A/N: Alright, the original chapter one was annoying me because it was making Ch. 2 difficult to write, so I'm revamping the chapter, but it's still the same plot, it's just going to have a different intro.

So, I need a cheesy/awesome name for a punk gothic club Simi would frequent. Ideas, people?

Guide

Laksdfl- thoughts or actions and descriptions, etc

"…" Speech

"Italics" Greek

Chapter one: Down Goes the Veil

It was a beautiful day, perfect for lying under the Goshinboku tree and just relaxing. Though any day outside felt perfect to me, I had always felt a connection to the earth. Mother always called me her little forest nymph, her love of Greek mythology the reason behind the nickname, and my own love of everything Greek. I should have been tending to the shrine grounds, seeing as my family was out of town for the week for a school function of Souta's and as I was already grandpa's assistant he let me run it instead of closing it for the day, but the grass was just so inviting. Surely a small rest wouldn't do me any harm, right? It's not like the shrine brought people in by the droves; it only had a few visitors a day.

Today, for once, the air was clear, though it could never be as clean as it was in the past. Breathing in the air, it was almost like I was breathing in my memories, reliving them. Flashes of campfires, the mood both somber and light hearted somehow, battles fought and won, the clashing of swords and tearing of flesh still sounding as clear as the day they were fought. The sense of calm that would wash over us as another shard was purified and added to our portion of the jewel. The nerve wracking day when Inuyasha and Sesshomaru (somewhat) put aside their family feud and joined forces in the pursuit of Naraku.

Finally, the day of the final battle came, the rain drenching everything, turning the ground into a red marsh, screams, flashes of light, and the clash of weapons filling the night. I stood out of the way, firing arrows into Naraku's horde when I could find a clear shot, though mostly my goal was to spot jewel shards, and inform the pack. When I spotted Naraku, we were ready with our plan, and most of his minions were dead or had run away. Three devastating blows from Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, and me, and Naraku was too weak to move, his part of the jewel was knocked out of him from my arrow, so he couldn't rejuvenate. We thought it fitting that in the end he would be sucked into the wind tunnel, stuck in an endless void he created, never to escape. And then it was over, Miroku's wind tunnel gone, Sango's brother at piece, and Inuyasha with his revenge.

In the end, Kikyo (Who had given up on Inuyasha, and was only staying with the living until Naraku was dead) and I decided that wishing the Shikon gone was the only way. I'm not sure the wish turned out the way we thought it would, because the jewel exploding into a fine mist, covering Kikyo and me, but neither of us could sense it anymore, so I shrugged it off. After a heart felt goodbye to Kikyo, who had somehow become my friend, and had even helped me in my training so I was finally able to master my powers, I called our soul back to me, and Kikyo turned back to dust. Then there were the goodbyes to my pack. It almost broke my heart to leave them all (even Jaken a bit, though I don't know why) but I didn't belong in this time, and I felt as though I had a destiny waiting for me back home. And now here I was, running the shrine, thoughts of another adventure the farthest thing from my mind.

Footsteps interrupted my reminiscing, and with a sigh I stood up to great the guest, not bothering to brush the debris from my clothing (not that there was any, dirt and grass never stuck to my clothing. Well, it did when I was little, but I had wanted it to so I could give my mother a hard time). "Hello, welcome to the Sunset Shrine, My name is Kagome, and I'm the resident priestess here. How may I help you?" I said with a somewhat low bow, enough to show respect, but not so much that it seemed they were my superior. Coming up from the bow, when my eyes landed on the woman that was here, it felt like I was frozen. She was tall, 5 or so inches above my own 5'9, and beautiful, with long black hair curling down past her bottom. Her heart shaped face, with model worthy features, and eyes of startling emerald, made me think of female demons with their unearthly beauty. All in all, I felt inadequate standing next to her. The weirdest thing of all was that she seemed so familiar, but I was positive that she was a stranger. Plus there was her weird power signature that I couldn't seem to get a good reading on. I guess she was used to shocked reactions from people, because it seemed as soon as I was out of it, she spoke.

"Ka…Kagome? It's so wonderful to see you again. Oh, louloudaki mou, I've been waiting for this moment forever. I'm so glad you survived everything, and now you can know the truth." It seemed as though her eyes were watering, and her words choked, but they flowed beautifully now, somehow reminiscent of stream.

