Chapter 13: Insanity is a Gift
[AN]: WARNING! WARNING WARNING! This chapter contains copious amounts of blood and gore. Not fit for more sensitive people. Turn away if you are offended by such material, and scroll down to the author's notes at the end for a summary of the chapter. This chapter was really just for experimental purposes. My insane friend wanted me to write this, and he definitely approves the violence. This is a one time thing, so don't worry.
Sorry about the ending, but I worked really hard to get the next chapter out ASAP. To those who reviewed the last chapter, I thank you. It's not always easy writing these, and I'll tell you; last chapter wasn't easy to write. Also remember, unsigned reviews are welcome, just no trolls please. BTW, to answer IAmTheGuy's question, I'll be starting a short Q/A segment in the author's notes before each chapter from now on. So, here we go.
Q: Like Dan, is Gunthre based on a person you know in real life too? I'd love to know. (IAmTheGuy)
A: No, and it's spelled G U N E T H R E! Please don't mis-spell my OC's names, but you are a fan of the story, so I forgive you. Just don't ever cross me again…
LT interior
Okuu's POV
"Unyuu… It's so boring around here~…" I whined while laying my head down on the table. My arms were spread out on the surface, and I was trying to find a way to entertain myself. "There's gotta be something to do around here~…" I continued.
*Clank!*
I heard the sound of clanking metal. "Who's there?" I exclaimed. My senses alerted to a very sensitive level. My eyes had changed from a maroon color to a dark red color as a result of preparation for a fight.
*Clank clank clank!*
The sound almost sounded like someone knocking on a door under the floor. "You better show yourself or else I'll find you and kill you!" I threatened. The sound seemed to be coming from a door on the floor. I cautiously approached the door, and held out my hand. I was ready to blast anything away with there slightest movement. I pulled on the handle, and something pooped out. In a fraction of a second, I materialized my control rod, and fired a huge laser at the subject.
…
*FZZT!*
Or I would've if it wasn't destroyed. "Oh come on, of all times for- oh hey look, it's that guy with the white hair." I thought; completely forgetting about trying to blast the subject.
He climbed out of the hole, and closed the door. "Damnnit, I forgot to leave the door un-locked." He said while brushing the various dust particles off his clothes. After he finished brushing the dust off his coat, he noticed my feet. His eyes slowly scanned my body until they stopped at my control rod. He seemed a bit shaken by my imposing nature, but what can you expect when you just get out of an enclosed space, only to find a hell raven pointing a weapon at you.
He shakily raised his hand and pushed my control rod away. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't p-point that t-th-thing at m-me!" He said obviously scared of my third leg*. He was able to push it away, but a large… thingy fell out of it, and crushed his hand. "OH GOD HELP ME! THIS HURTS WORSE THAN GETTING MY ARM CUT OFF!" The child youkai screamed while trying to pull his left hand out from under the sparking thingy.
*FZZT!*
Sparks flew out from the object, and seemed to put him in more pain. "!" he incoherently babbled after he was electrocuted by the object. His hair stood up on ends, and he involuntarily twitched at random intervals.
"Heehee~" I giggled while holding my hand up to my mouth. I picked up the object with ease, and held it up to him. He immediately pulled his hand to his chest, and caressed it with his other hand which looked kinda weird. It was like skeleton made out of metal with gold cords running all over it.
He looked up at me with large tears handing from his eyes. "How could you laugh at me when I'm in so much pain~~!" He whined while the tears hung from his large eyes. Rubbing his hand and awkwardly angled fingers.
"Unyuu… It was just so funny." I said while retreating backwards. I stuffed the device back inside my control rod, and de-materialized it. The particles dissolved into my hand, exposing my actual arm. "Who are you anyway? If you're here to do bad things to Dan's house, then I'll have to kill you."
That got the weird arm guy's attention. "What? How could you forget! Dan was looking for me! And this isn't Dan's house, it's mine!" He said seemingly angry. He had his hands balled into fists, and was clearly frustrated. I could sense the energy signature of a youkai, but his wasn't very strong.
