I'm aware of how long it took me to write this wich was supposed to be longer but i'll have to make it a two part maybe three.
Since i got sick like twice in a row, first my left eye was hurting like a bitch then after putting some medicine on it it got better then after that was done i got a fucking fever and a headache.
Me being kinda lazy and in pain i couldn't write without hating everything, but i couldn't just let you with nothing so i decided to divide this shit while i'm writting it.
Sorry for that and enjoy.
Marisa is very annoyed.
This winter has been long ridiculously so and it has been getting colder by the day, for fuck sake's some mushrooms in the forest are frozen solid!, whatever the hell is going on someone has to stop it.
Not only for those reasons, she nearly died too!, she had to enchant her clothes to constantly warm her body AND it's still feels cold!, she brought some preparations in her hat in case she has to do an enchantment again, because reimu is really going to need them.
The village is probably fairing worse..., she herself really can't make time to see if they're fine but keine should have an idea to keep them alive.
Is alice okay?, how is the SDM dealing with this crazy cold marisa wants answers but to do that she needs reimu's help to deal with the incident.
She was now flying above the hakurei shrine... wich is laking a lot of snow wich is weird, she can't recal reimu having the ability to make something to block out cold.
Marisa was now descending and she could see gaps at the edges of the shrine, they were blocking the cold then, but why is yukari helping? that's not her usual demanor, and she nows of this mainly because reimu likes to get drunk a lot, and talk while she is like that.
Something is very wrong.
Just when she was gonna reach the edge of the shrines she crashed into some sort of invicible wall, so the gaps were blocking more than the cold, but why?.
Then a gap appeared in front of her almost like someone was telling her to enter, she really didn't have a lot oftime so might as well go for it.
The moment she flew through the thing she was in the front door of the Hakurei shrine, and it's full of snow and icicles, then it wasn't blocking the cold it was an ilussion.
She landed on the ground and entered the shrine, she saw reimu and a blond woman, with a purpled dress long blonde hair, a white mop covering the top of her head and long-ass white gauntlets they reached past the woman's elbow.
Reimu had blue patches in her skin here and there and she also seemed to be in some pain, and the woman who Marisa can only assume is Yukari, seemed calm but a slight forrow on her eyes could be seen.
Both Reimu and Yukari were sitting on the kotatsu they noticed marisa and reimu just signaled her to seat too, meaning that this is serious talk.
Marisa did as told "so... shit outside is going horribly, so you know waiting for you to do what you do best reimu" the magician was just a little done with the winter.
"i usually would... but the thing i-" Reimu started speaking only to be cut off by yukari who said "it's more than one incident".
Marisa took a very deep breath... "that's bad".
"very bad" said Yukari.
"yes we know, what matters is what we are gonna do about it" reimu was in serious mode right now, or the "i'm gonna fantasy seal every single thing i see" mode as Marisa calls it.
Marisa took a glance at yukari "i assume we are, but what is she gonna do exactly? you know just to be in the loop".
Yukari sighed, she is annoyed by something "i already have told my shikigamy to help the village, turns out kitsunne fire can keep bodies very warm, and the shikigami of my shikigami is putting most youkai in a safe place".
Marisa was pretty impressed by this "you sure act quickly... well it would have been better to act before today, but no one did".
"Yeah that's nice and everything but i could use some help with these" reimu pointed at the her very cold skin.
"well, why hasn't she?, you told me she had this power that could do almost everything" was Marisa's reply, that and telling reimu to strip to enchant her clothes sounds a little weird.
"well Marisa, i had to create the safe zone for wild youkai, keep youkai mountain from becoming i gaint popsicle and saving Reimu's life, so i'm just a LITTLE bit tired" the words of the youkai were spoken calmly, but there was a noticeble rise on her voice as she kept going.
"Geez!, calm down i get it Reimu please stript, i need to enchant your clothes" Marisa said annoyed, it sounded like Yukari rarely had to TRY in order to get things going.
"wha-?, no i have spares in my room, did you really think i was that poor" Reimu questioned her friend, said friend displayed a high level of wisdom and tried to run.
"well i'm going to your room to do my thing" marisa quickly made an excuse to get the fuck out.
