AN: I do not own Touhou Project, Madoka Magica, or Sword Art Online.
So I started this chapter a little later then normal… I was on vacation for the weekend ok, went to Universal. Not going to lie, after watching Madoka Magica you will never want to step in Dr. Seuss land… EVER. Feels so… unnerving and the area and rather out there rides don't help. But back to this story, people have been asking my about my cover art. Sadly I don't have any for Fugere Illusion, but if a fan ever made some I'd use it. But enough of my rambling, onto the story… the very very exposition laid story.
Omega E The Reader: You're one to talk. You ALLOWED all the decent and morally good characters from Puella Magi Madoka Magica to die. This makes the previous story the darkest story since most of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica cast die.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: The lack of acknowledgment certainly doesn't help.
Omega E The Reader: Besides that NONE of the characters acknowledge the deaths of the morally good characters of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Omega E The Reader: Also the cover art for the fanfic is kinda misleading. Because the Puella Magi Magica characters are reduced to SUPPORTING cast members. And that's not even counting the fact of the spotlight stealers such as Cirno, Vaati, and Meiling later on.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Which makes the cover art unfitting. You should've put the one you have for this story onto the previous one.
Sin Count: 1954
Without futher ado.
Let the gates open.
Heroum sun et Alfheim
(Heroes in Alfheim)
(Link Start!)
Team Magic
BGM: Gensou Shoujo Taisen: Secret Mission ~Argue for and Against
"How long of a story are you talking about?" Eugene asked, Leafa looking at him for a moment like he was crazy, but her fellow general flashed her a quick look of 'good along with it.' "I wouldn't say it's that long, unless you count the parts before we got here… where ever here is, I know it's Alfheim but not where in Alfheim." Marisa blabbed, prompting a smack from Momiji, who was closest to her. "Well then… why don't you tell us the full story." Eugene suggested, motioning Leafa to float towards the ground, better to have their wings ready of action at a moment's notice.
The other girls landed, surrounding the two fairies on standard, not out of malice but to keep them from leaving as Aya, Suika and Mami took to the trees to keep watch. Marisa herself sitting down on a stump in front of the two fairies, a grin on her face as she had her broom planted next to her in the ground. "So… where do I begin?" Marisa asked, flashing a rather unnerving smile at Eugene and Leafa, only to get decked in the back of the head by Reimu and into the dirt. "How about you just tell them why we are here?" Reimu snarked. "That's boring Reimu." Came Marisa's muffled complaint as she pulled herself out of the dirt. 'The longer we can distract them so that the main party can arrive, the better…' Eugene thought as he observed the many girls in the clearing.
But his eyes kept lingering towards the blue haired fairy, Cirno if he remembered right. Her wings were made of ice and she was wearing a blue sundress, but half of the bottom was covered in a black coat, with a pair of belts attaching the armored piece of clothing to her shoulders across her chest. On her left arm however was a detached leather sleeve, and both hands adorned by black gloves. Along with that was the pair of leather heeled combat boots she was wearing. He had never seen an outfit quite like it in all his years of being in Alfheim, but what surprised him was the fact she just straight up dispelled her sword made of ice.
'If this group wasn't completely insane I would peg them for really good, if odd players.' Eugene thought methodically as he looked at the many other girls as Marisa started rambling on about… something. Leafa however paid more attention to Marisa, or rather her appearance.
Marisa was dressed, rather then in her normal witch's outfit, a rather western styled black longcoat. On her head she still wore her normal Witch's hat, which was her most obvious feature. Under her longcoat she was wearing a white cotton shirt with her black dress over it, but lacking the skirt as black pants adorned her legs, a pair of brown combat boots on her legs, alongside a holster for… something on her hip. On her belt was a large amount of vials of varying colors. A white scarf was on her neck as well as she continued rambling, Leafa not really paying attention to that as she looked at the other girls, before settling her vision on one in particular.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: What the hell is that redesign for Marisa?
Omega E the Reader: Maybe it was made to make her look cooler?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Well it doesn't make sense, and fails to make her cool.
Omega E The Reader: What do you mean? Does it look terrible? Marisa's redesign?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: It looks more like something out of a cowboy AU than anything Marisa-related.
