Author's Notes: Well, enjoy~ And I love Remi, really
The Shrine of Gensokyo:
Chapter 19: Of Maids and Mistresses
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[… ahaha~ How wonderful…]
Wincing in the pain I was feeling, I took cover with Sakuya as the air was literally filled with arrows after arrows that was shot by the crazy lunarian.
In a single moment, she had shot perhaps a thousand rounds with that seemingly weak looking bow and had pinned us down in the garden of Eientei.
Even my beloved Sakuya, with all her powers was powerless to stop the stronger shafts.
[Stopping time is useless, Mistress… she is firing them too fast for me to even make an attempt to cross… the paths between the arrows is too minute… if only I could stop time and allow you to move in my stead…]
Biting her lip, Sakuya was surprised when I shook my head.
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[It's more fun this way… now… in this Full Moon night, where my strength is the strongest… let us see her fate.]
Snickering, I focused my energies and with a little bit of effort, unleashed my spell.
[Find her fate, chains of destiny… let my scarlet lines penetrate through them… Woven through as tightly as blood themselves…]
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From my small body came two long streams of chains that coiled around me slowly and painfully before they curved and headed straight for the Lunarian. Tipped with a small spear at the end and not physical by nature, it was a piece of cake to enwrap her in the chains of my destiny.
[Just like how one can control one's fate… within my boundary of control… you cannot escape the scarlet lines that will bind you to me.]
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Grinning as I walked out confidently, I watched as the Lunarian never struggled while still entangled in my chains. Instead, she laughed even louder.
[INTERESTING!! ETERNAL LIFE AND MY FATE… HAHAHAHA!! VAMPIRE! DO YOU EVEN THINK YOU CAN SEE MY FATE?!]
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Challenging me, the lunarian fell silent and in one swift moment, somehow managed to slice the chain into bits and landed softly on the ground. With bits of the ethereal chains dropping all around her, she never once looked away as she cocked her bow ready, aiming at my heart.
[I've heard that a silver bullet through the heart will kill vampire…]
[I've known that a silver bullet through a lunarian will kill her, unless she is immortal.]
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[Ha…]
[M-Mistress…]
Unnerved, Sakuya raised a spellcard but I ordered her back with a single tap of my feet.
[Come Lunarian, unleash your defiance for fate against me, the Queen of the Night!!]
Showing my fangs as I created several portals around me, I waited for the lunarian to show me her ace in the hole
[HA.. HAHAHAHA! AMAZING! FATE…… DO I HAVE FATE?]
[… every single person has fate… even the immortal.]
Matter of factedly, I answered her and was satisfied with her reply.
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[… for even a person who has gone through the wrong path… for one… whose sanity has run out?]
[… there, you said it yourself…]
Narrowing my eyes, I dashed forward and slammed her body straight up in the air as I head-butted her into the air. It is time, to end this madness…
[Midnight King: DRACULA CRADLE!]
Spinning my body like a top, crimson magic surrounded my body and I drove it straight through that immortal body of hers, showering Eientei with the crimson magic.
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[May your body be reborn, may your fate be rewritten…may you realize your sins.]
Landing with one foot, I waited for a moment as I felt her presence never even weaken from the scattering of her body.
[… … worthy of my attention, Lunarian.]
Showing my teeth again, I see her form slowly regain their solidness and in one arm, she held a silver arrow and in the other, her bow.
[… Interesting how… one's mind can be broken and shattered without one knowing…]
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[Like the frog trapped in the well, I had always thought of myself as being perfect…
making the Princess's life perfect in showing my undying loyalty and love for her… when did it go wrong? When did it… all go wrong…]
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Mumbling to herself, she retained some sanity in those grey, confused eyes that I hesitated to attack, stopping my familiars to shoot their bullets and rain death on her.
[B-but… it doesn't matter now…]
Just as that thought left me, the silver bullet pierced through my heart and I felt excruciating pain.
[A-…]
[MISTRESS!]
