AN: I do not own Touhou Project, it belongs to Team Shanghai Alice, aka ZUN.
Well I'm back, after about I think a three day intermission, time is subjective in cyberspace, or in Gensokyo, or anywhere for that matter. But yeah I got Fire emblem: Fates so i've been busy with that, also Project X zone 2 AND Tales of Zestria, so I've been… busy.
Welp I have no excuses for not writing other then being a lazy bum for a past three days, but since I've been writing non stop for three weeks I think a short intermission was in order.
And with that out of the way
Let! The! Gates! OPEN!
Nox Aeterna
(Imperishable Night)
(Round Two!)
Stage Start!
BGM: SWR Pre-Battle Theme: Free and Easy
Yukari and Reimu were flying about the sky, Reimu grumpy with Yukari as she pulled the knife that had had embed itself in Yukari's parasol. "Did you really have to send them back, at this is the third time in two hours." Reimu complained, she thought they were supposed to be dealing with the incident.
"Reimu, you need to learn, why do something yourself when you can have others do it for you, the librarian and gate keeper can handle this themselves, besides Marisa and Alice are out there as well are they not?" Yukari said in a coy voice, casually ducking under an array of knives that had been thrown by Sakuya, who had just appeared with Remilia after having been sent back to the Hakurei shrine for the third time.
"So we're here messing with these two while everyone else is busy doing what's normally my job?" Reimu asked, rolling her eyes at Yukari as she moved her head out of the way of a lance Remilia had thrown at her. "Indeed my lazy shrine maiden, so shall we deal with them for a fourth round?" Yukari asked, poking Reimu's nose before throwing a train casually at Remilia and Sakuya, the train falling to bits from Sakuya stopping time and cutting it to ribbons.
"Fine let's get on with it, again." Reimu complained, crossing her arms as she pulled out her senbon again, Yukari settling back into her stance with her parasol.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: STOP WASTING TIME, DAMN IT!
Omega E The Reader: This also seems like a waste of time for the reader since we should see them be moving on to the next stage where everyone else is at.
WildMath55: I don't even know what this Yukari is thinking...
Sin Count: 757
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 14 (unchanged)
BGM: SWR Reimu's Theme: Mystic Oriental Love Consultation
Sakuya appeared in front of Reimu, her eyes red and angry, it didn't take a genius to guess that she was very very mad. Reimu didn't even have a second to react before being sent flying by Sakuya's kick to her chest. Yukari being busy dealing with Remilia's massive amounts of lances again.
Sakuya stopped time once more, Reimu not getting caught in it thanks to her ability, but neither backed down, knives, ofuda and senbon being thrown about until Sakuya and Reimu were fighting on top of one of the trains Yukari had thrown, time unfreezing as the train flew at high speeds with the fighters on top of it.
Reimu's senbon once again clashed with Sakuya's knife claws, sparks flying as the silver knives and purified metal grinded against each other, all the while behind them the air is filled with flying sign posts spears and more trains.
Yukari herself had gotten up close and personal with Remilia, knocking the diminutive vampire into one of the many flying trains, leaving a indent as Yukari shoot towards her. Remilia rolled out of the way before Yukari impacted the train, delivering a drop kick to Yukari, smirking as she had finally got a hit in.
"How do you like that gap hag!" Yukari responded by frowning and disappearing, Remilia sending a spear behind her as Yukari appeared there, blocking the spear with her parasol. "You've only got one weapon." Remilia started to monologue as spears started to float around her again. "But this time I've got fate and many more on my side, SAKUYA!" Remilia shouted, Sakuya disengaging from her dual with Reimu to join Remilia.
Time stopped for a moment as Remilia and Sakuya appeared in front of Yukari, Remilia sending the spears as Yukari and trapping her within a cage of them as Sakuya's silver knives appeared all around the cage, and in an instant closing in and going through the 'bars' of the cage, most getting caught on Yukari's parasol, but several hitting Yukari herself.
"Nice try but your going to have to do better then that, REIMU!" Yukari retorted as the cage around her broke, Reimu appearing above Remilia and Sakuya and delivering a drop kick to Sakuya that sent her flying into Remilia, a gap opening up behind the flying duo as Reimu and Yukari disappeared.
Inside the gap Sakuya and Remilia were trapped by a stun as Reimu and Yukari appeared on both sides of them. Yukari semi-controlling Reimu's movement the two kicked in sync, hitting Sakuya and Remilia with rapier like strikes from the parasol and senbon, the two doing a slide by slash, switching positions as Yukari planted her parasol in the 'ground' under her as Reimu spun her senbon around before pretending to sheath it, behind them an explosion going off engulfing Sakuya and Remilia as they disagreed again.
