Touhou miss adventure

Episode 4: Escaping

At the Hakurei Shrine plateau. The situation was tense, as all four humans looked up at the overwhelming situation they found themselves in.

Mokou, the fifth human, was slowly coming back to her senses, after a lengthy beating by the bridezilla mob.

"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MARRY HER OF ALL PEOPLE!?" Reimu and Mokou shouted in perfectly frustrated unison as they pointed at the mighty Yama.

"I DON'T KNOW!" Marisa shouted back in confusion.

"Hell knoweth no fury, like a woman scorned." Sanae chuckled a little, while the ground beneath her was being torn apart.

"We need to escape! And fast. I don't want to be buzzed around by angry women." Marisa peeked behind them at the following bridezillas with a worried look.

"That's what marriage is all about, Marisa!" Mokou gave her a glare, while getting back up on her feet.

Before Marisa could come with a comeback, Sakuya intervened, "Where do we go from here?"

"Where they can't follow..." Reimu determinedly replied, "Hold them at bay for five minutes and I'll get us out of here."

"Sanae! Make a shield around us, while I sped up time for Reimu." Sakuya quickly coordinated. Hoping Reimu's undefined plan would get them all out of harm's way.

Sanae instantly did as she was told, while Marisa was being chased around in circles.

"When I say now. All of you get around me!" Reimu commanded with a quick nod of acknowledgement from her remaining human allies.

At that time, an alien looking girl came to see what the fuss was about. She could sense something was going on as she had been getting closer, she could hear shouts and see battle in the distance. Now that she was here, she spotted both the Green and Red shrine maidens, with that black and white Magician being chased around in circles. "So... what's going on?" She casually asked everyone around.

"STAY OUT OF THIS STRANGER!" Some of the brides shouted in unison, "Marisa is ours!"

"...What?" Was the only thing Nue could reply with. The situation made no sense to her mind.

It was Sanae who looked up to her alien friend and clarified, "Hi Miss Alien, we are trying to save Marisa from all these Brides... For reasons, wanna join?"

"Not to take this the wrong way... But you seem pretty-much outmatched from where I look." Nue pointed out, sarcastically.

"We KNOW!" Reimu snapped at her, still trying to concentrate on her own preparations.

"HEY! don't snap at my alien friend! Nue is a good alien." Sanae sounded kind of hurt, but she was also passionately defending her friend.

Reimu shook her head, "Sanae. Can we discuss this another time! And she is not an alien, she is a nue."

"Yep, that's her name." Sanae agreeing to the statement.

"...Not dignifying that." Reimu looked away and ignored her.

Marisa was doing a HELL of a job to keep her wives from catching her... But, she was running dangerously low on her weapon supplies and tricks. "I hope Reimu can get me out of here in a minute, tops two… or I will be introduced to several families in very short order!" A shiver ran down her back, from the mere thought alone.

Sanae in the meantime was taking a beating on her shield, in form of elemental attacks from Patchouli and laserbeams from Shiki. "Please hurry Reimu, I don't know how long I can keep this up." Sanae uttered very worriedly, as she concentrated as much energy as she possibly could into the shield.

Mokou wanted to help, but she was out of energy after being disintegrated a couple of times, and Sakuya was helping Reimu literally speeding up her work.

To Marisa's horror, her broom was hit by one of Alice's laser beams, resulting in Marisa crashing to the ground, "Game Over, Girl, Game Over." Marisa thought to herself as Alice, Yuuka and Parsee threw themselves at her.

But a gentle hand grabbed her arm and suddenly she was looking up at Sakuya within Sanae's divine energy field, "Thanks girl, you saved my virginity."

"You are very welcome." Sakuya said with a sweet smile.

Reimu turned her head and shouted from the corner, where she sat working, "Yeah, not buying that story."

"Me neither." Mokou nodded in agreement as she finally had the energy to stand up again.

"REIMU! Whatever you are going to do, DO IT NOW! My shield can't hold on any longer!" Sanae screamed as her shield was breaking apart because of the bombardment from the youkais' collective danmaku artillery.

"Just a minute!" Reimu quickly replied, as Sakuya and Marisa used whatever they had left on them to defend Reimu. As Sanae collapsed from exhaustion, Mokou barely had enough energy to catch the worn out Sanae, as the youkais closed in on them.

Nue just hovered in mid air, not deciding, what she should do at this very moment. "Those Humans don't seem to have long to live." She thought to herself, with a sad expression.

"NOW! EVERYONE!" Reimu had finished her preparations and shouted the command, and the four other humans gathered around Reimu.

Flandre and Koishi made a direct dive at the humans, but was shot down by a trident, shooting laser beams, at them. "Sorry, But I gotta go." Nue apologized to the two very angry dangerous beings, that she just hindered in their quest.

Sanae gave the Nue a puzzled expression as she accepted the Nue's hand, "What are you doing, friend?"

"I wanna join!" Nue just replied as she was about to be assaulted by a vampire and a satori.

Then… It happened. The five humans… Plus Nue, were sent away in a stream of light.

When they opened their eyes a bit later, they found themselves in a small shrine, looking a bit similar to Reimu's, but it was filled with boxes and trash.

"Ouch!" All of them echoed, as they tumbled on the pile of boxes on top of eachother.

