AN: I do not own Touhou Project, it belongs to Team Shanghai Alice, aka ZUN.
Inspiration struck me, if I can't keep doing danamaku combat to make things interesting, I would like to know if you readers out there are fine with me using the fighting games style of combat for the rest of the story. This includes in the air and on ground combat. Please either leave a review about what you would prefer.
With that said, let the gates open!
Prefectus Cerasis Blossom
(Perfect Cherry Blossom)
(Part 3)
(Stage Start!)
Meiling, Cirno, Marisa and Alice followed Reimu and Sakuya through the hole in the sky. The clouds in the sky giving away to a large gate, stone spires sticking out from the clouds holding up the gate. "Where did those come from? They weren't below the clouds." Meiling asked as Cirno flew down one of them, finding it literally sitting on the cloud.
"Meiling! It's on the cloud, like actually on the cloud!" Cirno shouted back up, shooting out from the fluffy white clouds. "I was didn't need to know Cirno, it was just a question." Meiling said, chuckling a little bit. "Well you got an answer!" Cirno shouted, Marisa laughing about it as Alice rolled her eyes a bit.
"May I ask who you all are? Other then you of course Marisa, I think everyone knows about you seeing how louds you are." Alice asked, getting a jab in at Marisa. As Marisa huffed in response the others got in their own intros.
"I'm Meiling, the gate guard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion." "Name's Cirno, and I'm gonna be the strongest!" Cirno said, pointing at her self to accentuate her point. "Nice to meet you Meiling, and Cirno I think your spot's already been taken by this little witch." Alice replied, once again jabbing at Marisa vocally.
"Well then I'll grow strong enough to beat her too!" Cirno shouted enthusiastically. "Yeah keep dreaming kid." Marisa said, rubbing Cirno's hair. "ARE YOU ALL COMING OR ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP TALKING!" Reimu yelled, getting the attention of the four talking girls.
"COMING FLOATY BRITCHES KEEP YOUR SLEEVES ON!" Marisa yelled, flying after Reimu, over the gate. "That's our cue." Meiling said, flying after Marisa. "Try to keep up!" Cirno said happily as she shot after Meiling, passing her just barely. "In your dreams fairy." Alice muttered to herself as she shot after them, Shanghai holding onto her shoulder as she flew.
As the team past over the gate they saw Sakuya throwing knives all around her, trying to hit… something? And failing as the knives past through them. Reimu was firing ofuda at them, and having better luck as her ofuda hit the apparent spirits. "What? Are they fighting ghosts?" Marisa asked, not understanding what they were doing. "I don't want to think about it." Meiling said as she flew down to join the girls fighting on the brick path past the gate.
"She's a martial artist, going down there to fight ghosts…" Alice said, as she didn't know whether to be amazed, or think Meiling was being stupid. "I doubt any of us are going to be much good, after all Reimu's the resident expert on fighting spirits." Marisa said, not happy about this.
"Who cares, might as well help them!" Cirno shouted, flying down to join Reimu, Sakuya and Meiling. "Who ever takes down more wins!" Marisa shouted to Cirno, shooting down after her to try and fight the spirits as well. "These two are insane… who am I kidding this is Marisa and a fairy that I'm talking about." Alice said as she put her hand to her face, floating down to join the battle, not wanting to be left out.
The resulting conflict was rather funny as it turned out only Reimu was able to do anything, not even the spirits capable of fighting, just sort of throwing themselves at the group. What resulted was the group herding spirits towards Reimu, who shot them down and got them to back off, the spirits flying away after a good smack with Reimu's tags.
"Well… that was a thing." Marisa said as everyone either groaned (Reimu and Meiling), rolled their eyes (Patchouli, Sakuya and Alice), or in Cirno's case wonder what she was talking about. "I thought we were just fighting ghosts?" Cirno asked, confused at what she thought was as simple fight.
"You'll understand when your older… actually you'll understand better if you know Marisa. "How do you know Marisa like that, I've seen her in the library before." Cirno asked. "You think she just walks into the mansion to steal books? She has to get past both of us, every, single, day." Meiling complained. "Don't be sad, no one can keep Marisa out of somewhere she wants to go, trust me, I should know." Alice comforted Meiling with.
