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[CW/Feedback: Poetry] Scarlet Devil in Haiku


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Scarlet mist descends

Shrine maiden in red and white

Flies into the night


On the road she meets

A strange spirit of the dark

Posed as a wood cross


Her eyes red, hair blonde

Her dress black as the darkness

She creates herself


The spirit proved weak

The shrine maiden moved on

After a small quip


'Cross the lake she flew

She met a great fairy and

fought without speaking


After defeating

the great fairy, another

appeared in her place


The new foe loudly

proclaimed herself THE STRONGEST!

An icy chill came


The little blue one

With wings made of crystal ice

challenges the hero


After dodging ice

and an unnatural chill

The shrine maiden wins


With a taunt, the maiden

flies away from the lake and

into the distance

Toward a mansion

She flies through the scarlet mist

Until she meets the guard


After a short fight

The guard flees the shrine maiden

Who follows quickly


The hero challenges

the unusual guard at

the mansion's great gate


Her braided red hair

And dress of a subtle green

Belie her power


She showers the hero

in destructive, beautiful

rains of mighty strikes


But still, the miko*

is triumphant, defeating

the rainbow dragon


Beaten, the dragon

shows the hero the way forth

into the mansion


Inside the mansion

the miko meets a little

devil among books


Though red, this was not

the Scarlet Devil behind

this strange bloody mist


After this foe flees

she meets the librarian

of the massive place


Not ordinary

this librarian, she has

magical power


The five elements

Earth, water, fire, wood, steel

Are at her command



A fierce fight ensues

Elements combined ev'ry

method possible


A storm of many

powerful spells, the hero

narrowly avoids


Eventually,

the shrine maiden's own magic

trumps the bookkeeper


Magician's defeat

Our hero moves into the hall

To meet another


The great estate's maid

Appears with a quick flurry

Of flashing silver


Her knives fly toward

The maiden; A dozen -stop-

Hundreds of sharp blades


The miko dodges

Desperately, and then stop;

Again encircled


Time and time again

Knives appear, impossible

quantity of steel


Time is the answer

The estate maid can halt it

The world's normal flow


But still, however

The hero's power is strong

Stronger than stopped time


After her hardest

battle, the miko flies on

Leaving the maid there


Before she reaches

the mistress of the mansion

Maid appears again



However, she is

tired, and only slows the miko

for a brief moment


Finally, she finds

a balcony, and on it

a small figure stands


Black wings adorn her

and she turns with a smile

to face the miko


Her fanged smile

Turns into a frown seeing

the hero appear here


The red moon lights up

the balcony where they stand

with a lurid glow


After exchanging

some brief words, the final duel

Begins with a fury


Formidable strength

The mistress's power belies

her petite body


Storms of energy

Crimson tide assaults the hero

Curse of Vlad Tepes


The miko fights back

Shrine maiden's true power shown

Fantasy Nature


Drifting in and out

of reality, she floats

past her foe's attack


Mistress's final strike

She turns the entire sky

into deep scarlet


It is still not enough

The shrine maiden nimbly moves

Avoiding her death



Finally, the one

responsible for the red

mist is defeated


The eternal night

of scarlet mist is ended

by the shrine maiden


She returns to home

Back to her humble temple

to tend to her chores

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