A/N: Finally, Mystic Square is here! I hope you all enjoy this chapter of the the last PC-98 game before we go on to the Windows games. The Yuuka and Mima Version will be short which is already up so anjoy that, too.
WARNING: Gore, Character Death, Strong Language.
Reimu has been noticing more and more youkai and demons lately, it's been like this for a year, she thought it was nothing at first and asked around but no one knew anything, she didn't even know where they were coming from, her group just decided to wait on the porch drinking some tea for the two witches, Mima might be up to something again, Reimu was about to find out as the two magic users arrived. Lotus Land Story ended a year ago, it's time for the Mystic Square Arc to unfold...but first.
~Demon World~
Marisa and Reimu found themselves floating in what seemed like space, stars were all around them, they were now on a huge floating area as the gravity turned back on, and two girls were standing in front of them.
"What's the meaning of this?"
"What's going on here, ze?"
"Welcome, to Demon World, we come to do battle with you both to put a stop to your hero doings, we wish for demons to rule your world and we can't do that unless you both are out of the way so we brought you here to get it over with. I am Gengetsu; this is my younger twin, Mugetsu.
"Let's battle please."
"Demons are such weirdos, ze." Marisa got on her broom.
"I will never, ever understand them." Reimu got her gohei ready.
"Begin." Marisa and Gengetsu went for an aerial battle while Reimu and Mugetsu fought on the surface; the air girls shot lasers and bullets back and forth as the ground girls kept exchanging kicks and fists. Reimu kept shoot cards at the demon maid but would just round kick them back at her, she tried using Hakurei orbs, Mugetsu would kick them back as well. Marisa tried aiming for Mugetsu's wings so she could have the advantage but she figured out what she was trying to do so Mugetsu was watching her wings carefully.
"Demon Sign: Maid of Demons" Mugetsu summoned nine small demons as they turned into her, they all spinned around Reimu to confuse her easily and stood still facing her.
"Choose a maid..."
"No thanks, I got one." Speaking of Reimu's maid, she just happened to come down from an opening in the sky and landed on her feet in front of Reimu.
"I am here to aid you."
"Thanks Ruukoto!" Gengetsu was distracted of what was going on down there that she got hit by a missile and exploded, she quickly backed away to see what just hit her.
"Mimi-Chan!" Marisa shouted.
"Ready to help!" It was Marisa's missile; she got off her broom and hopped on Mimi.
"Let's go this!" The clones started to come one by one after Reimu and Ruukoto, the robot maid easily defended them off herself and her master. Ruukoto dashed in front of Mugetsu and punched her up off the ground, Reimu called down a Hakurei orb that dropped on top of her to smash her into the ground, Ruukoto picked her up and whirled her into the air, Reimu called many orbs as they started bouncing Mugetsu between the orbs, kind of like pinball but Mugetsu was the ball while the orbs were the bumpers, all the orbs aimed at the demon maid and hit her at the same time to cause an explosion of light as she dropped to the ground.
"Nice one, let's watch Marisa now."
"Let's do this thing, ze!" Marisa got back on her broom and Mimi kept going around Mugetsu, Marisa did the same but went the opposite way, the demon was getting confused and mad so she spread danmaku around her to back them up, Mimi went under the wave and came under Mugetsu to explode again.
"That's sweet how you explode and come back to pieces."
"Star Sign: Blazing Comet!" Marisa laid down on her stomach on the broom and held on to the front as she turned into a shooting star and shot Mugetsu out of the sky, Mimi joined in as Marisa did her spellcard again and aimed into the ground to hit the winged demon together causing a huge explosion. The four heroines stood with each other seeing the two defeated twins before them, they all ended up heading home. Now the real adventure begins...
"Yo, Reimu!"
"Hello, Marisa, you look different, something with your hair."
"Yeah, it's over my eye."
"Going for that goth look?"
"Ain't my style, ze." Reimu glared at Mima.
"Witch..."
"What's with the cold stare?"
"I know it's you, it took me a year to figure out but it is you, admit it!"
"What's your problem?"
"Haven't you noticed so many demons and youkai increasing lately?"
"Hm, I knew Marisa was having too much fun lately, all I hear is her blasting lasers outside."
"Uh, I think I might know where everyone is coming from, ze." Reimu set her cup down and touched foreheads with Marisa.
