Disclaimer: This is how the story shall be told, it is gonna be akin to an RPG style, where there are Main quests, and side quests, and Search quests to find the scattered Touhous, Main quests will deal with original Storylines and Game storylines , can be goofy, silly, serious and sometimes quite dark, heavily streamlined to focus on the main boss and extra boss of the game, with the previous bosses being findable.
Since this world is based on the one Established byUltima Brigade War, there will be other series however, they are cameos or help out in side quests only. They hold no bearing on the plot. Next chapter shall start Main quests and side quests. there will be references to other Touhou series throughout the story, so if you catch the lil references, good on ya. Please enjoy.
Marisa POV
Well, Reimu has a place to stay now, so that's a good thing we met that guy, feels like she may end up sealing him though or beating him silly, but that's not on my mind right now, I spent the nice in Reimu's lil Housing section and she loves it.
I still don't understand all the stuff of this modern era but running water, a weird box that sprays out hot air in this winter cold. Its really nice, and alot better than a fireplace back home. But I am just heading back to grab my stuff from those folks and go back over there. I gotta thank this family for taking care of me when I woke up on their pool.
I could have walked but flying is just so much faster, got here in record time to, landing on their front yard. Its a nice home, alot similar to Alice's home. Making my way to the porch, i am already ready to knock on the do- wait...why is it like this, it looks like it was kicked in, and it smells..like blood.
Oh no, I move fast, kicking down this door and soon seeing one messed up living room, furniture overturned and alot of feathers, but that ain't what I am focused on! The old lady that took care of me! Her husband and their grandkids and the dad, they are all beaten and bleeding on the ground. Oh Gods, what the hell happened!?
" H-hey! What the hell happened, Ze!?" I move fast and move to the daughter and hold her up, her face is cut up and bruised and her arm, its bent in an entirely wrong way.
" c-call...911...on...the phone..." She sounds in so much pain, but, the phone was that white thing she showed me yesterday.
I made sure to run over to it and soon grab it, hitting the numbers. "911, what is your emergency?"
A voice came through it, but I did not care about that. " Uhm yes! My my family is hurt real badly, I think, someone broke into this place and got to them Ze!" My vocal tic even comes through even during this crisis, never thought of it, as a bad thing till now. I've had a few bad injuries before but I just use potions to heal it.
" And what is the address ma'am?" The voice was making tapping noises in the background but, address, where would I, oh! I saw it on their mail once!
" It was uh 7598 White Tiger Lane! A nice sized blue and white house!" I am glad I have good memory, lucky me.
" We are sending someone on the way now, make sure to keep me up to date on their conditions, if anyone is bleeding, make sure to apply pressure and keep it there." Oh god, the Grandmother is bleeding out, I gotta tear a piece of my apron off, gonna use it to bind the wound. Books, really helpful for my line of work. Well, Patchy's books anyways. This is,...utterly terrible, who would have done this...
Hours later at the hospital...
Ziden POV
Had a feeling this was gonna happen, got a call from here that some blonde requested me to bring Reimu but we got a whole damn entourage here, the vampire, the mage, the maid, even Yukari and Keine came.. And now we were all in the room with the injured family.
" You were very lucky to call us when you did, should ya have not gotten to the Emergency services fast enough...well, we would have lost alot more than the grandfather." The old man didn't make it and the grandmother is recovering from the shock of the incident.
The daughter is awake but she isn't talking, only silently holding Marisa's hand and crying. Her right arm is a mess, torn out the socket and hit with a pipe or bat, its gonna take months for that bone to set back in...if it sets in properly.
The doctor ends up stepping out of the room and I decide to speak. " An odd time for this, I am sure, but Yukari, you wanted to know about that cube?"
Yukari snaps to as he looks at me, seems she was lost in thought, how rare. " Indeed, I want to know what it did."
I softly tap my jaw for a moment as I see everyone looking at me. " Well, essentially, what you touched was a Cosmic Cube, while i do not remember their way of being created, best way I can describe them as items that can control the Reality of a universe without known limits. They are, in my research, crystallizations of the primordial essence of the universe, given form and power, able to do whatever it damn well pleases at the behest of its user."
