Chapter 15
Ken's POV
BGM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GESonlyFgZs&feature=related(Ok, with them finally out of the way, we need to hurry to the SDM!)
(Although It was kinda fun harassing Daiyousei.)
"Marisa~!" I sung in a low tone, delighted for some reason.
Marisa looked at me in surprise.
"Yeah, ze~?" said Marisa.
"Get on my back, we're going!"
Marisa poofed her broom away in a cloud of smoke while she flew over to me and jumped on my back.
She embraced my neck with her arms while her legs are free and unbound, dangerously hanging free.
(Oh man, she's really heavy! I need to hurry before i die in the lake.)
Marisa was slowly decreasing my altitude, but I went back up and sped to the SDM.
(What did Lishy from Toujinstyle do to Marisa?)
(Speaking of Toujinstyle, i was doing a story in the Touhou General Chat.)
(I remember people like Zeku and Matsu011 who are loyal readers.)
(God i miss that forum, the community isn't as trollish as others, except for the The Mental Shift part. The maid on there likes to put pictures of milkshakes on the topic and derail it.)
I sighed, beginning to see an island with a big building in the middle.
"Hey look...I see a big house, ze~!" Marisa shouted with glee.
I squinted, now seeing a big house, a red one.
The Scarlet Devil Mansion, a very fancy European-Style Mansion that clashes heavily with Gensokyo, standing out. From the back of the building, spewed out the same scarlet fog me and Marisa set out to stop.
I see very few windows in the mansion.
(I figured since there are two vampires living in the mansion.)
I also saw a clock tower, hands indicating that it is 1:32.
(Well, we certainly got here in a short amount of time.)
Then I saw a small wall surrounding the mansion and only one huge gate, there was a courtyard surrounded by the walls in front of the mansion, beholding many colorful flowerbeds neatly organized.
(Guarded by a sleeping dragon i bet........)
I reached the island, seeing the bright golden tiles on the shillings of the roof.
There are many trees that form a forest around the Mansion, no trees are seen in the courtyard.
"Wow....This place looks interesting, ze~!" said Marisa.
(And so begins the stealing spree...)
I looked down and saw some leaves rustling below us in the forest, seeing little holes being formed in the forest.
I stopped and readied myself, Marisa let go and braced herself as well.
Then quickly came knife columns from the forest as the assailants tried to attack us from the ground.
I quickly hovered an inch before stopping, making three knife columns wasted and propelling towards the sky.
(Just like in the game....I think i have an idea....)
(Marisa does have a certain spell card where she goes into the air and rains down a master spark, with adjustable direction.)
"Marisa~!" I yelled.
Marisa was grazing a knife column as it seems to have stopped for now.
Then she looked over to me, while still glancing down attentively.
"Yeah?" said Marisa.
"Do you have a spell card called Dragon Meteor?" I asked.
Marisa grinned while she took out a spell card, holding it out towards me, it had a picture that had a rainbow colored beam pointing downwards towards the ground.
"This one, ze?" asked Marisa.
I hovered close and took it from her grasp, inspecting it.
(Star Sign Dragon Meteor...That's it)
"Yes that's it....I want you to use it on the forest....I will help you maneuver the spark through the forest" I said.
Marisa smiled devilishly while she took out her Hakkero from her hat.
(Doesn't that ever fall out before?)
Then she pointed it at the ground while I took position by putting one of my hands on her hip and the other on her boob.
(She is flat....)
Marisa blushed heavily but readied herself.....
(And to think I am getting away with......SHIT)
I quickly pushed Marisa as I saw knife columns directly below us.
I quickly grazed almost all of the knife columns since I was caught off-guard.
(Crap, they got the element of surprise on us!)
Three knives nipped my left cheek, my shirt sleeve, and my right arm, soon bleeding out lightly.
Marisa quickly glared at me with an angry look while gripping her shoulder, but then stopped glaring when she saw the knives and my injuries.
(I think i did push her on the bitemark. That's a big no-no.)
