Prologue
I am Ken Sington, an Asian teenager, at the age of sixteen.
I am in a family of three, including myself, and my parents. My parents believe in cleanliness, since I am usually stuck with the job of cleaning the house I live in with a single vacuum cleaner, while my parents improve the aesthetics in the front yard and back yard. My mom and dad are equal in ability as cooks, which is very skillful. I know no other fathers who know how to cook a delicious "Buddha Jumping Wall." My dad used to actually be a cook in a nearby Chinese restaurant called "Oriental Express," but later he joined my mom in doing manicures in a Nail Salon, which is actually very profitable, considering how expensive getting your nails done are. My mom is somewhat religious, since there is a altar in my basement honoring my dead grandparents on my mom's side, adorned with golden Buddha statues and burnt out incense sticks. I am amicable with my parents, although my only crutch with them is that I don't know my native language. And my parents know very little English.
I go to Bryan Clay High School as a junior now, my parents have nudged me in the past to go to an academy, but they gave up when I entered sophomore year at Bryan Clay.
Usually, most of the teenagers at Bryan Clay are crackheads, I believe they are influenced by the crappy mainstream pop they listen to, especially since they think dick jokes are funny. Basically, most of the music they listen to are about sex, money, and drugs. That music just turns me off, like hell I would care to hear about a Gucci man who does his dishes. I listen to anything as long as it sounds good musically, including some of the mainstream pop. There are some good songs out there, the only reason people stop listening to them is because they listen to it too much. There's a lot of drama at the school, this makes me wonder why they couldn't just "take it easy."
I don't study as I seldom do things that don't interest me like homework. It's usually too easy, even if I hardly ever pay attention in class at all. It's all down to common sense, except for math, where I have to learn troublesome formulas to pass. It's very common to see a lot of very stupid people in advanced classes, for example, there's this brunette in Advanced Chemistry when she doesn't even know what the periodic table is.
In school, I used to be only known as a typical stereotypical Asian nerd, since I don't even have to try in school to pass with at least a high average and people ask me to help them with their homework. It's like I'm the middleman, people love me but don't even want to associate with me. But all that changed when I met a group of people in my freshman year. They were at first only using me to help them with homework. But after getting to know one of them, Jonathan, slowly things started to change for the better. I became more than the the middleman to them, more like a smart friend who's always there in need, drama and academics alike. I even changed their demeanor as a whole from being generally mean and bratty, to a more relaxed and nice attitude.
I have messy, thick black hair, with the bangs just above my green, narrow eyes. I have somewhat of a skinny frame but not skeletal like a certain person who revels in a drunken paradise.
I have little muscle, but due to playing guitar, I have incredible finger strength. I could hang on to a rough tree branch for hours with only my hardened fingers.
My skin is tanned, but not like a sun tan at all.
Recently, I have been getting into the phenomenon that is Touhou. With their lunatic yet addicting difficulty on the shooter series and catchy music, who wouldn't like it? There are all sorts of arranges for the original video game music, ranging from metal to classical, even making a popular internet meme involving two misshapen heads. All this was caused by a single one-man team called "Shanghai Alice," which amazed me, since it's very popular in Japan, even to the point where it has its own festival. Even some people I know started listening to the music, they all love a certain tomboyish song in common, even dancing to it once at the park with a really loud stereo. Eventually I found a Touhou fanbase forum called "ToujinStyle", who seems to be at odds with another forum called "Maids of the Kaleidoscope." I like ToujinStyle more, since people on there have a more friendly and relaxed demeanor than MoTK, where they are more serious.
I can't go throughout a day without doing something Touhou-related, especially since I visit the forum every day.
All in all, life was as mundane as you can get, continuing to bore me, until this happened, changing my life.
It all started while I recently got back from school, practicing guitar and skipping homework in my messy room. I just ate a cup of chicken Ramen noodles, explaining the empty Styrofoam cup with a plastic white fork in front of me.
I was intent on trying to master a song called "Bad Apple", a very old fan-made Touhou song.
I was sweating, mindlessly practicing a section of a song, while my fingers started to hurt, my callouses red.
(I haven't practiced this much in a long time. I think the jet lag is getting to me.)
Recently muting a messed-up attempt at the section of the song, I suddenly heard my phone, a Samsung Eternity touchscreen, vibrate on the table.
Picking it up, it appeared to be a phone call from my friend Jonathan.
(That's weird, you usually never call unless there's a situation going on, and even then you would just text it.)
Sighing, I gently put my guitar on the phone and pressed the green button on my phone, putting it to my left ear.
"Hey Jonathan, what's up?" I asked, curious.
