Even the brightest jewel held a dark stain.
Pikmin stood alone in the field that expanded outwards in expansive mountains ranges that held the land trapped in time and the land that advances forward. Dismissing the warnings of an insanity deducing moon, only leaving it down to a rabbit in a mansion deep inside the bamboo sea.
He didn't notice but the skyline around him begun to drown in a dark barrier. The trap was sprung.
He only noticed when it was too late. Before he knew it, two grey clothed men appeared beside Pikmin, each one held the same weapon, a broadsword.
"I have company tonight do I?" Pikmin smirked as with a flick of his hand, two scarlet drenched swords appeared in his hands.
"Let us dance!" Pikmin yelled as he swung at the two men who stood beside him, the swords flung up like clockwork, no metal scrapping off metal was heard, as Pikmin's swords and their swords weren't made of metal.
The raising and blocking of swords only lasted for a minute between the three figures, the men were in a trance, none paid attention but to the swords clashing at each other. Pikmin played the offensive. But no matter how much he tried to break their defence, they wouldn't budge.
Until a fourth member crashed into the battle.
The chain flew at a slow, but slow enough to ensnare the one that had Pikmin's attention, the chain wrapped around his sword arm, allowing Pikmin to deal the final blow.
Slash! The scarlet sword went through the figure's chest, no blood came out as the hole expanded and the figure disappeared into the existence where it had came from.
The other one ran at Pikmin, his broadsword lifted, aiming to crack Pikmin's skull, he merely tilted his neck and his scarlet sword flew back like an arrow, no sound was made apart from the gasp of air that escaped the figure as the sword flew through his chest, the hole expanding and then he disappeared into the same existence.
After the two disappeared, the dark haze vanished as quickly as it appeared, the remaining sword in Pikmin's hand disappeared. And then he turned to the chain wielding figure.
From a distance, the figure's hood blocked the identity of the person.
"I warned you about not looking at the moon." The figure spoked in a soft tone, the hypnotic voice still remained. Genuine feeling was in the voice.
"The moon didn't cause this one." Pikmin replied, ignoring the fact that the silver moon shone onto his back.
"How can we be so sure?"
"Who where they?" Pikmin ignored the previous question asked towards him.
"The one part of you that remains in mystery." The tone of the voice raised. Almost like the person had a personal experience towards the grey attackers.
"What part of me?" Pikmin threw up a confused space.
The figure sighed and merely pointed to Pikmin's chest.
"The Desire."
"My Desire? Is that what they are?"
"Yes... this isn't the place to talk. Warn the shrine maiden, they beckon."
"Who are yo-" Before Pikmin could even ask for the figure's name, he/she had disappeared into the shadows.
Hakurei Shrine
"Reimu! Reimu!" Pikmin banged and banged on the closed wooden doors that held the personal shrine maiden's house. Daylight was just beginning to seep through the mountains that sheltered the shrine from the outside world. From the path laid the always empty donation box and to the side, a smaller shrine that belonged to the Moryia Shrine, a larger shrine that held its domination over the Youkai Mountain.
"Open up!" Pikmin screamed hoping to at-least wake up the shrine maiden.
"Do you always have to make such noise..." Reimu appeared suddenly from a cave that remained covered up by an overgrown tree.
"Oh... that's where you where?" Pikmin quickly shook his head, dismissing any thoughts and questions he was about to ask Reimu to what she was doing in the cave.
"Anyway, we may have the beginning of a problem!" Pikmin spoke in a quieter tone, hoping to not gain any attention to anyone. But even that was hard for when they already here.
"What sort of problem, if it's about the fact you cannot have a lov-" A distant bush rustled as the same darkness veil slipped into the shrine, and they 10 of the same figure lunged all at Reimu carrying grey spears., but Reimu raised her hand, and her lips moved.
"Fantasy Seal!" 6 rainbow coloured balls rotated around Reimu like an awkward solar system before they flew like a heat seeking missile, smashing into 6 of them, exploding into the rainbow balls that they were shot with.
Only 4 remained, they weren't bothered by their comrades being obliterated. They all had one job, to kill Reimu Hakurei.