Hey hey hey, welcome to the chapter, bit short but hey, atleast it covers the bases I wanted, as always, enjoy and try to find all the sneaky lil references I sneak in here.
Ziden POV
Well, I am already quite annoyed already, a long busride to the outskirts and now a long walk to reach this village that was there. Along with my Brigade, the Illusary Brigade or was it the Illusionary Brigade? I do not remember in the slightest. A long road to walk after riding a bus to the outskirts to get to this village.
Keine forced herself into our party with Sanae and Mokou. It was just supposed to be me, Patchouli, Reimu and Marisa. But it was somewhat smart, the village chief is quite honestly a pain but man does it feel good to be back on Japanese soil, away from the mecha having president.
The long walk was silent, until Sanae started to talk. " So like, i wanted to come along because i was curious about how this place is like because, I was supposed to go there but uh, thanks to Ziden going uh, what Lady Kanako said, jackassery, I get to stay here with my family! And i get to mess with Ziden!" Yay me.
" Its nothing special, just a small bunch of wooden and stone huts with some being western like we saw in America." Keine explained while looking behind them. " Honestly, its gonna be impossible to live in one of these after the comforts of this world."
" So Gensokyo really is uh, backwater?" Sanae asked, innocently but the natives do raise a brow at that.
" Backwater means underdeveloped shithole in nice colors." And I had to be rather nice and ow! Mokou just kicked me in the shin!
" Lovely, I'd prefer if my home was not called an utter shithole, thanks, anyways, I do not look forward to seeing-" Oh, we are being greeted by our favorite fellow, the new Village chief as of last 3 years ago, according to Keine.
" Oh look, its the filthy Mongrel teacher, her lesbian and the jackass who cleans up after them." Wow, the looks on Keine's face and Mokou's face right now, this was a pudgy guy, well fed sorta guy, heavy, scruffy black hair and a fat face where his eyes are closed most of the time. Ryuhoshi if I recall his name. Black generic robes too and a colorful rainbow fan, despite the fact this is winter and the skies look rather cloudy.
" I'd prefer, if you did not refer to me as such, chief, I am merely the way I am because of, circumstances." Yeah, being a Werehakutaku is tough I hear.
" Feh, I bet it is your fault we are in this current mess! Its terrible, a bright flash of light and we are whisked away to some other place! Oh the terrors!" And he is being extra again but atleast he is letting us into the village, its the same old same old, olden style Japanese village, some huts barely held up by the mud its made out of, while the higher class area looked alot nicer.
" Right, so, what terrors is that?" And Reimu pitches in, Ryuhoshi scoffing at her mere presence.
" Those giant monsters of steel that fly through the air! They seem harmless now but god knows that they will attack us!" Well, can't blame them for that.
" Pfft! you knucklehead! That ain't no flying beast, its an Airplane! People fly around out here in those!" And Marisa is blunt as ever. He seems perturbed by that, so we explain.
" ah I had a feeling with my grand levels of wisdom. So the forbidden outside world hmm?" We clearly left out the part about this being caused by a weird longing for Gensokyo to be a part of the outside world. Wow, even out here, the magic concentration and faith is strong. But, something was off.
" For a village...its kinda, not bustling like I would imagine?" Sanae was trying to fly like the others do, barely leaving the ground for but a moment and sticking to walking around. Ryuhoshi seems to be standoffish about this.
"shush about that, we have a bit of a, issue, but we have been able to take care of it, thanks to my guidance. So, you wish to move us to your home so we are protected? Feh! We do not need your aid, jackass!" Wow, rude, I feel so harmed by that.
" Sad to say that it does not matter, have to bring you with us for your safety." Keine was being upfront with it, we can't exactly just leave them out here, especially since.
" Miss Keine? Miss Keine and her girlfriend are here to save us from the monster and his master!" And it seems some kids came out of the schoolhouse nearby, it has seen better d- wait did he say monsters?
" Excuse you, twerps! Keine is not my girlfriend! She is my best friend!" Mokou has been bullied about this for ages, its almost goddamn funny.
" But Berty said he saw you two playing Cave explorer in the classroom!" And the boy even flaps his hands as Keine and Mokou both went damn near tomato colors. In case you don't know, Cave explorer is a uh, game two women play when they really like each other.
" I. Am. Married. to this idiot!" And she tugs right on my ear, it hurts, Mokou please. " So shut it about that!"