"Dude, come to the basketball court at the park near the lake" replied Jonathan, ignoring my greeting. He sounded hurried, while panting.
"Ok, Why?" I asked.
"There's this cocky ass kid named Jesse with his friend Brenta. They have the fucking nerve to think I sucked at basketball and they called me out. Damn dumbasses, don't they know who I am?" muttered Jonathan.
(Wow, you usually never get angry at people for that, nor would you care if somebody thinks you're bad at basketball. Even if that's completely wrong.)
"Wow seriously? Weren't you the star point guard back in high school?"
"Yeah exactly. I heard they transferred to our school at the beginning of the school year. I can't play two people on my own, But two is better against two other people."
(Are you asking me to play basketball with you? Oh ho, no. I become winded easily, I never worked on the cardiac part of my body, especially since I got hooked into Touhou.)
"But i suck at basketball."
"Dude, come on. I just need you to block since you're tall and I'm short."
(That singled me out from the rest of the Asians, I swear I am as tall as freaking Yao Ming, and I am a good blocker. That's the only useful purpose for me in basketball, overshadowed by my shameful shots.)
"...alright. I will come over there very soon if I can" I said, hesitating at the beginning.
"Ok man. Just watch me, I'm going to go John Wall on them" said Jonathan, before hanging up.
I put my phone down on the table before putting up my guitar in a soft yet firm guitar case, closing it.
(Well, there goes me practicing bad apple, I'll just have to work on that section later.)
I walk out of my room into a hallway with a mirror at the end of the corridor, after grabbing a pair of socks from my Armoire.
(No matter what, that mirror still gives me the chills even it's been there since I was like seven.)
While I was hopping and putting on my socks at the same time, out of the corner in my eye I saw a strange ripple in the mirror. I quickly turned around to look at it and it just kept rippling, while taking off my socks.
(Uh, what the hell is going on? Is Bloody Mary going to kill me? No that can't be right, it's not dark and I'm not spinning in front of a mirror chanting her name.)
I noticed a red ribbons on each end of a long line. Then it opened up with so many red eyes just looking at me.
I was shocked, as thoughts began to race in my mind while my body was rendered motionless.
(Isn't.....Isn't this Yukari's Gap? Isn't that fictional? Am I dreaming or having a hallucination from practicing so much guitar?)
I blinked my eyes to make sure I wasn't having a hallucination and it was still there. I pinched myself while thinking it was a dream,
but it hurt as I quickly stopped.
(It shouldn't hurt if I was in a dream. Has the drunken paradise come true? Is it actually real?)
I continued to look with utter bewilderment. Then out of great curiosity, I walked over to the gap, tripping myself in the process and
fell into the gap. I merely drifted as I watched the eyes staring at me like they are observing. The gap I tripped into closed behind me.
(Okay calm down Ken, Somehow you managed to be in Yukari's.....world, while the eyes in the background are uncomfortably staring you down.)
I drifted throughout the space, with the uncomfortable stare from those eyes.
I drifted for two hours, while I was thinking up a conclusion.
(So by all the touhou fanfiction and theories I read, I might be going to Gensokyo. But I know I can't make it through it without modern technology, I will have to rely on Rinnosuke, that one guy who actually sells it in a seemingly backwards world. At least I know I can get my fix of Touhou depending on how long I'm here. But i bet none of those Yuri couples are happening, I could be wrong though... How am i going to adjust without a computer or a guitar to entertain myself? How do i fly? What if Yuyuko, that glutton, wants to eat me?
Is there toliet paper in Gensokyo?)
As i pondered these questions, a gap opened beneath me and I looked down to see a shrine with a black haired girl sweeping the leaves
with a bamboo broom.
(Reimu?)
Then Gravity decided to be active at this time, as I fell into the ground headfirst next to the donation box, my vision blurred in and out as I heard my glasses skid across the ground, before slowly blacking out. I heard a broom hit the ground and hurried footsteps coming towards me.
The last thing I remember is a voice in a background before I passed out.
"I spilled my tea, ze......who's tha..?"
Please note that this fanfiction also represents my progress in writing. So this may have a weird plot at first.
If you wish to read all of it because I'm too lazy to upload all the chapters I made in this fanfiction, please go to fanfiction.net or Doujin.Style. I'll try to upload a chapter daily if I remember.
Chapter 16
Ken's POV
We laid next to each other, trying to rest ourselves getting ready to break in the mansion.
(I had already broken the door already in my rage with China, so it should be easy to go in.)
(I feel really stiff.)
Marisa looked up in the air pensively, while unusually quiet, holding her shoulder in pain.
My muscles hurt all over, my rage made me somewhat weak at the end, and a lack of vigor.
