There was a woman sitting in a chair, sipping some hot, sweet tea. She had white hair with a side pony to the left, tied with a red ribbon. She had a long, red robe on with a white shirt underneath, enough to cover her legs and shoes. There was also another woman sitting in a rocking chair in the corner of the room. This woman wore a long blue dress that stopped at her waist which from then on was just a ghostly tail, a blue witch hat with a star on the top, and a staff lying on the wall next to her, she wasn't drinking tea, but had a book of spells of dark magic in her lap to read. There was a long silence, only to here the clock on the wall ticking and ticking each second and minute. The woman with the red robe on decided to break the long silence and spoke.

"Um...Mima? I have something to tell you..." The ghost in the dark corner looked up from her book and took a glance at the women in the red robe.

"Yes, Shinki darling?" Shinki didn't seem too proud of what she wanted to say, but she had to get it out.

"I was just thinking of some crazy idea. Nevermind, it's stupid anyway..." She retreated with her head down and sipped her tea again, sighing sadly after the sip.

"Why do you always do that? You are about to say this big idea and say it's stupid, spit it out already hun. ~"

The two, known as the ghost, Mima, and the goddess, Shinki. They were close friends since Mima died, which was a very long time ago. Mima still denies the fact that she is actually dead for the past centuries and says she is just in a soul form, but Shinki knows Mima doesn't like talking about her past so she never brings it up. Shinki always did wonder a bit from time to time, all the years they been through together and Mima has not even told her once, not even a piece of her past, Shinki did feel a bit disappointed, like Mima couldn't trust her to tell about her past. Shinki was lost in thought until Mima snapped her out of it.

"Shinki, you're spacing out again, dear. ~"

"H-Huh?" Shinki jumped a bit and almost spilled her tea, which was cold now so she just put it by the teapot on the tray and folded her hands politely in her lap.

"I was just thinking-"

Mima interrupted. "Clearly. ~"

Shinki sighed and continued. "I was thinking that all the centuries we spent together, you have never told me about your past so...I feel a bit sad because I think you still don't trust me that much yet..."

Mima was about to speak when a young girl came out of her room yawning. She had short red hair, with a pony tail on her left side, going down, like Shinki, but hers went up. She wore a purple magician's outfit with small shoes. "Mima-Sama, reciting the first a hundred digits of Pi is hard, can I go to bed, it's late..." Mima smiled at her daughter figure.

"Go ahead, but be sure to work harder tomorrow." The little girl walked to bed saying a "Thank you" and "I will" for tomorrow. Mima turned back to speak to Shinki who had glassy eyes. "Shinki, is something wrong, dear?"

"Who...was that?"

"Oh, I found her yesterday in the forest after you left. Her name is Marisa Kirisame."

"She looked so cute and adorable; I wish I had children..."

Shinki stopped tearing and rose up with her fist in front of her chest. "Mima, you wanted to know my idea, right? Well, here it comes." Shinki took a deep breath and folded her hands in front of her heart, like she was praying. "I want to create my own world, and have my own children..." She looked Mima dead straight in the eyes with hope. Mima was about to laugh, but when she saw the look in Shinki's eyes; she knew she was being serious. "When I saw Marisa...that motivated me more for my idea, I want my own children to love, raise, and protect!" Mima didn't know how it was possible to create your own world; then again, she never saw any of Shinki's powers or knew about them.

"Where are you exactly going to create your own world?"

"I already know just the place, come on, let's go!" Shinki was too excited now and couldn't be talked out of it; Mima knew that so she abandoned her book on the chair and grabbed her staff. Before leaving, Mima locked the door so nobody could touch Marisa, the humans and lower youkai were afraid to be around Mima's territory anyway, so it didn't matter, besides Marisa, Shinki was her only true friend. They went down the trail out of the Forest of Magic and passed by the Hakurei Shrine where they saw a shrine maiden about Marisa's age, she wore a red and white shrine maiden outfit and had purple hair. They were behind the thick trees and bushes so the miko didn't notice them. Shinki didn't mind about her, but Mima despised her and the Hakurei blood line for some reason, Shinki didn't know why.

"I forgot we had a new shrine maiden since her mother died, her name was Reimu Hakurei if I recall correctly." Shinki thought it was cute, seeing her sweep the shrine, Mima didn't care at all.

"Bah...who cares about the Hakurei, let's go, Shinki." The pair continued on to the mountain near the Hakurei Shrine, they stopped at a dead end.

"Why are we here, Shinki?" Shinki walked up to the rocky wall and spoke to it; suddenly it turned into a huge white gate that said "Makai". A portal appeared as the gate opened, they went inside with the gate closing behind them and vanishing into the side of the rocky wall so it wouldn't be discovered. Once they entered all that could be seen was a floor with endless darkness with a red sky over the horizon, and a moon. It was plain, but Shinki wanted to make Makai of different parts. In this world she had full control.

