TOUHOU: X-DIMENSION

By VirusChris

Chapter 1: His Story Begins…


Moonlit night shining bright,

Rain your sparks of light,

Save our shattered dreams,

Let time fix what's lost,

Mend our bleeding heart,

Change fate's cruel desire,

Protect the light you love so much,

Darkness always by your side,

Listen to our plight,

Return to what we once had,

What we once had.


White. Ghostly white. Everything was white all around him. The empty room was filled with nothing in it save for the spiraling red and green lights circling the room, a black aura mixed into its brilliant forms. A young man stood somewhere away from the center of this vortex of emptiness yet it the same time felt like anything can be possible here.

He looked around him, no exit or entrances could be seen. Puzzled he place held his hand with his right hand, shifting into a thinking position pondering how he got here or why he's here. Somehow, even though this is the first time he's been here, it felt nostalgia and familiar to him. Like this place was also suppose to be there for him.

Looking up he took noticed of a symbol of the ground… or if there was a ground, it was endless white up and down so it was hard to tell… the symbol of Yin & Yang were there. The young man looked at the pendant wrapped around his neck. It was an eight pointed star with four long pongs into a plus formation and smaller pongs in an X formation, but the most unique thing about it was that its colors were split in here in white and black mirroring the Yin & Yang colors and in those colors the opposite color was embedded into the to have the similar effect of the dots in the circle.

The young man wore an open white collar button t-shirt, with a back t-shirt underneath it, black gloves exposing his fingers with a metal plate of the backside, long brownish-tan khaki pants and finally black sneakers with an unique design on them with white-colored soles. He had a very simple, but unique fashion style though it was his school uniform minus the gloves.

He has deep azure blue eyes, a strange mystical vibe coming from him, that seems to acknowledge everything it saw. A young looking face that made he appear young than he looks, being in his late teens, and black spiky hair that wasn't short but didn't reach shoulder-length yet it wasn't completely spiky. Some of the spikes curled in a certain direction covering his forehead somewhat cover the path between his eyes.

Yet the most unique and interesting feature about his hair was… that all the tips of his hair faded to white. One would suggest or assume that he dyed his hair, but that is incorrect. His hair natural fades out to white near the tips. The reason for this is unknown how the boy and the doctor believe to be a genetic fault or mutation that caused this occurrence. However he didn't care, he liked it and it made him unique and stands out however he originally hated it many years back for reasons known to him.

He looked up and surveys the area once again, wondering if this is all a strange dream he is having.

"Rest assure my friend, this is no dream," said a voice.

The boy looked shifted his body into a defensive stance and looked for the source of the voice that spoke to him. He didn't take long to find the origin of the sound as another figure stood right across the white room, seemingly out of nowhere, like the figure was there the entire time.

The boy looked curiously at the figure. It was male he could tell, but the strange thing he looked almost like silhouette, only his feet, legs, lower part of his torso, and the lower half of the arms could be seen but the rest seem blacken like a mask. Even though there seems to be no source of light in the ghostly white room, it was still odd his face couldn't be seen even though he stood on the opposite side of the Yin & Yang symbol and was no more than a good ten feet from each other.

Sensing no hostility from the figure the boy lowered his guard. "Uh… hello. Who would you be?"

The boy asked as polite as possible, granted that he always shows courtesy to everyone and his friendly nature would not allow him to disrespect anyone, and smiled toward the figure as he extended his hand in a friendly fashion.

"Me? Well… it's hard to say," he looked up unsure what to say, but shrugged it off and response with a friendly smile despite his face cannot be seen. "I've been called 'Virus' for a long time so refer to me like that. Well it is my name… hehe."

The figure scratched the back of his head bashfully. The boy looked furrowed his eyebrow up a bit, a very strange name but very unique he thought.

"Virus?" He said studying the words rolling off his lips. He kinda like it, it had a mysterious vibe to it.

He then noticed that the figure wore grayish baggy short, black sneakers the same as him, a hooded short sleeve black jacket with rips near the bottom, a red t-shirt, black fingerless gloves like him, and a long twin-tail red scarf that also had rips on it giving the figure a demonic appearance.

However his cheery personality and non-hostile aura around him didn't reflect that, but the boy didn't mind at all. He was a good person, that's all that matters to him. The figure opened his eyes, or un-blacken, and the boy took note of his crimson red eyes with his iris silted also giving him a demonic look and noticed some fangs. The bottom half of his face starting to appear clear to him and noticed a strange marking or tattoo on his cheeks.

The markings looked like a T with the top part of it curved like a claw and the bottom part curved inward towards the mouth and with two little dots above it, all in pure blackness.

Taking an even closer look he noticed that he silhouette like very familiar to me… and it wasn't long until it clicked. He looked just like the boy! Even the hair was the same, except the tips seem to fade to red instead of white!

"Are you… me?" he called curiously.

The figure snapped out and looked at the boy in front of him again. The room's eerie silence wasn't helping the atmosphere much with the two lonely figures, but the demonic one smiled and spoke.

"In a way I am, but at the same I'm me. I've been living he for a long time now so my appearance mirrored my host over time. I apologize for that, I just snuck in without your consent."

The figure even spoke in the same voice, but it was a little bit more dark but still had the air of friendliness in it. The young man looked absolutely surprised, he wasn't expecting that answer.

"Really? I hate to sound rude, but why me? Is there a reason?"

The figure looked angrily at the boy and retorted. "You're right, that is rude! I know you better than that!"

The boy rebukes and gave an apologetic look.

"I-I'm sorry!" he said with frantically waving his hands back and forth.

The demonic figure laughed and the boy stopped panicking. "Sorry about that, just messing with ya! You can be gullible sometimes."

It was the boy's turn to glare angrily back at the figure. "Hey man! That wasn't cool! But I fell for it… oh brother."

He sighed and the figure laughed. The scene between them was like two best friends making fun of each other despite this is their first meeting together.

"And to answer your question… I can't tell. I made vow to tell you when the time is right, but for now it's not," the figure spoke in a more serious and stoic manner.

The boy perked up and listens intently to the other him before him.

"Can you sense it as well, can't you? There's something foul in the air recently and I don't like it." Virus said as he folded his arms and closing his eyes as well.

The boy cast his gaze away. He knew something didn't feel right recently, but he wasn't sure what is was or where to look nor did he know how to confront it. But it was close in the city he lived in. He looked back at Virus.

"I think I do, but I'm not sure if it's a problem or not. Though it's been bothering me, I just hope it not something that could hurt people."

The figure smiled, a way a parent smiles to its kid. "I know, you're also worrying about others and you're damn stubborn to boot! Always helping people, doing everything on your own but you have to relax but it's not in your nature."

The boy sheepishly smiled and scratched his head.

Virus looked back at the boy, but then readies himself into a battle stance.

The boy looked up puzzled by his companion's actions. "What are you doing?"

"I summoned you here, within your conscious, to mentally prepare yourself," Virus said getting serious. "I have a feeling you're going to have to fight this problem so I want to make sure you've got the basics down with your techniques that you've learned from Vincent and from your own study by yourself."

"Uh… How long have you've been watching me?" he asked.

Virus sighed. "For a long time even before entering your body, well I didn't make sound like I was awake or sleep during that time I am here, but that can wait until next time. We'll practice for a bit."

"Though I prefer to talk things out, I'll prepare myself just in case as well," the boy ready with into a battle stance as well and commenced with their sparring.

"Do you think this is reality or a dream, 'soulmate'?"


"Earth to best friend! Hey! Wake up! School's over for today man!" a booming voice shouted at the student still sitting in his seat spaced out.

The boy snapped his eyes. Shaking his head he realized he came back into reality, thinking about the dream he had last night… if it really was a dream.

