NOTES: Someone at the forums suggested a very peculiar naming for the evil Ail, so from now on, I will be referring to him as "NegaAil". Don't know if he wants to be mentioned, so I'll just say his initials are CV, and commend him for such an awesome idea. Oh, and for those that don't know, the name "NegaAil" is derived from "NegaDuck", and awesome villain from the Disney Series "Darkwing Duck". You should look him up. He was one of the most awesome villains ever!
Legend: [i] = a sudden thought between the dialogue, or Ail/NegaAil talking to the one in control of Ail's body.
Dec 28 2012 - Slight rewrites and fixes, nothing too big. There were some mistakes here and there, but they have been dealt with by Top Men. ...TOP! Men.
It's a very early winter morning in Gensokyo, and at the Kappa-Pa Resort, a place for relaxation for humans and youkai alike; built by Nitori and run by her computer, Julia; Kaguya walks out of her room, wearing an open pink robe that exposes her triangle-cut pink bikini beneath.
Her body, though not as surprisingly well toned and tanned as Mokou's, still holds a beautiful elegance, and enough curves to turn heads around, and she plans on using this wonderful gift of nature to the fullest.
She takes a deep breath, sighs contently, walks over to the rails of the second floor balcony, and rests her elbows on them while smiling and looking down, then says "from today onwards, Mokou's stupid fan club will dissolve, and all the men will be after me, like it should always be. I can't lose."
"Especially if it's going to depress Mokou; te-he-he~," finishes saying the surprisingly spiteful princess with a casual smile on her face, which suddenly becomes stiff with shock.
At the neighboring building right in front of her, the door to that particular room in front of hers opens up, and out walks Mokou wearing her hair in a ponytail, a red jacket over a dark-orange shirt that's slightly burned, and a pair of unbuttoned dark red short shorts that fail to cover her cute, tight, yet simple red swimsuit with the wide open back.
She notices her hated rival glaring at her, scowls as she smiles mischievously, then cheerfully calls "hey, Kaguya~ Good morning. Say, what a nice bikini you got there. I have one too, but I'll save it for the pool! Please don't drown unless I'm the one drownin' ya!"
The princess shrieks "MOKO!?" as her rage boils up to her face, and stomps angrily on the floor while shouting "How! the! HELL! you! pay! for! a! room! ?"
The light-lilac haired girl shrugs and says "when the guys saw me kicking your butt all the way here, they insisted I stay. They paid for my room, and were kind enough to get Keine and my stuff for me."
Kaguya is about to lose it again at the mention of Keine's presence, however she quickly turns away from the annoyingly cheerful girl, and mutters to herself "Kaguya, calm down. Yes, you plans are ruined, so you'll have to step up your game. First, I got to compose myself."
She takes a deep breath of air to calm herself down, then continues "I am the Princess of the Moon. She dares challenge my beauty, but she just doesn't know what she's up against. Oh yes, my beauty is legendary. I can't lose!"
She turns around with a smug smile and a pointing finger, then just drops to the ground at the sight of Keine wearing an open white jacket over a white and blue bikini with sparkly adornments swirling around the white top, which is filled very nicely.
"Hey Keine," casually greets Mokou. "Ready for the beach?"
Kaguya remains flat on the floor as she sighs and says to herself "don't despair. I have younger-looking skin, and perfect complexion. I can still win without those udders!"
At the same time, the history teacher happily replies "oh yes, I am; and it was so nice of those boys to treat us both."
Reisen, who wears a lilac bikini with red waves adoring both top and bottom, which do wonderful things to the visual meal that is her curvy and well endowed body, shyly peeks her head from behind the door, and softly calls "Princess, your breakfast is ready. We ordered the vegetable omelet with the side of rice, and fresh milk."
The black haired girl quickly springs on her feet, squeezes Udonge in a tight hug, and exclaims "Inaba, you GENIUS! Milk will teach those girls a lesson they'll never forget!"
"P-p-princess! What are you-?" calls the nervous Moon Rabbit, whom starts feeling incredibly uncomfortable when her princess starts squeezing their bodies repeatedly tighter, and nervously says "please, let me go. Th-this is embarrassing."
Kaguya's eyes become two bright yellow sparks as she slithers behind her servant, grabs her well endowed chest from behind, and claims "MINE! THEY WILL TEACH THAT MOKOU AND HER COW! GIVE THESE TO ME, INABA!"
The poor rabbit screams as her face flushes, and then she runs in a circle and trips on herself, then falls on her face, knocking her offender off while panting with a mixture of pain and very slight pleasure.
"Please don't do that again!" demands Reisen as she lifts her head up, understandably upset over the attack to her body.
Ignoring the rabbit's cries, Kaguya zips to the table and drinks three of the four bottles of milk there, and as she suddenly and rapidly eats her breakfast with her chop-sticks, she says "oh yes *chomp-chomp-nom*, this milk and eggs will do it! *Nom-nom-nom* Yes, these will enhance my body, and I will defeat Mokou, once and for all!"
Tewi crouches next to the shivering Reisen with a casual smile on her face, and casually says "if she only understood the advantage of a simple body like her own, she would have already won."
The lilac haired rabbit girl holds her chest with her crossed arms as she stands up, then says "I'm not going with her if she's going to assault me like that again!"
Mere minute later, Reisen Udongein Inaba cries while she is dragged by her ears to the beach by Kaguya, accompanied by Tewi, whom hides her swimsuit under a pink bath robe.
"What a terrible morning to have a curse on you."
Flandre's thoughts echo in her mind as she runs for her life toward the clock tower, the one place she feels she'll be safe.
As she run, the stupid fairy maids think she's playing, or perhaps running away from her room, so they all move out to attack with danmaku.
