Aya was quiet annoyed about Yukari ignoring her and denying her the answers she wanted. She was about to dig deeper when she felt something slimy grab on to her, and looking at it she saw that it was some kind of tenticle thing had latched on to her. Like any normal person who felt a slimey tenticle touch them, Aya freaked out. She grabbed onto Shokushuko's body and pulled her off in fear, and was about to toss it away (and fly in the other direction screaming like a loon, but thankful never got that far) when she saw the tenticle thing was actually a person. Feeling rather stupid, she put the cephalopod girl down with a very sheepish grin. "Sorry about that, you surprised me" She appologised, remembering to introduce later.
Once she has calmed down a bit and waited for the explanation, Yukari told everyone there what was going on. It seemed someone was messing around with the boarder seperating them from the outside, reminding Aya of the Natsumi incident that happened that summer (whom she hadn't seen since Mima took off with her. She wondered what that was about), but this time it seemed whoever was going this was going it on the outside. She had not been outside Gensokyo since the boarder itself was made, which had been a long time ago. Obviously things would chnaged by then. Besides, wasn't Gensokyo a secret to the outside? Who would have found them out, and why are they doing this?
"Do you have any idea on how this might be happening? It might help us in our search" Of course Aya was going to help, this was the kind of adventure that someone only got one chance in a lifetime to have, and they always made the best stories.
Sometimes I even amaze myself. Currently: Nice and sneaky like"Well, there's human sacrifice of prison inmates involved and it seems someone is taking pains to try and restore some of the functionality of the Kami no Te but apart from that I don't have anything to go on," Yukari said, "Now, unless you've just arrived, I'll be seeing you in a few days~"
With that, there was a strange sense of space bending to accommodate people until the shrine merely contained Sakuya, Mystia, Ecthel, and Yukari herself. Swiftly, Tenshi was collected.
OUTSIDE
Reimu continued to eat the bowl of rice in her hands as if there had been no change of scenery. In a way, there wasn't: she was still knelt beside a table, still in quite a large room... the main difference was that this one needed new walls and, oddly enough, had a more watertight roof. Kirin and Jinjako were liable to get a big shock.
"So... outside world, huh?" Mokou muttered, standing up. Time to see how much things had changed since she was last part of human society...
Shokushuko floated in front of Aya, almost disturbingly teary-eyed. "Y-you don't like my hugs?"
It would be advisable to get the girl to stop nibbling on one of her arms before it began to seem like a good source of calamari.
edited 20th Dec '11 10:24:47 AM by RainehDaze
Sakuya simply looked at Yukari. "What is going on, miss Yukari? I am afraid I wasnt here to hear what is occuring."
Kingdom Hearts RP of my own. Enjoy.Mystia peered at the suddenly depopulated party. This wasn't going like any party she was comfortable with.
Outside, Nazrin knocked on the shrine door quietly. With any luck, the meeting had wrapped up and she could go back to Myouren without getting involved.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSo, the outside world...
This looked like a run-down version of the Hakurei shrine. Except the ceiling looked better. In fact, as far as Marisa could tell, it was a run-down version of the Hakurei shrine except the ceiling looked better. It wasn't nearly as different as Marisa had expected, it was kind of disappointing really.
"... Rei-chan, this is just your shrine, but way older. This is the outside world? It's boring!"
Rinnosuke looked around. She only knew of the outside world through the items she had 'read'... and no she'd been roped into going there. Great. She sighed, and noticed that the tentacled girl was... nibbling on one of her tentacles?
... She reached towards her. "Ah... you probably shouldn't do that."
Jinjako suddenly went rigid, blinking. The shrine, in a way, was her as well. As such, she could sense when people entered it... which led to this rather bizarre exclamation.
"There's people inside me!"
Granted, the mechanics of it were confusing, and Jinjako was indeed the girl... but the shrine was her, too. Kind of.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."So whoever it was attacking the boarder was doing so through human sacrifice and attempting to resurrect the power of that gauntlet that possesed Natsumi. Aya Began to wonder if this was going to be an overarching theme, but it was short lived as she found herself being teleported to a strange land. Well, actually, it didn't lookall that different from the shrine, except with a better roof. But the sounds were definitely different. The tengu heard things unfamiliar to her, alongside the ever present voices on the wind. "It may not look it, but this is a very different place" Aya told Marisa as she grabbed some of the food Reimu had made. No need to waste it.
The girl's teary eyed look made Aya's heart jump, now afraid that the girl was going to burst into the tears. "No no, nothing like that" Aya said as she tried to explain "It's just that you caught me off guard!" It wasn't the complete truth, but telling the octopus youkai the truth could just get her more upset. Expecially if she was going to chew on herself like that. "And he's, er, she's right, you should stop that, it's not good for you"
edited 20th Dec '11 12:11:38 PM by Luke_Prowler
Sometimes I even amaze myself. Currently: Nice and sneaky likeOut of nowhere the celestial was swooped away into a strange space and she ended up at the... Hakurei Shrine.