"Yo dude you OK? You seem pretty out of it today," said the green-haired boy wearing the same attire as the boy sitting in the seat. He wore a blue headband, minus the tails, and had green-hair that shot up giving me a broom head. He had eccentric brown eyes to complement his appearance and wore brown gloves.

The black-haired boy scratched his and got up from his seat. "Sorry Alvin, just thinking about some stuff."

Immediately the one called Alvin leaned forward close to his friend's face, spooking his friend from the sudden invasion of personal space, looking back and forth and put his hand up to whisper something into his ear. "Thinking about what? Girls? In their swimsuits?"

His face's face immediately heated up and back up glaring at him with great irritation. "Y-You idiot! Don't say things like that… I don't think of them like that!"

It was a good thing that the class was empty by the time Alvin spoke to his friend. The green-haired boy looked at him slyly and grinned. "Oh come on I know you like girls… unless you go that way."

The glare intensified on that last comment.

"OK, OK! I get it, but seriously dude! You're 19 years old and this is the last year in High School we have together! You need to date someone!" said Alvin shaking both his hands in front of him. "But seriously man! You got to appreciate the female body; it's the most wondrous thing for our viewing pleasures."

The boy scoffed at him in annoyance and shook his head. "Yeah… uhm… if the girls heard they would've slapped you and tell all their other friends about it."

"What! It's a compliment!" he threw his hands into the air baring his fangs at the same time.

The black-haired boy smiled and proceed to the locker room with his best friend. As they got to their lockers the other students were talking about their daily life and hobbies. And by looking at the boy and Alvin compare to the other people, you could tell their not from this country.

A group of girls appeared before the black-haired boy and Alvin as they opened their locker and obtain their stuff. Both of them turned and greeted.

"Well hello there! What do I owe the lovely pleasure of meeting you fair maidens here today?" Alvin bowed majestically and winked at the girls. Some of them giggled while others backed away suspiciously. In the center of the group a girl with twin pigtails hanging forward and a pair of glasses walked up and looked at the black-haired boy.

"Excuse me; you're that foreign boy that's moved here in Japan about 14 years ago right? I'm the president of the Student Council Committee; my name is Sakura Heiji," she spoke with an air of authority though didn't seem too interesting. "I've been looking for some new members to join and noticed your grade average and attendance record as well as hearing about you the people. They have high respect for you… mister…?"

The black-haired boy nodded and smiled cheerfully. "It's Chris. Christopher Trevas Corona, but everyone just calls me Chris. So you want me to join the Student Council Committee?"

He tilted his head questionably at the proposition.

Alvin looked at his friend. "You casually told them your middle name?"

Chris shot back at his friend. "What? It's part of my name."

The girl coughed to get their attention and nodded. "Yes, you're very diligent with your work, have high grades, you speak Japanese very fluently as well as English, and you are quite the role model. Perfect material for our Committee."

The boy looked away sheepishly and blushed. "I'm flattered, but I'm not that great as you make sound. There are people better than me out there. I just do many odd jobs."

"Hmm… that's true," she plainly said.

Alvin looked at her funny. Well so much for politeness!

"Still even if you're being modest, I like you to join us Chris-kun," she asked again though it didn't seem like she cared if he accepted or not.

"Thank you for the offer Sakura-san, however I must politely decline," Chris said giving her an apologetic look, "I have a lot of request people asked me throughout the city and I have work as well to support me as I live alone. I feel I'll be wasting your time and effort if I join."

The girl looked at him nonchalantly, but she did seem disappointed. "I see I had a feeling. You burden yourself with too much tasks, but I'll respect your decision. Ladies let us be off."

And on that cue the group of girls left, but not before a few of them threw some quick glances at Chris dishearteningly before exiting the building. They mutter to themselves.

"Sheesh! You could've been nicer!"

"I knew he wasn't going to join us if you acted that way…"

"There goes our chance."

"Well his friend was nice… and he looks really cute too!"

"Coming from the girl who likes foreign boys… hehe."

The boy looked at them curiously.

"Well I didn't like that Sakura chick, but you could've talked to the other girls. They seem disappointed that you didn't join them in a small talk," Chris's best friend said casually.

The black-haired boy's face blush a deeper shade of red. "What in the world are you talking about Alvin!"

Alvin just shook his head, displease with the answer. "Seriously dude. Are you that dense? You read romantic comedy novels for crying out loud!"

Chris looked at Alvin with a strange look on his face. What did he mean by that?

The two boys picked up their backpacks and left the school out into the streets idly chatting on the way.


Japan was a different place to live in than America, but after a few years here you learn a lot about the culture, its people, and the language so it's not so bad. Plus learning another language is quite fun.

Both teens walked through the busy streets of their local district. The city buildings close together with the signs all hanging around, restaurants, shops, and food stands everywhere as both boys bought themselves some treats.

"Dude! Dude! Check this out!" Alvin screamed in excitement as he shoved a magazine in Chris's face.

"Whoa man! Settled down what is… eh?" Chris complained until he saw the image on the magazine.

It was a vivid colorful picture of a very busty mature-looking blonde woman in a swimsuit posing a very suggestive stance with another attractive woman on another page in an even more outrageous pose. Chris's face instantly went red and shoved the magazine, glaring at his friend.

"A-Alvin! W-What the heck dude!" Chris stuttered, he wasn't expecting to see a picture of a woman in her swimsuit. "Y-You can't j-just shove something l-like that in front of m-me!"

Alvin looked away displeased. "Aw come dude! I know you like it! The way your face went red! You want it, you need it, you love it! Come one embrace yourself with those natural feelings!"

Alvin swerved around, spinning comical with a glow in his face in a typical anime fashion. "There's nothing wrong with a guy liking a girl!"

Smack!

Chris slugged Alvin on the back of his head leaving a big bump with a bandage on it.

"I-Ittai! Come on, what was that for!" Alvin cried in anime tears as he rubs his head.

Chris sighed in defeat. "Why am I friends with you again? Why must you be such a pervert?"

"Becoming loving girls is the way to go!" Alvin giving a thumbs up to Chris fully recovered from his wound.

The black-haired teen just stared and shrugged. "Anyway I have to get to work."

Alvin perked his head up and followed Chris who was passing the intersection of the district, many people crowding the area.

"Oh yeah, you work at that Butler's Café place right? It's next to the Maid's Café as well," Alvin pondered as he asks his best friend.

Chris chuckled. "Yeah, the owner I work for owns those place and are quite the popular place. I lot of guys love the Maid's Café and the girls love the Butler's Café so it's a win-win situation and it brings in a lot of money. It's also the only place where I can get a lot of money to support myself."

"That's right…," sighed Alvin.

Chris has been living on his own for more than 10 years as all of his family members passed away long ago, losing his parents 14 years ago to an unknown disease even to this day. He was 7 years old at the time and he and his younger sister had to fend for themselves however… his sister also was infected with the unknown disease and 2 years later she…

Alvin stopped. It was too much for him to remember, the way Chris reacted as his sister slowly left him and how he was going to act after his sister's death. He loved his little sister so much and it was heartbreaking watching him cry out to his sister. Surprising the words that Arianna said to her brother set him straight and the Chris he knows today is a result of that. He remembers how Chris originally was, quite the opposite of the current him.

However he didn't worry as he was here with him and Chris still had a guardian, Vincent Dirge. His family's best friend and took care of Chris and Arianna after his parents passed away, stopping by time and time again to see how Chris was doing after Arianna left the world as well. He seemed like an enigma, but was a good mentor and friend to Chris.

"By the way," Alvin spoke up. "What are you going to do after work? And can I come along?"

Chris turned towards Alvin and smiled. "Sure you can come along. And I have a few errands to run for some of the locals and I want to see if anyone else needs my help."

