Marisa Kirisame was born, like most other humans, whitout any special talent, an ordinary person, fated to live an ordinary life no matter what she did, while all manner of great individuals existed around her, possessing all kind of wondrous powers. But well, if Marisa was to be ordinary, then she would be an ordinary magician!
Stealing Collecting every magic item and scripture she could get her hands on, training hard for endless hours, performing all kind of experiments, and managing to get Mima to guide her, Marisa became able to face head on the greatest names in Gengyoko head on. Even if she had received her fair share of defeats, she could make sure each of her battles was a blazing show of magic!
Her family, and most of the other humans disaproved of Marisa's endless quest for magic mastery, but she had found her path, and would stick to it for better or worst. Taking residence in the forest of magic, Marisa spends most of her time either in solitary study and experimenting or traveling trough Gengyoko in search of a good challenge for her magic skills, be it youkai extermination, battle challenges, or the odd firework request for some special event.
For the last couple of years however things had been pretty dull. After Reimu and Marisa beated the God of Makai herself most troublesome youkai had learned to lay low and don't cause ruckus. Boring. No worthy challenges. Marisa had crafted several spellcards and was itching to use them, but she seemed unable to find anyone in the mood for a full power battle. Even trough Reimu had came up with that non-lethal system thingy.
But today when Marisa woke she felt something diferent. She was hungry, and didn't felt sleep, and the clocks and magic trinkets in her house confirmed it was suposed to be morning already, but the sky was dark. Or at least looked dark. Closer examination revealed a tick fog covering the heavens themselves. Surely this was not a natural event, not at this time of the year. It could only mean one thing. A new problem to solve!
Grinning to herself, Marisa dressed up in typical magician black clothes, grabbed her room, hakkero and spellcards, and set off for the Hakurei Shrine. She could go and investigate this by herself, but dragging Reimu Harukei, the lazy shrine maiden possessing impressive natural talent, with her would be much more fun!
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After some walking Marisa reached her destination. With her excitement she hadn't even had breakfast. Well surely Reimu would offer her guest something to bite. But she was nowhere to be seen from the shrine's entrance. Don't say she was still asleep when the skies themselves were cursed??? Or, worst, that she would've already gone to investigate it while leaving Marisa behind!
YOH REIMU GET UP ZE! IT'S ME, MARISA ZE!-screamed the magician at the top of her lungs while waving her hat in the air.
