AN: I do not own Touhou Project, it belongs to Team Shanghai Alice, aka ZUN.
Wells the past three chapters have been literally filled with blood sweat and tears, and I would like to get a little bit of Lore out of the way regarding a certain something that happened, or rather DIDN'T during Cirno and Mokou's battle.
When Cirno got skewered, a normal fairy would have just exploded and respawned… Cirno didn't and not out of willpower or anything, she legitimately couldn't. In PoFV in Cirno's scenario Eiki warns that she was getting to powerful, and in turn, in danger of death. Remember that little power boost she got against Yuugi? Yeah she legitimately couldn't respawn, but see's fine now.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: There's no way she could get that strong that fast.
WildMath55: I concur. In fact, I'd rather let the fairies keep their respawn capabilities in order to gave the illusion that GUF has massive manpower, even though their numbers are far lower than that of UNM, which is the de-facto military powerhouse in Historia Alliance.
Sin Count: 721
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
And with that out of the way
Let! The! Gates! OPEN!
Nox Aeterna
(Imperishable Night)
(Round one!)
Stage Start!
WildMath55: With that being said, as promised, Yasei-kun and Reimu will join us starting from now.
BGM: SWR Forest of Magic Theme: Fragrant Plants
"May the best team win!" Marisa shouted as the four teams took off, Alice and Marisa, Yukari and Reimu, Patchouli and Meiling, and Remilia and Sakuya. Alice and Marisa made a beeline for the forest of magic. The two of them flying through the forest at high speeds, fairies and Youkai watching as the two powerful magicians flew by.
Omega E The Reader: Where's Yuyuko and Youmu? This is a HUGE problem since Youmu and Yuyuko ARE PLAYABLE CHARACTERS in Imperishable Night. They also play a major role in being the protagonists of that game too.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I say that Patchouli and Meiling, who weren't in the game AT ALL, replaced them. Which is very stupid.
Omega E The Reader: They're not even in that game!
Yasei Sugaku: Agreed. And Vaati from our Gensokyo even said that someone has to stay in order to ensure that SDM doesn't crumble during Eternal Night Incident.
H-Reimu Hakurei: Exactly. I didn't even see Patchouli and Meiling, though I did heard that the latter went to Eientei alongside Vaati and Cirno after the incident resolved. And also, darn it, Kaguya...
WildMath55: In case you wonder, IN Extra Stage premise is basically Kaguya's trial of guts involving the only Earth Hourai Immortal. We all know who she is.
Sin Count: 729
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
In the trees a little girl with green hair and antenna sat with a little girl with a black dress and yellow hair. "Wriggle look it's the two ladies from the hole in the sky." Rumia pointed out as the two past them by.
"You want to try and fight them Rumia?" Wriggle asked as Rumia floated off the branch and surrounded herself in darkness. "Yep." Rumia answered shooting after Marisa and Alice as Wriggle reached out to try and stop her.
"I guess I'll meet you ahead of them…" Wriggle said as she shrugged hopping from branch to branch in an attempt to get ahead of Marisa and Alice, the two flying girls more focused on bickering and trading taunts then looking at the trees.
"Honestly Marisa, this would go a lot faster if we all just worked together." Alice complained. Marisa gave Alice a look before shrugging. "Alice, these don't happen very often, besides it's a chance to one up Reimu and the others, isn't that something to be proud of." Marisa said, trying to convince Alice to follow her logic.
While they bantered the leaves above them shook, Wriggle shooting out of the leaves with her foot extended out in a kick, Marisa not paying attention as she took a foot to the face.
Marisa yelped as Alice started laughing, rubbing her nose Marisa looked at Wriggle, who looked somewhat sorry as a ball of darkness showed up behind them, Rumia dispelling it and landed.
"Wriggle I wanted to fight them!" Rumia shouted at her friend, Wriggle lowering her head as her antenna drooped. "I think we are about to get killed…" Wriggle said as Marisa got up and Alice stopped laughing.
"You seriously want to fight us?" Alice asked, Shanghai floating beside her tapping her foot in the air as both of them looked at Wriggle. "It was Rumia's idea, she wanted to fight you!" Wriggle shouted, putting her hands up in an attempt to be innocent.