Alvin just shook his head unsurprisingly. "Same old, same old. You ALWAYS want to help someone, stranger or not, and you're damn persistent about it too unless the person has a good excuse!"

"What can I say? It's my motto for life, I want to make everyone's life happy so they can live through it to the fullest," said Chris proudly.

Looking up to the sky he smiled. "Life is so precious. Because life is so wonderful."

Alvin remembers those words. Arianna's parting ways to Chris and mention to him to always make people smile and be happy the very words that led Chris to where he is now the happy-go-lucky and friendly person who takes the time to help others in need.

"Anyway let's go, I want to see where you work. I'm surprised I hadn't seen it yet!" Alvin shouted with glee.

"Alright let's go," said Chris signaling his friend to follow him.

In the middle of the crowd a brown-haired boy dressed in black clothing scanned the area with distaste and displeasure in his eyes.

"Hmph… worthless maggots. Every single human being are nothing more than trash waiting to be executed," the boy said darkly in a whisper.

Though he didn't say it so anyone peculiar, Chris caught the words he said and looked at his curiously. Why does he hate people so much? The animosity coming off of him was insane!

He took a better look at him. His hair had an unusual style; his bangs covered the side of his head with the right side almost covering half of his eye, and the back of his head his head curved out in six spikes three on each side. He also wore a head ornament that had a golden crescent moon on top of it.

His maroon brown eyes looked lifeless and cold, denying everything it saw, a merciless stare.

The clothing he wore was an open long-sleeve black jacket with two belt zippers near the shoulders reaching down to the knees, no shirt which exposes his bare chest and abs, black fingerless gloves, a brown and silver belt, a dark grey pair of pants complement with a pair of black sneakers as dark as night.

The aura emitted from this guy was out of this world Chris thought. To him, he seems like a dark god of some sort wearing modern clothes.

As Chris was passing by him as his friend stared at a few females in the crowd, the boy locked eyes with each others. Chris looked at his normally, but the eyes of the boy in black widen in surprised and then narrowed in an annoyed icy glare.

He scowled. "Tsk… another one… a heathen pretending to be the same as us…"

The boy in black hurried away leaving Chris pondering what he meant by that. "Huh?"

Getting some distance away the boy smiled an evil crook. "No matter it doesn't matter, I have all of the pieces I need. Now I have to find the weakest point around here to enter Gensokyo… Izanagi… Izanami… time to wake up and do my bidding…"


Alvin looked around in the room. Thanks to his best friend he manages to get inside to look around in the back rooms where the staff prepares themselves for work. It was complete with a locker room with a shower right behind it and a few restrooms to change. The room next over is the Kitchen where the cooks prepare the meals for the customers and where the co-workers, or butlers to be precise, pick up the food to deliver to the customers.

It the café was like a mini-restaurant of sorts and was very popular with the local residents. They had a coupon rewards point system where if you come to the café everyday and buy off from their menus earning points in the process you can request, with enough points, to take a picture with one of butlers or maid of their choice, as the point system works for both stores.

Alvin chuckled at the thought of it, but to be able to have your picture taken with a beautiful maid at your side. The green-haired individual couldn't contain himself as he starts fantasying about it and drools. He short-lived that dream as he remembers why he's here and he doesn't wish to be yelled at from his best friend again.

"Hey Chris are you done yet?" shouted Alvin outside of the changing room where Chris went.

"Hold on, I'll be out in a minute," replied Chris inside the changing room.

Seconds later the door opened and revealed the black-haired youth in his butler attire. Alvin's eyes widen in surprise.

His hair was combed back, giving him a devilish dashing look complement with his eyes seemingly smaller (how in the world he did that Alvin will never know), a handsome elegant black tail coat suit with a black tie to match, a white shirt stuck underneath the suit, white gloves, and polished black shoes. Chris was radiating off a refined and elegant nature that Alvin was speechless.

"Sorry for the wait my good sir, I hope my attire this evening is too your liking," Chris said in an elegant noble voice as he spoke in English, which made him even more surreal. His poise, his mannerisms were completely different from the usual Chris. He was like the perfect butler here and there.

Alvin couldn't help by blush and stare at him. Chris looked at his friend worried that he did something wrong to warrant his friend speechless like that. The awkward silence continued for about a minute or so until Alvin broke the ice.

"Dude… can I date you?"

Another awkward silence assured as Chris stares at his friend questionably. "Are you OK Alvin?"

Alvin snapped out of his daze and shouted in excitement and glee. "Holy crud dude! You look hot! I know I'm a guy and I'm straight, but hot damn man! I can't help but fall for you; you just have that… thing… that attracts people to you! I bet even the most straightest guy in the world would chase after you!"

"Eh… first grammar dude, grammar… and second, what? I mean… I probably look decent wearing this, but am I in no means perfect. I do the best I do, though I do like being a butler and dressing up as one," quoted Chris in his usual tone scratching the back of his head bashfully.

"Oh come on man! Stop being so modest! You're better looking than most guys… though not as much as me… but shouldn't look down on yourself! Show some confidence man!" yelled Alvin throwing his hands into the air as he pitches an anime angry fit.

Chris just nervously laughs. "Heh… but I'm average looking at best. Sorry my dear sir, but I must return to my duties. Please have a sit in the diner area, I will have the menu ready for you as you hurry and your first meal is free on the house."

With that Chris left the staff room and went out to the front to work. Alvin couldn't help but snickered at his friend's sudden change of attitude but followed him anyway.

After sitting himself down he noticed quite a few number of couples within the Butler Café. To him, the girls look like they were enjoying themselves while their boyfriends look indifferent. Alvin couldn't help but feel their displeasure of being here, even though he wanted to come here.

The other butlers whist their ways to the tables, taking the customers orders elegantly like they were real butlers from a mansion in an anime or manga, ranging from mid to late teens. Alvin mused, for a simple café the workers were professionals.

"Ahhh!"

A loud crash was heard after someone screamed. Alvin and the rest of the customers turned their attentions to the direction of the source and saw a young-looking blonde butler, who must've been like 14 or so years old, drop a plate of food as he tripped over here. The young boy rubbed his head but quickly got up and politely bowed to the customers he was serving in an apologetic manner.

"I-I am s-sorry! Please, allow me to get you another one!" the blonde said in a panic though the couple who were waiting for their food understood but they were severe annoyed.

"Oh brother, do we have to wait another 5 minutes for our food?" the male customer complied.

His female companion glared at him and spoke to the butler. "Please excuse him; he's always on edge when he's hungry."

"Well I wouldn't be on edge if we didn't have to pick this spot for our date! I mean, really, a Butler's Café?" argued her boyfriend.

This time the girl glared at him even more, narrowing her eyes. "Well excuse me for picking something more exotic of our date, please my friends recommended it for couples on their first date!"

"Really? What part of this is exotic or romantic at least? This is a Butler's Café! A guy shouldn't even be in here!"

The two couples continue their argument, their angry evaluating even more so that all the other customers felt insecure. If this keeps up a bigger problem will arise.

"Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation," spoke an elegant, gentle, noble voice. Both of the couple looked him to face a black-haired butler with his hair combed back looking at them calmly and majestically.

"I am sorry for the trouble my fellow butler has cause, please forgive him. For your inconvenience, we will offer the both of you free desserts with your meal and a coupon for discounts next time you arrive here," spoke the butler.

"OK…" the female spoke, her face blushing slightly. What a gentleman!

"Sure no problem…" even the male was blushing as well. He's kinda cool…

"Very well, Toshi. Could you head out back and re-order their food again while I keep them entertain?" the black-haired butler spoke.

