"Well, I fear your moon may be in a slight bit of danger," Yukari said, sighing. "I went to Mars myself, then sent a spy of my own there and it appears they wish to gain ground in outer space, starting with the moon that orbits the Earth here."
Toyohime narrowed her eyes in disbelief, as she opened her fan over her face. "You mean to tell me there's civilization on Mars? And you just found it out?"
"Indeed I do," Yukari nodded. "They reside within an invisible city, which is why they managed to stay under the radar for so long. How they managed to make a city invisible, well, that's an answer I don't know yet."
"I don't believe you," Toyohime said, tilting her head to one side. "Knowing what you've come here to do in the past, you're probably using this as an excuse to get into the Lunar Capital. Do you have any sort of proof these Martian's exist?"
Yukari nodded, as she opened a gap next to her and reached her hand in. She pulled it out, bringing with it a book titled 'History of the Invisible City', before throwing it over to Toyohime to take a look. She opened the book on the first page, before flipping through the large book quickly.
"Well, it seems it may exist," Toyohime said, shutting the book after seemingly not reading any of its contents. "I'll be taking this now. Better in our hands than yours."
Yukari sighed, as a gap opened behind her. "Fine. Make sure to warn Lord Tsukuyomi about the oncoming invasion."
"I have proof that the city exists, not that there will be an invasion," Toyohime said, turning away from her. "Though, it would be bad to be caught of guard."
Yukari nodded, walking behind her and out through the gap, as it closed. Toyohime turned around once again, before looking down at the history book. "Like we'd lose even without being warned. How much do you underestimate us?" She whispered, before making her way back to the Lunar Capital.
Back in the Lunar Capital, Toyohime kneeled herself down in front of Lord Tsukuyomi, the lord of the Lunar Capital and its key founder, with the book in her hand. She held it out to him so he could take it.
"Yukari Yakumo, the Boundary Youkai, came. She said that there was life on Mars in the form of Martians, and that they plan to invade the moon. She gave this as proof of their existence, but gave nothing in the form of proof that they will invade, Lord Tsukuyomi." Toyohime said, with the mannerisms that would go along with speaking to her Lord.
"I see," Tsukuyomi said, opening the book and scanning through the pages, spending a bit more time on each page than Toyohime did. "How strong are these Martians, did she say?"
"She did not," Toyohime answered with a shake of her head. "Though, she deemed it worthy enough to warn us about it. This may be no laughing matter, like the previous Lunar Wars were."
"Hmm…" Lord Tsukuyomi said, looking through the pages still. "Ready the defenses. Should we receive no sighting of anyone within twenty-four hours, withdraw."
"Understood," Toyohime nodded, standing up and walking out of the room.
Toyohime opened another door, walking through it to the other side and standing in the open doorway. "Yorihime," She said, catching the attention of her younger sister, Watatsuki no Yorihime, who looked up at her. "Lord Tsukuyomi gave us an order. We have to ready the defense force for twenty-four hours. There's rumor of an oncoming Martian invasion."
"Martian invasion?" Yorihime asked, standing up as she laid her book on the table in front of her. "You mean there's people on Mars? I thought that was found to be uninhabited."
"So did I," Toyohime sighed, holding her hand out as if she were annoyed. "But it turns out they have a way to make their city invisible, according to some book the gap Youkai supposedly stole from the Martians."
Yorihime also sighed, walking towards the door, causing Toyohime to step back. "So, we're up against people from outside of Gensokyo?" Yorihime asked rhetorically. "Who knows, they might be strong. Let's go mobilize the forces and send some spies out to see if anyone comes."
"Whatever you say," Toyohime said, fanning herself with her fan. "Though, I don't see much of a need to worry. We're much stronger as a whole than Gensokyo is and if things do go sour, we have Sagume to change the tides of war."
"We're dealing with another planet entirely than Gensokyo, Toyohime." Yorihime sighed. "Who knows how advanced they could be? They concealed their city with some sort of invisibility power, and they may have a way to take Sagume off guard and defeat her, meaning we lose that part. We should just get out and get this over with."
