First time writing anything let alone a fan fiction so criticism is welcomed. Hopefully nothing looks too bad and that I'll get better at writing with each chapter.

Disclaimer: All characters belong to their respective owners.

Rinnosuke Morichika was cleaning up his shop after two of his so called customers decided to fight over one of the items he had in his inventory. He was interrupted by a shirtless young man who stumbled through the door.

"Finally!" The man cried out. "Out of that fucking forest at last!' The man clasped his hands in the air as if thanking the gods.

Rinnosuke cleared his throat. "Can I help you, young man?"

"Yeah. Um... wear am I exactly?"

"This would be my shop. My name is Rinnosuke Morichika. It appears you are from the outside world."

"Yeah. The names Max." Max gave the shop a glance around. "Some of this stuff is from the outside."

"Yes. Some things from your world make their way here into our world."

"Have any clothes from the outside world by any chance?"

"Indeed I do. Please wait here while I go get them."

Max walked around the shop while he waited, picking up items to observe before putting them back in their original place. Suddenly, a girl in a strange black and white dress with a black pointy hat came barging into the shop.

"Hey! Rinnosuke! Have you seen..." The girl spotted Max. She couldn't help but stare at the rather attractive shirtless boy. "Well well well. Is it a shirtless party in here, ze? Why wasn't I invited?" She smirked.

"Uh, no." Max said nervously. "The shop dude is getting me a shirt and, uh..."

"Wow! That's a nice trinket you've got there, ze." She said as she rushed up to Max, her eyes on his medallion. "The names Marisa, by the way."

"Max and don't touch it." Max said as he backed away as she tried to reach for the medallion.

"Oh come on now. I'll let you touch something of mine if you let me touch it." Marisa says as she continues to reach out for the medallion.

"No means no." Max said as he continued to walk backwards, getting more nervous from the girls creepy approach.

"Come on now. Don't be shy, ze."

Marisa then quickly lunged for the medallion. Max tried to jump back, but tripped over something that was left on the floor. He fell backwards as Marisa fell over top of him.

"Gotcha now!" Marisa said in triumph.

"Marisa, please don't molest my customers." Rinnosuke said as he returned from the back room with a couple of shirts and a jacket made in the outside world.

"Hey, Rinnosuke! Check out this thing he's got." Marisa said, her hands being held by Max, keeping her from touching the medallion.

"Yuh dumb blond..." Max thought. "She might find out this ain't just any medallion if she touches it. Or worse..."

Marisa got up off of Max then helped him to his feet. Rinnosuke handed Max a t-shirt, long sleeve shirt and a jacket.

"I thought you could use a jacket as well. Spring won't be here for a few more weeks." Rinnosuke said.

"Thanks." Max said as he puts on the clothe. "What do I owe you?"

"Maybe you can feed my friend here her curiosity and tell her about that medallion you have. We'll call it even."

"Letting me borrow it will do." Marisa said gleefully.

"There's nothing to say about it. It's just that. A medallion." Max said.

"A medallion you can let me borrow?" Marisa said.

"And no I'm not gonna let you borrow it."

"Then how about telling us how you got here. By the look of your pants, you've been through a lot." Rinnosuke said.

"I got through some opening of a weird barrier. Next thing I know, I found myself next to a shrine."

"That would be my good friend's shrine. Reimu." Marisa said happily.

"I take it you got lost in the forest?" Rinnosuke asked.

"Yeah. For almost three frikin days to." Max said angrily as he remembered the trouble he had getting through the forest.

"Well. For a human from the outside world, you must be something special, ze" Marisa said, patting Max on the back.

"Lets just say my days in track n field back in school came to my rescue." Max said.

"I get it!" Marisa said, patting Max on the back some more.

"Well how about you, Marisa? What brings you here to my shop again, as if I needed to ask..." Rinnosuke asked.

"Oh, well..." Marisa put her finger to her chin, remembering her reason for coming. "Oh! I remember, ze! I was wondering if Alice had stop by here?"

Max's body tightened up. "She knew her? Fuck me..." Max curses at himself.

"Nope. I haven't seen her since you wrecked her giant doll she was making."

"I thought she was up to no good I swear, ze!"

"Well did you check her house by any chance?

"Yeah, but she wouldn't answer the door." Marisa let her head droop down. "Maybe shes still mad at me, ze?"