"Yes sir!" Toshi said with glee and whisper to his co-worker's ear, "I owe you one Chris!"

The blonde butler hustled back into the kitchen, as Chris turned his attention to the couple.

"Well then… would you like a cup of coffee, young lady?" Chris spoke in perfect English to the Japanese girl.

The girl's eye instantly changed to hearts blushing even more so than before with little hearts popping above her head. "Hai!"

Chris responded with a smile and turned his attention to the young lady's boyfriend, placing his hand over his chest. "What about you sir? What would you like?"

"S-Some ice tea…" he stuttered, even he was staring at him with a admiring expression and with a slightly brighter blush. Sugoi… He's so cool!

"Very well, sir, madam," he said as he bow respectfully towards them. "If I may, is there anything else you require of me?"

Alvin whispered as he watched the entire scene played in front of him. Got to admit, he's a damn natural at what he does!

Not only was he expressed, the other customers too would pleased as well! The girls were blushing like mad and eyeing Chris with a dreamy expression and all the boys looked amazed themselves blushing as well.

Alvin stared at them. Good lord, even guys too? I would love to see a guy open say 'I love you' to Chris! Got to see his reaction!

He mentally laughed to himself as the situation became under control thanks to Chris. The food came out ready again, and without dropping it, as the couple happily eat the food and express their wish to come back again soon.

As Chris was getting ready to leave, a tall red-haired woman approaches him from the hallway. She wore a business suit, almost like the butler's attire, black gloves. Her violent eyes glittered with joy as she looks at the young man.

"Good work at there Chris," she said with an expressed smile. "I'm highly impressed, then again you're our best butler here."

"Thanks for that Hina-nee-san, but it was hardly groundbreaking or anything," Chris bashfully said as he scratches the nose. Alvin walked up closer to Chris to accompany and took note of the woman before.

Hmm… C-Cup no doubt… Alvin thought to himself, nodding his head. "Hey Chris, who's this?"

"Ah this is my boss! The owner of the Maid and Butler Café! She prefers to be called 'nee-san' by everyone who works for her," stated Chris.

"Oh! Hello there!" said Alvin extended his hand. "Nice to meet you, I'm Alvin! Chris's amigo!"

She giggled. "I'm charmed, but please… refrain from looking at my chest for the time being until we got to know each other better."

Alvin sweatdropped and had a worried expression. Crap…

Chris shook his head in embarrassment. "Please forgive him; he just can't help it sometimes. He didn't mean any harm."

"I know," she said. "But it would be wise to be respectfully towards all ladies, especially on the first meeting. As you should know, first impressions are everything to a lady."

Chris and Alvin gulped. That's scary…

"You're heading home, right? Please be careful, people have been talking about strange shadows prowling the streets at night… and the strange thing is the shadows don't look like any animals we've seen nor are they human," she sighed. "I don't believe them, but something about it just makes me uneasy."

Chris nodded to confirm he understood. "I got it, I'll be careful. Well I'll be heading home soon, time got some errands to run."

With that he retreated to the staff room with Alvin in toll, but was stopped again as his boss spoke up once more. "Before that… Chris…"

Both of the boys looked back. "You're still a healthy young boy; you should find that special someone and spent time with her. You're only young once!"

If anyone saw Chris's face right now, they would say he looked redder than any tomato, with his shocked, stunned expression making him look even more embarrassed. "W-W-W-W-Whhhaaaattttt! S-Sorry, I don't have time for dates! I have school work to study and work to do… you know! B-Besides there's better boys for girls to d-date than me! A-Anyway I-I'll see you later!"

He dashed out from the hallway to the staff room, changed into his regular clothes, and booked out in a matter of seconds. He was a blur as they blinked, no time to even react to his sudden outburst.

"… Damn!" Alvin exclaimed staring dumbfoundedly where Chris once stood.


Alvin quickly left the store and spotted his friend by a light post. He noticed that he's friend now wore a red hooded short-sleeve jacket with its strings hanging in front, a black t-shirt, blue baggy shorts, his fingerless black gloves, and his regular black sneakers and pendant around his neck.

"You carry your casual clothes with you to school too" Alvin asked as he perks a brow.

Chris chuckled. "Well I like my clothes, and in Japan you have to wear the school uniform so I bring it with me to change after school. Weird, huh?"

"Not really… it's just you Chris-chan," said a female voice beside Chris and Alvin. They both turned their heads.

"Raine-chan! How are you doing?" said Chris with a smile looking at his female best friend from school.

She chuckled. "Pretty good I say. And you Alvin, being less of a perv I hope."

She glared at the green-haired youth playfully, leaning forward as she places her hands on her hips. She has dark red hair, like a ruby, her hair tied into a ponytail, blue eyes, and wore what looked like an orange Chinese shirt and blue jeans, wearing white sneakers.

"Oh come on! You know me, I love girls! " Alvin said cheerfully, putting his hands behind his head.

She sighed. "That was wishfully thinking. So what are you two guys up to right now?"

"Well I have a few errands to run for a few of the locals around here and I was thinking of heading back home to cook supper and go out to do my usual training. Would you like to tag along?" Chris explained as he offered Raine to come with them.

"Sure, why not? I wanted to hang you guys anyway, and would've come regardless if you asked, it's been so long since our childhood since we hanged!" Raine exclaimed as she shifted her pose.

"Awesome, the more the merrier I say! Hey Chris maybe we can show her as stand-up route! You're the straight man and I'm the funny man!" shouted Alvin energetically.

Chris eyed Alvin mischievously and chuckled to himself. "So… that means you're not straight?"

Raine snorted as she covered her mouth looking away, as Alvin exasperated his gestures in a hysterical manner. "W-What the hell dude! Low blow, low blow man!"

Chris gave him an apologetic look and scratched the back of his head. "Sorry dude, I couldn't resist. I'm sorry."

"You better be! And stop apologizing so much! It can get annoying at times, you know?" said Alvin calming down a bit, but still looking irritated.

However Chris looked at him with a smugged look and folded his arms. "Oh I'm sorry, but all the times you make fun of me… it was time I took my revenge and I saw a golden opportunity and took it."

Alvin looked at him shocked with annoyance as Raine continue to laugh. "You have now entered into jackass mode! Ladies, gentlemen, Christopher Corona!"

The green-haired threw up his hands defeated and started walking with a smirk. "Couldn't you wait until we had a proper audience? So where are we going?"

"To the local bakery store, they need me to deliver some of their pastries to one of their customers. The worker who usually does it is sick so I'm filling in temporarily," Chris said as he walked besides Alvin heading to their destination with Raine in toll.

"Don't you take 'no' for an answer dude? Isn't it tiring to do favors for everyone all the time? You're too damn nice for your own good!" Alvin complained.

"What are you talking? I like helping out people, and I'm happy when I saw other people happy. It puts me in a spot to see people sad around me," said Chris melancholy scratching his nose.

"Forgot it Alvin-kun, Chris-chan has been like this for the past 12 years! Nothing's going to change," Raine said.

"Too true," agreed Alvin.

"Well let's go… ah!" said Raine as she proceeds to walk next to Chris, but instead tripped and landing on him. But where she landed was the problem, she was fine, but her chest was on Chris's face. Her Chest. On his face. It took him a half-a-second to realize what the soft feeling was on his face as he backed up like crazy away from her and unfortunately smacked his head against the light post hugging his head in pain bending down.

"Ittai! Why me!" Chris screamed as a big bump with a bandage on it appeared on his head, anime tears rolling down his eyes.

Raine backed away slowly, covering her chest, and looked at Chris. "S-Sorry Chris-chan, I didn't mean for that to happen!"

