Well... this took way too long.
I really don't have an excuse, except that i was writting my other less-known danganronpa fic but that was a while ago.
Sorry for the delay, and after this chaptet death battle will come back... i just don't know how many people i'm gonna make watch, i'm thinkig most of the one's that appeared in this incident but i'm still not sure.
And now enjoy... or not, everyone has different opinions.
When Marisa decided to just fight Sakuya she really didn't expect to win.
Much less for Meiling to come from the sky and kick Sakuya on the face half-way through said fight wich let marisa to wonder what the hell just happened.
The martial artist flied back-up while holding a unconscious maid like a sack of potatos, that image is something that the magician would ever thought of seeing.
Marisa didn't know what to say so she just stared at Meiling hoping for any kind of answer.
"Hi marisa, haven't seen you in a while" The gatekeeper spoke as if she hadn't just kicked her higher-up in the fucking head.
Marisa thought of saying that they meet just like a week ago but decided against it "Yeah... why did you attack the maid?" Marisa still wants answers.
"you see, Flandre wants to solve the incident and she was pretty serious aboout it too i had that look too once when i first started learning to fight" Meiling started talking but right at the end Sakuya grunted just for Meiling to punch her in the abdomen Knocking her out again.
And remembering Marisa how much of a beast the woman in front of her is in melee combat "that is nice and everything but this is serious stuff, so i'll go catch up to her now" Marisa was about to do that but Meiling shook her head.
"No Marisa you don't get it, Flandre needs to do this" Meiling said explaining herself but explaining nothing at the same time.
"...why?" Marisa was sure that there is some missing context here.
Meiling spoke "look just trust me on this one, i know what i'm doing" Marisa highly doubted that, this situation seemed as if the gatekeeper wanted to solve the issue whit the highest grade of explosive power, the witch knew that she herself wasn't one to use subtlety but throwing falndre at a problem seemed a little... exsecive.
Even if Marisa was the one to tell flandre to go for it, that was just to flandre to open a way in for Marisa, not that she will tell them that.
"yeah... or you could refuse and end up like Sakuya" Giving Marisa an ultimatum was the right answer as the Magician palled then nodded.
After that exchange of words they flew after Flandre to watch how the vampire was holding out on her mission.
With Reimu, righ next to the misty lake.
Reimu won her match, and yes Rumia was sandbaging in her first fight withreimu back in the embodiment of the scarlet devil incident.
The shrine maiden is pretty sure that Rumia is as strong as flandre considering how close She came to losing againts the darkness youkai was worriesome.
And Reimu really wantedto know waht the hell did Rumia meant about her own attitude.
"kay' rumia, i won what the hell did you say about me?" was the question Reimu wondered through the whole fight.
The slightly battered Youkai got up from the snow, considering her expression one could tell that Rumai was still sandbaging "you really think that all of your problems will just be solved by doing what the rules of the hakurei tell you?".
Before Reimu could answer The youkai of darkness continued "no, not everyone will have a petty reason to start an incident, and while you may be strong enough to beat them that won't make them stop, so you'll have to seal them away, but will the one's around you aprove of that? would you be okay with that?".
There was no use to think about it "of course it's my job to do it, it's what i have to do" Reimu didn't say those words with any kind of pride but it was obvious that she believed in them.
Rumia just nodded then spoke "then if i tell you cirno tried to kill everyone consciously, would you still think the same?".
The bomb was droped and reimu couldn't stop the gasp from escaping her mouth, seriously cirno?, that doesn't make any sense... the ice fairy isn't even violent, hot-headed (kinda ironic) but not violent.
It didn't fit, so Reimu didn't believe it so she decided to call out said lie "and here i thought that this was a serious momment, well i don't have time to lose so i'll take my leave" with those words Reimu started floating towards misty lake ready to end the incident.
Rumia wasn't bothere by this she just sighed and watched reimu go then muttered to herself something.
Reimu heard some of it 'poor thing is in for a surprisse' the shrine maiden ignored the youkai and her own insticts who where agreeing with said youkai.
That didn't matter it is her job to do it.
It is what she's been doing all her life it just couldn't be wrong.
With flandre, close to the hole in the sky.
Flandre learned a lesson today, fighting more than one person at a time is annoying and unfair.
That is why marisa seemed so angry when the little blond vampire used 'four of a kind', and now said blond bundle of violence knows that pain too.