Sadly, I was too busy listening to the sound of her voice that it took me a bit to actually process what she had said. "Uh, I'm sorry, but I don't, ah, remember you." It wasn't' until then that the rest of what she said hit me as odd. "Wait, what do you mean 'I survived'? What do you know about that? And what do you mean 'the truth?'" Feeling a little caustic, I did the quotation marks movement with me fingers. Hands on my hips, I stared her down. Or at least I tried to; it's hard to stare some one down who is about half a foot taller than me. Sadly, it seemed my glare had lost its power, because she just continued to beam at me. "And who the hell are you anyway?" I was a bit frightened, though mostly angry, and as it turns out, Inuyasha was a bad influence (big surprise there). Now whenever I'm really high strung I started to cuss. Right about now my friends would be cowering, but not this woman. In fact she was walking closer to me.

"Right, I know you have questions, but it's not safe here. I'm being tracked, and now your identity is most likely known. Come, I have some where safe we can talk. Just take my hand." She continued to advance until she stood less than a foot away, easily in touching distance.

"Yeah right, as if I'd grab your hand. 'Come on little kid, I swear there is candy in my van, you just have to climb inside first' do you think I'm st-" She lunged for my hand, moving faster than any demon I had seen, and grabbed hold of my hand, and in a flash we were gone

THIS IS A LINE THIS IS A LINE THIS IS A LINE THIS IS A LINE I AM A LINE. I declare, therefore I am! -

It took me a second, but finally my eyes cleared, and if my past had taught me anything, it's to be prepared. I called my purification powers into my hands, and took out a paralysis sutra from my pocket (courtesy of Miroku, for teaching me, and ji-ji, who took to my teaching and made me carry them constantly) and 'charged' it so to speak. Next I took a catalogue of my surroundings. One exit, behind the woman, several pillars holding up the rounded golden ceilings, vines crawling up the walls, and a distant part of my brain was alarmed when I smelt the wonderful smell of forests, like it was in the past, and calmed down, which caused my powers to recede. Luckily, the sutra could still be used. Finally, my eyes flicked back to the woman, who stood there with a sense of anticipation and excitement radiating from her. "What the Hell! Who…what..." I couldn't seem to find the right question to ask, all of them trying to claw there way out of my head.

"How did you get the vines to crawl up the walls like that? I've been trying for years! Uh, forget I said that," That really wasn't a question that was pertinent to the situation. I could feel a headache pulsing in the back of my head, ready to break out, so I took a deep breath of forest and tried to calm myself down. It didn't work as well as I had wanted it to, but my mind wasn't clamoring at me now.

"Ok, real question. Where the fuck are we, who are you, and what do you want." I'm surprised that my throat didn't freeze over, and now I was pissed. She dragged me away from my home to who knows where, and now she's just standing there with an excited, secretive smile, like she won the game or something. Reason, it was nice knowing you, have a wonderful trip!

After she just kept on staring at me for a minute (it looked like she was memorizing my features or something equally weird and stalkerish) I was ready to get answers Miroku style, other wise known as sneaky and underhanded. I stalked toward the…woman, for a lack of name and or species, determination flowing through me, and tossed the sutra at her. And like a heat seeking missile, it stuck right on her forehead, paralyzing her in place. Well, at least that answered one of my questions, which told me she was some form of demon, because those are the kind that sutra's work on, or at least that is what Kikyo said. From the shocked and slightly fearful look on her face I guess she wasn't expecting that.

"Uh…Sorry, but you were just, well, standing there, and not saying anything, so I thought a change in tactics would be a good idea. So, answers, please?" I was feeling a bit guilty now, but hey, you don't just go over and snatch unsuspecting people from their homes and take them to strange places. Luckily the sutra paralyzed all but her mouth, which takes a bit more concentration and effort to make, but they were very useful in the past, and that was the way I taught ji-ji.

"Wha…How, that shouldn't work on me. Sutras have never worked on us before. Unless…Oh gods, a god killer? But that's…" She snapped her mouth shut, which suited me fine, seeing as she was just spouting nonsense, though she wasn't the first demon that I had met that had delusions of godhood. "You want answers? I have a necklace in the pouch on my belt, place it near your heart and things will start to make sense." She looked sincere when she said that, but she could be a liar.

"Come on, I'm not an idiot. Now tell me what I want to know! You said you would answer my question, before you did your snatch and flash act…Uh that sounded wrong. Never mind. Anyway, are you going to answer me or not?" Now the headache was coming back full force, and all I wanted was to go to sleep on my nice comfy bed back on the shrine…

"I give you my oath, as a god, that I am not intentionally bringing you harm. This really will answer your questions, but you need to actually touch the necklace for me to be able give you the answers you seek. Please, just…please." I don't know if it was her eyes or her voice, but something told me I could trust her. So I walked the last couple of feet towards her, and looked at the pouch hanging of a gold cord around her waist. It looked good against the forest green toga thing she was wearing. It also looked very comfortable (the toga thing that is, not the string). Damn, side tracked again. Or maybe I was just stalling. I reached over, opened the pouch, and reached inside, grabbing hold of a chain and pulling it out.

