He opened the gap to the shadow realm; he created a ravenous monster that ate his friends and created shadows of them; the shadows were hunted down like animals, even though all they wanted was a soul; thanks to the shadows, three villagers died, and now he finds himself trying to kill one of those villagers yet again, for the lives of those dear to him. Ail’s heart grows heavier with every passing moment, making it harder and harder to fight off the undead vampire-like creature that once was the female villager known as Mirida. Suwako can feel Ail’s will slowly decreasing, his energy dropping faster than it should. She tries to protect him from the creature’s attacks, but every time she does Ail gets a boost of energy and protects HER from getting slashed or bitten. Suwako realizes these boosts of energy are the guilt inside of him. By now Ail is blaming himself for everything that’s happened around him. Agava, Flandre, Tenshi, Iku, Meiling, Daiyousei... Sanae. His heart feels like it’s full of lead, and every move he makes hurts him. He thinks it’s ‘just’ punishment for all he’s caused, and pushes himself to endure. Suwako, realizing what’s happening to him, stares with an expression of fright. She turns around and shouts “Kanako~! We need you here!” To Ail, Suwako’s voice sounds like a distant echo. Regardless, he continues to fight the creature, getting a piece of his shirt clawed off, the creature missing the skin on his shoulder by inches. Suwako panics and decides to use a spell card. “Party Start - Two Bows, Two Claps and One bow!" Suwako fires 4 streams of beams that shape 3 red bows with a green string that successfully strike the creature, then Suwako claps her hand, sending a barrage of blue and white orbs of all sizes that blast the creature into the lake. Suwako takes a deep breath of relief, then approaches Ail, who is just floating and staring blankly into the lake. Suwako places her left hand on his right shoulder, and looking at him into his eyes she asks “Ail? Are you ok?” The creature emerges from the water, growling angrily and hissing as its eyes glow blood red. Suwako gasps and exclaims “it’s impervious to water too!” Ail frowns and prepares as spell, but he moves so slow, the creature is already dodging the laser, long before Ail can shoot it. From the ground, a light-blue orb reaches Ail and enters his heart making him feel relieved and revitalized. When he looks down and sees Kanako and Sanae, he smiles, then looks at Suwako and confidently says “sorry about that... I’m feeling better now.” Suwako smirks and says “finally! Young wiper snappers like you can be such a handful!” Ail smiles and says “thank you, lady Moriya.” Suwako smiles back, then both rush toward the undead creature with confident smirks on their faces.
At the Human Village, Kyo, who still has his left leg completely bandaged, limps toward some tables full of food and drinks. The village is celebrating the days of autumn and have invited Minoriko to the village. Shizuha, of course, comes uninvited, but being Minoriko’s sister, the villagers don’t mind. Kyo grabs some grapes and eats them all in one bite and from behind him, Minoriko says “wow, all in one bite.” Luna adds “well, he has the mouth for it.” Kyo turns around, looking annoyed, then says “well, sorry if I am hungry.” All three are quickly unsettled when some villagers near the town’s center start screaming, accompanied by many crashing sounds and Keine and Medicine telling everyone to get back. Luna immediately says to Kyo “you stay here!” then she and Minoriko run straight toward the source of the screaming. A growling noise from the bushes gets Kyo’s attention, and his face loses all its colors when, after some violent rustling, something comes toward him. Frightened Kyo asks “what the hell?” At the center of the festivities, tables lie on the ground along with the food and drinks that were meant to be enjoyed. Shizuha is helping the elderly reach the school, where most of the villagers are hiding, while Medicine uses her poison to slow down 5 undead creatures headed their way, and Keine blasts them to bits, only to watch them restore themselves and continue their march. Two of the creatures are beast youkai, while two more are apparently human, and the 5th one looks like a cloud of ashes that occasionally takes the shape of a human. Luna and Minoriko arrive just as Shizuha discovers the undead corpse of a cat right next to her and the elderly woman she’s helping. She yelps in a panic, but protects the woman. The cat pounces, and all Shizuha can do is fire some danmaku at it in hopes to keep it away, but to no avail. She uses her arms as a shield as the cat is mere inches away from her, but is saved by a stream of red danmaku seeds. Minoriko shouts “sis! Get moving!” Shizuha notices her sister and shouts “thank you sis!” Keine and Medicine regroup with Luna and Minoriko, then Luna asks “what happened!?” Keine takes a few breaths and excitedly says “undead creatures came out of nowhere! We can’t beat them!” Luna smirks and says “guess it’s time to get my swords. Can you handle things here while I return?” Medicine nods as Keine says “sure.” Minoriko bravely says “I’ll go check on the other villagers and help nee-san.” Then rushes toward the school. Luna smiles and says “I’ll be back shortly.”
