AN: I do not own Touhou Project, it belongs to Team Shanghai Alice, aka ZUN.
Welcome to the final part of Nox Aeterna Kaguya vs Mokou and Eirin vs Marisa, Alice, Rumia, Wriggle, Daiyousei, Patchouli, Meiling and Nitori, in essence this chapter is two battles and a short aftermath, and the next two chapters I've decided will be original concepts, that being a slice of life chapter and something I think many people might either find hilarious or stupid.
Without Further Ado!
Let! The! Gates! OPEN!
Nox Aeterna
(Imperishable Night)
(Part 4)
(Stage Start!)
BGM: Mystical Chain ~ Kaguya's and Mokou's Battle Theme
Mokou and Kaguya stood across from each other in the field, large explosions going off in the compound that neither paid any attention to, Vaati looking over his shoulder just in case someone or something came flying his way as Cirno sat on the back porch, waiting for the battle to begin.
As the wind kicked up, Mokou's and Kaguya's hair flowing in the wind, Kaguya's pitch black hair waving along with Mokou's pure white, Vaati own bleach white hair waving slightly in the wind from it's length.
Without warning or a signal Kaguya and Mokou shot at each other, the two clashing in midair as a resounding clang rang out, Mokou and Kaguya engaged in a blade lock in a near instant, Kaguya having drawn a short sword from her sleeves as Mokou formed her sword made of fire, both struggling against each other's power, Mokou slightly overpowering Kaguya in the strength department.
Without warning the two dispatched, Mokou doing a backwards flip as she threw several fireballs at Kaguya as she landed in her former position, laying her sword made of fire on her shoulder, the flames licking at her shirt but not burning it.
Kaguya herself raised a barrier against Mokou's fireballs, the barrier absorbing the fireballs and sending them back as sparks of rainbow light, Mokou casually deflecting the orbs, intentional making one fly by Vaati's head, who panicked and ducked as Cirno raised her hand in protest, about to start shouting at the two other immortals who could tear her apart in an instant if they wished.
Cirno's protests were ignored as Mokou took to the sky, dispelling her sword as she flew high, gathering power as Kaguya threw several orbs of light at Mokou, who didn't bother to dodge a few as some hit and some flew past, kicking downwards covered in fire, a small eruption of fire exploding where she landed, Kaguya just barely getting out of the way as flecks of flame and pieces of dirt hit her, thankfully not igniting her clothing as dirt marred it.
Kaguya herself raised a barrier of light as Mokou took to the air once more, firing down a rain of fireballs rapid fire, Kaguya's barrier using the fireballs as a shield, the fire spinning on the outside of the shield before being thrown back at Mokou, who dodged out of the way before reforming her fire sword, flying at Kaguya as she redrew her short sword, the metal and fire clashing in a brilliant display as sparks of flame flew off from the clash, pillars of fire and light erupting around Kaguya and Mokou.
Disengaging again Mokou and Kaguya flew even higher, their silhouettes visible against the fake moon, which was slowly lowering from the sky as Eirin's magic was no longer keeping it aloft, daylight slowly flickering into being once more. A brilliant display of fire and light clashing against the white of the moon as Vaati and Cirno watched on.
In the air Kaguya and Mokou came to a stop neither even tired from their intense fighting. Kaguya didn't waste more then a second as she fired off a tsunami of light, rainbow homing shots mixed in as Mokou flew over the tide of light, dodging the homing shots making them collide in midair as explosions filled the sky.
Mokou didn't let up as she kicked at Kaguya, covered in flame as Kaguya dodged deftly to the side, Mokou diverting her kick and changing her momentum to a swing, slamming her fist into her Kaguya's side, covered in flame igniting Kaguya's clothing.
Kaguya just brushed it off, the flames dissipating as she threw her short sword at Mokou, slightly surprising her as the sword landed in Mokou's chest, Mokou looking down at the sword sticking into her chest and casually pulling it out, letting it drop to the ground hundreds of feet below.
Once again the two shot off, becoming a blur in the night, to fast for anyone to track, expect during the moments of which they collided, several of which within the battlefield used by Eirin and the other allies of Mokou, at one time just between Marisa and Eirin as they were about to fire at each other, both pausing for a moment before Mokou and Kaguya disappeared again, several explosions going off in front of Vaati and Cirno as Mokou and Kaguya came to a halt, their fists in each other's faces.
Both broke off again, sizing up each other as both were breathing hard from their high speed duel. Mokou's clothing was torn and tattered as bruises from Kaguya marred her skin, blood seeping out of several wounds. Kaguya wasn't faring much better, her dress also torn and tattered as she was breathing heavily, several burn marks marring her skin as well.
