VAMPYRE
Chapter One: Blood & Shards.
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Author: HooweeE-mail: hoowee_darkelf@yahoo.com
Warnings: Gothic horror, blood and strong language.
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Blood. Thick, dark, fresh blood ran down the vampire's throat, filling its mouth to overflowing. Gulping noises filled the darkened alley as the powerful muscles of her throat strained to swallow each and every last drop of the hot, metallic liquid that gushed from her victims' neck. Finally sated and sighing with pleasure, she released her grip on the young woman's body and with the tenderness of a lover laid the fresh corpse onto the filth strewn ground. Continuing with a gentleness that belied the savagery of her feast only moments before, she carefully arranged her victims clothing, smoothing out creases with her hands, brushing the alleys own filth from the white blouse and straightening what had fallen askew when she had fought the girl for her life's blood. Finally satisfied the vampire lent over the dead girl's face, blew some stray wisps of black hair from the body's forehead and then kissed each eye shut.
Suddenly the sound of a can being kicked rattled down the alley accompanied by a slightly off tune whistling. Tensing slightly, the vampire concentrated on this new disturbance. Hearing the thrumming of blood echo closer to her position then she liked, she gave the body one last caress then leapt straight up, the powerful muscles of her legs, easily giving her enough height to land softly on the roof of the building next to the alley.
Being to bloated on the blood she had just stolen to fly even a short way towards her apartment in Tokyo, she scrambled across the shingles, slid down the other side of the house and tottered in a slightly tipsy way towards a bus stop.
Inside the house, Mr. Nakamura was happily watching his favourite samurai soap opera; beer can clenched in his hand, burping along to the theme song when he heard the scrabbling on his roof. "Bloody rats." He muttered in mid-belch. Grabbing the broom he thumped the handle against the ceiling in some vain hope to frighten the 'rats' away. Hearing nothing more he once again settled back into his comfy chair, waiting to become enthralled as his heroes once again vanquished the forces of evil. But yet again his concentration was to be thwarted.
"SHIT!" Came a shout from the alley, followed by a large clang as someone fell over the garbage cans that lined the alleys sides in a vain attempt to keep the filth contained. Slumping in his chair, Mr. Nakamura covered his face with his large hands and gave a much put upon sigh. "Drunks. Jus' what I need. This part o' town's goin' ta hell an' the bloody drunks are rejoicin' in my bloody alley." He eased himself out of his chair and shuffled over to the back door, which, incidentally, he opened with his right hand. His left hand flicked on the outside light switch so that he could peer through the shadows of the gathering dusk. Spying the drunk quivering in a pile of disposable nappies and the scraps of someone's last meal Mr. Nakamura shouted "Oi! You bloody get out of here before I call the bloody cops!" But the drunk just sat there and quivered a bit more. Grumbling about drunks being 'bloody useless' Mr. Nakamura walked slowly over to the drunk and hauled him to his feet. The drunk, being very drunk, squeaked in fright. "What is your bloody problem?" Mr. Nakamura growled under his breath. The drunk, by way of reacting to this, pointed one trembling finger towards further down the alley and then sat down again next to a smelly fish. Groaning with despair at the knowledge that he probably wasn't going to be able to watch his favourite soap tonight, Mr. Nakamura glanced in the direction that the drunk had pointed out to him. That's when he saw the girl. Her entire throat had been ripped out, but oddly enough, there was hardly any blood. Mr. Nakamura slowly sank down to sit next to the drunk and a pre-loved nappy. Whispering in shock he said just one word "...Shit..."
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"Kagome-chan! Did you read today's newspaper?"
"huh?" Kagome sat up rubbing her eyes sleepily from where she'd snoozed off in the afternoon sun, face first in her maths textbook. "Kagome, are you sure you've recovered from your arthritis?" Kuni asked, a look of absolute worry on her face. "Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to come to the park after school, maybe you should go home..." That brought Kagome awake. "Uh-uh. I'm totally recovered." She demonstrated this by jumping up and doing a few quick stretches before sitting down again. Internally she was thinking 'Arthritis? Couldn't Gramps have just said I had the flu? Good grief.'
"Well if you're sure you're okay... " Kuni replied, adjusting her headband as she studied Kagome for any sign that her 'arthritis' had returned. "I was just asking if you'd read the newspaper today..."
