Hi! This is the 4th part of how the Team 9 met (It needed to be done...)!

In this, it's about how they met Wriggle.

PS. This story is kind of sad... :(

Touhou belongs to ZUN not me (obviously...)!

Cirno, Daiyousei, Rumia and Mystia were at the misty lake now. Cirno had been chasing a frog she was going to freeze.

"That should teach that frog not to run away from me, the strongest!" Cirno said as she hold up the frosen frog in triumph. Suddenly, a big crash was heard. It sounded like thick ice was breaking. They all screamed.

"W-W-W-W-W-W-What was that!" Daiyousei screamed.

"I don't know! It sounded like if ice was breaking or something!" Cirno said in chock.

"But how is that possible! I thought the ice here was like 20 cm thick!" Mystia said.

"I know! It is! What could've broken it!" Cirno said.

They went to the place the sound had come from. There was a big hole there. Some of the edges was melted but most part was a big hole made of cracks.

"W-What's that!" Daiyousei asked.

"It's a hole! Duh!" Cirno said and sort of claimed Daiyousei for being an idiot. Daiyousei didn't mind because Cirno often called other people stupid despite she is her-self.

They went to look what was in the hole. They found a body in there! It looked like a youkai. Luckily, it hadn't sank very far yet. You could reach it without jumping in to the water which was good considering none of them could swim properly...

Mystia grabed the youkai's hand and pulled it up. She laid the body on the ice about 50 cm away from the hole. The youkai looked to be the same age as the others. It had short, dark green hair. Two antennaes, which were sitting a little over it's forehead, were pointing towards the back of it's head (probably because of pain), it wore a white shirt with buttons and short, dark pants, a dark red cape with to tails at the bottom (like if there was missing a triangle at the bottom of the cape) and there was some blood coming out of it's mouth. Of course, it was very wet too... It started to cough up some water mixed with blood, then it started to open it's eyes a little.

"Look, he's awake!" Cirno said happily.

"I-..I'm female, you idiot..." the youkai said weakly and a little annoyed.

"Oh, sorry, look she's awake!" Cirno corrected herself.

"W-Where am I?" the youkai asked and looked around a little.

"You're at the misty lake" Mystia said.

"The misty lake?". The youkai started to remember that Marisa had Master Sparked her into some ice, seemingly, the misty lake's. That explained the horrible head and back-ache she had and also explained why some parts of the hole in the ice was melted (it was from the Master Spark).

"W-Who are you?" the youkai continued.

"I'm Cirno! This is Daiyousei, Rumia and Mystia Lorelei!" Cirno said and pointed at each of her friends.

"What's your name?" Mystia asked.

"W-Wriggle Nightbug..." seemingly, Wriggle said weakly.

"Aren't that just 2 or 3 words put together?" Rumia asked.

"Yeah, I had pretty many siblings so it got hard to come up with some names at the end...". Wriggle started to remember even more of what had happened now, like why Marisa had attacked her. Marisa had come to a field Wriggle calls "The firefly field". It was called that because of all the bugs there like crickets, moths, mosquitos and mostly fireflies, and therefore, "The firefly field". Marisa had wanted to take some of the bugs for dissection or at least something that included killing them which was all that mattered to Wriggle. She had tried to protect the bugs but failed and got shot down in the ice and she couldn't swim both because she hadn't learned and that her body was in pain.

This made her almost panicing.

"I-I have to go!" she said and tried to stand up which failed completly and fell to the ground, head first. It certainly didn't make the head-ache any better... She cough up some more blood and cried a little.

"What's the matter?" Mystia asked.

"I-I have to go help my precious b-bugs!" Wriggle explained and tried to stand up again which also failed, but she didn't hit the ice as hard this time, but she did cry even more. Probably of shame or dissapointment in her-self.

"Priecious bugs?" Cirno said awkwardly, "What do you mean with "precious"!".

"Cirno!" Daiyousei growled quietly at Cirno, she didn't want Wriggle to hear for some reason, "She's a bug youkai!" she continued and pointed at Wriggle's antennaes and cape, which Cirno by now had noticed looked like a shell on a beatle or something.

Wriggle laid at the ice, breathed exhausted and crying. "Hey, what kind of bug are you!" Cirno asked curiously. Wriggle didn't really think there was time to ask or answer such a question but answered it anyway, "I'm a firefly and I have to go help the others now!" she almost yelled at the fairy and tried to stand up once again which like the first two, failed.

"Wriggle, look, you can't help any of those bugs in this shape! You have to rest and let your body heal!" Mystia said and helped her up in sitting position. Wriggle was still crying. "B-But..." she said as more tears poured down her cheek.

"...Those bugs really means pretty much to you, don't they?" Mystia said and seemed to feel pretty sorry for the crying firefly. Wriggle only nodded, "They're pretty much all I've got...".

"What do you mean?" Rumia said.

"Most of my familly's dead and the rest of them is far from here...".

"But don't you have any friends?".

"No. I hardly have any friends...".

"W-What!" Cirno said in chock, "How can you not have any friends!".

"I'm not sure. I'm guessing it's because of all the bugs I'm around. People find it 'disgusting'...". Cirno agreed that it was a little disgusting, but not so much that no-one wants to be friends with her.

After an hour or so, when Wriggle's body had healed so she could at least walk and fly properly, they went to 'The firefly field'. Wriggle tried to run but nearly fell each time. When they arrived Wriggle tried to see if Marisa had done any harm. She asked if she had took any and a firefly answered that she had killed and/or tooked a few but fortunately not many. Wriggle was a little dissapointed at her-self for getting defeated so easly.

While many of the bugs (mostly fireflies) were welcoming Wriggle back and checking so she was OK (thay had seen Marisa Master Sparking her), Cirno and the others were talking a little bit away where Wriggle couldn't hear them.

"Poor girl. I mean, it's good that the bugs like her but, not having a real (not a bug) friend..." Daiyousei said.

"Yeah..." Cirno said, "Hey! Why don't we ask her if she'd like us to be her friends!"

"Yeah, that's a great idea! But you seemed to annoyed her before..." Mystia said.

"True, but hopefully it was just anxiety. I mean, she was prett upset about those bugs...".

They walked up to Wriggle before they were going to leave.

"Hey, Wriggle!" Cirno said to get her attention. Wriggle seemed suprised. They wanted with her to do still!

"Y-Yeah?" Wriggle said.

"Would you like to do something tomorrow?" Mystia asked. Wriggle got even more suprised. "Uhm, s-sure!" she said and smiled a little.

"Good! Meet us at the misty lake at midnight, then! See ya!" Mystia continued and waved good bye. Wriggle blushed a little. No-one had so much as wanted to be around her for a lot of years now. She explained for the bugs what had happened and that she was fine.

So, the 5 of them met up at the misty lake at midnight as decided. And to Wriggle's suprise, they had a lot of fun! More fun than she had have in years! She didn't want to tell them, but in total of a half year each year she had been sitting crying in a tree. She almost wanted to thank Marisa for shooting her down there. After all, if it weren't for her they would probably have never met...

And so ends the story of how Team 9 met each other!

I hope you liked it! This was just some fanon of course, thou...

The End!