(Touhou x GKE Universe) The Unsung War

Eientei and the Forest of Lost

The history of human flight is very short, with them achieving powered, controlled flight only in 1903. As far as flight was concerned in Gensokyo, they have flown and mastered that art for as long as the inhabitants could remember. So, for Reimu, flying while carrying a half-dead person was no issue. Tylo, on the other hand had to deal with the alternating wind currents at low altitude, sub-sonic flight. His jetpack was almost out of fuel and he could already hear the whining of the fusion plasma within the device getting weaker and weaker.

Tylo looked around him, below the swooping clouds was a large forest with flora that looked like Earthly bamboo, stretching out behind and ahead of them, dark and almost consistent throughout. The sun was setting and light was dimming fast. Miyu flew behind him, although she was bobbing up and down as her jetpack sputtered and flipped into fuel saving mode. Reimu on the other hand, flew on unassisted and unfazed by the wind. Tylo shouted over the roaring wind currents.

"Hey! Reimu! Are we there yet? The maid here has lost too much blood, and she can't survive for any more that ten minutes!"

"Yeah! Almost there!" She yelled back. "Just be patient!"

Suddenly, Reimu dropped her altitude sharply and plunged straight down into the bamboo forest. Tylo immediately cut his jetpack to idle and dropped himself down into a nosedive, following after Reimu. If one had the ability to fly... Tylo thought to himself, they shouldn't be wearing skirts while doing so!

The bamboo stalks rose up into Tylo's face as he, while holding onto the unconscious Sakuya, angled and adjusted the deployed ailerons on his jetpack to avoid being impaled by the stalks. Reimu effortlessly dodged the approaching dangers and did a frontflip, now falling feet first. Tylo magnified what lay before him using the RIG functions and noted a large wooden structure, more specifically an Edo Period kenchiku occupying a massive land area with an equally yard courtyard to compliment it. Reimu was heading for the former and showed no sign of slowing down.

Well fantastic. Tylo thought to himself. I've got a reckless shrine maiden to deal with now. He curled up into a ball, hugging the maid tightly. Over the sound of the wind, he clearly made out the miko's yell.

"Hyahh!" Reimu yelled as she plunged feet first into the wooden roof of the building above the genkan.

The sound of wood splintering and paper tearing could be heard as Tylo and Miyu slowed themselves down for a semi-soft landing. Aiming themselves by the entrance of the building, the turned feet first and landed in a cloud of dust at approximately ten meters a second. The instant Tylo got up from his half-crouch recovery position and the dust cleared, he already noted the 'abnormalities' of the residents here.

Rabbit people and lots of them. Each one wore a pink frilly nightgowns and were of various heights with equally varying degrees of hair color, each with floppy and fluffy rabbit ears on top of them. Each one held a large wooden mallet and were all pounding a white, dough like substance in wooden buckets. When he landed, countless pairs of eyes on him already. The sound of pounding that Tylo heard briefly after landing ceased and the only sound that was left was the crumpling of the remaining wooden debris from Reimu's crash landing and the sound of crickets buzzing in the background. Miyu looked around for a moment before gesturing to Tylo to move. There were, after all, more important things to settle.

Tylo nodded and walked towards the kenchiku. After ensuring that Sakuya did not break any bones, he knocked and entered the building.

"Excuse me."

"Pardon us." Miyu added.

The door was made of paper and slid quietly to the side, revealing a completely devastated entry way and Reimu standing on top of another rabbit person, while still carrying Meiling. This one was different as she wore a long sleeved black business looking suit with a white shirt under it and she had long rumpled rabbit ears unlike the others whom had short, fluffy lopped ears. The poor rabbit was crushed under the full weight of the shrine maiden and her ears were twitching.