Nami, who until that minute had been busily consuming an ice-cream cone, got up off the grass and sat next to Kagome on the picnic table bench. "What's in the paper? An engagement announcement for Kagome and Hojo?" Nami giggled, giving a quick flick of her head to get her short hair out of her eyes.
Kagome blushed and quite loudly denied that anything was even happening between her and Hojo. 'How could there when I'm always in the past helping Inu Yasha look for Shikon shards.' She thought furiously.
Nami giggled even more, taking the blushing and the denial the wrong way. "So, you two are definitely a couple now?" She stared at Kagome waiting for her to confirm.
Embarrassed by her friends intense stare, Kagome looked away from Nami just to find Kuni waiting with just as much interest in her answer on the other side.
'Gah,' thought Kagome, "...Um...what is in the newspaper Kuni?" she asked, desperate to change the subject. Sighing with frustration in not being able to get Kagome to confess something about Hojo, Nami leaned back and started to eat her ice cream in earnest.
Kuni took the moment to explain what had caught her interest in the newspaper. "There's been another mad dog attack. A girl from that posh school uptown was found with her throat torn out. Pretty gruesome."
"How many is that now? Five dead?" Nami said, taking a decidedly morbid interest in the whole thing."
"I think so." Kuni replied, scanning the article for any more interesting facts to regal her friends with. "They're only ever found with their throats torn out...isn't that a bit strange? Wouldn't a mad dog maul them a bit more?"
"Maybe it's a smart mad dog." Nami said.
Kagome began to read the article as well, over her friends' shoulder, until she noticed a familiar tingling just at the back of her mind. 'A Shikon shard? Here?'
"Excuse me please, but do you know which way I go to get to the elephant?" A voice said behind the engrossed three. Kagome, Kuni and Nami turned around to see a gaijin standing there looking at them.
"The elephant?" Kagome said completely perplexed. Then she noticed one of the earrings the gaijin wore. Splintered into a diamond shape and pulsing slightly in her mind was a shard of the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls.
Kuni and Nami, both totally unaware of what was bothering Kagome, were trying to figure out just what exactly the gaijin meant by wanting to find the 'elephant'. "Well, I think you ought to try the zoo." Nami said.
"The zoo? Why on earth would the nearest elephant be located at the zoo?" The gaijin replied in surprise.
While Kuni and Nami struggled to converse with the stranger Kagome secretly, she hoped, took the moment to study this person who should suddenly turn up with a Shikon shard. Sun-bleached straight blond hair hung halfway down her back in a loose plait and while she certainly wasn't short, if you didn't stand her against anyone she would look petite. She wore baggy blue button up jeans that rode low on her hips and a tight army green tang top. Her shoes were a pair of black leather sandals and on her right arm she wore a curling snake armlet that almost glowed golden next to her pale skin. Hiding her eyes were a pair of dark sunglasses.
Kagome shivered. Something about this woman, or was she a girl, it was hard to tell, wasn't quite right. She seemed too pale and being in possession of a Shikon shard didn't help, Kagome's feeling of unnaturalness.
Apparently, Kagome wasn't good at studying people secretly because the gaijin noticed her perusal. "Am I getting something wrong? I've only been studying Japanese for a little while and I wouldn't put it past me to get something twisted around." The stranger joked nervously starting to fidget. The girls glanced at each other, which gave the gaijin her answer. "Oh I've said something really stupid haven't I? Oh how embarrassing." A faint blush began to touch the gaijin's cheeks. "I'll just go now.." she said as she started to turn to leave.
"No don't" Kagome said grabbing her by the arm. She couldn't let a Shikon shard just walk out of her life that quickly, at least not without trying to understand what was going on, Inu Yasha would never forgive her. "Umm... I'm sure it's only a small mistake, we can figure it out."
"You're sure..." The gaijin seemed so unsure, her body still half turned as if she expected to have to leave, or perhaps flee from tormenting laughter.
She cringed. "I... ahhh..."
"Totally sure." Kagome assured her. Thoughts flashing through her mind at light speed. 'I can't let her disappear when she has a Shikon shard. I have to find out about her... and get back the shard if I can.'
"We're sure as well." Nami said with a vigorously nodding Kuni, breaking Kagome's train of thought.
"Describe the place you want to go." Kuni explained, "We should be able to figure out what you mean. Right Kagome?" Kagome nodded, happy to be backed up by her friends.