[That's right, under the unforgiving moon where I gained everything… and lost everything… with the final dying traces of my fading mind… LET ME TELL YOU…]
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[S-Sakuya…]
My fading vision wobbled and I grabbed on to her hand tightly as she showed fear, extreme fear of the floating form above the two of us. That's weird… she has never been afraid… not even when facing Flan.. w-what could have caused this…
[In a world… where no one lives… the one person who lives, has to be the sane one, No?... AHA… AHAHAHA… AHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!]
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[S-Sakuya… hand me… my spell card…]
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Bathed in the never ending moonlight, I trembled as I raised my spellcard, horrible and powerful as it glittered in the light. But, there was one more form that was covering me in it's unnatural light.
[Lunarian…]
[When did my sanity run out… when did I finally fall to the deep trenches of my own, brilliant mind… was it before… or after your departure… HAKUREI REIMU!!]
Slowly, I got up, clutching the silver arrow in my hand as I finally wrenched the accursed thing from my flesh. It burnt my skin but as soon as it was not embedded in me, my vision cleared and some of my strength returned.
[…. You're dangerous…]
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Her fate, her fluctuating fate threatened to engulf Gensokyo in her mad rampage and I could never allow that….
Not when… it is going to involve Reimu.. No… NEVER.
[Under the Moonlight, under your tremendous power that you speak off, vampire!!
I shall bury you… bury you together with that maid of yours… consider this a gift from me that you would not live to hear me pull out the heart from the Screaming Shrine Maiden…]
[WHY YOU!]
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Rage could not describe what I felt when she finished but my strength still failed me when I tried to fly. My wings refused to move and I could barely stand now.
[Where did it all begin, the spiraling of my mind to the deep trenches of hell… did you cause it?
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No, she caused it… the Shrine maiden… all of it… all of it was perfect before… but SHE HAD TO RUIN IT!!...]
Covering her face and crouching down in the air, the Lunarian seemed to be in great pain as she screamed out her thoughts, her greatest selfish wish to the world.
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[… But it would be soon be over… all of it, all of Gensokyo… and everything with it… Will the Princess reward me then?]
Slowly, the mangled and disturbing face of the lunarian showed itself as she straightened her back and her arms fell to her side. Her eyes were all pried wide open and her pupils dilating like she has no eyelids at all.
What was more disturbing was the robotic and sadistic like smile on her face as she tilted her head almost a full 90 degree, twisting her neck in the process.
[… DIE.]
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I had enough and with all of my strength, funneled the crimson magic that was surrounding me in one single move.
[Scarlet Sign: RED, THE NIGHTLESS CASTLE!]
Raising my body in the air, I summoned my Eternal Castle and it ripped straight through the Lunarian like it was paper as I floated in the air. In the shape of a cross, the crimson magic cut through reality itself as it summoned crimson sparks around it, disrupting everything around them.
Engulfed in my power once more, I took a deep breath as I saw the lunarian's body being ripped, resurrected and ripped apart again by the crimson castle.
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As long as I kept the magic flowing, this will be an eternal process but my stamina is running out.
[Ah.. AHAHAHAHAH!!]
Hearing her insane laughter, I grimaced as through the crimson castle, she somehow managed to form lasers that shot through me time and time again.
[… ugh… I-Impossible…]
Slowly, the castle disappeared with the magic that had spawned it and I fell from the sky, drained of energy after keeping the castle in the air for a good solid 5 minutes, the longest I had ever summoned it.
[Impossible…that is impossible…]
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To resurrect her form in such a rapid rate, I would never have placed something that powerful on the hourai elixir… I had never seen anyone with such a power before and here was a whole family of them.
The Lunarian, lunarian princess and the immortal phoenix,, all sharing their life's in the world I call home, Gensokyo.
[… I, the Scarlet… Devil will not bow down to you! Your fate is in my hands!!]
Defiantly recovering in mid-air, I straightened my body and bared my claws as I watched the lunarian lower her body to step on the rooftop, where Sakuya and I was.
