11:30am Trial of Pikmin.

SLAM!

The wooden mallet smacked down onto the desk, the voices that muttered across the room went dead. They held their breath, a few shuffling their feet as the judge looked as two figures pushed the door at the other end of the courtroom, One held his grey hat in his hand, the other kept his/her eyes on the room.

"Welcome guilty party." The man spoke in a firm tone, pointing his hand to the two chairs, prepared for the two. The two sat down, one noticeably didn't have the hood up, and the face was finally revealed. The person was a she, she hair was a bleach white that was kept untied, the hair reached down to her back. The other one held dark brown hair that was normally covered by his grey hat. Pikmin sighed, whispering an inaudible sentence to the person beside him.

"Let's begin this trial people, at around 12:30pm last night, Pikmin was reportedly outside the Scarlet Devil Mansion with bruises from a fight. This is what he claimed afterwards, he left towards the Hakurei shrine to supposedly met up with Reimu for something about an incident." The judge paused, catching his breath.

"And without warning, he attempted to kill Reimu with two spears that were recovered at the crime scene." And two men came behind Pikmin, holding the same bloody spears that were impaled into Reimu's arms. "Tell me Pikmin, do you recognise these spears?"

"I-I recognise them... they were impaled into Reimu, but I do not wield spears. I wield swords!" Pikmin stated his fact, keeping calm on his outwards appearance, in reality he was lost and nearly broke by the accusations for a crime he didn't commit.

"He's guilty!" A female voice yelled across the stand to Pikmin's right, it was an unexpected sight even for Pikmin, stood in the stand, standing up, her finger accusing him, believing the bizarre story that Aya had written. This person was Jai Kona, a mysterious youkai who made it clear for the dislike of Pikmin. Everyone tilted their hands towards the mad ramblings of Jai, some applauded while others look confused at her.

"Silence in the stand!" The judge looked at Jai, almost embarrassed at her behaviour. "Ahem, so you claim to use swords, who can suppor-" The judge was quickly cut off as the person beside him raised her hand, clearing her throat.

"I can support his claim." Her hypnotic voice returned, her pale blue eyes staring at the judge, waiting for his approval to speak. He slowly nodded and pointed to her, almost bored. "Just outside of the field of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, when mysterious figures attacked him and he showed that he could only wield swords."

"Where's your proof?!" Jai yelled out again, and the crowd simply ignored her frantic ramblings. The judge raised his hand, beckoning for the familiar school teacher of the human village, Keine soon entered from an unknown door, she wore a blue dress that had a white patch at the centre with red markings at the side, making it resemble an apron.

As Keine went to grab Jai's arm, she was gone.

"Anyway... before we were sadly interrupted by your apparent hater." The judge silently sighed. All of the room remained silent after he spoke

"If you need proof..." Pikmin flicked his hand and with that flick, the scarlet sword appeared in his lone hand. No blood appeared on his sword.

"I see, I see." The judge barley looked at the evidence that may break or save Pikmin.

"The weapon system seems quite reasonable... but onto the main meat of this case." A visible sweat drop appeared on Pikmin, he knew. Everyone knew.

"Why were you at Reimu's shrine last night?" The judge boomed across the silent hall, no murmurs and not even a breath was exhaled in those few precious seconds of silence. And then, Pikmin threw his hand upwards, pointing towards the heavens.

"Did none look at the moon?" Pikmin spoke with slight annoyance.

"No, what about the moon?"

"It was cracked! A slight crack, but a crack all the same!" All of the courtroom tilted their necks towards him. And then, he remembered, the moon was covered by the clouds for most of the night, expect for that small pocket of time.

Inside the Courthouse.

Keine was leaning on the door to the courtroom where the verbal war was continuing with the occasional yelling of Pikmin and the judge being heard from the door. Keine looked half asleep with her head tilted towards her feet. However that was barley the case, in her way, stood another woman, one who had protective amulets spattered throughout her clothes.

"Keine, why did you ever say for us to protect Pikmin from any potential attackers? It's borin' when you take all the glory by removing Jai!" The other woman held a bored expression aimed at Keine. And then the woman walked up to Keine, shaking her violently.

"Ya awake there Keine?" Keine's face didn't change at all. And then the sword came through the woman's arm, her scarlet blood went through her arm, but the woman merely tilted, enduring the pain and swung her body around, smashing her unknown attacker in the face.

But there was no person standing on her fist. 2 grey spears flew past her, she then clenched her hand and threw a fire-ball, but not an ordinary fireball but it had the shape of a phoenix, smashing into a visible person's chest, the fire swallowing him within seconds. The second one flew past her, stabbing her in the leg, catching the woman off guard, her blood poured onto the attacker.

And then Keine grabbed the attacker by the neck, slamming him down into the floor, splinters flying everywhere and then, the other woman threw her hardest punch at the person's stomach, no blood came out as the person faded into nothing.

"Mokou!" Keine cried out, looking at her leg and her arm, bloodied by the attackers. Mokou shook her head, not accepting her aid her aid . She was Fujiwara No Mokou, the daughter of a family that she left in history. She only remained alive to this day due to an elixir called the Hourai Elixir.

"I don't need your help. There's no damage done to me really!" Her words spoke a giant lie, her words seemed fine but her eyes showed pain and anger towards her attackers.

In the corner of the doorway, the dreaded parasol's tip stood pointed at the courtroom, the sinister smirk laid plastered on her face. The devilish Yukari Yakumo came into view, staring briefly at Keine and the injured Mokou. The three laid staring at each other for an entirety or so it seemed.

"What are you doing here?" An suspicious Keine cried out among the silence of the other two. She only took steps forward and she removed a hand, going to help Mokou up. Until the sliver flicker of the sword appeared from the corner of her hand.

"Don't you dare!" Keine threw her full weight into a shoulder barge into Yukari's rib cage, Yukari stumbled backwards as the sword scarped down the wooden wall, she tiled her attention to the school teacher.

"You aren't the real Yukari! The one I know doesn't remove hands of people!" A desperate Keine cried out, trying to break through to the fake Yukari. And then the double doors for the trial room swung open. From the trial room the silver chains flew at Yukari, at the last second, a purple rip in space appeared, but with the slight flicker of a black and white voided space, the attack flew in, never to return.

The cloaked girl was the origin of the chains. Yukari's wrist flicked as the sword barrage flew towards the cloaked girl with inconceivable speed, their silver and steel light shone like the starry night across the Misty Lake on a clear night. A yellow haze appeared around the girl as the sword collided against the invisible shield. The same flick was repeated and the swords flew, the girl jumped to the side. However, the judge of the trial stood a few metres away from her and the swords, missing their target slashed into the unsuspecting judge, his corpse laid hung on the stand where wittiness would be called forward. His red blood laid splattered across the back end of the room.

Pikmin flew at bird speed, gliding against the floor, holding two scarlet swords, swinging at her in a bizarre pattern, anger clouded his judgement as he swung. He felt the sword collide into flesh as Yukari stepped back an inch, in shock. This wasn't the Yukari that Pikmin knew.

"You are a fake!" Pikmin cried out as Yukari's left arm suffered two slash s where the arm connected to the rest of the body. Yukari barley looked fazed by the blood, her eyes cloudy, like she was a puppet to some sort of twisted puppet-master. Pikmin lowered his scarlet sword for a brief second, a hand was put onto his shoulder, he twisted his neck, almost in shock. Expecting an angry Yukari, it was the girl who had defended him in the courtroom. Her warm breath touched his ear and only a few words was uttered.

"Thank you."