I'm loving this! Yuyuko's backstory is so depressingly heart-warming. I'm really admiring her strength. I'm really curious as to what she has in mind for Youmu to do concerning Sakuya though...
The back stroy's for most characters (In my version of Genoskyo) are like that. Oh and Sakuya's is based off "The Perfect, Elegant Maid". Chapter 6:U.N.Owen was who?
A woman with a large scythe was rowing Youmu across a lake, she said her name was Komachi. Youmu didn't really understand how the boat was moving since Komachi was standing up, and there was an eerie fog all around her. Night had fallen around the lake.
"You're goin' ta that big mansion cross the lake right?" Komachi's voice was scratchy, almost old sounding, though she certainty didn't look very old at all. Her pink hair was long and tied in twin tails with red bobbles, she wore a blue dress with a red wrap around keeping a long piece of white circular cloth (who's function Youmu wasn't quite sure of) around her waist. "Make sure ya tell the girl at the gate what'cher doin' there. They don't really like uninvited guests ta much."
With that the boar arrived at the shore and what stood before Youmu was a very large mansion with a blue roof. The fog from the lake had completely cleared and the sky was lit by more stars then Youmu had ever seen, along with a gigantic red moon, it was an incredible, and at the same time terrifying, sight to behold.
A girl with red hair was sitting in on a stole at the front gate, completely asleep. Youmu didn't really want to wake her but...
"Hey," Youmu tapped her on the shoulder and pushed a bit, "hey I'm here for something Yuyuko sent me to pick up."
The red haired girl opened her eyes wearily and yawned stretching her arms out, "Ahh sorry about that. It gets kind of boring here at the gate. Not many people show up ya know. Yuyuko did say you would be stopping by though, hold on just a second and I'll clear you with Remilla. Oh and you might have to wait a bit for Sakuya, she flew off about an hour ago after a thief or something, I'll go and see if I can find here when your in. My names Meiling by the way, nice to meet you." Meiling picked up a black box sitting on the ground next to her and pressed a button on the top of it. "Remilla, the girl from Yuyuko's place is here. Want me to let her in?"
"Of course I want you to let her in," The black box screamed back. "I swear t-"
"Eheh, I guess it's ok for you to go in then...good luck." Meiling smiled weakly.
Youmu smiled back and Meiling opened the gate for her. When Youmu walked inside the mansion, it was unlike any atmosphere she had ever experienced. Everything was sparkling, from the two staircases that lead up to the next floor to the walls and windows them selves, it was very regal and yet something felt very very out of place. A dark feeling was looming over this place sending chills down Youmu's back. Youmu heard yelling coming from the two doors between the staircases, she opened the door and entered the room to see a huge library, and several tables, sofa's, even a counter and tea set to the far right. Sitting at one of the tables was a purple haired girl reading a book in what looked looked like a purple and white stripped nightgown, and a small blue haired girl with bat wings in a very fancy white and red dress screaming at her.
"Please Patchy! Tell me one more time what in the bloody hell happened! None of this is making sense!!" The small blue haired girl yelled.
"Ok Remilla, this is the last time." The purple haired girl had a very small voice, almost sickly. Everything about her looked very tired actually, from the way her eyes were half open, to the way she barley moved as she talked. "A blond girl and a very small blond girl that appeared to be one of Alice's Shanghai entered the front doors and was immediately questioned by Sakuya. The blond girl tried to explain her self but Sakuya was having none of it and chased the blond girl down the hall way. From there, the two blonds ran into a utility closest past Sakuya. The larger blond girl appeared to be having quite a bit of trouble controlling the broom and smashed into a window and flew off to the east of the mansion with Sakuya promptly chasing after her."
"Our brooms
can't fly!" Remilla yelled. "How is that even possible? It still doesn't make any sense!"
"If that really was a Shanghai it would be entirely possible for her to have one of the ribbon's Alice uses to make the Shanghai sentient, therefore enabling her to tie it to the broom. However, controlling something like a broom in mid-air is incredibly difficult, even if it does save you the trouble of having to use magic energy to fly."
Remilla slammed her hands down on the table Patchy was sitting at, getting seemingly more furious by the second. "Why would Sakuya chase after a
broom?! We can just buy another one, we have like a hundred of them in storage!"
"How should I know what goes threw her mind. Maybe she didn't think about that and reverted back to her mongoloid ways."
Remilla's red eyes lit up and looked at Patchy furiously, "That was centuries ago!"
Remila lifted her hands over her head, summoning a large red spear that appeared to be on fire and threw it, not really aiming at anything in particular, but just happened to be in Youmu's direction. Youmu just barley avoided it it with a roll, but felt another one go straight threw her back and stomach. She flew quite a ways across the library and threw a small open door that closed immediately after wards. Youmu was falling quite a ways into a pit with a large spiral stair case on either side of her before she totally blacked out.