And so she did, leaving both Reimu and Yukari alone "you really don't know who is doing the second incident?" Reimu sounded geneunly curious, yukari had alway's know who was causing problems around just in case the hakurei failed their jobs.
Not that they have done that before, but yukari likes to have all the cards in very situattion.
"as i told you before, a friend of mine made the first incident, the long winter and i would have let you handle it but then it got colder and colder by the day i confirmed that my friend wasn't the one behind it but someone else, who is using the first incident to create a second one" was Yukari's explination.
"and you haven't tracked the culprit because...?" Reimu asked a little annoyed.
And Yukari is probably just as annoyed but she is better at keeping it hidden "i think i already explained myself to marisa"
"can you at least give me a direction to take? this needs to be resolved sooner than my 'hakurei insticts' would let me find it" yeah, Reimu is very aware of how she just stumbles in front of the culprit every single time, but it takes a while.
And everyone is going to die at some point because of the cold.
"well... it's the coldest around the forest of magic" that was Yukari's only answer, the fact that the she wasn't informed in the second incident gave Reimu a very bad feeling.
"it's done, now if you use these clothes you won't be as cold" Marisa came out of Reimu's room, with a shrine maiden outfit, it had weird orange symbols in each independent piece of clothing, it was the same for Marisa's clothes too.
"did you just said 'not as cold'?" The shrine maiden was not amussed.
To this Marisa scoffed "you see Reimu, i don't like magic that isn't flashy so there's that and if you haven't noticed, it's really. fucking. cold".
"whatever i'm going to change, Yukari please explain the sittuation to marisa WITHOUT making her feel stupid" and the shrine maiden took her enchanted clothes back to her room.
After Reimu left the room was silent...
"are you gonna do what she asked...?" marisa asked.
"... you are going to solve one incident and Reimu will solve the other one, there done" the voice of the youkai sage came in a mix of lazyness and anger.
"kay" Marisa didn't feel like pushing her luck today.
5 minutes later.
Reimu came back and noticed that both Marisa and Yukari were unusually silent.
"i'm gonna guess that marisa knows what we are gonna do know" Reimu is really done with the cold today.
"kinda" Marisa didn't say that Yukari really didn't explain jack-shit, but this isn't time to be complaining.
"So who is gonna solve what?" Marisa was eager to get rid of this dumb winter.
"well i wan't to meet the one that was about to make me an ice statue, that means i'm going to the forest of magic" as it can be seen Reimu like's to keep grudges.
"and i'm going towards?" Marisa gave yukari a subtle (not really) stare.
Yukari also saw this as a chance to vent some frustration, bad for her that so did reimu and the shrine maiden is in no mood to deal with this shit "just fucking tell her already" Reimu isn't taking any kind of dumb shenannigans.
Yukari didn't know if she should pout or just explode in anger "you are no fun Reimu, you have to go above the clouds you'll see a giant hole you will find the culprit there".
"gotcha!, so... whoeversolvestheirincidentfirstbuystheothersomesake!" marisa said rapidly and flew outside at fast speeds.
Totally forgetting yukari's wall and crashing on it a second time.
"... just let us out Yukari" Reimu didn't want to coment on her friend's stupidity.
The youkai just snaped her fingers tiredly, then Reimu and marisa found themselves outside of the edges of the shrine, marisa was also upside down in the VERY cold snow, showing her bloomers to the fucking world.
Reimu easily pulled her out "if this is your A game i pretty much have free sake for today".
The witch was busy shaking off the snof of her body and clothes "yeah whatever you said, you won't be that cocky when i'm done with whoever is to blame for this" said Marisa while pointing around her.
"and i'm the cocky one..." Reimu said while shaking her head.
"i'm going now, you know because fuck the cold, good luck Reimu" Marisa was already getting on her broom again ready to take flight.
"you too, don't go doing something stupid" And with that, the only people that usualy do anything about incidents because everyone else either don't give a fuck or are to lazy for it because Reimu always solves it and some of them have probably gotten confident in that result.
With Marisa, towards the clouds.