Marisa suddenly became flustered for a second before letting go her hand off her shoulder.
Marisa looked at me with a smile, nodding.
"Thanks, ze!!!" said Marisa.
I held a thumbs up before getting to Marisa to help maneuver the spark.
Marisa again got to position then she aimed the Hakkero towards the forest.
I got to Marisa and held in the same position.
Marisa held up her spell card in the air.
"Star Sign Dragon Meteor!" declared Marisa.
Meiling's POV
I was running on a rainbow, giving off rainbow shards with my feet as i ran on it.
I was chasing a man with a black headband, and a mostly black and white karate uniform.
He seems to have Kanji on his back as I chased the red-haired man.
"You will not get away Akuma!" I yelled in pursuit.
I used my Sky Dragon Kick to speed up to him, leaping up in the air and extending my leg.
I held that pose in the air as the energy from my kick was going behind me in a fury.
He couldn't get away as we descended on the slope of the rainbow.
I finally reached him, I kicked his head as we both began to fall down.
I held up my legs, preparing to kick him down with force.
Then i extended my legs, knocking down Akuma faster with a shockwave in the air.
Then he landed on a pot of golden coins before I landed down on Akuma's stomach, making the coins fly everywhere.
"My name is not China or Chun-li. I am Hong Meiling...Wha?!" I said.
A pile of pink ice cream appears above me before i became bounded by the golden coins, Akuma is nowhere to be found.
I heard cackling in the background as the pile of pink ice cream descended on me.
I was slowly sinking into the pile of gold as i struggled to get myself free, up to my knees.
(BUT I HATE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!!!)
Right before the ice cream hit me, I was saved.
I woke up....on the stool I was given to when I was first assigned gatekeeper of the SDM.
"Uuu~! I hope Sakuya doesn't find out I've been sleeping on my job again.
An image of Sakuya lecturing me came into my mind, with a knife in my forehead.
(What the....)
I saw the youkai guards that Sakuya hired before to solve my sleeping problem shooting to the air in the forest.
(Jeez....I hope it wasn't those fairies again....because of them Sakuya had to hire those guards......)
(Ah well, i'll let them handle it....whoever is up there isn't fighting back)
"Star Sign Dragon Meteor!"
(What the.....those fairies don't have those kind of spell cards....)
Then i heard a loud whir....then it hit the forest. A rainbow-colored beam came out of nowhere from above into the forest, seeing the guards run away towards me in fear now evaporated into dust.
I sat with my eyes open and my mouth dropped as the beam neared closer to me.
(Who has this kind of power!!!!)
The beam moved towards me rapidly, I dodged left, lucky that it was the gate that got charred and not me, then the beam stopped before laying waste to the flowers in the courtyard.
(Gasp...)
The forest had a huge swath cut in a straight line...trees that were there were charred as with a black mark instead covering where the trees had been.
Fires were left in its wake as I flew up, noting the insane amount of flora destroyed.
(Those bastards....I will kill them for this....)
Then i saw two people, floating in the air.
One of them has Golden eyes, blond hair, a braid on only one side of her face, and is carrying a bamboo and straw broom. She's wearing a black witch's hat, and a black and light pink outfit with a white petticoat.
The other one has messy black hair, brown eyes, has a sword fastened to his hack, and he is wearing a yellow shirt with blue baggy shorts.
(Such weird clothing these people wear.)
(hehehehe.....wait where are my spell cards...i only have two....)
I looked at my choices which are Flower Sign Selaginella 9 and Shui Xing Tai Ji Quan.
(I need to run back first.....i gotta get all my spell cards for this....)
(Jeez they are getting closer...guess i have to hold them off for a second...)
I took Selaginella as a choice and held it high in front of me.
"Flower Sign Selaginella 9~!" I declared.
Then i thought of a beautiful flower with its six petals slowly breaking apart little by little, falling through the air.
I projected this image into my danmaku making it look likes its blooming.
(It enraptures the opponent then kills it...Beautiful and Deadly....I like it...)