"You do?" Marisa poked Reimu's forehead pushing it back away from hers.
"Yep, every time I defeated a demon they would always say "Makai will rule!"
"Makai?" Mima and Reimu said shocked.
(Oh Shinki...what did you do...I forgot to check on her for two years, shit...) Mima got worried now that she started to remember Shinki, her true friend she kind of abandoned. Reimu ran along the path to the Makai gate.
"Marisa, you're with me! Mima, I already called an old enemy to go with you!" Marisa chased after Reimu into the portal. Mima waited until her partner finally came.
"Ah, who would have thought it would be you. ~"
~Makai~
"Hm, Makai is way enormous, the last time I saw it Makai was just a straight path."
"I don't think I been here at all, ze." Marisa couldn't remember that she visited Makai two years ago, the world did seem familiar to her, the new gatekeeper stopped them from going in.
"Halt intruders!" The new gatekeeper shouted in a loud voice.
"Sheesh, yell it louder why dontcha, I believe they couldn't hear ya in the Forest of Magic."
"State your business here!"
"Is there some sort of leader here?"
"Ah, you mean Mother Shinki, indeed she is the leader of Makai, do you have an appointment with her?"
"Nah, we just came to kick her ass and bring this place down, ze."
"As duty as a gatekeeper I won't let that happen!" Sara came running towards them but all Reimu did was throw a barrage of Hakurei orbs at her against the wall which quickly knocked the weak gatekeeper out.
"..." Marisa couldn't believe how weak Sara was.
"Well, that was easy, moving on." Reimu led the way as they seen floating islands everywhere, there were no walk ways, the only way to get around was to fly which Reimu couldn't do, she forgot to take Genjii along so she hopped on Marisa's broom.
"Let's try that village in the center, Marisa." Marisa headed for the village as they bumped into a girl who had a suitcase, it seemed like she was trying to escape from Makai.
"Watch where you're going, da ze!"
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I-"
"I say we kick her ass, Reimu!"
"But I was trying to-"
"Aaaah!" Marisa was about to fire her lasers when Reimu told her to stop.
"Hold it, Marisa!"
"Phew...thank you."
"Lemme at her, Reimu!"
"Wait, Miss, who are you?"
"I am Luize."
"And what are you doing, are you a demon?"
"I am trying to escape this horrible place, and yes I am a demon."
"She's a demon! Kill her, Marisa!"
"Sweeeeeeet!" Marisa dashed towards the girl with flying lasers and orbs shooting at her, the girl reflected some away with her suitcase but she couldn't keep up with the speed of the witch, Luize was feeling the stings of the lasers, all she was doing was deflecting the orbs back at them but Reimu countered that with shields and barriers, sometimes she even threw a Hakurei orb to cancel Marisa's orb and hit Luize at the same time, by now the girl was all worn out and rested on a floating piece of platform.
"I surrender...!" Marisa didn't listen and bombarded her with exploding mushrooms causing the platform to crumble and fall into endless darkness along with Luize. They kept going until they saw another girl come right after a few minutes later.
"Stop right there!"
"Another victim, leave before we kick your ass, ze."
"You said a bad word; Mommy Shinki doesn't like bad words."
"I don't give a damn!"
"Mommy told me to stop you so I will!"
"Who are you?" Reimu asked for no reason.
"I am Alice!" Right away she started throwing white danmaku.
"I got this one, Reimu." Marisa just used her Blazing Comet spell and rushed past the weak danmaku and rammed Alice into a house, she started crying and flew away.
"Hahahaha, that was too funny!" Marisa laughed.
"Stupid girl..."
"And good riddance!" Reimu saw a huge fortress past the Frozen Fields and told Marisa to head in that direction, the witch turned her broom to go in the way her friend was pointing and went on. They both saw two small girls playing and flying around the icy land, one looked like Marisa a bit which made her want to talk to them, Reimu didn't want to because it would end up in another fight and she didn't like fights unless she was forced to, or so she thought.
"Let's go talk to them that could be my long lost sister or something, ze!"
"Like you would have a sister, keep it moving!"
"Hey you girrrrrrrrls!" Marisa's loud and proud voice caught their attention as they took their time to come over.
"Now look what you done, the next time we go on an adventure you let me handle the talking..."
"Did you call us?" The blonde witch in black asked, there was a blue-haired witch in white behind her who seemed shy and silent.