Meanwhile, Renko is overseeing the construction of her and Maribel’s new-new house, however, the commotion outside makes her and the 5 villagers run outside, curious as to what’s going on. Immediately after leaving the safety of the house, two undead birds, one a skeleton with a few feathers, and the other looking as though it’s been dead for just a few days, swoop past her ear, missing her face by a mere cat’s hair. Renko looks around and asks “what was that?” The female villagers shouts “get back inside!” Renko looks behind her as the villagers signal her to run back inside the unfinished house, unaware of the two undead birds headed her way. When she notices them, it’s too late for her to do anything, but thankfully a pair of amulets cling on to the creatures, paralyzing them and making them fall on to the ground. Renko sweats and drops to the floor on her knees and shouts “what’s going on!?” Reimu shouts “get BACK inside, Renko Usami! It’s far too dangerous for you out here!” Reimu, Komachi and Shikieiki run straight at Renko, who asks “what’s happening? Where’s Mary?” Reimu says “There’s been an incident in the Netherworld. It’s creating undead creatures here. Don’t let them bite you or...” Renko finishes “I turn into one of them?” Shiki face palms and says “where do you get ideas like that!?” Renko stares curiously at Shiki, and Reimu stares curiously at Renko, so Komachi says “don’t believe those myths that say ‘if you get bitten by the undead, you turn undead yourself’. Those are just myths.” Reimu exclaims “err... anyway, Maribel is fine. Just keep those villagers safe from anymore of those undead creatures in the meantime!” At Kyo and Luna’s house, Luna exits the house, looking satisfied as she brandishes one of her swords and places it on its sheath on the left side of her belt, then pats the clips on her hair. She closes the door and heads toward Keine and Medicine, then stops and thinks for a moment, gasps, then says “oh my gosh! I forgot about KYO!!!” She runs as fast as her feet can take her as anxiety and fear take over her. When she arrives at the table where she had left him she finds knocked tables and scattered food and drinks all over. She looks around over and over again, but doesn’t see Kyo anywhere. Just as despair takes over her heart, she hears his voice strictly saying “stay! Stay~! Good boy!” followed by a loud and grotesque chomping sound. When she looks ahead, she finds Kyo feeding meat to an undead dog that’s half bones, and half decaying corpse. The dog wags it’s bony tail as the food it just ate falls right through his ribs and down to the ground. Kyo looks at Luna and says “finally. What the hell’s going on? This thing came growling at me and all I had to my defense was the food on the tables!” Luna sigh with great relief and says “I’ll explain on the way.” While all of this happens above ground, underground, at the Earth Spirit’s Palace, Orin is walking around, minding her own business when suddenly, she twitches and starts saying “corpses... There are corpses!” She jumps with a smile on her face and her hands in the air as she runs outside the palace and shouts “CORPSES~! I’m collecting COPRSES~!”
At the Netherworld, inside a dome made of 5 expanded gaps, Yuyuko smiles whimsically at Yukari’s eyeless shadow. The eyeballs in her gaps all scowl as the shadow says “the time for playing is over. You die now!” Yuyuko lightly waves her left fan close to her face and says “oh my, did you say something? I swear, it makes it harder to understand you if you keep mumbling like that.” S-Yukari growls, her face turns red, the eyes in the gaps scowl, then she shouts “got to hell, princess!” From all around Yuyuko, lilac beams, kunai and petals head straight to her as she quietly stares at the attack without moving a single finger. Just as the first beam is about to touch her, she starts to twirl in place, then uses one of her fans to bounce the beam away toward some kunai, successfully knocking a large group of the knives, then with the left fan she bounces off three petals that successfully crash against more beams, making them veer off course and bounce back toward S-Yukari, who is unable to open a gap large enough to contain her own attacks and is struck hard by the beams, knocking her out of her own gap and down to the hard stairs, falling victim to gravity’s pull and rolling all the way down to the gap-wall she made herself, managing to grab one of the steps just before touching said wall. Yuyuko notices this effort to avoid the wall, and while dancing and deflecting bullets she says “looks to me like you don’t want to touch your own wall. What would happen if you did touch it, I wonder?” S-Yukari leaves her mouth open and the eyes in her gaps fill with terror as Yuyuko stares at her with a whimsical, yet deadly smile after sending the last three beams straight at the shadow. Meanwhile, at Hakugyokurou’s grounds, Yukari follows after S-Yuyuko as she calmly walks away from the shrine and toward an empty spot on the front courtyard. She stops walking, so Yukari stops as well, then the shadow says “before we fight, hear me out, Yukari.” Yukari stares at the shadow and waits for what she has to say. S-Yuyuko opens a fan and starts waving it in front of her face, then says “Yukari, it’s me. Yuyuko Saigyou. I am back.” Yukari scoffs, but doesn’t say a word. S-Yuyuko continues “it doesn’t have to be this way. All you have to do is help me kill that ghost of mine so I can revive this place. Make it what it should be.” Yukari asks “what about your vengeance plans?” S-Yukari smiles wide and sounding crazed she says “yes, yes of course! I can never forgive the Saigyou! Calling me ‘Yuyuko-hime’ making it sound so... disgusting! Treating me like an outcast, avoiding me like a plague. I want to revive them... make them suffer... make them my ETERNAL slaves!” Yukari giggles for a moment, then suddenly laughs hard. S-Yuyuko growls and shouts “what the hell is so funny!?”
