The inspiration for the living rock comes from the horror film Apollo 18, where there are aliens disguising themselves as rocks. No, I didn't watch that movie. I came across it on Wikipedia while looking up an entry on found footage films and read its synopsis.
Chapter 5
Shattered Rock
"A surprise to see you folks here!" said Eirin when she came to the front door of the House of Eternity to welcome her guests, the Yakumo household.
"Because you don't expect one of the strongest in Gensokyo to be someone who would need doctors, right?" asked Yukari with a smile.
"You can say that," replied Eirin.
"It's Chen who needs a doctor, or rather, a dentist," Ran told the doctor.
Eirin looked at Chen and saw her placing her hand over one side of her cheek. "Let me guess… Cavity, right?" asked Eirin.
"Too little brushing of teeth is what you get as a result…" said Yukari.
"Haven't done work related to teeth in a long time, but it's still something as easy to do as breathing to me, so I can handle it," said Eirin. "Come in and make yourselves comfortable, while I go get things ready."
"Will it hurt…?" asked Chen with a look of fear in her eyes.
"Oh, don't worry. Once I've given you anesthetic, you won't even know I'm doing something to you!" Eirin assured her.
Eirin told a rabbit demon to bring the Yakumo household to the living room and make them comfortable. The rabbit demon did as told, and soon, Yukari and her two servants were seated in the living room. Not too long after they got there, Kaguya came into the room. "Hello! Welcome to my home!" she cheerfully said to them.
"It is a pleasure to see you, your majesty!" Yukari politely said to her.
Kaguya sat down with them and chatted with them happily. She then remembered something. "Oh yeah! Eirin's folks from the moon brought me a souvenir! I'll show it to you!" said Kaguya before running off.
Ran was shocked to hear what Kaguya said, and then she said to Yukari, "The Watatsuki are here…?! Is it all right for us to stay here any longer?"
"You're worrying too much," Yukari told her. "It's not like we came here to pick a fight. Even if they try to do anything, I'm sure Eirin will stop them. We are her guests after all."
Kaguya came back into the living room with the tricolored rock and placed it on the table for the three to see. "This is the one I was talking about! Looks very neat, eh?"
"What's this?" asked Chen.
"It's a beautifully-colored rock, obviously!" replied Kaguya. "They found it outside the capital. I didn't know they have something like this on the moon's surface!"
Yukari observed the rock and then said, "I'd say… The way its color is arranged is a bit unnatural… Are you sure this isn't just some rock that got painted by someone?"
"Now that you said it, I didn't ask them about this…" said Kaguya.
The rock suddenly glowed, much to their surprise. The glowing got brighter and brighter, and then the rock exploded.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The lunar army fought hard to bring down the monster that was the amalgam of various statues. Every time a part of its body was blown off by the army's bullets, the broken pieces would instantly go back to where they originally were. Unlike when it was taking the form of Yorihime, the monster did not flinch or back away when it got hit. It was as if taking this form made it less durable to pain.
Opening its mouth, the statue monster released a blast of energy that the army leaped away to avoid.
"That rock must be inside the head!" said Seiran. "The last time I saw it, the rock was located inside the chest and fired from there, so we just have to destroy the head!"
"We'll need to have a lot of firepower to blow its head off!" said a lunar rabbit next to her.
The statue monster let out a roar as it continued to move forward while shrugging off bullets fired at it. A lunar rabbit, after hearing what Seiran said, ran towards the monster with a rocket launcher carried over her shoulder and shouted at it, "Hey you! Have a taste of this!" She aimed the rocket launcher at its head and then fired a rocket shell at it. It was a perfect hit that shattered the statue monster's head completely.
"All right! We did it!" shouted another lunar rabbit. "That rock must be shattered as well!"
To everyone's surprise, however, the head reformed in a matter of seconds after the smoke cleared. "It's… It's still alive?!" asked Seiran in shock.