"Well... I need to find the public place where women go to... ahh... relieve themselves." The gaijin blushed, embarrassed about having to talk about such things.
"You mean the public toilets?" Kuni inquired.
"Public toilets" the stranger said, trying out the word to see how it sounded as it rolled off her tongue. "I think that's what I meant. Yes, I'm pretty sure of it." she said, smiling and apparently satisfied with the word.
"If you follow the path over there and then turn right after about fifty metres you should find a small bridge..." Kuni directed pointing out what she said. But the poor gaijin just sort of stared at her, cross eyed and apparently overwhelmed at trying to keep up with a native speaker of a language she'd only just really learnt.
"I'm sorry to inconvenience you but perhaps it would be easier if one of you showed me were they are." The stranger
"I can take you!" Kagome exclaimed giving the girl-woman a small push in the right direction. 'If I can get her away from my friends then I can ask her about the Shikon shard without having to involve them.' Kagome thought starting to walk with the gaijin towards the public toilets.
"Kagome-chan, wait! We'll come with you." Nami cried while Kuni started packing up their belongings. Kagome felt a sweat drop roll down the side of her face. "You don't need to Nami, Kuni. I'll be back in a couple of minutes anyway and we don't want to lose our spot." Kagome smiled and waved her hand at them in a gesture to stay put, tugging the stranger away.
"B-but Kagome-chan... " Kuni stuttered, clutching the newspaper to her chest. Kagome almost wished she could use 'sit' on her friends, almost.
"Don't worry Kuni-chan, back soon." She said over her shoulder as she tugged the bemused gaijin away with her.
"But what about the mad dog or Kagome's arthritis?" Kuni half whispered to Nami.
"You worry to much Kuni-chan." Nami smiled sitting back on the picnic table bench and then frowned at the empty ice-cream wrapper. "Kagome's arthritis has cleared up and those mad dog attacks happened on the other side of town." Nami scrunched the wrapper up into a tight ball and concentrated as she aimed for the bin. "What's the dog going to do? Fly over half of Tokyo and pick Kagome out especially?"
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The stranger flinched. "Are you okay?" Kagome asked.
"Hnn? Oh, I'm fine. I just thought I heard something, that's all." The gaijin said, giggling slightly over her own silliness. "But I must thank you for helping me. My name is Nathania Jordan." The no-longer-nameless gaijin, Nathania, gave a small bow of thanks towards Kagome. Kagome blushed and waved her hand at Nathania.
"Oh it was nothing, don't worry about it. Um... I'm Kagome Higurashi."
"I'm very pleased to meet you Kagome Higurashi" Nathania smiled. The two continued to walk for a minute in uncomfortable silence, Nathania looking at the sights, anywhere but at Kagome. Kagome was dividing her attention between her feet and Nathania's ear.
'I've got to find out how she got that Shikon shard, how it ended up in the present. But how? If I can just do this by myself Inu Yasha shouldn't get so cranky when I need to come home. It could prove to him that I'm not a "useless wench".' Kagome thought staring hard at Nathania's ear, a small frown creasing her features. Nathania, being a rather observant gaijin, (hell, she didn't have to be observant, the stare was hard to miss) noticed Kagome frowning at her, stopped, took a quick step back then leaned forward, waving her hand in front of Kagome's eyes. "Hmm?" Kagome went, snapping out of her thoughts. "Is everything alright." Nathania asked, her hands pulling her braid over her shoulder and tugging it slightly as they resumed walking. "You just seemed a bit out of it."
"No, no, everything's okay. I was just looking at your ear... " Kagome blushed, something that she seemed to be doing a lot of nowadays.
"My ear?" Nathania stared quizzically at Kagome, head tilted to one side and her hands fiddling with her braid.
"Umm... I meant earring. It's very... pretty. It almost looks... magical." Kagome almost felt like hitting herself on the head. 'Oh way to go Kagome. Very subtle.' she thought.
"It is isn't it!? I always wear it. One of my ancestors got it off this Asian guy and it's been in my family ever since. I guess you could say it's become something of a family heirloom." Nathania prattled, obviously happy and nearly glowing with relief at being able to discuss something she was knowledgable about. "I've always felt down that there's only one though. I mean, don't earrings usually come in pairs?" Nathania's hands forsook her plait as she said this and began to twiddle with the shard.
