Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun, and the only things that belong to myself would be Usagi the Mimic, and Moegi the Japanese Beetle. Everything else belongs to their rightful owner.
A/N: Well now, the moment we've all been waiting fo-
Y/N: You mean the moment that you have been waiting for.
A/N: Shush. I'm trying to be dramatic here! Can't you go ohoho over something somewhere else.
Y/N: Okay, now I know you're lying. I can atleast imagine myself going ufufu, but ohoho...?
A/N: Both sound natural coming from you.
Y/N: Anything sounds natural coming from me.
A/N: ...True. But not so much when it's my voice that you use. Like the dew of an early morning on a spiderweb, yours is.
Y/N: ...I shall take that as a compliment, you strange human.
A/N: As you should! Anyways, distractions aside, how about we get on with this show, hmm?
Minutes before midnight, Hieda private library, Patchouli's PoV:
Three more runes remain undone, which could perhaps be seen as three more minutes remaining. I do hope that she is happy with this form of youkai. Perhaps it would be best to speak on this some, and also to find out how it is that she is fairing. "How is it that you are fairing, miss Hieda?"
Blushing with embarrassment at being laid naked upon the library desk and scribbled upon, Keine replied, "I... I-I'm fine. Thanks for your concern... But, erm... Why am I laying on all these scrolls without anything on...?"
I let out a chuckle at the question that should have been asked long ago, before responding in my usual monotone. "That would be the preparations for the request you made; it is not so easy to make a youkai out of a human in a way that preserves their mind perfectly. Magic is more difficult than it looks, for the most part. To make you a vampire would leave you hungry for people, and unable to bear the sun; to make an evil eye of you would be quite the change, mentally and physically; to make an oni of you would... well, I doubt that it would suit you, and the aquisition of the horn required would be beyond my level of physical strength." While writing down the 178th rune, I went on to say, "Reptilian youkai would be another incompatiblity, as you lack experience with being cold blooded; a phoenix would be more a curse than a blessing, not to mention being rather awkward I would imagine, what with that one phoenix in the forest; a satori would be another form of cursed blessing, as they do have trouble with being hated, not to mention a large risk of losing ones self within themselfs; to make you into a fae would be far too difficult to hide, not to mention a reasonably large risk of mentally changing. No, none of these things would do."
Shiving as I wrote the 179th rune, the soon-to-be-youkai asked, "So... what does that leave me with...? I can't think of any other youkai known to be able to reproduce through humans..."
"What does that leave, indeed." I let out a slight chuckle, and went on to say, "What I plan to make you into would be a beast youkai. And before you ask, no, none of such youkai reproduce in such a way. Instead, I am using a heavily modified reincarnation spell. No, you will not die, and no, I cannot read your mind at the moment. Yes, I can read your mind if I were to make use of the propper spell. However, you are quite predictable, so I have no need to."
The teacher gulped at the thought of even an asuredly safe reincarnation spell, as it sounded to be quite lethal. "So it's random...?"
I gave the teacher a slight nod, showing that she was right in some sense. "In a way, I suppose. However, the customizations I applied to it shall keep you from becoming anything too dangerous.
The reason that I chose thise location was that there was a skylight in the ceiling. Without the rays of a full moon to power it, this would be quite the difficult spell to perform, what with the enormous mana consumption. As such, I moved the desk ever so slightly to the north, giving it a clear view of the center of the sky. With the moon at its apex.
I began to write the 180th rune with my magic quill, and one by one the runes, and the scrolls all began to glow, along with the eyes of the once human.
Keine's PoV:
Since the final rune had been applied, everything but the moon had dissapeared to me.
...The moon is so... enchanting, isn't it? I feel like I can't take my eyes off of it...
Th-thump
What was that?
Th-thump
I would look, but... I can't seem to bring my eyes away from that beautiful orb- It's like I'm getting drunk off of it somehow. But not the tipsy sort...
Th-thump
...Power. I feel drunk on power. I feel stronger than I ever have, in more ways than I can imagine.
Th-thump
As I lay there, every muscle in my body began to harden as the magic began to be sucked into my body from the air. It was as if I were a black hole, and the latent magic in the air was... well, everything, as that's what black holes suck up. But that's not the point.
Th-thump
Soon my bones began to feel as if they were grinding themselfs to dust, and I let out a howl of pain of sorts. I call it a howl, but it was more bovine than canine. Had I not been in indescribable pain the likes of which I had never felt before, I likely would have noticed that I suddenly had an ache in the end of my spine, along with a splitting headache from a pair of slowly growing protrusions.
Th-thump
I began to grit my teeth, not noticing that I did so with enough force to instantly shatter them all, not that it added much to my pain. As I let out another scream of a moo, The roots of each tooth began to push themselfs out, and a new set of teeth replaced them; they looked the almost exact same as my human teeth, but they were less worn. New, you might say.
Th-thump
My hair began to lose its color, and take on a slight green hue to it, and I began to feel myself grow.
Th-thump
I felt the desk collapse under a great weight.
Th-thump
I felt the wall give under my charge, as my hooves pounded against the ground like hammers forging a blade.
Th-thump
...I need to get somewhere. But where?
Th-thump
...So hungry...
Th-thump
I galloped my way through the bamboo, and pounced on my quary, ripping its delicious body in two, and grinding it between my teeth.
Like many youkai, I went berserk on the night of the full moon, and fed without restraint.
Unlike most youkai, I was thankfully a herbivore. The only thing that fell to me was grass, grass, and more grass, with the ocassional carrot or bamboo shoot added to the mix.
I felt so alive as my heart thundered in my ear, and I devoured pound after pound of organic material.