"You know it!"
"Who are you?"
"Marisa Kirisame!"
"Reimu."
"I'm Yuki, and this is Mai, she doesn't talk much." Mai nodded.
"Any reason you guys here?"
"We came here to bring this place down and kick your leader's ass!"
"You mean Mother Shinki?"
"Why is everyone calling her Mother Shinki?" Reimu said annoyed.
"She must be the goddess here, ze."
"We ain't gonna let nothing happened to her, we'll stop you, let's go Mai!" Yuki aimed fire at the ice on the ground and caused steam to blind the heroines, Mai, with incredible speed knocked Reimu off the broom as the shrine maiden was sliding across the ice on her back. Marisa backed away and fired some stars in the steam to create some spots so she could see, also summoning her orbs that circled around herself for defense, they were shooting lasers randomly since they had no target to aim at. Mai used her wings to blow away the steam while Yuki started a flame on Marisa's broom; she had no choice but to abandon it as it got scorched into flames.
"No way!" The witch twins thought that Marisa was useless without her broom so they went straight for Reimu and kept picking her up together and slamming her into the ice. Marisa tried to run over but she would always slip and fall, she tried to think of something to do, every second Reimu was either getting slammed on the ice, frozen by Mai and then burnt by Yuki, she didn't even have enough time to do an attack.
"Let's try a team attack, Mai" She nodded as they both grabbed Reimu's arms, they went high in the air enough so Marisa wouldn't shoot a laser within range of them, they came down with the shrine maiden and started to spin faster and faster, just before they hit the ice, they let go of Reimu and backed away so she shot through the icy ground and got stuck in it, the ice was really thick and it took great power to be able to do that, Reimu didn't have strength to do anything, she was bleeding everywhere with some broken bones. Marisa tried shooting lasers at them but they would perfect miss them, Mai had great evading skills while Yuki had more power skills.
"Reimu, answer me!"
"..." She had no energy to move her mouth or even go EX-Mode.
"Hey, shut her up Mai." Mai dashed behind Marisa and pinned her on her stomach against the freezing ice; Yuki melted the orbs that were protecting Marisa.
"...You will both freeze to death here..."
(...Damn it, I can't do anything, I don't even have my broom, it's freezing...my body is going numb...need help...Mima...Sama...someone...)
Need my help again?
"Who's help...?"
My help of course.
"Why do you always help me? Reimu needs help more than me..."
But you are the one I need, Marisa, you are stronger than her.
"Really...?"
Has she ever helped you during a battle?
"Well..."
She let you fight Orange and Kurumi by yourself; she did nothing to help you fight Elly or Yuuka.
"I had no chance against Elly with your power, darkness can't win against darkness!"
I suppose you are right on that, I'm sure you know by now that my power is not your EX-Mode.
"I figured, Reimu said I acted like a villain myself..."
I'm only here to help you, now let me in.
"Promise me that you'll save Reimu!"
Why do you care so much for that weak girl?
"She's my friend!"
She is lazy and cannot even fight for herself.
"Lies!"
You know it. I mean yes, she defeated Meira, Rika suicide and would have died if that turtle wasn't there, Mima came to her senses. Ever since you became her 'friend' she has been using you to fight for her battles, think of it. She didn't do a thing against Yumemi and Chiyuri, you took them both out, Orange, Kurumi, somewhat Elly, Yuuka, Sara does not count, and I will admit that she did her share with Luize but you did most of the work and finished her off. Now look at her, getting toyed with by two, small, weak witches! She is using you as a pawn for her battles; she is not your friend!
"She is, I'll prove it by saving her...if you help me..."
We'll see, I'm taking over!
A/N: If Mai dies
Marisa felt lifeless for a second before all the darkness rushed into her heart, making her feel nothing from the cold of the ice field, the two wings that grew out were now sharp on the edges as they spiked up together and stabbed through Mai's body in the middle, she floated to her feet as her wings spread causing to literally rip Mai apart, Yuki screamed in fear and rage seeing her sister die in that horrible way.
"M...M...!" The sad fire witch went to the ground and looked down crying.
"She was on my wings, yo." It was no longer Marisa talking when whatever it was that took her over.
