"So...find her and give her this letter?"
Medicine nodded and sighed. "Yea...and please hurry..."
"Something wrong Medi?"
"She's been gone for about 3 months now...I hear from people that 'time flies when you're having fun' ...but this isn't fun at all." the doll sighed, sitting down and holding her legs.
"Hey, cheer up! She'll be back, I promise! I'll give her this letter no problem!"
"...thanks Aya." The doll sighed once more.
Aya knelt down and patted the doll's head, ruffling her hair a bit. "Just cheer up, okay?" She said, getting up and extending her wings, soon rocketing off into the sky.
"I doubt I can..."
The Flowering Incident was long over, and life returned to normal, except for the Nameless Hill. Medicine still waited for Mokou to return, but the days for her got longer and longer, and any attempts to cheer her up failed. Sakuya, Yuuka, Aya, Reisen, even Marisa and Alice tried to brighten the doll's mood, all ending in failure. Medicine didn't even bother to threaten the two blond mages in the slightest.
"I'm worried for her you know..." Yuuka said, sitting on a large sunflower chair.
Sakuya stood next to her. With the short time they had during the Incident, they became somewhat friends, if not just acquaintances. "I think a lot of people are. She's not doing anything but tending her flowers. Normally, I would see her at least once a week at the village. Or I would hear her tell me that she went out to visit Reisen or someone else." Sakuya explained.
"I see...I'm going to go try and cheer her up, alright?" Yuuka said, getting up and snapping her fingers, making the chair slowly slither back into the ground.
Sakuya nodded. "Okay then, I'll be going now." She said, bowing and blinking out of view. Yuuka walked over to the field of suzurans, using her powers to make a path for her directly to Medicine. She held her umbrella open and gently on her shoulder, getting closer to the depressed doll.
"I didn't know dolls got depressed." Yuuka said as she grew closer to Medicine.
The doll mumbled something, lying on the ground and holding herself. Yuuka sighed and sat down next to her. "What's wrong Medi?"
Medicine mumbled again, taking in a deep breath and sighing.
Yuuka smirked, closing her umbrella. "Mokou, huh?" She asked, seeing Medicine nod. "You know, you just might need to get over her." Yuuka said.
Medicine slowly stood up. "W-what?"
"Yea, I mean, look at the facts, she hasn't been back in months. Reimu has even been hearing rumors of a new shrine up on Youkai Mountain. Aya even confirmed it herself. Face the facts Medicine, she left you."
"...no she didn't." the tsukumogami said with a low voice.
"And how do you know that? Did she write? Did she visit? Did she send for someone to tell you? No she didn't. She left you." Yuuka said, holding Medicine close against her.
The doll pushed the youkai off her. "I don't believe you." She growled.
Yuuka sighed. "Well, I'm speaking the truth." the flower youkai said.
"No you're not!" Medicine said, getting up and pointing a knife at Yuuka. "You just want me to forget her...someone like me!" She said, her body was visibly shaking from rampant emotions.
"Is..is she really upset?" Yuuka mumbled to herself. "Look Medi, I'll be here to help you, don't worry one bit, okay?" she got up and slowly walked over to Medicine, who slashed at her with the knife.
"Stay back..." She warned, looking at the knife. A few drops of blood coated the knife.
Yuuka growled, feeling her face where the cut was. "Drew blood huh...the first one ever to do so...I tried to be nice Melancholy...I really did." She flicked the blood off her fingers. "I tried to comfort you..but it didn't work..." She grinned.
Medicine panted a bit, her arm shaking as she pointed the knife at the youkai. "Just...I want to be left alone..."
"Too bad..you're mine!" Yuuka yelled, swinging her umbrella and unleashing a swarm large vines at the doll.
Medicine's eyes opened, quickly making a long sword out of poison and going to hack th vines, but stopped as they grew near. "Su...Su-san's vines?" She said, quickly dropping the sword and bracing herself. The vines wrapped around Medicine and hoisted her into the air.
"I knew you couldn't hurt your flowers...so easy to read." Yuuka said, walking over to the hanging doll and gently placing her hand on Medicine's cheek. "Looks like you are my doll now."
Medicine growled. "Don't call me that..and put me down!" She yelled, flailing in the vine net.
Yuuka smiled. "Nah...I want you to be my doll!" She said, walking away a bit, then turning back around. "What should I do with my new toy?"
The tsukumogami growled and looked at Yuuka. "I thought you were a friend..." she said, still struggling to get free.
"I was you're friend...and I actually want you to be mine, just like a play thing~" Yuuka giggled.
Medicine slowly stopped wriggling and laid limp. "Please..just let me go.." she asked.
"I said no every time, so what makes you think this time will be a yes?" Yuuka said.
"...sorry Su-san." Medicine muttered, twisting herself in the vines and slicing them clean off of her with a series of razor sharp spikes on her body. She landed and made a surge of poison to rush and tackle Yuuka to the ground.
Yuuka stayed still, laughing lightly. "This is going to hurt me?"
