User:NekoRex/SDM1

<>Ambiance<>	Generally unnoticed, a certain large phantom floats over the lake, towards the mansion... But phantoms are rather common in Gensoukyou, who would care about any one boring spirit? *	Remilia_Scarlet had been quite pleasantly sleeping, but when a familiar individual quite suddenly bursts in and flops over her, she stirs awake, groaning softly. 	Mmnnn, Flaaaan-- *	Sakuya_Izayoi just waits in the doorway, sighing softly as she watches this, far too late to really do much about it. 	... I am so sorry, milady. *	Flandre_Scarlet scrambles into a sitting position beside her sister, bouncing excitedly on the bed. 	C'mon, get up! I found this book, and Sakuya said that it says that it talks about scary stories and we should have a party to...uh.. *	Flandre_Scarlet gets a little distracted partway through, but catches herself, continuing 	tell stories and stuff! Oh! And there's supposed to be blue lanterns and everything will look all spooky! *	Flandre_Scarlet is...quite predictably very excited about this idea. Poor Remi. *	Sakuya_Izayoi sits down on the bedside, watching Flandre bob up and down, and half-considering just picking her up and taking her back to her living quarters at this time.. <>Ambiance<>	The spirit makes it to the wall. It doesn't seem like i'll have any trouble making it past the guards, however, being just an ordinary phantom. *	Remilia_Scarlet takes a moment to just bury her face in the pillow, grumbling softly, before huffing softly and sitting up, rubbing her eyes. After taking a moment to yawn and wake up a bit, she smiles, pressing a kiss to Flandre's temple. 	What's this about stories, mm? 	... I'd wait for you to wake up more, or just let you go back to sleep and tell you later if you wanted, but your dear little sister just ended up too overenthusiastic over the whole idea. *	Sakuya_Izayoi sighs. *	Flandre_Scarlet giggles as Remi finally wakes up, snuggling into her sister. 	Spooky stories! We're supposed to tell spooky stories and then make the lanterns go out...or something. Right, Sakuya? 	Yeah, that's .. about right, from what the book says. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom knows what its doing. It's not Marisa's first rodeo, after all, and being a ghost seems to make this even easier. The phantom goes up to the nearest window to where it plans to get in, and glowing briefly, the lock on the window also glows and undoes itself. 	Oh, that book...? Ah, yes. That did sound like a fun idea... I suppose it would be worth trying~ 	It wouldn't be too hard to arrange a party, and the weather's getting quite nice, after all.. 	Ah, yes. Isn't the first day of spring soon? It would be a lovely way to kick off the season~ <>Ambiance<>	The phantom continues to glow, and opens the window slides up a number of inches. With the curtains shut, you'd have to be outside to even notice this one. The phantom slips in, phasing right through the curtains. 	Yes, I believe it is, actually, just a few days from now.. 	.. Well, nobody ever said there was anything wrong with getting ready early. 	Of course not~! Well, if you want to make all the necessary preparations, Sakuya, then by all means. I'm sure you can get everything together in no time~! 	Ah~ Who is going to come over and play, Remi? *	Flandre_Scarlet folds her wings against her back again, now that the initial moment of excitement seems to have settled a little, but she looks at Remi expectatnly for her response. Flan does sort of wish that Marisa would be there, if only for the sake of challenging her to a rematch or something... 	Certainly, certainly. You know well that time really is no matter for me, it won't be difficult.. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom flows through the hall unimpeded. It Only takes just a minute or so to get to the door its looking for. The door to the Voile. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom slips through the door, entering The Voile. Piece of cake so far. <Remilia_Scarlet>	Hmm? Who's going to come over? I don't know, Flannie... Who would you like to come over? <Flandre_Scarlet>	Hmmm...Maybe Reimu..! I didn't get to finish my game with her last time because I got tired... <Remilia_Scarlet>	Oh, I'm sure that could be arranged! Sakuya, do you think you could invite the red-white over, perhaps~? <Sakuya_Izayoi>	I guess, I'll have to make sure she doesn't cause too much trouble with her grumpy behavior... <>Ambiance<>	The phantom wanders down the halls of the library, checking out the selection. It's looking for something in particular as it roams the library, occasionally passing through the shelves and looking at certain open books scattered about, but not making much noise. <Remilia_Scarlet>	Well, yes. If she does cause trouble, you can just tell her to leave. I'm sure she wouldn't have any complaints. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	I figured as much. I'm sure it won't be too much problem.. