RPG - Waking Up From the Dream (Story Thread)

[Nemo★Ma]

Amarillo's Room, 4:35 AM, Day 5

Lily's sleep is interrupted by a buzz from nowhere.

"Hmm, is that Rinnosuke?" While she was thinking she realized that's not from Amarillo's cellphone.

It's from the other device.

And Lily is surprised that Amarillo, being someone who should be more aware in situations like this, is still sleeping.

With no idea on both things, Lily picked up the phone.

She heard Marisa's shouting about some Miko training or stuff, and something about escaping to the library and run away from defense systems.

"Amarillo! wake up, we are in trouble!"

Even though Lily is shouting loudly, there is still no sign of Amarillo getting up.

There is even no sign that Amarillo actually heard her.

"That's not good!" Lily thought, and try to shake Amarillo's shoulders.

However, it seems the shaking didn't do any jobs either.

In the next 10 minutes, Lily tried everything she had thought to wake Amarillo with no results.

"That's not good! Reimu can be here any minute, I don't care how she thought, but at least we will get out this thing together."

First Maid Competition, then Miko Training, it seems they are far away from....

Wait, what had happened on their Maid Competition?

Lily finally get the idea, she lie back on the bed and started to concentrating on Amarillo's body...

Lily get up from the bed.

"Hah, there is no difficulty taking her body at all. What if something bad is happening?" Lily controlling Amarillo's body up from the bed.

Then she turned to the mirror.

"It's the same situation as last time." Seeing her own blue eyes are staring at her, Lily sighed again "Whatever, let's get outta here."

As she tried to go out, she realized something.

"I cannot go out with only underwears!"

She turns back and looks at the clothes folded on the bedside.

"And I have absolutely no idea with these jeans or trousers."

Lily fiddles with the pile of clothes as fast as she can, then she finally found something that's similar to a dress.

"Ahh, finally!"

Then she reached for the fishing rod placed at the door, and try to disassemble it like Amarillo once did.

With no result, the fishing rod won't burge.

"Ah, I nearly forgot! It's not that lightsaber anymore!"

After making sure the new weapon works by activate the blade part, Lily took it and runs out as fast as her can.

"Now you owe me one, Amarillo-chan!"

Corridor, 4:45 AM, Day 5

As Lily is running down the corridor, the communicator ring again.

"Who goes there?" Lily asked.

Mikoto's voice can be heard,"Amarillo-san? No, is that Lily?"

"EH? How did you figure out? I think my voice changed to Amarillo's after the fuse."

"Your voice changes, however your personality isn't, the Ms.Viridian I know won't beginning a phone conversation with Who Goes Here or something like that, it's a sign of lacking confidence."

"Not like I'm imposting her or something, she's just sleeping dead so I'm carrying her using this way."

"That's a good one, I'm calling because there are Reimu's defense systems near your position. I hope you have pick up some of her saber skills."

"Haah, her weapon is changed to a lance or a spear or something... Long Story. As of me, tell me where is the safe place and we will switch routes."

"Oh, well, Okay, seems Reimu had aware of us going to the Library, so there is probably not much defense elsewhere."

Lily searched for possible routes, and headed towards the shrine exit.

"I'm heading towards the shrine exit, I wish you good luck!" Lily said and hanged up the phone.

and she crashed with somebody just outside the shrine.

It's a figure with Red-White Miko suit.

"Oh, well, if it isn't... wait." Reimu looked at Lily's eyes. "Erm.. Lily White. I can see the difference with blue and brown though. "

"So I guess I have no choice. However, Amarillo-chan is certainly not in the good status." As Lily emerges out from Amarillo's body, the body fells on the ground, and Lily carried her to the shrine stairs.

"You know," Reimu says "Amarillo Viridian is so easy-going that she won't say no to the Miko Training, plus you are wearing a standard miko outfit..."

"Ugh, I didn't notice it was a miko outfit, and it's the exact same one from yesterday..." Lily White sat down on the stairs and rest Amarillo's body on the ground with her head on Lily's lap. "However you forget one thing, Amarillo Style..." Lily pulled out the communicator.

"Everyone beware, Reimu is at the exit of the shrine, and we have been caught, our mission has failed."

Reimu smiled, "If it was others, I would stop them,  but since I know exactly how Amarillo will behave here I won't say a thing, or she'll be mad. She's the kind of people that will gladly sacrifice herself for the sake of others."

And her smile disappeared "However, I'll capture the rest, one by one... And..." she quickly set up a barrier when she walks in. "Now the exit have been sealed, so no one will come out. You will stay here."

Reimu walks in the shrine.

"So you have been caught too?" Gpop comes and greet Lily.

"More like crushed into her." Lily said as she looks at Amarillo "And I can't risk eating more of Amarillo's energy."

"Seems friendship won't help here at all." Gpop continued, "As I can get from Reimu's words, Amarillo-san and Reimu met before?"

"Pretty much, after she stays in Gensokyo, Reimu had come and ask her how to fish, however... " Lily can't help laughing "Amarillo trained her for 5 hours and sadly get the conclusion that Reimu lacks the patience for fishing."

Gpop chuckles "Well, seems nothing have changed now. Seeing Reimu and Sanae drag everyone out using the most brutal way possible."

Lily noticed that Gpop's clothes are all wet.

She decides not to comment anything on it, however...

"Reimu and Sanae?"

"Yeah, they come to my room and splashed the water on me, then drag me out here, say of it, where is Sanae?"

"That's my point." Lily finished the question for Gpop, then continue looking at the still sleeping Amarillo.

"Sometimes I don't know it's who looking after who. I mean, she looks younger than me......"

"How old is she again?"

"As far as I know, 14, and it's the real age, not like some people that looks like 12 but is actually 30."

"I don't know anyone like this in Gensokyo." Gpop slowly said after thinking for a while.

"Oh, well, never mind."

"Let's just hope the others escape from it." Gpop sat down on the stairs too. "And I suddenly felt jealous of lap pillows."

"That's too bad." Lily giggles.

[mad]

Dreamscape Day 4-5

Eirin wandered the land.

"This is a dreamscape scene. Look out and see the world around you. As the one ton weights fly across the sky. As the beagles drive white pianos across the glimmering swamp."

"Was there any point to that?"

"Not really, we're suppose to resolve whatever mental issues exist."

"I know that, but what to do?"

"Maybe those students of yours"

"What about them?"

"Did you teach them about love and justice?"

"I taught them everything I know outside of medicine. Inside Medicine, it was too poisonous to teach."

"Of course, but from that costume, it seems that love and justice is gathered through the exposure of panties."

"Look as how much she gathered in that one motion. You cannot deny it's effectiveness"

"No doubt. Narrator, wouldn't the lack of names be rather confusing to the readers."

Useful dreams are always confusing and/or dangerous.

"Danger? What, you hear the brown note or something?"

"I'd rather keep this confusing without having to introduce danger."

"Hello, I'm Danger. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, Danger"

"It's been pleasant, but I have an appointment. So, Fist of the Nose Hair!"

As danger rode the Green Tea with Rice Alien into the sunset, there was a tap-dancing

"wait, what about that guilt issue?"

"I really have no idea. I know you forgive me, and you've said so repeatedly. However, I really can't get over it.

"Well, that's what this dreamscape is for, but I'm not sure how we'd do that"

"hm"

"Maybe we should contract a kid with orange goggles"

"You mean sit in his way and talk to him about the milkman?"

"No, the rabbits. Like that one."

And a tap-dancing Tewi-Reisen fusion, a tootsie pop, tap-danced across the jello.

4:00 AM Saniwa Shrine room 8492nd

There was rap-tap-tapping at the door.

Jalal dragged himself to the door.

"who could it possibly be here at this ungodly hour, rapping and a tapping at my chamber door"

This he said and nothing more.

He went up to the door and said, "Madame or Madame, your forgiveness I implore, but I was merely napping when you came a rapping and a tapping at my chamber door."

He swung open the door, Reimu there and nothing more.

"The shrinemaiden training starts today," This she said and nothing more.

"Ah yes, I heard of that. A training shrouded in myth and rumour," he replied, "If the rumours are to be believed, just Eirin would not be enough to treat them. We'd need more."

"I came here because I heard a rumor. One that could cause the training to progress nevermore. Of the drug that Eirin calls Lenore."

"Such a name I have not heard, such a drug called Lenore. And I have been toured from cabinet to floor. I have not seen of the drug named Lenore."

For the moment all was silent, Reimu stood there nothing more.

"Why the hell are we talking like this?" Reimu implored, "The drug reversed the changes nothing more, and they shall not escape, evermore."

She pause a moment and said, "There it is again, that speech pattern I deplore."

Reimu raged, whilst I said nothing more.

"But you did say something more."

No I said "nothing more."

But Reimu was still raging and could hear nothing more.

She calmed for a moment and said, "Please, Eirin's gender drug I implore. This is why I came so gently rapping, gently rapping and tapping upon your chamber door. Just that drug, nothing more."

Eirin came out and said, "I wouldst not call that gently rapping upon our chamber door. More like bang and booming upon our chamber door."

Reimu sighed. "Are we to speak like this forevermore?"

Jalal proposed that Lunatic would supply Reimu with the drugs so long adored. As long as she vowed to not use force with them, forevermore.

Reimu agreed and she would never attack them. Nevermore.

[Maid Xan~]

Medical Ward, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, 4:35 AM, Day 5
Participants: Team Drillkumo, Team Ghostbusters, Reimu: E-mouse, Xan, hax 

Sho smirked at Jeremy's reaction. Yes, this was exactly what she had been trying for with her little bit of dress up. She continued her ever-so-entertaining talk-tag-team with Yuyuko. "Ara, Reimu won't be giving us much time, so..." "I guess we'll have to make this hasty~"

Sho pointed at Jeremy's chest. "Those cute little breasts of yours are from one of Eirin's drugs." Yuyuko smiled cheerfully.  "The testing didn't quite go as planned."

Sho continued, with mock sorrow, "Somehow, it got into the food supplies, and now..." "The estrogen brigade has expanded~" Yuyuko concluded.

"Though I'm not quite sure why Yukari's friend got some..."

Youmu, meanwhile, was busy moving the covers of Jeremy's bed out from where they could get caught in its wheels.

Jeremy raised an eyebrow at Youmu before turning back to the twin
Yuyukos. "Drug for what?" She glanced down at her belly for a moment, and added, "And considering that I'm not starving, 'food supply' might have done it..."

 Sho and Yuyuko looked at one another, and tilted their heads curiously. "I think Eirin was trying to cure blindness." Yuyuko answered.

Jeremy blinked. "Cure blindness? What? Why would we need that?"

Sho daintily covered her mouth with a hand. "Ara, that's right." Yuyuko smiled. "You wouldn't know, would you, dear?"

Jeremy glanced between them again, somewhat irritated.

"Poor Mitaka lost his eyesight about when you went unconscious."
Jeremy's mouth dropped open. "... what?! Seriously?! So after all the trouble he's already been through, he's..."

She was interrupted by Youmu starting to roll her bed next to Yukari's.

"Wha?!"

Sho and Yuyuko smiled broadly. "Now, I'm sure little Jeremy's going to be embarassed..." "... but we're going to move Yukari onto your bed~"

Jeremy stared, as Youmu walked around the two beds to get on the other side of Yukari. "... um, what? Why?"

Sho and Yuyuko tilted their heads at one another again. "Mmm, well..." "Seems like Reimu wants more company as our shrine maiden."
Sho smiled cheerfully. "Who knew, a miko with a miko fetish?" Yuyuko giggled into her hand again. "Or an armpit fetish, perhaps~"

Jeremy coughed. "Could we drop the silly girl schtick here for now? I know you hate to, but I'm kinda who-knows-how-long behind on everything."

The two 'Yuyukos' glanced at one another. Sho sighed. "You're right, we are short on time. Reimu's insisting on all of the girls getting 'shrinemaiden training.'"

Jeremy raised an eyebrow. "Is... that really a bad thing? I mean, she sounded overly aggressive about it, but wasn't she broken tier in Gensokyo?"

Sho and Yuyuko stared at her for a moment. "... I'll pretend I understood that last part." Yuyuko said, unusually serious. "But I should point out that it won't be good for our health - especially not yours or Yukari's."
She gave the gap youkai a pointed look. Jeremy shifted uncomfortably.

Sho continued. "And considering that Mitaka suggested getting out of here, I'd take his..." She paused, and giggled slightly. "Well, her advice."

Jeremy looked over at Yukari again, and sighed. "All right, I guess I can't argue with health concerns. But if she could just be reasonable about it..."

Yuyuko laughed quietly. "Don't be silly. Being reasonable isn't Reimu's strong point."

"... Touch?." Jeremy muttered. "All right, all right. How are we doing this? I'm guessing we invalids are getting rolled out of here?"

Sho nodded. "That's the plan, yes. We're also planning on using the other bed as a decoy. Now, we'd better..."

Everyone glanced at the door in response to the loud footsteps from the hall outside echoing into the room.

"Oh dear, that's probably her." Yuyuko said. "I hope she's chasing someone else right now."

"We'd better hurry." Sho added.

Jeremy nodded. "Right." She glanced over at Youmu, who had been trying to find a way to pick up Yukari without her moaning in pain. "Careful with her, now."

 Youmu glared at her, briefly, before the two quickly lifted Yukari over onto Jeremy's bed. She moaned painfully from the movement, but settled back down quickly enough. Jeremy grit her teeth against the pain of her legs and shifted to one side to make room, face red.

Yukari giggled slightly in her sleep as Jeremy pulled her a little closer, and mumbled, "Hee, Midori-chan..."

A brief silence. Jeremy's face reddened further before being covered by a palm.

The Yuyukos raised an eyebrow each, smirking. "Midori-chan?" Sho asked, fighting a laugh. Yuyuko didn't bother fighting it.

Jeremy sighed. "NOW I remember Ran and Chen pointing out the gender change in another dream... damnit, Yukari."

Sho blinked. "Dream?" She shook her head. "Nevermind, I won't ask..."

Youmu finished stuffing Yukari's former bed with a roughly human-shaped block of pillows.

Jeremidori raised her head, one eyebrow raised. "I thought all of the harems were supposed to be sharing dreams?" A pause. "Hey, wait, where's Sho?"

Sho could no longer control herself, and burst out laughing. "Oh Midori-chan, still haven't figured it out? I thought you were smarter than that~"

Jeremy blinked at Sho for a moment, then looked back and forth between her and Yuyuko a few times. 'Midori' couldn't help but smile, and shook her head. "And here I doubted your acting ability... but to be fair, I've been a little distracted."

Sho smiled. "Understandable, of course. Okay, it's time to get out of here. On the count of three..."

Youmu got behind the empty bed, while Yuyuko and Sho got ready to push the occupied one.

"One," Sho began.

Jeremy Midori put an arm past Yukari, to help hold her onto the bed. Ran and Chen leapt back onto the mattress.

"Two,"

At that moment, Reimu appeared in the door, arms on her hips. She knew Yukari was here, and had come personally to ensure her 'recruitment.' Even if Yukari was injured, she knew it could be dangerous. She was ready for anything...

"Three!"

Except for nearly getting run over by a pair of speeding hospital beds.

The miko picked herself up off the floor, cursing herself for forgetting about Yuyuko, and saw the fleeing beds, Yuyuko smiling back over her shoulder.

"Hey, GET BACK HERE!!"

---

"Er, was that really a good idea?" Jeremy asked, craning her neck to look back at the miko they'd run over.

"It seemed like one at the time," Sho responded. "Anyways, it's her bad luck."

 "And her fault, I suppose." Midori muttered. She pulled Yukari a little closer as the bed shuddered from the high-speed bumps it was encountering.

"Yeah. Now hold on tight, we're going to be going around some corners."

Midori grimaced, and laid down proper. "All right. Don't go too crazy, here!"

[ES-Anthy]

Anthony's Cabin 4:45AM Day 5
Team Michigan, Marx, and Cirno

Anthony Letty and Genjii had just been attacked by Marx, with Anthony almost becoming Marx's next meal, but thanks to Cirno, he was spared,

"Ok then, lets just think this through, I was training Letty, then got jumped by this girl, then saved by Cirno, which I am guessing is connected to this girl, just calm down, then lets settle this, without conflict" thought Anthony, who then turned his back to Marx, took out a flask, and drank it's contents, which was a combination of Vodka and Red Cream Soda, then Anthony, after feeling much calmer, decided to talk with Marx

"Let me introduce myself, I am Anthony, and these two are Letty and Genjii" said Anthony, pointing to the two off to his side

"Ok then, I'm Marx, and this is Cirno" said Marx, also pointing to Cirno to her side.

"I guess you two have some catching up to do, why don't you two go off and we'll stay here" said Anthony, which then Cirno and Letty nodded in agreement, and started talking to each other while walking away.

"Since we're by ourselves, we might as well talk too, since we might be hanging around with each other for a while" said Anthony, forming a friendly smile on his face

"Ok then... I'll talk with you" said Marx, mildly annoyed at not only being denied her breakfast of mana, but also having to stay here, the the two talked on for a bit about some trival things, and eventually Letty and Cirno came back after their walk and talking to each other, then Anthony remembered,

"Oh, dammit, I need to head to the shrine, I remember that I didn't finish up repairs and they might want me for other things, wait, maybe I can use this for some of your training Letty" said Anthony, who raised his hand to his chin,

"Ok then, I'll do some more training, since I want to be as strong as you in Boxing" said Letty,

"I want to be the strongest of all, so I'll join in too" said Cirno, while Marx sighed at what was happening, and decided to just roll with it.

"Ok then, let me just get my stuff first," said Anthony, who then went into the cabin, and came out with his jacket, his bag, a different tool box, since his last one ended up with a face print of Meiling in it, and a hockey stick, he also stuck Genjii in his bag, since it would take forever for him to get to the shrine on this own, since he can't fly "ok then, as I have said before, a walk from here to the shrine is 15 minutes, now we're gonna run that distance, and get there in 3 minutes"

The Jaws of Letty and Cirno dropped at that statement of running a time of 3 minutes for the distance of a 15 minute walk

"and it's over rough environment, so be prepared for things in the way," said Anthony, which then the two's jaws went even further down, "don't worry, I'm not expecting you do to this perfectly, I'm just setting the long term goal to work towards, this is how I trained, not in little steps, in leaps and bounds, it's like they say 'if you want to make it big, you have to go big"

then Letty and Cirno gained back a little confidence, and got ready to start running

"I'll be running with you, and I'll keep the timer too, just to tell you" said Anthony "hey Marx, why don't you join us?"

"I'll prefer to go at my own pace" said Marx

"Ok then, well, lets start this, in...
3...
2...
1...
GO" said Anthony, then the 3 started to run in the direction of the shrine, while Marx just started to walk on

Anthony had already gotten ahead of the other two, while Letty was falling behind, then Cirno ended up tripping over a log and face planting, which then Letty jumped right over Cirno and then also face planted, and Anthony cracked up in laughter at them falling over, which since he was looking back, he ended up hitting his head on a tree branch, and all three moaned in pain, while Marx came up to them and helped them up

"Ok then, lets not try that until you two get more training," said Anthony, rubbing the back of his head, which then the group walked the rest of the way to the shrine, and stop right out side of the entrance

"Hmm, it seems kinda quite doesn't it?" said Letty, which then the others all agreed,

"We might as well check how it is inside," said Anthony, which then the group entered the shrine, and had a weird feeling pass through them, like the point of no return kind of feeling, then they walked in to the hallways, not seeing anyone, then they noticed a floating orb, colored like a Yin-yang ball, but red and white, instead of black and white,

"Weird, I've never seen anything like that" said Marx, which with those words, the orb moved towards the group, and a voice came from it, like Reimu's voice

"I see that more people have come, that means more people for the training" said Reimu, through the orb

"Training, sorry, but I've already got them on a training program" said Anthony,

"We'll see about that" said the orb, which then several more came out, 4 now are in front of the  group, 3 from the back, and the orbs slowly approached,

"Like you can do anything to us with a few floating balls" said Anthony, which then one orb fired an amulet at Anthony's foot, lighting it on fire, which then he went straight to the ground and started to roll around, panicking, even though the fire went out a few moments ago,

"Anthony! Snap out of it!" said Letty, who slapped Anthony and pulled him up, "we need to get out of here now,"

"Ok then, I just had a moment there, we need an exit, and both sides are covered, I think we need a new door then" said Anthony, who then pulled both of his arms back, and formed fists with his hands, then punched the wall next to him with both fists at the same time, causing a decent sized hole to form in the wall, "Don't worry, I'll fix it later"

then the group escaped through the hole into other rooms, which the yin-yang orbs are still giving chase,

"Dang it, we aren't out running then" said Letty,

"I think I can solve this then," said Marx " right after this next corner"

which then the group rounded the corner, and Marx muttered a few words, which the others could not make out, then the orbs came around the corner, but passed by the group like they weren't there

"Uhhh, what just happened?" said Anthony, currently confused about what Marx did

"I used my illusion ability to hide ourselves, that's how I did that one clone trick earlier too" said Marx

"I see, so lets start to head towards the entrance and get out of here" said Anthony, which the group slowly headed towards the entrance, but then the ran into a problem, the Yin-Yang orbs blocked off the paths to the entrance, "Well, we can just wait here being hidden until the orbs move out of the way" said Anthony, but then he noticed Marx wasn't looking too good

"I can't keep up this illusion for much longer, my mana is starting to get low," said Marx "since I didn't get any earlier today"

"dammit, and the one time I try to have a plan that doesn't involve going Rambo, and it screws up, wait, I got an idea" thought Anthony, who then pulled down the collar of his shirt and jacket

"I want you to take some of my mana, so you can keep up this illusion, then I'm gonna go, and start creating a distraction, which will draw away the orbs, then you girls head out of here, just don't go too far, since I'm connected to Letty, also, Letty, take Genjii for me, I don't want either of you two to get captured" said Anthony, who then took Genjii, who was sleeping, and handed him to Letty

"Are you sure about this? what happens if Reimu captures you?" asked Letty, being worried

"I'll never let that happen, I'm not the kind of person to get captured" said Anthony, "now just do as I said"

"Ok then, I'll just take a bit of it" said Marx, who then bared her fangs and pierced Anthony's neck with them, taking some mana, but not enough to incapacitate him, then she withdrew her fangs,

"Ok then, I'm fine, just a little tired, I'll go and take care of the orbs now, you guys just run for it when you get the chance" said Anthony, who was swaying a little bit from the recent drop in mana,

then Anthony ran off and took out his hockey stick, and started slashing at the Yin-Yang orbs, smashing them into the walls, and causing them to fall to pieces, after Anthony cleared the few orbs there, more appeared, Anthony looked back, and saw that the others already left, then he turned back to the matter at hand, the amassing amounts of yin-yang orbs appearing before him, but then they parted, showing a woman in Red and White, it was the Hakurei Miko herself, Reimu

"I see, the mastermind herself finally showed herself, well have I got a few words to tell you," said Anthony, who then raised his fist into the air in from of him, "I, Anthony Thrun, Shall not fall to your tricks, I shall bust through them, for the will of my soul... IS AN EVER-" said Anthony, who was cut off by Reimu throwing a pill into Anthony's mouth causing him to gag for a bit, then he accidentally swallowed it

"*cough* What the *cough* hell was that you threw into my mouth" said Anthony, still coughing from the sudden foreign object entering his throat

"Oh you'll see" said Reimu, starting to chuckle a little bit

Then Anthony could feel his body change, he felt his waist thin a bit, his hair got even longer, his face rounded out, giving it a more feminine look, he also felt his chest get heavy, and he felt that he lost something, then he checked his body, which now he had a set of D cup breasts, and he noticed that he lost his manhood,

"KKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAA" screeched Anthony, which then he, I mean she had a higher pitched voice

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME YOU CRAZY MIKO!??!?!" yelled Anthony,

"All I did was make you ready for the Miko Training, Ana~" said Reimu, giving Anthony a new name, since his/her gender changed

"GOD DAMN YOU I'M GONNA GET MY REVENGE" yelled Anthony Ana

"That isn't gonna happen" said Reimu, who then signed for the Orbs to move in front of her, which several fired Amulets, which set a small fire around Ana, who then started to just gaze out, like she's stuck in a day dream, with the fire around her, which then she cringed down, and put her hands over her head in fear, which then she started to just barely speak out a few words

"Some one...save me..." said Ana, who then ended up passing out just a few moments later, then Reimu put out the fire and tied up Ana, and took her to the other people who had been captured,

after a few minutes, Ana woke up, seeing several others she had seen before, and also noticing that Letty, Genjii, Marx, and Cirno were also captured, and they noticed Ana,

"Do I know you?" said Letty to Ana, not knowing that she is speaking with Anthony, in female form,

"It's me, Anthony, freaking Reimu use that one drug and made me female," said Ana "she also gave me a stupid nick name, Ana"

"I see, Ana sounds like a cute Nick name" said Letty, " and at least we're ok for now"

Ana slightly blushed from what Letty said, "I guess it's an ok nick name, for now, I guess we're stuck here until we whatever Reimu is gonna do with us happens, besides, how did you guys get captured, I was sure that I got enough of their attention to give you guys a clear window"

"well, when we tried to leave, the entrance was blocked by a Border, and we actually tried out a few other exits, all blocked by a border," said Marx, "and I was running low on mana again, so we decided to surrender"

So our group has been captured by the Evil Hakurei Miko, will they make it out alive? will Anthony ever get his man hood back? Find out on the next post because I have no idea yet

END: Sawina Shrine 5:00AM Day 5 Team Michigander+Marx & Cirno

[Caber Knight Etch-A-Sketch]

Holding Room, Saniwa Shrine 8:40 AM


Marx: The least Reimu could have done was let me keep my guns. Who knowwhat she'll do with them...

Cirno: Um... They're right over there.

Cirno motioned over at a place next to what appeared to be Amarillo. Suddenly, Marx felt a pain in her head

Marx: Gah! N-no... not... now!

Voice in head: Please, some one save me! Any one, please!

Marx: Anthony, let me get more mana! Please!

But Anthony was thoroughly scared by what was transpiring. Marx's wings had extended, and her eye wildly shifted colors. Marx tried to crawl over to Anthony, but simply fell over in pain.

Marx: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!


Saniwa Corridors


Austin: What the hell? Kya!

Austin and company were busy dodging amulets fired from the floating orbs

Nitori: Just hit them! They'll go down with one good strike!

