I spent the last couple of hours of my day standing by Remilia's side in her office as she did paper work. I stood on standby waiting for the slightest of requests from my master. It was a pain in the ass, I tell ya. Standing around doing mostly nothing almost lead me to falling asleep standing several times. Got yelled at a few times for it.
That's when I realized I still haven't told Remilia about the weird dream. While in the middle of her work, I finally got her to listen and I told her what I had told Sakuya. She looked intrigued the entire time I told the story as she listened closely.
"And that's about it," I said, finishing the story.
She thought to herself for a few moments before speaking up. "Fascinating…" she said. "I wouldn't have thought for your ability to manifest so early after turning you."
"My what now?" I asked.
"The details are not important right now. We'll have to test it another time," she said, giggling afterward. Her easy going attitude about all this had me worried.
"The only thing I need to know is if this dream is anything to be worried about," I stated.
"Oh, of course, my pet. This green-haired figure is who we need to be cautious about. You wouldn't want anything to happen to your beautiful master now would you?" she said as she gave me a faked baby face.
"Of course not," I answered. "But we have no idea who this green-haired person even is. Is there even someone around here goofy enough to have green hair?"
"You'd be surprised." She finished some administrative documents, stood up and faced me with a serious expression. "I'm about to give you an order you're not going to like."
"Great," I said with the roll of my eyes.
"For any one you see with green hair, I want you… to kill them."
I laughed out loud, but then I noticed her serious expression did not go away in the slightest. "Wait… You can't be real right now," I said, worried.
"Oh, I am being very real right now, my simple servant. We can't take any risks with this dream. We may not know exactly what it's about, but we do know someone with green hair is involved. I promise you, you do not want anything to happen to me just because we ignored the dream's warnings. The loss of your master at such a young age would devastate you in ways you can't possibly imagine," she said.
What she said gave me goosebumps. "Of course I wouldn't want anything to happen to you. I just… I mean, come on. Do I really look like someone that can kill another person over a dumb dream?"
Remilia reached up and gently held my face in her hands. "You'd be amazed about the things you would do for me," she said with a smile. She pulled my head down to her, planted a kiss on my lips then pushed me away. "Make sure you pass on the order to Sakuya and tell the fairies to be on alert for anyone with green hair."
"Yes, Master…"
So I did just as I was told to. The fairies would playfully salute me when I told them to be on alert. Not sure if they were taking me serious or not. When I got to Sakuya, on the other hand, she took the order completely serious and without question. It bothered me that she did, but I just took it as her being a better servant than me. Guess I still have a long ways to go.
Before I was to hit the sack, I decided to stand watch as several fairy maids slowly pieced together that window Marisa had smashed through (though, it could have been finished long ago if they themselves would stop breaking it). I encouraged the maids and told them they were doing a good job, boosting their confidence. Despite my tiredness, I actually stood watch of them for a good amount of time. By the time I was satisfied with their work, I decided to go to bed. It was then someone flew in through the hole that was still present in the window. At least this person didn't break anything, unlike that other blonde-haired individual.
The girl landed right in front of me with a blooming smile on her face. The girl had black hair that went to her shoulders and on top of her head sat a small red cap. She wore what looked like a fancy t-shirt and a black skirt that went just above her knees. The large chest on her warrants a mention. On her feet were plain red shoes. What stood out the most was the pair of black bird-like wings on her back.
I'm noticing a trend here; cute girl after cute girl after cute girl. I'm sure as hell not complaining. I'm just plain lucky.
"And there he is!" the girl announced. She pulled out a notepad and a pen from her pockets and got ready to jot down some notes. She then got up in my grill. "What could possibly be the name of the brand spanking new vampire?!"
I cringed a little from all her shouting and backed up some. "Lower the volume, will ya? And if you want my name then you should give me yours first," I asserted.
The girl straightened up and cleared her throat. "How rude of me," she said, her smile never fading. "You may call me Aya Shameimaru, the best reporter of all of Gensokyo."
"Uh-huh," I muttered, unsure with her claim.
Out of nowhere, a second girl entered through the broken window and… damn, was this girl a piece of work. She landed beside Aya the so-called best reporter. On her face was a slight scowl.
"If you're going to drag me somewhere then at least do not leave me behind," the girl said.