I reacted with hostility and formed a large ball of danmaku energy in the palm of my right hand, and looked at it menacingly. It must've looked even more menacing from his point of view, as the glowing ball emphasized all of my features, including an evil-like smile. "What was that~? I asked with a voice that let him know he was nothing compared to me. "There's no way this little punk could put up a fight against someone as powerful as me or Dan. I should keep him here then Dan will reward me and maybe even give me some boiled eggs!" I thought about capturing the invader, then getting rewarded by Dan when he got back.
The small youkai lost any fighting spirit or courage, and retreated into a corner I backed him into; cowering in fear. "B-but it's true! I-I-I own t-th-this house!" he said while looking up at me. "M-my n-name is M-Matthew, b-but people c-call me M-Matt!..."
After saying this, he looked at his left hand. He rubbed it as blood leaked out of the damaged appendage. "H-how can you lift something that heavy with s-so much ease?" He asked me while still shaking.
Matt seemed to twitch at my words. "What? M-my name is Matt, not Patt! What do you need?"
I took my hand out from under my chin, and said "Unyuu… sorry. I just got confused." I sat on a nearby couch. "So, what were we doing again?" I asked, and Matt turned to stone.
Matt fell to the ground as stiff as a board. After 5 seconds, he got back up and stared at me in dis-belief. "What! You seriously don't remember what we were doing?" Matt raised an eyebrow to add to his shocked face. "Well… we were just about to play a fun game." Matt said as his look of dis-belief turned to a grin.
I jumped up and down while waving my arms. "Ooooh! What is it? Is it tag, or maybe hide and seek?" I asked excitedly.
Matt's now healed hand was held up in my face, and in it, was a rectangle with a picture on it.
"A rectangle is the one with 4 sides, right?"
He pulled the box back, and said "No, this game is called 'Street Fighter 2' It's a very fun game. Come to my room, and I'll show you how to play." He said while gesturing for me to follow him.
I followed him through a short and VERY narrow hallway until we came to a room about the size of one of Satori-sama's closets. When inside, Matt bent down and pulled out a box from the shelf. He put the box inside the larger grey box with purple rectangles on the sides. Matt plugged in a 2 pads with buttons on them, to the front of the device. He pushed on one of the purple stripes, and then pressed a button on a large black box with glass on the front of it which sat on top of the shelf. He The box made a noise that I've heard some of the kappa machines make, and then a picture popped up on the glass that said 'street fighter 2 – turbo edition'. Matt handed me one of the button pads, while he held the other one in his other metal hand.
I stared at the object with a wire coming out of it for a while until Matt said "Here, You'll need this if you want to play." I took the button object, and stared at it with confusion. "When you press these buttons, it makes the game do things." He said with his eyes closed, and a smile on his face.
"Unyuu… I think I get it." I started pressing buttons as fast as I could, and soon saw a guy with white fighting clothes on the left side of the glass, and a girl with very strong-looking legs on the right. The guy started fidgeting around; occasionally throwing a punch or kick, but the girl started kicking him and beating him up. After about 2 minutes, the guy lost the fight with the girl, and Matt was laughing in the background.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Y-you're not suppose to just mash the buttons, you need to learn what then do, and how to use them." Matt said while wiping a tear from his eye.
I let my head down, and said 'Unyuu… I'm sorry."
Matt got up, and gave me a pat on the back. "Hey, it's ok. I'll show you how to play the game." I looked at Matt's grinning face, and nodded with determination. "Now you see this thing that looks like a plus?" I nodded "That's called a D-pad. You use it to move your fighter."
"Yeah, this sound's like it'll be fun!"
Matt explained how everything worked. I didn't understand some of it, but when he showed me on the game, I started to understand.
"All right, no that I know how to play, I challenge you to a street fight!" I said while pointing at Matt in a dramatic pose.
Matt chuckled, then said "Challenge accepted!"
Palace of the earth spirits, Satori's throne room
Flandre's POV
Dan turned his large rifle at me, while I was helpless on the ground; I closed my eyes and waited for the worst.
