"What are you doing?!" Marisa asked, not quite sure why Reimu would retry a failed strategy. It became evident, however, once the spiders launched another sack; Reimu lashed out her miko stick, sidestepped the projectile, snatched it by its non-explosive end with the miko stick, all before spinning about, flinging the bag of pain right back at the vampire spider youkai. One of the spider-vampires was incinerated to dust immediately, while a second lost half of their legs, and the third received angry red burns the way Reimu and Marisa did. A faint smile crossed Marisa's lips as she pointed her thumb up at Reimu, who winked in response. The remaining spiders dashed angrily for Marisa and Reimu, who ducked down and darted directly at the spiders in some sort of "chicken" competition. At the last second, Reimu swung up, while Marisa skidded into a slide as they both went past the confused spiders. Before the vampire spider youkai got the opportunity to react, Reimu and Marisa clasped their hands together, firing a single swirling beam of energy that penetrated both spiders, causing them both to burst spectacularly into exoskeleton shrapnel and bug ooze.

There was no time to celebrate, however, as Reimu noticed the barrier was almost white with the sheer amount of cracks in it. Reimu gritted her teeth in frustration.

Before Marisa could open her mouth to ask what was wrong, a huge dragon head burst through the barrier, roaring, snapping, and snarling with fury as its saliva was flung every which way. This dragon, however, was not the commander of this ensemble; This dragon had a long, flat snout, with sharp teeth emerging outward from both jaws, like an oversized, flying spinosaurus.

"Always with the damn dragons..." Reimu grunted, wiping her hand across her mouth, challenging the new creature.

The creature immediately lunged for Reimu, snagging her by her unburnt arm. Reimu instinctively fired off a sizzling red energy blast into the dragon's mouth, and while this did harm the dragon's tongue, they did not open their tongue, and instead, began to thrash and flail Reimu wildly through the air. Marisa's eyes widened as she immediately fired beam after beam after beam of golden, cackling power from her hands at the dragon, but the reptile was as clever as they were ferocious; they swung their head every which way, so quickly that Marisa missed every single shot, if only by a hair. All the while, Reimu beat the dragon's snout with her miko stick in a vain attempt to get them to release their grip, while making a similar effort with her other arm by firing any energy bullets she could, which only burned and butchered the dragon's tongue, but nothing else.

If only I could get a spell card to my other arm! Reimu thought in between swats and blasts, as the pain in her bitten arm intensified from the constant swinging and slashing. With her good arm, Reimu reached for her side, groping desperately for something. Finally, the contorted scowl of pain on Reimu's face turned to a triumphant smile when she grabbed a spell card from her dress; exactly what she needed! Reimu clumsily raised the card, while still being thrashed viciously. Reimu desperately mashed the card against the dragon's teeth as sweat barreled down her body, and her armpits bled profusely, her arm seemingly about to be severed by the reptile's clamping jaws. Sadly, the teeth were too tight and close; Reimu jabbed and trusted to get her spell card past the teeth, each thrust bumping into the limestone-hard walls of sharpened calcium that was about to take her arm off. Reimu then noticed that near her bitten arm, there was a sort of gap in between the monster's teeth where it had bitten down on Reimu's arm; perhaps the reason why it wasn't severed outright. A bright grin appeared on her face as she quickly shoved the card through the beasts teeth, swinging her other arm wildly inside of the dragon's mouth, before somehow grabbing the thin sheet of magical paper.

Reimu closed her eyes and loudly exhaled "Yin-Yang Orb!" Just at that moment, the card transformed into a massive orb, about the size of the shrine itself! The power-wreathed black-and-white orb forced the dragon's moth open, freeing Reimu from the creature's jaws of death. The Dragon roared in agony as the orb burst into flames within the dragon's mouth, erupting the beast's head into an enormous red and white fireball, destroying the head altogether. Reimu crashed to the ground as she saw the dragon's body fall limply out of the barrier.

"That was incredible, Reimu!" Marisa cried out, rushing over to the moaning and groaning half-baked Reimu. Reimu, however, seemed grim as she stared up at the barrier; pieces were falling out, cracks were so plentiful that they obscured all vision beyond them.

"Marisa..." Reimu whispered solemnly, "I can't do this anymore..."

"What?" Marisa asked, her voice cracking slightly as she slowly lifted Reimu off of the ground, holding her in her arms.

"The barrier is about to shatter," Reimu quietly pointed out, "After it does...we're all dead...unless..."

Reimu gripped one other card that she was carrying, and it began to glow with an ominous, cackling purple energy. Marisa gasped when she saw it.

"Reimu!" Marisa shouted, "That's your last spell card! If you try to fight them without it..."

"Then I'll take out a negligible amount of them before we both die," Reimu sighed as flakes of the crumbling barrier snowed and hazed around them, "At least this way, I can save you..."

The card vanished into a purple aura, and a purple portal appeared beneath Marisa's feet. Marisa managed to squeal out "REIMU! NO!" Before she vanished into the gap, which closed as soon as she disappeared within. Reimu laid on her back for a moment, staring at the crumbling barrier, it's loud crashing noises being the telltale sign that it would shatter.

Reimu raised both of her fists, charging glaring, cackling energy bullets in both of them. "It looks like these leeches really will end the legacy," Reimu mumbled grudgingly, "But I won't let them end me before I end at least two more of the poor bastards."

Then, a loud CRASH could be heard as the barrier completely crumbled to bits, allowing the hordes and hordes of vampiric youkai to swarm into the area. Reimu fired off her final energy bullets at the rapidly encroaching wave, hitting some unidentifiable youkai on their shoulders, causing them to yelp in pain and nothing more.