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A black portal appeared in the middle of a wasteland with Max and Remilia stepping out of it. The landscape was covered with nothing but black, jagged stone. The atmosphere was black with no noticeable clouds in the sky. The sun of the world hovered just above the horizon and gave off a dim orange light.

"God damn it." Max said in frustration.

"Just try again. You'll get it eventually." Remilia said.

"Yeah sure, right after I rest for a minute." Max said as he sat on the ground then rested his head on his hand.

"The sooner you get us home the sooner you can rest. Now get back up." Remilia said as she tried to force Max back up to his feet.

Max swatted Remilia's hand away. "Fuck off. If I take a breather maybe I can get us home this time."

Remilia sighed. "Fine, but only for a minute." She said before she started to survey the lands around them. "Looks like just some random barren planet."

"Yeah, but it looks like it still has things living on it." Max said.

"It does? Where?" Remilia asked. Max then pointed behind her. She turned around then spotted a giant, bi-pedal looking creature beyond the horizon. "Is it hostile?"

"Doesn't look like it. Seems to be minding its own business."

Remilia then turned back around to face Max. "Times up. Get up so we can get going."

"Give me another minute."

"Stop being lazy." Remilia said as she grew impatient.

"Blow me." Max jeered. He then saw Remilia sneering at him with her fangs protruding out. "Erm… I take that back." He then watched as the giant in the distance made its way across the dark horizon, walking behind the sun rather than in front of it. Max's jaw dropped from the sight.

"What is it?" Remilia asked as she went to turn around.

"Nothing!" Max exclaimed as he jumped to his feet and grabbed a hold of Remilia's shoulders, keeping her from turning around. "Let's just leave."

"Um… Yes… That would be nice." Remilia said. Max let go of her shoulders then channeled his energy as he prepared to open another portal. "Don't think of the places we could end up in, only of home. Only of Gensokyo."

"Yeah yeah."

"Don't 'yeah' me. Just do it." Remilia commanded.

"Annoying little…" Max thought. After a short moment, a dark portal opened in front of him. "Let's go."

Remilia nodded then they both entered the portal. They made many attempts to return to Gensokyo as they journeyed across the universe, ending up visiting many different places in the process. At times they would arrive on rather empty worlds.

"This sucks!" Max yelled out in frustration at the green colored sky of the barren world they were on.

Other times they would arrive in worlds with less than friendly conditions.

"Get us out of here! Get us out of here!" Remilia yelled as her skin began to burn due to the proximity the planet they were on was to its star.

Some worlds had friendly inhabitants.

"This is awesome! Fuck Gensokyo, let's stay here!" Max said excitedly as beautiful woman in tribal clothing and pointy ears catered to him. Remilia watched in disgust then quickly grabbed him and dragged him away from the large group of girls. "Oh come on!" He protested.

Other worlds had hostile creatures.

"Kill them! Kill them all!" Max shouted as he and Remilia were swarmed by large, insect-like aliens.

Sometimes they would accidently slip into other dimensions.

"This is so fucking weird…" Max said, with Remilia nodding in agreement. They floated in what felt like goo as large, ameba-like creatures harmlessly floated around them.

After many attempts, they took a break in a surreal dimension. Max and Remilia sat on a giant, square shape object as it and many other giant blocks floated aimlessly in a pale blue void.

"We're never going to get back. At this rate we'll end up in a place we can't get out of." Max said as he breathed heavily from exhaustion.

"You made it back before did you not? What did you do then that you are not doing now?" Remilia asked.

"I didn't make my own portal. That's what I did differently." Max said.

"That is just great…" Remilia said, not bothering to hide her impatience.

"Don't give me that. I told you before I can't correctly make portals. Your brilliant plan of trying over and over again until luck kicks in ain't working. We just keep getting further and further away from where we want to be."

"Well anyways. Get us out of this strange dimension and at least to our own one where we can rest properly." Remilia said as she stood up.

"Fine…" Max said as he stood back up. He then created a portal. "Ladies first."

Remilia nodded then the both of them entered the portal. After a moment, they were both flung out the other end and into a black void.

"Where are we now? And why does it feel like there is no gravity? Just another strange dimension?" Remilia asked as she looked around the blackness as stellar lights dimmed and grew in the distance. She then noticed the terror that had surfaced in Max's face. "Max, what's wrong?"

"This is wrong. This whole place is wrong. I fucking knew this would happen. I fucking knew it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Max said as he began to panic.

"Calm down. This isn't a big deal. If this is not a good place to be then just get us out of here." Remilia said as she tried to reassure Max.

"That's the fucking problem! I can't!" Max shouted at Remilia. "I can make a portal into this place but not out of it!"