"The youkai brought me back here?" the girl sat up from her Keystone as it vanished into thin air. She walked forward and look around. Upon seeing Yukari, she narrowed her eyes. "Alright, alright, so WHY did you do that?!" Tenshi was obviously a bit flustered after that random teleporation.
No, calm down Tenshi, you won't get ANYWHERE if there's a fight...
The blue haired girl took in a deep breath to calm herself. "Alright, now explain..."
edited 20th Dec '11 1:38:12 PM by RagnaTheSaviour
Meanwhile, the old lady had found the long-overgrown path to the shrine and walked to the gate. She hesitated for a moment, as though listening for something, then stepped through. She sensed no god housed in the shrine, and from the look of the gate, the place was long-abandoned, so there was no need to knock first.
Spotting the shrine youkai and kirin talking, she walked over to them, waving in greeting. "What's this? I'm not the only visitor?"
Ecthel looked at the depopulated Shrine as the others were gone, and there are only a few people left. He looked around to see a Maid, a Reality Warper, the Night Sparrow, and himself. After eating his lunch, he haphazardly wandered to Yukari and Sakuya, and he quietly gestured to Mystia to join the group.
Hm... If I recall, that busty figure, Yukari, probably told me to come to the Hakurei Shrine in person... I think she popped out of nowhere while wandering around the Human Village, but I can't remember where... She was cute, and I want to date her for a bit, but I don't think Panko would approve of this...
"Soo...." Ecthel heard within his head. "Who was that beautiful girl you talked to last night?"
....
"Oh don't play dumb. I saw you last night, talking to that beautiful blond woman before heading back in. Did she hand you something? You better not have been slacking off on building my shrine last night fooling around with her without telling me." The familiar voice known as Panko said to him.
A thought passed over Panko's mind.
"OH! Is she your girlfriend? I suppose that's ok if that's true. It would be helpful if you started a family that could spread my word better..."
"No!" Ecthel said, "I don't remember dating her, despite the fact that I would love to, but... I think she's already taken... I think the girl is Yukari..."
edited 20th Dec '11 6:20:25 PM by AttObl
Shutdown sequence initiated.At the sounds of the little girl yelping and proclaiming her euphemism aloud, I looked at her with a look of dull surprise. That was rather undermined by the blush that spread out upon my face like an unexpected visitor, my pulse quickening and heating up from the implications. "...You don't look as if you have anyone in you... And you are much too young for that." I said, knowing full well she probably meant something else.
Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.-Mystia has joined the party!-
or rather
-Mystia has ambled over to talk to the only person she's on friendly terms with-
c/ "Friend Ecthel! How have you been?" c/
Forever liveblogging the Avengers"That old hag?!" Panko thought to her and Ecthel. "you...really thought she was pretty too huh..."
Almost like a girl, Ecthel's left finger went across his mouth. For a second, at least before giving control back to Ecthel.
"You...you think she's interested in you? Maybe it's that shikgami of hers, Chen that wants to marry you or something"
Granted, Panko hadn't met Chen, but she had looked her up in Aku's Gensokyo chronicle.
"Well, anyway, what did she want? Did she want you to go here?" Panko asked Ecthel.
"Oh right, before I forget..." Panko said, as Ecthel felt a strange rush through his body.
"Don't forget how to summon me. With the contract we formed, you can summon me as much as you'd like and tap into my own powers." Panko said, smiling if she could inside Ecthel's head.
After a minute, Mystia showed herself, and Panko mentally jumped for joy.
"Mystia-san!" Panko said in Ecthel's head. " Ecthel, ask how she's doing." she ordered around.
After a moment to think, and let panko's perfectly pure mind think...
" Oh Oh, and give Mystia a big big hug too" she added. Whether Ecthel would or not would be another story
Clearly the reasons for hugging the beautiful and endowed Night Sparrow Youkai were strictly platonic. Strictly
Bocaj, Att, this ok? If not say nah and I'll take it out. Thought I'd add a few shades of pervert in her. good idea? bad idea?
edited 21st Dec '11 4:59:46 AM by Nicktendonick
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.OUTSIDE
"The Hakurei Shrine exists on both sides of the border," Reimu explained, putting down the bowl and climbing to her feet. Just like Yukari, to send them all here without footwear... annoying gap youkai. Ah well, at least they appeared somewhere quiet and out of the way, it wasn't as if this shrine had been disturbed for years. Hell, her great-grandmother had been the last one to live here...
Great-grandmother...