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom eventually stumbles upon one of the books it's looking for. It seems Patchouli Knowledge wasn't around, making this even easier. The phantom glows blue once more, as the book titled "Stellar Nucleosynthesis" begins to float into the air on its own, covered in the same blue aura. The phantom begins moving the book towards a more secluded place in the library. <>Ambiance<>	The book is dragged to somewhere safer, and the phantom goes off to find another book or two on the subject. <>Ambiance<>	After another while, the spirit finds another book related to the sun, and high level heat and light magic themed around it, and floats that book off too. <>Ambiance<>	Finally, it goes to search for one last book, scouring the shelves upon shelves of the library for another book with a related theme. <>Ambiance<>	Finally, it comes upon the book it wants, "Grimoire on Nuclear Fusion". But the book is in the middle of a rather large stack of books. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	I was going to go clean the library, if you two didn't mind. Flandre, did you want to go back to sleep? <>Ambiance<>	Glowing brightly blue, the spirit tries to wrench the book out using its levatation power. <Remilia_Scarlet>	Mm? Oh, go right ahead, Sakuya. Flan can stay up here if she'd like, or she can go back with you. Whatever you'd like, Flannie~ <>Ambiance<>	The book glows, trying to rattle its way out of the pile. <>Ambiance<>	The book inches its way out... almost there... *	Sakuya_Izayoi smiles and gives Remilia a bow, before starting off downstairs. <>Ambiance<>	The book comes free! But unfortunately, gravity happens, and the rest of the books come toppling down upon the phantom with a clatter. Thankfully, the book it wanted floats to the top of the pile in time. *	Sakuya_Izayoi wanders out into the Voile, time stopping here and there as she goes.. it looks pretty normal for awhile as she starts cleaning, time starting and stopping again all nicely, but when she gets to one particular place, it appears that it's terribly messy. Where did all these books come from? They've all been disturbed somewhat.. *	Sakuya_Izayoi starts out a little further, and it doesn't take her long to note the sight of floating books. But Patchouli's not here? <>Ambiance<>	The phantom pops out of the top of the pile, the books having gone right through it and it finds the book it wants to levitate off back to its corner. It hasn't noticed the maid. *	Flandre_Scarlet giggles softly as it seems that Reimu is going to be invited, how fun it will be to finally have tht rematch. Of course, after that, she'll need to get a hold of Marisa, too... Sakuya's voice drags her out of her little reverie, causing her to blink a few times before gazing over at the maid, suddenly remembering that she is indeed tired. <Flandre_Scarlet>	Mmmh... Maybe I'll just sleep in here, I'm too tired to go back downstairs.. <Remilia_Scarlet>	Of course! Would you like to nap with me, then? Maybe when Sakuya's finished, she can make us something yummy to snack on! <Sakuya_Izayoi>	Wh.. *	Sakuya_Izayoi follows the levitating book, honestly quite confused now. What's going on? <>Ambiance<>	As soon as Sakuya gets too close, the book drops from the air, as the phantom notices her fairly quickly. it phases into the nearest bookshelf in a flash.flash. *	Sakuya_Izayoi jumps back somewhat when the book drops, and she definitely saw something faintly twitching and starting into a bookshelf. She takes out a knife, watching for it to return as she takes up the book under an arm. <Phantom_Marisa>	the phantom peeks through a hole in the rows of books, watching Sakuya back and wondering what she'll do with that book it wants *	Sakuya_Izayoi just goes to wander out towards where the books were piled up by the phantom, and it's all terribly confusing. Why are there all of these books on nuclear fusion out here? <>Ambiance<>	Damn. So much for cutting its losses. It continues to observe the maid from behind rows of books. *	Sakuya_Izayoi sighs, returning these books to sit on Patchouli's desk so the magician can sort them out when she gets back. With that done, and having the suspicion that there's some ghost or something lingering here, she returns to cleaning the library's floors. <>Ambiance<>	As soon as the maid is gone, the phantom quickly phases over to the desk, looking it over quickly. Now is the chance to make out with the loot! The phantom glows a bright blue as all three books now begin to glow along with it, each one slowly coming into orbit aroundthe phantom. *	Sakuya_Izayoi doesn't notice the blue light just yet, but she's still terribly suspicious of what's going on. She looks up every now and then, freezing time as she goes, before finally leaving the Voile. <Flandre_Scarlet>	Okay! *	Flandre_Scarlet blinks sleepily, sort of flopping over on her side beside Remi with a little huff. <Flandre_Scarlet>	Have a nice sleep, Remi...! <>Ambiance<>	The phantom slowly makes its way towards the exit of the voile with the three books in orbit, only having to leave the library now then get out the window. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	... Hm. Is that a draft? *	Sakuya_Izayoi turns back and notices a window that's.. wide open? Why on earth is that open? She goes over and immediately shuts, locks, and obscures it with the curtains. <>Ambiance<>	It's a bit before the phantom makes the long, long trek through the library with the books, but it finally makes it to the door. *	Sakuya_Izayoi goes off on her own to wander about and continue sweeping the floors, looking back at the window once to make sure it hasn't mysteriously popped open without her knowing. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom briefly pauses as it reaches the door, dropping the books and phasing through. When it sees the coast is clear, it jimmies open the handle using its levitation power, and opens the door, levitating up the books again and passes through, now in the halls of the real world mansion again. *	Sakuya_Izayoi has since moved on to checking on dinner as of right now-- she's not in the main hall anymore. Lucky phantom. <>Ambiance<>	It takes a bit longer to reach the window with the books in tow, but it only takes a couple minutes to make it down the hall again. Much to its frustration, though, the window is relocked. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom drops the books as it once again goes through the curtains to unlock the window. <>Ambiance<>	Levitating is a bit like possessing objects to move them, really. The window lock unhinges again with a bit of effort. <>Ambiance<>	With another bit of levitation effort, the window is open. Freedom is just a few seconds away! <>Ambiance<>	The phantom puts the books back to orbit, and slides out the window, moving the books out one by one. <>Ambiance<>	One, two, three, and the phantom is outside, with the books back in orbit. *	Sakuya_Izayoi does pass back through the main hall on her way back upstairs, however-- and the window's open again! Cursing under her breath, she goes to firmly close the window up once again. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom begins to float off, gaining height as it floats towards the walls of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. <>Ambiance<>	High into the air, nearly over the wall now. Not long now before it's freedom for phantom-chan. *	Flandre_Scarlet is now known as Yumeko <>Ambiance<>	Way higher then it needs to be to get over the wall, but Marisa was always better safe then sorry when making her approaches and exits. *	Yumeko stands at the gate, as per usual. Although, she did switch shifts with Shidou today. The feeling of the phantom that had come by before exercising power catches her attention, and she glances up at the rogue spirit who now seems to be carrying around some books...coming from the direction of the mansion.... With a sigh, she vanishes, re-appearing in front of the phantom with a widening smile. <Yumeko>	My, my...where do you think you're going with those, hm?~ <>Ambiance<>	Phantoms can't talk, blockhead. It does look rather startled, though. You aren't Meiling! <Yumeko>	((It was more or less a rhetorical question, but..eh.)) <Yoshika_Miyako>	((ambiance is snarky.)) <Remilia_Scarlet>	((Ooh, ambiance is getting sassy.)) <>Ambiance<>	There's nothing for the phantom to do besides, just try to... go around her. <Yumeko>	Goodness me, I couldn't possibly let you by with those books-- *	Yumeko breaks off her sentence abruptly, raising her hand and firing off a myriad of thin, blue lasers, chuckling softly. <Yumeko>	I wouldn't be doing my job very well, you know?~ <>Ambiance<>	The phantom glows a lot more blue, expending a lot of energy to really push those books faster as it wiggles towards the water. Blue lasers splash off the books and the large phantom makes some quick manuvers to bend around the lasers that pass by. It'd be bad news for the guard if the books fell in the big pond. *	Amenominakanushi is now known as Kami_of_Awayness *	Yumeko frowns, moving once more to put herself between the phantom and wherever it is going. She reaches into a dark void, withdrawing a particularly wicked looking sword from it, which immediately begins to glow with a dark aura. <Yumeko>	Well now, you seem to be pretty good at dodging...but I wonder what might happen if any spiritual weapons were to strike you...~ *	Yumeko isn't even sure if the phantom can understand her, but she begins to fire off some pulses of danmaku in the direction of the phantom, waiting to see what it does while readying the demonic weapon. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom seems to be very good at dodging, although the books seem to move at the same rate as it zips and bends around danmaku. <>Ambiance<>	However, the phantom now gets an idea, and suddenly the books floating around the phantom stop their orbit and instead begin spinning, before coming parallel into eachother and snapping together. <>Ambiance<>	The phantom jumps into the center of the three-book pile, the books continuing to try and go around Yumeko. <>Ambiance<>	Phased inside the books, you'd have to practically destroy them if you wanted to hurt the phantom. *	Yumeko frowns for just a brief moment before smiling again. If one wished to catch phantoms, just like any soul, a spell could be cast to restrain them; quite a popular concept with necromancers and the like, probably. Quite simply, Yumeko flies over to the phantom and manifests power around both the books and the phantom, a spell circle draws itself underneath the zone as Makaian symbols begin filling the unused slots in the miniature c *	Yumeko ircles within. <Yumeko>	Come now, don't be a pest... <>Ambiance<>	The spirit seems to be heavily resisting the attempt to trap it with magic, being quite a bit more powerful then the average phantom. *	null|gaems is now known as null <>Ambiance<>	The phantom and the books slowly move towards the edge of the circle, making great efforts to resist. *	Yumeko reacts quite simply to this, placing the tip of the sword she is carrying against the cover of the books and using it to attempt to push the phantom back into the circle. If the books move and the phantom does not, well, the sword is very damaging to spiritual beings. <>Ambiance<>	Well, now the books just glow red the bunch is forced back into the circle, the books rattling and filling with negative energy. It seems that if it can't get away with the books, it'll destroy them. *	Yumeko 's grin turns into a smirk as she realizes what the phantom is going to do, and thus she realizes that she can't play around with it too much more. Flipping the blade so that it can be oriented downwards, Yumeko thrusts down, the spit of the sword disappearing into another, different spellcircle that opens up beneath it. Where does the sword go off to? Well, simply, it comes out of a rift inside of both the books and the phantom, *	Yumeko heedless of cutting the pages within the tomes. To a spiritual being, getting stabbed with this sword is pretty similar to getting stabbed as a normal person, so it's by no means pleasant. <Yumeko>	Ha! Doing something you shouldn't be, are you? <>Ambiance<>	The books stop glowing altogether, as the spirit wriggles out off the circle just in time to fade away completely. Two of the books not sufficiently impaled start falling towards the lake, as gravity intends them. <Yumeko>	Whoops~ *	Yumeko says, glancing down with a slight sigh as she realizes that she should properly retieve those. Retracting the sword and impaled books from the void, she simply warps down to catch the falling books before they hit the ground, though she nearly loses one of the books that was impaled on her sword in the process. She does feel that these big holes will be troublesome, but better than the books being plain gone. With that, she despos *	Yumeko es of the sword back into the dream realm before grathering up all the books in one hand and taking them inside of the SDM. *	Yumeko then goes about looking for Sakuya, not quite feeling that she had permission to go snooping about in the library anyway. <Yumeko>	Oh Miss Izayoi~ Come out, come out~ *	Sakuya_Izayoi is in the kitchen! But she steps out upon being called, sighing softly and wondering what on earth is the matter. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	Yes, what is it? *	Yumeko chuckles and presents the stack of books, each one possessing a hole in them that seems to go all the way through. <Yumeko>	I believe these are the property of the mansion, yes? You should take care not to let people run off with things like this... I say people, but it was a spirit; and unfortunately, they got a little...scuffed. Better than being disintegrated, I think~ <Sakuya_Izayoi>	... What? A spirit-- <Sakuya_Izayoi>	... *	Sakuya_Izayoi glares at Yumeko upon realizing that they've got holes in them. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	Patchouli's not going to be very pleased with you, I hope you know. *	Sakuya_Izayoi sighs, taking the books back and examining them. Well, they don't look like gigantic holes.. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	A spirit, huh. There was some.. strange activity in the Voile, and out in here, as well-- <Yumeko>	It certainly isn't my fault. In fact, I saved them form being completely destroyed by the spirit in question. She should be grateful, rather. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	I've no idea what kind of spirit would want with books, really. <Yumeko>	Nor I. But, whatever it wanted, I am certain it will be gone for at least a little while. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	"Nuclear Fusion". What would they want with books about nuclear power, even? That seems like a very strange topic for a spirit to be interested in whatsoever.. <Sakuya_Izayoi>	Oh? I hope so, it was opening windows earlier. <Yumeko>	Mmm...Well, now that you know what to look for, it shouldn't be a problem~ I'd best return to my post for now, we can talk later, if you'd like. Ta ta. *	Yumeko is gone with small wave, no doubt having teleported to the gates once more to resume her watch until nightfall.