Monday, July 6, 2009

Misplaced Sukima P-11

One week passed after the incident with Chen and Mima at the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, and Marisa's possession by Agava. Reimu has been acting very cold toward Ail and Kyo. They've been feeling so uncomfortable around her, they've been sleeping just outside the shrine, or just elsewhere. Marisa has been doing her best to avoid them as well, but unlike Reimu, she can't act cold toward them when she does get in contact with them. Mima's been getting saddened as well by Kyo's and Ail's absence, however Reimu doesn't really care... or at least acts like it. However, all is not bad. Kyo has become very loved at the village, ever since he and Suika scared away a small group of youkai that were terrorizing them. Lily White has grown attached to Ail, and follows him every chance she gets, which makes him very happy every time she does. He's also been visiting the Scarlet Devil Mansion, or SDM, as he's learned to call it by now, quite frequently, however he still felt very sad because of Reimu's sudden change. Many thoughts passed through his mind, including the possibility that he and Kyo may have overstayed their welcome.

At the Scarlet Devil Mansion, a day begins as normal. Sakuya wakes up to a bright and beautiful sunny day. She goes about her daily routine, cleaning, cooking, scolding the gate guard, and washing clothes. It was noon, and the sun was up high, shining brightly. Flandre was peacefully sleeping when her doors quietly open. She starts to float in the air, still asleep. Her blanket falls off as she continues to float around. By now she was reaching the front doors, which open up on their own as she got close. Flandre yawns and smacks her lips, opening her eyes and realizing she was outside. "Huh? I'm... flying?" Suddenly she hears a silent laugh and realizes she's outside in the early noon sun. "Wah...? Hey, I can't move! Aaah!" Meiling hears her shriek and pops from the gate shouting "little sister? Hey, it's dangerous for..." suddenly Meiling grabs her throat and looked like she was choking. Flandre notices this and started shouting as loud as she could "Meiling... Sakuya, onee-chan, HE~LP!" From inside, Sakuya hears the scream and runs as fast as she could. Now Flandre was floating up. She panics and tries to break free but her arm started twisting backward then an ominous voice says "don't worry, it'll all be over quickly!" Flandre screams again and Sakuya comes out of the mansion, immediately stopping time and flying toward Flandre, but there was an invisible barrier that prevented her from going further, and then something knocks her out, sending her down tot he ground next to an unconscious Meiling. The voice says "there's nobody that can save you now, sweetheart. Just accept your fate" and just like that they started to move faster upward, Fladre's skin starting to burn, the closer she got to the sun's rays. She starts to cry, as the voice cackles, and then she feels as if she was being lunged forward. She started to thrash about, trying to break free, knowing what was going to happen now, but the voice stops talking, and Flandre wasn't burning at all. Ail had arrived just in time, using himself as a shield from the sun. He looked angry, and just under him, and even angrier Reimu shoots various charms, breaking the barrier, giving Ail the chance to get Flandre. "Big brother" exclaimed Flandre, as Ail takes her back down, smiling at her, shielding her from the sun as best as he could. Reimu keeps firing countless charms toward the sky, revealing Agava, using some sort of trick to turn invisible. Agava smiles at Reimu, who angrily asks "why do you want to kill us!?" Agava cackles, making both Ail, who let's go of Flandre inside the mansion, and Reimu, who looked like the was about to explode in anger snarl back at her. She then says "I was TRYING to make myself stronger. See, if I can kill at LEAST one innocent soul, and absorb that soul, I can become 100 times stronger... but" Agava looks at Ail and smiles then says "I don't think that's gonna be a problem anymore." She cackles madly and turns into a shadow, running away at incredible speeds.