*KRACKOOM!*
…
…
"Wait…"
I opened one eye, and looked at Dan. There was smoke coming out of the huge hole at the end of his gun, but I didn't have any holes in myself. Instead, I felt a drop of blood fall in-between my eyes. I looked up, and I saw a woman wearing a tight jumpsuit standing over me with a large gun with a cross on it, and a large hole in her chest. Her skin started to creep over the hole, and by the time it was done, I had re-gained full movement of my body.
Dan lowered his rifle and smirked. "Did you really think I was going to fuck-shitting shoot you Flandre? I don't betray people like they did so many years ago." The smoke cleared from the barrel of the gun, and Dan took out the clip in the gun. He shoved it into one of his coats pockets, and pulled a new one out of another clip, which seemed way too big to be able to fit in one of those pockets.
Dan turned his head and an angry expression crossed his face. "Gunethre! I will not fucking betray my new friends like you betrayed me all those years ago! Now get your lazy ass fucking dick over here and fight me like a man!" Dan screamed at the General.
"Wow, intense language, but that bastard deserves it! He almost killed me." I rose into the air slowly while my wings glowed with their respective colors, and my eyes glowed scarlet. A psychotic grin escaped onto my face, and I held my hand out to him in a challenging way. "You're a big meanie! Do you know what I do with Bullies?" Dan turned his head to look at me. "I play with them. Until they BRRREAAAAAKKK!" I lunged at the General with my scarlet red claws bared, and fangs protruding from my screaming mouth.
Dan Reached out to me, but quickly put his arm back down to his side. "Flandre wait…"
General Gunethre as Dan called the man stood at the other side of the room which was decorated with many pillars, a red velvet carpet, candles, stained glass windows, and a throne fit for a king about 50 feet away. "Remi has red carpet just like that one in the mansion."
I was about 40 feet away from him when the evil general's extremely muscular and pronounced stone face crept into a smile, as his whole face slowly turned to a face of an evil villain who was about to put his doomsday plan into motion.
I was about 30 feet away when his smile broke into a hearty laugh.
I was about 20 feet away when he pulled out a small vial of holy water.
I was about 10 feet away when my expression changed from one with killing intent, to one of fear and cowardice, and I turned around to fly in the opposite direction as fast as possible.
I was back to 30 feet when Gunethre threw the bottle at me, and I panicked.
Due to my panicked state, my survival instincts kicked in and instead of doing the logical thing, and turning out the door that leads to the exit of the room; I continued down the room until I reached the other wall. The bottle hit the wall and broke just inches away from my face. It was so close; I could feel the holy energy emanating from the liquid. I closed my eyes. "*Inhale* *Sigh*" I regained my senses and let my panic leave my body through a sigh of relief.
After my moment of relief, I opened my eyes to see another bottle barreling towards me. "OHMYTEPESPLEASESAVEME!" I held my hands in front of my face and cringed in a futile attempt to protect myself, as my usual method of getting rid of something would be to blow it up, but here; that would just make things worse, because then many droplets would be heading my way instead of one projectile.
I waited for the burning pain to come, but it didn't. Instead I registered a different sense as I could feel a small glass object in the palm of my hand. "Oh no! Don't tell me…" I opened my eyes to confirm my fears, and they were realized when I glanced at the glass vial lying in my palm. I slowly descended back to the ground; my eyes opened widely, and my mouth hanging open. "I… caught… it…" My mind was still comprehending the fact that I was holding to deadliest of poisons for demons. "B-b-but… I-I… This…" I tried to formulate a complete sentence, but found myself unable to.
*KRACKOOM!*
During the time I was holding the bottle; a fight had broken out with Dan and Gunethre. It looked like Dan had thrown the first punch, but I could be wrong. After all, I wasn't really paying attention to them. I finally re-gained my senses, and decided it would be best to hide the bottle off to the side-lines. I snuck around the battle, and hid it behind Satori's throne. "There we go~! I'll be back after I go play with that big mean man." I was talking like the vial was a sentient being, but insanity has a way of doing things like that. Even though I had improved by a great margin since my danmaku fight against the red-white and the black-white, The crazy side of me was still hiding; Somewhere in the deepest depths of my mind.
