Rumia Quest 4: Living in the Shadows [Complete]

[Raikaria]

>Cheer spiritedly! "Alright! Let's go!"
>"Now remember, leave the talking to me!"

> Everyone else cheers, except Reimu, who more lets out a battle cry.

> "Why can't eye do the talkin!" Cirno says as you fly. No-one else dignifies her with a response, only annoyed glares.

> After a fairly long flight, you make out a village that you've never seen before. Upon getting closer, you notice there are no humanoid figures living in the town, just the occasional stray cat.

> Until you spot a shadow, a human shadow with two tails, dart between two houses.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin. "Okay guys, leave the talking to me."
>Let's make the area get darker, then lighter, in random pulses as we head for where the shadow went.
>"Heeeey? Where are you..?"

[Raikaria]

>Grin. "Okay guys, leave the talking to me."
>Let's make the area get darker, then lighter, in random pulses as we head for where the shadow went.
>"Heeeey? Where are you..?"

> "What's go-going on? Why are the lights going mad? What do you want with me?" you hear a voice say. The lights make the location of the shadow easy to pinpoint, it's just around a corner of the building you are currently at.

> The figure turns the corner, and jumps upon seeing you there with a "Nyah~!"


Chen
Playful Nekomata Shikigami to a Wise Kitsune Shikigami

[Hanzo K.]

>Make the lights normal now, and smile cheerfully.
>"Hi! Hey, uh, are you Chen?"

[Raikaria]

>Make the lights normal now, and smile cheerfully.
>"Hi! Hey, uh, are you Chen?"

> The nekomata seems a lot calmer once the lights return to normal.

> "Yes, I am. Why do you wanna know> No-one comes looking for me in particular usually, except other nekomata, cats, and two other people." Chen says, sounding a lot more confident, with her tails wiggling and ears twitching a little.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin. "That makes stuff easier then! The name's Rumia, I heard that Ran was the best way to get in touch with Yukari, and that you were the best way to get in touch with her!"

[Raikaria]

>Grin. "That makes stuff easier then! The name's Rumia, I heard that Ran was the best way to get in touch with Yukari, and that you were the best way to get in touch with her!"

> "So that's all I am to you? A stepping stone to Yukari? Why do you wanna see her then? Do I at least get the honor of hearing that?" Chen says angrily.

[Hanzo K.]

>Pull back a bit. "Hey, calm down okay? That's only a part of it! I figured we could be friends too y'know."
>"Anyhow, I was wanting to talk to Yukari about a few things, like my ribbon, and stuff."

[Darkoda]

>"And later on I wouldn't mind hearing about this place too. Do you take care of all the cats here?"

[Raikaria]

>Pull back a bit. "Hey, calm down okay? That's only a part of it! I figured we could be friends too y'know."
>"Anyhow, I was wanting to talk to Yukari about a few things, like my ribbon, and stuff."

> Chen remains quiet.

> "Your ribbon eh? I guess I wouldn't know anything about that... but seeing Yukari isn't up to me anyway. It's up to Ran, and Ran was alive back when the whole ribbon thing went down, she's over 900!" Chen says proudly.

>"And later on I wouldn't mind hearing about this place too. Do you take care of all the cats here?"

> "Not a lot to say about this place, it's just a village that's caught on the boundary so appears along it at any point. As for the cats, I don't look after them. The cats are independent, they look after themselves."

[Hanzo K.]

>Nod. "Really? Cats must be easy to take care of then, not like frogs. I once tried to take care of a frog y'know. it was fun, but I had to leave him at the Moriya Shrine with Sanae and the others."

[Raikaria]

>Nod. "Really? Cats must be easy to take care of then, not like frogs. I once tried to take care of a frog y'know. it was fun, but I had to leave him at the Moriya Shrine with Sanae and the others."

> "Cats are smart." Chen says.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin. "Really? So that must mean you're smart too, huh?"

[Raikaria]

>Grin. "Really? So that must mean you're smart too, huh?"

> "Well of course! I'm not only a cat, but a nekomata. At that, I'm a Shikigami to a Kistune!" Chen boasts.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin. "That must means you're pretty strong, right?"
>Beat.
>"Oh hey, have any fireballs been falling from the sky around today?"

[Darkoda]

>"Or any rabbit girls running around trying to shoot you? And they don't use danmaku either."

[Raikaria]

>Grin. "That must means you're pretty strong, right?"
>Beat.
>"Oh hey, have any fireballs been falling from the sky around today?"

> "Uhmmm, depends." Chen says.

> "I saw some in the sky, but I dunno where they went." Chen comments after some thought.

>"Or any rabbit girls running around trying to shoot you? And they don't use danmaku either."

> Suddenly Chen looks serious.

> "Did you say rabbits? Ran told me to let her know if I saw or heard of any funny looking rabbits except Reisen. Did they have red eyes? "

[Hanzo K.]

>Nod. "Yeah! They showed up all over the place! I actually fought one! Man was she strong, shame Remilia took her down. I was having fun too!"
>Beat.
>"Oh yeah! That was another thing I wanted to talk to Yukari about!"