The statue monster fired an energy blast at the lunar rabbit that shot it, but she avoided it by jumping back. After landing, she noticed a shadow looming over her, and when she looked up, she saw, to her surprise, the monster falling towards her. She managed to move out of the way in time to avoid getting crushed, but almost as soon as the monster landed, it swung its tail at a fast speed at her. Despite the tail moving around like it was made of flesh, getting hit by it was as painful as getting hit by a rock.
The statue monster then fired an energy blast at the lunar rabbit. She was unable to escape it and was thus blown into pieces, much to the horror of onlookers. "LILY!"
Most of the other lunar rabbits were so terrified by her death that they were paralyzed in fear and almost lost the will to fight. Seiran, however, remained adamant and shouted out to them, "There's no time to mourn her loss! This is a battle, so death is to be expected! She went down a hero, so let us honor her by continuing to fight for her!"
"Seiran is right! We can't let her sacrifice be in vain!" added Kagome. "We must keep on fighting for her sake and avenge her!"
The statue monster let out a roar that grabbed their attention. It then stood up on its hind legs for about a second before bringing down its forelegs to stomp the ground with a powerful force that not only shook it, but also made large slabs of rock grow in the lunar rabbits' direction fast.
The lunar rabbits avoided them by either jumping or floating into the air, and then one of them said, "Seiran and Kagome are right! We must pull ourselves together and bring down this monster in order to avenge Lily!"
All the other lunar rabbits raised their voice in unison that they should prevail against this monster no matter what. Floating in air, the lunar rabbits fired at the statue monster from their guns nonstop. When the monster tried to shoot them down with its projectile attack, they got out of the way fast and continued firing at it.
The monster then flapped its wings and took off into the air, despite the wings also being made of stone. The monster then flew around at an unexpectedly fast speed, knocking some of the lunar rabbits out of the air.
Seiran was hit by one of the monster's wings when it flew towards her and knocked her into a building. "Ow…" she cried while getting back up and rubbing her back. She looked around and noticed that she had flown into a store that sold kitchen appliances.
Back outside, the other lunar rabbits continued to fire at the airborne monster, but they were for the most part overwhelmed by its speed.
It caught a lunar rabbit in its mouth, and she screamed in pain as it bit down on her body hard. Her comrades watched in horror as the monster bit her so hard that she was split in two.
After throwing the two halves of the pretty much dead lunar rabbit away, it heard someone shouting at it. It turned and saw Kagome holding a grenade in her hand. "Eat this instead! It tastes better!" she angrily shouted before hurling it at the monster, who caught it in its mouth and then had its head blown off. "Ha! How'd you like that? Tasty?"
Of course, the head reformed a few seconds after it was blown off, and then the monster fired an energy blast at Kagome that she managed to avoid. The monster then flew towards her fast to bite her, but it was stopped by a mallet swing from Seiran.
The monster turned to Seiran, who said, "This brand of rice cake mallet is super hard, so hard that it can shatter rocks with ease! Let's see how well it works on you!"
The monster reached towards her to bite her, but she got out of the way before swinging the mallet at the head, knocking out a decent chunk of it. She then flew to the wings and shattered them with the mallet, causing the monster to fall to the ground with a crash.
After that, she flew to the back of the shell and hammered it as hard as she could. The shell was tougher than the other parts of the body, however, so she was only able to make cracks appear on it. The head and the wings reformed, and then the monster shook violently in an attempt to shake her off. Seiran was eventually shaken off, and then she rolled away fast to avoid getting stomped by the monster.
"Where is Ringo?!" she said in her head. "She should be back…"
Before she could finish speaking in her head, she was interrupted by Ringo, who flew in their direction as fast as she could. "Here I come!" she shouted.
The monster fired an energy blast at her, but she flew over it and towards the head, punching it so hard that it shattered into pieces. Seiran then shouted to her, "That rock isn't inside the head! I think it must be inside the body! Shatter the body!"
"No problem!" said Ringo before landing on the shell fast and then started punching it rapidly hard. Cracks appeared on the shell as she punched it, and eventually, it shattered completely. The statue monster let out a painful-sounding cry as a result.
