Beacon Courtyard, Marisa POV
So, apparently a few days ago Y/n managed to bring other versions of himself here without opening a gap to the "cradle", as the Gap Hag calls it. Team RWBY, his caretakers, are... having a food fight inside right now. I managed to sneak my way outside again and am now just sitting with Y/n in the courtyard. This is nice.
"I wonder how the other me is..." I whisper to myself, "since she's a future me, maybe her Mini Hakkero is stronger? The Lost Word incident was truly a strange time."
Lost Word... the other me gave up her name to get power. Reimu told me that the other "me" lost her "Reimu" when she lost her name. It's too bad that Y/n isn't an incident that can be solved by finding a word that no one remembers... or is he? The other Y/n's were from the Heavenhold place, but also alternate dimensions and timelines. Maybe the other "me" is hidden somewhere like they were... His, they called it a scroll I think? Yes, that was it, his scroll is ringing.
"Are you going to answer that?" "No, I don't know the number."
I take it from him, and here's the angry growls, and look at the screen. 1273... I guess I'll answer it.
"Hello?-" "Marisa, it's Aphmau, and there's something weird in our dorm. Can you have Y/n fall asleep so that Yukari can help me and FP with this?" She sounds slightly panicked.
"What's in my dorm?" and he heard the whole thing because he's a cat Youkai, right. "Can you describe it to me? I 'borrowed' a bunch of things back home, it might be one of my trinkets." I ask, expecting nothing stranger than the technology Remnant has compared to Gensokyo.
"It's a small blue cube made of smaller cubes. Sakuya said to not touch it."
"... Did you touch it?"
"Yes, nothing happened."
Okay then, it looks like RWBY and JNPR are done having a war... I want to fight them in a battle of bullets, spell card rules so we don't actually die. Can they do spell cards? Wait where did Y/n go?!
Y/n's Dorm, Y/n POV
Okay, Sakuya is scolding Irene for touching the box, but FP just took it and placed it on the desk. It... doesn't feel like it's supposed to be here...
FP POV
So, Marisa just said Y/n's gone missing after overhearing about the box, Sakuya seems to know what it is but Marisa told me that it was from something called the Lost Word Incident, and it's a "sealing cube". Regardless, Sakuya went back to the Cradle so Yukari can at least talk to us through a gap.
"The Lost Word incident, what happened is that many versions of Gensokyo had one word or name moved from memory," Yukari explains, "which caused anything associated with the missing word to disappear or lose meaning. An example being the Hakurei Barrier, which separates Gensokyo from the rest of reality, was the word in one world. Said world slowly collapsed on itself until the word was spoken."
"Then, are there versions of Gensokyo that aren't touched by... our shared curse?" I ask hesitantly.
"Universe jumping stuff is dangerous," Irene interjects, "at least where I came from. You risked bringing the Void with you."
We sit and contemplate these thoughts, and then it hits me: Y/n uses Gensokyo based abilities the most, so he may be leaking it into Remnant since the other two parts are unbalanced. Just as I was about to share this epiphany, however, Y/n's gap opened up and he grabbed the box, which proceeded to flash brightly and... my corporeal from is being sent back to the Cradle!?
"Y/N! STOP!" Marisa, who just flew through the window, yells out as she, too, starts to phase out. After a few seconds, I'm at the table with Yukari and Irene.
"We might have a serious problem."
No POV
Y/n is knocked out from magical overstimulation, and everyone he summoned, except the little Princess who was cheering for the food fight, is forcefully sent back to Y/n's spirit dimension. Standing in the middle of the room, is Marisa, but she's not wearing her normal outfit. Her hat and dress are red, her bow is black, and her broom is made of intertwined branches versus a single wooden pole. The Witch of Scarlet Dreams has arrived.
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Originally this was going to be longer, but i had to remind myself what i was doing with this story, and remember Lost Word. Next chapter before Easter 2025 I promise!
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The Fractured Cat (RWBY X Multiverse Project)
FanfictionY/n is a Meif'wa, a cat person not unlike a neko but here's the thing: he was never born. His soul is made of other broken souls who died at the end of the world. His memories before remnant are nothing but lies. He didn't exist before a light shown...
