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Day 1.

Holes appeared in the sky and part of the Great Hakurei Barrier was damaged. This attracted the attention of many people, who gathered to solve this incident.

Everyone split up in two teams: one was led by Marisa, the other by Reimu.

Marisa's team met Mima, who initiated a battle with Yuuka, then with Marisa. During those fights, a lot of damage was made, including damage to the outside world (Mima fired a laser through the rift). Mima has shown her lolicon tendences by kidnapping an ill fairy. Utsuho tried to seduce Suwako, who wasn't amused and chased the hell raven all the way to the Moriya Shrine.

After that an unknown fog creature appeared and tried to capture Flandre. This atack was repelled and everyone started to suspect that fog youkai was the cause of incident. However, at this time Cirno was kidnapped by Yukari, so a part of the group led by Yuuka headed for Mayohiga.

Reimu's team headed straight to Moriya shrine. Mokou and Kaguya were fighting and flirting on the way. This ended with Mokou nearly burning the shrine, and then Utsuho appeared and tried to do the same just for lulz. The shrine was saved by Aya, who has blown Utsuho away. Suwako followed Utsuho and fought her, figuring that Utsuho is possessed as a result. Yukari appeared and started trolling again. She was a main suspect in Reimu's eyes, and since she avoided the shrine maiden's questions, Reimu attacked her. Reimu's 0% Approval Rating caused everyone on her team to attack her in response. Reimu lost the battle and a good portion of her power and returned to Hakurei shrine. Aya and Komachi followed her.

Also Suwako threw the Hakurei shrine donation box far away as revenge for Reimu kicking Moriya shrine's donation box earlier. Reimu didn't notice, as she was too busy making a trap that negates Yukari's gaps. Aya found Reimu's box, and Reimu invited her (and Komachi) to a horror storytelling sleepover. They shared some stories and created a horror film mood around the shrine.

A ghost child who called herself Saigyouji Ranma came to the Hakurei shrine, saying that Youki is after her and fell asleep right on Reimu's bosom. A minute later Komachi's scythe was stolen by a creature in the fog, prompting Komachi to leave the shrine and supposedly get killed. Reimu and Aya barricaded the shrine's doors and windows, but the monster was expecting that and got inside anyway. Then Reimu activated her anti-Yukari trap barrier around the room they were in and blasted him with Macross Missile Massacre of light bullets. And Ranma punched a hole in him. Unfortunately, he was just a minor prankster named Fukakusa who tried to get Aya back after she pranked him. After that Aya joined with Momiji and Hatate (who couldn't get in the shrine earlier because of Reimu's barrier), and Reimu went to sleep. And Shikieiki came here as well, she was Fukakusa's boss. Ranma was revealed to be Saigyou Ayakashi.

Yuuka's part of Marisa's team went to Mayohiga, where Cirno and Chen were playing. Utsuho revealed to Yuuka that she is in fact Yasora, a yatagarasu who gained control of Utsuho's body. When Ran left Mayohiga to meet with Yukari, Yasora followed her to try and take revenge on Yukari for her death. She was stopped by Ran.

After Yasora's failed attempt to kill Yukari with her Leeroy Jenkins strategy, she returned to Yuuka's group. Yuuka invited her, Patchi, Flan, Chen and Cirno for a sleepover. In Yuuka's mansion they started to play hide-and-seek and Yuuka found everyone. Yasora used hide-and-seek as an excuse to seduce Yuuka, and that went better than with Suwako. After that Mugetsu and Gengetsu attacked the mansion and took Chen and Elly hostage. But Chen managed to break out, which placed Mugetsu versus Yuuka, Cirno, Flandre, Chen and Elly at once (and she was shot in the back by Yasora), and Yasora faced a pissed off Gengetsu one-on-one. Yasora proclaimed that she is going to defeat Gengetsu's strongest attack without using any spellcards.

Mystia attacked team magician because it seemed like the thing to do, got her ass outnumbered and beaten up, but didn't know anything about the Incident so team magician decided to go to the hot springs. And then Mystia showed up at the shrine to watch the thing with the fog guy before being surprised by a Suwako.

