Touhou belongs to Team Shanghai Alice. So do concepts, characters and everything else you have experienced while playing the game, except the dishes. Here's another man who wants to use his ideas for a story.

Flandre Scarlet opened her crimson eyes and took in the perfect imperishable night sky, complete with a full moon right above her in the middle. She was laying on her back cuddling her new favorite bat plush toy, which had been given to her exactly a year ago, bought from a local matsuri event by her elder sister Remilia. The cuddly soft toy was just about half as big as Flandre herself, designed as a vampire bat with a one-toothed grin and a heart-shaped embroidery on the left side of the body.

Flandre then felt a chilly wind blew at her from her left; she simply drew up her wind-breaking cloth higher up to her chin as she continued to savor the night sky, her plush toy securely cuddled beside her under the cloth. Still feeling tired from before, she allowed her eyes to close, embracing the soft-again air as…

RRRRRIIIIINNNNGGGG!

Damn, the alarm clock! It's a school holiday today, forgot to switch it off. An arm reached out to turn it off, but missed. Another attempt, another miss. Frustrated, Flandre gave a sweeping motion with her arm… and still missed. Her mind then began forming an image of the accursed alarm clock, looking for the eye of the object. Once the eye is found, all I need is to move it into the center of my hands and kyuuuuu~!

Over the years on Earth, Flandre had noticed that her destructive powers had diminished completely, almost to the point where she felt as if she no longer was a vampire. Her thirst for blood had mysteriously vanished, her crimson orbs looking only as normal as a human's pair with red contact lenses, the Laevateinn seemed to have never existed.

On the bright side, however, as noticed by the people living in the mansion, her supposed insanity and lack of control of her powers had also vanished when she left Gensokyo, along with their negative opinions of the younger Scarlet. Yukari herself could not give an explanation when asked by the older Scarlet sister, only that the radiation was probably the culprit. "Modern Earth science tells of mutations from radiation," Yukari had said. "It's like magic."

So when the alarm clock didn't explode into the pieces she was hoping for, Flandre sighed and kicked away her bed covers to shut the alarm clock off, finally remembering that she was no longer in Gensokyo. However, before she could even get off the bed, the full moon above her suddenly flared brightly, causing her to yelp in surprise and sent her hands covering her eyes. While bright lights and the sun didn't seem to affect her anymore, she still hated the light.

"It's only six in the morning, Flan," a woman wearing a nightcap had her hands on the alarm clock, effectively shutting it off. "You are waking the entire house up."

Flandre lowered her hands; the picturesque perfect night sky was gone; an overhead round fluorescent light in place of the full moon shone above, revealing two beds, one of them belonging to her. "Morning, Yukari."

"Go back to sleep, it's still early."

"I made a wish last night. I hope it comes true. I want to be awake when Big Sis comes home!"

"We won't know, Flan. There's a possibility she might have to continue working."

"I missed Big Sis!"

"I know you do," Yukari gently pushed the younger Scarlet to her bed. "But Remilia won't like it if she finds out that you aren't having enough sleep. I always get blamed for 'mistreating' you, if you hadn't known. Well, get some sleep, I'm going down to make breakfast."

Year I (A.N.: Consider this the year they entered the Outer World)
Reimu!

The Outer World is really beautiful! And do you know that this world has a holiday known as 'Christmas Day'? It's really exciting!

There was this big fat man at school with large white beard, wearing some red and white large coat, same colors as your clothes! My friends at school say he will give children presents every Christmas, and I got mine too! His name was 'Sand Tar Claws' or something, although he didn't seem to have claws or tar.

Guess what I got?

…

…

…

Not telling you! When will you be coming to join us in the Outer World? Yukari said you had some business, along with Sakuya, Meiling and Patchy (I don't miss Koakuma, you know), in Gensokyo, but it's almost half a year since I saw you! Come join us soon! Just in case you can't make it… Merry Christmas! Yukari said it's customary that we greet people this way during Christmas, although I don't know what's merry about Christmas, other than getting presents from Sand Tar!

Year II
Merry Christmas Reimu!

Yukari reminded me about Christmas this year. I didn't really do so well in school, but I do know one thing: It's Christmas again!

This year, Santa Claus (not Sand Tar Claws, as I had learnt recently) didn't visit us in school. Maybe he's going to Gensokyo?

When I told Yukari about this, all she told me was to write a card and paste it on the Christmas tree we have in the hall. I thought I would write my wish along with this letter: I wish for Big Sister to recover from her depression.

Year III (A.N.: Alice's letter was written)
Where are you, Reimu?

What business are you doing with Sakuya and the others? You haven't been writing to us at all!

It's Christmas again, but this time Yukari bought me a present! I still have a wish though: Let Big Sis do well in school!

Year IV (A.N.: Patchy's letter was written)
I don't know why I'm still writing this to you, Reimu, have you already forgotten about us?

Merry Christmas to you in Gensokyo. Send my regards to Sakuya and the other two, okay?

I don't know what you guys are doing in Gensokyo, but I hope it's fun!

Year V
Merry Christmas!

Yukari lied to me all these while, you guys did write back to us! She showed me everyone's letters, telling us not to worry about you and the others. She says that you are also like Santa Claus, except that your name was Reimu Hakurei. However, you had the power to grant me my wishes! Thank you for those presents years ago, I didn't believe they had really come from you!

How did you know I wanted that dress from the shopping mall last year? Are you also in Gensokyo already? Where? Come to our mansion already! It's not as big as mine in Misty Lake, but it's really cozy! We all missed you, you know? Big Sis said all of you are busy with work, but she didn't tell me what you were doing! Big Sis is being naughty!