"AAARRRGH! You stupid fairies! NOT ME!" shouts the desperate blonde, whom has no other choice than to whip out her Lavatein and flick it around like some sort of 'whip', making dangerous cracking sounds with every move from the wrist.
The poor fairies explode, and the lucky ones that survive the attack are soon dealt with thanks to the vampire's stray bullets, which happen to fly after the red whip's every movements.
She continues to run, dodge bullets, whip fairies, shoot bullets, and pant hard, and then she finally reaches the stairs leading up to the clock tower's balcony, and her possible salvation.
She look up the stairs and wonders if it's worth the climb, and then, "MMMWWWWRRRRREEEEEOOOOOOWWWWW ! *HISS*"
Flandre yelps out loud when that horrible roar and that bone-chilling hiss coming from so close behind her reaches her ears, but her goal is near, and she's not about to give up, so she takes off running up those stairs as fast as she can.
She pants and whimpers as she runs up those stairs, killing fairies that try to stop her with her whipping sword and stumbling on some of the steps, and then she hears movement coming from below.
Her whimpers become louder as the sound of scratches and bumps get closer to her faster than she can run, but then relief soon claims her, and she smiles.
She reaches the door to the Clock Tower balcony in record time, grabs that knob and turns it, breaking it off instead of unlocking it first, then rapidly runs outside, where the accursed sun struggles to shine through the thick winter clouds.
She is greeted by slowly-descending snowflakes that keep piling up on the floor, and both soothe and sting the skin on her face when they touch her.
She doesn't care about that, and merely runs toward the door under the giant clock, feeling disturbed by the sound of the snow crunching under her feet with every step.
She pants as she reaches the door, grabs the knob and makes sure to unlock it, "ehehe! Heh! This is it! He will NEVER find me in here! NEVEEEEERRRR!" opens and enters without a second thought, then sighs with relief after closing that door and wiping the sweat off her forehead.
She places her weapon on the floor beside her and her back against the door as she sighs and smiles, allowing the mechanical sounds of the clockworks fill her up, replacing the fear fed from that vile three-tailed cat.
After she is finally relaxed enough, she lets out a long and soothing sigh as she lets herself fall on her butt, then says to herself "I'm safe. This place is too noisy for cats, so he'll keep away, I'm sure."
She suddenly hiccups, her body twitches as her skin turns paler than a ghost's, her limbs shiver, and her terrified eyes refuse to move toward the pair of yellow dots over a white crescent in the darkness.
The yellow and white glows are rapidly accompanied by five shimmering objects that look like little blades, there is a low growl and a hiss, and Flandre cries with all her might "THIS IS JUST NOT FAAAAAAAIIIIIIRRRRRR!"
A little blob of darkness flies high above the sky, asking "is that so~?"
Meanwhile, Sakuya is at the front-yard's second floor balcony, wiping the dust and snow off the elegant white table and the chairs there, when a figure in ragged clothes appears at the doorway.
"Ah; Lady Flandre? What are you doing awake at these hou-?" she asks as she turns her elegant and cold face toward the figure, then covers her gasping mouth with her right hand, accidentally putting the dirty wet cloth in her gaping mouth, then exclaims "Young Mistress, what happened to you!?"
Flandre Scarlet is extremely pissed, her shirt has been torn to shreds and is merely covering her small chest, she has had to tie what remains of her skirt around herself like a fundoshi to cover her nether regions, and for some inexplicable reasons, her hair is now set as a cute and messy twin-tailed style, tied with the bits of her shredded hat that were made into ribbons.
Tears of pure rage well up under her eyes, and in a low growling tone, she says "Sakuya... I want... *breathes in*"
"...ONEEEE-CHAAAAAAANNNNNN! BWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Twin fountains of tears fall from her eyes to her sides as the bawls like a desperate child, forcing Sakuya; whose eyes become intense and unfocused; to cover her nose with that same dirty wet cloth, so that it absorbs the blood that so elegantly sprays out of her nostrils after such a sight.
Meanwhile, at the Human Village, Ail moans as he wakes up surrounded by a very thick foggy mist on that winter morning.
Though it's cold, he can't feel the chill of the snow as it touches his skin, however everything feels heavy to him, and for some reason he feels depressed.
"Hello?" he calls as he looks around, hoping to see something through that thick mist.
A sense of displacement claims him, and now he curls up and shivers like a lost child, hesitating on whether calling again or not.
Unknown to him, up in the sky, a girl with shoulder-length wavy pink hair adorned with double-Chinese buns, red eyes, and wearing bandages on her entire right arm, a white shirt, a green skirt, a shackle on her left wrist, and a wine panel with a rose brooch, rides a infant dragon as she stealthily makes her way above the fog.
Both her eyes and the dragon's seem to be void of life, and both seem to be working like automatic machines, not showing a single shred of emotion or life.
She taps her dragon's left horn twice, and the creature automatically starts its descent.
Meanwhile, Ail has managed to stand, but needs to hold on to the Dragon God's statue for support after discovering his legs feel weak.
Frightened, he tries looking through the thick mist, and calls "is anybody out there? Keine? Kyo? Sana[Reimu!]e? Eh? R-Reimu?"
"Ail? Darling, is that you?" calls the familiar voice of the loving girl. "Where are you?"
The boy thinks for a moment, wondering why Reimu's name suddenly popped into his mind, then shrugs after thinking it was a stroke of luck, and calls "I'm here, by the [Filthy!] dragon statue!"
Ignoring the sudden though, he waits as the sound of crunching snow alerts him of someone's presence nearing him.
Reimu pops out of the thick mist to his left, surprising the boy, yet again, with her peasant appearance, and before he can process the though, she grips him tight in a neck-crushing hug, kisses him on the nose, then says "my love, you're alright! I was so worried!"
