A/N: Chapter 7! Get ready for some intense action!
~Makai~
"Yes, I need Reimu's blood to be alive again, I know more about the Hakurei than she does, I watched them over 1000 years!" Mima finished telling her plan to Shinki.
"Hm...alright, just lure her here and I shall do the rest."
"No need, she'll be coming on her own, get things ready." Mima left as Shinki made only a straight path, cutting it from the rest of Makai, it started at the gate and ended at the Fallen Shrine.
~Gensokyo~
Reimu woke up the next morning, ready for the portal, she was about to head out the shrine, but an old turtle was in her way.
"Ahh, move it, Gramps!"
"No way, I'm not letting you get killed this time!"
Yoku: "No worries, we'll make sure nothing happens this time."
"...Last chance, Reimu." The miko jumped on his back and hopped over Genji, running to the Makai portal.
"Here we go!"
~Makai~
Reimu ended up in a a red world with only a straight path ahead of her.
"Perfect, another red world, but at least I know where I'm going."
"Well, well, an intruder?" A girl appeared in front of Reimu, she was gold and had five eyes around her.
"Another metallic colored thing! It has freaky eyes, too!"
"I'm a female!"
"Hard to tell..you look like a broken or corrupted character or something, I don't want to hurt something as weak as that."
"You're just trying to push me, aren't you..."
"What is your name, broken character?"
"I am YuugenMagan, The Five Magical Eyed Girl."
"Really? You seem more like a Golden Girl!" This caused YuugenMagan to rage as she turned red as her eyes did, too since the commented reminded her of Elis, who also called her that.
"Now you've done it!" The five eyes started to shoot red lasers, Reimu had a hard time trying to avoid five at once, but it started to become easy to read her patterns, she summoned an orb and hit Yuu right in the stomach, she only budged a couple inches back but the eyes kept attacking.
"That didn't even look like it hurt, just what is she?"
Shing: "I never seen anything like it before." Reimu kept hitting Yuu successfully with her orb, but it never did any damage, it wasn't even wearing the girl down, the only one that was getting worn out was Reimu.
"I'm...getting tired."
"Ahahahaha! Is this all you have, such a pity!" Yuu jumped above Reimu and as the eyes surrounded her.
"Spellcard! Magical Sign: Spinning Eye Madness!"
The eyes started to go around Reimu faster and faster that she couldn't even see them anymore as they started to rapidly shoot out lasers that were impossible to tell where they were coming from, Reimu was getting shot from all sides, left and right, all she could try to do was evade them. The lasers kept shooting off parts of Reimu's clothes piece by piece, she was already losing her first fight in Makai, if she couldn't make it through the first boss, Genji would never let her go anywhere again, she didn't want to waste the Shingyoku assist's on her first fight, she had to learn to fight for herself, Reimu didn't know how many bosses were in Makai, she has yet to find out. The shrine maiden had to think of sommething quick before one of the lasers would deal the final shot to her.
Shing: "Reimu, stop standing around letting yourself get it!"
Yoku: "Do something!"
"I don't know any spellcards, all I can do is throw one orb around!"
Shing: "And that one orb is the strongest weapon, now use it!"
"And the strongest weapon doesn't even damage her." Reimu tried again summoning an orb while trying to avoid the lasors, she smacked it upward as it hit one of Yuu's five eyes, causing her to stop attacking and fall to the ground.
"Aaaaah!"
Shing: "Reimu, the eyes are it's weak spot!"
"Figured it out, huh, no matter, that won't change a thing!" (Damn...this lowers my advantage of me winning now!) Yuu looked around and saw that no one was there. "Where did she go?"
"Behind you!" Just then, Reimu knocked another eye out as Yuu's golden color became darker.
"Nooo! My color, it's fading!" Reimu popped out two more eyes while the enemy was distracted, Yuu's color now was a brownish-yellow.
"Damn you, damn you, damn you!" You asked for it!" Yuu now had a black aura around her, got herself up and charged at Reimu, in panic, shot her last orb which stopped in front of her and shot out a beam of light as Yuu's last out, making her flip around in the air for a while then landing on her back.
"Cool!"
"What the hell..."
Shing: "It seems like your orb has upgraded a bit, Reimu."
Yoku: "You can now shoot light from the orbs, nice."
"Now...time to deal the final blow!"
"Please no, I'm just a weak creation!" Reimu was surprised at this sudden reaction from Yuu.