"Sometimes I wonder if she's the reason I have no donations." Reimu growled, thinking that Marisa might have 'borrowed' from her donation box. The sudden shutting up of Marisa led a bit of credence to that theory in her opinion.
"Well enough of that, we can deal with the resident klepto later, we need to keep moving." Alice said, Marisa complaining as usual that she was 'just borrowing' as the group moved out.
Omega E The Reader: Now then I myself did include Alice in my version of PCB but it would make sense for her to be in Phantasm Tales' PCB because she would have loved to solve the incident at hand.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Also, pay attention to this fight. This is the last time that Reimu ever gets to do anything of worth.
Omega E The Reader: Which is not too pleasing. However I do not like Meiling and Patchouli being in this incident.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: They have better things to do. And there's already someone from the SDM involved. Speaking of which, her silver knives can CANONICALLY injure ghosts!
Omega E The Reader: So I think we should give some sins for this scene but I don't know how much.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd say two sins because Sakuya's knives SHOULD be effective on ghosts.
WildMath55: In my rendition, Alice is testing her dolls against Reimu, Marisa, and Sakuya. She won't be actively involved until Maybell joins her in 2004.
Sin Count: 235
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Meanwhile at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, Remilia, Vaati, and Patchouli were all sitting in the library at the 'meeting table' as they called it. Patchouli had her nose in a book as usual, Vaati was nursing his back and Remilia was enjoying a cup of tea.
"Vaati… how is your condition?" Remilia asked, sounding worried. "The middle of my back has turned blue, along with my fingers, and my temperature has been dropping. At best I would say that I'm not only dying, but also sick." Vaati coughed out, no longer trying to tough it out without Cirno around.
"You say you're an honest man, yet you put up a front of being tough to give me hope." Patchouli said, pointing out the contradiction. "Is it really a front when you don't have to act it? All I've been doing is keeping myself from coughing." Vaati said, giving a slight cough afterwards.
"Touché, my apprentice, but it worries me that you're not even trying to get better." Patchouli said quietly. "Patchouli, the outside world may be screwier in the head then anyone I know in Gensokyo, but even my doctors said that if I ever made it past thirty in my condition they would be amazed, and let me add the average lifespan at the time was around eighty or ninety years old." Vaati coughed out. "So your letting yourself die?" Remilia asked, the little vampire at least being conserved with someone who had become a regular staple of the mansion, along with Marisa and Cirno.
"I'm not going down quietly, that's for sure, I intend to live as long as I can, and live every day to the fullest." Vaati said, his eyes still holding spark in them. "We all know what's going to happen when that time comes… right?" Patchouli said, looking up from her book, at the very least some form of emotion other then deadpan in her voice.
"And I expect her to power through it, she's a tough kid, and while it's only been a few months, she's soaked up everything I can teach her. All I can really do now is be there for her until the end." Vaati said. "You believe no one would miss you, so you expect them to just forget about you?" Remilia asked, putting up her mature mask.
"Being abused and forgotten about has been my entire life Remilia. Cirno and Patchouli are all I think care about me, and I know they can power through it." Vaati said, shaking his head. Slowly he floated out of the chair he was sitting in, moving towards the way out. "It's getting late, I'll see you all later." Vaati said, coughing slightly as he left the library, leaving Remilia and Patchouli alone.
"Vaati… more people care about you then you'll ever realize… and none of us want to see you go." Patchouli said quietly, sad at her student's condition. "I… I think I will miss him, only one human before has ever captured my vision, and now he has to… that just makes it harder to accept the reality. Even in this land where the impossible is possible… nothing is more certain that poor Vaati's eventual death… and what scares me is that he walks towards it." Remilia said, fighting back a few tears as her mask slightly broke.
"Very few would willing walk with their head held high towards the gallows… he is stronger then anyone gives him credit for, if not in body, or magic, then in mind and soul. It is truly amazing how much he has managed to change just by showing up." Patchouli said as Remilia walked up to her, giving her a hug as she started crying a little bit.
"I don't want him to go, he doesn't deserve it after all that's happened, I've seen his past fates Patchy, and not even a human deserves what he has endured." Remilia cried to her best friend. "Then what do you propose we do Remi?" Patchouli asked.
