Outside the Scarlet Mansion
"Identify yourselves!" The redheaded gate guard demanded as she assumed a combat stance.
Marisa, despite having just got smashed several times against the ground like a hammer, stepped forward and assumed a cool-looking pose. Although she made sure to kept her distance from the gate guard so the same thing doesn't happen again.
"The name's Marisa G. Kirisame! Me and my friend are gonna kick your ass, then your boss's ass so we can get rid of this scarlet aura that's all over Gensokyo!" The witch, with her magic wand aimed at the gate guard, hammily introduced herself.
The gate guard maintained her pose, but one can still see that she is scanning her surroundings.
"That is strange..." The gate guard suddenly became confused as she took note of the scarlet aura enveloping Gensokyo and blanketing everything in a red tint. She even broke her stance to stand and speak like a normal person. "Nobody told me anything about this..." She then tilted her head quizzically.
Reimu lowered her arms and glanced at Marisa. "Apparently, whoever caused this Incident did not inform all of their employees about their plans."
Marisa lowered her magic wand. "Doubting your boss now? How 'bout-" She then attempted to make an offer...
Which is immediately interrupted and simultaneously rejected as the gate guard re-assumed her combat stance. "Trying to get me to defect? I don't think so!" She said defiantly.
Reimu glared at Marisa for thinking of trying that. "That sounded more like an attempt at bribery than diplomacy..." She pointed out.
In response to the interruption and glare, Marisa simply shrugged. "Oh well. That was worth a shoWHOAH!"
Reimu quickly grabbed Marisa by her collar, and pulled her back just in time to avoid a danmaku the gate guard shot at her.
The danmaku went on and blew up a nearby tree.
Reimu then counterattacks by throwing several Ofuda at the gate guard, who easily parried them all by literally punching them out of the air. This parry had both Reimu and Marisa going wide-eyed.
After finishing her parrying strikes, bluish-white aura began to radiate from the gate guard's clenched fists.
Mistress of Kung-Fu
Hong Meiling
"My name is Hong Meiling, and I am obliged by my duty as the gate guard to keep all uninvited guests out! So bring it!"
...
Inside the Scarlet Mansion
"Remi, it seems that Meiling has just engaged those two 'defenders' in battle..."
"Good. This will be fun to watch..."
"Whatever you say, Remi. I will be in the library if you or Sakuya needs me..."
"Can't you ever be not so deadpan?!"
...
Outside the Scarlet Mansion
The now-named Meiling begins her attack by punching the ground with her aura-coated fist, sending out a shockwave that tore through the ground as it made its way toward Reimu and Marisa very quickly.
Reimu is able to dodge the shockwave by simply taking off into the air. But Marisa, unable to fly without her broomstick that she dropped behind Meiling after the smashing earlier, had to resort to conjuring a magic shield to block the shockwave, which didn't work as the attack went right through the shield and knocked her over her feet.
"Marisa!" Reimu cried out.
"Don't worry!" Marisa responded as she got back up to her feet. "Keep that damn bitch distracted so I can get my broom back!"
Whether Reimu heard that or not is unknown, as she then countered Meiling's attack by firing danmaku at her.
Turns out Meiling's aura can double as armor, allowing her to parry those danmaku as though she was wearing metal gauntlets.
With the gate guard momentarily distracted by Reimu, Marisa pointed her magic wand at her fallen broomstick and casted a spell, ""PULL!"
The spell caused the broomstick to be pulled toward Marisa. However, Meiling noticed it and with her lightning-quick reflexes, snatched it mid-trajectory before snapping it in half over her knees and throwing the halves over the gate of the mansion.
Marisa definitely isn't happy about that. "Oh, I'm so gonna royally screw ya. But before I can do that..." She then excuse herself to the sidelines where she wouldn't get in Reimu's way or become one of Meiling's targets. "Be right back!"
At the same time, Reimu continued to pelt Meiling with danmaku and Ofuda, which she all easily parries or dodge. Realizing that her shots aren't getting through, Reimu decided to call forth the Ying-Yang Orb and launch it toward Meiling.
Meiling attempted to parry the Orb like she did the other projectiles, but the Orb is much more powerful than she expected, as she gets knocked off her feet and sent flying into the gate hard enough to cause it to buckle. With that impact, Meiling seemingly passed out, with the aura on her hands fading away afterwards.