Remilia's face paled. "What? Why not?"

"This is The Void. It exists far outside our universe and creating portals within it is near impossible." Max said as he tried to stay calm, sweat running down his paled face as his eyes hastily moved back and forth, looking out for any of the terrors that lurked within the black void.

"The Void?"

"I was hoping to never have to experience this place again." Max said as he shivered.

Remilia placed her hands on the sides of Max's face then forced him to look at her. "Get a hold of yourself. You are much stronger than the last time and you have me here to help. Now tell me how you got out of here the first time."

"Um… I…" Max tried to speak as he looked around him.

"Focus!" Remilia shouted, forcing Max to look back at her.

"Um… We need to find a dimensional rip. I can change it into something we can use to get out of here."

"Good. Let us find one then."

Max pushed Remilia away. "You make it sound so easy. There's an infinite amount of cosmic horrors out there that will devour us on sight and the worst part about it is they already know that we're here thanks to my power."

Remilia grabbed a hold of Max's chin. "No amount of horrors is going to stand in my way so you don't have to worry about them. I'll protect you." Remilia cooed.

Max frightened expression changed to that of anger. He then slapped Remilia's hand away. "You're just an idiotic vampire! A low life creature like you won't last long against these things. On earth you're powerful, but out here? You're nothing." He scowled.

"Nothing, eh?" Remilia said with an upset look. She then started to fly off into the void.

"Were do you think you're going?" Max said as he followed her.

"To find a dimensional rip." Remilia said.

"Not without me you aren't. You don't stand a chance against these things."

"We'll see…"

"I ain't saying it to insult you. It's just the way it is out here. Your existence is meaningless outside of Earth."

Remilia suddenly stopped then grabbed a hold of Max's face, her nails digging into his cheeks. "Just watch me." She said before shoving Max away.

"Damn you…" He said as he rubbed his face.

"I am a vampire of the Scarlet family. I will not be brought down by one of these mindless horrors."

"You are way over your head."

"And you're not?"

"I'm different. I don't know if it's because of my power or what, but I can handle the encounters with these things. You can't. With each encounter, your mind will break down bit by bit until there is nothing left of you but an empty shell."

"You underestimate my vampire mind." Remilia said as she continued to search through the void at high speed.

"Getting your mind shredded to pieces isn't going to help Gensokyo or prove anything other than that you're stupid." Max said as he struggled to follow her.

"Gensokyo is not my main concern."

"Then what the hell are you taking unnecessary risks for?"

Remilia suddenly stopped with Max nearly flying into her before he stopped. "I lost my parents to a horror bellow the sea."

"Bellow the sea? She doesn't mean 'him' does she?" Max thought.

"My father was investigating a rumor of a city bellow the sea that would surface when the stars were aligned in a certain way. He found the city and explored it and during his exploration, he ended up waking up the terror that slept there. He and my mother fought the creature with my father falling to the beast and my mother managing to escape it, but not before having her mind scarred by the encounter. The beast my father released was resealed by a large group of powerful human mages eventually, but my mother could never forget the terrible encounter. Flandre and I had to watch as she suffered after that. In the end she took her own life before her insanity fully engulfed her in order to prevent her from harming us in her madness."

"I see…" Max said.

"If I wish to become a greater vampire than my father, then I can't let myself be beaten by these insignificant horrors. If I wish to protect my sister from these cosmic horrors and her own power, then I need to become more powerful."

"So you do this for your family? Must be nice…"

"You're still young. You have plenty of time to experience the feeling of having a family. When this whole thing is over, you should find a girl to settle down with in Gensokyo. I am sure you could find someone with those looks of yours."

"Yeah, because I've been so lucky with woman before…" Max said unenthusiastically.

"I am being serious."

"Find me a girl that wouldn't mind a guy who attracts unspeakable horrors from beyond time and space and get back to me."

"We can find a way to deal with that. Don't underestimate the magic of Gensokyo." Remilia said. She fell to silence for a moment as she pondered to herself. "Max…"

"What?"

Remilia turned around and gazed into Max's eyes. "If that man in yellow does appear in our world… Fight him. I don't care if you can win against him or not, just fight him until the end. I promise you I will do what I can to help, but I believe it is your fate to defeat him."

Max gazed back into Remilia's pleading eyes. "I'm going to make sure he never makes it to our world as long as I still draw breath. So don't worry about it."

Remilia smiled. "I am glad to hear that."

"Good. Glad you're glad." Max said. His content expression turned serious as he started to look around him.

"We have yet to see any horrors, but… is that a good thing?" Remilia said as she looked around with concern.

"It ain't a good sign… Let's get looking and get the fuck out of here." Max said with Remilia nodding.

