Another Misplaced Sukima P-6

Kyo and his new friend, Luna, arrive at Gensokyo and are informed about the plan to get Ail and Maribel back from Makai, as well as Sanae, Renko, and Nitori convincing Reimu to join in their efforts to finish the power amplifying machine. Luna acts very rough and cold toward everyone but Kyo, and looks down on all the girls, creating tension between all that are around her. At Makai, having convinced Yumeko to allow Shinki to heal her, and apologizing for his behavior, and of course, forgiving the girls for calling him a pervert, Ail finally comes to his senses and is able to rest, safe inside Pandemonium. Marisa, Yuki, and Alice were held hostage inside Keine's school after making all of the students run away from class, but were soon released after Yuki started behaving strangely. It's late noon and Luna is chasing a celestial, an evil spirit and an oni all around the lake behind the Hakurei Shrine for messing with her luggage.

At the Forest of Magic, at Ail's house, Rinnosuke looks around outside and calls for Ail. "Hey~! Are you there? Ail!" Rinnosuke keeps quiet for a moment, awaiting a reply, but received none. He gets closer to the door as he thinks "it's been quite a while since he's come by. I wonder if he's even alive in there?" He hears some rustling inside the house, and as he gets closer, he notices the door was slightly open. He cautiously enters speaking loudly "hey, Ail, are you in there!? The door was open so I hope you don't mind that I let myself..." Another loud rustling coming from one of the rooms startles Rinnosuke. He quietly walks toward the room and slowly opens the door. He sees nothing but an empty bed, next to some open drawers and 6 blue ice wings. He opens his eyes wide and says "wait a minute! Cirno, is that you?" From the other side of the bed, Cirno, the ice fairy, pops her head, looking around, not noticing Rinnosuke at the door. He gets closer and says "Cirno... over here!" Cirno jumps in place, panic filling her face, and shoots an icicle straight at Rinnosuke, who dodges just in time. "That was close, little fairy! What are you doing in Ail's house?!" Cirno jumps on Ail's bed after calming down and says "he's not visiting, so eye came to visit instead, but I don't see him." Rinnosuke arranges his glasses and looks straight into the ice fairy's eyes and says "You mean Ail? I see. I came to visit him too. It's been a couple of days since he visited my shop. Seems he's not here, though." Cirno shakes her head and says "eye searched everywhere, but all I could find was this." She pulls out a spell card from one of the open drawers next to Ail's bed and shows it to Rinnosuke. He gets closer and grabs the spell card, inspecting it thoroughly. As he inspects it Cirno says "it must be a bad card because eye am a genius, but even I could not use it!" Rinnosuke gasps and opens his eyes wide then asks "Cirno? Where did you find this?" Cirno looks a bit puzzled at Rinnosuke, then points at the open drawers. Rinnosuke places the card inside his brown bag and says "it's getting late. Tomorrow you and I are visiting the shrine in the morning. Reimu must know about this." Cirno continues to look at Rinnosuke puzzled, but she lightly nods and follows him outside.

Early morning at Makai. Ail wakes up and quietly gets out of his room, his clothes still stained with blood, his sky-blue cloak in tatters and blood-stained as well. He couldn't fully open his left eye because it had swollen a bit, the wound opening again, trickling some blood from time to time. He sneaks outside of Pandemonium and flies toward the lake. Although there was no sun, the light of day was shining brightly now. Ail had gotten inside the lake and was just floating in his underwear. He had hung his clothes out to dry, and was able to remove most of the blood stains off from them. His cloak, however, had a large blood stain on the back that refused to clean off, so Ail gave up on it. He floated on the water, facing the sky, admiring some clouds as they passed by, when suddenly, Ail's face turns serious and begins to swim to shore. "How long have you been watching me?" asks Ail as he gets closer to the shore. From behind a tree Yumeko laughs and says "since you gave up on that large stain on that cloak of yours. I could clean that off for you if you ask nicely enough." Ail lets out a half smile saying "heh, I would be honored if you did me this favor... So how are you feeling?" Still behind the tree, Yumeko crosses her arms and while smiling and facing the ground with her eyes close, replies "hmm, I feel better than ever, thanks for asking. What about that eye of yours?" Ail continues to smile for a moment then says "don't tell the others about that. The last thing I want now is for them to worry." Yumeko hums and says "fine. Lady Shinki already knows, though. Fine, I'll let her know you want it kept a secret. I'll be taking this cloak now, so-" She heard Ail getting out of the water and blushes while quickly saying "h-hey! Don't get out of the water so suddenly!" Ail chuckles and says "don't worry, I got my pants on already." Yumeko is relieved and gets out of hiding. She saw Ail put on this cut and tattered shirt on and frowns. She grabs his cloak and says "I could fix that for you..." Ail looks casually at her while saying "are you ok?" She doesn't respond. Ail gets closer to her and pats her shoulder and says "what happened, happened, and was meant to be. Now it's time to leave that in the past, alright?" As if a heavy weight had been lifted from her shoulders, Yumeko feels great relief. Her Master and the outsider had forgiven her just like that. She looks back at Ail, who frowns as he bows and says "if anything, I want to apologize for... well... almost killing you." When he raises his head again, he was looking at the ground, but Yumeko just smiles and says "all is forgiven." Ail looks at her, then smiles. Suddenly Yumeko realizes something and asks "hey, that lake is very dangerous. How come you're still in one piece?" Ail gasps and says "ah, thanks for reminding me." He waves his hand in the direction of the lake and suddenly, many carnivore fish, some as big as houses, swim back to where Ail was. Yumeko looks at Ail a little surprised, but just shrugs and walks back to the palace.