After Flandre won the danmaku fight against the musical trio who somehow landed on clouds upon defeat, seriously how does that work?.
"okay, flandre you beat them no need to use leav- laven- your giant flaming sword of them, supress the memory just supress it" Flandre felt like beating them up a little bit more, but that would just be mean... even if they ganged up on her.
The vampire looked up at the hole that was sucking up pink energy, that probably powers up spring and if that's the case Flandre really wonders, why pink?.
"just go along with it, go up beat up the culprit and you'll feel better about yourself" after taling to herself some more the blond blood sucker flew towards the hole.
After going through it, she saw an unnecesary amount of cherry blossoms and reallylong stairs that lead to a temlple that glows with you guessed it pink energy.
There were also thos white-fish-looking things, that are probably ghosts.
After taking a look around flandre flew up the stairs, hell why create such long stairs of almost everyone around in gensokyo can fly?, to waste of time is the only thing that made sense.
Half-way through she saw the GIANT cherry blossom that seemed to be sucking up the 'pink spring', Flandre's mind told her two things one was 'what the hell is with all these cherry blosoms?' and 'why does that three make's me feel like i'm dying?' the answers avoided her.
Then came the woman... girl... something in between, that was standing at the end of the stairs was sakuya's missing sister, the robot at the ready face, a sharp weapons, white hair and a green dress that seemed fitting for a maid and a gardeneer.
That though made the vampire angry for some reason, like someone stole from her... what a weird feeling.
Suddenly the woman... gi- let's go with lady unsheated her katana... and the other sword that looked like a katana but was smaller, it most likely has a weird name like 'tonta' because it just can be called 'short katana' everything just needs a complicated name.
Then she pointed the longer of two evils at the vampire "you're not welcomed here yokai, leave for your own good".
Flandre didn't even know if vampires counted as youkai, they needed blood not belief... not that the lady would care about that information.
"you're right, stay here and i'll leave towards the temple" The white-haired samurai narrowed her eyes and got into and stance ready for battle.
Flandre was about to land on the stairs not before someone walked right towards the white haired lady, long-red hair a cap with a golden star and a green... combat dress?, flandre really didn't know what to call what meiling wears, but it fits her.
"now, now no reason to be hostile here miss we can all try to be more friendly lower your swords and walk away" The confidence coming from the gatekeeper was something that was shown when she was sure of her ability to win a fight.
The white haired lady just shook her head "i refuse, you won't pass through here, even if i have to fight you both, you won't go through me".
Flandre felt like this lady was a little too much like sakuya... and some meiling too, probably why she is angry while looking at her that combination just didn't click in her head.
"well, it's good you are just fighting me" After those words Flandre expected them to fly up and start shooting everything without though like in most danmaku... not charge at each other in the stairs in an amazing display of skill in hand-to-hand combat.
Flandre though about helping meiling, but remembered that she has to go for the culprit... and where the hell is marisa?.
Her question was answered when said witch flew past her, well okay then Meiling could beat that samurai lady.
And the blonde catastrophe flew after the other blond catastrophe.
With Reimu, misty lake.
When reimu came to misty lake she didn't expect to see the whole place freezed solid, much less a big chunk of ice with a fairy wearing a lot of white with cirno sitting right besides it.
Not in a throne or something dramatic like that, it was just a simple chair made out of ice, the ice fairy looked a little taller her ice wings were longer and her look seemed... dead but she had a small smile on her face.
That just made the whole thing even more anormal... that didn't look anything like cirno, but there were no signs of a possesion so this should be the blue little annoyance.
And it felt wrong.
Reimu was sure that this was cirno... but she couldn't completely believe it, the change was just too radical.
Cirno tilted her head towards the shrine maiden and just stared at her, if Reimu will come to recall this as one of the few times she was actually scared (but she'll never say it out loud).
After a minute of nothing the shrine maiden started slowly floating towards the ice fairy who simply got of her chair and slowly skated closer to Reimu.
Neither said anything until both stoped being at least 5 meters apart from each other, Reimu was still trying to wrap her head around cirno's drastic change.
But the ice fairy wasn't gonna wait for that "you finally came... Reimu".
It sudenly got colder But the shrine maiden did her best to ignore it "color me surprissed when i found out it was you who did this... it certainly took me for a loop".
Cirno just smiled childishly but the cold look on her eyes never left making the facial gesture a lot more... scary, anyone could literally feel the menacing air around the little blue devil "it's nice to see you so surprissed... you usually are so nonchalant even at the worst of times".
