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Prologue(Pre revival)
You know, have you ever wondered why your here?
No seriously, have you ever asked yourself that question? Just why the hell you're here?
Me? I'm here because of a bored youkai. I won't bore you with the details, but long story short-I died, got grabbed by the gap bitch and was given a choice-she either sends me to whatever afterlife she felt like sending me to, or I participate in a little game she had in mind. Looking back now, given all the trouble that I've been put through because of her...I'm not sure I made the right choice.
So, after a bit of tense negotiation, let's just say I got a bit of a leg up compared to some. But it does come with a price, mainly in the form of occasionally picking up the stray outsider she brought in and making sure they got safely through whatever game she played. But at the same time, I occasionally have to do some of her dirty work. That's always fun. And no, I'm not her Shikigami, so don't ask.
So, I suppose I oughta start from the beginning. Well, as close as I can remember anyways-human or youkai, still have trouble remembering things from time to time.
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"Come on guys!" I gritted my teeth at the high-pitched voice as I rolled over in my bed. The door to my igloo banged open. "FARZI! ARE YOU AWAKE!?" A blue-haired girl, dressed in a white blouse and blue and white jumper dress came barging in and damn near gave me a heart attack-or would have if I wasn't made up of ice and magic. The light nearly blinded me, and the fact it was reflecting off the crystals that floated just behind her didn't help the matter any. I sat up, glaring at her. "Yeah," I drawled, doing my best to stay calm, "I am now." Do not shoot her-Cirno doesn't know any better. This was the mantra I had to keep repeating to myself. When I'd first arrived here two, maybe three years ago after being punted out of one of the Hag's gaps I'd found myself on the shore of what I later learned to be the Misty Lake.
She had apparently decided that the lake needed another Ice Fae-or she thought it was funny. Either way, I found myself in the company of the 'illustrious' Team Nine. And by illustrious, I mean an absolute pain in everyone's ass. Including mine, but the Ice Fae was happy to have a 'Sibling' and more often or not I got dragged off on whatever schemes she had in the works. Which was likely the reason she was here now. "So, mind telling me why you came barging into my house?" I replied as I pulled the thin sheet I used as a blanket off got to my feet. I reached for the old cotton jacket I always wore-one of a few sentimental items I still had leftover from my old life.
"No time, the others are waiting!" She grabbed me before I could finish put it on, and suddenly I found myself flying through the air. Cirno's got one hell of a grip when she needs it. I struggled to stabilize myself. "Damnit Cirno, let go!" I snarled, attempting to wrench my arm free-this attempt was less than successful as I couldn't get the proper leverage. "Stop whining-we're almost there." The rest of Team Nine were assembled in small clearing, Mystia, Rumia, Wriggle, and Dai. "Alright, now that we have our sixth member!" I rolled my eyes at that as she puffed out her chest and placed her hands of her hips with her proclamation. "We can finally commence with the plan!" Donning my jacket-I noticed it was a little warm. Huh, enchantment musta been wearing off....
"Alright oh Glorious Leader." I said, my voice thick with sarcasm, "What's this master plan of yers?" She gave me one of those cocky grins of hers. "Well, I figured we'd play a prank today on that maid lady." Maid lady-what? I furrowed my brows at this. Who around here was some kind of maid-I knew of a couple individuals, but they weren't anywhere near here. "So here's what we're gonna do-we're gonna break in and dump a big bucket of ice water on her when she's not looking-we just need to get past China first and we're home free!" Wait a minute..."But didn't we get into to trouble the last time we went into the manor?" Dai asked, twisting a lock of her green hair in contemplation.
"Aw hell. We honestly aren't-?" I was interrupted by an outburst from Mystia. "Yeah!" She replied, "That's why me and Rumia are here-I'll blind her, and when we splash her Rumia will cover us." The blonde youkai nodded sagely. "Now hold up a moment." I said, everyone turned and looked at me. Well, at least I had their attention, leastwise for all of five seconds. "Last time you all broke into that place, you ended up-" The moment I ended trying to dissuade them from I was suddenly shushed by Cirno. "Don't worry little bro, big sis will protect you." She declared, before nodding to the others and grabbing me by the arm. I was getting dragged into this one way or another. "Alright Team Nine, Let's go prank a maid." The shouted reply's of "Yeah!" Mixed in with a barely heard, nervous "Okay." from Daiyousei. And everyone took off, Cirno and I taking up the lead (Read-me being dragged along).
Resigned to my fate, there was at least one upside: I could get Patchy to check the magic on my jacket.