Morning in Gensokyo, at the Hakurei Shrine, Reimu wakes up with Mima who was sleeping next to her. She remembers how hard it was to convince Luna to stop trying to kill her and her other two friends, after they rummaged all over her belongings. Reimu gets up and readies herself for the day ahead. Kyo and Luna were sleeping next to each other, right next to the small table in the main room of the shrine, so Reimu quietly prepares some tea and some breakfast, then heads to the shrine's porch to eat. Just as soon as she finished drinking the last bit of tea, Rinnosuke and Cirno arrive at the shrine. Rinnosuke had a worried expression on his face, while Cirno just looked around curiously, then rushes directly toward the donation box she always seems so curious about and stares inside of it. "Morning, Rinnosuke. What brings you here so early in the morning, and with the ice fairy, no less?" asked Reimu sounding casual. He walks to her and quickly hands her the spell card Cirno had found in Ail's house. "What's this? Rinnosuke, you finally have your own spell card!?" He glares at her and says "take a good look, Reimu." Just then, Cirno comes and stands next to Rinnosuke and proudly says "Eye found it. Inside Ail's house!" Reimu inspects the spell card for a moment and reads the name in a whisper "Light Sign, Within the Jewel's Core?" Reimu's eyes fill with fear, her face turning pale, her hands begin to shake. She turns to Cirno and asks "inside Ail's house?" Cirno looks back at Reimu's face and wonders what was going on. Why was she so scared of that spell card? She nods and asks "why are you so scared?" Before Reimu could answer, Rinnosuke says "this little one tried to use it, but as luck would have it, it didn't work." Still trembling and filled with so much fear, she could barely feel herself moving her limbs, she grabs Cirno by her arms and grips her tight, furiously saying "don't you EVER try using this again, do you hear me, you idiot!!?" Cirno's eyes fill with tears and tries to force herself free, getting angry and shouting "I'm NOT an idiot! I'm a genius! I can read! That makes me really smart! *grunt* LET ME GO! I'll make you pay for this!" Reimu releases Cirno, but Rinnosuke grabs the little ice fairy before she launched herself at Reimu. He then says "so I take it you know what that spell does, right?" Reimu nods and tires to break it, which makes Cirno even madder, screaming "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! That's not yours, you mean maiden!" "Shut it!" shouts Reimu back at Cirno, but the spell card repairs itself before she could say anything else. Rinnosuke stares at Reimu and says "I already tried destroying it, I'm afraid." Reimu growls softly as she continues to stare at the card. The others inside the shrine start waking up, immediately heading outside and see what the commotion just now was.