The blonde magician is going towardss the sky, since she was told that one of the culprits was there not that she trust that gap-youkai but it's not like she has a lot of clues on where to go.
"it's getting warmer..." this Confussed marisa, it was still cold...just not as much it was more like normal winter cold.
Then she caught something at her left, it was red and was coming very fast...
"MARISAAAAAA!" and that the magicians cue to dodge, quickly.
Marisa moved downwards making the living red projectile to go just above her hat, talk about aclose call.
"was that flandre?" Marisa asked herself looking at her right after stoping to get a better look at flandre who was flying back towards her, obviously slower.
The childish vampire is wearing a longer version of her dress that seemed more puffy, it also seemed to be themed like a thing from the outside world, 'christmass' was it called?, it seemed odly fitting on Flandre and Marisa didn't really know why.
"flandre, what are you doing here?" a simple question requering a simple answer.
The vampire shifted nerveously for a moment... "i escaped my home".
At this moment the witch asked herself if things could ever be easy "why?".
"well... we were missing some food and it was slowly going down trough the winter... the my sister wanted to see something else than the snow and told sakuya to solve the incident, obviously patchouli did something so that she wouldn't die out here" explained Flandre.
"that still doesn't answer my question" stated marisa.
Flandre shrugged her shoulders "the reason my sister told sakuya to solve this is just a little dumb..." more like really fucking stupid, but Marisa wasn't going to said that out loud.
"so you are here just because you think remilia's solution si really petty?" asked marisa.
"kinda?, more like i wanted to go outside and stretch my legs a little..." Flandre's voice sounded diferent for a moment, like she remmebered something bad.
Marisa noted that as flandre probably lying not that she was gonna push her on it... atleast not now "well i know that one of the incidents started above the clouds..."
"one of them?" Marisa heard a voice behind her and turned around, the elegant maid was here and she is meaning bussines, Sakuya is wearing her normal maid uniform except this one had a long skirt instead of a shor one and a red scarf.
"sakuya?" Flandre asked, wondering why the maid came here.
"young mistress, i will ask for you to go back to the mansion" sakuya alsway polite voice reached marisa's ears, and she noticed the edge in it that means that a fight was gonna happen in any other situation marisa would be fine with this, but two incidents is not exactly a laughing matter much less when it was about to kill reimu.
So while what appeared like a child trying to move a wall with words was happening, she tried to leave then a knife sailed at the left side of her head making the witch to stare at the maid.
"where do you think you are going?" Sakuya's voice was still polite but it also carried an even more noticable edge.
"solve one of the incidents" she really didn't have time for this...
Sakuya noticed this and prepared more knifes... this was gonna end in a fight one way or another, but leaving the incident more time is a bad idea, the magician glanced at Flandre for just a second and knew she will regret this desicion.
"Flandre this incedent is worse than it seems and sakuya won't let me leave, so i wan't you to go above the clouds and look for a hole in the sky" Marisa told Flandre while getting her hakero ready.
"wha-?, okay then" Flandre didn't get it for a moment but marisa sounded extrangely serious.
"young mistress i'm strongly againts this desicion" the maid said but she was ignored as flandre started to fly upwards.
Marisa raised her hakero in front of her "look things are bad and i don't have to deal with your or remilia's shit" Marisa wasn't having any of their shit.
"...as you wish" Sakuya was VERY close to looking angry, but she was on a mission of her mistress nothing else mattered.
With Reimu, above the forest of magic.
It is the job of the Hkurei to solve incidents, that doesn't mean it isn't fucking annoying.
Even with Marisa's warm clothing spell, or whatever the hell it's calle Reimu could still feel the cold.
And everyone else is probably feeling it too since not one person has come to fight her, it's both refreshing and a little boring not that Reimu enjoys fighting but it keeps her head in the mission.
All of this was going smoothly, too much in fact.
Then a white haired woman fell right past reimu, the Shrine maiden wasn't able to get a lot about the womans looks, but she was obviously unconscious.
Looking up se saw a black siluete that quickly left, now Reimu has two options here let the woman probably die in the snow because of the cold or pursue the black siluette.
The current Hakurei maybe lazy and somewhat greeddy, but not a bad person so with a sigh she started landing right were the unconscious woman fell.