Medicine growled, digging her hails into Yuuka's arms. "Never..use Su-san..like that again..." She growled, her eyes welling with poison again and her body dripping it onto the flower youkai.
Yuuka, sneered and kicked the doll off of her, seeing Medicine just gain her balance in the air and land on a pedestal of poison. Yuuka aimed her umbrella at the doll, gathering energy at the tip. "Well..if I can't have you, no one can!" She yelled, firing a large blast of energy similar, if not stronger, than Marisa's Master Spark.
Medicine shattered the pedestal and dropped under the beam, dashing under it and attacking Yuuka with a large shockwave of poison.
Yuuka chuckled and redirected the beam, shattering the poison wave and hitting Medicine directly on the chest, blowing her into the ground. "Poor doll.." She sighed.
"Poor doll this!" the doll yelled, hurling a claw shaped poison blast at the flower Youkai.
"W-what?" She yelled in shock, the claw gripping the youkai. Medicine slowly rose from the ground. "You mock me..you mock the girl that's most like me...you attack my flowers...you're dead." Medicine said, her body twitching wildly and her eyes filled with a blood red liquid.
Yuuka looked up. "Medicine...let me go." She demanded, trying to break free.
"You're MY doll now." The tsukumogami said, dashing over and grabbing Yuuka by the neck. "Come play with me." She giggled, slamming the youkai into the ground. She grabbing air in both of her hands, making two large, spiked maces. "Wanna play?" She grinned, slamming the poison mad weapons repeatedly into the hole Yuuka was buried in. Pound after pound, the doll continued her assault, ending only when her weapons broke.
Yuuka groaned, still gripped by the poison claw and covered in blood and poison. "No one..ever beat me like this before..and..no one will..." She groaned, trying to sit up.
Medicine stomped down on Yuuka's chest, pinning her to the ground. "Stay down there..." she ordered, hearing Yuuka only groan in response. " Can't handle being a toy?"
Yuuka smirked lightly, soon breaking free from the poison and blowing Medicine off her body with a powerful magic blast. The youkai panted and sat up in the hole. "No one ever did that to me before...heheh." She chuckled, splitting into two. The two Yuukas aimed their umbrellas at Medicine, who just pushed herself off the ground. "Hatred Sign: Double Spark!" The two yelled, firing two identical beams at Medicine.
"The hell?" She asked, the sheer force of the oncoming attack knocking her out of her poison blood lust. "Y-Yuuka?" She gasped, quickly making a poison shell, but too late, the force of the lasers blasting the doll backwards and deep into the field.
Yuuka panted, melding with her clone and put her umbrella over her should and walked to where the doll was. "No bark left huh?" She asked, standing over the doll. "C'mon! Get up!" She yelled, kicking Medicine. "I said..." she started, stomping on the limp tsukumogami. "...get...up!" She demanded, stomping and kicking the doll. "What's wrong? Without that gray haired wench you can't do anything?" Yuuka cackled. "Unless! Useless! Useless!" She cackled even louder, seeing biting her lip in pain. "Who...?" She asked, turning to see someone, steaming with rage.
"Gray...hair...wench?" She yelled, extending burning wings.
"Hey, you're back!" Yuuka laughed, kicking Medicine's limp body away and dusting herself off. "About time I got a fight."
"I'll show you a fight...I'll show you a fight you witch!" Mokou yelled at the top fo her lungs, erupting into a burning inferno. Her wings shot out times longer and thicker than normal and her rage fueled her already red hot fires.
"Bring it phoenix! Protect the doll that just died for you to return a bit too late." Yuuka taunted, aiming the umbrella.
"Try me!" the immortal yelled and diving at Yuuka just as the youkai launched her laser from the umbrella. Yuuka sneered, soon gasping as Mokou roared through it in a twisting fire, connecting with a straight punch th Yuuka's stomach.
"Ack!" she coughed, falling to her knees and clutching her stomach. Mokou grabbed the flower youkai by her hair and pulled her up. "Call me a 'gray haired wench' again..I dare you."
Yuuka struggled to keep a smirk. "...w-wench." She sneered, soon being lightly thrown into the air and Mokou connecting with a fire infused kick to Yuuka's face, the green haired youkai being slamming into the ground.
"Get out of my sight..or I'll use you're corpse to fertilize the flowers here." Mokou threatened, soon seeing Yuuka slowly get up.
"You...I'll be back..don't worry. You left her..I didn't! Remember that!" Yuuka said, vanishing in a large flower that engulfed her, sinking into the ground.
The Fujiwara panted, soon making her wings vanish, and quickly hurrying to Medicine. "Medi!" She yelled, falling to her knees and picking up the doll's limp body. "Not again..." Mokou muttered, tightly holding the doll against her. "Medicine..I'm sorry..I didn't know I would be gone for this long...I'm so sorry..Medicine..dammit Medicine wake up!" She yelled, trying to shake the doll awake. "Please..Medicine..wake up...please!" She begged, crying lightly. "It's not happening..." she kept muttering as she rocked back and forth with the doll in her arms.