Max and Remilia quickly flew around the endless void as they searched for a dimensional scar. As time went on with the lack of any of the Void's inhabitants crossing their path, paranoia began to creep up in them.

"It's there, right? It isn't just me?" Remilia asked as she constantly glanced behind her.

"We might be being stalk by something. That or this place is messing with our heads." Max said as sweat poured down his stressed face.

"We should take care of it now." Remilia said.

"No. Just keep going." Max said.

"What is that?" Remilia asked as she spotted some kind of rip in space in the distance.

"That's it! Holy shit this is great! We must be lucky as hell to find one so quickly. I'm so happy I could kiss you right about now." Max said happily. He then turned to see that Remilia was no longer flying by his side, having stopped a ways back. He stopped then called out to her. "Hey! We're almost out of Fucksville so what the hell are you waiting for?" He then saw that she was looking at something above them. He quickly looked up with his happy expression turning into dread as he saw what she was looking at. "Oh god… Not one of these ones…" He then heard Remilia collapse into screams of utter terror as fear over took her. "Remilia!" He called out as he raced to her side. He grabbed a hold of her then buried her face into his chest to shield her eyes from the sight of the cosmic monstrosity that now hovered above them. "Get a grip, Remilia!" He said as he tried to calm her while she thrashed around screaming in his arms.

"Shit… We need to get away from this thing and find another dimensional rip." Max said.

"No!" Remilia yelled as she dug her nails into Max's back, causing him to flinch in pain. She forced herself to face Max, revealing tears mixed with blood flowing down her face. "We leave through that one right now."

"I can't mess with that rip with that thing here. It'll devour us the moment I try."

"Then I'll just have to distract it now won't I?" Remilia said before shoving Max back then charging forth towards the dooming horror with a grand, red spear at hand.

"No you insane bitch! This isn't a horror we can win against!" Max called out.

Remilia struggled to keep her fear in check with her rage as she flew towards the giant horror. "Watch me, father. Watch your daughter defeat what you could not!" She thought as she fought to keep the threads of her sanity together.

Countless numbers of the horror's tentacles shot out for Remilia as they attempted to intercept her. The tentacles ranged from many different widths, from the width of a fishing line to the width of a blue whale. Remilia roared as she cut down the hordes of tentacles as she made her way to the body of the horror.

"STUPID!" Max yelled. "I need to take this chance to change that dimensional rift into a way outta here before that doom horror eats her." He thought as he raced towards the dimensional rip. He then noticed the rip was diminishing in size. "Shit! Don't close on me!" He exclaimed. He then made it to the rip before it could close any further. "Damn it. Now I gotta keep the thing open while trying to make it into an actual portal. Just my fucking luck…"

Remilia continued her way towards the body of the giant horror, slashing and slicing the hordes of tentacles that got in her way. She pulled out a spell card. "My Heartbreak!" She shouted, followed by a large number of grand red spears forming all around her then firing into the sea of tentacles. She followed the path of destruction her spears made, but soon found herself completely surrounded by more tentacles. They twisted and weaved around one another as they began to close in on her. She channeled her magical power to her center and just when the mass of tentacles were about to crush her, she unleashed that power, destroying the tentacles. She could now see one of the many large, black eyes of the nightmarish monstrosity and made her way towards it. The giant horror suddenly turned its sight to Max, noticing what he was now doing.

"God damn it! Why is this being such a bitch to manipulate?" Max yelled in frustration as he struggled to form the tear in space into a usable portal. He glanced over his shoulder to see the giant monstrosity heading towards him. "Ah shit…"

"How dare you turn your back on me!" Remilia shouted at the horror as it left her alone. She held up her hand above her head, forming another red spear. She channeled more of her powers into the single spear increasing its size ten times. "Taste death!" She shouted as she threw the mighty spear with all her rage, piercing the terrible being in the back. The horror's tentacles began to form into a shape of a person before her and after several seconds, they had formed into a near perfect replica of herself save for the pitch black eyes. "A hallucination?" She thought. The fake Remilia formed a red spear then charged for her with her blocking the spear with one of her own. "You think to hold me back with this thing?"

The giant horror's mouth opened and within in it more mouths opened in infinite recur. It bellowed as it went to devour Max. "Shit shit shit!" He said quickly as the thing drew closer. He slowed the horror's approach as he tried to push it back with his psychic powers. "I can't keep it away for long." He thought as blood ran down his nose. "Come on you damn rip. Work with me here…"

Remilia and the fake fought furiously with one another with sparks of red energy dancing around them. Flashes of red light emitted from them every time their spears clashed with one another. They would fire barrages of danmaku at one another, only for the danmaku of one Remilia to hit the danmaku of the other. Remilia then burst into a swarm of bats as did the fake. Hundreds of red eyed and black eyed bats clashed with one another then proceeded to rip each other apart, littering the area with the blood and pieces of bats. Remilia reformed, followed by the fake, then formed two spears then went to slash the fake. The fake quickly formed two spears as well then blocked her attack, locking their spears together and leaving them both struggling to break the other one's guard.

