Shikon Princess
Summary: A prophecy about a child that would defeat the evil and bring forth the light known as the Shikon Princess. In order to protect the child, the Magical Elves and her parents along with the elders decided to hide the child until it was time to bring her back to the Magical world. A group of teenagers were sent to search for the princess and were chosen to be her protector as she prepared for her battle against the dark force.
Disclaimer: Most of the characters in this story are not mine; they belong to Rumiko Takahashi from one of her famous work, Inuyasha, although the plot belongs to me.
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The whole kingdom was in chaos. Everywhere you turn, there were explosions and creatures screaming as they fought to remain among the living. The world was covered in darkness along with many deaths and people grieving. Evil demons attacked and devoured everything in its path without a second thought. Dead bodies of women, men, and children littered the ground of what used to be a peaceful village. A man in a baboon pelt with long wavy black hair under the baboon hood he was wearing swayed behind him, his red eyes shone with mirth as he watched the stupid mortals try to overcome his demons. He laughed with contempt and continued to watch the scene before him with a sickening smile, which soon faded when his red eyes landed on a place that was not plague with his darkness and chaos.
The palace, where the rulers of the Magical World lived, stood in all its glory over the hills not too far from the chaos. His eyes narrowed in disdain as he glared coldly at the place. He became even more angered as he watched some of his demon beast, which were trying to bring chaos to the place, be turned into ashes as a sparkle of a strong barrier glinted in the moonlight that only seemed to be shining to where the palace stood. His anger caused his surroundings to darken and his miasma to rise and kill anything else that was left of the forest behind him. He let his eyes travel to the grounds below the tree he was standing on and grinned with satisfaction upon seeing the formerly white snow was now the color red as the blood of demons and mortals alike seeped through its whiteness.
The man pursed his lips as his eyes wandered back to the palace. He could not help but feel angry as he remembered the sole purpose of his attack of these villages that surrounded the palace, to kill the queen and her unborn child, but he soon realized that the castle was heavily guarded by enchantments, demons, demon slayers, monks, priestesses, ninjas, magical elves, and other creatures that were far stronger than his demons and demon beast, not to mention the barrier that surrounded the castle that had terminated everyone of his demons and demon beasts that tried to penetrate it.
How he hates those who tried to defy him especially the Shikon family and their friends, they were the only obstacle that stood in his way of becoming the world's ruler and possibly all three worlds. Sending another hated glare at the palace, he called to his demons and demon beasts and left as another plot to destroy everyone and everything that stood in his way begun to formulate in his head. He still has many chances in destroying the queen and her unborn child, he was sure that there was still four more months until the baby was born.
Unfortunately for the man, he hadn't thought of the fact that maybe his informant of the queen's pregnancy may be wrong for when the man was far from the palace's ground, a baby's cry was heard within the castle's wall and snow begun to fall once more as it covered the red ones with thick layers of white. The moon shone even brighter and the stars seemed to be twinkling with joy. Many of the villagers who had managed to enter the castle's safety celebrated for the night, for they knew that they will have time to mourn those who had died tomorrow, and as for now, they have to celebrate for the birth of their savior.
An apparition of a Phoenix appeared over the palace as a phoenix's song covered the land and sent warmth and security to the villagers who had heard it. A dragon's roar and a Pegasus's neigh soon followed.
The queen had given birth at last, "it's a girl," said Lady Kaede, the high priestess of the palace, while giving the baby to its proud father after cleaning it up. The king smiled his gratitude to Lady Kaede and said a soft 'thank you.'
The woman nodded as she continued to clean up the mess with her apprentices, "it was my honor, milord," said Lady Kaede. The king nodded as he sat down next to his wife, who currently had her upper body propped up by many pillows behind her. He kissed her forehead and the new parents peered at the young child with so much love and care that only a parent could posses, "you did it, Kikyo," said the king as he rubbed the baby's red cheek. The baby girl let out a soft sound as she nuzzled her father's strong yet gentle hand causing the king and queen to smile. "She's beautiful, Tai," said Lady Kikyo as she looked at her husband's profile, which consisted of raven hair and blue-gray eyes.
"Like you," he whispered to his wife as his blue-gray eyes met her brown ones. Although her ebony locks were matted to her forehead from giving birth to their second child, he still saw her as the beautiful maiden he had married. "Lady Kaede," he called out after a long pause.
"Yes, milord?"
"Please tell the others that they are now allowed to come in and see the baby," he replied while giving the little girl to her mother.
"Very well, milord," she answered with a curtsy.
The lord let out a chuckle once Lady Kaede and her apprentices were out of earshot. The queen looked up and gave him a questioning look, "it is nothing, my dear," started the king, "it is just an observation I have made."
"Oh?" prodded the queen.
"Aye, Lady Kaede is a stubborn woman," said the king with another chuckle.