Momizi: This would be so much easier if I just had my shield!

Akyu: Gah! I'm not really that good with this dodging thing!

Austin: Dammit leave me alone you stupid balls!

Austin and Momizi struck the orbs as hard as they could.

Akyu: Where is everyone?

Nitori: According to the radar, everyone seems to be heading to the underground library. Holy Kappa! There's one signiture going everywhere, trying to get the others!

Akyu: That must be Reimu. But what about Sanae?

Sanae: Did you call me?

Momizi: KYAAAA!!!

Austin: RUN FOR IT!!!

Sanae: Wait up! Let me recruit you!

Austin: NOOO!!!


Holding Room


Cirno: M-Marx? Are you ok?

Marx got up, but something seemed different about her. For one thing, Marx seemed ok now, Mana wise. However, that would mean Cirno would be feeling like shit, but Cirno was fine as well. Marx backed away from Cirno and everyone else.

Marx: Wh-what's going on?

Anthony: Um, we were captured by Reimu, remember?

Marx: WHAT?!? NOOO!! I DON'T WANNA GET ****ED WITH THE GOHEI!!!

Anthony: Marx, are you ok?!?

Marx: How do you know my nick name?!? Who are you?!?

Cirno: I think she lost her memory or something.

Marx: TH-th-th-the ⑨!

Cirno: Wha...? No, I'm just Cirno. Everyone else calls me the ⑨ for some reason.

Marx: Wha, what do you want?

Cirno: Marx, what was the last thing you remember?

Marx: I was strapped down in this chair, and these people put this weird hat on my head, then I'm here.

Cirno: Ok. Listen closely to this story then...

Cirno began telling to Marx all the events that had transpired.

[trancehime]

Corridor, Saniwa Inn, 4.33 AM in the morning, Day 5

There was a loud, piercing ring from the communicator that Hirowaza held as he slowly woke up. "Aaah, dear, Yoh-chan, how can you get up so slowly and casually in a situation like this!" Meira said, slapping Hirowaza awake. "Meira-sama, what was that fo-- ..." Hirowaza was still dressed in her night-gown, but there was a floating yin-yang orb thing that busted down their door and was gazing straight at Meira's back. "Behind you! LINKING ICE!" Hirowaza let a small amount of energy surge through her left palm as a small stream of icicles penetrated the orb, causing it to freeze in place, no longer functional. Meira turned around and saw the orb. "THAT is what I was talking about! That stupid red-white sent her mechanical droids in the entire area! Everyone is scrambling to get to the ruins!" she said in a huge panic. Hirowaza sighed and quickly changed her clothes, ignoring the wide-open door, and got dressed into whatever she could find in a rush. "Okay, Meira-sama, let's hurry out of here and to the underground, as you mentioned." she said calmly. Meira hit her own face with her palm and simply dragged Hirowaza outside, and started charging for the pathway towards the ruins. "Gyah, more orb things!!" Meira said as she looked at the pair of orbs that guard the way to the door to the ruins. "Vanish!" Hirowaza said as she and Meira suddenly started to sink into the shadows, no longer seen by anyone.

"We are virtually invisible. We can get to the ruins in this state." Hirowaza said. The two of them snuck past the orbs and slowly and carefully made their way into the ruins, opening the door.

[Bias Bus]

=== Junes Department Store - 2:00 AM ~ Day 5 ===
-Previous Event-

"Well then, how fortunate for you to join us here."Came the voice of Shinjiro as he turned to face a yakuza thug, his movements restricted by that of Yuugi's superhuman grip. These Yakuza have been acting rather strange lately and he was going to figure out what the hell is going on that's gotten so much their attention.

"Fortunate my ass! You better let me go or-"

Shinjiro could care less about this man's struggles there was only one thing on his mind now... "Yuugi."

On que, the oni pulled the man's arm back a little further, evoking a rather unsettling set of popping sounds that emanated from the stressed bone. Needless to say, the thug clammed up shortly after she did this not being one to take the pain that was inflicted upon him.

Seeing his hostage now hushed, Shinjiro nodded in approval towards Yuugi and then turned his attention toward the man she restrained. "Now, tell me what I want to know or I will have Yuugi here tear off your arms to put in my next stew." Shinjiro walked closer to the man his expression showing that he was, in fact, dead serious about his threat. "Now talk, tell me what is it that has thrown your group into so much chaos? I want to know everything."

The man remained silent, but also held a conflicted expression, an expression that soon twisted into pain as Yuugi pulled his arms furthr and further back.

"You'd best answer." The oni suggested nonchalantly. "If I twist your arm 3 more inches it ain't gonna be pretty."

"O-okay! Okay! Uncle! Uncle!" The man screamed, wanting to keep both his arms. A man's arms are his most valuable assets (that can go both ways you know). "Th-There's been this group of strange foreign girls that's come to the town recently, I-I don't know who they are, but Boss has had some major beef with them when they set up shop in that ratty ass shrine and then turned down his offer a few days back."

Tewi paused for a moment, Shinjiro quickly taking note of this. "Sound Familiar to you?"

"I...don't think so." Tewi shrugged. "His descriptions kinda fuzzy anyway."

"Tell me, are these group of foreign girls that big of a deal?" Shinjiro asked once more.

"Yes, they've been in alot of shit lately though, some guys tell me they've even locked horns with that RAI group too."

Shinjiro froze as those words passed his ears. Finally after searching the entire city, he was able to discover something about the mysterious group that had caused such an uproar around town lately. A cold smirk snaked across his face as he turned to the entrance of the alleyway. "Interesting...and you say they live at the shrine?"

"I-I don't know, that's what word of mouth tells me, alot of the guys say they moved elsewhere."

"Hm, I see..." Shinjiro muttered as he turned his back and gazed at the night sky.

"So...will you let me go? I told ya whatyou wanted n'all."

"No. Yuugi, kill him. We're going to have him for dinner."

"What?" Yuugi's eyes went wide to his words, she probably couldhave seen the 'kill him' part coming, but...him actually saying he was going to eat him? That...was just wrong. "W-wait a minute, why would you wanna do that?"

"He is a human, which means he will no doubt return to his allies and speak of our meeting. I know humans, they lie they cheat they steal, humans can never be trusted. You both should know of this..."

Indeed, with Yuugi being an Oni and Tewi being subject to being constantly sought after for her good luck abilities it would seem that the two had no reason to trust humans nor respect them for anything...

"Y-you can't eat me! What you fucking crazy!" The man shouted.

"No. I'm Shinjiro Kuroyama." Shinjiro then firmly bashed the man upside the head with a fist, the impact knocking him slam out. "In anycase, eating him will shred all evidence of his existance and thus keep us within the clear. You, being a youkai, should be over joyed to taste the flesh of a human." Shinjiro said glancing to Tewi.

"I'm a rabbit youkai, genius." Tewi retorted, obviously offended by the way Shinjiro classed her as a man-eater. "I don't eat meat...often."

"It'll be the only meal, you'll get so you'd best eat up or you'll go hungry." Shinjiro told her, and possibly Yuugi as well who also didn't seem too thrilled with eating a human even though there are some oni who do in fact prey on human flesh, she knew for a fact that she was not one of those Oni. Not at all. "Let us head home, there's alot of planning to be done."

Reluctantly, both Yuugi and Tewi followed Shinjiro back to his abode. The rest of this night would prove to be a rather undesirable one...

=== Owlbear's Dreamscape - 2:30 AM ~ Day 5 ===
-Previous Event-

Everything was serene, or at least it looked like it was. The scenery of a vast icy lanscape stretching on for miles upon miles. Some would say that it would last for eons and you would still never see the end of it. Unforgiving crags and crevices of pure, bone chilling ice jutted from the forsaken wastes of this cold and harsh lands...

This...was Cocytus, the 9th Circle of Makai...

And this...is where Mai, a horrible and murderous Ice Demon calls home. Banished from Pandemonium for acts against it's god, and forever fated to spend an eternity within the perpetual frosts of the prison that matched her own affinity and persona...

That is until she was met by Shinki's most trusted vassal (and supposed lover), a Human turned Majin named Owlbear. Mai knew of him, oh she knew of him very well. He was the one who did not put up any resistance against her when she rebelled against Shinki. Well, either way it didn't matter. She never cared for him anyway.

"So...has sent you to kill me." Mai spoke her voice seething of a blood freezing miasma that put the entire room of ice to shame. "If so then I won't hesitate to imprison you in the this ice just as I am to this day."

"No." Owlbear says, undetered by Mai's tone. "Shinki has no involvment in me being here, in fact, she doesn't even know I'm gone...well maybe now she does."

Mai says nothing, her eyes watching his own unblinking for several moments before she turns her head to face outward across the endless void of white death.

"Why did you do it, Mai?" Owlbear spoke, seeing as Mai would make no effort to. As always. "You know Yuki still awaits your return."

"I don't care." Mai responds coldly. "Yuki means nothing to me. The same can be said for you, Shinki and all the other 'demons' of Makai. You are all nothing but mere trash to me, a legion of maggots squirming around each other in your little community built on blasphemy and hypocracy."

"I see you still don't get it..." Owlbear sighed loudly and walked a bit closer to Mai, feeling his skin actually beginning to freeze the closer her got to her.

"What is there to get? The only thing I 'got' from it was a sick stomach and an insatiable urge to destory Makai." Mai replied her chilling gaze locking to Owlbear. "In anycase, you don't need to know why I did what I have done. Simply put I grew tired of everything you all held dear, it bored me, sickend me, nothing you all did could satisfy me."

"And this is what satisfies you?" Owlbear questioned, his voice raising in volume as he went on. "To be forever imprisoned within the frozen wastes of Cocytus?"

"Anything is fine with me so long as I'm far away from you." Mai asnwered. "Were you not the same with your life human world, then you of all people should know how I feel about this."

Owlbear hesitated as Mai really did speak truth when she said those words to him. "...That is true, but I managed to come back from that when I met Shinki."

"Your point is irrelevent, you forget that I'm a being of solitude now."

"You think you're a being of solitude, but you have people who are willing to work with you no matter what, Yuki is one of them and so am I."

"You can work all you want I am not coming back to you, even so, Shink herself probably wishes to kill me for my treason anyway so there would be no point in returning."

"You're wrong, Shinki actually misses you."

"What?" "You're lieing, I heard Shinki say she hated me for everything I've done, there is no chance in Jigoku that wench would ever take me back into her family."

"You may have went apeshit and blew up some of Makai but you're still Shinki's daughter...she's rather torn up about your banishment too, for it reminds her of how Alice simply ran away from her...and never returned home..."

Mai goes quiet as she usually has done, but this doesn't seem to be out of disdain...

"If you ever change your mind, you're welcome to come back, I won't tell Shinki of our meeting here."

"Why..."

"Eh?"

"Why do...you try so hard for me?" Mai inquired as she looked up to Owlbear. "I've killed dozens of my own kind...I've disowned my mother...I've even cursed your name as well as Shinki's for an eternity...why must you put yourself through so much just to get me to come back?"

"Because we-"

=== Saniwa Inn - 4.30 AM ~ Day 5 ===

RRRIIIINNNGGGGGGGGGG

"Kyaaaaa!"

THUD

"...Sonuvabitch..." Groaned Owlbear as she rolled over having been awoken from the slumber that once embraced her so tenderly. Needless to say it had also completely thrown her from her dream just now too. What a bunch of shit...

"Fukuma-chan," Ah, looks like Shinki was woken up to, which isn't strange as that noise was fucking loud. "What's all that fuss about..."

Owlbear rose up and looked at the pants she had taken off and found the pocket was going absolutely crazy with movement. Oh yeah, she forgot about those lil' communicator doohickeys. There was a voice screaming from it too, Mikoto's voice. Not only that it sounded pretty frenzied too, and for good reason; Reimu had apparently begun miko training, something no one of Makai residence understood or cared for, but this probably had to be something like maid training with, to say the least, Owlbear did NOT enjoy...

"I guess something must be going down..." Owlbear said before she sighed loudly in exasperation, holding hand to the side of her head as if a headache of epic proportions was beginning to manifest within it. "A-fucking-gain! Can't we catch a break for once?"

"Stop complaining, and let us make haste to the Library." Yumeko suggested.

"You're still in your pajamas though, should we change first." Luize voice not wanting to run around in night clothes.

"No time for that now." Yumeko added in. "If we waste time changing the miko will undoubtably seek us out and capture us, the first rule in battle is to make due with what you have, which is what we're going to do."

"I thought that was the 36th rule of battle?" Yuki said with a slight chuckle.

"...The point still stands as it is, now let us-"

Before Yumeko could finish their door was suddenly knocked down by what looked to be a giant ying-yang orb.

Ah fuck...

"Shit." Owlbear cursed dashing toward the orb and belting it with a good firm straight punch, the force managing to send it back into a wall and looking to have disabled it for a while. Good, that gives them some time to get the hell out of here and to that library everyone's flocking to right about now. "C'mon, we gotta scat*!"

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(1*): Shut up.

((I'll just stop here, I dunno if Toshiro and hs crew are in the Inn now or what, but once I confirm if they are (or not), then I'll post their end of things))

[E-Nazrin]

Freakin' Awesome Bed-Rollin' Chase Scene, Oh Man, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~4:45 AM, Day 5
Participants: Team Drillkumo, Team Ghostbusters, Reimu: E-mouse, Xan, hax

God damn it, Yukari.

Midori-chan? Okay, yes, it's clever, it plays with the apparent Spiral-green shtick I've picked up and how I've been turned into a girl, but...

Damnit.

If I end up miniaturized and grafted onto her arm I'm going to hurt someone.

..... at least her skin's soft. Her muscles are really tone, probably from default youkai strength, but she's still...

No, christ, now's not the time. Screw you, second hea...

... well, I didn't actually HAVE that second head right now... but on that topic, I think I remember Yukari offering to 'break in' my new...

For fuck's sake, NOT NOW!!

I shook my head vigorously. Yukari moaned unhappily as we careened through the hallways of, apparently, the Covenant ruins we'd ended up in. I... held her onto the bed with one arm, tightly. The bumps and turns were making my legs hurt too, but whatever she was going through...

... "Hang on." I whispered, "We'll be able to rest again once Reimu stops acting like a lunatic. It'll be all right, just....."

... wait, come to think of it.

"Uh, what's our plan, exactly?" I asked of the ghostlings rolling the beds along.

"There's a Library down here." One of the Yuyukos... more likely Sho, explained. "We're going to meet up with Mitaka and the others there, if all goes according to plan."

I tapped the side of my head lightly. "Of course, that's what they said over the cell." I considered for a moment. "Um, do you two know the way?"

"Yes. We've been down here quite a bit recently. Found some neat stuff."

I nodded. "Cool. I'd ask for more details, but I guess we're in a hurry, so--"

We rounded another corner, and were greeted by a glowing blue barrier sitting in the middle of the hall.

I gaped at it. What... what... wasn't that one of Reimu's IaMP amulet walls?! How did she...?!

I was briefly cut off as we swerved around the barrier, pushing me and Yukari closer to the center of the bed. Ow, fuck! I cried in pain again, gripping the edge of the bed tight... to keep myself on, this time.

... Yukari pressed against my side, groaning again. Yuyuko and Sho straightened out our bed again.

Well, at least we'd gotten more centered in the bed from that.

And...

I sat up a little and looked over my shoulder in time to see the amulet wall fade.

"Okay," I asked, "How the hell is Reimu using her powers without exploding."

"Remember what I was telling you about the other day?"

That one had to be Sho. But what was she...

"We found it."

Okay, think. Talking with male Sho. Where did I... the clothing shop. What did we... oh god, wait, she couldn't mean...

I felt my eyes widen. Looked up at her. "The keystone?"

Sho smiled. "Yep."

We reached another corner, and briefly slowed down; Reimu'd left another blue amulet barrier on the outside of the corner, where we'd developed a habit of passing through to get around them.

Good strategy, I must admit.

I kept silent as we navigated the corner, a little more hesitantly. The next hall was clear, though. Maybe she could only use one barrier at a time?

Whatever - I had more important questions.

"So what's the keystone's power enabling for us, here?" A thought. "And does it have any connection to these Covenant ruins we appear to be speeding through?"

"Yes, that would appear to be the case." Sho muttered, distracted. I guess she was more focused on navigating at the moment.

"As for what it's enabling, well..." Yuyuko continued, still surprisingly serious, "It allows us to move around more freely within the confines of the shrine and these ruins, and well, you see what it did for Reimu."

More freely? What did that...

... "Wait. Shrine?"

"We're underneath the Shrine." Sho answered, "Why do you think Reimu would be so insistent on Shrine-maiden training?"

Why, indeed. But it didn't completely answer my question.

"WHICH shrine? You don't mean the Saniwa place we've drawn so much attention to, do you?"

A short silence. "Know of any others I could be talking about?" Sho asked, voice deadpan with irritation. "It certainly isn't the Hakurei shrine."

"I was hoping against hope it was a new one entirely," I replied, and paused as we approached another corner. Reimu'd set up a barrier here as well, this time a little removed from the far corner. Technically, there was enough space to squeak by it in the far corner, but it definitely wouldn't be a good idea.

We slowed down more this time. This isn't good... Reimu's stalling us so she can catch up, I can tell. And at this rate...

As we rounded the corner, I noticed a small yin-yang orb floating near the ceiling, retreating from us. Huh, I guess that?s how she was dropping those walls in front of us.

Anyway.

"... a fresh start without any fear of Kikuri suspecting our presence would have been a welcome change." I finished.

"True." Sho admitted. "Then again, that might not have been possible anyways, given that she knew we were coming."

"Knew we were coming, yes."

A small corner of my mind noted the possibility of making an obvious perverted joke from the current conversation. I mentally punched it in the crotch.

"Know where we go afterwards, no."

Sho seemed to be getting a bit irritated with my persistent cynicism. "Well, blame fate then."

... a brief anger passed through me.

"Screw fate.

But I guess now isn't the time to argue."

We approached another corner. Wait, what's that thing on the floor at the far edge?

... is that a plate? With a slice of cake on it?

"Ooo!" two voices said from behind me. The familiar footsteps from directly behind me moved to the sides.

"Um," I started, as the twin Yuyukos passed by my now-slowing rollerbed in pursuit of the delicious lies presented to them.

Clearly, Reimu knows her trap material. And I don't mean the cute crossdresser kind of trap.

"Yuyuko-sama!" Youmu called after them, a hint of a groan in her voice. She let go of the decoy bed she was pushing, and darted ahead to try and stop the two from being morons.

She paused as she rounded the corner proper, and once my bed moved forward far enough, I realized why. Reimu'd blocked off the inside part of the corner with another barrier, lured the Yuyus to the outside part to block that off, and was standing in between, smirking. She was holding up a handful of amulets, ready to fling them at Yuyuko and Sho.

"Reimu! What the hell!" I cried.

Thank god that distracted her. She looked over at me, hesitating in her toss.

Youmu continued the distraction by pulling out one of her swords and rushing at her.

Oh hell, this shrinemaiden insanity better not get anyone killed, even if it's Reimu!

I needn?t have worried; Reimu blocked the half-baked slash with a fresh barrier. I heard Youmu growl slightly in frustration.

... a shadowy figure dropped from the ceiling behind Reimu. What...?

It was holding some sort of weapon, currently en route to the back of Reimu's head.

The miko's eyes flashed briefly, and she ducked out of the way of the attack...

"Ack?!"

... only to get knocked right back into Kogasa's ninja parasol strike as a cat and fox pair tackled her in the side. She fell to the floor.

How on Earth did we pull that off?! And why was Kogasa...?!

Youmu and Kogasa promptly tried to dogpile themselves onto Reimu and hold her down.

The miko would have none of it.

"ARRRGH!"

Another border flashed around Reimu, blowing her two attackers back. She got to her feet, looking furious.

"I knew you people would be trouble! Just stop it and--"

It was at about this point that both her and I realized that one of the Yuyukos had regained the sense to grab the decoy bed and shove it at her.

I could see the "Oh no, not again" pass through Reimu's eyes just before the bed hit her full in the chest.

Youmu scrambled to her feet and rushed to get my bed moving again. One of the Yuyukos headed for the decoy, and pushed it just a little more to rest directly on top of Reimu. The other Yuyuko cheerfully started down the next hallway, carrying a plate and licking her fingers.

The rest of us followed, speeding down to the next corner at record speed (and rounding it a little too fast for our own good). Reimu was delayed further by a parasol-poke parting shot by Kogasa.

We were all silent for a moment as we started down the second hallway past Reimu.

"Did we plan that?" I asked.

"I have no idea."

[Nemo★Ma]

Shrine Gate, After my last post

"Wah, I overslept again!" Amarillo jumped up from Lily's lap.

"Where am I? What happened?"

"~And our sleeping princess finally woke up." said Gpop.

"Oh, hi." Amarillo looked around "and this is the shrine gate, then I want to know what happened. and how I ended up lying on Lily's lap instead of my bed."

-5 minutes later-

"So Reimu are dragging everybody up in order to unleash a full set of Miko Training." Amarillo looks at her own clothing, "Oh, I have no question with that."

"And that's within one second!" Gpop shouted.

"I already told you she will have nothing to say on the training." Lily sighed. "If she have, then it's a different person."

"However, Reimu need to have more patience, I guess her way beside cold water is hot water." Amarillo smiled.

"And that's the same thing!" Gpop shouted again.

"No, seriously, hot water will damage your body, while cold water will not." Amarillo said.

"Dragging us up from the sleep is already damaging enough!"

"Said of sleeping," Lily asked "I'd never saw you slept like that - having absolute no awareness towards anything."

"I'm always like that, If I'm asleep, there will be nothing that can drag me up, so that's why I was not treated as a member of Chrono Agents, since a Agent that never wake up is a joke."

"So it INDEED is I'm watching over you." sighed Lily White.

"And that's a good thing since you are now watching over others instead of having others watching over you." answered Amarillo.

"Is that a tongue twister?" Gpop is confused.

"Eh?"

"Well, never mind."

At that time, an orange orb begin to form in front of the shrine.

"WHat- what's that?"

"Huh, that's a typical action of ripping away borders of Time and Space, I bet my senpais have unfinished business with me." Amarillo walks toward the orb, and wait it to form.

"So someone from your age will popping out?" Gpop asked.

"Seems so... or not." As the orb is disappearing, Amarillo take the paper that appeared from nowhere.

"Hmm..." Amarillo reads the contents on the paper.

WE ARE GIVING YOU A SHIELD
GA-05 IS ON HIS WAY
PREPARE TO MEET HIM SOON
FROM F.PHOENIX

"What's that mean?" Lily White looks at the paper.

"Hmm, I don't know, but we are getting a new partner, I suppose." said Amarillo.

A large crash can be heard in the shrine.

"Looks like Reimu's not that successful." Amarillo looks at the shrine, and said.

"Shall we go in?"

"Hmm, Whatever you wish."

[Gpop]

The construction site 2:05 AM Day 5

As Ryoji bursted into flames from Reimu?s basketball throw (and a pretty strong and accurate one too), Gpop and Koishi ran up to each other as they quickly found each other and hugged each other tightly.

?Koishi...I missed you so much...I?m sorry...? Gpop said as he began to cry.

?Why are you sorry? You saved me, and I?m here.? Koishi asked.

?I let you down. I let them take you away. They could?ve down horrible things to you. They could?ve killed you.? Gpop said as he sobbed.

?It doesn?t matter now, let?s go home and we could talk about this later. I?m not mad at all.? Koishi told Gpop. Gpop nodded, brought himself together and they followed everyone back to the shrine. But instead of going inside the shrine with everyone else, his team went underground instead, where they currently reside since it?s as close to home as they could get while Gensokyo is still gone.

Dreamscape, Middle of the night, Day 5

CRACK!

Gpop removes his hand from a single concrete wall, leaving a crack from where his hand once was. The wall that he punched was all that remains from an old building which was demolished a year ago by some group of terrorists who killed themselves along with 24 innocent civilians and bystanders inside and near the building with a bomb attached to themselves to scare off the government. But all of that was just a distant memory now, and most of the people moved on from such incidents, as it always happens at least once in their city.

Behind Gpop was a group of his friends, staring at awe at such power from a single punch, leaving no signs of injury from Gpop?s fist. ?How the hell did you do that?? One of them asked, a boy, about the same age as Gpop, but with darker skin, and a shaved head.

?Tae kwon do training,? Gpop responded. ?This is what you can do when you?re a black belt, Simon.?

?Oh I want to try then!? another boy said, as he walked up towards the concrete wall.

?I-I wouldn?t do that if I were you,? Gpop told the boy, but he ignored him, and attempted anyways. He lifts his arm, forms a fist, and thrusts it towards the wall.

CRACK!

But it didn?t come from the wall, in fact, it came from his hand, and by the next second, the boy was down on the ground, screaming in pain while holding on to his hand.

?I told you not to,? Gpop reminds the boy, as the group went up to the boy and helped him up from the ground. Still screaming in pain, the boy got up and had his hand bandaged by one of the girls from the group. Once his entire hand was bandaged, his suddenly stopped screaming, but was still holding his hand in pain.

?Huh...that?s nothing,? a voice from behind the group said. Everyone turned around to see another boy standing near the wall.

...no... Gpop thought quietly to himself. Why did he have to come here NOW?

?And who are you?? One of the girls asked.

?My name is Diego.? The boy said, ?I see that ?Gpop? punched this wall here,? he said as he walked towards the crack on the wall and rubbed it. ?But this is nothing. Little G here is pretty weak compared to the other Black belts.? He continued. And from there, he quickly punched the wall.

BOOM!

The entire wall crumbles to the ground from Diego?s single punch. Everyone stares in awe, including Gpop, but he also felt many other emotions inside of him as well. Anger, hate, jealousy, and embarrassment. Gpop blurts out, ?What the fuck are you doing here, cousin??

?Oh I was just passing by, enjoying the lake view. There?s no law against that, ?Gpop?, so don?t get all pissy off me.? Diego responds, looking at the lake located behind the concrete wall.

?I?m not. But you don?t have to come here and show off your strength just to make me look like a wimp.? Gpop complains.

?Oh look who?s talking.? Diego replied.

?You asking for a fight? Because now you got one!? And Gpop quickly tried to charge at his cousin and throw a punch at his face, but Diego easily reacts and dodges his punch, grabs his extended arm, and twists it to force Gpop into a lock.