The two started circling around each other, Mokou and Kaguya engaged in a silent duel before Mokou fired off a large shot, shaped like a firebird, Kaguya dodging and unleashing an array of colorful lights in response. For the next five minutes the two continued their pattern of firing and dodging before speeding up, flying faster and faster as more and more fire and lights filed the night air, Vaati and Cirno having taken cover behind a turned over table to avoid being blown up from the intensity of the duel.
Before long the two stopped, charging up power as Mokou let off wings of fire from her back, five artifacts floating around Kaguya as she had her arms held out. Both opening their eyes at once and unleashing their power, a beam of light and a beam of fire hitting each other, sparks of fire and light hitting the ground and igniting flames as both girls struggled for dominance in their beam-o-war, before long both giving up and then speeding at each other, Mokou's fiery fist colliding with Kaguya's face as a sword impaled itself into Mokou's heart, both girls exploding into a fiery explosion of light as Cirno and Vaati watched on in awe and terror, awe in Cirno's case, terror in Vaati's.
Both girls reformed and lay in the dirt opposite of each other, breathing heavily as Cirno and Vaati slowly got out from behind their cover, Vaati floating out as Cirno flew over it. "I think you two had a draw." Vaati snarked, Mokou lifting her hand and giving a rather rude gesture as Kaguya laughed a bit. "I clearly won." Mokou said, slowly getting up as did Kaguya. "Of course you did." Kaguya snarked back, holding up the charred sword that had a good deal of blood on the end from it impaling Mokou.
"She has evidence." Vaati said, pointing at the sword as Mokou mumbled under her breath. "Traitor." Cirno, Kaguya and Vaati laughing at Mokou's expense as she lay back down in the dirt, but not before firing off a fireball at Kaguya, causing her to explode again. "Now I win."
"Of course you did." Kaguya said playfully as she reformed, once again joining in the laughter as the small group of immortals started to watch the sun rise, unaware of the many, many explosions still going off in Eientei behind them.
BGM: 彩音 ～xi-on- 千年幻想郷 ～ History of the Moon
Eirin stood surrounded by the group, an arrow nocked in her bow as everyone had their own way of trying to deal with her. They seemed to know she had been the cause of the eternal night, so they weren't taking chances. Rumia had covered herself in darkness, and against the black of night was near impossible to see, Wriggle was still holding the two squeaky hammers from before, ready to try and be a hero as Daiyousei hid behind her, cowering in fear.
Marisa stood at the ready, her Hakkero primed and ready as Alice stood with her army of dolls, five of them and Shanghai all ready to charge at Eirin. Patchouli stood behind Meiling, more out of necessity then fear, for what reason she didn't know as Nitori pulled her hose out from her bag, ready to start spraying water.
Eirin jumped high, aiming fast as she fired, arrows flying true as a blunt one hit Wriggle in the head, knocking her over the cowering Daiyousei as Eirin dodged in midair the multitude of shots that started coming her way.
The instant she landed back on the ground Meiling was one her, Eirin being forced on the defensive as Meiling swung and kicked, Eirin having stuck her bow over her shoulder and using her arms to block Meiling's swings and kicks, Marisa and Alice circling behind her.
Marisa fired off several magic missiles that Eirin barely ducked under, Meiling using the duck to knee Eirin in the face, Eirin holding her nose as she stumbled backwards, but she didn't have time to rest as several sword wielding dolls flew at her, swinging in tandem.
In one swift motion Eirin had pulled her bow off her shoulder and nocked five arrows, aiming for just a second before letting them fire, hitting each doll square in the head with an arrow, Shanghai the only one remaining that Eirin kicked out of the air, slamming the sentient doll into the ground.
Marisa herself had taken to the air as Patchouli started firing off spells, pillars of fire and explosive bottles landing near Eirin, who dodged left right and center, trying to avoid the plumes of fire and explosive bottled spells. But once again Meiling was on her, delivering a kick to Eirin stomach that pushed her back into Nitori, who fired a high pressure spray of water from her nose, Eirin now wet as she jumped out of the way, her back stinging slightly from the high pressure water. Eirin looked around herm her back against a wall as she nocked an array of arrows onto her bow, ready to fire.
A loud band resounded out, a speeding danmaku shot hitting the ground just where Alice used to be standing, a large explosion going off as the girls turned towards the roof. Reisen was on the roof, holding a high-caliber rifle, armed with explosive danmaku shots, already aiming again as the girls scattered for cover.