I smiled as I continued the weaving danmaku waves towards the intruders.
(Wait a second, i don't hear anything dying...and i can't see through my danmaku...)
Then I was struck in the back with 7 unknown bullets, canceling my spell.
(What?! impossible!!!)
I saw a grin on a boy's face putting what seems like a spell card in his pocket.
(....They can do spell cards like that?)
"Grr~!" I growled.
"Hehehe come on Meiling...I know you can do better than that!"
I gasped....with a look of surprise on my face, looking at the boy's evil smile.
(He knows who i am?! and called me by my name?....how?!)
I still hovered there in complete surprise when I noticed the girl held out a spell card.
"Meteoric Debris!" she declared.
Then many star-shaped danmaku came toward me in great speed, spreading out.
(Oh no!!!)
I quickly made circular motions as a large rainbow but translucent circular shield materialized from my motions in front of me.
Then a yellow bulge appeared as I used the shield to absorb the stars to charge my own attack.
As soon as the stars were gone, I unleashed the bulge, making a yellow orb that came forward with a fast pace.
The two dodged in different directions, while I turned tail and ran towards the mansion to get my spell cards i left in there.
"Damn It! Gotta run for now!" I yelled.
"I'll let you go, for now" said the boy.
I ran until I reached the door...hoping all of my other cards are in there.
Ken's POV
(China....)
She was wearing a chinese outfit with scarlet hair and aqua blue eyes. Her sideburns were braided as she wore a green beret with a star.
She had turned back and ran in the mansion for some reason, couldn't see her anymore due to the scarlet fog hugging the ground.
(I know she isn't this cowardly...she's too moral for that with what her martial arts and all...)
(I think this would be as close as manly as you can get with a Touhou Character...)
(Oh wait there's Kourin and Unzan......)
(I can't believe i had to use my spell card to get past the FIRST spell card...)
(I think that card was only found in Hard/Lunatic stages though......)
I hovered in the air as I unsheathed my sword and Marisa readies her broom.
"She wears weird clothing, ze!" joked Marisa, pointing out the obvious.
"I think she would think the same about us!" I remarked.
Marisa giggled as she blushed a little bit.
"Well maybe you...but me, I'm just wearing ordinary witch's clothing, ze!"
(Exactly my point about us wearing western style clothing...)
Then i saw China come back from the mansion only her breasts seems to be stuffed more, flying up into the air.
(Maybe China doesn't have natural boobs either! Is everyone in the SDM flat?)
"Ah, thanks back there!" said Meiling.
[A/N: China and Meiling are the same person]
(I remembered the conversation between Marisa and China during the game...I think i'll speak for Marisa)
I looked at Marisa while she was about to talk.
"Marisa, wait" I said.
I held up my hand to signal her to stop.
Marisa then shut her mouth and looked at me curiously.
I then faced China, who was still expecting an answer, crossing her arms.
"It's been a while" I started.
"Hey wait a minute, when did we become acquaintances?" asked Meiling.
"Just now?"
"Then how did you know my name?"
That caught me off guard for a little bit...
"....I seen you grow up..."
"Oh yes, and you're as sneaky as ever Cao Cao."
(What? She thinks i'm Cao Cao? Her tone wasn't sarcastic....I guess I'll play along...)
[A/N: A warlord during the Three Kingdoms era in Ancient China]
"Err...um...yes...And you're in my way..Are you some kind of guard?" I asked.
"And so, I'm in Cao Cao's way" said Meiling, smirking.
I twitched, before letting out a sigh.
(This is kinda getting annoying)
"So you are a guard" I confirmed.
"I'm just a normal person that guards" said Meiling.
"So then, you're a normal person. I'll punish you here!"
"Hey! What have you been taught?"
I looked over to Marisa who had a mix of confusion and shock.
(She's shocked because I said her lines, and she's confused because Meiling thinks I'm Cao Cao...)
Marisa said, "Uhmmm...Ken...Are you?"
"Marisa, she's being really stupid right now, Let's leave it at that" I said.
