EX Stage – Freddi and the Nightmare World
Reimu and Marisa fly through the rift and arrive on the scene. Marisa is proven right, by the time they get there; the crystallized dream has completely crumbled away into dust. This revealed Frederica "Freddi" Dein Schlimmster Albtraum. Frederica was an attractive, but slim young blonde woman with stringy hair that went down to the middle of her back. She wore a dark brown fedora with an unusually wide brim; it was more than enough to hide her blue eyes. She wore a blue and purple sweater vest with red and black striped sleeves with a blood red tie hanging loosely around her neck. Her pants were a pair of ripped cornflower blue skinny jeans and her shoes were a pair of worn work boots. She also wore a pair of dark brown gloves that completely covered her hands except for her five-inch long, razor sharp claws. She had a long wolf tail and a pair of wolf ears, both of which are very dark gray, to the point of being almost black. She slowly got up and looked around. When she saw Doremy and Jacinta, she grinned smugly and triumphantly. She pointed at Doremy and started laughing.
Frederica sneered down at the queen of the Dream Realm. "Aw, too little too late, Doremy! Ah…" She rolled her shoulders with a few popping joints. "It's so good to be out of that stupid prison! Now then, it's time for me to get back to work!"
Jacinta thrust out a hand. "Wa-wait! Frederica, remember what you promised me, promised us!" She waved about the area. "Please get rid of my curse! Or at the very least, help my teammates get what they want!"
Tiffany stomped her foot with a huff. "Yeah! You owe us! After all the trouble we went through, it's the least you can do!"
Frederica puts a finger to her lips and thinks for a moment, then smiles. "Hmmm… Let me think… How about NO!" The last words were said with a cruel snarl and laugh.
The Crystalline Crushers all look at her in horror. Itchi-enkashikoi looked especially mortified and Jacinta looked downright devastated.
Itchi-enkashikoi takes an unsure step forward. "WHAT?! But-but you said you would! You should always keep your promises-" She waves a finger at Frederica. "-you won't keep your friends if you don't do that!"
Frederica howled with renewed laughter, hand covering her face. "It's a good thing we aren't friends, then! Newsflash:" She threw the hand aside. "I was never going to help you six, I was just using you chumps! And now that I'm out? I don't need you anymore." She curled a finger to her chin. "Ordinarily, this would be the part where I kill you all in a way I find amusing, but after everything you've done, I think it's crueler to let you live! So… That's what I'm going to do! Well, except for you, Jacinta: I've got a special little gift for you… A GLASS OF WARM MILK!"
Frederica snaps her fingers, and suddenly Jacinta is trapped in a giant glass of boiling hot milk. Thinking and moving quickly, Danielle pushes the glass over, causing the now-rapidly cooling milk to spill out everywhere and freeing Jacinta, who's still in shock and can barely speak. Reimu and Marisa look at all of this with shock and pity.
Jacinta trembles in dismay, hands shaking. "No… No… I don't… I can't… What have I done…? What have I done…? …Why me…?"
Marisa shrugged with a scowl. "Oh man, Doremy wasn't kidding! I don't think I've ever met a yokai, no, any creature so cruel! Why... Why is she acting like this?"
Reimu snapped her fingers with a sudden look of understanding. "I think I get it now... Marisa, Frederica must be a warg."
Marisa tilted her head with a hm. "A warg? I've never heard of that kind of yokai! I thought she was just a wolf yokai!"
Reimu shook her head with a wagging finger. "A warg is a wolf yokai... Just, a really, really nasty one. They were actually so bad the Sages of Gensokyo were forced to kill them all. ...I had no idea there were any of them left! I guess some of them just slipped through the cracks!
Frederica cackles with malicious joy, her hands clenching. "Oh, wow, that was a good one! I should write these things down!"
Micheal squeaks with a nervous glancing about. "Wh-what are you going to do?"
Frederica clapped her hands with her triumphant grin. "Oh, I've got a whole menu planned! The appetizer is revenge on Doremy Sweet, those who imprisoned me and those two chicks who kept getting in my way." She extended a finger. "Then, for the main course I'll wrap my claws-" Frederica made five-inch-long claws extend from her fingers-" around all of Gensokyo and merge it with my Nightmare World and rule over it as king and tyrant!" She extended a second finger. "And ,for dessert: I'll merge the Nightmare World with the entire outside world!" She laughs wildly and uncontrollablly for a moment. "You're going to be spared though, Jacinta! After all, you can't dream if you can't sleep!" Her laughter picks up, losing herself in her terrible visions.
