Chapter 5C: .Charmed/Manipulation
"Stay calm, Paige. It's just a mansion. With a vampire for the head. You've been in situations like this before, right?" Paige tried to reassure herself, but then realized that she really couldn't think of anything worse. "I'll just teleport inside and find Sakuya." She went to orb past the sleeping gatekeeper. The sleeping gatekeeper suddenly leapt up, kicked her orbing particles, and proceeded to stand tall as a gate guard while Paige did an undignified slump to the ground.
"Hah! I, Hong Meiling, won't allow anyone past this gate!" the guard stated, doing a martial arts pose.
"Today is not my day." Paige sighed. "Where's Phoebe when you need her... This would be easier if I just had a knife or two!"
At this, the entire skyline seemed carpeted with blue for two seconds. Paige and Meiling blankly looked at the suddenly dark sky.
"Oh, great." Paige grumbled, running for the door with Meiling as the ceiling of knives she had inadvertently created began trying to kill the both of them by attempting to drop on their head.
They reached the door and fled inside, panting.
"What is going on out here?" a voice called out. Paige's heart sank as a bat-winged girl clad in a pink dress with a red brooch began to walk down the stairs.
So much for not meeting the vampire... Paige mentally kicked herself for thinking she could have a nice, easy meeting. My luck is never that good...
"I'm Paige. Reimu sent me here because there's an incident going on and we need Sakuya's help."
"She sends a defenseless human to a vampire's house to ask for the help of her maid? That sounds more like tribute than a messenger..." Remilia flatly stated.
"Look, I'm far from defenseless. Brooch." Paige said, causing it to orb into her hand.
She was not prepared for Remilia's immediate reaction, which was to suddenly jump at her like a starving wolf screaming "GIVE THAT BAAAAACK!"
Then there was a jarring shift before contact in which she seemed to blink and there was a maid standing in front of her, casually pointing a knife at her throat. "Start talking, or I will let the Mistress finish. I already spoke to Meiling. You certainly attempted to break and enter. Now state your business or I'll stab you with a knife. By the way, congratulations on managing to take EVERY SINGLE ONE, even Marisa couldn't do that. I actually had to walk outside and get one from the lawn." She clapped sarcastically. "So unless you want my annoyance and her anger to be unleashed, you've got 30 seconds to explain why you're here. But I don't just start the clock. I control it."
Paige handed over the paper Reimu had given her.
"So Yuyuko's doing it again? And I'm supposed to help? ...OK. No funny business, though. We go right to the target and nowhere else." That said, they orbed away, heading toward the same place the other two were working their way toward: The Netherworld and Hakugyokurou.
A.N. I am convinced that the teleport powers in Charmed are named for their visual effect. Orbing turns the user into blue orbs, shimmering is a shimmer out, and blinking is a jump cut.
Remilia Scarlet: A vampire who moved to Gensokyo because of trouble where she was originally located. She filled the sky with scarlet mist in an attempt to block the sun.
Sakuya Izayoi: Can. Manipulate. Time. A maid who can manipulate time (speed up, slow down, theoretically reverse) and believes she lives to serve Remilia. Some fandom thinks she's a Belmont, in which case I'm still waiting for Touhouvania: Symphony of the Night, with Alucard as the main character... but I digress.
Hong Meiling: Gatekeeper to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, ALWAYS sleeping, but actually is pretty good at waking up to repel intruders.