"A creation? So you're just basically someones daughter"
"You could say that..." Reimu looked at the defeated black Yuu and just went ahead.
Yoku: "You aren't going to kill her?"
"I'm a shrine maiden, not some child killer."
Yoku: "She is just a creation."
"And?"
Shing: "She has made the right choice, Yoku, stop it. There are two types of creations, one is to just to endless bidding for their master until it dies or another that someone has made with love from their heart.
"Hm...so I guess someone wanted to be a mother."
Yoku: "What makes you so sure that the creator of this creation is a female?"
"Ha! Please, have you even seen males in Gensokyo? You and Genji are the only males I met!"
"Wait...shrine maiden..." Reimu looked back at Yuu, who was the one calling her.
"Yeah?" She had an evil smile on her face, even though she was defeated, the evil smile of a plan.
"The next location ahead is the Ruins of Vina...there you will find a devil named Elis, make sure you kill her, she is not like me, a creation...she's pure evil..."
"Thanks...I guess." Yuu made an evil laugh that echoed as she faded into a dark hole in the ground that was the Void.
"Did she die?"
Shing: "I think she was just returning to the place she came."
"Then onward to the Ruins of Vina!"
~Ruins of Vina~
Reimu looked around at the red deserted wasteland, full of tall rock formations, caves, cliffs, moutains and ruins with dusty smoke sliding across the dirt floor, the place known as Ruins of Vina. She saw no one in sight, thinking who would live here anyway, it looks abandoned,
"This place looks boring, there is no one here!"
Shing: "Remember what I said about no rushing into the enemy, Reimu.."
"Yeah, yeah.. Well, since this wasteland is a waste of land, I'm out of here."
"Don't walk about my home like that!" Reimu looked up in the air and saw a black bat above her.
"Was that bat talking just now?" The bat then turned into a girl, it was Elis.
"Oh goddess, another weirdo..."
"Shut up! What's so weird about devil magician!"
"Devil and magician don't mix... Who are you anyway?"
"Elis, The Innocent Devil!"
"You're the pure evil devil, Elis?"
"Innocent Devil!"
"Come here, stand in front of me." Elis did what the stranger said and cautiously stood infront of her enemy.
"Hm...you do look innocent and cute, that little star on your cheek is adorable."
"Yes, everyone likes my star, who are you?"
"Reimu Hakurei, a shrine maiden."
"I never heard of those."
"I haven't heard of a devil magician.."
"Are you a new creation?"
"No, I'm from Gensokyo."
"Never heard of that place."
"You're kidding..."
"Can you take me there?"
"I would, but I have been told to kill you."
"What did I do!"
"Someone named...YuuganMagan said you were evil so...you get the rest."
"That's my sister, she hates me for some reason..."
"Oh, then I suppose it would be pointless to just fight."
"I do, too, I may be a noisy devil, but I agree it is stupid to fight for no reason or cause of lies."
"Yes, and I don't like making enemies...so I guess I'll just move along then?"
"Well...I guess everyone would be mad at me if I didn't try to stop you, why are you here anyway?"
"To be honest...it started out as a mission to kill evil, I destroyed everyone in Hell because they were actually doing bad things."
Shing: (Such a lie...)
Yoku: (She would of died without our help!)
"Eh, I don't care what people think of me anyway, go ahead, Reimu, I'm tired to fight anyway."
"Really? You're just letting me go?"
"Like you said, making enemies for pointless reasons is dumb, there is nothing evil here so why don't you head home?"
"I'm just bored now..."
"Well...want to be friends instead or allies?"
"I...suppose"
"Well...have fun, Reimu. I'm going to bed." Elis crawled into her cave and curled up closing her eyes.
"That seemed...a bit awkward, it feels weird not fighting an enemy, but she seems totally nice, this isn't how it works!"
Shing: "If she is letting you go Reimu, then just keep moving forward, sometimes it's better not to fight at all, she is still a child."
"I guess it would be feel like fighting a little child or something."
"Wait up!" Elis got up and ran to Reimu.
"Yeah?"
"Can we..uh just fight for fun, just to make it look like I tried to stop you?"
"I thought you said you didn't care what anyone else thought if you just let me pass..
"At first that was true, but I thought about Yuu abusing me later on and my oldest sister, Yumeko, giving me a lecture along with my mother."
"How about...I just hit you a bit and you go down?"
"Alright, I'll fight back, I just won't do any serious damage."
"Well, if you want to."
