Chapter 3: Welcome to Gensokyo the Land of Fantasy

I remember during that fight with Levin, the part where I transformed once more into another form. A power I didn't have or even knew I had, but something was very different about it yet at the same time familiar. The form I took on… I became Virus or Virus became me. The being inside of my mind, but I thought it was real at first but then questioned it as a possible dream instead and once more I believe it was real.

Somewhere along the line in the battle I lost control of myself, nothing but pent up rage and angry dwelled within me and unleashed. I remember I was talking to Virus and he was talking to me.

We can't forgive him Chris! We have to strike him down before it's too late!

Virus killing him is wrong! Why do you hate him so much, do you know him?

No… this is the first time meeting him, but this scent…

Scent?

Chris! Please understand! Sometimes you have to kill your enemies to save everyone!

I will not forfeit a life if I can make the possibility to save everyone and change the ones who are wrong Virus! There has to be another way!

Chris… I respect your noble and selfless nature but this is reality, you can only accept it… there's no reason to think like a child… I'm sorry.

I don't know how long we argued, but I noticed my body burning up with pain. The power inside of me was overwhelming, more so than my Super Level but I didn't have the same speed as my base and super forms, but something was wrong.

Everytime I used a high-level attack or an ability, but body crippled with pain each time making myself weaker and weaker. My power kept on decreasing, my healing speed declined, and my focus blurring… I may have unbelievably power, but at the cost of causing external damage to myself like in my Super Level form.

As the battle war on, and both me and Virus arguing who was controlling my body as it fought Levin? Was it me under the influence of hatred, was it Virus controlling me as he lectured me, or was it the instinct of my body to fight on its own?

The more I was wailing on Levin, my body couldn't take the stress of the power and made me bleed from the inside and my transformation negated. The last bit of power left healed my body and granted me extra Ki energy to use to get out of the dire situation I was left in.

But something inside of me changed. I don't know what it is, but for some reason my body feels like its lighter than air now. But there was no time to figure out why my body felt relief of stress all of a sudden and enter through the green portal pummeling from the sky into a new land.

My conscious was fading, but I distinctly remember hearing voices… female voices, but then everything went black.

…

…

Pain was throbbing throughout his body with the worst headache, like someone taking a hammer on his skull.

Chris's body was stiff and in pain, but not as much as before as he stirred. Opening his eyes a bit his vision started off blurry for a few seconds as it try to readjust itself into a clearer vision and looked up into a ceiling and a pair of shadows. He felt warm and looked down to his body and noticed he was sleeping inside of a futon and looked back up to the two shadows once again.

Chris blinked at the two shadows came into focus as two girls with unbelievably beauty looked down at him, one looked older like in her 20's and the other looked like she was a pre-teen still, and they started to smile. Even the light shining on their horns made them look happy… wait… horns?

"He's awake!" squealed the young orange-haired girl with the horns sticking out from each side of her head.

"Yahoo! He's awake!" cheered the older girl with a red horn sticking out from her forehead and what looked like it had a star tattoo on it as her long straight blonde hair swayed back and forth. She wore what appeared to be a white short-sleeve gym shirt with red trims, a long blue translucent skirt with purple trims, sandals with red laces, shackles on her ankles and wrists, and was holding a red bowl or plate of some type of liquid without spilling it mysteriously with balanced precariously.

Both of them were jumping for joy as Chris jolted himself up, still resting inside of the futon as he looked at both of them and gave them a wryly smile. They sounded drunk to him, was it his imagination?

"Uh… hello there," said Chris, noticing that their faces looked flushed, studying his surroundings. "Where am I?"

The room looked like a traditional Japanese room, complete with tatami flooring, a couple of small drawers with a mirror on one of them, a window, and two sliding doors leading to the main hallway and outside. It was a simple, but beautiful room that could fit about 6 people in it as it wasn't too small and the ceramic coloring of the walls and tiles was easy on the eyes.

"Ah, so he's awake," said another female voice to Chris's right with a slide door opened revealing a young girl dressed as a shrine maiden entering the room with another girl tagging along who looked like a witch with her black and white clothing, both of them with unimaginably beauty as well.

"Yup, he just woke up!" said the orange-haired girl as she stopped jumping, her face looking very more flustered than before.

"Yeah, we made sure to keep an eye on him! So now that he's awake we can party!" the other older blonde girl with the red horn said with glee raising her red bowl up.

"No party!" shouted the shrine maiden glaring daggers at the two girls.

I don't think my awakening warrants a need of celebration … the black-haired boy thought with a sweatdrop forming behind his head.

"Urm… Will those two be OK?" Chris asked returning his gaze back to the shrine maiden with a worried expression.

"Yeah, don't worry about them. They're always like this," she said as she kneeled down next to him.

Chris gave a less strained smile and nodded. "If you say so… miko-chan? I guess that makes me a little more at ease."

The shrine maiden tilted her and smiled in a somewhat cocky way. "So you know about shrine maidens do you? My name is Reimu Hakurei by the way, and this place is my home the Hakurei Shrine."

So that means I'm in Gensokyo in one piece… thank goodness… Chris thought to himself.

She extended her hand as Chris got into a kneeling position and shook it back with a smile. "It's a pleasure to meet you Reimu-chan! My name is Christopher Trevas Corona. But everyone calls me Chris."

