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Cirno: part 1/?
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Cirno laid back, barely fitting on the branch of the oak tree she rested on, with a pensive expression. She hadn’t Anon around lately, she had last seen the previous winter when she and Seija compiled a coalition to fight Reimu and snow in the Hakurei shrine. She had always been mean, but Reimu had been especially rude to them that winter, so she deserved a little payback. Especially since she was always so rude to mister anon, Cirno thought as she nodded her head.

Then, only a few months later, she’d heard Anon had left the shrine. She and the others who lived around there hadn’t even gotten the chance to say bye. How old was he anyway? She thought Humans didn’t live for too long, so she wanted to hang out sometime soon before they wouldn’t have any chances to make new memories.

Cirno let out a long sigh. She wished Aya hadn’t stopped distributing her newspaper to the fairies a little while ago. It was so hard to keep up on events now that the only decent reading material was gone, not to mention the human village, had become less fun as well. Everybody was always so tense nowadays; nobody wanted to have fun.

Idly, she launched an icicle spear at a frog as it jumped, freezing it at the height of its arc, and the momentum sent it flying into a tree, where it shattered. She had gotten better at catching and freezing the frogs of the misty lake, but now if she wasn’t careful and applied too much power they’d either end up lost in the lake's waters or smashed against the environment.

Once again, Cirno let out a long sigh, louder this time to attract attention. If only something interesting would happen today.

“Cirno-chan?” asked a quiet voice.

Springing up from the tree branch where she’d been sitting, Cirno spun on one foot to face the direction of Daiyousei. “Dai-chan!” She exclaimed, excitement racing through her body as she launched herself towards her oldest friend and closest compatriot.

Colliding in midair and spinning as she held Daiyousei, it was as if all of Cirno’s angst had vanished. Fairies really are quite tiny creatures, only big enough, in all senses of the word, to only hold about one thing at a time, and with thoughtless childlike personalities that rarely developed beyond the stage of adolescences, rarely though one would become a great fairy, and even rare still one among the juvinile nature deities might rise up to be a god in her own right.

Letting go of the big fairy, Cirno, the bigger fairy, held her friend by the shoulders and laughed before she realized that she had more important things to be doing. “Ah, Dai-chan! Have you heard anything about MisterAnon? I haven’t been able to find him.” She asked the dizzy and confused fairy.

In response, a third voice answered. “Isn’t he at that Hakurei Shrine thingy,” Rumia answered in a half-mocking tone, sitting on a tree branch half cloaked in the shadow of a large oak tree and with an apple in hand, her feet idly kicking the air.

“I already checked the shrine, stupid! He’s not there.” Cirno answered indignantly, ignoring the bemused and still spinning Daiyousei behind her and putting her hand on hips to display her indignation towards the half-hearted Youkai of darkness.

Waving her hand dismissively, the Youkai of dusk answered, “not the Shrine, the thing in the newspapers. Don’t you keep up with the news at all Cirno.” before launching one of the copies of Bunbunmaru she kept for this sort of occasion. "All the other Youkai have been talking about it, although it doesn't sound that interesting, humans are always such a pain." Rumia said, yawing and drifting down from the tree as she floated off and away from the two fairies

“Eh?” The two fairies answered. As the article Bunnunmaru Rumia threw at Daiyousei impacted her face. Their confusion only grew as they then read the article that Rumia had been referring to.

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This take place relatively shortly after the first article is published, the fairy's aren't that important, but Cirno's also going to end up working with Okina. She's not very important so she'd basically amount to a Cameo in stories set place further in the timeline.