Chapter one
Forging Fate
There are the times where I contemplate whether or not fate is actually in our own hands. Whether it is something predetermined in life and we must just walk the path blindly, waiting for the next event unbeknownst to us, or if we can grab the reins and steer the steed down a new path and make a way for ourselves.
Something about idly standing around not knowing anything has really just pissed me off lately.
My name is Suzume, I'm the beloved of Koga, the Alpha to the Demon Wolf tribe, and reincarnation of the priestess Midoriko, the woman who brought the sacred shikon jewel into our world.
Lately I find myself pondering, and just staring or pacing, whether I regret anything in my life, and the only thing I am currently regretting, was that I couldn't get Naraku's head on a platter when he taunted me with my kidnapped niece.
I was left livid. I've told Koga, Hakkaku, and Ginta, that we are not leaving my family's shrine until I have had time to cool down, and figure out a plan as to how I am properly going to take my vengeance out on this worthless piece of shit who has caused me to curse more times than a priestess should.
I was wandering aimlessly through the halls, just struggling to come up with plausible means of severing this demon's life from ours, and nothing was coming to mind.
I am a simple priestess. I fight with a sacred staff.
I am a mortal girl. However I may be traveling with demon companions, I myself do not possess any real unordinary strength.
There had to be something. I wandered around the shrine so much I eventually passed my sister's old bedroom, and decided that immersing myself in her space may motivate me more to bring my niece back and bring Naraku down.
Koga had been letting me have my own space for a few days; he knew I was grieving and that I had pretty much lost my mind.
I sat down in the center of her room and just began to meditate. I don't know how long I had been there or in fact if I had properly cleared my mind, but I felt something, something pressing me to go and search for something along the walls of the room. I got up, almost like I had been willed up, and began running my hands along the walls, looking for something. It felt like something, or more like someonewas guiding my hand along.
"Tsubame, are you trying to help me?" I whispered. I still had my eyes shut and I let my hands do as they were willed. My hands finally stopped and I opened my eyes to find there was an indented handle to a door just next time some framework. I slide it open and dust clouds rose up and into my face. I coughed and fanned the dust away from my face and desperately tried to rub the particles from my nose, to little avail. I curiously stepped into the secret closet and discovered a tome and a sacred binding around it. I gingerly picked it up and saw it wasn't going to harm me. It had the Kanji symbol for "dragon" in silver overlay and was made of a tough, blood colored and scaly looking leather. I blew the dust off.
"What, is this?"
"Koga!" I called as I stepped out of Tsubame's room. I started heading towards my own room clutching the book close to my chest. "Hey, Hakkaku, Ginta, wherever you are come to my room please!" I called. I entered my room with Koga only centimeters behind me.
"What is it?" Koga asked concerned. He sniffed the air curiously. "Ew what is that?" He remarked.
"I don't know that's why I called you guys here so that when I break this seal I don't get hurt or something." I answered as I sat the tome down on its back binding again. I grabbed my staff from the other side of the room and I started to channel my spiritual energy into it. I began chanting as I slammed the end of my staff into the seal and it started to spark. I held my composure and the seal broke after a moment. The tome itself flew open and a silvery, ghost of a dragon just erupted out and then evaporated into nothing. I quickly fell to the floor to read the tome.
"What the hell was that?!" Hakkaku and Ginta asked simultaneously, sounding spooked.
"Obviously it was dragon…thing" Koga mumbled, baffled but remaining calm. I scanned over the text in the tome, just trying to find more than a few scribbled lines.
"I think I figured it out." I said pointing a little ways down from the beginning of the text. "Says here, 'this tome is token of the Dragon demon Clan's promise of protection.'…" I paused and apparently looked as puzzled as I felt.
"Why would you have this lying around in your shrine?" Koga inquired kneeling down taking a closer look at it too.
"Well, actually it was hidden away in Tsubame's room. In a hidden closet. I felt drawn to it." I answered. "It was definitely emanating power, or…as silly as this sounds I felt my sister's spirit guiding me to it." Koga looked back and forth from me to the tome, quizzically.
"That still doesn't answer my question…" He muttered. "Why would this be in your family's possession?" Koga reworded.
"Read further! It may have a good story!" Hakkaku suggested.
"Stories are pretty helpful!" Ginta added. I actually listened to them and began reading aloud again.
"This has been bestowed upon thy family because an ancestor from this namesake had made an alliance with our clan. When a member of this family makes call to one of our own they are entitled to an unconditional wish or favor, however, once said wish or favor has been granted the member of this family owes the member of our clan one of the same worth to the favor or wish performed." I finished. I sat and soaked in everything I read. Koga looked to me, trying to read my expression.
"Well?" He mused. "Do you know how to find them?" Koga added.
"It says here that we have to travel to their lair…there's a map here in the tome." I replied. I was very much beside myself. I wasn't sure how this pact would go down, or how they would feel about me suddenly bringing this agreement up from the dust, literally, and I especially wouldn't know the first thing to ask them. I did know one thing though.
"Koga," I began in a collected tone. I got his attention. "I think this is what we need to avenge my village and bring my niece back."
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