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: So, Kogasa, it's not long untill your scene comes up; how does that make you feel?

K/N: ...Horribly...!

A/N: ...Well, atleast she'll obviously survive, right?

K/N: But at what cost...?

A/N: Well, seeing as she only had a slight grasp on sanity in the first place... Not a very high one.

Night, Mt. Shiro, Cirno's PoV:

With a sigh of dissapointment in Usagi, I made my way back to the scary, scary waters. I knew I had a good number of eyes on me, namely, those of our entire group.

"...You're Saruno?" Rumia was the first to bring up the most pressing of questions. She and Mima had... known me in the past.

And by known, I mean fought, killed a few times, sealed, and tossed on this very mountain.

...Which is exactly why I never told anybody, and even created this fake name. Though, it's more of my new name, now, than some fake name... I've gotten a bit... attached to it, you see...

A short while after the war had ended, the maiden of yin and her youkai friend came after me... Said that I had done horrible things, and that they had to seal me away. Don't particularly remember the specifics, but I lost. I lost badly... Soon after that, I was temporarily sealed so as to safely transport me here, even if Mt. Shiro is the home of the ice fae.

They did the exact same to the fire fae, but threw them into old hell, and so I didn't mind quite as much as I could have. Had the hot ones gotten off scot free... Well, I would have minded a great deal more; we had all become monsters - pixies, to be exact. Heck, I was still a pixie up untill I was turned human. ...Which is why it worries me that Usa is now a pixie, but wasn't before...

I sat on the edge of the spring, letting my legs dangle into the hot waters. It stung, and yet only slightly. Nothing like the horrible pain of melting, though...

Still not as nice as a dip in icewater, if one is an ice fairy. Heck, that's half the reason as to why I love Misty Lake!

So chilly... So very chilly...

"...Correct, I'm the general of the army of ice, and the stand-in for a herald of winter, but only due to being the strongest ice fae alive." It was the truth, and I only really said it to catch everyone that's out of the loop up on the facts they've likely never heard of.

"Erm... what's going on, ze?" Marisa was feeling a bit out of the loop, even with my efforts.

"Yeah, why so serious...?" Flandre didn't particularly like when things got serious; serious things aren't nearly as fun.

"Well, long ago there was a fairy war, where the fae of summer and winter fought, eventually ending with the ice fae being the victors. Cirno here would be the one that helped Letty atain victory by way of uniting all of the ice fae under one banner. She was a bit of an idiot, very innocent, and yet... a brutally effective swordsman, even giving Rumia a run for her money at one point." Mima was quick to sumerize the past, shortening the time it might have taken to explain such a thing.

"Really...? Jeez, I'd never expect Cirno of all people to be a good leader, da ze..." Marisa couldn't help but doubt her master, and with good reason. I do hide these things quite well.

"Well, I was less of a good leader, and more... Well, I was a bit like a tyrant, and forced other fae to join the cause. Many came willingly, and the rest came by force..." It wasn't my best of moments, and I'd rather forget that I'd ever done it, but I did do it, and there was no way of changing that...

"That's even more surprising, ze! I've never seen you act particularly mean-spirited, da ze!" I couldn't help but laugh at the obvious mistake in the way that Marisa was thinking.

Even if I was still like that, which I'm not, I was in hiding... I didn't want others to know this, and so it makes sense that she's never seen me act as I once had.

With a sigh, Rumia piped in, "Well, shouldn't that be obvious...? She was in hiding, after all..."

While they were busy talking about the subject I had hoped to avoid this whole trip, I decided to be slightly braver, and to dip the rest of my body into the water and start batheing in the once lethal waters.

"Ohh... Ohh, yeah! I guess you're right, ze~!" With that said, Marisa grinned and rubbed the back of her head, trying to brush aside her mistake, and actually doing a good job of it.

"Still... How did you get out, Cirno? I thought that Yukari made the gate in a way that none of you could get out, without help..." Mima crossed her arms, and gave me a curious look.

I chuckled, and rubbed the back of my head much in the same way as Marisa. "Well, Yukari let me out about 20 years ago..."

My answer brought about a bout of stunned silence.

Mima was busy thinking of what would make Yukari do such a thing, coming up with about 10 wrong, yet interesting, answers.

Rumia figured I must have either bribed her, or maybe been let out on good behavior.

Marisa was a bit stumped, as all she really knew of the gap hag was that she slept a fair bit, and some rather obvious information, such as that she has command of the highest form of magic, one which shapes the universe, and even the multiverse, however the user wills it.

And Flandre nodded off out of boredom awhile back, and was currently floating across the water on her back. The water was comfy, and even if it was the weakness of a vampire, it was just a drop in the bucket for a vampire as strong as Flan.

"...Ohh, and she did it because I truely regreted my actions. I was truely sorry, and was let out." I smiled sadly, thinking back to the horrible things I did to my fellow fae, ice, or otherwise.

...Especially otherwise.

This made Mima pout a bit, as she was enjoying thinking too hard about what it could have been, while Rumia nodded sagely, as she had been correct.

Marisa was just a bit lost, and Flandre was still drifting about while snoring gently.