Reimu looks around then sees Ail tending to Sakuya and Meiling. Ail notices her and tries to look into her eyes, but she turns around and says "take care of things here... I..." and then she just leaves. Ail felt a slight pain in his heart when she just turned around like that, but turns to help Sakuya and Meiling, who, to his relief, were unharmed. Sakuya puts Flandre to sleep with Remilia, then goes immediately back outside. Ail was sitting at the right side of the gate, and Meiling standing at the left. "What's the matter, Ail?" Ail, raising his head looks at Meiling and says "I think Reimu's really mad at me and Kyo. Problem is, she won't tell us what it is." Meiling changes her expression, showing anger and says "I think it's this Agava. She has been breaking the laws of Gensokyo. Reimu really got mad when she tried to kill the children of the village." Ail springs up and asks "WHAT!? When DID that happen!?" Sakuya comes out of the mansion saying "just yesterday. She waited until it was late night. Keine noticed what was going on and hid the village just in time. Reimu just happened to be passing by when all that happened and forced Agava away." Ail looks confused and asks "that late at night?" Sakuya bites her bottom lip and says "she, err... won't say what she was doing, but it's not like we should care. The important thing is that she was able to help Keine save the village children." Ail winds down and says "you're right... I better get going now. Oh... is Flan going to be alright?" Sakuya bows and says "don't worry. The burns weren't that serious" Ail nods and flies away, waving at Sakuya and Meiling as he left. In the air, many thoughts crossed his mind. He wondered how could he help stop Agava, and those invisible barriers of her, and how fast she's become now. Just then, his train of though it put to a stop by Marisa. "Oy~, Ail." Ail turns around and greets her asking "Marisa? What is it?" Marisa smiles and says "Reimu's looking for you, ze."

At the shrine, Ail stayed outside looking at the pink-colored leaves, still just thinking. From inside the shrine, Reimu calls him, so he takes a deep breath and heads to the porch. He kneels by the entrance and says "yes? What is it, miss Reimu?" Reimu, looking a bit more normal asks "aren't you coming in?" Ail shakes his head and bluntly says "no." Mima smiles from inside, but wouldn't move from her spot beside Reimu. Reimu says "suit yourself... look I need you to tell me something. That spirit that had possessed you. Did it look different somehow... anything you can recall?" Ail lifts his sight to meet Reimu's, who quickly turns her eyes away, then Ail says "it was bright red... and had an unusually long tail." Reimu closes her eyes then Ail says "of course, that's it, isn't it? SHE has it now, doesn't she?" Without looking at Ail Reimu says "good intuition. THAT is why it suddenly got these many new abilities. I just wanted to confirm it." Reimu quieted down but then Ail asks "Reimu... did Kyo and I do-" "that is all. You may go if you want." Ail felt anger, but all he could do was turn around and fly away. Mima gets in front of Reimu and asks "Reimu, what did they do? Why are you so mad at them?" Reimu looks away and says "I'm not mad at them. You're imagining things." Mima tries to look into Reimu's eyes over and over, but Reimu grabs her gohei and hits Mima hard on the head. Mima gets really mad and shouts "HEY! What was THAT for!?" Reimu places a charm on Mima's head, paralyzing her, then says "I'm sorry, but you must go BACK to your room now." When Reimu takes the charm off Mima's head, Mima realizes she's back inside the small room. She bangs hard on the door that now had four charms on the arch and one on the knob. She shouted "Reimu, you're making a big mistake. Don't do it!" Reimu, from the other side of the door says "this is why I have to lock you in here again... you just don't understand. Just stay there and I'll let you out when you calm down." Reimu leaves the small corridor under the storehouse of the shrine and heads back to the now quiet and empty shrine. Inside the small room, Mima grabs her staff and bangs hard on the charms repeating "Reimu, you can't do it! You have to let us help you!"

Back at the village, Kyo was helping Mystia with some supplies for her grilled lamprey stand. Just as she finished loading the supplies, she turns to Kyo and says "thanks very much... you know I used to really dislike humans so much, but you and Ail sure are unique humans. I really like you two." She notices Kyo is distracted then says "hey, err... lately you've been in the village a whole lot. Did something happen? Why aren't you and Ail at the shrine?" Kyo snaps out of it and says "Oh sorry, hehe. It's probably nothing. Reimu's just been really edgy lately. We're just giving her some space." Mystia looks a bit confused, but nods saying "ooh." Kyo passes by Keine's school when he hears Marisa and Alice inside insisting to Keine about something. He gets closer, hiding under a window so as not to be detected. Inside, Keine looked really upset and said "NO! I won't do it!" Alice then says "come on! If we don't do it, they will die. Marisa, help me here!" Marisa was sitting by one of the desks, covering her eyes with her hat and says "I really don't want to force them, but..." she lifts her sight, her eyes looked a bit glassy as she shouts "we HAVE to make those two leave Gensokyo now, or else they will die. Reimu's premonitions at too accurate to be ignored!" Outside the school, Kyo's eyes fill with so much sadness. He knew what they were talking about. He stays there for a little longer until Keine says "look, I'll think about it, but don't count on me if you're going to force them out." Kyo gets up and slowly walks away, getting out of the village, heading nowhere.