"it's hard to surprisse me when my job basically is dealing with the unexpected" Replied the shrine maiden.
The ice fairy started to lightly kick the ground like an embarrazed child "you flatter me Reimu... too bad you're horrible at doing your job".
The scowl on Reimu's face is what one would call 'murderous' "how would an idiot like you know about even having a job" She has recieved enough lectures for a life-time she doesn't need another one and not from her.
Cirno didn't care about Reimu's emotional outburst "i may not be smart... but i can see that you don't keep the 'balance' of gensokyo... more like you barelly keep the place together".
Reimu huffed in annoyance "that's what my job is".
Cirno stared at Reimu as if a She was given the answer for a simple math problem like 2+2 = 22, "you are meant to keep things from going out of control... you never do it... you just wait for the problem to come to you... you also have to be impartial... but you are doing this for yourself... to not be 'bothered' by others people's issues... you didn't fix Reimilia's need for blood someone else arranged that... the youkai of the mountain do whatever the hell they want to anyone who get's close... you are fine with that to avoid trouble... and fairie's suffer from this too... we are just stress relief..."
"but the balance is kept because of it" it was a weak excuse, Reimu knew that but she wasn't gonna let Cirno of all people tell her how baddly she has been doing her own duties as the shrine maiden of gensokyo.
The ice fairy almost laughed but she simple decided to continue verbally destroying her "but that's a lie... you just do half of your job... someone else is playing her strings... if whoever is doing this is doing it to either help themselves or to help you doesn't matter... you just beat people up... but now that i think about it that alone wouldn't keep everyone on line... so who do you think is actually doing that 'politycal' stuff you aren't doing?".
Reimu didn't answer but she did know that one person who would do that, Yukari she may love gensokyo and do anything to protect it, that didn't mean that she was a good person the gap youkai is probably asked something out of the people that she herself defeated to either protect gensokyo or to amuse herself.
"by the look on your face i'll say that i'm right... and you are letting them do it too... that doesn't look 'impartial' at all... much less balanced... that means that you are never gonna do you job right... so i'll have to do it... i just need to get rid off you so i can put this place straight" Cirno finished talking and a wave of cold hitted Reimu, Cirno slowly raised herself from the ground the cold and misty air around her making her look like a vengefull spirit.
Reimu grimaced at the sudden temparature drop and Followed Cirno to the sky... Reimu had to many things to think now and she really couldn't prove Cirno wrong... and right now even defeating the ice fairy didn't seem like it would solve anything.
Maybe she shold have listened to rumia...
With Flandre and Marisa, shrine up in the stairs.
The blond team of lasers and doom took a look at the giant-ass cherry blossom that was sucking up all that pink... spring energy, it seemed to bloom slowly but surely,
"so... is the culprit a tree?" Marisa asked outloud, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing she had ever seen... it would make it to top 10 though.
Flandre wanted to ask just how many mushrooms the witch stuffed in her mouth to come to that conclussion but kinda feared the answerso she stayed silent.
Marisa waited for some kind of answer, when none came she decided to just blow up the tree and be done with it... then from above the tree a... heavy armored lady... REALLY heavy chest armour... (bewbs), slowly flew down instantly both blonde's felt wary an offended and neither knew why (bewbs).
She is wearing a blue kimono that seemed to have white ghosts in it a cap with the same theme and some kind of red symbol of it covering her slightly-bellow the neck pink hair, a fan with a pattern of pink butterflies in it, long white stockings and black woden sandals... also her kimono highlights her chest and tights a little too much.
Flandre was pretty sure that both this woman and meiling had a similar body shape, even if in her opinion Meiling has more leg.
Marisa had a feeling of deja-vu... ominous ghost lady, voluptuous, smile of inocent mischief... yeah this brings back memories.
"welcome to hakugyokurou the place where the death end up... or at least a third of them, makes me wonder why is a living and a- question are vampires undead or alive?" she started sounding serious just to sound like a bubbly air-head at the end.
"i... have no goddamn idea" Flandre herself never knew the answer and neither did her sister, who usually tried to make a cool excuse like 'we are at the border of life and death' or 'the conquerors of the night don't need of such things'.
The ghost just nodded with a determined look on her face "then i'll clasiffie you as 'alive', i'm Yuyuko Saigyouji the i guess 'queen' of this place to who do i owe the pleasure?".
