>Oooh, shapeshifter fight!
>No, wait, we can't watch that right now!
>...Dammit.
>Okay, time for that cloud-thing to die. Lightning the shit out of it.
>Despite the coolness of the scene unfolding below you- not that the rest of the battle is dull!- priorities! That freakyass cloud's gotta go.
>Since they did at least something the... whatever, didn't like, you decide to feed it some more lightning. Your efforts this time, however, are somewhat underwhelming. Not a single spark answers your mental summons, let alone any full blown lightning bolts. Guess you can't spam lightning bolt yet.
>Those battling beneath the cloud, at least among the good guys, seem unaware of your involvement at this point, still having their own hands more than full. Shou, recovering from the barrage she just ate from Futo, straightens and holds her spear out in front of her. She starts spinning the polearm before her, which not only serves to deflect another spread of danmaku from Futo, it also generates a rather hefty gale of wind, pushing the human backwards through the air, slowly but surely, while the mat-bat in the dark blue cowboy hat manages to hold his ground. You see his head turn, and you think you see him call out, but between all the other sounds of combat, the words are drowned out. At least two riders, coming from different directions, seem to be angling in towards her for a shot.
>Shou seems to be holding her own, for now, but Murasa appears to be in trouble. Knocked prone by that pig man and his boulder, she winces and tries to regain her feet, but two of the riders flying overhead open fire on her. She waves her hand before her and a curtain of blue bullets appears and blasts towards the two riders. The lasers impact against the bullets and explode in a transparant cloud of white energy, neutralizing most of the danmaku, and the remainder miss their target. Another rider flies into the gap behind her lasers and discharges his rifle, but the ship ghost lets loose a blast of water from her hand, which blocks the attack. The rifle-armed human lines up another shot, but that multi-colored youkai, evidently recovered from getting shot moments before, flies right at him, and gives him a solid kick in the chin as she passes him, then goes evasive to avoid the pistol blasts from the two riders following her. The human nearly drops his rifle, and almost falls off his mount, but manages to hang on to both. Seiga and Yoshika, however, seize the opening, and both unleash a fairly massive swarm of danmaku at the prone captain of the palanquin ship.
>The white winged youkai's duel with the taoists' Tojiko seems to be the only thing going right for the good guys. She seems to have the upper hand on the ghost, her spear flashing almost as quickly as Shou's. Tojiko raises her free hand to fire a small spread of danmaku, but the winged youkai drops down in evasion and rises up for a stab with amazing agility. Tojiko is barely able to keep her spear off her. And with the fairies' efforts, none of the riders in their vicinity can get a clear shot at the lancer. At least for now. There's a lot more riders than there are fairies.
>Both the leaf barrier and crashed machine that are serving as cover for the other unidentified youkai and who you assume is Nazrin seem to be holding up for now, but you know that can't last forever. There's just so many of them... Including the Taoists, no less than thirty enemies are arrayed against the Myoren temple defenders.
>"There so many of them..." Fuu whispers, unconsciously echoing your own thoughts. "How can we beat them all...?"
>To your far left and above you, one of the canine riders makes a turn to the left, breaking off from the fight and heading in your direction. One of the humans sees this and follows him, this just above your current height and closer to you, but still on your left.
>Are we able to contact Kanako and/or Suwako in any way?
>Your patrons goddesses have always been able to hear you, when you call for them. Other people have to look, and dream, for their guardian angels. You've had yours since you were born, and they've always been by your side.