"Find a way to save him, between your mind and my power, there must be something that can save him." Remilia said, perking up a little bit. "Truly… he has effected us more then he realizes." Patchouli said quietly as Remilia got to her scheming.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Wow, Vaati is so selfless that it somehow goes right back to being selfish. Never thought that was possible.
Omega E The Reader: Our protagonist, everyone!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Oh, and remember back in EoSD Stage 5 where he said he had no intention of dying? ALL BULLSHIT! And with how he said he'd rather die an honest man than a black hearted liar, well guess what this makes him? Eight sins for being so selfless it somehow goes right back to being selfish and TWELVE more sins for being a COMPLETE LIAR and a HYPOCRITE!
WildMath55: I swear OverLord... If you keep piling the counts to 20 and above, I'm going to bring Yasei-kun here alongside Lucy and H-Vaati. I'm adding a new count now.
Sin Count: 255
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6
Back with the group in the nether world they flew amongst the blooming cherry trees, a stark contrast to the winter wonder land outside the netherworld. "Raise your hand if you think this is where spring has gone?" Marisa quipped, only Cirno raising her hand, not exactly getting the joke.
"She didn't mean for you to actually raise your hand Cirno." Alice said, as Marisa laughed on her broom at Cirno. "It would be better if you three could be even slightly more serious." Sakuya complained. "Leave them alone Sakuya, this is Marisa we are talking about." Meiling said, Sakuya rolling her eyes at them.
For a time it was a short flight until the group saw the strands of energy from the photo, and all of them flowing to an extremely large tree… that compared to the entire netherworld up until this point the only tree that looked dead. "Ten yen that's where all our spring is going?" Marisa asked. "That's a suckers bet and you know it." Alice said, rolling her eyes.
As the two of them started arguing over it and the rest either watched, or just face palmed a certain half ghost girl was ready to ambush them. Youmu watched and waited as the girls watched the banter between Alice and Marisa. Drawing her sword, she shot forward, a stream of light behind her as she shot at Meiling.
Meiling felt the wind behind her and just barely dodged to the side, Youmu missing her and tripping up, and accidently colliding with Cirno, sending the two girls sprawling. "What the heck was that about?" Reimu asked as both Youmu and Cirno got up, Youmu looking at the girls around her before jumping over them, landing on the path in front of them with her hand on her blade, a little ghost floating around her.
"Who are you?" Reimu asked, drawing her purification rod, the others all prepared some form of danamaku, or in Sakuya's case knives. "For lady Yuyuko's sake, I can not allow you to disturb the gathering of spring." Youmu said, drawing her sword, and holding it in front of her in a ready position.
"You're a swordsman?" Meiling asked, walking forward. Youmu nodded before holding her blade in a ready position at her hip. "I am Youmu Konpaku, the gardener for Hakugyokurou." Youmu said, at least trying to sound proud. "That make two of us part time gardeners." Meiling said, getting into a position. "Hey I want to fight to! If she's a swords lady I want to beat her!" Cirno shouted, running up next to Meiling and drawing her plastic sword, flash freezing it into a large ice blade.
"So you both will challenge me, fine then." Youmu said as the little ghost floating around her became a physical copy of her, the two Youmus going back to back with swords drawn, Meiling confused as Cirno became excited.
"Quick, while their busy, we go." Marisa said to Sakuya, Alice and Reimu, speeding past Youmu as Sakuya, Reimu and Alice followed her, leaving Youmu, Meiling and Cirno alone. "We you not supposed to stop them?" Meiling asked. "If I can not stop all of you, I will stop you two." Youmu said, the two of her splitting off and mirroring each other as Meiling and Cirno got ready. It was silent for a moment as the three girls and the ghost clone sized each other up. And in an unspoken agreement, they all charged at once.
BGM: 西行妖の春 (Dust_Box_49)
The four girls flew fast towards the dead tree, the strands of spring power becoming thicker as they neared the large tree. Floating in front of it, surrounded by spirits was a pink haired girl. "Hey, you! We are here to get our spring back!" Marisa shouted, the gril turning around to face the four girls. "Not yet, it shall happen soon." The girl said, catching Marisa off guard.
"uh… what?" Marisa questioned, looking at Alice next to her who shrugged. "Soon the Saigyou Ayakashi will bloom and the seal will be broken." The girl said, turning away from the girls again to face the tree. "You took all of Gensokyo's spring FOR ONE TREE!" Reimu shouted, clearly not happy with the selfish reason.