"She's right! Can we fight now?" Rumia said, then asked tilting her head. Alice, Marisa and Shanghai all traded looks with each other, like as if asking each other 'seriously'? "Please fight her… she won't stop otherwise." Wriggle pleaded quietly tapping her fingers together.
"Dolls?" Alice asked. "Dolls." Marisa answered as Alice threw out a small contingent of dolls armed with swords, shields and bows. "Look kid, we're to powerful for you, how about you play with these, alright?" Alice said, trying to be nice.
"O… Okay!" Rumia shouted before covering herself in darkness and charging at the tiny dolls, Marisa and Alice watching in bemusement as even the dolls seemed to be embarrassed and asking 'why the heck are we doing this?'
"Let's go Alice… you can leave the dolls here right?" Marisa asked. "I'd prefer not to, but they should be fine." Alice said, her dolls saluting before one of them got tackled by Rumia, the youkai of darkness gnawing on the doll's head as Wriggle looked extremely embarrassed.
"Let's go Alice. Before things get to funny." Marisa said, flying off with Alice leaving the small contingent of dolls alone with Rumia and Wriggle, the doll that Rumia was gnawing on throwing her off.
A fairy flew out of the woods and into the small clearing Wriggle, Rumia and the dolls were in. The green haired fairy crashed into one of the dolls before both her and the doll rolled to a stop in front of Wriggle.
"Daiyousei? What's going on?" Wriggle asked. Rumia was running at the dolls, the little puppets flying just out of her reach as she kept jumping up to try and grab them, forgetting she could fly.
"Wriggle? No time we need to hide!" Daiyousei panicked, pushing Wriggle behind a tree as Rumia heard them, following them behind the tree as the Dolls heeded Daiyousei's warning, grabbing their weapons again.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: NOW Rumia shows up?!
Omega E The Reader: Where was she?!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: She was supposed to be in EoSD, not in IN!
Omega E The Reader: I agree with you.
Yasei Sugaku: What do you think, Reimu?
H-Reimu Hakurei: Not exactly improbable, and I at least aware that Rumia/Nyx is also present during Scarlet Mist Incident. Their ire might be caused by her lack of presence there.
WildMath55: I'm following Windows canon while also integrating PC-98 characters by implementing Sengoku Gensokyo and Touhou Soccer elements. As of Nyx, she came from Fantastic Danmaku Festival, so there's that.
Sin Count: 730
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
BGM: Gensou Shoujo Taisen: Guarding White Wolf ~ Fall of Fall ~ Momiji's Battle Theme
A wolf tengu tan out into the clearing, trying to sniff out the fairy that had tried to trespass on the mountain. Momiji had her duty to find and take care on intruders, even the stupid fairies.
Seeing the dolls Momiji blinked before realizing that yes, the cute little dolls had weapons all pointed at her, and behind the tree past the dolls was the fairy and two others, probably her allies.
Momiji sighed before pointing her sword at the dolls, holding her shield in front of her. The dolls responded by floating up and getting ready to attack her. Momiji glared for a moment before spinning her sword in her hand, observing the position of each doll before striking.
In what amounted to an instant Momiji was behind the dolls, mere feet away from Wriggle, Daiyousei and Rumia, the three little girls blinking as Momiji spun her sword before putting it in her sheath. Clicking her sword, the dolls behind her exploded, Momiji ignoring the explosions as she turned towards the girls.
"You tried trespassing on Youkai Mountain, the land claimed by the Tengu, and without official business that is a severe breach of curfew, and now you pay." Momiji said, the three girls panicking before running off deeper into the forest, Momiji giving chase.
Rumia was laughing as Wriggle and Daiyousei were breathing hard. "What did you do?" Wriggle asked before jumping up and doing a small flip, throwing several acorns she had in her pockets behind them at Momiji, who just raised her shield to block them.
"I don't know! I was just flying around and she started attacking me!" Daiyousei yelled, the three girls running to try and outpace Momiji, forgetting that once again they could fly.
Nearby Marisa and Alice heard the screaming of the girls, sighing as they stopped flying. "What do you think they got themselves into." Marisa asked Alice, who trying to check with her dolls, her eyes going wide as she couldn't find a connection to them. "All my dolls are down, destroyed! Someone blew up my dolls!" Alice yelled, messing with her dolls was an extreme offence in her Grimoire.