Now this girl, this fucking girl, had both white dog ears and a white dog tail. I kid you not. Normally I'd be discouraged to be near who was clearly not a human, but this girl had snatched my heart. Her white hair shined magnificently and she too wore a small red cap on her head, right between those dog ears of hers. She wore a sleeveless shirt, fully exposing her beautiful arms. The shirt fit tightly on her, perfectly revealing the shape and size of her breasts and, god damn, were they the best pair I've seen. Sakuya's boobs had to settle with second place now. On her waist was a black skirt with red flame-like designs reaching up from the bottom of the skirt. The skirt went down all the way to her feet. It may have covered what I bet were a pair of great legs, but the skirt had openings around her waist, showing her smooth hips. My God, if I could just hold onto those erotic hips, I would… Never mind. No need to go into detail. Let's just say she has a sex appeal matching that succubus's, Koakuma. Now the scary part of her was the shield and scimitar she carried on her back. I'm sure she wasn't just carrying them around for show, so I made sure to be careful around her.
I ran up to this girl and quickly introduced myself. "Hello, Miss. Name's Isaac. What's yours?"
The dog girl smiled at me. "Greetings, Isaac. You may call me Momiji Inubashiri. Miss Aya and I come from Youkai Mountain. In case you didn't know, we are tengu," she said.
You can be whatever you want, babe! It won't change how much I want you right now.
Aya pouted at Momiji. "Every guy does this when you're around," she uttered.
Momiji glared back at Aya. "Then why do you keep dragging me with you?" she asked.
"It's that damn hip-exposing skirt you wear," Aya accused.
"It's summer and it helps keep me cool!" Momiji defended.
I just sat back and watched the two argue with one another, but they didn't argue for too long and brought their attention to me.
"So your name is Isaac is it? Then why don't you let us on the why's and how's of you coming to our humble little home of Gensokyo?" Aya questioned, her pen and notepad at the ready.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Not much to tell, honestly," I answered.
The bird girl grinned at me. "Now, now. There's no secrets you can hide from Aya. So just tell me everything and make sure you leave no detail out," she insisted.
"Seriously, it's nothing special to write about. Now, let me show you the way out-"
The girl jumped forward, her face only an inch away from my own. "You must be a little shy," she began. "You can tell me. You and the short Scarlet Devil were in the heated act, weren't ya?" she said in a whisper.
I gently pushed her away. "No, we weren't having sex, "I said angrily. "I was dying. She found me. She turned me. Then she brought me here. Happy now?"
"I choose not to believe you!" Aya announced then started jotting in her notepad.
I rolled my eyes. "I don't really care what your write. You can have the master be mad at you."
The hot dog girl slowly pulled out that scimitar of hers, her burning eyes focused on Aya. I raised an eyebrow, wondering if she was seriously going to do what I thought she was about to do. The second the sword left its sheath, she swung it so fast that I lost sight of it as it was swung. She had sliced down Aya's hand, not hitting a single finger and only cutting the notepad and pen in two. Ink had splattered all over her hands and the two pieces of the notebook. Her expression went from dumbfounded to angrily shocked in a span of a few seconds.
"Ahh how could you!" she shouted.
"Serves you right," Momiji said with a huff as she sheathed her scimitar.
Aya, with a dark expression and what looked like a fan in the shape of a leaf took a confronting pose in front of Momiji. From her pocket she pulled out what looked like nothing but a rectangular card with weird scribbles on it. Momiji answered the silent challenge and pulled her scimitar back out along with what was another card with odd markings. I was interested in seeing how far this would go so I let it happen. It was obvious that Momiji was going to win with that sword of hers, but I wondered what they were going to do with those cards they held. Paper cut each other maybe? Hey, if this fight means the ripping of clothes then I'm all for it.
"So, it's come to this, now hasn't it, Momiji my friend," Aya said as she held that card above her head.
"As it always does, Aya," Momiji said as she too raised her card above her head.
Both girls prepared themselves before yelling strange verses.
"Crossroad Sign "Saruta Cross"!" Aya bellowed.
"Mountain Nomad "Expellee's Canaan"!" Momiji roared.
I'm new to a lot of stuff here in this bizarre world of Gensokyo, but what I witnessed there and then could not compete with everything else that has conspired. What I witnessed was an explosion of brilliant shapes and colors. My entire vision was filled with the wondrous array of colors, enthralling me with astonishment. But the excellent spectacle only lasted a few seconds. A moment after they declared their words, a real explosion erupted, blasting me far down the hallway all the way to the end. I crashed into the wall and landed on the marble floor, bruised and hurt.
"Ahhhrg… Did that really just happen or am I out of my mind again…?" I said as I laid on the floor, staring up at the ceiling.
After a moment, those two girls came running down the hallway towards me. Both were covered in soot, probably from that impossible explosion they somehow created. What were these people? Were they gods?
The girls hovered over me. Momiji had a concerned expression while Aya chuckled softly.
"We're so sorry, Isaac. We got carried away," Momiji said. "Are you okay?"
"Of course he's okay! Vampires have great resilience!" Aya said happily.