"Yes, is there something wrong with that?" the girl asked, All four of the girls noticing the rather ditzy comment and sweat dropping a bit. "Is she?" Alice Sakuya asked. "Seems like she is." Alice replied, Reimu face plaming. "She's a ditz."
"I'm right here you know, don't you know it's rude to talk about someone behind their back?" The girl said, tutting with her finger at the girls. "Yeah yeah, mind telling us who you are before we beat the living daylights out of you!" Marisa shouted, getting into position.
"I am Yuyuko Saigyouji, and for the sake of this tree I shall not lose!" Yuyuko said, preparing her spell card. "For the sake of a tree? That's almost as bad as for the sake of the moon…" Sakuya muttered under her breath as she got ready next to Marisa, Reimu and Alice shrugging before taking their place as well.
Yuyuko didn't bother with calling out her spell card, streams of danamaku spraying out to the sides of her, cutting off the areas around the girls as the danamaku only left one space in the center of the mass of swirling colors safe. The girls floated around in the center for a bit, firing off at Yuyuko when they saw an opening, but all it did was make her mad as five lasers fired from around her, cutting into the center of the circle, the girls being forced to dodge or get shot down.
"Fantasy Seal!" Reimu shouted, four orbs of colored light surrounding her, absorbing the danamaku and firing at Yuyuko. The ghost princess rolled with the shots, taking them hard but not falling from the sky. Gathering power the girls watched as she did, waiting for her next attack.
A giant Fan sprung up behind Yuyuko, firing danamaku from it, as the girls kept on dodging and throwing back their own shots. Most went wide and hit the fan, but some hit Yuyuko. She responded by firing back with Butterfly shaped shots, along with a streams kf white danamaku that homed in on Reimu, who shot at the streams wit her ofuda the tags going through them as Reimu scowled, dodging out of the way.
The other girls kept their eyes on Yuyuko, firing with all that they had, but Yuyuko refused to go down, responding with even larger shots and butterfly danamaku, making a creative display of beauty as the butterflies swarmed around the girls, trapping them.
Reimu finally got the streams off her tail, and sped past the other girls at Yuyuko, a yin-yang orb growing in her hand as she shoved it towards Yuyuko. The ghost princess pulled out a small white fan, and smacked the giant orb, stalling it, but not stopping it as it smashed into Yuyuko, breaking her fan and the fan behind her.
"Troublesome." Yuyuko muttered, sending a new wave of danamaku out at the girls. The four tried to dodge, but Reimu got shot down from the speed at which Yuyuko had shot at. "Reimu!" Alice called as she was shot down, the shrine maiden now laying down in the dirt unconscious.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Reimu being knocked out of the fight against Yuyuko is beyond stupid.
WildMath55: Something tells me that the entire FI-verse is FUBAR. But trust me, Historia Gensokyo experienced something worse.
Sin Count: 256
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
"Forget about her, she'll be fine!" Marisa called as she got out her Hakkero, charging up a Master Spark. "Can you get me an opening?" Marisa asked Sakuya. "All the time you need!" She said as her eyes turned red as she disappeared, a cage of knives surrounding Yuyuko as she looked confused for a moment before gasping as the knives hit her dead on.
"Gottcha." Marisa mutter as she began her little monologue. "FEEL MY ANILIATION OF LOVE! LOVE SIGN! MASTER SPARK!" She shouted as the rain colored laser of doom smashed into the stunned Yuyuko, Sakuya's knives having bee enchanted to follow the rules of danamaku.
When the Master spark faded Yuyuko was gone. Marisa, Alice and Sakuya flying close to each other. "Did we win?" Sakuya asked. But the sudden shockwave took otherwise as the girls turned around, wide eyed at the now monochrome and transparent Yuyuko behind them. "This is going to suck." Alice said as they got back into position.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Since when do "rules of danmaku" make every projectiles effective on ghosts? Also, typo. It's "danmaku", not "danamaku".
Omega E The Reader: Sin for this.
WildMath55: Well, something similar about the rule change happened to Historia Gensokyo at early 2022 in my head-canon. And it affected the entire realm.