"Pfft! Holy water! Yeah right! I don't see what's holy about killing living things! It's just a weapon used to kill usually innocent demons. After all, only a few demons attack humans." After moving the throne so no one would see the vile manifestation of human prejudice against demons, I stood back up and looked at the little girl who was tied up next to it. I undid the gag she had in her mouth, and the ropes that bound her skinny arms and legs. As soon as I was done, she wrapped her arms around me, and thanked me. "Thank you! I can see you have a mission to take care of, so I won't stop you. And thank you for keeping Okuu safe."
I raised my hand to my head. "How did she…Is she a mind reader!"
The little purple-haired girl stood up, and held her hand to her chest while saying "I am a Satori; although Satori is also my name, and the term 'mind reader' is inaccurate, because I don't read people's minds, but rather their hearts. The mind reading is just a bonus." The little girl curtseyed as she introduced herself. "I thank you and your friends from the bottom of my heart. We at the palace would be honored of you would attend for dinner after this fiasco is over."
"She reminds me of Sakuya."
Satori's red eye on her chest blinked, and she said "Well that would be because your maid and I try to act as proper as we can. It is appropriate that young ladies use their manners."
I stared at her before I took off to join the fight.
"That's not how you end a conversation! That was very rude!" Satori yelled with her hands cupped around her mouth.
"Yeah, ok…"
Dan's POV
"Hmmm, you've gotten stronger since you left the organization. My offer to join is still open." Gunethre said while holding back a sword strike aimed for his head. I was wielding the Masamune in my right hand, and Retribution in my left.** Retribution was my custom made S&W.500 Magnum. It's overly long barrel wouldn't ever miss a target, and next to my 138mm anti-material rifle: Exorcist, it was my favorite weapon.
"Yeah? Well you've gotten fucking stronger too." I said through clenched teeth. Gunethre was really pissing me off, mostly because he was dodging or parrying all of my strongest attacks.
I broke out of the hold, and quickly made a slash for his legs while aiming my huge pistol at Gunethre's head. Gunethre was able to plank right in-between the two attacks; further fueling my rage. "GOD DAMNNIT! STAY CUNT FUCKING STILL!"
Gunethre made another slash at my chest, but I was able to deflect the attack off to the side. Gunethre used the momentum of my strike to come back and make a downward strike at my head. I was able to dodge it, but I wasn't able to dodge the next attack.
*SCHFLICH!*
The sound of metal ripping through flesh echoed through the room. Gunethre's assistant had snuck up on me to impale me straight through the liver. I fell to the ground, and Gunethre slowly approached my fallen body. He readied his sword to cut my head off; the only way to kill a crusade immortal. "Oh not today you shit fucking dick eater!" I sprang to my feet with my sword in one hand, and blocked the attack.
Gunethre adopted a face of genuine surprise. "What the… how did you-
I interrupted him by kicking the sword out of his hand, and shooting him in the foot. Leaving him with a nice, big, quarter sized hole in his left foot. He took the shot like a true man, and didn't show any pain on his face. "I have trained myself to have HIGH! PAIN! TOLERACE!" I slashed at his chest with each syllable. Because he didn't have a weapon, he just took every hit head-on. I slammed him into his sidekick, and impaled them both like a shishcabob on my sword. "Come on papa, let's fire up the grill!"
"You schoodlemt ebem ve ayvil joo sschaynt uhp!" (You shouldn't even be able to stand up!) Gunethre said as the blood gushing into his lungs made his words sound sloppy.
"You should leave him to me." His assistant said. She was closer to the tip of the blade, and instead of being impaled through the chest, it was through the gut.
Flandre had flown up behind me, and was looking a little worried. "Dan, I-
"Shut up! This BITCH!-" I swung my sword and Gunethre's assistant flew off and smashed into the wall. "-and this BASTARD!-" I swung the sword so hard that Gunethre flew off the blade and broke through the wall. "-deserve to go to hell!" Fire was burning in my eyes, and my slightly insane side of my personality was starting to take over.
I flew over to Gunethre's assistant, and picked her up off the ground. I punched her in the mid-section, and she coughed up scarlet-colored blood.