If you want context behind that, they weren't doing anything sinful at all, just the usual talking. Mokou slipped and fell into Keine's thigh, a student walked in and it was one of those older kids that knows a lil too much and well, that is how that lesbian thing started.
" Yeah, sides, Keine does not roll that way, I know. I really goddamn know." And I make sure to stare at her, and she is actually avoiding my gaze. She knows what she did. " But monster and master?"
And now Ryuhoshi slides between us. " Oh there is no such thing! Simply a bogeyman the kids made up!"
" Uh huh, kids, explain." Keine crosses her arms under her bosom while the kids begin explaining.
Wow, shit, the fan is coated in it, apparently, sometime after they moved things in here thanks to Yukari, apparently some creepy cloaked fellow is feeding the villagers to a monster or demon of sorts and they have to send sacrifices by the hour to keep it happy during the day.
" Geh, kids, can't believe what they are saying, there is no form of monster here, trust me on this." And Ryuhoshi grins, man you can see the lying sweat pouring down his head.
" Right, would explain the disappearing folks, ze." MArisa was rubbing her hand through her hair, she did have a worrying look on her face, with Ryu saw.
" Oh shush, like we could get rid of your old man and mom. They are some of the only magically able people to defend against Youkai!" Well, she seemed calmer after that.
" Well, if there is a monster here, then that quest from the other day would make sense. Don't send any more people and please just go to the place we are sending you t-" And there is one hell of a rumbling there! Feels like the ground itself was tearing itself apart and the kids instantly gripped onto Keine's dress.
" AH! The Monster is coming!" At that, we stand at alert and soon, the ground soon stops its shaking. and it all calms down to a halt. Silence flows around us. And a deep cackling fills the air.
" Ahhhhh! Its feeding time for my pet! Now, who shall be fed to its-" Its eyes soon fall on us and mainly me, no, rather mainly on my sword. " Y-you! The Slayer of Oscura!? Why are you here!?"
Wow, been ages since i was called that, this means this is a bonafide demon." Oscura? What?" Reimu of course had the right question to ask, but i did not feel like answering it.
" Long story for la-"
" Oh oh oh! I know!" Alright bouncy mcjiggles, no reason to hop up and down so much. " Oscura is a demon Ziden beat when he was 16, a really powerful demon that is an overlord class demon! As his very first demon! It cemented Ziden as a very big name as a demon hunter!" Right, forgot she was a fanboy to the max, it is gonna be kinda annoying honestly.
" So, you killing this demon is upsetting this guy's asshole?" Mokou is not even remotely tact about this and the demon seems to be getting upset.
" No more! That means these traitorous sacrifices called for the hunters! My demon will slaughter you all now!" The demon even did that hand swing thing that people do when they are mad in movies. " Or rather tonight, he needs his rest and the sun hurts his eyes!" And it seems we will be having a night battle, of course, i saw Reimu throwing tags at him which he dodged like lightning and vanished into the wind, but atleast she did something.
" Sacrifices?" Keine was now literally boring very hot holes into tubbo's body right now as he coughed.
" Well, you see, there is a-
" Fat ass got scared when that monstrous Youkai appeared and left us to die!" Oh, one of the male villagers peeked out of their home, well, got the gist of what is happening here, tubby here got scared and sacrificed so many people.
" SO many people died because of him, Ziden, Mokou! Keine! Can you save us!?' One of the women were pleadingly looking at us
" Oh, don't even say my name, alright." Reimu simply grumbles at this as the man looks at her.
" Oh please, you haven't done jackshit for us at all! All you do is hang around with your damn Youkai filth!" Whoa, harsh words right there. and Reimu simply growls at the people too.
" Why you-"
" Enough, whatever issues you got, save it for later, we're evacing all of you to another place, so gather up all precious belongings and clothes and get to the center of the village, on the double!"
Like that, the people who heard and the people who were told got to work while I went to work checking out the outskirts of the village, alot of cave like areas, no doubt hiding whatever this beast is that we are gonna be dealing with.
Hours pass...
Ah, there it is, that massive Gap, a tear in Reality itself that terrifies all that do not know what it holds and I can see that the villagers are terrified of it.
Countless expanse of eyes were looking back at them and well, to fix that, we covered their eyes with clothes, tubby McGee was even tied up, Ryuhoshi kinda deserved it. Even the old people of the council were out here, along with the village defenders, various hunters with various tricks and skills to take on the wild Youkai. Shit, wonder where those guys are. Should eventually do something with that Rumia kid in America.