[Raikaria]

>Nod. "Yeah! They showed up all over the place! I actually fought one! Man was she strong, shame Remilia took her down. I was having fun too!"
>Beat.
>"Oh yeah! That was another thing I wanted to talk to Yukari about!"

> Chen sits down.

> "Well, I said before, I can't get you to see Yukari. I can only get Ran." the nekomata says. "Even then, Ran dosen't know what goes on in Yukari's mind, and Ran's a genius! Even Ran has trouble finding Yukari... and she hides things from Ran too, all the time." Chen says.

> "Well, it'll take some time for me to call Ran here... so how about your pals stop hiding. I know they're around here somewhere, I'm not stupid."

[Hanzo K.]

>Nod. "Okay, we were just worried you'd flip out. Reimu was worried Yukari was behind it all."
>Turn back to where the others are hiding. "Hey guys! She's gonna see about getting Ran to help!"

[Raikaria]

>Nod. "Okay, we were just worried you'd flip out. Reimu was worried Yukari was behind it all."
>Turn back to where the others are hiding. "Hey guys! She's gonna see about getting Ran to help!"

> "Oh, I figured that out. Everyone always suspects Yukari for everything anyway... not that I can blame them." Chen says. "Yukari isn't exactly trustworthy usually. At the least she's weird."

> The others come into the area. This is specifically Sanae, Reimu, Mystcia, Kogasa, Wriggle, Cirno and Daiyousei. Lilly didn't follow you from Misty Lake, instead she went back to shouting Spring everywhere.

> "This will take a little while, I need to call Ran here, and then Ran needs to get here, which probably means she has to finish whatever Yukari has her doing first, because her duty to Yukari supersedes me, it's the was the contracts work." Chen says, before she starts making magical kanji in the air, floating in an indigo shade.

[Hanzo K.]

>Nod. "Okay, so we just need to kill some time huh?"
>Grin at Sanae. "Hey Sanae, how about we have a short spar to kill some time? At least until Ran gets here."

[Raikaria]

>Nod. "Okay, so we just need to kill some time huh?"
>Grin at Sanae. "Hey Sanae, how about we have a short spar to kill some time? At least until Ran gets here."

> Chen is too busy and focused to answer.

> "Uh... I'm not too sure. I'd rather not waste my energy if we need to fight in a more serious fight soon."

> "Eye'll fight!" Cirno says happily.

> "I kinda don't need to worry about energy." Kogasa mentions.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin at Cirno. "Okay then, but let's not go all out eh? This is just a light sparring match, okay?"
>Let's hover a bit.

[Raikaria]

>Grin at Cirno. "Okay then, but let's not go all out eh? This is just a light sparring match, okay?"
>Let's hover a bit.

> Cirno floats up, but so does Kogasa.

> "Let's make this a three way fight! I wanna show off my new tricks and surprise everyone!" the karakasa says.

[Hanzo K.]

>Let's have a laugh! "Alright then, looks like I may have to use a spellcard or two then! Good thing I got plenty of 'em!"
>"I'll lead this one off then! Darkness Sign - Dark Side of The Moon!"

[Raikaria]

>Let's have a laugh! "Alright then, looks like I may have to use a spellcard or two then! Good thing I got plenty of 'em!"
>"I'll lead this one off then! Darkness Sign - Dark Side of The Moon!"

> "Well, I guess it gotta be danmaku is Kogasa is taking part." Cirno says.

> "Karakasa Surpriseing HIDE!" Kogasa says, flying behind Cirno suddenly as you declare your spellcard. This distracts Cirno enough that she takes the full brunt of it. Kogasa just uses Cirno as a meatshield.

> When your spell stops, Cirno seems to have taken a lot of hits. Kogasa flies out from behind Cirno sticking out her tongue. "Surprised by my tactics?"

[Hanzo K.]

>Laugh. "That was pretty impressive! Now I guess I'll show you what I can do!"
>Focus an orb of Dark Energy(Danmaku Version) above us, then fling it towards Cirno! When it gets close enough, trigger it to explode.

[Raikaria]

>Laugh. "That was pretty impressive! Now I guess I'll show you what I can do!"
>Focus an orb of Dark Energy(Danmaku Version) above us, then fling it towards Cirno! When it gets close enough, trigger it to explode.

> You use a nonspell variant of your dark orbs of danmaku. Your non spells are no longer random barrages, but actually attacks in their own regard. You utilize one where you fire out orbs of dark energy that explode, for bonus points, into more bits of danmaku, specifically, smaller dark orbs which don't explode. Generally homing, explodeing objects are not fair game in danmaku. Homing, fine. Exploding? Fine. Both? Now that's silly.

> Cirno has taken too many hits from the prior spell to have any real hope of dodgeing. To make things worse, Kogasa decides to unleash one of her own nonspells, unleashing a spiral storm of small danmaku from her umbrella, with Cirno caught in the middle. She falls to the ground complaining, out of the fight. [It's generally agreed if you crash to the ground in a danmaku spar you lose].

> This leaves just you and Kogasa.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin. "Looks like it's just us, eh? I may as well wrap this up with a bang! Absolute Demarkation!"