Sin Count: 257
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
BGM: Mystical Chain – Youmu & Yuyuko's Theme: Battle of Hakugyokurou –Courage-
Back with Meiling Cirno and Youmu the girls had all clashed, Meiling's fist meeting one of the Youmu's blades as her blocked it hard, the resounding sound of metal hitting Meiling fist ringing through the area. Cirno's ice blade had hit the double Youmu's sword, ice and metal clashing hard as chips of ice broke off of the sword before both backed off, the two Youmu's mirroring each other as they readied their blades again.
"You take the one on the left, I got the one on the right?" Meiling asked Cirno, seeing out of the corner of her eye as the fairy nodded, both of them speeding forward at the sword wielding half ghost girl.
Meiling punched at Youmu, the girl flipping in midair over Meiling and swinging at her back with her sword, nicking Meiling's back as the sword tore her clothing a bit, But Meiling responded by kicking backwards, slamming her foot into Youmu's stomach, the half-ghost girl reeling for a moment before sliding back on the stone path, getting up and charging at Meiling.
Meiling blocked the quick swing with her arm, getting nicking in the process as she slammed her other elbow in Youmu's shoulder, Youmu rolling with the blow as she kicked Meiling in the stomach, but the hardier gate guard didn't even flinch as she pushed Youmu back, slamming her foot into the ground, resulting in a shockwave of yellow energy that tripped Youmu up as bit.
Meiling took advantage of the opening, gathering power in her fist as she swung at Youmu, the girl bending backwards as Meiling fist past over her face, Youmu kicking Meiling's arm and redirecting Meiling's momentum to the side. Meiling tried to direct her momentum back at Youmu, but the half-ghost girl dodged, slamming the butt of her blade in Meiling's back to try and she her reeling.
Meiling didn't have any of that, sliding backwards and slamming her shoulder in Youmu, sending her flying into a nearby tree, Youmu bouncing off and back at Meiling, who slammed her ready fist into Youmu's back as she past her, sending the girl hard into the ground, leaving a crater as Meiling feel back, ready for round two with Youmu as the white haired girl slowly got up, using her sword to support herself for a moment before getting back into position, both ready for the next strike.
Cirno had swung hard at the Youmu double the double having mirrored Youmu and flipping over Cirno, but Cirno was ready having spun around, slamming her sword into the double and sending her sprawling. The double didn't speak as it got up and sped at Cirno, clashing her copy sword in Cirno's ice blade, ghostly wisps flowing off the blade as chips of ice fell off of Cirno's sword.
The Double eventual turned her blade, redirecting Cirno's force toward her side, catching the fairy off guard as she slashed at her, leaving a cut in Cirno's dress. Cirno recovered quickly as tried to swing her heavy sword at the double, but the double back stepped out of the sword's range, using the over extended Cirno to cut her ice blade in half… right where the plastic sword was indented inside the blade.
The ice blade fell and shattered, the cold plastic end of the blade the only thing remaining among the ice as Cirno held the other half of the sword in front of her, horrified as the sword given to her by Vaati had been cut.
"He gave me this sword… and you ruined it." Cirno sniffled, like a child that had her favorite toy broken, anger swelling in her at the Youmu double, the double stopping for a moment to cock it's head at Cirno, before holding it's blade one handed at Cirno, pointing the blade's tip at her silently.
"You'll PAY FOR THAT!" Cirno yelled, flash freezing her sword again, reforming the ice, this time into a double edged blade, repeating her opening swing at the double, who jumped over it again. But Cirno anticipated that, and swung fast at the double, the now double edged ice word cleaving through the ghostly double, Cirno angrily staring hard at the top half's eyes at the two half's turned back into the one ghostly orb, the orb reforming back into the double and getting back into a ready positon. Cirno looked hard at the reformed double, holding her ice sword in two hands as she and the double charged at each other once more.
Meiling and Youmu had clashed again, Meiling's leg currently blocking Youmu's blade mid strike in the air, the martial artist and the swords woman holding steady as both tried to gain dominance in the power struggle.
Meiling pulled her leg back, and in one swift motion flipped backwards, dodging Youmu's strike as she threw some danamaku kunai, Youmu blocking them with her blade before dashing at Meiling.
