Luigi was walking down the steps of the Youkai Mountain. He knew where to go! Now to just get back to Alice's house and get some good sleep!
"Aren't you forgetting something?" A MILF-sounding voice resonated... Luigi looked behind him and saw a gap with eyes.
Yukari once again.
She peered out and stepped out her whole body, sitting on her gap.
Luigi snapped at Yukari last time, but to be truthful, he was fearing for his life. Imagine if he had to FIGHT Yukari...
"What are you implying I forgot?" Luigi asked, hiding his utter fear.
"Kaguya's treasure from your world! Are you curious about it?" Yukari held her palms to her chin as she smiled.
Luigi had completely forgotten about it, until Yukari said it... Luigi dismissed it as a simple Mushroom or Fire Flower... but it could be a lot worse. Like a Super Star that could grant her invincibility, or to use it's power for the lesser good. Or maybe even the Royal Stickers? Bowser went insane from wearing it, and Kaguya's a princess, so she could've gotten her hands on that... Or if she's into more girly things like hearts then she could've gotten her hands on the Chaos Hear-
Luigi shuddered from that last thought. No... He didn't want to remember THAT adventure.
"Weeeeelll?" Yukari cocked her head to the side. "Tell me."
"...A little curious, I admit." Luigi admitted. "But I t-"
"Go to it."
"W-"
"Go to it." Yukari repeated, interrupting Luigi frequently.
"No thanks." Luigi turned and walked away, humming the theme from Dark Moon. Yukari couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"You see... I would GAP YOU there..." Yukari started, sounding pissed. "But since you lashed out your anger on me earlier, I got a better plan!"
Luigi turned, annoyed. "What?!"
But Yukari wasn't there when Luigi turned.
"Have a nice fall!" Yukari joked and shoved Luigi straight off the mountain.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH-!" Luigi's horrified yells filled the atmosphere.
...He woke up to face a lot of white. Silky white. "...Mmmgh... Is this hair? What kinda weird purgatory am I in...?" Luigi felt his head rest on something. "Wait, is this... what we call a lap pillow? Mama mia, we're going into anime stereotypes now? Is this world an anime series?" Luigi said something that's sure to trigger 99% of Touhou fans.
"Hey, I didn't let you rest your head on my lap for fanservice. If I let you lay on the ground, you would have died." An annoyed female voice spoke up. Ah. White hair, mature female voice, it was...
"Mokou...?" Luigi craned his head up to meet the white-hair female.
"Hmm. Yes. I'm Mokou." Mokou smiled. "Why aren't you cooped up in the Human Village?"
"I... got lost from your directions..." Luigi looked away from her in shame, and looked around. He was back in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.
"Suppose that's my fault, then. I'm sorry." Mokou said in an apologising tone.
"No..." Luigi got up and dusted himself off. "I'm... I'm fine."
"Are you? Are you really?" Mokou sounded contradicting. Luigi gulped. He did just fall off the tallest mountain with no parachute... And by his past memories, he landed face-first into the ground. Luigi winced. And shivered. Again. He slowly pulled out his Wii Boo gamepad and turned on the mirror.
...His face was deformed, there were bruises and punctures everywhere, his face was scarred and almost purely crimson from how much blood he lost. He had cuts all over himself, making himself look like... an unidentifiable monster.
"Ah... AAAAH!" Luigi couldn't take it in.. "WAAAAAAAAGH! GA-AAAGH! BLEEGH!" Luigi made incomprehensable horrified sounds. He could vomit fifty times over. What was his place?
He had to get out.
He had to get home.
He didn't want to be here.
Please wake up.
This was a sadistic nightmare that made him feel everything the dream tells him to. But every time he wanted to wake up, he couldn't. This was his reality now.
"Luigi." Mokou said, trying to get to him.
"AH! AAAH!"
Danmaku that could kill him in one hit...
Young children that were old as goddesses themselves.
Sadistic gap hags that pushed him off the mountain.
No more, please...
Just get him back home... Back to Mario, so he could cry while laughing.
Mokou sighed, walking over to Luigi and shoving a liquid in his mouth while he was screaming. Luigi swallowed upon reflex but kept hauling out his screams until... he no longer felt pain.
Mokou picked up his dropped Wii Boo gamepad and showed Luigi's reflection. It was all better. All fixed. "I had to steal this from the damn NEET princess."
Luigi kept rapidly breathing, nearly hyperventilating. If anyone had brushed off Gensokyo as 'slightly strange' then they were lying. This was TRAUMATISING to the green coward.
"You'll be fine."
Luigi's breathing slowed down a little.
"I'm here for you."
He finally went back to normal breathing.
"We can take a walk."
Luigi nodded slowly.
The footsteps of the forest eased Luigi's mind. The moon piercing through the opening of the bamboo was enough to calm one's mind.
"Is this kind of torment normal in Gensokyo?" Luigi asked, speaking proper sentences and words this time.
Mokou had inner thoughts in her mind.
"I don't want to try anymore."
"How much longer does this have to go on for?"
"..." Mokou bit her lip. "Yes."
Luigi thought to himself. Oh gosh. No. He had to save everyone and rise to the challenge! And quickly!
