User:NekoRex/MagicForest5

<>Ambiance<>	 It seems, for now, that the distant blazes in the Youkai Forest have died down. An ashy wasteland is left in the path of the flames, leaving a stark memory of what was before the corruption incident. <>Ambiance<>	 However, a single robed figure drifts through the air near the edges of the Forest of Magic. They move elegantly in the moonlight, robes fluttering slowly as they survey the forest with keen eyes. This time, they don't have that massive cannon-like object with them.. *	Patchouli_Knowledge drops down just above the level of the tallest trees, occasionally burning away small clumps of leaves and foliage in order to get a look at the plants when she cannot otherwise. Her expression starts to turn to one of concern, and she starts writing notes down in a thin leather-bound notebook. <>Ambiance<>	Around the center of the forest of magic, quite far in the distance, another lone figure can be seen patrolling the skies, silhouetted like a floppy triangle against night sky. <>Ambiance<>	Bright beacons of light shine down onto the canopy of trees around the witch, in a manner much like searchlights of the outside world, the figure obviously searching for something - or someone. *	Marisa_Kirisame patrols the area around her home and Alice's tonight, keen on making sure no further youkai are dumb enough to attack their property again. It seemed to be quite effective, because she hadn't spotted anything new since then. *	Patchouli_Knowledge glances up at what seem to be moving, drifting beacons of bright light in the distance. She's almost curious as to what they are.. but she has a sinking feeling that it's one of the few who actually live in this forest.. <>Ambiance<>	The sight of fires once again, and now within the Forest of Magic itself, seems to have attracted the attention of whoever is aiming spotlights at the forest, as now said lights suddenly turn to beam outwards at around the fire, the intensity of the lights boosted greatly to compensate for the distance. *	Marisa_Kirisame hasn't found any youkai, but the glint of different lights in the distance catch her eye. More fires, it appears, and now having spread to HER turf. That's something she definitely can't ignore. After changing her lightbeam spells to light up up the area near the edge, she begins flying down to personally deal with whoever's apparrently taken up this new arsonist profession *	Patchouli_Knowledge hasn't started too much of a fire yet, only burning away plants so she can examine the ground from above for some time, but as of now, she's started to light up the dead, noticably corrupted trees. She continues quite merrily along for a few minutes, before.. oh, joy, the lights in the distance draw closer, and start to center around her work. *	Marisa_Kirisame starts flying quite near, her lights poised behind her, and eventually finding their target of the other person floating around above the trees, centering on her. Marisa squints to see who it is as she gets close, and makes out the oversized purple robes that only one person she knows could wear. <>Ambiance<>	The lights poised behind the figure means the figure is just as visible to the one being targeted by the lights as the target of the lights is visible to the searcher. What is now obviously Marisa the Witch can be seen rolling up her sleeves, balling a fist into a palm, and grinning with what looks like a terrible mix of annoyance and satisfaction. *	Patchouli_Knowledge merely squints, her eyes reflecting slightly, much like a youkai's or wild animal's in the direct light. Averting her gaze away from looking directly at the beams of light, she simply looks back at Marisa, quite silent and very much apathic in appearance. Holding out a hand, she still carefully directs the flames below, extinguishing most of them before letting the faint remaining crackles jump to another dead tree. 	"Turns out the big bad arsonist was grumpy old Patchouli Knowledge, eh?" Marisa calls out as she flies up within talking distance. "I'm surprised you burned all the way to my forest before you got stopped." 	Don't try to paint me as a villain, Marisa. 	It's very far from the truth. 	... But not surprising coming from your mouth. *	Marisa_Kirisame ignores the insult, continuing, "Well, you're not gonna spread it to the Magic Forest, 'cause I'm not gonna let ya." *	Patchouli_Knowledge soon has her calmness start to be tested, her brow knitting a little. 	So.. your first thought is that it's a thing of maliciousness. Think to yourself, would I be a person who would burn down forests with only the intention of burning? 	Not all of the Youkai Forest is in ashes. Only that which was dead, deserted, and offering nothing. *	Marisa_Kirisame shines a spotlight down on the gnarled, magical trees that inhabit the ground below, shining though branches and illuminating some of the colorful life of the forest floor. "This looks fine to me." she says, with a shrug. "Could be some dead stuff. I guess it'll rot. What's your point?" 	I'm sure you remember that whole incident with corruptedness spreading from underground? 	It.. takes time to go away, like radiation. The quickest and safest way is to simply burn what contains such an.. ambiance, I suppose, and that would be what's been left of the dead, twisted, purple trees and plants that remain in this forest. 	For all I know, it may resiliently cling and spread, even after suffocating the trees and plants.. 	"Hm? I guess, but I didn't do much about it until I saw some effects around here. Aside from the occasional weird mushroom, I don't see 'nothin anymore." 	"This place is already weird and kinda hard to live in. I doubt a bit more weirdness is gonna kill me." 	For someone who cares so much about what the forest offers you, you don't seem to care much of the forest itself. 	I suppose it's suiting for a walking embodiment of greed... 	I've no intention of burning much of your forest, or causing it much damage. I only seek to remove what wastes space, will fail to provide for the future, and what should best be removed. I'm tempted to include you in that listing, but... well, beggars cannot be choosers.. *	Marisa_Kirisame waves it off with a half shrug that seems to say "I'm Marisa Kirisame after all." 	"I'll bet if anything it'll only make things worse. You burnin dead stuff might harm the stuff that eats the dead trees and such." 	