Reimu raised her eyebrow looking questionably at Chris. "Well you're awfully friendly, are you always like this?"

Chris scratched the back of his head and gave a goofy grin. "Yup!"

Reimu couldn't help but giggle. What a strange boy…

"Christopher Trevas, huh? That's an awfully long funny first name, ze!" the girl in the witch attire spoke behind Reimu looking very cheerful and excited.

"Marisa!" glared the shrine maiden. "That was rude! I was beginning to wonder why you were so unusually quiet!"

"Actually Trevas is my middle name," said Chris with a sheepish smile as he scratches his head, "It's still part of my name and I always give out my full name when people ask nicely."

"Really? That's interesting, what does it mean then?" asked the girl called Marisa.

"I believe it means 'thundercloud' or 'darkness' or was it 'dark thunderstorm'? It's been a while, I kinda forgot it," said Chris sticking out his tongue in a shy way.

"That's a really strange name… I like it, ze!" Marisa smiled with a big grin.

"I like it, that's a nice name! What does the other two names mean?" said the orange-haired girl as she scooch over closer to Chris along with the blonde girl with the red horn.

Chris chuckled with amusement and answered them. "Christopher means 'Bearer', as to bear the sin and pain of everyone to make them happy, and Corona means 'sunlight's energy'… Well I'm using the anatomy meaning of Corona but with my way of saying it."

The orange-haired girl tilted her head and blink with amazement. "What strange name, but I like it so it's a great! Like my name Suika and Yuugi over there! It's nice to meet you Chris-kun!"

She said all this as she gulped down some sort of drink from her gourd. Chris took note of the gourd and looked at their horns with curious interest.

"By the way… are you two real Onis?" asked Chris.

Reimu was the one to answer. "Yeah they are. Gensokyo is full of supernatural beings like them."

Chris's eyes widen with a blank expression on his face, slowly taking in the information he received to digest in his mind.

She looked at Chris with a borderline smile as he continues to look at them. "What? Are you afraid of Youkai?"

"So cool!" Chris said as his eyes glittered up with stars on them. "Real Onis, this is totally awesome!"

"Doesn't look like he's afraid of Youkai! This guy is too much I like it, ze!" shouted Marisa with glee, apparently taking in interest in the boy.

Reimu looked quite flabbergasted.

"You're not afraid of Youkai? Are you sure you're alright? You are human, right?" said Reimu looking at Chris with a suspicious look.

"Sure am… last try I check!" said Chris turning his head back to Reimu, who looked annoyed now, until he realized he's forgetting something. "Where are my swords and backpack?"

"You mean those?" Reimu pointed to the two swords laying beside Chris's futon, one on each side, with a annoyed look. "And your backpack is over there by the drawer."

Chris looked and saw his twin swords next to him and looked over to find his backpack planted against the wall between a small drawer and sliding door. He smiled and looked back at Reimu.

"Thank you Reimu-chan for helping me! By the way how long have I've been out for?" asked Chris.

"You've been out cold for a few good hours, it's getting close to sunset," Reimu answered.

"Hey! Me and Suika we're the ones who brought you here! You should thank us!" said Marisa with a smug look on her face. "All she did was lay out the futon and brought you water, that's all!"

"You stay out of this Marisa, besides someone had to prepare a room for him AND to make sure someone was preoccupied with their hands to look around his stuff," glared Reimu and looked back at Chris and smiled. "Anyway you're welcome."

"Hehe… Oh! By the way I'm kinda curious, what's in that gourd and plate of yours Suika-chan and Yuugi-san?" asked Chris as he looked back at the Onis, strangely he looked worried.

"It's sake! The best stuff around!" said Suika as she gulped around mouthful from her gourd, her face even more flush, and then practically shoved the gourd near Chris's face. "Would you like some?"

Chris instantly bolted himself to the wall with his back and was trembling with a pale look on his face, a typical anime expression with white out eyes and a blue coloring over his forehead, and with great fear. The four girls looked at Chris with curiosity; they never saw anyone move like that so fast and with such negative reaction.

"What the…?" Marisa said taking note of the sudden change of behavior of the boy.

"S-S-S-S-Sake! N-N-No, no sake please! T-Thank you for the o-offer though" Chris tried his best to politely decline, his whole body shaking and pressing his back against the wall even more trying to get away from the sake.

"You… don't like sake?" said Yuugi, both her and Suika looked very dishearten to Chris's response.

"You don't?" Suika said as well, her eyes dropped a bit.

"Well… I can't drink sake. Trust me, sake and me don't mix well together," said Chris with a nervous smile and shaking his palm in the air, looking a bit guilty from his behavior towards them. "But that means more for you to drink? D-Don't worry about me, I'll give you some s-sake if I ever… and hopefully not… get some so I'll give it to you right away!"

Both of the Onis perked up with a smile, their eyes brighten.

"Oh how thoughtful! I would've preferred to have another drinking partner, but oh well!" said Yuugi as she took another sip of her sake.

"You're so kind! Alright, I'm making you my best friend now! So let's get sake and party 'til dawn!" Suika exclaimed as she took another sip as well.

"No parties at the shrine! How many times do I have to tell you!" shouted Reimu and then pointed at Chris. "And why can't you drink sake?"

