Chapter 5

Disclaimer: I own nothing of touhou and familiar of zero, all character belongs to their respected creator.

Author's note: chapter 5 is here and an explanation first. When Chiyuri said that they would arrive at the village in a day and a half, she was counting on them to travel at walking pace not run for their life pace; also she expected them to make camp for one night. If you go at "run for your life" pace through the forest, you can actually get from Yumemi's ship to the human village in a bit more than half a day. Or you could also think of it as someone messed with the space between the two points allowing them to reach faster. I can't decide so choose the one that floats your boat. Also Louise's group now has 20 people.

Louise POV

"Come in here." The young lady who saved them said to them as she invited them into a school in the village.

-two hours earlier-

The young lady, who introduced herself as Keine Kamishirasawa, told Louise's group that she was from the local village. Everyone was very glad to leave the god forsaken forest so they quickly followed her; they walked for what seems like 2 more hours before they reached the outskirt of the human village.

The village was much larger than what Louise was expecting. There are much more buildings of all sorts, many are even multiple floored and are quite large. If it for the young lady who saved them calling this a village she would have thought it was the capital of a country. But she can see a lot of difference between this village and Tristain as well; most of the buildings are made out of wood and the architecture is totally different. On the road there are only a few people walking around with lanterns, the street appears deserted since it is still night time.

Where in Halkeginia are we? Louise wondered, the young lady said she will explain more once they reached the village. Keine soon lead them to what appears to be a school and lead them in.

"You must all be tired journeying through that forest on foot; I'll go get some tea." Keine said to them as she light up some candles in the room.

"That will not be needed Miss Keine, but we do have a question. Do you know where in Halkeginia are we? I don't recall seeing architectures like this village in my life or have read about it in books. Please it is very important in order for us to return home and seek help!" Professor Colbert said to Keine in an urgent tone . Everyone seems to be paying attention to the question, it is incredibly important since it determines how much longer before they get home.

"Halk…eginia… I'm afraid you have to explain your situation to me from the beginning or else I cannot help you." Keine said with apologize.

So Louise and everyone else sat down to rest as Professor Colbert explained to Keine from the beginning as how they were in Tristain academy to how they got captured by the girl Yumemi Okazaki and finally how they journeyed through the forest to get to the village in order to seek help.

Keine listened closely from the beginning, but as she listened more and more she seemed to be thinking something.

"Mister uh…"

"Colbert, Jean Colbert."

"Mister Colbert let me ask you this question. How many moons does Halkeginia have?"

"Two, but why did you ask?" Colbert asked.

But Keine did not answer, she appeared to be immersed in her thought. As the moonlight slowly seeped into the room, Keine let out a breath and began to answer.

"I'm sorry Mister Colbert, but perhaps it would be better for your group to go see for yourselves now that the sky is clear again." Keine said slowly, but her tone caused Louise worry. See for yourself? What could be the problem?

Everyone soon rushed towards the window or the door to look at the outside sky. As Louise looked up from her spot at the door she saw the most terrifying thing she saw in her life. It was worse than her failure at magic, worse than getting kidnapped by a giant vessel, it was even worse than their journey through the terrifying forest. What she saw was a single crescent moon in the sky, but it destroyed all hope of her returning home. This was not Tristain, this was not even Halkeginia, they aren't in any place they know about. In fact the question is where are they?

"…Miss Keine, where in the world are we?" Professor Colbert finally asked Keine after gazing at the moon.

"You guys are not in your world anymore; this is Gensokyo, the illusionary land of the forgotten." Keine said slowly. Louise didn't understand the name she just said but she knows one thing, she can never go home again.

Otohime POV

It has been days since she split up with Yumemi, and she had showed her existence to the Tristain nobles. Soon, Otohime thought, soon it will be the time to take action again to create more fun. Unlike the boundary youkai, Otohime have no interest in taking the central stage or leading another person to their destruction, nor does she like the complex plot and plans of the perspective youkai. What Otohime is interested is watching what will happen when someone gains power beyond their dreams and what they would do with this power. She have found the perfect target, the princess Henrietta, for her amusement. She watched this princess for many days and even sneaked in and read some of her diaries and letters. She found out that Henrietta is in love with a prince Wales from Albion and that Albion is now in civil war.

"This could be interesting; I wonder how far the princess would go to save her lover." Otohime said to herself, she could now understand why Yukari and Tiandao enjoy messing with others life so much, it is so much fun.

Yumemi POV

"So what's the progress on the decoding of the books we stole?" Yumemi asked Chiyuri, it is the morning of the second day. The group that left had arrived at the human village with only one casualty, so due to the lack of combat data Yumemi decided to just work on decoding the books that they stole from the academy. She has been waiting in the command room for Chiyuri's result ever since last night.

"I have asked a couple of the test subjects about their language and right now we have decoded about 15% of the total amount of books through the vessels main computer."Chiyuri answered; from the dark underline beneath her eyes one can see that she is sleepy. After all, she did work all night decoding the books.

"Did you find anything useful?"

"Some history here and there, nothing important; but there is one piece of interesting information, the Brimir guy that these people worship have left a prayer book and we don't have it."

"Any idea where it is?"

"If the info is correct, then it is probably still in the hands of the Tristain's royals."

"Hah…So we have to go get it again then."

"Look on the bright side; we can go catch some spirits and elves while we are there as well."