"I doubt she had forgiven you so quickly, it has only been three days. Well anyways..." Rinnosuke turned to Max. "I assume you want to get back to your world as soon as possible."

"Not quite. I was hoping to get some directions to a town that I believe exists here."

"The Human Village?" Rinnosuke asked.

"Why there? You want to stay there or somthin?" Marisa questioned.

"Lets just say I'm here on vacation." Max answered.

"Vacation, eh?" Marisa looked at Max with playful suspicion.

"How did you even find out about Gensokyo?" Rinnosuke asked.

"Saw it in a dream."

"A dream?" Rinnosuke said, not at all surprised with Max's answer. "Yes, that tends to happen."

"Well if it's the Human Village you want to go to, I can take you their in a flash, ze." Marisa said while giving Max a thumbs up.

"Whats the catch?" Max said, clearly suspicious of her motives.

"Of course there's no catch!"

"I beg to differ..." Rinnosuke said as he returns to cleaning his shop.

"Don't be like that, ze!"

"Alrighty then, can we go now?" Max asked with an impatient sigh as he made his way to the door. "Thanks for the clothe." He said before going outside.

"See ya!" Marisa said as she followed Max.

"Marisa!" Rinnosuke called out.

Marisa pulled herself back into the shop.

"Go easy on him..."

Marisa only grinned then left the shop. Rinnosuke sighed.

"Alrighty then, how do we get there?" Max asked as he resisted the urge to shiver from the sudden cold wind.

Marisa grabbed a broom that was leaning against the wall of the shop then sat on it.

"Hop on, ze!"

Max simply stared at her, having no words for her.

"Haven't you ever flown on a broom before?" She asked, knowing well enough he probably hasn't.

"Can't say I have." Max said.

"Well come on then. It'll be fun"

"She's fucking with me." Max thought as he sat behind Marisa. The moment he sat down the broom quickly rose into the air. "Holy shit!" Max cried out as he rapped his arms around Marisa in a bid to not fall off.

Marisa blushed a little. "Hey now. I'm the one driving so I can't have you getting frisky with me."

Max kept his grip on her. "Whatever. Just don't go too," The moment Marisa got to her ideal altitude, she took off with incredible speed. "Fast!" Max cried out with all the breath in his lungs.

Rinnosuke could hear Max's scream slowly vanish into the distance. He chuckled a little before returning to his cleaning.

It didn't take Max and Marisa long to arrive at the Human Village. When they landed, Max was still holding onto Marisa with all his might., showing no signs of letting go.

"You know? At first you didn't look like the affectionate type, but now I can see I was wrong, ze." Marisa said.

"You... did that... on purpose... bitch." Max said, his body shaking a bit.

"But wasn't it fun?"

"No! I nearly fell off once! Fuck!" Max slowly let go of Marisa and got off the broom.

"Come on now. Don't tell me it was your first time flying, ze." Marisa said with a devilish smile.

"On a broom? Yes. Yes it was."

"Well anyways, this is the Human Village. Nice, eh?"

"Looks like your typical old time village to me." Max says as he began to walk around.

"Well of course, ze." Marisa said, following right behind Max. "If you plan on staying here in Gensokyo, this would be the place for you to settle in. The people are nice to."

Max listened to some of the villagers as they loudly argued with one another.

"They don't seem like it."

"Oh, yeah. You see, about that... for some reason everyone here has been having nightmares so everyone is all cranky."

"Nightmares?" Max said with alarm in his voice.

"Yup. Ever since three days ago, ze."

"Are you frikin kidding me? My powers can't be leaking out that badly. Can they?" Max thought, a trickle of sweat forming on his forehead.

"Oh? Whats wrong? Your face got all pale." Marisa said while studying Max's face. "Oh don't you worry about those nightmares. Its more than likely just some darn nightmare causing youkai, ze."

"Oh is that right?" Max said with a sigh of relief.

"Yup. I was actually looking for my friend Alice to help me and another friend find it." Marisa stopped walking. "Well here's my stop." Max stops and turns to face her. "I needed to come here to get some supplies. Someone around here is bound to let you stay with them for the night. I'd let you stay at my place while you got accustomed here, but Alice would flip, ze."

"You don't live in the village?"

"Nope, Forest of Magic."

"Oh fuck that place."

"Its not that bad once you get use to it. Well, good luck. Let me know if any youkai bother you, okay? I'll pump them full of danmaku for yuh, ze." Marisa said while giving Max a thumbs up.