Eirin took advantage of her sniper support, firing off her arrows and hitting Patchouli in the back, the slow magician falling over, paralyzed by the special medicine on the arrow's tip, designed to knock a target out cold. Eirin taking aim at Nitori, firing as a doll floated in front of the kappa girl, taking the hit as Alice controlled the doll to pull the arrow out, speeding at Eirin as a bang resounded, the doll falling to the ground as an explosion rocked the dirt behind it, Reisen's bullet having gone straight through it.
Meiling ran at Eirin, engaging the doctor in close quarters combat, Eirin dodging her strikes as she grabbed an arrow out of her quiver, stabbing Meiling with it and causing her to fall over, knocked out from the fast acting medicine. Leaving Alice, Marisa, and Nitori standing alone as Rumia was nowhere to be found.
"This sucks." Alice deadpanned as she stood next to Marisa from behind the wall there where using for cover, Reisen aiming at the wall from her spot on the roof, just waiting for one of them to pop out, Nitori cowering next to Alice, having run over from her position while Eirin slowly made her way over towards them, arrow in the bow as she prepared to fire with help from Reisen.
"Nitori? Give your bag." Marisa stated, grabbing Nitori's bag and rustling through it, pulling out the hose again. Aiming it at the corner she waited for Eirin to appear. Eirin turned the corner with her bow at the ready… received an instant face full of high pressure water, pushing her back as the water ruined her bow string, Reisen running across the roof once she saw the water spray and about to fire at Marisa.
Only for something to hit her in the back, knocking her off balance as her shot went wide, forcing her to look around for her attacker, only to get rammed again, and again, dropping her rifle as she went for her holster, grabbing at air as she forgot Alice had deprived her of her pistol. For a split second she saw total darkness before being flung off the roof, hitting the ground knocked out as Rumia floated above the roof, proud of herself.
Eirin had quickly run inside, explosions happening outside of Eientei from Mokou and Kaguya's duel. Replacing her bowstring she ran back outside, Marisa standing at the ready with her Mini-Hakkero as Eirin nocked and arrow, both of them about to fire as Kaguya and Mokou appeared in front of them, clashing with their fists for a moment and causing both Marisa and Eirin to stop their attack before the two disappeared Marisa bring up her Hakkero as Eirin fired her arrow, hitting Marias just as she fired, causing her to fall to the ground from the medicine on the arrow as the master spark when wide, leaving Alice, Rumia and Nitori the last three standing as the sun peaked over the horizon.
Rumia had disappeared again as Alice controlled her dolls from behind cover, Eirin casually shooting them down with ease as Nitori rattled through her backpack, looking for anything that could be of use. "Tell me you've got something; I'm running out of dolls." Alice asked, sending out the last of her supply, dolls armed with shields, and sending them out after Eirin.
Nitori just kept rumbling through her backpack as Eirin jumped and flipped over the shield dolls hitting them in the back with a barrage of arrows before landing. Now flanking Alice and Nitori she took aim at Nitori, intending to hit the kappa girl as she fired.
Rumia charged at Eirin, hitting her but not fast enough to do anything other then knock her back a little bit after she had fired her arrow, the shot flying true and about to hit Nitori. But Alice made a snap decision and took the shot, falling paralyzed to the ground as Nitori pulled out a small metal device out of her bag, flipping the switch on it and causing it to emit a green blade of light.
Eirin had hit Rumia over the head with an arrow, knocking the youkai girl out cold as Nitori charged at her, carelessly swinging her saber at Eirin, but that one swing was enough as it cut Eirin's bow in half as she tried to bring it up to block. Nitori stood there as the sun started rising, laughter coming from outside the compound as Eirin grabbed an arrow from her quiver, Nitori holding her blade in front of her.
The kappa ran at Eirin, the doctor dodging swiftly as she tried to stab Nitori in the arm, eyes going wide as she hit metal instead of skin. "A Kappa's arm are our inventions." Nitori boasted proudly, kicking Eirin before quickly pulling her backpack out from behind her, grabbing a small ball from it and tossing it.
Eirin dodged the ball as it exploded, Nitori grabbing more of them and throwing them at Eirin, just trying to hit the doctor at this point with the self-made explosives. By this point the medicine in the first hit person had started to wear off, Patchouli groaning as she got up, the blunt arrow falling off of her, the stain of the medicine on her dress as she got up, seeing Nitori throwing balls that exploded at Eirin, and the sunlight rising over the top of the houses. "Looks like time is up, and now we just have to finish it." Patchouli deadpanned, pulling her spell book up to her face, and firing off a blue laser at Eirin, who grunted and dodged the laser, only to be hit by one of Nitori's explosives, being flung into the wall of Eientei, cracking the wall.