This seemed to get Flan's attention because she walked up next to me and had a fanged grin on her face. "Can I have a turn?" She said while her head slowly tilted to the right. Flan's sanity was breaking down due to the presence of blood, gore, and me.
"Just let me finish!" I said with extreme amounts of violent insanity in my voice. "Kill! Destroy! Murder! Death! Obliterate! Stab! Shoot! DIE!" By this point, my insanity had completely taken over my conciseness, and was driving me to murder the woman in a black jump-suit as violently as possible. I threw her into the air, pulled the sword out of my liver, and just as fast as she went up; she came down.
*SCHFLICH!*
I impaled her on my arm, and let the red blood drench my hair.
"Come on Daaan~ I wanna play too!" Flandre pouted. With her arms crossed.
"So much blood! So much fun!" I thought right before Flandre asked to join the fun. "Ugh, ok, fine!" I grasped something squishy inside her gut, and threw the corpse to Flandre with her intestines trailing behind her. "Hehehe~ Have fun~" I said while cutting her guts into neat, organized piles. "So many body parts~! I'm in heaven!~"
Flandre accepted the corpse, "You smell good~." and dug her face into the open wound; proceeding to drink the woman's blood. After she drained every drop from the shrivled-up corpse, Flan threw her up into the air, and blew it up. "Kyuu~!" A rain of blood and gore came down on both of us, and we proceeded to dance with each other in the bloody mess. "Yay! She was fun to play with~! Let's do it again!"
I was cutting any surviving pieces of flesh into neat squares when I looked over at Flan with a grin of pure insanity. "Yes… We should… But it seems Gunethre escaped during the fight." A disappointed frown crept onto my face as my sanity slowly crept back into my mind. "Come on Flandre. We should get home." I said after my sanity had returned.
Flandre's however, didn't seem to be there yet "I don't wanna! I wanna find the mean guy and make him go kyuu!" Flan tried to escape back out the door to find the General, but I restrained her.
"Flan… I'll let you play Warcraft when we get back." I said; hoping the promise of video games would be enough to persuade her to return.
"Warcraft? Yay!" Flandre broke out of my restraint. "Come on! Let's go pwn some noobz!" She said while taking off towards the LT as fast as possible. A wave of Rainbow-colored prisms followed her.
"Whew, mission accomplished!" I walked out of the palace with the satisfaction of a completed mission. Before I closed the door, I took one more look at the neatly arranged body-parts, and a psychotic grin crept onto my face. I muttered under my breath. "One down, one to go." I said as I let the massive door close; sealing the bloody mess inside it.
Matt's POV
LT, Matt's room
"Ugh, I lost again!" I turned out that Utsuho was pretty good at street fighter. Okuu told me about her control rod, and I said I would have it fixed by tomorrow, so I decided to stop playing. "Ok Okuu, That's enough." I said while stretching my arms. A hiss was heard from my mechanical arm as I stretched it.
"Awwww~ can't we just play one more time Mark?" Okuu whined.
My left eye twitched, and I yelled for the tenth time tonight. "MY NAME IS MATT! MATTHEW HARRISON!" I stood over her with my hands balled into fists.
"Unyuu… Sorry…" Okuu retreated back a little bit, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"Awwww, now I feel bad" It was the perfect description of sad-puppy dog eyes. "Ok-ok! I'm sorry I yelled at you. I'm not angry, but please try to remember my name from now on." I said while I ruffled her hair. I quickly pulled my hand back because I started feeling a burning sensation.
Okuu blinked the tears out of her eyes. "Does that mean you'll keep playing?" She asked hopefully.
I scratched the back of my head and said "No, but I'll fix your control rod now. Don't you remember our deal?"
Utsuho's face brightened up. "Oh yeah! I forgot!" I face-palmed. Okuu materialized her third leg, and gave it to me for repair. She held the broken machine out to me with her right hand while giving a large smile.
I smiled as well, and placed my hands under the orange hunk of metal. Okuu let go, and the control rod fell to the floor, taking me and my arms down with it. "Gah!" I exclaimed in shock. "I forgot how heavy this thing is." I struggled to get my right hand out from under it. Unlike last time, I was able to pull my left semi-organic limb away in time.