Kagome just sort of gaped from all the information she was getting. 'Wow. I'm pretty good at this detective stuff.' She thought while Nathania prattled on a bit more.
"...and sometimes it gives off this really cool glow... ooh, are these the toilets?" Nathania stopped in front of a small grey building with a sign saying "Public Toilets" hanging off the side.
"What?!" Kagome said, surprised at the way Nathania jumped topics in the middle of a sentence. "Oh... Um..." Kagome started thinking furiously, brain ticking overtime to think of some way of getting the shard. 'oh... um...' miraculously her thoughts mirrored her words... for a few moments at least. 'Okay, the shard is hers and has obviously been in her family for a long time but maybe I can persuade her to give it too me, tell her about Gramps being into all that mystic stuff. That way I haven't revealed how dangerous the shard could be and there's no violence so Inu Yasha won't have to worry about anything. Not that he seems to worry about anything but the jewel. But if it's a family heirloom... maybe seeing our shrine will help show I'm not some greedy money-grubber. (Hands up who thought about Nabiki in that line. Hoowee.)
"Um... Kagome-san. Are these the... ?"
"Actually... no they're not." Kagome said, her mind made up, grabbing Nathania's hand and dragging her away.
"Oh, but doesn't the sign say... ?" Nathania started to say turning to point at the sign, walking backwards to keep from being pulled over by Kagome. "They're... ah... out of order!" Kagome jumped in. "You know what? My house isn't that far from here, you can use our toilet."
"Really?" Nathania stared at Kagome her eyes wide and mouth slightly open in surprise. "But you hardly know me! I hardly know you! Surely there are some other public elephants... er... toilets situated near by..."
"Well..." Kagome's mind raced. 'Well I can give her some of the truth... I guess. I'll just have to be careful about what I say.' "Nathania, have you ever heard of the 'Shikon no Tama'?" Kagome asked, crossing her fingers that even that small amount of information wouldn't give away too much.
"The Jewel of Four Elephants? No, I can't say that I have." Nathania replied now walking steadily along next to Kagome.
'What is it with this girl and elephants?' Kagome sweatdropped. "Ah, that's not the exact translation." She said, now leading Nathania down her home street. "But it is a very rare jewel. A long time ago it was splintered..."
"Really? How?" Nathania said interrupting, proving that she did that a lot as she pushed her sunglasses back onto her head, revealing her eyes. Kagome felt a shiver go up her spine when she saw them, an ice blue colour that seemed so unnatural to her that she couldn't help but immediately associate with demons.
'But blue's not that strange a colour. My eyes are a shade of blue and it's supposed to be an even more common colour among gaijin, so it shouldn't worry me. I don't sense anything demonic about her, just a slight differentness... and it seems that she knows nothing about the Shikon no Tama... but her eyes just give me the creeps.' Kagome thought.
Encouraged by the fact that Nathania seemed to have no knowledge whatsoever about the Jewel of Four Souls Kagome decided to elaborate... slightly. She may not know about the jewel... but those eyes...
"A young maiden and a... um... dog that she had... ah... acquired were battling an evil youkai for the Jewel. Eventually the youkai decided to run away and fight again another day so he swallowed the jewel and started to fly away..."
"Fly? I thought you said 'Run away'?'
"Um... he had to have a run up to fly."
"Oh."
"Well the maiden couldn't let the evil youkai get away with the jewel and the dog wasn't doing anything useful (Well at that exact moment he wasn't. He was just crapping on about how the crow demon would keep flying on until he absorbed the jewel. Hoowee.) so she picked up her bow and shot an enchanted arrow at the youkai." 'Not a lot of exaggeration' Kagome thought, 'more like poetic license, maybe if I work on this I could hand it in for my writers class... Ak, don't think about that!' "Um, anyway this arrow hit the youkai and it exploded but unfortunately the enchantment on the arrow was so strong that it splintered the Jewel as well. My grandfather is really into legends like that and he'd love to possess a shard of it." Kagome stated, finishing the story at a fast pace.
"And you think that my earring is a shard of this Shikon no Tama?" Nathania queried, a serious look spreading across her face.
"Yes. But I don't want you to think that I'm the sort of person to con people out of their possessions, so I thought if you talked to Gramps..."
"Stop Kagome-san." Nathania turned thought into deed as she stopped and put her hand on Kagome's shoulder, pulling her to a stand still as well. "Is that the reason why you said the eleph... toilets were out of order? Did you just make that up to get me to your house, to see your grandfather, so he can convince me to give up something that's been in my family for generations? I don't know whether I should believe you Kagome-san."