"Well I CAN drink sake, but I shouldn't. Trust me, I've drank sake TWICE… and by accident too on both occasions!" shuddered Chris. "I caused some many people trouble, and a lot of girls glared at me even though I can't remember a thing when I'm drunk but Vincent had to pay for the damages I did to the stores. Took me a while to regain their trust after that."

I believe it was a wise decision to not let Suika give him sake… Reimu thought with a somewhat worried expression. But I wonder what he did? Well it doesn't matter… I'll leave it at that…

"That's interesting! Well then I'll take a look at these in the meantime," said Marisa as she looked over at the Chris's swords.

"Wait! You can't go burrowing people's stuff again Marisa without their permission!" shouted Reimu trying to stop Marisa.

"It's OK, she can burrow them," said Chris, regaining his composure, with a blank expression as the girls looked at him.

"Really?" shouted Marisa with joy.

"Are you serious?" said Reimu with a disbelief look; she couldn't believe someone would willingly let Marisa burrow something of theirs. However she remembers that he's not from around here, but that was still too sudden decision to make and without hesitation and was wondering why he would do it.

"What a nice guy! I like him!" said Suika taking another sip of her sake.

"Sure… if you can hold them," said Chris with a snarky smile and cocky look on his face.

Reimu perked her eyebrow up. What is he going now about…?

"Haha! No going back on your word now!" said Marisa as she grabbed Chris's sword. "Huh?"

Everyone looked at Marisa as she tried to pick up the swords, but to no avail. She planted her feet firmly o n the ground in front of the sword and grabbed the sword with both hands, but struggled to lift it up as the sword didn't budge as Marisa's face started to turn red from exerting herself to pull the sword off the ground. She let go of the swords and panted like she went through a workout that lasted for several hours.

Chris was laughing a bit and calm down with an apologetic look, wiping away a tear on his face. "OK, that's enough! I think you know now that you can't take my swords so easily now!"

"That's weird, I did drop them off of you but I don't remember if they were heavy or not," Suika spoke as she tilted her head in wonder.

I see… so that's why they were positioned that way… Chris mentally took note.

Chris got up and walked over to where Marisa was and picked up his swords without trouble and re-equip his swords in their sheath on his belt on his back again. "Sorry about that Marisa-chan, just felt like teasing you for a bit!"

"That's not nice, but you got me!" shouted Marisa not even looking angry one bit. "But tell me how come your swords are so heavy and hard to pick up while you can pick them up so easily? Are you super strong?"

Yuugi eyes sparked up on that last comment and eyed Chris with great interest now. Chris caught this on the corner of his eyes, though kept his glance on Marisa.

"Not really, but compare to most other humans I am pretty strong but that's not why I can lift my swords," said Chris with a grin on his face and his hands behind his back. "They're special swords and they have a secret that only I know about them!"

"Intriguing, but that reminds me," said Reimu now looking seriously as she looked at Chris. The black-haired boy stopped smiling and looked back at her.

"Explain to me how you got here," she plainly said.

Chris starting to panic in the back of his head while looking perfectly normal on the outside. How was he going to explain this to them? If he told them about Levin and his plans they would worry them, plus he didn't like lying to people as he always give them his honest opinions about them with positive responses. It was his responsibility to take down the god alone and to prevent trouble brewing in Gensokyo as it was his fault for not stopping him and letting those ECHOES enter Gensokyo.

"Well that…" Chris said unsure while scratching the side of his head.

"Yeah! I want to know too, especially that you fell from a high place in the sky!" said Marisa looking at Chris with earnest.

Chris winced at that point and gave a half-hearty laugh. "Oh yeah, that was fun…"

"Indeed and the only way to get here from the outside world is by those gaps made by that annoying boundary Youkai and the gap you fell from wasn't one of hers. So I'm curious on how you got here," Reimu asked again pointing the mystery behind Chris's appearance.

"Hmm… well for starters I'm not from the outside world, I'm from a parallel dimension of some sorts and how I go here… I well jumped right into the portal," said Chris with a nervous chuckle.

"You jumped in right! Why?" asked Reimu looking more suspicious at Chris and glaring at him.

"He jumped right in knowing that he would fell from a high place? He's a strange one!" Suika said, but without looking suspicious of Chris. In fact she looked really excited, to her she thought he must be quite fun at parties and festivals.

"Haha… why indeed, it's because of… can we save it for another time? I'm still a little sore and I like to get a look around the place!" said Chris trying to change the subject.

Reimu still looked at him suspiciously at him. "Why are you…? You know what, never mind but if you cause any trouble you're going to spill everything on how you got here and why."

Chris sighed with relief. She didn't press on the topic any further, but that seems a little strange. "You're not going to press on any further? Usually someone would, given the circumstances."

"Well that's true, but as long as you're not causing trouble for me or my shrine then I'm not going to bother you about it," Reimu declared back to her normal expression.

Chris looked surprised and then return a warm and gentle smile at her. "Thank you, you're really kind! I'm glad to meet someone like you Reimu-chan!"

Reimu's face started to heat up and looked away. "I-It's nothing, don't worry about."

Why am I embarrassed all of a sudden… and why does his smile have to make him… well… cute? Reimu thought as she shrugged it out of her face and her face returned to normal. "Alright I'll show you around, follow me please."

"Sure thing! Marisa-chan, Suika-chan, Yuugi-san are you coming along as well?" asked Chris looking back at the other girls.