Ail was at the Youkai Forest's river, along with Hina and Nitori. Hina was in the middle of the river happily spinning and saying "misfortune, come to me and go to the gods!" Nitori was tweaking some machine she had made. It had two holes; one pointed upward and the other was behind the machine. "Can I help you with that, Nitori?" asked Ail, then Nitori smiles and nods. Ail smiles back and asks "err... what exactly is this?" Nitori twirls her wrench around, with one hand and dramatically poses while saying "I'm so glad you asked! This is my latest invention, the Curse-be-gone converter machine!" When she finishes her pose, she had a wrench on her left hand and a screwdriver on her right hand, bright lights shining from behind her. Both Ail and Hina were now wearing sunglasses, and just as the lights behind Nitori fade, they take the sunglasses off and pocket them, then Hina continues to spin in place. Ail gets close to the machine and inspects it asking "and what does it do?" Nitori, looking proudly says this baby will absorb curses and misfortunes and transform them into good fortune and good luck. And as an added bonus, it will purify the air around here, making it even cleaner. Ail says "that's impressive... ah I see something's missing." Nitori then says "and THAT'S... what I can't figure out..." Ail then says "ah I see. All you need to do is put this cable here, then turns this here, place this here, in order to make the flux of energy go where the curses will be processed and then we add some more strings here, a wire there and there." Suddenly the machine was absorbing the curses, however it was spewing a brown gas that smelled simply horrible. Ail places his shirt around his mouth and nose saying "eww, why does it smell so horrible?" Nitori struggles to turn it off saying "ugh! I think it still needs some work. Yuck." When they managed to turn off the machine, they both notice Hina's face was green, her eyes were spinning and she was being carried away by the river. Nitori goes after her, then Ail looks around... He felt lonely. He spots Aya and Momiji and shouts "hey, Aya Momiji, how are you?" Both act very nervously and Aya says "err, Ail how are you? We are just fine... Look we'd love to stay and chat but, uum..." Momiji then says "we, umm, got an important meeting with the boss, so... yeah." Aya nods saying "yeah, that's it! Sorry, see you later." and then they both quickly leave.

Ail got in a little deeper into the forest and decided to sit under a tree for a bit. He looked terribly sad. For the first time, he was feeling as lonely and sad in Gensokyo as he did back outside. He was trying to think what could be the reason for all this; Reimu, Marisa, and now Aya and Momiji. He wondered if even Sanae would try to avoid him as well. Just then, a shadow blocks the late noon sun from him. When he looks up, it was Sanae herself, smiling back at him. "...so you think you did something bad, but you don't know what it is?" asks Sanae, who was sitting next to Ail under the tree. Ail then says "I'm not sure what's going on. If there's one thing I don't like, is when friends get mad at me, and I don't even know why." Sanae thinks for a bit, gets up and smiling, she offers Ail a hand up. Ail looks back and couldn't help but smile back and accept her help. Once up, Sanae tells him "the only thing you can do now is confront them and tell them just how you feel about all this." Ail thinks about it for a second and says "yeah... you're so right. That's what I'll do." Ail smiles again, his heart fills with so much hope. Sanae smiles at him while he says "thank you very much Sanae! I'll go do it right now!" He hugs Sanae, which surprised her a lot, then flies away to the Hakurei shrine. Sanae smiles again and leaves to her Shrine.