[Play along, you moron, or I'll make your life a misery!]
Disregarding the fact that he's just been threatened by himself, Ail decides to play along, and hesitantly ask "h-honey? Um, why-why are you worried? And what's up with this mist?"
She lovingly rubs the back of his head, sighs after the boy winces, then says "you hit your head again, darling. Oh well."
She lets him go, grabs his arm, pulls him along with her, and says "come on, we're in the middle of a nasty incident. People are being carried away. Nobody knows who or what is doing the kidnapping because of this mist, but those taken away return speaking gibberish for days. We have to be careful!"
"Maribel and Renko are on the job, but the culprit keeps slipping through their fingers, so they don't know when things will get back to normal either."
The boy sighs with a smile, then says "but Reimu, it's me. If anyone captures me, they'll just send me right back. Besides, you already said Maribel and Renko are taki-MARIBEL AND RENKO!?"
The thought processing finally concludes to what had just been told, and with surprise he questions the humans' names.
Reimu stops, turns around with a frown, then Ail yelps when he feels a strong tug at the back of his shirt, and chokes as he is forcefully taken by the dragon child and the hermit.
"NO! NOOO! AAAIIILLL!" desperately calls the black haired girl as she tries to chase after the attackers.
The boy wants to call back, but he is currently struggling against his own shirt so that it doesn't strangle him.
He manages to look up, stares at the somewhat lifeless Kasen Ibara, then croaks "Kasen? What are you doing? Let me go!"
The girl gives him a robotic-like glance, reaches for him, pulls him by the elbow, sits him behind herself, holds his arm under her own, and then monotonously says "Ail! Underground. Head for Chireiden."
Something ticks in the boy's head, making him feel this ride is something that is meant to be, and merely remains silent as he is taken to what he thinks should be the Youkai Mountain.
At the Hakurei Shrine, Tenshi and Rika, both whom look a little beat up and tired, walk side-by-side with swords on hand toward the source of a rather soft, yet annoying wail near the shrine's entrance.
They are surprised to find Lykamei there, wailing and dancing around a poor and unfortunate bird girl, as if performing some sort of ritual.
Mystia Lorelei; whom has short pink hair she adorns with a brown hat that has tiny wings on the top, grey eyes, pointy owl ears, purple wings with pink feathers, and wears a brown dress with long white sleeves and wing-shaped ribbons for buttons; has curled herself up on the snow and shivers with fright as the ghost girl happily twirls and dances around her.
The shrine maid notices the danmaku blasts on the ground, the ghost's body and the night sparrow's torn skirt, sighs irritably, then sternly says "Lykamei, what did we talk about yesterday; about respecting life."
The ghost girl's dancing stops, her innocent eyes are shot straight at the winged maid, along with a sweet and happy smile, then she floats over to the winged girl and eagerly explains "that's right, that's right! You see, I was shooting at her when I saw her flying by, then I beat her with a wicked head-shot, then, when she fell, I remember what you said about life, so I started to dance the dance Lady Yuyuko taught me to apologize!"
Tenshi is already dizzy from the adorable ghost's rapid speaking, while Rika is wondering if she should scold the young one, or just let it pass.
"Ayayayaya~! This little ghost is FUN! Where did you find her, Rika-chan~?"
Aya lands behind the girls with a grin, takes a picture of the scene right after the girls turn around, capturing Lykamei with an expanded face and a huge tongue hanging from her mouth as she holds two fingers up on each hand besides her cheeks, then smiles at the girls and waves.
"Miss Aya," chirps the angelic maid at the sight of the crow tengu. "I thought you said you weren't coming back for a week. What happened?"
The reporter girl looks away to hide her pink cheeks while saying "erm, n-nothing happened. I-I'm just looking for a scoop, that's all."
Slowly, her gaze turns to the cute shrine maid's eyes, then her angel wings, then she gulps and shouts "WHY!? Why do I feel so attracted to you, Rika-chan!?"
On the background, Lykamei is helping Mystia up, and is dusting the snow off her skirt and hair.
Before Rika can react to Aya's sudden statement, she finds herself being tackled to the ground by one heated crow tengu, who quickly takes the left angel wing and rubs her face against it, causing her own black wings to pop right out of her back.
"Ayayaya~; Oh, so SOFT! I knew it! They're angelic feathers!"
On the background, the little ghost girl stares at the bird girl with a goofy smile, then suddenly pounces her and mimics the tengu girl by rubbing her face on those bird wings.
Tenshi kicks the offending tengu off her friend, and as she helps the maid up, she shoots a very hateful glare at the crow girl and says "you better have a good explanation for trying to soil MY Rika!"
"Shh, shh, it's alright Tenshi," sweetly says the maid while flapping the snow off her wings. "It's alright. Miss Aya just needs a little affection is all. *Giggles*"
Aya crosses her arms under her chest and looks away to hide her flushing face, and then says "hmph! I-I don't know what you're talking about."
On the background, Mystia moans and groans for a moment, and after a mere second of silence, Lykamei exclaims "wow, your wings are so sensitive."
Rika takes two steps toward the tengu, disregarding the fact that Tenshi is trying to pull her away, then giggles again and sweetly says "Miss Aya~ Come here. Come here~" while flapping her small angel wings.
Shameimaru's face turns redder, her wings stiffen, her eyes fill with fear, and it seems she's going to take off flying, but something compels her to stay put.
Obeying that compelling feeling pays off, and now Aya finds herself moaning softly as she closes her eyes and drifts away to bliss, enjoying the soft and gentle scratching from Rika's hand.
On the background, Mystia punches Lykamei on the head, knocking her down to the ground, and cries "what do you mean you won't take responsibility! You stupid mean ghost! WAAAAHHHH!"
