Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun, and the only things that belong to myself would be Usagi the Mimic, and Moegi the Japanese Beetle. Everything else belongs to their rightful owner.

A/N: Eheh, sorry about the severely reduced updates, but I've been RPing a crap-ton, and have been a bit depressed... It's not going to be turned into a story, but it HAS given me an idea for the 3rd incident, when the time comes~ Anywho, on with the show!

Night, Mt. Shiro, Cirno's PoV:

I Looked more and more scared the closer Rumia brought me to the water. That... steam...

I'm scared...

I'm scared...!

Immediately, I broke free of Rumia's arms and hid behind her. We weren't even a metre from the waters edge at this point, and the steam was warming my skin. As an ice fae, I have a natural instinct to avoid hot things, and yet I'm going against that... It's harder than one might think...

"...You know, you aren't going to melt..." Rumia gave a sigh, and made her way into the water alone. She wasn't going to force me, but she still would like for me to enjoy something I couldn't before, before I once more couldn't.

Once I had calmed down, I slowly inched my way towards the water while everyone who was already in the water was soaking. The steam didn't hurt, no matter how close I was getting.

...This would take getting used to, not that I'd have enough time for that, I hope.

Once at the edge, I looked into the waters, and saw my reflection. However, this was cut short when the waters began to ripple, and the ground beneath me began to rumble, shake, and tremble beneath me.

"What the...?" Mima began to look about. Was it an earthquake? An avalanche? What was happening?

And then, the quake intensified, and the edge of the spring I was leaning on crumbled, sending me strait into the waters.

I began to panic, and flail about - I though I was melting, and knew I'd have to get out soon if that were the case.

I began to work on a hasty retreat, but every time I tried to exit the waters, the edge would once again crumble. Eventually, Rumia helped me up, as she knew that I wasn't going to be able to enjoy myself while panicking, not that the odd quake helped.

I was just about hyperventelating by the time I was out of the waters. As quickly as it had begun, the quake stopped, and the water stilled once more, as if it were the eye of the storm.

"Man that was unexpected, da ze~! I thought the world was comin' down on us!" Marisa was just as shocked as Mima.

"That is so~! Think the celestial is up to no good again?" Rumia was the first to try and connect dots, and figured an incident was either in the works, or in progress.

"That was fun! The water was all quakey and shakey!" Flandre seemed to have enjoyed the short earthquake.

From her vantage point, Usagi cursed her luck, as a diminulative rockslide had burried her under a few heavy rocks. The rest of the pixies, although scared to be so close to the water, were in the process of digging her out.

However, it wasn't long untill I noticed them. I let out a sigh, and began to shout without thinking. "The hell do you pixies think you're doing? ! Didn't I tell you not to get near the waters of this spring? !"

They all stopped doing as they were doing, and gave me a stunned look.

"...Lady Saruno?" I flinched at that old name being used by one of them.

"I go by Cirno these days..." I gritted my teeth. I had hoped to avoid this, and yet I slipped up. "Now, tell me... What are you doing so close to the source of a painful death...?" I gave them a harsh look.

However, the one that now recognised me had a more pressing question. "How are you so close? W-why are y-your wings... gone...!"

"You just answered the first question, if a bit indirectly, and the second one you can blame the one who sealed us in here in the first place... I fought her a few days ago, and ended up..." I looked at my body with disgust, and went on to say, "...Human."

This gained a collective gasp from all fourteen of them.

"I thought you... said you only heard of this mountain?" Usagi pushed the last heavy rock off of herself.

"...So that's why they were ignoring my warning... Usa, you really shouldn't get so close to here..." I made my way to her, despite the cold, and touched her face, feeling the dampness I feared I would. "You're melting! Pixies, go burry her in the snow, and please don't let her get so close to the spring again..."

They all stood, saluted, and said, "Aya aya, Lady Sarno!" While only a few of them made use of her new name

With that said, they all began to carry Usagi off into the dead of night, while struggling a fair bit to keep her at bay.

Usagi's PoV:

After a full minutes travel, I found myself uncerimoniously dumped into the snow.

I began to spit out the delicious fluff, as I still felt so full I'd burst. Before I could react, I found myself being burried in the stuff, which caused my skin to tingle as it mended.

The smartest of my followers spoke up. "I'm sorry, but Lady Saruno's orders come before your will, my Goddess." Unlike what one would expect, being burried alive made me feel... better, to the point that I was feeling stronger than before. Slowly, the snow drift look-alike they had made on top of me was absorbed into me.

While my skin had mostly looked fine, it was my extremities that needed to be healed by the odd process, particularly those a distance from the core of my body. The first things of mine to melt in earnest would be the fingers and toes, which I hadn't noticed were just about skeletal before I had been dumped in the snow.

After a few minutes, when the snow had become one with me, I eased myself up, and asked, "So, what's this about Cirno being named Saruno...?"

"Well... if you don't know of her as Saruno, you must be young... long story short, she, along with letty, led us in the great fairy war against the summer fae... by the end, we had each done enough damage to the lands that each side was exiled - we totally won, though... We killed the herald of summer enough that she began to fade, and we defeated the avatar of summer... We were exiled to this mountain, while the fae of flame were sent to hell, to help keep it lit... How Saruno got out 20 or so years ago, we'll never know, but soon after that, Letty began to come and go as well..." It was the smartest of the pixies among me that spoke up, deciding that I seemed close enough to Cirno to know.

"But... But why hide it...?" I looked at my feet, sitting on the ground. Why would she keep such a thing from me...?

"Well, I'm sure it's news to anyone, as she seemed to really regret what she had done to the herald of summer! That fae must have died atleast 200 times, heh..." The pixie had a grin on her face, as she managed to kill her once.

...Maybe that's why she was let out.

Cirno actually regretted what she did... But wait, shouldn't Cirno have been a...?