I snapped my fingers then pointed at Aya. "Don't speak," I said in a hoarse voice. They both grabbed one of my arms and helped me to my feet. I backed up away from the both of them, feeling sort of terrified after witnessing their impossible feet. "What the hell are you two?" I trembled.
Momiji looked at me confused. "Hmm? I told you. We're tengu."
"What the hell is a tengu? Are they some sort of demigods or something?"
The girls looked at me then looked at each other. They turned back to me, but now they both looked like they were going to burst out laughing. I was about to reach out, grab a boob of theirs and squeeze with all my might.
"You don't know what a spell card is, do ya?" Aya asked.
"That sounds stupid, but I'll take a guess and say those card things are spell cards," I said with a huff. "You two can use ungodly powers like magic?"
"Many people here in Gensokyo can, actually," Momiji informed.
"Yup! Surprised you've not been told that yet considering that they are used to settle fights," Aya stated.
"Are you saying more than a few people can use magic like that?" I asked.
Aya nodded. "Yupo! Even some humans can," she said.
I went wide eyed. "No fucking way!"
"It is true," Momiji said with a nod.
"Oh, man…" I felt nauseous. And I thought only a small amount of people could use simple magic like flying or controlling dolls. If anyone could perform messed up miracles, then I could easily get myself killed, despite me being a vampire. But… But if anyone could do magic to that extent… Could I too? Would I even want to? Maybe I should just to make sure I can defend myself. No idea if I'm even capable of such things. Maybe I should bring this up with Lady Remilia and Sakuya.
I was going to ask the two girls more about spell cards, but one look down the hallway put a tear in my eye. My hallway had gone to shit! That explosion had blasted the walls, seared the ceiling, destroyed the chandeliers and uplifted the marble tiles from the floor. I was mad. Insanely mad. But I was sure Master would have a hissy fit if she were to see the ruined hallway. I'm going to have to somehow fix it up before she finds out and pops my head off.
My face was heated and hurting. "You two nimrods blew it up! Ah, god damn it! Damn you!"
Aya and Momiji looked at me then turned around to see the mess they created. They then turned back around, their faces red from embarrassment.
Aya put on a smile. "Yeah, that's our bad," she shamelessly said.
I grinded my teeth. "Why you little!" My open hands shot forward and latched onto the bird girl's breasts and I began to squeeze the hell out of them.
Her face went a shade darker and panicked from both the pain and the shock. "Oooow! You're going to tear them off! You're going to tear them off!" She thrashed around in her desperate bid to get me to let go.
"You're not squeezing hard enough!" Momiji shouted.
"Fuck off, dog!" Aya yelled.
I turned my angry eyes to Momiji. "You're next!"
She let out a small shriek as she slapped her arms over her boobs, determined not to let me get a hold of them.
One hard shake from Aya and I lost grip of her boobs. "Damn," I said, panting from the amount of exertion I expelled in keeping hold of her.
Aya massaged her pained boobs. "Damn, boy, are you nuts?"
I took a moment to catch my breath before speaking. "Your nipples were up on end," I stated.
"That's not true!" Aya shouted in embarrassment.
"Alright, enough playing around," I started. "You two were obviously not invited so I'm going to have to lead you out or I'll get in trouble. Not that I'm not in trouble already because of you two…"
"We can't leave now! I have many, many questions for you!" Aya complained.
Momiji placed a hand on Aya's shoulder. "We did enter without asking. So let's take our leave. You can ask him your questions another time," she said then turned to me. She gave me a polite bow. "It was nice meeting you Isaac. We are truly sorry for the mess."
I gave the girls a content smile. "It's cool. It was fun meeting the both of you. Now, let's get going and hope we don't run into Lady Remilia or Sakuya," I said.
"Roger that!" the two girls saluted.
I lead the girls to the main hall way. Quite a few of the fairy maids would stick their tongues out at I believe Aya and she would just either stick her own tongue out at them or give them the finger. This girl must have a history with the Scarlet Mansion that I'm not aware of. It was funny, either way. All the while I hit on Momiji as hard as I could. Girl new instantly that I wanted her. Aya would get mad and try to but in on our conversations. The two girls were indeed fun to hang out with. If only I could have gotten them to clean the awful mess they made, things would be completely peachy.
We made it to the main entrance to find that some of the fairies were arguing with what was probably another uninvited person. As I got closer I found it to be completely true.
"Well look who it is," Aya said with another blooming smile. "Miss Sanae Kochiya, how are ya and what brings you here to the Scarlet Mansion?"
"Probably trouble," Momiji commented with a sigh.