"What is this place, Shinki?" Shinki smiled and created a glass chair for Mima to sit down in. Mima took a seat.

"This is Makai, Mima. I know its plain, but I want different things it in."

"There is not even ground to stand on!" Shinki giggled, knowing that since she erased the ground. Suddenly the world shook as Shinki raised her hands as a huge fortress appeared.

"I call it, Pandaemonium!" Mima clapped a bit amazed at Shinki's potential. Shinki teleported them to the top of the fortress, Mima was still in the chair, looking at the view of nothing.

"Pretty. ~" Mima joked.

"Hang on, I'm thinking of what to create. Oooo, how about some of this! And this! Some of that! A dash of this! More of this! Can't forget about this! For last let's go with this!" Soon enough, Makai became full of life. It has a grassy field over there, a frozen field here, random buildings and town, parks and fields, a lake, ruins, a Fallen Shrine, lastly the crystallized forest. Makai was so huge, you could get lost easily. Basically, Makai looked like a Hell version of Gensokyo. There were no walk ways or bridges, to get around you had to fly, everything wasn't all scrunched together either, it was all evenly spaced out. It was like space with different planets or galaxies; everything was just floating suspended with no support at all. Shinki gazed at her new world.

"What are you going to name your world?" Mima questioned.

"Didn't you notice the gate? It said Makai. This is Makai! Oh my, that's what I forgot!" Shinki that pointed near the entrance and a sign appeared saying 'Welcome to Makai!'

Something still didn't feel right to Shinki, she snapped her fingers and teleported them inside the fortress to give Mima a tour of what it was like inside, then to the bottom floor, the Creation Room. Mima was surprised, she knew it was big on the outside, but it was a maze on the inside, it already had nice hotel rooms for guests to stay and anything you can think of. Pandaemonuim was made out of pure crystal and glass, so it glittered from the moon light.

"Now I need to make the residents of Makai, my children! It was just an empty room. Mima was about to say "What gives?" but Shinki quickly did a summoning circle in the middle of the room. Shinki was exhausted and panting from the world she created, for a world this big she had a lot of energy or maybe she was saving it all for this purpose exactly. Mima was getting worried she might make herself pass out.

"Maybe you should take a break, dear, you created more than enough, imagine how much energy it would take to create a person with emotions and their own personality." Shinki was overly excited to stop now, but Mima was right, so she decided to just create one person for now. She closed her eyes and concentrated hard, using the last of her energy. The circle glowed as Mima hovered back a little. The circle lit up with smoke covering the room. A figure was on one knee, as the smoke cleared, the girl wore a red maid's outfit, some boots, a headdress, and swords on the sides of her waist, and she stood up with a smile and greeted her creator.

Shinki hugged her new creation with happy tears; the creation did the same, minus the tears but with a more cheerful smile. Shinki stepped back and examined her, the maid spoke.

"Mistress, what shall my name be?" Shinki planned for this moment a long time so she already had names ready at the top of her head. "From now on, I am your Goddess, Shinki; your name shall be Yumeko, the Maid of Swords!" Yumeko bowed politely.

"Thank you for naming me, Shinki-Sama..." Shinki barely had energy left in her, which caused her to pass out with a big smile on her face. Yumeko smiled, picking up her goddess and carrying her to bed.

(Hm, Shinki did a very nice job on her world, I guess can crash here, Marisa should be fine on her own...I hope). The thoughts of what Marisa would do while she was away worried Mima. Would Marisa feel sad and lonely? Maybe she would feel like there were no rules if Mima wasn't there and tear the house apart; Mima knew Marisa's wild personality. Mima thought about it again and instead of worrying, she could use this as a test to see if Marisa could handle herself alone or not. With that, Mima followed Yumeko and helped her put Shinki in the goddess bed, tucking her in. Mima decided to take a stroll and see what Shinki created; she passed through the fields and empty villages. Something had caught her eye, all the way in the corner of Makai. The ghost drifted over to the corner that said "Welcome to Hokkai, the corner of Makai" Mima kept going deeper into this new world she found, she wondered if Shinki made this beforehand. As the evil soul pondered she found a tomb with writing on it.

Here lies, The Great Sealed Magician ~ Byakuren Hijiri.

Mima didn't know who Byakuren was or why she was sealed so she returned to Shinki's room and went to tell her about it, but she was still sleeping. It was always hard to tell the time since there is no Sun in Makai; Mima liked that though since her powers are at full power at night. She decided to tell her in the morning and went to sleep next to Shinki as Yumeko slept in another room she made her own out of a guest room.