Discaimer: And then I wore the silly hat, or more so, the silly hate wore me. Touhou belongs to Zun
A/N: The battle of the cute Youkai continues! On with the show!
Midnight, Un-named mountains behind the Hakurei Shrine:
Rumia rather easily drifted between the thin waves of danmaku, while Orange was getting hit left and right by the much more dense waves, and quick bursts of Rumia. Time and time again, Orange charged, only to narrowly miss getting hit by a quick blast of danmaku.
"You seemed so cocky, grape! What happened to that...?" Rumia was having a blast with her taunts, but It was time she took care of the excuse for a boss.
"I... I can't lose...!" Orange looked towards Rumia, her eyes burning with determination. The baton in her hand began to glow in responce to her drive to win, but that wasn't something that Rumia could see.
"Moon Sign: Moonlight Ray!" Just as Rumia finished calling her spellcard, the baton released a pulse of energy. Something was very wrong, and the spell card never went off.
Everyone's eyes but my own, and Orange, went wide. Neither of us had ever seen a spell card, so we had no clue as to what had happened. Why had the spell card failed to activate? Rumia began to rummage through her clothes, out turning her pockets. All of her spell cards were just plain gone!
"You! What have you done with my spell cards!" Rumia was now afraid that she was at a huge disadvantage, which was not true, due to the other girl not having a single card of her own.
"...Spell what?" Rumia looked at her adversary, with a look of confusion across her face.
"How... How can you not even know what a spell card is?" Rumia was at a loss as to what to do from here, she didn't want to kill the girl! Battles outside of the spell card system were very dangerous afairs.
"Ahh, well... I've been sealed inside a tree for awhile now... I actually escaped only a few days ago! Before that, the last thing I remember was losing to an annoying little witch girl, followed by an overly aggressive Miko... I wasn't even doing anything wrong!" Orange looked at the ground with a rather sullen look on her face. All she wanted to do was get as strong as big sis Meiling, so she had gone into the mountains to train. After only a week, she was beaten and sealed by that evil miko! She had only wanted to be less of a burden to her sister...
"A Miko, you say?" Rumia's curiosity was piqued, while having had forgotten that the two of them were fighting.
"Hmph, like you care... Enough talk, I'm gonna fight my way back home if I have to!" Suddenly the bow in Orange's hair untied itself, and the girls hair turned a sharp blue color.
Orange began to charge towards Rumia, her fangs bared in a primal snarl. Before Rumia could even react, she had already taken a punch to the gut. Orange wasn't any good at ranged, but when she let her hair down, she had a great deal of skilled when it came to a good brawl. Before a follow up hit could land, Rumia backed away from the now serious Orange. Gasping for air, the Youkai of darkness began to do a trick she rarely used anymore. The small amount of light from the nearly full moon began to dim, untill it was almost pitch black. Rumia wasn't limited to the small sphere of pure darkness, she could actualy effect various ranges with varying ammounts of her inky blackness. Like right now, Rumia had multiplied the space her bubble occupied by 10, at the cost of it being only half as strong. Rumia may not be a very strong fighter, but she didn't particularly care to play fair, if it was going to be a life or death battle. Countering opening her opponent left, was the way she fought.
Orange could still see, but not nearly as well. Rumia, however, had far better night vision, and was just fine. Once more, Orange charged towards Rumia, who was now far more prepared. A kick aimed at her throat, was easily ducked under, before she clawed at the girl, in an attempt on her hamstring. Orange was a particularly durable Youkai, so the slash only broke the skin. Rumia intended to deliver many more soon, and end this fight, without having to kill the girl who was no berserk.
"Ahh...! Grr, fight fair, you damn Youkai!" Orange once more went for an attack, this time a feint with from her left fist, followed by a kick that was as strong as that of a horse. With a loud crack, Rumia flew towards the ground, seemingly unconcious. Orange wasn't about to stop there, and dove at the ground aimed missile, that was Rumia. Rumia had simply gone limp, and the moment Orange was about to make contact, she dodged, and grabbed her leg. Now with Orange in tow, Rumia turned the girl into the warhead of her little air to ground missile. Digging her heel into Oranges back, Rumia would have the poor Youkai do a belly flop, with a crushing stop behind it. When they collided with the dirt below, Orange's conciousness momentarily slipped away. Rumia wasn't about to let the girl off with such a minor injury, and swung the girl into a tree,while digging her fingers into her calf. As Rumia had expected, Orange wasn't nearly as worse off as she should be after all that. The only damage she had, was a broken nose, courtesy of the tree, and a cracked rib or three, courtesy of the ground.
"Heh, you say Youkai like you arn't one yourself! By now it's obvious you are, as any human would have lost their head from making out with Mr. Tree, like that!" Orange's body was still, and limp. Was the fight over already?
Rumia had failed to notice the baton had lengthened into a full on quarter staff. Before she knew it, she was swept off her feet, and had the staff pointed at her face by the oddly calm Youkai.
"I'm tired of fighting, so I'm not going to hold back anymore." The cold sound to Orange's words was enough to chill the blood in Rumia's veins. Before she knew it, she was impaled by the staff. Rumia coughed up blood, and struggled to pull the staff free, but to no avail. Orange simply twisted the staffed as a reward to Rumia, for her troubles. As if on queue, a volly of ice shards was sent flying towards the chinese Youkai, forcing her to jump away, finally allowing Rumia's wound to begin its regeneration.
"I can't stand by and let you torture my friend, like that!" Cirno couldn't just watch as Rumia get penetrated, she intended to resolve this battle in her stead. As Rumia slipped into unconciousness, the perpetual darkness faded with it, retracting to the usual body bubble size.
"Hmph... Big words, for a fairy. Run along, before you get hur-" Orange was interupted by a sudden need to block a slash from Cirno's ice sword. The odd calm that seemingly taken over Orange, didn't falter in the least.
"Big words, for a Youkai! Surrender, before you get hurt!" In the hand that wasn't firmly upon the hilt of her sword, Cirno was charging her perfect freeze. At point blank range it would be enough to instantly a fairy, and most humans, while simply freezing a lesser Youkai, like this one, solid.