Meiling stood ready to counter Youmu as the girl disappeared in a blur, startling Meiling as a heavy kick ran into her back, sending her flying into a tree face first. Pulling herself out of it, she saw Youmu standing behind her with foot still extended from kicking Meiling the back. Cirno was thrown into Meiling by the double as Meiling stopped Cirno, the little fairy shaking her head from the hard throw.
The double stood in front of Youmu as she began charging power, Cirno and Meiling running at the double. Cirno swung first, the double blocking her sword as Meiling slid under the blade clash and punched the double from below, sending it flying as Meiling gathered power into her fist.
The double fell fast, but Cirno swung faster as she batted the falling double with her sword, shattering the ice from the swing as the double flew at Meiling, who using her powered up fist and slammed it into the Youmu double's back, the shockwave dissipating the double back into the ghostly orb again as it flew back to Youmu. Who had finished charging power.
Youmu spun her blade in a clocklike fashion, leaving blue energy behind as she held her blade in front of her face, and from the ring of energy came a second double as the ghostly orb once again reformed into a double again.
"You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Cirno yelled, the now trio of Youmus getting ready as Meiling got into a fighting stance and Cirno formed a second blade and refroze her plastic sword into ice.
It was then that Reimu crashed between the two groups as they were about to clash, groaning as she pulled herself up and shook her head. "Do you mind, we are a little busy here." The real Youmu complained, Reimu looking between Cirno and Meiling and the trio of Youmus.
"That's not exactly fair you know." Reimu said as she got up as walked over next to Meiling, evening the odds between the two groups. "Hope your ready to lose then shrine maiden."
"It's my job to solve incidents, so if that involves beating you, so be it!" Reimu shouted as the Youmu's and the girls clashed.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Reimu is being demoted to side jobs, right now... And it'll only get worse from there.
WildMath55: I wouldn't dare to demote the First Champion to sidelines. So yeah, this sucks.
Sin Count: 258
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
BGM: Butterfly Resurrection – Yuyuko [Border of Life]
Marisa, Alice and Sakuya flew around the massive barriers of butterflies and large danamaku, quickly finding that their return fire was going THROUGH Yuyuko. "This is ridiculous!" Marisa yelled, dodging another butterfly bullet as she flew around the massive barrier of butterflies.
"Don't you think we should try something?" Alice called out as Sakuya got shot down, landing in the dirt below them. "What's your plan!" Marisa called, dodging as fast as she could as she neared Alice.
Alice brought out a large amount of Dolls and Shanghai, Shanghai floating in front of Marisa, holding her arms out. "Fire a master spark through her!" "But…" "Just do it!"
Marisa got out her Hakkero as the dolls aligned around her, following her lead as Shanghai sat in front of her, arms outstretched on the broom. "I hope this works Alice. LOVE SIGN! MASTER SPARK!" Marisa called, sticking her Hakkero against Shanghai's back, the little doll lighting up with energy from the Hakkero.
Shanghai's empty eyes glowed with life for but a moment as the other dolls flew in front of Marisa, four beams of light shooting out of Shanghai's arms into the backs of the four dolls in alignment, each of them glowing with power as Shanghai divide the Master Spark into four beams of light. Each doll firing a master spark of a different color.
The four sparks intertwined into an even larger spark about halfway to Yuyuko, absorbing all the bullets along the way as the Spark slammed into the ghostly Yuyuko, and even into the tree giant tree behind her.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And what's that supposed to be called? Really? No name for this?
WildMath55: No comment from me.
Sin Count: 259
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
When the spark dissipated, Yuyuko was gone, and the tree behind her had a large mark on it that a pink energy was flowing out of, the spring flowing out of the Youkai tree and back towards Gensokyo.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Really? No timeout spell for Yuyuko? Even though the EoSD arc turned Scarlet Gensokyo into a timeout when it canonically wasn't?
WildMath55: Again, no comment from me.
Sin Count: 260
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
"Is it over!" Sakuya called form below. "Yeah… it's over." Alice muttered as Marisa laughed in happiness. "HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT REIMU, EVEN WITH YOU WORKING WITH US I SOLVED THE INCIDENT, YEAH!" Marisa yelled as Alice shook her head, chuckling at her friend's antics.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: You just HAD to say out loud that Reimu is unneeded, didn't you?
WildMath55: As much as I want to Break the 4th Wall, I don't think the Alliance will appreciate my hijinks. But H-Reimu did leave a message.