"Will do." Max walks off as he waves goodbye to Marisa.

"Finally... maybe now I can get to work on honing my powers and gaining better control over them... all without bringing any unwanted attention to myself... hopefully." Max thought to himself as he continued to walk down the stone path. He looked around him, observing all the people and old style buildings. "Since there's apparently some nightmare causing youkai inflicting the land, I can safely feed off the resulting distress." A dark grin formed on his face. "And maybe I'll ad to the people's problems and inflict them with some madness."

The following night...

Max was wondering just outside the Human Village, hugging himself to help keep warm. "Damn it's chilly. Wasn't this bad in that damn forest..." Max continued to walk around aimlessly in till he spotted some lights in the distance. Having nothing better to do, he made his way towards the lights. Upon getting closer, he realized the lights were coming from a food stand. A small girl with light pink bird like wings was behind the counter cooking while another girl with long light violet hair sat in one of the stools, her head lying on the counter. Max's nose caught a whiff of the food that was being cooked and decided to give the food a try.

"What do you serve here?" Max asked as he sat in one of the vacant seats.

The bird girl jumped up a little in surprise. "Oh! A sane customer!" Only the best grilled lamprey in all of Gensokyo and probably the world." The girl sitting at the other end of the stand held up a bottle without lifting her head. "Oh, and some sake of course. Will you be having any?"

"Never had lamprey before. Guess it wouldn't hurt to try some." Max says as he pulls out his wallet.

"Okay, coming right up!"

Max tossed the girl some Japanese Yen and then sat patiently. The long haired girl turned her head to face him, eying him up and down. She then staggered up out of her seat then sat back down in the seat next to him.

"You from the outside, arnt you?" The girl asks, her speech slurred.

"Uh, huh." Max said, not making any eye contact with the girl.

"I could tell because of the clothe you are wearing you see..." She said, her head slightly swaying from side to side.

"Your clothe looks a bit like those from the outside also. You come from the outside to?"

"No no no." She says as she laughs. "I'm from here and so is she." She points to the cook with one hand and holds onto Max's jacket to keep balance with the other. The cook waves back with a smile.

"Really? Her to? Shit, I would have never guessed." Max says in a clearly sarcastic tone.

"Hey now... don't get all smart with me. Now here, drink up." She sets her bottle of sake in front of Max. "Welcome to Gensokyo."

"Sweet. Forgot I wasn't in America anymore. Damn age laws..." Max thought as he picked up the bottle and took a big gulp. "Been stressed out ever since getting lost in that god damn forest."

"That a boy!" The girl says as she gives Max a few hard pats to the back. "I'm Mokou by the way." She says as she places her forehead on Max's shoulder, appearing ready to pass out at any moment.

"Max."

"Hi Max!" Mokou says happily.

"I'm Mystia." The cook said, sitting down a plate of a large grilled lamprey and a bottle of sake. "Sorry for the wait, took me longer to cook that big one."

"Ah ha! More sake for us!" Mokou grabs the bottle and takes a drink, handing it to Max after her drink.

"Don't you think you had enough for one night?" Mystia asks as she began to clean up.

"Hell no! Keep them coming. I had a rough day today."

"Oh yeah? What did you do?" Max asked, not actually caring.

"I had to help keep that damn vampire from getting near the village. I lost count on how many times she killed me..."

"Vampire? You telling me there's frikin vampires here?" Max said, nearly spitting up the food he had in his mouth.

"Two to be exact." Mystia said.

"Yepper. And they both live in a mansion." Mokou said.

"A mansion... where is this mansion?"

"That direction." Mokou points to their left. "In the middle of a big lake."

"But you shouldn't go there. Its really dangerous there for normal humans." Mystia warned.

"Oh I'm sure Max here could handle it. He's a man after all. Right?" Mokou said while shaking Max's shoulder.

"Damn straight." Max said, beginning to feel a little drunk himself. "In fact, I think I'll check the place out myself tomorrow." Max finished his meal then gulped down some more sake.

"Yeah! True man right here! More sake for this man! Come on!" Mokou slapped the counter a few times, trying to hurry Mystia.

By the time the night was over, Mystia was able to close up her shop after Max and Mokou finally left for the village. They walked with an arm over each others shoulder as they chanted 'Death to Kaguya!' over and over again.