Yuki, Marisa, Alice and Keine were having breakfast at Keine's school. They had spent the night there since Marisa insisted they waited for her to return from her house before heading to Reimu's. When she came back, quite late at night, she was wearing a tan-colored apron with a large 'M' embroidered in it over her skirt. While eating breakfast, Yuki teasingly asks "so, Marisa? Why the sudden outfit change?" Marisa gets a bit annoyed, but forces a smile and says "so that people stop confusing me with you." Yuki covers her mouth with her hand as she giggles and says "well I guess great minds think alike, isn't that right Alice?" Alice starts to sweat and trembles a bit, but tires to cover it by calmly drinking her tea. Keine looks puzzled and wondered what were they talking about. Yuki gets up and was wearing over her black skirt, a tan-colored apron with the letter 'Y' embroidered to it, then she pulls out her hat and had changed the white blow to pink. Marisa furiously gets up and shouts "what the HECK!? ALICE, did you--?" Yuki grins mischievously and says "I asked Alice last night to make this for me. It was a little annoying having people calling me your clone, so I thought this might help. Never would I guess you were thinking the same thing. I guess it's can't be helped." Yuki sits back down, wrapping her left arm around Marisa's neck, and her right arm around Alice's, then pulls them together saying "We're sisters, even if don't really share blood, hahahaha~!" Alice angrily asks "wait, why me too?" Yuki replies "that's why I changed the bow in my hat, silly!" Alice and Marisa both looked miserable as Yuki tightly hugged them with a smile on her face. Keine quietly smiles and thinks "these girls are worse than the children... but I wonder." She imagines a child version of Marisa and Alice, quietly sitting on the desks, listening to her classes, then Yuki arrives shouting "HEY~ kids! Big sister Yuki is here!" Both Alice and Marisa get up from their desks, excitedly shouting as they ran toward Yuki "onee-chan~!" Yuki kneels down and pats them both on the back of their heads and asks "and did you learn a lot today, little sis?" Alice nods and Marisa says "oh yes. Miss Keine is the BEST teacher ever!" Keine was now blushing and smiling at the table. The three girls look at her, wondering what was going on. Suddenly Keine says "you two, Alice, Marisa. Call Yuki 'onee-chan'!" Alice crosses her arms and angrily says "no way! What's WITH you all of a sudden!?" Marisa bangs on the table and shouts "like HELL I would!" Keine's face turns from contently blushing, to dagger-staring dangerous. Marisa and Alice get shocked, tremble a bit, and look at Yuki, calling her "onee-chan!" Keine smiles again and giggles, then Yuki just stares at her with a blank smile. Both Alice and Marisa think "what just happen here?"

At the underground, in the Palace of the Earth Spirits, a familiar black and red cat walks all around the palace. She climbs by windows and stares outside for a while, then comes back down, paces around, and returns once more to the windows and just stares outside. This has been going on for two days, so Satori decided to talk to her pet. Quietly sitting by the window, swaying her two tails and staring outside, the little kitty, Orin, takes a deep breath and exhales. Without realizing it, Satori was behind her. She was just staring at her pet, looking as casual as ever, then suddenly asks "sitting by the windows again?" Orin jumps so high, she bangs her head on the window's frame, then falls down, spilling some blood on the ground. Satori panics "Orin, Orin! I'm sorry. Wake up already!" Now in human form, Orin sits with her back against the wall, looking as if she was ready to start crying. Satori was sitting next to her and says "I know he hasn't come by to play with you for some time, but getting depressed over it is not healthy." With glassy eyes, Orin looks down and says "but bro always comes by and plays with me, even if it's just to say hello and leave." She pick up her legs and hugs her knees, starting to sob and thinking "he hates me!" Satori calmly replies "he's not that type of person. I don't think he hates you at all." Orin looked at her master, her cheeks full of tears now. Satori looks back and says "yes, I know. He might have been a little angry after you all forced him to cause that incident, but I doubt he hates you, or anyone of us." Orin's tears stop after her master says these words, then asks "but then, why else would he stop visiting?" Satori thinks for a moment, then says "tell you what. Later, let's go topside and visit that maiden. Maybe she knows what's going on." Orin perks up and smiles, then hugs her master tightly repeating "thank you, thank you~!" Satori blushes a bit, pulls half a smile from her casual face and hugs Orin back, rubbing her hair lightly.

At the Hakurei Shrine, Renko and Nitori were already leaving to work on the machine. After hearing the tale about how Ail and Maribel ended in Makai Rinnosuke was waving goodbye from the gate as he headed back home, and Cirno was flying back to the lake and Reimu was now more determined to get Ail and Maribel, particularly Ail, back from Makai. She was angry, and she wanted to beat him up. That spell card Cirno found in his room seemed to get on Reimu's bad side rather quickly. She picks up some scrolls, charms and her gohei and walks to the mountains along with Sanae. Mima, and Suika follow closely shouting "WAIT!" "Don't leave us alone with that woman!" Tenshi had apparently left during the night since nobody knew where she was now, and now Kyo was going to go with the others as well. Luna pulls him back and turns him around. She gets flirty and says "say, why don't we go sight-seeing?" Kyo smiles and says "sorry, but first we get my friend back, and then we can go do whatever we want." Luna pouts, but Kyo just crosses his arms triumphantly and says "sorry, that's not gonna work. Look, I promise to give you all the time I can to you, but AFTER we help my friend, alright?" Luna frowns and shouts "FINE!!! Go help you friend, I don't care! I'll just go by myself!" Kyo sighs and sounding very disappointed, he says "alright then, go. But you can't change my mind about this... just remember the rules of this place." Luna crosses her arms, turning away from Kyo and says "yeah, yeah." Kyo turns around then turns his head to Luna, but she didn't even glance his way. He sighs and says "I'll see you later then. Take care" and then leaves. After he's out of sight, Luna lets out a puff of air and says to herself "idiot! You should pay more attention to me! Bah... what am I saying?" She grabs her belt and swords, closes the shrine's doors behind her, then walks down the stairs to the shrine to explore more of Gensokyo by herself. Inside the shrine, Yorihime wakes up and realizes everyone was gone. She sits up, rubs her eyes and unconsciously says "good morning Toyohi--" She realized what she was just saying and stops. She gets angry and thinks "Yorihime, you idiot, you're not home. Get it together!" Suddenly she started to sob; her sobbing could be heard outside by a little night sparrow that happens to be passing by.