"Alrighty, let's do it!" Elis flew up in the air waving her wand as shooting stars came down from the sky, Reimu could easily dodge them since Elis wasn't even trying at all, not even the slightest effort, she wondered what it would be like to fight the devil at full power. Reimu shot an orb as Elis maneuvered to the right, she didn't expect the beam of light from the orb that shot her down to the ground, she was faking of course.
"Ah..no, you got me." With a monotone voice, she went to sleep in her crawlspace as the shrine maiden marched on to the Fallen Shrine.
"Reimu, do me a favor." Reimu looked back, but she couldn't see Elis in her dark crawlspace.
"You're going to the Fallen Shrine next, my sister, Sariel's home, she doesn't like fighting so you might not end up fighting her, if you do, don't beat her up too bad, she's the only sister I actually love..." Before Reimu could reply she heard the sounds of sleepy breathing from the innocent devil so on to the Fallen Shrine she went. Finally arriving, Reimu stared at the shrine before her, she stood at the sign where the landmass started, the trial before her led to a closed door she could see far away.
"This looks exactly like my shrine, just all busted up and broken down."
Shing: "It actually does."
"Does every place here always have to look abandoned?" Reimu walked down the cracked trial to the closed door, she was about to open it but it just fell down, making the ghost turn around in front of her.
"Oh, it's only a small child.." She hovered to Reimu and smiled.
"Um...hi there!"
"Welcome, are you my sister or..."
"Nope, shrine maiden Reimu here."
"Ah, I would never of thought to meet a pure shrine maiden."
"Yeah, so uh..I'm from Gensokyo."
"So you are an intruder?"
"N-No!"
"Were you invited here?"
"Well...no..."
"Then that means you are an intruder."
"If I was an intruder I would of just started attacking you the moment I saw you!"
"I guess you are right, you seem harmless anyway."
"Who are you?"
"I am Sariel, the Angel of Death."
"That sounds pretty evil to me.."
"Don't let the name fool you, I despise death actually, but here I am, an angel that takes away souls."
"Right, I was about to leave here anyway, this place is boring, can you show me the way out?"
"Alright, wait a moment please." Sariel did some markings and symbols inside the summoning circle as a portal was now in the middle of the room.
"Thanks!"
"Just step inside and you should be home I think, sorry if you end up somewhere else, I literally just learned these markings like 3 minutes before you arrived here." Reimu waved good-bye as she jumped into the portal.
"Hey...Shingyoku."
Shingyoku: "Yes?"
"Those markings were Hakurei symbols she used, how does she know about them."
Shing: "I noticed, too."
Yoku: "She did say she just learned them before you arrived at her house, someone must of taught her them."
"This seems like some sort of trap, I can feel it."
Shing: "Anyway, how did you like Makai, Reimu?"
"It was so boring, Hell was more fun, Makai was only a straight path from the gate to that shrine, I didn't even see this Yumeko girl or the creator of them, Elis and Sariel seemed like nice folk."
Shing: "I'm glad you are making friends, Reimu."
Yoku: "That's exactly what you need so you can have friends to assist you in battle."
"What does that mean?"
Shing: "Well, Reimu, we aren't going to be your assist attacks forever, until you make two friends that can follow you around on your adventures, we will stay at the shrine with Genji and guard it like we were suppose to."
"I guess, hey, I think I see a green light, wait..wha!" The green light blinded Reimu as she found herself on the floor, she got up and looked around seeing she was back home.
"What was that about..?"
Yoku: "You are home, Reimu."
"I know that, just what was that green light?"
Shing: "Well, it doesn't matter right now, you are safe, let's go inside and show Genji you made it back safe before he has a heart attack at his old age." Reimu went inside as she opened her eyes very wide seeing something disturbing on the wall, Shingyoku came out of the orb hairpin as they didn't have a reaction outside, they were both worried on the inside, Reium read the writing that was in blood out loud.
"I came back from the dead to finally take revenge on the Hakurei Clan. Be prepared, Reimu Hakurei. What the hell is this bullshi-" Reimu looked around her shrine and realized something was wrong. "Where is Genji!" Shing searched the shrine with Reimu as Yoku scanned outside.
"What if they took Genji and killed him, he's too old to fight, he can't even fight! It's my fault..." Shing noticed Reimu was now calling the turtle Genji instead of Gramps, showing that she really cared for him.
Shing: "Maybe he escaped and went to the lake behind the shrine." Reimu rushed out as Shingyoku followed her, she found the lake but it was filled with turtles, she saw the turtle on the tallest rock, it had a white beard.