At the Hakurei Shrine, Ail calls out to Reimu. "Reimu, are you there!? I want to talk to you!" Reimu comes out of the shrine saying "good, because I want to talk to you too." Ail looks confused for a moment and says "what's been going on around here? You've been avoiding Kyo and me for a whole week. I want to know, did we do something wrong? Did we-?" Reimu raises her hand and softly, she says "I want you and Kyo to leave Gensokyo. Go back home where you belong." Ail opens his eyes widely, his stare goes blank and he chuckles. "Stop laughing!" shouted Reimu. "I'm not kidding. I want you to go back to your home, your REAL home this instant!" Reimu tried her best to hide her eyes, but Ail was now looking straight at her, looking back very seriously. Ail says "Kyo and I swore that we-" "Just shut up!" shouted Reimu again. "I know you mean well, and I know you want to help, but this thing, this monster is too dangerous. This is Gensokyo business, and you and Kyo do not belong here. You were brought here by mistake, and you can fix that mistake. Just go home, forget about Gensokyo, live on outside, in your own homes." Ail shouts "Gensokyo IS MY HOME!" then Reimu shouts back "NO IT IS NOT! I am sorry, but if you won't go peacefully..." Marisa arrives, flying on her broom, holding her Hakkero in her hands, pointing it at Ail, and hiding her eyes under her hat, and Alice comes out from the shrine with 5 dolls ready and armed with large lances, looking on with determination, then Reimu continues saying "...then we'll have to get you out by force." Ail was scared. He knew they meant business. He looks around and in a menacing tone asks "where's Mima?" Reimu looks straight at him and says "don't concern yourself with Mima. Just make your choice. Get out peacefully, or we'll get you out by force. Ail looks into Reimu's eyes for a moment, then he smiles. Reimu tries to look away, but he already saw what he needed to see. Reimu grabs her head and shouts "shut up! Stop that right now!" Ail turns around and says with a smile on his face "fine, I'm leaving just as soon as I find Kyo." He flies up and just before leaving he says "thank you all for everything. I am sure Kyo will agree when I say, you are all great friends. We'll miss you very much. Say goodbye to the others for me, alright Reimu." Reimu was about to start crying when she softly says "just go already." Without turning to face them, Ail lifts his right hand, gesturing a farewell.

At the Garden of the Sun, next to countless flowers, Kyo looked on, a gloomy expression on his face. It was getting dark when Ail arrives just behind Kyo saying "you know, you increased your energy so much, it was very easy to find you now." While still looking toward the flowers, Kyo, sounding very sad says "they want us out of here." Ail responds "I know... Reimu and the others made that perfectly clear." Kyo gasps and turns around to see Ail smiling, a tear falling down his cheek. Kyo looks down and says "I was hoping to find you first... I'm sorry you had to find out like that." Ail, still smiling says "come on, my friend. It's long time we headed home." Kyo smiles as Ail points his hand and opens a gap just behind him, but the gap closes on it's own. "What just happen?" asks Ail. Kyo looks around suspiciously when Ail says "I can't use my powers... I can't fly. What's going on?" A disembodied cackle echoes around them, then Ail exclaims "Agava!" Kyo unleashes the energy around his arms, which was now red. Agava, still invisible says "don't bother, you're inside one of my barriers." Ail shouts at her "where are you!? What do you want!?" Agava chuckle and says "goodbye", then under them a black square opens up. Kyo and Ail scream as they fall down then suddenly fell silent as the sound of bodies being impaled echoes all over the flowery fields. Agava cackles shouting "I DID IT!!! I can finally kill that SHRINE MAIDEN AND get the HELL OUT OF HERE! Look out humans, here comes you little black doom, HAHAHAHA~!" and then silence. The floor was back to normal, as if nothing ever happened, and so the sun sets ominously, as dark clouds take it's place.