"YOU DONE IT NOW! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" Yuki looked at the evil Marisa with her eyes that were now scorching with fire, Marisa's empty sockets still shook Yuki a bit down her spine, she grew two wings made of lava that were dripping on the ice causing steam to come up, soon enough after that Yuki was made of fire herself, she had to get up in the air so she wouldn't melt through the ice.
"I'm already dead!" Marisa smiled as her clothes turned to pure black, she shot dark lasers at Yuki but they would just go past her since she was made of pure itself, she thought it would be just like putting out a regular fire but she didn't know any water spells, Marisa looked at the ice beneath her and had an idea.
"I bet you got shitty game." Evil Marisa taunted.
"THEN TAKE THIS!" Yuki kept shoot balls of fire and kept missing as the ice would melt into water, Marisa kept going to the ice patches that were left so it would turn into a pool, the Marisa inside wondered how the water was still there when there was no crater to hold it in, then again the island was made of ice and nothing was holding that, as the ice melted Reimu and the two halves of Mai were just floating on the water island. Marisa got her rod and went behind Yuki summoning a magical chain of darkness as she dashed towards the mass of water, Yuki tried to melt the chain but nothing could win against darkness except light...sometimes. Yuki knew she was done for and all she could do was think her last thoughts
Mai...I wasn't strong enough...I'm coming for you...
Marisa dived into the water as Yuki vanished into steam, she took Reimu and went in front of the fortress and went back to normal, for some reason the thing that took over Marisa would restore her to full health and her broom before it was done using her body, it also restored Reimu's broken bones due to Marisa's request, but not her health or energy.
A/N: If Yuki dies first
Marisa felt lifeless for a second before all the darkness rushed into her heart, making her feel nothing from the cold of the ice field, her wings forced Mai to fly on the other side of Marisa, Evil Marisa took the chance and instantly aimed for Mai as she shot a dark laser from her rod.
"Mai!" Yuki rushed to her sister and rammed her out of the way as the laser shot right through her heart, Mai's expression on her face still didn't change.
"..." Yuki turned to Mai with a smile.
"...Mai...run...away..." Yuki fell into the endless darkness of Makai.
"About time she died...now I can fight without worrying about the death weight holding me back..."
"Heh, you're the weak one out of your sis." Marisa was no longer controlling her talking or actions.
"We'll see..." Mai's cute, little, fluffy, white wings fell of her back as huge, white, demon wings grew out of her back, Mai's eyes were now frozen as her body turned to ice itself. Evil Marisa could just blast her to bits now but she saw the Magma Fields and though it would be fun so she flew over there, Mai gave chase quickly. This wasn't even going to be neither a challenge nor a fight, Evil Marisa already had this planned out somehow.
"You won't get anywhere with that speed." Along the way she had to avoid the bursts of lava that came out from the magma, Evil Marisa was just going through them like a ghost since she claimed she was already dead, Mai wasn't getting touched with her great evasion skills.
"If you think any of this lava is going to hit me think again...I have the best evading skills in Makai..."
"It won't matter; I know what I'm doing." It has now been a couple minutes as Mai was getting slower but she didn't noticed, thinking that Marisa was only getting faster, she seen that Marisa had suddenly stopped and pretend to be off guard not knowing where Mai was, the ice demon came from behind and stabbed Marisa with a shard of ice from her hand as the illusion vanished, Mai noticed she was above the lava hole.
"...Fuck me..." Lava came up and melted Mai to water then evaporated to steam, this whole time the real Marisa never left the Frozen Fields, she trapped Mai in an illusion to trick her going into the Magma Fields. So Mai was actually chasing after nothing. Marisa took Reimu and went in front of the fortress and went back to normal, for some reason the thing that took over Marisa would restore her to full health and her broom before it was done using her body, it also restored Reimu's broken bones due to Marisa's request, but not her health or energy.
"Thanks...Marisa."
"Don't mention it, ze."
"I don't think you should be using that evil form of yours."
"Let's go inside this big thing." Marisa ignored the advice and barged inside, Reimu followed.
"Whoa."
"Sweet, this is like some huge place to crash and party!" They went up towards the long flight of stairs; they turned the corner and found more stairs, and more stairs, and more, and more...and more... Shinki's fortress was insanely huge that it required this much stairs, she had no elevator.
"Yo, why don't we just fly?"
"You can't fly inside; it's too small in the stairwell."
"It'll take forever to reach the top floor, ze."