The dark-skinned ghost girl rubs her forehead as she stands up again, and watches sadly as the night sparrow youkai flies away while crying twin fountains.
From behind the tengu, Reimu pushes Aya's head down with great force, and takes over in enjoying Rika's gentle scratching, but before the maid questions her mistress, the crow girl rises from the ground and grips the shrine maiden by the cheeks.
"MINE! That hand was MINE, Hakurei!" exclaims the angry crow girl as she stretches the human's cheeks apart.
"She's MY maid, you perverted bird," growls the red and white after gripping the tengu's neck.
Rika places a gentle hand on both their heads, begins to scratch them, effectively ending the fight when both girls drift back into bliss, and sweetly says "there, there. I have a hand for each of you. M-hm-hm~"
Behind her, Tenshi and Lykamei stare with longing, then the celestial with teary eyes sadly says "So, nothing for me again? Fine, I know that this is. You-"
Her words are cut short when those soft white feathers touch her face, and now she and the ghost girl are lost in bliss as Rika rubs their cheeks, the entire back of their heads, and the back of their necks with her wings.
A drop of sweat rolls down Rika's smiling face, and then she says "I think I may be spoiling these girls a little too much."
There is a loud clang on the left, Hatate falls head-first from the snow-covered tree, a dented bronze washtub falls to her left, then Suzaku flies away from that tree and telepathically says "stalking is not allowed in this shrine, Himekaidou!"
Meanwhile, at the Kappa-Pa Resort's pool, Tewi; who wears a simple pink, carrot-motif swimsuit with a frilly skirt; sits on the edge of the water while watching people scream down the twirling slides.
At the other edge of the pool is Julia, a computer hologram that looks like a woman with long blonde hair that's wavy at the bottom, lime-green eyes, and wears a red business suit that covers down to her knees, a pair of glasses, golden earrings, and a plastic flower necklace.
She looks disappointed toward Kaguya, whom crosses her arms under her chest and pouts, while Mokou, whom has been forced to wear her orange bikini, softly cries "they saw it all," next to Keine, whom keeps patting her on the back and whispering "it's alright, they didn't see that much."
Julia taps her foot next to the princess and sternly says "this is a family vacation resort, and those kinds of attacks aren't permitted. Now I won't kick you out since this is your first offense, but if you try something like that again, I will be forced to take action."
The Moon Princess grumbles unintelligible words under her breath, sighs, then says "but it was an accident! I never thought one single bullet would dissolve her swimsuit like that!"
At the beach, the robots are diligently cleaning blood and corpses of happy-looking men and women from the sand, when one of them calls "I found it!", and all of a sudden, all the robots are ooh-ing at the tiny piece of Mokou's swimsuit bottom raised above the robot's head.
Back at the pool, Reisen bows to Julia, who angrily says "no danmaku outside the battle range, understood!? If you want that kind of competition, you go to the battle range! THE! BATTLE! RANGE!"
"Fine, I get it already!" spits the angry princess.
"We're sorry! We won't do it again," says Reisen while bowing repeatedly.
"They saw everything!" cries Mokou after sitting on the swimming pool steps.
"Most died before it dissolved completely. They didn't see," softly reassures Keine while comforting the immortal.
Julia gives another stern look at the Moon Princess, glances around the pool water, and then walks away while muttering "honestly. The princess looked so decent too."
Kaguya looks at the sighing Reisen, then at Mokou, mutters "pathetic," then flies toward the slides and says "Inaba, I want to have fun now. Don't bother me."
The lilac haired rabbit sighs and slumps as she softly begs "please don't do anything rash, Princess."
"Ooh, this one REALLY looks like fun," chirps Kaguya after reaching the top of the slides.
The Moon Rabbit walks over to the history teacher and her friend, sits over at the edge of the pool, and then sadly says "I'm sorry about the princess."
"You don't have to apologize for her," sighs Keine. "These battles of theirs are a pain in my side too, so I can relate."
Reisen's eyes become a little brighter after realizing she's not alone, and with a weak smile she says "well, it's only going to get worst now. After what she caused at the beach, she's twice as jealous of Mokou."
The light-lilac haired girl's tears dry up, her frown becomes an instant smile, her eyes ignite, and she excitedly exclaims "really? She's jealous of me? I never thought of that! That changes EVERYTHING!"
She stands tall with her left fist next to her chest, and happily exclaims "so what if some fools saw my body! I don't care as long as it annoys Kaguya! HA-HA-HA-HAA~!"
"She's pumped up again," sighs Keine with a look of disbelief.
"*Sob* Eirin's going to kill me for this," cries the Lunarian Rabbit after realizing what she has done.
"KYAAAAAAAAAA~"
Kaguya's screaming comes from the toughest slide, where she seems to be flailing about while crying in despair during her fast descent, causing the many people and youkai in the area to look to her direction.
This causes Mokou's smile to brighten even more, and she now watches with anticipation as she awaits the Moon Princess to come out of that middle slide's end.
The screaming girl shoots out of the slide like a blur, followed promptly by her cute pink bikini top, then she suddenly rises from under the water, gasping desperately for air.
"WAAAH~", she screams after spitting some water. "That was AWESOME! I want to go again! ...Eh?"
That's when she realizes there are many red faces aimed at her, curiously observes how those faces explode in a shower of nose-blood, then looks down at herself and notices her breasts are only slightly covered by her hair.
She yelps and dives underwater, somehow avoids the blood of the happily-fainted males; and some females; and manages to reach her top and take it underwater with her.
Mokou drops on her butt on the underwater step, holding her sides and rolling around while bending over and laughing so hard and so heartily, her own face turns tomato red.
