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Sc/N: Good evening viewers this is Scion bringing you the second episode of The Adventures of Scion and Derek in Gensokyo. Today's episode is going to be a bit shorter were afraid, but the other hopes to increase the frequency by doing so.
D/N: The "authors" Scion. This is a Collaborative effort remember.
Sc/N: Right, Right. Well let's have a welcome from today's guests shall we.
R/N: Is that so~?
U/N: That is so~!
Sc/N: What are you 2 talking about?
R/N: I was referring to your statement about length.
U/N: And I was agreeing with Rumia!
Sc/N: Oh I got confused thinking about the authors and bread. I'm sure that there is things stranger then Candy Mountain. The land you live in makes about as much sense as the internet.
De/N: I doubt they know what the internet is.
Sc/N: My god. I have so much to show you. Derek, get me a laptop.
R/U/N: Is that so~?
Sc/N: That is very so! I should start by showing some fan works on you guys. Rumia you have tons of fans, come look at your fan art. Careful some of it is questionable.
R/N: Is that so~? I want to see~!
U/N: What about me...?
Sc/N: Sorry Usa, but there's nothing on you. Don't feel bad though. I can show you some cool things on your Master Cirno.
R/N: Ohh~ I seem to be having lots of fun in this one!
U/N: W-why are there such naughty pictures of you...?
R/N: It suits me, though!
U/N: ...That is so~
Scion woke up from his nap a few hours later. Rising slowly from his dirt bed he rubs the sleep from his eyes while in the process of looking around. Speaking his thoughts allowed, he asked, "What happened? I can't seem to remember, and I keep getting these flashes of pain." He looks at the watch and sees that it is almost 5:00 o'clock. "Looks like I have maybe 2 hours before sun down. Where is that fair...y?" The fairy that had chosen to accompany him had seemed to have fallen asleep beside him.
She was curled up in a cute ball, with a sleeping face that was just as sweet as it was adorable. He had to punch himself in the face to keep his thoughts in order. "Gya! Curse my love of all things cute, but I need to keep a clear head. First survival, then attempted love interests with the Touhou cast. Though, I don't see the odds of that happening being too great. I did just get beaten up by a fairy - one of the weakest creatures in Gensokyo, and I like talking to myself. Some people get put off by that, but at least Derek is listening, right?"
Derek, sounding spaced, asked, "What? Ohh sure I'm listening. Yeah, the weather is terrible."
Scion began to pout, and stated, "You're not even trying to make me feel better. Well, since you weren't listening, then what were you doing."
"Actually I'm working on making a map of this place, and also analyzing the magic here for its properties, to see what the rules are that govern it. I managed to get quite a bit done while you were napping, and on top of have a map of at least a half dozen square miles. I have also performed many experiments with the magic in the pocket space, but without proper research I've only learned that the magic in this world is some of the most diverse we've ever encountered. I dare say with enough of this stuff that anything is possible in this dimension."
"Wow, that's good to know. Good work Derek."
"I always do good work, but thank you for the praise."
"Oh shoot we might wake the fairy if we keep talking like this. Maybe we should move?"
"Mnyyaaaaa...!" The fairy let out a cute little cry of a yawn as if having had heard his concerns, and stretched out over the grass, stretching even her toes. Most every muscle in her body quivered in the odd pleasure of a stretch.
"Too late." comments Derek. With a second, less grand yawn, the fairy finally noticed that her teddy bear was gone. "...Ohh... Hello, you. Whatever your name was..." She was too drowsy to remember if he had given her that important bit of information.
"Ohh, I'm Scion if I didn't mention it. Now that I think of it, I haven't gotten your name either. What is your name, if you have one?"
"Ahah, well, I... umm... Well, I actually don't have a name, to be honest. Don't usually have much of a need, as we fae tend to be able to communicate fine without them. Helps that we usually don't have parents like you humans do, so nobody names us. I suppose, if you need a name, you could just go by my hair!" She gave a grin, while her long, green hair fluttered in a breeze that wasn't there. Her hair looked rather striking against her glimmering, shimmering white dress. Scion stood there thinking for a while, "Guess she didn't buy that I'm a Youkai. Oh well. Well I don't want to pick Green, because that's too obvious, and Forest has too many bad references, so there are only a few shades left that I think would make good names and those our Kelly, Olive, and Viridian." He decides to ask the fairy, "Hey I'm leaning on Olive for your name, but I want your opinion. After all, you deserve a say in your own name." He smiled at her.
She gave a shrug, and replied, "It's not like I'll keep it after you end up dead. Well, probably not, anyways. This place isn't particularly safe for outsiders, as we youkai tend to eat humans, even if I for one don't - I'm no pixie."
