Chapter 1 Strange Encounters
The day starts out onboard the gummi ship Excalibur. As the ship travels through space, Goofy spots a strange looking warp hole...
"Where do ya recon it leads?" asked Goofy.
"Why would we care where it leads? We're not going to go through it!" replied Donald in his usual subborn manner. Sora checked the moniter carefully and exclaimed,
"Well you're gonna have to worry where it leads because we're flying staight into it!" A resounding,
"What?!" shook the room as Donald ran to the screen to investigate. After a moment, Sora said confidently,
"I can fix this!"
"No!" Donald exclaimed too late as Sora began to press buttons on the ship's computer. "Sora, that acceleratres our speed!" Donald cried exasperated.
"Whoops..." Sora muttered as the ship plunged into the deep, dark warp hole. The small room was filled with an atmosphere of nervousness. Finally, it opened up into a clear blue sky. Everyone crowded around the windows to get a look at the world below.
"We might as well take a look around while we're here" Sora said optimistically.
"I think this is a bad idea guys..." Donald said looking around uneasily.
"Aw, cheer up Donald." Goofy comforted. The ship landed in a small clearing of a forest. The three of them walked outside and examined the area. Without warning, there was a horrible screech and a giant snake-like creature lunged from the trees screaming,
"No one trespasses in my territory and lives to tell about it!" Before the trio could react to the sudden attack, a figure wearing a red kimono leaped out of the shadows.
"Why don't you can it?!" the new arrival yelled. In a matter of seconds, the creature fell to the ground, its head severed. The person wearing red turned and Sora registered the fact that he was a boy, but the strangest boy he'd ever seen. He had long white hair, golden eyes, and strangest of all, a pair of white dog ears on top of his head. Unaware that he was being scruitinized, the boy scowled and said,"If you expect to live to see tomorrow, you should stay out of this forest or the demons will kill you in no time." Then, evidently puzzled, he remarked," You have the strangest scent - where are you from?" Donald apparently took offence from the boy's comment and roared to life.
"Are you calling us stinky?!"
"Idiot! I didn't mean that! Are you gonna tell me where you're from or not?"
"Umm... we're not from around here." Sora replied slowly. He was saved from an interrogation by Goofy's question.
"Uh, how did ya kill that there demon with your bare hands?"
"And who are you?!" Donald asked angrily without waiting for the boy's reply; he had obviously not gotten over being called an idiot.
"Yer definintly not from around here, are you?" The words had barely escaped the boy's mouth when suddenly, a girl's voice rang out from the trees.
"Inu-yasha, SIT!" The event that followed shocked Sora and his companions into complete and utter silence. The boy, evidently named Inu-yasha, slammed face-first into the ground with a yell. The girl who had shouted walked out of the trees furiously. She had medium length black hair, soft brown eyes that were currently narrowed in anger, and was wearing a white and green school uniform. "Why did you leave me behind?!" Pausing, she noticed Sora, Donald and Goofy. Momentarily forgetting about Inu-yasha she said,"I've never seen clothes like that before - where are you guys from?"
"Well..." Sora began, trying to think of something to say. However, once again he was saved from a tedious explanation. Inu-yasha lept up angrily and exclaimed,
"What the hell did you do that for, Kagome?!"
"Well, I wouldn't have had to do it if you hadn't run off in the first place!"
"What?! Since when have I had to tell you every little thing that I do?!"
Sora, Donald, and Goofy watched them argue at a loss for words. "Do ya think we should stop them?" Goofy asked uncertainly.
"I think it's better if we don't interfere." Sora laughed weakly. Thankfully, by the end of their arguement, both Kagome and Inu-yasha appeared to have completely forgotten about the issue of Sora's origin.