Yukari stops laughing and stares straight at S-Yuyuko as she says “your plan is flawed. You can’t revive the Saigyou anymore. They’ve all passed on.” S-Yuyuko opens her eyes wide as her pupils shrink. She gasps as she looks around with crazed eyes, then shouts “you are LYING!” Yukari replies “fu fu fu! Am I? Tell me, is there a reason to lie about that?” Sounding more crazed, S-Yuyuko says “yes... yes you’re right! You are my trusted friend. You’d never lie to me! But then I can’t have my revenge... This is not fair! How am I supposed to go on without getting back at those despicable monsters!?” Yukari replies “it’s more simple than you think. Just let me kill you now and it’ll all be over.” S-Yuyuko stares at Yukari with a crazed, blank expression, then starts to chuckle, progressing to an insane cackle, then stops and looks dangerously at Yukari, saying “so... my friend. You rather be with that fake ghost of me, than the real me?” Yukari asks “I thought that disturbing eyeless shadow was your friend.” S-Yuyuko opens a fan and places it across the left side of her face and says “you think I’d be friends with that... thing? No, she’s just misguided. She thinks that by befriending me she’ll be good enough to take your place. What a laugh. That ghost has probably done away with her by now anyway.” Yukari glares back, her eyes glowing a dangerous tone of purple as she says “the real Yuyuko was kind, forgiving, accepting... she was a very special human. You are just mocking her name, claiming to be her, you disgusting monster. I will never forgive you for that.” S-Yuyuko surrounds herself with sky-blue orbs as her eyes glow sky-blue as she glares back at Yukari, then says “if you won’t accept me as your friend, then I guess I can take my revenge on YOU INSTEAD!!!” S-Yuyuko extends her arms in the air and unleashes the orbs, sending light-blue beams along with them, all headed straight to Yukari. The gap youkai stays in her gap, staring as the attack gets closer, then opens 8 black gaps that suck in every single beam and bullet, save for one which Yukari grabs with her bare hands, then tosses is to the air and catches it again, over and over, showing the shadow how she plays with the bullets being sent her way. S-Yuyuko watches with horror as Yukari plays with that orb as if were her own and so, tries to run away, only to find an invisible barrier blocking her escape. Yukari chuckles and says “you thought you’d be getting away from me so easily? You certainly don’t know me that well.” Yukari stares back at the terrorized shadow, feeling great satisfaction and some remorse from the shadow’s terrorized expression.