?I don?t want to fight you, because then I?m gonna have to clean you up later.? And Diego pushes Gpop away from him.

?I?m not gonna go down like that!? Gpop yells at his cousin, and he charges him once more, but this time with a flying side-kick. Diego grabs his leg as it reached him with one arm, and his shirt with the other, and threw Gpop into the air. As Gpop descended, Diego does a round-house kick at Gpop, sending him flying towards the lake, but luckily landing at the docks before he could reach the lake itself, with Gpop?s head dangling over the lake.

Gpop found himself paralyzed by that attack, but yet he could still move his head around. Diego walked up to him, with the group of friends now cheering for Diego. Goddamn it...why... Gpop thought to himself.

Diego lifted his leg and placed his feet on his chest. ?Face it,? Diego smirked, ?I?m better than you in every way. Strength, speed, skill, technique and...? Diego stopped for a sec as he heard someone come over, ?...and getting the girls...ha!? When Gpop heard this, he lifted his head to see Koishi beside Diego with his arm around her body, kissing each other. ?...no...No...NO....WHY!? Gpop was too tired and hurt to cry, and when Diego heard him crying, he unlocked himself from Koishi and said to Gpop, ?Oh shut up crybaby, you should move on and get a girl that suits you...like the dead ones!? And with that he forced his foot forward, sending Gpop into the lake as Diego continued to lock his lips with Koishi.

As Gpop descended in the lake, he felt like death coming at any time, and he was ready to greet it as his life was just taken away by his most despised and evil cousin, kissing his life as they looked happy together. He no longer felt a point in life anymore.

He continue to descend until he noticed a working clock descending beside him, and just as he notices it, it began to ring violently...

Underground, 4.30 AM in the morning, Day 5

....RRRIIIINNNGGGGGGGGGG....

?AH FUCKING JESUS FUCKER SHIT ASSHOLE WHAT THE FUCK!? Gpop yells as he heard a violent ring coming from the table across from his bed. He and Koishi quickly got up and covered their ears as whatever was ringing continued to ring violently. Gpop looked up to see the source of the ringing to be his communicator. He quickly gets up and reaches for the communicator and pressed the button to stop the ringing.

?Ow...? Koishi was still holding on to her ears from the violent ring. ?Gpop, what was that??

?Some idiot who pressed the ?wake-up call? button. And it seems that that idiot is that deodorant!? He tells Koishi. He looks at the doorway to see Satori and Merlin enter their room, also holding their ears. Satori quickly glances at Gpop?s heart and quickly nods, and explains it to Merlin. Gpop placed the communicator near his face to speak into it.

"Mitaka! Or Mikoto! Or deodorant or whatever your name is now...this had better be good..."

"Gpop! You have to get out of there, fast! Reimu's on her way to get Sanae and..." Mikoto said from the other side of the communicator.

"Eh? Sanae? This early in the morning? What's...? he was interrupted by someone?s footsteps entering their room. He looks up to see Reimu coming towards him with a bucket of water. ?...h-hey! Reimu?! What're you doing in my room?! What's that bucket of water for?! N-No! NOT-? Before Gpop could finish, Reimu splashed the bucket of water at his body, which Gpop quickly finds out that the water was ice cold. Gpop dropped the communicator in the process, and falls to the ground. ?W-What the f-fuck was that for!?? Gpop exclaimed, shivering on the ground.

?Get up! We?re gonna do some training. And not just any kind of training. We?re doing miko training, and it all starts by waking up early in the morning! I don't care if you're a guy or not, because you're still doing it! Now get up!? Reimu yells at Gpop as she pulls Gpop up from the ground by the arm. ?Where?s Sanae!? I thought she was with you!? She asks.

?W-what? N-no! S-she didn?t h-have to b-be connected to m-me! She a-already came from th-the outside world, so she c-could live without our m-mana.? Gpop explained while he continued to shiver violently. Koishi quickly grabbed a tower and placed it around him to dry him off.

?Well that explains why she isn?t with you a lot,? Reimu thought out loud.

?W-what!? Couldn?t you have e-easily come to t-that conclusion b-before!?? Gpop exclaimed.

?SHUT UP!? Reimu said, and whacked Gpop on the head with her gohei. ?Whatever, I still came here to wake you up early for training! Now I gotta find her and the others! I bet that now with you guys talking over those talking boxes, most of them are gonna try to escape now.? Reimu crossed her arms to thinkit over, but then she quickly said, ?Oh wait I forgot, I got security all over the shrine, so there?s nowhere they could go without me knowing! Well now I gotta go find them, but to make sure you don?t run off while I?m gone...? She trailed off and whacked Gpop on the head once more, but this time a lot harder than the previous one, knocking him out...

Behind the Saniwa Shrine, 4:45 AM, Day 5

?...Gpop...are you still out...?? Gpop could hear Koishi?s voice while a hand was shaking him softly. Gpop opened his eyes to see Koishi beside on him on her knees, looking at him worried.

?...ugh...what happened?? Gpop asked as he got up from the ground. He inspected his surroundings to easily determine that he?s behind the shrine.

?Reimu dragged you here while we followed you since we couldn?t be separated. She found Sanae on the way here as well, also in the Underground Ruins, so now she's gone out to look for the others as well. Reimu just dropped you on the ground and placed these orbs around us...? Satori explained, sitting on a nearby bench. Gpop looked around to see 2 yin-yang orbs floating around them, following wherever they go.

?Damn it...she?s watching us from these orbs. I guess there?s no escape unless I wanna get myself killed.? Gpop said. ?Ah well. Let?s just go to the front of the shrine and see who else she caught.?

Shrine Gate, 4:55 AM, Day 5

?Hey...where are you two going?? Gpop asked Amarillo and Lily White as they headed back inside.

?Didn?t you hear the loud bang from inside the shrine?? Amarillo asked in response of his question.

?Bang? No...I must still be deaf from that freakin? ring.? Gpop responded. ?Ah well, I?ll go with you two, but uhh...can I tell you something Amarillo??

?Hmm??

?Well uh...first off, what do you think of my name, ?Gpop?? He asked.

Confused, she answered, ?Do you want the honest truth??

?Yeah.?

?Well...it?s pretty hard to believe it to be your real name. In fact, it?s pretty stupid.?

?Yeah I thought so,? Gpop responded, ?But...it?s really just my nickname that Koishi and I like to call myself.?

?What are you getting at?? Amarillo responded.

?Well I?m getting kinda tired of the name at the moment. I?d rather be called by my real name now.?

?Well I would probably call you that if you reveal it to me.?

?It?s...Gabriel. Gabriel Marcelo? Gpop, now known as Gabriel, revealed.

?Oh...spanish are you? That explains your tan body.?

?Yeah whatever,? Gpop blushed. ?Let?s just go inside and see what?s going on.?

[Bias Bus]

=== Saniwa Shrine - 4:59 AM ~ Day 5 ===

BANG

"Dammit!"

The sound of wood being splintered and destroyed echoed through the hall of the now chaotic Saniwa Inn/Shrine. The figure of Owlbear laying through a gapping hole in the wall in plain sight with a concearned Shinki shaking her head at how Owlbear was handling things. "See? This is why you should listen to me more often."

"Ugh, I know but they're just gonna keep followin us anyway..." Owlbear choked out as she pulled herself from the hole and brushed off the dust and woodchips from her frame and assumed a combat ready position. A set of ying tang orbs stood as her opponents and were the ones who put her through the wall, she was going to make damn sure that didn't happen again.

"Owlbear!" Yumeko yelled. "We mustn't waste time fighting those orbs, Reimu will only spawn more of them."

"I know!" Owlbear shouted impatiently. "But dammit I'm sleepy, tired of running, and fucking pissed off!"

Shinki sighed and shook her head at the hotblooded nature of Owlbear, it's not going to solve anything at this point and she needed to show her that. "Yumeko's right, Fukuma-chan," She said in a calm tone. "We shouldn't waste time here, let's get to the library before-"

"I find you."

Aww hell...

"It's the miko!" Yuki gasped.

Owlbear whirled around and fixated her raging glare on Reimu. "Hey! Where the fuck do you get off waking me up this fucking early!?"

"Shut up, you all needed some training as shrine maiden and I took it upon myself to start it." Reimu retorted back to Owlbear her tone doing nothing but pushing Owlbear deeper with in the heated depths of rage.

"Grrrrrh!" A faint, but vile aura began to pulsate around Owlbear's frame, the sight of it simply seething of anger and animosity.

"What are you angry at me, for interrupting your beauty rest?"

"Grrrrrrrrh!" The aura grew stronger.

"Fu-Fukuma-chan?" Shinki placed a hand on Owlbear's shoulder "Please calm down"

"She...she's infuriating...urge to punch...rising..." Owlbear growled in a down right feral tone. Her body trembling from the pent up frustration and rage that was quickly becoming too much to keep inside. And soon enough...

スナップ *

"You son of a...BITCH!" And like a tiger lay ready to pounce, Owlbear burst forward nearly going down on all fours as she charged Reimu screaming a war cry of absolute murder. Fortunately, Yumeko swiftly intervened with her attack and grappled the enraged Owlbear, throwing her to the ground with incredible force.

"Calm the hell down!" She screamed at Owlbear, their faces nearly touching one another. "You maybe the one to give us mana but I'll be damned if I let you screw us over like this!" Yumeko whirled around to Reimu and threw forth a set of knives she had quickly drew from her garter belts. The knives do not hit her, the lot of them being deflected by the ying yang orbs, and a retangular barrier brought up by Reimu. However, the attack itself was to to inflict damage but was used to divert the miko's attention away from the group for just a moment.

Which proved to be plenty of time for the blonde maid to knock out Owlbear with a quick blow to the back of the head with the butt of another knife. "Let's get out of here! Now!" Yumeko ordered as she hoisted the unconcious body of Owlbear over her shoulder and ran past Shinki and the others.

"Miss Yumeko, are you sure that was neccasary?" Luize said looking to Owlbear with a bit of concearn.

"Yes. Owlbear's wrath would have gotten us all captured," Yumeko answered dryly "I simply did this for the good of the group."

-----

Laziness again, next post = either Underground or Library

(1*): スナップ means 'Snap'

[Caber Knight Etch-A-Sketch]

Underground Ruins 5:03 AM Day 5 (Team Pirate)


Ria and Kaguya managed to find a spot to rest at in the Ruins. The library was much harder to find than last time, and the two are now lost in the winding maze of tunnels.

Kaguya: Man, I never thought Reimu would be this relentless.

Ria: Running around the tunnels... make me feel so nostalgic...

*Flashback

Path to the Core 11:00 AM Day

Ria: Feh... small fry...

Ria loaded another clip into the Lancer Rifle.

Orin: Well, they never were the sturdiest of guys in life.

Ria turned to see Orin standing behind her.

Orin: Sorry, but I cannot allow you to reach the core. It would be against the Mistresses wishes.

Ria: Well then, looks like I'll need to pay a visit with your master.

Orin: I'm sorry, cannot let you go any further

And with that, Orin summoned a horde of zombie fairies.

Ria: Well shit...

*end Flashback

Kaguya: Really? You've done that kind of stuff?

Ria: A while back, but yeah.

Kaguya: I though life outside Eientei would be interesting, but wow.

Ria: Yeah...

Suddenly, both of them realized just where they were, and why they weren't being fooolwed anymore.

Kaguya: isn't this the Library?

Ria: Huh. What do you know? It is.

[Bias Bus]

((Toshiro's half of things. Since I've been told he's one of them now, if he isn't or I'm too early, someone let me know and I'll promptly get rid of this. I think this is okay, but as I mentioned before, if it isn't lemme know and I'll morph this into a Team Makai post))

=== Toshiro's Dreamscape - Approx. 3:00 or 4:00 AM ~ Day 5 ===
-Previous Event-

White.

That is all Toshiro can see, nothing but a void of white that stretches onward ed infinitum. For some odd reason Toshiro found himself dressed in the same clothing as Almaz from Disgaea 3, strange, he's never played that game before...

"Hmm~Hmm-hmmm~" Came a faint humming sound, looking over his shoulder the sight of his mother standing at the stove of the kitchen to his (old) home came into view. She turned around and gave him a warm smile "Oh, Toshi, you're up early~"

"M-mother..." Toshiro choked up, his eyes filling with tears the moment he layed eyes on her. You would too if the mother you thought had died when you were 7 suddenly appeared before you alive and well.

"Come on, sit down, have some breakfast before we go to take your sister to school." His mother seemed...so happy, so cheerful as if nothing had ever happened. As if she had never died, as if she had never left her son...

"B-but..." Toshiro gasped wiping his tearful eyes and trying to regain his composure but still found it rather difficult to do so. "I thought...you were dead."

"Huh, don't say such things Toshi, I'm alive and well." His mother chuckled coming over to his side and pulling out a seat to the kitchen table.

"No...I saw you, your body it..."  Toshiro did not sit, he stepped back, unable to fathom any of this. She was dead, she was gone, why has she suddenly appeared before him after all these years of leaving him behind.

"Toshiro, I'm not dead, I'm right here for you." She responded as she pulled him into her bosom and hugged him tight. Her warmth...it was something one would not feel when touching a corpse. Then could it be for real? Was his mother still with him? "There's no need to be scared, my little Toshi."

"Mama..." Toshiro's eyes began to moisten again. Was it true that she wasn't dead, that he could finally ask her the question that he screamed to her from the living world. "Why...why did you leave me..."

"Oh Toshi..." His mother whispered, stroking his hair gently within her hands the sobs of her son being muffled by the bosom he lay into. "I never left you, and I would never leave you..."

Finally...after all of these years, he would be able to feel this warm feeling again. The feeling he loved so much, the feeling he wanted to have back so badly...it was finally coming back to him.

For once, he was truly happy.

"Boy!" Came the sudden call.

"Huh?"

"Wake up, boy" The voice shouted again. "It's all an illusion!"

Toshiro turns around in his mother's embrace to see a man wearing clothing suited for an imperial warrior of ancient Japan. "This woman is not what she seems!" He shouts to him from afar, banging his spear on the white ground of the void. "Heed my word, as truth and open your eyes!"

"Hey, you're..."

"No time for introductions, wake up and see the true face of your dream!"

Toshiro hesitated and noticed the comforting warmth of his mother began to quickly disappear as soon as the warrior said those words. Slowly, he craned his head upward and soon his eyes came to meet the face of his mother...albeit the face of his dead and rotting mother, her skin nothing more than a decaying mess as the maggots that now inhabited her body lay feasting on her eyes and face. Her head was slightly severed and was barely able to hang on her neck, the top of her head torn open as gallons of blood and brain fluid poured from the open gash within it. Then, as if anything else couldn't get any more heart wrenching, his mother looked down to him with her only remaining eye and smiled, maggots and worms wriggling free of her lips.

"I love you, Toshi~"

She vomited blood there after...

"あああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああ"

=== Saniwa Inn/Shrine - 4:40-4:55 AM ~ Day 5 ===

"Toshiro!"

Toshrio awoke to find his body being shaken and the voice of Yamame flooding his ear, and judging by the sound of it, she was in quite the panic about something.

"Toshiro, wake up!" She shouted "Something's wrong!"

"Mmh...what?" He replied in a groggy tone, before lazily rising from the bed from wence he slept. His still adjusting eyes coming to see Rin hissing and yowling at the door, the faint sounds of chaos resonating from behind it. Something was definately wrong here. Just as Yamame had told him, but what exactly was going on here? He...wasn't sure and that's what scared him into alertness. Not knowing what was going on and thus not knowing how to protect Yamame and Rin. "Yamame, what's going on?"

"I don't know, but...we can't stay here." Yamame answered as she went over to, the still hissing, Rin and took her into her arms.

Toshiro didn't question Yamame any further and go out from his bed, he knew that if something was going on in the shrine then they had to find a way out, but...where would they go? "Well, I dunno where we'll go, but..." Toshiro ran to the door to the room he slept in and opened it, peering outside to see if it was all clear "I guess we'll follow whomever we come across."

[Nemo★Ma]

A random icefield in Russia, Day 4, ?

A boy wearing a thick black jacket is walking on the icefield. If he would have any audiences, they would think this is a filming scene - By God's sake, a boy wearing some cool gears and carry a big shining broadsword can only be seen in the movies...

Or is he?

The boy stops, and strike his sword into the icefield, then stood back and wait.

And nothing happens.

"Nothing, nothing, nothing, for three days there is nothing here. And I'm more than bored." The boy murmured, "so there is nothing under here, not like our original Time-Space-Frame."

He slowly grab the handle of the sword, and pulled it out.

As he reloads the sword on his back, a orange orb started forming near him.

"Heh, I don't want a partner here..." The boy watches as the orange orb becoming bigger.

"Or another bunch of tools..." As the orb disappears, the boy sit on the ground, and start inspecting the wooden box transmitted from far-away.

as he saw what's sticking on the box, he whistles with joy.

"CURRENT MISSION COMPLETE, NEW MISSION ISSUED AND DETAILS PROVIDED IN BOX"

he lifted the box up and walk away.

Several hours later, an apartment in Moscow, Russia, ?

The boy is now sitting in a chair, reading the contents from the box.

It's basically some files,together with a book called "Prefect Momento in Strict Sense".

The files have some information on GA-04 and her current mission.

There are also some other files here, but the boy didn't seems to care.

He finally found the last paper, which is a mission briefing.

To GA-05:
New Mission : Protect GA-04's safety, together with her partner, and everybody who is there with her.
Mission is completed when: GA-04's Mission is Completed.
All rules as a Chrono Agent is applied.

Within this box is some information that's helpful for this mission.
Do Notice that GA-04 isn't trained as a soldier, don't relay her when fighting with unknown enemies.
After you finished this mission, we will accept you into the Chrono Agents Group.

Also Do Notice your history of failure when in the Scouting Squad is reviewed by us, we admit that being Hot-Blooded is a virtue, however that's devastating in any secret actions.

As a testing for your ability we withdrew you from the last mission and this mission is issued.

And this mission is NOT a secretive mission, your identity can be revealed to everyone there that ally with you or GA-04.

We wish you Good Luck.

EFA C.A. Commend Center

The boy smiles, and put the letter back in the box, then he noticed something stick behind the cover of the book.

It's a Credit Card, and a note.

Take that as my present, take care of Amarillo for us, From F.P

"Phew, now it's two departments issue me that mission."

"but it's sure better than scouting for a hidden base in the middle of an icefield!" The boy pick up the phone.

"Hello, I need to book a flight to Japan."

Several Hours later, Tokyo Intl. Airport, GA-05

GA-05, now wearing much better outfits than a thick jacket, walks out into the Airport Hall.

He had reviewed all the documents in the box, which he carries in his hand.

He soon find what he's needed - A Motorcycle Renting Shop.

After some bargain, the vendor is happy to sell him the least appealing cycle in-stock, believing that he is an actor and this can be served as a prop.

The Highway to Karuisuwa, GA-05

*CRASH*

As GA-05 is driving down the road, something collapses with him and both falls on the ground.

"Now what's happening?" He sits up on the ground and checked to make sure the motorcycle still (unbelievably) working. and then goes up to see what had crashed with him.

It's a girl with red hair and a green dress, however she's fainting and currently no shape of doing anything.

"If I throw it like that, Amarillo could be mad about me, I'll just throw this to her." after make sure the girl is alive, he put it in front of the motorcycle.

"Time for a new mission!" He drove off.

[Caber Knight Etch-A-Sketch]

Holding Room, Saniwa Shrine 8:45 AM


Cirno: ...and that's what happened up until now.

Marx: I see...*yawn* man I'm tired...

And Marx put her head on Anthony's lap, fast asleep.

Cirno: *yawn* me too...

And Cirno fell asleep on Marx


Dream Realm- Meeting of Minds and Memories


Cirno and Marx walked into a room filled with paintings. There was one that showed Marx and another one that showed Cirno.

Cirno: Where are we?

Marx: No idea. Hey, isn't this supposed to be a dream?

Marx(?): This is a dream. And at the same time, it isn't. This is a dive into your collective unconcious.

What appeared to be another Marx walked up to the two.

Marx: You! What are you doing here, Illuna?!?

Illuna: Well, it's obvious that I'd be here when you have control.

Cirno: What's going on here?!?

Illuna: Well then, I must be off now. I have to rest so I can wring power away from you.

Marx: Hey!

Illuna: Remember, just because I'm your Crios, doesn't mean I have to do what you say. Mwahahahaha.

And Illuna vanished from sight, her laugh echoing through the room and then dying out.

Cirno: Marx...

Marx: Well, let's check out what's going on. I wonder what all these paintings are for...

The two of them looked into one of the paintings that caught their interest.

*The picture*

Finally getting a break, the four of them decided to rest in Marisa's house. She gave them permission to stay there anyways. The four people I refer to are, of course, Forte the Swordsman, Lazuras the Sniper, Marx the Thief, and Ria the Gunner. They sat down to a game of cards.

Lazuras: Alright, anyone got the Three of clubs?

Marx: I do. *puts down cards*

Ria: Damn! A Straight!

Lazuras: Well then, *puts down cards* House of 5s

Forte: Holy crap! Er... pass.

Ria: Heh, you must have shit cards. *puts cards down*

This continued for a while...

Marx: Whoo! Won again!

Forte: Damn, you're good at this!

Lazuras: *yawn* well, you guys can keep going, I'm cutting out for the night. I'm out of stims.

Ria: Alright, I'll take night watch.

Forte: You do that. I'm gonna take a walk outside.

Marx: I'll come with you. It's very dangerous at night, you know.

The two of them walked along the moonlit path. Forte's long, white hair moved with the breeze. Marx suddenly stopped

Marx: Do you really love me, Forte?

Forte stopped as well, turning to Marx.

Forte: What an unusual question. Of course I do. What brought this around.

Marx: It's just that...

Forte: *Holds Marx close* Marx, you have nothing to doubt here. I have no reason to decieve you. I love you, I really do. *strokes Marx's hair* You're kind, thoughtful, and you can shoot with the best.

Marx: *blushes* I, uh, well, I guess...

Forte: You shouldn't be so nervous. Here, this should calm you down some.

And Forte kissed Marx deeply. This, however, made Marx even more excited around Forte. And the two held each other under the full moon.

*Back to the dream realm*

Cirno: That was...

Marx: ?!? That was a very personal memory of mine! How was it here?!?

Cirno: She did say that this was some sort of collective. Maybe one of my dreams are here. But man, that guy with the white hair seemed familiar... I think I've seen him around th real world before.

Marx: Really?!?

Cirno: Although, I forgot what he calls himself nowadays...

And the dream continued...


Entrance to the underground, Saniwa Shrine 8:40 AM


Austin stood at the entrance to the underground with everyone else. His white hair rustled slightly with the morning breeze.

Nitori: Everyone's ready, Etch.

Austin(who, from here on out, will be know as Etch): Alright guys, let's go.

Etch openned the great doors, and entered the ruins.

[Kojiremi]

Day 5 12:00 am Saniwa Shrine room



Kajira was upset.
She knew that those guys were the yakuza that everyone spoke of previously but was hopping to scare them away with there "welcoming" and blitzed services. OR at least make it seem like they were too crazy to want to ever deal with again.
Fat Chance.

Gpop was pissed. They kidnapped Koishi and he was running rampant. A few others were also kidnapped and without further adeiu the guys....girls left to get back their girlfriends, friends and comrades.
Kajira was about to head off with them but felt very weak suddenly.

Kajira: d-dam...i musta overdid it....
Pearl: Da...Mom you shouldn't be moving around so frantically your supposed to be sleepin at the moment anyway.

Kajira: yeah yeah.....*stands upright*....I'm fine. "kinda" lets go with everyone and get our friends back from those pricks.

Pearl: ^_^; Mom. I really think you should be sleeping at the moment.

Kajira: I can't rest if those guys do anythin to our friends i won't forgive them dammit

Pearl: okay fine however if you overexert yourself I won't forgive YOU ^_^ *looks at her with a pretty smiling face*

Kajira:........*gulps slightly*...*looks away* fine fine...*looks at her* but you're intending to go with them aren't you?

Pearl: good we understand each other then :smug:  lets  get our friends back in the meantime.

Kajira: alright be careful  kay

Pearl: naturally ^_^



Kajira was upset. Being stuck in his female form doesn't allow for too much power usage. He hasn't used it for a long long time and because of it felt more tired than ever before. Or got tired quicker than before.

Kajira: *sighed turned into a yawn* ~_~

Remilia: this is ugly. it seems like everyday something happens to us.

Kajira: ah. ~_~ *is agreeing with her*

Remilia: so I see Pearl got you to back down hmm? didn't know you was so soft.

Kajira: ah.... ~_~ *again agreeing with her* ......

Remilia: .........*Sweatdrops*



Basketball game aftermath Day 5, 2am

That game was over at last. Pearl was tense the entire time but then again so was everyone.  She was rather amazed at the display the Gensokians and their partners showed during the game to win it all. After the game Ryoji's body was burnt to a crisp after trying to extract more power from his magatama. Greed leaves to corruption...a lesson he learned most fatally.

Kajira was dead tired having played a really rough version of streetball depreciated her faster than current technology. Pearl did what she could with the Gensokyians who didn't have Ryoji to rely on anymore. She was sure they'd rather die than serve that pig head. She saved the Komachi and Elly and took it upon herself to be their supplier until everything is solved.

Komachi and Elly were unconscious since the shock of being mana-less was rather sudden and overwhelming. Kajira carried Komachi and Pearl carried Elly. After everything was over everyone returned home at last.

*IN their room 2:30*

Kajira cracks her neck and sits down on a couch after laying Komachi on her bed to rest.

Pearl: How terrible...I hope they wake up soon.

Minoriko: It'll be okay. I'm sure they'll wake up soon. Its just a little shock right?

Remilia: yes a little shock. A shock that drains the life out of you in an instant while your still conscious but yes a little shock.

Kajira:......

Rumia: Shocks are bad...Rumia doesn't like Shocks...

Minoriko leaves to make some tea for everyone and while she was Komachi finally wake up.

Komachi:*sits up slowly*...u...ugh..*holds her head*....what...happened? ....!! Where am i now?!

Pearl: its okay your safe now. This place has nothing to do with those thugs from before.

Komachi:...y-you serious? those stupid thugs aren't here at all?

Pearl nods happily

Komachi: *falls back on the bed* thank god.....they worked me like a DOG! it was high end slavery over there!! I'm so tired...