(That's what i get for missing that one slash that made it turn into some weird Kenshin move.)
(And like that guy, I don't think I'll able to do that again.)
(Wait a second.....if I did all those moves, aren't they powerful enough to be spell cards?)
(Jeez, this is going to be painful.)
After about a few minutes, I slowly reached in my pocket, my arm winced in pain once.
I felt at least three new cards as i took them out.
The first card that came into view I looked at had me in the same counter stance as my other card but showed wind streaks behind me.
(Death in Ten Paces? Why does it sound like it's off of a movie?)
(It sounds really versatile, like my other card, i can switch from spell cards to this skill card quickly...)
(And even from the counter card to this one it says, hehe. I see some surprises in the future.)
I looked at the second card, which shows a black figure holding a yellow Kite shield with a green aura emanating from it.
(Hmm~, Astral Sign Art of Defense??.....looks pretty useful...but then my mobility will be decreased greatly it says.)
(How did I get this card in the first place)
I remembered how I protected Marisa from the danmaku with only my sword when she was preparing a flask.
(So this time, when i declared the spell card and hold the pose....I'll be protected?? Hold the phone, what's this say?)
In the middle of the shield seems to be a sigil with a hole in the middle...and the text says "Upgradable"
(Wait, I can upgrade this card? They never said so on the others, maybe they are powerful enough already?)
(What about the last card?)
I looked at the third card which shows a black figure again kicking up another black figure and sending them down lotus style, then it shows the result being confused with stars above his head.
There was a slash through the picture.
On the other side of the slash, it shows the same thing but then the black figure flies up to him and grabs his wrists that glow red then the figure throws them overhand.
(Cripple Sign: Vital Interference? I don't remember throwing Meiling by the wrist.)
(Wait a second, are these Cabal Online skills i see?)
(So basically, I can either cripple their ability to see or their ability to attack. You can use your legs but the majority of attacking comes from using the wrist.)
(Wait what's this....)
It read, "ONLY USABLE ONCE EVERY SPELL CARD BATTLE AND MUST BE CLOSE FOR ATTACK!!"
(Well, that sucks....I guess it will only come in handy in melee...which is usually impossible in danmaku bombardment.)
I thought about the cards i have received, laying them on my chest.
(So i received two offensive melee skills and one upgradable defensive shield....in that case, after this incident...I'm going to need to train for endurance...)
Marisa sighed and I looked over, she still looked to the sky when she was reaching for something in her blouse.
It was a vial with strange bubbly yellow liquid that read "CURE-ALL," albeit very crude letters though and a cork at the top.
"Marisa, where did you get that?" I asked, curious.
Marisa gasped for a second, then looked at me then the vial.
"I was in the human village before you even came here and i saw many stalls that were open, there was a delicious ramen stand, ze!" replied Marisa.
(There's Ramen here? I would kill for some right now!)
My stomach growled loudly, making Marisa giggle a little bit.
(I really wish I had some food to eat right now.)
"Then there was this one stand at the end...it looked very poor and there was nothing worth of borrowing" continued Marisa.
(Borrow, Borrow, Borrow! Is that all you do?)
"Then I saw this shady person who had purple-ish long hair, long rabbit ears, and her eyes were frighteningly red" said Marisa.
"She was wearing some kind of weird clothing, it looked like a black jacket sewed together with buttons and a crescent moon pin to the right side of her jacket."
"Along with a tie at her neck, I think she was just checking her inventory when I saw this vial on the counter."
(Reisen? You swiped from Reisen?)
"Then she noticed me and tried to ask what i wanted, but I was busy studying the vial, she jumped when she saw I had it."
(But why did she jump at that one particular vial...)
"I asked what was it, ze. Then she said it wasn't for sale, then i decided to borrow it. After all, if it's something she's not selling, it must be really valuable. I quickly ran away while I thanked her for letting me borrow it."
(It wasn't on sale for a reason you know?)
Marisa giggled at first and shook the vial, making the liquid bubble even more violently.
"What a useless bunny, she would only be good for sex appeal."
I raised my eyebrows when Marisa said that, remembering some familiar words.
(How exactly did you figure that out?)
"I don't know now whether i should take it or not now, it wasn't on sale for a reason you know?" said Marisa.
(Naw really? Well Reisen's supplier has got to be Eirin, which in turn makes it safe, but then again Eirin likes to do many experiments.)
"Marisa, I believe you should take it" I said.
Marisa stood up, although she quickly winced and held her stomach, she popped the vial open, making it fizz out of the vial.
I quickly stood up too looking at Marisa, who looked scared for a second then became more confident.