Reimu thrusts out a flat hand. "Hold it right there, Freddi! We're not going to let you do this!" She takes a firm step forward,face firming. "The sins you've committed are unforgivable! We're going to stop you! Then, for your sins, I will sentence you to death!"
Marisa moves to match Reimu's stride to not be left behind. "YEAH! We're not gonna let you do this to our home!"
Frederica looks at them, and then rolls her eyes. She grabs the semi-conscious Doremy, turns around and slashes the air in front of her with her claws, creating a rift leading to the Nightmare World. "You two again? Very well. In the Nightmare World, I am at full strength! So, that's where I'll kill you two! Follow and fight me… IF YOU DARE!"
Laughing wildly, Frederica enters the rift. Reimu and Marisa look at each other, nod, and fly through the rift. The two girls are in the Nightmare World now, a frightening, dimly-lit place full of steam and fire. It looks like a cross between a basement and a boiler room, but there's blood and scorch marks everywhere, and not all of it is old. Pulsating purple crystals of solid Nightmare Energy are growing out of every surface, and blackened, chewed-on bones of various races littered the ground.
As Reimu and Marisa make their way to where they sense Frederica awaits, they hear Doremy's weak, faint voice, "Reimu… Marisa… Listen."
Reimu calls out, looking around. "Doremy! You're alright!"
Doremy's voice continues, though the physical source, such as one can exist in the realm of nightmares, isn't visible, "It'll take more than what Freddi can do to kill me, especially now that I'm back here! I'm very weak right now, but I can still help you! Listen up! You have to force Freddi back out into the waking world! She's very weak there, and you should be able to finish her off! I… I can open up a portal, but it's up to you two to force her back out!"
Marisa inclines her head slightly, one finger up. "How do we do that, ze?"
Reimu shakes a fist forward with a huff. "Isn't it obvious! We beat her down, and drive her out!"
Marisa shrugs at that. "Sounds good ta me, ze!"
Reimu and Marisa arrive at Frederica throne room, where Freddi is lounging on a throne made of solid Nightmare Energy and dark iron. They glare angrily at her, but when she sees them, she just grins wickedly. "About time you made it! I was getting worried that I'd have to hunt you down!"
Reimu glared at Frederica, fists balled. "Freddi! What have you done with Doremy?!"
Frederica gestures to a cage of bones above her. In it is Doremy, her clothes ripped and her body covered in claw marks. Her belly has a gaping wound on it, but the two can sense she's still alive. "Doremy isn't here right now… She's got a stomachache! See?" She paused to laugh wickedly. "Are you scared? YOU SHOULD BE!"
Reimu rolled her eyes as she took on a fighting stance. "Oh, I'm scared alright: Scared of what I want to do to you! No more fooling around, Freddi! We're here to put a stop to your plans for good!"
Frederica waved off the threat with a little chuckle. "Oh, I'm so scared… We'll see about that! Come to Frederica, child! I'll be… YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!"
Frederica suddenly sank into the ground and came back up encased in a monstrous 24-foot-tall six-armed dull yellow suit of armor completely made of piping, boilers, furnaces, washing machines and other things you'd find in a basement. She charges the two girls with speed that belied her now immense size and the latest fight for the fate of Gensokyo starts.
"Holy crap!" Cried Reimu, still in shock that she could move so fast in that thing, "She's much faster than I expected!"
"No kiddin', ze! But she ain't fast enough ta dodge US!"
Reimu and Marisa blasted away at Frederica. Frederica responded with waves of blood that looked like claw marks, shooting her fists and them like rockets and spewing waves of dark flames from the armored suit's mouth.
They dodged the attacks and countered with some of their strongest Spell Cards, but she countered by making six waves of burning wolf skulls move from her hands in a helix-shaped formation followed by her summoning giant blocks of calcified Nightmare Energy that randomly fell from the sky.
"The armor's weakening, ze!" Shouted Marisa, "One last attack ought ta able ta break it!"
As if in response to this, Frederica began to get faster and more aggressive with her attacks hitting the armor even more, and it broke open, revealing Frederica who glared at them hatefully even as the Danmaku blasts hit her. They watched as she grinned wickedly and melted into a swarm of poisonous spiders and snakes that scattered everywhere. They avoided them all, and then turned to wonder where Frederica went.
"Marisa! Watch out!" cried Reimu.
