In all honesty, they resembled bat-winged hobgoblins more closely than actual fairies. The creatures spewed out menacing dark red bolts at the duo, who darted off in opposite directions with haste, narrowly evading the attack. Both girls unleashed a hail of blue energy at the fairies; the bullets collided with the creatures, who could only shriek in shock before the bullets entered their bodies, causing them to erupt into flames from the inside out within a single second.

"It takes more than fairies to kick my ass," Reimu stated, smirking, "Assuredly even you...whoever you are...punt these guys for daily exercise."

"As puny as a single ant is," The dragon growled in a deep, beastly voice, "A whole colony is a force to be reckoned with."

More fairy vampires entered the fray, along with vampiric karakasa, who flashed their singular eyes, shining orange and gazing about madly, their bodies flapping about as if they were umbrellas held the wrong way in a storm, their razor fang-filled mouths dripping with rabid foam. The fanged umbrellas leapt high into the air, spinning furiously while the vampire fairies charged the two protagonists, barring their fangs and tusks as they charged red energy blasts in their hands. Marisa fired two bullets forward, piercing through two of the fairy vampires, while Reimu leapt over her, and aimed a precise crimson blast at the last vampire fairy, who was enveloped in flames and reduced to ashes. Sadly, this game the umbrellas enough time to use their own energy bullet attacks; they began to weep, but instead of water for tears, they cried long, thin blue laser beams. Reimu and Marisa dashed off to the sides, narrowly avoiding the rapid streams of deadly laser water, which even managed to catch Reimu's right sleeve, incinerating it in an instant. Reimu clenched her fists, scowling at the tear-spewing monster who had burned her arm, and she soared up to the entity, and grabbed it by its foot. She flailed the umbrella about, flinging the tear lasers at the other vampire parasols, lighting them on fire before their burnt shafts pattered and broke into ash chunks on the roof of the shrine.

"Rainy days ain't gonna keep me down" Reimu cooed.

"A few raindrops hurt nobody," The dragon retorted, "But a hurricane is deadly to all."

Reimu nearly jumped mid-air, as she realized the barrier was beginning to crack. I would have hoped it would take a little longer before that would happen! She thought as a cold sweat ran down her spine.

With a loud BOOM, more vampirism-infected Scarlet Clan Youkai poured in; this time, there were several tanuki girls. Reimu and Marisa nearly choked at the sight; patches of fur on their tails and once fuzzy ears were missing as if they were infected with mange, the lively caramel and brown colours of their hair and fur drained into monochrome grey. The pupils in their eyes were nonexistent, and their sickly pale flesh was kissing a few portions of skin, as if they had decayed for a while. Reimu and Marisa charged up more bright blue bullets; they weren't about to let this happen to anybody else.

The tanuki snarled, and charged Reimu and Marisa, who fired their bullets in response. However, these vampires were more dexterous; they zigged and zagged past every bullet our heroes shot at them like a leaf swaying g in the wind, only sped up, before leaping straight at them. One of them tackled Marisa to the ground, who immediately shoved them off and fired a small, golden energy beam, straight at the vampire's face. The vampire tanuki, however, dashed quickly enough to only lose her left forearm in the process, which only served to further antagonize the already boiling mad monster. Reimu didn't seem to have much luck either, as the tanuki she was fighting had fired her own angry red bullets to collide with, and counteract, Reimu's own attacks. Reimu snarled as she readied her miko stick, and flailed it at the tanuki with all of her sight. Although the contact made a very audible THUD, the tanuki vampire was almost completely unscathed. The youkai got up, barking and growling as if she were a rabid, injured wolf facing off against another pack of canines. Reimu backed up, lightly bumping into Marisa's back. The two protagonists, without looking at one another froze for an instant, but then seemed to come up with the same Idea. They both pulled out a single card each, then turned around and pointed them over each other's shoulders.

"Hakurei Amulet!" Reimu cried out as her card glowed crimson, as if radioactive.

"Master Spark!" Marisa shrieked desperately, as golden energy gathered inside her card.

A large, flaming symbol, and a massive horizontal pillar of power respectively shot out from the girls' cards, blasting away and utterly obliterating every last cell and molecule composing the vampire tanuki.

"Thanks..." Marisa whispered into Reimu's ear.

"I just wish we didn't have to use our spell cards so early." Reimu huffed in exasperation.

"You seem to be having a little trouble," The dragon pointed out, "Perhaps you should consider retreating."

"No Way!" Reimu defiantly gasped, "I've defended my family's shrine for years, and I'm not gonna let a bunch of flying leeches be the thing that finally ends the legacy!"

"I applaud your determination." The dragon stated respectfully, lowering her head and closing her eyes briefly, "But the odds still oppose you, Mistress Hakurei."

More crashing happened before several Jyorogumo descended to the roof upon dark silken threads. Their Spider-esque abdomen, with six legs, didn't change much, but the two-armed human upper-halves were turned from something once pretty and delicate, into something ghoulish. Their skin turned a sickly dark green, and seemed to almost melt right of the spider-peoples' bones. They were relatively high class before they were assimilated into the clan; evident from the once fine silken garbs, now torn nearly to ribbons, that they wore. The girls wasted no time in firing a barrage of blue and yellow at the vampiric spiders, but this proved to be a mistake, as the spiders quickly spun webs that caught all of the energy bullets, before swinging them rapidly around their heads like a caber of sorts, before releasing their grips, flinging the energy bullet-filled ball sacks directly at Reimu and Marisa. Reimu and Marisa both flew to the sides, but the blast radius was so massive that it left agitated, red burns on both of their sides, their clothing now at least half-charred, and their skin caked and peeling. While this would normally be very agonizing, the girls had a shrine, and each other to protect. Reimu, seemingly getting another Idea, extended her arms forward, and unleashed bullet, after bullet, after bullet of red energy at the spiders.