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R/N: That time of the month again, huh...? I guess I'll have to be more vigillant with Flandre... Damn moon.
As the clocktower struck 12, letting out a tone loud enough to warn all of Gensokyo, all the Youkai across the land of illusions began to feel the tugs of Lunacy, just as they had every before month, and would every month afterwards. Most could resist the tugs of their temporary insanity... However, those who were unprepared, such as the more idiotic fairies, as well as those of weak mental health, such as a certain Vampire, were all subject to the moons rays, bringing them to a state of fufilling any desire they might hold back on normally.
Such as the devouring of human flesh.
Midnight, Mountains behind Youkai Mountain:
I lazily, yet quickly, flapped my wings, doing my best to keep pace with the rest of the group. It felt quite nice to not be that slow anymore.
For whatever reason, probably due to weight concerns, Rumia had insisted on carrying Cirno, so the trip was rather boring thus far.
Suddenly I heard a loud gonging song, and began to feel... strange.
Hungry, so hungry... What's this smell? Food?
I began to sniff the air, pinpointing the source of the scent, which was the girl in the arms of... what was her name?
I flapped once, quite hard, and shot off towards Rumia with speed I hadn't been able to achieve while sane, intent on snatching the human in her arms.
Rumia's PoV:
I looked back, seeing just as I had expected; Usagi had never weathered a full moon, and as a Vampire, the tugs of Lunacy were all the stronger, so I decided to simply not tell her.
I pretended to not notice her, untill she was about to snatch Cirno from my arms, when I tossed her high into the air just in time, so as to distract the now blood crazed Usagi.
In the space of a single breath, I flipped the now distracted Usagi, grabbed her by the leg, and used her own momentum to throw her at a particularly sturdy looking tree.
While watching her fly towards the ground at break-neck speeds, I caught the confused once fairy.
"W-why did you throw Usa? !" Cirno was understandably upset.
"It's a full moon tonight, and she lost herself to the hunger within, so... I took her out!" I grinned.
"...Huh, I hadn't even noticed it was that time of the month, ze!" Marisa looked to the sky, confirming the fully exposed moon.
"The full moon is the only time one can hope to enter Mt Shiro, we were quite lucky that it was so soon, honestly." Mima looks so cute when she acts all cool like that...
"Think fast, Mima!" I tossed Cirno at Mima, which caused Cirno to flail about wildly. The first time, she was half asleep, so she hadn't fully reacted to being thrown.
"Ahh...!" Mima got knocked back a bit when she caught Cirno, as she hadn't time to ready herself.
I began to fly down so as to pick up the now unconcious Usagi.
Lets see... she should be around... ahh!
I found the limp, and slightly broken, form of Usagi. I guess I threw her a bit hard... Ehh, she'll heal in about an hour.
I picked up the broken form of Usagi, and slung her over my shoulder, before making my way back over to the group.
Midnight, Scarlet Devil Mansion, Remilia's PoV:
I hate this night.
Every month, the same thing.
I've never once enjoyed a full moon without a single worry of my sister escaping.
Honestly, we have nothing at all that could keep her at bay, should she ever truely try and escape.
Patche can't stop her, even with water, which she has a phobia of.
Sakuya can't stop her, even with all the time in the world.
Meiling can't stop her, and can only just keep her from escaping when she's sane.
And me?
...What can I do against that? She destroys anything, and everything, that she gets her hand on! She had long since destroyed the threads of her own fate, when she had learned that I had manipulated them; my sister is no fool, even if she acts the part of a child...
She even has shattered Sakuya's manipulation of time, time, and time again, when she isn't in the mood to be stopped.
...I can hardly even call her my sister on nights like these!
She's like an entirely different person!
A very... very unstable person.
And yet, full moon, after full moon, she has always stopped trying to escape just as soon as she has broken past the last line of defense, as though it's some form of game to her.
Her insanity during nights such as these, while complete, is... controled.
She has never once escaped for real...
That is, untill tonight.
Midnight, Skies over Misty Lake, Flandre's PoV:
"I know you're out here somewhere, little sister!" I looked about, before locating the origin of her scent.
I looked towards the run-down looking shack of a home, and began to probe the eyes.
While most think that I can only Kyuu eyes, they are far more complex than that.
I can also tell what eye belongs to who, even through walls, and over great distances.
"...You arn't here, sister?" I looked about, before spotting my little sister's eye a few kilometers away, towards a huge mountain.
I once more gave chase, speeding off with into the night whilst giggling madly.
Late night, Hakurei Shrine, Reimu's PoV:
I awoke to a throbbing, splitting headache, my whole world spinning on its axis.
"Ahh, it seems you've woken!" Yukari gave me a million dollar smile, which was quite unlike that which I was used to of her.
...What's she doing here?
"...What...?" I couldn't think, so I ended up asking the simplest of questions I had at my disposal.
"Lookie, lookie! We look so alike now~!" Yukari opened a gap, which was reflective enough to be called a mirror, and aimed it at me.
A girl in my clothes, with my hair style, but with dirty blonde hair, and a pair of bright red eyes, looked back at me.
"...What...?" I looked at myself at length, not once realising it to be a mirror of sorts.
"Well? Tell me what you think of the new you!" Yukari's happy smile hadn't once faltered, and only grew wider with time.
"...New me...?" I was still in a state of confusion, my brain working about as well as a single tossed rock does for a Spell Card. That was a rather sad day, when a particularly weak earth fairy discovered how to make a spell card, only to end up hitting me in the forehead with a rather small rock.
Needless to say, that fairy was hit with a few hundred Persuasion Needles for that, so that she would feel her punishment, and remember it untill she was killed next.
I wonder if she ever made any better Spell Cards...?
"Yeah, remember all those important things that have gone on tonight?" Yukari furrowed her brow, looking rather impatient at my lack of memory.
I thought for a moment through the haze in my head, searching for my most recent memories.
It didn't take long for realisation to strike.
"...So, I'm a Youkai now, huh?" I looked at the minor changes to my features. While my eyes, and hair, were quite the different in color from that which I had been used to, those were quite literally the only changes to me. I felt no fast, felt no smarter, and in now way did I feel any stronger. "...I feel the exact same..." Yukari giggled at my confusion
"That's because you've always been as strong, and fast, as a Youkai! While you were human, there were some... side effects." My eyes went wide with fear. Side effects? "Ohh, dont give me that look; every last one of them simply made you stronger!" I breathed a sigh of relief, and began to think about a question that had been in my mind ever since I learned I was .
"...When you offered to teach me gaps, that was a hint at my unique heritage, wasn't it?" I felt rather dumb, and with good reason, too.
"Of course, sweetie! Though, I was quite serious... It'll take a century or so, but I can teach you..." Yukari was just a Great Youkai in the end. She wasn't born with such an abstract, and utterly overpowered, power; Yukari had to learn it, just as I would have to, if I so desired.
"...Sure, I guess. Actually, that brings up a good question... What is my life expectancy?" Yukari smirked at my answer, as well as my question.
"Ohh, I'd say over twenty thousand, going by myself." ...That is... That is more time than I'm able to even comprehend! Wait, did she just admit that she's not 17?
"And here I thought you were 17 all this time..." I sighed, and did my best not to crack a smile at the rediculous statement I just made.
"Ohh, ha ha, very funny..." Yukari gave
...Now I can be glad that I have as many Youkai friends as I do, as I'll out live both Sanae, and Marisa!
That thought pains my heart a bit, imagining life without that rival of mine to bug me for the snacks that I don't have...
Marisa, that is. I couldn't care less about Sanae, as she's a bit of an insane annoyance, if you ask me.