Magi-Borne (A Touhou Project Fanfiction)

First Encounter

I stepped out of the doors of Eientei, to find that it is already dawn, with the blood red cloud covering the skies, blocking the sun partially.

I wonder if that book I opened is the cause of this... Shrugging it off, I hopped on my broom and flew off.

As I glide through the air on my broom I see smoke coming from the distance, and just before I was about to go faster, I feel something sharp hitting my leg.

Looking down, I see my left knee with an arrow piercing through it. Blood began to seep out of the wound trailing down along the arrow.

I grunted in pain in revelation of the wound's creation, and I managed to remove it by severing it's back, and pulling it out from the other end.

I covered the wound up with my... I mean, Alice's handkerchief, which she gave to me as a birthday gift last year. Sensing the pain not fading away, I pulled out the blood vial Tewi gave me, and injected it onto my wrist refilling my body of it's lost blood.

I looked around, to find the assailant but they are nowhere to be found because down below are a cluster of bamboo trees. Landing down, I find myself surrounded by the trees, until I see smoke coming from my right. Heading over there I see a man sitting down beside a campfire.

"Excuse me, uhh sir?"

The man turned around, his red eyes glaring at my presence.

"Do you happen to see someone with a bow around? I just got shot, ze."

"Mind your business somewhere else. I've got mine to attend to." The man said coldly.

"Oh, Sorry then."

I was about to turn around to fly again on my broom, but then another arrow flew pass me, I turned around to see the man standing up with the bow in hand.

"Freeze."

He readied another arrow, as I continued, "I said, Freeze!"

But he wouldn't comply and still loaded his next shot, pulling the bowstring and once he let it go, the arrow flies through the air heading straight to my eyeball, but I managed to knock it away it using my broom.

The man then staggered forwards, his mouth opening revealing fangs which are dripping drool from them.

"So I guess that rabbit's ain't lying this time."

The man lurched at me, trying to sink his teeth in my neck, but I dodged at the last second and fired a laser at him. It pierced right through his body, and he went limp after a few shockwaves hit his body.

"What... I thought the spell card rules forbid us to kill... But my danmaku just now..."

I couldn't even comprehend what I just did... Did I just kill someone? But in self defense? Yet still, it was one life which I took.

Blood began to pour out from where I shot him. I looked at my vial, seeing that Tewi only filled two doses... Really? I thought she would give me a full one.

Having no choice, I had to do this. I enclosed the hole of the vial, and held it under the man's wound. I see as the blood fills the vial. At first the blood is dark in color, as if something dark had corrupted it... Until it's color returns into a normal red color.

It only refills to the second line, two doses from one person, huh? Does this mean that the man is depraved of blood?

Standing up, I looked around the campsite to find what's worth taking. Only personal junk.

Not hesitating, I readied my broom and flew off to the skies, heading over towards my home in the Forest of Magic.

As I flew, I see the horrors that is happening in the direction of the Human Village. A big fire is burning in the center, with a girl tied up to a wooden pole. Underneath her is where the fire is coming from. She is being burned slowly.

Shaking my head, I continue to fly over back home.

- To Be Continued