"Might as well, ze!" Marisa jumped up and followed after Reimu who was at the slide door leading outside.

"Yup, I want to get to know you a lot more now! You seem really fun!" cheered Suika putting her gourd to her waist and staggered her way over to Chris.

"And I want to see how strong you!" Yuugi chimed in as she followed in suite of Suika in a similar manner.

Chris looked back at Reimu with a worried expression. "Umm… Reimu-chan?"

"Don't worry too much, they're never sober," said Reimu with a carefree smile.

Chris looked at Reimu with disbelief but smile. "OK, now I'm less worried! I shouldn't forget they're Onis."

The sun was about to set as it touched the ground below it, casting a gorgeous red semi-sunset light in the sky as Chris looked on at the shrine after Reimu showed him the main hallway of the shrine and the rooms, which could hold about 10 people here, and finally the front of the shrine.

"This is my shrine," stated Reimu showing the front of the shrine.

Chris studies the place as he took note of the condition of the place, the tile roof look like it was about to lose of its tiles, the wood didn't look quite clean and polished, and the paint was starting to lose its coloring. He didn't want to sound mean or rude, but it didn't look well… kept in order.

"Uh… Reimu-chan, why does the shrine look… well a little …un-maintenance?" Chris said wording his words carefully without coming off rude.

"People complain that my shrine looks rundown," pouted Reimu with her hands on her waist, "But no one shows up to make a donation and the ones that do show up," she said this as she looks at Marisa, Suika, and Yuugi, "Don't give any donations to the shrine!"

"So it will continue to look the way it does until enough people make a donation to help the shrine?" Chris pointed out.

"Exactly! I'm glad someone around here understands my dilemma!" exclaimed Reimu, happy to hear that apparently.

"It only looks rundown because you're not a really good shrine maiden Reimu," Marisa said casually, earning a glare from her.

"That's not nice, you should help her out she's your friend right?" Chris defended Reimu as he pointed at Marisa. "Friends should help each other out."

"Exactly! Thank you Chris," Reimu said with a happy expression etched across her face.

"You're right! Maybe she should help me out with Patchouli's library!" shouted Marisa with a happy and also pleased smile.

Reimu stuttered back and looked dishearten and sighed. "On second thought, maybe not."

Chris looked on curiously. What's the problem? And who's Patchouli?

"I thought so, ze! By the way Chris-kun since you're a swordsman you must be pretty strong! You do know how to fight, right!" asked Marisa looking at Chris with excitement.

"Well yeah, I've practiced for 10 years with my training on improving my skills and abilities. A good exercise right now should help loosen my muscles," said Chris as he stretches his arms.

"I'm amazed you can still stand after you crashed into the ground like that," Reimu pointed out looking less interested in the statement.

"Yeah! By the way what do you guys do for fighting around here?" asked Chris curious about how the inhabitants of this world take part of the fights here.

"We use magic to fight of course, ze!" said Marisa as she sat on her broom and took off into the air. Chris looked on with amazement.

"Cool!" he shouted.

Honestly… does nothing surprise this boy? Reimu thought with a cheery smile. It's like he fits right in, in this world…

"What about you?" asked Marisa.

Chris closed his eyes and smiled and he steps forward and performs a certain hand sign. The girls look on intent at what he's doing.

"Fire Style: Fireball!"

Upon the commands of the words a burst of flames erupted from his mouth, a huge searing ball of fire burning into the sky above. Reimu dropped her mouth with astonishment, Suika and Yuugi looked surprised and excited upon the display, and Marisa blinked with a blank expression and smiled with an excited look.

"Whoa! I didn't know you can do that! That's impressive, ze! You can use magic too!" cried out Marisa looking even more excited and less surprised by Chris's display of power.

"H-How? Can the humans from the world you come from do that too? I'm surprised they're some left," said Reimu as she pointed at Chris regaining her composure.

"Nah, this isn't magic. It's Ki Manipulation, you know energy manipulation however I can only manipulation within myself and not others unless I use my martial arts on them, and I can do more than breathe fire! Unfortunate we Ki Users… are pretty much in decline," said Chris as he rubs the back of his head.

Marisa blinked as Reimu looked on curiously. "Ki? Oh I see, just like that gatekeeper… erm… China!"

Chris perked a brow. "There's another Ki User in this world too? Sweet!"

"What do you mean in 'decline'?" asked Reimu narrowing her eyes.

"Basically there's only 7 Ki Users left in my world, three of them died years ago since I don't know when, but there are also 3 others who are elderly and have retired so that leaves 4 active Ki Users left worldwide. Plus openly practicing Ki is very dangerous so we're in hiding so we can't meet with each other and the world doesn't believe in magic or Ki or other supernatural beings anymore. It's depressing," Chris sighed in disappointment.

"Sorry to ask," said Reimu feeling a little guilty.

"It's no worries! You hardly know a thing about me or my world so it's alright!" said Chris as he bowed before Reimu and Marisa returning to his cheerful mood. "So you can ask me about anything else!"

"Uh…? You don't have to bow or anything!" Reimu shook her hands in the air.

"It's OK, I forgot to show you respect for helping me earlier!" replied Chris.

"Do you always show respect towards everyone you meet?" asked Reimu.

