<ToumaKanou|RFJ> Also Beelolis overrun Gensokyo
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<Sapz|Away> Go with Zengar's beeloli idea
<Sapz|Away> You should listen to him
<Roukan> Welp, two votes. Guess that makes it popular demand. :V
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"Ah, another fine day, isn't it?"
There was no-one else standing in the field, though the sunflowers were tall enough to make that hard for her to verify at the time. Of course she had never intended to talk to a person - the objects of her affection were all around her.
"And you're all looking so bright and healthy today!"
Yuka strolled across the Garden of the Sun, using her parasol to stop the sunlight from blinding her. She held her hand out at her side, stroking the leaves of the sunflowers as if she were performing a handshake. Her bright red eyes were filled with joy at her handiwork - every flower in this field had been planted, fed and cared for by her, and considering the size of this place that was quite an achievement.
There was a wonderful silence as she continued walking by herself, occasionally adjusting her red plaid waistcoat while stopping her matching skirt catching on any of her masterpieces. Only the occasional gust of wind distracted Yuka from her own little utopia.
"...Hm?"
It was a very faint sound, to the point where for a moment Yuka didn't think she had even heard it. She cupped an ear, listening out to see if it would get any louder.
Slowly, a buzzing noise started to reach her.
"Bees? Here?"
She had never seen the need to let bees into her garden. Her flowers did not pollinate - they simply were, and thanks to her endless devotion (and substantial magic power) they could stay as such for centuries. Bees were annoying - loud, and distracting. She would take care of this problem the way she took care of most problems - shoot it until it was no longer a concern.
Yuka took her time as she headed towards the source of the buzzing. She had never been the sort of youkai to rush - after all, it only meant she would arrive tired, if a little earlier. The buzzing grew louder, obviously, as she approached.
But it shouldn't have become this loud.
There were clearly more bees than she'd thought. Their source seemed to be coming from one sunflower whose head had been pulled down out of sight, bees rising up from it at an alarmingly fast rate. A few dozen, no, a few hundred, no, a thousand-
"Aah!"
Their numbers seemed to be multiplying by the second, and by now the buzzing was enough to make Yuka's ears hurt. She held her fingers in them to keep herself sane, walking towards the drooping flower and leaning her head down.
She found a young girl, in a yellow and black striped dress and a needle coming out of her rear, doing her best to suck the nectar out of the flower. With each drop she swallowed a flock of bees would emerge from her long black hair and rise into the air, until at last she had drained the sunflower of all it had.
"Ah...better than I thought. The flowers in this field are really tasty."
She let go of the sunflower, expecting it to return to its standing pose. It instead responded by falling to the ground entirely, all its colour fading. The bee youkai giggled.
"Heheh, oops. Guess I took a little more than nectar~"
She shrugged, laughing to herself. She was blissfully unaware of the flower youkai standing behind her, with a smile that would chill the blood of anything that lived.
Or at least, she was unaware until the parasol collided harshly with the back of her head.
"Owwie!"
The bee youkai fell heat first into the dirt, clinging at her head for a short while. Yuka prepared to seize the advantage and stomp on her while she was down, but once again the buzzing sound filled her ears.
"Whoa, w-what is it? What is it?!"
Yuka covered her ears as she stood up, and saw a black mark running across the sky. A huge shad fell on the garden as it blocked out the sun itself, all while letting off that demonic buzzing sound.
"Oh, no. Not the bees. Not the bees!"
The patch in the sky started to fall towards Yuka with astounding speed. It broke up into thousands, millions of bees, each one insistent on protecting its master.
They swarmed Yuka in an instant, too fast for her to react.
"AAAAAH! OH GOD, MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAH! AAAAAAH!"
The flower youkai flailed around helplessly as the bees overwhelmed her, while meanwhile the bee youkai controlling them rose to her feet. She wiped the dirt off her face, smiling at Yuka's plight.
"Aw, poor you~ That's what you get for messing with Zatsuza-chan!"
She was the youkai form of a video game character, sent to Gensokyo because she had been too difficult to unlock and no-one believed she really existed. The power of manipulation of bees wouldn't have sounded very fearsome otherwise, but Yuka was clearly not doing too well.
Or so it had seemed.
"Flower Sign [Reflowering of Gensokyo]!"