Omega E The Reader: I mean she would have fit well in this AU for cowboys.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: But this is not a cowboy AU. So this doesn't belong. So in this situation, it sucks and isn't cool at all.
Sin Count: 1964
The short horned girl with black hair, Reimu. She seemed to be the most wary… and at the same time laziest of the group as she lay in the virtual grass, just waiting for Marisa to stop rambling. She was wearing what looked like a red sundress with a yellow bow on the neckline. Around her wrists were a pair of cuffs, all in all she looked rather plain, except for the horns, but compared to the others in the group, her being plain just stood out.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Now there are TWO big issues with Reimu's design. First, it has nothing white. Her color scheme is supposed to be red and white. And second, Reimu is CANONICALLY taller than Marisa!
Omega E The Readsr: I can agree.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: There is so much that makes no sense with these redesigns. I dread to imagine what the future holds...
Omega E the Reader: We are looking at the future Fugere Illusion books.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And as for the next book...more on that later.
Sin Count: 1974
"So any questions, or were you two not listening." Marisa finished, getting Eugene and Leafa's attention as she flashed a smirk. "You didn't hear anything I said, your stalling for something." Marisa said, Eugene not showing any change in posture as Leafa flinched ever so slightly. "You think that I wouldn't know that you're stalling. Tricksters can't trick other tricksters… and I'm one of the best." Marisa said as the other girls all focused on Eugene and Leafa again instead of laze about. 'She caught us only using our eyes to look? This girl is good.' Eugene thought as he went for his sword and pulled it out swiftly, Leafa doing the same with hers as the girls surrounded the duo. "I'm guessing you don't trust us." The blonde with the dolls floating around her said, Eugene's eyes flicking over to her for but a moment as he held his blade in front of him.
"Well then, if you want to go, I won't stop you…" Marisa started as she held up her hand before smirking. 'What is she doing.' Leafa thought as she girls all started backing off. 'Just want is Marisa planning this time?' Aya thought in annoyance as she looked on from her perch in the trees. "Cirno." Marisa said, quickly pointing at Eugene. "On it, you get the other one." Cirno answered, Eugene barely having enough time to block as Cirno formed a giant sword made of ice that collided with his own, ice crystals forming on his sword as he actually struggled against the blue haired fairy's strength.
Marisa was about to pull something out of her holster before Momiji stepped in front of her, between Leafa and Marisa. "I got this, you would kill them in an instant Marisa." Momiji said before holding her sword and shield out in front of her as she faced Leafa, the sylph holding her blade in one hand as she looked at her opponent who held her sword and shield in a ready stance.
BGM: Caffeine- RWBY Vol 2
Omega E The Reader: Really? Isn't that theme song for when Coco Adel is on screen. Well I don't see her and this is getting stupid.
Sin Count: 1976
Eugene grunted as he pushed Cirno away, the other girls jumping out of the way as Cirno skidded back, stopping herself just before she hit a tree, the fairy getting back up instantly and dashing at Eugene with her sword at the ready, Eugene dodging her strike and swinging his demonic sword, Cirno raising her own to block as Eugene smirked, his sword's ability activating as Cirno's eyes went wide as his sword past through her giant blade, slamming into her shoulder and electing a grunt from her as she pushed the sword away and held her shoulder, lifting her hand away and looking at the blood on her hand from the wound, Eugene holding his sword again as it gleamed in the light, Cirno grunting as she shot at the Salamander fairy.
Eugene dodged her forward slash, swinging his own sword down at Cirno, who instead of blocking jumped out of the way and kicked Eugene in the arm, ice crystals forming on his arm as he felt it numb slightly, but not enough to slow him down as he swung at Cirno again, the smaller fairy dropping her giant sword and changing stance to dodge Eugene's swipes and strikes as she held her hands out, forming a pair of rapiers in her hands, holding on out in front of her and the second about her head pointed at Eugene. 'Dual wielding… clever.' Eugene thought as he dashed at Cirno, the other girls at this point just enjoying the show as Cirno used on sword to stab at Eugene, who used his sword to block before swinging downwards, he sword passing through the first rapier as Cirno brought the second one up to block, using the cool down between his sword's ability to block with her second blade before stabbing at Eugene's exposed center.