When Remilia and Sakuya came to a hour later they would be rather pissed and when looking for Reimu and Yukari again, the two waiting at the exact same spot as last time. And for the next four hours until the dawn came and incident was solved Reimu continued to complain. "Why didn't we just go solve the stupid incident."
Omega E The Reader: Yukari and Reimu & Sakuya & Remi would easily catch up because of Yukari gapping Reimu & her to where the other incident resolvers are at. And Sakuya stopping time to allow Remi to not waste time at all because time is stopped.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: But nooooooooooooooooo instead they waste the ENTIRE INCIDENT! Meaning that the ONLY canon team who does ANYTHING during this arc is the Magic Team. And the rest DON'T EVEN SHOW UP IN IMPERISHABLE NIGHT!
Yasei Sugaku: And this is just sad. Don't you think so, Reimu?
H-Reimu Hakurei: Sad and insulted at the same time if you ask me.
WildMath55: And that's Percival +1
Sin Count: 783
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 15
BGM: SWR Youkai Mountain Theme: Ridiculous Game
Mokou was sitting at her stand, wiping the counter as she looked at the man and… was she a fairy anymore? Either way they had been lying unconscious next to her stand for the past hour, and it had been fairly boring. And if it wasn't for the fact that the moon symbolized the very person she hated… or the very least had a rivalry with, she would admit it was quite the nice night.
Sighing Mokou looked at the two laying by her stand again before putting her hand to her chin. It had been a while since she had done anything drastic, and it's not like it would be any harm to them now. Smirking a little bit Mokou pulled a coil of rope out from under her stand before looking deviously at the two, pulling on the rope a bit as she got her little wake up call in motion.
Outside the bamboo forest of the lost Patchouli and Meiling had just arrived with Mystia. "Just follow the path and you'll reach Mokou's little stand, but don't go off the path or you'll be lost forever." Mystia said before flying away, leaving Meiling and Patchouli to their own devices.
"Well that was relatively painless… I half expected someone to jump out and attack us or something crazy to happen." Meiling said, tempting fate as she quickly looked around, shrugging as she saw no one. Patchouli sighed at her expense. "You've been reading to many of those manga books Remilia keeps giving you, this isn't a game Meiling." Patchouli said, trying to be all business.
"Last I checked Marisa, Yukari, and Remilia made it a game." Meiling said, listing the three girls off on her fingers. "Always the one for observation aren't you Meiling." Patchouli snarked, Meiling rolling her eyes as they walked/floated down the path into the bamboo forest, overhead a fast approaching light heading straight for the forest as well.
Meiling and Patchouli followed the path for a good few minutes, trading a few jabs of words and generally trying to past the time. It wasn't long until they came across a clearing in the forest at the end of the path… and Meiling's jaw dropped as Patchouli looked at the scene with raised eyebrows.
Shards of ice were everywhere as well as burn marks on the grass, several bamboo stalks had been cut right through, some burned as well. In the middle of the clearing was an untouched stand… and a makeshift crane attached to it made of bamboo, a girl with long white hair, a white shirt and red pants watching as Vaati and Cirno hung upside-down unconscious over a pot of boiling water.
"Several questions." Meiling started putting her hands tighter as Mokou and Patchouli turned to her, Mokou listening as Meiling started rapid firing off questions at Patchouli. "One, What the heck happened here, two why is Vaati not blue, not that it's not a good thing, and three." Meiling stopped, running over to the stand as Mokou raised an eyebrow, jumping over the caldron and grabbing Vaati and Cirno from their hanged position, Meiling putting them down before facing Mokou in a fighting stance. "Why were they over that caldron."
Mokou rolled her eyes for a moment as Patchouli floated next to Meiling, her book open as Meiling got up out of her seat and stretched her back. "The fairy and I did that during our fight, I helped the poor guy after a rather touching moment, and it was a joke." Mokou answered without missing a beat, cracking her neck as she put her hands in her pockets.
Omega E The Reader: What the hell do you mean it's a joke?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Oh, the joke part is Mokou answering Meiling's last question. Which was to ask why they were over that caldron. Which Mokou had done as a joke.
Meiling didn't drop her stance as Patchouli looked over Vaati and Cirno, noting his rather health skin tone, as if he had never been sick in the first place, he was stick thin as a rake and his hair when down to her butt at this point, along with still being white but otherwise he was fine, just knocked out. Cirno on the other hand had several cuts, marks and a puncture in her dress aimed right at her chest, yet no wounds to speak of.
