Touhou miss adventure
Episode 3: The Gathering
Two girls entered the shrine, tired and confused.
"I'm going to bed." Reimu mumbled as they walked.
"Where can I sleep?" Sakuya asked of her host, before the shrine maiden could collapse in her bed.
Reimu just returned an indifferent gaze and yawned, "Wherever you like, I don't care."
It took a little while for Sakuya to find the things, she would need to assemble her own bed. She decided the living room to be the best choice for sleeping. Despite it still being daytime, she was exhausted enough that sleep came quickly to her.
Sakuya did eventually fall asleep, but was awoken by someone shouting outside.
"ANYONE HOME?!" The Green shrine maiden shouted. As both Reimu and Sakuya opened the front door, to graze her with a disinterested look. But, both were surprised to see the rival shrine maiden in tears.
"Something wrong?!" Reimu asked puzzled, "Why are you crying?" Sakuya added, sounding way more worried.
"I've been banished by my deity! A-and I don't know why!" Sanae cried, she lowered her head as she humbly begged, "Ple-ease can I stay here?"
Reimu was a bit dumbstruck. She couldn't remember when the last time a person came to her, pleading like this. "I'll give you the same condition as Sakuya, Help me with my daily chores, than you can stay."
Sanae was so happy that she kissed Reimu on the cheek and hugged her tightly, "Thank you SO MUCH!"
"Don't do that again." Reimu just replied irritably, as she tried to distance herself from her green counterpart.
"Sorry." Sanae muttered sadly and let Reimu go.
Sakuya came closer to the green shrine maiden to speak in a low voice, "You are not the only one who is homeless for the time being."
"Really?" Sanae asked as a reply while sniffed. Whereafter the two began to tell their stories, while Reimu just went to make some tea.
After more idle chatter, a knock was heard at the door, When Reimu opened, Mokou was standing outside, "Yo, you got room for one to a tea party?" She then gazed at the other two guests, "Oh I see you already have company."
The two S's too looked at the fourth newcomer from the inside of the door.
"So what brings you here?" Reimu asked as she invited the Phoenix to a cup of tea.
Mokou considered how best she should phrase it, "Just a few weird rumors there have been going on, regarding the events of our drinking…"
Reimu raised an eyebrow, "Do you remember anything?" When Mokou shook her head, Reimu snorted in an indifferent tone, "Well good luck with this discussion, none of us remembers a thing."
With a sudden and loud slam, Marisa opened the door, shouted inside, "Reimu, hide me!"
Reimu raised an eyebrow and asked dryly, "...Why?"
"Because a lot of girls can't resist my sweet behi-" Marisa stated directly as a matter of fact.
"Is she sarcastic?" Sanae asked Reimu; a bit puzzled.
"I don't think so." Sakuya answered as this seemed somewhat different.
Reimu sighed heavily, "What is the matter, Marisa?"
"Yeah, so see, I woke up with a hangover, and I'm buried in a pile of naked girls, and when they woke up, they started this huge fight over me." Marisa's demeanor was still jolly and confident.
"What else is new?" Reimu rolled her eyes, this was how typical drinking parties went when Marisa was present.
"What do you mean, 'what else is new,' This is a huge deal." Marisa protested profoundly.
"Marisa, this is how it's always been…" Reimu was about to go on a tangent about the topic, when a jarring thought occurred to her, "Wait, you mean you don't know? All this time, you've had a womanizing addiction without knowing it?!"
"What are you getting at?" Marisa replied for further clarification.
"You've always seduced women around you. Are you seriously telling me it was never intentional?" Mokou asked in return, "I was dead sure she was a lesbian."
"Err… No I haven't?" For a moment Marisa faltered, This was not how this conversation was supposed to go.
From both Reimu, Sakuya and Mokou's mouths, the words, "Totally have." Came without warning.
"You've tried to score me a few times in the past, oh how I almost fell for it one of those times." A rosy maiden-like blush erupted on Sakuya's cheeks as she put a hand to it.
Of course she was overplaying her part, it was all to get a reaction out of Marisa, who instantly turned pale.
"Just kidding~" She tried to play it off, but a few nostalgic feelings about the incidents did stir in her heart, "There was a time…"
After forcing her mind to function again, Marisa shook her head and started over, "N-never mind all of that, the point is, I was married to a bunch of girls, and they are currently on my trail."
"Wait what?!" Was Reimu's instantaneous answer. While Sakuya stood speechless.
"You are married?!" Sanae asked with wide eyes.
