Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun.
A/N: And with that, my little odd disclaimer story ends! Can't think strait as of right now... Either It's from my cold, or I have some writers block going for me... Also, I'm beginning to notice something... I miss writing the everyday lives, and think my disintrest in battles is rubbing off on my story... On with the show!
Midnight, Un-named mountains behind the Hakurei Shrine:
Orange swept a foot infront of her, but Cirno simply did a spinning hop, using the momentum for a counter. Orange once more blocked the blade, but this time the surface of her staff began to cover with frost. It would seem blocking, or even staying in melee range with Cirno, wasn't a wise move due to the cold she would exude. The longer she fights, the colder the area becomes!
"Leave me alone, already!" Orange was tired, and her hand trembling. The extended use of her bow release was starting to wear her down. Where once were deadly attacks, were now only crushing blows.
"Not unless I stop you, villain!" Villain? She had done nothing wrong! ...Could it be that she was wrongfully being attacked?
Orange began to twirl her staff, in an attempt to gain her weapon's advantage. Range. A staff has far greater reach than that piddly little sword. Cirno turned her sword into a shield, and disrupted Orange's flow with a sudden block, and a blow to the chest from her tiny palm. Normally, that would be a trivial matter.
"Perfect freeze!" This, however, wasn't a normal strike. Ice began to encase the girl, starting from where she was hit. Struggle as she might, she couldn't stop the progress of the ice. She tried to brush off the ice, but that simply caused her hands to freeze to the growing mass.
"Give up. You've lost." Cirno had a rare serious expression upon her face, and knew that if left alone, the girl just might die if she couldn't negate the effect of her perfect freeze.
"N-no! I just wanna go home...! Why are you even doing this to me! I've done nothing wrong!" Tears were welling up in Orange's eyes, which caused the fairy to raise an eyebrow. Just as the ice had reached the neck, Cirno snapped her fingers. The advance of the ice was halted completely.
"Don't play dumb, that staff of yours is causing this fog!" The accusation caught Orange off guard. That was why? The staff, that the nice lady who had set her free, had given her?
"B-but I don't even see any f-fog!" It was true, Orange could see the fog just as well as Cirno could, which was not at all.
At this point, everyone had slowly made their way over to the location the battle had ended. I grabbed one of my rings, and felt about inside of Rumia's bubble. I pressed the side of the ring to her face, once I had located it, and hoped it would wake the girl up. Rumia's dark sphere began to ripple, and I hear the girl's surprised cry. It would seem my idea had actually worked!
"I-is that... so...?" The bubble around Rumia faded, and she looked about, while holding the spot Orange had impaled her.
"That is so~!" I chuckle, before Rumia's gaze settles on me. A grin stretched across her face, and she tackled to the ground me before I had a chance to try and flee. Rumia sure did like to... cuddle with people... Before I knew it, the bubble had returned, and once more I was squirming to get away, while trying to not make a sound.
"Really, now? I'll just see what Usa say- Ehh? Where's Usagi?" Cirno began to look about, at a loss for where I could be. That is, untill she heard a moan from Rumia's bubble, which sounded a great deal like myself. Cirno floated over to to the ball, and poked inside with a pole of ice. She knew from past experiance, that it is a rather unwise idea to stick limbs in that bubble.
"Rumia, I need usa back, now..." Cirno had confirmed that there was movement going on inside the bubble.
"Is that so~?" Suddenly I found myself able to see once more, and no longer getting that odd full body tingle that Rumia's bubble always gave me. Could it be that that bubble wasn't just a simple blob of darkness?
"Ehh? How is she fine already!" Orange looked towards Rumia with a bit of fear on her cute face. Yuuka would probobly say that the look suits her, were she here.
"Well, shes a Youkai, so... she gets better quickly. Shouldn't you know that, as a Youkai? Anyways, I'm going to be borrowing this staff, now." Cirno reached within the ice, and pulled the staff free like it was nothing. I simply looked at the girl with an amazed look in my eye. How the heck had she done that? Cirno tossed the staff my way, which I scrambled to catch. Once I had the item in hand, my head throbbed in pain. Shaking off the headache, I began to inspect the staff, finding that the fog was coming from one of the heads. I looked the thing over, before finding a small hole. Inside the hole was a small smokey white gem stone.
"Umm, Cirno, I need your help... can you get inside this hole, and pull out the gem inside?" I gestured to the tiny pit in the golden staff. Cirno grabbed the staff, and a thread of ice began to extend from the tip of her finger, and into the hole. After a few moments, Cirno had succesfuly pryed the jewel free, and handed it to be, before looking inside the hole, making sure nothing else was in there.
As the gem touched my skin, the headache from before worsened. The crystal began to bore its way into my skin, causing me to yelp. Once it had reached a certain point, a pulse of magic was released, and the effected hand began to crack, and crumble. It actualy hurt more than you would think.
"C-c-cirno, my hand...! It's falling appart!" Cirno, thinking fast, or more so, not thinking at all, deemed it necessary to take rather painfull action. Pulling out her sword, the blade thinning into a very short rapier, she stabbed at the spot the gem stone had dug into my hand, hoping for the best. The stone burst appart, along with the lower half of my arm. Wailing in pain, I blacked out.