Chapter 10

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

"The world is fragile because people cling onto their common sense, which is why they cannot expect the unexpected." – Tiandao

Louise POV

It has been a few weeks since Siesta and she became apprentice for Marisa, it certainly has not been easy there were many problems in living with the magician. The room they have been given was very crowded, but that was one of the simpler problems, the serious problems were chores and the "people" who came over. Their teacher often leaves the house and tells them to clean up some parts of the room, for Siesta it was easy and she did it very professionally, but Louise was not used to this kind of physical labor. She would often get tired or mess up the heavy loads of stuff she was carrying, what made matter worse is that her teachers house is full of weird stuff so when she mess up it typically end up getting some sort of punishment; such as the time when she dropped a pouch and accidently breathed in some of the powder inside, she ended up hallucinating about monsters and had nightmares for 2 nights straight. The even more troublesome problem was the "people" who came over, Louise had realized that their teacher was a thief on the fourth day she lived with her. On that day when Marisa left in the morning, an angry Youkai girl rushed in to the house demanding Marisa to return her property. Louise was terrified and thankfully Marisa quickly came back and solved (beat up) the problem, but after that every once in a while an angry "person" come over and the two of them have to carefully not to agitate the intruder and calm the "person" down before Marisa came back.

But despite the problem they had made some advancement on their magic as well, Louise and Siesta can now both cast much more powerful magic without the using a wand. They had found the type of magic they have potential for as well, Louise was adapt at explosion magic and can now cast explosions in a much more variety of form, while Siesta has found her talent in recovering magic and can fix stuff with her magic. Both magic does not have an element and while at first Louise was uncomfortable with the idea of abandoning the founders teaching, the joy of getting good at something quickly replaced that discomfort.

Suddenly this morning while eating breakfast with their teacher, Marisa said something unexpected to the two.

"You two have made quite a bit of improvement, I think this is a good time for us to go our separate ways. You two are now qualified apprentice magicians and may go back to the village."

"What?"

"What!" Louise and Siesta was both surprised at their teachers sudden words, why is she saying this now.

"But we only learned how to cast magic without wand. We can't cast magic that have the amount of power that teacher's have or how to fly for a long time." Louise said, she had improved but she know she is nowhere near her teachers level of power. The master spark aside, she has no confidence in overcoming the sheer number of beams and star bullets that her teacher can throw around easily.

"I told you I can only teach you the basics and help you find your own path didn't I? Every magician need to walk their own path and find their own way, you can't expect everything to be handed to you on a silver plate. As for flying, the power you guys have is increasing slowly, I taught you guys the basics on how to fly; now you guys have to practice it yourself. Most importantly didn't you guys come here to look for a way to go home? You won't make any advancement if you stay here."

"…"Louise was silent, she hasn't realize until now how much she had gotten used to the life in Marisa's house, the magic lessons, the cleaning, the troubles and the cramped room. But she know that despite the comfort and how much it reminded her of her days at the academy (with much more success and no people mocking her), staying here won't help her get closer to going home.

"Thank you Miss Marisa for being our teacher, you gave me something that I have never thought I could have got," Siesta stood up and bowed towards Marisa, she then turned and spoke to Louise, "Let's go Louise, if Miss Marisa thinks that we are ready than we should probably go. It's not polite to overstay."

Louise looked into Siesta's eyes and saw the feeling of not wanting to leave as well but also determination and strength. She have to admit the Siesta have grown more mentally than she have, the former maid is now much more determined and strong-willed, it was as if someone had lighten a burning fire within her soul. She was no longer the timid maid from the academy, but an apprentice of Marisa Kirisame.

"Your right Siesta, it is time we moved on!" Louise said loudly, seeing the determination on their faces Marisa let out a smile, these two are ready to face their journey.

Yumemi POV

"Non-scientifically proven beings and scientifically proven beings! I thank you for participating in my demonstration of latest advancement in science, to be blunt I didn't expect so many of you to show up." Yumemi said loudly through the microphone, she was standing on the front deck of the Probability Space Hypervessel with multiple speakers placed around the kilometers long deck. The vessels is now about 8km above the meeting point of Gallia, Germania and Nephyths desert, to a normal person the deck would appear to be empty with only the night sky surrounding it, but Yumemi knows it is not.

