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AN: Well, we went through Section 1 with only a little bit of difficulty. Let's try Section 2...
MiN: Let's get going...
AN: Now... send the beams forward!
Section TWO: Somehow Alive, Doki Doki Panic...
"Okay... almost there... one more push... and I'll be out... One... two... three!" Mima pushed against the barrier that sealed her in the box once again. Usually, she would be pushed back into the box, but this time, Mima went through the barrier, although in a... different state. She was launched from the box, hit the ground, skidded along the ground, creating plenty of friction, until she stopped just short of a bookcase. "Ow. That kinda hurt." Mima commented, as she looked herself over. "Okay... that's weird. I'm... alive again." Mima then stood back up, and walked around the room that she found herself in, looking for an exit.
"Done. I'll be using my beam to attack, it works with the system." Larice walked back into the main room, telling Giegue and Niiue of what happened. "Great!" Niiue responded. "Hold on," Reimu announced, pausing before continuing. "I feel... some sort of power not unlike my own, coming from somewhere in this place." "What do you mean, power?" Giegue questioned. "Well, I'll explain later." Reimu pushed the question to the side. "Point made." Suika commented. "Okay... I feel it... Wherever the power is coming from, it's moving around." Reimu commented.
"Yes! I found an exit." Mima cheered quietly, before opening the door to the storage room that she was in. Mima entered a short hallway, and approached the door to the main room. "Here goes..." Mima told herself, and she slowly opened the door to the main room.
The door creaked open. "Who is it?" Reimu threatened, pointing her gohei at the opening door. "Surely you remember me, Reimu? Marisa should know..." The unknown person said, as Marisa entered the main room. "What do you mean, I should know?" The unknown person entered the main room. She wore blue, with green under the blue, had a dark blue hat, not unlike Marisa's, but with a faded sun on the front, and a gray staff with a crescent moon on its end. "Is it really you? Mima?" Marisa asked the figure. "Well, I am Mima, but... well... I'm a shadow of what I used to be. For one, I don't really have any objections to what you're doing anymore, Reimu." Mima responded. "Okay, and?" Reimu continued to doubt Mima. "Second of all, I think I'm back to being human again." Reimu slowly lowered her gohei in response to the explanation. "I still don't entirely trust you, Mima... but I suppose it's worth a try."
"What do we do now?" Larice asked Reimu. "Well... I don't know." Reimu responded. "It's been a long day, hasn't it, ze?" Marisa said in response to Reimu. "Sure has." Giegue said.
The next morning - March 23rd.
"So, what's going on today?" Niiue asked. "Not much." Reimu replied. "We've got the Spring Festival coming up in a few weeks, so... get ready for that." Suika announced. "Duly noted."
(AN: We skip ahead... 3 weeks ahead. Okay?)
3 weeks later... April 6th...
"Welcome to the Gensokyo Spring Festival! Enjoy your time, talk with people, have a good time!" Reimu announced, before exiting the front yard of the shrine. The Spring Festival had begun, the biggest annual festival in Gensokyo. Many, many people had come, from all over Gensokyo. Even Parsee was there, by way of getting a day off from guarding the bridge to the underground.
"There. Everybody's there. People will remember... don't forget about us... ever again!" A mysterious person shouted, after creating an invisible portal, and blocking off magic from going through the portal, separating the people at the festival from their powers, and their magic, when they left. "Rika, no need for shouting..." Another person told Rika. "I know, let me do this, Sumireko."
The festival was all fun and games, the sake was dished out, there was the usual occurrences of the annual festival. The only thing... people began to notice that people were disappearing once they exited. "...Huh? People are disappearing!" Some panic began to spread, and people began to run for the exits, even though they knew that people were disappearing once they left the shrine. Both the trio of outsiders, as well as the bridge princess Parsee, were oblivious to this fact, and stayed put in the shrine's area. "Mima, Marisa?" "Yeah?" "People are going missing once they leave this place... sure looks like an incident to me... you two ready?" "I guess so..." "Ready, ze!" "Then... let's go!" The only normal way out was through the main exit, so they were forced to exit using the same one that people were disappearing from. Reimu, Marisa, and Mima disappeared as well.
"Huh? Where did everybody go?" "Something... something's wrong!" Giegue shouted, feeling something off with the magic field at the shrine. "What's wrong?" "Something's wrong with the magic field!" "...That... doesn't sound good." "I noticed that everybody just left... even Reimu." "...That's not normal, you think it's another one of those incidents?" "Could be..." A fourth person then walked up to the three in conversation, noticing the talk about how everyone seemed to be gone. "...Yeah... everybody... just left." "...Who are you?" "...me? My name is Parsee."
"Hey, I found a paper over here!" "What does it say?" "It says... no, you, you read it." Larice said, and gave the paper to Parsee. "Ok, here is what it says... 'To: any remaining people at the shrine... from: Yukari-'" "Okay, this seems important..." Giegue interrupted. "I know that, let me read it... 'I'm sorry to say that I can't help you... because I'm trapped, and because Reimu seems to be trapped as well, you're on a real bad time limit... you've got 21 days to find us before the barrier dissolves, and Gensokyo is destroyed...'" "Well, how about that, we only have THREE whole WEEKS to find Yukari and Reimu... great, just great."
(AN: We're on a time limit, we don't know where to go from here! Rika? Sumireko? Huh?)