Elly soon wakes up as well with the same kinda reaction about where they were and who WASN'T there anymore.

Elly: thank goodness. Those thugs were the least civilized people i have ever met in my life!

Komachi: ~_~

Kajira: well they're gone now that's fer sure. no need to worry. However, I-

Remilia: -doubt we'll see the last of them. After the events of tonight they must find us a very suspicious bunch.

Kajira: ....yeah

Minoriko returns with herbal tea for everyone and serves everyone.

Komachi:....aren't you....the mistress of a mansion?

Remilia: *sips her tea* oh? so the mock trial criminal remembers me?

Komachi: *sweatdrops* only that I was brought in rather suddenly with no particular reason yes. Geez where you really investigating the strange weather?

Remilia: of course i was, why else would i waste my time on a death god?

Komachi: *sweatdrop*........

Kajira: now now that was in the past Remilia *pats her head*

Elly: I'm....tired.

Pearl: oh i forgot to mention.  Miss Elly and Miss Komachi...since I'm acting as your current. mana supplier, i hope we can become good partners until we find a way to restore Gensokyo. I don't have any memories of the realm but i hope you'll tell me many stories of the place so i can contribute in a way. ^_^

Komachi and Elly looked at everyone in the room and realized that everyone must have been in the same boat: mana linked to someone else.

Komachi: I just hope that Shikieki-sama was able to escape as well....It was really bad back there before the barrier died. I was in the middle of ferrying a soul...I don't think it got to the capital in time.

Elly: I'm also concerned about Mistress Yuka....well i'm not worried about her per say...i'm sure she could handle herself against any opponent but if she needs mana to live on as well I only hope she was saved by someone....

Everyone in the room was worried about someone. Remilia didn't show it but she was very concerned about Hong. She didn't return with them after that basketball match. Sakuya, Patchouli, Flandre, and Hong were the only ones she was ever truly grateful to have and she was indeed worried.

Minoriko was grateful that her sister was alive and with them. Her sister is all the family she has and that meant a lot to her. Much more now than it has ever before.

Rumia missed nothing as her memory was totally gone but the only thing she can unconsciously recall was the sandwhichs Kojiro used to make for her as he gave one to her earlier last night.

Kajira: ....its gettin late. we better get some rest and think about what to do next in the morning. I don't think we'll be doing anything major today after what just happened....(LOL!!)

Pearl: y-yes Da...mom lets go miss Komachi, miss Elly i'll share my room here with you and we have to stick relatively close in order for the mana links to fully materialize.