The stab left of small mark that Eugene didn't feel himself, but a quick glance at his own health bar showed a good sixteenth of his health had been removed with that single poke, and the lack of a health bar on his smaller opponent left him with an unknown damage total, because other then the wound on her shoulder, which was slowing her down just a bit neither had done much to the other, Cirno's switch in style the reason she was able to hold back Eugene's sword, but the man himself an entirely different matter.
The two sword fighters continued their duel, Cirno and Eugene evenly matched in skill, and Cirno's second weapon countering Eugene's demonic sword's ability as they kept at each other, Eugene blocking every hit he could to avoid taking any damage as slowly he tried to get hits in on Cirno, the fairy using her smaller size and faster speed to dodge and blocking what she couldn't dodge.
Omega E The Reader: Remind me again…isn't the Alfheim team supposed the diplomacy team?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Yes. And they're utterly failing at it.
Omega E The Reader: Yeah, for a diplomacy team aren't they the ones who should be DISCUSSING instead of FIGHTING?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Told you all that the members were a terrible pick. Marisa is NOT the kind of girl one should bring to lead a diplomacy team. She's the kind of girl to go all "Shoot first, ask questions never!".
Omega E The Reader: And Cirno is an idiot. It is LITERALLY stated by ZUN and shown that she is an idiot and arrogant.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: She would've been better in either of the other teams. Though mostly the GGO team.
Omega E The Reader: And look at this! Cirno is fighting Eugene and seemingly winning!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: It took longer for Kirito, who is smarter than Cirno, to figure out how to counter Eugene's sword.
Omega E the Reader: Which is funny since Kirito is the definition of a Gary Stu.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: You know what that means, right?
Sue Cirno Count: 10
Sin Count: 2006
This small duel of equals continued for a moment until Eugene smirked, his sword glowing red as he swung it downwards fast at Cirno, the fairy bringing up her rapiers to block... back a loud shatter and muffled squelch brought everyone's attention, to Eugene and Cirno as Eugene was bent down with his sword on the ground in his hands, Cirno standing above him frozen in place with two shattered rapiers, a large red gash on her front and her shivering body and her blank eyes telling the tale of what Eugene had just done.
Cirno crumpled to the ground as Eugene stood up, looking at the other girls an ignoring Cirno… it was sad he had to do what he did, but this was not something to take lightly. But behind him Cirno slowly stood up, blood oozing out of the gash on her front as she coughed up a bit of blood, Eugene turning around as Cirno chuckled, slowly standing up. "If that's all you got." Cirno started, breathing heavily as she stood up, her eyes obscured by her hair for a moment as a little bit of blood ran from her mouth before she wiped it with her arm and looked up at Eugene smiling. "You are going to have to try a lot harder then that to kill me." Cirno proclaimed as Eugene swung his sword sideways, Cirno ducking under the blade before putting her hand on Eugene's armored stomach. "Now FREEZE!" Cirno yelled as Eugene was encased in a block of ice, sword and all with his eyes still moving as Cirno looked up at the now frozen Eugene with a smirk before turning around and looking at all the other girls. "After all, I am the strongest." Cirno said before falling over, past out from blood loss as she continued bleeding out, Madoka running up to her and flipping her over as she started tending to Cirno's wound, Homura watching over her as Marisa smirked looking at Eugene in his icy prison.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And Cirno won in less time than it took Kirito...
Omega E The Reader: Add more to that sue counter, am I right?
Sue Cirno Count: 15
Sin Count: 2009
BGM: I'm the one– RWBY
Omega E The Reader: And another RWBY theme song.