"Stuff grows and dies all the time. If anything that corruption stuff will give me new material to experiment with," <Patchouli_Knowledge>	... The truth of the matter, that which eats the dead trees affected by corruption will lead to accumulation of toxins. Leaving these trees behind is a hazard to the environment. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	You can have your little twigs to play with, but an upwards of ninety-five percent of such plant life in this forest is best being burnt to ash. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Mushrooms thrive on that kinda thing." Marisa retorts. "Should I come to your library and burn every book that might be dusty or a bit aged?" *	Marisa_Kirisame laughs at the statisticcal figure, discounting it completelt. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	... You don't get it, do you? It's a system of the toxins from the corrupted plants going through the ecosystem and leading to corruption occurring even more. It cannot be compared to dusty or aged books -- they have no danger to them, and do not threaten to spread. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"What if they're moldy?" <Patchouli_Knowledge>	For all you know, if you give the forest enough time, it will become completely, utterly inhospitable for you and all its inhabitants. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Then they may be replaced, rewritten, re-bound, cleaned, whatever manner of mold it is and where it is... <Marisa_Kirisame>	"You ain't gonna burn a single thing more, or we'll be havin' a more personal problem. There's no corruption that bad, and if there is I'll just gather up my buddies and beat up the guy who spread it up some more until he makes it go away." <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Not even the dead trees and plants, which surely have no meaning or value to you. Is it simply a problem because you deem them "yours"? This forest is not yours. *	Patchouli_Knowledge sighs, starting to see her attempts at diplomacy begin to fail for reasons not her own. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Like I said, mushrooms grow all over dead stuff. Hell, I know it even tends to soak up anything bad to contain it. I know a few things about radiation, and I know it doesn't multiply." <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Radiation and natural toxins are not the same. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Stupid. I don't see why you even try to speak to me when you can't even understand what I'm talking about. *	Patchouli_Knowledge glances away, closing her eyes and huffing. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Perhaps I'll simply wait for you to head home and go to sleep, then. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	After all, you're still a human. Humans die if they do not sleep. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"This place was pretty toxic to begin with, ya know. If you start burnin' stuff, it'll be bad news for what makes my forest magical." *	Patchouli_Knowledge smiles knowingly, a few faintly-pointed teeth visible behind her lips. *	Marisa_Kirisame grins menacingly. "I may need ta sleep eventually, but I'll bet I can put you in a bed before I need one." *	Patchouli_Knowledge perks an eyebrow at this threat, wrinkling her nose a bit. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	I'm not sure if that's a threat or some revolting attempt to make an advance on me. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Tell me, can you even stop fires? <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Fight fire with fire, as they say." <Marisa_Kirisame>	"And for the record, you aren't nearly as pretty as Alice." <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Yes, because fighting an element with itself won't incite it further. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	... I'll have to find some way to tell her your intentions, then, because it's honestly hilarious to see people get so bothered and flustered. *	Patchouli_Knowledge looks amused for a few seconds, but that's quickly gone. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Perhaps patience really is all I need, then, isn't it? <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Maybe you'll just kill yourself from lack of sleep, invited by paranoia of your territoriality, and it will save me a lot of trouble in the long run... <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Are you gonna leave or am I gonna have go chase you out?" Marisa asks. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	I could leave, but make no promise of not coming back, or you could try to chase me out while risking whatever sort of magic decides to hit you. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Ah, humans are so hilariously predictable.. *	Patchouli_Knowledge closes her eyes, making a low sound like a wry giggling, before shrugging. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Well, maybe I won't decide to burn 95% of your library like you want to my forest. <Patchouli_Knowledge>	I didn't come here with intention to start a fight, only to help heal Gensoukyou from festering wounds. If you want to try and start problems for yourself, then you can, but.. don't expect everyone to indulge you.  *	Patchouli_Knowledge starts steadily drifting backwards, not trusting Marisa nearly enough to turn her back on the witch.  <Patchouli_Knowledge>	My library is quite fireproof, thank you~ And I did only say "ninety-five percent of the dead plant material", not "ninety-five percent of your forest". That would be a waste of an interesting forest...  <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Hmph, the dead plant material is too valuable as fungus food. It'll be a worse waste of stuff that took its sweet time to die." <Patchouli_Knowledge>	Well.. have fun with your beloved mushrooms perhaps becoming too dangerous to play with, then. Poor, unaware Marisa, who doesn't look at the great big picture..  <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Don't think just because I don't sleep doesn't mean there aren't people livin' here who do."  <Marisa_Kirisame>	"And there are worse things to worry about then a few odd mushrooms, believe me."  *	Patchouli_Knowledge laughs again, a soft cackle, before starting off further as she seems to skate off of a sudden wind gust. She still looks rather distinct in the limited light, thin outer robes fluttering, before she starts to fade into the distance.