"Hm...Let's keep going up until we think of something." They kept going up the stairs for about 30 more minutes until Marisa realized something.
"Hold it!" Reimu almost fell down the stairs due to Marisa's outburst.
"What's with you, don't surprise me like that!"
"We have been going up the same stairs for hours!"
"It's been an hour total, how can you be so sure?"
"That doesn't matter; we are under some sort of spell trap to make us think these are really long stairs when they are not."
"Very clever of this Shinki."
"How are we gonna get outta here?"
"Don't ask me!"
"Hm... Maybe I could just blast a hole in the wall."
"No, no, something more quiet so we have a surprise attack."
"Shinki probably already knows we're here, ze." While the two were arguing, a maid came down the steps.
"Welcome, how may I service you?"
"Get us out of these never-ending stairs!"
"These stairs do end on the next level."
"Uh, what...?" Reimu gave an angry look at Marisa for believing her.
"The door is above us, follow me." Marisa gave a don't-look-at-me-look as they followed the maid with the swords on her legs.
"I guess these were just really long stairs."
"This is a very huge building..."
"Here we are." The maid lead them into a room that was just a glass path in a dark room, the path was really skinny.
"Woah, woah, woah! You can't expect us to walk that tiny path, this room is all black, what if we fall?"
"I never said you had to walk..." The maid was suddenly on the other side of the path at the other end of the door.
"Duh, Reimu." Marisa got on her broom and flew across the darkness with ease leaving Reimu behind.
"If only I had Gramps here..."
"Come on, Reimu!"
"Then get me over, I'm not walking!" Marisa laughed and came over for her friend then back to the maid, they went through another door into a room that was all red, the maid stood in the middle of the room facing the heroines.
"Beyond the door behind me is Mistress Shinki, you must defeat me to get past."
"I figured ze."
"Shall we at least know the victim's name?"
"Yumeko, the Maid of Swords..." Marisa threw around lasers and star danmaku as she took flight, Reimu aimed her homing Hakurei orbs at her enemy, Yumeko easily sliced them in half with her swords in both hands, she herself chucked some swords at the heroines, mostly at Reimu, who didn't expect the maid to throw swords, the shrine maiden barely evaded the blades.
"Hey, you can't just throw swords like they are some sort of ninja star!"
(Hm...Yumeko, she does look familiar, this Shinki sounds familiar, too.) Marisa kept wondering these things as she shot her lasers, Reimu admitted she been here once but it wasn't that big last time, Marisa did feel like she has been to some parts of here, she would still have to find Shinki to ask some questions.
"Sword Sign: Wall of Swords..." Yumeko summoned hundreds of swords out on her side of the room, the sharps end aimed at the other side; it was like a wall of swords that had no openings to sneak through by. "Let's see if you can dodge this..." The swords shot towards them all at different speeds so it would be more confusing for which swords were going faster or slower than others, Marisa took her charge head-on for the wall of swords with the help of her orbs and lasers to shoot the blades out of her way, the orbs also would take hits for her. Reimu just had to follow Marisa and keep summoning orbs to home in on the swords out of her way and block them with her gohei, both of them barely got past the wall with some little cuts of them, Reimu had bigger ones.
"Sword Sign: Dance of Swords..." Yumeko took out one sword for each hand and started spinning towards Reimu at a fast rate, Marisa shot lasers but the dance would just reflect them back, Reimu had to keep avoiding left and right to evade the sword dance.
"Let's try this." Marisa flew directly above of the dancing maid and shot a huge blue laser straight down as Yumeko couldn't reflect it since it didn't hit her swords but her instead, she stopped her dance and shook the stinging pain off from the laser.
"I had enough of playing around, I must elimi- ugh!" The next thing Yumeko knew she was bashed into the wall by Marisa's Blazing Comet spell.
"Now, Reimu!"
"Holy Sign: Hakurei Heaven Light!" Reimu had three talismans, one in each hand and in her mouth, they all shot off a beam of light to create a huge one as it hit directly at Yumeko, Marisa shot some extra big lasers adding power to Reimu's light. Yumeko knew this was it; she couldn't go into EX-Mode because of the holy properties of the Hakurei light hitting on her which cancelled out her powers. After the attack was done Yumeko slide down the wall onto the floor, leaving blood that had her shape on the wall. The last thing she saw was Marisa Kirisame since she didn't want to look at the shrine maiden, the maid signaled the magician to come over.
