it was life back on earth for a few days since hatate left. and the tengu society noticed the abscence of her left.
"where is hatate?" said tenma, chief of the tengu, who is a character i didnt even know about.
"wha? hatate went missing, how sad." said momiji, who was also another tengu who lived near hatate and knew her very well.
hatate went missing for a few days now, even unknown to the other tengu, who she lived with presumably. She left because the residences of gensokyo was making mean comments at her irrelevence.
but not momiji did not. she admired hatate unlike the rest of, because momiji was also an irrelevant character, like hatate. she harboured deep angre at aya, who constantly mocked hatate for being a lamer version of herself (which she was), also becasue hatate wanted to prove that she was good to aya and chased after her.
speaking of aya, she zoomed in after being noticably absent.
"hiya, sorry im late? what is up you talking about?" said aya with exhaustion
"where have you been you lazy bones!" said momiji with jelous angr at aya
"wow no need to be so rude. i have been super busy reporting. this fidget spinner thing has been way more work than i expected. but there is never enough work for someone like me!" said aya with a wink, focusing the conversation on herself as usual.
"anyways... as i was saying. Hatate is missing, do you have any ideas of where she is." said tenma, being a reasonable person and focusing the conversation back on the original point.
"hatate is missing. i didnt notice, but she is probably crying in a corner somewhere. she'll be back in a week." aya said thih utmost confidence.
"dang it! she is probably starving out somewhere, and it is all youre fault you stupid idiot! thats it. i will not stop until i find hatate again." said momiji, fyinh of angryily to find hatate, not knowing of her true location currently
"oh well, ill go back to work but perhaps i can write an article about this on the side. that is, if she doesnt come back after all." said aya, also going away.
so tenma was left all alone to be sad and lonely. or perhaps relieved. his true intention will never be revealed in this fanfiction.
aya, however, went to look around for more stuff to write about. as she was moving all around she found reimu. aya knew reimu was good for getting information so she went up and caught reimu off guard.
"what the?! hey, i thought you were going to the moon or whatever." reimu said, not fully paying attention.
"the moon, what the heck are you talking about? have you finally gone crazy?" said aya
"what? oh wait, you didnt say that. it was... uh... dont tell me... oh yeah her name was hatate i think." said reimu with fuzzy memory
"what, hatate is going to the moon? where did you hear this?" said aya, confused
"I met her a few days back. she was all sad and miserable and whatnot. then she started to mutter to her self about the moon and how she was gonna run away 'cause noboy liked her." reimu said
"hmmm... she does tend to talk out loud to herself. quite obliviously too. if your correct, this story may have some explosive potential. That settles it. I'm going to eientei to investigate this hot scoop!" saud aya, flying off
"wait a minute! i need your help for once in my life! ...darn. the one time i actually want her around and she leaves." said reimu, and she went on to continues her investigation new phase (which you will hear about in chapter 8)
anyways, aya moved over to eientei, where she started the trail on her new scoop: "Tengu Lost... on the Moon?!"
immediately she noticed the eientei house in some sort of disrepair. the door had been burned down but nobody really cared at this point and it was patched up... poorly
"well... at least it looks like something happened here, might as well take a closer look." said aya, investigating closer.
"hello, little birdie! come to say hello?" said kaguya, now all better from what happened in previous chapter
"oh yes, you are a moon person, correct? Have you by chance seen a tengu that looks sort of like me, but less cool like?" said aya, asking question with expertize
"hmm, i dont think i have, but i dont really pay attention to those kinds of things, sorry." said kaguya, offering no help as usual
but before aya got a chance to react, a certain figure interjected
"i saw her, her name was hatate, right?." said reisen, who was now in this conversation
"whaaaa? details please!" said aya, caught off guard
"well, i got my fidget spinner stolen, and i was going to go back into the house to be a big tattletale, when this girl decided she would come in with me. she didnt explain her motives to weel,i wasnt sure why she was even here." said reisen, giving big exposition
"oh yeah, so she left or what?" said aya, continuing the conversation
"no she stayed around for a while. master eirin said some important people from the moon were coming over. unfourtunately, things kinda blew up and they went away. but that girl who you were looking for slipped in at the last second, she was really fast though and she knocked me over in the process." said reisen, revealing crucial plot info to aya
"so she DID go to the moon then... interesting. thank you for your contribution!" aya said and she left
then aya began talking to herself
"hatate's on the moon? odd, but fascinating. unfoutunately i cant exactly be there right now... unless something really convenient happened right now..." said aya
she waited around for something convenient to happen, but nothing came.
just then, momiji jumped out of nowhere and confronted aya
"aha! you are doing sketchy business here. there are no fidget spinners in this area, from what i've seen at least. what are you doing here!" said momiji accusingly.
"whoa i think you have the wrong idea here." said aya, defending herself
"i have no idea what youre doing, so i CANT have the wrong idea. checkmate!" said momiji, cornering aya
"hold on! i know where hatate is!" said aya, and momiji immediately noticed and payed attention
"look, i was just talking to these moon-folk here, and they said she scooted to the moon a few day ago. however she went through some tunnel thats rarely open, so dont even think about trying to get there on your own." said aya
"and your going to write some stupid article, declaring your dominance right? how mean!" said momiji angrily and not trusting aya still
"it true i will right an article on this, but look at the bright side. my article will spead awareness, and if hatate notices, by chance, she may come back, realizing that people actually care about her to some degree." said aya, justifying her cause
momiji was skeptical, but didnt have much to say. she left aya to her business, but was highly critical of what was to come.
however, this article may end up being disasterous for the moon and gensokyo... how so? wait, and you will find out.
TO BE CONTINUED...