"Yeah, I mean no one likes being treated horribly right? Besides I like making new friends!" grinned Chris with his goofy smile once again.

"I see," smiled Reimu. Yup, he's a strange one alright…

"Hey hey! Chris-kun, let's have a sparring match! I want to see how you fight!" shouted Marisa looking pumped up after witnessing Chris's fire breathing attack.

"Sure! I need to practice again… and get ready for him once more… so let's spar! Oh but first," Chris said looking excited then looked over to Reimu. "You don't mind if Marisa-chan and me spar for a bit? This is your shrine after all."

Reimu sighed and walked back to the porch of the shrine in front of the donation box, which Chris could tell was empty as Reimu said, and sat down in Japanese style. "Fine, but don't make a mess of my shrine you two!"

"I understand! Thank you Reimu-chan!" said Chris as he dashed over to one end of the shrine's area as Marisa took up in the air on the other side.

"Quick question Marisa-chan," asked Chris as he looked up at Marisa.

"Sure what is it?" replied Marisa.

"Does everyone fly here?"

"Of course! Everyone I know has the ability to fly around here!" she shouted with glee.

Chris winced and looked at the ground steadily with a dark and depression aura. "Oh… I see."

Reimu looked over at Chris with a worried expression. "Are you OK, Chris?"

Chris shot his head back up and smiled. "Yeah I'm fine, but I'm a little irked to be honest as I've been learning how to use my Ki to allow me to fly normally but I've fail in that regard a lot, but that's OK it's not a big deal... really!"

Seem like it was to you… Reimu thought as she shrugged it off with a teasing smirk.

Suika and Yuugi sat besides Reimu to watch as well as they were just drinking and talking to themselves near the shrine, watching Chris, Reimu, and Marisa all the time.

"Aw that's too bad! But let's go!" shouted Marisa as she darted after Chris in her broom.

"Hey wait a minute! I'm not ready!" shouted Chris as he dodged to the right from Marisa's sudden attack.

Recovering from the sudden initiative attack from Marisa, Chris rolled on the ground and jumped onto his feet and glared a bit at Marisa.

"At least give me warning when you do that! I'm not fully recovered yet!" Chris shouted.

"But this is so much fun this way, right? Now let's go, ze!" shouted Marisa as she pulled out a card from her pocket.

"A card?" Chris tilted his head in wonder.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention about the Spell Card system we use," said Reimu looking upon the scene.

"It's much better for him to learn about it through experience!" at that note Marisa crushed the card and star-shaped bullets formed around her.

They're like Ki blasts… OK I think I understand the flow of the Spell Cards a bit… Chris thought as he readies himself for the upcoming assault with his swords in reverse grip.

The star-shaped swirled around Marisa in a circular motion as the darted themselves at Chris at high-speed as Chris jumped and dodge some of the bullets and whipped out his swords and slash the bullets knocking them away however some exploded on contact and pushed Chris back.

Chris jumped backwards and tossed his blade into the air, moving like a shuriken at Marisa as she dodged it by doing a barrel roll to her right as Chris reappeared in front of her. Her eyes widen in surprise as Chris threw a roundhouse kick to her broom and she barely avoid the surprise attack. Chris's sword spun itself back to him like a boomerang as he grabbed it switched over to a traditional grip.

"Wow! I didn't expect you to move that fast! You're pretty amazing!" Marisa was impressed with Chris's performance.

"Like they say 'Expect the unexpected'! But you're not bad yourself, this Spell Card battle is pretty fun!" Chris return the compliment with a smile.

Reimu was surprised, she didn't expect the boy to move as fast as he did. His speed reminded her of that crow tengu, truthfully is he isn't on the same level of that crow but was almost close enough. This boy was just full of surprises for her.

"Alright how about this?" Marisa said as she pulled out a strange box. It looked like a mini furnace in the shape of an octagonal block with the eight trigrams printed in a circle on its front and a very small box that easily fit in the palm of her hands.

Chris looked up in wonder, curious as to what she's going to do with it.

Reimu knew right away what she was going to do.

"Marisa! Isn't that a bit too much!" yelled Reimu looking a bit worried.

"Of course not! Besides if it isn't flashy it isn't magic!" Marisa countered with a grin.

"Chris… you better dodge this one," warned Reimu.

"Huh? Why?" he asked not fully understanding the gravity of the situation.

"Love Sign:…"

Marisa began her little chant as energy particles started to get suck up by the small box in front of her aiming down at Chris.

"… MASTER SPARK!"

Suddenly a humongous beam launched from the small box, Chris's eyes widen with astonishment. He did not expect to see a huge beam fire from a little box and remind him of his Chaos Beam attack, as Chris chuckle thinking about what he said before about expecting the unexpected.

He remember something from his fight with Levin earlier as he planted his feet firmly into the ground and he prepares for the beam hurling towards him.

Reimu looked on with disbelief, he was going to face-off against that beam? Surely he cannot be that stupid.

Marisa mused to herself wondering at what Chris is going to do as the two Onis looked on with great interest.

Chris charged up his hand with Ki and focused as the beam crept closer and closer to him until it was close enough. He smacked the beam with the palm of his hand trying his beam to deflect it racking up his Ki into his hand, the energy from the beam tearing up the ground below him and started to burn his hand a bit until he sweep it away into the air ricochet it in a sharp turn above him.