Kaguya rises from the water again, this time with her swimsuit fully on and with a triumphant grin on her face, walks over to her hated, laughing rival, lifts her up by her bikini straps, and then she says "laugh all you want! Your fan club will be cheering for me now!"
"Tewi, Tewi, Tewi, Tewi, Tewi, Tewi!"
Both immortals and their friends look toward the source of the cheers, and find Mokou's fan club lifting Tewi up, who easily sits on the hands holding her as she smiles smugly.
"WHAT THE HELL?" exclaims the Moon Princess, clearly angered by the turn of events.
The rabbit youkai kicks a hand and says "watch that hand, buddy," then waves at her princess, shrugs, and says "they saw me stretching out and went crazy."
Kaguya, Keine, Mokou and Reisen stare with disgust an fright at the cheering perverts, then the black haired girl mutters "that vile little bi-"
Unknown to them all, a light-blue boot and a white wolf's tail leave the scene before their owners are spotted.
At the Hakurei Shrine; after things have settled down; Rika sits with Lykamei at the shrine's veranda at the back, watching the snow fall and pile up on the ground.
"Miss Lykamei? Do you remember anything before turning into a ghost?", suddenly asks the shrine maid, her eyes hidden under a shadow, as doubt and sadness taker her.
The ghost girl's eyes turn blank as she moans while lost in her thoughts, and casually says "not particularly. I remember feeling pain in my chest before I woke up... then there was that pink haired girl with the big boobs and the wicked scythe. She talked a lot, but I didn't understand her. After that, there was the nice lady with green hair that took me home to the Netherworld."
The shrine maid manages a quick, yet weak smile as she asks herself "Shikieiki did that? I wonder why?", then looks at the little ghost with a sweet smile, and says "I see. Then I suppose it is better that way."
Lykamei grabs Rika's arm, tugs on it, and says "you know something. About me! Please tell me," while looking up at the maid with an adorable pout and rosy cheeks.
The winged girl chokes at the sight, blushes a bit, but manages to remain calm and focused while saying "well, it's not something I should be telling you. It... wasn't-"
"Hey, don't bring it up if you ain't gonna go through with it," demands the little ghost. "The cat's outta tha bag, lady. You know who I was when I wasn't a ghost, so spill it!"
Lykamei somehow managed to put on a yellow coat and a yellow hat to make herself look like some sort of detective, confusing Rika a bit, and getting a giggle out of the maid.
She giggles along with Rika, throws away the extra outfit, then sits on the angel's lap, earning herself a soft comb with that angel-soft hand, while that maid speaks.
"Well, you weren't the nicest person around. You were pushy, mischievous, you wanted to take over Gensokyo, even though you failed at it so badly, you were mean to others, you hated everyone, and..."
Unnoticed by Rika, her sword takes its colorful shape, and the jewel on it starts to glow bright blue as she speaks. "You... didn't like me much because there was an accident between us. And yet I knew that, deep down inside you, all you ever really wanted was a friend; someone to love. I tried to help, but-"
She feels Lykamei's hand caressing her cheeks, and that's when she realizes she's crying.
The little ghost girl, whose eyes have returned to normal, cries along with the maid, and after kissing her on the left cheek, she cries "d-don't tell more. It's making you cry. You must not cry! You smile, like you always do!"
It takes Rika a bit before she finally realizes her own feelings, gently grabs the ghost girl and wraps her up in a gentle embrace, fakes a giggle that becomes a gentle laugh after a bit, then whispers "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you."
Lykamei returns the hug for a bit, suddenly floats through the angelic maid, hugs her from behind to take full advantage of the soft wings, then says "that's better. No more crying from you. Like Yuyuko said 'Youmu, if you cry too much, the food becomes bitter'."
The angelic maid chuckles weakly, knowing well what those words really meant, but she decides to just enjoy the gentle attention her wings are getting, and not explain that to the little ghost.
Slow, rhythmic thumps on the floor get Rika's attention, and from the scent she knows it's Reimu that's walking to her, so she prepares a smile to greet her mistress, but frowns upon looking at her. "M-my lady, what's wrong?"
Reimu's face looks a bit strained, her complexion looks dull, her lips look a bit pale, her eyes look bloodshot and slightly swollen, and after a sigh, she simply drops on her butt next to Rika, making the wooden floor shake.
She looks at her maid, forces a smile, and weakly says "Rika-chan, I feel a little tired and cold. Please get me some... *sigh* sleep."
"MY LADY!"
The shrine maiden falls on her maid's lap, and quickly starts to snore, sneezes softly, then moans and mumbles "if only... soup was more... with sake."
The angelic maid sighs, looks at Lykamei and says "she's just got a cold," then from the trees, Aya exclaims "that explains why she's been so mellow today," before said crow tengu lands in front of the maid.
Mima appears out of nowhere, smiling and waving at the maid, and says "what a weak little human. Let's take her inside," then Tenshi surprises even Rika after she walks out of Reimu's room with Suzaku on her shoulder, and says "her futon's ready. I placed a warming sheet there too. It'll help her heal quicker."
She notices the surprised stares from everyone, then blushes with embarrassment and asks "wh-what? I'm not some heartless bitch, you know. I AM a celestial after all."
"With the way you behave sometimes, it makes us wonder," says a girl's voice coming from the roof, followed quickly by a somersaulting figure with horns that lands right behind Mima.
Suika Ibuki, has long orange hair that is adorned with a red ribbon and tied at the bottom with a chained shackle, red eyes, two large brown horns, one adorned with a blue ribbon, and wears a tattered pink blouse with the sleeves torn off, a long purple skirt, chained shackles on her wrist and belt, and at the end of each chain is either a triangle, an orb, and a square.
