Hello again.
As always, advice is appreciated and make it as harsh as possible. Compliments are also nice, too.
...You know, through my life, I was always told I could really put voice into my writing. Unfortunately, it's a bit reflexive for me to do so, to the point that writing an essay is essentially hell on earth.
Well, at least I can entertain you precious readers!
Chapter 3: Blunt insertion
"Alright you two, I'm not going to let you freeload anymore. I'm not letting you stay here tonight, so you'd better leave now... Before I kick you out, literally."
We've been living with Reimu for a bit less than a week now, and we had all mostly become used to each others' presence.
Unfortunately, as Reimu said, we ARE mooching off of her, and considering that she's already virtually broke we aren't exactly welcome anymore.
"Can we at least have some supplies?"
"Take a fishing rod, but figure the rest out yourself. I'm going COMPLETELY broke because of you two."
Bowen came over to me and began talking; "We might as well leave now, it's not like we took any of our stuff through the portal..."
"Good idea. We're burning daylight as we speak."
After one last failed attempt at begging Reimu to let us stay, mostly involving Bowen attempting to woo her, we were on our way.
"If we plan on living, we either have to become killer fishers or find some source of income at a nearby town."
"Why not both?"
"Because if we sell our fish just to buy another kind of food it'd just be wasting time."
"Do we even know where any towns are? Or for that matter, anything?"
"I thought I told YOU to ask for directions."
"I thought you said you were going to!"
"Stop blaming things on me if it was YOUR job to do them!"
"Stop blaming me for blaming things on you!"
"...This is one line away from degenerating into pointless babble."
"Agreed. Let's just shut up and carry on."
And so we did.
Due to what I guess is terrible luck, we wound up walking in one direction for an entire day without finding civilization, or, hell, even a body of water larger than my torso.
Yippee.
"Can we stop now? I'm tired."
"No, we don't have anywhere safe to sleep."
"Can't we just take shifts staying up?"
"What happened in any book people did that in?"
"They died..."
"Case in point."
After several more hours of complaints, I just decided to give him what he wanted.
"Alright, forget this, let's just find a tree and sleep under it."
"Sounds like a plan!"
Bowen must've used up the rest of his energy by saying that, because he then proceeded to collapse on the spot.
"*chuckle*...
Lightweights."
I, on the other hand, felt like I just had a caffeine injection, and sat under the tree several more hours.
We're sitting ducks... Or in his case, laying. But still, easy targets...
...
*rustle*
Fuckin' FINALLY. That was getting boring.
"Who's there?"
Probably not to answer my question, a little girl jumped out of a nearby bush, and straight in my direction.
You know, if she were bigger, it might have hurt when she tackled me.
Might.
"What's a little girl like you doing out here? You could be eaten by god-knows-what."
"I'm not a little girl, I AM god-knows what."
"Oh, VERY funny. Go home now, before you get your ass kicked."
She was wearing a black dress and had a red bow on top of her short blond hair.
What's with all the weird headwear I've seen here?
"I'm a youkai, and I'm here to eat you."
"Really? I'd think a youkai would be a bit more... imposing."
Her face reddened a bit as her expression changed.
"Grrr... I'll show you!"
"I'd like to see you try."
I quickly jumped into a battle-ready position as she fired a quick stream of bullets at me, literally grazing my head as they went by.
"My turn!"
I attempted to mimic her action, instead firing a stream of lightning bolts in her general direction.
As some of them hit, I learned just how useless my ranged danmaku is. This tiny thing isn't even FLINCHING.
"You're not very strong."
"I'd like to see you say that when my foot is through your face!"
Oh, wait...
Ugh, more bullets?
Can't you think of a strategy other than "shoot at enemy"?
Quickly achieving top speed thanks to some danmaku-powered boosting, I began to circle her, weaving through trees and her bullets alike, obviously frustrating her.
"Stop that! Hold still and fight fair!"
"The only rule I'm aware of is "win"." *smirk*
This is getting fun.
Soon, a glaring opening was made evident, and I seized the opportunity, jumping, flipping, and...
A perfectly executed aerial axe kick, boosted by danmaku!
"Ouch, stop it! Fight FAIR!"
"Make me."
A slight grunt interrupted our exchange.
"Ugh..."
Is that Bowen? Oh, for...
"Bowen? You're just now getting up?"
"Will both of you..."
Hold on, he's picking up the tree...
"Just SHUT THE FUCK UP..."
and surrounding it in fire...
"and LET ME SLEEP!"
OHH SHIT, HIT THE DECK!
I duck, just in time for Bowen to throw the mass of flame and wood, sending it flying over me and crashing straight into that damned kid, with titanic force by the looks of it.
"Well. That's another way to do it."
It then exploded, just for the sake of overkill.
She slowly picks herself out of the (now that I look at it, quite sizable) crater, only to once again, say...
"Owwww... No fair!"
"Quit going on about fairness and let me get some sleep, please."
"Fiiiine... But I'm going to get you someday!"
"Good luck with that, kid. I'll play with you some other time."
And with that, she flew off.
...Wait, how in the hell is she still flying after taking that kind of hit?
Like I care.
Now, let's... get... uh... Zzz...
The implication here is that he fell asleep on the spot if you couldn't tell.
VALVE PUNS, HO!
Also, I had a really hard time finding out how to initiate the fight with Rumia. As always, criticize me, please.
Oh god, I'm starting to sound like a writing masochist...
Also, expect a few-day-longer wait period for the next chapter. I'll be too busy playing Mann vs Machine to write tomorrow, and the next day if it's good.