Back at the Hakurei shrine, Marisa was so depressed, she didn't even want to touch her tea. Reimu looks at her and says "cheer up. We saved their lives. That vision is gone now, so don't worry about it." Alice looks a bit worried at Reimu and says "Reimu, what happened to you? Why were you shouting like that at Ail, when he wasn't even talking." Reimu looks a little annoyed at Alice and says "he was talking to me through his mind. Yukari must have taught him to do that." Marisa, her voice sounding a bit cracked asks "and what did he tell you?" For a moment it looked like Reimu was about to say, but suddenly looks around, looking as though she just forgot something very important. Marisa lifts her sights and asks "Reimu? What's wrong?" Reimu looks back at Marisa and says "I... can't remember what he said at all." Marisa scoffs and says "look, if you don't want to tell, it's fine, but don't try to trick me like that." Reimu yells back "I'm serious, I'm not kidding. I can't remember what he said!" Reimu looks around and says "well, the important thing is they are now safe... I can't feel either anymore, so they must be home by now." Marisa looks back at Reimu and asks "and what about Mima? You gonna leave her there?" Reimu starts to sound more casual now and says "well... maybe I'll let her out later... much later. After she's calmed down."

At the former Hellfire, Agava boldly floats just above the Lava, just looking around. Okuu sees her and goes to confront her. "Hey you! Who are you? What are you doing here?" Agava stares directly at the overpowered hell crow and hands her a blood-covered torn piece of violet cloth, and a red button shirt and says "give these to the shrine maiden in red." then suddenly she starts expanding a massive barrier around her, pushing Okuu back to the palace. The barrier keeps pushing back, sending Okuu through the doors of the palace, reaching Satori and Koishi, and pushing them back as well. Orin tried with all her might to push back, but was overpowered with ease. The barrier kept expanding all the way back outside, kicking out every single youkai, demon and beings from the underground. The opening of the cave was impenetrable now. Orin angrily asks "Okuu, what did you do now!?" Okuu looking blankly at Orin says "it wasn't me, honest. It was the shadow lady." Satori, rubbing her head as she got up from the ground says "Orin, let's look for that shrine maiden. Okuu, give me those." Okuu hands the cloth and shirt saying "they smell just like Ail." Satori snarls as she looks at the items in her hands and says "Orin, your faster. You go on ahead. Koishi, Okuu, come. "Right behind you sis" says Koishi. "Sure thing master" added Okuu. Yuugi calmly looks at the entrance to the cave then casually says "I'll go get Suika and break this open. Be back in a jiffy" Parsee, looking angrily at Yuugi says "Well hurry UP! I don't want to be here any longer... it's too creepy." Parsee winds down and crosses her arms saying "honestly, she can keep so calm at a time like this... I'm so jealous!" She turn turns around and sees Yamame and Kisume hanging from some tree branches and laughing, then says "tck! Even those two. Bah, I'll just sit here then." She sat down next to the entrance alongside the many other beings that were waiting for the cave to open. Back at the Former Hell, the barrier had pushed back most of the lava. Agava, carrying the same crystal the had imprisoned her before back to the top says "wow, these two souls are just amazing! Added to your acquired abilities, you little red spirit, my power is triple from what it used to be... now I'll just break this blasted crystal and add my own powers. With this I'll destroy that shrine maiden and that blasted barrier and continue my noble quest of ridding this entire world of the humans." Using Kyo's energy, she punches the crystal, shattering it into pieces and absorbing her enormous powers back into herself laughing manically as she did.

At the Hakurei Shrine late at night, Reimu sits on the porch, unable to sleep, just gazing at the stars and remembering just how rowdy and noisy the shrine used to be just a few days ago. Now the old peace and quiet returns. Marisa was sleeping inside when she suddenly jumps up shouting "REIMU!" The scream startles Reimu, who angrily shouts "WHAT!?" Just then Orin arrives to the shrine "si~s! We need you!" Reimu slaps her forehead and while still holding on to her head she asks "let me guess, the bird did something really stupid again." Orin hands her the piece of cloth and the red shirt. Reimu looks at them both and asks "what is this? Some kind of riddle?" and from the left side comes Koishi, Okuu and Satori who says "some woman in dark clothing gave that to Okuu just before placing an enormous barrier that kicked everyone out of the underground." Marisa gets up and says "Reimu... those wouldn't be...?" Reimu bares her teeth growling softly. A tear falls from her cheek when Satori says "don't blame yourself. You tried to save them, but you can't expect to win against fate all the time, Reimu. However, now it's not the time either." Suddenly they all hold their chests and Reimu says "she went to get the rest of her powers." Marisa was already set to go, nodding at Reimu who nods back saying "it's time to end this for good."