I took a moment to just stare at the necklace, admiring the green swirling around, flashes of red and gold appearing here and there. I looked at the woman, who gave me an encouraging look, and unclasped the necklace, bringing it up to my throat.

"Wait! Take this off me first; I can't be paralyzed when you do this."

"Um, sorry, but I can't do that. I want to make sure you are trust worthy. I mean, you did kidnap me and all, but my instincts are telling me to trust you, so they and my brain made a deal, and now you have to stay paralyzed. Well, here goes nothing!" Pushing the bit of doubt out of my mind, I lifted the necklace again, clasped it around my neck, and picked up my shirt and let it drop in.

At this point the only thing I was aware of was pain. It was radiating from my chest, poring into my heart and spreading throughout my veins. It felt like eternity, and eternity in which I forgot everything that was me and pain was the only thing that I knew

Realistically, it took approximately 5 minutes, but it sure as hell felt longer. The first thing that I became aware of was a bit of wetness on my face. Next, I felt a hand running through my hair and a voice singing soothingly in a language that I knew I wasn't familiar with, but I could somehow understand it. I panicked a bit, because it was extremely dark, but then I realized that my eyes were just closed, and I calmed down.

Upon opening my eyes, I saw two shimmering orbs of green staring down at me in worry, tears dripping off her face to land on mine. I was lying on the floor, with her head nestled in her lap. Huh, I wonder how she got out of the sutra. I thought she said that she wouldn't cause me any pain! I guess I spoke out loud, because she answered both of my thoughts.

"Well, you blacked out for a second, and when you did the sutra released me. I know, little flower, but if you would recall my wording, I said 'Intentionally cause you pain' which, while true, is a little underhanded. But I needed to unlock your god powers, and I can't break my oath. It's a part of being one of the Big Twelve. Understandably, Zeus had to hire a lawyer once they were available, because he's a bit slow, but that is neither here or there. So, how do you feel, daughter?"

I took a second to focus my miko powers on my body, scanning for threats, when I ran across something odd. In my metaphysical center was a swirling mass of power, the same color as the orb, though now there was pink swirling in there as well. When I pulled the necklace out of my shirt, the orb was empty, totally clear. I looked again at the woman, but my eyes were pulled down by the sun hitting the golden cord around her waist, and started thinking about how comfortable her toga thing looked, much more comfortable than my miko garb. And, to my immense surprise, when I looked down I was wearing the same thing! When I jerked my head back to the woman (She really needed to give me her name, I was tired of labeling her 'The Woman' in my thoughts) my head felt unnaturally heavy, and I realized that my hair no longer fell to my shoulders, but now fell down to mid thigh. What the hell did this woman do to me?

Sadly, it took me a moment to think back in our conversation and pick up all the clues that she had dropped. "Wait, you really are a god? Zeus? What do you mean god powers? My mother is human, and so was my father! What the fuck did you do to me?" I jumped up to my feet, now finally able to tower and glower down all I wanted, seeing as she was still sitting. Then her last sentence really hit me. "Daughter? Are you insane? Wha…wait, were you speaking in Greek? I don't know Greek. What the…" I think my brain died out for a bit, probably allowing me to make a very attractive gaping mouth face.

She looked up at me kindly and pulled me back down to sit next to me, putting her arm around my shoulders comfortingly. "Kagome, look at me. What I'm about to tell you is the absolute truth about your origin. I give you my oath, upon pain of death that it is so. My name is Demeter, and I am the goddess of earth, granddaughter of Gaia, and you are my daughter. I'm sorry that you had to go through so much pain, but I had to return your powers to you, for we are living in dark times, doubly so for us. First there is a…thing that has been stalking me and my family for centuries, trying to kill them to bring the same pain that was I made him suffer through. Really, it was kind of an accident. Plus, he was too clingy, and so I cast him from my bed, and things got worse from there. For the last 22 years you have been his target, though in the last 3 years or so there have been no traces of him. And the more pressing issue is an old evil, an enemy you once fought, that, while he has not completely returned, is taking over the daimons, and forcing them to do his bidding. Sadly, it is once again your destiny to once again fight him. I would do everything in my power to change this, but it has been foreseen. Though I can help you prepare, so I have a trusted friend that will help train you. Um, I think that's about it. So, any questions?"

The last thing I remembered is seeing her alarmed face right before I passed out. I really had to stop doing this. I never used to faint, and weirder things (may) have happened in the past. Maybe there is something wrong with my brain.

End.

A/N: So what do you think? Better than the first one? I certainly think so. I'm already working on the second chapter, so I'll (Hopefully) have it up in a day or so.

Translations

louloudaki mou- My little flower. I thought it was appropriate seeing as this is Demeter and all.

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