"I'm...glad you're back, Marisa..." Before Marisa could say anything Yumeko stopped breathing, the witch took her hat off in respect as Reimu went on not caring at all.
"I thought so, that's proof I been here before...I wonder what Reimu would think if she knew I came here for fun..." Marisa went on after Reimu into the next room that was purple with a throne in the middle of it, the room was dark but the light from the window behind the throne shone in, there was a woman in the throne that faced the window instead of the door behind her.
"I'm glad you're back, Yumeko, need some sweet tea please."
"I'm not getting you shit!" The woman turned around at the harsh word and got up.
"Who are you?"
"I've come to stop your evil plans over taking over Gensokyo!"
"Oh, you're that little shrine maiden I saw a couple years ago and who do we have here?" The goddess looked over at the small witch and was a bit shocked.
"Yo, yo."
"Marisa...? That is you, correct?"
"How did ya know my name?" The woman got down to her knees and opened her arms.
"Come give Aunt Shinki a hug." Marisa heard this exact same sentence before a few years ago back when she came with Mima, she reacted without thinking and rushed into Shinki's arms holding her tight.
"What the hell is going on here?" Reimu was so confused at this moment.
"Aunty has missed you so much, Marisa."
"Aunt...Shinki."
"You grown so much since you left."
"Hey, hey, hey, Marisa what is the meaning of this?"
"Marisa came to visit Makai long ago with Mima; we always had such good times, thank you for bringing her back to me."
"I didn't come for that, we came here to defeat you!" Shinki's face got serious.
"Marisa...is that true, you came to defeat your own aunt? You know Makai thinks of you are part of the family, I even made some new cousins for you."
"New ones, you mean Elis, Sariel, and Yuu?"
"No, I mean: Sara, Luize, Alice, Yuki and Mai, and of course, Yumeko. Surely, you should have seen them along the way here."
"Well...we did but-"
"I killed them all!" Reimu took the blame for Marisa, Shinki's face grew darker.
"What...?"
"I just sent Alice crying, Sara is probably conscious by now." Shinki lunged at Reimu and held her against the wall by her neck, crushing it.
"Ngn..." Shinki's force was surprisingly strong as Reimu gasped for air.
"Shinki, stop it!" Marisa screamed as Shinki dropped Reimu to the floor, the goddess walked over to the witch.
"So are you officially betraying me, Marisa?"
"I don't wanna fight you, just stop taking over Gensokyo."
"Never, Mima wouldn't stop me; she forgot to visit me for the last two years!"
"Then...I guess I gotta try and stop you, ze."
"It pains me to fight you, but if it has to be this way...so be it..." Shinki sprouted six purple wings with red markings on them from her back as she changed the battle field; it was now just a large glass platform in the middle nothingness. This reminded Reimu of the time when she fought Konngara at Silent Shrine. Shinki spread bullets everywhere as Marisa got on her broom and Reimu started throwing Hakurei orbs, her orbs cancelled out most of Shinki's weaker bullets, Marisa helped out with some of her lasers as she put her orbs around herself. Shinki's wings would mostly block the weak attacks, some strong attacks but she would feel a bit of a sting. Reimu remembered her talismans and shot beams of light that would really harm Shinki, the demon goddess remembered that day when Misaki shot her down when she saved Byakuren, this triggered some sort of rage inside her.
"I haven't felt the pain from the Hakurei talisman in 1000 years, brings back bad memories..." Shinki walked toward Reimu taking hits from the light as she kept deflecting Marisa's lasers.
"How come you aren't stopping, go down already!" Reimu kept shooting beams of light but the goddess wouldn't slow down, Marisa was thinking if she should use her new spellcard but she wondered about the bad effects.
"Whatever, sometimes ya gotta roll the dice." Marisa went on the end of the platform that was deserted and grabbed an item from under her hat, it was a small item called the Mini-Hakkero, the witch took a stance and focused.
"Spellcard! Love Sign..." The Hakkero started to charge up and glow like a star... "MASTER...!" A freakishly, rainbow-colored, beam came out of the Hakkero as it covered the entire field, not even Reimu could dodge it, all Marisa could hear was the laser and a screeching yell from Shinki as the laser finally died off all she saw was Shinki on the ground as Reimu inside a glowing barrier, the witch ran over to her friend as they were back in the Throne Room.