"Fine then, we'll see what's happening to the girls. Gee this is going to put us so far behind everyone." Marisa said, putting her hand to her face as she did a u-turn past a tree, Alice following her, her face red as she was angry someone had blown up her dolls.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Now we have MOMIJI AND NITORI?! What the hell?!
Omega E The Reader: A recurring theme is characters showing up in incidents that they shouldn't be in.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: But this takes the cake, for now. They only show up TWO GAMES later!
H-Reimu Hakurei: ... Remind me about what your creator said regarding Komachi, Yasei.
Yasei Sugaku: I believe James said "This is two incidents too early!", Reimu.
WildMath55: I did said that. And yeah, this is pretty ludicrous.
Sin Count: 732
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
The two groups didn't know it, but they were quickly about to collide, more like Marisa ended up ramming straight into Wriggle and then into Momiji as Alice slowed down and saw Rumia and Daiyousei running past her, still panicking.
"Owie…" Wriggle said as she slowly got up from being sandwiched between Marisa and Momiji. "Consider this payback for kicking my face…" Marisa grumbled as she got up holding her head as Momiji slid down off the tree she had just been indented into and face first onto the ground.
Alice had two of her dolls go and grab Rumia and Daiyousei, dropping the youkai and fairy in front of her Alice started tapping her foot. "Now I am going to ask you this one got it?" Alice said dangerously, Rumia and Daiyousei nodding extremely fast in fear. "What happened to my dolls?" Alice asked glaring.
"Wolf lady blew them up in one swing, then she started chasing us!" Rumia shouted, Daiyousei nodding along with the darkness youkai in fear. Alice turned around and looked as Momiji started pulling herself out of the dirt, groaning in pain.
Glaring at Momiji Alice slowly walking up to the wolf tengu and gave her a sharp kick to the stomach as she was trying to get up, Momiji groaning in pain as she rolled over and stared up at Alice. "I heard you blew up some of my dolls." Alice stated in a sickly sweet tone.
"They were keeping me from getting at the intruders." Momiji stated back, Alice giving her a kick in response. "I wouldn't care, it's generally better for you health if you don't mess with the dolls." Alice stated as Momiji rolled away from her, grabbing her sword and shield off the ground as Rumia and Daiyousei hid behind Alice's legs.
"First Nitori runs away during a lockdown and now this, why does everything stupid happen when I'm on duty." Momiji started grumbling as she walked away, she had heard about the doll maker magician, and she was someone you didn't want to anger, and Momiji just didn't want to deal with it anymore after how bad her week had been.
BGM: SWR Pre-Battle Theme: Beautiful Nature Sight
After Momiji walked away grumbling Marisa got up with Wriggle now hanging onto her back for some reason. "Ok then, we found out about your dolls, now can we go?" Marisa said, slightly annoyed because she knew this was going to put them behind everyone else.
"I'm fine now…" Alice grumbled, Rumia and Daiyousei still holding onto her legs. "What were you doing?" Rumia asked. "Basically racing some friends of ours in trying to solve the current incident.
"You mean like the one with the two horned girls?" Wriggle asked from her position hanging her arms over Marisa's shoulders. "Yep!" Marisa said proudly, even if it was to two children and a fairy.
"Your just full of theatrics, you know that?" Alice said sarcastically to Marisa, the witch just smiling in response. "Can we come with you?" Rumia asked, wanted to see what they were doing. "Rumia, I don't think they would want us along." Daiyousei said quietly. "Can we come PLEASE?" Rumia said, ignoring Daiyousei and trying to look adorable… which wasn't hard.
It took Marisa a couple seconds to crack, sighing. "Kids… fine you can come." Marisa said, hopping onto her broom, Wriggle still hanging onto her back as Rumia ran out from behind Alice and tried to pull herself up onto Marisa's broom, Daiyousei fluttering next to Alice.
For the next five minutes everyone watched as Rumia tried to pull herself onto the broom, Marisa eventually lowering it so that she could get on before the small group took off… in the completely wrong direction to where the actual incident was taking place.
Omega E The Reader: Seriously though I doubt some stage 1, and 2 bosses would be of help at all for this incident at hand.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Same here. Considering who they'll be up to, they'd be dead weight.