They stepped into an open area of the forest.
"Aaah! N-no!" Luigi could almost cry again.
"What? What's wrong this time?" Mokou sighed. Luigi pointed and Mokou's eyes followed Luigi's finger to...
a portrait of a Toad.
"Ooough..." Luigi felt like he could vomit... of happiness. He finally found one of his friends from his bus trip home! But he was also in a portrait prison... Luigi walked up to the portrait.
"What? It's just a painting."
"My friend is STUCK inside there!" Luigi almost yelled at Mokou.
Luigi walked up closer and he saw a shadow loom over him. "Mokou, I care not for your practical... jokes..."
Luigi looked at the figure. A dress instead of pants. Black hair in check... Luigi recognised it.
"Kaguya." Luigi and Mokou stated at the same time.
"I see you have found my treasure from another world, Luigi! I'm impressed."
"You're KEEPING my friend?!" Luigi's eyes shrunk.
"You want it? Complete my impossible requests." Kaguya said calmly, but still had a smug aura around her. "Unless you'd like to fight this eternal moon princess, which I'm sure this creature has had enough of."
Luigi grumbled. That's twice that Kaguya referred to Mokou as not a human - but a miserable creature. He clenched his fists angrily. He aimed his flashlight at Kaguya.
"Give. Me back. My friend."
"Sorry, no can do. I guess it's another battle for our glorious rivalry!" Kaguya took off into the sky, flying around.
Mokou folded her arms. "Well, if you absolutely insist, I will have no hesitation in incinerating you!" She also flew up.
Luigi looked back at where Toad's painting was, and it was gone. Of course Kaguya was protecting it in the air. No way he could get it now...
E. Gadd chimed in via Wii Boo. "Hey, Luigi! I just wanted to check in on ya. You ARE going back to Alice's house to sleep, yes?"
Luigi nodded. "Yeah, but I got a problem." He showed the fight to E. Gadd by pointing the Wii Boo.
"Ah, you're in a boss fight. I can see by the white-hair female's patterns that they're gonna bring it to the ground!"
Luigi gulped. He did not want to get in the crossfire.
"Who's the enemy, by the way?" E. Gadd pondered.
"A black-hair female named Kaguya."
"Right. If the white-hair does bring Kaguya down, it's up to you to use that Poltergust to slam her down!"
"Got it!" Luigi left the Wii Boo on standby in case E. Gadd needed to drop in more hints. It was a 2-v-1 battle to save his first friend! Here goes!
Major Boss: Kaguya
Luigi yelped a bit when more purple barriers surrounded the wide open area of the forest. "Wuuugh!" He aimed his flashlight up at the two fighting. Kaguya and Mokou. Kaguya gracefully dodged Mokou's fireballs.
"WAAGH!" Luigi panicked and ran around, dodging the fireballs and staying away from the flames of the impacted ground. Not even Gooigi could survive that, he thought.
"Ha-" Luigi dodged a few rainbow balls from Kaguya that Mokou dodged. The moving field was stretched a bit thin, to say the least. Smaller fireballs rained down within the small moving area. Luigi aimed up and vacuumed those in with his Poltergust. Thankfully, it didn't break down. Kaguya's danmaku thankfully vanished, allowing more wiggle room. That wouldn't matter as Mokou started to yell.
"Take this! Haaaah!" Mokou delivered an axe kick to Kaguya, which plummeted her down to Luigi's level.
"Wuh-?" Kaguya took a moment to process it before she was stunned by Luigi's Strobulb. "Ah-!"
A version of the 'Ghost Catching' theme as Luigi tugged at a fleeing Kaguya. Luigi pulled back and slammed her three times. She then forcefully got out and laughed.
"Was that supposed to hurt? I like Mokou's challenge better than yours!" She flew up into the sky. She took zero damage.
E. Gadd chimed in the Wii Boo. "Luigi! I think it's safe to say your Poltergust slams aren't as powerful as this 'danmaku' thing! Try slamming Kaguya into that leftover fire!"
Luigi looked at the fire and nodded. Now it's time to get serious.
"Woogh!" Luigi dodged out of the way of a line of fire from Mokou. Great. The fire was patterend and also randomised. Luigi used the Burst to dodge Kaguya's danmaku which bounced around.
Kaguya was suddenly forced down by Mokou again. "Agh! Whatever! Do your worst, Luigi!"
Luigi stunned her with the Strobulb again and pulled back. He kept pulling until he was at the line of fire. Literally. He got enough energy to slam Kaguya into the fire.
SLAM!
SLAM!
SLAM!
Kaguya pulled out."Kh.. Impressive! You learned!" She shot her bullets at Mokou from ground level, and Mokou retaliated by slamming on the ground, causing a shockwave of fire.
"Aagh!" Luigi's sheer terror caused him to jump in fear and dodge the shockwave. He was now in the crossfire for Phase 2.
"Out of the way, Luigi!" Mokou summoned a flame tornado and charged at Kaguya. Luigi ran out of the way and Kaguya knocked Mokou back.