"And one thing that will also never change is his accident prone issues. Seriously man, you get hurt one way or other and it always gears towards your head! Though oddly enough the other half of the time a girl always manages to fall on you and it's always their chest on your face, lucky man," said Alvin with a hint of jealously.

"N-N-No it's not! And I wish it would stop! I have no idea when this started or why me!" cried Chris

"Maybe a god out there likes you… or a goddess, perhaps?" snick Alvin.

"Meow…"

The three of the stopped and looked up to see a chocolate-colored kitten stuck on a tree branch, its yellow eyes pleading for help. Alvin was the first to speak.

"You know, what is it with cats climbing when they can't get back down? Can't they do anything else original?"

"Like you?" retorted Raine as both her and Chris laughed. Alvin just gave her the look of annoyance and muttered to himself.

"Don't worry Coco I'll get you!" said a little girl climbing the tree and getting close to the kitten.

Raine took notice of this and chased after her. "Hey now! That's dangerous, get down from there!"

SNAP!

Too late… the weak tree branch broke off from the weight of the little girl as she crawled closer to the kitten, as both of them were sent pummeling to the ground. Raine looked in horror and Alvin was speechless as well of the other group of people were stunned as well.

Just as the little girl and kitten were about to hit the pavement, a red blur appeared skidding across the ground as it catches both of them and holds them in its arms to protect them. The little girl looked up and sees a black-haired boy smiling at her.

"Are you alright?" Chris said.

"Hai, arigato nii-san," she replied blushing in embarrassment as she got up holding the kitten in her arms. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean any harm. I just wanted to save my Coco…"

She replied with a sad look as she cast her gaze away. "You know, that was pretty brave! You planning on becoming a Firewoman one day?"

She looked up to the boy who asked her that question, she hesitantly replied. "No, I want to be a veterinarian."

"I see," Chris said as he patted her head. "That's a good dream! Work hard at it! Also be careful so you don't end up hurt yourself, like just now. There's nothing wrong about asking help from time to time."

The little girl smiled, blushing happily. "Ah! I-I will!"

"You know, I think you got potential. Climbing a tree all by yourself without fear! Though don't let this go to your head, you have to take in other people's feeling into account as you don't worry them. But I think you'll be fine," Chris encouragingly said to the girl as he stopped patting her head and stood up.

The little girl couldn't help but blush. She thought she was going to be yelled at again, like how her parents did, but understands he was a good person and he was right. She'll start thinking about other people's thoughts from now on.

"Aki-chan! Are you OK?" another little girl came into the scene with a little boy with her too.

"Hey Aki-chan, you shouldn't have done that!" the boy said.

The little girl rubbed her head and apologied. "I'm sorry… ah! Tamo-chan, you're doll it's dress is ripped!"

"Oh this," the black-haired girl said sadly. "Yeah, it got caught on some bushes when I was searching for Coco. It's nothing really."

"I'm sorry…" Aki said sadly.

Chris eyed the doll and knee next to the black-haired girl. "Can I see that for a moment?"

The children looked up to him and Tamo spoke to him. "Hmm… sure? What are you going to do?"

Chris chuckled. "Just watch, you'll see."

Putting down his backpack, he took out what looked like a sewing kit from the side pocket and started sewing the doll's dress back together. It didn't even take a minute as Chris bite down on the thread and cut it off as he finished sewing and gave the girl her doll back again. Needless to say, it looked as good as new, quite masterfully too!

"Thank you! You're really amazing nii-san!" cried the black-haired girl happily twirling her doll around.

"This is nothing; I used to do this for my little sister when she ripped her dolls accidently. Plus I'm not EVEN that good yet, so I'm no master," said Chris nervously.

"But… only girls sew stuff! It's weird for a boy to do that!" the little boy huffled.

"Really? I don't remember there were gender-specific skills out there, but let me ask you this. What if there are some new clothes you thought of that were cool or that you could make your own cool clothes yourself, would it be weird if you sew them together? Or even fix your favorite shirts and stuff?" Chris inquired the boy.

"Ah… well I guess, it's alright if you put it that way," the boy shrunk back.

"It didn't mean to be mean; just you should respect other people's hobbies. Wouldn't like it if someone made fun of something you like, right?" Chris said with an apologetic look on his face.

"No…" the boy admitted defeat.

"Good boy, now run along now. You have plenty of things to do than talk to a stranger all day, be safe!" said Chris waving his hand as he walks away.

"But you're not a stranger! You're our onii-san! Bye-bye!" waved the children and walked back home.

The people around them were impressed and took note of Chris' noble nature as Alvin and Raine caught up with Chris talking to him.

"I remember how you should to sew before as a kid, you were god- awful before and not only that you were bad at everything else! You couldn't even do the most basic things like sweeping and cleaning! Except your drawing skills, that was your only real talent. You were hell of an awesome drawer!" stated Alvin looking up to the sky.

"And he was bad at school too, what grades did he had? D's and C's instead of the B's and A's now? And he was a slow runner too, and such, and…" Raine tagged in before Chris cut her off.

"OK, OK, we get it! I was awful at everything, cooking, cleaning, talking to people, school, etc. back when I was a kid! Can we drop it?" Chris was irritated with them now. What was up with them?

"Sorry, but it's hard to believe that you're so multi-talent now since you weren't back as a kid. You're the Ultimate Jack of All Trades," said Alvin impressively.

"No I'm not! I haven't learned everything and everything I do know is mediocre at best! Don't exaggerate me, please," scoffed Chris.

"I agree, aren't there some areas you lack in even though you know them?" asked Raine.

"Yup," he replied back.

"Anyway Chris you can take a beating! That was a pretty mean skid you did there," said Alvin pointing to Chris's back.

"Oh this?" Chris turned to look at his back, "This is nothing, and I had my back smashed into the wall once. I was a bit wobbling but it wasn't too serious either."

"I'm amazed out how sturdy your body is Chris, you sure you're all right?" questioned Raine making sure her best friend was really alright.

"OK course he is! Well hell I bit even a sadist girl would love him! A little S&M action, you hear what I'm saying?" Alvin slyly nudged Chris in the shoulder.

Chris's face was both pale and red at that comment. "Wha… What! I can take pain, but it doesn't mean I enjoy it! Anyway I have some errands to do! So let's change the topic please!"

That ended their conversation as Chris went on to do his errands with Alvin and Raine tagging along.


Completely finishing his errands and the sun setting down, the three friends walked down through a park to Chris's house.

"Seriously, why don't you move closer to the city? Living out in the woods must be pretty lonely… and scary especially at night," commented Alvin as the group got closer to the local shrine that was located near the park.

"I like where I live, nice and quiet and a perfect place to train without being seen or bothered. Now if you excuse me," said Chris as he walked up to the shrine where two shrine maiden waved their gohai and tried their best to attract donators.

"Ah! Welcome back Chris-kun! Are you here to donate to the shrine again today?" said the perky pink-haired shrine maiden as Chris walked up closer to them and their donation box. Though Chris never walked all the way to the actually shrine on the hill in the park as the donation box was always placed near the entrance on the ground, but only when a shrine maiden was present.

"Sure am, miko-chan! Here you go!" said Chris as he dropped his coins into the donation box.

"Thank you for the donation! Please come again!" said the purple-haired shrine maiden.

"I will! See you tomorrow!" he said and waved goodbye to them.

"Wait a minute Chris-kun!" said the pink-haired shrine maiden.

Chris turned around and smiled. "Yes?"

"If y-you don't mind, w-would you like to g-go to the Butler's Café together?" she asked hesitantly.

"The Butler's Café? Sure!" he said.

The girl looked overjoyed. "R-Really?"

"Yeah, I work there so I can serve you some food and beverages!" he said bashfully. "We can also talk about other stuff if you want."