Omega E The Reader: I agree.
Yasei Sugaku: Perhaps. But thanks to our Yukari, with Sengoku Gensokyo, even they can made significant contribution whenever an Incident blew out of proportion. In this case though, I agree as well. That one war game hasn't even conceived yet during this time.
H-Reimu Hakurei: I never thought that prank of hers turns out to be the key of our survival...
WildMath55: I just hope I can avoid Goku Syndrome this way. No notables will be dead weights in Historia Alliance.
Sin Count: 734
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
BGM: SWR Pre-Battle Theme: Argue for and Against
While Marisa and Alice were basically flying around aimlessly the other three teams had all shot off towards the direction of where the human village should have been. "You do realize that this defeats the purpose of having teams right?" Reimu complained, only for a few shots to fly her way from Remilia.
"Well we could always fight along the way." Remilia said, smiling dangerously, only to yelp as a train flew at her courteously of Yukari. "Then these are the rules there are no rules, except for the spell card ones." Yukari said, pointing her parasol at Remilia.
The border and Scarlet Devil teams stop in midair and started arguing, or rather Remilia started complaining about Yukari as bullets, knives and ofuda started flying, Patchouli and Meiling continuing the fly on, ignoring the other teams.
"How long until they realize that we've left?" Meiling asked Patchouli as they flew, snickering slightly. "I give them about an hour, and several burn marks." Patchouli said sarcastically as they flew away, leaving the two teams to continue fighting.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Seriously? Leaving all the canon teams aside?
Omega E the Reader: This just confirms this fact as they leave to go solve the incident.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Talk about biased favoritism.
H-Reimu Hakurei: ... (looks at WildMath55)
Yasei Sugaku: ... (looks at WildMath55)
WildMath55: Wait, why the heck are you two looking at me?! Oh, crud... Meta Awareness, of course. I know it's not easy to balance it, but at least I already made it clear that you two are the most prominent MCs in Historia Universe, you know...
Sin Count: 742
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
BGM: SWR Extras: Crimson in the Black Sea ~ Legendary Fish (Arrangement)
The battle between the border and Scarlet teams began in earnest, Reimu vs Sakuya and Yukari vs Remilia. Reimu pulling out a pair of senbon and spinning them around before spreading them out, smirking. Sakuya making a fan of knives appear in her hand as Yukari brandished her parasol and Remilia summoned Gungnir.
Sakuya opened with throwing her fan of knives at Reimu, summoning a new one as Reimu flew over the array of thrown knives, Sakuya using the fan of knives to deflect Reimu's senbon, throwing the knives as soon as Reimu's senbon had been redirected.
Reimu summoned a small barrier to appear in front of her, the knives embedding themselves into the barrier as Sakuya's eyes turned red. Within a second several thousand small slashes appeared on the barrier, it shattering before Reimu's eyes as Sakuya kicked Reimu, sending her flying as Sakuya appeared to teleport, appearing behind Reimu and delivered a drop kick to send her falling towards the ground.
Yukari and Remilia had been dueling parasol and lance, Remilia using the range of her weapon to gain an advantage over Yukari, who continued to toy with Remilia. A gap opening behind Remilia as ran shot out of it, spinning and firing danmaku at Remilia, who was forced to fly away from the combined attack from Yukari and her Shikigami. Remilia scowling as she leveled out with Yukari, who had Ran floating next to her as Yukari smirked, pointing her parasol in an 'en grade' stance to taunt Remilia.
"Fine then you want to cheat?" Remilia said as Yukari tuted. "It is anything goes." Yukari said smirking as Ran rolled her eyes at Yukari's joke. "I hate it when she makes the rules…" Remilia muttered as she threw her lance, Ran floating in front of Yukari and catching it, only for the lance to explode.
"You said anything goes right?" Remilia said as several lances appeared around her, and one in each hand. "I did say that." Yukari said, tilting her head as Ran floated back up to join her, Ran's clothing slightly smoldering from the explosion. A gap opening beside Ran as Chen floated out, yawning slightly.
The fact Ran and Yukari glared at Chen before she fell asleep floating there did not go unnoticed as Ran decided to push the sleeping shikigami back into the gap, going back to just Ran and Yukari vs Remilia. After Remilia stopped her childish laughing.