"And why is that?" asked the queen.
"I have been telling her not to address me as her lord but one she would a friend," said the king, "but she refuse and continues to address me as her lord though she treat me like her friend." Lady Kikyo let out a small laugh and nodded her agreement, "I have told her the same and as you can see, she also refused to call me by my name alone," as her gentle eyes settled on their sleeping daughter.
The king could not help but smile as he watched the two most important women in his life. He was brought back from his reverie when his friends along with their sons and his entered the room. "Papa!" exclaimed his two years old son.
The king chuckled and caught the young boy in his arms as the young child snuggled against him, "Hello son," he greeted while nodding towards his friends, "Izayoi, Inutaisho," the two adults nodded back. Two boys with silver hair and golden eyes walked up to him and hug his legs before running back to their parents, "its good to see you too, Inu-chan and Sesshy-chan," he addressed the two boys, who were only two and three years of age.
The boy in his arms wiggled a bit and tried to get out of his embrace, "me want see baby!" he exclaimed as he continued to wiggle.
"Me too! Me too!" exclaimed the other two as they jumped up and down excitedly. The adults laughed at their excitement and carried them towards the bed so they could see the baby.
"Tiny!" exclaimed the three boys.
"Yes, and the three of you were like that too," said Lady Izayoi making the three boys look at her with disbelief. She nodded her confirmation and the boys looked at each other in wonderment.
"No, Inu-chan big!" said the little boy in Izayoi's arms as he puffed up his chest and his dog-ears atop his head stood upright.
"Uh-huh!" agreed the other two while puffing up their own chest causing the adults to laugh at their antics.
Silence covered the room as its occupants admired the baby in the queen's arms, a burst of light had suddenly illuminated the birthing room of the castle and as the light cleared out, a beautiful tall lady appeared out of nowhere.
"Tricia!"
"Good evening your majesty," greeted the woman, now known as Tricia. The woman was very beautiful and there was a comforting glow around her as she looked at the girl in the king's arm, and to the other occupants of the room. She has long flowing white hair, blue eyes that portray great knowledge and wisdom, and pointy ears, "She's very pretty and her aura is very powerful for a new born baby."
"Indeed," agreed Lord Inutaisho.
They all looked at the clock in the room and saw that it was almost midnight, "it is almost time for the parting," said Lady Izayoi while the adults nodded sadly. The queen looked at her daughter sadly and looked at her husband and son with the same sad eyes that was reflected by her husband. Lord Tai held Lady Kikyo's hand in his and squeeze it reassuringly.
Their dampened mood were interrupted when Inu-chan started squirming from his mother's hold, "Inu-chan?" questioned Izayoi as she looked at her son, who was still squirming very hard, "what's the matter?"
The young boy was about to say something when it was interrupted when the baby started crying causing the demons in the room to cover their ears until it adjusted to the level of noise. Young Inu-chan's struggle to get out of his mother's hold intensified and the other two boys in the room followed. The three of them kept glancing at the young child, who was currently crying her hearts out.
The adults in the room stared at the baby with wide eyes as they felt a magnificent aura coming from her along with a great power that was continuing to grow by the seconds. Realizing what was happening, Tricia said in a rush, "make her stop crying or else Naraku will know that she has been born."
Inu-chan, Sesshy-chan and the king's son were squirming even more, "what's the matter?" asked Inutaisho to the three boys.
"Le'go!" exclaimed the three boys. The adults in the room were perplexed to the three young boys' actions and to give them understanding as to why they were acting in such a way, Izayoi, Inutaisho, and Tai released them from their hold.
While this was happening, the queen was trying all she can to make the baby stop crying, but no matter what she did, the young child continued to shed tears and the longer she cried, the stronger the power and aura emanating from her small body was becoming.
Tricia, Izayoi, Inutaisho, and Tai's attention were on the three boys, who had currently rushed to the bed and were trying to climb on top of it, their purpose, they didn't know. Although they noticed that the three boys kept glancing at the baby once in a while and that their countenance were getting anxious. They pause for a moment and looked at one another. The two brothers, Inu-chan and Sesshy-chan locked eyes and then looked at the third boy as though calculating what they should do, before they nodded at each other and Sesshy-chan crouched down in front of the third boy. The king's son didn't waste any time and rode on Sesshy's back as the two brothers jumped onto the bed using their demonic abilities. While Sesshy-chan and the king's son sat down slightly behind Inu-chan, Inu-chan moved closer to the baby, and as though, knowing that someone was in front of her. The baby seized its crying and opened her eyes for the first time. Sparkling brown eyes and rich gold met and locked as they stared at each other for a long moment.
