Discaimer: What, a knock at the door? Get outta heeeere. Touhou belongs to Zun.
A/N:With our first peek into the lives of the pair of nocturnal youkai, now we go back in time some, so as to join up with Aya, and little Wriggy! On with the show!
Early night, Garden of the sun:
"Where's Yuuka? We've searched the entire house, and field!" Complained Wriggle, a bit distraught by the lack of anyone. While they had been on the way to Aya's home, they had heard a scream from the fields.
"If I knew that, would we be looking?" Asked Aya, stating that she obviously hadn't a clue. Aya knew Yuuka well enough, from all the times she had teased the gardener, Yuuka never once showed any fear when she fought her. That scream had the same sort of sound to it as that of Yuuka's voice. Yuuka feared nothing, and hearing such a sound didn't bode well at all.
"W-what do we do, Aya? Th-there's no way we could stand a chance against anything that could have scratched, let alone hurt, Yuuka of all people!" Shouted the panicking bug.
"Well, If anything happens I'll just have to fly us out of here, now wont I?" Asked Aya, who was confident that nothing could match her speed. Just as they began to give up hope, all the sunflowers began to face them, one after another.
"U-uhh... Aya...?" Asked the now petrified bug, to the crow that was growing nervous as well. She was considering simply high tailing it, with Wriggle in tow, but Wriggle wanted to make sure Yuuka was alright. That simple selfless request of hers was enough to keep the bird from bolting away with Wriggle.
"I... Don't know, I realy don't. " Admitted Aya, who was on her guard, while squeezing Wriggle's hand with a vice grip. If anything did happen, she wouldn't let her little love bug come to harm.
"Mugenkan." Whispers, seemingly from nowhere and everywhere. The flowers. The flowers were speaking to the pair. Was this Yuuka's doing?
"Mu...genkan?" Asked wriggle, to herself. She swears she had heard that word at some point in the past, but couldn't place where. Perhaps in a dream, even. The memory felt fuzzy at best.
With just this creepy little bit of happening, Aya took off, with Wriggle in tow. She wouldn't risk the little bug, even at the request of Wriggle herself. Flying at her top speed, they reached the secret entrance in no time flat, and while putting on the breaks, Aya didn't stop untill they were in her cellar, safe and sound.
"Wh-what do we d-d-do, Aya...? I don't want any thing to happen to her..." Asked the bug in a hushed, yet trembling voice, fighting back tears with every word. Yuuka was one of her closest friends, even if she would never admit that. She simply didn't understand love, realy. What she had actualy felt towards Yuuka, hadn't been love at all. Not the kind that she thought it was, atleast. Yuuka was like a sister to the little bug. A sister that... realy enjoyed causing the bug pain, for the pleasure of the both of them. ...Bad analogy.
"As of right now? There's nothing we can do. In the morning? We will go and tell the Red-white." Cooed the bird, trying her best to put Wriggles mind at ease. It worked, to a point.
"B-but..." Began Wriggle, before she was cut off my her face being smothered between the Tengu's soft breasts. Aya had pulled her in for a hug, so as to calm her down. Wriggle began to sob, tears staining Aya's blouse.
"There, there... I'm sure she's fine. Don't cry, Wriggle." Comforted Aya, while Aya tried to calm herself, as well. Anything that could even harm Yuuka would be only one of a hand full of creatures within Gensokyo. None of which had motivation to harm the flower youkai, let alone make her simply... vanish. Before she had known it, Wriggle had cried herself to sleep in her breasts.
"Heh, and to think, tonight I was going to make you mine! I guess I'll have to wait, as it wouldn't feel right to calm her down in such a way..." Sighed the Tengu, who was looking forward to this, ever since the girl had fainted this afternoon. She had brought them up to her room, undressing the both of them. Aya set Wriggle down on the bed, before writing down details of what had happened in her scoop journal. Of talking flowers, missing sadists, and... this 'Mugekan' that those flowers had mentioned. She could swear she remembered that word from some place, but it felt like a forgotten dream. Setting down her journal, she got into the bed along side Wriggle, and slowly drifted off to sleep.
Unknown location:
A mansion, a nearly empty lake that smelled of blood, a gateway untouched for years. All features of the local mountains were obscured by a mist the color of the purest white clouds. While all but the creatures of the night slept, the mist grew. Anything it touched began to lose touch with reality, and grow abstract. Trees became jagged trunks, with a random color of leaf, each. Animals simply vanishing within the mist. But after a short distance of encroaching upon the world, the mist stopped moving forward, as though in hiding. The denisity was slowly increasing, however.
"Huh? where am I?" I asked myself, the ground feeling sticky under my feet. Why was the ground so sticky? I tried to fly, but couldn't, a feeling not like I couldn't, but like somthing wasn't allowing me to. I couldn't see the ground, but could tell I was standing on an angular surface, and the ground felt so very sticky. I sniffed the air, and found exactly what I was standing in. Blood. The air was thick with the stench of blood, the ground was covered in a thin layer of blood. And I began to notice. The blood was now starting to rise. I was already submerged up to my ankles, before I began to run up to slope, away from the rising tide of blood. A pair of glowing yellow eyes watched my every movement from an island that simply floated above me.
I kept running, untill I no longer felt the stickyness of blood between my toes. The stench, however, never vanished. The stench only increased, the mist slowly parting. Before me was a lake full to the brim with nothing but blood. Just how many needed to die to fill such a thing? And how did it fill so quickly?
The mist had fully cleared around me, and I could now see an island in the middle of this lake. On the island stood a tall, purple bat winged girl. Her hair was a mustard yellow shade of blonde, along with bright yellow eyes, which were glowing eerily. A white frilly blouse covered her torso, with a pair of red suspenderd and a red bow adorning her chest. Black dress pant, and black shoes were on her legs. She looked to have been watching me for some time, and simply smiled when I took notice of her.
"My, my, my, what have we here? A little lost fairy? Are you here to fight your way passed me? You won't win, I'll tell you that right now." Stated the odd girl before me, a fang poking passed her lip.
"U-umm... where am I?" I asked, having simply found myself here moments before.
"If you know not what this place is, than you should leave. Now." Answered the pointy toothed girl, with a grin that showed she had vampiric fangs.
"B-b-but I don't even know how I got here!" I shouted in my defense, while backing up in fear. It was the truth, I had no clue where I was, or how I suddenly wound up here.
"Ohh? Well, I guess that makes you a visitor than! Only visitors don't know how they got here. But sadly, I can't let you in, even if I wanted to! The gateway inside wont activate, and is making all this mist!
"Inside? Gateway? Gateway to what?" I asked, baffled by the girl, who was speaking as though I knew what she meant.
"Ohh? So you don't even know such things? What an odd visitor... Well, come back some other time, and you can fight for the right to enter Mu-" Stated the girl, before she was cut off, and the world went dark.
"What have we here? Why arn't you asleep, little girl?" Asked a youkai from behind me, who had a terrifying sound of power to here voice. Before I could spin around to see what she looked like, she was gone. And so were my arms. I began to scream in pain, before I was silenced. My head had now joined my arms on the floor.
