Chapter 3: A good deed
"Ah, that had been a lovely party two days ago. I was beaten to hell by a sadist and a little girl, didn´t get to drink even one sake and never managed to get a grilled lamprey in between my teeth, and the party was originally mine..." I love the irony behind it as I thought about it, walking through the bamboo forest of the lost.
I was going to hang out with Mokou tonight, deciding that I needed some time in which I could just chill and avoid my wife. I love her, but she can be a real pain. "The party was great. Was pretty fun to see you being beaten up. That other woman aside ya somehow managed to avoid everything, but once little Flan hit ya once, you didn´t manage to avoid another blow.", spoke the one I had searched for, yet again reminding me of the fact that my thoughts were still audible.
Mokou stood there leaned against a bamboo, to my surprise, smoking a cigarette. "Ya smoke?", I asked. Mokou opened one of her closed eyes. "Sometimes. Mostly when I´m annoyed.", she admitted. "Ya want one as well?", she asked, offering me a cigarette from the box she had in her pocket. I, however, reclined.
"Watcha doin' here, Chô?", asked Mokou, blowing some smoke. I shrugged. "Just wanted to hang out with ya. Need some chilling and things to clear my head.", I replied. Mokou nodded. "Yeah. I know that feeling. And ya know what? I´m bored as hell and know the perfect thing to do!", grinned Mokou.
She took the cigarette in her hand, and suddenly, it burned in a bright flame, before nothing was left of it. "Let´s go and grill Kaguya. Believe me, it´s actually fun seeing her die and come back. And she doesn´t mind at all." I sweatdropped, but didn´t recline the offer, nor did I question it. Maybe I really needed a punching bag...
"...So, let me get this straight...", muttered Kaguya, standing in front of us near the entrance to Eientei, "...You, Mokou, want to kill me again, and you, Chôzen, have girl trouble and want to kill me to blow off some steam?", the bewildered princess asked. "That sums it up, yeah.", smirked Mokou. I growled under my breath.
"Her idea.", I thought, yet again forgetting the fact that EVERYBODY STILL KNEW MY THOUGHTS AS THEY WERE AUDIBLE THANKS TO THE GAP HAG! "And a great one indeed.", flattered Mokou herself, just before she leaped into the fight. I myself, would stay aside and watch. It was actually quite interesting, seeing how to girls blew each other into single parts, only to resurrect a second later, totally unharmed.
"Okay, this pointless fight is really going nowhere..." I thought after a while. As I thought that, both girls stopped. They looked bewildered at me. "Hm?", I asked. "W-What was that just now? P-pointless?", asked Kaguya. I frowned.
"uh... well... if you think about it... You two are immortal. No matter how often you kill each other, you always come back. I understand that you do this to blow off some steam... but... What other point do your fights have? You only kill each other until you´re so exhausted you almost pass out, then you leave. The next day, you do the same thing again. Isn´t that a little ridiculous?", I asked.
Mokou and Kaguya looked at me in disbelief. Then, they looked at each other, blinking. "Well.. uh... I... didn´t even enjoy it a little. I was just doing it because she always starts.", huffed Mokou, being Tsundere. Kaguya, however smiled. "Thanks Chô, I was thinking to start I was the only one who thought that.", spoke the princess. And that was a honest fact. There was no sign of manipulation on her face. She was telling the truth.
"Though I did enjoy our fights a little.", admitted the princess. Mokou huffed and turned away. "Well, hope ya die eventually, Houraisan. I´m going to leave Gensokyo. No fun here. Maybe I ask Keine to come with me..." I was struck at that. And Kaguya too.
The way she looked at me, pleading with her eyes for me to do something, she was close to the tears. It seems she didn´t want Mokou to leave. I guess she really likes her, indeed. And I just felt horrible when I understood that I just had destroyed this strange, but wonderful relationship.
"Uh... M-Mokou! W-why don´t ya stay here? I mean, we just met again! A-And Kaguya-hime possibly will miss ya too in some way. I mean, she enjoys fighting you!", I chuckled uneasily. Mokou frowned. "Well, but our fights are stupid, eh?", smiled Mokou casually, shrugging. "W-who says that you have to kill each other.. Y-you could fight in a different way!" At that, both Mokou and Kaguya frowned. "Explain.", they said in unison.
Captain Falcon danced around Zelda, but upon trying his famous "FALCON PAWNCH!", Zelda sidestepped and hit him with a "Nayrus Diamond". Captain Falcon flinched, but both Zelda and Captain Falcon failed to notice Lucario, who had grabbed a smash ball. Lucarios aura beam hit both off them and send them offscreen. Both Kaguya and Mokou laughed and hit me soft on the shoulders, one sitting to my left, the other to my right.
"Ya´re sneaky, Chô!", laughed Mokou. "Yeah, he sure is!", snickered Kaguya. The screen returned to the character select screen, and I stood up and put my wii-remote onto the charging station. "Sorry girls, but I have to leave. Nana is going to kill me when I stay out too long. She´ll suspect I meet Rumia behind her back.", I sighed.