Reimu looked very confused, in fact, many of them did not seem to get what I said, how do I...
" Basically, from what is being described, think as the universe as Soup, and those cubes as the left over ingredients on the side of the bowl. but they are able to mess with everything in the bowl." Patchouli was the one to finish it up.
" Oh, makes sense now." Reimu simply sighed as I look at the doctor peeking in, he was suspicious, to say the least.
" Gensokyo no doubt got ravaged by the blast caused when Yukari touched it, i dunno the spark, but for some reason, it shattered Gensokyo and blasted you guys all over the world." I explain simply. " ITs, entirely gone, the barrier, everything in it, all the landmarks that aren't bolstered down like Mountains are just, gone."
" Then, the human village...could be anywhere. Defenseless in this world." Keine simply sighs, she never did get to bathe after school, she wanted to know why Marisa was in a tizzy.
" So is this why we are staying with you, I heard the ruler of this land wants you to find everyone and bring them here to avoid issues with well, whomever would have issues with us." Sakuya was rather sharp it seemed, could she actually be? Nah.
" Basically, you guys can do your whole day to day stuff after we get your IDs made tomorrow or help me with the basic jobs I do around town or the advanced ones all around the world, its your call." I explained simply and it seems Reimu shrugs.
" Well, sounds annoying but, jobs implies money and I do need alot of money so, I am in!" Reimu grins wide, the idea of money literally got her going, we really are related, how scary.
" But, shouldn't we investigate who attacked these kind folks and caused the death of an old man and the father to be comatose?" Keine piqued up and I instantly answered without thinking.
" Oh no need, it was the Yakuza, they tend to do this alot to folks who interfere with their business. Because Reimu there stopped me from killing em, they no doubt reported back to their higher ups and they found out whom you two hung out with, which for Marisa's case, was that family." I made sure to look at my hands, letting fire dance along it. " They really exploded heavily since the wars all stopped thanks to the current President in the es and people fearing the super weapons he has. Wars stopped, but Gangs, minus American ones really took the hell over. America has a massive cult problem instead."
Reimu slammed her hands down on a nearby table, that was loud. " Hey! You blaming me for what happened!?"
" Yes." Blunt, I made sure to be. " This ain't Gensokyo kid, this is the Human world, where we don't have cushy pushy rules like you told me about. We either beat down and arrest, or we take em out. And since Yakuza have the entire Police force in pocket, the first option ain't happening." This came from experience, I decided to just slice and dice instead of punch and send to jail.
" You told me, that if I were to get my newly made rule to the Emperor dude, he can get it magically instated right, won't that-"
" The spell card rule would only apply to us Reimu." Marisa was the one who spoke up. " Humans out here don't have any magic from what Kari's told us, ze. Those rules wouldn't do anything for 'em. But for us magically inclined folks, it'd give a non lethal fighting experience without bloodshed."
" Yeah, as long as its not a youkai or God fighting a normal day human. Then they can just kill em without issue, like the good old days." Remilia, that was her name right? She seemed to be remembering the good times.
" Right, well, that guy is sending someone over in the morning so I am gonna hand over the rules." Reimu seemed to have calmed down from my blaming.
" Right, lets head home, I have an awesome name for our little abode!" I do not like the way that sounds Yukari, not in the slightest
I was correct, I did not like this in the slightest. A big old Purple and gold sign was over my gate, glowing sign letters in Japanese spelling out 'Gensokyo Estates'
" this isn't even...an Estate." I hate this, in all of my soul, I despise this, but, it got approved by everyone, minus Remilia, she wanted to call this the Scarlet Estates and paint everything red.
We denied that like lightning, the sun was down and now only me and Meiling were at the gate.
" Meiling, that was your name right?" She nods at this before being at attention, Remilia was kinda upset she defected to by my gatekeeper but was quickly fine with it because she was technically living here so there really is no difference. " Keep an eye out for the next few days, we're gonna have Rowdy visitors no doubt, you have my full permission to use Fatal force."