Tenshi just sighs at the appearance of the little oni, while said girl exclaims "alright everyone, while you take care of Reimu, I'll take on her shrine maiden duties for a bit. Whataya say!"
Aya smiles as she lifts her camera, and asks "can I take pictures?"
"Nope," bluntly replies the little drunkard.
The tengu, evil spirit, the dark ghost, and even the celestial give her a thumbs down sign and say "bad idea!"
Meanwhile, above the foggy Gensokyo's skies, Kasen grabs Ail by the hips, easily lifts him up, then tosses him forward, making him scream complaints and curses.
His disastrous landing is followed by three rolls on the snow, then breaking through a thin sheet of ice that was covering a cave entrance, where he finally crashes to a stop on his butt against a blunt rock.
Even with the pain on his lower spine as he groans and struggles to lift himself up, he glowers at Kasen, who waits for him to lift his head and monotonously say "go to Chireiden!"
The dragon takes off with the hermit, and quickly vanishes behind the thick foggy mist, while the dense boy grunts and rubs himself as he stands up.
"What the hell is her problem?" he asks himself while still glowering toward the girl's last seen trajectory. "She could have just told me to jump off or something."
Resigning to his fate, he sighs and looks at his surroundings, then places his hand on his hair while shaking his head and saying to himself "might as well keep going. Hmm; I wonder how are Orin and Satori [Heh, you'd be surprised] doing?"
The cave he is in is very humid and dark, the air inside feels heavy, and the rocks on the bottom give the impression that they are about to roll free at any second.
Feeling comfort in this familiar place, he starts walking toward the depths of the cave, then suddenly jumps back and shoots a pair of magic water orbs toward the ceiling.
A cherry brown bucket falls from the ceiling surrounded by a pair of large will-o-wisps, but the little fireballs fizzle and the bucket yelps when the boy's water bullets hit them, sending said bucket flying several feet into the cave.
As a little girl grunts with each of three bounces the bucket makes upon hitting the solid floor, the boy casually says "I thought we agreed on no more surprise attacks, Kisume!"
Kisume has dark teal hair she ties to twin pigtails with white beads, dark teal eyes, and wears a simple, but dirty white robe.
She is cannoned out of her bucket after the thing gets stuck between rocks, and she crashes to a stop on the rock-hard ground, where she immediately whimpers while curling up into a ball.
Noticing her reaction, Ail sighs as he combs his hair back with his hands, and says "gee, sorry Kisume. I didn't mean to scare you like that, but it's your own fault for surprising me like that."
He walks closer, making her try and back away with erratic movements from her thin, bare legs while whimpering and crying in terror, and noticing this behavior the boy stops his advance.
"H-hey, Kisume, it's just me. It's Ail. Why are you [Look at her left leg, fool.] so scared?" asks the boy with a genuine look of surprise in his face.
Listening to that voice in his head, he looks at the youkai's left leg, and quickly notices how the back of it seems to be missing its skin, and how behind the knee there is a black spot where a curse has been placed so that it affects her blood flow.
He gasps, whispers "Kisume, what happened? Let me help-;" and bends slightly as he makes his way to her.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
A blonde girl with brown eyes, who ties her hair in a bun with a brown ribbon, and wears a brown dress that's poofy and tied with yellow ribbons at the bottom, and a long sleeved black shirt underneath, rushes over to Kisume and stands between her and Ail with her arms spread to the sides.
Her left eye is black and swollen shut, the right side of her head looks like it was recently struck with black magic, as even the hair there looks unnatural and sick, and though she puts on a brave face, the fear she expels can be felt by the boy.
Unable to bare what he is seeing, the dense boy takes a step forward with a desperate and sad look in his eyes as he softly asks "Yamame, what happened?"
The spider youkai yelps and takes a step back, her arms stiffen in front of herself as a shield, and her knees bend on their own as she unwillingly backs away, shivers with fear, and cries "stay away! Please stay away!"
Ail wants to help, but he realizes he is not wanted, and yet stays where he is and opens his mouth to speak "[Forget it kid! Just move to the damned mansion. And don't worry. They won't DARE attack you from the back. I saw to that myself.]
The boy doesn't like that sinister voice in his mind, but his body is compelled to obey for reasons he can't understand, and finds himself hesitantly backing away, and cautiously walking around the two youkai.
As soon as he is sure he's clear, Anilan walks more casually deeper into the cave, takes flight after he's sure he's safe to do so, then says "I don't know who you are, but I don't like you one bit. And what did you mean about 'seeing to that yourself'? What did you do, whoever you are?"
[That is not your fucking concern at the moment! Your concern is Chireiden! You keep going there and don't stop unless the oni gets in your way. Tch! She's the only bitch in here that gives me trouble!]
An image of Petal, a young-looking girl with short black hair that has a white stripe in the middle and is adorned with a blue plaid bow at the back, sparkly navy-blue eyes, a triangular green stone on the chest, and black wings, appears right in front of Ail's mind.
She wears a blue plaid overall dress with a pink shirt underneath, black knee-high boots, and wears a white cape with the image of a bright sunny day sky on its underside, and has a very innocent look on her face.
The boy loses his breath and shivers with fear after the image disappears, then gulps and asks "what... are you planning? What do you want from Petal?"
[Ahh, you saw that. Well, that's none of your concern. You just keep flying, and keep your damned mouth shut!]
Ail wants nothing more than to stop and turn around now, but the pull to the mansion is as strong as the first time he entered Gensokyo.
Nostalgia fills him for a moment as he remembers imagining magical bullets, and how they would affect youkai even though they didn't materialize physically, and how he used that silly imagination of his to scare Kisume and Yamame the first time he met them.
He now dreads what's coming up ahead even more, but his body wants him to continue on his way, and as he begins his descent through the hole leading to the Ancient City, he says to himself "I have such a bad feeling about this."
