I still have a long way to go before me and Lt Col Summers finishes remaking the PC-98 games and begin work on the Windows games, so you'll have to wait for a while until then.
Additionally, this fan remake may alter some of the canon characters' personalities in some way. And since both Summers and I sucked at writing personalities, dialogues will be a bit prone to being out-of-character.
That is all I need to say.
Forewords ends here.
Fairy Forest, Outskirts of Gensokyo.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that in the Fairy Forest, fairies will always show up to do their usual fairy business, even if a powerful being like an Ancient Formless Guardian was just here mere minutes ago.
Reimu knew she should have seen that coming, as the shrine maiden trainee encountered another mob of fairies right after defeating Shingyoku in battle.
As a group of fairies lunged toward Reimu from all directions, the shrine maiden trainee dodged the mob attack by simply crouching, causing the fairies to smack into each other head on - pun intended - and knock themselves out cold.
More fairies appeared in front of Reimu. These ones are carrying Kedama, which they then toss at her with all their might.
Reimu quickly shoots down all those Kedama with a series of danmaku, and then proceeds to do the same with the fairies.
"They just keep on coming and coming..." Reimu complained.
"Still, this is somewhat easier compared to what I've seen in the past..." Genji told the shrine maiden trainee.
A Sunflower Fairy suddenly appears from behind Reimu and fires a surprise barrage of boulder-sized danmaku at her.
Having seen firsthand what a Sunflower Fairy is capable of, Reimu dodged the barrage by somersaulting over them, and then while still mid-somersault, threw a single Ofuda at the Sunflower Fairy.
The Ofuda exploded upon contact with the Sunflower Fairy, sending her barreling through the ground before she stopped several meters later, wherein she goes out cold.
Reimu then ends her somersault and lands. Although the shrine maiden trainee lost her footing and almost slipped off Genji's back.
"I do believe you need more training before attempting such a move, Reimu..." Genji told her.
Reimu repositioned herself on the flying turtle's back before replying, "Yeah, I know that..."
Another Sunflower Fairy suddenly appears right in front of Reimu and manages to whack the shrine maiden trainee on the head with her flower scepter.
"Ouch!" Reimu reacts to being whacked on the head, as she swings her gohei at the Sunflower Fairy in retaliation. "You little runt!"
The Sunflower Fairy dodges the melee attack by flying backwards, and proceeds to taunt Reimu by sticking her tongue out. She is then joined by several more regular fairies, some of which have Kedama hoisted above their heads.
Seeing all the fairies taunting her, Reimu let out an unsatisfactory grunt before responding to them, "Well, you pests were asking for it..."
...And proceeding to fire off a barrage of danmaku at them.
...
Deeper in the Fairy Forest, Konngara remained at the exact same spot she has been in for the past hours, waiting for something while having her arms folded.
No later than ten seconds later, a small piece of human-shaped paper cutout flew toward the Astral Knight, who extended her left hand to catch it between two fingers.
Konngara seemed to stare at the paper cutout for several seconds before she said, "I see, Shingyoku has been bested in battle. It is still intact, but unable to continue in an indeterminate duration..."
The mysterious individual behind Konngara seemed to perform a gesture in response to the news. Whatever gesture she did, it was impossible to tell under the shadows that blanketed her.
After that is done, Konngara released the paper cutout, letting it fly back toward the direction it first came from. "She managed to defeat the Ancient Formless Guardian not through brute force, but by outsmarting it." The Astral Knight added. "For a youngling who is still in training, Hakurei Reimu did surprisingly well..."
Konngara then glances at the mysterious individual with the corner of her eyes.
"But as with all forms of occupation, it takes more than that for a trainee to become fully fledged."
As soon as the Astral Knight finishes her sentence, something literally appeared out of thin air, manifesting itself as a small orb of pure electricity, in front of her.
"You came just as I am about to ask for you..." Konngara turned toward the electric orb and addressed it. "I assume you know of the task I am about to bestow upon you?"
As the electric orb is just that, an orb of pure electricity, it has no physical gesture to speak of whatsoever. But Konngara seems to be able to understand the (perhaps mental) gesture that it performed.
"Very well..." Konngara said. "Now go, test the Hakurei shrine maiden and her capabilities."
Without further adieu, the electric orb shot off toward the direction of Konngara's human-shaped paper cutout, and soon disappeared from sight.
...
One dozen danmaku barrages later, the fairies quickly evacuated the vicinity with their Kedama in tow, knowing full well that they don't have enough firepower to knock down the purple-haired embodiment of powerful that is Hakurei Reimu.
"We need a bigger number! Let's get out of here!" One of the fairies exclaimed, as she led the retreating fairies away from the scene.
Another fairy took a direct hit and went out cold as she is retreating along with the others, whom manages to get away before more of them are downed.
"I'm not finished with you yet!" Reimu shouted at the retreating fairies. "Come back here!"
Genji shook his head and asked the shrine maiden trainee. "Is it necessary to hunt down those specific fairies whom attacked you at the shrine?"
"Not necessary, but I want to!" Reimu gives a straight reply. "I will make every single fairy in Gensokyo know that you don't simply make fun of the Hakurei family!"
"Even knowing very well that they will forget it the next day?" Genji remarked.
Reimu became stumped upon hearing that remark. The shrine maiden trainee stammered for a short while before she just decided to shrug it off. "Never mind that! I just want to beat them up for what they did!"
Genji sighed. "Younglings these days..."
...
Reimu, still riding on Genji's back, gave chase to the escaping fairies, but soon lost sight of them in a small open field in the middle of the Fairy Forest.
