It was a wonderful day in Gensokyo, birds singing, fairies playing, humans working.

Reimu Hakurei was sweeping the shrine compound. More people had been coming to her shrine ever since Thomas, Percy, and Toby, had started a bus company. Today was Sunday and the buses weren't running, giving Reimu a day off. It had been a long while since she and some of Gensokyo's other residents had been imprisoned on the Island of Sodor, forced to work under Sir Topham Hatt as steam locomotives, as playthings for Reverend Wilbert Awdry to create new stories. But ever since Sakuya finally killed him by having a long line of troublesome trucks push her down Gordon's Hill, all filled with explosive mining equipment. Reimu often tried not to think of her time on Sodor, but then she thought of her new friends.

Marisa arrived often to see Reimu, "Hello!" she said.

"Oh, Hi Marisa." replied Reimu.

"Say? Didn't this same thing happened before? Us talking about how uneventful everything is, then that fat bastard Sir Topham Hatt showed up?"

"Marisa. Please don't talk about it."

"But Reimu!" said Marisa, "We freed the souls from Sodor!"

"Yes. But I thought they were owned by HiT?"

"Reimu." came a voice.

"Yukari?" said Reimu.

Yukari appeared out of a gap and walked towards the miko and the magician, "When you killed Awdry and Sir Topham Hatt, Sodor's integrity fell apart. Everything related to it, was freed. HiT Entertainment had ceased to exist because of its relation to Sodor and Awdry."

Reimu was most surprised, "Yukari! I didn't know you liked telling exposition!"

Yukari turned to the reader's direction (You!), "Well, I had to tell. Otherwise our audience would still think that we had plotholes."

"Yukari?" asked Reimu, "Who are you talking to?"

Marisa laughed, "I do the same thing."

"What do you two call this sort of behavior?"

"Breaking the fourth wall!" Marisa and Yukari said in unison.

Reimu groaned and resumed cleaning to get her mind off of Marisa and Yukari's goofing. Then suddenly! An exasperated Duck rushed into the shrine grounds. He was gasping for air, "How the bloody hell do you get up those stairs?!" he said.

"Monatague?" said Reimu, "What are you doing here?"

"Its Donald! I overheard him say something about Rinnosuke and about going to Kourindou to settle something." said Duck.

"Looks like another incident, da ze." said Marisa.

"I guess I'll have to see the matter. Yukari? Do you want to come?"

"No, Reimu. I have to get ready for a date with Duke." said Yukari.

Yukari and Duke had been dating, Yukari loved him as he was such an experienced gentleman, also his power of being a duke. Duke loved her because they helped each other back on Sodor, and that he found Yukari to be a pleasant woman to be with. This often disgusted those they lived with, that being Sir Handel, Peter Sam, and Ran Yakumo. Duke had asserted himself as having the title of Duke of Gensokyo. You could say that Duke wanted Yukari to be his duchess.

"Marisa?" asked Reimu.

"No, I'm going to see Alice." replied Marisa.

"Of course." said Reimu, "I'll have to go alone."


Rinnosuke ran a shop in the Forest of Magic. He had taken a dislike to Douglas, this was because one day Douglas entered in his shop drunk on something much more stronger than sake. He had a lengthy argument with Rinnosuke that involved a lot of multi-lingual cursing and threats. This ended with Douglas nearly beating us Rinnosuke and puking on his feet. He banned Douglas and now Donald wanted to show Rinnosuke a piece of his mind.

"Ye're a muckle nuisance!" said Donald, "It's tae hurt ye I'd be wantin'!"

"You can't! Years of dealing with spell cards have improved my dexterity, I can dodge whatever you throw at me." replied Rinnosuke.

"Och are ye?" Donald burst out. "Ye're naethin' but a screechin' an' a noise when a's said an' done. Spite Douggie wad ye? Tak that!"

What happened next there was two accounts (Donald said he was too drunk to be accurate, but Rinnosuke said he dodged it), Donald sucker punched Rinnosuke and he moved to the side. Rinnosuke laughed and was about to kick Donald out, when Donald jumped off the ground and tackled him. The two exchanged blows, rolling on the floor. Rinnosuke quickly got up and used a spell card. Donald was too inexperienced with such an attack he was sent flying and bumped against a wall.

"I wadnae be beaten by yon tricksy fud!" and Donald ran and kicked Rinnosuke, making him fall over a counter and rolled onto the ground.

"There's mair comin' should ye misbehave!"

Reimu walked into the shop. She walked over to where Donald and Rinnosuke were violently wrestling. She cleared her throat, "Ahem!"

The two stopped fighting and they both stood up.

"Ms. Hakurei!" said Rinnosuke

"Raemu!" said Donald.

"I heard you two where fighting. Stop it!"

"But this man!" protested Donald, "I wadnae have him talk shit 'bout me brother!"

"He caused trouble! And so did you!" said Rinnosuke, "Reimu! I want him out!"

"Come on Donald, let's bring you home."

"Don' be such ae bitchie lass, Raemu!"

Reimu had enough and slammed her gohei right on top of Donald's head. The loud thunk noise was heard and Donald stumbled before falling onto the floor. Within seconds, he was asleep.

"Thank you Reimu." said Rinnosuke.

"No problem. Just help me get this ass out of your shop."

"Could I help?" said a voice, it was James, who was browsing the Kourindou merchandise.

"Sure." said Reimu, unsure.

"Are you here looking for that purple kimono again?" said Rinnosuke.

"I was not!" said James, embarassed, but secretly, he was looking for just the sort of thing.

The three dumped the sleeping scotsman outside and leaned him against the wall.

"I'll have to call Thomas if he can pick him up." said Rinnosuke.

"It won't be the first time." replied Reimu.

"I'd bet!" chuckled Rinnosuke.

Reimu went back home to her shrine, to continue doing what she was doing before she was summoned to deal with Donald.


Three 20 centimeter conductors watched Reimu work.

"Should we tell her." said the one with the ponytail.

"We should wait, we don't want to alarm her." said the one with the beard.

"I think we should tell her soon. Heaven knows when Christopher will strike." said the clean shaven one.

"We shall tell her tomorrow." said the one with the beard.

The three small conductors blew their whistles and disappeared. They knew, Christopher Awdry is coming, and he is coming for Reimu and her friends...