Marisa leapt back just in time to avoid a long, razor-sharp tongue that put a dent in the scummy Nightmare World throne room. She spun around and blasted her as she was out of the armor this time, but she just vanished in a flash of fire and smoke! A second then a third then a fourth, fifth and sixth tongue lashed out at them, with Frederica disappearing and reappearing every time. The girls jumped back multiple times to avoid being skewered.
"AHAHAHA! You thought this would be easy, didn't you?" laughed Frederica, "Are you two ladies lost?! Welcome to my world!"
"The only world you deserve to be in is a world of HURT, Frederica!" Reimu snarled right back.
Frederica just gave a sinister giggle and used her first Spell Card, Nightmare Sign "Welcome to Prime Time" She flipped them off and sank into the ground. The girls were confused at first but then the ground she was just standing on erupted into a massive geyser of blood which sent waves of blood at them.
"Ick! This blood is a LOT less refined than the blood Remilia likes to use!" shouted Marisa, a look of disgust forming on her face.
"She's a warg, Marisa! From what I've heard, they specialize in stuff like this!" responded Reimu who threw up a quick but powerful barrier. The gore harmlessly splashed against it, but the two girls were disgusted to see half-eaten chunks of flesh and organs were in the blood as well.
"Oh, that's just nasty! You're really gross!" Reimu rolled her eyes, "That or you're just trying way too hard."
The waves and geyser died down as Frederica rose from the middle of the throne room in a slow deliberate fashion. She was back in her armor again.
"Trying too hard?! We're just getting started here, bitch! The party's just beginning. What did you two expect!? Sunshine, rainbows and musical flowers!? The only music I make is when I make kids like YOU dance on the ceiling as they die! I'll spread all your red on your bedspread! NOW LIE DOWN ON YOUR DEATHBED!"
She then used her second Spell Card, Nightmare Sign "Road to Midnight". She exploded into a swarm of countless bats that covered the entire throne room. The girls thought there was no way to avoid the card at first, but they quickly noticed a slim winding path that they must navigate if they wanted to stay safe.
Marisa grabbed Reimu's hand, "I see a path! Come with me!"
"Right!"
The girls navigate the winding but narrow gauntlet of bats then emerge at what appears to be an opening. They emerged only to hear Frederica cackling.
"I did say that I would be your worst nightmare, didn't I?! AHAHAHA! That wasn't even my strongest Card, either!"
They look up to see her with all six arms extended, then time holding big purple orbs of pure nightmare energy that she began to toss at them rapidly.
"HEY, BITCHES! LET'S PLAY CATCH!" She laughed wildly as she finished off the barrage with a giant crescent-shaped wave of nightmare energy followed by more waves of the burning wolf skulls.
"Stand close to me, Reimu!" shouted Marisa "We'll break her outta that armor again!" She raised her arms and used her Spell Card Magic Space "Asteroid Belt". She began to shoot a radiance of star-shaped Danmaku shots while smaller star-shaped Danmaku shots flew in from the sides. The orbs smashed the wolf heads and tore through the armor, the suit emitting a deafening sound as it all exploded.
Frederica vanished again and they had to dodge more tongue strikes and lashes from every direction. She eventually stopped, smirked, and pointed up.
"It's a full moon tonight, ladies! Are you ready to start howling?!"
The girls looked up in unison to see a massive ball of red and green energy descending on them. This was Frederica's third Spell Card, Nightmare sign "Full Moon Inferno".The ball was far too large for them to avoid, but they noticed glowing sections at various points of the ball.
Their eyes widened in shock, but they kept their cool. "Marisa! I think those glowing points are weak spots!" Yelled Reimu.
"Are ya sure, ze?! That attack looks REALLY painful!"
"No! But we're all out of options!" Marisa nodded and they both aimed at each glowing weak point. Their Danmaku shots weakened the energy ball but it kept on descending. The girls persisted, hitting the glowing points relentlessly while moving as fast as they could to make sure they hit every weak spot. Finally, the energy ball got smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and then finally died out in a puff of smoke.
"My turn!" shouted Marisa. She then used her Love Sign "Wide Master" Spell Card. Wide beams of energy followed by waves of blue star bits blasted directly at Frederica, who was in the middle of going back inside her armored suit again. She immediately reacted by lashing out with her tongue at them repeatedly while flying through the lasers and star bits. Marisa had to stop the Card short as she got close enough to swipe at her neck with her claws, but Reimu sent her flying with her own "Persuasion Needle" Spell Card.
