Harmony in Gensokyo

"Man I'm really startin' to get fast at this!" Says a rather excited creature on a broom. She's wearing a black dress with a white apron, and is wearing a black witch's hat with a purple ribbon tied around it. She has long blond hair and golden yellow eyes. She is currently flying laps above the forest below her. "I wonder if I could use the Master Spark to propel me forward even faster....Eh?" She looks up toward a bright flash of light and spots something falling straight down toward the forest, just a bit away from her and from up high in the clouds. Whatever it is, it seems to be unconscious. "Tch. That ain't how ya fly! ...I guess I should help 'em." She grips her broom tight, aims herself just below the falling creature, then takes off flying like a rocket. "WOOHOOOO!!!" She quickly starts closing in, but realizes that the creature is falling too fast. "Damn, this won't work..." She attempts to speed up a little, but still she can't get there fast enough. "...Well, guess I might as well put my idea to the test!" She pulls a small, wooden, octagonal...thing from her hat and aims it behind her with one hand. "Here we go..."

"Love Sign: Master Spark!!!" On cue, the wooden thing conjures up a huge magic circle, which in turn fires an equally huge multicolored laser beam behind her. The force from the powerful spell launches her forward faster than she has ever gone before. "Faster...Faster! FASTER!!!" She puts a bit more magic into the beam to make it stronger and she again feels a burst of speed as she zooms toward the falling creature. As she reaches the creature, she manages to snag it by its rainbow colored tail. "The heck is this..? A rainbow horse? ....OH SHI-" She cuts herself off as she nearly hits the mountain and swerves upwards, then back around. She cuts off the beam and stores the wood block thing in her hat, then makes her way back toward the forest. "It worked! Freakin' awesome!" She slows down to pull the pony onto her broom, then flies down into the forest and lands near her own little house. She lays the pony on the ground...then procedes to poke her. "...Oi. Are ya dead?" The pony,AKA Rainbow Dash, groans and opens her eyes. "What hit me...?!" Upon seeing the witch, she jumps to her feet and gets in a defensive pose. "Who are you?! What did you do to me?!" She yells at the witch, obviously not trusting her, as expected. The witch blinks and scratches her head. "In order? Marisa Kirisame, and I didn't do a damn thing to ya."

Rainbow flies in so she's nose to nose with Marisa and glares daggars at her. "Likely story! I bet you're the one who knocked me out! Trying to kidnap me huh?!" She raises of hoof to punch at the witch, but she jumps away first. "Geez. You're already fitting in. Beating now, asking questions later...my kinda gal!" Rainbow growls in annoyance and tries to rush her head on. Marisa grabs her broom and side-steps Rainbow, then wacks her with the broom handle. "That all ya got? Hehehe..guess I can't expect much else from a cute little po-WHOA!" She quickly ducks and narrowly avoides getting bucked in the face. "Hey! Hold still!" Marisa just laughs at that and hops on her broom. "That'd make it too easy for ya! Magic Sign: Stardust Reverie!" Suddenly, loads of colorful stars made of magic being swirling around Marisa and attack Rainbow. Not expecting this, the non-lethal attack manages to hit her multiple times and knock her down. "...You're supposed to dodge that."

After a few moments, Rainbow gets back up on her feet and rubs her head. "That was...really..AWESOME!! ..I-I mean, not as awesome as me, but still pretty awesome.." Marisa laughs and flies around her on her broom, checking her out. "Oh, really? You think you're more awesome? Says the talking rainbow that got beaten up just a minute ago." Rainbow gives her a scowl and turns away. "Well how was I supposed to know you could use...whatever that was??" Marisa jumps off her broom and sends it inside. "Magic. Its called magic." Rainbow's eyes widen and she looks at her again. "How?! You don't even have a horn! ...You're not even a pony! What are you?!" Marisa stares at her for a moment. "...Uh...I'm a human. What, never seen one before?" RD shakes her head. "Never heard of a human before." Marisa thinks for a moment after taking a closer look at RD's mane. "...I take it you're not from this world. Well, this is Gensokyo! Home of youkai and humans alike, plus one vicious shrine maiden! Me? I'm just an ordinary witch, with plenty of magic to go around! If it ain't flashy, it ain't magic!" Dash smirks at this. "A show off huh? Kinda like me. Nice to meet you Marisa. I'm Rainbow Dash, best flier in all of Equestria!" She strikes a tough pose, but her eye twitches when Marisa snorts from holding in a laugh. "More like best faller. You think you're fast huh?" She calls back her broom. "How about a race then? Up to the clouds and back!"

Rainbow looks up to see the clouds very high up in the air. Piece of cake. There's no way she can't win, with her talents. "You are so on!" She puffs out her wings to get ready. "Alright! If you beat me, I'll let ya stay with me until you can get a ride home! You lose and...and you'll have to...be my slave for the day!" Marisa says as she calls back her broom and gets on it, then aims herself upwards and her wooden thing, called a Hakkero, downwards. "Ya better be ready...get set...FLY!!!" Both of them take off as fast as they can straight up into the sky. Rainbow, determined to not become a slave, flaps her wings as fast as she can to pull ahead, but only by a few inches. Soon they both reach the clouds and fly straight up into them. Right away, Marisa turns back and starts flying straight down. When she exits the cloud layer, she sees no sign of Dash. "Huh..guess she got stuck and what the hell is that?" She looks up as she sees Dash flying extremely fast, just a bit behind her. "Yikes! Better speed up. Love Sign: Master Spark!" She fires her Master Spark behind her and jets off toward the ground. She looks back to see Rainbow already gaining on her. "Whoa..." A mach cone starts forming around Rainbow as she flies. The cone around her thins out more and more until finally...BOOM!!! Rainbow zooms past Marisa, leaving behind a rainbow trail and her famous Sonic Rainboom high in the sky. Needless to say, she won. Marisa slows herself down, knowing she has been defeated, and watches Dash in awe. "...Wow..."