Meanwhile, at the Moriya Shrine, a shrine at the top of the Youkai Mountain, two little girls are playing with danmaku above the semi-frozen lake waters behind the shrine's buildings, while a tall woman and a shrine maiden watch the battle from the shores.
The tall woman is Kanako Yasaka, who has bushy blue hair she adorns with a rope that has tiny maple leaves, red eyes, and wears a red shirt with long white sleeves, a long dark-red skirt with a light-red flowers design all around the bottom, has rope adorning her neck, as well as holding a round mirror that rests on her chest, and has a rope circle shimenawa with streamers seemingly floating over her back.
To her side is Sanae Kochiya, who has long and wavy light-green hair she adorns with a frog clip and a snake curl on the left side, green eyes, and wears a white shirt with detached sleeves, and a long blue skirt.
The shrine maiden in white and blue sighs, then sadly comments "and she's at it again. She even challenged me earlier in the morning; took some time to get her off my back so that I could get back to my work."
The goddess raises her sight to the two girls having the danmaku battle, doesn't even squint her eyes as a strong explosion brighten the already bright and snowy day, and calmly says "at least the little one has plenty energy to burn. She's become quite nimble too."
Sanae shields her eyes form the consecutive bright explosions, and then says "aren't you worried? This all started when we all felt Ail's presence the other day. Maybe she needs to talk to someone about it."
Kanako grins and chuckles, then excitedly says "oh no, not at all. It's quite amusing for me to fight Suwako when she's being so overly energetic like this."
"So that's how you want to play!?" exclaims a little girl at the distance, which causes both shrine maiden and goddess sigh and say "not again..."
Flying just above the sacred logs that rest on the lake is Budou, a child-like bat youkai with long teal hair, purple eyes without pupils, and large brown bat wings that are as large and wide as her body, nimbly moves left to avoid a stream of blue lasers, then shouts "big sister is gonna get it now!"
She wears a light-brown dress with a teal band around her waist she ties into a ribbon at the back, adorns the left side of her head with a white bow that has black borders, and the pink socks she usually wears on her clawed feet are currently floating on the cold lake water.
Suwako Moriya, who has short blonde hair she ties with red string at the sides of her face, grey eyes, and wears a straw hat with bulgy blinking eyes, a purplish-blue dress with dancing frogs in front and long white sleeves, and is currently swinging three glowing yellow rings around her left forearm, grins mischievously at the bat youkai and says "come and show me what you got!"
She flies just above one of the many sacred logs, and is shaking her hips in a taunting manner.
The little girl grins back as she holds a light-green glowing spell card, flies higher up into the air until child-like goddess looks impressed by her, and declares "Sound Waves, Unheard Barrage!"
She starts flying left and right at a rapid pace, and as her light-green petal-shaped bullets flutter rapidly toward the goddess the sound all around the lake seems to get absorbed by Budou herself.
Kero-chan frowns when her ears feel an odd pressure, feels disoriented after all sound becomes mute, and ends with a burned calf after the little bat's danmaku suddenly homes in on her.
Suwako has to somehow fly between the gaps of the bullet rain in order to avoid the homing shots that break from the formation at random, and while she does, the maddening silence makes her feel anxious, raising her tension and making her movements more stiff.
She can see Sanae speaking, even though no sound can be heart, and Kanako constantly shouting back with a confused look.
This makes Suwako laugh and lose all her concentration, but now that she's so relaxed, she manages to move with enough agility to fly circles around Budou's bullets.
As soon as the first wave is over, some sound returns, but the next wave showers on the froggy goddess and mutes the sounds again, but not before the blonde manages to throw the three rings up to the air, and catches the little bat youkai by surprise when she flies left.
Budou's spell card cancels immediately after the rings trap her like tight rope and explode, sound returns just as she finishes screaming, and now Sanae calls out to the bat youkai when she sees the little teal haired girl falling head-first to the cold lake water below.
Phredia, a hand-sized elf fairy with long blonde hair she adorns with a red ribbon, and wears the dark blue dress gifted to her by Alice, which is making her look like a pointy-eared version of Shanghai, flies out of the little bat's chest, waves her hands around as if leading an orchestra, and magically holds the little girl in mid air as she takes her over to the worried shrine maiden.
Sanae eagerly grabs the weak little, air-floating bat girl, while Suwako shouts "aww, come on Budou! I didn't hit you that hard!"
The green haired girl glowers at her ancestor and angrily shouts "be more careful next time! She's still a very young child!"
Budou smiles as she weakly sighs, then manages to say "that was fun," before placing her face on the maiden's well-endowed chest and quickly falls asleep.
The blonde goddess clicks her tongue, dives to the lake and lands on the water, as if landing on solid ground, picks up the wet pink socks, and with energetic frog-hops, she makes her way towards the shore.
Kanako chuckles as Suwako begins to hop in place, like some hyperactive child, and says "your next round is with me, you hyper brat!"
Kero-chan sticks out her tongue and hops around in circles while playfully saying "at least my hair doesn't look like gramma's bloomers!"
This comment causes Sanae to lose her composure and laugh hysterically, while a giant red vein pulsates on the blue haired goddess' forehead.
The shrine maiden quickly calms down, and with a more serious tone she asks "but Moria-sama, aren't you concerned? You've been acting so strange ever since that day. Perhaps you need some rest."
"Don't be silly, silly girl!" exclaims the childish goddess as she hand-stands and hops with her hands, exposing her cute pink frog-motif panties to the sky.
"You should all be glad I'm like this! That means I'm happy. And if I'm happy, Budou's happy, and we can have danmaku battles EVERY SINGLE DA-YARG!"