After waving goodbye to Genjii, Kyo continues his way to the mountains, when he suddenly stops. He clenches his fists and side-steps behind a tree. Shortly after hiding, from one of the bushes, a small girl with long black hair tied up in a ponytail by an indigo ribbon with frills, dark blue eyes, pale skin, tight clothes, covered by a pair of shorts and an open blue jacket, and a strap with a red jewel around her neck and one around her waist, jumps out and says "drats, I missed him!" From behind her comes Rumia saying "is that so~? Agava, you're just too slow~!" Agava clenches her fist as she turns around to face Rumia, then waves her fist at her face saying "watch it, missy, or you'll be dining on my knuckle sandwich again." Rumia giggles and says "oh yes, it's really yummy!" Agava raises her fist, ready to strike, but Rumia simply shoots some lasers along with some green energy balls and knocks Agava out quickly. "I win again~!" says Rumia. Agava coughs a little and says "that was a cheap shot." From behind her, Kyo says "nope. I'd say she got you fair and square. She even gave you some warning." When Kyo spoke, Agava shrieks and runs behind Rumia, trembling. Rumia looks at Kyo for a moment then says "it's you. Kyo~!" Kyo bangs his chest and says "well of COURSE it's me. Rumia floats toward him with her arms extended, then hugs him around his neck. After she lets go she tells him "you smell really sweet... but you're still so bitter!" Kyo realizes she had licked his neck during their hug. He gets angry and forcing a fake smile, he says "you've got some nerve, you little..." Just then, Agava remembers Kyo, that friend of Ail and Reimu's. She smiles and thinks "this behemoth could be of help to me! Yeah, I could become his friend, get closer to Reimu, and KILL her in her sleep. It's perfect... gotta play it nice and slow, though." She gets closer to Kyo and before she presents herself, he says "Agava? Well, I never though I'd see YOU alive. So how are you?" Agava was shocked and says "what do you mean by THAT!? *Ahem* I mean, yes... hi, how are you?" Kyo laughs and says "sorry, sorry. I didn't mean anything by that." Agava smiles and asks "and where are you going? Can we come along?" Kyo thinks for a moment and says "well why not? Reimu said we could use many more hands. Agava jumps on to Kyo's left shoulder and says "sure, I am very helpful. Isn't that right, Rumia?" Rumia smiles vacantly and says "is that so~? At the same time, Kyo and Agava sigh and say "ugh, that's so annoying!"

By jumping from tree to tree, and running quite fast while grounded, Luna reaches a hill called "The Nameless Hill" She stares at the sign and says "if it's nameless, why call it 'The Nameless Hill'...? This makes no sense." She continues walking forward when she spots a colossal flower field. All the flowers in there looked a sickly purple color, however, ignoring this, Luna gets in to the flower field and runs to the very center of it. She looks behind her and sees a trail of purplish gas behind her. She grabs both swords, crosses the blades, then slashes the air, generating a shock wave that blows the gas away from her, but also cuts the flowers in it's path into pieces. She sheathes her swords once more and continues to quietly gaze at the flowers. After observing the flowers for some time she says "they're all poisonous. Still, they look beautiful. I wonder if I could use this poison for something, though?" She was about to bend down and pick some flowers, but suddenly unsheathes her swords again and says "little girls should be home with their parents, little one." A blond girl with silver eyes, wearing a black and red dress, accompanied by a flying doll that looked just like the girl stands behind Luna. She giggles and says "are you stupid or something, human!?" Luna turns around looking furiously at the little girl, pointing the sharp end of her blades at her. After turning around and getting a better look of the girl, she smiles and says "interesting. A doll that has life? How very unusual. Shouldn't you be in the hands of some stupid little girl or something?" These word infuriated the doll. She clenches her little fists and shouts "watch your mouth, you stupid human! I'll NEVER be in the hands of the likes of you ever again. I, Medicine Melancholy, will free all the dolls from your evil human hands." Luna smirks and says "a giant doll that wants to free other dolls from humans? How pathetic. You know, you should do something better with your life." Medicine growls and shouts "I'll kill you, for starters!"