H-Reimu's message: With us in GUF fully aware about the concept of Author Authority, we can determine whether a Gensokyo rendition can be saved or must be destroyed. And I agree with Yasei's creator. This FI-verse is truly FUBAR. Still, we'll continue searching for more to be integrated to the Union. That is all. (First Champion Reimu Hakurei)
WildMath55: In canon, Reimu is stronger when she's serious. And H-Reimu is dead serious here. I think the actual reason of why Reimu lost to Yorihime is because she's the villain in the latter's case during Second Genso-Lunar War. Frankly, I'm absolutely certain that Reimu can just blast the younger Watatsuki with Fantasy Heaven, but she didn't since she realized that Yorihime actually has every right to act in self-defense, thus making her feel conflicted. That's why H-Reimu is stronger than H-Yorihime in my current head-canon timeline. Not only the former an active participant in Sengoku Gensokyo, she also resolved a ton more of incidents than majority of the Reimus in the fanfics that I'm aware of.
Sin Count: 261
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
BGM: [Touhou] – Youmu's Theme: Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird – Till When? ~ 4º Remix
The three girls battled the one and her clones, Reimu slamming her purification rod into the clone fighting her, only to get kicked by another clone and her purification rod sent out of her hand.
The clone in turn was attacked by Cirno, who had one sword caught by the clone Reimu had attacked, and her other sword locked with the other clone, as Meiling fought Youmu. Reimu got up and pulls a pair of Senbon out of her robes, wielding them like swords as she flew close to the ground at the clones Cirno had in a lock with her. The clone on the left jumped backwards, passing over Reimu and slamming its foot into her back, slamming the shrine maiden into the stone path.
Reimu scowled as she got up, and held her senbon out, one held high and the other held out in front of her. The clone once again taunted, spinning its sword before settling it near its hip in a position to slash.
Reimu dashed at the clone, the clone about to strike as Reimu disappeared. The clone looked around worried as Reimu appeared above her, drop kicking the clone straight in the head, knocking it to the ground. Reimu using her senbon to pin the clone down by her sleeves. But the clone kicked Reimu in the shin and knocked her down, sweeping her off her feet and head first onto the stone, knocking her out and leaving both her down and the clone pinned.
Cirno was fighting the other clone, taking advantage of the fact she had two swords, and the clone only had one, still angry about the clone having cut the sword Vaati had given her. Swinging hard and fast the clone kept dodging her strikes, parrying her swords of ice when it could to trip and trip her up. "Stop dodging!" Cirno shouted in anger as the clone slashed at her spare Ice sword, shattering it into pieces.
Cirno dropped the remainder of the sword and held her original out in one hand, throwing some icicles at the clone. In a flash the clone had cut up at the icicles, but Cirno had charged at the clone, grabbing it by the arm and smirking.
One quick flash freeze later and the clone was frozen solid, unable to move it's emotionless face as Cirno walked over to the plastic bit of the sword the clone had cut off her sword, stuffing it into her pocket.
Meiling and Youmu had taken to the air, clashing several times before Meiling locked her arm with the flat edge of Youmu's blade, a little bit of blood from where the two were clashing, but nothing major.
Meiling tried kicking at Youmu, but she backed off, slashing in midair, the razor winds being sent at Meiling, who dodged to the side to avoid them, but one nicked her cheek. Meiling held her hand to her face for a moment feeling the pain as she charged magic into her fist, Youmu floating in midair, aimed for a fast attack.
On and unspoken counter the two girls flew at each other, Meiling's fist about to meet Youmu's blade, when Meiling diverted at the last moment, slamming her leg into Youmu's gut, causing her to gasp in pain. It was all the opening Meiling needed as she slammed Youmu down into the group with her empowered fist, a red shockwave being let out from the collision of her fist meeting Youmu's back.
The half-ghost girl slammed into the ground, unconscious, her clones dissipating with her no longer being conscious. Meiling breathing hard from the fight, before stretching her arms. "That was quite the workout, I should do that more often." Meiling said, cracking her knuckles as Cirno walked up to her, dragging Reimu by her arm with the Shrine maiden knocked out facing the sky as Pink strands of energy started flowing form the large tree behind them in the distance, a loud burst of laughter and Marisa's declaration, Meiling laughing at the fact Reimu would be unable to hear and complain about it until later.