Marisa giggled and then smiled at me.
I looked at China, who seems to be dashing towards me.
I gasped then I dodged to the right on my heel while she tried to give me a rainbow-colored fist charge.
Then i pivoted and slashed with my Tsurugi unsheathed while she charged.
It left a laceration on her arm but she was too quick for me to inflict any more damage.
China noticed and tried to grapple me with her palm but I quickly jumped backwards 10 paces.
Then i jumped and put my sword in front of me to ready the counter skill.
I moved forward slowly, going through the motions of the attack.
China stood there and quickly grappled my sword and twisted it.
But it didn't twist my arm as I resisted.
(One mistake there, so called martial artist.)
The sword glowed for a second, then it unleashed a bullet.
I missed as it barely grazed her.
China's face was smiling dangerously as my trap failed.
My face in return smiled too while Marisa in the background prepared her broom.
Then Marisa quickly hovered over to China who was about to draw the blade itself in towards herself, preparing a haymaker with her other hand.
Marisa then did an uppercut with the broom which was propelling itself by the straw as Marisa unleashing beautiful stars from the straw.
(Hehehe, I never did like Miasma Sweep as a move...It was too deadly...)
It hit China in the back of the head as she let go of the sword with her bloodied hand and went up towards the sky.
She quickly regained control and flew away from us ten paces.
(Jeez, everyone has great motor control these days.
Then she pulled out a spell card and extended it in front of her.
"Rainbow Sign! Wind Chime of Colorful Rainbow! declared Meiling.
With that said, many swirls of rainbow danmaku came toward me in a beautiful display.
Then she made another extra swirl to make it impossible for my eyes to detect a gap.
But fortunately, it never had a sense of altitude and as a result, it only swirled in a certain area of height.
I looked over at Marisa who seemed to be preparing a flask in her hands.
(Magical Recycled Bomb?)
Then Marisa caught me looking at her and smiled devilishly, before going back to preparing her flask.
The rainbow danmaku were upon us and I decided to defend Marisa by using my sword and my own danmaku.
Marisa gets in a position you would see a javelin thrower doing.
I quickly got in front of her and thought of Cirno's last spell.
Then i decided to disregard that and went into position with my sword.
I put my palm to the side of the blade just about when the danmaku came in contact.
Each danmaku packed a punch as I was getting pushed back little by little as my hand holding the sword is suffering some burns right now.
(Crap, I can't keep up like this!!! I need to think of something!!!)
Then i saw a large black flask go flying in the air as Marisa unleashed her own swirl of stars to help counter the rainbow bullets.
Meiling didn't notice the flask going towards her as her eyes were closed.
(Is she insane?)
She took the flask head on as a bright blue explosion came out of the flask.
(Ouch...Magical Recycled Bomb is pretty powerful after all, I could feel the heat from over here.)
Both Marisa and China canceled their danmaku, catching their breaths.
China was panting heavily as she recovered from the explosion.
I saw somewhat of a makeshift rainbow shield like from last time as it unleashed a large yellow orb at us.
I tried to cut it but when I did, it pushed me back heavily, making me spin 5 times.
(Oh god....I don't like this feeling in my throat pushing)
When i stop spinning, i was immediately given a feeling of nausea, then something came up in my throat, then i vomited.
"Eww~!" screamed Marisa.
China just stood there repulsed by what just happen as i vomited on the trees below us.
(With this much in-vertigo I'm feeling right now, wouldn't a certain someone who spins around all the time be vomiting right now?)
Then China took the opportunity to take out another spell card.
"Qi Sign! Star Pulse Shot!" declared Meiling, while I still vomited the ghastly-looking green goo.
She charged up an orb of blue energy that grew to be 1/4 the size of a Spirit Bomb while doing some Hawaiian hand motions.
Then she blew it forward, going in a dangerously fast pace.
I was still vomiting, and as a result i couldn't move.
"Light Sign Luminous Strike!" declared Marisa.