Mokou chucked a little as she replied, "...That's new. I never thought of you as the type to settle down and be wedded."
"Yeah, it wasn't really my choice either, I was incredibly drunk, during the actual ceremony. But Byakuren says it's for real, so..." Marisa verified the info.
"Byakuren? if you're gonna be wed for real, come to me instead, okay!" Sanae took Marisa's hand and gave her a puppy-eyed look.
Reimu slammed the table they sat at, "Hey now, If anyone is gonna oversee the marriage of the Incorrigible Bachelorette, it's gotta be me."
"You were too busy chasing Yukari to perform the ceremony anyway." Marisa casually brushed her off.
"How do you even-" Reimu was about to question her, but she got interrupted.
"Aya's newspaper." Marisa's answer was short and to the point, specifically because she knew it would irritate Reimu.
"...I'm gonna kill that tengu." Reimu cursed, as her veins became visible on her right fist.
"Speaking off… didn't she say that a part two would come out?" Sakuya thought back to their encounter.
As soon as Sakuya had uttered those words, a newspaper flopped in the crevice of the door and a voice could be heard, "Extra, Extra, read part two of the infamous feast of the youkai hunters."
"Well… You have your chance now *ZE*" Marisa grinned widely.
Reimu growled at the remark, as she hurried outside to see a newspaper lying right in front of the doorstep. She spotted Aya and a vein in her temple began to throb, "Oh you're going to get it now, Tengu!"
As Reimu sped off into the distance at neck-break speed, Sakuya took the newspaper and read the title, "Oh my, it seems like this article is about you Marisa …you might want to stop miss Shameimaru from spreading this news, otherwise your situation could become much worse."
Marisa quickly glanced at the article, "...Well, I'm going on a tengu hunt. I'll be back, *ZE*" She grabbed her broom and sped after Reimu.
"...What did the article say?" Sanae scooted closer to Sakuya. With Mokou looking over their shoulders.
"My this is a strange one… " Sakuya said in state of surprise, "Well~"
This is Aya of the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, This story featuring Marisa Kirisame, friends with the Hakurei shrine maiden mentioned in yesterday's article.
Miss Kirisame's story starts before miss Hakurei's, however it is a longer tale by far. It all started when miss Kirisame decided to experiment with brewing mushroom liquor, the drink had a variety of different mushrooms in it, and which one caused the intoxication is unknown to this reporter. However, miss Kirisame was proud of her achievement when she brought the drink before the party goers, "This is the best drink you'll will ever have." Is what she said. After a few swigs, everyone began to merrily sing and dance. Yet this reporter, did not partake, after a keen moment of observation made her realize how grand a scoop this would be. It started out small as Miss Margatroid became playful and flirted with miss Kirisame, but because of her current condition, miss Kirisame uttered in a grand voice, "Alice, be my bride." Miss Margatroid fluttered her eyelashes and said in a bewildered voice, "Y-you're just saying that, you tease." A few seconds passed by in silence as miss Kirisame sat in contemplation, "Alright, I've made up my mind, Alice!" She stood up and yanked miss Margatroid into her embrace, "Let's go get married, RIGHT NOW! *ZE*" Miss Kirisame ran towards miss Hakurei, "Reimu, Perform the marriage ceremony for us." This, however, resulted in miss Hakurei laughing uncontrollably and dismissing the request. "Fine, I'll go to someone who will wed us." Miss Kirisame summoned her broom and went towards Myouren Temple. After talking animatedly with the priestess Byakuren Hijiri, the two were ushered into the chapel and made their vows, it was a touching scene, this reporter shed a tear. And so the story of the Eternal Bachelorette of Gensokyo came to a beautiful end… or so this reporter thought, Not long after, 'missus' Kirisame yanked miss Knowledge and 'misssus' Knowledge, neé Koakuma, into the temple for yet another ceremony, The priestess was very enthusiastic about wedding miss Knowledge and miss Koakuma. yet when 'missus' Kirisame shouted, "Darnit Patchy let's also get married!" Miss Hijiri, grew concerned and a bit frantic. Yet with her notorious silver tongue, 'missus' Kirisame persuaded the priestess with the words, "Marrying more than one girl is only limited to how strong your love is, *ZE*" 'Missus' Kirisame made a quick pose, "And I'm the LOVE magician, so I have tons of Love Power." Miss Hijiri was very moved. After the next set of marriages this reporter gave up trying to follow the story, the final amount of spouses married to 'missus' Kirisame ended up being nine people in total. Carrying on from the wedding of 'missus' Kirisame and 'missus' Knowledge, there was quite a crowd, and the humans among that crowd, decided to go on an adventure together, yours truly, wouldn't miss it for the world. Their first stop will be covered in the next article, this is Shameimaru Aya, reporting the truth.