"Marisa Kirisame, just your everyday magician" The magician tipped her hat like a cowboy while introducing herself.
"Flandre Scarlet, my familly sometimes call me little violence machine" said the vampire while graving the edge' of her christmass looking dress and moving them up slightly like a proper lady.
Yuyuko had a finger under her chin then a metaphorical light bulb seemed to appear since she had a look of revelation "oh!, you must be the team 'colateral damage' that yukari mentioned once..."
Marisa hided her face with her hat while muttering 'fuck that gap-hag', while Flandre just nodded while thinking 'makes sense'.
Marisa adjusted her hat again and gave yuyuko a serious stare "okay so let's go to bussines, give back the pink... spring juice and we will leave peacefully".
yuyuko's expression changed at that of a stone, unreadable both Marisa and Flandre got ready for a fight then...
"i already did that" said Yuyuko with a small amussed smile.
Marisa looked about ready to kill someone, while Flandre seemed both dissapointed and a little sad.
"what. the. fuck?" came the very angered voice of Marisa who was already making a wild guess of what was going on.
Yuyuko wanted to laugh but decided againts it "Yukari told me how bad things got with two incidents at the same time and convinced me to stop, it took me a while to let spring go back towards the world of the living".
"then why the hell are we here?" asked marisa again.
"probably so that she could amuse herself with something, Yukari dislikes stress so she probably saw a chance to get on your nerve's and took it" Yuyuko was taking just a little bit of enjoyment of marisa's rising anger, then she saw how conflicted the vampire looked and realised that Yukari might have done more than she though she would.
Putting up her first kind smile of the day the ghost decided to invite The blond duo to her home "would youlike some food?, there should be some in the temple if we aren't gonna fight then you should atleast make this adventure worth something".
Marisa though about it for a moment then deiced that she had dealt with enough bullshit for today, so she decided to call it a day "i would but today has been a... fucking treat, so i really just want to sleep it of, thanks for the offer anyway" and with that marisa flew back towards the living world.
Flandre decided to leave too and was about to do so.
"why did you came?, you seemed dissapointed of the outcome" Yuyuko called out to the vampire who stared at the ghost with guardedly like she didn't feel safe with her.
Yuyuko noticed this and quickly said "sorry, you just gave that kind of vibe".
Flandre thought this about it for a moment, she probably won't be able to get her answer by solving an incident and forget about how she feels about herself.
Doesn't mean that she couldn't try to talk with someone with... and outside perspective "yeah i kinda feel like that... do you mind if we have this conversation inside?, in private please"
Yuyuko nodded with a smile "of course" and they both descended towards the temple, In the entrance sitting at each side of the slinding door were both the lady gardener and Meiling, Meiling had a lot of small cuts in her clothes few of them were actually bleeding except for the bigest one on her stomach, but meiling being a yokai wasn't that bothered by it.
At the opposide was tha white haired lady, various bruises in her body and some parts of her clothes torn, she also has her left had limping at the side, probably broken.
In the end while both of them where sitting calmly ignoring the states of their bodies waiting there.
Flandre was just blinking at Meiling just sitting there she flew towards what is he big sister "big sis are alright?" Flandre knew she was fine but she still felt like asking.
"oh Flandre, you done with your talk?" Flandre was surprissed by this, how did Meiling know they weren't fighting?.
"Youmu Konpaku!, seems like you slacked of on you training" came the exagerated words of yuyuko.
Flandre had to admit seeing someone similar to Sakuya blushing was somewhat cathartic "I apologize Yuyuko-sama... i was taken by surprisse".
"was my fist in your face that hard to miss?" Meiling said out loud with a exagerated worried voice, obviously making fun of Youmu.
Youmu's left eyebrow was twitching "i was to distracted with my sword making sushi out of your stomach" came the strained voice of the swordswoman.
"my, my is this what they call a 'rivalry'?" Yuyuko is very amused of this situation.
Meiling bowed slightly her head "sorry if this is offensive but 'rivalry' usually means that two people could be equals, and that brat is just to green for that".
Youmu is pretty much ready to try and see how many times could you chop a body.
"but that's not her fault her traineer is just a goddamn deadbeat" While the ghost said that with a smile, you didn't need to be a genious to see she was a little angry.
Youmu feeling like she should protect the honor of her master... no matter how right her boss might be "he isn't that bad..."
Yuyuko had a small frown on her face at that "what else would you call it, didn't finish to cut the gardens, didn't finish your training not even a good bye card".