They nodded in aggrement and the 3 scythe users gave their goodnights and left the room.




~~~~Room 3am~~~~

Rumia fell asleep on the couch and Kajira put a blanket over her to ease her sleep.

Minoriko took the second bed in the room and started to sleep.

Kajira got in a rocking chair and started to sleep while she watched Remilia crawl into the other bed right next to him.

Remilia: By the way...do you know when that drug will wear off?

Kajira: -_- i hope later on today and soon I get too tired too quickly like this. its not funny.

Remilia: *just looks on with a devious and playful smile* I wonder how you taste now.

Kajira:....eh?

At that Remilia suddenly pounced on Kajira with covers still over her and bit her neck

Kajira: !!! o_-  "looks like it'll be a long night"

Remilia: "its gonna be a fun night"  .......its pretty sweet! <3 

Kajira: no sweets before bedtime *sweatdrop* not good for you.

Remilia: only i can and will determine whats good for me and its you!

Kajira: come on i need my strength. I'm already super tired as is

Remilia: fu-fu-fu fine then but you'll owe me afterwards.



Little did they know the next few hours were the only hours of sleep they got.

[Gappy]

Ok...gigantor post...And I still ended up cutting out 3 scenes I had planned on adding as I am still not quite satisfied with them. I suppose I'll leave that till later.

And I'll deal with any Yukari-gaps after. Just let me know.

An abandoned village somewhere in Northern Kyuushu,, ~2.10 AM, Day 4
Featuring: The Order of Elemia and the remnants of the Eastern Celestial Garden Sanctuary

?So this is what?s left of the Eastern Celestial Garden sanctuary?? A tall, stately black-haired man in white robes said airily as he stepped through the burning shrine. Rafters fell in his wake, but he paid them no heed. ?Mere rabble.? Janus Kano, Archbishop of the Elemian Order, sighed grandly.

?Capture the abnormals and any outsiders don?t resist too much! Kill anything else!? He shouted as Elemian order members dressed in white robes ran past him.

?Quistia, where is the next sanctuary?? He asked the aide by his side.

?We had planned on taking out the remnants of the Ainu sanctuaries, but it seems RAI Force and Cabinet 42 are already en-route to Hokkaido. That leaves us with the few remaining ones on Honshu and Kyushu.? The aide, a black haired bespectacled woman in white robes, replied.

?What about the Dragon Palace in Okinawa?? Janus asked.

?We haven?t heard from the search party yet.? Quistia said. ?But we?re sure Princess Otohime managed to escape with a large group of refugees.?

?Out of the frying pan and into the fire.? Janus said. ?We will hunt them down in due course. Any word regarding the Lunarians??

?Only a handful, including the Royal Family, managed to escape. Even then their ship crash-landed somewhere in Japan.? Quistia reported. ?There is a large amount of mana interference, however. We have reason to believe RAI is covering it up.?

?We will find them in due course.? Janus said. ?Just as we will root the other rats out of their little holes.?

Janus kicked down a door as casually as ringing the door bell. They into the room to find a young girl, radiant in beauty, with smooth pale skin and long, silky black hair. She was clothed in rather shoddy pedestrian attire, but it was obvious that she was too beautiful to be human. She gasped upon seeing Janus and scrabbled backwards in fear, shivering all the while.

?Shirayuki-Hime!? A young boy leapt in front of the girl with a broken boken in hand.

?Oh?a yuki-onna (snow woman)?.? Janus raised an eyebrow.

?Stay away from her!? The boy raised the boken threateningly while kneeling by the shivering girl. ?Why?! Why are you doing this?! These people are innocent!?

??innocent? Innocent, you say?? Janus chuckled mockingly. ?The demons you consort with? Innocent? Do you not realize how many innocents you put at risk by protecting these demons??

?I will give you one chance to join us and our Covenant.? Janus said, spreading his arms benevolently. ?Come with us and we will show you the truth.?

?I don?t know what you?re talking about!? The boy glared at Janus. ?But if you?re asking me to betray my comrades, you?ve got another thing coming, pal.?

?I?ll give you one last chance to repent, boy. Leave the girl and renounce your ways. Join our Covenant.? Janus said, with an air of generosity.

?Shirayuki-hime?forgive me?? The boy murmured, hugging the girl close.

?It?s all right, Yoichi-kun?.? The girl said, returning his hug. ?It?s all right??

The two shone brightly for a brief moment, the light melding into one blinding glow.

?Foolish boy?So that is your so-called 100% synchronization, is it?? Janus smiled sardonically. ?You?re not the only one with such tricks, however, for these demons are truly slaves of the Covenant.? He snapped his fingers and two figures stepped out from behind him, one angel, one demon.

The fire chose that moment to grow fiercer, obscuring them from view?.

-scene fades to black-

Amakawa Residence, Living room, ~8 PM, Day 4
Participants: Team Amakawa

?GONE?!? Amakawa Yumiko demanded as she paced about the Amakawa residence?s lavishly furnished living room.

?Yes, my lady, I?m afraid so.? Her butler, Sebastian, nodded grimly.

?Unacceptable!? Yumiko screamed, stomping her foot down violently. ?That Magatama was supposed to be my trump card to empower Kanako! Without it how am I supposed to beat that senile old fart Saniwa?!?

?With all due respect, my lady, you can easily win without?? Sebastian began, but was quickly interrupted by Yumiko.

?It must be that no good yakuza brother of mine?.? She muttered darkly. ?When I get my hands on Ryoji I?ll?? Her voice trailed off as she tried to think up the most ghastly thing she could do to her oh-so-beloved brother

Sebastian didn?t want to interrupt his mistress reminiscing about her beloved brother, but he did so anyway. He cleared his throat audibly before asking, ?By the way, should I notify her imperial highness the princess??

?Princess? What?? Yumiko snapped out of her rather violent train of thought rather abruptly.

?Her Imperial Highness Princess Yukiko. She has requested to visit to inspect the magical artifacts of the Amakawa Shrine on her inspection tour.?

?GAH!? Yumiko smacked her forehead. ?That nosy brat! Just when the magatama was stolen too! Well?.? She sighed. ??remove the magatama from the artifact catalogue and tell that nosy imperial brat she can come or whatever.?

?Very well, my lady.? Sebastian nodded, before turning to leave.

?Oh, and gather my team for a meeting.? Yumiko suddenly added. ?And tell Kanako  to move her lazy butt. She?s part of my team?she should start acting the part!?

===

Imperial Family?s Personal Jet, 8.20 PM, Day 4
Participants: Her Imperial Highness Princess Yukiko and her loyal entourage

?Ah?? A young girl with silky raven-black hair blinked blearily as she snapped out of  a rather fitful sleep. ?F-forgive me, Takei-san?that was rude of me?? She apologized to the man sitting opposite him.

?Yukiko-Hime, you should catch some sleep while you can.? Takei said, concerned. ?You?ve been working non-stop for almost 2 days now.?

?Do not mind me, Takei-san. The country?no, the world is in grave danger.? She said, a grim look on her face. ?My very family, the Emperor himself, are being secretly held down. If I don?t do this, who will??

?Still, it?s because you?re the only one, you must take care of your own health.? Takei said. ?You are the resistance now. You are Japan?s?no, the world?s only hope??

?I wouldn?t go as far as saying I?m the only hope.? Yukiko said. ?I?m sure that, as we speak, there are others out there resisting.?

?Princess Yukiko?I?m sure you?re aware, the Japanese government and that of most leading countries of the world are very much behind

?This man, codenamed ZUN?do you really think he can help us? Not to sound rude, your highness, but this man is?.a part-time small-time game-designer, part-time drunk?? Takei began.

?He is one of the few who understands our war. RAI is, beyond a doubt, after him.? Yukiko said grimly. ?Him and everyone else involved in this secret war.?

?Your highness! Our agents down on the ground just told us that the man known as ZUN has fallen off the grid. He?s gone!?

?Tch?I only hope that?s him being prudent and hiding himself. If RAI got him?? Yukiko said.

===


Construction Site beside the Junes Department Store, After the basketball game, Day 5
Participants: Everyone

The absurd battle was over, finally. The Yakuza had retreated. Now it was time for tearful reunions and complaints of exhaustion.

??I invoke this contract, under the pledge of siblinghood we call our Covenant.? Chloe murmured under her breath as she held the trembling raven that was Okuu in her hands, close to her heart. ?This is my vow, our oath, the Covenant, that binds thy destiny to mine, mine to thine. Let my life be thine, and your hearts mine. My heart in yours, your souls in mine. Utsuho Reiuji, may Elimia bear witness to this solemn vow and make this contract binding eternal.?

She was enveloped by a brief glow which caused her to tremble a little. When it subsided, she was glad to see that the raven had calmed down considerably. In fact, she seemed to be resting.

She wrapped her scarf around the raven and held her close as she stood up to look over the rest of the group.

?Hey?? Toshiro began, approaching her with Yamame and Orin by his side. ?Thanks for the help earlier.?

?No problem. I should be thanking you.? Chloe replied.

?Toshiro.? Toshiro said, offering his hand in introduction.

?I?m Chloe.? Chloe replied. ?And this is?Utsuho, so I?m told.? She gestured at the raven resting in her scarf.

?This is Yamame? Toshiro said, patting Yamame on the head. ?And that?s Orin in her arms.?

?Oh, a lot of new people?? Pearl walked up to the two. ?Do you two need a place to stay??

?I think we can trust them.? Eirin began. ?They did help us out after all.?

?How can you be so sure? They could be RAI spies for all we know.? Shoko pointed out. ?Jeremy wouldn?t approve.?

?Hello? We have a mind reader in our midst. If you were one you?d be announcing it very, very loudly.? Gpop said, nodding at Satori.

?We?re going to be reopening the shrine and inn up the hill over there.? Hiroko explained, ignoring the small argument that had broken out. ?We?re going to need plenty of manpower.?

?Girl power!? Tenshi corrected.

?Well?girl power, whatever.? Hiroko rolled her eyes. ?So, interested in a job? There?s room and board.?

?Plus you?re both Masters. We Masters have to stick together to survive.? Kajira added, in her usual buoyant manner as she came up with Rumia on her shoulders.

?Masters?? Toshiro asked.

?People like you two who have formed mana contracts with people from Gensokyo.? Hiroko explained.

??.? Chloe looked around uneasily at the rest of the group. There were many overwhelmingly strong auras?some that felt chillingly threatening. There were few humans?and even the humans

Her gaze fell on Amarillo and a dark sense of unease filled her. She felt human?but the girl?s aura was only partly human. A part of it was?something else?.

Amarillo, noticing Chloe?s gaze, looked around at her. Chloe quickly averted her gaze to avoid her attention. Her eyes fell on Alex. Again, only partly human.

And those two weren?t the only ones?

This is bad. Real bad. If she stayed it would only be a matter of time before they noticed. She had to get away before she was discovered?.

?I-I don?t think I?ll?? Chloe was about to turn down the offer when she noticed a familiar aura within the group. She looked around at its source. It turned out to be Mikoto, who was painfully recovering from the effects of the alcohol. She cocked her head from side to side, as if trying to find something missing. The aura was familiar?but it had changed a lot too. Could it have changed this much in the past 4 years??

?more importantly, it was coming from a girl?

Nah, it definitely wasn?t him?but such uncanny resemblance?

?If you?ll accept me, I?d be very grateful.? Toshiro said, accepting the offer. ??truth be told I wanted to leave this town but?? He looked around at Yamame and Orin. ??I can?t let them sleep out on the street??

?I?m sorry, I can?t accept.? Chloe said. ?I must be leaving now. Good luck to you.? She was about to turn to leave when Pearl called after her.

?Wait, do you have a place to go tonight?? Pearl asked.

??.? Chloe looked around. ?Umm?no. But it doesn?t matter. I?ve been traveling for a while so??

?Then you should at least stay the night at our place.? Yuyuko said kindly. ?You?ve saved our friends. At the very least let us show you our gratitude.?

??.? The prospect of a warm bed and a roof over her head for the night was tempting but?.

The warm smiles of Yuyuko and Pearl melted her doubts away. Perhaps she could avoid getting found out just for one night??

?Um?very well. I will impose on your hospitality for the night and leave first thing tomorrow?? Chloe said.

?Good girl.? Yuyuko smiled a radiant smile as she pulled Chloe into her abundant bossom. ?Ah, I was right! You feel just like Youmu.?

?Muuu?!? Chloe let out a muffled yelp.

??Yuyuko-sama?.I think she won?t last any longer?? Youmu pointed out worriedly.

?What?s going on over there??? Mikoto asked whoozily. She was already experiencing the beginnings of what she was sure will be a killer-hangover.

?Well, it turns out Yamame and Orin found themselves a Master.? Reimu said. ?Hiroko just asked him to join the fold. And Yuyuko just asked that girl, Chloe, who helped us out, to stay the night.?

?Wait?Did you say ?Chloe??? Mikoto blinked.

?Yes.? Reimu said. ?What? You know her??

?Not THAT Chloe? Mikoto muttered to herself. ??for once I?m thankful for Eirin?s shady drugs?? Mikoto gulped. ?Err?.can we?go??

====

The tank hangar/laboratory/Team TANK?s room, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~2.10 AM, Day 5
Featuring: Team TANK, Nittori, Reimu and Sanae

Deep down under the sleeping town of Karuisuwa, unknown to its inhabitants, sprawled a huge underground network of ruins. And a small part of it was anything but asleep. Behold, the newly reactivated Covenant research block, or, more precisely, a sizeable laboratory module within said research block, the size of a small warehouse overlooking the spacious vehicle hangar (that now happens to house Rika's Flower-Challenger MKII tank and the currently FUBAR'ed Lagann). On a platform overlooking the laboratory space below was a small retrofitted living area that now sort of belonged to team Tank.

And there, seated comfortably in the bunks and assorted office chairs, sofas, and bean bags were the team's more technology-literate members and two armpit mikos.

A secret midnight meeting between girls?.what could they be talking about??

?So you guys got this communicator thing and you never bothered to tinker with it?? Rikako Asakura asked, tapping through a pocket communicator. Reimu, Sanae and Rika had spent some time getting Rikako and Chiyuri up to speed with team Gensokyo?s current status. Now Rikako and Chiyuri had begun tinkering with the bits of technology they had recovered.

?We know it has a GPS, distress signal and communicator function.? Sanae pointed out as she spun round and round on one of the office chairs.

?Right?did you know it had something like this?? Rikako asked, tapping a few buttons on the touch-screen to bring up an unfamiliar new application.

?Linker-RSA?.What?s that?? Nittori asked.

??my communicator doesn?t have that?.? Sanae said.

?Because it?s unique to Master communicators.? Rikako pointed out. ?Linker ? Resonance Synchronization Analyzer, Linker-RSA for short...or at least, that's how the covenant language pack translated it.?

??that communicator belongs to tank boy over there?? Nittori asked, nodding at T34 who was snoozing away in his bunk.

?Yep.? Rikako nodded. ?Slipped it out of his pants.?

?Cunning...? Reimu nodded with approval.

?Hey, my picture?s there.? Rika said.

?So is mine.? Chiyuri added.

?So?it tells you what mana contracts you have?? Reimu asked. ?What are the little line graphs on the side?? She asked, pointing at the actively fluctuating line graphs on the side, reminiscent of heart ECGs.

?There are two lines. The green one?s your vital signs, essentially an overall summary of how your body?s doing. That much I?m sure of. The other blue one is?.I?m not quite sure just yet?? Rikako said.

?Well, if one?s body, the other one?s probably spirit?? Sanae suggested. ?Just a suggestion.?

?Only one way to find out.? Reimu said, picking up a convenient, fortuitously placed paper fan and walking up towards Rika.

?Wh-what?.wh-what?s the fan for??? Rika backed away nervously.

?Oh??? Rikako noticed Rika?s second graph suddenly turn a shade of violet as it increased in frequency and amplitude.

?Sacrifice yourself for science, Rika.? Nittori said.

?This is all for the sake of science after all.? Reimu said, without the slightest hint of malice. ?Bear it for the team.? She whacked Rika hard on the head.

?Oh?? Rikako noticed the second graph turn a violent shade of purple as it reversed and spiked, before turning very irregular. The vitals graph showed a smaller spike and turned yellowish green briefly before returning to its usual green.

?Ah, it shows you your mental state?? Chiyuri suggested.

?What? You can't quantify something like fear or pain...? Rikako began, before she remembered what sort of technology she was dealing with. ?...or perhaps you can...? She gritted her teeth. To be trumped by magic like this...

??mental patterns?? Rika asked, nursing the sore spot on her head, still irritated at having been used as an impromptu guinea pig. ?What on earth does that have to do with our mana contracts??

?Hmm?as far as I can tell, it has a slight effect on your synchronization with tank boy.? Chiyuri said, indicating the communicator's display. ?See the percentage next to the graph?? She asked, pointing it out. ?That tells you how synchronized you are.?

??but the effects are too insignificant.? Nittori said. ?There must be some other use for that mental pattern analyzer thingy.?

?You think?? Rikako asked, sighing.

Reimu seemed to be deep in thought. ?Hmm?Nitori, do you think that might be compatible with the Linker-MAD??

?Oh? What?s this?? Rikako asked, raising an eyebrow.

?Something new Sanae, Reimu and I are working on. Linker ? Mana Amplifier Drive, or Linker MAD for short.? Nitori explained. ?Keine and the Makai team found some obscure instructions after digging in some lab place somewhere in the lower block 2 days ago and I ran it through a covenant computer.?

?Tch...more magic...?? Rikako sighed in defeat. She was truly out of the water now with all this magic talk.

?There is another application here called the ?synchrograph? which is common to all communicators, not just master ones. It looks similar.? Chiyuri said, pointing out another new application on the communicator.

?That?s it, the synchrograph!? Nitori suddenly exclaimed.

??well well, looks like we might be able to teach this to the others after all.? Reimu suddenly broke a mischievous smile. ?Sanae!?

?Y-y-yes??? Sanae jumped in surprise.

?We?re not sleeping tonight?? Reimu said, taking hold of her hand. ?To the training room!?

?eeep~? Sanae squeaked as she was pulled forcibly out of the room.

===


Shrinemaiden Escapee Schemeratics, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~4:50 AM, Day 5
Participants: Team Drillkumo, Team Ghostbusters, Team FUBAR: E-mouse, Xan, Mind-The-Gap

(Dialogue planned and written by E-mouse, Xan and MTG. Narrative written by E-mouse.)

Jeremidori, Shoko, Gensokyo's resident ghosts, their pets, and now their umbrella, continued their blitz through the hallways of the Covenant ruins. Oddly, they were left unmolested by flying yin-yang orbs, amulets, and even Needles of Forceful Persuasion.

"Think she got frustrated?" Jeremy asked, scanning the ceiling for any floating orbs.

"Well, I--"

Sho was cut off in rounding the corner as their lone carrying bed rammed headlong into an unfortunate soul that managed to be standing exactly where none of them could see her while remaining in the way.

Two girls shrieked in pain, and a third groaned. The group stopped, hesitantly.

Yuyuko turned back to the victim, and put a hand over her mouth. "Oops... I think we ran over something soft."

Sho(ko) was less calm about the incident. "Oh, SHIT!"

The crumpled figure stirred. "... did... anyone get the number of that trolley...?"

"Uh... oops." Midori muttered, looking back at her. "That isn't Reimu, is it?"

"Didn't sound like it." Kogasa replied, tilting her head.

"One could hope." Youmu grumbled. "She IS... wearing a shrine maiden outfit."

"Oh well, whatever it was, it's dead now~" Yuyuko sang, and turned back around. "Oh!"

"Did he lose anything else this time?" another new arrival asked, carrying a small doll. A maid and a small girl rushed past her to the fallen girl.

Suika looked over the crumpled form on the floor. "Looks okies to me..."

Jeremy blinked at the new visitors. "... Alice? ... 'he?'" He conduced a brief mathematical deduction in his head. "Oh hell, we ran over Mitaka, didn't we?"

Marisa grinned at Midori. "Don't minds, don't minds, ze."

"Mitoko-san!" Ruukoto the Magical Robo-Maid cried, kneeling next to her.

"Well, 'he' isn't exactly accurate anymore..." Shoko mused.

"Physically, no." Jeremidori corrected, a bit too seriously, "Mentally..." He frowned. "Hm. Good question."

Alice caught up to the rest of the group standing over Mikoto, pulled out a long knitting needle, and poked her with it. She looked back over at Jeremy. "So, you decided to wake up?"

Midori nodded. "Apparently, I managed it. The alarm was... rather thoroughly effective."

She looked down at Yukari, still resting fitfully on the bed next to her. "Though I think it only worked after being mostly recovered..."

Back on the ranch with Mitaka, she was gurgling slightly as Marisa forced a mushroom down her throat. The magician smiled. "That should help!"

Midori stared at her for a moment. "Uh..... are we SURE those aren't poisonous?"

Marisa faced her and grinned. "All medicines are poisonous, ze!"

"And Medicine is Eirin in a very clever disguise." Jeremidori muttered.

The rest of Team FUBAR didn't notice. "Coming from you, that's mighty reassuring." Alice replied, dryly. Marisa stuck out her tongue in lieu of a counterargument.

"Mikoto-san!" Ruukoto cried, "Don't die!"

Suika produced a large white bottle from somewhere. "Add sake?"

"NO!!" Alice and Marisa answered, for once in strong agreement.

"Sake...?" Midori mumbled.

Mitaka started to gurgle louder, her face turning a pale blue.

"Oh, that's a healthy hue." Marisa said.

Yuyuko was rather curious about this development. "Hmm, his face isn't supposed to match my clothes, is it?"

Jeremidori merely looked on with an expression of mixed disgust and disbelief, wondering when CPR shenanigans would enter the picture.

(Un?)Fortunately, they didn't have to, as Mikoto managed to cough up the mushroom and take in a desperate gasp of air. "HAAA!" She glared in the general direction of Marisa. "Were you trying to kill me?!"

Midori sighed in relief. "Phew, that's better."

"Who, Marisa or them?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, they tried to kill you first!" Suika cried, grinning at the bed-roller crew.

"More like we didn't know you were there." Sho(ko) grumbled.

"And trying to kill me a SECOND time makes any difference?!" Mitaka shouted, "DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!"

Jeremy sighed again.

Shoko coughed quietly. "Uh, sorry to bring this up, but could we get out of here before Reimu catches us?"

Oddly, Mikoto did not object to this particular change of subject, perhaps thanks to experiencing the horrors of Reimu personally (if her current outfit was any indication). She got to her feet.

"Ah, yes," Mitaka replied, voice shaking slightly, "Haste WOULD be nice."

She hesitated, and turned towards the rollerbed Midori was sitting on. "Oh, Jeremy, you're awake!"

Jeremidori hesitated before replying. "... yeah, apparently. I heard you're... not in the best shape, either."

Mitaka smiled, and gave her a small shrug. "Ah, well, no sense crying over spilled milk."

"Like accidentally running you over?" Midori shot back, deadpan.

Mikoto nodded. "Nobody's dead, so yeah."

Shoko smiled. "Looks like I'm going to have to get injured soon so I don't feel left out."

Jeremidori went past the joke to a more serious matter. "Speaking of 'left out,' what the hell has been going on while I was out?"

Before anyone could reply, Marisa cried out, "BALLS!"

Several present resisted the urge to make a crude and perverse comment.

"REIMU'S BALLS!" Suika corrected, pointing up at the small squadron of yin-yang orbs that had rounded the corner.

"Damnit, Reimu!" Midori cried up at them.

"Oh shit, run!" Shoko added.

Mikoto put a hand on Suika's shoulder, and pointed down the hall. "Lead me, my loyal guide dog!"

She was briefly winded by a mighty oni headbutt to the belly.

"You know the drill, Alice!" Marisa cried. She pulled a small dusty-grey ball out of her pocket, and tossed it at the ground. It exploded into a thick smokescreen, provoking a few coughs from those assembled.

"Wh... kah! What..." Midori stammered, as her bed started moving again.

Alice flung a doll in the general direction of the flying yin-yang orbs. It then exploded, blasting several of them into the walls, sparking. The remainder flew right through the smokescreen before being met with a second exploding doll.

((The following is by MTG))

A figure loomed in the darkness as they burst out of the smokescreen. It stood in the middle of corridor, the perfect image of cool and calm.

?Is that?.?? Ruukoto began. ?R-Reimu-neesama desu??!? She gasped.

?RUN HER OVER!? Shoko shouted.

?And you had a problem with running over someone else earlier?? Youmu deadpanned.

?It?s her or us. Easy decision, right?!? Alice pointed out.

Everyone looked at each other?and nodded in agreement. ?Easy mode it is.? They accelerated on towards the soft-fleshed obstacle.

But to their surprise, their squishy little road-block didn?t budge from her spot.

?Err?shouldn?t she?moves?ze?? Marisa asked.

?Never mind! If she doesn?t, mow her DOWN!? Alice declared.

?R-R-Reimu-neesama desuu!? Ruukoto shielded her eyes against the inevitable collision?

?but it never came?

Everyone slowly opened their eyes?

??.how na?ve?? Reimu sighed as she hung onto the trolley?s front, towering over them. ?You seriously think the same trick will work on me twice?!? She asked.

??it did. This is our third attempt.? Midori pointed out.

??.? Reimu blinked. ?Well, you can?t expect to catch me with such petty tricks again.? She corrected herself. ?Now, succumb to miko training!?

?It?s?been a while, Reimu?? Mikoto grinned as she gritted her teeth against the wind. In the commotion Youmu had managed to deftly slip under the bed with Kogasa!moebrella in hand. Midori and Shoko secretly passed her a few more or Marisa?s smoke bombs and Alice?s artful sacrifices for her short journey.

?Indeed. For the two of us to meet like this?? Reimu gestured around her. ?On the field of battle?? She didn?t seem to notice Youmu slowly inching towards her underneath the bed?.

?Ironic, huh? Friends yesterday, enemies today?? Mikoto endeavoured to keep Reimu talking?just a bit more?

?T?is unfortunate, but we are but simple pawns, playthings of cruel fate.? Reimu sighed. ?If the tides of battle land us on opposite shores, then we have no choice but to meet as foes.?

?Can we not go back to how it was back then?? Mikoto pleaded. ?Can we not...go back to those brighter days when everyone could smile and laugh freely? Remember those days when Suika would pour sake down your bloo-...?

?Sorry, I don't think the corridor's long enough for a flashback.? Reimu pointed out flatly.

?...Then...can we not talk this out? Can we not avoid the bloodshed?? Mikoto asked, with a sincere look. ?...if our friendship meant anything to you...?

?How na?ve?if the world were that simple, that ideal, we wouldn?t need shrine maidens.? Reimu said.

?Then?answer me this at least?? Mikoto sighed. ?Why??? She began. ?Why?am I wearing a bloody miko outfit? Why am I wrapped in a sarashi when there isn?t anything to wrap? And?.WHY AM I WEARING BLOODY BLOOMERS?! Mikos don?t wear bloomers! This is madness! This is BLASPHEMY!?

?Blasphemy?? Reimu raised an eyebrow, before leaning in towards Mikoto. ??this?is the world of MIKOS!?

?wait?why?s Reimu still talking?? She?s not so stupid as to give villain ego-speeches?unless?.

Mikoto turned her head around. Sure enough, Sanae was shadow-running at an inhuman speed towards them from behind. ?It?s a TRAP!? Mikoto cried.

?It?s a double trap!? Shoko supplied.

?Tch!? Reimu threw her arms forwards, gesturing the orbs around them to swoop down on them. She whirled her body around and caught the Kogasa!Moebrella with one hand before Youmu managed to whack her in the back with it. ?You?re too soft, Youmu!? She shouted, as she pulled on the Moebrella with one hand, pulling Youmu up with her. She brought down a set of paper talismans down on Youmu?s face with her other hand. Youmu, in defense, raised one of Marisa?s smoke bombs towards the incoming talismans. The collision caused a huge burst of choking, blinding smoke to engulf them.

?Give it up, Reimu-san!? Youmu shouted as the smoke cleared to reveal her behind Reimu, holding Reimu in a choke-grip with the Kogassa!Moebrella and an artful sacrifice doll. ?Tell Sanae-san to back off!?

?We?re going to crash!? Yuyuko blurted out as their trolley rattled on towards the end of the corridor which opened out to what looked like a low wall overlooking a huge drop.

?You?re too soft, Youmu. If you?re ready to hold a bomb to someone?s throat?? Reimu suddenly grinned. ?You have to be ready to USE IT!? She slammed a set of needles into the doll.

?Hyaa~h!? Youmu tossed the doll aside in surprise as it began hissing. It bounced off the floor and the wall and exploded violently a short distance behind them. The force of the explosion launched the entire trolley into the air, straight over the low wall.

??we?re gonna die??? Mikoto blinked as they sailed over the low wall and over the cavernous hall that housed the Covenant mana generator at its center. Marisa, Suika, Youmu, Shoko, the Kogassa!Moebrella and Yuyuko had been thrown clear off the bed in the explosion and were sailing up through the air beside the trolley. Youmu was sporting a look of stricken horror while Marisa, Suika and Yuyuko seemed?strangely bemused. Kogassa was?a bit too stiff to express any emotions?

??looks like it.? Midori said. ??why?d I even bother waking up??

Reimu landed lightly on one of her flying orbs and gritted her teeth as she watched the trolley plunge below her. ?ALICE!? She shouted. ?DO SOMETHING!?

?Urrgh! WHY ME?!? Alice cried as she threw out both arms at the ceiling. Silky, silvery threads shot out into the darkness from her outstretched hands. They managed to catch onto something in the region of the ceiling by the generator?s top. With a deft mid-air flip she spun the threads around the bed and secured it. ?Hang on!? She yelped, landing on the bed?s edge and hanging onto the bed as the threads pulled taught in their descent. Midori grabbed the side of bed and held on tight onto the still sleep-talking Yukari. Ran and Chen clawed onto his shoulders, causing him to bite her lips to stifle a yelp of pain.

The bed pulled out of the descent and into a diagonal pendulum arch with the bed swinging close to the hall?s walls, centrifuge-like, causing its occupants to cry in abject horror as their stomachs were turned inside out.

?Awawawawaaa~!? Ruukoto yelped as she slipped backwards across the now vertical bed, the weight of her metallic body falling prey to the whims of gravity.

?Ruukoto!? Mikoto blindly leapt forwards and groped the bed for Ruukoto. With one desperate lunge and flail, she just barely managed to grasp her wrists. However, the weight began to drag her down with Ruukoto as well.

?M-Mikoto-s-san, l-let go desu! Y-you?ll?.? Ruukoto cried.

?No, not a CHANCE IN HELL!? Mikoto gritted her teeth as she tightened her hold around Ruukoto?s arms. Veins broke out all along her arm as the strain took its toll on her muscles. ?ALICE!?

?Why must you ALWAYS try to be the hero?!? Alice cried in exasperation, shooting another set of doll strings around Mikoto?s ankle and pulling. ?If you?re going to be the hero, then at least don?t make me bail you out each time!?

?Eeeeep~? Ruukoto squeaked as the bed swung close to the walls of the hall, threatening to squash her into it.

?Ruukoto!? Alice gasped. ?R-Run on the wall!?

?Wh-what?!? Ruukoto looked up at Alice in disbelief. ?D-do what?!?

?Run on the wall and keep the bed up!? Alice shouted.

?H-hai!? Small compartments opened up on Ruukoto?s heels and soles, revealing a set of wheels. A high-pitched whine filled the air as the small motors within began to spin. Sparks exploded as she dug the wheels into the metallic walls with all her strength and pushed up against Mikoto and the bed to keep it up.

??did you know she could do that?? Midori asked Alice.

?No, not really.? Alice said, offhandedly.

??.?

?REEEEEEIMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!? Youmu roared, slashing down on the distracted Reimu as she soared through the air towards her.

Reimu pulled her attention away from the trolley and focused on the more immediate Youmu threat just in time to attempt to block with a talisman. However, Youmu?s strike, while failing to do any damage, did manage to blow Reimu backwards off her orb. Youmu landed in Reimu?s place and flailed her arms as she tried to gain balance atop the orb.

Reimu, meanwhile, did a mid-air recovery back-flip and landed on another orb. With a deft flip she pulled out a set of persuasion needles in both hands and lowered her body into a fighting stance. ?Bring it on, you gardening gnome.?

?I accept your challenge, poor shrine maiden!? Youmu declared as her orb descended towards Reimu?s. ?This is?.? Youmu blinked down at the Kogassa!Moebrella in her hands. ??err?my Moebrella, forged of MOE. The things that it cannot moefy are next to NONE!?

Mana sparks exploded in the dim darkness as needles clashed with Moebrella in a concerted exchange of attacks and parries.

?S-stop s-swinging me a-around! I-I?m g-getting all d-dizzy a-and n-n-nauseous!? A shaky voice emanated from the Moebrella.