Down by the Netherworld’s stairs, S-Yukari manages to avoid her own beams, then gets inside her gap, reappearing away from Yuyuko. She takes a breath of relief and says “how is this even possible!? In here, my powers are triple! How can you be more powerful than me, when I am more powerful than my friend!?” Yuyuko smiles as she says “it’s simple. You only have a fraction of Yukari’s power, while my own shadow has a fraction of MY power. When you think about it, you shadows are far weaker than us really. Now, be a good girl and stand still while I kill you.” Yuyuko turns her fan around, revealing a spell card on it, then says “Cherry Blossom Sign - Perfect Cherry Blossom of Sumizome -Getting Lost-" A large fan-like seal spreads out behind Yuyuko, and from it, blue extra-large orbs fan out fast in straight lines, then Yuyuko unleashes various butterflies that fly in circles, then home in on the shadow, and afterwards pink shard-like danmaku petals shower on to S-Yukari. The shadow, having so many eyes all around, notices many gaps and is able to dodge accordingly, however, Yuyuko realizes what’s happening, so she claps the fans on her hands as hard as she can, creating a bright flash that blinds the shadow. S-Yukari screams “kyah~! My eyes! I can’t see!! It hurts, it hurts~!” So many eyes, all lidless and always watching. The shadow can’t bare the pain so she jumps out of her gap and closes them up, even the ones making the deadly barrier, rendering herself completely blind to all of Yuyuko’s attacks. Unable to dodge, the butterflies flock toward S-Yukari as some of the shards land on her body. S-Yukari shouts “no~! I failed her. My friend, please forgive me!” Shortly after the butterflies touch her body, S-Yukari’s body progressively turns into a black silhouette, then spreads around like a mist. Instead of celebrating the victory, Yuyuko can’t help but feel some remorse as the look-alike body of her friend vanishes before her. After the shadow’s body completely disappears, Yuyuko fans herself with her left fan and says “the real Yukari would never fall as easily... as that. Oh well. Guess I’ll never know what that wall did now.” After the invisible barrier shatters, Yuyuko thinks of going up and helping Yukari, however she finds Youmu lying on her face, next to where the barrier was on the stairs below. Yuyuko sighs and floats down to her gardener, sitting beside her and promptly brushing Youmu’s hair with her fingers. Yuyuko asks “Youmu, didn’t I tell you to rest?” Out of breath, Youmu replies “I swore... I’d protect... Yuyuko.” Yuyuko sighs loudly and grabs hold of the grown Youmu, placing her head on her lap, then continues to brush the half-ghost’s hair with her fingers, then says “you are one stubborn gardener. Right now, you are unfit to fight, so once again I order you to rest. Let me and Yukari handle this.” Youmu slightly moves her head left and right, then Yuyuko says “so stubborn. Tell you what. You let us handle this little incident while you rest, and when you are better again, you can cook me up a 6 course meal, is that ok?” Youmu manages to smile, making Yuyuko smile whimsically as she giggles and says “alright, we have a deal. Now you rest while we fix this nasty little mess up.” Again, Yuyuko carries Youmu to a nearby tree and sits her under it. As she stands up, many disfigured spirits all walk slowly toward them, then Yuyuko says “oh my... guess I better start with you, then.”
Back at Hakugyokurou, Yukari laughs as she continues to absorb each and every beam and orb sent her way by Yuyuko’s shadow. S-Yuyuko clenches her teeth and growls softly, but quickly turns her frown to a victory smile and kneels down, placing both her hands on the ground below her. Confident, Yukari says “ara~, you’re finally giving up. A wise choice.” Yukari raises her closed fan to chest height and points it at S-Yuyuko saying “I’ll make it quick.” Yukari opens her eyes wide showing fright and surprise as 6 thick light-blue beams rise right from below herself. While the beams distract Yukari, S-Yuyuko runs to the invisible barrier, desperately looking for a way out, saying to herself “that freak’s barrier had a weakness... this one should have one too... A-ha!” S-Yuyuko finds a thin opening in the large barrier and immediately starts blasting it with more light-blue beams, using as much power as she can. Yukari sounds enraged when she shouts “you are going to PAY for that!” The gap youkai watches as the shadow assaults the barrier, and sounding curious she shouts “what are you trying to do over there?” S-Yuyuko pulls down on her left eye-lid and sticks out her tongue, and just after that, a large chunk of the barrier shatters right before her eyes. Yukari looks awestruck as S-Yuyuko runs away toward the shrine, but she shakes the shock and chases after her. Inside Hakugyokurou’s living room Yukari is once again left in shock, this time at the sight of Youmu’s ghost half, hanging from the wall by her own swords like a disturbing ornament. Meanwhile, at the Netherworld’s stairs, Yuyuko finishes up by invoking death on to a large group of misshapen spirits, one of them looking like a misshapen beast with two sticks for wing and balancing on three legs. By now, the entire area has returned to normal, and the bright light of life that was shining in the skies is once again replaced by cool dark clouds. Yuyuko smiles and looks around, taking a sigh of accomplishment, then says “my, it took some doing, but we managed to fix this entire are. I must say...” Yuyuko looks around with a most whimsical expression and finishes “it looks better than before. Don’t you agree, Youmu?” There is no response at all. Yuyuko gasps, though still looking whimsical as she walks to Youmu. She kneels next to her gardener and places a hand on her forehead. Yuyuko’s whimsical expression changes to a dangerous glare as her eyes glow red. Sounding saddened, Yuyuko says “Youmu... You’re dying.” Yuyuko looks up the long stairs and looking decisive, she grabs Youmu and sets her up for a piggy-back ride. She flies straight up the stair with Youmu on her back and says “don’t worry Youmu, you won’t die today. Look, the shrine is just there. Your other half is there as well. Let’s go.” No response. Yuyuko’s eyes glow red once more, and a single tear escapes her right eye.