Arriving at the cave entrance, Reimu breaks open the barrier with just one charm. Marisa tells her "Reimu, I know your mad, but you better calm down. You'll end up burning yourself up." Reimu breathes deeply, exhales loudly and says "I know... but you're here with me. We can stop her together. Come on." Reimu smiles at Marisa, who smiles back, then head inside, along with the many inhabitants of the underground. In less than 15 minutes, Reimu and Marisa reach the Former Hell Fires, finding a powered up Agava, opening gaps all around her. "Miss shrine maiden, and little miss witch. Welcome." said Agava, sounding almost excited. She opens up a gap in front of Reimu and shows her Ran and Chen crying over Yukari's blood-stained body. "Yukari!" shouts Reimu, trying to reach inside the gap, but Agava closes it saying "you like? It's my latest work. I call it 'Sweet Red Melancholy' by... well, ME! A-HAHAHAHA!" Reimu's face turns red in anger and just when she was about to challenge Agava she notices Kyo's energy around her arms. Marisa looks on and says "that's... Kyo's" Agava smiles and says "your friends' souls were so delicious, sweetheart. So powerful too. I'm opening gaps with Ail's powers alone." Reimu pulls out a spell card. Agava cackles and says "you fool, I'm FAR beyond your silly little spell card games." Reimu doesn't reply and just shouts, as loud as she could "FANTASY HEAVEN!" then she looks back at Marisa and says "stand back!" Seven different colored Yin-Yang balls surround Reimu, spinning around and releasing countless charms all around, all moving toward Agava. Agava smirks and shoots a large black energy balls through one of the gaps and goes directly at Reimu, however the black balls simply goes through, as if nothing was there. Agava panics and starts shooting many more at Reimu, but they all pass through her. Reimu simply glares at Agava and says "you will pay for all you have done. NOBODY breaks the laws of Gensokyo and gets away with it. I will finish with you here and never again will Gensokyo, or the outside world will have to suffer your presence." Agava gets hit by one of the charms and already she felt her power fading away. Desperate, she opens a dark gap and shoots various dark balls of pure energy, then another dark gap opens next to Marisa, who had no chance to escape, getting blown up by the direct hits. Just as Marisa begins to fall down to the lava, Reimu cancels the spell and chases after her friend while Agava opens another dark gap and gets inside. Reimu grabs Marisa and immediately flies up, back to Satori's mansion.

Back outside, Agava opens a dark gap to the Hakurei shrine. Immediately she fires a dark lightning at the gate, hoping to destroy the barrier, however, the shot merely bounces back. "What the hell...? Still not enough power?" Agava starts to hyperventilate then lets out a ground-shaking roar. Keine immediately hides the village, then heads directly to the bamboo forest. The many youkai around the area hide from the overwhelming power, the entire SDM gets on edge, all on high alert in case something came. Yuka, Wriggle and Medicine hide around the flowers, Yuka hiding behind the immense blue flower that Ail had revived before. Ran and Chen both get their guard up, both guarding the wounded Yukari behind them. The entire Youkai Mountain trembles, getting the tengu, and the kappa in a offensive state. Alice locks her door, Rinnosuke closes his shop, Gensokyo, the once beautiful paradise was now turning into a dark and fearful world, all thanks to one single being, capable of breaking the laws of that world, and wasn't afraid to do so either. Agava lets out various curses when she suddenly stops and says to herself "only one thing left to do." then turns into a shadow and flies away.