She slams her fists together, she is ready for this it seems, the Yakuza are def gonna come here, alright, time to head back to the hospital-
" Oh, I was not expecting you to be outside of your gates today, Mr Icrim." Oh that voice, I turn to see a familiar face in her school uniform, blackish hair and light blue eyes.
" Ah, Yumi, I assume you came here to use the library?" She nods, this woman was a adoptive grandkid of a friend of mine. Who was not on a good standing right now when it came to health. Known her since she was a kid. she looks a lil like me, he joked so she sometimes calls me dad, solely to anger me. " Go ahead, a woman is running it but let her know I let the school kids use the normal sections."
She heads on in as I look to the distance and bend down. Focus power to the legs and leap!
The ground moved rapidly away from me as I feel the wind blasting my face, soaring through the air like this, like I am some Hulk. I make sure to hit a rooftop and leap once more, over and over, feeling the roughness of the rooftops I land on before I curl my fingers and stab them right through the stone wall.
NRNSNDNSJ. What the hell was that sensation!? Like a damn volt through my body!? I didn't hit a power line in the wall did I? No, that was, Time being messed with? Damn, they probably got some Temporal Assassin.
Why an Assassin? The Yakuza, well, the newly evolved ones, which, really are not that different from the old ones. They don't like Loose ends, they missed Marisa but didn't miss these people. No doubt that doctor was the assassin, he had an air of death around him. The vampire and maid noticed it, they didn't show it but they were side glancing him hard.
Alright, the window is open for fresh air and I make sure to unlatch from the wall and soon leap into that window, fresh landing, only befitting of a badass like me.
CLANG!
Only to get a bedpan thrown at my face and caused me to stagger. " Oh dear god! I'm sorry!" That was the grand kid, hell of an aim she has. " I didn't kn-" Her words were caught in her throat and a knife was was ready to make it uncaught.
Shit. " Make a move man and I'll slit her throat without hesitation." The doctor was there, his teeth showed a skull on it. He was with a Guild and a member of the Yakuza, double dealing huh.
Should explain while we have a standoff with this guy. Guilds are things that came directly from my home, the Isle of Hope and around the world in secret places, he is with the Assassins Guild, which has many clans. Think of Ivalice basically and its those kinda clans. That skull shows they are of the Reaper Clan, low ranking clan, do any type of job for quick Cash.
" What, you gonna kill a girl just because I beat a bunch of your asses the other day?" I make sure to keep him focused on me, the girl's scared, obviously, but I have to keep him focused on me.
" Yeah, we leave no traces of our work, thought they were dead after I played with them, the Grandpa was the funnest. Had to punish them for harboring that witch cosplay girl and we're gonna come to your place as well, turn it nice and red by morning." He was sure boasting, but I can't do anything yet, his guard is up, so I just need to-
Tick tock
" That was quite the speech and threat, unfortunately, when it comes to the safety of my mistress, I am afraid that I do not let such things slide." What? The black haired school girl was in my arms, and she looked as confused as I was. And I see it, arms behind his back and a silver knife at his throat.
That was Sakuya Izayoi, if i recall, Maid of the uh, Azul Demon Castle or something, She stood there, staring deeply into the man's eyes and he was afraid. While she had him, I pulled out a green bottle, a Potion, Magic healing item from the World of Unending Fantasies that got immigrated over here.
" O-oh hold on now, we don't got to be hasty lady." The man was pleading now, seems he did not want any of this.
" Drink this, it doesn't taste bad, honestly, it tastes familiar, can't place the taste." I answer as she takes it and softly chugs it down, licking her lips even.
" Hmm, this tastes like Green apple." She even stretches before realizing all her soreness was gone and she was at peak health. " Wha! What happened?"
" Potion, real damn good at healing bodies, far better than hospitals." I made sure to boast. " What's your name kid?"
" Kagome. Kagome Higarushi." Ah, a nice name, remember it, heard their home has a funky well near it.