Frederica then stopped and started pointing behind them and laughing nastily. The girls were confused at first, but then they realized that she was using her next Spell Card, Nightmare Sign "Where True Terror Lurks". A loud whirring sound immediately came from behind them and when they turned to look, they saw hundreds of spinning buzz saws of darkness flying at them from behind. They were barely able to avoid them all.
"Ahahaha! AHAHAHA! That was so damn funny! HAHAHA! I'm hilarious!"
"That wasn't funny!" Shouted Reimu as she pointed at Frederica.
"That was so funny! AND SO IS THIS!"
She then expelled a cloud of purple smoke from her mouth then released waves of bats of dark purple negative energy that flew down from the top of the screen. The smoke blocked their vision, so they just huddled together and blasted away in every direction they could, shooting down the bats that came near them.
Reimu narrowed her eyes "Oh yeah!? Then let's see how funny you find THIS!" She then used her Treasure Sign "Dancing Yin-Yang Orbs" Spell Card. The Yin-Yang Orbs emerged from her in droves, smashing into her and sending her flying. She hit a wall, sank into it and came out of it in her armored suit again. But Frederica seemed to expect the girls to counterattack, as she moved immediately to the side and slashed her blades wide apart again. This time, she used two attacks at once.
The first attack involved her tossing giant balls of boiling blood in random directions that exploded into crescent-shaped shock waves. They avoided the balls and shock waves with great dexterity and blasted her out of her suit again, but Frederica just vanished in a flash of fire, signaling her second attack.
Sixteen crackling balls of black negative energy flew at each girl and tried crushing them between them. They flew out just as they were about to get crushed, but the collision released a black shockwave that expanded to cover the entire room save for five gaps that you had to fly through.
After the black shockwave dissipated, Frederica seemed to melt out of the ground as she began cackling with mad glee, "You two really seem to underestimate me, don't you?! Where do you two get off thinking that Freddi's deaddy?"
"Your jokes still suck!" responded Reimu.
Frederica just rolled her eyes and shrugged. "Eh, everyone's a critic! AND HERE'S WHAT I DO TO 'EM! AHAHAHA!"
She then melted back into the ground and sent swarms of spiders and snakes come out of where Frederica was just standing and moved towards the girls while she made even more blocks of calcified Nightmare Energy fall on their heads. She rose back up behind them and lashed out with her tongue, but Reimu was ready with her Barrier "Paparazzi-Repelling Barrier" Spell Card. Talismans and Yin-Yang Orb clusters flew out and spun around Reimu, nailing her just as she was about to go back into her suit of armor.
However, Frederica still was able to enter her suit of armor and used yet another Spell Card, this one being Nightmare Sign "Time to Face your Fears" A huge, fanged mouth that breathes what green toxic gas and lolling, squirming tongues. The smell was unbearable, so Reimu had to throw up a barrier just to block out the stench.
"Stay behind the barrier!" shouted Reimu to Marisa as both girls hovered and moved to avoid the toxic gas and tongues. Reimu then notices that the mouth is also flying at them, making snapping moves with its sharp fangs.
This gave Marisa an idea, so she released a very large power orb just as the mouth made its next snapping move, timing it at maximum gape so that the orb entered the mouth and exploded dispelling the toxic mouth. The force of the explosion sent Frederica's smoking body out of it and tumbling to the ground-Apparently; she had been hiding inside to make yet another sneak attack.
As soon as she hit the ground, she disappeared in another flash of fire. The girls expected her to attack them with her tongue again, but this time she made sharpened burning bloody spikes leap up from the ground behind them. To make matters worse, Frederica then decided to double down on the spikes with her latest spell card Nightmare Sign "Gripping Terror". Much bigger burning spikes dripping with blood also burst up from the ground but shoot out in a random manner making it hard for the girls to lock on to any of them. Marisa just decided to respond in kind with her Magic Sign "Magical R360" Spell Card.
"This will hit her from any an' every angle, ze!" she shouted. Reimu got it and hugged herself tightly to stay in the center. Marisa leapt into the air and starts rotating in every direction while shooting off a big energy beam that started slicing up the spikes and much to their delight hit Frederica, causing her to retract her tongue and jump back.
The girls have by this time have realized that Frederica isn't like the Crystalline Crushers that they had fought earlier. She is the deadliest to date, never waiting to see an outcome before starting a new attack. What's worse, she obviously wasn't playing by Spell Card System rules and was clearly trying to kill them both. But that was fine by them! They would just have to fight back twice as hard!