Reimu comes out of the cave, holding Marisa telling her everything will be ok. She heads directly to Eirin's clinic. Marisa was badly injured, however Eirin didn't need her shadow to heal her this time. "Ail" said Reimu. "I'm sure his soul is preventing that... thing from causing any real harm... she keeps breaking the laws... If I can't stop her now-" Eirin places her hand on Reimu's shoulder and says "Reimu, remember that you are not alone here. You have a lot of friends and allies, whether you like to admit it or not." Reimu lets out half a smile then looks at Marisa and says "it's for all of them that I have to stop this monster. There's nobody else that can stop that thing now." Eirin keeps quiet as she continues to treat Marisa. Reisen enters the door saying "master, miss Reimu. The sky." Outside, it looked as if the barrier was reacting to something. Reimu growls softly then asks "Eirin, I'll pay you anything you ask, just take care of Marisa as best you can, is that ok?" Looking a bit confused, Eirin nods and says "remember, you're not alone." Reimu leaves without answering back to Eirin.

Back at the Hakurei Shrine, under the storage room, Mima had calmed down and was floating by her futon, when suddenly the door opens. She opens her eyes and expectantly asks "Ail!?" but there was nothing, nobody there... the charms simply broke on their own. Mima grabs her staff and slowly gets out of the room, and back outside. All the doors to the small underground passage were close, so she wondered what could have opened that door. After she goes out she notices the barrier was acting strange so she rushes to the lake behind the shrine and stars calling Genjii. "Genjii! Where are you?" The old turtle comes out from underwater then Mima asks "what's been going on?" Genjii looks at Mima in the eyes and says "Reimu needs your help now. She will need the help of everyone that can lend a hand to her. Something is destroying Gensokyo in it's entirety. It's only a matter of time now, before Gensokyo becomes a distant memory." Mima nods then spots Reimu flying high in the sky, and looking around. Mima quickly goes to her but Reimu shouts "stop! Stay there and guard the shrine. If Agava shows her face here, I want you to use every inch of power you possess to bring her down, understand? Do NOT hold back!" Mima quietly nods and slowly heads back to the shrine. At the Netherworld's entrance, Yuyuko and Youmu come outside. Yuyuko was looking so serious, even Youmu was afraid to approach her. In a very strict tone, Yuyuko says "Youmu, get your swords ready. If anything happens I want you to protect yourself at all costs." Youmu says "I'll protect you to the best of my abilities Yuyu-sama!" Yuyuko turns around and angrily stares at Youmu directly in the eyes and says "my order were to protect yourself. I can't die, but you can! PROTECT--YOURSELF!" Youmu was about to start trembling, as she slowly nods at Yuyuko, who's expression and mood at the moment was that of a very dangerous individual, and she seemed very explosive as well. Slowly the two descend and head to the Hakurei Shrine.

Reimu had found Agava and they were fighting fiercely around the Nameless Hill. Reimu would use her spell cards, declaring each attack, but Agava would shoot wildly, not caring about anything. Reimu was getting more and more agitated. She shouts "you're going to destroy this place if you keep this up! Stop it!" Agava cackles and says "that's exactly what I'm hoping to do." Reimu panics and heads straight at Agava with charms and needles on her hand, managing to place several charms on her, and sticking quite a few needles as well. Agava falls down hard, Reimu chasing after her, but the coward opens another gap and disappears once more. Reimu lands and kneels on the ground, breathing heavily. Just then, Sanae and Aya come by and land next to her. "Reimu!" exclaims Aya. Sanae was looking around and asks "where's Ail and Kyo? Aren't they with you?" Reimu looks up as Aya places her arm around her neck, giving Reimu a good support. Looking both angry and sad Reimu says "they're both dead... Agava killed them." Sanae covers her mouth when she gasps loudly. Reimu then says "I have to stop that monster now before she destroys Gensokyo. Slowly... it's shattering... breaking apart under our feet. Sanae, we don't have time to mourn them now." Sanae gulps and picks up her gohei, and just like that, a dark gap opens just behind her, however Reimu quickly pushes her out of the way of a dark spike, grabbing the spike and pulling Agava out, then placing a charm on her forehead. Agava screams in pain, getting out of the dark gap and holding her head. The little red spirit is forcefully pulled out of her and turns white as it slowly drifts to the Sanzu River. "No... NO!!!" yells Agava enraged. She could no longer open dark gaps, or create barriers. Reimu smirks and says "now to finish you off." Agava snarls and shoots various massive energies, all in a horrifying random pattern that made the shots look like a curtain of smoke. Aya, Sanae and Reimu fly just in time to escape, allowing Agava to run away in her shadow form. Reimu looks at Aya and Sanae asking "are you two alright?" Aya and Sanae both nod, Sanae letting out a trembling "uh-huh."

