Before anybody presses the back button, I would appreciate it if you take a look at my first story, the prequel to this one: A Strange Adventure. The OC in the story is not a Mary Sue. While I do admit that the writing in the first story could have been better, it was my first fanfic. This is my eleventh or so and therefore the plotting will be much better.
A Strange Adventure: OC. When a girl is found in the mist running from a strange shadow and rescued by Inuyasha and the gang, they never dreamed that it would turn out to be so much trouble. Now, they are struggling for their lives in an epic battle with the girl's strange enemies, who are neither human or demon, but something entirely different.
Twisted Fates: Sequel to A Strange Adventure. Summary: There has been a twist in the fabric of the world between the worlds. Not a big problem, right? Wrong. Inuyasha and the gang never met up thanks to the world between the worlds interfering with the Bone Eater's Well. Inuyasha is still stuck on the tree, Miroku is doomed, Sango has her family, Shippo lives with his father, and Kagome never heard of the feudal era. When Miya finds out, it's up to her to figure out how to get the gang together again and fix the problem.
It's been a while, I know. I was busy with other stuff. On the bright side, it was only a couple of months. In any case, here's the sequel to A Strange Adventure! I have the second chapter already written out. REVIEW please!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own InuYasha, although Miya and all her abilities belong to me.
Chapter 1: Prologue
It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the leaves were green, the flowers colorful, and the air…stinky. Not far away from the gorgeous park was a dirty city with garbage strewn about and cars belching smoke. Despite this stark difference, though, the park was almost empty save for one person.
A dark-haired girl in jeans and a navy sweater sat cross-legged under a tree. She was frowning slightly, as if something was bothering her. Perhaps it was the air…
In any case, Miya was meditating, breathing in and out slowly. The meditation was for focusing her abilities, which had been acting up as of lately and needed fine-tuning. The only place where she could get peace and quiet was the park, which wasn't very quiet anyway because of the noise of the city not far away.
However, soon even the relative silence of the park was shattered when a loud yowl and a barking pierced the air. Miya's eyes snapped open, revealing a startling pair of blue irises. She looked faintly disgruntled at being interrupted before realizing how late it was by the shadows stretching across the ground.
She got up and stretched, touching the grass between her feet momentarily before standing up and blinking at the tall buildings just above the trees. Shaking her head and muttering something incomprehensible under her breath, Miya set off to the dirty city that she hated with a passion.
'Of all the places that world could dump me in, it had to dump me here.' She trudged right by some overflowing dumpsters and turned right out of the alley, mingling with the pedestrians that were bustling along to somewhere. She ignored the thoughts barraging her from all sides, simply shutting them out.
Still grumbling about her luck, Miya made her way to a rather rundown apartment. There was no one else in the halls but one could hear shouting and glass shattering from behind some of the doors. Miya winced as a particularly vile curse reached her ears.
'Just another day in the year 3205 about ways the Earth can go bad.' She flopped down on the bed, the springs creaking and the mattress sagging dangerously. It didn't bother her. 'The environment here isn't helpful when it comes to meditating. It's keeping me from finding out what's bothering me.'
Frowning at the cracks in the ceiling did absolutely nothing to solve her problem or alleviate the pounding headache she had been carrying for the last few days. All her senses were on high alert and the extra stress from being in such a noisy place both mentally and physically wasn't helping. She sighed once before rolling over and closing her eyes. In several minutes she was asleep.
It was early morning when Miya woke up. She blinked slowly, processing everything around her at a rapid pace. As soon as the information was absorbed, Miya got up, seeming to reach for something before seeing what she had slept in.
She sighed, exasperated. "I have got to stop sleeping in my clothes."
Muttering about her lack of fortune and about only having one outfit to wear, Miya straightened them, pressed out the wrinkles, brushed her hair, and grabbed a loaf of dry bread to eat. She opened the door out of her apartment with a password in a foreign tongue and left the building, making her way to the park.
Once Miya had sat down under the tree, she took her time examining the scenery. 'If only figuring out what's giving me a headache would be as easy as getting myself dirty. It's obviously not just stress. I've done enough meditating to relieve the worst of tension. It's something outside of this reality. But what is it?'
Miya sighed again, letting her thoughts drift back to the last adventure she had. 'I wonder how they're doing.'
Thinking about her friends back in feudal Japan made her depressed, so Miya shook those thoughts out of her head and focused on meditating. The sounds around her drifted away until they were a mere buzzing. Yet still the headache continued to pound her temples and made thinking painful. On top of that, her clothes were starting to get wet.
'Wait… They're wet?' Miya's eyes snapped open and she found herself in a dense fog. But there was something odd about it.
Miya got to her feet, taking a closer look at her surroundings. She knew exactly where she was: the world between the worlds, or the curtain that veiled everything and prevented the worlds from colliding. But something was different. It took another second for her to figure out what it was: The mist was twisting in odd directions as if there was wind snaking through it and disrupting it. The only problem with that theory was that there was no wind.
Miya frowned, inspecting the phenomenon more closely. 'It's like the world itself is twisting,' she realized with a growing horror.
She felt something tugging at her clothes and turned, only to find the same force pulling at her whole body. Then there was something pushing at her mind, picking at her memories and threatening to erase them. The first few memories that came to mind were the ones of Inuyasha and the other friends she'd made in feudal Japan. Miya violently slammed her mind shut, protecting her memories ferociously. After that, the only thing she could do was hunch over and wait for the end.
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It ended after what seemed like an eternity. Miya pried her fingers loose from her sweater and uncurled from her crouch. With that done, she inspected the world around her.
It felt strange. Even the mist looked different, swirling around in different patterns than what she was used to. Miya was distracted from this thought by a weight at her hip. She looked down to see a worn sheath with a hilt from a dagger poking out.
She unsheathed it slowly, looking with wonder at the gleaming blade. It was an exact replica of the one she'd lost almost a year ago. The one she'd lost when on the run from the wraith with the shard from the Shikon no Tama.
'How is it possible? I lost this... I can't just get it back. Unless…' A sudden suspicion igniting in her mind, Miya scrutinized the mist even more closely. She started to taste the area around her with her mind, feeling the flavor. It took a few seconds for the results to register.
The flavor was completely different. If she didn't know better, she would've thought that she wasn't even in the curtain.
'What could have happened?' Miya did a slow 360, stunned. 'What…?'
She was broken out of her stunned state by an opening in the mist. At least that was one thing she was familiar with. There were green leaves visible and a small hut that Miya instantly recognized. It helped steady her mind.
'All right. That settles it. It's time to go back.'
There we go. The situation has been set. While no one from InuYasha was in here, it was just the prologue. The next chapter will have more meat in it. BTW, if any of you guys are confused about what's going on and why this story is put in the InuYasha category, read the first story A Strange Adventure! That'll explain everything.
Would it be too much to ask for a review? Things will pick up in the next chapter! I'm not sure when I can upload that but I hope it will be soon.