Much in line with her original clanking behemoth, Frederica then fired off her next spell card, Nightmare Sign "Basement from Hell''. Four ear-shattering metallic sounds accompanied by blasts of fire and greasy black smoke erupted from the four corners of her lair. The smoke cleared to show four furnaces standing menacingly at each corner. The glowing fire within each furnace seemed to show a fiery, twisted demonic mouth ready to roar. As if on cue, dark fireballs shoot from each furnace at once at the girls.
"Wait, just four?!" boasted Marisa, "Ya should send 4,000'a those things if ya wanted ta get us with THAT measly attack!"
"Marisa! Don't give her ideas!" Scolded Reimu.
"Sorry!"
"Whatever! Let's see how she handles this trick, Marisa!"
Reimu then used another Spell Card, this one being "Most Evil Surprise Miko Orbs". She jumped back and leapt into the air, both arms spread vertically in a V formation as she gathered multicolored balls of spiritual energy above her head, the balls condensing into spheres of black light. She fired the blasts at every furnace even as they spat fireballs at her. She couldn't fire too many of the blasts –The Spell Card didn't work that way- But they were more than enough to destroy them. Reimu and Marisa grinned victoriously. That Spell Card wasn't so bad! Then again, avoiding Frederica's constant attacks had made this a bit more difficult than it should've been…
"Oh yes, very impressive," sneered Frederica, who was back in the safety of her armor once more, sarcastically while rolling her eyes, "You seem to be very good at fighting some rusty metal tin cans! Good job, really! Now try some of this! …And I make no BONES about it! AHAHAHAHA!"
She then used her eighth Spell Card, Nightmare Sign "Tell 'Em Freddi Sent Ya". Spreading her arms out, she made two large fireballs appear in her hands. Within milliseconds, gigantic fiery wolf skeletons leapt from both fireballs at the girls in a machine-gun-like fashion and exploded just where the girls were standing. They fired back with their own attacks, but the relentless snarling, howling wolves kept on coming. Whenever they destroyed one, another appeared right behind it.
"GYAH! How the heck do we get rid'a those things, ze!"
"Wait! I think I have an idea!" shouted Reimu. "There are two fireballs and two of us… I think... I think that if we destroy those fireballs she's holding, the attack will stop! Marisa! Take the one to the left and I'll take the one to the right."
They both started attacking again, this time not at the wolves but right at the fireballs. The fireballs both exploded in a fiery blast! The explosion was deafening as the fireballs disintegrate into smoky puffs. Sure enough, Reimu's theory was correct: No more wolves came at them.
Meanwhile, Frederica was getting more and more furious… …And more and more terrified. No… NO! I am Frederica "Freddi" Dein Schlimmster Albtraum! I'm the master of fear, The Queen of Night Terrors! She thought to herself desperately, How can these two be winning! I can't believe I'm going to die! Dying really sucks! …Well at least it does whenever I'M the one dying!
That and many similar things were racing through Frederica's head as she stared Reimu and Marisa down, having been blasted out of her armor again. She decided to hurry up with their demise with two of her strongest Spell Cards.
"And on that note," said Frederica without hesitating and hiding her ever-increasing fear and rage, "I'd like to welcome you two!"
"Uh? …Welcome?"Asked both girls in disbelief, "Welcome to where exactly?"
"Aw, that's simple, girlie! WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE!"
Right on cue, Frederica then used her ninth Spell Card, Nightmare Sign Welcome to My Nightmare". Twelve gigantic blood-red energy claws appear and start to swipe at the girls in all directions before the twelve claws swiped at both girls all at once, almost forming an asterisk shape as the claws blazed towards them both. Marisa was able to blow the energy claws away with her Closure Sign "Big Crunch" Spell Card, and the resulting blast hit Frederica dead-on as well.
The girls notice that Frederica is now moving much faster but being more evasive as well as attacking more aggressively, almost as if she was getting desperate.
"Heya Reimu!" said Marisa, "I think her health is fading! We're gonna win this thing!"
"Maybe," responded Reimu, "But there is nothing more dangerous than a cornered animal, and that's exactly what Frederica is acting like right now! She's so desperate and angry… I can feel it! We should take her out now!"
Frederica, who was back in her suit of armor for what may very well be the last time, vanished in a flash of fire but this time she was right in front of them with all six arms raised. She then slammed them to the ground producing a vast explosion of fire and acidic blood.
"Do I need to remind you two bitches that this is a dream world?!" spat out Frederica with a considerable amount of venom in her tone as she rose up to her full enormous metallic height. "This Spell Card will remind you of that!"