"Genji!" The elder turtle flew down as Reimu picked him up and squished him, thankfully he couldn't feel it since he had a shell.
"Put me down..."
"I thought you were dead and that's how you act?" Reimu dropped him on his back as he was struggling to fix himself.
"You know I hate it when you do that..!"
"That's what you get for being mean when I thought someone took you!"
"That's what I was trying to talk to you about..!" Shing rolled Genji onto his belly as he stood up with his four legs, they went back to the shrine as Reimu was washing the bloody writing off her wall.
Shing: "Tell us what happened, Genji."
"She's back...the woman that Misaki sealed up..!"
Shing: "That can't be, nothing can break the Hakurei seal!"
"I saw the whole fight between her and Misaki when I was just a baby...she nearly killed Misaki. Misaki said it herself, this woman could easily kill a Hakurei if she wanted to!"
"What are you guys talking about? What woman that can kill the Hakurei?"
Shing: "Are you sure it was her? Did she see you?"
"When I seen her coming...I flew to the lake and blended in with the other turtles, they knew I was in trouble so they covered me up, I don't know why she wanted me."
Shing: "I know I am going to regret asking you this but...can you please say her name just to confirm your story.."
"Who is this woman, Gramps?"
"Reimu...when you hear this name...run for your life, if only you could fly...but you still haven't trained.."
"Tell me the name!"
"When you hear this name...run...I mean it..." Reimu went closer to Genji.
"Mima..."
Yoku: "It's game over man! She was suppose to be sealed for good, she's back, game over man! Game over!" Shing slapped Yoku.
Shing: "Shut up, don't scare Reimu!"
"Mima...is she that strong?"
"Yes...Mima is the woman that was sealed by your ancestor, Misaki because she would of been killed if she didn't...Misaki was at her last breath when she did her last seal spell, I had to get all the turtles from the lake to get her some help.."
"So I have to just run when I hear her name?"
"Yes...now that is she roaming around doing who knows what, she is right now the strongest thing in Gensokyo."
"What about that woman that also watches me sometimes?"
"You mean Yukari..?"
Shing: "Ah, Yukari Yakumo, she is very strong, probably even with Mima, right now she can only take her on, but no one has no idea where she is at the moment, we have to act now." Just then, there was the sound of a laugh outside, everyone in the shrine stared dead right at the door, scared out of their minds, except for Reimu who didn't know what was going on, the woman was in front of the shrine door that was closed before her.
"Is someone going to open the door for me or should I blast it down?"
Shing: "We'll be right there! Genji take Reimu to the most back part of the shrine, Yoku, open the door and I'll ram at her.." Reimu sat on Genji's back as he flew to the backroom, after they were gone Yoku opened the door seeing no one there.
Yoku: "I'll take a peak, stay ready." Yoku poked his head out the door, looking left then right, repeating it again as his whole body was outside now, he turned back to Shing.
Yoku: "All clea-.." Yoku felt a sharp pain in his lower back, he couldn't move, his body fell to the floor, Yoku started to glow as he retreated to the hairpin as a ball of light, giving away a trial that led to Reimu, showing that she was inside the shrine.
"Thanks, now I know she is here."
Shing: "Yoku... You'll pay for that, Mima!" Shing charged at the witch, she dodged to the side as she quickly slipped inside and locked the door.
"Oni are such hot heads. ~" Mima backed away from the door as it torn off by Shing's horns.
Shing: "Leave...Reimu alone!"
"You know what I want, don't you?"
Shing: "I don't give a damn what you want!" She charged at Mima again only to find her head stuck in the wall.
"And you call yourselves the guardians of this shrine, you both are so weak you can't defend yourselves, how did this new shrine maiden manage to gain your assistance?"
Shing: "How did you know that..?"
"I know everything about the Hakurei, inside and out, Misaki told me everything, I watched them for 1000 years!" Shing was trying to get her horns out, she rammed deep into the wall.
"Now...I would move on but I'm sure you will get in my way again." Mima put her knife away that had Misaki engraved on it and summoned her staff, aiming it at the Oni. "Just to be sure you won't."
Shing: "What are you doing, I can't see!" Mima jabbed her staff into Shing as it started electrocuting her, she pulled the staff away as Shing was just hanging there in the wall.
"Oh, you should know about something. The knife I stabbed him with was blessed by Misaki since it was her present, after I got it back I mixed it with some of my dark magic so any harm this knife does can not be healed...ever!" Mima left to go deeper into the shrine and found herself in a hallway with many rooms, she didn't know which to choose.
