The talk before the storm.
Recap.
Reimu in Marisa, with quite venomous thoughts on the destruction of whoever who caused the madness. Came up with the idea to train as Marisa
Marisa is in Reimu, basically now getting dragged along by Reimu to do whatever it takes to put Reimu's plans into motion against the perpetrator.
"We're going to train."
"Wah? But you never ever, ever, ever, ever train. I mean, you.. just don't... train, and now you want to?" Marisa stammered as she got
dragged out of the living room by Reimu.(1)
"Sure," Reimu replied cheerfully, doing an almost 180 degree change from her previous enraged mode. "Or else how am I to beat the crap out of
whoever did this? Since I am in your body, I might as well adapt and have you train me."
"Erm... ok. But on one condition, I come with to beat her up, and you have to teach me your spells." Marisa stood up, walking outside with Reimu.
"Deal."
Squinting as bright light partially blinded them as they stepped outside onto the wooden planks of the porch. The courtyard of the shrine was a nice large open area, perfect for practicing magic, flying , danmaku or any other training required without too much collateral damage.
"So, where do we start?" Marisa asked, whilst mentally trying to summarize the key areas that Reimu had to learn to make her able to
fight properly.
"Stay here!" was the only response Reimu gave, walking to the back of the shrine to the storehouse. Fidgeting Marisa started searching
through her clothing till she chanced upon the deck of spell cards Reimu usually held.
"Hmm, now what is there...?" Flicking her way through the deck, familiar names appeared, mostly from the Broken Moon incident(2), and other
fights she got into with Reimu.
"Here!" Thrusting a set of scrolls at Marisa, Reimu returned also carrying her gohei and Marisa's broom.
"What in the world are these dust-filled horrors?" Marisa dropped the scrolls in disgust, inching slowly away to put some distance between her and
whatever Reimu brought.
"Ancient texts, with the Hakurei bloodline abilities and methods of exorcism, all condensed into thirteen scrolls. For your reading pleasure, since you do
like to read old book from Voile, right?" Reimu recited with absolute calmness, totally ignoring Marisa's first reaction to the scrolls.
"Wow!" Stumped by the sudden rush of information, Marisa reconsidered her earlier disgust based on false premonitions. She reached out to pick up the scrolls, blissfully imagining the beautiful scene of leisurely reading in her own chair whilst occasionally looking out to the Forest of Magic's breathtaking view, when Reimu snatched her hand.
"There is no 'I will die long before you, and therefore you can take it from my corpse' nonsense around here. Either read in the shrine quietly or not at
all." Reimu ordered.
"Relax, ze. After all, since I am in your body, so everybody else will just see you reading your own books at my place." Marisa said with a shrug of her shoulders,
shaking off Reimu's(Marisa) tight grip that prevented her blood flowing properly.
"No means NO! If I find a single scroll that is missing, you are going to Makai begging Shinki to show you a place to hide." Marisa flinched at
the ferocity in Reimu's voice.(3)
Sitting down in the shaded porch, Marisa reached again for the first tome, her mind now free of any thoughts of robbery. Seconds later,
Reimu yanked Marisa up, quite forcefully too.
"What? I followed your instructions! Read peacefully here, no paper damaged, nothing missing. What do you want now?" On the verge of frustration,
Marisa was tempted to punch Reimu straight in the face, but held back to hear what Reimu would say.
"First off, you are training me! The only book you have ever written is the Grimnore of Marisa, and while it is useful in other circumstances, it contains
none of your own spells. So without any instruction, how am I going to learn?"
"Oh yea, that's right." Rubbing her hands together, Marisa grabbed her broom, and walked out into the courtyard. "It's payback time!"
Notes:
1 Ok, so in Silent Sinner in Blue, Reimu did train. However, my story cannot be so accurate to Touhou's real time line, so let's assume that we have our
favorite, lazy tea-drinking shrine maiden instead of the god-wielding one in SSIB.
2 Or better known to canon Touhou fans as Imperishable Night
3 For those who have never played the PC 98 era Touhou games, Makai is Hell. So in basic terms, what Reimu is trying to say is that she will send Marisa to
Hell, and even then Marisa will still need to find a place to hide from Reimu's wrath.
Authors notes( Yea right, just some cheesy area here for me to vent out how I feel whenever I like.)
A filler arc, that is why it is so short.
So review, constructive comments, insults, random questions, and the occasionally swearing. I am ok with all of that, and actually enjoy that sometimes. ( Well, maybe the insults and swearing needs certain justifications, but you get what I mean.)
Well then enjoy, and hope to hear if any of you got anything to say