The girl in question looked towards us and smiled. She appeared to be a teenager like Marisa. She wore something similar to that of the brown-haired pagan (Reimu, was it?). Maybe she was pagan too? Instead of being a red and white outfit, hers was green and white. She wore brown shoes and white socks that nearly made it to her knees. On her chest was a good set of boobs that could match Sakuya's but lose to Miss Momiji. She sported blue eyes and on her head was long green… fucking… green… hair. God help me.
The green-haired individual pushed the fairies aside and ran up to us. "Hello reporter and guard of Tengu Village!" the girl greeted. She then looked to me and her smile grew larger. "And hello to you too, Mister Vampire. I'm Sanae. It's a pleasure to meet the new vampire of Gensokyo!"
She held out a hand for me to shake in greetings, but what I did then not only scared the shit out of everyone around me, but myself as well. A horrifying shriek echoed from my inhumanly widened mouth. The echo shattered glass windows and chandeliers throughout the hallway. The three girls had leapt in reaction away from me, their hands planted over their ears. The fairies too had leapt in shock and placed their hands over their ears to try and protect their eardrums. A small quake came with the freakish scream.
I slapped a hand over my mouth to get me to stop. The howling came to an end and I instantly started to quiver in fear from my own action. Once I was sure my screaming was at an end, I slowly removed my hand.
"I'm sorry about that…" I said to everyone around me.
Aya hesitantly walked back up to me. "Well, you sure as hell are a vampire, but I don't think we needed confirmation like that, buddy," she said, reeling in from the shock she underwent.
The green-haired girl, Sanae, forced herself to stop shaking then glared at me with a huff. "Now what was that for, Mister? I've come to greet you and see if you're at all a threat to Gensokyo. You just made a bad impression," she said.
"Now, now," Momiji stepped up. "He's a newborn vampire. There's no way he can be any more trouble than you already are, Miss Sanae," she said, holding a stern look.
"I'm obviously not trouble, but you are IN trouble," I said as I pointed at Sanae. "You need to leave now before either Lady Remilia or Sakuya find you. Seriously your life is on the line here."
"What are you talking about?" Sanae asked, befuddled.
"You just need to trust me. You obviously weren't invited anyways so please just leave and stay as far away from the mansion as you can."
Sanae looked to Aya then to Momiji then back to me. At first it didn't seem like she was going to listen, but eventually she came around. "Hmph. Fine. I'll yield for now. But!" she said then pointed and assertive finger at me. "You're going to answer all my questions the next time we meet and we will meet again!" she announced then saw herself out of the mansion.
I let out a big sigh. "That was close."
Momiji shoulder bumped me, as did Aya. "Mind filling us in?" Aya asked, a new notebook and pen shaking fiercely in her hands. This girl would probably kill for answers to her questions.
"I don't even know what the hell, so I can't give you any answers even if I wanted to. For now, you two need to leave. Make sure to get permission first before entering the mansion, please," I said.
"Aww, you're being boring," Aya said.
Before I could get Aya and Momiji to leave, Sakuya showed up.
"And what do you think you are doing here, tengu?" Sakuya's words were directed primarily at Aya.
Aya grinned. "Just interrogating your master's new childe. I can see by his looks as to why she turned him, but there's certainly other reasons and I'm here to find out what those reasons are."
Sakuya pulled out some knives from the holster around her thigh. Shit just got real. "So you are the one who made Isaac scream like that," she said, prepared for a fight.
Aya nervously jumped back. "No, no! That would have been the priestess from the mountain."
"It is true, Miss Sakuya," Momiji stated.
Sakuya raised an eyebrow. "She was here?"
"Yes," I said. "And… she had green hair."
"I'm aware that she does, Isaac. Did you manage to get her to leave without a fight?" she asked.
"Yes," I answered.
"That is good, but you're going to have to inform Lady Remilia about this incursion."
"I will," I said with a sigh.
Sakuya looked to Aya and Momiji. "I must ask you two to leave immediately. Now's not a good time for visitors."
Aya went to interject, but Momiji beat her to it. "That we will, Miss Sakuya," she said.
"Just one question, please!" Aya begged.
"We're going," Momiji said as she began to drag Aya to the doors. She looked to me with a smile. "It was nice meeting you, Isaac. Take care."
"You too," I responded happily.
Aya and Momiji finally left and I was left angry about the green-haired girl named Sanae. I didn't like her, and it wasn't my choice not to. I just felt this hatefulness inside the pit of my stomach when I saw her hair. She could probably dye her hair another color and I wouldn't have a single problem with her. I felt bad for her. It was only because of that damned dream that I have to be mean to her. I obviously couldn't do what Lady Remilia had ordered me to. So, I did the next best thing and had her leave and hopefully she won't come back. I doubt it's that easy though…