BGM: IN Ending Theme – Even Primrose
Patchouli floated up next to Nitori, who stuck her backpack back on her back. "You lose, we've stopped your eternal night, but now I ask. Why?" Patchouli asked, curious as to what reason Eirin must have had to cause this incident. Eirin groaned as she pulled herself out of the wall, seeing the magic gathering in Patchouli's hand as Nitori held another explosive ball, still shaking. "I can't tell you that." Eirin said simply, refusing the say anything.
As the sun broke over the top of houses the door to the house Mokou, Vaati, and Cirno had gone into opened, the trio walking out with Kaguya, who was now back in her new 'casual' clothing. Kaguya took one look at the current state of Eientei, something none of the trio batted an eye at she gapped. "What the heck happened in here!" Kaguya shouted, Eirin getting up and running past Patchouli and Nitori to Kaguya.
"Kaguya it's not safe go back inside now!" Eirin shouted in panic, trying to get Kaguya to go back inside, in complete contrast to what had just happened a few minutes ago. "Eirin I'm fine you don't need to go nuts, the sun has risen see." Kaguya said, pointing out the obvious. "I'm sorry but excuse me If I'm confused, what does that have to do with anything?" Vaati asked still completely unaware of the 'Imperishable Night.'
"Eirin had caused the night to go on by making a fake moon to keep any delegates away so that they wouldn't find me or Resien." Kaguya said, simply spilling out the plan Eirin had made to keep her and Resien safe from the people of the moon. "I'm sorry… what?" Vaati asked, completely confused… along with everyone else who wasn't Mokou.
"So you caused eternal night… just to keep the moon people, who NEVER leave the moon unless it involves Kaguya, away?" Mokou deadpanned, shaking her head at the reason. "There is a war going on between the people of the moon and the people of the Earth, I used to be a high ranking officer, so they would want me back." Resien said as she pushed herself up off the ground.
"Just more proof humans outside of Gensokyo are idiots." Vaati muttered, rolling his eyes at that. "So now that everything is said and done, you think we are done here?" Vaati said, referring to the blown up Eientei and the bunnies and others strewn about, Meiling slowly getting up from her encounter with Eirin's knock out medicine. "Also it's not like the Lunarians could simply come to Gensokyo, after all the Hakurei Barrier prevents that." Yukari said, floating upside down above Vaati, who yelped in surprise as Yukari floated down, followed by Reimu, who was beaten and covered in cuts and knife wounds.
"Reimu… you look like you had a close encounter with several thousand knives." Meiling said, chuckling as she knew where they had come from, Reimu muttering something about crazy vampires under her breath as she stood next to Yukari, her purple eyes full of annoyance.
"We're safe, I didn't need to do that." Eirin asked cautiously. "No but I'm not happy that you messed with the space between Gensokyo and the outside world, but I'll let you off with a warning." Yukari said mercifully, Eirin sighing in relief as others started to pick themselves up Wriggle getting up slowly as Daiyousei struggled, Wriggle laying on her back.
"Can we go home now?" Vaati asked, not wanting to deal with what was happening as Mokou chuckled. "Whatever you say crazy man, I'll lead you out, just grab the rest of the group." Mokou jabbed. "But I'm not crazy." Vaati muttered. "Sorry but that's a requirement for living here in Gensokyo." Yukari shouted over her shoulder. "Well then I'm not crazy yet!" Vaati shouted back, grabbing the knocked out Rumia and lifting her over his shoulder.
Meiling, Cirno, Patchouli, Wriggle, Daiyousei, and Vaati followed Mokou out of Eientei and through the Bamboo forest, Meiling carrying both Alice and Marisa over her shoulders as the group split up Meiling and Patchouli going back home and taking Marisa and Alice with them, leaving Vaati alone with Nitori, Cirno and the other girls as Mokou went back to her stand.
"So I'm stuck with all of you huh…" Vaati asked, the girls shrugging as Vaati sighed. "I'm going to need a bigger house." Vaati said as they started walking floating towards Misty lake, and Vaati and Cirno's house. It would be a hectic time adjusting to this. 'Why did they leave me with a bunch of girls I don't even know?' Vaati wondered to himself as they made their way to home, the adventures to follow leading to exciting changes in life.
AN: And so we have it, the ending to Nox Aeterna, it's a short chapter but you got your two epic battle scenes, SO deal with it! Next up is Vaati adjusting tonow having a bunch of girls in his tiny house, making it bigger and Nitori discovering all Vaati's old electronics, and after that a party, with some… rather odd results.