"What strikes me as odd is how her clothing is damaged, but her body is not, despite you saying that you two had a fight." Patchouli concluded looking at Mokou. "Alright so a may have nearly kicked both of them and I noticed the fairy didn't go pop, I couldn't just leave them after the crap she had gone through to try and save the poor guy, word of advice, don't get to comfortable with them, they'll be around a lot longer then you." Mokou said.
Omega E The Reader: That's not possible as the revelation of the fact that Mokou's clothing can actually burn away revealing her birthday suit is now canon.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: As shown in the latest chapter of the Detective Satori manga.
WildMath55: And this is the part when Yasei pukes out when he found out about this.
Yasei Sugaku: Ungh...! (pukes out)
H-Reimu Hakurei: Not again...
"I believe you'll find a philosopher's stone is more then adequate for a long life." Patchouli retorted, coughing a bit. "That piece of junk? You actually got one? I'd be impressed if it wasn't such a bad method of immortality." Mokou said sarcastically. "Yes it only grants longevity with a rather bad aftertaste, I wouldn't know as I have only used it as a spell conduit." Patchouli said, Meiling dropping her stance to sweat drop at the rather casual conversation the two were having.
"They say no one lives forever… sadly that's what I'm going to end up doing, along with these two now." Mokou said, nodding her head towards the still tied up Vaati and Cirno. "I don't see how you would manage that." Meiling said, rolling her eyes.
"It's simple really, I can't stay dead, nothing more then that." Mokou said, not wanting to go into further detail. "You're hiding something." Patchouli replied, staring at Mokou. 'Am I that paper thin?' Mokou thought. "What's it to you."
"Nothing much, but asking questions and finding answers is part of what I do as a magician, always learning and improving on magic." Patchouli said before coughing a bit, Mokou rolling her eyes and sitting back down.
"Yeah you do that, now why did you come here?" Mokou said, getting down to business. "You had the reason tied up over that cooking pot." Meiling replied, pointing behind her at Vaati and Cirno. "Nice to see someone actually cares about people." Mokou said sarcastically. "Why yes we care about him, he is my apprentice after all." Patchouli said, placing her hand on Vaati's head and patting it, Vaati himself still unresponsive.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: This doesn't sound much like sarcasm. I wonder if the author even knows what sarcasm is.
WildMath55: ... OverLord, I'll let you handle this.
Sin Count: 784
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 15 (unchanged)
A large amount of screams and yells started to suddenly fill the air, the girls looking around for a moment before looking up, seeing Marisa on her broom… along with about five other girls including Alice on a crash course with the clearing. "INCOMING!"
What happened next was pure chaos, The broom crashed into Mokou, skewering her on it by the heart as the girls were thrown about. Rumia landing next to the still boiling pot and yelping as Daiyousei landed on her. Marisa and Wriggle landed face first in the dirt as Alice barely righted herself, Nitori crashing straight into Cirno and Vaati, sending the three of them flying as the rope broke, sending them sprawling.
Omega E The Reader: I did see Marisa's broom go at full speed like this and it never harmed people as it wasn't powerful enough to break the spell cards.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: That's what Blazing Star is for.
"Nice of you to drop in." Mokou said sarcastically as she walked back up, Meiling staring with her mouth open as Mokou pulled Marisa's broom out of her heart, wiping the blood off as the hole in her chest healed, leaving a hole in her clothing similar to the hole in Cirno's clothing. "Well… that's new." Patchouli said genuinely lost for words.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: It took THAT LONG to get ONE instance of sarcasm right?!
Omega E The Reader: I agree on this sentiment.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Is that worth a sin or not?
Omega E The Reader: Yes it is.
Sin Count: 785
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 15 (unchanged)
"What happened, what did I miss?" Marisa's muffled shout came as she pulled herself out of the ground, spitting out some dirt. "You just skewered someone… and she just pulled your broom out of her heart." Meiling said, Marisa staring at her with a 'what?' look. That's all she got in as Mokou hit her over the head with her own broom.
"Next time watch where your flying, just because I don't stay dead doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like hell." Mokou complained as Marisa rubbed her head. "Sorry was kinda in a rush." Marisa said sarcastically. "Marisa we were flying at near the speed of sound, rush is an understatement." Alice snarked, Shanghai popping out of her place and nodding her little head.
