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A/N: The world against us, will we succeed? ...Well, I guess we kind of have to, but still. On with the show!
Early night, Inner sanctum of Mugenkan:
The pair of us awoke at the same time, Cirno and I. The fog which had nearly covered my entire body, now began to find locations around my body to go, ending up on my wings. Slowly the fog swirled within the hoops, gathering into four spheres. By the time all but the hand was free of the fog, my wings had gone from ring, to globes.
"Ugh... My head is killing me..." Cirno tried to stand, but fell flat on her butt. Groggily I rose from the ground, with an even worse head ache than Cirno. She had simply fallen asleep, while I had gone unconcious, landing head first on the ground of the room.
Across the room, was the chunk of ice that Mima was encased in. Key word being was.
Ohh, great... She got loose! Be on your guard, I'm sure you would rather not get stabbed again. Warn your friend too, unless she enjoys a good stabbing. Cirno, watch out, that spirit is on the loose again." My voice lacked any form of urgency, what with being half asleep. I wasn't the best morning person.
"What? How did she get out, she was frozen solid!" My master jumped back up, a look of panic on her face, before falling once more. It would seem she was having trouble standing.
Help the fairy up, we need to get moving"I rubbed the last of the sleep from my eyes, before doing as told. I offered Cirno my hand, which she tried to take, but missed. ...This seems quite a bit like what happened to Aya, after she woke up... Could it be, that the same thing happened to Cirno? But if that is so, why could she wake herself up? I grabbed Cirnos hand and began to float, so she could simply leech off of my flight, like I always did with her. When we were ready, the wall burst open. Behind it, a giant double door, the height of two men, appeared. The door swung open of it own accord, seemingly urging us to use it. I wasn't about to upset an inanimate object, even if it didn't seem sentient in the least, so I floated through the doorway.
On the other side of the door, which had once looked ohh so very dark, we were now in a very familiar room, the room with thousands of beds, only change being that nobody was awake. All the beds were in one piece, and three of them were empty.
"Don't worry, they are only fighting within their dreams, and won't be waking up any time soon, unless we fix this problem.But, how do we fix it? That's the easy part! The hard part will be fighting Mima at the peak of her power. I'm sure she's waiting for us at our destination, the very source of dreams!" I shuddered at the thought of just how strong that might be, if she was already tough as hell at her worst. Going at my slugish speed, It took a great deal longer to reach the end of the room. Along the way, I had seen Aya, Wriggle, Rumia, and Daiyousei, all sleeping peacfully in their beds. We came upon a familiar door, the one which we had nearly died reaching.
"Go to the wall with the secret door, the one that we took to escape."As we reached the aforementioned wall, the wall began to split itself open. This was rather different that the last time we entered this... door. The gash in the wall quivered and pulsed, like it was alive. That's quite disturbing...
As I floated into the hole, It slowly closed once more behind us with a squish. What a disgusting door...
"Where... are we...?" Cirno was finally beginning to feel better, and got off of my shoulder. Cirno's question stated exactly how all three of us felt, this was nothing like the star filled land it had once been. It was like a world made entirely of living meat. A floor of soft muscle twitched as I landed on it. I could feel blood between my toes, a rather unique feeling. If we were to fight Mima, we would need to conserve our strength, and every little bit helped.
My left hand, which was rarely within my control these days, pointed towards what looked like a giant heart. ...Are we inside of someone?
"No, Mima simply changed the border to fit her own desires. While mind was full of life, hers is a land of... I'm not even sure what to call this, but it's dangerous to life itself, if it goes on like this. If we dont fix this, Mima just might kill everyone in Gensokyo. Why would she do that? She's never been a particularly evil evil spirit... Could it b-"Before Yuuka could finish her deductions, she sensed a spike in the magic in the air.
Acting quickly, she forced herself into control of my body once more, and tackled Cirno to the side. Not a moment later, the entire area they had once occupied was vaporised. A jet black laser as thick as a bus had been fired by none other than Mima.
"Heh, like I would let you fix my little experiment!" What, that was the reason she had abducted the whole of Gensokyo? Mima wasn't herself... The Mima that I knew would never do anything this wrecklessly dangerous. I couldn't belive that she had stolen from me over something as low key as an experiment! My hair and eyes began to fad from white and blue, to green and red once more.
"You're risk Gensokyo itself on nothing more than an experiment? The Mima I know would never do anything so foolish!" Mima simply laughed at the accusation. Partially it was due to how funny I sounded as a fairy, partially due to a bit of madness.
"So, I must be a fool! Haha... Hahaha! You only think you know me! I'm called an evil spirit for a reason, Yuuka!" Mima grined wickedly as she spoke, she had a point, but it fell on deaf ears. I wasn't about to buy that story. If Mima were truely evil, she would have simply murdered Reimu as she slept, years before. If Mima were evil, she would have used that knife of hers more seriously. Instead, she escaped and started an incident. That's not evil, that's attention craving. She could have easily slit Usagi's throat, before I took over, but she didn't.
"You call yourself evil, but up untill today, what evil have you done? You're about as evil as any Youkai, simply doing as you please." Mima scowled, showing her disdain at being compared to a simple Youkai.
"You won't accept that I'm evil, will you? I'll simply have to beat it into your skull, tie you down, and show you just how evil I can be! Prepare yourself Yuuka!" I smirked at the bold claim. While I may not be able to win this fight, I would be damned if I'd go down without a fight! Being a fairy, I could only be so strong, and a full power Mima... that would be a hard fight even if I had my own body! I'll just have to beat my words into that thick skull of hers, before she could do the same to me.
"I'll just have to show you reason, by force, now won't I?" A grin begins to crack across my cheeks , and the fog orbs began to bleed out. I knew that Mima could see the stuff, while I could see just fine. To win a fight against one much stronger, I would have to pull out every single dirty trick I know! Hmm... I wonder if I could use that as a fairy... I just might have to try, this situation is rather bleak. I had gathered the fog, as I had expected Mima to escape. While I hadn't anticipated her going off the deep end, This should still work on her just fine.