Reimu, not quite believing that it would be so easy, landed on the ground and slowly approached Meiling. She prodded the gate guard with her gohei just to be sure.
"So that's it?" Marisa wondered out loud as she emerged from her not-hiding spot. "I thought for sure she'd be like Shang-Chi on magical steroids or somethin'..."
Reimu turned to glance at Marisa, and rolled her eyes as she doesn't get Marisa's reference. "What are you talking ab-"
All of a sudden, Reimu gets the feeling that she has to duck down, which her body did without her conscious input. As she unconsciously ducked down, she saw Meiling's aura-coated fist flying over her head and hitting Marisa right in the face, knocking Marisa right off her feet.
Amazingly, all Marisa got from that superpowered punch is a single tooth getting dislodged, which she then spits out. "Ooh, I'm gonna be feelin' that 'til next morning..." She snarked as she got up from the ground.
As amazing as Marisa's durability is, Reimu is more amazed by the fact that she subconsciously knew an attack was coming, and subconsciously dodged it. Was that some kind of intuition? Reimu wondered, still trying to process all of it in her mind.
Her so-called intuition activated again, this time telling her to get off the ground. She did so by jumping, again subconsciously, just in time to see Meiling's low kick sweeping under her feet.
Still in mid-jump, Reimu then countered with a flying roundhouse kick across Meiling's face.
Merely flinching from the kick, Meiling continued the fight by delivering a series of punches and kicks. All of which, to her surprise, are easily dodged or parried by Reimu.
"I know you are thinking how this is possible. Trust me when I say that so am I..." Reimu told Meiling, after the former had caught one of the latter's punches.
Reimu then broke defense by kneeing Meiling in her abdomen, then followed that with a sweeping kick to knock the gate guard off her feet.
As soon as Meiling falls flat on the ground, Reimu fired a danmaku at her, but missed the shot on purpose as a warning.
"I think this is where your martial artist honor tells you that you were beaten fair and square?" Reimu quipped as she kept her gohei pointed at Meiling, ready to fire danmaku if necessary.
Meiling looked like she is poised to suddenly hit back...only to sigh as she relaxed her hands and dispelled the bluish-white aura. A sign that she admitted defeat. "I'm so going to lose my job for this, but you're right. You win." She said as she raised both hands up.
"No tricks?" Reimu asked with suspicion.
"Where I'm originally from, that would be cheating. And dishonorable." Meiling answered truthfully.
Reimu eyed Meiling for a few more seconds before putting the gohei away. "Good! Save us both the trouble of...well, you know..." She then extended a free hand to help the gate guard up.
Just as Meiling is about to grab Reimu's outstretched hand, however...
"SLEEP!"
Marisa casted a spell at Meiling, putting her to sleep instantly, with her head hitting the ground immediately afterwards.
"What the Makai, Marisa?!" Reimu turned toward her friend. "She had just admitted defeat!"
"I ain't gonna take any chances." Marisa shrugged as she twirled her magic wand. "Heroes do it all the time in movies. Well, most of 'em do..."
Reimu sighed in disbelief in response to Marisa's excuse. "I'd never understand gaijin mentality..."
"By the way..." Marisa then raised another question. "Were you always so good at martial arts?"
Speaking of that, Reimu looked at her hands, and wondered about the fight with Meiling earlier. "No. In fact, I actually don't know any martial arts aside from some pretty simple kicks..." She explained. "It was as if my body was acting on its own when I fought against her..."
At the same time, Meiling lied fast asleep on the ground, snoring as she's dreaming about dominating her opponents...
And that's how the fight against Meiling is settled...
So Reimu has a new ability that's being manifested? Well, sort of. That's how Reimu's intuition works in the YMC-verse. It's kind of similar to Spider-Man's famous Spider-Sense, with the added feature of Reimu instinctively parrying or dodging any attacks including those she couldn't and/or didn't see with her own eyes. It's...kind of complicated, so just read on and see how it develops.
Marisa comparing Meiling to Marvel's Shang-Chi isn't completely random. Though as the MCU's Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings hasn't even begun production yet as of this writing (14th of August, 2019), I only made the comparison due to them both being chi-based kung-fu fighters. If you're wondering why Marisa is referencing a movie that hasn't even begun production yet, don't forget that the YMC main series are set in the 2110s, so the movie is over 90 years old already from Marisa's POV.
"And that, as they say, is that."
Afterwords end here.