Seiran then noticed the tricolored rock in the middle of the body, uncovered from the shattering of the shell. "There it is!"
Before Ringo could reach for the tricolored rock, it flew off at a fast speed. "It's getting away! Don't let it escape!" shouted Seiran.
The tricolored rock flew high into the air, either in search of a hiding place or somewhere where it could find other rocks to make itself a new body. It didn't fly too far, however, as someone suddenly swooped down at it, pushing it back onto the ground and pinning it against it.
"Lady Sagume!" said Seiran in surprise upon seeing that it was the goddess who showed up.
Sagume pinned the rock against the ground as tightly as she could, but the latter eventually broke free from her hand and attempted to ram into her forehead. She moved her head out of the way in the nick of time, and the rock continued to head into the sky. Pointing one hand at the rock, yin-yang orbs materialized around her and flew towards the rock, ramming into it and exploding.
The rock was knocked back onto the ground, where it turned around and glowed brightly before firing an energy blast at Sagume. Several yin-yang orbs appeared in front of the goddess, who brought her wing in front of herself, to protect her from the projectile. The projectile blew all the orbs into bits. "One-Winged White Heron," Sagume whispered to herself. Her wings began glowing in yellowish-white light, and when she spread it open, it fired several laser beams aimed at the rock.
The beams pierced the rock as it was attempting to fly away again, knocking it back onto the ground. With holes that weren't recovering all over it, the rock appeared to be unable to move properly. As it struggled to get away by "crawling," Seiran appeared in front of it with the wooden mallet held over her head. "You're finished!" she angrily shouted before bringing down the mallet onto the rock.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
With that, the rock was shattered into pieces, none of which gathered together to become one again. Seiran sighed with relief, while her fellow moon rabbits gathered around her. "You did it!" they exclaimed.
"No, we should be thanking Lady Sagume for this," Seiran told them. "Without her, that rock probably would've escaped and then cause more problems."
Everyone then turned to Sagume to thank her. "You did a great job yourselves too!" Sagume told them with a smile.
"Wait… If she says that, does that mean she's saying we did a bad job?" asked a lunar rabbit.
"Nah, that's not how her ability works," Ringo told her. "She literally means we did a good job."
Eirin, Reisen, Tewi, and the Watatsuki Sisters rushed into the living room to see what happened. They saw that everything in the room was destroyed. The only thing that was intact was the tricolored rock, lying on the floor in one piece. "What happened here?!" asked Reisen in shock.
Suddenly, gaps appeared in the air and moved upwards, revealing each of the Yakumo household members and Kaguya as they did so. "Good thing I acted fast…" said Yukari.
"What was that all about just now?!" asked Kaguya in shock. "Did the rock just exploded?"
"Then why is it still here?" asked Ran.
The rock suddenly floated into the air, much to the surprise of everyone. It then rammed through one of the paper doors and into the backyard, and everyone followed it to see where it was going. The rock floated several feet in the air and started to glow. It began spinning at a fast speed and then fell onto the ground to drill into it, despite not having a sharp bottom.
"What… What is with that rock?!" asked Reisen in shock and confusion.
The rock eventually drilled into the ground completely. They looked at the hole until the sound of the ground being drilled against died down, and then Yukari thought of approaching it to observe it when suddenly they all felt the ground shaking.
The ground before them burst open, and a large hand compromised of rocks stuck to each other came out. The rest of the body eventually came out, revealing itself to be an entity made of rocks of various shapes and sizes. Due to the rocks being unpolished, the entity lacked distinctive features such as a face. Its head was nothing more than two slightly dome-shaped rocks put together, with the part at the front that wasn't connected to each other serving as the mouth.
Everyone watched in surprise as the rock monster roared loudly at them.
"What… What is this?! What happened to that rock?!" asked Kaguya in shock.
TO BE CONTINUED
Lily is my OC. You won't be seeing her again, though.