While the three above engaged in a dogfight in the sky, with lances and signposts flying everywhere… and Ran trying not to get skewered. Reimu and Sakuya fought on the ground below.
Sakuya ran at Reimu, a monochrome copy of her slashing at Reimu, hitting her before disappearing, Sakuya following up with the same slash as Reimu disappeared, coming out of a gap above Sakuya and trying to deliver a dropkick, only for Sakuya to bring up a pair of knives, blocking Reimu's foot.
Reimu flipped off Sakuya's knives, landing on her toes before throwing and pulling out a new pair of senbon, Sakuya ducking below the throw metal rods before retaliating with a spray of knives. Sakuya's eyes glowed red as Reimu's purple eyes seemed to alight with fire before both disappeared, several shockwaves ringing through the forest after about a second, Reimu and Sakuya repapered between Remilia and Yukari's battle, stuck in a blade lock between senbon and knives.
Both of them were between the massive lock of lances and sign posts between Remilia and Yukari, the girls themselves engaging in their own blade lock right next to Reimu and Sakuya. Ran herself now laying face first in the dirt from having been caught in the cross fire.
Everyone looked between each other before changing who they were engaged with, now all of them pointing their weapons at someone else. Yukari had her parasol pointed at Sakuya's neck as Sakuya had her knives positioned to stab Reimu in the back who had her Senbon pointed at Remilia's heart, who had her lances about to stab Yukari.
"Draw?" Yukari suggested, the others nodding. "Well that was a good workout." Sakuya said, putting her knives away as Yukari opened her parasol above her, just because she wanted to. Reimu however had closed her eyes before opening them wide.
"Patchouli and Meiling aren't here…" Reimu said, as Remilia's eye started twitching. "They took advantage of our little spout to get ahead did they?" Yukari said. "Well then, why don't we play catch up." Remilia suggested, forgetting they were supposed to be fighting the other team.
"No, me and Reimu will be playing catch up, you two are staying here." Yukari said as she opened two gaps that swallowed up Sakuya and Remilia, depositing them back at the shrine. "That was a cheap move Yukari." Reimu said. "Come now, the rules are anything goes." Yukari replied putting her finger on Reimu's chin and flicking it up in playfulness.
As they started flying towards the location of where the village should have been Reimu said something. "You do know that now they are going to be gunning for us right?" "Let them, it's more fun that way." Yukari said as they flew quietly into the night.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Now they're just wasting time.
Omega E The Reader: Yukari could just gap them where they need to go.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And the reason WHY she isn't doing it is even dumber.
Omega E The Reader: As this is a race to fight her rival of course.
H-Reimu Hakurei: That is dumb, indeed. I remember the time when I can't find my way inside the bamboo forest, and then I just go airborne. Darn it, Yukari...
Yasei Sugaku: I'm pretty sure the other teams also decided to "Screw it, we'll fly.".
WildMath55: Go up, and then located Eientei via bird eye sight. Classic Bamboo Forest of the Lost.
Sin Count: 743
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
BGM: UNL Extras: Unknown X ~ Unfound Adventure (Arrangement)
"Why are we doing this again?" Mystia asked her mother figure, Keine. "Because the village would be vulnerable otherwise Mystia, and after that fairy I don't want to take any more chances." Keine replied as the bird youkai and were-hakutaku flew around the border of the now hidden village, two certain youkai on fast approach.
Omega E The Reader: A common misconception as Keine doesn't accept youkais as her students in canon.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And with what is revealed later, this scene becomes so much worse.
Yasei Sugaku: And this is quite a dillema, since most of the Neos are forced to go to Earth schools because of this. I'm not kidding here. At least Japan is quite ambivalent with Gensokyo in our case.
H-Reimu Hakurei: The fact that the Moriyas even managed to refurbish their Earth shrine should tell you enough. I'm actually surprised that they even have it in the first place.
WildMath55: Prejudices, I believe. I think Sengoku Gensokyo tournaments helped lessening the tension between humans and youkais by giving them outlet to duke it out.
