[UPDATE IN PROGRESS] Onmyou-Pocketville: Fallen Dusk

Final Chapter ~First Part~: Three Stars and the Moon

Disclaimer: Contains disturbing themes, violence, blood, and characters in scenes of distress. Ye be warned.

After inhaling cool, leafy air, Ami opened her eyes. As she looked around, she noticed she was no longer in her room. She was in a starlit meadow, with grass as soft as linen, flowers and fungi with mesmerising, magical bioluminescence, and very little trees to block out the mysterious night sky. As she lifted her snout up, her eyes met the distant shadows of hills, making the meadow she stood in a great valley. Her gaze moved back, forth, and all over as she noticed several small objects of different colours just floating about over the meadow as if gravity were nonexistent. As she looked closer, their shapes gave what they were.

Origami cranes.

Ami thought about the legend of the thousand paper cranes, which meant that creating that many cranes will mean eternal happiness, luck, or even a wish granted by the Kami. She just knew that there were just as many cranes floating around.

She remembered that she and Emi used to work together making a thousand origami cranes when they found out their mother was ill, though Tomomi had died before they could reach seven hundred cranes. Perhaps it was a curse that not even little paper creations could lift.

"Ami..."

The tenneko queen's fur flared up, and her entire body froze. She wondered, who was calling her name? She couldn't tell where the voice came from, as it seemed as if it came from all directions, carried by the wind.

"Who's there?" she called.

Ami continued walking through the meadow, paws pressing through the moist green grass and pushing aside several wildflowers. Her head throbbed with the thought of something else supernatural yet unknown being at her tail. In the midst of all thoughts swarming her mind, she wondered if she could recognise that very voice that called her name.

"Ami..." said the voice again.

But this time, Ami was silent.

Then a breeze flew around, startling her and seemingly the cranes as well, as all of them began to make a jittering motion. She heard high-pitched laughter coming from the wind, but it wasn't menacing nor maniacal, rather... cheerful, jovial, and perhaps playful.

But what appeared in the sky was especially astonishing.

A large moon appeared, rapidly changing its phase from a slithering crescent to its full phase, and let off enough moonlight to highlight everything in the meadow. It was nearly blinding to Ami's eyes, even for light coming from a moon. Mushrooms and flowers all over began glowing a pale blue hue as the moonlight touched them. Ami looked behind herself to notice her own shadow getting shorter and shorter, and feeling warmth as she basked in the light. Then she looked back to see that the round face of a legendary creature appeared on the moon after the dark spots gathered together, and all of the cranes that floated in the air came together as well, swirling around in a whirlwind.

Ami gasped and sat back down, placing her head between her front paws.

"No need to be afraid..."

Once again, Ami felt her skin underneath shiver as she heard the mysterious but very soft voice. She felt a force gently pick her up and place her back down to get her to stand up again.

The paper cranes flew away as the light pushed them out, to reveal a glowing figure. Then the light ceased, revealing who it actually was.

Ami gasped once again at the sight of such a beautiful being. She appeared to be almost... human?