A sphere of beautiful golden bullets erupted from within the swarm of bees, tearing apart the attackers completely. Zatsuza herself was far away enough to dodge the attack with ease, but her minions had not been so lucky. Yuka put away her spell card, uninjured besides for a few new holes in her parasol.
"It must have been entertaining for you, thinking you could win with a pitiful army like that. Well, how does it feel now~?"
Yuka lifted up her parasol, ready to strike again. Zatsuza grimaced, stepping back as her eyes flashed gold.
"You...you have robbed me of everything I possessed! Y-Y'know, what you've done to me is just plain unforgivable!"
Zatsuza rose into the air, a yellow aura rising around her. Yuka watched her with morbid curiosity as the bee youkai's eyes grew less and less sane.
"I'll...I'll punish you myself and see to it that you die a miserable death with my
AWESOME weapon!"
She clicked her fingers, and immediately the aura ignited into a wall of fire that surrounded Zatsuza entirely. Her eyes were a pure shade of gold now, and she swung one arm haphazardly at Yuka as she revealed a spellcard.
For some reason, a song started playing from nowhere in particular."DIE, MAGGOT! LEADER BEE [PEACEFUL DEATH]!"
As the last word slipped out of her mouth, an impossibly-dense barrage of bullets emerged from her in two specific shades of red and blue. For a moment, Yuka simply stared at the bullets as they approached, far too quick and numerous for her to ever hope to dodge.
"Oh, what the
fuck is
this?!"
Yuka pulled out her parasol, her hand reaching into it. She touched a spellcard attached to the inside of the parasol, and immediately its white colour grew blindingly radiant.
"Sun Sign [Master Spark]!"
A brilliant beam of white light, as strong as the light from the sun itself, burst through the bullet barrage and straight towards the still burning Zatsuza. Yuka wondered for a moment why her clothes didn't seem to be burning, but she soon decided staying alive was her top priority at the moment. The bee grimaced for a moment, but with another click of her fingers a blue shield surrounded her, absorbing the spark completely.
"GODDAMN BOMB INVINCIBILITY!"
Yuka shouted out in frustration as her attack failed, the last few specks of light fading away. The impossible barrage came towards her again, unfazed by her previous efforts.
Wait. Maybe it wasn't impossible. Yuka examined the pattern closely, and sure enough a plan came to her. She whipped out one last card in the nick of time, the red and blue bullets almost stabbing into her chest.
"Phantasm [Nature's Beauty]!"
Every bullet Zatsuza had fired was nullified for an instant. Yuka stood where she was, smiling proudly but otherwise doing nothing.
"...Eh?"
The bee youkai was confused, watching as her attack started again. The flower youkai didn't even make an attempt to dodge, and after two desperate bombs from her opponent Zatsuza's attack finally made contact, striking her opponent hundreds of times over.
Yuka's body instantly dissolved into a pile of sunflower petals.
"Wha...a fake-"
A tap on her shoulder. Zatsuza was unkeen on turning around, but she forced herself to do it anyway.
"Ah, the old 'second Yuka' trick. Works every time~."
Yuka smiled in one of the most frightening manners Zatsuza could even imagine. The bee youkai turned around fully, ending her barrage back in the flower youkai's direction.
Only to watch every bullet miss completely.
"Huh!?"
Yuka had spotted a weakness in Zatsuza's attack - a single point in space where none of the bullets would strike her. Better still, it was almost right in front of Zatsuza herself, and given that she had no melee capabilities it would be all too easy to beat her to a pulp with that umbrella of hers.
"Now, I think I need to pay you back for that poor, innocent sunflower you killed, don't you?"
Yuka lifted her parasol, ready to smack Zatsuza with full force this time. Her opponent, trapped in place by her own declaration, only managed to get out one last cry before her opponent's attack hit.
"D-DAMN YOU, SAFESPOTS!"
Pichu~n!The bullets behind Yuka dissipated, and the music from before came to a halt. The flower youkai allowed herself one sigh at having rid herself of the intruder, then another to recover from the exertion that it had taken to do so.
"...I haven't had to declare so many cards in such a short time in years. I can't imagine a human could ever have defeated her. Not that that's a problem for me and my sunflo-"
Yuka looked down at the Garden of the Sun, her face falling completely as she realised that the bullets Zatsuza had been throwing about had been effective in killing everything in the area except her. Freshly cut sunflowers lay strewn on the ground, decades of work destroyed in a single barrage.
The handle of Yuka's parasol snapped in her hand.
"FFFFFFFFFFFF-"