Sin Count: 747
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
"Patchouli I'm telling you, what do we have that could even the odds between us and the other two teams, Sakuya could just stop time, Yukari has her gaps, and I don't think we need to say anything about Marisa and Alice given that crazy Hakkero." Meiling complained to Patchouli as they flew towards the village, Keine and Mystia hearing their conversation and hiding behind a tree.
"Simple, we play fairly, after all they can't win if they are too busy fighting each other over second place." Patchouli concluded as they flew close to the ground. "What are they doing?" Mystia asked Keine, who had poked her head out from behind the tree.
"They are going towards the village, and that means we need to stop them. Ready Mystia?" Keine asked, her ward and one of the few youkai she could trust to help her within the village, despite her pranks nodding.
The two of them shot out of the darkness, Keine having summoned her sword as Mystia threw an array of bullets at Meiling and Patchouli, Meiling turning around quickly and using her hands to catch the blade as Keine swung, Patchouli raising a barrier in response to the wall of bullets.
Omega E The Reader: Wait why does Keine use a sword? I don't remember her using one…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Well she has ONE Spell Card named after the Sacred Sword, but that's about it. The main issue is that the ONE NON-CANON TEAM made it to the village before everyone else!
H-Reimu Hakurei: As far as I can tell, only Shiro (my Mutsuigeki counterpart) and Himemiko (the Yamatai Princess) that actually have Kusanagi no Tsurugi.
Yasei Sugaku: Shirei held the one from Draconic Deus, while Himemiko keeps the one that originated from Historia Earth. And Yamatai group held authentic Japanese Imperia Regalia.
WildMath55: I already told Omega E and OverLord about Shirei's part. Himemiko's info can be found on Touhou Wiki, more specifically Riverbed Soul Saver characters page.
Sin Count: 749
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
"What gives lady, any reason your just attacking us!" Meiling said as se redirected the blade off to the side, before punching Keine in the chest, sending her back. Keine rolled with the punch in the air, Mystia flying up next to her. "It's our duty to protect the village during this crisis and that means to keep the youkai out." Keine said, pointing her sword at Meiling and Patchouli.
"So are going to do this the usual way?" Meiling asked, cracking her fists. "I don't see why not." Patchouli deadpanned, opening her spell book as Mystia and Keine flew at them. Meiling dodged the to side of Keine's swipe, slamming her elbow into Keine's stomach as Keine brought her sword down on Meiling.
"Sorry lady, but I've been training against a little fairy with a sword much larger then yours." Meiling said, dodging Keine's swipes. "I would know, I had to fight her an hour ago." Keine said, referencing Cirno. "Wait you did what?!" Meiling shouted as Keine used her surprise to get a slash in on Meiling's side, Meiling grabbing her sword in an instant, done playing games.
"You're telling me, that Cirno fought you an hour ago, and an hour ago I saw her at the Hakurei shrine. How did she get ahead of us?" Meiling asked Patchouli and Keine, Mystia currently hanging by her ankle in a branch of a tree Patchouli had summoned.
"Cirno, past us all. Without us noticing. An hour ago." Patchouli said. "She must have been booking it since we kind of took it slow talking with the others." Meiling said, casually spinning the sword that she had taken from Keine, who was busy trying to get Mystia out of the tree, the branch literally grabbing her ankle.
"She was in a hurry if that guy she was lugging around was any indication." Mystia said, having seen Cirno during her little fly through the human village. "She was lugging around a…" Patchouli said, her eyes going wide as she slapped her head. "By kami Cirno, what have you done." Patchouli complained to no one. Meiling didn't have the same look of dread on her face as Patchouli, but flew up towards Keine and Mystia.
"Where did she go?" Meiling asked, what they were doing could wait, Vaati being out with Cirno like that was not good. "She went to go find my friend Mokou and go to Eintei, to see the doctor, she hasn't come back." Keine said, thankful she hadn't but not aware of the implications.
Meiling flew up above the branch and pulled it, ripping it off the tree before pulling the branch of Mystia's ankle, freeing her. "Take us to Mokou, we need to find those two." Meiling said in a no nonsense tone. "Why should I?" Keine said, a little more open as Mystia flipped back right side up next to her.
"Because that guy she was carrying was our friend, and we need to make sure he's safe." Meiling said. "Fine, give me my sword back, and Mystia, take them." Keine said, Meiling handing Keine her sword as Mystia started flying, motioning Meiling and Patchouli to follow.