(There's no reason you should be afraid of that! Think about when you ate mushrooms whether they are poisonous or not)
"Think about it, didn't you ever eat poisonous mushrooms and still lived?" I asked.
Marisa nodded slowly then turned into an ecstatic grin, with a thumbs up in the air.
"You're right! I do love eating death caps with ramen!" said Marisa, optimistically.
(Isn't that fatal? And you "love it with ramen?" Marisa, What the hell is up with your body?)
I stood with my eyes open wide, surprised that Marisa's liver or kidney is still kicking.
"Ah what the heck? It can't hurt!" said Marisa.
(Wh-Wh-wait!)
Marisa then drank it bottoms up, she drained the whole thing in three seconds.
(So much for being cautious)
"Yum! Warm and salty!" exclaimed Marisa.
(Wait a second, doesn't pee taste like that.....I know it's sterile and there is Urine therapy..but)
(Who's pee is that? What has Eirin done to Reisen...)
"Uuu~, My stomach is gurgling, and it's starting to hurt.." complained Marisa.
(Ummmmm Urine Poisoning? It comes out of your body for a reason.)
Then Marisa quickly held her shoulder with her hand, and then her stomach.
Marisa screamed really loud, I had to cover my ears since Marisa caused my ears to ring.
"It hurts so bad, so sharp, like something is cutting me!" complained Marisa.
(Shit what do i do!)
(Is her shoulder wound doing ok?)
I quickly pulled back Marisa's clothes to the part where her shoulders are exposed, Marisa blushed a bit while I checked her shoulder wound.
(It seemed to be.......fixing itself?)
The black inflammation that used to be there was gone, and the wound restitched itself until it was fully closed, leaving no scar.
Marisa screamed in pain and embraced me, I felt warmth come into my cheeks.
Then she felt relaxed, as her muscles doesn't feel so tensed up anymore.
"I....feel....GREAT!" exclaimed Marisa.
(Thank you Eirin for using pee as a Cure-All!)
Then quickly Marisa grabbed her head with both hands, convulsing in pain.
"Auu~, Why does my head and Tushie hurt so much!?" yelled Marisa.
Marisa dropped to her knees on the ground beside the dirt streak, holding her head tightly.
"Marisa!" I yelled.
"It's like something wants to come out, help it out Ken!" Marisa ordered.
(What?)
(Unless a robot is going to come out of your forehead, I don't think there's much I can do.)
I was fazed by what Marisa just said, continuing to stare at her.
(Why would you ask something like that anyway?)
Then all of a sudden, two things came out of Marisa's head and one thing from her ass.
The two things at the top of her head happened to be short big floppy rabbit ears.
Then there was a big cottontail that came out of her ass.
(Marisa....a rabbit....)
Marisa let go of her head with a relieved look on her face, wiping her forehead with her forearm.
"Whew! Glad that's better, hey I can even hear better now. but now I am feeling this strange urge for carrots and to pound something" said Marisa.
I stood shocked with my jaw dropped and my eyes wide open.
I stammer "The" for a bit as my hand shook, pointing at Marisa's ears.
Marisa looked confused for a second who touched her head, then her eyes became wide open, rigorously feeling her head with her hands.
"EEE~! What is this, zea!" shrieked Marisa.
(Zea? Is that supposed to be some combination of ze~ and usa~?)
Marisa covered her mouth with a surprised look on her face.
(I think it was Tewi's pee, she looks like her, and she wants to pound something.)
"I think it's rabbit ears" I said.
"You mean I'm a wabbit, zea?!" shouted Marisa.
(Just because you have animal parts on your body don't mean you have to shout so loud~!)
I nodded with a grim smile while I still pointed, now at her bottom.
Marisa patted her ass when she felt her cottontail, squeezing it.
"Uuu~, I am a wabbit, A useless only-good-for-sex-appeal wabbit" said Marisa.
(That's not it....err....you do look better in a way. We only know so far is that you got rabbit parts.)
(Aren't rabbits normally....)
"Wait, do you feel....energized?" I asked, hesitating a little bit.
Marisa thought for a moment while putting her finger on her chin, then she smiled and leaped in the air, her arms outstretched towards the sky.
"I do feel energized! I never felt better than ever!" yelled Marisa.
Third POV:
Meanwhile, at the Forest of Magic, A long haired blond tall youkai with a gigantic double-sided buster sword was terrorizing some travelers.
"Hehehehe, fear me as RUMIA!" an unknown voice rang out in the forest, scaring away birds and insects.
Rumia swung her buster sword as her amulet did no good to seal her powers.
The travelers were scared as they hugged each other.