And when she landed... she noticed instantly that the woman buried in the snow is a youkai, great because she really wanted to lose her time right now.
Well she is already here, so she doesn't lose anything by trying to wake up that white-haired woman, with more chest than Reimu wich tents to happen almost every time the Hakurei meets someone else, still waiting for that growt spurt...
So Reimu being Reimu started using her gohei, to poke the downed woman "hey, wake up" she tried three more times but she didn't wake up, time to get a little rough.
Pulling out an offuda Reimu reared her right arm back...
And slamed it on the womans forehead, the offuda glowed and the womans eyes snaped open then released a scream and quickly removed the piece of holy paper from her head.
"good, now you're awake" Reimu bluntly replied.
"that's no way to wake someone up!" The youkai was obviously angry.
Reimu like always didn't think much of it "whatever you say, look..."
"letty whiterock, yukionna" the still grumpy letty spoke up.
The shrine maiden nodded " Letty i came to solve the long and stupidly cold winter, so do you have any idea to were i should look?".
Letty gave her a glare probably because she is still angry at Reimu "In fact i do, i was going towards the source of the cold then a youkai of darkness attacked me, i thought i could win at first... but she was stronger than she looked".
And the whole situation got even more confussed, rumia attacking someone without the intention of feding herself is weird and by what letty said it seems like she is protecting the culprit.
But why?, why would shedo that?.
"letty, could you take me towards the source of the cold?" Reimu asked as politely as she could.
The yukionna stared at Reimu for a couple seconds "very well, as long as i can talk to whoever is doing this i'll do it".
Reimu didn't know why would letty want to talk with the culprit, but as long as Reimu gets what she needs there is not a lot to be worried about.
"sure" is the only thing reimu said before she signaled letty whith her head to start moving, the yukionna just rolled her eyes and started flying towards... misty lake.
The shrine maiden sighed, this was startingto point towards a certain fairy just perfect.
With thoughts of annoyance Reimu followed letty ready to beat some sense into that dumbass fairy.
With flandre, above the clouds.
When marisa said that there was a hole in the sky, Flandre didn't take it literaly turns out that was a bad idea seeing as a gaint black hole is sucking up some kind of pink energy.
"how do you do something like that without no one noticing?" Flandre asked herself, because a hole of that size should have alerted someone.
Looks like someone is being a little lazy on their dutties.
Not that Flandre would complain, after all it's a nice chance to prove herself and her sister wrong she can control her power and she can use it for more than just exploding shit.
It might be a little dumb... but the vampire couldn't forget her own thoughts of that day.
The closer she got to the hole in the sky she was starting to notice people that were playing some musical instruments.
Three girls one dressed in black blonde hair and is playingthe violin, another in white-ish clothes and white hair playing a trumpet and the last one probably the youngest considering the very slight height diference of the three is wearing red with... silver?, pink? something in between hair and is playing a keyboard.
Flandre took notice that even as diferent as the three looked, they also seemed to fit together unnaturaly so, like sisters but they diferences put them apart, Flandre decided to not think about overcomplicated youkai existence.
And knowing how incidents work (Flandre technically being part of one herself) those three are probably the gatekeepers, those seem to be necesary for some reason, not that she minds them since she got big sis from that.
Once she was near them they... completely ignored her, seemed to be into their music, not what Flandre expected and a little anti-climatic but it works.
She was about to just keep flying until the blonde and probably oldest of the trio called out to her "oh!, are you here for the party?".
... if this whole thing is happening because of a party of all things, Flandre will shove laev- lieavan... seriously damn that name, up someone private areas.
"yes" Flandre decided to go with a simple answer to get a simple response and be able to leave quickly.
Too bad that this is gensokyo and that shit doesn't work around here.
"wonderful, we were employed to play our music in the party it is a little weird that we weren't told who would come... not that it bothers me" that came from the white haired-one, and Flandre forgot to introduce themselves.
"that's a little odd, you..." trying to make it as obvious as possible that she wanted to know the name of the three girls.
The only one who got the message was the blonde one since the white one just tilted her head like a confussed puppy and the silver-ish haired one was still playing the keyboard happily.
