"Anf...anf...anf..." Medicine panted, standing at the edge of her field. Her body slumped a bit and she held a long, poison lance in her hands, the weapon armed. Her body was burnt and signed, and clothing torn and burnt.
"Well..ya wanted a rematch~ze." Marisa chuckled, her body covered in poison splatters, cuts and some blood. "And this time..it doesn't hurt to have help."
"You're lucky both of you are still alive...mainly her." the doll said, weakly pointing her lance at Marisa's ally.
"Hey..you're the one who attacked me!"
"You're the one who uses my kind as weapons you witch!" Medicine yelled, hurling the lance at the doll maker, Alice, with great force. Alice ducked, the lance whizzing over her head and shattering into the ground behind her.
"Watch where you're throwing that thing!" Alice snapped, summoning a Shanghai Doll. She focused energy into the doll, causing it to fire a large, purple laser at Medicine.
Medicine growled, rushing at the laser. She spit a large glob of slick poison out of her mouth, sliding on it like oil. She chuckled, quickly launching up from poison slick with two swords in head. She landed between the two mages, a sword at each of their necks. "Now...like I said, I'm shocked you both lived this long." Medicine said.
Marisa and Alice froze. They felt the poison blade on their throats. "H-hey, settle down~ze!" Marisa spoke up.
"And why should I?" Medicine panted, pressing the blade up against Marisa's neck. "You brought DOLL MAKER here of all people! The one person who destroys my kind..uses them as maids and servants and weapons!" She said, glaring at Alice.
"I'm a p-puppeteer!" Alice snapped. "What else am I supposed to use?"
"Shut up!" Medicine sneered. "Why should I even let you talk?" She asked, quickly looking back at Marisa. "I don't need you anymore." She said, quickly morphing both swords into lances. She hit Marisa with the body of the lance, knowing her to the ground.
"M-Marisa!" Alice yelled in shock, quickly getting the butt of Medicine's other lance driven into her gut. "Gah!" She groaned in pain, falling to her knees, coughing up some spit and blood. She held her stomach, quivering from the blow.
Medicine followed through quickly, absorbing one lance and making a large, blunt mace with the other. "Watch this..Doll Maker." The doll chuckled, a hint of insanity in it. She swung the lance like it was a stick, having it come in clean contact with Marisa's side, sending her sprawling to the floor. The doll quickly flew over, kicking Marisa back into the air and crushing the mace down onto Marisa's back, sending her into the ground and making a small crater. "That's what you get...from bringing that witch into my fields..." Medicine growled, lifting the mace once more and made it ready to crash down once more, only to see it shatter into a mess of poison shards.
Alice panted, and a Shanghai doll plopping onto the ground, used and out of energy. "Get...away from her..." Alice said, slowly standing up and playing with her puppet strings.
"Or what? Gonna blast me with a laser? I dare you!" Medicine yelled, pulling Marisa up by her collar and holding the black-white witch in front of the red and black clad doll. "C'mon! Hit me!"
Alice gasped. "How...?" She asked, still playing with her strings.
"Once poison gets in you're system, I can control certain functions, plus I can make her float a bit, so it's easy to lift someone." Medicine explained. "But you don't care, only about this witch." She sighed.
"And..now." Alice said, clenching her fist and pulling on a large spool of her threads. A large glimmer of light shone on the wires, causing a large army of hidden dolls to spin into sight and all lock onto Medicine in ways to avoid Marisa.
"Scary!" Medicine laughed, hearing a faint humming.
"Seeker Doll!" Alice yelled, the dolls glowing and shooting out lasers, bouncing off one another and aiming towards Medicine.
"...dammit." She said, throwing Marisa at Alice and clasping her hands to encase herself in a poison shell, but the shell failed and the tsukumogami took the blunt force of the lasers.
Alice huffed, panting and slowly walking over to the extremely battered Marisa. "Are..are you...?" She asked, hearing Marisa faintly cough.
"One..one hell of...a doll...~ze" She said, trying to push herself off the ground, Alice helping her to her feet. "Y-yea..I'm..fine though." The witch said, looking at Medicine.
The doll was on the floor, thin traces of smoke coming off her body as it lied limp on the burnt and destroyed ground.
"There goes a good doll..." Alice sighed, starting with Marisa to leave.
"...w-wha."
The magicians froze in their tracks once more, slowly turning around. A fourth and very powerful person arrived on the battlefield.