That meant that this was the original shrine, the one from before random youkai destroyed it and before the replacements that were destroyed, in order, by Tenshi and Yukari. This was the one she had been born in and apart from a few walls...
"My shrine!" Reimu exclaimed, spontaneously hugging one of the supports.
Shokushuko reluctantly removed the arm from her mouth, continuing to look at Aya. "So... umm... who are you? The nice fox lady came and asked us to go to the shrine and I don't know anyone here apart from Yamame-san..."
Mokou was so far the only one of the group to have headed towards the outside world, producing a cigarette from her pocket as she did so. Someone was breaking the border? Well, if they were out here then they wouldn't be used to Gensokyo rules. Good... it had been a long time since she got to fight properly.
INSIDE
Yukari repeated her explanation for the benefit of the newcomers.
Tenshi heard the Yukari's extended explanation. A smile began to form on her face. Great, this was great! Tenshi finally found the adventure she's sought for so long! "This is great!" the celestial said as she clapped her hands together. That devious smile was still there, plastered onto her unmoving face. "I mean.. it's bad for the miko but great for me! I mean..." she tried to correct herself. Giving up in the next second, she looked to Yukari. "Alright, alright anyway... the Border going down would kind of... suck."
The celestial's grin reverted to a frown. "So, in short, you want us to go out and look for the culprit? Stomp them into the dust and what not?" Tenshi asked as she summoned up the familiar golden blade. She swung it once, pointing it to the shrine. "Alright, I'm game!" truth was she cared more about the adventure than the actual mission.
Nazrin knocked quietly again.
"Well, it seems like nobody is home" she said to herself, ignoring the sound of voices. She turned to leave.
edited 21st Dec '11 8:02:40 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers"Yes, I want you to stop whoever it is from destroying the border," Yukari said, wondering why the person outside hadn't just come in (who the hell knocked on Reimu's door?) and using a gap to deposit them with the rest of the group, "Or to act as decoys so that Rei-chan and the others can stop them. It would be nice if you could put an end to the human sacrifices, too."
"Oh, so this is your old shrine," Marisa said, looking the shrine over again as she spoke. It... still kinda looked like a run-down complete dump, but Marisa could kind of understand why Reimu had affection for it, sentimental value, that kind of thing. Still, nothing to steal(Marisa wouldn't steal a shrine's donations, but anything else in a shrine was fair game)...
"Eh, let's go, everyone!" she said, making a beeline for the door.
Rinnosuke did not, in fact, think this would be a good idea. "Wait, everyone should just get their bearings, since this is the outside. It's amazing that no one has lost their-"
Marisa's response was a shrug, before she completely cut her off. "It's fine, Kourin, shouldn't we end this pretty quickly?"
Jinjako, upon registering that one of her shrine's supports had been hugged, ceased attempting to ask the kirin any question and turned on her heel. She ran back into the shrine and very nearly collided with Marisa, before stopping and staring at everyone inside it.
"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?"
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."I watched the younger girl race off into the distance, expressionless as always. Still, I worry for that lass. Standing up, I followed after her, and regarded the other people with polite interest. Still, I did not say a word as I turned to watching the loli's exclamation of surprise. Why must children be so cute?
Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.Without hesitation, Ecthel hugged Mystia tight. He slowly blushed while doing so, but hey, he is starting to like her, after all.
"Mystia-san! I'm doing great! How are you doing right now!?"
Ecthel overheard the objectives explained by Yukari, but he was too busy hugging the Night Sparrow.
edited 21st Dec '11 9:03:11 AM by AttObl
Shutdown sequence initiated.c/ "I have been doing fine Friend Ecthel!
Running my stall, selling lamprey and Sparrow sake!
Singing wherever I go! How is Friend Panko?" c/
"Gah!" Nazrin fell into the shrine. She sheepishly looked around. There was Yukari, the maid from the vampire's mansion, that con artist bird that Byakuren kept meaning to talk to, that Celestial, and some human she had seen around the village. She couldn't recall his name until the Night Sparrow said it. And she and the human were hugging? Well, whatever. Nazrin didn't see Reimu around anywhere.
Nazrin faced Yukari and made a polite little bow. "I'm here on behalf of Hijiri and the Myouren Temple."
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSakuya bowed. "As you wish, miss Yukari." She reached for her knives, ready.
Kingdom Hearts RP of my own. Enjoy.Ooc- quicl work post expand on later
"Hi Mystia-chan!" Came from Ecthel's body as if his stomach was speaking
"I'm doing great! How are you?"
edited 21st Dec '11 9:24:27 AM by Nicktendonick
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Sakuya appeared at the shrine, bowing. "I apologize for arriving late." She gave yet another bow before looking at everyone. "Is...there something I missed?"
edited 20th Dec '11 9:51:46 AM by JoeyStrife
Kingdom Hearts RP of my own. Enjoy.