" Good, don't worry, you will be able to live peacefully with your folks soon." I made sure to move over to this killer and give him a powerful punch the gut. Oh that felt good watching him cough up his insides like that.
" Ziden? I am aware that Reimu wishes to reinstate the Spell Card Rules but is it fine that, whenever you deal with people like this, Yakuza, cultists, that you give the bodies to me, my mistresses and Meiling often need human parts in order to sate their hungers. The basement is far big enough for me to safely deal with such troubles."
" Whoa hold on." Whew, he was trying tyo catch his breath after that punch the gut, had to hold back on that one, felt good to slug him. " You can't just- feed me to some monsters!" He is kinda right but, should I?
If word even gets out about this, i would be in deep shit, really deep shit. But, its not an issue I think. Have far worse rumors about. " sure, you can take him and-"
Splurt
And she just slit his throat and in that following instant, she was gone, Kagome was not paying attention, more focused on her body being fine. Then, its time for me to do this. I make sure to take a syringe and fill it with potion and i inject it into the IV bag and watch it flow into it and mix in, it'll go into her and heal her rather slowly.
" Oh right, Kagome, it'll be safe to return to your home after this, as far as they know, you guys are done for." I explained while she seemed uncertain. " Or...you can check out the old neighborhood near my place, no one lives there but I guess I can contact some folks and get you set up there."
" That..would be better for me. I will talk to, Grandma and Mom when she gets here. Thanks." Kagome softly smiles at this, she has a good smile.
" Get some rest, Marisa is gonna swing by in the morning to see ya." Well, out I go, she does wave at me, but now to get home.
And now there is an odd sight before my manor gates, that stupid sign was still there, god it angers me. And now the odd sight. Reimu and...Sanae?
" ah, there he is, yo, Dumbass." Lovely Reimu, lovely. " This chick is over here picking a fight for some reason." And Sanae turned to me and runs to me. She looks like she was about to cry.
" Ziden! How could you! I am supposed to be your shrine maiden! How can you cheat on me like this!?" What.
" What."
Agreed Reimu, I am confused by this. " No, she is just, a estranged person living here. You are not being-"
" No! I shall not stand for this, by my honor as a Wind priestess, I shall defend my rights!" Sanae, what damn rights are you talking about. " The rights to be the Shrine maiden bestie of Ziden!" but you are not even close to being my best friend, what.
I hate this, why am I being dragged into this., Well, Reimu seemed not to interested in this, maybe she won't.
" Fine fine, then we will do this tomorrow, Spell Card rules, 3 Spell Cards, winner gets to be the main Shrine maiden of this place." Oh come on!
" Seriously, you two do not need to do this, not at all!" I try to get them to stop but Sanae was all for this.
" Deal! Just tell me what these rules are and we shall battle at my place!" Sanae stood there proudly, and was handed a scroll and takes it. " After I read this and trounce you, you shall be kicked out of this place!"
" I'd like to see you try." Reimu was smug about this, something tells me, she is really, really good at this game. Sanae was twisting around and heading home, no doubt she was gonna get those goddesses involved.
Reimu softly huffs before looking at me. " Did ya have to do that, honestly?" I asked while heading inside, moving my hand through my spiky black hair.
" Of course I did, I'm this place's shrine Maiden. I let her take over and I'd lose out on faith! And my money!" Of course she would. " Speaking of, donate sometime soon."
" Yeah no." I don't donate much to shrines, the idea repulses me. And less so to family
" Rude, whatever, you will at some point donate, oh yeah, while you were gone, some fancy dudes came and put some board out here." And I look to where she points and its...a Mission board. A board where jobs are posted for me to do. Great, but why inside the gate? No one could post anything.
Well, Reimu is going inside the home and walking to her and Marisa's section and, there's...an old shrine in the yard now, even that red gate thing. Must be Yukari's doing. Looks like crap. Gonna need a clean up. Oh well, time to go and lift this bad boy board up and bring it outside. Hup two.
