Discaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun.

A/N: Once more things go wrong, and once more its time for... who knows what? On with the show!

Unknown location:

I felt myself drifting along, as though submerged in water. My hand throbbing with pain, but also felt like I couldn't move, or even open my eyes. After what felt like an eternity of drifting, my eyes finally began to crack open, to see a blurry mansion. Was the mansion blurry, or my eyes? I blinked several times, and pulled up my arm to rub them, but the hand didn't make contact. My surroundings a blur, I looked to the hand that was throbbing. My eyes widened as realisation hit me. My left arm was partial gone. Everything below the elbow was simply... gone. I tried to scream, but no sound escaped, only a large bubble. I looked about, and noticed light from above, so I slowly floated towards it. My body felt sluggish, and I reached out for the light, with my stump. The world went dark around me as I hit the surface.

My eye cracked open, and I surveyed my surroundings once more. My brows shot up. The walls looked the exact same as before, but upside down, and not blurred by water. Above me was the surface of the water. This mansion was... upside-down? Or would it be I was... I tryed to speak, but only black liquid came out, and I began to choke, coughing up a large quantity of what looked like tar, but as thin as water. Continuously I coughed and choked on the odd substance, before I was kneeling in a puddle of the stuff. Without realising it, I had begun to sink into the pool of black gunk. Having noticed what was happening too late, the only thing I could do was await my fate. Unable to scream for help, I simply squeezed shut my eyes in fear.

Once more my eyes opened, this time I was quickly to my feet, looking around with terror in my eye. There was... absolute darkness surrounding me, yet I could see myself fine! Just what is going on? Where am I?

"H-hello?" I was surprised that my voice even worked at this point. Wait, this location seemed so familiar... No, not... not this place again...

"Why, hello there!" My blood froze in my veins, or atleast felt like it. I quickly jumped to the side, expecting the worst imaginable to befall me if I hadn't. Proven right, I saw the location I once occupied get vaporized by a huge laser.

"W-who are you!" I knew I wouldn't win a fight against the same disembodied voice as I was last killed by, in my previous dream.

"You will find out soon enough! Now, my turn, why are you still alive...? I'm sure I killed y- ahhhh, I see, I see! A cute little fairy, are we? No, that doesn't seem quite right..." Before I knew what was going on, the darkness was all but gone. Around me was nobody. I was once more in the mansion I was once within, my clothes now stained black by the odd fluid from before. Just what was going on? Had she wanted to, that women could have probobly killed me yet again. My still not regenerated hand throbs once more, and the now familliar fog begins to fill the mansion. Suddenly, the floor was gone. I feel for what felt like hours, before I landed hard on what felt like tile. I doubled over in pain, the fall must have broken a rib, I just knew it... Why must bad things keep happening to me...?

Morning dusk, Un-named mountains behind the Hakurei Shrine:

"Mmng..." I began to stir, drawing the attention of my companion. Those who could see the mist, could still see the mist. That gem must not have been the only source.

"You okay...? That thing did a number on you, try not to move too much." Cirno was knealing beside me, trying to keep me calm, a look of sadness upon her face. Cirno had been trying desperatly to try and get my arm to regenerate, but to no avail. My arm was within a block of ice, she had been freezing all the damaged areas for the past several hours, while the others split up to look for the source. They were to gather back here as soon as the sun could be seen over the horizon. If they found nothing, they would need my ability to see the direction of the wind flow when I finally woke up.

"Wh-what happened...?" My voice was weak, one of my lungs had been injured durring the gem explosion, so it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to speak. With every word, my chest hurt, so I kept my question focused.

"I... don't know. After you blacked out, you were in terrible shape, blood was everywhere... Your side was torn up, and no matter how had I tried, I could never get your hand to regenerate." Cirno looked away, not able to bear how I might react. Her normally blue dress was covered in dried blood, and my borrowed dress was pitch black, just like in my dream. It would seem I was once again effected by my dream, atleast this time I wasn't coughing up blood. ...Or a pile of ash, as I just might be, had I not avoided that huge laser. I looked to my very heavy half missing arm, and noticed something odd. The area around the block was stained red, and within was an odd swirling mass.

"H-hey... Cirno, could you unfreeze my arm...?" Confused by the lack of anger, as well as the request, she simply complied. Cirno wasn't about to say no, and make her cute little pupil mad at her. Maybe I had a reason for both of those things. Cirnos hand simply grabbed my arm, and pulled it free, like she had done with the staff hours before. I brought my arm to my face, and looked the odd swirling mass over, which was now devouring the fog around it. What was a gentle vaccumm, was now a violent tornado of fog being pulled into my arm. All the fog in the area began to pull towards my arm, and it began to become harder and harder to see through it. The entire area was now free of fog, and I now had a hand made of it, going my the look of things.

"What the... heck?" Cirno, who had suddenly been able to see the now perfectly fine, if off color, arm. She poked the odd limb, but her hand simply passed through it.

"That's... odd..." My lung had finally finished healing, and the volume returned to my voice. I tried to touch the ground with it, to find myself able to, and suddenly something amazing happened. The once abstract grass returned to ordinary grass from my touch. Out of curiosity, I tried to touch Cirno's cheek. My hand touched her cheek, not passing through it, as I had half expected. Cirno simply blushed in response to the odd attention she was recieving. Being as cold as she was, few were willing to touch her skin.

"U-umm... Usa?" Cirno looked me in the eye, her own cheeks still a light pink.

"Yeah?" I simply smiled, while still touching her face.

"I'm so glad you're okay..." Cirno's arms wrapped around me, and my face began to redden as well.

In the distance we heard a whistle. It would seem we had an audience for our little drama filled display! Rumia slowly floated down towards us, with a huge grin on her face. To her, all that had transpired, was myself rubbing Cirno's cheek, followed by a long lasting embrace.

"I-it's now what it looks like!" I skitter away, so as to distance myself from Cirno, only further incriminating myself.

"Is that so~?" Rumia's grin took on a teasing air.