Feeling a bit deflated by her comment, Scion tried to defend himself, "I'll have you know that I'm very hard to kill - well, kill for good. I can recover from fatal wounds, not unlike most Youkai. I... I mean Derek has to spend a lot of energy to heal me, and the more wounds the longer that takes. For example: I could be dead for a week if I got danmaku'd to death. I have to say I'm a bit scared of most things here, but at least I'm aware of the threat level and have ways of defending myself. I'm still choking on the air here and that's killing my strength. It doesn't matter if you can knock down trees if you can't breathe. It's so frustrating to be brought so low that I can't even escape a fairy. No offences to your sisters, but the statistics say that two wing fairies are the weakest in Gensokyo." Scion sighs.
The fairy raised a brow at this, but again ignored his rant as she was confused by something else he said, "Breathing? Why are you having issues with breathing...?" She takes a big breath, sucking the magic from the air momentarily. "See? Breathing's easy!"
"First, that's so unfair, and second, I don't know why, but breathing magic is hard for people who don't live in it constantly. I'm from way outside you could say, and have never dealt with it before."
Giggling, the fairy asked, "So, do you know how to fly? So much faster than on foot..."
Scion had to think about it for a moment, "Should I tell her? I've been like an open book so far, but should I share all my secrets? I guess I can go half-truth, at least until I think I can trust her. Hey she's nice, but that has not worked out before." After pretending to think a little longer he answers her, "I haven't learned how to yet. I don't have wings if you haven't noticed, so if I want to learn to fly. It has to be from someone that also doesn't have wings."
Raising a brow once more, the fairy asked, "Why not just grow a pair...?" She gave a grin, while being vague enough to be misunderstood.
Scion looked at the girl almost wondering if she was Psychic, or just really lucky, "Well I guess... I guess I could, but I don't know how well I would look with fairy wings. First, I'm a guy, and second, I've sort of have this coat in the way, though I could~ move that. No no Scion don't think about it. If I grow Fairy wings, then how many should I have? Unlike you guys I don't have a mana pool to measure power, but a source of infinite power that I can only draw on so much of in any instance."
The fairy looks at him, obviously confused. "Ehh? I've only seen a human grow batty wings before... Some strange shrine maiden did it, while looking at that other shrine maiden at Cirno's house." Thinking over what you said for a moment, she said, "But... our wings are made of magic, just as my entire body is. If you can't make the magic in the air bend to your will, the wings won't really help. Though, I'd like to see just how many you can pull off, if what you said about power is true~ I've only seen a fae with twenty wings before... Also, if you have so much power, wouldn't that make you some sort of non-magical magician...?" By this point she was monologing to herself. After breaking out of her thoughts, she finished off with, "Though, it'd probably be a good idea to get moving. The sun's getting ready to set, and I can't really protect you from things that go bump in the night, what with being powered by solar energies."
"Well I can't argue with you there, but where can we go? I don't know how far from Misty Lake we are. As for protection, I still have some weapons like the flash grenades I used on your friends. They're great for quick escapes, well, if you're quick. But I'm slow, so... yeah."
She let out a giggle, before asking, "Well, if you're so strong, why not teleport about? Dai does it, when she's... complete. Though, she's one of the strongest in all of Gensokyo... Only Yukari is stronger than her."
"It's complicated, but I can't teleport unless I witness someone else. OK, you know what? Screw it. In short, my powers work like a copy cat's would, but I can't copy your abilities unless I witness you use them. My eyes have the ability to see the reality that governs your abilities, and then I can alter my reality to accommodate." Speaking in a dramatic voice filled with pride, "I am Scion: Master of Reality." Then, sighing again, he spoke normally, "Well, I wish that meant something, but here I hold but a candle to Yukari in terms of Reality fuckery. Dia seems to even beat me from what you described."
"True enough. She could even turn the entire population male, if she so wished. Even my kin and I, even if we are all, save for a few... oddities, nothing but female!"
"I think she likes girls more, or she would have tried it already. But then, maybe even she would fear pissing off the entire population of Gensokyo. Especially Reimu, since she is, like, insanely powerful already."
The fairy blinked rappidly for a moment, before asking, "Ehh? But she's not even particularly strong! After her is Marisa, and most of the Fae... Most Youkai simply don't want to go all-out, that's all. Too much of a risk to the barrier. Nobody wants a repeat of... was it 30 years ago...? Anyways, we really do need to get going! The sun'll set in about an hour!" She grabbed one of his hands in her far smaller hands and began to tug him in the direction of Misty Lake, being sure to keep herself a ways off the ground so as to be at his height.
Scion just follows along with the fairy since only her and Derek really knew where they were going. He thought about what she said as he was pulled along, and noticed the darker it got, the more the sun fairy illuminated the forest, until the sun was gone from the sky, and she was glowing like Wriggle's butt.