"I lost them!" Reimu said angrily as she hopped off Genji and kicked the dirt. "I swear, I am so going to knock some sense into them, even if they are going to forget about it the next day!"
As the shrine maiden trainee continued her angry rant, Genji took several steps away from her, knowing that he has no purpose with Reimu for the next minute or two.
The flying turtle looked up to the skies and said, "Oh, is this what the Hakurei clan will become in the future? Youngsters with an unnecessary amount of determination?" After that, Genji rested himself on the ground, and shut his eyes for a while.
But then, something made him open his eyes again, and look straight ahead with suspicion.
Genji turned toward Reimu and tried to inform the shrine maiden trainee, "Reimu..."
But Reimu quickly cut him off, as she was still in the middle of her angry rant at that point. "Can't you see I'm having a mid-life cri... wait, wrong set of words." She quickly corrects herself, and restarts her sentence. "Can't you see I'm having a case of... Ah, whatever! I just need a minute to vent some steam!"
Genji wanted... Needed to make sure Reimu pays attention to what he was going to tell her, so he made it really quick. "I sense another powerful aura approaching."
That certainly got Reimu's attention. "Say wh..."
The shrine maiden trainee is interrupted mid-sentence by a bolt of lightning that struck close to her feet. The unusual thing about this lightning strike is that it didn't come from the skies, it came from straight ahead at a horizontal trajectory.
"...What the Makai?" Reimu swore (again), as she turns toward where the unusual lightning strike came from.
An orb of pure electricity came out from that very direction at a very high speed, and stopped just a few meters in front of Reimu. The electric orb then moves back and came to a stop again in the center of the opening.
"This is the powerful aura I sensed..." Genji told Reimu.
"This orb of electricity?" The shrine maiden trainee inquired. "It definitely isn't normal, alright..."
The electric orb started to crackle with intensity, causing both Reimu and Genji to take several steps as it happens.
"No matter why this thing is here, I don't think we can get past it without a fight..." Reimu said, as she gets herself prepared for a big battle.
After ten seconds of intense crackling, the electric orb lashed out five separate bolts of lightning - none aimed at the shrine maiden trainee nor the flying turtle. From the tips of each of the lightning bolts spawned transparent non-corporeal disks with what appeared to be eyes on them. The electric orb itself, at that point, had taken on the appearance of a young woman with blonde hair, wearing a kimono that is colored in different shades of yellow. The entity in which the eye-disks are connected to is still crackling with electricity, only now the electricity has become calm enough that it is barely noticeable.
"So, you are the newest Hakurei shrine maiden - Hakurei Reimu. Am I correct?" The young woman made of electricity spoke, her voice coming out with static in between each word.
Reimu doesn't know what the entity before her can do, so she decided to play along for a while first. "Um... Yeah, I'm Hakurei Reimu..." The shrine maiden trainee answers. "Are you planning to fight me like that Ancient Formless Guardian did back there?" She added a question.
"Your assumption is correct." The young woman answers Reimu's question. "I intend to test the full extent of your powers..."
Genji decided to interrupt the young woman and said to Reimu. "Be careful, Reimu, this is..."
The young woman proceeds to interrupt Genji in return. "Oh, where are my manners?" She said. "Allow me to introduce myself..."
Watchful Eyes of Eternal Power
Yuugen-Magan
"I am known as the Watchful Eyes of Eternal Power - Yuugen-Magan. As you can see, I am but an entity made of pure energy. Living for half a millennia has made me quite powerful..."
As the appeared-to-be-young woman - Yuugen-Magan finishes her short self-introduction, the eye-disks projected from her electrical body all stared straight at Reimu, each of them seemingly collecting electricity in the process.
"Do you, a young shrine maiden in training, have what it takes to best me, a very old being of pure energy, in battle?" Yuugen-Magan seemingly dares the shrine maiden trainee. "I will let you the honor of first strike."
Reimu knew the entity before her meant it seriously, so she gets her limitless supply of Ofuda ready. "Well then, I better make this first strike count..." Before she actually does anything, she turned toward Genji and told him, "After all those time you worked for my predecessors including my mother, I think you know very well how bad these kind of battles are going to be, so..."
"I will excuse myself to the side so I don't get in your way..." Genji finishes Reimu's sentence for her, and complies, as he moved himself into the edge of the opening under some foliage.
With that done, Reimu turned back toward Yuugen-Magan, whose eye-disks are still collecting electricity.
"Now then, shall we begin?"
Without waiting for a response, Reimu launched her first strike against Yuugen-Magan, in the form of an Ofuda thrown straight at the electrical entity...
Well, there. Reimu has only just finished her first boss battle against Shingyoku, and now she's openly challenged by Yuugen-Magan. Want to know the details of the battle? Well, stay tuned for the next chapter of Young Maiden's Chronicles, then...
Changes from original canon:
The whole story so far - the original Highly Responsive To Prayers has no established storyline, mostly due to ZUN (and his then-buddies of Amusement Makers) being too drunk(or some other reason?) to come up with one. Here, Konngara has something planned for Reimu, as she sent Shingyoku and now Yuugen-Magan to fight the little shrine maiden trainee...
Yuugen-Magan's character - All we know of this character in HRTP is that it has next-to-no information for anyone to know about. Here, she establishes her identity to Reimu, and cites her intention for challenging the shrine maiden trainee. There's also her title, which has been changed from "Evil Eyes" to "Watchful Eyes of Eternal Power".
Still waiting for me to list out the references? Like I said, I'm not going to do so, unlike Lt Col Summers, so get used to it. This will be the very last time I remind you of this.
"And that, as they say, is that..."
Afterwords ends here.