Later I supposed. " Ziden, the gap is connected to the massive complex of houses by your home, even did some improvements to it, let them come on through and let them pick houses, I'll have Ran hold a meeting to teach them about the comforts of modern life.'
Yukari's voice came through loudly in my phone as the others looked at it. I motion for the guys to start pushing them through as the massive horde of people were flowing in through the portal while being guided, so many people were in gensokyo, its insane. But if she said she had an improvement to those homes, well, hope that Kagome girl there can handle new neighbors.
We could feel it, once Ryuhoshi and the last bit of hunters got the portal, we felt the ground itself shake like hell itself was tearing the ground open and we could feel the ground itself screaming, the hunters of the village soon turning to the sounds and tearing off their blindfolds.
" No, we shall not run! I lost my son to this damn youkai and i refuse to let it claim anyone else! Come on boys!" And grabbing their spears, they made sure to run off towards the source of the shaking, one of the council men simply looked at this, red hair, cross scar on his face, Kuuza, head of combat training, seems he was only watching this with his pipe in hand before heading into the portal.
A shame, guy's actually great fighter, native Gensokyian, born and raised. The village has alot of neat warriors in it, especially from the other villages too. But Kuuza left and just these guys with Spears were out on the outskirts of town, the sun blazing red in the skies as we saw it.
The ground itself tore itself asunder in order to release the beast before us, a massive brown worm, adorned in earthen crystals and atwo beady eyes that glared down at us, dirt and sand were raining down from its body, its maw was even more terrifying, an endless maw of silver, razor sharp teeth, still coated in the fresh gore or whatever he grabbed on the way to this battle field.
" The monster!"
" Its huge!"
" Kill it!"
" I never did get laid."
Well, they are pumped up and the giant worm was staring them down, beady eyes soon glowing bright orange, the color of Earth magic as it soon roars, the very ground shaking from the impact, god knows how far that quake went but we are not gonna wait to find out.
" Foolish humans! This is one of the four Elemental Beasts! One that will devastate humanity since the border between humanity and the supernatural was shattered! Magic flows back to its rightful place in this world and soon, my beasts will crush you! Behold, my Grave Digger!" As if on cue, we witness that thing start cracking with elemental magic, damn, our first hunt together had to be a Elemental beast, whatever they are. Even I have never heard of them.
" Huh, sounds really familiar, maybe lady Kanako talked about them?" Sanae asked, i noticed that she was a bit shaken by this, not surprising, this is her first monster, realistically, a kid who has never even seen a monster before would be scared.
"Deep breathes kid, if you need to fall back, do so." I made sure to draw my blade as the guards were standing and ready. Hell, they looked scared too, cannot blame them either.
" Now then! Die and die further! Bear witness to the power of Grave dig-" And that voice was utterly silenced, Mokou did not waste a single moment and fired a massive blast of fire that took away the demon's head as it fell to the ground, smoldering body and leaving a mess on the ground.
Grave Digger? He did not like that it seemed because now it was flaring into attack mode, the ground glowing before we all took to the skies and saw the devastation that followed, two of the guards were crushed apart by the raging earthquake that followed and one was cruelly scooped up right into the mouth of it, screaming the whole time.
All we could see was the fountain of blood that came out when he was devoured and the body parts that followed. I heard a gag from behind me, seems Sanae lost her lunch. No time to wait, we gotta take this thing down before it decides to go to the main cities!
Serpent Devouring the Ground ( Bravery Default)
There is that music again, formed by the mystic particles in the air, released by a divine being who loves seeing heroes fight or do anything mundane. And now I gotta jump. The ground tearing itself apart as the Grave Digger came right for me after it tore the guards apart, blood still oozing from its maw and spraying the ground red, had to use my flames to dodge through the air to avoid it.
Damn thing is like a train of flesh with how its tearing through the earth and soon swinging around to come back for me again.
" Hey! Overgrown garden worm! The greatest Mage in Gensokyo and soon this world is gonna teach you a lesson!" And like a burst of light, all I see are these weird jars floating around her and soon magic bursts of energy slammed into the worm all over, causing explosions to ripple along it but it did not seem to care as it kept chasing me down. " Hey!"
Its focused on me, and I made sure that was a mistake, landing on the ground for but a moment and kicking off with enough force to go airborne once more, i made sure to spin around with enough force akin to a wheel, fires dancing around me as I see it rearing up to strike me out of the air. " Rampaging Skull Crusher!" Well, this thing did not have a skull but god knows my food still slammed into its head and caused that air to crackle and pop from the force and seeing that worm smash into the ground was intense.