?Nauseous?? Youmu asked. ?You?re an umbrella. You lack the anatomy necessary to feel nausea!? She pointed out as she deflected another set of needles from Reimu while slashing at her.

?...in that case, doesn't she sort of lack the anatomy necessary for speech?? Reimu asked as she let fly another barrage of persuasion needles.

?A-and stop s-sticking n-needles in me!? Kogassa protested. ?I-I?m an umbrella! N-Not a p-pin-cushion!?

?Do you want to be painted red and white and have paper streamers stuck on you to be used as a gohei next?!? Youmu asked as she slashes through two more yinyang orbs to get to Reimu.

??.? Kogassa seemed to consider this for a moment before, ??whack her! Whack HER NOW!?

This strange sense of weightlessness?the feel of rushing air?the feel of sheer momentum defying gravity?with nothing but pure strength and wit to keep you in the air?.this is true aerial combat?it?s exhilarating! Or so Youmu thought as she leapt from orb to orb towards Reimu. Reimu had taken to blowing up her own orbs as Youmu landed on them, but she was always a step too slow for Youmu?or, rather, it was Youmu who was accelerating faster irregularly as she gained momentum.

As the last orb exploded under Youmu?s feet she leapt up and floated upside down in the air above Reimu. They clashed in mid-air, needles on Moebrella. Sparks of mana exploded, lighting up the dim darkness around them.

Meanwhile, a little higher up, a distance away...

?Wh-wh-whoaaaah!? Marisa yelped as she scrambled to gain a hold on a flying orb. ?Suika!? She yelped as she slid forwards on her orb to grab onto the oni?s arm. She managed to catch her just in time. However, she slid forwards just a bit too much, leaving her flailing about for balance atop the orb.

?Ah! Marisa! Suika!? Sanae gasped as she flew over the low wall

?Don?t mind them. They?ll be fine.? A voice said from above, causing Sanae to whirl around in mid-air to face the source. It was Yuyuko, sitting atop one of Reimu?s orbs. ?Sanae-chan, I see you?ve improved, seeing as you?ve already regained you flight capabilities.? She chuckled, hiding her face behind a fan. ?Would you?indulge me in a duel?? She asked as she stood up atop her orb, snapped her fan shut, and pointed it down at Sanae.

?...tch?? Sanae whipped out her gohei and flew up to meet the challenge. ?We agreed on this together! If you?re all going to back out now?I can?t let you!?

Meanwhile, down below, Zei?s team Onii-san (or, rather, oneesama for now) burst into the great hall, running for their lives as a flock of yinyang orbs swooped down on them from behind.

??tch?? Mystia gritted her teeth as she spun around and caught one of the passing orbs by surprise. ?Reisen-san!? She shouted, passing the orb on to Reisen, who in turn spun around and threw it at another orb with unerring accuracy, causing them both to explode in a shower of sparks.

?Zei-neesan, what is that?!? Flandre asked, pointing upwards.

??looks like a flying trapeze from hell.? Zei said. ?Either that or it?s a runaway hospital bed bed-jacked from the infirmary which has been taken on a joy-ride by its occupants, which is now swinging in a wide arch by fine doll threads over a dark abyss surrounding an unbelievably huge mana generator.? She said in one breath.

??whoah?.? Flandre cooed. ?Zei-neesan is indeed smart??

??meh.? Zei shrugged. Behind him, Reisen spin-kicked another orb into yet another pursuing orb, earning her an applause from Mystia and Shizuha.

?You?re doing well?? Yuyuko chuckled, her fans clashing with Sanae?s gohei once more as they danced in mid-air, locked in furious aerial combat. ?But?you?re not the only one with special powers.? Yuyuko snapped open her fan to hide the faintest flicker of a grin as she threw up one of Marisa?s smoke bombs before slashing it with her fan.

?khh?? Sanae shielded her mouth and nose with her sleeves as she pulled back from the huge ball of smoke.

?Bunshin?no jutsu! (ninja clone technique)? Yuyuko?s voice rang out as the smoke cleared.

?B-bunshin?!? Sanae gasped, waving the remaining smoke out of her face.

Sure enough, the smoke cleared to reveal two Yuyukos floating down from above, light blue kimonos flapping in the rushing air. Together they pinned Sanae from either side with their loving embrace and pulled her down earthwards.

?Ufufu~ As expected of the Moriya wind priestess?her skin is so smooth?? One Yuyuko giggled mischievously as she rubbed her cheek against Sanae?s, causing her to blush madly.

?Indeed?.it makes me want to tease her, just like Youmu?? The other giggled as well as she glomped Sanae. ?Look...she has developed oh so nicely too ever since she arrived in Gensokyo...? She commented on Sanae's generous endowment.

?Wa-wait! H-how did you?.?!? Sanae struggled against the two, but to no avail. ?Aaaah, mou~!? Sanae reached up and pressed paper talismans into both Yuyukos' bountiful bossoms, causing them to gasp and let go in surprise. Small bursts of wind energy exploded from both talismans sending the two Yuyukos flying back. With a deft mid-air spin, she pushed them aside just before landing lightly on the ground.

?My my...you have indeed developed, not only in body, but in mind too.? one Yuyuko chuckled as she snapped her fan open to hide her rosy blush as she lightly retreated out of melee range.

?To be able to use such shameless techniques...you have indeed become one of us...? The other Yuyuko said as she mirrored the other's actions.

?Th-th-that wasn't i-intended to b-be sh-sh-shameless!? Sanae whirled her arms around like a runaway windmill as her flush combined with her light green hair turned her into the perfect image of a ripe tomato.

?Lady Yuyuko! Shoko-san!? Youmu gasped as she watched the two Yuyukos circle Sanae at a safe distance.

??.? Without a word Reimu lunged forwards with a set of needles?

?however, much to her surprise, Youmu spun around and stuck the moebrella through the opening of Reimu?s sleeve, through her clothes, through the other sleeve, and out the other side, propping her up like a scarecrow. ??.Miko Armpit Scarecrow-Trap of Death?? Youmu murmured, as she spun around to hold Reimu from behind.

?Tch?.you pretended to be distracted?.? Reimu suddenly chuckled at her own stupidity.

?As expected of Gensokyo's master cheater?? Youmu said, tightening her hold on the umbrella, forcing Reimu?s shoulders back further. ?You would take advantage of an opponent?s distraction to attack?.but that?s what makes you so easy to read.?

??.I see?so all the time you spent with that Kojiro boy wasn?t just spent fooling around?? Reimu turned to face Youmu, a triumphant glint in her eye. ??but to think you?ve won just like this?you?re still too soft Youmu??

??what did you??? Youmu looked around just in time to see the bed speeding towards her. ?tch!? ?I can?t dodge freely while I?m holding Reimu captive like this?h-how did she??!? Youmu?s mind raced in panic. She was caught by surprise as Reimu grasped Kogassa's handle.

?Wh-what is she...?!? Kogassa gasped. ?Oh, oh no!? She was powerless to stop Reimu from pushing her quick-release catch, causing her to burst open, pushing her straight out of Reimu's sleeves, release her from the armpit-hold.


Reimu fell forwards and spun around to face Youmu. Before Youmu could even gasp in surprise, she was thrown off-balance backwards by a dekopin (finger flick) attack from Reimu.

Reimu then charged forwards, stepped on Youmu's head and used her as a stepping stone to vault gracefully over the incoming bed. Youmu, however, was caught full in the the small of her back by Yukari's sleeping form, particularly her head.

?uuuhh...n-not so hard, Jeremy...~? Yukari murmured in her sleep as Youmu rolled off her, thoroughly winded by Yukari's accidental hard-head headbutt to her ghost-soft spinal column.

?Um...? Midori was speechless.

Ran growled at this and bit Midori on the ear, eliciting a yelp of pain from her.

?Wh-why me?! I didn't do anything!? Midori yelped.

?Ahaaaa~? Mikoto shot Midori a knowing look.

?Shut up and focus on keeping us up, deodorant!? Midori snapped at Mikoto.

?We?re picking up too much weight!? Alice shouted as the bars to which her doll strings were anchored began to creak alarmingly. ?Throw some of those blasted orbs off!? She shouted, gesturing at the pile of yinyang orbs slowly accumulating atop the bed from their continued orbit around the mana generator.

?With what?!? Midori half-demanded, half-protested, nodding at how her arms were occupied with holding onto a heavily snoring mass and two furballs just about tense enough to piss themselves. ?Best you can do is ask Deodorant to throw himself off!?

?Don?t look at me!? Mikoto shouted from where she was still holding onto Ruukoto at the bed?s edge. ?You need me and Ruukoto to keep this bed up!?

Reimu flipped out of her vault and landed lightly before sommersaulting across the hall and landing gracefully behind Sanae.

?Sanae, protect me!? Reimu shouted, whipping out her pocket communicator and strapping it onto her wrist. The screen glowed ominously with a myriad of new applications. ?I?ll capture them all in one go!?

?W-wait, Reimu, you can?t be thinking?? Sanae looked around, a look of serious disbelief on her face.

?At this rate they?ll all get away! Besides?I?ve been wanting to try this out?? Reimu grinned determinedly. ?We need to field-test it before we start teaching it, right??

??you just want to use it, don?t you?? Sanae sighed.

?Shut up and watch the synchrograph!? Reimu snapped. ?And have the orbs broadcast this to the other communicators...let us show them true despair...?

Sanae could only sigh as she flipped out her pocket communicator and strapped it onto her wrist. ?Linker-MAD Synchrograph active.? She announced to Reimu as a new application appeared on the screen. ?All right, ummm?linking the synchrograph to Hakurei Reimu?link complete?the temporary line is up!?

?Divine Spirit Sign?..? Reimu murmured as she whipped out something small and metallic that glinted in the dim darkness. ??FANTASY SEAL!? She declared, flourishing the small metallic object. A shockwave of light burst upwards from underneath her, whipping up at her clothes and hair, throwing light and shadows across her features ominously. What looked like tendrils of light began to spiral around her, forming random squiggles in the air that may pass for some ancient dead language in a scifi convention.

??1980s cheap scifi CG??? Zei blinked.

??i-it?s a spellcard!? Youmu gasped as she finally found her voice atop the orbiting bed. ?H-how??!?

?Fantasy seal?? You mean THAT Fantasy seal?? Midori asked.

??well, yes, how many fantasy seals are there?? Mikoto pointed out. ?

Alice slowly opened her eyes and blinked in disbelief. ?W-we're...still alive?? She asked, looking around. ?Mikoto...you're not dead?? She asked, still in disbelief.

?I hope so.? Mikoto said. ?Cause if this is the afterlife, I want all my donations back.? He said, eyeing Midori.

?Did you suddenly turn into a youkai superman or something?? Midori asked, raising an eyebrow.

?Hmm...Well, I didn't wake up with a pressing hunger for grilled human fillet, so I think not.? Mikoto said.

?Why hasn?t she flattened us yet, ze?? Marisa mused aloud as she looked down on the events below from the safety of the orb she currently shared back-to-back with Suika. ?The spell?s taking a lot longers to charge than usuals, ze...? Marisa observed. ?And Sanaes seems to be defending hers from Yuyukos daze?which means??

??if we bonk Reimuus on the head the spell might fail?? Suika suggested.

?Worth a tries daze.? Marisa lowered her black barrette over one eye. ?Let?s go, Suika!?

?Houuu!? Suika nodded in reply as she grabbed Marisa?s arm.

?Wait, what?re yo-hyaaaiiiieeeeeeeee~!? Marisa?s Doppler scream filled the air as Suika spun her round and round, before tossing her down at Reimu, head first.

Reimu seemed unphased as she continued on chanting, despite the fact that 45Kgs of scared-shitless teenage witch is screaming towards her.

??like I?d let you!? Sanae declared as she struck Yuyuko with a talisman-equipped palm-strike, causing a huge blast of wind to propel her backwards into Marisa,

?Yuyuko!? Shoko, AKA Yuyuko MK II, shouted, and winced as Marisa collided with Yuyuko, giving off a very audible ?Boooing~? as she bounced off her bountiful bosom, sending her spinning backwards into Suika.

?Yuyuko!? Shoko ran up and caught Yuyuko in her arms, spun around in a graceful twirl from the momentum, all the while gazing into her eyes, before gently setting her upright on the floor. ?Are you all right?? She asked Yuyuko, snapping out her fan once more.

?No harm done. Nothing lost.? Yuyuko replied briefly, flipping out her own fan to hide her blush. Meanwhile Zei?s teem Oneesama ran up from behind to join the brawl. ?Let us make haste. Sanae cannot possibly fend off all of us at the same time.? She observed, just as Marisa and Suika came crashing down on poor Reisen.

??h-how can you be using your powers like that??!? Marisa gritted her teeth as she carefully pealed herself off a groaning Reisen and graciously shoving Suika?s butt out of her face.

?Simple.? Sanae said, readying another set of talismans in one hand, gohei in the other. ?If you?d come attend shrine maiden training, Reimu and I can teach you.?

?And go through all of yesterday again?!? Zei demanded.

?I see?.? Marisa suddenly nodded in understanding as she stood up. ?Reimu is acting as a mana generator, generating mana to activate her spellcard. Meanwhile, you leach mana off her to defend her while she charges up mana....which means any interruptions to the chanting would break it up, is that not so??

?As expected of Gensokyo?s smartest magic researcher.? Sanae said, as more orbs flew down and hovered behind her at the ready. ?But simply reading it won't help you defeat me!? A huge array of talismans seemingly unfurled themselves out of the air in front of her, all pointed at the group.

?I?m alsos Gensokyo?s fastests ze!? Marisa declared as she dashed forwards.

?Give us a good show! Everyone?s watching!? Sanae sent the wall of talismans forwards towards the group.

?Go!? Shoko shouted, brandishing fans in both hands as she leapt forwards into the fray with Yuyuko by her side. Together they danced and grazed gracefully through the storm of talismans, their fans shredding all the talismans in their way.

?Flandre! Reisen!? Zei shouted as she grabbed Mystia and Shizuha and ran up behind Flandre and Reisen who promptly began claw-slashing/shooting down the talismans as they advanced.

Marisa dashed across the floor in a low run, leaping and pirouetting out of the way of the incoming projectiles.

?Reimu?s?flying?!?

?We?re?overloaded!? Midori gasped as she poked her head up above the pile of yinyang orbs now piled high on their bed. It was still rapidly swatting and gathering orbs out of the air in its way.

?We?re coming up on  Reimu!? Alice pointed out as their bed spun around into a collision course with the flying redwhite shrine maiden. ?But those heavenly seal orbs will blast us out of the air if we get close!?

?The orbs! Use the orbs!? Youmu gasped breathlessly.

??that?s it!? Alice cried as she shoved her last artful sacrifice deep into pile of orbs atop the bed.

?Mikoto!? Midori shouted out at Mikoto, while grabbing hold onto the bed with all her strength.

?Gotcha! Ruukoto, STOOOOOOOOP!? Mikoto cried, holding tight onto Ruukoto.

Sparks exploded across the wall as Ruukoto?s emergency breaks kicked in, causing her wheels to grind to an abrupt halt and dig screeching into the wall. The bed?s speed dropped abruptly, causing anything unsecured to fly off towards Reimu?.this included the huge pile of yinyang orbs and the artful sacrifice. Fortunately, it didn?t include any of its live occupants who hung on tooth and nail for dear life.

The orbs sailed through the air, propelled onwards by sheer momentum?.until the frontmost ones collided with the heavenly seal orbs floating around Reimu. Huge bursts of light lit up the chamber upon their collision. The main mass of orbs flew on through the explosions?until they reached Reimu.

?Eat this.? Alice said, as she snapped her fingers. The last artful sacrifice exploded within the mass of orbs, igniting the mass of orbs. The chamber shook violently as the orbs exploded into a huge ball of bluish white light. The explosion blasted Reimu out of the air and into a mass of orbs that flew up to rescue her.

Meanwhile, the bed had spun out of the air, having lost Ruukoto?s support. The doll strings finally snapped, causing the bed to sail freely through the air, its occupants screaming for dear life, before it finally crashed, bounced precariously and spun across the hall?s floor, straight at the Sanae dogpile.

A sound reminiscent of a bowling ball striking a set of pins resounded in the air as the bed collided with dogpile. Yuyuko, Shoko, Marisa and Suika somehow managed to land on the bed as it pulled out of a violent spin and once again rolled on into the darkness?.

?I think this is our queue to scarper while those two are down.? Zei said, pulling his team members onto their feet to make their tactical retreat.

?R-Reimu?? Sanae winced as she turned onto her front and slowly crawled towards Reimu. Her limbs burned with stiffening pain. Stars exploded across her vision. She flopped back down onto her back as she reached where Reimu lay and looked around at her. Above them the remnants of the heavenly seal and the ball of light from the orb explosion slowly dissolved into wisps of light that were absorbed by the mana generator.

?So?that?s what happens if you fail charging?? Reimu sighed, looking at her synchrograph on her pocket communicator. It had gone red, with the word ?fatal error? floating above it.

?What?.happened?? Sanae asked. ?It felt like something explode inside me?.and then I felt exhausted and spent.?

?That must have been the feedback shock the guide mentioned.? Reimu winced as body parts she didn?t even know she had smarted. ?Luckily, we didn?t charge up too much mana. Otherwise??

Sanae shuddered at the thought. ?So?it feeds back into those linked to the host as well.? She postulated, judging by the fact that she too received the feedback shock.

?Yep.? Reimu said. ?So it?s a double-edged sword. If you get hit during the charge-up??



??So we lost?? Sanae asked.

?Heck no.? Reimu snapped, before wincing and regretting her sudden movement. ?Our impending victory was simply?postponed?indefinitely.?

??.? Sanae sighed. ?Is that so???

?Yes.?



?Hey, Reimu??

?Yes??

?It hurts.?

??same here.?



??let me help you up?? Reimu gritted her teeth and winced as she slowly got up and reached out for Sanae. ?If my intuition?s right, I think I know where they?ll be headed next??

?Really??

?Yes. Cause guys think with their balls.?

??.w-when th-they don?t have them???

?They will seek to regain them. Even more predictable?

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The group ran (and rolled) in silence for a while, before Midori asked an uncomfortable question.

"... so, how long's our luck going to hold out?"

"Don't worries, Reimu's not that tough!" Marisa answered, with a grin.

"And the security systems?" Jeremidori went on.

Silence.

"... how far are we from the library?"

"I don't know." Shoko replied. "This area is... completely unfamiliar. I don't think we've explored it yet..."

"Big ruins..." Midori muttered.

Ruukoto hummed for a moment. "Does that mean Reimu-san doesn't know we're here...?"

"You're right!" Mikoto shouted, and pulled out her Covenant communicator. "Hang on, let me..."

Shoko tapped her shoulder, and pulled out her own communicator. "No, I'll take care of it."

"... um?" Midori 'asked.'

"Those things have some... 'GPS' function to let the others know where we are." Alice replied. She glanced over at Mitaka. "... but it uses a lot of mana."

"Oh." Midori paused. "Just as long as it doesn't tell the mikos."

"Obviously." Shoko grumbled, poking at the phone with a thumb. Her face twitched slightly. "... okay, that should do it."

The group slowed, after noticing that Shoko had started to fall behind.

She smiled. "Heh, sorry. It really is draining..."

Jeremidori eyed a particularly large door on the walls of the current hallway, almost covered by a large Covenant symbol. "It's just as well... we should probably stay somewhere more defensible than a hallway, anyway."

The others followed her gaze.

"... I'm not sure wes can unlock that one, ze." Marisa said.

"Unlock?"

"All of the doors here are sealed by mana locks." Mikoto explained.

"Joy."

"We don't seem to have enough to open most of them, though..."

Midori clenched the rock-drill-bolt-thing on her chest. "... yet, at least?"

Alice glanced over at her, and shrugged. "I guess it's worth a try."

She walked over to the large door and kicked it with a boot. "Open up!

Obligingly, the door hissed and clicked for a moment, before opening silently.

"Sweet." Shoko commented.

"Maybe that incident earlier..." Ruukoto mumbled, a little too quietly for the others to hear.

The group slowly entered the newly opened room.

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Main Meeting Room(?), Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~5:20 AM, Day 5
Participants: Team Drillkumo, Team Ghostbusters, Team FUBAR: E-mouse, Xan, Mind-The-Gap

The place was rather obviously a meeting room of sorts; a huge circular table, fully covered by the Covenant symbol, sat in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs. Odd relics covered the walls. Well, three of them; the last was taken up by a large monitor of sorts, which flickered briefly before turning on. The monitor glowed with the covenant symbol in white on a field of grayish green for a moment before showing a large map of some sort.

Midori slowly looked around the room, awed. "Wow.... this really IS a Covenant base, isn't it?"

Shoko smiled, and nodded. "Yep."

"And I'm guessing... this is the war room, or something?" Jeremidori went on. She pointed at the map on the wall screen. "What's that map of?"

"No idea." Alice answered, inspecting one of the chairs. "We've never been here before, remember?"

"Yeah, yeah..." Jeremy replied. "... what else have you found here, anyway?"

"From what I understand, we've found a great library." Mikoto answered.

Alice looked back over at the rollerbed and nodded. "And from Gpop's description..."

Mikoto snorted quietly at the mention of the name. Alice glared at her for a moment before continuing.

"... I think the block we're in is the central block."

"ah, and the great library's also in the central block." Mikoto went on. "Close to the power core?"

This easily diverted Midori's attention away from the map on the wall, giving her bedmate a wide-eyed look. "... power core."

Mikoto nodded, facing a little off to Jeremidori's left. "I think it's some sort of Covenant generator. The Keystone we were looking for was sitting right on top of it.?

Midori's mouth worked fruitlessly for a moment, before she managed a shaky "I'll... be wanting to see this generator later."

She laughed nervously. "This is frightfully convenient. And we're... right near the Saniwa shrine, right?"

"Right underneath it, remember?" Shoko answered.

Jeremidori laughed again. "Hahah... that's one inarguable reason to stay there, isn't it? But given how the place has been acting up..."

She shook her head. "Well, no, we have a miko problem to deal with right now."

A voice rung from the doorway. "Hey! What's the big deal, saying we'll meet at the library and then switching to... wherever this is..."

The original arrivals turned to see Yumeko standing in the doorway, looking around the room in mild wonder. She was carrying an unconscious Fukuma, with the rest of Makai's major residents looking over her shoulders.

"Speak of the devil..." Midori muttered.

Explanations ensued, until being interrupted by the arrival of Team Jealousy Fever, carrying similar complaints. This cycle continued until the arrival of Ria and Kaguya, particularly disgruntled about having to leave after already reaching the library.

And after that, counterattack plans began.

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Continued -

[Gappy]

Infirmary, Medical Wing, Central Block, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~5:30 AM, Day 5
Participants: Everyone

In the central block, a distance away from the mana generator room, a level or two above, was what could at one point have been the medical bay. Currently, however, it was made up of only one small infirmary and an examination room/make-shift laboratory that was now also team Lunatic?s abode of choice.

??where on earth are those patients?? Eirin peeked under an infirmary bed. ??more importantly?where are my beds?? She asked, gesturing around.

McWallace crawled along the floor, pressing his ear to the floor at intervals, all the while tracing his fingers over the floor as if assessing some invisible trail. Finally, he took a quick swab from the floor with his finger and tasted it, making audible smacking noises with his tongue.

?The patients were joined by?.twins in kimonos, bust size XX, and a samurai, bust size XX, wielding an umbrella.?

??wait, how did you get their bust size from tasting the floor?? Eirin asked, raising an eyebrow.

?Quiet, woman, let me see?.Together they hijacked the beds and went off on a joyride.? McWallace said in an analytical fashion as he straightened up into a kneeling position, resting one arm across a knee like some prospector or adventuring archaeologist about to point out where X marks the spot. ?They then attempted manslaughter on a redwhite shrine maiden by running her over.?

?Run her over in a hospital bed?!? Eirin blinked.

?What better to be run over by?? McWallace asked. ?Later on, they ran over a poor blind shrine maiden and forcefully abducted her and her group?? McWallace continued. ?And then?.they encountered the redwhite once more and then?shit happens that I can?t quite put into words?Let?s say the narrator is drunk on something and whatever it is, I want some.?

?What do you mean by that? I put considerable thought into that scene.

?Admit it, there?s some meaning in mentioning Yuyuko?s bust twice.? McWallace challenged.

?..

??and?how did you know all this?? Eirin asked. ?I?m sure simply caressing and snuggling the floor will get you this much.?

?Well, no, off course not. I never said I got all that from the floor.? McWallace said. ??bloody clean floor, I might add. You can eat your meals off it.?

??so??? Eirin pushed for an answer.

?It was broadcasted.? McWallace said, pointing at his pocket communicator. ?Live.?

Eirin?s palm met her face.

?Speakin? of which?I sense a storm a comin??? McWallace rubbed his hands together as he felt a gentle vibration come up through the floor. The vibration slowly intensified as a distant rumbling filtered in through the walls.

??earthquake?? Eirin looked around, some shadow of concern on her face.

?It?s the Uruk Hai?? McWallace said ominously as the distant rumbling became increasingly less distant. The vibrations in the floor and walls slowly intensified. A spoon clattered on a table nearby before falling onto the floor. ??The revolution, it?s coming!?

Dust fell from the ceiling as the entire laboratory suddenly shook violently under a barrage of fists banging on the door.

?Aye?that be the voice of the revolution?? Madness nodded solemnly. ?The voice of the oppressed as they challenge the status quo??


?Eirin! Eirin!? The mob outside screamed for blood.

??.? Eirin sighed. ?It?s difficult to please everyone, especially for a medical practitioner??

Eirin walked up to the door and shouted. ?What is it?! This is a place for sick people!?

?Fitting place for you then!? A voice shouted from outside. ?Hand over the antidote!?

??antidote for what?!? Eirin asked.

?This?this curse you afflicted us with, off course!? The voice outside pointed out testily. ?We want our manhood back!?

?As I thought, the male species cannot think without that thing.? Eirin facepalmed.

?Don?t look at me.? McWallace said, lounging in a nearby bed and flicking open a magazine on kittens that somehow happened to be lying around. ?Ah, the latest Abyssinian??

?Well, you will have to come back later. We aren?t open yet.? Eirin replied.

?Hand us the antidote or we will take it by force!? The voice declared.

?You and what army?!? Eirin challenged.

?Oooh?bad move?? McWallace, believer in humanity, chuckled, as he flicked through another page. ?Oh, a kitten?s fine too.?

??.you really want to know?? The voice outside asked.

?Go ahead! Do your worst!? Eirin challenged.

??.? The voice outside sighed before shouting out ?T34! Bring on the big one!?

Outside?

The entire corridor shook as 13 tons of fire-breathing armor rolled up in the form of a tank. It rumbled to a halt a few meters away from the lab door. There was a brief metallic whir as the turret leveled itself at the door.

And then there was silence.

??.you wouldn?t dare?? Eirin?s voice finally came out. There was a slight hint of doubt in her voice this time, however. She knew better than anyone how foolish it?d be to put something this insane past these lunatics.

??You?ll bring the entire ruins down on us!? Eirin added, her voice quavering somewhat.

?No, I won?t.? T34 said, matter-of-factly, popping out of the hatch. ?It?s a standard armour-piercing round. It?ll smash the door into pieces and put a pretty big crater on the wall opposite but otherwise it won?t destroy anything important to the ruins? structural integrity.?

?Yield??

?TRY ME!? Eirin declared defiantly.

?Ok.? T34 nodded. ?She asked. Rika, ready the high-explosive round. Chiyuri, ready recoil rectifier.?

?..

??.we?re open.? Eirin?s voice came out.

??what was that??

?We?re open, ok?!? Eirin shouted in exasperation as the door unlocked with a click and swung open. ?Look, the best I have at the moment is this.? She said, tossing a jar of pills to Taihou. ?Theoretically speaking, it should work.?

?Theoretically?? Taihou asked.

Eirin nodded.

??..?

Everyone looked around at each other.

??well, we have a cure. Isn?t anybody going to go take it?? Etch asked, looking around nervously.

Everyone shifted uncomfortably, all the while giving each other encouraging looks which essentially said ?I?m right behind you. You first?.

??okay, don?t y?all rush to volunteer yourselves now?? Owlbear said, chuckling nervously.

?Weren?t you the one who was so hot on getting a cure?? T34 asked Zei.

?Meh, I can wait?? Zei said. ?Koji? Or Kaji??

?But I like daddy..err?mommy this way? Pearl giggled, glomping her dad.

??oy?oooy?? Kajira sighed.

?The root of the problem is?.? Everyone looked around at Mikoto, all remembering whose little affliction gave birth to this entire fiasco.

??.err?hi guys?? Mikoto could feel the stares drilling holes through her, even without her vision.

?Good man, Mikoto.? Owlbear slapped her on the back.

?M-m-me?!? Mikoto gasped. ?B-but, come now?I-I?m not worthy?!?

?Hold him.? Alex ordered dryly.

Hands grabbed Mikoto from behind and held her in place. ?E-eh?e-everyone?c-can?t we speak about this???

?Think of it this way, if it works, you?ll be the first to be cured.? Alice said.

??and if it doesn?t?? Mikoto asked.

?We?ll be free from your contract.? Alice said, simply.

?Wait!? Amarillo, who had taken the opportunity to escape back when the shrine maidens were both down, cried out. ?This really isn?t fair!?

Everyone looked at her as if she was stark raving mad. To speak of fairness at times like this?

?then again?

??I suppose?? Owlbear sighed. ?That?s true.?

??does that mean I don?t have to take it?? Mikoto asked hopefully.

?Which is why we?ll take it with her.? Amarillo declared.

?Eh??? Lily blinked. ?B-but you?re already a?? Lily began.

?Ssshhh?? Amarillo shushed her. ?This is my chance?? She thought to herself.

??which means I still have to take it?? Mikoto sighed and hung her head.

?I volunteer.? Owlbear said, stepping forwards.

?Go on.? Meira said, pushing Hirowaza forwards. ?I volunteer Yoh.?

?E-eh?!? Hirowaza gasped. ?What? O-oh, fine, for the team and all.? She sighed heroically.

?I?ll volunteer.? Shoko said, stepping forwards valiantly.

?Me too! Me too!? Yuyuko jumped and hugged Shoko around the neck from behind with one hand while raising her other.

?But you don?t need it!?

?You can?t eat such a tasty-looking pill and not give me any!? Yuyuko pouted.

?I-if Yuyuko-sama takes it then I must take it too!? Youmu declared.

A few other brave souls joined in as well.

??do the honours, Mikoto.? Alex said, shoving a pill inside Mikoto?s mouth.

?Ulp?? Mikoto swallowed. ??!? She could feel it?something was happening. His entire body heated up, causing her to blush profusely. ?Aaaahn~? She moaned as her entire body seemed to turn into dough?

?Ah, her breasts are growing smaller!? She heard someone comment.

?Yes, it looks like it?s working, she?s flat now!? Another voice commented.

?As flat as a washboard!?

?As flat as an oni!?

?HEY!? She heard another voice. This was most likely Suika.

?Err?guys? Isn?t he?.shrinking??? Another, rather worried voice, pointed out.

?Crap, what?!? Mikoto managed to think straight for one moment before his mind slowly sank under the burning sensation. ?Oh?whatever?? Was the last coherent thought that went through before everything trailed off into oblivion?

??.wait, if this keeps on going, he?ll disappear?? Another voice pointed out.

??.?

?Oh my god! He really disappeared!? Hiroko gasped.

?What have we done?!? T34 asked around in panic.

?N-no! It wasn?t our fault! It?s Eirin! It?s her drug!? Rika pointed.

?Someone! Call the ambulance!? Sunny gasped.

?No, no! He?s dead! Call the police!? Chiyuri shouted.

?No! Anything but the police!? Rikako yelped, panicked.

?We?re criminals now?!? Alice asked.

?B-b-but?it?s manslaughter if it wasn?t really intentional?right?? Pearl asked.

?What about everyone else who took the drug?!? Eirin looked around.

?Jeez?you people?? Reimu sighed as she and Sanae held onto each other as they walked through the crowd. ?If only you people hadn?t made such a big fuss over shrine maiden training?? She sighed. Nobody protested, however. All thoughts of hostility were drowned in panic.

?R-Reimu!? Alice gasped. ?I-It wasn?t me, I swear! I-I didn?t just kill us all! No!?

??calm down, people?? Reimu sighed, kneeling down by the pile of shrine-maiden clothes on the floor that was once Mikoto. She rummaged through the pile before finding a struggling little figure.

She straightened back up, this time with a young toddler in hand, wrapped in an obviously oversized miko outfit.

