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Synopsis: Masud goes to the SDM to meet with the Unmoving Library, Patchouli.

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'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

"Spell Cards"

*Actions*

"YELLING"

-Time-

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Third POV

BGM: HM Pre-Battle Theme: A Popular Location

'Well looks like I'm at my destination,' Masud thought to himself as he landed and started to walk toward the entrance to gates of the SDM. Today he was visiting the magician/librarian of the mansion because he was interested in meeting her.

"Hmmm who goes there-oh hello Masud," Meiling said from her spot in front of the gates.

"Greetings Meiling, am I not late to visit your librarian?" Masud said.

"Indeed you are, I shall escort you to Lady Patchouli," The gatekeeper said as she opened the gate. Masud then walked forward as Meiling closed it behind and started to walk behind him.

"So how were you able to arrive here in Gensokyo?" The Egyptian magician said as the two passed the bush sculpture. "Judging by yourself and the rest of the other residents of the mansion you didn't originate here in Gensokyo."

"Well you see the SDM was transported into Gensokyo thanks to a teleportation spell created by Lady Patchouli to transport us here," Meiling said as she proceeded to open the doors allowing both her and Masud to enter. "Though we were told about Gensokyo from Yukari before coming here."

"I see…" Masud said as he and Meiling walked passed some fairy maids and hobgoblins along the way. "That reminds me, and my friends were contacted by Yukari as well."

"Is that so?" The gatekeeper said as she and the Egyptian magician arrived at the doors leading to the Voile Library. "What do you think of meeting Yukari for the first time?"

"She was very mysterious and I can clearly tell she always had another agenda," Masud responded as Meiling opened the doors.

"Well that's Yukari for you," The gatekeeper responded as the two entered the library.

'Hmmm, this is impressive for a library your master has built here,' Masud thought, as he looked at the many tomes and books organized into the bookshelves. He and the gatekeeper then walked through an aisle before arriving at the table with Patchouli reading a book while wearing reading glasses

"Lady Patchouli, Masud is here has come to visit you," Meiling said.

"You did a fine job bringing him here, Meiling," Patchouli said while she was still reading her book. "Go back to guarding the gate against potential intruders and that rat."

"Sure thing Lady Patchouli!" Meiling said as she left the two magicians to go back to doing her job.

"Alright then Masud, take a seat," Patchouli said as she closed her book and gestured to the seat on the other side of the table. The Egyptian magician nodded and sat down. "So why did you come here to visit me?"

"I simply just came to visit, because I'm interested in meeting a fellow magician, and hopefully to get to know each other," Masud said.

"Is that so?" Patchouli said inquisitively, as she saw the Egyptian magician nod. "Well if that's the case then tell me about yourself."

"Okay then. A long time I was the high priest of my pharaoh before the Greeks under Alexander came invaded my country." Masud said calmly.

"Wait you're that old?" Patchouli said. She was a bit surprised that the former high priest standing in front of her was really ancient. "How did you manage to live for so long?"

"With this," Masud as he detached two books and placed them on the table for Patchouli to see. When she looked at the books she was surprised at the cover, with one book having the title "Book of Life" and the other "Book of the Dead" which were written in hieroglyphics but she was able to decipher it. The purple-haired magician can also tell these two books weren't fake because she felt the life energy from one book and a feeling of death from the other.

"The Egyptian book of life and the book of death, I thought that when Remi told me back then that the books she saw in a museum in the Outside World were fake," Patchouli said.

"Those books were merely used for formal reasons to bury the dead and to ensure faith in the Gods," Masud responded. "These two books are the real ones, I and the other high priests before me were tasked by our pharaoh to protect them at all cost. I still protect these books even now and thanks to them I am able to live for this long."

"I see-*cough* *cough*" Patchouli started to have a coughing fit.

"Patchouli!" Masud said as he got up from his chair and started to approach her. He then held out his hand as it glowed green in front of the magician to see what's wrong with her.

'I see the problem now,' The former high priest thought, as he saw that Patchouli had a weak body most likely from not exercising and going outside and worse she had asthma as well. 'Don't worry my fellow magician I will help you get better.'