Reimu's face paled as she dropped her mouth and pointed at Chris. She couldn't believe what she just saw, someone manage to avert Marisa's Master Spark with their bare hands? Impossible!

Did he...? Reimu thought with a disbelief face.

Just deflect...? both Suika and Yuugi mentally said as they watched with awe in their eyes.

My Master Spark? finally Marisa said in her mental monologue with a blank expression.

The Onis blinked in amazement and cheered! They didn't expect the boy to be something strange and amazing.

Marisa blinked as well… she looked like she couldn't believe it too until she started to laugh. She was pleasant surprise with this turn of events. Chris looked on with a wryly smile until he shook his hand he deflect with and blew on it like it was on fire repeating saying 'ouch' a few times. Apparently deflecting the beam hurt his hand a lot!

"No way! I never thought someone could deflect my Master Spark like that with their bare hands! You're more amazing than I thought! You must've been born like this!" Marisa shouted with glee, she was very happy for someone whose attack was averted like that.

"Born like this? No way! I was a nobody before, I had to train for more than 10 years to get where I am today! And I had a teacher, somewhat, to help me but I'm far from perfect. What about you?" Chris asked as he massages his hand to make it feel better wincing a little bit from the pain.

Marisa looked on with a thoughtful expression and shouted with joy. "You too! You're like me, I wasn't born like this either and I had to train myself! How about becoming my permanent training partner from now, ze!"

"That's interesting I might consider that, so shall we continue?" prompted Chris as he readies himself again with his sword in traditional grip as he sheathe his sword earlier to deflect Marisa's attack.

This boy… he's too much… Reimu though as she brought her palm to her face and sigh. Please don't tell me he's like Marisa in more ways than just training…

Marisa continued the match by firing magical bolts at as he performed another hand sign.

"Water Style: Twin Water Dragon!"

A familiar pair of heads shot up from the ground and dodged the bolts as they attack Marisa. The black hat witch swirled and maneuver away from the water dragons as Chris jumped backwards, bent, and swayed away from the attacks as he jumps away from the last bolts and kicks his feet into the trees causing him to do a full split.

The girls looked at him with questionably looks, even Marisa was taken back. Chris jolted his head up, wondering what he did to make them look at him like that.

"What? Did I do something wrong?" asked Chris.

"You… how are you legs… how can you split your legs that far!" pointed Reimu at Chris.

"Ah! This is a result of my martial arts training! I always do morning splits to help strengthen my legs and improve flexibility, why do you ask?"

"Are you sure… you're a boy?" Marisa snickered.

Chris's eyes and face twitched with angry as an anime angry pulse appeared over his head. "DOES THIS SUDDEN LOOK LIKE A WOMAN'S BODY TO YOU!"

He roared with angry! Apparently he did not take too kindly to this type of comment.

"Sorry, but no man can split that much last time I checked…" Reimu also snickered.

"And how the hell do you know that!" Chris yelled and then calmed down a bit. "Can we just drop it? Let's just continue the fight, please!"

Chris jumped off the tree and glared down at Marisa who was cracking up a bit. Marisa once again fired off more magical bolts, Chris noticed that Marisa lacked flow with her attacks, just firing off her attacks in random directions.

"Thunder Style: Lightning Ripple!"

Chris's entire body sparked out electric turning him into a living lightning bolt. He slammed his hands into the ground, electrifying the earth beneath him as he stomped his foot with another hand sign.

"Earth Style: Earth Dagger! Combo Fusion: Sky Tremor!"

A huge boulder shot in front of Chris, suspended into the air for a bit, completely covered in electric shooting itself all over it like a storm as Chris charged Ki into his foot and sidekick the boulder into the Marisa.

"Wow! He's almost as strong as we Onis!" Suika pounded her chest proudly. "He's really something else! He's got to try some sake!"

"I'm impressive he's really strong! I like strong people like him!" Yuugi shouted with joy.

Reimu looked on with a calm and unsurprised expression. Nothing surprised her anymore from this boy now.

Marisa took the challenge head-on and fired out another round of magical bullets again and the two attacks collided and exploded. Chris breathed a little heavy, the attack took more energy but not so much like last time. His body was strangely with accustomed with his Ki and his attack were stronger too, but he was still too tired and his body still sore so he can't use his full power at the moment.

"So this is the best! I hadn't had this much fun a long time!" shouted Marisa with a mischievous grin. "Once more! Love Sign…"

"Alright! I'll fight fire with fire!" Chris roared with excitement pointing his finger at Marisa and bringing his hands together behind him as he put away his hands. "Chaos…"

"… MASTER SPARK!"

"… BEAM!"

Marisa's gigantic sheer powerful beam met with Chris's gigantic red and black beam as the two attacks formed a mass ball of energy as they try to push the other away.

Reimu's face dropped a bit, with her eyes twitching a bit. "Apparently I spoke too soon…"

"No way, you can do a Master Spark as well!" Marisa was even more gung-ho than before.

"It's called Chaos Beam, it's my signature neutral Ki attack, and I can increase its power even more even after it's been fired!" shouted Chris as he pumped more Ki into his Chaos Beam as the beam grew in size and power and finally engulfed Marisa's attack as it explosive on contact with her.

Marisa fells to the sky, but Chris catches her before she hit the ground. Her entire clothes with tattered with burn marks, but otherwise looked OK.