Kanako grips her rival's foot and pushes her down on the ground, and with an annoyed look on her face she says "show some decency you pervert!"
Suwako grabs Kanako by her ankles, pulls with all her might, causes them both to spin in mid air, and after falling on top of her friend and rival, she bites on the woman's calf, making her cry out in pain, then shouts "you're just jealous 'cuz I'm cute, granny!"
The blue haired goddess with tears of pain dangling under her eyes takes flight and shouts "you and me, ancient wart! Three cards! NOW!"
The forggy goddess' mischievous grin becomes dark as she coldly whispers "excellent. I'll take you down with two," then she takes off to the air, leaving Sanae and Phredia face palming, while the sleeping Budou moans and rubs her little face on Sanae's comfortably ample chest.
Meanwhile, deep beneath the Youkai Mountain, Ail stands at the end of a large bridge with red rails, and gazes with fright upon two threatening blonde girls.
The short one is Parsee Mizuhashi, who has short wavy hair, green eyes, pointy ears, and wears a brown dress with a blue bottom over a black shirt and a black skirt, a pair of white arm socks, a pink sash around her waist, and a pink scarf around her neck.
The towering blonde is Yuugi Hoshiguma, who has long hair, red eyes, a large red horn growing on her forehead, and wears a white, short sleeved shirt with red trims on all the borders, a semi-transparent blue skirt with red trims and highlights, and wears shackles with broken chains around her wrists and ankles.
Both girls throw highly poisonous glares at the boy as he slowly walks closer to them, then the large oni stands in the way, making him stop, punches her left hand strongly enough to make a loud bang, and in a dangerously low and cold tone, she asks "what! in the name of your damned hell are you doing here, Ail?"
He glances from one girl to the next, notices how their eyes start to glow, and understand he won't get out of that place without a fight, and as he tries to think of some manner of escape, he can hear that evil voice inside his mind laughing heartily at his predicament.
Meanwhile, at the top of the mountain, the coldly serene Suwako looks down the heavy mist that's covering Gensokyo, lifts her hat just slightly, then coldly says "he's close. Too close for comfort."
She turns around, claps her hands together, then suddenly plunges under the stone path and rapidly moves back toward the shrine.
At the Hakurei Shrine, Rika kneels beside her mistress and applies a cold wet towel on her forehead, then softly says "don't worry, my lady. I'll have you all better before you know it."
Tenshi, who kneels at the other side of the bedridden shrine maiden, watches in silence, showing some concern for the sick human, then moves the heated covers slightly so that they completely cover the shrine maiden's chest.
Reimu opens her eyes just slightly, smiles at the celestial, then her angelic maid, moans "thank you" softly, then closes her eyes again.
Outside the shrine, Suika, whom wears a small version of Reimu's shrine maiden outfit, is holding her gohei with both hands as she swings it above her head, while Aya flies just above her pleading "come on, just one picture! Only one and I'll leave you alone, I promise!"
"I already said NO!" furiously replies the little oni, who feels she desperately needs a drink. She hates being sober, after all.
At the same time, at the kitchen, Mima bends over slightly on top of one of the counters and holds the side of her head with one hand as though in pain, and while she recovers from the sudden shock, Suzaku flies next to her and asks "is he trying it again?"
The evil spirit's eyes strain as she fights to regain composure, and with some strain in her voice she replies "yes. He... he's scared. He's wanting to escape something. His chest hurts."
She finally relaxes, takes a few hard breaths, even though she really doesn't need them, and then says "I'm going to have to have another word with those two. Something feels very strange. Our minds are not supposed to link while he's in there."
The vermilion bird nods once, then says "to think he almost made that world into our reality."
"That's not important right now," replies the green haired woman more calmly. "Something is straining his mind and spirit; something that shouldn't be. But what?"
As she ponders on this puzzle, she wonders if it was a mistake to get herself out of the task of caring for Ail while he is in that alternate world.
To be continued...
Characters, spell cards and scenarios belong to ZUN -Team Shanghai Alice-
Ail, Budou, Phredia, Lykamei, Julia, Petal, and the evil black cat were created by Willie G.R.
Budou's spell card: "Sound Waves, Unheard Barrage", was created by Willie G.R.
Rika Onkamikami and Suzaku were created by Snapshot 2010
JUL 12 2012
Written by
Willie G.R.
A/N:
Sorry this took so long to post. Real life reared its grotesque face again and wouldn't let me focus on writing. Not only that, but when I finally had free time again, I lost all motivation; hasn't been a good time for me. Oh well, with that complaining aside, I hope I am back to updating more regularly, as I too would love to see how this story will look like when finished.
Oh, and don't worry. Even though so many funny things happened in this chapter, that doesn't mean there's going to be no humor on the next. Sadly, it DOES mean the next one will be a bit more serious, especially... well, I won't say, or I'll just be teasing and spoiling.
Satori: Yes. And seeing as you are taking Ail to my home in that alternate world, I have to admit I am a bit anxious.
Me: Why? Can't you just read my mind and see what I'm thinking?
Satori: But your mind is so... hyper! In fact, you still haven't decided how exactly will the plot progress!
Me: It's fun to think.
Satori: AAH! You pervert! I'm telling Patchouli!
Me: You wouldn't DARE!
*Satori and Willie end up wrestling on the ground, just as Patchouli comes in for some coffee.*
Patchouli: *Stare* you two are disgusting. Get a room already.
Me & Satori: WE'RE NOT DOING THAT! WE'RE FIGHTING!
Patchouli: *Waves dismissively while blushing lightly.* Yes, yes. That's the same excuse I use whenever I'm caught with Koakuma.
Me: *Shock-faced blushing and nosebleeding.*
Satori: *Totally shocked and blushing fiercely.*