" His arms, his legs, OW, NOT IN THE NUTS! The ice fairy continued to torment him, gleefully laughing as she continued to bully and beat on the defenseless man, freezing him again and again whenever the ice cracked.

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" WHAM!

Cirno was sent flying into the distance by the newcomer, a woman garbed in Chinese robes, who was clearly a martial artist. Her stance spoke to her profession more to her garb. She was clearly a monk, and his bleary eyes barely took in the insignia on her hat as he recognized her, too. And as he beheld her for the first time, he began to panic as the situation began to set in.

"Shut up, you stupid fairy!" The newcomer remarked.

(Shit….Rumia, now Cirno, now Meiling? Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3… No, no, no! Can't…it can't be! It's not…no!)

Meiling, who had sent the fairy flying, was now staring right at him. "Ugh, after I lost to the red-white shrine maiden, I'm in her bad books…if I bring the Mistress food, maybe she'll forgive me…good thing Cirno preserved him so nicely…"

(Ah, SHIT, no! NO! I can't…I can't escape! It's the Scarlet Mist incident! Stage 3….What now, what now!?)

Her foot connected with his face, quickly shattering the ice and knocking him out at the same time. "Let's get moving!" Meiling began to slowly drag him towards the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Seems our unfortunate man can't catch a break, first Rumia, then Cirno, and now he's being…uhm, "warped to Stage 6", but it's too bad he's not ready to face the boss! Hardly ready, in fact, as he's defenseless! What will happen! Find out in the next chapter! What will happen? Can this man recover, and/or stall until help arrives? Will Reimu manage to finish Patchy in time to save this man, or will he become Remilia's next meal? Find out next time!

The sharp eyed may have noticed the chapter names have so far corresponded to the character's boss fight music. Before anyone asks, NO, the next chapter is not going to be called Septette for the Dead Princess. I have another name in mind.