Back at the Human Village, Orin is running around, laughing contently as she knocks the many undead creatures on to her wheelbarrow and shouting “corpses! Corpses EVERYWHERE, NYA-HAHAHAHAHA! You’ll all do so NICELY for the furnaces! Uuu~ I can’t WAIT!” While she happily collects the undead corpses and somehow sets them inside the wheelbarrow, Reimu stares in disbelief along with Shikieiki and Komachi, then Shikieiki asks “Komachi, why can’t you be as diligent as that cat over there?” Komachi lets out a complaining sigh and says “Shiki-sama, I do my job well. I just don’t think overexerting ourselves will accomplish anything. Just go with the flow.” Shiki smacks Komachi’s head with her golden sword and says “this is what I’m talking about. It’s alright to take things easy sometimes, but you are just being excessively lazy. If you keep this up you’ll end up in hell, and your punishment will be severe. 100 daily laps around hell while carrying heavy luggage and new arrivals to hell, all on your back. However, if you repent now and start putting a little more effort in your work you might...” Komachi cries “alright already, I get it. I’m sorry~!” Reimu face palms and says “ugh! Why are these creatures still walking around? Shouldn’t they be dropping like flies by now?” She looks to her left, where Kogasa, Rika and Maribel try to subdue a pack of undead wild wolves, then to her right, where Luna, Medicine, Keine and Minoriko are doing their best to keep some human and youkai undead corpses from reaching the school. Reimu notices how some start dropping on to the ground and stop moving. She sighs with relief and says “I see. It’s just a matter of time now.” Shikieiki walks next to Reimu and says “well then, if this matter is being resolved, Komachi and I should be headed back.” Reimu turns to Shiki and says “before you leave, tell me something. How is it that you and Mima were able to sense what was going on when I couldn’t?” Shiki smiles and says “simple. I deal with the dead every day, and miss Mima is an evil spirit. One that’s overdue for her judgment” Reimu stares at Shiki for a moment, then turns away and says “you’re hiding something from me.” Shiki giggles and asks “what reason could there be for that?”
In the Hakugyokurou Shrine, Yukari is in a blind rage, shooting everywhere inside the shrine in hopes to either kill or kick out S-Yuyuko from the shrine. The shadow runs through a doorway, but quickly has to throw herself on the ground in the corridor and roll away to dodge a shower of kunai, a barrage of lasers, and a couple purple fireballs, all headed straight at her with speed and power. S-Yuyuko manages to find hiding spot behind a wall and shouts “Yu-Yukari, my old friend, what is the matter!?” Yukari screams out loud “DON’T YOU DARE CALL ME YOUR FRIEND!” She takes a deep breath, managing to calm down a little, then says “you are going to PAY for what you have done here!” S-Yuyuko looks for a way out as she asks “what are you talking about!?” Yukari clenches her teeth as a fiery rage fills her heart, but she manages to calm herself enough and says “you claim you want revenge on those that made your life a misery. WHAT ABOUT THE KONPAKU!? They were KIND to Yuyuko all the time!!” S-Yuyuko replies “that girl is a disgrace to the name, trying to attack me after trying to poison me with horrible food! Punishment was dealt swiftly for her betrayal and her dishonor!” While S-Yuyuko talks, Yukari manages to hold herself from throttling the shadow as she spewed such foolish words and quietly heads toward Youmu’s ghost half in order to free her from the wall, but S-Yuyuko peeks from the wall corner and fires various orbs at the ghost herself, so Yukari has to use her own body as a shield; being so angry, she can’t think straight and can’t open her gaps accordingly. Yukari dusts off the blasts and says “I have had ENOUGH of you! You are disgracing the name of a dear friend and treat others as if they owe you. Well let me tell you something... ‘PRINCESS’... you are a shadow. A mere excuse of an existence far greater than you can ever hope reach! In the name of my friend, Yuyuko Saigyouji, I will erase you from this existence!” From the shine’s entrance, Yuyuko shouts “Yukari, Youmu is-“ The moment Yuyuko enters the living room, the first thing she sees is Youmu’s half-revived ghost on the wall and S-Yuyuko hiding behind a wall. Her eyes glow an intense scarlet, and without hesitation she raises both hands and says “Yukari, protect Youmu!” Yukari opens a barrier in front of herself and Youmu’s ghost just as Yuyuko unleashes a wide pink beam that has countless death butterflies flying all around it, unaware that Youmu has fallen from her back. Somehow, S-Yuyuko manages to jump away from the beam and butterflies at the very last moment, dropping on the floor on her face and whimpering as she trembles and holds her head in fear. The second the beam stops, S-Yuyuko raises her head and spots the Saigyou Ayakashi, the sealed youkai cherry tree, and smiles with hope in her eyes. While Yuyuko recovers from using so much firepower, S-Yuyuko springs to her feet and runs as fast as her trembling feet can carry her, heading straight toward the youkai tree through the hole made by Yuyuko’s beam. Inside the shrine, Yuyuko, who’s eyes still glow red, asks Yukari “want some help?” Yukari smirks and says “this has become personal. Please, you take care of Youmu and the Netherworld, and let me handle this cretin.”