Mokou to this chance after my attack to leap up onto a rock and grab a nice foot hold on it and soon rain down firey hell down into the body of the worm without mercy.
" Honestly, been ages since I actually had to fight something lethal." Keine was honest, the Spoell Card rules really dulled alot of their fangs, three orbs forming around her as powerful sliced right into the body of the worm, spraying out dusty blood as it made sure to fire a long beam of sandy earth at her, which she grazed to fire a powerful shot right into its kisser, causing it stagger back.
Reimu was quick on the offense and made sure to blast away on it with those sealing talismans of hers, the holy energies causing explosions all along its body. My eyes dart to Sanae who was scared but doing well, unable to fly like the others, she made sure to use that track experience for her and throwing out watery snakes Suwako taught her to use from my memory's recollection.
Each bite caused an explosion of water which caused the creature to scream and rage out in fury from the attack and of course, that got its attention, did not expect any of us to have its elemental weakness and it glowered right down on Sanae...who is now a dear in headlights, a powerful scream coming from, whatever lungs it has going on right about now. And its lunging.
Shit! Sanae's not gonna dodge it, the her stance, her form, she's a deer in headlights to the max, move body move! Lucky for me, she was light to hit out of the way, bad news? I could now feel the wetness of saliva bearing down on me before searing pain tore through my body. This su-
Sanae's POV
I-I-I got so scared, this isn't like what i Imagined it would be, all this blood and death! I always thought he was adding all that stories of hunters dying as a way to make the story spicy, but this, seeing those guards die, their blood staining the ground. God had I not gone before this trip, i might have peed myself.
But I think I almost did when I saw it coming for me. Why did I come along? I*'m not like these guys, I only know simple tricks that Lady Suwako taught me to impress the kids that come to the shrine. I'm not a fighter at all. Seeing those rows of razor sharp, i almost felt my legs collapse from under me. I am gonna die, I am gonna die. Lady Suwako, please he- GWAH!
A heavy weight hits me and i see who it was, Ziden striking my side and I saw it happen, him vanish into its maw and the blood that followed..." NOOO!"
I could almost feel my ears burst from the scream I unleashed, a long time friend, vanished into the deadly maw of a beast, someone I thought was invincible had vanished before my eyes. Soft hands touched my shoulders and dragged me away and I see Keine through my teary eyes, not a single discomfort on her face, even after she saw what I saw, why- Why was she not ups-
" GWARFG!?" What...was that noise? The worm, the blood pooling out of its mouth just kept pouring out. What was going on?
" Whoa Rems! The jackass got eaten Ze!" Marisa, was not so sympathetic as I was to this, seeing the blood pouring out as I look to my Right to see Mokou looking boredly at the sight.
" Seriously? That's your plan Ziden? Shit, I should have done this." Plan? What but he's de-
" YEEHAWWWW!" hUH? That voice, it can't be!? A large blade of fire cleaved through the mouth of the worm and I saw a bloody mass coming out of its mouth and landing down. Ziden, like this was a dream, stood there in the blood, spitting and coughing up flesh from his mouth as the Worm screamed and spasmed. " Yeesh, gonna take weeks to get all this blood out!"
" Ziden!" He was alive!? How!? No, I know how, because he likely sliced up the mouth of the creature before it could even fully eat him!
But that changed when I saw his wounds when he got the blood off of him, lacerations along his chest, arms, his eye was even gone and a long gash formed where his eye was straight to the ear. H-he should be dead from that. I couldn't help it anymore. I vomited right on the ground. My tongue and teeth burn from that as Keine rubs my stomach.
I look back at him and soon, I sit there flabbergasted as I watched his wounds close together and heal themselves, the man that once made me vomit up my lunch, now back to normal, albeit with torn clothes. I, in all my terror, the number 1 member of his fanclub, forgot he had the Phoenix's power, that meant reviving and Regen. I feel so stupid.
I could tell from his stance he was about to go back in but I felt the ground shaking and a very familiar noise.
" KERO!" A frog? A giant frog was hopping towards us and I could see a familiar sight atop it, Lady Suwako.
" No wonder she was so scared, sending a little girl out on a monster hunt, Ziden, we are gonna have a very long talk when we get back." That's the first time I've ever seen Suwako so mad looking.