"Oh… you work there? I didn't know…" said she surprisingly yet dishearteningly.

"Yeah, I'm busy this week with work, school, and errands but I can make room for you at the café. Don't worry I can manage," he said cheerfully.

"O-Oh, that's OK! I couldn't possibly bother you like that!" she said waving her hands in front of her.

Chris tilted his and pouted a bit. "You sure? I wouldn't mind…"

"No it's alright! Maybe next time!" she smiled.

"Alright, see you tomorrow then!" he said with a sad look a bit and left.

"Why did you hesitate like that! You almost got a date with him!" her purple-haired friend said.

"I couldn't possibly bother him like that… maybe he isn't interested in me after all, he's just so nice to everyone," the pink-haired shrine maiden said.

"That's why you have to strike the iron when it's hot! That poor boy won't get it unless you say it… plus I'm starting to like him like that too… so hurry up!" the purple-haired shrine maiden shouted.

"I understand, tomorrow definitely!" she said with renewed confidence.

After catching up with his friends, Alvin inquired Chris about what he talked about with the shrine maidens and recounted what the pink-haired shrine maiden say to him.

Alvin looked at him furiously. "Dude, did you really not noticed?"

"Notice what?" said Chris curiously.

Both Alvin and Raine looked at each other and facepalm themselves. "Seriously? How dense can he be?" Raine spoke.

"Huh?" Chris said.

"Dude, do you like shrine maidens? Or maybe maids in general since you're a butler," asked Alvin looking at Chris mischievously.

"Where did that come from? Why do you ask?" Chris replied, his face lighting up.

"I think Chris likes bunny girls instead. He likes animal ears anyway," teased Raine.

"No I don't… well animals ears are cute, and I like cats actually, but that's beside the point! Why are you guys asking me this?" asked Chris quite peeved now with a red face.

"Well I'm curious, do you plan on dating any girl or even marrying and settling down?" asked Raine with a somewhat dark cold look in her eyes.

Chris backed up and stuttered. "Well… maybe one day, but I haven't met that right girl yet. And even if I did meet my special someone I probably wouldn't notice until I've gotten to know her. I can't just fall in love with someone at first glance! Plus to hit on a girl like that just to go on a date with them isn't right! You have to respect their feelings as well!"

Raine sigh. "Well you're honest, I'll give you that. I wonder how the human species survives with indecisive males like you."

"I'm sorry," chuckled Chris nervously.

"Oh maybe he wants a harem, I mean I see a lot of girls eyeing him and I'm pretty sure he can keep them all happy!" suggested Alvin looking away playfully.

"Absolutely not! Possible that's unheard of back home and here! P-Please that's indecent, a guy keeping many girls to themselves… even though it depends on the person… erm… I mean that's quite disrespectful to women everywhere!"

Both Alvin and Raine laughed.

"What was that? Did I hear something like 'depends on the person'? It looks like Chris likes to have his own harem!" laughed Alvin.

"Well I wouldn't mind being one of his mistresses since it's Chris, he's a good guy! He wouldn't do anything distasteful!" Raine laughed even harder than Alvin.

"N-Not funny guys! Seriously!" retorted Chris angrily and walk away.


At Chris's house, a big silver house that about six or so people can live there, a large living room with a flat screen TV, three green couches, a long table, a kitchen and dining room in the room next to the living room, Chris's bedroom right next to both rooms, and stairs leading to the guest rooms and restrooms.

The trio of friends were sitting down in the dining room having dinner together, dinner prepared by Chris. The spread had roasted turkey with seasoned bacon medley, freshly made mashed potato, seasoned tomato soup, roasted ham, and steamy fresh gravy.

"Man! I don't know anyone better than cooking than you! This is something out of a 5-Star restaurant or a dinner fit for king or mistress of a mansion!" exclaimed Alvin as he scoffs down the food like no tomorrow.

"Manners, Alvin! Don't horde it all down like that!" said Raine as she elegantly eats her meal.

"It's not a problem, it's nice having friends over but I'm hardly that good. I remember how much I use to burn all my food I made… I couldn't even toast a piece of bread properly!" chuckled Chris as he ate too.

"Seriously man! If you made meal like this for any girl, they want to marry you! A guy who cooks and clean? Look at your place, even though you're not here most of the time, it's spotless!" said Alvin looking around the room.

"Well I am a bit of a neat freak… I like a clean house," said Chris with a serious tone.

"Yup, Chris is perfect husband material. I was just like yesterday people hated you and… oh…" Raine started to say, but stopped. That was going a little too far into Chris's past. "Sorry…"

Chris expression became solemn for a second, but switched to a happy, yet sad, smile. "It's nothing, can't live in the past you know but you shouldn't forget about it. I am who I am today because of what I've been through so think nothing other… I'll probably talk about it one day though…"

"Oi! Oi! Enough of this gloomy time, we're having a great meal and a good time! Friends shouldn't wallow in despair when they're together! Chris!" Alvin shouted turning his attention to his best friend. "What's for dessert?"

"It's Triple Chocolate Devil's Cake! With Cream filling!" proclaimed Chris with a smile.

Both Alvin and Raine lit up. "Oh god my favorite! Dude I love those chocolaty treats! You always make one once a month!"

Alvin jumped to joy as both Chris and Raine had a giant sweatdrop behind their heads.

"No problem," laughed Chris nervously. "I'll start making it."

Chris got up and brought his empty plate to the sink and started getting the ingredients from the cabinets to start mixing for the cake. Two eggs, flour, chocolate syrup, and the other ingredients were all mixed together in a large bowl. After mixing it he putted it inside another pan with a cake-shape and put it into the oven and set it for 30 minutes.

" Cake! Cake! I love cake! Especially Triple Chocolate Devil's Cake! " singed Alvin like a little kid waiting impatiently for his dessert as Raine just shakes her head embarrassed by Alvin's antics.

"Well I'll be going to take a quick shower in my room, so I don't kill each other!" waved Chris as he entered his room to his the shower design inside his.

"I'll try… unless Alvin does something stupid…" muttered Raine looking over to the green-hair watching the timer with drool coming down his mouth. "Good grief…"

Inside Chris's room, which was neatly cleaned, had shelves of books. Different kinds of books. Cooking, Culture, Language, and the occasionally manga and novels as well. A flat-screen TV with several game systems wired into it (they only thing that appears messy) with a cabinet filled with different video games, posters of ninjas and samurais, a large bed that could fit two people and a window.

He also had a martial arts trophy on his dresser with the word '1st' place on it. Out of his draws he pulled out another outfit of the same clothes Chris was wearing. Just as Chris took them out and grabbed his towels from his closet he looked up out his twin swords mounted on the wall. They were a gifted from his guardian, Vincent Dirge.

On his 16th birthday they went into a local antique store and as Chris was browsing he noticed these two strange swords mounted on the wall. They were twin swords with the same design, two lines that reveal the core of the swords from top to bottom, a golden hilt that goes in downward and curves itself into a handle. It was simple, but beautiful.

The owner said they needed machines to left the blades as they were unbelievably heavy, but strangely didn't fall off the wall. He mentioned that they were legendary blades because they were made with materials for a meteorite long ago, but the swords themselves did nothing. In other words just super rare swords of its kind made out of a one of a kind meteor. As Chris lifted the blades from the wall the owner and Vincent were shocked he could lift them and use them like any other swords.

Chris mentions how incredible light they were and wonders why they called them heavy. The owner was beside himself and took a look at the swords Chris was holding, but as soon as he grabbed it the blades became heavy to him. Puzzled by the mysterious nature of the swords he decided to give Chris the swords at a discount, believing Chris was the rightful owners to the swords. A Japanese proverb perhaps? Chris loved the swords and took them with him and starting with them. They were perfect for him and realized several secrets about the swords that no one knew.

