Everyone had gathered just outside the Forest of Magic. Reimu and others had not managed to gather anyone else, or find anything out, leaving Nazrin as the only lead.
"OK then, so, we should get Mari..." Reimu said, before Genji suddenly moved to evade a rainbow blast.
Marisa, followed by an Alice who seemed to be attempting to reason with her, flew through the group.
"Those eyes! They stole that magical amplifier doohicky from me!" Marisa shouted, not even aware that she had just sparked Reimu and the others. She was running on autopilot.
"Guys, Marisa's really mad! What are we gonna do?" Alice said, as Marisa turned to attack again. "When she's this mad she's completely unreasonable and attacks everyone!"
Reimu sighed. "I don't really want to have to beat up Marisa right now, but it looks like I'm going to have to..." she starts, as Daiyousei suddenly flies in front of her.
"No. Let me. I wanna try something... I've only done it on fairies before, but it might work." Daiyousei said.
"What could you do to stop Marisa?" Reimu asked, sounding annoyed. "That's like Cirno fighting Marisa."
"She's not gonna fight her Reimu." Wriggle said. "Daiyousei is an emotion fairy."
"I don't get it..." Reimu said.
"Fairies take on aspects of nature, and emotions are natural occurrences." Mystia explained. "Emotion fairies are rare, but Dai's one of them."
Marisa looked towards the group, and rushed towards them, Daiyousei at the front.
The fairy looked nervous, as she darted around Marisa, and almost hugged her from behind, her arms being too small. She then began to glow with a green aura, which passed into Marisa.
"Uhhhh... what?" Marisa groaned. "Why was I attacking you guys?"
"Daiyousei's emotion is calm." Wriggle said. "She uses it to keep the fairies calm when things go out of hand usually. That's why despite being full of fairies, the Misty Lake is so much calmer than other places."
"You entered a berserk rage when a flock of evil eyes stole a magical device from your house while I was visiting." Alice explained.
"Oh yeah. Strange you didn't feel them coming." Marisa said, Daiyousei still clinging to her.
"Because those weren't normal Evil Eyes... they didn't give off the feeling youkai do." Alice explained.
"RIKA!" Reimu shouted. "It must have been her robots!"
Daiyousei let go of Marisa at this point, and Marisa looked at the fairy.
"What were ya' doin' back there little fairy?" Marisa asks.
"C-c-calming you down..." Daiyousei said sheepishly. "I can calm people down. I can even calm Cirno down."
"And it was awesome! You beat Marisa without fighting her Dai!" Rumia said.
Nazrin then spoke up, and everyone looked at the mouse youkai to see she had several dowsing pendulums around her, all pointing the same direction.
"It's this way. The reactor." Nazrin said.
"Reactor?" Marisa asked.
"We'll explain on the way. It's where your stolen thing is too." Reimu said.
"Someone attacked the Kappa Marisa! We're hunting her down!" Nitori said.
"Oh, well if they attacked a pal I gotta spark em, don't I!" Marisa said, flying over to the Kappa, and shaking her hand in greeting.
"You guys know I can only keep this up as long as I have the energy, right?" Nazrin said. "We need to get moving, chat on the way!"
Youkai Mountain was simply the largest mountain of a large mountain range. However, it was the only one habitable. Beyond the Youkai Mountain, were just spires of rock and occasionally snow. Nothing to sustain life, in the mountain ranges of Gensokyo.
"... How could she be here of all places." Reimu said, looking around in the snow drifts. "No-one ever comes here. There's nothing here."
"My pendulums say otherwise, and they are never wrong." Nazrin says.
"Well, I guess something that doesn't need nourishment could live here, like a Hermit." Rikako commented, being carried still, as Nitori worked on her jetpack in mid-air.
The group continued, the mountains seeming endless.
"If we go much further, we're sure to hit the Yakumo Barrier..." Reimu said.
"Yakumo Barrier?" Rumia asked.
"The barrier on my half is called the Hakurei Barrier. The other half is maintained by Yukari in particular, and thus is called the Yakumo Barrier." Reimu explained.
"Ah..." Rumia commented, before a thunderous male voice cried.
"Who enters our land?!"
Everyone stopped, and reacted in different ways. Marisa and Reimu readied to fight. Daiyousei hid behind Rumia. Alice looked not bothered. Wriggle almost dropped Rikako.
A group of black clouds appeared, flying towards the group. It was only when they were close that it was clear that the clouds had faces... and fists.
"You approach the Mountain of the Nyuudou." one of the clouds said. "None are allowed on our mountain, except for one we owe everything to."
"But, we're trying to stop a disaster!" Marisa said.
"There is no disaster on our mountain." one of the other black clouds said. At this point, Rumia recalled Ichirin, a monk at the Myouren Temple, and Unzan. She figured these clouds were Unzan's kind.
"Do you know a pink cloud? Called Unzan?" Rumia asked.
"We know no Unzan." one replied, "But we have heard of him, he works with a monk."
"OK, just curious." Rumia said.
"We can just go around the mountain you know..." Nazrin said, before Reimu interrupted.
"Have you seen anything suspicious? On any of the other mountains?" she asked.
The Nyuudou were quiet for a few moments, before one answered.
"We have not seen anything, but we have been warned. Warned by a winter spirit." he said.
"Winter Spirit?" Mystia asked.
"I wonder if that was Letty..." Wriggle added.
"Yes, that was her name. Letty." the cloud replied. "She warned us to be ready to fight a danger. We do not know if you are our enemy or not. If you must proceed in this area, avoid our mountain or we will attack you."
"Finished!" Nitori said, as Rikako's jet pack kicked up again.
"Ah, thank you. You youkai can let go now." Rikako said, as Mystia and Wriggle let her go.
"Anyway, I wonder what Letty knows. Maybe we should try and find her." Mystia said.
"No, she's busy with Cirno, after all. I guess she's preparing Cirno to help with something. Letty's smart like that." Wriggle replied.
Rumia turned to talk to her two freinds, when she noticed something.
"Guys... Dai's vanished, she was hiding behind me..." Rumia said.
"What?! It's not like her to wander off!" Wriggle exclaimed.
"Well, maybe she did!" Nazrin said. "Or maybe something happened! Either way, the best way to find the fairy is to move on!"
Everyone agreed, and followed Narzin around the mountain, and it was not far until there was a mountain with a cavern in the side of it, a cavern lined with metal.
"So... what's the betting this is the place?" Marisa said.
"Pretty high." Alice commented. "But didn't you say she was human Reimu? How would a human live out here?"
"She's crazy." Reimu said, shrugging her shoulders.
"... Dai..." Rumia said, hoping her friend was safe, before a scream was heard from inside the cavern. A scream that was clearly Daiyousei's.
"Help!" she cried.
Everyone didn't think twice. They rushed inside.
Author Notes: Short chapter, sorry 'bout that, but this stuff had to get out of the way or it would over-bloat the next chapters. Anyway, next chapter will be the Cirno and Letty chapter.