Suwako told Mystia that the Mishaguji were waiting for her to open her stand so she flies back to the Human Village where she left it. There she runs across the unconscious vengeful ghost. Mystia pokes her with a stick to see if she's alive which causes the girl to get up and lament life. Ecthel shows up and convinces the girl that life doesn't suck and offers to become her friend. During this touching moment, Mystia gets bored and wanders off to open her stand and begins to serve all the Mishaguji snakes that appear.

When the ghost girl tells Ecthel that she's hungry, he gets some lamprey from Mystia to eat together. The girl then asks Mystia to be her friend, which Mystia easily agrees to. The girl jumps and hugs Mystia and accidentally possesses her. Not knowing to handle the situation or the confused possessed Mystia, Ecthel takes the two-in-one to his house.

Chen accidentally kissed two people: first Elly in her sleep, second Cirmo while helping her out from under a knife rack in Yuuka's kitchen. Yuuka ordered Elly to get Chen, Flandre and Cirno home. Both -getsu sisters were defeated and chained in the basement. Both Yuuka and Yasora were too tired to punish them and went to sleep. In a dream world, Gengetsu was trying to talk to Yasora and found real Utsuho instead.

Marisa's team went to the hot spring. They met a girl in a tophat, and Suwako, thinking she is the Big Bad, tried to curse her.

Yukari and Yuyuko thought they need to apologise to Reimu for beating her, so they got a kitten as a present and visited Hakurei shrine at the nighttime. So they joined a cast already sleeping in Hakurei shrine.

Day 2.

Marisa and Mima met with a girl named Natsumi who claimed to be responsible for a breach in bondary between Gensokyo and real world. She was planing to destroy every bondary. They tried to fight Natsumi, but she escaped. Marisa headed to Hakurei shrine to warn Reimu of danger.

People in the shrine woke up, and Fuka prepared a breakfast. Reimu claimed that she will charge everyone for the night sleep. Reimu had a talk with Yukari, and Yukari tried to convince her to stop solving incidents. They didn't agree with each other and ended with no peace between them.

With arrival of Marisa, they started their search for Natsumi. Marisa stayed with Mima, and Reimu teamed up with Aya.

In Yuuka's mansion Yasora came up with a plan to torture Gengetsu and Mugetsu, but delayed it until after breakfast. During breakfast Yuuka offered to help Yasora with her revenge. Yasora, afraid to be betrayed again, answered with life tread toward Yuuka and confessed that she doesn't care for Gensokyo's safety as long as Yukari dies.

Yuuka and Yasora decided to use marriage proposal between Elly and Chen as excuse to lure Yukari out and catch her out guard. It sort of worked: Yukari sent Ran away, but didn't dropped her guard, and left her escape road open. Yasora wasn't able to contain her anger and left. Yukari, amused with marriage idea, asked for SDM to be the place for ceremony. She also visited Satori to invite her as Utsuho's master. Satori didn't buy their story and, worried about Utsuho, has sent Orin to search for her.

The ghost girl, now unpossessing Mystia and having aged a few years, sits in Ecthel's house making spellcards. Mystia and Ecthel wake up in the same bed and there's some momentary confusion as to what happened and whether this makes Mystia anyone's girlfriend. This confusion cleared up, Mystia asks Ecthel and the ghost girl, Panko, to help her replenish her lamprey stock at a river in the forest of magic.

They get there and Mystia changes into her swimsuit but they don't have time for much fishing before a top hatted girl interrupts and asks them to come with her. Mystia, thinking that she's trying to steal her fishing spot, refuses and the girl attacks them. The three fight back and knock her out although her fog keeps attacking. The fog eventually carries her off and after some clothing swapping shenanigans Mystia advocates chasing her.

While Mystia's gang was hestitating, Reimu and Aya found the fog. They caught it and tophat girl only to learn that tophat girl thinks that she is saving everyone and knows nothing useful about her master, Natsumi. Reimu was going to exterminate her, but Aya persuade her to show mercy. Reimu kissed Aya as a diversion. Not only they got away from tophat girl, but both of them was shocked by feeling they got from the kiss.

Meanwhile, Utsuho was attracted by Mystia's song. She aproached Mystia and offered to sing together, with Yasora snarky commented. Mystia refused, and Utsuho decided to eat her and get her musical voice, with Yasora coming along For the Evulz. Mystia and Panko was not amused for different reasons and attacked her and Ecthel joined in only for the fight to get interrupted by a naked driad appearing. The naked girl distracts Ecthel long enough for him to get hit by a giga flare and the naked girl drags Yasora off, leaving Mystia and Panko with the wounded Ecthel.