After i heard a pew, I saw a very big yellow glowing star come in contact with the blue orb.
After about a few seconds, the blue ball dissipated as the star still came forward, but now has a very faint glow.
I took this chance to flank China since I was done vomiting and circled her while she focused on the star heading towards her.
I looked at Marisa, she seems to be panting heavily as she just did a spell card one after another.
China dodged to the right as she pulled out another spell card, the star hit the mansion, barely leaving a burnt mark.
"Colorful Sign! Extreme Color Typhoon!" declared Meiling.
Then she let loose many shards of rainbow as they started to get faster towards Marisa.
Then they all curve in different directions, making no pattern like a true hurricane, very unpredictable as soon shards moved straight, and some curved in random directions.
Marisa then braces herself while she focuses, I noticed that she was fatigued a lot.
(Her having trouble against Meiling? Either Meiling is trying her best or Marisa wasn't strong enough back then..)
Marisa was having trouble maneuvering through the shards as some of her clothes got nipped, scrunching up her eyes every time a shard hit her.
(In this case, being the fastest playable character probably doesn't really help at all though)
I made 30 globes in front of me before unleashing each half on each side of China.
On the left side, all the globes didn't have any luck as they canceled each other out with the many shards.
The right side had better luck as some of them managed to hit Meiling, canceling out her spell.
China looked really tired as the danmaku disappeared, giving Marisa some breathing room, her clothes were heavily tattered.
Marisa smiled as she stopped moving to catch her breath.
Meiling slowly took out a spell card from her breast.
(Wouldn't they be lopsided from the amount of spell cards she used?)
I chuckled as Meiling began to declare her card.
Unknown POV
(Let's see how both will handle their energy being at an all-time high)
I held out both of my hands and each revealed a small flame, then suddenly they turned into a raging inferno, glowing with ferocity.
"Fufufu"
NEW BGM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzKnT6ZDiw0Ken's POV
"Qi Sign! Fierce Tiger's Inner Strength!" declared China.
Then a beam of light shone down on China as she glowed yellow, her fists turning rainbow-colored.
Soon the beam of light faded away and China had an aura of spiking yellow around her.
(What the hell? Did she turned Super Saiyan! It's OVER 9000!)
Then she quickly rushed towards Marisa, who was still panting heavily when she looked up.
Marisa quickly held up her broom, but suffered from fatigue, a tattered hole in her clothes revealed her shoulder with the bite mark, as it glowed ultraviolet very intensely.
(What's this? A side-effect?)
Meiling rapidly punched Marisa three times in the gut, a broom fell from the sky.
I stood in shock at what happened, seeing Marisa's defense failing.
Marisa's breath was quickly punched out of her as she struggled to breath, her eyes wide open.
Then Meiling stood in place for one second then quickly gave out a punch to the chest, propelling Marisa back into the forest at a fast speed.
Marisa's eyes were close to closing, while she spat out blood, before she disappeared beneath the trees.
Anger bubbled up inside me.
(Why....China you BITCH!!!)
I made a sonic boom that was very loud that quickly shook all of gensokyo, rushing towards Meiling.
then I held my sword out in front of me and assumed the counter spell stance, but i was too fast to actually do it.
Then Meiling pumped her fist into the air.
"Cao Cao, I killed your precious Zhen Ji, now...."
She had just turned around when i just stabbed through her in the chest, gasping, while the yellow glow died down on her.
"...you're not Cao Cao.." realized Meiling.
(Naw, really?!)
"Of course, you BITCH. Now, My name is Ken, you killed my Marisa. Prepare to die!" I threatened.
(Even if she didn't die)
I took it out of Meiling and then slashed at Meiling immediately.
I missed but it was so fast it made a vacuum that drew Meiling in, spinning her in space.
I quickly withdrew my sword and grabbed Meiling by her sides locking her arms to her hips.
Then i flew up very quickly in the air, until I was at the point I couldn't really breathe.
Meiling tried to struggle, but couldn't get out of my grasp.
"I'm Sorry!" apologized Meiling.