Well he was planning on taking the swords with him again to train tonight. He still needed to perfect his abilities, he's so close yet so far to achieving what he wished for long ago. Though the original goal is long lost to him, his new goal will have the same deal.

After finishing taking his shower and changing, eating the cake with his friends whom Alvin savored every bite, went out with his swords to the backyard gearing himself up with his backpack fill of items.

"Heading out for some training again?" inquired Alvin stuffing the last bit of cake into his mouth.

"Yup," Chris replied checking his fingerless black gloves.

"Can we tag along again?" asked Raine.

"Sure thing, but before that," Chris said walking over to a tombstone nearby with a black flower in his hands. Her tombstone. Chris's little sister.

Chris silently prays to the tombstone and planted the black flower and heads off into the woods; both stared at the flower before them.

"That flower… isn't that a…?" Alvin studied the black flower planted next to Arianna's tombstone.

"It's Noctis Lumine… a flower that blooms only in the dark, at night. It's Chris and Arianna's favorite flower, the white lines around the tips of the petals glow in the dark… it's symbolize the darkness lighten the way to those lost. Darkness helping the light…" explained Raine.

Both Alvin and Raine exchanged a worried look on their faces and went after Chris.


The forest was dark as the moon was out, only half of it fill, and the winds were calm but cold. A typical weather pattern near the end of September as the group huddled together.

"This place is creepy! Isn't there, like, an old abandon shrine in these woods?" Alvin asked looking back and forth.

"Yeah, a few years back the moved the local of the current shrine in the park from here. No one wanted to demolish it so they left it intact, rumor has it that some youkai live there now," said Chris as he got into a clearing in the forest were the group can see the ocean nearby above a cliff.

"Youkai, huh? Scaaaarrryyy… I hear they eat humans! Is that true?" said Alvin getting a little pale in the face.

"That's what they say," Raine said nonchalantly about it her hands behind her head.

"I think it would be kind of cool to meet some youkai!" exclaimed Chris excitedly.

Both Alvin and Raine stopped. Alvin spoke up. "S-Seriously? You're weird man, what if they eat you!"

"Are humans entirely good?" retorted Chris expressionlessly.

"Well…" Raine started.

"Nope, so don't judge a book by its cover! Besides I'm pretty sure there are good youkai out there as well as bad ones!" said Chris starting to stretch his body.

"IF they exist," shouted Alvin taking a seat near a stump.

"Heheh… well we don't know. Alright time for some Ki practice!" shouted Chris as he started to perform various hand signs.

"Ki, huh? Charka, Chi, Life Energy, etc. the power within all lifeforms, huh?" said Raine sitting down. "I'm amazed that you learned something like that even though hardly people don't believe in such things nowadays or hardly practice it."

"That's what makes Chris special! He's one of the last 10 known Ki Users worldwide alive… though he ranks 7th in terms of overall strength… but he's one of kind among them," Alvin stated with pride watching his friend perform his Ki abilities.

"Fire Style: Fireball!" shouted Chris as he exhaled a huge burst of flames out of his mouth towards the sea. Its mass was big that it looked like the same of a normal house! Shortly after the flames died down and Chris started panted a bit.

"It's even bigger than last time! Nice shot!" exclaimed Alvin.

Alvin has known Chris for practicing the arts of Ki Usage, as Vincent was a Ki User himself ranking himself 4th in overall performance, but Chris practiced by himself before Vincent and reluctantly trained him for the time being. When Alvin first saw him doing it, to him it was the coolest thing and wanted to do it but didn't want to work so hard so dropped it.

"Water Style: Twin Water Dragon!" roared Chris as he slams his palm into the ground after performing a different hand sign. A pair of two dragon heads erupted from the ground, roaring and moving in a helix formation the long streams of water looking like their necks rushed outwards into the sea and dispersed themselves over it.

"Thunder Style: Lightning Ripple!" shouted Chris as his entire body circulated purple electric around him like an aura and waved his hands forward like a sword slashing the air as the electric jumped off his body and flew in that direction.

This is what made Chris unique. He could perform different elementals of Ki, in fact all 8 elements! The elemental Ki; Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Thunder, and Ice. And the distant Ki; Light and Darkness. However in order for Chris to use elemental Ki he had to change the Ki element within his body however he had to use hand signs to change and circulate the flow of energy to change the element, masters are capable of changing their element Ki instantly without using hand signs.

"Wind Style: Air Slash!" Chris slashed countless times with his swords, drawing them out instantly, and created air turbulences blowing a powerful breeze around him and returned his swords into their sheathe.

"Earth Style: Earth Dagger!" Chris roared as he jumped into the air and slammed his foot into the ground causing a small pile of rocks forming into dagger shape mini-mountain sticking itself out from the cliff.

"Ice Style: Diamond Dust!" Chris once again pulled out his swords and created a dust of powder ice as they started to take the forms of large icicles and firing into the air towards the sea before vanishing into the night, the powder of ice slowly vanishing as more icicles fired. Chris sheathes his swords once again.

"Darkness Style: Shadow Arms!" again Chris yelled slamming his palms into the ground as he stood on them like he was breaking dancing as a numerous pairs of arms shot up from the darkness, each geared with a red eyeball and blue iris looking around. Chris nodded them to the sea, mentally acknowledging his command stampede over to the sea disappearing after completing their task.

"Light Style: Aura Sphere!" Chris called forth a barrier or a sphere of translucent light encasing him with arms folded up in an X position as if to block any attacks aimed at his body and then placed his arms to his waist at greet speed canceling out his sphere.

"Impressive as always, but what's up with the Wind and Ice Style? How come you had to use your swords?" asked Raine noting that Chris didn't perform his other two elementals.

"That… unfortunately I can't perform those elemental styles without using my swords which is why I brought them with me. But even though I'm lacking full control over my Ki, I burn more than I should use for my skills, and I only know one art of each elemental Ki so my moveset is limited there," Chris said discouragingly.

"How so?" asked Alvin getting up.

"Let me explain, I can only maximize my elemental powers to 70% of their true power, with both my Light and Darkness abilities as 100% and the others at 70% with the exception of my Ice elemental at 40% as it's my poorest elemental affinity. Plus it's hard to learn different elemental Ki without a master," Chris started to explain.

"My Ki control is me input a certain amount of Ki and executing it at that amount, however I screw up and output more than I input. An example would be I have 100% of my energy and my Fire Style uses 30% of my overall enemy however when I actually use my Ki I use 40% as I cannot perfectly balance my control resulting me to 60% of energy left over instead of 70% I should have meaning no times I can use the same ability."

"I've been practicing these abilities for 10 long years now and I still haven't fully master them yet, same for Darkness as my strongest affinity of the neutral Ki and my Wind, Lightning, and Fire elemental my highest. Which reminds me," said Chris turning back to the sea.

Chris brought his hands together a mass of red and black energy started to gather, Chris focusing even harder before as the sphere of light grew bigger and bigger.

"Chaos…. Beam!" shouted Chris as he threw his hands forward along with the beam, a stream a red along with black wavering around it in a chaotic manner shot off into the night, causing the waves to shot up into the air creating a path where the beam went until filling up the empty gap once again.

"I'm neutral Ki control is perfect, I can fire out Ki blasts like those with the same input and output so I don't waste my overall energy. It's the elemental ones that give me problem, save for my Wind Style," explained Chris as he readies his hands shooting his hands back and forth like he was continuous punching someone fired off several rounds of red energy pellets larger than a football and came hurling back towards Chris.

The black-haired boy pulled out his twin swords and began slashing the blast at him. Unrivaled speed, his arms were like blurs hacking away at the blast, dispersing each other as he struck them and disappeared momentarily reappearing to the side of another blast after blast destroying and reappearing right next to Alvin and Raine, causing both of them to jump.