Back at the Hakurei Shrine, Yuyuko, Youmu and Mima greet Reimu. "You guys" exclaims Reimu "what's going on?" Youmu sounding very serious says "Reimu, you are fighting something that's threatening all Gensokyo. This is not your battle alone anymore. It's all of ours." Yukari pops from one of her gaps, full of bandages and saying "fu, fu, fu~! Did you really think we would let you take all the glory again? I don't think so." From that same gap, Ran and Chen come through. Momiji rushes to Aya, salutes and says "the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the Moriya Shrine, the kappa and the tengu all have your back!" Reimu smiles and closes her eyes saying "so this is what Eirin meant, huh? And I suppose Keine and Mokou will joining in too?" From the trees Mystia sings "Entei, the village, the immortals, the flowers, and even those with little powers~!" From behind Mystia Rumia comes saying "it is so~!" From the shrine gates come Satori, Koishi, Orin and Okuu as well, Orin shouting "Hey sis, we're going to kick shadow butts together now." From up in the sky, floating softly come Tenshi and Iku, who shouts "just as promised, we're here to help!" Reimu smiles once more, then starts laughing. Her shrine was once again noisy and full. After a little while, even Yuyuko was back to her whimsical and happy self, drinking with Yukari by her side. Those there at the shrine decided they will stay, even if Reimu kicks them out. For a moment they all forgot the danger they were facing, then Alice, who was holding a hat less Marisa from falling, enters the shrine. Reimu gets up as Marisa says "heh, a little too happy and partying, even though we are facing danger, ze? Well I'll join in and make it an official party!" Reimu gives Marisa a big hug, Marisa saying "don't worry, I'm fine." The then lightly pushes Reimu away and pulls out a piece of paper saying "Eirin's bill, ze." When Reimu started reading the numbers, her eyes almost pop out of her head, but when she reads the total, she laughs, tears falling down her cheeks. She lets go of the piece of paper, then Sanae picks it up and reads it out loud. "Umm, let's see... total for the treatment... 1 safe Gensokyo. Well miss Reimu, it seems you don't have a choice now." Reimu continues to laugh just as the Prismriver sisters arrive and play a tune for everyone there.

Everyone, except Sanae, Marisa, Alice and Reimu fell asleep. All four were drinking tea, kneeling on the porch at the back of the shrine. Sanae sniffles a bit and says "for those two boys... let's save Gensokyo." The others look at Sanae who looks back at them and says "let's beat that horrible monster for those two boys. Maybe they weren't from Gensokyo, but they sure did love it here. Let's save Gensokyo for them." Reimu can't find the words but then she remembers something and says "Marisa? I remember what Ail told me before... he left." All the attention was on Reimu now who continues saying "he told me, Reimu, I know why you want us out of here. I understand your feelings, but you should also understand my own. I love Gensokyo, and I'm sure Kyo does too. I will not fight you over this, but I want you to remember... fate has a funny way of doing things. You may try to go against fate, but it always finds a way to do what it must. I love kicking fate whenever I get the chance, and that's why I am who I am. Don't forget that, miss Reimu." After she finished, a tear drops from her right cheek and into her tea. Marisa looked in awe then says "he sure was one crazy kid huh? To be able to say all that in so little time, ze?" Sanae looks at the moon and says "he was... a special one." Alice looks at the three humans and says "you humans are just so strange sometimes..." Shanghai comes by and nods at Alice. Sanae lightly giggles while Marisa and Reimu laugh hard, then Marisa says "live for the moment, zei~."

To be continued...
Characters and scenario belong to ZUN -Team Shanghai Alice-
Ail and Kyo were created by Willie G.R.

JUN 7 2009
written by
Willie G.R.

-Man... maybe I am overdoing it a little bit? Ah, whatever, I came this far already, so there's no point in turning back.-

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