"Yes, yes." Toyohime said, fanning herself as she walked out of the room, Yorihime close behind her.
Within the same hour, Yorihime and Toyohime had mobilized the Lunar Capital's defence forces and positioned themselves outside the gate to the Lunar Capital. Toyohime walked over to her sister, her fan over her mouth.
"No word yet," she said to her. "Do you think this was just a hoax set up by the gap Youkai to sneak into the capital while it's less guarded from the inside?"
"If it was, that's something we can deal with when that time comes," Yorihime answered. "I positioned a few of our moon rabbits around the Lunar Capital on look out, so if she does get sighted we should be reported on that. Not to mention Sagume is overseeing the area for now, keeping an eye on things to make sure they don't turn sour for us if there is a war."
"Oh, that's helpful," Toyohime said, smiling. "Honestly, with this set up I doubt we can lose."
"Don't get too cocky," Yorihime said, narrowing her eyes slightly. "You never know what they may have up their sleeves."
Meanwhile, in the invisible Martian city, Hiroko, Kaiya and Kasumi were gathered outside of the city, away from the gates. There was nobody between them and the gats, and Kasumi appeared to be getting slightly impatient.
"When is the army going to get here?" She exclaimed to the other two, growling afterwards.
"Patience, Kasumi. I still have some strategical things to go over," Hiroko said, seemingly getting impatient with Kasumi. "Kaiya will use her ability to transport you and the army onto the satellite, surrounding the city we found but from a distance. They should not be able to see you easily from the actual city itself, unless one of them has a sight enhancing ability. Kasumi, you will use your familiars to create silent fly familiars that I will take control of and use to oversee the battle, along with the other three. Should there be a point we need back-up, I will say that. I'll also be able to tell you about the enemies abilities through this chip," She said, handing a chip over to Kasumi. "It will allow me to send messages to you, even through the distance it has to travel from Mars to this satellite. It will be transported through your thoughts, meaning you will know everything about any important opponents you may encounter. Use this to your advantage."
"I know, I know," Kasumi sighed, getting impatient more with Hiroko's long winded explanation whilst placing the chip in her ear.
"This is your first battle, Kasumi," Hiroko said, sighing. "I'm not expecting you to just simply win by yourself. If need be, i'll have Saiko, maybe even Kaiya transported there also. Try not to over exert yourself."
"Oh, the troops are beginning to form," Kasumi said, seemingly ignoring what Hiroko said, to which she simply sighed. "Those guys won't know what hit 'em."
"Well, you'd still do best to prepare for the worst," Kaiya said, waving her arm around. "You never know if they have some sort of technology to observe our city and see that we exist."
"Please, observe an invisible city?" Kasumi said, seemingly in an almost bragging nature. "That would be impossible, right Hiroko?"
Hiroko stayed silent for a few seconds, before shaking her head. "That Youkai of Boundaries found us, remember? Just because we're invisible to the eye doesn't mean we're complete undetectable."
Kasumi sighed, again, placing a heavy hand on Hiroko's smaller shoulder. "Listen, we'll get through this fine. If there is someone who's strong enough, then i'll snap into serious mode easily. You'll still be a great help during the battle."
Hiroko gently moved Kasumi's arm away from her shoulder. "I know I will," She smiled, bragging about herself, before turning to the troops. "Surround the city and attack it from all sides, but don't cause too much damage as we'll wish to use it for a base later on. I have already given my other orders to Kasumi. Now, Kaiya, if you'd please."
"Who made you the boss?" Kaiya joked, as her eyes began to glow a bright red.
"Better than anyone else, huh?" Hiroko joked, looking at Kaiya's eyes as Kasumi, and the entire Martian army, disappeared from the face of Mars.
Later on, on the moon's surface, a moon rabbit came bounding towards the army of other moon rabbits, seemingly in an urgent rush. "L-Lady Yorihime and Lady Toyohime! We've received sightings of enemies in all directions, moving in to surround the Lunar Capital!"
"What?" Yorihime asked in surprise, seemingly taken aback at how the army manages to surround them easily. "Toyohime, you take the north, i'll take the south. The army will move around in a complete circle to stop them from advancing or surrounding either of us."