"Thanks Chiyuri. Go get some rest we are going world jumping in the evening." After Yumemi said that Chiyuri left the command room and Yumemi began to plan her next move. The research seem to be going well, but the escaped ones might try to disrupt her research; but then again without help they wouldn't be much trouble, they aren't protected by the spellcard rule right now and it is unlikely for them to find help. The people at the village probably wouldn't help, they seen a lot of outsiders and got their own job to do, the possibility of them getting help from the youkai and celestial bureaucracy is non-existent. The only loose end is the Hakurei shrine maiden; she is an uncertainty and must be dealt with.

"I guess it's time to make a surprise donation." And then Yumemi left the command room.

Louise POV

"Ugh…"

Louise woke up from her bed, it isn't as high quality as the bed in the academy but after all the hardship yesterday she fell asleep as soon as she lied on it. She looked around the room, it was a plain wooden room full of wooden furniture made in a weird style, the sun was shining through the large window on the side of her bed and she can hear the sound of the busy street outside. She was sharing a room with Siesta, Kirche and Tabitha, who are not awake yet; it reminded her that last night was not a dream. They were really stranded in a different world. Last night everyone was too surprised and tired to keep listening to what Keine was going to say after the revelation, so she brought them to a local inn and rented some rooms for them. The familiars were placed in the stable and since there weren't enough rooms they had to share.

Mom, what would you do in this situation? Louise thought to herself, she had always seen her mother as an idol and a source of guidance, stories of her mother's heroic deeds and triumph over danger had always encouraged her. But now she was in a situation where her mother never experienced, lost in a foreign land with foreign people and no way home.

"Hah…" Louise let out a breath, just thinking about it makes her depressed, time to get dressed and go down to look for something to eat, maybe food could cheer her up a bit. As she thinks, she began to get dressed and went out of the room.

Colbert POV

Professor Colbert sat in front of a table full of dishes he had not seen before, Keine had ordered these dishes so that they might discuss over their current situation while they eat. He had wakened early today and met up with Keine at the lower floors of the inn, which was made in to a restaurant. Around them many people, dressed in what he would guess local cloth with occasionally a few other weirdly dressed people, are eating breakfast and discussing as well. He was thankful that there are other weirdly dressed people as well since that makes him and his staff less showy.

"What's wrong you are hardly eating? Would you like some sake?" Keine asked.

"What's sake?" Colbert replied with a question.

"It's a type of alcohol made here."

"No thanks, I would like if we can get back on the topic we talked about yesterday." Colbert answered; it is not a good time to drink especially since the situation is urgent. They need to find out their way of returning to their world as soon as possible.

"Miss Keine, you seem to be quite knowledgeable and respected around here." Colbert said recalling that when they first came to the inn the inn keeper didn't charge them any money right there because Keine is there.

"I'm the school teacher and take up the duty as one of the village's guard once in a while." Keine said as she began to drink.

"Then I would like you to teach me about this place. Is there any where to seek help? Have there been anyone who have the same situation as we do?" Colbert asked.

"As I said the land you are in right now is Gensokyo, it is the land of fantasy, the place closest to heaven, hell, and any place you can think of. In this land it wouldn't be weird no matter what kind of people in met, whether it is gods or other being you only heard of in legends." Keine began to explain, and Colbert listened closely.

"There are mainly three types of beings you could meet, gods, humans or youkai. Gods and humans are obvious so I don't need to explain, youkais are most other supernatural beings that are not gods or humans. The girls that you guys met in the forest are youkais." A land where gods live, Colbert would have thought that this was insanity if not for the fact that they are now trapped in a land with one moon.

"About your other questions, there have been other outsiders who are trapped in this world but they might not be from your world. As I said this place is connected to everywhere, no matter which world it is, it can be connected to this world. I personally heard of many world hoppers living here and seen a couple in my life time. Yumemi is one of them."

"Can you ask one of them to send us back to our world!" Colbert asked hopefully, the fact that there is multiple world hopper gave him hope that it is possible to send him back home.

"I'm sorry, but I can't."

"Why?"

"You see hoppers usually don't have a fixed place they stay at, or it is hard to find I personally don't know where they are at." Keine explained.

Colbert was disappointed by the news, it seems that if they want to find a way home they have to track down these people but he doesn't even know where to begin.

"There is someone I can bring you to see that may help you." Keine suddenly said. And this news suddenly raised Colbert's hope.

"Who and when are we going to meet this person?"

"After we eat we'll go, hopefully the Hakurei shrine maiden might help you." After hearing that Colbert began to eat, the foods tasted great and give him strength once again. Now they have a new hope again.

Author`s note: once again explanation for some of the things used in this fic. Since marine benefit is used Gensokyo have an ocean, Tiandao (or Xiangdeng Tiandao if you want his full name) is an OC from the role-play touhou edge of perspective, who is the youkai of perspective (go see superpower wiki on perspective manipulation). Once again I repeat this is FANON TOUHOU. The human village you can imagine it as ancient Chinese style (since I'm Asian). The celestial bureaucracy is the government made by gods to take care of the universe (or multiverse if you want to go bigger), it would be made up of gods from multiple religions (through some are less involved than others). Once again thank you for reading this fic, sorry for completely uprooting canon and next up the greedy jerkass that we all know and love, Reimu.