"I'm gonna GIT you...and eat you HUMES~!" threatened Marisa.
Rumia charged with her buster sword ready and blood coming from her mouth toward the travelers.
They hugged each other as their kimonos touched, both seem to be praying for their lives. One traveler was a black-haired male while the other was another black-haired person but was female.
Then Rumia suddenly dropped her sword onto the ground while she held her head and stood in place.
The travelers look with surprise as they were curious to see what happens next, leaning over with curiosity.
"Uuu~, My source of energy is gone! I don't want to..."
The amulet in her hair glowed yellow, lighting up the area around Rumia.
Rumia shrunk back to her old self as the amulet was still there able to seal her powers, while she fell to her knees.
Quickly, the travelers ran back in the other direction, holding hands together.
Rumia sat in place, about to cry, holding her hands. The buster sword beside her disappeared, replaced with flattened grass.
"Uuuuuu, I only wanted a meal, I'm going to starve~!" moaned Rumia, beginning to have tears on her eyes.
Rumia cried into the grass, trying to wipe away her tears with her hand.
Then suddenly, an arm extended out in Rumia's sight, it was carrying a lamprey stick.
Rumia's eyes glowed, then quickly grabbed it and ate it. She begun to have a smile on her face as she looked behind her to see who gave her the stick.
She had grey eyes, pink hair, pointed ears like an owl, light pink bird-like wings with purple highlights. She is in white and brown clothing with a hat and the dress contain numerous bird-shaped ornaments.
She looked very happy as she gave a smile, bending over to Rumia's level.
Then she held out her hand, gesturing to Rumia.
Rumia looked at it for a second, a piece of meat in her lips, before grabbing it with her own hand.
Meanwhile at the SDM where Marisa and Ken prepare to enter the SDM at the courtyard.
Marisa looks on happy besides the side effect that she has bunny ears and a tail while Ken is somewhat fatigued but ready to go on with courage.
Ken's POV
We entered through the gate where Meiling usually stands to guard.
I looked at the flowers, part of it was burned by the danmaku battle and the dragon meteor, as the entire courtyard had many burn marks all around the ground.
(Oh god look at these flowers...Good thing Yuka isn't here, nobody knows the rage she would go through if she found out what happened.)
We looked onward as Marisa happily leaped over the flowerbeds.
"WEE~!" Marisa shouted happily.
(I think this rabbit thing is cute and annoying at the same time.)
(In fact...I haven't gone moe in a long while.)
I stood there with my drunken smile, my eyes narrowing, as my nose readied to bleed.
Then it gushed out, as the blood colors over the black burn marks.
(Ahhh..so beautiful how Marisa hops...)
Marisa looked behind and raised her ears, and then giggled, holding her hand beside her lips.
(That did it....)
"HNG~~" I groaned
I fell backwards on the ground as I was happy to have gone to rest....on the flowerbed.
The last thing I saw was Marisa giggling then sitting by me on the flowerbed.
Yukari's POV:
"Ran, prepare to send him my next gift, it appears he doesn't mourn his toilet paper anymore" I ordered.
Ran came in with a Maruchan Chicken Ramen noodles packet, she brought it over to me and bowed, dropping it beside me then leaving.
Then I snapped my fingers while thinking about the noodles.
(I made the border nonfictional between not being restorative and restorative)
A blue spark came out of my finger.
Then it turned into a small fireball as it went away.
(Ken's power will slowly decrease throughout going through the SDM...but he shall not realize this.)
(These Ramen noodles will help him...but only energize him.)
I quickly grabbed a Post-it note i got when this one person cleaned his desk before going to White Castle with an Indian.
(The dangers these friends went through, just for a White Castle burger.)
I quickly wrote "Eat this -Yakumo."
Then I opened a gap and sent it through to Ken, It landed on his chest while he continued to bled unconscious.
(Soon, he will have to train for himself to get as good as his current level...but that will take really long.)
(Hehe that boy...always bleeding when something like that happens..)
"Fufufu, Ran~! Microwave a Bagel Bites for me" I ordered.
"Yes, mistress" replied Ran.
Ran went downstairs, signaling it with steps descending.
"CHEN~! You're good with these...things...make Yukari Bagel Bites!" Ran yelled.
"OK~!" Chen replied.
(Why do i even ask Ran anymore...)
(My boy, if he wants to get better at this, he need to take on some very special adventures. Some not even in Gensokyo!)
If you noticed, I wasn't thinking back in February when I made this fanfic. It is weird how I could depict Ken as overpowering Meiling in a sudden emotional burst along with lackluster romance. As I said before, this fanfiction also represents my development in writing. Each chapter gets progressively better.