A/N: Bweh, sorry everyone! Exams are around the corner, and I've been almost straining to get this done. Nevertheless, it's here! And so now we move on to see more of Gensokyo! Note that this is the part where the OCs come in, and they are in fact from my friends. Whether you follow the comic series of this or not, I'm gonna say this anyway: Vanitas, Carritas and Somnio belong to Krawkley, while Kondakuto belongs to IShingoYabuki. Go check both of them out, by the way. They are awesome people. In the meantime, enjoy this chapter!

The wind carried Jack over the skies of the land, gliding along in loops as he laughed and sprinkled the air with snowflakes. Evidently the thrill from the earlier snowball fight with that Red-White and that girl who called herself an ice fairy had not yet dissipated. Speaking of which, her fleeting voice could be heard. Was she behind him…?

"Heeeey! Wait uuup!"

Impressive tenacity. The Winter Spirit thought to himself. He slowed down the wind and turned to face the blue-haired sprite, who was waving her arms frantically as if reaching out to him. As they spoke, she still continued to pant. "What's up little fairy?" he asked.

Cirno pouted cutely before pointing a mini-ice sword at Jack. "Don't call me *little* fairy!" the girl retorted, "Just because you're a bigger fairy doesn't mean you can call me such things!"

"I-I told you, I'm not a fairy!" The boy retorted back. How could she even call him that?! He tried to push the thought away for a moment to correct the fairy. "I'm Jack Frost...though I guess you could call me a winter spirit..." That seemed to strike her for a moment before she bounced and twirled her sword in affirmation. "Oh yeah, you have the same powers as I do, Jack! You'll never beat me though! I'm Cirno, the Strongest!"

"Cirno, the strongest fairy?"

"No, the STRONGEST! " The fairy insisted, visibly annoyed by the spirit's scoffing. Yet her smile almost instantaneously returned as she pointed her sword at Jack again. "But you're very fun! You make an awesome snowball fight!"

"Heh, you're welcome! It's kinda my schtick." The elf smiled in return, twirling his own staff. As he affirmed the praise, his mind then reminded him of why he even decided to come here, not withstanding the fact he was most suddenly …sucked into this world. "But speaking of fun, do ya know who makes all these snow days here? I've never been here before, and it would be nice knowing who shares my job." He finally asked.

"The snow? Uuu..." the girl placed a finger over her mouth and started thinking of an answer to the cool guy's question. When she finally did, she waved around her arms excitedly as she spoke. "That would be Letty! During the winter, she stops sleeping and comes up freezing all the places and making it snow everywhere in Gensokyo! Then I make the lakes freeze and then we get fun fun snow days!"

"Letty...is she a fairy like you?"

"No, she's a yuki-onna! Don't call her a fairy; she gets mad if you say that..."

"Yuki- oh, right. I forgot this place, Gensokyo, is in Japan..." Jack recalled hearing some tales from the Japanese people about the snow-ladies, vengeful beings who froze lost travellers in the mountains. For a moment, he remembered a previous encounter with one outside, and how unpleasant it was for him. Then his mind went back to that day, when he flew around the turning globe statue and saw how hopelessly dark the island seemed. And yet now, he was finding such things DID exist in those lands, confusing him all the more. "So many of these things, but there were still no lights showing up on the globe..."

The spirit failed to realize he spoke those very words. After a blink, he noticed the girl staring at him curiously. "Eh? What lights?"

"Oh, uh- Nevermind!" Jack stuttered. That was close…hey, wait, what am I doing?! I should be getting to work! The boy jolted himself before asking the little fairy another question. "Hey Cirno, where do you like having snowball fights best?"

His question once again excited the fairy as she started rapidly speaking the answers while bouncing endlessly. "Weeell, there's Misty Lake with all the other fairies and Letty, maybe...ooh! But I've been trying to have some fun with the human children too!" She momentarily lowered her voice till only she could hear her smarmy thoughts. "And I need to get back at that meanie Joe for the whole thing with Dai-chan... "

She started reminiscing her issue with a human befriending another one of her fairy companions before realizing her answer was incomplete. "They're all at the Human Village!" she finally blurted out, hoping that the answer pleased her new friend, which it did. Jack lifted his staff to call the wind once again, prepared to glide in whatever direction was given.

"Human Village, eh? Lead the way, Cirno!"

"Alrighty Jack! This waaaaaay!"

And so the two of them flew closer to the settlement that was getting bigger and bigger in the horizon…

The resounding ring of a single bell rang throughout the village, signalling the end of lessons for the few that attended the small school. Amongst the excited homebound groups of children, two twins, a red double-ponytail girl with glasses and her blue-haired brother, hoisted their bags and trudged the path home. Their teacher, a black-haired man wearing a suit, closely followed behind them, red wings on his back and head and a tail waving about as he walked. Merely adjusting his monocle, he spoke to the two children, who listened to his every word without even looking.

"And I'll be supervising you two, alright?" the teacher reminded.

The blue haired boy sighed with disappointment as he heard those incessant words. "Aw man..." he prepared his complaint, "this is one of the problems with livin' with our teacher; he'll always be there to make sure we don't goof off!"

His sister glanced at their equally annoyed teacher and tapped her brother lightly. "Come on bro, it's not that bad!" she tried to console. Her brother frustratingly pushed away the hand and waved his own. "Not that bad?! It's boring! "He yelled, frightening his poor sibling. "And with all this snow around, you'd think we'd be allowed to, oh I don't know, have fun in the snow!"

"So it's fun you want, huh?"

"Eh? WAUGH!" the boy immediately turned his attention to the unfamiliar voice that spoke to him, receiving a snowball to the face. After the momentary shock, his now sparkling blue eyes started glancing around and turning to his companions, slightly laughing as he did so. "Okay! Which one of ya threw that?!" he called out. The boy then heard a familiar, girlish voice calling out to him. "Hey! Watch your back!"

"Huh? Cirno?" the red sister recognized the voice before she saw a snowball headed towards her face. "WAAH!" she squealed, ducking as fast as she could, while her teacher disappeared into the shadows. The snowball headed straight towards a dark yellow-haired boy, who reacted the same way before his eyes sparkled blue as well, giggling and throwing a snow ball back into his friend's face. "Oh it's on now you guys! Come on, Vanitas!"

"You're never gonna get me, Kondakuto!" The blue-haired boy yelled in response, returning the favour as well.

Cirno continued giggling and launching her own bullets amidst all the rest, and soon motioned Jack to come over. He couldn't help but smile as he saw the boys loudly issue a challenge to their friends surrounding the scene. In a matter of seconds, the children had joined in with them.

The fight had just begun!