At the Moriya Shrine, Ail is at his ropes as the undead vampire continues her relentless attacks, even though both he and Suwako have done all they can to send her into the void, while Kanako protects the shrine, preventing the vampire from entering and going after Budou. Every time Ail and Suwako have her, her power increases allowing to escape. Exhausted, Ail shouts “she’s after Budou! Why is she after Budou!?” The vampire rushes right through him, but Ail is so exhausted all he does is spin in the air after she passes by him. She heads straight toward the shrine, but Kanako manages to summon enough longs to create a wall again, then Sanae shoots a red star that constantly damages the creature’s body, making it back away. Suwako takes her chance and unleashes a rain of light-green shard danmaku on the creature that weakens it enough for Ail to open one last gap underneath it, trapping her in the void. Exhausted, Ail floats down to the ground and drops on his knees, almost falling asleep the second he touches the ground, but Sanae jumps on him and hugs his neck tight, cutting his air and waking him up effectively, but still knocking him out due to lack of oxygen. While she fans him with her gohei, saying “Ail~ wake up~.” Suwako approaches Kanako and asks “are you really going though with this?” Kanako says “I have to, and you know it.” Suwako lowers her hat to cover her eyes and sounding saddened she says “then be ready for what comes afterward.” Kanako wants to reply something to Suwako, but an unsettling sound of ripping matter and electric buzzing coming from where Mirida had been trapped turns everyone’s attention to that spot. In mid-air a pair of claws rip through Ail’s gap and the undead vampire opens the gap widely enough for her to escape through, and immediately heads straight toward the shrine just as the gap closes behind her. Kanako and Suwako manage to shake off the shock, but the vampire moves too fast and knocks them out of the way before either one can attack. Sanae lets go of Ail and shout “BUDOU!” then runs to the shrine after Kanako and Suwako. Ail gasps for air as he gets up, only managing to take one step and fall on his face to the ground. Before blacking out, all he can say is “dammit... too tired.” Inside the shrine, Sanae is shocked when she finds the two goddesses standing still, looking toward Sanae’s own room. Walking further in, Sanae finds Mirida kneeling in front of Budou and Phredia while inside the room. Budou says “I see... I see. You can count on me. I’ll give them your message... What’s that? Oh, I’ll let them know you meant no harm.” Sanae asks “what’s going on?” Phredia’s hand glows yellow and touches the undead creature’s forehead while Budou smiles as she looks to Sanae and says “mama, this creatures is very nice. She’s sorry for scaring you, but she needed someone who could understand her to give her friends a message.” Phredia’s hand stops glowing and the vampire’s decaying body turns to pink, white and lilac flowers that suddenly explode and spread around while Mirida’s human voice echoes “thank you.” Budou stares at the three goddesses for a moment, then Suwako smacks her own forehead and says “wait a minute, Kanako! Aren’t we goddesses!? We should have been able to hear her!!” Sanae smiles sheepishly and says “erm, I’ll go... and check up on Ail now. You two naughty goddesses better sort this out soon.”
