Medicine poked her head out of a large tent that was nailed in the middle of the suzuran field on an empty patch of grass. She looked around, seeing, hearing and feeling nothing but rain. "Wow..it's really raining, huh?" She said, pulling her head back inside. Tsubaki hovered over and onto Medicine's head, nodding. "Well, we just have to let it pass. Good thing Mokou bought this tent for me, huh?" She giggled happily and lying down. Tsubaki hovered off the large doll's head and sat down next to her, moving her hands around in an attempt to say something.
"Hm? What is it Tsu?"
Tsubaki kept motioning her hands, suddenly stopping at a dull rumble. She looked around, slightly in a panic.
"What...what was that?" Medicine asked, poking her head back outside of the tent slowly. She looked around, seeing nothing. "Hello?" she said quietly, hearing another rumble. She jumped back, still trying to look around for something in the pouring rain. "Is..is someone here?" She said, scared. "M-Mokou? K-Keine? Sakuya?" She called out, hoping a familiar voice would reply. The rumbling got louder, suddenly spiking in a loud crack. Medicine looked around, breathing quickly and nervously. "This isn't funny!" She yelled, suddenly screaming as she saw a large flash of lightning scream across the sky coupled by a thunderous crack of thunder. "W-what's that?" She said panicked and quickly diving back into her tent. She was shaking as Tsubaki tried to calm her down, the small doll obviously not afraid of thunder or lightning.
Medicine's eyes stayed open as wide as they could. "W-what is that..." She asked the small doll, who just shrugged in response. The tsukumogami listened intently as the heavy deluge of stop shortly lightened up. "I...I think it's gone Tsubaki..." the large doll said quietly, still listening. A loud shattering thunder, a sudden flash of lightning, and the loud scream of the doll of poison each rang out one after the other. Medicine grabbed the large blanket she sat next to and quickly threw it over herself, whimpering a bit. "Go away please..go away" She kept saying.
In the Bamboo Forest, the lunarian doctor and the lunar rabbit both were in the same predicament, minus the shouting and screaming over the thunder and lightening.
"I just love the rain, don't you Udongein?"
"I do, but I do prefer sunny days." Reisen replied, looking at Eirin as she was working on the flowers Medicine had given them a while back. "What are you doing, if I might ask?"
"I'm making a vaccine to Medicine's poisons. I know she trusts us, and I trust her, but even being in a certain range of her when she feels scared, threatened, or any other emotion of that sort, she passively lets off a numbing poison for quick escape. You weren't affected because of the many vaccines you already have." Eirin explained as she carefully eyed a test tube filled with a purple poison.
Reisen nodded. "Oh, I see. But why is it taking so long?"
"It's a very complex poison. She mixes her own poison with the poison of the suzurans. She also found some other poisonous, toxic, and venomous flora and fauna, so that makes it even harder to try and make a vaccine..." Eirin sighed, grabbing a few small beakers and droppers with other liquids. "Right now..her most basic poison is a numbing poison that is made of suzuran poison, water, and some odd particles..they seem like..dirt."
Reisen nodded, one of her ears perking up at a light knock. "Hello?" She asked, walking to the locked door.
"Hey Inaba..lemme it. I need to see the doc."
Reisen unlocked the door and opened it to see the immortal welcome herself into the lab. "Hello Mokou?" Reisen said, confused a bit.
"What is it this time?" Eirin asked, not looking up from her work.
"I'm here to talk about Medicine."
"Like that's a shock." Reisen giggled.
Mokou ignored the rabbit's remark. "Medicine has been acting...weird lately."
"Explain." Eirin demanded, dripping some poison into a filled beaker and seeing the new liquid bubble.
"She seems to be acting human-like." Mokou said.
"Well, she's a doll, but with a human soul, so of course she's going to be human-like." Eirin explained, putting down what she was working on and turning to face the immortal.
"No..I mean it looked like she almost blushed." Mokou said, seeing the rabbit's and doctor's expressions.