Masud started to channel life from the Book of Life and his hand started to glow bright green. Patchouli stopped coughing and finally realized she stopped as she looked up and saw what he was doing. In fact, she felt healthy as she was during her prime before she contracted asthma after constant exposure to chemicals.

"What did you do?" The magician said, amazed how good she felt in so long. "I never even bothered to offer you anything of value to you so why did you do it?"

"I simply wanted to be a Good Samaritan, and help a fellow magician," Masud replied.

"I...am grateful for you doing that for me," Patchouli had tried several times in the past to try and find a cure for her ailments, and she was immensely thankful for curing her.

"And we are too," A voice said to them. Both magicians turned their heads in the direction of the speaker and saw it was none other than Remilia and her little sister, Flandre.

"Remi, Flan what are you two doing here?" Patchouli said.

"Well my sister insisted that I come with her to see how you were doing, but I never thought the owner of Alexandria would cure you of your health problems," Remilia said, flashed a fanged smile at her friend.

"So you two must be Remilia and Flandre Scarlet, right?" Masud said.

"Yes, we are!" Flandre said.

'Well now what I heard Remilia has a head maid, I think her name was Sakuya Izayoi,' Masud thought to himself. "Excuse me, Lady Remilia where's your head maid, Sakuya?"

"Oh her, well she's fulfilling her duties and will probably come here shortly," Remilia responded. "By the way can you tell me more about yourself?"

"So you two heard about me telling my back story to Patchouli?" Masud said.

"Yes I am curious to know more about you, and even more so after that first bit of your background," Remilia said.

"Me too!" Flandre said.

BGM: Ancient Egyptian Music - Imhotep the High Priest

"Alright then, so as you all know Alexander came and invaded my country, and my pharaoh at the time ordered me to protect the Egyptian books of Life and the Dead from falling into Greek hands. I fled my home country and lived in isolation, and started to learn several spells from the Books of Life and the Dead," Masud explained as Remilia, Flandre and Patchouli listened closely. "Fast forward 300 years later it is the year 48 B.C, and in that time Alexandria was currently suffering fires caused by Caesar. While this was happening I took great care in making sure the scrolls in the Alexandria library were stored safely in a bag."

"Wait I thought the Greeks were your enemy?" Remilia said.

"While it was true that they were, I came to realize that the Ancient Greeks were just as ancient and as sophisticated as the Egyptians back then. They even had their own Gods just like ours and if I were to try and attack the Greeks I would have invoked their wrath on me," Masud said. "I decided to preserve their legacy by taking almost all of the scrolls in the library and them in, so as to make things easier for me to carry them. 24 years later I built the Crypt of Alexandria, also known as Alexandria, to not only practice my magic safely from everyone but store the scrolls in the library as well."

"Is it alright if I can visit your library? I am curious in knowing what untold things the Greeks have written in those scrolls, " Patchouli said with a curious glint in her eyes.

"Yes you can, Patchouli," Masud said.

"Can I visit too?" Flandre said with puppy eyes.

"Sure you can," The Egyptian magician said.

"Does that apply to me too?" Remilia said. "Because I am interested in seeing the lost works that the Ancient Greeks must have written before Caesar had to burn everything."

"Yes you can also come to my library," Masud responded.

"Mistress I brought you some tea for you," Sakuya said as she appeared right beside Remilia, holding a teacup and plate.

"Ah thank you, Sakuya," The elder vampire said as she drank the cup. "You would mind staying here for a bit?"

"Yes I would milady, I have completed all of my duties for the day," the head maid said. "Can you inform me of what has happened while I was doing my duties?"

"Well you see Sakuya, this magician here Masud, was telling me his backstory to me, my sister, and Patchy," Remilia explained to her servant. "Oh right go ahead, and continue your story Masud."

"Gladly, in the past 1900 years, I have been collecting several Ancient Egyptian relics to preserve them. I also went to some of the pyramids that held the pharaohs and I talked to their spirits," Masud said.

"Wait what did you discuss with them?" Patchouli said, curious.