"Can we go now, I want to go home." Cirno complained, wanted to go back to Vaati after what had happened. "It's just a sword Cirno, you'll be able to get it fixed." Meiling said, putting her hand on Cirno's shoulder as she lifted up Reimu and hefted her over her shoulder.
"You can go, I'll be going back to the mansion and brings Reimu with me." Meiling said, Cirno waving goodbye as she flew off, Alice, Marisa and Sakuya flying over to Meiling. "your kidding me, she got knocked out!" Marisa gawked. "What's the matter, afraid she doesn't know you one up'd her." Alice said sarcastically, Marisa sulking and grumbling.
"Ha ha very funny, let's go back to the mansion for now." Meiling chuckled as Sakuya snapped her fingers, the party of four, and the knocked out Reimu disappearing, leaving Youmu knocked out on the ground as she slowly got up.
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Omega E The Reader: Are you kidding me. Youmu lost to a group of weak Touhou characters?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: While REIMU loses to Youmu?! BS! And it'll just keep getting worse.
WildMath55: Downhill spiral, I suppose.
Sin Count: 265
Sue Cirno Count: 36 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 6 (unchanged)
Youmu got up slowly, her ghost half floating around her as she shook her head, trying to clear it after what had happened. Looking around she didn't see the girls she had been fighting, and pink energy was flowing out of the netherworld.
"Lady Yuyuko." Youmu said wide eyed, forgets she could fly as she ran as fast as she could towards the giant tree. Panting once she got there, thankfully Yuyuko was fine, if knocked out, laying near the base of the tree.
"Lady Yuyuko!" Youmu shouted, rushing over to her, and setting her upright, as Yuyuko's face quivered, before opening her eyes to see Youmu standing over her. "Are you alright lady Yuyuko?" Youmu asked as Yuyuko floated up before looking at the tree. "I'm fine Youmu, now I must attend to something." Yuyuo said, floating towards the small manor near the tree, her house in Hakugyokurou.
"Shall I start gathering the spring again milady?" Youmu asked, curious to see what Yuyuko had in store. "No… I just have to contact an old friend of mine." Yuyuko said, going to her room and grabbing a small mirror, tapping it twice as the surface rippled, showing a blonde haired woman in a pink mop cap.
"Yukari, I'm sorry for asking this, but can you fix the hole in the barrier to the netherworld I broke?" Yuyuko asked, not noticing Yukari was asleep, but Ran heard the question over Chen complaining about getting beaten by a witch.
"So they beat Lady Yuyuko as well… perhaps it is time to teach them a lesson." Ran said quietly as she took control of Chen, the shikigami shutting up as she followed Ran out of Yukari's house, they had a witch to find and fight.
Omega E The Reader: So let's summarize this chapter and its faults here shall we?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Sure.
Omega E The Reader: So first and foremost. Reimu's horrendous display. She is strong as she is the Hakurei Shrine maiden but loses like a wimp in this chapter.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Vaati is somehow so selfless that it goes right back to being selfish.
Omega E The Reader: Patchouli, Meiling and Cirno STEAL the spotlight!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: None of whom are playable in PCB.
Omega E The reader: Sakuya's knives are actually dangerous to ghosts but is not shown here. Youmu can only clone herself once.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Actually, she does triple herself in the fighting games, sadly.
Omega E The Reader: Wait she can? Well besides that point Youmu would have easily trounced Meiling & Cirno.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: While Reimu would've stood triumphant.
Omega E The Reader: Also isn't Yuyuko supposed to be strong?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Yes.
Omega E The Reader: So why didn't she go all out and use her final spell card?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: With how Remilia did use hers, and somehow turned it into a timeout when Yuyuko's final spell IS a timeout, this is VERY glaring.
Omega E The Reader: All in all. A terrible chapter.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And it will only get worse from here on out.
Omega E The Reader: How many sin counts shall show up?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Well resuming a chapter usually doesn't count among the sins, last I remember.
Omega E The Reader: Well either way we shall transition over to the next chapter.
(Stage Clear!)
AN: Not my longest chapter, but defiantly a long one. I want your reader's opinions on whether you want me to continue doing danamaku battles or swapping to a danamaku fighting game style. Leave a review about it, and I'll make sure to read it.