"Su-san, go!" The little doll above Medicine's head pulls out a large lance twice her own size from under her skirt and lunges directly at Luna, but Luna cuts the lance into pieces long before it even came into range. Su-san gets shocked and flies back to Medicine as quickly as she could. Luna points the side of her swords' hilts and smiles as she says "the pain will only last for a second." She squeezes a small trigger, but her smirk quickly vanishes and turns to an angry growl. "What the hell is this!? Where are my bu--" Luna was angrily swinging her blades in front of her after realizing that instead of bullets, small knife danmaku came out of her weapon instead. She thrashes about, shredding the flower around her, then stops with a realization. "That's right... that lady that opened the gaps..." She remembers Yukari getting very close to her just before she entered the gap to Gensokyo, and grabbed both her swords in an instant. She claimed she was just admiring them, but now Luna knows the truth. She exchanged the deadly bullets for danmaku bullets. She screams to the air in a rage and after doing so, she breathes heavily, looking murderously at Medicine and says "fine! *pant* I'll just cut you to shreds!"

Medicine jumps out of Luna's way just as she lunged at her. After recovering, she uses some poisonous flowers and sends them spinning straight at Luna, however she blocks them with her swords and instinctively shoots back with her danmaku guns. While Medicine did her best to dodge the blasts, Luna yelles "FINE! I'll just waste these useless bullets and cut you to pieces after!" She kept shooting and shooting until she realized soemthing and stopped. "So... these bullets are using my own energy. I see... so they're not as useless as I though... I just have to be more careful how much I use at once." Luna stops shooting and rushes to Medicine, but Medicine tossed two of those flowers at her, landing one straight on to Luna's face. Luna grabs her face and starts to jump in place "owing" as she did, then pulls the flower off, revealing singed skin right between her eyes. She smiles dangerously and says "you little freak! You're gonna pay for that!" Luna slashes wildly and cuts off Medicine's left hand pinkie. Medicine yelps and runs away from Luna, however she quickly follows with murderous intent, so without wasting another second, Medicine inhales as much air as she could and blows out a thick cloud of poison straight at Luna's face. Luna stops in her tracks and start coughing violently. Medicine trips, falling down on the ground, but stays sitting there. She calms herself down and calmly says "you-you human! You are too dangerous, so now you will die thanks to my poison. Enjoy your last moments!" Luna continues to cough violently, but then her coughing stops. She inhales and starts faking her coughing as the cloud vanishes. Medicine looks to her direction suspiciously, then Luna's coughs turn to laughter. Medicine gasps and backs away saying "n-n-no~! I-i-imposible! How c-can you be a-a-alive!?" The poisonous could vanishes, Luna just stood there, smiling at Medicine then said "you'll find it's easier to bring down a castle, than to kill me. I'm immune to poisons, my dear. Now..." Luna walks closer to Medicine, pointing her left blade at the shivering youkai doll, with a look of satisfaction on her face. She raises the blade to the air, then lunges it toward Medicine and shouting "...DI~E~~!" Medicine gasps and curls into a ball, trembling on the ground and quietly sobbing, awaiting her doom, however, Luna's blade was stopped by Su-san, just inches away from Medicine.

Luna was surprised to witness this sort of act from a lifeless doll. She let's go of her blade, letting it fall to the ground, and just as Medicine hears the blade drop, she looks up and notices Luna staring at her black gloved left hand, then sees Su-san, her face and torso cut open, falling down to the ground. "Su... Su-san?" The little doll tried to fly up, but it was too damaged and could not get back up. Medicine starts to shout and cry out Su-san's name. Luna backs away and thinks "what the hell's this feeling? I'm supposed to kill anyone and anything that threatens my own life... and yet." Medicine looks angrily at Luna and shouts "you stupid human! Look what you did to Su-san!" Luna was in complete shock and could not answer; just think to herself "I can't believe this... This stupid heart of mine, is- I'm feeling sorry for this doll? Of all the damned things, a doll? An useless doll!" Medicine kept sobbing, holding on to Su-san and embracing her. Luna finally snaps out of it, walks closely to them and picks up her sword. "D-dont! The fighting's over, I have to get Su-san to the doll-maker!" shouts Medicine, trying to back away from Luna, but Luna sheathes her sword and offers her white gloved right hand to Medicine saying "come on!" while looking elsewhere. Medicine gets angry and says "like I'd ever become friends with YOU!" but Luna glares at Medicine and says "HEY! Don't get me wrong... I'm just upholding my honor as a fighter, and nothing more. Who would want to be friends with a poisonous doll like you anyway?" Medicine thinks for a moment, looking at Luna's eyes, then accepts her hand. Luna lifts her up and gruffly asks "so where's this doll-maker. I'll escort you there, and that's that!" Medicine looks away as she says "hmph! Fine. I'll allow you to escort me there then. She lives in the Forest of Magic." Luna blushes a bit and says "I'm new here... so you'll have to show me the way." Medicine stares at Luna in shock and says "geez. Some escort you are!" Luna then shouts back "watch it, you overgrown puppet!" then Medicine shouts back "who are you calling a puppet, you meat-ball!"