"Are you OK Marisa-chan? Sorry about that, but that was a good sparring match! Let's do it again another time," said Chris as he helps Marisa up on her feet.

"No problem! That's was a total blast, let's do it again tomorrow!" Marisa shouted with joy disregarding her injury. "But I feel so tired."

"Yeah, sorry about that… I can re-channel my Ki from physical damage to external damage, in other words I can attack someone's physical energy and tire them out without hurting them too much. I usually don't like hurting people and preferring peaceful solutions to problem," Chris explained as he scratched the back of his head.

"That's interesting, but where's the fun in that? It's way more fun going all out on someone!" Marisa replied, looking like she wasn't tired at all.

"That is indeed interesting, maybe you can restraint Marisa from her usual attics from time to time Chris," said Reimu with a smile sitting on the porch still while drinking tea. When did she…?

"Aww come on Reimu!" pouted Marisa.

Chris chuckled a bit, his body was a bit sore still but he had fun. He feels like he can truly expression himself, no more hiding who he is and being more like the real him. However something occurred to Chris.

"Hey, where did the other Master Spark go? Shouldn't there be a boom or something?" Chris pointed out as he scanned the area for the beam. He knew he knocked it somewhere in the air.

"Come to think of it you're right? Where did it…?" Reimu started, but something flew past her.

Right on cue the Master Spark that Chris deflected earlier came crashing down right in front of Reimu. The explosion kicked up a huge mess of debris as Chris, Marisa, Suika, and Yuugi looked on with stunned looks.

"Reimu are you…?" Chris began to say as he started to run over until something hit his face, knocking back into the air and into Chris's hands looking down at the piece of wood that hit him. "Ow… do I manage to get hurt like this? Huh, what's this?"

Chris studied the piece of board and noticed some writings on it. It was broken it, but it did word out to something.

"Do… Dona…? Hmm…?" Chris studied until a lightbulb turned on in his head as he place the bottom of his hand into his open palm carefully not damaging the wood. "I get it! It says 'Donations' so that mean… oh good dear lord."

Chris slowly turned his head to the direction of the donation box as the dust cleared out. It was completely destroyed, wood all tattered and split apart and Chris shuddered. Marisa had the look on she face like she was placed into a death sentence.

Reimu stood sat in place with her eyes widening in shock and horror as she slowly walk towards the now destroyed donation box. She fell to her knees as she started to cry, a wave of guilt circled around in Chris's heart. He didn't want to make Reimu cry after all she's done for him.

"The-The-The-The-The do-do-do-do-donation b-b-b-box! Gone… completely gone…!" Reimu cried out.

"I'm sorry Reimu! I didn't mean to do that!" Chris approached Reimu trying to apologize to her.

Then it hit Chris. A very dark aura emitted from Reimu, full with complete bloodlust and killing intent. Searching for the one who destroyed her precious donation box, she slowly turned her head towards Chris smiling at him. But not just any smile, it was a smile looking for blood.

"So… which one of you would like to die first?" Reimu said as she pulled out her set of Spell Cards and her gohei.

"Eh? Reimu hold on! Relax, and breath! Come on Marisa apologize… eh?" Chris shook his hands in front of him in defense and turned his head to tell Marisa to do the same but noticed she wasn't there. A dot-line outline where she was before she left, where did she go?

"Damn that Marisa, she got away! No matter, I'll deal with her later I know where she lives anyway!" spit Reimu with a venomous tone and turned toward Chris with a smile. "Don't worry Chris, your punishment will be swift and smoothly. You can be the new donation box after I'm done with you."

She said so with an eerie and cheery voice and smile, both of the Onis retreated into the shrine terrified by Reimu's sudden demeanor but not without giving Chris a sad and sympathy look in their eyes.

Chris didn't want to know what Reimu meant by the comment as he slowly backs away. He royally screwed up and now he was going to pay for it unless he does something first.

"Now let's calm down Reimu and think about this rationally, we can come to a compromise!" Chris pleaded, sweatdrops bulleting down his face.

"Chris~" Reimu sang with a sadistic tone. "Please be a good boy and pay for what you did, OK? Divine Arts: Omnidirectional Dragon Slaying Circle!"

Chris looked on with terror in his eyes as huge orbs of light circle around Reimu in the air, and they were numerous. Chris gulped… he was so going to die.

There was only one thing going through his head right now:

I am so screwed dude!

Chris bolted out of the shrine faster than anyone seen. Reimu blinked a few times as Chris vanished before her eyes with a cloud of dust where he once stood.

"What the…? He was just as fast as that crow tengu just now…"

Chris ran as fast as he could! Never in his whole life has he run this fast before without people seeing his blur image nor has he never seen anyone looked so peeved off in his entire life. Looking back after running several miles away from the shrine under a minute from his super speed, he turned back just in time to smash into a tree knocking him into the ground.

"Owww! Shoot that hurt!" Chris rebukes the pain and got back up rubbing his nose. "Why do I also manage to hurt myself one way or other?"

"CHRISTOPHER TREVAS CORONA! YOU GET BACK HERE TO RECEIVE YOUR PUNISHMENT PROPERLY!" screamed Reimu in the distance. Birds flocked from the sudden outburst and flew away in terror.