At the Netherworld, far behind Hakugyokurou, S-Yuyuko runs as fast as she can, panting with every step she takes, headed straight toward a beautiful grassy field bathed in warm sunlight from the late noon’s sun; a field where the cursed cherry tree, the Saigyou Ayakashi stands. S-Yuyuko laughs maniacally when she reaches the tree and says “now, all I have to do is revive this tree and these lands will become mine!” From behind her, inside a gap, Yukari covers her mouth with her fan as she says “you think I’d let you do something as dangerous?” With a crazed expression on her face, the shadow turns around to face Yukari, and sounding desperate she asks “why do you keep hunting me like this!? What did I do to you!?” Yukari closes her fan and grips it so tightly it snaps in two on her hand, then says “even now you act like a victim. The real Yuyuko would never act the way you do. I will take pleasure in ridding the world of your miserable existence.” S-Yuyuko’s crazed eyes fill with panic, so she rushes next to the cursed tree and places both hands on it, and in a crazed tone of voice she says “betrayed by my friend, my guardian... what’s next!? Well no matter! Once I revive this tree, I will use its powers and kill you, then that FAKE ghost self of mine, and take over these lands and make them my OWN! Yes! YES!!! By doing this, I’ll have my revenge on the Saigyou! It’s PERFECT!” Yukari shouts back “you’re just a raving lunatic!” Meanwhile, at Hakugyokurou, Yuyuko has placed Youmu on a futon and now is holding both of Youmu’s swords by their hilts. She says “Youmu, this might hurt for a bit, so just bare with it for a little bit.” As she stares straight at her gardener’s ghost half hanging on the wall, looking like a weakened white version of Youmu herself, Yuyuko thinks “I’m not good with all these physical things, but if I use my own power, I can free her.” Yuyuko’s hands glow pink, and in a quick pull she manages to pull both swords at the same time from the wall, and from the ghost’s body. Youmu twitches after the ghost half falls on the ground, but quickly expels her breath and lies still. Yuyuko grabs the ghostly Youmu and places her next to her gardener, then says “what a horrible monster that woman was. Giving your ghost a half life, cutting you own like in half like that. But don’t you worry, Youmu. I’ll fix this for you.” Yuyuko stands up and closes her eyes then the entire living room fills with gradient colored butterflies. Two particular butterflies that glow a bit brighter than the others fly straight on to Youmu’s ghost half, immediately glowing brighter and brighter. Meanwhile, the other butterflies fly outside the shrine and spread around, flying all over the Netherworld, landing on the misshapen half-revived spirits and taking away that half life, turning them back to normal spirits.
Outside the Netherworld, all over Gensokyo, all sort of undead creatures fall back to the ground, lying lifelessly on the ground as corpses should. A the Human Village, everyone cheers as the bodies fall one by one while a happy black omen nekomata laughs and picks up every single corpse she can find, even those without skin on them. She happily shouts “YA-HAY~ So many corpses, and all for ME~~!” She reaches Kyo as he says in a sad tone of voice “it was nice having a real dog for a change... May you rest in peace, little scamp.” Orin rushes by, grabbing the dog’s corpse by its bony tail and shouting “a dog, it’s a DOG! You’re going in FIRST!” Kyo extends his arm toward Orin and whimpers “little scamp. No!” At the Moriya shrine, with the help of Sanae, Ail manages to stand up and walk to Budou, then asks “so all she wanted was to give you a message?” Budou smiles and nods, then says “I promised I’d find her friends and give them her message.” Phredia stands on Budou’s shoulder and nods with a smile toward Budou, then Ail says “well I’ll be. And here I was worried that vampire wanted to hurt you... I would have never forgiven myself if...” Sanae interrupts by saying “well, why don’t we all have dinner, huh? It’s almost nightfall anyway, and I’m sure everyone’s very hungry... right?” Ail sighs and stares to the ground, then Suwako says “well I know a certain someone that’s aching for some food in his stomach... right Ail?” Ail raises his head and manages to smile, and after Sanae helps him sit on the porch she claps her hands softly and says “then I’ll start cooking some dinner now. Please wait for a bit.” Everyone nods and Kanako says “sure thing.” After Sanae runs inside, Ail looks around the shrine’s courtyard, and just as he’s about to say something, a large silver washtub falls on his head, successfully knocking him out cold again. Suwako sighs and casually says “another one... And he was under the roof even. How is that even possible?” Kanako shrugs and says “ I haven’t the faintest idea.” At Rikako’s lab, looking very nervous toward a monitor that shows Ail being knocked out by the washtub, S-Kyo says “well, the washtub teleporter works.” Rikako sweats and says “j-just some minor bugs.”
