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A Fairy Tale of Sesshomaru

Prologue

Many years ago in Edo, Japan humans and monsters lived in almost perfect harmony thanks to the Lord of the Inus. This demon lord held power over the realm of the west, power that was to be past on to his first born son. He was a protector of the weak and powerless. He taught his son to protect women from abuse and children from evil. He protected a young woman of beautiful palish-green skin who had a deadly secret. A deadly secret only the lord knew.

She was a Fae, descended from the queen of the realm of the Fae. She had been spirited away to the forest surrounding his castle for protection from the deadly war between the Light and Dark. To hide her heritage he placed her into the role of a slave. She brought food and drink to the table and cleaned the rooms with a skill that no one could match. He counted on the Slave. Counted on her as no Lord had ever counted on a Slave. What he didn't count on was the romantic intentions of his first-born son.

This couple had regular romantic rendezvous in the Royal Gardens. Nothing sexual in nature ever occurred, but they pledged their everlasting love for each other every moment they had to themselves. Their love was so strong that no matter what the desperate suitors tried to do it withstood the damaging winds. He showed no interest in the courtesans or village women who begged him to take them to his bed. She ignored the men who asked for her hand daily. They wanted none of it. They only desired each other. The Slave and the Lord's son only had eyes for each other.

The lord did not approve. He did not want his son to taint the purebred Inu line with a disowned Fae. He became enraged and sought out a dark miko1 to curse her. She was cursed so that if she did not lose her innocence before her two hundredth birthday a mountain would swallow her and she would be trapped within crystal. The dark miko obeyed and the curse went into affect.

A hundred years passed before the fateful day. The Slave wandered around a valley near the mountain she would be trapped in alone. A ravenous demon bursted out of the forest and chased her to the mountain side. She stood with her back to the rock and the mountain swallowed her before the creature could eat her. The dark miko informed the Lord what happened the second she was swallowed.

When the Slave never returned the Lord's son set out to search. He searched high and low, but the woman he loved could not be found anywhere. He wept for days before he found the miko his father had hired. He tortured the woman until she admitted the curse and the man who hired her. She admitted that the Slave was in the mountain by the Valley of the Crystal Flowers. After killing the woman he traveled to the valley and carved the name "Crystal" into the rock above a cave that had not been there before the Slave's disappearance.

The Slave waits in the Mount. Crystal for the Pure of all Mikos to set her free so she may return to the man she loves. Until then, vines slowly cover her face and body until all that is left visible is a depression the size and shape of a single Shikon No Tama shard.

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