The swordswoman decided to stay silent, she just couldn't defend the honor of her master... not that there was a lot of it.
"well that's just sad..." muttered Meiling so that she would be heard.
"now that we are done, Youmu be a dear and go to your room sleep the injuries off" Youmu wanted to say that's not how it works, but knew that she would be answered with something like 'you're half ghost it should work'.
So bowing slightly she got up from the ground and left inside the temple trying her best to not limp on the way there.
Flandre gave a look at Meiling and the gatekeeper understood that she wanted privaci right now, she got off the ground "come back before dinner, i would never hear the end of it from Remilia and Sakuya... speaking of the maid" She remembered she left Sakuya on a cherry blossom once she entered here... it's gonna be quite the experience explaining this to everyone back in the mansion.
And with that Meiling left too.
"i have some tea inside, would you like some?"asked Yuyuko.
Flandre thought about it, since their talk would be kinda long she will probably need something to drink "yes please".
After that both entered the temple hakugyokurou, and their talk? that's a history for another time.
With Reimu, The misty lake.
Reimu expected a fight not a bloody manhunt, it wasn't a danmaku battle cirno wanted to kill her, not out of hate just because the fairy believed it was the right thing to do.
The shrine maiden didn't care she would use her ability to 'float' from harm, and everything would be done quickly.
Just for Cirno to stop attacking and just making everything colder and colder, at first Reimu thought of this as the fairy losing it until she felt the cold, she was 'reached' even thought she was 'floating' away.
And then Reimu in a panic went on the offensive, but cirno just focused on dodgng while just making everything so cold that plants seemed to be made out of ice.
Reimu managed to pull it off, even if she was close to dying from hypothermia and on her knees looking at the defeated fairy right besided her.
She needed to ask "h-h-how...?" The cold was making it hard to talk.
The fairy stared at her sadly, like she knew she was done forever "... everyone said that you were invincible once you used that... you 'floated' away from everything... made me ask a simple question 'how is she breathing?'... there it was my answer you are human so you need to breath... so you would unconsciously 'float' away from everything except the wind... even an idiot like me could see that weakness".
That caught Reimu off-guard, her extremelly strong ability had such a mundane weakness... so this is how a reality check feels like.
... now she just has to seal away the fairy.
That... didn't feel right.
All this day everything she thought she was doing was right just got flipped and Reimu never had a chance to prove them wrong, Rumia was right, Cirno was right.
Is sealling Cirno the best option?, on paper? yes, but would her friends approve of this? some would... but the majority would see it as too extreme...
What the hell was she supoussed to do?.
"you seem troubled little Reimu".
...fuck.
The woman right behind the shrine maiden, Is waearing a unbuttoned sleevles red jacket with a cuadricular pattern that didn' seem to fit her it reached just bellow her chest, a white buttoned shirt that againts reason didn't tear itself open... you know because (bweebs), a Long red skirt with the same pattern as the jacket that reached a little above her feet, a pink folded umbrella in her right hand, She is green haired and red eyed.
This is Yuuka Kazami the fisical embodiment of mother nature being done with everyone's shit.
"don't worry i'm not here to harm anyone..." The flower master said while walking right to Cirno, choping with her left hand Cirno's head kncking her out and carrying her on her left shoulder.
"w-what th-the!?" exclaimed Reimu, surprissed by this action.
Yuuka stared at Reimu with a small smile "you're probably wondering why i'm doing this... let's just say that this little girl is 'loved' by winter just like i'm 'loved' by spring" With that the force of nature flew away with Cirno in her clutches.
Reimu was utterly dumbfounded, Cirno being like Yuuka!?, that is just a bomb waiting to go off.
She really wanted to stop Yuuka, but the only reason she isn't dead is thanks to Marisa enchanted her miko outfit.
Reimu started slowly getting in her feet, then glanced at the white fairy encased in ice... maybe she should get her out.
She started trying to slowly destroy the ice with well aimed danmaku, she may have stoped the incident but this just brought a lot of problems, mainly explaining this to everyone else... specialy Rumia and Daiyousei.
This just wasn't her day.
And with that it's done, i'll try to make the next chapter come faster.
So the next chapter is a reaction let me see wich one's next is... Zitz vs Leonardo, well Youmu is a sure one for the next reactions.
I'm also wondering if i should make more characters constant to reactions apart from Reimu and Marisa... i'll think about that later.
See you all next time!.