?Reimu?! Where did you kidnap that child?!? Rika gasped.

?Reimu! That?s kidnap on top of murder! We don?t need any more crimes on our hands!? Chiyuri declared.

?Is it your child?!? Remilia demanded, her eyes set afire.

?Wait, it?s Mitaka?? Reimu began.

?You went and had an illicit child with Mitaka behind our backs?!? Keine gasped in shock.

?How dirty, you dirty shrine-maiden!? Sunny shouted.

?Yeah, you poor penniless shrine maiden, how dare you?!? Luna added.

?Yeah, poor, penniless AND stingy!? Star accused.

??anou?what does me being poor have to do with it??? Reimu asked, exasperated into exhaustion. ?And this IS Mitaka?or Mikoto?or whatever she is now.? Reimu said. ?That drug LOLIFIED her!?

??wha-?? T34 blinked.

?Hmmm?? Eirin came over and inspected the now lolified Mikoto. ?Ok, so I did manage to reverse a particular biological process.? Eirin began. ??.it?s just not the biological process we wanted reversed.?

?YOU FAILURE OF A DOCTOR!? Alice shouted in her face.

"Eirin?" Midori, the very epitome of calm, began.

"Yes?" Eirin asked, glad for input from someone who seemed to have some semblance of sanity left.

"Wasn't the genderswap caused by your drugs, not a biological process to reverse?" Midori pointed out.

"Er..." Eirin blinked.

"Kindly stop dicking around and get to work on an actual antidote." Midori said.

?Mi?.Miiii??? Baby Mikoto blinked her small eyes up at Reimu.

??don?t look at me like that?? Reimu sighed.

?Did she turn back into a guy at least?? Marisa asked.

?No.? Ruukoto sighed, sweeping the clothes aside for a second to check. ?No such luck desu.?

?Good luck, mama Reimu.? Alex said.

?Oooh, can I bes mama Marisa daze?? Marisa asked.

?Mama Suika! Mama Suika!? Suika leapt up and down with her arms in the air.

?Ummm?.hello there, I?m your mama Ruukoto?.mama Ruukoto?? Ruukoto offered a finger to baby Mikoto, which Mikoto wrapped her own little hand around out of curiosity.

?What are we going to calls her ze?? Marisa asked excitedly.

?She already has a name.? Reimu sighed. ?It?s Mikoto.?

?Miii?.? Baby Mikoto gurgled.

?Oh! She said something!? Suika said, jumping up and down.

?MiiMii?.Miiyooo?? The baby cooed.

??that?s it, she?s Miyo-chans from now ons daze.? Marisa clapped her hands together.

?M-M-Miyo-chan?!? The others blanched. What sort of name is that?!

?Miiyooo??? Baby Miyo cocked her head to one side. ?Miyoo?Miyooo!? She giggled happily.

?She likes its ze.? Marisa said.

?.and the name stuck?.

?Can our team get any more FUBAR?? Alice sighed as Reimu handed baby Miyo to her while she set about checking on the others.

??.Alice??? Marisa began, noticing baby Miyo?s rather nervous look.

?Not now, Marisa.? Alice sighed. ?I don?t want comforting. We just need to accept the fact that our team is??

?But?Alice?? Marisa continued, noticing that baby Miyo was now shuddering a little with her eyes closed in serious concentration.

?Shh, Marisa, you have to open your eyes too. Our team is just messed up beyond all repair.? Alice continued.

?Alice, I really think you should?.? Marisa pressed on. Baby Mio was wearing a very, very relieved expression, one of sheer bliss.

?Marisa, just listen. The fact is, our team leader was a weakling?.who ended up blind?.who got turned into a girl?.who is now a baby loli?.what next?? Alice asked, in exhaustion.

??.well?.err?.? Marisa sighed, her palm meeting her face. ?She just peed on you.?

??.excuse me?? Alice asked.

?She peed on you. You know, wet herself? urinated? Emptied her bladder? Answered to the call of nature? Saluted the fire hydrant?? Marisa said.

??..? Alice blinked as she held baby Miyo at arms length?.who seemed to be giggling rather happily as she dripped all over the floor. She wasn?t the only thing dripping. So were Alice?s clothes?.

?AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!?

?Now, now, Alice, that?s now how you take care of a baby.? Shinki sighed as she gently cuddled a crying Miyo in her arms.

?But?but?sh-she?sh-she just?.? Alice was beside herself with disbelief.

?Babies do that.? Shinki said soothingly. ?I can?t count how many of my best dresses were soiled by you, Alice-chan.?

Alice turned the shade of a fire hydrant.

?Not that I mind. Every moment of it was sheer happiness.? Shinki giggled. ?Oh, Alice, would you please take one of those drugs for me?? Shinki pleaded. ?I really want to try raising you all over again?I think it?d be fun, plus I?d feel so much younger?.? Shinki smiled a radiant smile at the thought.

?Go die.? Alice muttered.

(OOC: Right, everyone who've volunteered to test the shady new drug can write in their own transformation scene. How far you de-age differs from person to person and also depends on dosage, so you may regress into a child, toddler, or baby, depending on your preferences. This is a good opportunity to increase synchronization, as you grow more attached to your team. Alternatively, you can have members of your team take it. Just explain why. I will write in the miko training event later, after which we will have a bit of free-roam time in town where you can get diapers, baby bottles, or other supplies your team might need.)

[Nemo★Ma]

Eirin's Office, Day 5, Amarillo

Seeing the drug takes effect, Amarillo facepalms.

"Guess that's also a way to erase someone from history..."

She opened her hands and found the drug is still in her hands.

"Err... I quit." Amarillo hands the pill back to Eirin.

"Why?" Lily asked, "I guess if you take a little of that pill, your age will ..... err..... shrink less."

"However, It will erase me from history, and turn me into another girl." Amarillo smiled, "There is more than one template in me, as far as I know if this thing reduced me to 9 I'll be a totally different person."

"Eh?? Ehh??? Ehhhh???"

"Gah, cannot explain that to you." Amarillo facepalms again, "It's ...... truly Gensokyo style..... mission....."

And Amarillo saw Eirin slowly walk back into the interior of the office.

"Well, I have business to do with her too, come."

Interior of Eirin's Office, Eirin's Room

"Doctor!" As Eirin closed the door, she heard a sound behind him.

"How did you get in there?" Eirin turn back and saw the wings on Amarillo's back.

"Sorry I used a little tweak to outrun you." Amarillo bows.

"Yousei Teleport... So there is something you need me?" Eirin went to the shelf , where hundreds of small bottles was kept.

"I ask you to perfect the formula of Phoenix's Tail." Amarillo said. "If taking that medicine means more hours of sleep, it's sure not a good choice."

"But you can always have Lily or other Fairies control your body." Eirin walks back to the desk and get out a roll of paper files.

"I just don't want them in danger, fairies cannot regenerate here in the real world." Amarillo bows again "......please."

"You are sure a special human, most humans will sacrifice others for the sake of self." Eirin opened the file roll and pulled out some papers, "but you are the opposite." She checked the title of the file and handed it to Amarillo. "This is the formula of Phoenix's Tail, take it."

"I cannot do something I'm not able to. Both as a doctor and a Lunaian." Eirin sit down on the chair. "But your friends in the future may be able to do it, that's the only thing I can do for you."

"Thanks anyway, now I'll teleport out, I don't want to see you assaulted by the angry mobs outside."

"Well, I'm going to get the antidotes of both cases out, tell them to wait a few hours." Eirin started to taking bottle down from the shelf and mixing them as Amarillo disappears from her office.

Clinic

Amarillo appears again and saw team FUBAR MUBAR there, and she apporachs Reimu from behind.

"When will the Miko-Training start?"

"Wah!" Reimu jumped away "Fuse with fairy is OK, but don't play pranks!"

"Sorry, can't resist it." Amarillo blinks..

"Miko training... with this mess?" Reimu looks at Mio, who is now in Shinki's hands.

"I'm just interested in how you can unleash your SCs in a sudden...."

"Hmm, you are NOT in contract with Lily White, right? That thing is what we found last night and....."

~After a while~

"So it means if we have a high synchro rate...... "

"I don't know the exact info, and there is no guaranteed that's the deal." Reimu said, "However you are special, and I won't stop you if you do what I said."

"......oh, that didn't matter. I just want to try it out."

"Then tell me where are you going." Reimu thinks for a while before she asked "So if anything happens I can at least call up on somebody to drag you back here."

"The pond outside the shrine, or a forest is better." Amarillo said.

"Forest? Hmm... yeah, I remember seeing one."

"Then I'll be here to train, or at least, try." Amarillo smiled again "Wish us luck."

Seeing Amarillo runs out, Reimu sighed and continue watching Little Mio, now being the center of the discussion.

"Eirin you sure did a good job there."

[ES-Anthy]

Eirin's Office, 5:30AM Day 5, basically everyone, but focusing on team Michigan

Anthony Ana, Letty, and Genjii had escaped due to the yin yang orbs leaving them alone, due to the massive fight in the underground area, and the three made their way to where everyone was gathering to get an antidote to the previous drug of Eirin's, and Ana wanted it badly, because (s)he wanted 'that' back, and isn't very comfortable with her new endowments. Then Eirin came out and gave Mikoto what she thought would be the cure, and saw Amarillo defend Mikoto, causing alot of the others to agree with getting the drug, which one of the first were AnthonyAna, deciding to take a smaller dosage.

"Well, it may have been short, but good bye womanhood" said Ana, as she gulped down the pills, at a time just after Mikoto, but not looking at her, thus not knowing of the affects.

Ana's body started to heat up, causing Ana's vision to blur, she started to stagger left and right, she felt her body changing, burning up, her legs eventually gave up and she fell, but Letty caught her in her embrace, then Ana passed out, and the affects of the drug started to become apparent, Ana's body started to shrink, her chest going from her nice D cup breast down to being flat as an ironing board, the rest of her body also shrunk, making her body the equivalent of a 7 year old, making all of her previous clothing, which was made up of a jacket, jeans, T-shirt, the usual, too big for her, Letty then sat off to the side, letting Ana sleep on her lap, Ana's face was still extremely red from the recent change, but was still sleeping calmly, Letty just watched over Ana, making sure nothing was wrong, and Genjii was watching along beside Letty.

"She...so cute right now..."whispered Letty, trying not to wake Ana up

"I..would have never expected this, not at all" responded Genjii, shell shocked (OOC:har har shoot me for the bad joke) from the
sudden transformation of Anthony, a male, 5 foot 7 inches, 17 years old, to Ana, female, 3 foot, 8 inches, and around 7 years old,

"ugh...Mom, could..you let me sleep in.." murmured Ana, sleep talking, Letty slightly blushed at the idea of being Ana's mother

"it's..ok honey..just sleep in.." said Letty in a soft tone, which then she started to pet Ana on the head

A bit Later, Reimu informed and Genjii about the new system with the communicators, with the new possibility of spell cards, then Ana stirred a bit and woke up, and noticed something different

"is...it me...or did Geniji-Ojiisan and Letty-okaasan get taller" said Ana, standing up and rubbing her eyes, still tired from her small nap, which then she noticed her clothing was extremely loose, with the T-shirt covering most of her body, she then looked over the rest of her body, she noticed her now smooth flat chest, and the rest of her body being smaller

"I..I s-s-shrunk..." said Ana, tears starting to form in her eyes

"oh..don't worry Ana-chan..there's no need to cry" said Letty who then hugged Ana, which caused Ana's face to be in between Letty breasts, which then Ana started to calm down, feeling the similar presence of a mother, she then pulled her head out "t-thanks..Letty-okaasan" said Ana, wiping the tears off of her face with the sleeve of the oversized T-shirt, Letty blushed again at the sound of Ana calling her, her mother, giving her ideas

"well, Ana-chan, lets go and get you some better clothes" said Letty, being happier than before, which then they started to walk off, and Ana, still not used to her new size, fell over a few times, which then she got on top of genjii, who was just able to fly, and follow Letty "thanks Genjii-Ojiisan" said Ana, being overjoyed at getting a free ride on Genjii's back

"this brings back memories of the old days" said Genjii, being reminded of back when Reimu used to ride on top of Genjii
 
Then the group of three headed off to where the miko uniforms were held, which then Letty found a blue one with white sleeves, which was just a bit too big,

"well Ana-chan, does this look ok?" asked Letty

"yes yes," said Ana, who was still joyful and riding on top of Genjii, which then Letty took the Miko uniform and a pair of scissors and started to cut it, so now it would perfectly fit Ana

"now try it on Ana-chan" said Letty with a happy face, holding out the modified Miko uniform to Ana

"ok then Letty-okaasan," said Ana, who then got off of Genjii and took off the way too loose clothing, which then Letty helped Ana with the harder parts of it, then Ana looked around herself, checking how it was "Genjii-Ojiisan, how do you think it looks?"

"It's...really nice Ana, just like how Reimu used to be" said Genjii, starting to daydream about the old days, which then Ana found a gohei off to the side and posed with it, which made Genjii surprised as how similar Ana was to Reimu back then, minus the hair color and the miko uniform being blue

"Lets get going Genjii-Ojiisan!" said Ana, who got back up on top of Genjii, pointing outward with the Gohei,

"ok then, Re- I mean Ana" said Genjii, stuttering due to being between flashbacks and current time, which then the three headed off to where the others were at the moment.

END: Underground area, 5:50AM Day 5, team Michigan

[trancehime]

Infirmary, Medical Wing, Central Block, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shirne, ~5:40 AM, Day 5

The effect of the drug on Mitaka had surprised Hirowaza a little bit, as she had not anticipated the drug to reverse the growth process instead of reversing the chromosomal switch. And... I'm going to... take that thing? Hirowaza thought in her head. Damnit! I can't back out now... I just hope the worst it does to me is cut me down to half my age... Hopefully. Unfortunately, I don't know the side effects of this. My exorcism abilities may be affected greatly by this change... On the other hand, it may retain and I may be able to develop them even further! A lot of thoughts flooded into her mind as she struggled to decide the consequences of "taking one for the team." Hirowaza, after some moments of hesitation, sighed with a tinge of melancholy and eyed Eirin. "This idea is ridiculous, but I feel really sorry for... uh... Little Miyo-chan there, so I guess I'll be taking one. One half, and that's final, or else... Once this is all over..." Hirowaza trailed off as she saw Meira snatch a pill, deftly cut it in half... somehow! With her blade, she passed it to Hirowaza. "Uh... Thank you. Anyway..." Hirowaza calmly took the pill and tilted her head for a moment. Suddenly, her head jolted to look straight ahead as she forcibly began to convulse, despite her body clearly trying to resist. Oh no!! The energies in my body are reacting to the pill! Hirowaza fell to the ground and squealed in evident pain as green smoke leaked out from her back. My body is producing more energy than I can handle! The drug is overloading me!

"Aaaaaaah!! Makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstooooop!!!" Hirowaza screamed as the smoke intensified, and soon it almost appeared as if Hirowaza spontaneously combusted in a flame of green. "Kyaaaaaa!!!" Noooooooo!!! Where the drug would cause a major reduction in age, it's causing a Heavenly Purge inside ME! Hirowaza's body, as it was being seemingly "burned," began to change slightly, as her body shrunk in height a little, and her hair was frayed, somehow growing magically faster, perhaps a result of the overload of energy that was produced as a result of the drug reacting with Hirowaza's receptors that maintained his energy for exorcism. "Gyaaaaaah!!!!" Amidst all this, all Meira could do was stare. "Huh?!" was all she could muster out as, once the magical flames died down, Hirowaza had become significantly younger. She was definitely not the baby Mitaka had become, nor a toddler. Perhaps she was somewhere around the age of eight or nine. Apparently, even after this, Hirowaza had become self-consciously aware of the new being she had become. Such is the law of Heavenly Purge, where upon death or some otherworldly force, if the mystical energies produced in an Exorcist's body were overclocked, it would cause a magical flame to envelop them and mystically rejuvenate their form, no matter how old or how young their prior form was. The Heavenly Purge would allow the "victim" to retain everything they had in their previous life, minus their looks. Their new form would resemble a very young and child-like version of what the original wanted to be like.

"W... Why are you all so big?" Hirowaza squeaked.

"What's it to ya, pipsqueak?! Teehee..." Meira snickered as she cracked a joke at the now pre-pubescent Hirowaza.

"D, d, don't laugh at me! Besides, Miyo-chan needs more help than me!"

I can feel a newfound power leaping inside me, Hirowaza said. However, I can't use that power when my body hasn't been accustomed to. And I kinda liked my... Mrf. I can't do anything about it but live with it.

"Anyway, don't mind me... If you wanted to know what the hell happened to me, you can ask me later..."

Hirowaza was mentioning all this in a straight face despite having the body of a nine year old with long, frayed hair, big bug-eyes which are now crimson, and having an expression that radiated "courage." Not to mention the flames had burned her clothes to a crisp, so it didn't matter that she shrunk, the clothes were on the verge of falling apart anyway.

[Sawaguchi`Mai]

Infirmary, Medical Wing, Central Block, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~5:50 AM, Day 5

Zei sighed at the effects the drug had on Mitoko, now...Miyo-chan.

"...ya gotta be kidding me. If I took that drug, that happens to me as well?", she asked her team.

"Yup, either you regress into a child, toddler, or baby. Depends on you--", Reisen was interrupted by a glare.

"Oh my mistake, my mistake. If he turns into a child, I'll be the one to take care of him.", Mystia quietly said.

"B-but what if she doesn't want to do it?", Shizuha asked her.

"Then I'll force Onee-chan to do it!", Flandre happily said.

"...oh god, why? Flandre, out of all the time I've spent trying to make you happy and getting you out of the basement and ALMOST GETTING KILLED while doing so, you had to say that, right?", Zei asked her.

"Yup!", she answered while smiling.

"....", was both Mystia and Shizuha's response.

"...Ok fine, I'll do it. I'll do it for the sake of the team.", Zei said.

"..Zei-chan..", Reisen said, with concern.

"No worries, I won't die. There isn't a possibility of that, is there?", Zei smiled softly.

"Not at all, now take the damn drug.", Reisen handed over the pill to Zei.

"You can do it Onee-chan!", Flandre hugged him, happily of course.

Shizuha nodded and Mystia was just...distracted at what her team leader is about to do.

"..here goes." Zei took the pill and swallowed it, waiting for the effects to take place.

"....well what do you know, nothing hap--!", Zei fell down to the floor, being unconscious.

"Eh?! Zei-ch--", Shizuha said, but was interrupted by Reisen.

"Let the girl be, not like I care about her or anything like that..", Reisen said.

~Few moments has passed~

"..uguuu...", Zei said, being half-awake. "!! A-aah...", She almost cried, her ears twitching. (OOC: Yeah, the 'ears' part is like..well...part of my character's regression.)

"Told you she wouldn't die.", Reisen said.

"E-eh?! Wh-who are you...?", Zei shyly asked, despite being smaller and still in the oversized Miko outfit.

"Who, me? I'm Reisen Udo--", "..Mystia Lorelei.", Mystia answered, despite pushing Reisen out of the way.

"M-mommy..?", Zei asked, few people were shocked at this response, but continued to look at Miyo-chan.

Shizuha, Flandre, and Reisen all looked at Mystia, giving her the 'OK' sign to go for it.

"..Y-yes, Zei?", Mystia answered, despite blushing at what just happened.

"Wh-who are those people?", Zei pointed to the other girls in her team, being more taller than her.

"U-uh... That lunar rabbit is Reisen Udonge Inaba. Goddess of Autumn/Fall is Shizuha Aki, and your partner, Flandre Scarlet."

The others say a few 'Hellos' while Zei was still looking at Mystia with such a confused look.

"...C'mon, I'll get you a right-sized Miko outfit you can wear.", Mystia said, still blushing. 'ohgodwhathaveIdonewhyamIblushingatthis.., she softly panicked.

"..So Mystia was somehow attached to Zei in a maternal way?", Reisen asked.

"Uwaah~... I didn't know about that!", Flandre said, surprisingly.

"....Huh.", Shizuha then asked, "But then, if Mystia's gone, who's gonna take care of her next?"

"G-guess I will..", Reisen said.

"No! I'll take care of Zei-chan!", Flandre happily said, despite knowing ANYTHING about being a mother. (OOC: Obligatory to 'd'awww' at this. Thank you.)

"...oooookay...", Shizuha said, then Mystia and Zei came back into the room, after Reimu explaining to her about the Miko training.

"...Eh?", Flandre looked at Zei, who was currently wearing a black Miko outfit, her hair being a bit longer, and yet her eyes still stay the normal green color.

"Everyone wanted 'This' and 'That' and luckily that color wasn't taken.", Mystia explained.

"..oh. But that shade of black reminds me of th--", Reisen was about to say, but interrupted by a glare from Shizuha.

"OK OK. It's fine, god..", Reisen said, walking over to the others. Flandre, Shizuha, Mystia, and Zei followed her as well.

[Helepolis]

- - -

[Sana]

The inn, 4:31 AM, Day 5

"Ready to go?" Renko asked.

"Just a sec...I need my glasses." Sanasan said, squinting through the dark.

"Glasses? I thought you wore contacts?" she asked, confused.

"They kind of...fell out during all the commotion yesterday." Sanasan explained. "Anyway, I think I left them over here somewhere."

"Oh. Well, hurry up, we've got to get going before we get caught." Renko said, making her way over to the door.

"Alright, alright...Just a second." Sanasan said, trying to speed up her search. Suddenly, she heard a soft crunch somewhere.

"...What was that?" she asked.

"Uh..." Renko checked the ground near her foot. She found what used to be a pair of glasses, now reduced to shards on the floor and frames. "...Looks like it was your glasses...sorry."

Sanasan sighed. "...Great. Well, you'd better lead the way then, I'd probably end up attacking a coat rack thinking it was Reimu."

"Yeah." Renko said in agreement. "Plus, I don't want to tell everyone you got beat up by a coat rack."

Sansan's face turned red. "...Let's just go, ok?"

Hallway, the inn, 4:40AM, Day 5

"...You know where you're going right?" Sanasan asked.

"Of course I know where I'm going!" Renko replied. "I'm a living GPS!"

"...But you can't see any stars here." Sanasan countered.

"That doesn't matter, I've got a great sense of direction." Renko said confidently. "I remember this one time when Mary and I..."

She fell silent, obviously remembering what had happened to Mary. Sanasan tried her best to encourage her.

"...Don't worry. We'll find her." Renko just nodded in response. They kept walking.

Underground hallway, 5:00AM, Day 5

After a few minutes of wandering the halls of the inn ("That was all according to plan!" said Renko), the two finally reached a passage that looked like it might lead to the right place.

"...You know, we haven't seen Reimu for the last half hour. That's kinda suspicious." Sanasan said.

"I think we should just be thankful we haven't run into her, personally." Renko replied. "Say, what's that?"

"What's what?" Sanasan asked.

"That...floating thing." Renko said. Sanasan simply pointed at her eyes. "Glasses. Right. It's just up there." she pointed at it. To Sanasan, it just looked like a blurry grey orb.

"...I dunno...Doesn't look like it's doing much though." She squinted at it. "Just kinda...sitting there."

"I guess we should just ignore it then." Renko said, and kept walking. Almost instantly, the thing swerved in front of her, almost like it was examining her.

"..What the? What's with this thing?"

"I'll handle it." Sanasan said, as she kicked the orb. It fizzled out a bit and fell to the ground. Renko smacked the back of her head.

"That thing could've been important!" Renko said angrily.

"...I'm pretty sure that thing was a security camera." Sanasan replied, rubbing her head. "So unless you want to get caught by Reimu, those things are bad news."

Suddenly, they heard a dull boom up ahead. Curious, they followed the noise, which now included shouting and more booming. They peeked around a corner, and saw...nothing. On the ground at least.

"...where's all this noise coming from?" Sanasan said, puzzled.

"I don't kno-ARE THEY FLYING?!" Renko said, shocked. Sanasan looked up. "TH-THEY'RE DEFYING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS!"

"Let's....Let's take a different route, shall we?" Sanasan said pulling on Renko's arm, not wanting to attract attention.

"But they're defying Newton's laws! I've got to find out how they do it!" Renko exclaimed.

"We'll ask them later, ok? Right now we've got to go!" Sanasan said, almost dragging her away.

The library, 5:30AM, Day 5

"I thought you had a good sense of direction?" Sanasan asked.

"Thought? I DO have a good sense of direction." Renko said, as if she were insulted by the insinuation.

"Then tell me. How are we this late for a meeting this important?! There's nobody here!" Sanasan replied.

Renko thought to herself. "...I'd say everyone else is just late."

"Yeah, well...Wait, do you hear that?" Sanasan asked.

"Hear what?" Renko said.

"Listen...it sounds almost like an earthquake. Is it coming from outside?"

Following the noise, they left the library and went down the hallway. Eventually, they found it: a tank in the middle of the hallway, pointed right at an open door. Peering inside, people were volunteering for something.

"Sana volunteers too!" Renko shouted.

Sanasan was shocked. "Wait, what!? Why'd you do that for?! We don't even know what they're volunteering for!"

"Don't worry, it's just Eirin's new drug." Renko said.

"Eirin's new drug!? Don't you remember what happened the last time someone took one of those?! I refuse to take another one." Sanasan said defiantly, crossing her arms.

"Nope, too late, you already volunteered! Good luck!" Renko said, pushing her into the crowd.

"Wait, I-" Sanasan managed before a pill was pushed into her hand. She looked at it. "Well...what's the worst that could happen?" She reluctantly put the pill in her mouth and ate it.

Right after putting the pill in her mouth, she got a splitting headache, and felt sore all over. She felt herself changing, as her vision got sharper, and her clothes starting to feel a lot looser than before. It was over in seconds.

Renko stared at the results in disbelief. Sanasan was now just a little over half her height, and looked a lot younger than before. She was looking around,
confused, and eventually looked at her.

"...That's a pretty hat! Where'd you get it?" the younger Sanasan asked, tilting her head and smiling.

Renko just kept staring at her.

Sanasan waved her hand at her, confused. "Helloooo?"

"...Just my luck." Renko mumbled to herself. "Why'd you have to turn into a kid?! I'm terrible with kids!" Renko said, shaking her.

"Llladdyyy, yyouu'ree hurrtingg meeee..." Sanasan said as she shook her.

"I-I'm not 'Lady', ok!? I'm Renko! R-E-N-K-O!" Renko said, embarrassed.

"Ok Mrs.Renko!" Sanasan said happily. Renko turned red, unsure of how to deal with this turn of events.

[Gpop]

Saniwa Shrine, 5:30 AM, Day 5

"Hey...Gpop...wake up..." a young, female voice said as she shook Gabe on the ground.

"h...huh? Koishi?" He opens his eyes to see Koishi staring down at him on her knees, and her hands on his shoulders. She sighs out of relief. "I thought I told you that I'd like to be called by own name now, remember?" Gabe tells Koishi.

"Oh, I thought that was directed only towards Amarillo and Lily." Koishi responds. Immediately Gabe began to wonder what happened, as all of his memories rushes back into his mind. He remembers how he was following Amarillo, but because he was woken up by Reimu so early in the morning after a late night, yet intense game of streetball last night, he only had about 2 hours of sleep, so he felt immensely tired. This resulted in him suddenly dropping in the middle of the hall to sleep.

"Aw man...my head hurts..." Gpop said as he scratches his head. He knew that it was probably from the drop, but it didn't matter much to him as he had some questions to ask. "Uhh...what happened to-"

"Amarillo and Lily?" Satori interrupted, reading his mind as usual. "Oh they went underground, to meet up with everyone else. How, when we were guarded by those yin-yang orbs? Well they were called off to go underground for some kind of fight, so Amarillo took the chance to leave. She said that she's terribly sorry for leaving you behind, but that this is her only chance, and she doesn't want to be responsible for you."

"Huh...selfish bastard..." Gabe said to himself. "Well...I probably would've done the same thing if I was her...whatever." He got himself up from the ground and asked, "so wh-"

"Didn't we try to wake you?" Satori interrupted once again, "Well we did, or rather, Koishi and Merlin tried as hard as they could, but you wouldn't wake."

"I should've remembered that you're here before asking anymore questions verbally." Gabe said. "Well then it seems that nothing's here to guard us," Gpop continued as he inspected the shrine and their surroundings, "so I guess we should head back underground, although I highly doubt that the main entrance is the safest bet, so we'll take the secret passage instead."

"G-Gabriel," Merlin said as she blushed when she said his real name. "I was wondering...how did you get your name, 'Gpop'?"

"Well...I don't remember exactly except it was something related to my pastime. I had it long before I met these two anyways, but Satori knew my name then."

---

Infirmary, Medical Wing, Central Block, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~5:55 AM, Day 5

As they approach the door to the medical wing, Satori tells Gabe, "I can hear voices...from the minds...a lot of them...I think they're in there."

"Well then I guess we'll have to find out." Gabe responds as heads towards the door. He opens it and enters the room, followed by the rest of his team.

He finds almost everyone there. But he quickly notices that some people are in fact missing. In fact, there were BABIES and CHILDREN in the room now.

"Ok what?" Gabe asks everyone as they all turned towards him. "What in fucks name happened here?"

Gabe looks down to see a little baby right in front of him, staring at him. The baby points at him and said "G...poop!"

"Oh man if you weren't a baby I would definitely pound your little ass." Gabe said as he held his anger in. "Where did you get this baby? Seriously?"

"For your information that's Miyo, and she peed on me." Alice said, still wiping her skirt.

"Miyo? I never heard of him? Where did you find her?" Gabe asked again.

"It's nots really 'where' we founds her, buts mores of 'who' she really is. And she's Mitaka, buts in a lolified versions, ze." Marisa answered

"D...d...deodorant? Seriously? As in, cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die seriously?" Gabe asked in shock. He looks down to inspect him carefully. He seems to have most of the physical traits by him, albeit smaller than usual, such as hair color, eye color, and all that.

"pff..." Gabe tries to hold his laughter in, but couldn't help it any longer. "BWAHAHAHAHA OH WOW! I THOUGHT GENDER-SWAPPING WAS BAD, BUT LOLIFYING YOURSELF PRETTY MUCH PUT THE ICING ON THE CAKE! OH WOW SERIOUSLY I APPLAUD WHOEVER DID THIS TO HIM!"

"I'm glad that you enjoy it." Eirin speaks from behind the crowd. "At least someone appreciates my works."

"OH I SHOULD'VE KNOWN THAT IT WAS YOU. EIRIN I RESPECT YOU FOR THIS. I HAVEN'T CRACKED UP LIKE THIS IN YEARS OH MAN THIS IS GREAT!" Gabe continued as he clapped his hands. "REALLY YOU SHOULD CONTINUE THIS STUFF. I WANT TO SEE WHAT ELSE YOU CAN DO TO MITA-"

THWACK!

Gabe falls down to the ground hard as Reimu continues to hold her gohei where his head was. Everyone now began to look at Reimu as she withdraws her gohei. Koishi runs up to Gabe in fear and asks Reimu, "What was that for this time?"

"I'm getting fed up with Gpop and his insults towards our team leader. It's getting on my nerves, being on the team." Reimu responds. She turns towards Eirin and asks, "You got anymore of that drug?"

"Of course." Eirin responds calmly.

"Good. Since he likes it so much, I guess it wouldn't hurt to let him try it for himself..."

---

5 minutes later, Gabe wakes up to find himself on the ground once again. He gets up, but immediately finds himself a bit...smaller...than usual. He has to look up to see their heads, as his head reaches up to their waists. Not a sight that he'd enjoy.

He finds Koishi besides him, tugs her shirt and asks, "Koishi...what happened? Why is everything suddenly bigger?" Gabe also notices that his voice is a bit higher as well.

"You're..." Koishi tries to tell him calmly, but couldn't help herself. "YOU'RE CUTE NOW!" And she grabs by the hips and picks him up, swinging him around like a child.

"H...hey! Put me down! How could you pick me up like th..." He looks at his arms and legs to find himself...younger...

"WHAT!? I'M YOUNGER!? PUT ME DOWN KOISHI!" Gabe yells, and Koishi quickly puts him down, noticing that he's starting to cry.

"W...what did you guys do to me..." Gabe asks, but before he could answer, he felt the sudden urge to cry. He couldn't control it himself, so he let it out, tears streaming down his cheeks as he yelled out, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