"Who the hell did this to her? You two..again? Wasn't it enough when Kaguya sent you to kill me?"
"O-oh hey M-Mokou! How's...how's it goin'~ze?" Marisa chuckled nervously.
Mokou growled, her hands immediately lighting on fire and her phoenix wings erupting from her back. "Really nice you two...instead of TRY and get to know her you destroy her!" Mokou yelled, clenching her fists and slowly walking to the panicked females.
"S-she attacked us!" Alice said, backing up with Marisa.
"Did you go for her flowers?"
"Um..yea?" Marisa said, cringing. "Bad move~ze..."
"Serves you right." Mokou chuckled, opening one of her palms and making a fireball. It grew larger, nearly the size of Mokou herself.
Marisa panicked, pushing Alice off of her and arming herself. "Magicannon: Final Spark!" She yelled, quickly launching her rainbow laser at the immortal.
Mokou laughed, literally walking through the laser as it tore at her body. She regenerated each piece of flesh torn off within seconds. "So...gonna run?"
Marisa stopped the laser, panting heavily. "Yea..see ya!" She said, quickly grabbing Alice and running off with her as fast as her injured and fatigued body could move.
Mokou watched, dusting herself off and checking on the talismans on her pants and in her hair. When the two blonde humans were out of sight, she quickly ran back to Medicine, still on the floor. "Medicine? Are...you...?" She asked.
Medicine didn't respond, the slight traces of smoke still raising and swirling in the air.
"Medicine..c'mon this isn't funny!" Mokou said, gently shaking the doll, still no response. "No..Medicine please..get up dammit!" Mokou yelled, shaking the tsukumogami again. "Not...another..."
"...mmm wha...?" Medicine slowly and quietly muttered, looking around. "...are...they gone?" She asked, not knowing who she was talking to.
Mokou gently and slowly picked up the doll youkai. "Yea...I drove them off..I came just at the right time." She said, looking away.
"Mokou...I didn't think you'd come today." She smiled weakly. Her body was in utter shambles and her clothing were ripped beyond repair, but the faint traces till kept her covered enough so the scrapes could be called 'clothes'.
Mokou nodded. "Yea...I came today." She said, blinking her eyes. "Wanted to see how you were doing."
"Well..I guess you see how I'm doing." the tsukumogami chuckled a bit. She looked at Mokou. "Are you...alright Mokou?"
"Hm? Yea, yea, I'm fine, don't worry." She said, rubbing one of her eyes.
Medicine tilted her head. "Why did you do that?"
"It's called an itch. They annoy you're skin and you scratch them to make them go away." Mokou explained.
"What causes them?" the naive doll asked.
"Dirt, an eyelash, some other things...like a tear." Mokou said, rubbing her eye again.
"What's a tear?" She asked, sitting next to Mokou and looking at her.
"A tear is the eye's way of flushing out what's in the eye..or when someone's sad."
"Sad...that's when someone is upset, right?"
Mokou nodded, fixing her bow. "Yea..I was..upset to see you like that...in fact, I was worried you died, well...stopped working." Mokou said.
Medicine looked at Mokou, shocked a bit and blushing, if she could.
"Yea...but um..never mind that." the immortal said, trying to maintain her composure and appearance. "So..who's this Su-san of yours?"
Medicine perked up and quickly jumped to her feet, pointing to her field. "That's Su-san! She's my flowers!" She said very happily.
Mokou got up slowly and chuckled. "Named you're flowers huh? Cute."
"Well, she gave me life! Plus she talks to me!" Medicine explained, grabbing Mokou's hand and quickly running her deep into the heart of the field. "And don't worry about the poisons, you're immune to the vast majority."
"Huh? How?" Mokou asked, not fighting back.
"Eirin told me about the immune system and...whenever I saw you and I slipped you poison, like a va...sine?"
"Vaccine." the Fujiwara corrected. "Well, that's nice of you, thanks."
"Yep! Now..I want you to meet her!" Medicine said, stopping and crouching. "Su-san, this is Mokou. She's a new friend of mine. She just saved me."
Mokou crossed her arms and listened. "What's she saying?"
"...thanks for saving her. She means a lot to the field, and the field means a lot to her." Medicine said, talking on behalf of the flowers.
"Well..uh...you're welcome." Mokou chuckled.
"Hey Mokou..can uh..you stay a bit? I uh..n-need someone to help fix me." Medicine said.
"Huh?" the immortal said, not getting it at first. "Oh! That! 'Course I'll help kid."