Sitting on the steps of the shrine, Reimu Hakurei stared off into the distance. Yet another lonely day, with no visitors... She was bored out of her mind. No youkai were acting up, Suika was so drunk she had passed out, again, and Marisa hadn't come around in a while to bother her. A gust of wind blew through the lazy summer afternoon, rustling all the trees in the area. Suddenly, something slammed into Reimu's face, kocking her backwards with enough force to make her hit her head on the floor of the shrine.

"ARGH! What the hell!?" Grabbing the thing on her face, Reimu jumped up and looked down at it. It was...the Bunbunmaru Newspaper. Again.

"DAMMIT AYA! STOP THROWING THESE AT ME!" Reimu yelled at the sky in no particular direction. Another gust of wind, and a girl with wings immediately descended on the Hakurei Shrine., The crow tengu took one look at the mark on Reimu's face, snapped a picture with her camera, wrote down some notes, and flew away. She yelled behind her, saying, "Check the front page! You'll be happy!"

Irritated, she glanced at the headline. "Eeeeh!?" The title read: "Youkai Tournament to be Held!" Reading on, she noted that the tournament would be held in two weeks, that it seemed like a lot of people would be at the tryouts, and that it was going to stir up a lot of trouble. She had to enter it, to keep all those youkai from causing trouble. It seemed like the tournament would have teams as well, so she'd have to find teammates. Maybe Marisa, or that one person from the shrine on Youkai Mountain.

"A fighting tournament huh!? I WANNA GO!!"

"AHHHH!" Reimu freaked out from the loud voice that came from behind her. The small oni leaning over her shoulder lost her balance, and fell on top of her.

A tremor suddenly shook the ground, and a celestial appeared in front of the two. Tenshi bent over and asked "What's with all the noise?"

"There's gonna be a tournament!" Suika announced gleefully.

Reimu pushed Suika off of her and got up, dusting her dress off. "Yes, it's going to be in two weeks, and I still need a tea-...oh." Reimu was slightly slow to these sorts of things. "If you guys are bored, we should form a team and compete." So the I can keep these youkai in line, Reimu thought to herself

"Kaaaaaay!!" Suika yelled in Reimu's ears, again. It was really starting to annoy her.

Tenshi looked haughty. "I suppose i could lower myself from the heavens to help you."

"Aww, c'mon Tenshi! You know the heavens are really boring!" Suika jumped in front of her, pointing accusingly.

Reimu, amused, said, "So, why did you come down today, O mighty Celestial?"

Flushing, Tenshi stammered, "B-because.....because I thought I should check up on how the shrine was! Y-yes, that's it."

"Right." Reimu chuckled. "Well, anyway, we should start trai-"

"Throwing Mt. Togakushi!!" Suika yelled suddenly. A giant clump of boulders flew directly at Reimu!

"Aaaagh! SUIKAAAA!" She barely dodged them as they slammed into the ground.

"Hahahaha! Sorry Reimu~"

End Shrine Prologue