"Maybe giving him those pills weren't such a great idea after all..." Reimu said.

"YOU...YOU GAVE ME THE PILLS!?" Gabe yelled out in anger as he continued to cry.

"Yeah, but fortunately for you, you're not as young as the other it seems. You look about 10 or so." Eirin explained. "It seems that your body managed to hold off some of the effects from turning you straight in to a baby, seeing how much Reimu put in you. I'm quite surprised myself."

"I DON'T CARE. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!?" Gabe continued to cry.

"There there, don't cry my little G..." Koishi said as she picked up Gabe and patted him on the back. Gabe quickly stopped crying, and felt relieved.

"Th...thank you...mama Koishi..." Gabe said unexpectadly.

"M-mama?" Koishi blushed at his words. "Well...I guess I could be your mom for now."

"uh-oh..." Gpop quickly said after.

"Huh? What does that mean?" Koishi asked quickly, a bit panicked.

"I think Gpop there released himself a bit too much and made a Gpoop." Reimu laughed.

"R-really? But I don't know how to change him!?" Koishi panicked.

"Well I think we have some cloth back at our place, Koishi, so we could change him with those for now. Don't worry, I can teach you. I did this a lot with Orin and Utsuho back when they were little as well, as well as you." Satori explained "Also, this could be good practice for you for motherhood.

"M-MOTHERHOOD!?" Koishi didn't expect this at all. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well since you two love each other so much I'd think you two would think about having your own child." Satori said.

"WHAT!? But we never even though about it! It's...going too fast for us!" Koishi said.

"Well I'm just stating my own thoughts." Satori said, noticing Koishi blushing from all that.

"Well you could just read lil' G's mind right now and see what he's thinking...right?" Reimu asked.

"I...I...I can't...now..." Satori said depressingly while staring at G's heart.

"Wait...WHAT!?" Reimu and everyone else in the room was shocked by the news. "WHY NOT!?"

"I...believe that G's younger self may have affect his mana levels. It seems that his mana level has decreased dramatically now that his body isn't as physically strong as before." Satori explained. "His mana level has dropped so much that I can vaguely read minds now. I can't read them clearly. It's too blurry."

"That's...not a good thing." Reimu said. Losing Satori's mind-reading power is a huge loss to them.

[E-Nazrin]

Shrinemaiden Escapee Schemeratics vGreenie.2, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~4:55 AM, Day 5
Participants: Team Drillkumo, Team Ghostbusters, Team FUBAR: E-mouse, Xan, Mind-The-Gap

(OOC: Continuing where I left off in MTG's first of the two posts, at "((The following is by MTG))" - ctrl-F is your friend!

Also, 90% of this post is irrelevant to players at large if you read that segment. I find it quite acceptable to skip it entirely due to this, and even recommend it unless you like reading my irregular retellings.)

After recovering from the little coughing fit Marisa's smokebomb had left me with, I noticed a silhouette through our smokescreen. Wearing miko clothes.

"Is that... R-Reimu-neesama desu...?!" Ruukoto gasped.

Damnit, she'd caught up to us already? She's gotten AHEAD of us already?! This could get ugly...

"RUN HER OVER!" one of the Yuyukos suggested. I'd lost track of which was which by now, but given the tone, that was probably Sho.

A good suggestion, though. Of course, now that we'd warned her, she'd just get out of the way...

The others had some brief discomfort about this course of action, but it was decided on. And deemed "Easy Mode." Lucky, Tewi and Reisen were not here to mock us.

So we charged. And, for some reason, Reimu didn't take her own Easy Mode solution and get out of the way.

Uh... what?

Marisa echoed my sentiment. "Err... shouldn't she move, ze?..."

... wait, no, she must have some sort of plan! If we don't do something, then...

Amid some concerns from the others, we neared collision. I tried to come up with what she might be planning, and how to deal with it, but there were too many possibilities! Duck aside and smash someone from the side, ram us into a barrier at the last second, leap over and attack... damnit!

... well, either way we'd probably be slowing down suddenly. I... held Yukari a little tighter onto the bed, grit my teeth, and glared at Reimu as we approached.

Reimu took an option I hadn't particularly considered; jumping right ONTO the end of the bed-trolley and glaring down at us.

Oh dear. Now she had all the time she needed to wear down the invalids.

Reimu smirked at me before letting out a haughty sigh. "How na?ve... you seriously think the same trick will work on me twice?!"

"It did, actually." I pointed out. "That was take three."

She blinked at me, and scowled. "... Well, you can't expect to catch me with such petty tricks again!" she grinned, and lifted her gohei. "Now, succumb to miko training!"

"It's... been a while, Reimu..." She-Deodorant said from beside me on the bed. I glanced over to see a grit-tooth grin on her face.

... is she planning something?

Reimu smiled at her. "Indeed. For the two of us to meet like this..." she spread her arms in a broad gesture, oddly reminiscent. "On the field of battle..."

Mikoto smiled back. "Ironic, huh? Friends yesterday, enemies today..."

... so, keeping her busy, then? I can't do much since I'm right in front of her, and (s)he's got this going fine... I hope the others are planning to take advantage of this.

Reimu sighed heavily. "'Tis unfortunate, but we are but simple pawns, playthings of cruel fate."

... I snarled at her.

She ignored me.

"If the tides of battle land us on opposite shores, then we have no choice but to meet as foes."

What the hell are you talking about?! Thinking like that is...

"Can we not go back to how it was back then?" Mikoto pleaded. I nodded in agreement.

"Can we not... go back to those brighter days when everyone could smile and laugh freely?"

... I agree with the sentiment, but you could be less cheesy about it...

"Remember those days when Suika would pour sake down your bloo--"

Reimu cut her off with a tiny blush and a curt "Sorry, I don't think the corridor's long enough for a flashback."

Oh. We ARE still moving, aren't we?

"Then... can we not talk this out?" Mikoto asked, "Can we not avoid the bloodshed? If... our friendship meant anything to you..."

Man, this is exactly the sort of diplomacy I loved to see.

But Reimu just snorted. "How na?ve?if the world were that simple, that ideal, we wouldn?t need shrine maidens."

"I think you mean 'fighters.'" I growled. Youkai extermination is NOT the only miko duty!

"Then... answer me this, at least..." She-Deodorant sighed. "Why..."

God, yes, the universal question!

"Why..." the calm left her voice. "... am I wearing a bloody miko outfit?"

Uh.

"Why am I wrapped in a sarashi when there isn't anything to wrap? And WHY AM I WEARING BLOODY BLOOMERS?! Mikos don't wear bloomers! This is madness! This is BLASPHEMY!"

Oh god. The last thing we need now is a 30 reference. Although maybe Cho-Marisa would be enough to bring Reimu back in line...

Reimu raised an eyebrow. "Blasphemy?"

She had the appropriate tone. Yep, she knew the reference.

Armpits leaned forwards, grinning. "This... is the world of MIKOS!!"

Well, this is typical.

... uh, why hasn't she been attacked yet? What the heck are the others doing?

Mitaka seemed to be wondering something similar, and turned around. I looked up and around a bit, but made sure to keep Reimu in the corner of my eye.

... there were lots of yin-yang orbs flying around now. That's not good.

"It's a trap!" She-Deodorant shouted.

Wha?

I was unable to resist the urge to turn around to see what he was talking about, and saw Sanae dashing at us from behind at incredible speed, small puffs of wind following every footstep.

Huh, she's neither male nor a crossdresser. Unless Eirin also spiked her food with a genderswap drug?

Joking aside, fuck.

"It's a double trap!" one of the Yuyukos added.

Since Reimu's still riding with us. Shit.

"Tch!"

I turned in time to see Reimu gesture forward, and the yin-yang orbs above shoot down at the group.

Ack.

Things started happening very fast. Youmu leapt out from under the bed to charge Reimu - what took you so long?! - and go through a flashingly brief skirmish ending in a smoke bomb and a doll-to-the-throat threat.

Uh, what happened to her swords? Is that KOGASA she's threatening her with?!

My freakout was cut off by a warning from one of the Yuyukos. "We're going to crash!"

I looked past Reimu and noticed a small wall... wait, an opening above it?

... as we approached, the area beyond looked more and more cavernous... it'd be a long drop...

... is that wall low enough for us to slide off after the bed hits it? Oh god.

A sparking noise brought me back, followed by Youmu yelping and dropping a hissing bombdoll to the floor. It bounced once or twice before exploding almost directly under the bed.

We sailed over the small wall, into an enormous room with some big round thing in the middle.

And a very, very distant floor.

Ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck

"... we're gonna die, aren't we?" Mitaka/koto asked, quietly.

I continued staring at the drop to the floor. "... looks like it."

What a pathetic way to game over... Reimu, you fucking moron...

"... why did I even bother waking up..."

Fortunately, Reimu didn't seem to want us to actually die. "ALICE!" she barked, "DO SOMETHING!!"

"Argh, why me?!" the puppeteer cried. She grabbed the bed in midair and flung a bunch of small strings up at the ceiling. Somehow they caught hold, and she tied her end of the strings to the bed as she climbed onto it. And my legs.

... come to think of it, why aren't they killing me? Maybe I'm starting to recover?

"Hang on!" Alice reminded me.

That's right, this is a rather dangerous situation, isn't it?

... oh god, since when was I in an action movie?!

I grabbed the side of the bed and put an arm over Yukari to..... no, that wouldn't be enough to keep her on now. I'd have to... to...

No, no time to overthink it!

I... grabbed Yukari's shoulders, and... held her close to keep her on.

Oh god, what.

"Ah!"

A few sets of claws etched onto my own shoulders. That's right, the shikigami. At least they have a good way to hold on, themselves...

Was it just me, or were two of the paws latched onto me digging in much deeper than the others?

... well, I'd have to deal with it. Damnit, making up with Ran is going to be tough...

The bed started swinging. My bitten lip helped slightly in subduing the resulting nausea.

The bed turned upright. I prayed my arm strength would hold out.

Ruukoto's did not. Or maybe if it had it would have crushed the bed. Androids are heavy.

"Ruukoto!" She-Deodorant cried, lunging towards her and groping wildly for her hand. Somehow, (s)he got in one try, but started following her off almost immediately. Somehow she'd forgotten the "get a good grip on the bed" part.

"Mi... mikoto-s-san, let go _desu!" maid-bot cried, "Y...you'll..."

... where'd that desu habit come from, anyway?

"Not a CHANCE IN HELL!!" She-Deodorant cried, "ALICE!"

Goddamn, I love that tone he had.

"Why must you ALWAYS try to be the hero?!" Alice shot back at her, exasperated. She flung another handful of doll strings past me, at Deodorant's ankle.

Heh. Shot web.

Wait, no, that's stupid.

"If you're going to be the hero, then at least don't make me bail you out each time!"

We'll get our chances, Alice, don't worry...

Or maybe do worry, apparently we've gone far enough to threaten the far wall of the room. Jesus, how fast were we going?!

"Eeep!" Ruukoto provided, with a squeak.

Alice managed to make the most of the situation. "Ruukoto! Run on the wall!"

Hey, that might work! Androids could have magnetizable feet or something... but if the wall isn't metal...

Based on Ruukoto's reaction, it wouldn't be that simple. "Wh... what?! Do WHAT?!"

"Run on the wall and keep the bed up!" Alice clarified.

Ruukoto was silent for a moment before adding a brief "Hai!"

I couldn't see what she did, but I heard some mechanical whirs and then a nasty, high-pitched whine.

"Nnn..."

... Yukari decided to remind me that I was holding her so tightly.

"Ran, stop it, have some tofu..."

Ah... no, stop that. I looked up in search of a distraction to see Ruukoto on the wall, apparently rolling along with some sort of horrible whining sound.

I watched for a moment before looking over at Alice. "Did you know she could do that?"

"No, not really." she replied.

"A lucky guess." I muttered. Not an insane one, though...

A cry of "REEEEEEIMUUUUUUUUU!!" from somewhere in the skies of the middle of the room signaled the beginnings of another skirmish.

God damnit, what's the point of this whole fiasco anyway?!

I was fairly busy trying not to get thrown off the near-vertical bed as Ruukoto circled us alongside the wall of the room, so I didn't pick up on most of the details of the fight. Thankfully, the magic of centrifugal force made it semi-realistic to actually stay with the bed as long as Ruukoto kept moving.

Anyway, apparently Youmu and Reimu were facing off, jumping among the flying yin-yang orbs, while Yuyuko... no, Yuyuko and Sho, now, with the application of what could be best summarized as "ninja breast suffocation technique."

But as the air started getting cluttered with in increasingly absurd army of yin-yang orbs, our little bed-ridden, or rather riding, mob ran into another problem. The orbs. That is, physically ramming into them as we circled the wall. They still didn't hurt TOO much when they hit, but it was getting to be a real pain in the ass. I tried to shield Yukari with my back - I really hoped this wasn't going to stall her recovery further - and gritted my teeth as Ran and Chen clawed their way to cover behind me.

Worse was the growing stack of the orbs piling up on the bed, stuck on mostly by said centrifugal force. But I wouldn't put it past Reimu to be stocking them up here for some scheme once we managed to escape the threat of dying spectacularly. Sheesh...

Unfortunately, there wasn't much I could do about them, between hanging onto the edge of the bed for dear life, and onto... onto Yukari for her own. Okay. I COULD have tried to wriggle around on the bed a little to kick stuff off with my feet, but it would be incredibly risky, expose Ran and Chen to incoming orbs unless they tore up my back some more, and... would be a very compromising circumstance with Yukari. Not something I was eager for... well, not eager to deal with.

... damn second head.

It was about this point in my musing that I realized that a grappling Youmu and Reimu had placed themselves on top of an orb directly in the path of our wall-ridin' bed.

Crap.

Reimu had her arms in the Sonanoka Position, thanks to Youmu stuffing Kogasa through both her sleeves. It looked like a pretty good hold, but the two weren?t exactly mobile. Unless we could change course fast...

"Ruukoto! We're gonna..."

"I can't adjust that fast!!" she cried back, clearly upset.

Damnit. Brace for impact - with any luck we'll get Reimu, at least...

FWOOP.

... uuuuunless she manages to break out of the trap by making Kogasa snap open and pulling away quickly.

Damnit!

Reimu promptly shoved Youmu into our path, then gracefully leapt past the bed and probably onto another flying orb.

These people are constantly superhuman...

On the upside, that probably means Youmu wouldn't be seriously hurt by this crash. Hang on tight...

WHUD.

"Urkh!"

Yukari and I lurched forward on the bed.

She slipped from my grip thanks to the distraction of the pain from my other hand getting chafed on the edge of the bed.

FUCK.

Luckily, her sudden impact with Youmu's back kept her within reach, and I managed to grab hold of her again without disaster. More luckily, her response to this was merely a grunt of her own, rather than some howl of pain from getting hurt while trying to recover. With further luck, I felt Youmu roll over my legs and stop next to Alice. She stayed there.

Phew. They're all right. My heart's pounding...

... and not just because I realized my face is a few inches in front of Yukari's breasts...

I tugged her back into a more modest relative position, hot-faced. A soft growl came from over my right shoulder. Yep, same spot as the harsher claws.

Yukari elected to make the situation worse.

"Uuuuhhh... n-not so hard, Jeremy~..." she murmured.

The brief silence felt a lot longer to me than it actually was.

"Um."

A louder growl preceded a sharp pain on my ear. I yelped.

"Ow! What?! I didn't even DO anything!"

She-Deodorant turned her head over solely to give me a knowing smirk. "Ahaaa~"

We don't have time for this! I didn't even... even in my dreams I wouldn't have...

... would I?

WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!!

"Shut up and focus on keeping us up, Deodorant!" I snapped at her.

"We're picking up too much weight!" Alice cried. A creak from higher up - probably her webs strings. "Throw some of those blasted orbs off!!" she cried.

"And how do you propose I do that?!" I shot back. "I've got my hands full here, if you haven't noticed!"

Well, admittedly, they could be fuller if I wrapped that arm around a little further to grab Yukari's b--

FUCKING SECOND HEAD!

"Best we can do is kick Deodorant off!" I snapped.

"Don't look at me!" Mikoto shouted, "You need me and Ruukoto to keep this bed up, remember?!"

... ah hell, losing my temper keeps making me stupid...

"... FANTASY SEAL!!" a cry came from the center of the room, cutting in on our stupid little argument.

I looked up to see Reimu floating on a yin-yang orb high the air, slowly being surrounded by trails of light that... organized themselves into some sort of arcane symbols...?

I heard Alice gasp. At her feet, Youmu finally stopped wheezing, and stammered, "I... it's a spellcard!"

Wait, and Reimu'd just said... "... Fantasy seal? You mean THAT Fantasy Seal?!"

"... well, yes, how many fantasy seals are there?" She-Deodorant replied.

... wait, isn't Reimu linked to...

Alice was a step ahead of me. "We... we're still alive? Mikoto... you're not dead?"

"I hope so." Mitaka replied. He gave me a disapproving look. "'cause if this is the afterlife, I want all my donations back."

I just stared. "How...... did you get turned into a youkai superhuman or something?"

She-Deodorant considered. "Hmm, well, I don't wake up with a pressing hunger for grilled human fillet, so I think not."

"Then how are you still alive?!"

"I don't know!" Mikoto snapped back at me, "But I'd rather not have it be a moot point!"

A silence, filled mainly by the increasingly-familiar whine of Ruukoto's feet... wheels... whatever she was keeping us on the wall with. More of the stray yin-yang orbs bounced off the bed, a few of them sticking.

"You're right." I replied, calmly, "This is stupid. I'm sorry."

She-Deodorant seemed fairly surprised and/or deflated at my sudden reversal. "Er..."

"This is very charming, you two," Alice cut in, "But I think ut we should really try to do something about Reimu."

She was right.

"Especially with the bed getting so overloaded and her having that spellcard ready to wipe out everyone..."

Hmm. The bed WAS getting oddly crowded. There weren't this many orbs sticking earlier, were there...?

Wait, they?re sticking to each other! Damnit, Reimu definitely has a scheme here...

"We need to get rid of them!"

"And we're headed straight for Reimu!" Alice added. "Those seal orbs will blast us out of the air if we get close, but... the others can't seem to get a hit in to interrupt her..."

"The orbs!" Youmu gasped, "Use the orbs!"

... using her own weapons against her AND pushing them off? Good idea, but how are we...

"That's it!" Alice cried. She pulled out yet another doll - probably explosive - and gave it a brief, mournful look before dumping it into the stack of yin-yang orbs.

Er... I hope her plan wasn't to blow up the bed.

"Mikoto...?" I mumbled, hoping she had a better plan.

He thought he did. "Gotcha! Ruukoto, STOOOOOOOOOP!"

My eyes widened. "WHAT?! That'd throw us all off!!"

Ruukoto didn't listen. Sparks erupted from the walls as she activated some sort of braking system.

Oh god. Ohgodohgodohgod.

I was too busy embedding my palm in the side of the bed and whimpering to fully track what the process of Alice and Deodorant's plan, but I know it involved several explosions.

Then, we started to fall.

Please let this be contrived into a safe landing, please let this be contrived into a safe landing, please let this...

I let out a yelp of pain as the bed landed on its wheels, bounced off the floor a few inches, and landed again, promptly rolling through a small mob of teammates for our little excursion that had apparently dogpiled Sanae. They scattered about a little, and the rollerbed finally slowed to a sane speed.

"Le... let's get out of here!" Mikoto suggested, pale-faced. The dogpile members seemed to agree, and picked themselves up to get the bed the hell out of Dodge. And themselves.

Oddly, Sanae seemed to be completely wiped out by the collision. She just laid on the floor, following us with a blank-eyed stare. It was kinda creepy.

But we got away, after a half-dozen or so brushes with death for completely idiotic reasons, which is probably a good thing.

... though, I was worried how long that would last.

[Nemo★Ma]

A forest somewhere from the shrine, Day 5, Amarillo & Lily, ~5:35AM

(If you are not already aware of that yet the forest is the same one mentioned in Day 1/2)

Amarillo, or rather, Amarillo(L.W) have just descended to the ground in the forest.

As Lily emerges out, Amarillo sighed "I never know it's THAT far, we will have a little rest before we actually try something."

"But why do us separate from others for now? And I still don't know what you want to do." Lily sat on the grassy ground.

"For your first question, I'm fairly annoyed at Eirin's actions, I don't know who else becoming the victims of that drug but as long as the drug is still in effect their power is weakened. If the enemy strikes in it'll be harder to held them back."

"Seems...... reasonable." Lily picked up a withered flower from the ground and turn it alive again. "Wait.. What have I just done?!"

"That's the point for the reason why we are here." Amarillo looks at the revived flower "Seems you have just realized that you have done something you are not ...... er....... supposed to do in the real world."

"And you don't seem tired at all. Why did that happen?" Lily puts back the flower into the soil again, "And what's the connection between that and Reimu's endless orbs and seals we just seen?"

"LifeForce Synchronization, or in Reimu's words, Mana Synchronize." Amarillo pauses for a while, "I guess you have the Covenant Communicator with you, right? "

"Ahh, yeah, I bring it when I'm controlling you escape the shrine, it should be in one side of your Miko Suit."

Amarillo looks for a while, and.... "Yeah, here it is, now let's see..."

She quickly bring up the Linker-RSA system. "Hmm, Reimu found that, but she didn't check the inside of that program."

The program is now having the name "Lin Xiyin" on it, however there is nothing on the right side.

"I see nothing, at least I except my own picture being there."

"That's because we didn't have THAT kind of link, however, Reimu sure didn't found this." She clicked on the name of herself.

And a graph with three lines came up.

"From as far as I know it, the Red one," she pointed out the red line, which is pretty much below the other lines. "stands for my health status." She looked the red line for a while, "And I'm sure you know that my body isn't as stable or strong as Alex or Anthony. "

"Understand that."

"Then it's the Orange line, as far as I know that is the mood of the master." Amarillo pauses, "Which explains why the basketball match was a success."

"Means that when we are mad, the more effective our action becomes?"

"Pretty much, the higher your mood is, the better your...." she points to the Green line which seems graph broken since it's so high that it's outta the graph. "Life Force/Mana Output is."

"But you are in a normal mood now, why do you have so much Output there?" Lily asked.

"That's because of my initial ability, this is a forest, and forest is a mirror of nature, all trees and plants there have become my battery which allows something impossible to happen. Like the green line you see here. Now for testing out, I would like you to turn this grassland a flowerfield."

"Wh-What?! I mean this is not hard but will-"

"That's the point of trying, don't worry, I won't fall so easily here. Plus, Reimu knows where I am."

"Uh, OK." As Lily floats in the air and close her eyes. The plants on the ground become to grow and soon the place is flooded with flowers.

"Amarillo are you alright?" Lily returned to the ground and looks at the graph interface that Amarillo held.

"I'm alright, Orange line is higher than last, and..... the green line become even higher. I guess it's because of the flowerfields... Our attempt is a success!"

"But the thing is there is not a forest anywhere just because you need it."

"Well, the key is to rise the orange line through the power of the mind. and the green line will rise, I just proved that the usage of your abilities won't drain the green line here."

"Hah~ It's beyond my understanding again." Lily sat down in the flowerfield. And to her surprise Amarillo lie down too.

"Don't get me wrong, I just need a little rest, We will lie here for 10 minutes before getting back."

"Just make sure you are not working too much." said Lily.

*10 minutes later*

"OK, rest time is over, we will head back." Amarillo stand up and pulled Lily up too.

"Why so fast?" Lily said in confusion.

"Remember Reimu's Miko training?" Amarillo points at the clothes of herself.

"Er.. Well, yeah."

"Don't be late, and I'll borrow your wings again in order to assure that."


"It seems you are right." Lily said as Amarillo walk out of the forest.


And they take off.

(They will arrive to the shrine at 0600AM)

[Bias Bus]

=== Underground Infirmary (sounds better) - 5:30 AM (I guess) ~ Day 5 ===

Unexpected.

That's all Owlbear could really fathom at the moment. Yeah, she probably should have seen a SNAFU like this coming a mile away (nothing is this easy), but loli-fication? That's a little out of bounds isn't it Eirin? Owlbear could barely deal with being a woman, how could she cope with being a child again? Well, she could use it as an excuse to take it easy, but given of how things were looking (miko training seems to be on the horizon, regardless), Owlbear doubted such a thing would happen. Ever.

"Aren't you going to take it, Fukuma-chan, you did volunteer, right?" Shinki spoke, busting Owlbear's sense of silence on what to do with the pill that was in her hand. Shinki was still cradling young Miyo in her arms, cooing to the infant and generally doing the things a mother would if she had a child. Well, to be fair, Shinki did have experience on the matter, her being the mother of an entire universe in and of itself. Perhaps this wouldn't be too bad after all...but still, Owlbear had a decision to make...

"Alright fine, I'll take it." Owlbear said as he looked to Miyo for only a few moments and immedieatly began to grow a bit jealous at the toddler's position. Shinki was hers to cuddle, not Miyo's! With gusto, Owlbear threw the pill back and swallowed it whole as if it were nothing but a Skittle. It probably would have tasted like one too had she chewed it, but that's a story for another time I suppose.

"How...do you feel?" Luize said a bit anxious as to what will happen. To be honest, this was the first she's seen something of this, having traveled alot in her lifetime, such a thing as age-regression has never surfaced during her nomadic wanderings. "Any pain, cramps, or otherwise?"

"No...not really..." Owlbear shrugged "Guess mine was a dud."

"I hate to burst your bubble, but there are no 'duds' in medicine." Eirin quipped in probably just to see Owlbear's face drop. "...Although the prolonged delay IS rather curious..."

"Delay or no, I still say it's a dud." Owlbear persisted "I suppose my surpressed GAR is so strong it completely negated the effects of yoooooour druuuuuuugh..." Owlbear suddenly began to trail off as her body went completely limp like a noodle and slumped to the ground in a heap, her eyes steadily losing more focus as time passed. If one were to gaze upon this, one word would probably come to mind...

"O-oh no! That shrewd doctor's drug made Fukuma-chan retarded!" Luize gasped her hands over her mouth.

Yuki only chuckled at this, apparently finding more fun than dread out of it. "Heh, yeah, we might have to give her a helmet so she doesn't hurt herself~"

"No. It's nothing like that." Yumeko spoke up, her eyes watching Owlbear intently as if waiting for the effects of the drug to kick in. "The drug is still working, but it's effect seems to be delayed in Owlbear, more over it's activating in a different fashion...but, rest assured, it's still doing the same thing as it did to the others..."

Indeed it was, for not long after, Owlbear's body began to slowly lose it's size and shrink. Her once luschious breasts now losing their density, her feminine proportions faded as more and more of Owlbear began to disappear into her attire. Eventually, the shrinking stopped and the head of a young (about 4-5 years old, give or take) Owlbear reared it's head from her too large clothing.

Congratulations! Your Owlbear has De-evolved into a Lolibear!

Lolibear tilted her head to one side, giving the others a weird stare. "Do you have candy?"

"No sweets before breakfast, Fuku-chan." Shinki spoke, still holding Miyo in her arms. She's really taken to that quite well hasn't she? "You'll spoil your appetite like that-"

"Nooooooooo!" Lolibear screeched as she threw herself back and flailed her tiny limbs in a frenzy. This was the tantrum of a Bear...or rather a Lolibear, still it's a tantrum none the less. "I wan candy! I WAN CANDY! I WAN CANDY!!"

"Ah! What should we do?" Luize said jumping at the sheer volume of Lolibear's screams for sweets. "Sh-should we just give her the candy like she wants?"

"Uhm...w-why're you all lookin' at me, I dunno!" Yuki shouted before she turned her head to her 'sister'. "Mai?"

"D-do not look at me...I...I don't even know what it's like to have children..."

... ... ...

"Great...a spoiled brat with a sweet tooth and NO one knows how to deal with it..." Yumeko facepalmed.

"You were quite the handful too, Yumeko-chan. So let's not judge others~" Shinki said giving Yumeko a smile. To which Yumeko blushed deeply in embarrasment, very few spoke of the maid's youth as she was Shinki's oldest (and most powerful) subject. Although it wasn't only this factor that few spoke of it...

"Ah Shinki-sama, you...you promised you would never speak of my youth!" Yumeko spoke in a hurried tone. Looking to the others hoping they didn't hear anything.

"Why are you so embarrased?" Shinki giggled "Just like Alice-chan, every moment with you was pure bliss, despite how rambunctious you were~"

"YOU were rambunctious?" Yuki said in both a tone of surprise and surpressed giggles. "The Yumeko who's always so calm and level-headed?"

"... ... ..."

"It looks like our Yumeko has a few secrets of her own." Mai added with a faint smile of her own. She always knew there was something Yumeko hid from them all this time...Now it seems the cats out of the bag...

"Mama...I wan candy..." Lolibear repeated as she trudged over to Shinki's side and tugged at her robe. Her deep brown eyes slowly filling with tears after having not recieved her sweets. "I...*sniff*...I wan candy..."

"I told you before, Fuku-chan, no candy until after you've had breakfast." Shinki told the half crying Lolibear in a soft tone. "You'll get candy after we eat, okay?"

"O-okay..."

[Maid Xan~]

Eirin's Clinic, Saniwa Shrine: Covenant Base Area, ~5:30, Day 5

Shoko watched Mitaka's transformation with mirth. If Eirin's latest pills did this... Oh, how very useful. After all, small children would be alot easier to explain away than adults. Besides, being a loli certainly would have advantages, for mischief, if nothing else...

"Yuyuko, I think we're going through with this. It's a good thing we grabbed a smaller dose, yes?"

Yuyuko nodded, the pill in her mouth already.

"That means you too, Youmu. No getting out of it. You'd be incredibly moe as a loli."

Youmu blushed. "B-but..."

"Do it."

Youmu glanced down at the pill, shaking slightly. However, she saw no way out of taking it, as Shoko was watching her intently, holding her pill between two fingers. With no other choice, Youmu quickly swallowed hers. She was followed by Yuyuko, who had let hers sit in her mouth until then, and Shoko.

A few seconds later, the 3 girls had de-aged to around 7 years old. Youmu was looking around confusedly, while Yuyuko and Shoko were running around, getting in the way, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. This lasted for about a minute before the were deposited outside by Eirin before they could get into one of the medicine cabinets or cut themselves on a scalpel. The three soon wandered off down the hall, looking around for something of interest... Kogasa tailed them silently.

"So... nee-san is now nee-chan? How confusing..."

[AJC]

((can't think of a good post so TIMESKIP HO))

Infirmary, Medical Wing, Central Block, Covenant Underground, Saniwa Shrine, ~5:30 AM, Day 5

after all the crap from the yakuza dropping by again playing their game and getting all the kidnapped girls including the fairys uner his care Alex wanted to lay the hell down and rest but no some of the changed men had to drag everyone to this medical wing all to try and get eirin to change them back.

after yielding to their demand eirin handed out a shady looking jar of drug the effects of which which proved turned to be a de-aging drug.

"Great...now we have to babysit now...anyways.." Alex says has he takes the jar and throws it up into the air then utterly vaporizes the jar and all the pills with a wave of ki.

"whaaaaaaaaah my work those took many many years to make" Eirin shouts in protest

"This stuff is too hazardous with fairys around to leave laying around i don't want a repeat of the last time a shady drug was used." Alex says glaring at the 3 mischevious fairys who went all shufflely eyes.