[b][i][u]Location: Fleeting Memories School - Library[/u][/i][/b] [img]https://i.imgur.com/4CNGJSh.png[/img] Marina: Certainly. I will tell the results of my search in the way. [img]https://i.imgur.com/ATGUitS.png[/img] Auror: Bad or good news for us? [img]https://i.imgur.com/DEL0dJO.png[/img] Marina: ... There is nothing good of what I have to tell you. [img]https://i.imgur.com/Kw5zURb.png[/img] Auror: Sheesh, then we better go fast. We don't want to waste any more time- [img]https://i.imgur.com/901Fzf5.png[/img] Mia: Wait just a moment!! All that you said about me just now... are you mocking me?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/Gn9v7w7.png[/img] Auror: Took you long enough to notice. [img]https://i.imgur.com/h5ZefdM.png[/img] Mia: Grrr... [img]https://i.imgur.com/mbOBZ0E.png[/img] Auror: Don't give me that look, Ms. Knight. You know full well how we don't have any sort of positive sentiment towards the Holy Order, the World Crossers Guild and all sorts of security organizations in this town. Besides, like Rayla said in softer words, you have only yourself to blame. [img]https://i.imgur.com/EMl2V8O.png[/img] Mia: Why you three- [img]https://i.imgur.com/kHFM33k.png[/img] Marina: ENOUGH!! [b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qrAyto1mlo]Sea of Aspiration[/url] [i]While trying her best not to reveal herself out, Marina called out to the situation in a way befitting of a princess.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/vxiyQ0o.png[/img] Marina: We have no time for this bickering!! The shrine is in danger and even if Miss Reimu can fight, she will never be able to do anything alone! Violating as it may be, let us depart to the shrine with the utmost urgency!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/otQYiPp.png[/img] Auror: Alright then. Let's move out. [i]Auror opened the window and jumped off from it. Before landing, he created an ice slide for a safe descent.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ciEjqb3.png[/img] Auror: Hurry up, you two!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/a2TCMdP.png[/img] Mia: ... [img]https://i.imgur.com/O79Qkcn.png[/img] Marina: Miss Mia, I am an outsider so there are many things in this city and about its people that I am unable to comprehend yet. I would like to say one thing based on what my father has told me once. [img]https://i.imgur.com/J9MDBGz.png[/img] Marina: "The life of the people are more valuable than something called 'order', which need those lives to function." Mia: The life of the people... [img]https://i.imgur.com/vxiyQ0o.png[/img] Marina: Right now, inside that shrine, two people are in great danger. Both of them are doing their hardest, having the risk of not returning to us. That is why we will leave the school perimeters and save them, just as Miss Rayla has instructed. [i]She had no argument to retort, yet she couldn't hide her expression of anger for having the Holy Order and herself criticized by Rayla and Auror. However, she was in no position to order them... not at this moment.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/zvjKnFL.png[/img] Mia: ... I will ignore all that has transpired here and that you are leaving school earlier than the obligatory. [img]https://i.imgur.com/4CNGJSh.png[/img] Marina: ... [img]https://i.imgur.com/EMl2V8O.png[/img] Mia: Mark my words... I'll prove to you that I want to do justice as much as you do. I won't take those statements quietly forever. [img]https://i.imgur.com/M5WJ0gB.png[/img] Marina: We will be prepared for your resolution. I must warn you, ours will not surrender. [i]Mia left the library, provoked and angered by the words directed at her.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/RclEVRN.png[/img] Auror: Hello?! Lives in danger at the shrine calling for us three!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/NDt37dd.png[/img] Genji: Hurry up, you two. Auror can be pretty annoying when antsy. [img]https://i.imgur.com/pnUWo5j.png[/img] Genji: Also, bring those people in danger to safety, like you always do. [img]https://i.imgur.com/6w6BHBb.png[/img] Marina: Understood, Sir Genji! [i]Marina jumped off the window and used her wind magic to descend safely. Once she landed, she waited for Rayla to come.[/i] [b][i][u]Location: Kanzakai School[/u][/i][/b] [i]After bringing Sumireko to the nursery, Orie hurried back to the third floor in order to save Fuindor. She reached the second floor, only to find Hyde and the others.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/cmafcwG.png[/img] Orie: Hyde, everyone! I'm glad you're safe! [img]https://i.imgur.com/BJdv6CM.png[/img] Orie: Long explanations will come in due time, so I shall be quick! A mysterious girl appeared at the third floor corridor and attacked us out of nowhere. I tried to fend her off and the first-year Sumireko Usami has tried to aid me, but we ended up beaten. She's currently at the nursery, unconscious and resting. [img]https://i.imgur.com/jeqYIdo.png[/img] Orie: This aura you are feeling belongs to Fuindor Akaikage, a first-year who started today! He is alone with the assailant on the floor above and I am terribly worried about him- [i]Before she could continue, an explosion could be heard coming from the floor above.