"I wanted to ask how the afterlife was like and what they have been up too," The Egyptian magician replied. "Anyways in the 1800s, I would encounter my three friends, Catori, Jack, and Medusa while I was out paying my respects to the pharaohs in the Pyramids of Giza."

"So what was it like meeting them?" Flandre said.

"Well it was surprising to see something supernatural when magic and the gods were starting to be forgotten by humans and their technology," Masud said. "I invited them to come to Alexandria because they didn't hold any ill will toward me. They of course accepted and the three of them spent three days at my home and were about to leave my house before I decided to come with them."

"Wait why did you join their group exactly?" Remilia said.

"Well to be honest with you it has been a long time since I talked to someone besides the pharaohs, and they were considered my true friends besides the ones I had back when Egypt wasn't invaded by Alexander. That and I wanted to know what exactly happened to Europe the last time the Roman Empire was around," Masud said with a smile. "Anyways me and my friends traveled throughout the world for the last 100 years by using the teleportation talisman inside my home to travel to different places. Though there was a bit of a malfunction that happened during one of our trips and we ended up in the middle of the Battle of Stalingrad."

"Wait you fought the Nazis and Soviets?" Remilia said.

"Yes I stayed behind in Alexandria to make sure the talisman was repaired while Catori and Jack fought both the Nazis and Soviets while Medusa guarded the front entrance to make sure no one sneaked in throughout the confusion," Masud said. "Thankfully once the talisman was fully repaired I had my friends retreat back into my home and we got out of there just as some bombers passed by."

"Oh, I just wanted to go and see that battle in person!" Remilia said with a disappointed look alongside Flandre who was interested as well.

"Yes that would be interesting, but how did you come to Gensokyo?" Patchouli said.

"Well while me and my friends were in Japan in the late 1900s, and we ended up meeting Yukari," Masud explained.

"That gap hag," Remilia said with a scowl on her face. "What did she say to you exactly?"

"Well she told us of the existence of Gensokyo and she invited us to come to the land. I became interested in going there because I believed I would meet fellow magicians like Patchouli here, my friends also became interested as well," Masud explained. "And after that I had Alexandria be teleported into Gensokyo. So any thoughts on my story?"

"I like the part where you mentioned about the part where you and your friends fought the Nazis and Soviets," Remilia said with a grin. "Besides it must have quite the fight."

"It was for my friends, Catori was bludgeoning the soldiers and vehicles with her razor-sharp claws while Jack was decapitating many people on his horse, Brom Bones, as well as causing many explosions with his pumpkin bombs," Masud responded. "Medusa stayed behind and several Nazis and Soviets got through but she quickly dispatched them by turning them into stone. Also, the defenses of my home made sure to take down any aircraft trying to bomb it as well."

"I find your history with the Crypt of Alexandria to be the most interesting," Patchouli said.

"Oh yeah speaking of which, I better make sure that black-white witch doesn't go and try to rob my library," Masud said as he got up.

"You mean Marisa?" Flandre said.

"Oh you're being robbed by that rat," Patchouli said with a venomous tone.

"Yes I have to make sure that girl doesn't go and rob all of the relics and scrolls kept in there. Also here…" Masud said as he produced three golden ankhs from somewhere. "You three can now enter Alexandria without being targeted by the defense and be considered official guests of my home. Is it alright if I can be escorted out?"

"That's alright," Remilia said. "Sakuya please escort our guest out of our mansion."

"As you wish milady," the head maid said as she and Masud walked in the direction of the exit.

"So what do you think about Masud, Patchy?" Remilia said.

"He is very interesting and I hope to collaborate with my experiments in the future," Patchouli responded. 'That and maybe he can be my friend for curing me of my weak body and asthma…'

"I liked his story. It was really interesting," Flandre said with a smile.

"Me too, me too…" Remilia responded with a fanged smile.

A/n: A little bit of a backstory to Masud, the Egyptian magician. And also curing Patchloui of her asthma and weak body. Very few fanfics managed to pull this off on our favorite Unmoving Library and I am one of them.