"i'm Lunasa Prismriver" the blonde girl pointed at herself then flew right bessides the one playing the keyboard and dope slaped her stoping her from plaing the piano to pout while rubbing the back of her head "this one is Lyrica Prismriver" Then pointed at the one who was staring at you "and she is Merlin Prismriver"
So Flandre knows who is the one with the major autorithy between the three apparent sisters, not that she was surprissed by it "well it was pleasant to meet you three, but i have to deal with someo-thing".
Flandre almost slipped and Lunasa took notice of this "where you about to say something else?" the question seemed innocent and normal but Lunasa was looking for something and Flandre probably knew what.
"oh well you got me, the one who is doing the party? she owes me a favor and i wanted to keep it to myself" Flandre knew that saying that she knew the culprit was a little dumb and that this will probably end up in a fight, but she wanted to give it a try.
"so you know her?" Lyrica asked her voice sounding a little confussed.
"yeah" Flandre said quickly.
The three sisters tenseed for a moment then prepared to play their instruments "well... that's interesting, you see she told us that someone that she knows would come to visit" the voice of Merlin was a little to sweet for Flandre's liking.
"well i'm here so..." The vampire said and tried to fly towards the hole, just for a red danmaku bullet to fly past her.
"and our employer said that she was a blonde woman wearing a purple dress" that was Lunasa who probably catched up on the fact that Flandre was here to attack the culprit and party planer.
Flandre turned around and prepared for a fight... of three versus one, considering that the rules of danmaku permited Flandre to multiply herself making fight four against one the vampire didn't have room for complain.
With Reimu, close to misty lake.
It is dark.
Like stupidly dark.
And letty was losing her shit, not that noticable but how her eyes shrinked when the darkness came, Reimu knew for a fact that this was rumia's doing a lot stronger than the first time reimu dealt with the youkai of the dusk wich brought a question, did rumia sandbag the fist time they fought? it would explain why the little blonde man-eater seemed to just have small bruises.
The next thing the shrine maiden did was smack letty with her gohei to calm the youkai down.
"why?!" letty took that as well as getting woken up with a holy amulet in the head.
"because you were pissing yourself" Reimu made a remark that left letty doing like a fish with her mouth.
Reimu took a look around and yes can't see shit "okay rumia come out i'm done with this dumb game of yours!".
The darkness didn't disapear but Rumia did show herself right in front of them, reimu instantly noticed that something was wrong since Rumia looked... weirdly calm, no bloodlust, no childish looks no trying to hold her hands at her side.
"you can leave yukionna, i don't need my bait anymore" those were the simple words of the youkai of dusk, that got Reimu to understand the Rumia wanted to meet her.
While letty was occupied looking offended Reimu spoke "i already told you i have no time fo-" The shrine maiden instantly jumped to the left and kept herself slightly above the ground with her flight, she avoided the beam but letty didn't throwing her to who knows where.
"Shrine maiden you can't face all your troubles like they are some hassle that doesn't concern you" Rumia's voice was like that of a dissapointed mother.
That irked Reimu a little "and you are going to said that i shouldn't?, yokai always do petty stuff this incident is no different".
Rumia just shook her head "are you really that blind to what happens around the land you deffend? you are a great fighter, a great shrine maiden, talent and power... but you lack character" The words of the youkai of the dusk were just confussing and annoying her.
"what does that even mean? i'm doing my job and that's all there is to it" Reimu was getting ready for a fight not a fucking scolding.
Rumia didn't care about her excuses "doing your job and doing your job right is a very different thing, balance is what you should bring but you don't even understand it"
That actually got Reimu angry "it's my job to enforce balance not to understand it"
But the youkai of dusk wasn't done with Reimu "you don't force balance much less if you aren't balanced yourself child" after those words Rumia's eyes seemed to darken, the fight is abou to begin.
Well the first part is done now i just need to do more so fuck me, i also won't write the actual fights between the touhou's because that would make everything take like three times longer, so i won't pretty sure i can make the story progress with just showing the aftermath of some battless... except the really important ones.
Well hope you enjoyed and i'll see you all later.