"It's always something with you." Marisa snarked back, grabbing her broom from Mokou's hand and using it to try and smack Alice, Shanghai stopping the broom as Marisa pouted. "Your no fun you annoying little doll." Marisa complained. "Maybe but even so she is a source of entertainment at your expense." Patchouli snarked with a small smile as a few rather pained groans came from the pile of Vaati, Nitori and Cirno.
BGM: Rhythm Thief Original Soundtrack – Rhythm Thief Theme
"Did anyone get the name of the girl who hit me." Were the first… and most snarky words to come out of the recently revived Vaati's mouth, and instantly Cirno had shot up and started hugging him. "Nice to see you back in the land of the living Vaati." Meiling said happily as Cirno cried into his shirt, babbling about how she missed him.
"It's alright Cirno… I'm fine. The question is… how am I alive?" Vaati asked, not even caring about how he was in a random clearing with a bunch of girls, ice and burnt ground all around him… just a normal day in Gensokyo.
"You have me to thank for that, and her." Mokou said pointing at Cirno. "I suppose you could call it a change of heart." "Both figuratively and literally I'm guessing?" Meiling snarked, referring to how she had just been skewered by Marisa's ballistic broom. "I knew that was going to happen…" Mokou said putting her hand on her head as she sighed.
Vaati looked at both of them skeptically for a moment before slowly floating up on instinct. "Ok then… how does that work?" He asked. "You referring to you being alive or her being skewered?" Marisa said sarcastically, knowing neither answer. "Either or both." Vaati replied back. "Shall I got with the simple answer or the long one?" Mokou asked, expecting to have to give the short answer.
"Long one, I mean we have time don't we." Vaati said, Mokou looking at him funny before getting back in her chair as everyone started to pick themselves, the little girls flocking towards Cirno the tallest of them half her size. Nitori had gotten up and put her things back in her pack that ad spilled out as everyone started to gather around Mokou's little stand, taking seats at the many stools at the little counter.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Would've been glad if they just stayed unconscious for the rest of the Incident. After all, two canon teams were stuck in a stalemate and one canon team was left totally unaccounted for without any real reason or explanation. So anything that takes attention away from canon teams is an annoyance.
Omega E The Reader: I hope the characters that are focused on get defeated quickly. I rather see the canon characters meant to be in the incident than these ones.
WildMath55: ... If there is another case of Percival +3, I'm going to bring in the full squad. You already knew who I mean.
Sin Count: 787
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 15 (unchanged)
BGM: UNL Extras: A Huge Shadow and a Tiny Conclusion
"Well I guess I'll start with just how the three of us are alive." Mokou said, referring to herself, Cirno and Vaati. "I'm sorry three?" Vaati asked, looking at Mokou. "I may have nearly died trying to save you…" Cirno mumbled, Vaati suddenly wrapping his arm around the little girl and holding her closer. "Don't do that, dying is not an option for you." Vaati said, scared a little bit of almost having Cirno join him in death.
"Nice and heartwarming, but can I get back to what I was about to say?" Mokou said, killing the moment. "Proceed." Patchouli said, intrigued. "Ok then… the reason all of us are kicking is the Hourai Elixir, normally I wouldn't say anything about it, but since a certain moon doctor blabbed about it to get the ice girl out of her hair I guess I can talk myself. How it works is it literally removes those who take it from the cycle of life and death. We can't physically die, and even if the body was destroyed a new one would just be made to replace it. Think like how a fairy dies and comes back, but without any draw backs." Mokou said, Patchouli nodding as the others listened.
"What have you gotten us into Cirno?" Vaati asked. "I just wanted to save you… I wasn't thinking right." Cirno mumbled as Vaati sighed, hugging her closer. "Ok we get it you two are having your heartwarming moment, now can we please get on with it." Marisa complained, smacking Vaati over the head with her broom and knocking his face into the counter. "Oww…"
Before Mokou was able to continue Marisa was tied up… again to keep her from doing anything stupid as Vaati rubbed his currently healing broken nose, Cirno glaring at Marisa. "With that out of the way, now I can continue." Mokou said. "So basically you're just trying to tell us that you've managed to make these two immortal, like you." Meiling said, getting annoyed.
"Fine you don't want the explanation I won't give it to you, but yes that's basically it." Mokou said crossing her arms. "Well thanks then… I honestly didn't expect to live. I've been out for who knows how long, because I sure don't?" Vaati started, before messing up his words. "Around five months." Alice told him.
