Disclaimer: The box i'm thinking within is now full of my brain-seepings... Am I allowed to think outside of it yet...? Touhou belongs to Zun.

A/N: Still at 25%, give or take, on the spin off. Though, I might have an extra chapter made for the main story if i keep up this rate of production! I made chap 23 same day as 22! If i'm feeling less lazy than usual, I may have a day that I upload 2 chapters in one day soon-ish. Though as an interesting game (which I'm totally hooked on) was just discovered by myself... As such, the, uhh... the odds aren't the best in the world that a bonus update will be made... On with the show!

Yukari: Ohh, look! It's mentioning back when you used to do daily updates.

Author: God was that horrible. Also, I'm hardly an 'it'.

Yuuka: Ohh?

Author: Shush. Let's just get on with the show.

Afternoon, Misty lake:

After we had once again cleaned all of the blankets, Cirno suggested I wash my kimono as well. Makes sense; the thing was a bit sticky at this point. And so I began to undress, Cirno grabbing my wings beforehand. "Looks like you've finished molting, Usa. My, what long wings you have!" Complimented the grinning fairy. I looked back to my wings, realising that they were now the size on a long sword. If this keeps up my fear of the things growing way too long will become a reality! "So, they won't be growing again until I become stronger, right?" I asked with a worried look on my face, which got a nod in response.

"If you think they might be getting in the way though, I could help you shatter them so that you can reshape them. All I need to know is the sort of shape you want instead, and for you to chill the air around you as hard as you can! Also, it might hurt some. Not the act of shattering, but they might cut you up some when they explode."

"W-well, if you don't mind... How about a bladed hoop...? It would be more useful than a blade without a handle, and it would look so pretty!" I asked, before added. "And easier for you to hold, for when we swim, too."

My master smiled, giving a nod. "It will take more effort on your part , but that shape could also be an interesting weapon if you practiced with it. They might not come out perfect though, as that's a very complex shape. Don't blame me if they break easily, alright Usa?" Answered my master, who must have tried unique shapes for her wings before.

"S-so, I just focus on cooling the area as well as I can? That's It?" I asked, wanting to be sure not to screw this up. I didn't want an abstract piece of art for wings, you know?

...A what?

"Yeah, I'll do the rest; just don't let the temperature rise no matter what. But first, we go to the middle of the lake. Don't want to fill the walls with holes, now do we?" Responded my master, before she grabbed my hand and flew off to the center.

Cold radiated from her hand as she waited for me to begin. After swallowing hard, trying my best to calm down, I started to chill the air as hard as I could. The water a meter bellow me began to quickly crystallize and freeze over, the surface of a small, yet growing, area, shining in the sun. The frozen water slowly spread further, and further, until it suddenly stopped spreading, seeming to have hit the limit I could drop the temperature.

"What, is that all, Usa? Stand on the Island, and show me just how much my pupil has grown! This little breeze just isn't enough, you weakling!" Shouted my master, a cocky grin on her face.

"W-w-what?" I was caught off guard, before frowning. "Ohh, I'll show you, alright... I'll show you exactly what I can do!" I shouted, an icy flame burning in my eyes. I landed like a sack of lead weights on the small ice island, my wings beginning to glow lightly, while the iceburg bobbed a bit. The temperature began to plummet once more, and the island expanded further.

"What? That all? Maybe I should just give up on such a weak. little. Human." Stated Cirno, whom I took seriously.

"Grr... I'll... Show you weak...!" I shouted back, before I let loose a scream, and the water in the air began to crystallize and pull towards me, while the glow from my wings intensified, one of them cracking slightly across the surface, so stressed were they by my efforts.

"Stupid! Weakling! Butt head! Stupid! Booger blaster!" Shouted Cirno, who was starting to get a little too into insulting me, and lost sight of why she was doing this to begin with, at least as far as one could tell.

Once more the light emanating from my wings intensified, and tiny holes started to drill themselves into the small island. It would seem that I was doing what I had done to the water the day before, but with the Ice. Of course, the thought of just what that may do to the ice hardly came to mind.

I began to stomp my foot, splintering the ice below me with strength I had never had before now, the cold air beginning to swell around me, as if empowered by the act. My wings began to shake and flicker. With one final stomp, the ice spider-webbed outwards, the small Island splitting in half. In that same moment, my wings exploded, blasting me forwards. A blue mist of blood was left in my wake, my back sliced into a bloody mess. One thing Cirno hadn't counted on was the sharp edges of my wings would be within the explosion, magnifying the damage they could do to myself. However, one advantage of being blasted away was not being near the enormous chunk of ice that was about to explode.

"Usa, are you oka-" Began to shout the worried Cirno, before her question was interrupted by the explosion of my little island-turned-bomb. The detonation could be heard throughout most of Gensoukyou, and lucky for my master, who had let her guard down after seeing me go flying like that, almost all of the ice missed her. Almost all of the ice. As my master landed on the shore of the lake, blown that far by the shockwave of the explosion alone, she was covered in deep cuts and her left forearm missing in action. Cirno clutched at her stump at the loss, before remembering she had no time to whine like a baby.

She grabbed a particularly large shard of ice that had embedded itself in the dirt beside her, stabbed it into the stump, reforming what she had lost, before flying off to look for me. It didn't take her long to find me, as there was a blue tint to the area of water I was in. Diving under the water, she looked about, spotting me after only a short time. Swimming over to me, she froze the entire back of my ribcage so as to stop the bleeding. After that, she shot out of the water towards the house with me in tow. Small shards of ice began to slowly fly after us as she flew, but she ignored them.

These shards were of my wings, which had yet to reform themselves, but were still drawn to me.

Thankfully, all of our wounds had already closed themselves by the time we reached the house thanks to the icy depths of the lake, so the only thing left to address would be my unconsciousness.

"Heh... She looks so at peace when she sleeps." Said the smiling fairy, to nobody at all. "You did good, Usa. Sorry I couldn't help you, but it's something you have to do by yourself. Sorry I lied to you. ...I wish I didn't have to lie to you."