"Holy crud… dude how do you teleport like that! Another Ki technique!" Alvin shouted with glee.

"Ah no… that's just high-speed movement, not instant teleportation," chuckled Chris rubbing the back of his head.

Putting his swords away, he wiped the sweat off his face and sighed.

"I'm more tired than I thought, I need to practice gather my Ki energy in quick response time. Would save me the trouble if I'm running low," said Chris.

"Hey if Ki can do all those crazy things like that, can you use it to Fly?" asked Raine thinking how amazing and romantic it would be to fly in the night sky.

"Yes and no… you can be that's a lot of hard work! I can't do it yet, just hover for about 2 seconds and I fall flat on my face," said Chris tirelessly, "Ki Manipulation is hard and Vincent wasn't around a lot to train me properly so I had to make do. And three of the ten Ki Users passed away so there's seven left bumping Vincent to 1st and me to 4th and the other members are elders now and I don't want to disturb them."

"It's sad that there's hardly anymore Ki Users left in the world?" asked Alvin dishearteningly.

"Yeah, with what the world is now it would be pretty hard and inconvenient to use Ki nowadays without getting caught and experimented on for strange abilities humans are capability of," said Chris scratching the back of his head with his eyes closed.

"Hey is there someone over here?" called a voice.

The three friends booked behind the trees as a pair of light scanned the area. The three of them were sweating bullets down their faces.

"I thought I heard something, guess not. What about you?" said a policeman investigating the forest.

"I found nothing either, the reports that people have been saying of 'strange lights' and 'monster-like images' are probably just their imaginations. I mean, really, a two-headed dragon out here? Ha!" laughed the other policeman as they both walked away.

"But what about those shadows over here earlier?"

"Probably your imagination, let's get out here. Forest's give me the creeps at night."

Both Alvin and Raine glared out Chris.

"Hehe… ah, sorry?"


Walking back to Chris's house Alvin reminisce about a certain event back in the day where Chris was practicing with swords for the first time and chopped up some woods in midair, but the chunks of woods fell on his head over and over again and Chris walked backwards avoiding them and dodged the last one but hit his head against the tree behind him.

Alvin laughed at the performance years ago as Raine scolded him for such tasteless humor and helped Chris back up on his feet.

Chris was accident prone and clumsy back then and he's still is now! He forgot to make sure not to let anyone see him and check to see no one could see his practice sessions.

"Sorry about that, I had to cut session early today. Oh well at least I recovered all of my energy," pouted Chris.

"It's OK man! Hey, how about you sleep over my house's tonight? It's probably boring sleeping all by yourself every night and it's game night at my house!" Alvin told Chris in a sly manner.

Chris's eyeballs lit up, if there's one thing that excites him it's video games. He was a game freak, and he didn't care. He loves games!

"Alright! I'll go get my stuff ready! Be right back!" and with that Chris dashed back to his house.

"Good grief he's too easy sometimes," Raine said placing her hand to her forehand. "But his reactions are always so cute."

"Hey do you want to come over as well? Plenty of room and two young bachelors to protect you by your side, what do you say?" asked Alvin wiggling his eyebrows.

"You had me until 'bachelors'… but what the heck I want to make sure you stay out of trouble," said Raine agreeing to tag along as Alvin shouted 'yes' into the air.

Raine shook her head, but blush. If only I and Alvin were alone… eh… I didn't just think that just now…

On cue Chris returned with a slightly bigger backpack.

"Dude, what the hell did you pack in there? Your room!" shouted Alvin examining Chris' backpack.

"Just the usual, my clothes, sewing kit, butler attire, some food, some gifts, toothbrush…" Chris started, but Alvin cut him off.

"Dude! You plan on living with me or someone? Hahaha, relax! I'm not going anywhere," laughed Alvin.

The three chuckled together, however their laughter was short-lived. An eerie wind and feeling blew right by them like a wave. They immediately turned their faces to where the old abandon shrine is suppose to be.

"H-Hey… what was that?" asked Alvin nervously.

Chris didn't know what it was, but something told him to investigate it. If let unnoticed something bad was going to happen, and so he sprinted in the direction.

"Chris-chan! Where the hell are you going!" said Raine as both her and Alvin followed him.

Chris continues to run deeper and deeper into the lost woods until a figure came into view and slowed down. He began slowing down, carefully approaching the figure.

A boy in black clothing stood before a vast forest walking deeper and deeper into the darkness.

"Close, that abandon shrine in this forgotten forest is the perfect place to finally infiltrate Gensokyo."

Smiling crookedly, he took a step forward but stopped as he felt the presence of another next to him. Looking behind him he encountered a familiar face from before and snarled at the newcomer.

The black-haired boy in red stared at the boy in black clothing. "Hey you're that guy from before! What are you doing here?"

"Nothing of your concern, mortal," he said as he eyed a pair of twin swords mounted on the back of his waist. "Interesting, not only a practicar of Ki but a swords master too? Full of surprises are you, maggot?"

Chris backed away, feeling the huge amount of animosity coming off the guy, readying himself in a defensive stance. Not only that, he felt a huge amount of energy coming off of him as well, an evil kind. Something was familiar about it… something foul in the air.

"Who are you? And are a Ki User too?" Chris eyed the boy in black suspiciously.

"Since it doesn't matter if you're here or not and you're going to die anyway I'll introduce myself. My name is Levin and I am the King of Gods, the ultimate god among gods! And soon I'll take control over Gensokyo! Now then…"

As the one calling himself Levin raise his hand, and at its command a swarm of black-colored creatures ripped themselves from beneath the ground. Yellow eyes, black bodies, and strange silver marking located on their bodies the creatures grinned showing a row of razor sharp teeth.

"Entertain me, for I am bore as I open the gateway to Gensokyo!" Levin said with the most evil of smiles.


Author's Note: Hello there! VirusChris here again with another fanfic if your familiar with my other stories. I've been getting into the Touhou series over the past few weeks trying to familiar myself with it and its characters and there's this certain charm it has that draws me in.

Anyway I've been brainstorming this Touhou story in my mind after reading a few other Touhou fanfics, and seeing some OCs especially the male variety that compile with the females of the series and so try my hand at it. It took me a while to figure out how the first two chapters of my story will begin which will focus on the OC and the world in first before moving my main character onto Gensokyo.

The main character, Christopher Trevas Corona, is characterized as a Noble, Selfless, and Protective to a fault and giving his heart-warming, carefree, and honest nature he wins many friends both from his world and the girls of Gensokyo, though he can get on people's nerves a bit from time to time. When I originally thought of him, he was too much like a Gary Stu as I was setting up his background and abilities and went back to give me comical problems he has and limitations on his abilities and some flaw in his behavior which are shown in this chapter. I might make fun of him like I did here with the 'Gary Stu' comment as a running gag along with his other problems.

I've had this grand story in mind and I plan on making an Action RPG version of it when I get the time to it and learn how to use a certain game maker program to develop and form a team. The main character's first and last name will be changeable, so no VA's unless I do and go with 'him', 'he', 'his', etc. when they refer to the main character.

But seriously this is the LONGEST chapter I've even written for any of my fanfic before! I don't believe I want to write something this lengthy again unless there's no choice. This is the introduction chapter so I wanted to fit as much little background, personalities of the characters and so foreshadowing on certain. You guys are smart, you'll figure it out. Next chapter will not be as long. Let's see how many words… holy curd! Over 12,000 words in this chapter!

Well nothing about that, please review and give me some feedback on the story. I like to improve myself and keep the characters from the series in character and such. I'm planning on having a vast cast of them in this story.