Sin Count: 2010
Leafa and Momiji circled each other as Eugene and Cirno fought, Marisa watching both battles with a smirk on her face as the others just enjoyed the free entertainment. Leafa making the first move as she dashed at Momiji, the wolf tengu bringing up her shield to block Leafa's sword strike as Leafa pulled her sword away in a feint and tried to strike low, Momiji catching the feint by swinging her sword downwards to knock Leafa's blade off it's path. Contiuning to press her advantage Momiji twisted her sword in her hand and swung sideways, Leafa flipping backwards with her sword and landing on her feet seamlessly as Momiji ran at Leafa, swinging her sword at the sylph who blocked with her own sword, only to receive a bash with from Momiji's shield, knocking her off balance as Momiji sweeped her leg under Leafa, knocking her over, but Leafa activated her wings and flew out of the way fast as Momiji tried to bring her sword down on her, Leafa flying a few feet above Momiji as the wolf tengu looked up at her.
Momiji jumped up at Leafa, flying herself as she and Leafa's blades met in midair, Leafa pulling herself out of the way of Momiji's second attempt at a bash with her shield, Leafa pressing that advantage to stab at Momiji's side, only for Momiji to spin out of the way and slam her shield into Leafa's back with a back hand, knocking Leafa forward in the air as Momiji kicked Leafa towards the ground, Leafa righting herself before crashing as Momiji shot down at her, Leafa jumping backwards out of the way as Momiji's shield impacted the ground. 'She's trying to knock me out… well that's one good thing.' Leafa thought as she continued her struggle against Momiji.
A sudden sound, not unlike the shattering of glass went off, Momiji peaking away for just a moment to see Cirno holding her broken rapiers as blood oozed out of the gash on her stomach, but that moment of distraction was all Leafa needed as her blade glowed green, stabbing at Momiji as the tengu brought her shield up quickly, but Leafa's breaker skill shattering the shield and leaving Momiji with just her white fang blade.
Throwing down the shattered remains of her shield Momiji stared at Leafa in slight but contained anger, the tengu now holding her one handed sword in a defensive position to try and compensate for the loss of her shield. The sudden sound of Cirno shouting bringing both Leafa and Momiji's eyes to gaze at the fairy, Leafa's eyes going wide as she saw Cirno flashing the other girls a thumbs up, with Eugene frozen in a block of ice behind her before Cirno fell over.
This time Momiji took advantage of Leafa's shock to run at her, throwing her sword to the ground as she grabbed Leafa by to stomach, surprising her by lifting her up and slamming to the to ground in a suplex, stunning Leafa before Momiji got back up and kicked Leafa in the head, knocking her out as she grabbed her sword, Aya clapping from her position in the trees. "Bravo, just bravo Momiji." Aya complemented, using her camera to snap a picture of Momiji standing next to the knocked out Leafa. "I've been practicing." Momiji said, spinning her sword before putting it back in it's sheath with a click, picking up the knocked out Leafa and heaving her over her shoulders and carrying her over to the others, Aya following her after jumping down from the trees.
Omega E The Reader: How strong is Leafa?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: She has won multiple trophies in tournaments and Kirito has never beaten her in an IRL fight. Until Kirito began to play ALO, she and Eugene were probably the best sword fighters in the game.
Omega E The Reader: And yet they lose to Momiji and Cirno…two of the more weaker characters in Touhou.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Though Leafa still broke Momiji's shield...something that Komachi FAILED to do, BTW.
Omega E The Reader: That just proves…you know what? Fuck it. We'll add a Momiji Sue count now for ALL the times she is a Mary Sue.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And don't forget to add sins for the fact that Komachi failed to break her shield when Leafa managed to.
Sin Count: 2060
Momiji Sue Count: 50
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: A shame we didn't think of it before.
Omega E The Reader: True. But what Momiji did last story is enough to justify the large sue count added to the counter.
BGM: Genou Shoujo Taisen: Bizarre Smile ~ Strange Oriental Discourse
The girls all gathered around the knocked out Leafa and frozen Eugene. "So now what?" Suika asked, confused at what any of this had accomplished. Marisa's awkward chuckle came next as everyone else started groaning, Cirno slapping Marisa as she tried to avoid aggravating the bandage that went from her shoulder to her hip, making a black, white and red spotted X on her from the bandages and her straps. "You never think anything through do you Marisa?" Reimu said. "May I remind you that if I actually stop to think I always win, even when I don't think?" Marisa retorted, bringing up the tournament from a few years ago. "Don't remind me." Reimu muttered.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Just for Marisa slipping away from the accusations of not thinking things through by reminding us all of that terrible tournament...