"We're not really the busiest group in the world, and this show seemed to be entertaining." A female voice suddenly appeared but the source could not be traced.

"$%d^%$%^g$a%, j%#^%$^^d%kf$^."

"For the dragon's sake talk in human language, it's troublesome but I'm doing it." Two more different voices came from the emptiness of the sky. Soon the sky was full of chattering, some can be understood by humans others would just cause regular human brains to explode if they try to understand it.

Yumemi was not alone; she was right now talking to a group of monsters who happen to have too much free time on their hand, a show for the bored eldritch abomination.

"I know that Miss Yukari and could everyone use language I can comprehend, it would be easier for the meeting." Yumemi said to the night sky, after all it would be hard to understand what her audience are thinking if they she cannot communicate with them. Soon the chattering ended and she knew it was time to start the meeting.

"As everyone can see we are now 8km above the desert of world 109823%243, the locals call this land Halkeginia and we are currently above the borderline of 3 places. Many of you probably have questions on why I had Miss Yukari invite all of you here, the reason is quite simple I am about to perform a massive experiment on this land and would like some support from all of you. Think of it as payment for a interesting show." Yumemi said, after weeks of research and planning, she had finally finished her experimental plan, but sadly the resources in the Probability Space Hypervessel was not enough.

"What sort of experiment and what sort of support do you need?"

"Very good question indeed. Chiyuri bring the specimen!" Yumemi spoke to the communicator she have on her hand, soon Chiyuri brought the captured lake spirit on a cart. It was still trapped within a force field created by the S.E.S.

"What you see here is what the locals called "water spirit" nothing impressive as many of you could see, but you have probably sensed it by now that this being is formed through nothing other than this world's magical energy. I assure you this thing is purely magical energy nothing else, unlike souls or spirits or you guys or many other things."

She could hear the murmuring of her audiences, she had grabbed their attention, and such a creature is a rare sight for these beings.

"That maybe so, but it appears quite weak and not really worth that much interest. What experiment are you attempting to conduct with such a thing?"

"I am attempting to replicate the process that created these creatures on a much more massive scale, I have already located a source of magical energy right within this land but I lack the material to build such a device. So I ask of you guys to lend me some help in providing the materials needed for the device, in return I would provide an interesting show." Yumemi said, it didn't take long for a reply to come.

"Well we are kind of bored and this doesn't seem to violate any rules here within the celestial bureaucracy, so I'm in."

"I could get Ran to deliver the stuff, so me too."

"I got nothing better to do, probably not going take much time."

Replies after replies, soon she got the support of most of the beings that participated. It was enough to put her plan in to action, in fact it surpassed her quota.

"Thank you everyone, if everything goes as planned, in two weeks you would see a show that will shake this world. This meeting is now over." Soon the presence on the deck and the surrounding sky vanished. Silence had come back once again.

Louise POV

She and Siesta flew towards the village; it was a lot easier than walking through the forest, they no longer afraid that Youkai would suddenly attack them since in Marisa's word the outsider smell is gone.

"I wonder if Professor Colbert and the others are all right, we haven't seen them in weeks." Louise said to Siesta, they haven't contacted the rest of the group since the day they became Marisa's apprentice.

"I'm sure they would be fine, the village is safe and as long as they stay there they would not be in any danger." Siesta said.

"Well let's go meet with Professor Colbert and the others before following on the lead Marisa gave us." Louise said, she was really thankful for the new lead that Marisa gave them as a parting gift.

"'Ask Reimu about the fastest Tengu', that's the person Mr. Colbert visited once, so I guess it would be better if we have Mr. Colbert with us before we go." Siesta said in response and the accelerated their flying speed towards the village.

Author's note:

Back from a long rest, can't seem to get myself to write this part for some reason. Oh, well next chapter Henrietta, so I time skipped the days at Marisa's, can't come up with the training arc. The world number is made up, but it basically means it is quite far from Touhou verse and all the beings coming for the meeting are fanon characters (which I won't talk about, they are not relevant to the story anyway, so think of them as plot device) other than Yukari. Anyway hopefully next one comes faster.