Wind, Water, and Earth

~Author's note: I know some people might know me from the story Of Wolves and Tights but I decided that I would write a serious story as well as a comical one. This story is about Inu Yasha although the first chapter is a legend that the Inu Yasha group will hear later on while on their mission to collect the jewel shards. The three sisters will play a large roll in this story. ~

~The Legend~

Once in a time long gone there was a place of darkness, a place or light, but most of all a place of nature. There is a spring resting on a high cliff surrounded by forest that legends say is home to three of the most magical beings ever known to mankind. The three beings are sisters bound to each other by the laws of nature. The eldest sister ruled over the forest and all the creatures in it. A humanoid female wolf was her form. White as freshly fallen snow, though her hide would shimmer like the rainbow in the light of the sun. The middle sister ruled the spring and all waters leading from it to the edge of the forest. No animal did she claim for her hybrid form. Instead she used water in it's purest form, her body held together by her will was liquid yet that of a woman as well. And finally the youngest of the three ruled the skies and all the winds within the forest. The birds were her creatures and so she took a human form with angelic wings that while translucent shimmer like her eldest sisters fur. And so they lived happily and peacefully with each other for many years never knowing that there was a world beyond their forest. Their powers grew over time fed by the powers of nature from which they were born and soon their awareness of the world changed. They realized that there was more than their forest and so they were curious. The eldest sister sent wolves out to see what could be seen by from the ground. While the youngest sister sent out birds to see what could be seen from the air. And the middle sister waiting content to know that there was more. Soon they began to fight. For the eldest wanted more lands for her wolves and her creatures. The youngest wanted none of this choosing to stay where she knew they were safe. And the middle sister as always was neutral and would not choose. Then one-day travelers came to their woods and the sisters knew a rage where before there had only been peace. And so the land turned on the travelers who thought to claim the forest as their own. The waters ceased to flow and the winds blew so strongly that the travelers were constantly knocked over unable to stand. Finally after days of being attacked the travelers left the forest and things returned to the way they were but for one difference. The eldest sister, she worried for her younger siblings and what would happen to them if stronger creatures were to enter their forest. The three lived in peace once more with the youngest two never knowing that their older sister killed any creature that came too close to their forest.