"OH… my." was the only thing Sakuya could utter, with agreeing nods coming from Sanae and Mokou.
In the meantime. Reimu and Marisa was going at full speed to catch up with the tengu. But to their surprise, Aya didn't try to flee, "So~ did you like my article?" She just asked casually as the two humans came within earshot.
Marisa was the first to yell out her complaints, "Are you trying to make me look bad; you'll make me cry… if you were a good lil' bird, you would apologize to me~... *ZE*"
Aya's charisma radiated sincerity, "I never apologise for the truth." She did not know it yet, but those remarks would later be something she felt regrets about...
That remark hit a nerve with Marisa and she began to shoot Danmaku at the infuriating Tengu.
Aya quickly made a steep dive to avoid being hit by shining stars, and that signalled the start of the battle, Reimu jumped in quickly and their combined attacks made for a very pretty light show, and was about as effective as one.
That light show gathered a lot of attention from afar, so not even three minutes after they started, did someone shout very loudly from far away, "THERE SHE IS!"
When Marisa turned her head in the direction of the shout, her blood froze, "Oh crap! I completely forgot that I had to hide… Reimu! Let's retreat for now, and on the double."
Reimu also noticed the beings, coming to life from a nearby forest. She decided to heed the warning to assess the situation from a better place.
Aya could see the humans being chased by a number of dangerous youkais, with only one thought on her mind, "This could be interesting."
But to both of the humans' dismay… the pursuers were fast, they couldn't possibly shake them off or hide on such a short notice. They both decided to take refuge at the shrine and possibly get their own visitors to help fight off their pursuers...
The shrine was surrounded by seven wives, oh and a bound Rinnosuke. All of them chanting, "GIVE US MARISA! GIVE US MARISA! GIVE US MARISA!"
"OH My!" Sakuya uttered, staring out of window in pure disbelief, not only were there many youkais, but Marisa had managed to wed some of the most dangerous youkais in Gensokyo. She saw Alice, Yuuka and even the evil spirit Mima, that supposedly taught Marisa everything she knew about magic... even her former house mates Patchouli and Flandre were among them.
Sanae also looked outside the room at the incoming group, "Ohh~ I see Koishi and Parsee."
Mokou shook her head, "Marisa… You have outdone yourself… Not once, in all my eternal years, have I seen such a varied collection of wives... I hope you're happy with your decision." She commented dryly.
"Marriage is something that requires a lot of thought before choosing." Sanae added with a smile.
"I hate being married." Marisa somberly admitted as she cowered behind her comrades.
"Let me handle it! I'll make you a young widow!" Mokou replied and determinedly went out to beat the youkais.
"Nice! Free stuff." Marisa pumped her fist into the air.
Sakuya gave her a raised eyebrow and uttered in distaste "...You are despicable sometimes, Marisa."
"...What?" Marisa responded in a flat voice.
Looking out of the window. it looked as if a swarm of hornets was overwhelming a single firefly. "...Immortality makes you careless... At least it gives us time to think of an exit plan." Reimu muttered in a nonchalant tone.
Sanae stood with her hand on her chin in contemplation, "...If we just give them Marisa, won't they stop attacking us?"
Reimu put her closed fist into her hand and made an expression of enlightenment, "...Good point, Let's throw the bait."
" OH, COME OOOOON GIRLS!" Marisa cried in despair, "We are friends... Right?"
Mokou came back in... she looked like she had been target practice for a gatling gun. With next to no cloth lift to speak off, "I died eleven times… I can't take them." She sighed and collapsed on the floor.
Sakuya quickly ran over to catch Mokou and help her but as she arrived at her side, she looked up and saw the final wife looming above... Shiki Eiki had arrived. She was completely speechless, how was this happening right now?
"That can't be true! In the name of the gods! Marisa have you seriously married a YAMA!" Sanae nearly screamed the last part, as all the cards were now seriously stacked against them.
Reimu looked at the newcomer and raised an eyebrow, "...Dips on not fighting her…"
With the looming fight over their head, that was now eight versus four against their odds, all of the four standing humans, knew they were in a dire pinch. With a Tengu taking pictures from above and preparing for the inevitable battle scoop to begin...