"Thanks." Meiling said, as she flew after Mystia with Patchouli. "Just stay away from the village…" Keine mumbled as she went back to patrolling.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: If no youkai is allowed near the village, then why is Mystia, known to make humans blind just to make them spend money at her lamprey stand, allowed to guard with Keine?
Omega E The Reader: I agree…
H-Reimu Hakurei: At least Aya's presence in human settlement can be explained as her joining their group during the First Sengoku Gensokyo tournament and her connection with Kosuzu. I can't even do anything when I heard that Bunbunmaru Newspaper managed to secure a spot on Suzunaan. Speaking about Kosuzu, you remember that time, Yasei?
Yasei Sugaku: I believe that's when both your credibility is restrengthened and the humans managed to form a formidable defense force. And yeah, I certainly didn't expect Yorubana, Amashirasagi, Tourouzaka, Aokusa, and Akigiri to show formidable prowess when we lead our combined group to face them in early 2022. Tourouzaka in particular even shows Reality Warper potential, which actually serves as excelent deterrent for any hostile youkais. I'm just glad that me, Lucy, and Vaati are on the humans' good side since we're former humans.
WildMath55: And I found out that they already have a notable presence for at least years (I'm setting the year of their backstory in 2019) since in Dream Logical World, Reimu recognized them as Tetsuko Yorubana, Aimi Tourouzaka, Miyu Aokusa, and Rikuto Akigiri. And yes, they're humans. Goes to show that Yasei's belief (humans are fearsome in their own right) is vindicated here. In case you wonder, Aimi lives with Kiseki Amashirasagi, a tsukumogami.
Sin Count: 751
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
BGM: ULiL Nitori's Theme: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's Kappa ~ Candid Friend
Nitori Kawashiro was walking about in the forest of magic, marveling at the sights of all the trees and colorful mushrooms. "Never seen all these on the mountain, I hope no one misses me." Nitori said to herself. Her backpack loaded with her inventions as she wandered, just exploring.
"Wriggle! Don't hang there! I can't see!" Someone shouted, Nitori turning to her side as she saw a girl in a witch's outfit on a broom, a girl with two antenna peaking over her shoulder covering her eyes. Nitori panicked and rolled to the side, her things spilling out of her backpack as the girl crashed into a tree next to her, two other girls flying after them as young girl in a black dress rolled up in front of Nitori.
"Marisa are you ok?" Alice asked, seeing Marisa embedded into a tree. "I'm just fine, I do this regularly." Marisa's muffled sarcastic reply came. "Of course you do." Alice replied with her own snark. Nitori just plain confused as the little girl in the black dress woke up in front of her.
"Wa happened, are we there yet?" The Rumia asked, slightly confused as Wriggle fell out of the tree above Nitori, landing on Rumia, startling her. Alice looked at Nitori as Daiyousei tried to help Marisa out of the tree she was currently embedded in. "Help there. Are you lost?" Alice started, looking Nitori over. "No I'm not lost, just exploring." Nitori answered, stuttering slightly.
"Sounds to me like your lost, what are you doing in the forest of magic little Kappa? Don't you live on Youkai Mountain?" Alice questioned, Nitori suddenly started shivering. "You… You're not going to try and eat me, are you?" Nitori asked, fearful from stories about the wicked witches of the forest.
"Eat you? No, at worst I'll give you a little scare, and Marisa would steal." "Borrow!" "Borrow everything you owned." Alice finished, rolling her eyes as Daiyousei had gotten Rumia and Wriggle to try and help her pull Marisa out of the tree.
"Ok then… that's fine… I guess…" Nitori stuttered, thankful that she wasn't going to get eaten or anything… someone taking her inventions wasn't the most comforting of thoughts though. "I mean I'm supposed to be on the mountain, but I wanted to explore, and it's usually interesting when ever something happens that can be seen from the mountain, like the explosions from the lake a few months ago, or the scarlet mist, of course the tengu usually put up a curfew to keep the kappa like us from going anywhere during these incidents." Nitori said, wanting to suddenly smack herself for giving out that much information.