Sin Count: 2070
Marisue Count: 1
"Marisa's ego aside, now what do we do?" Aya asked, her wings twitching in irritation as Leafa's eyes slowly blinked open. The sylph peeked her eyes opened before closing them shut and pretending to still be unconscious as she heard the argument.
"I say we wait till she wakes up, because at least she isn't frozen." Reimu said, pointing the finger at Cirno. "Leave her out of this, she nearly got gutted, so it was in her right to freeze his sorry ass." Marisa yelled, jumping to Cirno's defense. "You are the last person I would expect to defend anyone Marisa." Momiji said. "Hey I do what I want, got it wolfy." Marisa shot back as Leafa tried to hold in her laughter from how dysfunctional this group was. "Wolfy…" Momiji said, quietly, a slight growl in her throat at Marisa's insult as Aya held Momiji's shoulder, keeping her from trying to tear Marisa's throat out. "Let it go Momiji." Aya comforted, Momiji letting out a deep breath she calmed down, Marisa just seemed to drive anyone she didn't count as a very close friend straight up the wall and too the ceiling.
"So then what are we actually going to do about this?" Suika asked again, Marisa walking up and bending down, becoming level with Leafa and observing her face, squinting her eyes as she watched the supposedly knocked out girl with close examination. A few beads of sweat and the very slight quivering of the sylph's lips alerting her to the fact that Leafa was in fact awake. "I can already tell you're up, so open up your eyes." Marisa said, surprising the other girls as they looked down at Leafa and Marisa. Leafa didn't dare move or do anything as Marisa narrowed her eyes. "Have it your way then." Marias muttered as she pulled a small vial with blue liquid from her belt. "I know you can't see this but if you don't open your eyes right now and start talking it's going down your throat." Marisa threatened, shaking the vial to make the liquid inside slosh for Leafa to hear. But still she didn't open her eyes, Marisa glaring as she didn't even bother speaking, popping the top off of the vial and opening Leafa's mouth, pouring the liquid into Leafa's mouth. The fairy began coughing as she got down on her hands and knees in a hacking fit as Marisa stood up, smirking as the others watched in subdued horror and curiosity.
As Leafa stopped coughing she looked up at Marisa glaring. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" Leafa yelled in anger as she tried to stand up and swing at Marisa, only to fall on her butt and miss. "That was for not doing what I asked, and you'll be fine it was just a weakness potion." Marisa said, bending down and smirking at Leafa as Eugene watched on, still frozen in ice. "Now then, are you two the only survivors in this world?" Marisa asked, trying to get a straight answer out of Leafa. "Marisa can be very scary when she want to be." Madoka muttered in slight fear into Homura's ear, the black haired dark angel silently agreeing with her best friend. "There are three hundred survivors, most sylphs, Cait Sith, and Salamanders, but some Undines and Gnomes as well." Leafa said before clapping her hands over her mouth, Marisa smirking. "I lied, that was a weakness potion mixed with a truth serum, so you're going to answer all my questions, got it." Marisa said, Leafa unable to control herself as she nodded her head.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Any diplomatic meeting that requires forceful use of one of those BS potions is a failure of diplomacy.
Omega E The Reader: I can agree as well.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And since that BS potion was brought up again...
Sin Count: 2125
"Alright then, next question, why are you out here without these other survivors?" Marisa asked, waiting for Leafa's reply. "Me and general Eugene were sent to clear the way for the group to make our way towards Arum for relocation, our job was to keep the path clear, and we set out about thirty minutes before the survivors." Leafa said, Marisa nodding. "So they are going to be here soon, aren't they?" Suika said, Leafa unable to control her head as she nodded. "Alright then third question, why go to this Arum place?" Marisa asked. "It is the most centrally located town in Alfheim, centered at the base of the world tree, and supplies in the area are ample." Leafa answered, trying to clam her mouth up. "Ok… what's the world tree?" Cirno asked, surprising Marisa with that question. "The world tree is in the exact center of Alfheim, and is the target of Alfheim's main quest. There is supposed to be a reward for reaching the top of the world tree, granting unlimited flight to witch ever race reaches the top of the tree." Leafa said. "Just unlimited flight? That's what you get if you study magic for about three days in Gensokyo, unless you get shot down, then you aren't flying." Marisa said, nonchalantly waving off the entire reason people originally played Alfheim, to fly. Which given that almost everyone from Gensokyo could fly, was understandable.