"Who the HELL throws garbage in a shrine!?" Reimu uttered irritatedly as she tried to get up.

"Someone who doesn't like shrines…?" Marisa grinned as she lied flat on a box and tried to get up, but with both Sanae and Sakuya lying on top of her, this proved to be fruitless.

"Where are we?" Sakuya asked as she got up.

As Reimu got free of the boxes and the exhausted Mokou, she replied. "The other side of the shrine barrier. I believe this is called Kyoto."

"I am... Back... This where i grew up!" Sanae squeed upon realization.

Mokou got up and looked around. "We are back in Japan, It feels like a lifetime ago, No wait… several lifetimes."

Sakuya suddenly realized. "Reimu? Did you send us into the human world?"

"I send us all, to the other side of my ancestors' barrier... so you are correct." Reimu informed them to the best of her knowledge.

"So we are in Human Land! ...ps, no youkais allowed *ZE*" Marisa exclaimed followed by her trademark statement.

As they all got up and began to look around to get an idea of their surroundings. "Hi Tomoko, it's your turn to sweep the entrance." Another short, red-white shrine maiden called, looking at Reimu with a sweet, but demanding expression.

Reimu turned around to see a short girl looking irritatedly at her, only to reply with a short. "Who?"

"OH! Sorry, I believed you were someone else." The girl apologized and went away slightly embarrassed.

"Excuse me, can you tell me where we are?" Sakuya called after the little, light red shrine maiden.

The girl gave a puzzled expression in return. "You don't know where you are?"

"We're pilgrims, who got lost, *ZE*" Marisa just threw in, for the fun of it.

"You… Don't look like the usual pilgrims we get here. Did you come from a cosplay show?" the girl replied a bit confused.

"What's cosplay?" Reimu asked curiously.

"Ooh. I Know, I know. Before we traveled to Gensokyo I've seen a few cosplays in Akiba… It's actually surprising how similar Akiba fashion is to how we dress back home." Sanae extrapolated excitedly.

"I think you scared the little girl away." Mokou pointed out, as the girl in question had slowly backed away while Sanae was talking, and was now visibly running in the distance.

"People are shy here it seems." Sakuya nodded.

"Great, now who's going to give us directions." Reimu irritatedly pointed out.

"Oh, oh, I will, I will!" It was with a raised hand and an excited grin on her face that Sanae volunteered, "We're at the Fushimi Inari Taisha. I was here with Suwako & Kanako here once on a visit to the deity here. Funny individual that kami."

Reimu sighed deeply and added with sarcastic snark, "Well then, lead the way, oh wise and powerful."

"It seems to me, that we are missing a person, or am I mistaken?" Sakuya observed as she looked around.

"Oh yeah! Where did miss alien go?" Sanae asked as she too looked around.

"You mean Nue," Reimu corrected her green counterpart. then she realized a problem. "Oh no, we have to find her! She is not supposed to run around in the human world."

"That's bad because? If we see her act bad, we beat her to cinders *ZE*," Marisa asked and counter argued.

Reimu sighed, "Youkai's aren't allowed in the human world... Then again, that's technically Yukari's problem, so….ehh."

"So we wait and see," Sakuya concluded.

"Alright, let me show you to the main shrine." Sanae erupted in joy and led the charge.

As they walked among themselves, they got a number of curious glances from the various amount of people who walked past them.

The first thing Reimu noticed as she looked upon the shrine for the Fox God, was the sheer amount of visitors, this shrine had. "If only I had this many visitors… I might not be poor."

"Ooh, do I hear jealousy… 'wink' 'wink'" Marisa nudged her friend with an elbow.

"No, it's more envy than jealousy." Reimu pointed out, "and would you stop that prodding."

"This shrine is marvelous!" Sakuya admired in wonder.

Mokou began to feel a little claustrophobic in these crowds, as a resident forest hermit, she was not accustomed to being around large groups of people, "God dammit, there are lots of people."

"This Shrine is very famous, both locally and worldwide... Also one of the few who still hold a divine presence." Sanae told them as a matter of fact.

"It sure makes me want to be a believer." Sakuya commented, as the awe factor hadn't left her quite yet.

"Ooh I know where we should go next! Old home here we come." Sanae excitedly leaped into the air with the rest of the group following them.

As they began to fly, a passersby saw them and shouted, "Look they are flying! Are they possessed by demons!?"

Mokou had a sudden recollection, "Oh, that's right, everyone let's land over by those trees."

"I forgot to mention, people do not fly in the outside world and we really shouldn't cause a scene!" Sanae pointed out as they landed behind a number of bamboos.

"Does it mean we have to walk all the time?" Marisa asked, getting moody at the idea of foot travel.

"Unless you know a spell that makes us invisible, yes." Sanae replied with a wink.

Marisa was about to explain, in great detail, that she knew a dozen invisibility spells, but Reimu caught her off and nodded in agreement, to get this over with quickly, "We came here to escape, let's not make ourselves too noticeable."

"That also means that we should get some new clothes to blend in with people of this world," Sakuya added.

"But first, there is a place I want to see. And from there we can probably get help to continue." Sanae suggested chipperly.

"If you are sure about that, then we will follow." Mokou added. And then they followed Sanae to the inner part of the city of Kyoto.