Shujiko, who had been watching the last part of the fight, flies down and offers to help take Ecthel to a doctor, help that Mystia accepts despite being suspicious of Shujiko for no reason other than pattern recognition. Meanwhile, Panko possesses Ecthel in an attempt to heal him.Ecthel and Panko start having a discussion in the center of his mind while Shujiko and Mystia reach the Moriya Shrine where Eirin is currently located. Mystia's unhelpful description of the incident convinces Eirin that the injuries aren't anything serious and she gives Mystia some salve to put on Ecthel.

At the same time, Sanae drags Mokou, Kaguya and Shujiko, with Eirin following, to go hunt down Natsumi leaving Mystia bored in the shrine and Panko still talking to Ecthel inside his mind, asking him to help her kill Reimu.

Yasora meanwhile was going to do whatever naked driad desire for her body in exchange. Shikieiki's appearance chased naked girl away, leaving Yasora pissed with this encounter ended with nothing. They threw one spellcard each, with Shikieiki preaching endlessly during it.

Meanwhile, Yuuka had travelled to the Scarlet Devil Mansion in order to attempt to convince Remilia to host the wedding, when they were both attacked by someone utilising the rips in reality. The fight quickly reached the basement, where the villain had Flandre in her grasp, but was quickly fought off.

Later, after Yuuka had returned home to make sure Elly hadn't been targeted by the enemy, came across Marisa and Mima rescuing Wriggle from that very enemy. The flower youkai took Wriggle back to her home, conscripting Gengetsu to protect her and Elly in Yuuka's absence. But not before Yasora returned and the girls bathed together, ending with both Elly and Mugetsu forced into lusting after everyone else.

Sanae's group, in their search for a lead, came up with an idea: Send Shujiko out as bait to draw out an enemy. They found Hanako Shokusho. A brief battle ensued, ending with Hanako being knocked unconscious by one of Eirin's drugs.Feeling useless and weak, due to the help she needed running into Hanako, Shujiko confided her fears of inadequacy to Suwako, who reassured the will youkai that she had great potential, perking Shujiko's spirits back up.

Reimu and Aya, after coming across the girl in the top-hat, travelled to the SDM in their pursuit of information.

Marisa and Mima had encountered the girl in the top-hat, as well as the fog youkai, and swiftly defeated them in battle. Yuuka joined them shortly after, and the group learned of the girl's names: Etsuko and Kiriyoshi respectively.Denying that her master, Natsumi, was evil, Etsuko and Kiriyoshi led the group to a point where Natsumi would move them to another location, with Youki Konpaku delivering information on Natsumi's gauntlet along the way.

The group were moved underground, where they discovered a shocking sight - the bodies of many youkai and fairies drained of their magic, Mystia amongst them, and effectively dead. In a chamber beyond resided Hanako's true form, that of a dragon.Convincing Hanako to lead them to Natsumi for a 'price', the rest were again moved to another location near Eientei, which Sanae's group had been relocating to. Not long afterwards, a great beanstalk erupted from the ground, leading to a platform which beheld a portal leading to Natsumi's location.

With almost everyone gathered, the large group faced off against Natsumi, who had drained a great deal of magic energy to combat her foes. Despite her tactics and attempts at traumatising Etsuko, she was eventually overwhelmed by a plethora of powerful attacks, revealing Natsumi to be no more than a child corrupted by the gauntlet, Kami no te.

Once everyone had recovered, a party was held at the Moriya Shrine, attended by most characters.

Day 3

Hanako had issued a challenge to to everyone, requesting they meet at the Misty Lake. Only Yuuka, Suwako, Eirin, Marisa and Mokou arrived to fight the ancient youkai )Aya was mainly there to record the fight), who quickly proved her vast power, easily fending off their attacks and proving just how dangerous an opponent she really was.

Everyone else was pretty much recovering from the night of drinking or injuries.

The battle continued, with Hanako proving her superior might to her opponents. However, the group were able to fend off her attacks and damage the dragon portion of Hanako. Eventually, she blew everyone's clothes off as her last attack, before deciding that, due to total damage dealt, she had lost.

And thus, the tale came to a close.


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