Okuu stood there with a blank expression on her face as she watched the spectacle.
I gave up, and turned my head towards Utsuho. "Okuu? Could you help me with this?" I asked in a sweet tone.
Okuu's face lit back up again. "Ok!" She giggled and hefted the arm cannon-like machine up with ease. I pulled my hand out from under it, and said "Could you just put that on the ground outside? I asked sweetly. "How can she lift that thing? Are all youkai and demons in Gensokyo as strong as this?" I made my way outside with Okuu following me, and laid out a white mat where I directed her to set it down.
Just as Okuu set the machine down, Orin ran up to embrace her friend from behind. "Okuu! You're all better!" She said as she got down from Okuu's back.
Utsuho's eyes changed from brown, to black. "Of course I'm ok! Did you find Satori-sama?"
I dropped the wielding torch I was taking out of my toolbox. "What? You two know Satori?" I asked I shock. "I don't like being around her. She makes me feel-
"Makes you feel what?" A voice from behind me interrupted.
I jumped when I saw the little girl with pink hair clad in blue and white. "S-S-S-Satori! What are you doing here?" I said while shocked.
"Well, your friends saved me, so I decided to come pick up Okuu. Your friends saved me and all of Gensokyo, so I decided the least I could do is invite you all over for dinner." She said with a little more emotion than usual. Her light smirk seemed to conflict with my image of her from the last time we met. "… No, I'm not alien who took on the form of Satori. I only act uptight around Yukari and other nobles."
"Don't read my thoughts, I feel so violated…" I thought without considering who might be listening to my mind.
"I can't block my ability when you are so close. But you are harder to read than most people at further distances." Satori said as she shrugged. "Anyway, Be at my palace around 9:00 for dinner… And no, Yukari won't be there." Satori flew off to her palace to prepare for guests.
I sighed and turned around. The moment I blinked, I was tackled by Flandre. "I found you Matt!" She exclaimed while giving me a bone crushing hug.
*SNAP!*
Literally… It crushed my bones. "Ugh!" I grunted in pain. Something oozed down shoulder, but I was too busy trying to breath to take notice. "Flan… Can't… Breath!" My crushed lungs barely had enough air left in them to get the words out.
Flandre released me from the death hug, and had her childish smile on. "Oh! Heehee, sorry." She giggled.
It was right about now that I noticed something different about her. It could be the fact that one of her dress's sleeves was missing, or perhaps the fact that her dress was in tatters, or maybe it was because she was drenched in head to toe in blood. "Flan! What happened? What did you do!" I asked with a shocked tone of voice.
Flan put her innocent smile on. "Well, this one person tried to break me, but then Dan saved me, and we broke one of his friends. I threw her in the air and made her go kyuu! And then her blood rained down on me." Flandre said the entire statement as if blowing people up was a casual thing she did every day.
Dan landed next to her, and said. "We have some explaining to do, well; it's a long story…"
To Be Continued
[AN]:
*The third leg: It is another name for Utsuho's control rod
**Both of these weapons cannot be wielded one handed by normal humans, but since when is Dan a normal human?
Short summary:
- Dan didn't kill Flandre, Gunethre's assistant was sneaking up on her.
- Dan fights Gunethre and his assistant
- Dan and Flan lose sanity
- Dan and Flandre rip apart Gunethre's assistant
- Gunethre escapes
- Dan takes Flan home
- Matt Fixes Okuu's control rod
There. Now people will be able to continue reading this story with a basic knowledge of what happened in this chapter.
As I said before, thank you to all the people that follow this story. The fact the there is even an audience is motivation for me to continue writing. And to address the radioactive arbiter and Ban3: I would not mind you using any of my OCs in your fics, just let me know when you do caus' I'd be happy to help you guys write for any of them.
Remember, I won't be writing things this violent in the future. I just wanted to have Dan and Flandre completely mutilate someone, and Gunethre's assistant wasn't really necessary. I just needed someone for him to talk to, so she probably won't return.
"Is that so?"
Gah! Rumia! For the last time, get back into the computer!
"Ok."
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Derp