'No, no. This is exactly what I didn't want to happen!' Kagome fretted, unknowingly twisting her sailor fuku's tie in her fingers as she thought fast on her feet about how to undo what she had done.
Somehow, Nathania beat her to it. "I probably shouldn't do this but I like to think I'm a good judge of character and you strike me as someone I should trust, so although I'm going against all my better instincts here... let's see your grandfather."
"What?!" Total shock spread across Kagome's face as she heard Nathania say exactly what she didn't expect to hear. "Umm. You're okay with this then? I mean, this isn't what I expected to do but I know Gramps would be upset if I had just let you go." Kagome slowly started walking down the street again, seeing her house further down and wanting to get Nathania there before she could change her mind. Other thoughts careened through her head. 'It wouldn't have been Gramps who would've been upset if I let the shard get away.'
"But how do you know, or at least think, that my earring is a shard of this Jewel of Four Elephants thingie?"
"Ah, That's Jewel of Four Souls." Kagome said, without thinking.
"Really" A slight smile spread across Nathania's face. "Four souls?"
Kagome, not hearing Nathania's quiet words, turned to find the steps leading up to the shrine behind her. "Well we're here, do you want to speak to Gramps first or..." A cold shiver caused Kagome to pause mid-sentence and look over her shoulder.
"What is it Kagome-san?" Nathania asked, following her line of sight over to the other side of the road to where another blonde gaijin stood in the shadows, staring malevolently at both of them. A look of pure fear came to Nathania's face as she took a step away from the girl. "Kagome-san, perhaps we could do this some other time..."
'What's going on here?' Kagome thought, gaze changing from the gaijin to Nathania then back to the gaijin. 'That girl's human, I think, but Nathania-san looks absolutely terrified of her.' Kagome took one step up the shrine's stairs, watching the gaijin. The stranger glared, but stayed where she was.
"Don't worry Nathania-san, let's see my grandfather." Kagome turned and took a couple more steps up the stairs. Sssshhhh..., a cold breeze touched Kagome's cheek. "Nathania-san?" Distracted by the breeze, Kagome tripped on the next step and fell, twisting her body so that she landed on her butt. "Ow." Kagome picked herself up from the ground, rubbing her sore and soon to be bruised rear. "Careful Nathania-san you wouldn't want t-to..." Kagome stuttered to a stop as she looked down onto the footpath. The entire street behind her was empty. (Imagine hooowoooo sound effect here. Hoowee.)
'Ak! Where'd she go?' Kagome spun around, desperately scanning the road, trying to see where Nathania had gone. "Nathania-san?!" She called, hoping for some kind of and answer. She got none. 'Now that's really creepy. How did she disappear like that? And where did that other gaijin go?'
"Kagome! There you are. Come help me get tea on the table." Kagome jumped a foot in the air as her mother appeared at the top of the stairs.
"Okaasan, can you see any blonde gaijin from up there?" Kagome called out.
"Blonde gaijin?" Kagome's mother did a quick visual scan of the street. "No. All I see is a young Japanese girl who is about to miss out on her oden if she doesn't hurry up."
"Coming Okaasan!" Kagome stared down the street one more time, shuddered a little as if a spider had just crawled across her shoulders and then sprinted up the steps to the shrine, not looking forward to Inu Yasha would say when he found out about what had happened. Strangely, she found that she wasn't worried about Nathania at all. 'Maybe that gaijin scared her off.' Was the one and only thought she spared for the girl.
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The vampire watched Kagome from the shadows, latest victim cradled to her chest like a child's favourite doll. Seeing her go into the house, the vampire decided to sit and wait to see what would happen, wanting to find out what this Shikon no Tama truly could do, sure that if she waited long enough something would happen, just as she had been sure that if she followed the girl she would find out some interesting information. Having a sixth sense was truly a wonderful thing. She slowly sat down on a crate and pulled the still alive girl onto her lap. "Shhhh, little snack." The vampire whispered, her finger pressed to her lips as she smiled lovingly down on her meal. "Don't cry, it makes your face go splotchy."
The girl whimpered softly as the vampire gently wiped away her tears.
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Meanwhile, back at the park...