Chris winced and rained sweatdrop all over his face again, he had a bad feeling about listening to Reimu but a worse feeling of destroying her donation box by accident and running off in terror from her rage. "I'm sorry Reimu!"

Chris sprinted at high-speeds again, leaving a small trail of dust in his awake. "I want to apologize to her, but right now it's better to avoid! I'll go properly apologize to her after she's cooled down for a bit!"

After a few more seconds of running he escaped the large dense forest and came upon a lake in the clearing. Chris looked back and forth to find anything, but nothing until he noticed what looked like an island in the middle of the lake.

"An island? A perfect place for me to hide out until Reimu is calm!" Chris shouted until he looked depressed. "I feel bad for what I did, but survival is top priority right now and how am I getting over to that lake?"

Chris pondered until he got an idea, he was pretty sure it would work.

Unbeknownst to him a certain person was humming along the shores of the lake with a handmade flag in her hands. She had short blue hair with a matching color ribbon tied to her head, a red bowtie, and a blue dress over a white blouse, and had what appeared to be icicle-shaped wings behind her.

"Yay! With this flag I'll mark it for my fortress as I show everyone I am the strongest!" she shouted until she noticed a figure a little ways from her. "Huh? Who's that? I don't think I've seen that person around here before?"

She saw the person stretched their legs and noticed it was a boy with black-haired dressed in strange clothing to her and then suddenly the boy dashed forward towards the lake, running on top of the water. The sheer blast of air from the boy's dash blow the little ice fairy a few inches away from where she stood.

"Huh? What just happened?" she asked dumbfoundedly to herself.

Chris was amazement with himself as he never ran across on top of a lake before but then again if someone saw him do this he would be in trouble. His feet were like blurs, hardly visible to the naked eye, as waves of water separated where he ran across, towering to his sides as he got closer to the island.

"CHRISTOPHER TREVAS CORONA!" Reimu shouted again, but it didn't sound too close, but it was enough to startle him as he looked back for a moment which caused him to tripped and skip his way other to the island similar to someone skipping rocks across the water.

He finally slowed down enough to do one more jump and launch himself into a tree, upside down with his back as the cushion.

"Why is it always the back?" Chris asked in pain as he slid down the tree. He got back on his feet and patted off the dirt all over him from the impact and surveyed his surroundings. He looked up and saw a mansion in the distant.

"Hmm? Someone lives here?" Chris looked on with great curiosity until his eyes spotted something in his field of vision and widen with shock.

Standing there in front of him ways away from the mansion was a very familiar black creature. Its back was turned for the moment until it turned around and grinned sneakily at Chris as it waved its hand.

"You're an ECHO Vocals!" Chris shouted. "Why are you here!"

The ECHO gave him a raspberry in the air, cracking up, as it dashed in the direction of the mansion.

"Oh no you don't!"

Chris gave chase and followed the creature. The ECHO monster came to stop, a gate blocking its way until it dived into the shadows and went underneath the gate and hurried over to the front door. Chris twisted his body to skid across the ground to stop himself and glared at the ECHO as it chuckled at him and entered the building.

Chris looked over to his side and saw a girl sleeping in a chair, not noticing one bit that a strange creature entered the building. She had scarlet-colored hair with her bangs braided with black ribbons, she wore a green beret and dress that resemble a traditional Chinese clothing with her legs showing off, and a gold star on her beret.

Chris's face blushed a bit, she was very beautiful to him but he shook out the sensation as he remembered that the ECHO monster enter the mansion. However he couldn't enter without permission so he proceed to wake the guard up.

"Ah… Excuse me, miss?" he gentle tapped her shoulder but she didn't response as she kept on snoozing. "Miss?"

He didn't want to be rude, but this is an emergency so it took her by the shoulder and shook her but gentle. "Miss please wake up! I need your permission to enter the mansion!"

But to no avail she kept on sleeping, smiling as she was having a pleasant dream. Chris sighed, this wasn't going anywhere and he didn't want to disturb her pleasant sleep and bow respectfully at the sleeping girl.

"Please excuse me!"

He then jumped over the gate and dashed over the door in mare seconds and opened the front door and looked around as the sun starting to disappear from the sky.

"Hello? Is anyone here?"

Author's Note: Sorry for taking a while to write this one, I had College this week but the classes are relatively easy so I believe I have some extra time to write my stories as I have work for 3 times a week but it depends. And I'm really glad this isn't super long like the last two chapters!

Writing about danmaku battles are quite hard, but with a little imaginative you can make anything happen! Though it does seems kinda rushed and not a lot of thought put into it but I hope you enjoyed the little sparring match.

Anyway Chris finally meets the girls and got to know them a bit and was getting on Reimu's good side until the incident with the donation box! Oh boy how are Marisa and him going to make it up to her? Plus he has to deal with the ECHO at the Scarlet Devil Mansion now so he's got a lot on his hands on day one!

There were some other scenarios and dialogues I had in mind, but I couldn't remember then a lot as I tend to think of the story at work or school where I can't write it down to my annoyance but I do remember the key ones like the sparring between Marisa and Chris, the destruction of the donation box, and Chris entering the SDM after the ECHO.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next one!

And for those of you who hadn't noticed I went back and updated chapter two with a few more stuff, after Chris's initial transform of his Divine Darkness form and another small line from Levin early on. You can read it again if you want.