"I DON'T CARE! YOU WENT TOO FAR!" I yelled, expressing my anger.
(You are going to PAY!)
As soon as i was done speaking, i flipped over, seeing clouds below me.
Then i descended down at the fastest speed possible...a sonic boom echoed throughout the land of Gensokyo as I sped towards the ground.
(Marisa.....)
(Now DIE!!)
Meiling couldn't get me off as she tried to kick me with her legs and screamed as loud as she can.
"DROP DEAD!" I yelled.
I didn't know when to stop until Meiling's head hit the ground.
Dust kicked up in the air by a-lot as a shockwave went throughout the whole land, blowing back trees in the vicinity.
She twitched once, then she fell unconscious.
I quickly stood up as i took many breathes of air.
(I couldn't even rip apart her limbs!)
"RAWR~!" I barked.
I got out my Tsurugi and slashed Meiling many times, as she began to bled everywhere, with the new lacerations and slits in her clothes.
I stopped and then kept stabbing Meiling in the stomach like a piston.
I picked up Meiling, as I threw her like a javelin towards the doors of the SDM, blowing open the doors...with blood and cards flying everywhere.
I was about to dash to Meiling again to mutilate her when I stopped.
I looked at my hands and arms as they were red, then it came back to normal.
I then purposefully took a few breathes to calm myself down.
(That didn't help...I need to get rid of this anger!!)
(Ranting helps!)
"AHH~!"
Then i regained my breath again, feeling more calm and serene but still alarmed.
(Wait....MARISA!)
"MARISA~!" I yelled, becoming more alert.
I searched frantically for Marisa until I found her in a bush in the forest that wasn't touched by the dragon meteor earlier.
Her clothes were very dirty as she hit the ground before and a dirt streak came out from the bush.
(Please be alive.....)
She was laying there peacefully but I wasn't calm enough to figure out if she was breathing or not.
(Marisa....No...)
Instead, I merely dropped on my knees, dropping my sword, and almost fell but put my hands on the ground.
Tears came to my eyes as her eyes were close and her mouth was open.
(How could you lose to......)
I punched the ground many times until a hand stayed mine.
I resisted then I stopped....and looked up.
It was Marisa, who was weakly still on the floor while gripping my hand very tightly.
I immediately embraced her while I began to stop crying, comforted.
"...Is she gone, ze~?" asked Marisa.
"She's gone...and she won't harm you again" I replied.
"Ken....I'm alright...i just suffered from some shock..She packed a punch" said Marisa, becoming more happier.
"But what if you died?"
(Thank god you didn't die.)
"My ghost would have told you to kill all the residents of that mansion, ze~!"
(That cheerful voice...i missed it so much...)
I lifted my head up as I saw Marisa smile and blush at the same time.
"hehe, I would have done the same thing, but I know I would have been killed, so I could meet you again"
Marisa giggled then blushed heavily while I twisted her braid around.
Marisa closed her eyes, and opened her mouth, while blushing heavily.
I blushed too as I leaned closer to her.
Then I kissed her deeply, our tongues rolling around each other as we recover from the battle.
Marisa's arms embraced my neck as we continued to kiss a lot more.
We lay side by side as we kiss in the forest of the SDM.
(Who suggested i ranted in the first place?!)
Unknown POV
"Fufufufufu, Ken and that gatekeeper of that brat certainly enjoyed their lifted powers" I said.
"My boy certainly knows how to deal with people in Gensokyo...but how will he fare against the maid and the vampire....if he makes it"
"And then..."
I opened another gap to Reimu...who was still crying but her hands were in fists as she banged the floor.
"Fufufu~, not even her knows that I lifted the boundaries of her anger to extend against my boy greatly"
"Then when my boy comes back to the shrine, He will have to endure the final test before i arrange the events of Gensokyo for him to face me, if I choose to let her be angry still"
"Mistress Yukari, Chen won't take a bath again!" yelled Ran, downstairs.
I sighed, then I yelled, "Coming!"