The Lost Witch

Part Five

Almost a half-an-hour passed before everybody finally came. Arthur poked Marisa's arm, and she woke up before looking around and groaning.

"Alright. Wanna know the lowdown on Youkai and others that are here?" Marisa asked, and Arthur sighed.

"I guess...or would it be better if I didn't know?" he asked, and Marisa shrugged. "Alright. Well, I guess you should know my friends name first. The people here are known as the G-8. That's Italy, Germany, Japan, France, America, Canada, and Russia. There's quite a few other countries that aren't a part of the G-8, such as the Baltics, Poland, the Nordic 5, Taiwan, Seychelles, Australia,Wy, Seaborga, and quite a few others." Arthur said, and Marisa groaned, banging her head on the table.

"Well, that's a hell of a lot of people that I really DON'T care about." Marisa said, and then looked around. "The one next to Italy is Remilia with the ENTIRE Scarlet Devil Mansion gang, Germany is next to Mokou, Japan is in front of Reimu, France is by Rumia,America is with Satori and apparently Koishi, Canada is with Kaguya,and Russia is with Okuu and Orin. I feel like there are other people here as well, but just not at this meeting." Marisa said, sighing.

"That's a lot of people, Marisa." Arthur said, and she nodded.

"Yeah, and that's not even half the population of Gensokyo. There's also Yuuka, Eiki, Komachi, Cirno, Yameme, Parsee, Miko,Seiga, and many others." Marisa said, causing Arthur to groan.

"Never mind. THAT'S a lot of people." Arthur groaned again, and she giggled slightly.

"Yep!" she simply chirped, and Arthur sighed angrily.

"I really don't care anymore, Marisa." he said, half-joking, half-not.

"I really do not care that you really do not care, stupid."Marisa immediatly shot back, and he cast a glance at America, who was chatting animatedly with Koishi while Satori just sat next to him, her expression dull like always.

"Marisa? Do you hear something funny?" England asked her about halfway through the meeting, and she glanced up, her eyes half-closed.

"Nothing at all, stupid." she just spat out angrily, then laid her head back down. "My head won't shut up..."

"Marisa. I really think I'm hearing something strange." Arthur said again, and she growled under her breath, then sat up and turned to Reimu, who was sitting next to her.

"Do you hear anything? Like, with your weird shrine-maiden powers?" Marisa asked, and Reimu shrugged.

"I sense something a little odd, but that's about it." Reimu said, turning to Marisa. "Something very strange indeed."

"Let's go look at it." Marisa said, getting up and pulling the red-clothed shrine maiden outside of the room. "Ok, so here's theplan. We're both gonna climb up to the top of the building, then drop in through an airduct. Hopefully we'll find that weird noise that Iggy keeps hearing, then be able to relax."

"Sounds good." Reimu said as the two ran outside and looked around, trying to locate an airduct.

"There's one!" Marisa said, jumping on her broomstick and flying up to the duct, jumping inside with her Mini-Hakkero out and in front of her.

"Wait up!" Reimu called out after her, flying up into the airduct, and landing directly into Marisa's back. "Hey! Move farther inside!" she said, and Marisa turned to look at her, hereyes wide.

"Move back. Slowly but quickly." Marisa said, her complexion almost ghost-white. "Hurry!"

"W-Why?!" Reimu asked, but did as Marisa asked, and the two ended up outside, and Marisa was on her hands and knees, breathing heavily as she coughed.