Back at the Netherworld, Yukari finds herself unable to attack the shadow as she threatens to revive the Saigyou Ayakashi if she tries anything, however, Yukari tries to show no interest in order to take S-Yuyuko by surprise. Sounding crazed, S-Yuyuko says “last chance, Yukari. Back down and let me do my work... or better yet, swear your allegiance to me. You know you want to, I mean... you were... are my friend.” Yukari growls softly without responding and simply continues to look around for some way to attack that shadow. S-Yuyuko glares back at Yukari, then says “your silence says it all. Alright then, you can just die along with that ghost friend of yours.” The shadow’s hands glow light blue as she places her hands on the tree and says “may you burn in the fiery depths of hell along with all those monsters that made my life a misery.” She smiles as her energy courses through the tree and says “say hi to those damned Saigyou for me.” Yukari look with horror as the Saigyou Ayakashi quickly start to bloom once more, the seals around it weakening. She succumbs to despair and shouts “I won’t let you!” Yukari opens many white gaps and releases every single blast she had collected from the shadow before, landing various hits on the shadow, who regardless of the pain, endures and continues to revive the tree, however, to her dismay, a silhouette in the shape of Yuyuko appears glowing form the tree itself. S-Yuyuko opens her crazed eyes wide and shouts “no... NO! I’m here! How can I be in there!? No, this is not possible!” Yuyuko’s silhouette unleashes so many death butterflies the entire field is overwhelmed in just seconds, all avoiding Yukari. S-Yuyuko screams in pain as Yukari’s attack, combined with the death butterflies strike hard on her body. A bright flash covers the entire Netherworld, and slowly, the light dims. Yukari opens her eyes and to her surprise, she finds S-Yuyuko lying beside the tree, missing chunks of her body. The missing chunks are replaced by a dark silhouette, whoever, S-Yuyuko is in terrible pain, spitting out black blood and trying to speak. From behind Yukari, holding Roukanken tightly by its hilt, comes Youmu, looking as young as ever with her ghost half flying around her, looking like a large spirit once more. She walks to the shadow and looks at her with pity, and with a quick swing of her sword she cuts the shadow’s head off and immediately it’s body turns to black dust, then blows away with the wind. Yukari looks at the cherry tree and sees Yuyuko’s silhouette bowing to her, so she bows her head to her friend, feeling great relief as she disappears back into the tree. Youmu looks at Yukari with curiosity and asks “what is it, Yukari-sama?” Yukari replies “it’s nothing.” then smiles at Youmu and says “I see Yuyuko whipped you back into shape.” Youmu smiles, and sounding both happy and sad, she says “well that shadow did one good thing out of all things.” Curious, Yukari asks “and what would that be?” Youmu looks to the ground as she sheathes her sword and says “thanks to her, I have learned to appreciate Yuyuko-sama a little more...” Yukari pulls a violet fan from her gap and opens it in front of her face as she says “I see. That’s good then.” Youmu and Yukari walk back to Yuyuko, who stands close to the shrine, waving a hand back at her friends.
Nigh at the Moriya Shrine. Ail and Sanae speak with Reimu through one of his gaps. Reimu says “thankfully, nobody got hurt this time. Mima actually saved some of the village children.” All three chuckle just as Mima says in an angry tone “hey, hey! Don’t go telling lies now! Maidens should know better!” Reimu replies “aw, pipe down and eat already. Well, glad to hear everything is alright over there as well. Sanae, Ail, I’ll see you later.” Ail bows and says “I’ll see you tomorrow then.” Sanae adds “I’ll make sure he’s there.” Reimu smiles, then the gap closes. Budou runs to Ail and after jumping on his arm she says “let’s go home now, papa!” Ail chuckles and says “alright, don’t be too hasty now.” He looks to Sanae and says “well, see you tomorrow then.” Sanae simply smiles and bows her head, Ail and Budou bowing their heads as well. As Ail lifts to the air with Budou on his arm, heading straight to one of his gaps, she shouts “see you tomorrow mama, big sister, gramma. Be good!” From the shrine, Suwako shouts “hey, that’s our line!” Budou giggles as she and Ail enter the gap. Sanae turns around and finds Kanako holding her hand toward Ail’s direction, then asks “you’re not taking your mirror back?” Kanako hesitantly pulls her hand back down and says “n-no, let’s leave it a little longer.” Sanae smiles and says “once you look into that mirror you’ll be convince. He’s a very special soul. A kind one too.” Smiling nervously, Kanako says “yeah... Yeah, we’ll see.” Sanae heads straight to the shrine while Kanako stays outside, thinking “what is wrong with me? This was the perfect moment. I can’t have doubts now. Tomorrow morning, I’m summoning that mirror back!” She clenches her fist and looks up to the night sky with great determination, then turns around after the skies fill with many falling red leaves, and heads straight toward the shrine. Meanwhile, at the Hakurei Shrine, Rika approaches Reimu, who is looking grimly toward the night sky. Rika asks “is something wrong, miss Reimu?” Reimu continues to look to the sky and says “Rika... tomorrow, I need you to help me entertain a very special guest. Can I count on you?” Confused, Rika replies “o... well of course. You can always count on me, miss Reimu.” Reimu turns her face to Rika, then smiles, however Rika can see great worry in her mistress’ eyes.
To be continued...
Characters, spell cards and scenario belong to ZUN ?Team Shanghai Alice-
Ail, Kyo, Luna, Budou and Phredia were created by Willie G.R.
Rika was created by Snapshot2010
JAN 14 2010
written by
Willie G.R.
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