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/cmafcwG.png[/img] Orie: Oh no, this sounds ill...! Fuindor!! [i]Orie hurried over to the stairs so she could reach the third floor and rescue Fuindor.[/i] [i][b]BGM:[/b][/i] [i]The Tiger-Patterned Bishamonten[/i] still playing [i]As for him, Fuindor held himself against Melina, who proved to be far more violent than what he initially expected. Her skills were of a long-term assassin and her dark powers made things even worse.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/XifsaNf.png[/img] Melina: [b]Fortra Lamina[/b]! [img]https://i.imgur.com/GPRYBkD.png[/img] Fuindor: [b]Fire Formation: Ghost Lantern[/b]!! [i]She released six of knives, infused them with dark magic and shot them all towards Fuindor. As a response, he generated six floating fireballs and shot at her direction. Both of the attacks collided and nulled each other.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/3Gy2cus.png[/img] Melina: This is beyond a mere skirmish. How can someone so young as you be so powerful like this? [img]https://i.imgur.com/x7izBtV.png[/img] Fuindor: I can say the same. You're nowhere near as some run-of-the-mill brat you find on the streets. [img]https://i.imgur.com/g8aNoxJ.png[/img] Melina: Please, I have been trained for this my entire childhood. Do you think I had the leisure to spend it with dolls and such things? [img]https://i.imgur.com/A0NzccH.png[/img] Fuindor: An assassin princess since day 0, huh... well, it doesn't matter! I'm taking you down here, right where you stand! [img]https://i.imgur.com/3Lp2ucC.png[/img] Melina: Funny for you to say that... [i]Before he could chase her, the six knives that she sent earlier went at him again. He dodged them and dashed towards Melina. She turned back and ran, towards the destroyed Student Council room.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/g8aNoxJ.png[/img] Melina: I admit this was fun enough, but I must take my leave now. [img]https://i.imgur.com/y1Aw25K.png[/img] Fuindor: You stay right where you are, you goddamn killer...!! [i]He tried to slash her but Melina jumped off from the hole before the sword could hit her. She transformed into butterflies mid-air and left to the skies.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/2PbGt0F.png[/img] Fuindor: Shit, she ran away! Damnit, I was close to get her... [b][i][u]Location: Summer Area - Ryokan Tsurugiya Inn[/u][/i][/b] [i][b]BGM:[/b][/i] [i]Space Ship: Strut[/i] still playing [i]Lizzy and the ninja-looking boy arrived at the inn, receiving the welcome from Chizuru.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/9thILGj.png[/img] ???: Hello there, Miss Kashiwagi. Seems like the inn is full. [img]https://i.imgur.com/E7x2KAV.png[/img] Lizzy: This is the place? ???: Yeah, it is. Now you speak with Miss Kashiwagi over here and see what you can do. [img]https://i.imgur.com/UpfUuH2.png[/img] Lizzy: Wait, you can't just leave me here- [img]https://i.imgur.com/vHZn0sK.png[/img] ???: I can and I have to. Be not seeing you around. [img]https://i.imgur.com/iggjGPg.png[/img] Lizzy: Hey, wait- [i]However, he quickly left the scene, leaving Lizzy behind at the inn.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/0EnTrGC.png[/img] Lizzy: Oh come on!! I just got here in town, I don't know the place that well!! You can't just leave me here, that's so rude!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/H4AVoLr.png[/img] Lizzy: *sigh* Oh well... got any rooms...? [hider=Welcome to the World of Nightmares - Part II] [b][i][u]Location: Nightmare Unitia - Hakurei Shrine[/u][/i][/b] [b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [i]Vim and Vigor[/i] still playing [i]The Nightmares came at no signs of stopping. The wave of enemies was big and they were separated from each other. Alice unleashed her dolls all of them equipped with swords and lances in order to attack the monsters.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/yRut6x7.png[/img] Alice: They keep coming and coming, no matter what we do... this will never end if we don't leave! [i]The dolls she was using fell down and exploded like bombs, opening a path for her to leave the area.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/h67mUM4.png[/img] Alice: There's my opening! Here I go! [i]She ran at the open path as the Nightmares followed her ever still. She placed more dolls in order to block them, but their danmaku was able to defeat some, not all of them.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/vDVUdnu.png[/img] Alice: This is officially too much for my first fight here...!! Jin: Alice!! [i]Jin descended and punched the ground, creating aa spiky elevation so they wouldn't progress. He also summoned magatamas and generated a barrier to block the path.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ngTQBQn.png[/img] Jin: You all right? [img]https://i.imgur.com/UWsb3vZ.png[/img] Alice: Yeah, sure. What about you? [img]https://i.imgur.com/qupLCEM.png[/img] Jin: Feeling fine, but this is completely ridiculous! The more we beat, more come to replace! [img]https://i.imgur.com/HGLjikU.png[/img] Alice: I know. We need to find the source of this or else... [img]https://i.imgur.com/TK11q2W.png[/img] Jin: Yeah, but that gets incredibly difficult without flying! [i]The magatama barrier broke and the Nightmares coming from Alice's side went back into charging at them. Jin's side also went forward, surrounding them.