Marisa had a devious smirk on her face, one that would strike fear into the devil himself. "No you are not going to try and get this Hourai Elixir." Alice said, shaking Marisa, who pouted. "Honestly you'd be surprised how few want it, given what it entails, and how to get it." Mokou said, putting her hands back in her pockets.
"What's the catch?" Nitori asked, having been left out of the loop the whole conversation. "Call it living forever and in order to actually get the immortality now is… rather disgusting." Mokou replied to her, Nitori's face suddenly going green as her mind started to wander. "You have to eat a Hourai immortal's raw liver…" Cirno said, upon seeing the green faced Nitori, the reactions couldn't be any more varied.
Vaati suddenly went green and got up, throwing up onto the floor, Marisa started cackling evilly and took her hat off before pulling out a pocket knife she had gotten from Kourindo, Alice had gone green as well but kept whatever was in her stomach down, Patchouli seemed fine but her face said otherwise as she stared at Cirno. Nitori had joined Vaati in throwing up, Rumia had licked her lips, and Wriggle and Daiyousei had their ears covered by Meiling, who was doing rather well.
"I just realized that I don't know your name, but thanks for saving me, but that… is disgusting. Cirno why was this your plan?" Vaati rambled, Cirno looking sheepish. "The doctor lady said it was the only way to save you." "As much as I hate to admit it… the doc wasn't wrong." Mokou said, shrugging as she held one hand to Marisa's face, keeping her from stabbing her stomach.
"So is there any reason you came to me besides these two?" Mokou asked, motioning towards Vaati and Cirno. "Not really…" Meiling said, tapping her fingers together. "And now we are back to square one, because we still don't know who is causing the incident." Alice complained as Marisa got thrown by Mokou, slamming into a cluster of bamboo trees.
"What incident?" Mokou asked. "The moon is fake, and it's not going down… so infinite night." Patchouli stated, giving the basic gist. Mokou took a few seconds to think before slapping her head. "It has to be her… dam." Mokou swore. "Who are you talking about?" Nitori asked. "The doc was to busy to deal with Cirno and Vaati… she was up to something, and the moon is kinda her shtick." Mokou said, Patchouli putting the pieces together from there. "So this moon doctor is the one causing the incident?" Patchouli asked. Mokou nodded.
Omega E The Reader; Not really. The real incident is the moon being replaced by a fake moon. The whole imperishable night is actually the incident resolvers extending time.
Sin Count: 788
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 15 (unchanged)
"Well then what are we waiting for! Let's go kick some butt!" Marisa shouted, getting up from where she was thrown and grabbing her broom. "You aren't going to find her… only I know where she lives and how to get there safely." Mokou said before Marisa could take off.
"Well then lead the way. I might as well join you for my grand revival, as worthless as I am." Vaati snarked, sighing a bit as Cirno patted his back. "So is everyone coming?" Mokou asked as the assembled group looked between each other. "I'll take that as a yes… come on." Moukou said, waving her hand for them to follow as she started walking into the bamboo forest, everyone following her.
"Well that was convenient." Marisa said as they all walked. "I don't expect things to be anywhere near as easy as this." Patchouli complained, despite their large group. "Ah come on, what's the worst that could happen." Marisa yelled as everyone… even Mokou and the younger girls started groaning. "Never say that… EVER!" Was pretty much the unanimous response. Marisa cackling all the way to Eintei.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: We had a perfect opportunity to have an Incident where the likes of Remilia, Sakuya, Youmu, Yuyuko and Yukari get personally involved. Yet the author completely wasted it in favor of throwing in random characters that never canonically set foot in Eientei that long night. Some of whom aren't even supposed to show up until much later and barely have ANY good reason to be around here tonight!
Omega E the Reader: Yeah this is a MAJOR problem with his stories. Completely and utterly shafting characters with his favorite ones.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So one sin for every character that should be here but isn't (six), and one sin for every character who SHOULDN'T be here but is.
Yasei Sugaku: I'm just glad I wasn't even there during that time.
H-Reimu Hakurei: I'm adding another 8 Sin Counts since me, Yukari, Sakuya, Remilia, Youmu, and Yuyuko are insulted by this, plus a complain from Patchouli and Meiling since they have better things to do.
WildMath55: Oh, great... Reimu made me add another Percival +1...
Sin Count: 810
Marisue Count: 1 (unchanged)
Sue Cirno Count: 40 (unchanged)
Percival Count: 16
AN: It's short but it gets the job done as it's an exposition chapter next round is entering Eintei… and a fight with the rabbits, the final chapter afterwards being against BOTH final bosses of the game. I'll see everyone next time.