"So..what are you doing here again?" Medicine asked, folding up a note and putting it in her skirt pocket.
"I heard that there was something...newsworthy here."
The doll sighed. "I think I remember you..that black winged person from the Incident." the doll said, fixing a large ribbon in her hair.
"Yep! That was me! The one and only." The person said, taking out a notepad and pen. "Now..what's with the ribbon, it looks like the immortal's."
"It is Mokou's. She gave it to me in this note." Medicine said, patting the pocket the letter was in. "She said she had to go away for a bit and get something done..."
"Interesting..." the reporter said, scribbling down what Medicine was saying in shorthand.
"She said it'd take her a week..but it's been a month and..I miss her." Medicine said, playing with the ribbon again, one of Mokou's fire-proof talismans.
"Uh-huh...uh-huh..." the reporter said, still scribbling. "Anything else between you and the immortal?"
"No..not anything else." Medicine said, looking at the reporter. "Wait...why do you wanna know...?"
"The Bunbunmaru needs SOME kind of juicy story like this! No one can beat Aya Shameimaru when it comes to news!" She said putting the pad and pen into her shirt pocket. "Well, I'll be off! Thanks for the news!" the tengu said, flapping her wings and starting to take off.
"No you don't!" Medicine said, suddenly rushing towards the tengu, poison knife in hand.
Aya giggled a bit and hovered above the ground. "Don't ya remember? I was the only one that natural poison can't hurt!" She said, starting to fly in circles around the tsukumogami.
"My gaseous and vaporous poisons." Medicine said. "I learned some new tricks...watch this!" Medicine said, stabbing the knife into a patch of grass and pressing it deep into the ground. The doll kept her palm on the ground as Aya watched, confused.
"Um..what do you think you're doing?" She asked, hearing a light rumble. "Thunder?" She said quickly, looking around for a cloud.
"If thunder comes from below..then yea." Medicine said, gripping some earth. "And..now!" She yelled, the earth around the two cracking.
"W-what?" Aya asked in shock, looking at the ground. "Lucky I'm in the air..." she said, seeing the tsukumogami smirk.
"Not just all bark..you know what I did to Doll Maker and Love Witch." She said, slowly standing up, a long column of poison reaching from her arm to the hole in the ground. The doll motioned her arm to swing.
Aya's eyes flew open, the tengu flying to the side to see nothing but the column fly at her and shatter midair. "Huh?"
The shards hit the ground, more rumbling. "This..." Medicine said, stomping on the ground, causing the shards to jump up and at Aya. The tengu spun around and easily flew above them.
"Ha! You really think that moves like THAT will work?" Aya chuckled, swinging her maple leaf fan and sending a small cyclone of wind at the doll.
"Speed won't always win it." the doll said, making a wall of poison from the nearby flowers and shattering it as the gust hit it, the two forces equalizing and dying. "Speed, power, and smarts. Those three are the main keys in battle and one trumps the other." Medicine said. "And my power is all around me..yours will run out sooner or later."
Aya scoffed. "Air's all around us too, so yea...both of us are on equal terms." She said, fanning herself off.
"Or are we?" the doll giggled, snapping her fingers. The ground rumbled again and Aya looked around. "More mind tricks huh?"
"None once so ever." Medicine replied, manipulating the poisonous roots of the suzurans to seep out a highly stick and dense poison. The doll then rocketed it up through the ground, a spear-like pillar shooting straight up from under the ground and going to impale Aya.
"Oh boy!" Aya yelled, flying up and stopping just out of reach. She chuckled and landed on the pillar, standing on it. "Really now dolly?"
Medicine clenched her hand, the pillar liquefying and the tengu sinking into it. "Yep, now really." Medicine sang, causing the poison jelly to jump up and engulf the tengu.
Aya struggled inside the poison, suddenly making a vortex of wind to scatter the liquid poison. The tengu panted, falling to the ground. "Okay...t-that was new." She said, flapping her wings and hovering slightly off the ground. "It won't happen aga-" she said, sudden gasping and falling to the ground. "What the hell?"
"Birds can't fly if their wings are wet." Medicine said, sitting down and tending to her flowers.
Aya growled a bit. "A tough girl huh? That won't stop me!" Aya said, getting up and starting to run, falling on her face.
Medicine hummed a bit, looking over. "Those geta are horrible in a place like this. Mainly because the roots can trip you, or...a poison vine can grab your ankle." Medicine giggled, walking over and taking the notepad from Aya's pocket.
"H-hey! Give that back!" Aya ordered, seeing the doll rip out a page, then hand it back.
"There ya go! Now get out before I rip those wings off like a piece of paper." Medicine said, dissolving the poison on Aya's leg and wings.
The tengu sighed and quickly jumped up into the air, flapping her wings. "Fine fine...jeez..." She said, quickly flying out of sight.
"And don't come back!" Medicine yelled, then sighed. She walked over to the tent and sat next to it, undoing the ribbon and looking at it in her hands. "See Mokou..I calmed down...a bit. I didn't hurt her much..and I made it so she had to run away." Medicine smiled lightly. "I'm changing...it's hard, but I can do it...I miss you..."