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/i2yhT0K.png[/img] Alice: Good, we're surrounded... [img]https://i.imgur.com/rIPqrIP.png[/img] Jin: Well, you know what we gotta do! [img]https://i.imgur.com/iUWVUDZ.png[/img] Alice: For sure I do! [b]Magic Sign "Artful Sacrifice"[/b]!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/bE6Whmo.png[/img] Jin: [b]History "Durandal's Just Strike"[/b]!! [i]Alice shot a single doll that generated a big expolsion once it made contact with the ground, defeating a big number of Nightmares. Jin, on the other hand, went at the Nightmares with a chop strike that affected a big area in front of him, defeating those who stood at it.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/yRut6x7.png[/img] Alice: Where are the boys?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/mnb5AdD.png[/img] Jin: I don't know! I lost sight of them! [img]https://i.imgur.com/h67mUM4.png[/img] Alice: We have to reunite with them! They don't know how to fight! [i]On the other side of the shrine, right at the backyard, Kiragi, Kaito and the Sprites were trapped by a big wave of Nightmares.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/4KLRCXU.png[/img] Kiragi: T-They're getting closer...!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/h1NNGNP.png[/img] Kaito: W-What the hell are we going to do now?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/7AmSr90.png[/img] Umbra: Lord Kiragi, use our power! With our pact, you can use magic on your own now! [img]https://i.imgur.com/f5nFkR2.png[/img] Kiragi: I can?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/cVyb5Sg.png[/img] Ictio: Yeah, you can! Now let's go, Lord Kiragi! Try chanting something! [img]https://i.imgur.com/itYnUcw.png[/img] Kiragi: U-Uhh... O-OK!! Let's see... uhh... [i]While Kiragi was thinking, a Nightmare leaped right towards him.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/JWQaQKq.png[/img] Kaito: Kiragi!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/hm1aRZU.png[/img] Kiragi: [b]Kiragi Missile[/b]!! [i]Suddenly, the little boy shot a light sphere out of his hand. To help him, Ictio shot two smaller spheres that swirled around the bigger ones. They hit the Nightmare and blasted it away.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/WWApZ6z.png[/img] Kiragi: Wow, that was so cool!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/hayOLFX.png[/img] Ictio: You did it!! You did it!! YAAAAAY!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/i5X9Eab.png[/img] Umbra: No time to cheer. Next move, my Lord! [img]https://i.imgur.com/hm1aRZU.png[/img] Kiragi: O-OK!! Uhh... oh! [b]Kiragi Hammer[/b]!! [i]A dark hammer floated in front of Kiragi. Together with Umbra, they used the hammer to smash some Nightmares and defeat them.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/UapOVou.png[/img] Kiragi: Wow... this is so neat!! I can't wait to show this to the others!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/9S6co1u.png[/img] Umbra: We'll talk about that later! Right now, let's keep fighting! [img]https://i.imgur.com/sElnvwR.png[/img] Ictio: Alright!! Time to bust up some moves!! [i]Kiragi began to chant a lot of things and fight the Nightmares with Umbra and Ictio. Kaito looked at how brave he was getting and felt anger.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/aLnX6XQ.png[/img] Kaito: Kiragi is doing his best for Lucent... and look at me. Powerless and without any means to fight back... and I even have the gall of telling some sort of story for them to believe that I'm a hero or whatnot... [img]https://i.imgur.com/QeNuVlu.png[/img] Kaito: If anyone were in my place, they'd be fighting and doing their best!! This is so frustrating... and irritating...!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/4KLRCXU.png[/img] Kiragi: Big Bro Kaito, look out!! [i]A Nightmare tried to attack Kaito... but was defeated. Not by Kiragi's magic, but by a burning slash coming from Kaito's new chakrams. He got up, spinning one of the flaming rings at his index finger.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/mp5WEtL.png[/img] Kaito: You guys had your fun in making me scared. Heck, I'm still trembling a bit... [img]https://i.imgur.com/io8BiNv.png[/img] Kaito: But I'm going to burn you all... and I'm going to save my family!! [i]He tossed the chakrams as they slashed a group of Nightmares at his front before returning to him. He still didn't quite understood how to use it, but he was going to do his best.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/3phD4dc.png[/img] Umbra: Let's open a way and reunite with the other two! [img]https://i.imgur.com/RuRoQaa.png[/img] Ictio: You got it! [img]https://i.imgur.com/WWApZ6z.png[/img] Kiragi: Let's go, Big Bro Kaito! [img]https://i.imgur.com/FbEGXXX.png[/img] Kaito: Hell yeah! Let's send those things packing! [i]They kept fighting to open a way back to Alice and Jin. They had no idea what has happening inside of the shrine, since there were no notice of Reimu and Cookie yet.[/i] [/hider]