The way the two children remain motionless as they stared at each other, made the adults glanced at each other as though asking if what they were seeing in front of them were truly happening. They didn't just see two children staring at each other with so much intensity but they were also watching the strong aura emanating from both children and the way they were acting with each other. Inu-chan's red and golden aura was surrounding the baby's pink and white ones as though shielding it from harm and not a moment too long, both auras swirled with each other and seemed to be hugging like two childhood friends or lovers that had been separated for a long time. The red and gold aura remained entwined with the pink and white aura and together, they were producing immense power and purity. The next thing that they saw surprised them even more. Two new auras had joined the other two; these ones were blue and silver, and purple and bright green. The two auras were surrounding the other two in their protective circle. They glanced at the other two boys and realized that both of them were staring at Inu-chan and the young princess.
The baby gave a small gurgle as she continued to look at Inu-chan and then she gave a babyish giggle which made Inu-chan smile and nod as though they were conversing in a language that none of the adults can comprehend, and perhaps they were and they would probably never know what it was that they were saying to one another since none of them can comprehend some of the things that children do when they were conversing among themselves, even though they all had been children once in their life.
With the smile still on his young face, Inu-chan touched the baby's cheek tentatively as though afraid that he might hurt her without meaning to do so. Once his small hands touched the baby's cheek, she nuzzled into it and gave out a soft gurgle.
Seeing the interaction between her son and the young princess, Lady Izayoi begun to fathom her youngest son's behavior earlier in the week and smiling fondly at her son, she called out, "Inu-chan?" when the boy's ear swiveled to her direction she knew that at least some of his attention were focus on her seeing as his eyes were still in a staring contest with the newborn baby, "why don't you gave her your gift?"
"Gift?" voiced out the other adults in the room with questioning looks in their eyes as they turned curious glances between the young boy and his mother.
Inu-chan nodded his head as he took something out of his pockets and held it to the queen as his eyes finally left that baby's, who yawned and stretched in her mother's arms before she closed her eyes after nuzzling Inu-chan's hand once more. Inu-chan smiled adoringly and kissed the baby's forehead while the adults smiled as they saw a future between the two.
"What's this?" asked the queen with a smile. She opened her palm to Inu-chan, and the young child place a small silver bracelet with a cherry blossom charm, and engraved within the bracelet were the words 'Kagome' in beautiful cursive writing. Inu-chan waited for the queen's reaction anxiously as she looked at her with expectant eyes. Finally, after what seemed like forever to Inu-chan, the queen finally looked up and smiled at him, "it's beautiful dear," the young pup smiled at her brightly. Lady Kikyo turned to her dear friend and said, "Thank you Izayoi."
"Huh? Oh no, Kikyo!" exclaimed Lady Izayoi with small laugh, "I didn't buy that. Inu-chan here saw it a few months ago and asked for money saying that he was going to buy something. I was so startled to see a girl's bracelet in his hands after that, but when I saw the child I came to an understanding that he bought it for the princess. However, I am still shock that he knew it would be a girl."
"That's interesting," said King Shikon.
"Thank you, dear," said he Queen Kikyo as she looked at Inu-chan, who nodded. The queen looked at the bracelet once more and saw the engraving, "Kagome?"
"Name!" exclaimed Inu-chan.
All adults looked up at the young child and stared at him in wonder. "Huh?" while the other two child in the room nodded enthusiastically.
"Name! Name!" they exclaimed while looking at the adults as though they just discovered something historic.
"Pwetty 'gome," said Inu-chan.
With a giggle, the queen nodded. "YAY!"
"Very well," said the king, "Kagome Angel Shikon," he turned to the rest of the occupants of the room, "what do you think?"
"It's a very pretty name," said Lady Izayoi.
"A fixing name, for a powerful child," said Tricia.
"A name that would be remembered by all," started Lord Inutaisho, "as the one who had conquered evil and save us all."
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Later that night, a lone figure emerged from the castle holding a bundle tightly. The figure began to walk towards the nearby forest. The bundle that she was holding began to glow pink and either she didn't notice or didn't worry about it since she didn't stopped in its trekked. As the snow began to fall, a phoenix song and a Pegasus's neigh was heard in the distance.
Within the castle walls, the queen and king looked out the window as their eyes focused on the figure. Lady Izayoi and Lord Inutaisho looked between their friends and the disappearing figure with sadness in their eyes. Lady Kaede, who was standing nearby watched the scene before her with tears in her eyes as she watched her beloved king and queen with so much sadness and worry emitting from their auras. After a moment, when the figure disappeared from their line of sight and when they saw a flash of light within the forest, Lady Kikyo and Lady Izayoi buried their faces in their husbands' chest as they finally let their tears fall.
The two men looked between their wives and the children, who were sounds asleep on the bed not knowing what was taking place at the moment. "I wish you luck, my daughter," thought the king.
"Be safe and make us proud, my dear princess," thought Lord Inutaisho.