"Nami-chan, I don't think Kagome-chan is coming back." Kuni said, laying back on the park table, watching the moon rise over the trees.
Nami just sort of nodded and continued to read her recently purchased magazine by the light of a close street lamp.
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"Where is it?! Where'd it go?!" Kagome screeched, virtually throwing things from her desk onto the floor in a desperate search for one of her most precious possessions, her maths text book.
"Arg, I didn't leave it at the park, did I? I have to study or I'll fail. Ooh, where'd I put it?!" She sat down on the floor, elbows on knees, head in hands. 'Think, think, think. I can try to do it without the book. Yes, I can do that...' Kagome stood up again to look at her exercise book spread out next to sums of frightening difficulty. "Ahh! No I can't!" She laid back down on the floor next to her bed with two streams of silent tears running down her face. 'It's absolutely hopeless. I find out I have an overdue writing class assignment at school, I can't think out how to do my homework, I lost track of that Shikon shard and... oh today was just horrible.' Kagome sniffled a bit and then rolled over on to her tummy. 'Quit feeling sorry for yourself Higurashi, so today was a bad day, get over it.' She thought angrily, scrubbing away her tears with the back of her hand. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted her heavily packed back pack sticking out from under the edge of her bed. 'I guess I can at least tell Inu Yasha about that shard. He's not going to like it, but I guess he deserves to know.' With a heavy feeling on her soul, Kagome picked up her back pack and started towards the well.
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A heartbeat moved in the darkness. The vampire stood up, letting the now dead girl drop from her lap to the ground. She didn't care. The corpse was cold and the heartbeat sounded so warm. With an unearthly grace that only inhuman creatures could ever obtain she left the dead girl at the base of the shrine steps and slid from shadow to shadow, a thing of darkness completely at ease in the silence of the night.
Thump. Thump. Thump. Follow the heartbeat. Follow that taste on the breeze of life, of death.
The vampire stopped outside the door of a wooden building. Inside she could hear the thrum of blood beating, pulsing through a young healthy body. She ran her tongue over her teeth and felt her canines lengthen as her hunger grew. Pressing her face to a crack between the door and the wall from when Kagome had failed to shut it properly, she inhaled deeply, savouring the bloody scent on the air. Then it was gone. The vampire stood up straight in shock. Heartbeat's didn't do that. There was always, always, that quiver of the heart before it stopped, a change in pace, something to give away to those who could listen that a person's time with the grim reaper approached. To just disappear like that girl's had was simply impossible.
With a mighty heave the vampire took hold of the door and flung it open, wrenching it of it's tracks. Inside the building was nothing, except an old well. The vampire slitted her eyes and stared hard, picking up the misty rose hued trail Kagome had left behind she followed it with her eyes until it went into the well. Taking a flying leap the vampire flew to the well and then hovered above it... and from that vantage point she could see the mist twine it's way down and then pool on the dirt at the bottom. Confused, she gently lowered herself down to stand in the foggy rose mud. Her feet touched the bottom and no less then a second later a high pitched ringing, starting from her head and moving throughout her body, caused her to fall to her knees. Then it was gone. Just as suddenly as it had appeared. Above, her sharp ears picked out the sound of the wind in the trees and soft voices. The vampire stood and stared at a night sky framed by trees that was four hundred years younger then the one she had admired last night.
"Inu Yasha, would you please listen to me." That was Kagome's voice.
"Now this is interesting... " Nathania grabbed a clump of rocky dirt and started to climb out of the well.
'I live in the light, but carry my own darkness within me.'
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To Be Continued...
Notes from Hoowee.
Please E:mail me and tell me what you think at hoowee_darkelf@yahoo.com
It's finished! It's finished! *Hoowee dances around her room in a mad caper*.
I know it's only the first chapter and I'm planning on doing
at least four of them (groan) but I'm just so incredibly happy
that I was able to write something that doesn't stop after just a
page and actually has a proper story line working with it.
I wrote this quite a while ago, before there was anything even discussed about there being an anime so there are bound to be some discrepencies, and for that I apologise. Sorry!
Thankyou's go out to Sailor Bob for all her support. (And making me check my grammar, blach, I hate the stuff.)
The biggest thankyou goes out to Rumiko Takahashi who created most of the wonderful characters that will appear in this fanfic. At least once a month the world is swallowed and I can escape into a place where things that I can only dream about actually happen. Thankyou.