"Poor guy~!", hummed Kaguya. "Yeah, he sure is! Ya wife sure has one fiery temperament!", agreed Mokou. "Well, I´m gonna come back some time to join the brawl once again!", I exclaimed and winked, refering to the famous "[enter character name here] joins the brawl!" quote. "WARNING! Challenger approaching!", said Kaguya with a straight face, causing us to break into laughter, as Kaguya refered to the quote when a new character appeared.
With that, I said goodbye to them. But once I was outside the door, I stayed there and listened for another second. "Hey, Mokou~! How about we try an ego-shooter! I got this game called Conduit 2!", I heard Kaguya. "Well, start it!" As I heard that, I couldn´t help but smile. I ended their constant killing spree by making them kill each other virtually.
They even were friendly to each other as long as they played! Humming to myself, I left Eientei, wandering past the confused faces of Eirin, Reisen and Tewi, which all stood in front of a second door to Kaguyas room, where the Wii stood. They all peeked in, seeing how Kaguya and Mokou were fighting all friendly.
For the first time in a long while, I felt at ease. No seriousness and stress in the air. No girl trouble was plaging me. For once in a long while, I could smile honestly and just enjoy my life. I had even done a good deed! I hadn´t such a moment of real peace in a long, long time... Namely since the last incident, which wasn´t that long ago.
But helping Kaguya and Mokou over their grudge, then playing videogames with them was a good way to blow off some steam and get a good breather. Even I needed to relax some time. And I was sure that the next incident or stress would come soon... very soon. So I wasn´t even surprised that something indeed did happen as I left Eientei.
Just as I stepped outside Eientei, I felt the ground under my feet vanish. Seconds later, I found myself in a purple nothing with all those creepy eyes staring at me. "Hello Chô~!", exclaimed Yukari. "Oh, Yukari, what´s up?", I asked casually (as casually as someone who falls into a gap leading into another dimension with thousands of eyes staring at him could be), not even surprised.
"I was going to put the boundary between your thoughts and your voice back tonight, but I have seen that you actually did good with your stupid thoughts, so I thought over letting it that way." Imagine my shock! I was going to die if Nanatsu knew of all that which I had ever thought of Rumia, all my perverted fantasies involving Rumia...
It had gotten worse after Sly told me to have threesome with Rumia and Nanatsu... I had begun to start actually imaginging a threesome with both of them..! I´m just glad Nana didn´t hear that thoughts until now!
"Y-Yukari? P-Please return it to normal! If they stay that way, I will be left by Nanatsu and Rumia will hate me as well..." Yukari chuckled. "I said I was thinking about it, not that I would really let it stay like that. I´ll return it at this moment."
A smaller gap in her gap world opened, and she fumbled inside it. Then, she pulled her hand out. "So, all done. Now have sweet dreams, Chô!", grinned Yukari. Another gap opened, and swallowed me. As I looked around, I found myself in my bed, next to a sleeping Nanatsu.
Yeah, that was this intermission arc. To sum it up: First of, Chôzen learns of Gensokyos creation, how he ended up there twice, how he met Nanatsu and that there was mutual attraction to Rumia when he sealed her. Then, Chôzen throws a party, learns where he can find Yuugi Hoshiguma, who knows where this mindreader lives, and then ends up being a pinata on his own party. Lastly, he ends up doing a good deed by ending Mokous and Kaguyas killing-spree by making them blow their steam off by playing videogames against each other, and finally gets his border of thought and spoken repaired. Geeeeeez!
Anyways, I guess there is nothing much to say... Well, today's not my day, I'm feeling not so well and I've been greatly annoyed by a friend of mine... geeez! So please excuse me if the last chapter wasn't that good and my summary was worse... I'll fix it if you guys think that it is bad. I'm just happy that I wrote all the other chapters yesterday, right after finishing the "Eternal Finale"... worked til late in the night, but the ideas kept flowing and my hands refused to stop typing.
Anything else to say? I believe not. If there is something, please say so, I'll do my best answering any of your questions... at least without spoilering if it concerns the plot. I'll be not giving away the outcome of this story!
Yeah, that being said... next chapter starts PoFV. It will be a lot different than many of you players remember it... I mean, it had no straight story line, the bosses were different for each character, only the last two remained the same (in most cases), so I'm having problems thinking of how to alter it... but I already have an idea. Expect the next arc to contain less fighting, though... maybe even none, don't know... And... I already started writing the first chapter... luckily two days ago, right before I had to go. The plot of PoFV starts... not directly, there will be two chapters at the beginning that differ from the real plot... yeah, I know, haters gonna hate... geez!
Anyways, thats it for me and my bad mood... Tomorrow will be a better chapter, as I will be in a better mood, I believe. Sooo, see ya there, on the other side, at the beginning of the new arc... a quite important one, at whichs finale we will learn an important thing... a very important thing, so important that it can start the prequel story!
As always, I appreciate reviews!
Yeah, to repeat myself... See ya in the next arc, dear readers!