At the Hakurei Shrine at mid-day, Yuki, Marisa, Alice and Keine fly to the back of the shrine, calling out to Reimu, quickly realizing the shrine was closed. Behind them were Satori, Okuu and Orin, calling out to Reimu as well. "Oh, I wasn't expecting Reimu to have guests today." calmly said Satori. Okuu rushes to meet the others and says "wow, the black and white has a twin! Look, look!" Satori and Orin both look at Marisa and Yuki, who were just standing there, smiling back at them, both saying "hi" at the same time. Orin and Satori look at them for a little longer and then say "they're not related" at the same time. Okuu looked confused and scratches her head, then continues to look at the two black and white girls. Marisa and Yuki look at each other with a glint in their eyes, and start to move in circles around each other and saying "who am I?" "Where am I?" "Do you know me?" "I'm over here!" "No, I'm over here" Okuu's eyes start to spin and faints, releasing a large atomic blast just as she fell. Satori, keeping her calm looks, panics, as Orin freaks out, calls out to her master, and pulls behind the trees around the shrine. Marisa and Yuki run away as Alice and Keine form up a barrier, hoping to stop the blast. When the energy ball was inches away from impacting the ground, Yorihime dashes from inside the shrine with her sword at hand and cuts the balls into so many small pieces, the damage from the thousand tiny blasts did little, to no damage at all. Yorihime sheathes her sword and says "I don't know why you Earthlings misuse you powers like that. If this were the moon... ooh, I'd seal you all away in a heartbeat!" They all look confused at Yorihime, Keine saying "err... thank you miss." Satori had gotten close to Yorihime and stared at her in wonder, saying "I see, you're from the moon. How amazing, missis Yorihime. My name is Satori, and we're here looking for Reimu." Yorihime stares back at Satori in shock and surprise, but says nothing. Satori bows and says "I apologize. I have the ability to read the minds and hearts of others, and I see that Reimu is farther into the mountains. Orin, get Okuu and come with me. Thank you for your time, missis Yorihime." Yorihime was still in a complete state of shock and wouldn't reply, or move from that spot. As Satori and her pets went in farther to the back of the shrine, Yuki and Marisa get close to Yorihime, poke her, but got no reaction, so they shrug and follow after Satori, however, Keine catches up to them, pulling their ears and says "NOT-so-fast! You two almost cause a disaster here! As punishment, I want BOTH of you to write down 'I will not cause problems for teacher' 300 times, and I want this ready BEFORE we reach Reimu!" She keeps pulling on their ears as they head into the forest behind the shrine, Yuki saying "ow~ No fair!" then Marisa says "I can't write like this!" Alice stays behind for a bit and places her hand on her face and says "these two are so immature." She pats Yorihime on the shoulder and says "just don't think about it too much, or you'll go mad." With that, she leaves, following the others to the mountains. After everyone leaves, Yorihime lets her arms drop and she looks up to the sky and says "Toyohime, I miss you, sis. I miss my home so much..." From the shrine stair, Eirin calls "hello~! Reimu~! Yorihime~!?"

At the mountains behind the shrine, Kyo, Rumia, Agava, Renko, Nitori, Mima, and Suika were all working on the machine diligently, while Sanae confronted Reimu behind some trees. "What's the matter with you now, Reimu!? First you didn't want to help at all, then you just came because of your donation box, and now you just want to kill Ail. What's the matter with you!?" Reimu stays quiet, then shows Sanae the spell card Cirno had found. Sanae looks at it carefully and then, looking angry she asks "it's a spell card... so what!?" Reimu signals Sanae to get closer and whispers something to her ear. Sanae gasps and backs away, covering her mouth as she did. "I don't know if he's used it yet, but this thing is a clear violation of the rules I implemented. He has a lot to explain when I get my hands on him." says Reimu. Sanae's face turns a bit pale as she looks at her feet and forces herself to say "I'm sorry Reimu... I didn't know." Reimu signals Sanae so be quiet and says "don't say anything to the others." Sanae raises her sight and asks "then why did you tell me, if it's-" Reimu scoffs and says "come on! I'm not stupid. You care about him, don't you?" Sanae's face turns beet red as she said "well of course... he's a good friend, and lady Kanako and lady Suwako like him a lot too, so..." Reimu smirks and says "that's what I thought." Sanae's face turn even more red, then Reimu says "I won't say another word, but you have to promise not to tell anyone else about this spell card. It could be dangerous." Sanae gulps and nods, just as Satori, Orin, Okuu, Keine, and Alice arrive at the site. "Excuse us~! Reimu, sis, are you here!?" shouts Orin.