"Normally the fairy races can only fly for fifteen minutes at a time, and Alfheim is so vast that fifteen minutes is not enough time to get across it." Leafa said, still trying to clamp her mouth shut. "Okay, you've answered my questions, now who's going to tell her why we are here?" Marisa asked the others as she turned around, only for an arrow to fly through her hat and knock it off her head. "HEY WHATS THE big… idea…" Marisa started shouting as the entire group of girls looked to the skies, seeing nearly three hundred fairies around them, only about ten of them archers as many others with swords and magic were flying above them, the girls all looking around at the skies as a woman in a kimono started speaking.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And here come some wasted opportunities for a joke.
Omega E The Reader: I mean, for diplomacy, you shouldn't try to give someone a potion to force them to speak the truth. Usually it should be amicable and good.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Yes, but I was speaking of the opportunity to have name confusion jokes.
Omega E The Reader: Oh…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: You know what I mean.
Omega E The Reader: Am I right?
Sin Count: 2131
BGM: Phoenix Wright ~ Announce the Truth! 2013
Omega E The Reader: Due to SO many unfitting theme songs playing…it makes me believe I should ADD a sin counter dedicated just for him playing the WRONG theme songs whenever something happens.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Man, retroactively adding sins to that one might take a while.
Omega E The Reader: Then let me make it easier.
Wrong Theme Song Count: 50
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Ouch.
Omega E The Reader: I do not WANT to go back through the pain of rereading the first book and neither do you. So we will move on with this big sin count for theme songs.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I see.
Omega E the Reader: Yep. I can agree.
Sin Count: 2132
"I am Lady Sakuya of the Sylphs, and I order you all to stand down and relinquish our allies!" Sakuya said, the girls all looking at the sky as Marisa bent down and pulled the arrow out of her hat before putting it back on her head. "This… isn't good." Marisa muttered as she fingered her holster for her Hakkero her other hand straying to her pockets in her new long coat as she tried to find something to even the odds. However Reimu put her arm out in front of Marisa, keeping her from doing anything as she started speaking. "My name is Reimu, and we have come to get all of you out of this death world by the order of Yukari Yakumo." Reimu said neglecting the last name she no longer had as her purple eyes stared at Sakuya, the two girls acknowledging each other as Sakaya landed, a girl with cat ears trying to tell her not to do anything.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And now you see how Marisa's utter idiocy has made things go south.
Omega E The Reader: Yeah I can agree.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Marisa was on the list of WORST PICKS EVER for that kind of mission.
Omega E The Reader: I can ageee on this notion. Especially since she's more suited for combat than diplomacy.
Sin Count: 2144
"State your reason for… this then." Sakuya said, pointing at the weakened Leafa and frozen Eugene. "That was a result of our friend here being a bit to good at her job… and antagonize them into trying to get away with force rather then hear us out." Reimu said, smacking Marisa on the back of the head and causing her to eat dirt once again. "Stop doing that." Marisa said, her voice muffled as she got up and spit out some dirt. Reimu didn't even bother with her as she continued her conversation with Sakuya. "Why would you be sent to save us?" Sakuya asked, as Alicia and Mortimer flew down to join her. "Yes… what does this Yukari stand to gain by helping us?" Mortimer asked. "There's gotta be a catch." Alicia muttered, this was to good to be true.