"Sounds like you're their personal grunts." Marisa quipped, having finally been pulled out of the tree, the girls now hanging off her arms. "No it's fine and all, they keep us safe but I wanted to look around, I've never been off the mountain." Nitori said.
"Well it's only natural to want to explore our world, Alice Matrigold, and this nut right here is my partner in crime Marisa Kirisame." Alice said, pointing at Marisa. "You got it the other way around, you're my partner." Marisa retorted. "If your both partners', wouldn't that make you equal?" Nitori added her own question, Alice and Marisa looking at each other for a moment. "I suppose that would, wouldn't it?" Alice said, making a false thoughtful expression.
"Yeah yeah, and these three bundles of fun are Wriggle, Daiyousei and Rumia." Marisa said, shaking her arms, and leg as she introduced each one. "Nitori. Nitori Kawashiro." Nitori answered, normally she was so shy, but there was just an air about these two that somehow made them, at least Marisa, approachable.
Omega E The Reader: Marisa and Nitori aren't even supposed to meet each other yet until Mountain of Faith.
WildMath55: This is two incidents too early! ... I said again, didn't I?
Sin Count: 752
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
"Well then Nitori, why did you want to investigate the incident?" Alice asked, Marisa having been busy to try and deal with the three kids she had hanging off her. "Well… the tengu were all up in arms in about ten minutes, something about the moon not being right and they were scrambling to try and establish the curfew…" Nitori said before stopping, tapping her fingers together as Marisa started eyeing the stuff on the forest floor from Nitroi's bag, smirking something scary as she pulled Rumia off her leg and set her next to Daiyousei and Wriggle. Marisa took all of sixteen seconds for everything to disappear, her holding her hat in her hand as she tried to stuff the last of the things into the enchanted space in her hat.
"Well then, we are currently trying to investigate the incident ourselves, and the more capable allies the better." Alice said, offering the kappa her hand to get up from the forest floor. Nitori reaching up and grasping it as she got up, nodding her head. Strength in numbers and all that.
Omega E The Reader: No. I doubt they will be of help against Eirin. Do note that she is very powerful as seen where she replaced the moon with a fake one and all.
WildMath55: And even the Watatsukis refer to her as "Yagokoro-sama". Try to top that.
"Ok we got a sixth person, can we go now?" Marisa complained, having gotten onto her broom, Rumia and Wriggle on it with her. "But I can't fly." Nitori said, blushing. "Marisa?" Alice asked, not even looking at her. "Yeah yeah, get on kappa girl." Marisa snarked, Nitori getting on just behind Rumia, leaving almost no room left. "Think we could go faster if I got on as well?" Alice suggested. "If you think you can fit and hang on." Marisa said, getting off for a moment and sticking the Mini-Hakkero into the back of the broom. Alice getting on just behind Nitori, the crowded stick of wood having two girls on the back, Rumia in the middle, Daiyousei in between Alice and Nitori and Wriggle hanging onto Marisa back.
"Hold onto your head accessories, because if they don't fly off, I'm going to borrow them BECAUSE OFF WE FLY!" Maris shouted as she angled the broom upwards, the Hakkero firing a master spark behind them as everyone crowded onto the broom held on for dear life as what to anyone below would have looked like a comet started to cross the sky. The sounds of screams, woops and Marisa's maniacal laughter filling the night sky.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Actually, Nitori's backpack allows her to fly.
Omega E The Reader: The Helicopter blade would allow her to fly.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Exactly.
Yasei Sugaku: I think our kappas already standardized the backpack helicopter blade...
H-Reimu Hakurei: And with their inherent hydromancy...
WildMath55: Oh, boy... Nitori's most definitely the one behind this standardization...
Sin Count : 753
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
(Stage Clear!)
AN: If you are reading this that means it took a while for my stupid doc manager to work. But yeah this is the first chapter of Imperishable night arc. Ok technically the second but hey Marisa and Alice, currently have four new allies and are shooting across the night sky. Remilia and Sakuya have been set back, Yukari and Reimu are sort of flying about, and the only ones who are actually getting anything done, is the one team that is not fighting, crazy, or have general insanity worse then normal is the martial artist and the witch of the unmoving library. To say things have gone far off the beaten path is an under statement, and I am enjoying every second of writing it.