After explaining all that had happened to Orin, Okuu and Satori, Orin grabs her wheelbarrow and helps by transporting materials from many destination back to Nitori, and doing so quite fast. "I'll leave my Orin in you care then, miss maiden." said Satori as she and Okuu prepare to fly back home. Reimu nods and says "don't worry, she'll be fine." Before leaving, Satori whispers to Reimu "keep an eye out on Kyo. Something's bothering him. A woman with silver hair." and leaves along with Okuu afterward. Reimu looks at Kyo suspiciously and shouts "Kyo, you want to go back and rest?" Kyo, while holding on to a steel rod as Nitori and Mima tightly screwed another one on top shouts back "no way. If we keep this pace up, we might get Ail and the girl back by tomorrow!" Reimu shouts back "alright then, just keep focused then!" She turns to Alice and Keine and asks "and why are you looking for me?" Alice sighs and says "we got a very unusual visitor here with us. She says Ail is fine and... well I'll let her explain. Yuki!" From behind some trees, Marisa and Yuki come out holding on to many papers and hand them to Keine saying "here teacher." "We won't do it again, teacher." Keine stops them and says "you both missed one sentence... and you, Mairsa, wrote that you will do it again on page 20, I see..." Keine grabs Marisa's head, bends backward and headbutts Marisa hard. "Yuki~!" shouts Keine. Yuki slouches and says "aww ma~n!" Keine grabs Yuki's face, bends back, and headbutts her as well. Both black and white witches stagger as they hold on to their heads in pain. Reimu looks at them and says "those two could be related" then Alice says "you have no idea."

Once they regained their senses, Marisa sits down to watch the others work, while Yuki, Keine and Alice stay with Reimu. "Wow, Reimu, you sure have changed since I last saw you... oh, but you still haven't developed, I see." says Yuki. Without any warning, Yuki receives a gohei to the head and says "as temperamental as ever too." Reimu looks at her angrily and says "I don't even remember you, and you are a VERY rude person, you know that?" Yuki start to cry jet waterfalls bawling "waah~~! I remember you all this time and this is how you greet me? You're so mean!" Alice pats her on the shoulder and says "you're wasting your time." Yuki calms down and says "fine, miss forgetful maiden, I'll tell you about Ail... *Ahem* He's fine, and Maribel too. Both are really polite, and we really liked them, and they cheered up Lady Shinki, and are doing fine actually." Reimu looks at her casually, then smiles and says "and how is it that you got here?" Yuki smiles and says "I don't know. We were having a friendly magic battle when suddenly Maribel shot at Ail with those exploding hearts, then I received some icicles in my ample chest, then I was sent inside this portal, and I landed right in front of Marisa's house." Alice was holding Reimu's arm back ever since Yuki mention her chest, telling her to calm down. Reimu suddenly gasps and says "wait a minute... when Maribel said something about only having those weak hearts, that's when the gap first opened... maybe..." Alice and Keine look at her, then Alice says "you're suggesting her powers affect his?" Reimu nods and says "exactly." Suddenly Yuki's mood changes and sounding terribly depressed she says "so can I go home soon? This place is great and all, but I miss Mai, I miss Lady Yumeko... I miss my home." Reimu was a bit surprised, seeing this complete mood change and says "well, Nitori thinks that by tomorrow, the machine will be ready, and we will be able to enter Makai." Yuki's expression and mood change like night to day as she smiles again and excitedly says "REALLY!? That is GREAT!" Marisa had heard the whole thing and said "but before you go, you HAVE to visit this LOVELY spot here in Gensokyo, ze. You game!?" Yuki smiles and starts to fly and says "hurry up, slowpoke. I wanna see this spot!" Marisa sits on her broom and quickly catches up to Yuki, saying "slowpoke!? We'll see who's the slowpoke!" and then both start racing to that spot Marisa was talking about. Reimu rubs her head and says "Alice, Keine, would you-?" Keine was already flying when Alice says "we'll keep an eye on them *sigh*. Seriously, it's like taking care of children." and then flies along with Keine, following Marisa and Yuki.