Since you can grant me those wishes years ago, can I ask for one more this year? I've been a good girl, you know? Big Sis, Yukari and my teachers said so! I wish for Big Sis to stop asking me a question whenever I ask her one, it has gotten really annoying ever since she took up that course in her school!

Year VI

Why? Why won't you come visit us?

Do you hate me for what I was in Gensokyo? I'm sorry if I was a bad girl back then!

Does Sakuya also hate me? Meiling, Patchy, and Marisa? I haven't seen them all these years! I really want to go home! I've seen enough of this world, I miss Gensokyo and my room! I even got bullied a few times in school because I 'won't grow up', like the other girls in my class told me.

What's wrong with me? Why is my chest so 'flat', as the girls said? Even the boys won't talk to me like they do to the others.

I don't know if you will grant me a wish this year, but please grant it to me, it's been a really bad year for me in school. I wish to be better liked in school next year!

Two hours later, after not being able to go back to sleep, Flandre and the rest of the tenants went down to the hall for their breakfast, wished each other seasonal greetings and generally chatted about what they would do for Christmas. As she had done every year for Christmas, Yukari made a special breakfast for all of them, but always setting one filled plate on an empty seat aside. Everybody, except Flandre, knew whose plate that belonged to: The Missing Ones.

It had been a gloomy Christmas during their first year, but as the years went by, they gradually left their broken past behind and moved on.

Flandre was the only one in the mansion that had no idea what happened to everyone else who didn't show up on Earth more than half a decade ago; Remilia had requested for her sister to be kept innocent about Usutho's atrocities until she was older, fearing 'further instability', as she had put it. They had kept their promises and said nothing whenever Flandre asked about them, specifically those who had been working and living in the Scarlet Mansion in Gensokyo.

As they continued with breakfast, Yukari, who was also at the dining table, glanced at the clock; it was already half past eight. If Remilia is to come home now, it will usually be at this time, especially if she works overnight.

Grabbing her mug of juice, the Boundary Princess, now a regular middle-aged woman with powerful contacts all across the globe known as Earth, walked over to the window and stared out. Sure enough, the drive outside her mansion was empty, except for a familiar white car. Turning around, she…

White car? Isn't that the discreet vehicle those guys always use for sending Remilia home? "Flandre!" Yukari shouted across the hall happily, glad she had been able to keep up with her lie about Reimu being able to grant Flandre her wishes. Thank you, Reimu! "I think Remilia's home!"

With a squeal of delight, Flandre fell backwards on her chair and made a mad dash for the main door, where she waited impatiently for Yukari to retrieve the mansion keys, amusing the others to no ends, including Yukari herself. As she strode over to the main door, jiggling the keys to further tease the impatient young Scarlet, she looked out of the window again, stopped dead in her tracks and stared hard; the white car was parked in front of the gate, as it had always done, but behind it were two Special Assault Team (S.A.T.) vehicles.

Two armed S.A.T. members opened the front door for an officer to exit from; Yukari recognized him as Remilia's unit commander. Other S.A.T. members, all armed with their rifles, formed a mini assembly outside her gate, facing the mansion, as if looking directly at Yukari. None of them opened the rear door of the white car, where Remilia usually exited from.

Something is wrong. Usually only her colleagues would send her home, without those S.A.T. vehicles. If her commander and a full escort is here…!

Flandre's impatient voice brought her back from a dark reverie. Her hands visibly shaking, she inserted the key into the slot and turned it, unlocking the heavy dark wooden door. With another happy squeal, Flandre sprinted out with full innocent vigor while Yukari stepped out slowly, not wanting to contemplate with the situation she would be in less than a minute's time, her mind also occupied with the wish card Flandre had lovingly put up on the Christmas Tree the night before.

Year VII (A.N.: Remilia's final entry in the voice recording was made on this year, this letter was hung on the Christmas tree on the night before Christmas)
Merry Christmas Reimu!

I'm currently very excited, because Yukari told me there's a possibility Big Sis will come home from work tomorrow morning to celebrate Christmas Day with us! This year has been good for me; I did well in my tests, Big Sis says I've been a good girl and has promised me a surprise for Christmas!

But two days ago, she got called out for work while 'on leave', I don't know what that means, but I only know she had to go back to work. She hasn't returned since, Yukari says she's probably working 'overtime'. I asked her where Big Sis would be sleeping, Yukari only said they had somewhere for her and told me she didn't know about anything else.

She hasn't called home, strange isn't it?

I asked Yukari if you are still granting me wishes this year, and she said you are, so here's my wish for this year:

I WISH TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS DAY WITH BIG SISTER REMILIA.

A.N.: I've changed my earlier entry's S.W.A.T. over to the correct term for Japan, which is S.A.T., since I have decided to localize that story to somewhere in Japan. This entry is linked to the previous entry too.

As the title reads, I am trying to portray Flandre as the young innocent girl, who has totally no idea about the situation and nobody telling her anything. Typical young kids style, I guess. It's really sad for the children in such cases. About those letters that Flandre mentioned in Year V, they were supposedly written by Yukari herself, and somehow Flandre fell for it. I still haven't decided the reason she was given for leaving Gensokyo, though.

Also, this is the only entry, that has a fixed date; Christmas Day. The world didn't end, but this story took place in 'Year VII", not necessarily 2012. The year would probably be determined in my future entries.

As for the 'other tenants' in the mansion, they were named so because I haven't really decided who I would write about, or if even a certain character would be living with Yukari. They will definitely be Touhou characters, but just so you know, I wouldn't be writing all characters of Touhou, only some selected ones, in no order, even thought I had a PM asking if I would be doing Perfect Cherry Blossom characters after EoSD.

I wish all readers an early Merry Christmas, may your wishes come true. Did/will Flandre's wish come true? Only time will tell.