A powerful blast of bloody sand smashed into the ground before us and one heck of a sandstorm, I even squeaked and held down to the ground, my hair is gonna be a mess after this but I heard a loud crunch in the distance and the sandstorm was dying down as I heard something flailing about, the sand vanishing as I saw what happened. A giant frog was eating the giant monster we were fighting. I saw it just sit there, those eyes blinking as it kept chomping and chomping on it.
SPLURRT!
A-ah, blood ended up splashing all over us. " Ugh! Gross!" I heard Keine screaming about something before I felt light and the world just went black for me.
Hours later after the battle...
" Huh!?" I feel myself raise with a startle, the softness of a bed telling me I was no longer in that battlefield, where...where am I? A tv was before me, so not at the village, gotta find out. Out of the bed I go to see that I was down in pajamas and out of my Priestess attire. Must have been changed. But i still feel guilty I froze up during a fight like that.
Finding my feet hitting wooden floors was nice and I slowly make my way through this place, blindly but it was like I knew this place. It, really smells like Alcohol in the wind here...did a party happen here? And soon, I opened the door and I see, a giant pillar in the room, from where I knew Kanako struck him, a card on the table, that vampire who had the maid cover my eyes during the Raid. And Yukari. And he is staring at me.
" Come here, Sanae." I swallow hard, I know how he is, when a rookie is terrible, he cuts them loose. I shakily make my way to them and sit down next to him as I see him holding up a card, my card. My hunting Card. And a pair of...scissors. " After..talking with your Goddesses and parents, well, we can't bring you on any of our hunts, way too dangerous for anyone with no true fighting experience."
No, no no no! " Wait! I can get better I promise! Don't do that!" I try to stop him but a grip on my shirt is literally stopping me from going forward. That vampire! She is actually stopping me.
" He;s right, I heard what happened, you froze up on the battlefield kid, if you were to do that during a more vital battle, well, someone could have died." My blood is running cold at that when i remembered Ziden got chewed up and consumed because of me. If it was a normal hunter...he'd be gone now.
" Its for your own good kid, sorry." I see him going to snip into the card and i feel it, an odd lurch of force comes from me as my hand reaches out to try and stop him.
CRACK!
Huh?! I thought that would be the sound of my card going but, it was the scissors, they utterly snapped against it, both sides of the blade, breaking off like they were toys. " Well, this is new, oh well, shredder time!" Oh no! I try and catch it as it soars overhead and into the shredder, that feeling flowing through me once more.
Crang Clink BANG!
The-The shredder exploded! And my card is just fine. What is happening? IS this, some absurd kinda luck. No, a Miracle? No, it doesn't matter! I gotta say this!
" I-"
" Will train you along with Suwako and Kanako in order for you to be an effective hunter and priestess." Yukari was the one who spoke up as she stood up. " After all, seeing all that shows me you could be a good one."
" Hey, hold on now!" Ziden wants to object but he sees the look on Yukari's face, determination.
" No hold ons!I-I wanna be a hero too! SO I want to be trained how to fight!" I got free of the vampire and stood tall, giving my toughest face possible to show my dominance in the situation.
" You look like a damn kitten right now but fine, whatever, Fine, already got the job and stuff, you all got points on your card. Gotta take you to get your Macca cards too since you did doi your first job." Macca?
" He'll explain later, think of it like a universal currency that can be used for special items for hunters and just turned into Yen and stuff." Oh, neat, but this means I can be a hunter. " Your training starts in the morning, sleep good tonight. You can shack up with Ziden tonight."
" Huh!?" Huh!? I haven't done that since I was little, he'd hug me and keep me warm on cold nights like this. Winter was coming after all. And I make sure to race right to bed. I am gonna enjoy this.
Ziden POV Three weeks later
Ugh, its been quiet since the Grave Digger was killed and things returned to mostly normalcy. Learned something interesting during that time, apparently, when the cube unleashed its power, it also blasted time back too. Because today is the very first day of Winter world wide, snow is dotting the ground outside and Sanae has taken her training very seriously.
Even had Patchouli whip up practice monsters for her to fight against, girl pissed her when she saw that recreation of Grave Digger. Literally, we had to let her change and she lost horribly. But the thing about training is, you can get better, she knew they could not hurt her too bad but she knew to treat them fully serious and not let herself get hurt.
2 weeks later? She could fight great, barely locked up during fights but still had frights here and there, expected, she's a kid. And turns out, she has a special ability, actually, alot of them had special abilities. Sanae's was the power of Miracles, apparently, miraculous situations are born at random around her. She can't really control it yet but Suwako is training her in using it.