And those are splinters in my hand, this sucks, careful movements to the gate, let it open up and soon placing it to the right of the gate and seeing it lock down to the ground.
Did, did that thing just lock into the grou- Alright, this means they put that damn inside on purpose so i would have carry it out here. Goddammit. I turn to see Meiling standing outside the gate, sleeping while standing up. Its close to closing time anyways.
" Yo, Meiling.. Come on inside, your duties are over for the day." she snapped awake and yawns, heading inside, before being confused for a moment, but continuing to walk. Must not be used to heading inside. Well, time to get some rest and eat.
A good dinner that was, sure it was simple ramen and beef since, i was too lazy to make something big but the others joined in, so i ended up making alot. And now had this humorous sight here.
" Yukari, do you know where the washing basin is in this place?" And out of her room, came Keine and my eyes were instantly drawn to one thing. She was in her underwear and giving me a very nice view. Nice and curvy and she is staring right at me. "..."
And a quick kick to my face as she covered herself right after, I taste blood, I think she broke my nose. " Goddammit!" Yeah, I screamed, what a hellish pain.
" S-sorry! I thought Yukari was out here!" She was quick to head back inside and place her dress back onto her, seems she had a bag of clothes with her.
" Geh, just be quiet and follow me." And i get up, my healing is kicking in and soon I lead her to the backroom where the washing machines and dryers were and she just looked confused. " Here, is where we wash clothes."
She looked at the machines like they were odd. and I crack open the top and showing her the place where a slot slides out and pulls up detergent. " Ah? Cleaning goods. But where is the basin?"
" Don't use basins no more unless you wanna take all day. Put your clothes in here." I make sure to turn as she throws in the clothes in the bag and soon looks at what she is wearing as I hand her a bathrobe, one of mine, she is only slightly shorter than me so it should fit her perfectly. "Go bathe first and then bring your clothes there into here and put them into here. Add the detergent here." She is following me, quite easily. " Then you close the top. Turn it on with this button and then this one and it will wash your clothes."
She understands it atleast. and takes the robe with her. " Thank you Ziden. Finally, a nice bath!" And she is off, leaving her clothes here. Alot of blue dresses and underwear...I should go.
Back to the living room I go and now, I can relax.
" Yo, Dumbass." And that is Reimu, she is still dressed for some reason typically, she should be sleeping around this time, she has a damn duel soon in the morning. " What the hell is this Touhou Project stuff I keep seeing around town?" Oh fuck me, existential crisis trip, here we come.
Third Person POV
" And that is another chapter done, this globe sure does show alot but I believe that the next chapter, we can start actual story instead of framework!" Akyuu clapped her hands together as Yukari and Ziden sat there.
" Honestly, even though its gonna be a harem filled mess, much like my life but worse. I am fine with this. so far atleast." Ziden softly taps his fingers, the Village thriving right now.
" Indeed, I am curious to see how the girls handle such an event taking place, forcing them into a modern world and having to adapt to it while sticking to their normal tasks." Yukari nods.
" Yep! and the ladies of the village like it, once the romance angles happen, they are gonna eat it up! Kosuzu even plans on selling the parts in her library!" Akyuu seemed happy as Ziden simply stares outside a window, seeing something big moving through the village.
" Yeah, wish this village was as happy as you right now." Ziden sighed out before getting ready to settle back in for the story to continue. In the next part.
Trivia:
1. Yumi is from Senran Kagura, a bouncy fun time of a game for those thaty love fanservice. A cameo char that will appear often.
2. Kagome is the same Kagome from inuyasha, just switched around to fit more in line with Touhou and essentially planned to be a good friend of Marisa there.
Author's Notes: Another day, another chapter, Instead of it being erratic uploads, gonna upload along side the other stories so that people will not have to wait so damn long. So, at most, weekly waits for both chapters. And imma say it now, yes, i am aware of the Typos and such, keyboard is a wonky mistress and i sometimes miss errors during proofreading,. hopefully it does not become a major issue. And the Disclaimer shall explain how this story goes down. So, Read and Review if you wish!