Noon at Makai. Mai, Luize, Maribel and Ail were at the field close to Sara's post. Sara kept watching them and wondered what were they up to, but wouldn't not go far from her post. Ail and Luize were covered in dirt. Both were making holes all over the ground, while Mai and Maribel guarded two large brown sacks. Luize and Ail, after looking at each other, point and laugh. "You face is a complete mess, Ail" said Luize. Ail smirks and says "can't be as bad as yours." Luize gets a bit annoyed and says "well at least I got my shoes off BEFORE they got full of stones." Ail laughs, followed by Luize. Mai shouts "are you two done already?" Both fly up to Maribel and Mai and nod. Ail then says "just pour in the seeds and we'll take care of the rest." Maribel wiggles her cat ears as she giggles, making Luize have to hug her, and Mai blush a little. Ail also blushes a little but then takes a deep breath and says "alright, alright, enough of that. Let the seeding begin." Mai and Maribel each grab one of the large brown bags and fly above the field, opening the bags and pouring all kinds of seeds all over. Just then, Shinki and Yumeko arrive. Yumeko gets closer to Ail, holding his cloak and saying "here, I cleaned this for you as promised." Ail bows and thanks her as he accepts the cloak. It was as clean as ever, the large bloodstain at the back completely gone. As he places it on a stump, he says "you gotta teach me how to clean like that, Yumeko." Yumeko only smirks and says "really? I've been told I'm a very harsh tutor. You think you can handle it?" Ail sweats a little and says "yeah. I can handle it... but not just now, heh heh." Shinki giggles and says "I'm so glad you two are finally getting along. Oh..." Shinki lowers her voice so only Yumeko and Ail could hear her and asks "how's that eye" Ail quietly answers "the swelling's gone and it finally stopped bleeding." Shinki nods and says "remember to tell me if anything's wrong. I may not be a great healer, but I'm sure I can help." Just then, Mai and Maribel come back with the empty sacks and say "all done" at the same time. Ail smiles and says "then it's our turn."

Ail stands in the middle of the field with Yumeko to his right, Shinki all the way back on the edge of the field. Ail expands his arms and says "ok, let's do this nice and easy." Shinki starts to glow white, then steps inside the field, immediately filling the entire field in white light. When the light reaches Yumeko, she absorbs some and start to teleport from side to side, distributing the energy around Ail. Once she was done, she teleports back to where Maribel and Mai were, then watches. Ail crouches down and places his hands on the ground, then suddenly, the light begins to flicker all over and plants start to grow quickly. After a few minutes of distributing energy, Ail opens his eyes and flies up, heads toward Shinki, and grabs her hand, just as she stops glowing white, and both land next to Yumeko, Mai and Maribel. Sara and Luize watch in awe as the once burned and dead field becomes a forest once more. All celebrate the job well done, cheering and hugging each other. Shinki hugs Ail tightly and says "thanks for your help. Now, it's just a matter of time before Makai returns to it's former self." Shinki let's go of Ail, then heads to celebrate with Yumeko. Many fruit trees start sprouting now, along with many cooking and medicinal herbs. Many of the beings of Makai join in the celebration as well, all excited that Makai was returning to it's former glory.

Having cleaned themselves up, Ail, Luize, Mai and Maribel join in the small feast that was being held by the new forest. After a little while, Ail gets away from the festivities and heads to where Sara was. "So you still won't join in?" says Ail, as he offers Sara a plate with fruits and vegetables, and a cup of tea. Sara accepts with a smile and says "even during festivities, someone has to guard this gate. Even when it's sealed." Ail smiles back at her and says "well, I won't tell you how to live your life, but sometimes it's nice to share with others, don't you think?" Sara giggles and takes a bite out of a piece of orange and says "with friends like you *gulp* and Luize, and even Maribel... I think it's enough for me." Maribel joins in the private party, smiling and saying "so this is where you two were! Come on, why don't you join in?" Ail, who looked tired, says "I'm spent. I think I'll just sit here and take a small nap." Sara says "I'm not the group type." Maribel looks at both of them disappointed and says "aww~! Then I'll stay here and cause enough of a ruckus for the three of us." Sara and Ail giggle, then suddenly Maribel sneezes. Sara and Ail look at her in shock. Maribel looks at them and asks "what?" Sara points behind Maribel. She looks at herself and says "look, look! I grew a tail! Ooh, it's so soft!" Ail and Sara look at each other in disbelief, then back at Maribel, who kept petting her own, brand new yellow cat tail and repeating "anya~, it's so soft." Sara and Ail both blush, but wouldn't say a word.

To be continued...
Characters and scenario belong to ZUN -Team Shanghai Alice-
Ail, Kyo, Luna and the Light Sign - Within the Jewel's Core spell card were created by Willie G.R. (similarities are strictly coincidental)

AUG 10 2009
written by
Willie G.R.