1 week later, she learned how to emulate some of her Goddess' skills as attacks and can even summon them to aid her in fights now. She's still got a long way to go but I can bring her in fights now. And she likely won't freeze up. Yukari's been teaching her how to be able to fly properly like Reimu and crew, even taught her the basics of Danmaku.
Not many jobs were sent in this few weeks because the world is situated with its new Magic stuff. Of course, don't have to worry about dumbasses learning magic, you gotta have the aptitude and very few normal people actually has that. No new Gensokyian signals were found and it seems that this means that they are just relaxing and not doing anything yet. From what I hear from Yukari before she is getting ready for her coma, apparently a weird mist has been popping up in America and causing people to feast and party for unnaturally long times.
Should investigate that so-
REEEWOOOO REWWWWOOOOO REWWWWOO!
gOD DAMN ASSCRACKERS! The Hunters Alarm!? That only goes off when a big ass threat is happening. Ah, well, I don't care, I can see Sanae racing in after she hears the noise and Reimu too.
" The hell is with all the noise!?" She's mad because she was relaxing on her shrine steps when she heard it.
" Nothing important, just the Hunter's alarm to summon hunters for some big meeting, likely to do with a Demon incursion or something, I don't really care."
Ziden Icrim! Get your ass down here to America Now!
Oh, the Special alarm made to call me when I refuse to go, and it has an especially annoying sound, like some weird mix of a baby crying, an alarm, Yoshi screaming and Elevator music.
" Fine fine fine! Damn!" My ears are burning as I go to stand up. Well, gonna portal there since its earl-
Come down here normally by plane, you may bring your students with you.
Students huh? Well, they would come anyways, sheesh, what could be so important
The Creature known as Sky Slicer is far above what the President deemed, one of the four Elemental Beasts. An S rank monster, Code named Fafnir augmented by Ironblood/German technologies.
Oh. Well, these kids are about to get the fight of a lifetime it seems, wonder who all will be here. " Welp, pack your things fellas, we are heading back to America. Sanae, call your parents and get Suwako and dust tits mcangry ass ready to roll, we're heading out in an hour." I clap at this before I see her eagerly running off.
An Elemental beast huh? So this must be the brethren of the Grave Digger. So the other two are Fire and Water...but, shouldn't the water beast be next? Ah well, more to think on later. The human villagers moved into the large complex next to us in the back where its basically a nicer version of what they had, no power, a place to set up their markets. Fat ass has a way of getting them goods but they wanna live the way they know.
Good on em, for now, its time for a hunt.
Akyuu Time!
" And that is another Chapter written down. Wow, who would have thought Sanae would be so timid when she was starting out." Akyuu answered while looking at her.
" Hey, I'm a young kid back then, you can't expect me to gungho fight a monster I see killing people!" Sanae pointed out.
" Still improved a bit, a bit. We will have to see next chapter to see if you will cave since, it seems like Sky Slicer is gonna be next." Ziden pointed out.
" Didn't Sanji and Sonic mess that bird up in our world?" Sanae asked while Ziden nods.
" Yeah, they did a damn good job, lets see how it is there." Ziden said, getting ready to take a drink break until the orb lights up again with a new chapter to show.
Trivia:
1. Ryuhoshi is just your average bad figurehead and the other councilmen are basically the real runners of the show, you will see more of them during village scenes.
2. Kuuza is a char from Alchemist code who is based in that world's version of Japan, a new take on the char as a Mirrored char to fit Touhou's canon.
3. Sanae freezing up like that is not that much OOC as you must remember, she is entirely new to blood battles so seeing people die like that, would make you freeze up, the others are kinda used to it enough to not freeze up. After that training, she is gonna stop being like her Mountain of Faith self and post that.
4. To the new People, Ziden has a healing factor, it can let him heal up from /alot/ but can be overtaxed by too much damage, think Wolverine/Alucard's regen abilities
5. The elemental beasts are based off the Four fiends from Final Fantasy, just done a bit differently, the earth one is still a bitch that goes down to a simple slap though. The others? Alot grander fights.
6. That mist and its description should be very familiar to Touhou fans on which plot is starting up
Author's notes: Its been over two months, to be fairk, its not that I lost interest, Its a mix of, I forgot this story existed/Writer's block. But this story is back and god knows, I am ready to update this regularly. Next Chapter shall begin with the Storms of Wrathful Wings! Some Touhous will be making their appearance, as always, thanks for reading and leave a review!