When she woke up her stomach was in quite a lot of pain, she opened her eyes to see a small blond girl standing over her before she realized she couldn't move. She was shackled to a table with her arms and legs stretched out.
"Oneechan.. you have haves a large hole in your stomach. I'm gonna fix its ok? Remi-Oneechan sure can be a pain sometimes but she's not all bad." The blond girl put her face next to Youmu's, she had a side pony tail and blood red eyes. Two sticks with floating gems attached were sticking out of her back, Youmu wasn't even sure if she could call them wings or not, it looked as if the girl had shoved them in her self.
The blond girl bent down and licked Youmu's neck, "I just need a little." She bit into Youmu's neck, it hurt only for a second before she felt another lick in the same spot. "This next part's gonna hurt lots. The last time tired it they moved to much and their flesh got set on fire.. so try and stay still okies?" The girl put a small cylinder block in Youmu's mouth and patted her on the head. "Good girl."
Youmu's eyes widened, she was terrified of what was about to happen. The blond girl lit a small fire in her right hand and stood over Youmu's abdomen. She raised her arm in the air and the fire got bigger. So big in fact it lit the entire room up so it was incredibly clear. There was blood splattered all over the walls, several skeletons in the corner and a very out of place looking table with dolls that looked like gate keeper, Remilla, Patchy, and another silver haired girl in a maid outfit Youmu assumed was Sakuya. That was all she had time to observer before Flandre slammed the hand she had filled with fire on Youmu's stomach
It was a pain beyond anything Youmu had ever experienced. It was as if a thousand nails was entering her stomach one by one. She could see and feel bits of her blood flying on and across her. The pain became so great she passed out after about ten seconds. Ten seconds she truly, with the bottom of her heart, wished she hadn't been alive at all to feel.
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When Youmu woke up, she was no longer tied to that...thing. She was sitting pretty uncomfortably against a wall. But amazingly, the pain in her stomach was completely gone. She couldn't believe she was even still alive, much less totally fixed. The small blond girl from before walked over to her with her finger on her mouth.
"Goodmorning...uh-"
"Youmu, my name is Youmu. What's yours?"
"You can call me Flan," The small blond girl smiled, "Can we be friends Youmu Oneechan?"
"Sure I gue-"
The small blond girl hugged her. She wasn't really sure what to do. She had never really had anyone hug her before. She nervously raised her arms and put her hands on Flan's back."
"Um..Flan. How did you wind up down here.. exactly. Why aren't you upstairs?"
"How did I wind up here.... that would be easier to show you. Stand up."
Youmu did as Flan said and stood up. Flan rushed over to the table Youmu was laying on before and put her hands on the bottom of it, she lifted it up and it flew back into a place in the wall that it looked as if it had been ripped out from. Flandre had completely disappeared from the room.
"Watch." She could hear Flans voice in her had as two of those tables appeared on the walls, with what looked like Flan and Remilla strapped to them, the room she was in had completely reverted to a less messy state. People with restraints filled the room along with Flan and Remilla. The stairs were completely gone, replaced by a large door that quickly slammed open with a large man in a black hood who walked over to the two girls, now both dressed in what looked like potato sacks. They both were bleeding in various places and had many bruises and scrape marks all over their bodies.
The man unlocked the shackles on the girls arms and they fell to the ground as he unlocked them, the tables were to high up for them to land safely. The large man tied their hands behinds their back.
'Get goin' to the door brats!" The large man yelled. Youmu's eyes lit up, she attempted to hit the ban but her fist went straight threw.
"You can't touch anything here. It's just a memory." She heard Flan's voice in her head again.
The two held their wrists and walked out side with Youmu following closely after. They walked for quite a while before they got to a crowd outside, two long wooden structures were sitting on top of a large deck the crowd was surrounding. Several stones, wads of spit, and nasty words flew at the girls as they walked up the stairs to the structures. The man pushed both of them down and locked them into them.
"Ya'll wanna see a show tonight!" The large man yelled as the crowd cheered. "We got two little witches here ripe from the pickin'!" The man kicked Remilla in the face and grabbed her hair and yanked her head in Flan's direction. "Tell her ya love it! Tell her ya love bein' kicked in the face 'fore I bring 'er to the chair. That'd be right fun it would!"
Remilla looked at Flan, "I...love... being kicked in the face."
"Oneechan.. I do-" The first blade fell, slicing Flan's head clear off with Remilla watched.
Remilla was furious, tears were streaming down her cheeks. She did her best to look up at the large man.
"Any last words brat?"
"I swear to god... when you kill me. I will destroy every one of you, and I will live for thousand's more years then you could ever perceive. You will regret every breath you've taken here today. I will become the
devil."