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Her eyes, once devoid of all emotion somehow manage to betray a slight tinge of amusement and it made me burn up even more. She is mocking me, a 500 year old vampire!
[FEAR ME, LUNARIAN, FOR I SHALL BE YOUR DEATH!]
[Fufu~ I shall make this quick then…]
Bending down on one knee, the Lunarian revealed a spell card and was about to declare it when hundreds of knifes struck her body and knock her off the roof, her eyes goggled open in shock and surprise.
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[… Illusion Sign: Killing Doll X 3]
Huffing and panting, Sakuya dropped to her knees as she declared three spell cards in succession.
[Mis-mistress… w-we should fall back…]
Tugging my clothes, Sakuya begged me as we watched the lunarian rise again, pulling Sakuya's knifes from her mutilated body. Injuries were soon rendered nil as her flesh knitted themselves back into the perfect and twisted face of the Lunarian.
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[… No…]
[Mistress! I beg of you!]
Tugging more desperately now, Sakuya fell to her knees as she begged more furtively for me to leave.
[Please Mistress! We'll be slaughtered!! Please!]
[… REMILIA SCARLET NEVER RETREATS!]
Roaring a reply, I summoned my servant flier to pierce her repeatedly with crimson shards that exploded through her body.
[You, however… can, Sakuya.]
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Smiling at my loyal maid, I grabbed her and roughly threw her from the roof, using my power to take her away from the Accursed Bamboo forest as fast as I can.
[MISTRESS! NO!]
[Don't you dare come back, Sakuya.. you're defying your mistress…]
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Smiling as I turned my back to her, I took off my hat and flung it away, watching it spiral down to the bamboo forest before us. It signifies changing of times, the hat that Sakuya presented to me and the fact that I might never see her again.
Even thinking that bring pain to my heart and I did not want my hat, something so important to me be stained by my blood.
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[You're the most perfect and elegant maid that have ever served a Vampire, Sakuya….]
Gritting my teeth, I unleashed all my fury against the lunarian in a preemptive strike that toppled her body and slammed it straight down on the dirt.
[Fear, Lunarian… for your fate is now filled with Crimson light! My claws shall be more than enough!]
Concentrating, I willed small chains to being from my power that surrounded and slammed her repeatedly on the floor with just a flick of my finger even as I continued to rip her flesh to shreds with my claws.
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[To face the Scarlet Devil, you have guts and I'll let you see them!]
Raising my hand, I skewered her with small spears that exploded and ripped through her repeatedly but she did not die, not now or half an hour later…
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[Huff… huff… …]
Panting on the ground, I watched as the lunarian approached me and I just sighed, not in defeat but in weariness.
[… Fate…]
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She had fallen silent after 15 minutes of constant pounding and I wondered whether did I finally did rip the last remains of her sanity out the window with my flurry of attacks.
She is insane, lost in the illusion of her own mind and lost in the jealousy and rage of her own willful thinking. Her fate is unreadable by me, such a fluctuating fate can never be read, just like her Princess, whose eternal life will be fraught with eternal despair.
If I could, I would like to see that till the end, but for now I think this is my end.
End of a 500 plus year reign…
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[… vampire…]
Raising her bow and arrow, the Lunarian's eyes bored down on me, devoid of emotion and I sighed and nodded my head.
[… my fate… is perhaps to end here… by your hands…]
Baring my fangs, I tackled her to the floor and prepared to bit her when I stopped.
[… the hourai… will…]
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Recoiling from her, I retreated far away from that accursed form that held the most taboo thing in the world.
[The Hourai Elixer… no, such a thing can never contaminate my blood.]
If I drank her blood, I might have a chance to take in the Hourai Elixer with her blood…
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[Never… My fate shall be decided by myself!!]
[Then die.]
Whispering, she dropped the bow and formed a dark black portal in front of her.
[Strike the enemy, Flurry of arrows!]
Through the portal came thousands and thousands of silver arrows that streamed straight towards me, each having the ability to strike me dead.
[…heh… Interesting…]
Showing my claws, I leapt straight towards their paths.