"You're alive!"
"Whatever..."
"How?"
"I wasted EX-Mode, like you care, go check on your aunt." Marisa was about to go over to Shinki but she stood up.
"I...will not be DEFEATED!" Her wings started to turn red with purple markings, the building started to shake, Marisa shattered the window with her lasers as they both got on the broom and stormed out.
"Sorry...Aunt Shinki." Marisa headed for the gateway.
"No...No!" Shinki was about to give chase until Alice walked in the room confused about why the fortress was shaking.
"Mommy, what's going on?"
"Alice..." A part of the floor fell to a lower level as it made more holes with the rubble piling on top of each other with each level it went down, the bottom floor support bars snapped causing the building to collapse. It was slowly coming down to the ground as parts of the ceiling were falling around Alice as it blocked off the doorway.
"Mommy!"
"Alice!" Shinki's used the last of her strength to bash through the rocks with her wings as she held Alice and used her wings to covered her little girl, every level fell on top of another level, but they were all going to the same place, the ground. Shinki wrapped up Alice like a cocoon in her wings and hardened them as the roof fell on them, they kept plowing each level below them until they finally got to the ground, they were now under probably about five to ten feet of fallen rocks, Shinki couldn't move at all, she was at her last breath. "Grr...HA!" She felt a fire of anger inside of her that she blasted all the rocks around her away and rolled on her back as her wings released Alice.
"You did it, Mommy! We are ali-" Alice took a good look at Shinki, who had closed eyes and a smile on her face, her wings were all beat up and scrapped from the rocks, one of them fell out of her back that had a chunk of her body attached to the end of it where it was suppose to go into her back.
"Mommy..." Little Alice rested her head on her mother's chest and didn't feel her heart beat anymore, she cried as the other three remaining daughters gathered around. Elis, Sariel, and YuugenMagan, they seen Reimu and Marisa go through the portal at the last second.
"Marisa...how could you..." Elis growled.
"What do we do now, half of the family is gone and our mother." Yuu asked.
"There is nothing we can do..." Sariel picked up Shinki with her broken and took her back to the Fallen Shrine, Yuu went back to her Void, Elis stood at the portal with Alice.
"Go..." Elis said.
"Huh?"
"You are human, you don't belong here, you aren't even Shinki's creation, and you just lost your memory, that's what happened when you come in Makai or leave it, that is why Marisa barely remembered us. I am going to throw you into the portal so you can live a better life. Elis grabbed Alice and threw her in with a grimoire. "Good-Bye, Alice..." Elis flew back to her ruins.
~Hakurei Shrine, Gensokyo~
Back at home on the porch everyone was drinking tea while looking at the sunset, Reimu was quiet the whole time while everyone else had their conversations, when sometimes tried to talk to her she would just say "I'm thinking." After Shingyoku and Genjii went inside, Yuuka went back to Dream World; Mima was waiting for Marisa at the forest path.
"Marisa..."
"Yo, Reimu?"
"Don't ever show yourself around here or me again."
"What?"
"I know you were my enemy and worked for Mima but that was different, to think you actually went to Makai before me and played with them!"
"That was so long ago, why are you making such a big deal out of it?"
"Because I will not work with an enemy of Makai."
"What about Mima-Sama, she visited Makai with me!"
"She's still evil, but I thought you were different, now get, you witch!" Marisa always took the word witch as an insult.
"...I betrayed Shinki for you, how can you say that."
"Next time I see you, I won't hesitate to exterminate you, witch."
"Fine! You always used me for a pawn anyway!" Reimu went inside her shrine and slammed the door, Marisa ran away passed Mima and went home, Mima flew after her.
"Hey now, what's with the tears?"
"I'm not even crying.."
"You want to, right?"
"You always said not to show it..."
"I'm glad that you listen, but what happened?"
"Reimu just cut me off because I went to Makai before..."
"Let her, you don't need her, right?"
"Do I...?"
Of course you don't, she used you remember?
"Yeah!"
All you need is Mima and I
Marisa knew the voice inside her was right and went home with Mima.
A/N: I feel bad for Shinki honestly, she didn't deserve that or the others, but atleast Sara, Alice, and the Touhou 1 girls are still alive. Enjoy the Yuuka and Mima Arc, prepare yourself for extreme gore...