"To be honest she was kinda just offering you a place in the new world once we recolonize, after all only those left on these three servers we found and in Gensokyo are still alive." Reimu said, asking Yukari through her mental link with her as one of her Shikigami. "So it's about numbers… she wants a large population to be around." Mortimer said, trying to reason why they wanted the three hundred of them. "The population of Gensokyo is around five thousand, this server has three hundred people, the Aincrad server has a total of nine people, and the Gun Gale server has only one survivor." Reimu said, her eyes having gone slightly blank, creeping Alicia out as her pupils returned to her eyes after the calculations. "I can see why she wants all the people she can get with a population that small." Sakuya said, the knowledge that they were doing better then the two other VR games was both horrifying… and good to know. "At least we are doing a good job of surviving." Sakuya said. "When can we begin this evacuation?" Mortimer asked, the sooner the better.
Reimu's eyes went blank again as she started speaking. "Yukari wishes to move the world tree along with the city of Arum to Gensokyo, she has not stated a reason for this other then to give the fairies a place to live." Reimu said. "Well then… can you assist us in make our way towards the world tree?" Sakuya asked, taking Reimu up on the offer. "Of course, it's our job to make sure you all get out safely." Reimu said as Marisa grumbled and pulled a red vial off her belt and gave it to Leafa, the antidote to the previous potion she had been force feed as Cirno snapped her fingers, breaking the ice around Eugene. "That was not pleasant." Eugene deadpanned as Leafa shivered after drinking the antidote Marisa have given her. "Tell me about it." She muttered.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And yet more proofs of Marisa being a terrible leader. Again.
Omega E The Reader: I can agree.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Along with another moment of mind control. Which are getting real tiring.
Omega E The Reader: It happened more than once during the first book.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And at least once for a whole fight.
Omega E The Reader: I don't know WHY it was needed. But it felt unnecessary.
Sin Count: 2160
"Let's get started, shall we continue this evacuation?" Suika asked, speaking up for the first time as she walked next to Reimu, Sanae squeaking as she hid behind everyone, shivering as the fairies started landing to rest their wings. "Let's move people." Eugene commanded, helping Leafa up as he started leading the army towards the world tree with Leafa by his side, the girls from Gensokyo following Eugene, but the two generals remaining wary as the army followed behind them, the citizens and leaders behind them as they walked towards the world tree, for the most dangerous part of the journey was about to begin, in the caves spanning the mountains around the world tree.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Since when was Sanae such a coward?
Omega E The Reader: In this fic, apparently. Despite the fact that Sanae is known for REALLY wanting to get involved, be it incidents or extermination.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: If anything, she's the most eager to throw herself into battles.
Omega E The Reader: Yeah, I know.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So this is a travesty.
Omega E The Reader: Of the highest order, if you will.
Sin Count: 2172
(Stage Clear!)
AN: Not exactly a long chapter, but not as exposition filled as you probably expected. Cirno fought Eugene, who would have won if not for Cirno's pesky issue with NOT DYING, and Leafa fought Momiji, who fought on equal ground until Leafa got distracted. But yeah, Marisa is still crazy, but crazy awesome works. But last time we checked, wasn't there only seven Aincrad Survivors? Adding Yui that makes eight… but there is one more. Bonus points to whoever guesses the ninth survivor. Hint, she's a game exclusive character.
Omega E The Reader: Well, the problem of not dying is that there are OTHER methods of countering immortals. One method is of course simply keep killing them till they want to stop or, better yet, exhaust them.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: But honestly, the fact that the only reason Eugene lost was because Cirno was immortal REALLY makes everyone she defeated in the tournament look utterly pathetic. Same with Leafa only losing to Momiji because she was distracted.
Omega E The Reader: I mean do you see MOKOU being totally unbeatable by any and all means? She can't beat Yuugi, Suika, Tenshi or Flandre in a fight.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And don't forget Komachi. Lost to Momiji, yet somehow Leafa managed to put up a better fight against the white wolf.
Omega E The Reader: Weaklings, all of them. They all had simultaneous unnecessary Worf Flu Effects.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: No. They didn't have any convenient excuses. They're all Adaptational Wimps.
Sin Count: 2202
Sue Cirno Count: 15
Marisue Count: 1
Momiji Sue Count: 50
Wrong Theme Song Count: 50
Stupid Power Level Count: 1 (unchanged)
Big Massive Plot Hole Count: 2 (unchanged)
Unforgivable Sin Count: 2 (unchanged)