She leapt back onto her throne and let out a deafening scream as she used her tenth and final Spell Card Nightmare Sign "Never Sleep Again". What happened was almost the reverse of one of her previous spell cards. She shot a multitude of small fireballs in every direction except for theirs that seemed to meld with every surface they touched and vanished. After that, a giant flaming wolf skull head for every fireball that she shot converged on them, trying to bite them while spitting smaller fireballs.
"Oh yeah. She is definitely on her last legs now! Marisa! Has Doremy opened up the portal yet? Is she lined up with it?
"Yep ta both questions, ze!"
"Good! I'll hold off the wolves with this Card! Then, we both blast her out at once! Got it!"
"You bet'cha, Reimu!"
"Alright! Here goes!"
Reimu then used the Spell Card she called "Mikuji "Rule Violation Barrier"-A rather on-the-nose metaphor, but she thought it was poetic, damn it! She made thousands of talismans crowd Frederica in while blasting her red energy waves with Marisa close behind who was blasting away at her as well.
"Keep blasting!" shouted Reimu as she leapt from side to side warding off fireballs and wolf skulls while her and Marisa returned fire.
A tiring, worn down Frederica fell to her knees, still trying to fashion more attacks but the fight has taken its toll. Even so, she saw they were close and tried to lunge it them in one final attempt to slash open their throats. But before she could…
"Marisa! She's weak! We can blast her through Doremy's portal now!"
Huh? Portal?! What Portal?! Where?! Frederica turned to see that she was directly behind a portal leading right back out to the waking world! GYAAAH! THAT PORTAL! DAMN YOU, DOREMY! DAMN YOU TO- She noticed that both Reimu and Marisa were about to blast her with their strongest Spell Cards at point-blank range, Oh shi-
But it was too late for her to move, to do anything at all. The combined blast hit, sending her right out into the waking world and taking her out of the battle for good with them freeing Doremy, grabbing her and quickly following after her.
Frederica gets up and tries to run away, but is stopped by Jacinta, Tiffany, Ellie and Danielle who glare at her with murder in their eyes. Tiffany and Ellie are also smirking and cracking their knuckles.
Frederica backed a step, holding up her hands in an attempt to placate them. "Oh… Uh… No hard feelings, OK? I was, uh, just kidding?" She laughed nervously, sweat beading down her head.
Jacinta cracked her knuckles with a feral grin. "Sure… JUST A LOT OF PAIN!"
The four girls savagely and brutally beat Frederica. When the beating is over, Jacinta grabbed her by the neck, gave her one last punch to the gut, and throws her over to Reimu and Marisa. She looks up at them helplessly, all battered and bruised. Reimu glared down at her coldly.
Frederica tries desperately to ward her face from the ongoing beating. "Wait! WAIT! I-I was wrong, OK?! I won't do it again, I promise! Can't you show mercy just this once?!" She sniffles, thinking of some new angle… Heh heh heh… I'll play on her sympathy! Then when her back is turned, I'll-
Reimu just stomped a foot down just beside Frederica's head. "No. There will be no escape for you."
Frederica's eyes widened in horror. She tries to run away, but Marisa blasts her with a spell that binds her. Reimu flies up to her, and uses her gohei like a sword to cut off her head, then cuts her in two twice for good measure. Her hat falls off, and her head and body halves hit the ground, completely lifeless in a growing pool of blood. Reimu lands, lowers her gohei, closes her eyes and heaves a sigh of relief.
Reimu lets out a relieved sound, clapping her hands. "It's done. The final nightmare is over, and Freddi is dead."
Marisa lowered her glimmering hands. "Yeah, and that spell I cast should send her soul straight to Hell where she belongs. But… What do we do about them?" She points to Jacinta and her friends, busy as they are comforting.
Reimu waves that right off. "Nothing! They've suffered enough! Not to mention how guilty they feel. Let's just go home and get some sleep! I'm exhausted!" She lets out a tired laugh. "You know?"
Marisa shrugs at that, turning away. "Me too. This whole thing really took a lot outta me, ze. But what about you, Doremy?"
Doremy fired a thumbs up, twice at once with a smile. "I'll be fine. Just let me head back to the Dream World to regain my strength and power. As for Jacinta… I'll get my apology later."
Reimu swatted Doremy on the back. "Good, good! Come on, Marisa, let's go home. But before we do, let's let Orin know there's a corpse that needs to be burned ASAP."
Reimu and Marisa head off and do just that. After they are back home, they immediately get ready for bed. They're asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows.