"Right," Toyohime nodded, rushing off to the north with some moon rabbits running after her. Yorihime looked at the remaining moon rabbits as they formed a circle, moving outwards to combat the Martian army."
"How big is their army?" Yorihime asked the moon rabbit scout.
"Smaller than ours," The moon rabbit declared, slightly happier than she should have in war times.
Yorihime nodded, making her way quickly towards the south. A small, soundless fly familiar flew past her, noticed barely out of the corner of her eye, however she paid it no mind.
The fly made its way towards the Lunar Capital, before looking upwards to see a silver haired girl hovering above the Lunar Capital. Hiroko, who was using the familiar to scan the area, looked closely through the eyes of the fly.
"Sagume Kishin," She said. "Has the power to… reverse situations with her words."
"Reverse situations with her words?" Kaiya asked, tilting her head. "What does that mean?"
"I assume if she talks about something, the reverse of that thing will happen. That's bad for us… she could easily tip the scales in the Lunarians favour at any time and we won't be able to make it to her in time to stop her." Hiroko explained, sighing. "Kaiya, let's go find Saiko. Turns out we need back up there much sooner than we expected."
"R-Right!" Kaiya nodded, running quickly into the invisible city.
Meanwhile, in the border of Gensokyo, Yukari and Ran looked over the battle starting through one of Yukari's gaps. They both seemed serious and straight faced, without either talking for possibly minutes, before Ran finally perked up.
"Neither the Lunarians nor the Martians will abide by the Spell Card rules in this battle. You planned that, right?" Ran asked, to make sure of Yukari's plans. Yukari nodded.
"Yes, I knew that would be the case. But now, we should watch on and wait, hoping for a Lunarian victory to sprout from the labour of war," Yukari said, not moving her head to face Ran as she did so. "This is possibly the most serious battle yet for the Lunarians, and it holds equal importance to us. We do not wish for them to take the moon, after all."
Ran nodded, before looking back at the gap which they observed the battle through. "Hm?" she said, focusing on an area above the Lunar Capital. "What's that?"
"It appears the first decisive battle may be about to begin," Yukari said, closing her eyes.
Above the Lunar Capital, Saiko appeared behind Sagume Kishin, standing still as Sagume turned her head around, narrowing her eyes in surprise.
"You got here so quickly?" Sagume asked, tilting her head. Saiko closed her eyes and nodded, rubbing her thumb against her finger.
"Yes, indeed I did," Saiko said, opening her eyes again as she put her hands by her sides. "Minister of Chemicals, Saiko Kurosawa. My position here is to take care of anyone who may get in the way of our victory before it spirals out of control. Hope you don't mind."
*Spell Card!* Character Insight:
Lord Tsukuyomi: Lord of the Lunar Capital and it's primary founder, along side the co-founder, Eirin Yagokoro. He has ruled the Lunar Capital since it's foundation, and serves as a powerful and respected ruler to the Lunarians.
Watatsuki no Toyohime: Older sister of Watatsuki no Yorihime and the less serious of the two. Toyohime, along with her sister, is the captain of the Lunar defense force. She has the ability to manipulate the scientific and fantastical versions of the moon, as well as being one of the few characters able to travel freely between the moon and Gensokyo. She killed one of Yukari's crow familiars, Zenki, in the second Lunar War. She also holds a fan which is capable to tearing apart a forest on the atomic level.
Watatsuki no Yorihime: Younger sister of Watatsuki no Toyohime and the more serious of the two. She is also the captain of the Lunar defense force. She has the ability to call upon gods to aid her in battle, which allows her to have a myriad of techniques, supposedly firmly inside the millions. As well as this, she has excellent swordsmanship skills. She was able to defeat four opponents in a spell card battle after only learning the rules minutes prior.
Sagume Kishin: She is a Lunarian Goddess capable of reversing any situation with her words, allowing her to change the outcome that fate has in line for that particular situation by talking about it. She has one sole wing on her back, showing her to be partly a heavenly god.
