Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun.
A/N: Just hang in there, Elly! I'm sure that someone will get you down! ...Eventually. On with the show!
Morning, Unknown Mansion:
As the girl on the ceiling was still unconcious, we were forced to move on without a chance to question her.
"Hi-yah!" Cirno kicked open a door, and hopped into the room she had just forced her way into, ready to take on the world. Immediately the mist from behind the door sucked into my hand. It would seem it was already full, because now the hand was starting to grow claws. I suppose that would mean that after awhile it wouldn't even look like a hand, perhaps. ...I realy hope that doesn't happen, though. I like having two hands.
"...That's the 7th door you've opened that way thus far, Arn't we supposed to be sneaking?" My master seemed to be having a blast, but I couldn't help but feel sorry for whoever owned the house. I had managed to keep quiet, simply because I enjoyed seeing Cirno looking as happy as she was. That mischievous grin, bursting with an energy that showed just how little she feared what might lurk within this place. I envied that aspect of her...
"Ehh? Are we?" Cirno stopped, and turned back towards me.
"...Isn't that why you froze Elly to the ceiling?" Could it be that I thought too much about the reason behind her actions?
"Who?" One of master's brows rose are the question. I guess she wouldn't know the girls name. That makes sense, honestly.
"The one you froze to the ceiling! If not for stealth, why would you do that? Anyways, lets keep going. We can talk while we look around, and standing still in this place just seems dangerous." Cirno thought about what I had said, for a moment, before chuckling.
"Ahh... Actually, Aya bet that I couldn't pull it off, and I wasn't about to back down for such an easy victory!" Cirno began to walk once more, trusting my word. Thus far I hadn't tried to trick her into doing somthing stupid, so she had no real reason not to trust my rather valid concern. So, we went back to walking down the hallway, as the door she had kicked in was a small room with nothing within but an empty bed.
"What did you win?" As we were walking down the hall, we saw another room "A dozen eggs!" The answer simply confused me. Where did Aya get eggs... from... wait, she has feathered wings..."
"...Is... Is she some kind of bird Youkai...?" I really hoped to prove my intuition wrong, but the evidence simply pointed to one thing.
"Yeah, a crow Tengu!" ...The eggs were hers... They just had to be!
"...And, if you had you lost?" My voice was weak, due to disgust at a bird bartering with its own eggs.
"My first born child!" ...What.
"Your... But... What? Do... fairies even have children? We look like human children..." Cirno simply shrugged. ...Fantastic, she wasn't even sure, herself. While talking, we came upon yet another door.
"Fairies simply come into being, but we don't know how that happens. It doesn't help that most fairies are as dumb as a rock, and as agressive as wolfs... We could be able to, but as far as I know, we never have." The vast majority of Fairies made Cirno look like a scholar by comparison. Cirno proceeded to kick down the door before us, once more hopping in.
Within the small room, was nothing but a single bed. There was a difference in this room, however. A very important one. The bed had someone on it, asleep.
"...What's she doing here?" Cirno simply raised a brow. Within the room was the Black-white, sleeping soundly, even with the disturbance.
"Mmnya..." Marisa was out like a log, in a deep, happy slumber.
"Didn't Wriggle say that she had gone missing?" Cirno looked to me, then back to the girl in the bed. She was now deep in thought.
"Praise me... more, Master..." The witch was talking in her sleep. Who was she talking about?
Cirno floated over to the bed, and produced a small chunk of ice. It would seem that master wished get a beating, as she was about to prank one of those who had the least issues with killing fairies.
"I wouldn't do that, if I were you. Huh? Why?" As Cirno extended her arm to touch the ice against the girls skin, the air around the bed began to ripple. Cirno was suddenly thrown into the wall, or to be more accurate, through the wall.
"Very powerful barrier. Anyone other than the caster who tries to pass through will be launched away."I ran over to the fairy shaped hole in the wall. Through it was a rather dizzy Cirno. What I saw simply amazed me, not counting Cirno. I was already rather used to how amazingly cute she was.
"Why do I see so many stars, and no witch making em...?" Cirno seemed rather out of it, and repeatedly failed to pick herself up off the 'ground,' if it could be call that. Through the hole in the wall, was what looked like space itself.
"...It's imperative you get that friend of yours out of there, lest you be discovered by the master of this land." My hand started to fly towards Cirno, dragging me along with it. Taking its advice, I did my best to carry Cirno back through the hole in the wall, which ended up being me dragging her by the shoulders. Fairy muscles were, unlike that of a youkai, even weaker than that of a human.
While dragging my master from the large expanse, I could have sworn I saw a pair of glowing eyes looking at me, but when I looked, the pair of orbs were gone. Once out of the hole, I sighed with relief.
"Ugh... Please don't do that again, Master... My arm said she's surrounded by a strong barrier!" At this point I had forgotten that only I could hear the voice of my arm.
"Fine, f- Hey... Where are we?" I turned around, and realised we weren't in the room we had been in before Cirno's little sling shot effect. My pale face turned pure white, we weren't in a room at all. Around us was nothing but darkness, and I really didn't enjoy the familiarity I had with this location at all.
"It would seem that she found us... I had hoped we would have at the very least have joined back up with that group of yours before being found, but it's a bit late to find them now."My arm's words only confirmed my fear. This was the place that voice seemed to live.
"My, my, my... What have we here? Brought a friend, have we?" The now familiar voice rung out in the darkness.