The fake Remilia's cold, black eyes stared into Remilia's eyes as they both struggled to break the dead lock. "Weak." The fake said in a distorted version of Remilia's own voice.

"What did you say?" Remilia sneered. The fake thrusted her spears forward, breaking her guard block and knocking her back. "Damn you." She cursed as she went to spear through the fake's heart., only for the fake to grab a hold of the end of her spear. "What?" She said in surprise.

"Pathetic." The fake said then sent its power into Remilia's spear, shattering it into pieces.

"Damn!" Remilia shouted in frustration then swung her second spear at the fake only to have the fake break it with its own spears. The fake then retaliated by quickly hurling its spears at her, making her scream in pain as the spears sliced both of her arms off.

"He was right. You don't belong out here." The fake said to the tired Remilia. "You should have just stayed on your little world and waited for your inevitable doom instead of coming out here in search of it."

"Shut up!" Remilia exclaimed as blood gushed from her wounds while her arms refused to regenerate. "Damn it. Why aren't they reforming?"

The fake dove for Remilia and grabbed a hold of her neck with both of its hands then proceeded to squeeze. "You could never follow in your father's footsteps. It was all in vain. Now you and the boy shall be devoured, just as your father was. First… the boy." The fake said.

Remilia glanced over to see the giant horror was close to completely shutting its monstrous mouth around Max. Blood ran down Max's nose and ears as a severe migraine wracked his mind. He panted hard as fatigue had nearly reached its max.

"How could you show so much trust in a boy who has only ever caused disappointment with his constant failures? What makes you think he won't fail you as he did his fellow humans?" The fake asked while gazing into Remilia's eyes.

Remilia stared back into the black eyes of the fake. "It is because he has me. If it is his fate to fail, then I will change it with my power!" Remilia yelled. Her arms then suddenly reformed and with them she grabbed a hold of the fake's arms then started to pull them away from her neck.

"Eh?" The fake said as it was being overpowered. Remilia roared as she tilted her head back then swung it forward, smashing her forehead against its. "Gah!" The fake said as it was knocked back.

Remilia formed a grand spear then with a mighty roar, pierced it through the heart of the fake. She watched as the fake slowly disintegrated into black smoke. She let out a sigh of relief then turned her attention to the horror itself. "Hold on, Max!" She hollered then pulled out a spell card. "Night Sign: Bombard Night!" She was engulfed in a fiery red aura then charged forth towards the giant horror at great speeds. The horror's tentacles tried in vain to stop her approach, but were incinerated by her powerful aura. She smashed into the body of the horror with a great explosion, knocking the horror away from Max. "Hurry the hell up!" She shouted.

"Fuck off! You try and form a portal out of an unstable rip while holding something like that back." Max said. The rip in space suddenly turned into a wobbling vortex then started to shrink in size. "Unstable piece of shit. Alrighty then, let's get the fuck out of here. "Max said as he waved his hand for Remilia to enter the vortex.

"About time." Remilia said as she raced for the vortex. Suddenly, many of the horrors tentacles wrapped around her then started to pull her towards it. "Persistent bastard!" She yelled as she wildly slashed at the tentacles in a mad bid to free herself.

"Fuck! We don't have time!" Max exclaimed as the vortex grew smaller and smaller. He then held his hands over his head and started to channel his dark power into them. His red aura surrounded him as red sparks ran across his body. The yellow symbol on Max's medallion could be seen glowing underneath his shirt. "Alrighty then. Let's see how much I can pump out without killing myself." Max said as a burning, black sphere began to grow in his hands. His skin and bones began to crack as the dark power grew in intensity. The black sphere grew to about the size of Max. It gave off a dark red shine like a star in the night sky. "Die you son of a bitch!" Max yelled before throwing the black star with all his strength. The black star rocketed passed Remilia, setting aflame the tentacles that held her as well as her dress.

"Ouch! You nearly hit me you fool!" Remilia yelled as she shook off the last bits of the tentacles then rushed for the shrinking vortex.

The black star hit its mark, engulfing the giant horror in a titanic explosion of black flames. It let out a vile howl as it retreated into the dark void.

"Holy shit… Did you see what I just did?" Max asked.

"Awesome now let's get out of here!" Remilia said as she tackled Max.

"Umph!" Max said as Remilia tackled him into the vortex right before it closed, sending them into the unknown.