"Uh-oh…" Yangus paled up.
"Darn it, we're severely outnumbered now…" I growled under my breath. How in the world are we both going to take down a whole mob?! And just before I and Yangus could ponder about what to do… the girls suddenly stood in front of us, much to our surprise. "Girls?" I blinked. "What are you…"
"Leave the questions for later." Reimu cut me off, as she took out what appears to be a purification rod and some needles. "Let us handle these guys."
"But…"
"Heh, now it's you guys' turn to stand back!" Marisa smirked, cutting me off again. "Let's do this!"
And just then… I watched in astonishment as the girls who didn't have wings suddenly started floating in the air (Marisa's case was different, as she was riding on a flying broom instead), surprising even the enemy mob but they shook it off and rushed towards the girls to attack them.
"Hah!" Reimu yelled while throwing the needles at the Slimes that tried to tackle her, but she had flown out of the way as the Slimes were pierced by the needles and disappeared. But then, one of the Capsichums managed to reduce Reimu's defense with a Sap spell (I knew that because of the aura surrounding her) before they all proceeded to attack her from behind, only to instead get stabbed repeatedly by spears coming from dolls being controlled by Alice via her near-invisible strings. As Alice turned to the remaining Capsichums who managed to escape the previous attack, I watched as she pulled out some sort of card.
"War Sign: Little Legion!" she said, and then her dolls lunged towards the Capsichums while spinning around, slicing and dicing them into pieces that was enough to defeat them.
"Bad kitties! Get lost!" Marisa yelled, firing a stream of colorful star-shaped bullets from her palm at the Candy Cats that attacked her by scratching her, knocking them away. "Now take this! Stardust Reverie!" she called out as she followed up with a spiraling headfirst charge using her broom reinforced with magic at them, sending them into the air where they were defeated.
Youmu clashed her katana with the Bunicorns that were leaping at her hornfirst, until her phantom half charged into the Bunicorns while releasing a blast to knock them away from her human body. "Human Sign: Slash of the Present World!" Youmu called out as she suddenly dashed incredibly fast through all the Bunicorns in the blink of an eye while doing a single slash, and the moment she stopped and sheathed her katana… all the Bunicorns were history.
Meanwhile, the Firespirits proceeded to cast Frizz to attack Aya with fireballs, but she swiftly flew away from them. "You guys can't possibly beat the fastest!" Aya teased, readying her hauchiwa fan. "Whirl Sign: Autumn Leaf Fan's Wind!" she called out, swinging her fan to launch out a tornado that caught all of the Firespirits in it and they were immediately blown out like candles in mere seconds.
"Blegh! You guys are disgusting!" Cirno cringed after she got licked by multiple Lipses. "Get a load of this!" she yelled and spread out her arms to release cold air all around her body, freezing all of the Lipses instantly that came into contact with the cold air before they all shattered into pieces. Next to Cirno, the Satyrs had Remilia surrounded and attempted to put her to sleep by blowing on their horns, but the vampire was having none of it.
"Nah, I already had my beauty sleep, fellas." she smirked. "And now… you're all fated to fall." she takes out another one of those cards (must be spell cards, I assume). "Nether Sign: Scarlet Netherworld." and with that, she fired a ridiculous number of red bullets at the Satyrs. Needless to say, none of them survived the onslaught.
Finally, the Bubble Slimes proceeded to launch poisonous slime bubbles at Reisen, but she had surrounded herself with some sort of ultrared field to block the bubbles, as well as making some of the Bubble Slimes that were inside the field very disoriented. With a smirk, Reisen took out a spell card. "Shortsight: X-Wave." then… I had no idea what was going on, but it appeared that the Bubble Slimes were not just taking hits from bullets coming out of her bunny-themed handgun only, but also from additional bullets out of nowhere on both her sides as well. Either way, they were all killed.
"And that's that!" Marisa exclaimed, she and the rest of the girls standing in front of us proudly looking at the field ahead that was completely wiped out of enemies. Meanwhile, I, Yangus, Trode and Medea all had our mouths hung open, being too shocked out of our minds.
"…'oly… Goddess…" Yangus breathed.
"B…B-But wh-… WHAT!?" Trode yelled.
"I-Incredible…" I awed. "All this flying, those bullets and spells… How did you girls do all that?!"
"It's all part of our natural abilities." Remilia casually replied.
"Basically, everyone in Gensokyo has the ability to fly, with or without wings." Reimu explained. "The bullets are called danmaku, and while those can be shiny and have pretty patterns… these can seriously hurt you, as you clearly saw with the monsters getting hit by them."
I gulped. "Noted…"
"As for our spells… well, each of us have spell cards that we can unleash based on our unique abilities. In my case, I have spell cards all related to abilities of a shrine maiden. Marisa's spell cards all correspond to magic, since her ability is using light and heat magic."
"That's right!" Marisa grinned.
"Alice's you might know, which is handling dolls. Cirno's is pretty obvious; she's an ice fairy, so she manipulates cold."
"Yep, and my ability is the strongest out of all of us!" Cirno boasted.
Reimu sweatdropped. "Right…" she muttered. "Anyways… Remilia's is manipulating fate, Youmu's is handling diverse sword techniques, Reisen's is manipulation of wavelengths and inducing insanity, and Aya's is manipulating wind."
"I see…" I mused; those were some pretty amazing abilities if I say so myself, but some of them sounded a bit scary too (especially Remilia's and Reisen's… *shudder* ).
"Dang… I never knew these girls could pack a punch…" Yangus said.
"You're telling me…" I threw in. "But on the bright side… We now have more people who can fight alongside us, so it won't be just the two of us anymore!"
"Ya said it, guv!"
"Glad we could be of help!" Reisen smiled.
"For now on, we'll assist in every battle we stumble upon." Alice said.
"We'd appreciate it!" I nodded. "All right, now let's keep moving!"
Fortunately, we didn't have to walk that much from here since after exactly 30 seconds, we finally reached our destination: the mountain that had the entrance to the Waterfall Cave. However, as we approached the wooden bridge leading to the entrance, I did catch a glimpse of a shack on top of the mountain; it was small, but I wondered who could possibly live up there and I felt inclined to investigate it. But right now, we have a crystal ball to find, so maybe after we do find it, I could convince Yangus and the girls to go up there once we leave.
"Is this the place?" Youmu asked as we stopped.
"Yes, it looks like we've found it." Trode confirmed. "Naturally I'd love to come with you all, but I couldn't possibly put Medea in danger. I'm sure you'll do a fine job of finding the crystal ball without us. We'll be waiting here. You be careful in there!"
"We will." I nodded firmly, then turned to my companions. "Let's go." They all nodded in response and we walked in.