Kaguya fired more giant rainbows, which Luigi vacuumed up with his Poltergust. Luigi looked behind while vacuuming and saw that Mokou was charging up more fire attacks. "Aaah!"
He stopped vacuuming Kaguya's attacks and went to vacuum Mokou's fireballs so he wouldn't get hit. Kaguya was also charging. It was too much for one guy.
ONE guy.
Luigi pressed a button to summon Gooigi.
"Ho ho!" Gooigi went and vacuumed up Kaguya's rainbows and then charged a Strobulb attack! Kaguya was stunned!
While Kaguya was stunned, Luigi used the 'blow' function to eject fire onto the ground to slam Kaguya with.
Gooigi then tugged on a fleeing Kaguya, built up energy and did three slams within the line of fire.
SLAM!
SLAM!
SLAM!
Kaguya pulled herself out once more. She fired really fast danmaku. Luigi thankfully dodged. Gooigi dissipated and went back into Luigi's tank. Mokou wasn't so lucky and got hit, getting wounded all over.
"Looks like you're out of the fight, Mokou." Kaguya teased.
"Oh no!" Luigi turned.
"I'll be... haack.. fine... Luigi." Mokou was struggling. "Focus on beating Kaguya... I'll be up and running in a few minutes..."
Luigi turned back to Kaguya, utterly pissed.
"Well, I'm off. I already won. No chance you'll have against me." Kaguya started to float and fly off along with the Toad Painting.
Luigi shot a plunger at Kaguya and it snagged onto her dress. "Not until I get my friend." Luigi vacuumed the plunger and slammed Kaguya in a massive arc.
Kaguya pulled out after one slam. "Huh? You still want to fight? You're persistent... hhhhrrrrrAGH!" She finally snapped and punched a bamboo, shattering it in half. "FINE, let's go!"
Divine Treasure "Brilliant Dragon Bullet" - Lunatic
"...what." Luigi read that Spell Card name and shivered at the word 'lunatic'.
Kaguya fired lasers everywhere. Luigi practically screamed and weavered between the lasers, going into small gaps just to survive. She was crazy.
Absolutely crazy. And to think his adventure was just starting.
"You gotta cave in at some point!" Kaguya roared with laughter.
"Hnnng..." Luigi was just about to be hit with a laser when Mokou rised up again and punched the ground, causing a fountain of fire to spew at Kaguya, stunning her.
"What the-"
Luigi wasted NO time. He activated the Poltergust and pulled Kaguya along. There was still fire left from Mokou's slam. So he dragged along and did three final slams.
SLAM!
SLAM!
SLAM!
Kaguya was struggling in her defeat animation. She summoned a rainbow out of nowhere. "Look! A rainbow-"
The Poltergust vibrated and sent her flying into a distant bamboo tree, hitting her head and knocking her out. The Toad painting fell down from the sky and landed neatly and conviniently on the nearest bamboo tree from Luigi.
Luigi looked around nervously. Did he just beat his first major boss?
He tosses his cap high up in the air. "OH HO!"
and caught it.
"YEAH!"
Major Boss DEFEATED!
Mokou looked at Luigi. "Immortality. I survive everything even if I don't want to. Now then. I believe...?"
Luigi looked at the portrait of his trapped friend. "It's time. Oh, bravo, Mokou! Thank you for helping!"
Mokou smiled as Luigi walked up to the portrait. "Okay, okay..."
Luigi activated his Dark Light and the portrait slowly came to life. Out came a mushroom figure with red spots and a blue shirt. Red Toad, the first of the three Toads...
was saved.
"Wagh-" Red Toad plummeted onto the ground. "Aaagh, my head..." He rubbed his head. He had a traumatising experience just as much as Luigi. At least that's what Luigi thought. Luigi carefully leaned in to check on Red Toad's health. He was thankful there were no major injuries. "You good, Toad?" Luigi asked.
Red Toad came up and was instantly met with Luigi. "LUIGI! Thank GOODNESS! I was so scared!" Red Toad jumped up and hugged Luigi, and Luigi cradled Red Toad in his arms.
Luigi caught something in his eyes yet again. But instead of fighting it, he lets the tears flow. He hugged Red Toad back while closing his eyes.
"I missed you too, pal..." Luigi cried.
Two unknown figures were talking to each other.
"...are you sure this will work?"
"It's a last resort. For real this time. As soon as I lose, I will have that thing disappear and then transport me AND that thing to this dimension."
"You're insane."
"I am dubbed insane.. You knew this from the start, didn't you?"
"O-of course! I know a lot! Hah hah..."
"Just as annoying as always... Now I have to wait..."
And there you have it. Arc 1 is finished! Normally I would answer reviews here, but since I did that last chapter since it was filler, I only have one review to answer!
VolcanicFlare: Woah, that was a fast reply. Are you sure you aren't stalking me? *boards up windows and doors* Regardless, yeah. People brush off most things in Gensokyo as 'slightly strange'. Gensokyo is actually a traumatising experience and not all sunshine and rainbows. And Luigi here is here to experience it! Lucky him! Thanks for reading!
And now, I must part. It's time to cater to Super Mario Sephira fans. We shall see you in the next arc! Take care!