"Wait...what?" Reisen said, confused and blinking. "She blushed?"
"Exactly my words Udongein. That's not really possible."
"My point exactly." Mokou said. "It's odd really. She's still naive about the world, but she's starting to get a grip on things, plus she does care a lot about us, heck she made me immune to her poisons."
"Medicine made you immune..how?" Eirin asked.
"She slipped my poison, like a vaccine...I thought you told her about that stuff."
"I did..I just forgot about it..." Eirin groaned, hearing Reisen giggle and Mokou chuckled.
"But that really is odd Mokou. Maybe you should go see if she will come here so Eirin can examine her." Reisen said.
"I might, but then again, eh." Mokou said, walking back to the door just as a loud crack of thunder and sharp flash of lightning appeared. She opened the door. "I'm gonna go see her, be back soon." She informed the two quickly walking outside and closing the door behind her. Mokou summoned her phoenix wings and quickly took off for the Nameless Hill.
"She really does care for her, doesn't she?" Reisen asked, seeing Eirin nod.
"She's immortal, the two of them are. Mokou would never try and start a relationship with Kaguya based on the past."
Back at the Nameless Hill, the heavy rain grew into a storm, thunder and lightning shattering and lightning up the black sky like a danmaku show. Medicine was still inside her tent and under her blanket, screaming and shaking with each flash and crack. "Go away...go away...go away..." She kept saying, rocking in place.
"Damn...it's even heavier hear." Mokou said, landing and making her wings vanish. "Well..not gonna help much here..too freakin' wet." Mokou growled at the rain, quickly running over to the small dot in the distance, the tent. "Hope Medi's alright..." She muttered, trying to quicken her already fast pace.
Medicine slowly pulled the covers off her head, listening. The rain was still a deluge, but other than that, nothing. "I think it's done." Medicine said, slowly walking out of the tent into the rain. She didn't mind the rain at all, but it soon changed once again. A bolt of lightning was seen screaming across the sky as the very familiar shatter of thunder accompanied it. Medicine watched the lightning bolt, letting out an extremely loud scream. She hurried back into the tent, cowering under the blanket again with Tsubaki trying to calm her down, but to absolutely no avail.
Mokou stopped dead in her tracks as she heard the nearly ear shattering scream. "M-Medicine?" she gasped, running as fast as she could towards the tent. "Don't worry Medi..I'm here!" She said to herself as she grew closer to the tent housing the frightened doll. Another bolt of lightning, another scream. The immortal finally reached the tent in a few minutes, hours to the scared tsukumogami. Mokou hastily opened the tent flap and hurried inside to see Tsubaki looking back.
"Medicine, don't worry, I'm here." Mokou said, going over to the doll.
Medicine quickly threw the blanket off of her and looked at Mokou. "M-Mokou!" She yelled happily and quickly diving onto the immortal. "I was so scared...what's going on?" She asked, slowly calming down, her body still shaking.
Mokou gently held the doll in her arms. "There, there...it's okay little Medicine. It's just thunder and lightning. It's natural." Mokou said, sitting down with Medicine still clinging to her.
"I don't care...just don't leave me please..I'm still scared." the doll said, seemingly sobbing.
"It's okay..just relax..I won't leave, I promise." Mokou said, trying to calm her friend down.
"I know...thank you Mo-" the doll started, screaming at the sound of a sudden explosion of thunder.
Mokou rocked the doll quickly. "Sh..sh..it's okay..it'll go away..."
"I h-hope so..." Medicine said, burying her face into Mokou's neck in an attempt to try and dull out the lightning flashes and thunder booms.
Mokou blushed lightly, but smiled. "C'mon Medicine, be strong, alright?" Mokou said, lying back, the tsukumogami still clinging to Mokou like a baby to it's mother. The Fujiwara grabbed the blanket Medicine was under and threw it over the two. "I won't leave until you tell me I can, okay?"
Medicine nodded, shaking still as another boom of thunder was heard. "Just...don' leave me..please..."
"I promise you, I won't." Mokou promised.