Shing: "Reimu...I failed you...forgive me..." Shing turned into a ball of light and went past Mima and into the backroom, Mima smiled following the light and entered the room, it was a huge storage room, everything was piled up on each other in mountains of trash.
"She should be in here then.." Mima walked slowly around the room making the floor creak with each step, Reimu was on the top of a trash pile inside a box that was closed, Genji just blended in a toy, Mima started to get bored and made up a little tune for herself.
"Oh where, oh where has my shrine maiden gone, oh where, oh where can she be, I just want some of her blood to live again, oh where, oh where can she be. ~" Reimu peaked out of her box, below she could see the ghost walking around, she saw Genji who was signaling here to get back inside the box.
"Hm...maybe I should get home, she's probably such a weakling anyway, I never seen a shrine maiden run away before."
"Who are you calling weak!" Reimu fell for the taunt as she stood up out of her box making it tip over and rolled down the pile right onto Mima's feet.
"So this is the new shrine maiden, Reimu Hakurei, such a cute girl."
"S-Stay back, don't make me use this!" Reimu held up her gohei like she was about to swing it.
"Be my guest, use it if you dare. ~"
"I'll show you who you are messing with!" Reimu summoned an orb and whacked it to Mima, only to disappear with Mima not even moving at all.
"My turn, dear." Mima kicked Reimu down and held her in place with her foot.
"Why didn't that work?"
"I have no idea, maybe because it seems likee your orbs are too weak to even get near me, you don't know who you are messing with."
"Get off, you're hurting me!'
"Frankly, I don't give a shit!" Mima pressed down harder into Reimu's small stomach.
"Look, Mima lady, you shouldn't take your revenge on me just because my ancestor sealed you up, it's not fair to the rest of the bloodline."
"I just want a tiny bit of blood, why does everyone act like I want to kill somebody?"
"I am not giving my blood to some evil ghost or anyone else."
"Shut up! Fine, since you have no defense skills at all, I'll let you go, it's no fun this way, I'll come up with a plan to take you down now, I just wanted the tiniest bit of blood but I think I'll just end the Hakurei once and for all!" Mima went through the way and on her way home, Genji finally came out and crawled next to Reimu.
"Are you alright...?"
"The hell I am, why didn't you help me!"
"There is nothing I can do, just an old turtle that can fly.." Reimu and Genji sat on the front porch with the injured Shingyoku.
"Are you guys alright?"
Shing: "Reimu...I'm afraid our time is done.."
"Huh?"
Yoku: "We can't assist you in battle anymore, our injuries are eternal of what Mima did to us, I have a lethal wound in my back and Shing can't stop randomly shaking from time to time."
Shing: "We'll..just be in your way...that electrocution was so powerful.."
"But, I need both of you! I can't do anything by myself.."
Shing: "That is why, Yoku and I will teach you some Hakurei spellcards..this is all we can do, Reimu."
Yoku: "We now have to stay and guard the shrine with Genji.."
"I can't..not by myself!"
"Reimu...listen for once and stop arguing..."
"Gramps..."
"I will go with you since you still can not fly..but that is all I will do, I won't attack your enemy or defend you, just fly."
Shing: "Get some rest Reimu, you have hard days ahead of you.." Reimu nodded sadly and went to bed.
Yoku: "Do think we should just let her stay here, she has no chance against Mima!"
"All..we can do is hope for the best in her.." The three looked up in the sky, wondering what the future holds in store for Reimu.
Shing: "We wish you were here right now, Misaki...we all need you..."
A/N: What do ya think? This is the end of Highly Responsive To Prayers, Mima was such a badass, Reimu can't get help anymore now that Shingyoku is injured permanently, now Genji steps in to be Reimu's transportation. Next Chapter! "Entering Story of Eastern Wonderland!"
PS: Yes, I know Mima was in Hell in the game, but too bad, Mima wanted to go on a miko hunt and kick some holy ass. :D
Random Short:
-Nitori has a gun and doesn't know what season it is due to the confusion of the many "Miko Season" or "Witch Season" Signs.-
Reimu: It's Witch Season!
Marisa: Miko Season.~
Reimu: Witch Season!
Marisa: Miko Season.~
Reimu: Witch Season!
Marisa: Witch Season.~
Reimu: Miko Season, FIRE! -Nitori blows up Reimu as Marisa takes over the world.-
