Hey guys! I know I started other stories and I wrote more on them it's just that my old computer decided it wanted to crash so I lost all my old stuff! Well now I started this new one and decided to post it so tell me what you think!
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any of its characters. However I do own my character AnuAlyana and my ideals on this story.
Enjoy the story!
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A Raging Storm
Chapter 1: The beginning…
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The land was under turmoil, the sky was an oppressive color of black impenetrable with all the smoke billowing out of the burning shiro below. People and youkai both fled from the flames that sprung forth from their home wishing to drag them to hell in its furious depths.
The heat this fire gave off was enormous; the forest surrounding the castle writhed in agony of the sheer mass. Animals darted about desperately trying to find their way through the smoke. The flames seemed to leap from the castle to the forest in seconds engulfing the emerald sanctuary whole.
Cries were heard and chaos was evident, a child crying for her mother who had been trapped in their home by the fire while trying to protect her brother. Many youkai and humans were burned trying to protect the royals who were still inside the castle.
The lord of this castle was a youkai by the name of Yaki, he was a shadow Tai youkai and even though said to be evil he cared for his people. His family: a mate, Yozora, a loving and protective Inu demoness, and his only child at the moment, Fujinhikyuu who has his colors but his wife's temper and attitude.
When the fire struck it was impossible to determine the cause or origin, the fire roared all around in no specific location. What should have been a dark moonless night was now just as bright as day. The glow from the fire acted as its own sun illuminating all in the castle and village perfectly.
The sound of a howl and resonated through the castle walls the sadness interlaced in the tone bone shattering. "It is the lady!" A sentry yelled rushing toward the entrance of the castle still partially engulfed in flames.
"Don't just stand around do something!" The guard yelled. In a flurry of movement the castle was full of people carrying pails of water trying to eradicate the flames. The entrance was put out rather quickly but the moment they began their way down the hall a wall of fire sprang forth once more.
The men were forced back many suffering insignificant burns to their unprotected skin and coughing at the sweltering heat. "She cannot still be alive." One male said bent over gasping for air determined to get the smoke out of his lungs. Just as those words left that youkai's lips the far side of the castle collapsed.
"That was the family wing." Another whispered, one of the male servants.
"What about the child?" A female servant cries. "A small child like that wouldn't be able to breathe in there." The guard says forcefully his chest constricting remembering the little doll of a child. "But there has to be-."
"It's over. We failed our masters." The guard rumbles.
"Someone help me!" A voice cries sounding feeble through the dense fog.
"Please come quick!" The crowd assembled in the courtyard surged into action succeeding the voice to the devastated area of the castle. The guard, Hatori, who had been nominated a temporary leader, was the first one there seeing a woman trapped underneath the collapsed wreckage.
"Everyone start picking up this mess! Get her out of here!" The others, a group of about seven set to the task of lifting the crumbled portions of stone off of the woman.
"How did you get under all this?" The woman servant examines soothing the wounded woman.
"The lady, she helped me toward the balcony away from the fires. She was still inside. And the child, she was getting sick! It wasn't just a fire. Someone attacked the lord! He was fighting while we left. The lady was right behind me when the castle began to shake. She must have been crushed!"
The female servant cast an apprehensive glance in the direction of Hatori who only gave a dark grimace. "We will find our lord and lady...and the little one. They deserve such honor." All approved as they gradually but confidently pushed away the pinning boulders that were once their home.
A villager gave a shout after picking up another rock. "O-over here!" The man hollers bending and grabbing and throwing rocks frantically. As a few others rush over they realize the urgency.
"General Hatori!" The lieutenant who was busy moving large chunks of wall calls to Hatori urgently beckoning the older man over hurriedly to assist in the removal of the barricading stone wall.
Hatori was expecting they discovered additional creature requiring being unburied but as he approached he saw the pronounced white fur and his breath froze. "It is the lady."
The lieutenant nods then slumps miserably. "She is not breathing and the amount of blood..." A hiccup is heard and soft whimpering sobs.
"What was that? Did you hear that?" The lieutenant questions his eyes wide. Hatori recognized that sound very well and in seconds he was driving himself through the crowd and excavating with his own hands while others watched unmoving.
Hatori dug until his muscles screamed and his claws felt ripped out of his fingers but when he saw the head of little ebony curls his pain vanished. "Fu...It is alright now. Come here pup."
The little gold eyes peer up at Hatori with tears flooding from the small almond shapes. "Mama...H'tori..." Hatori nods his understanding and outstretches his arms and the pup gives a shattered sob crawling out of the space her mother made to keep her alive.
The moment the pup was close enough Hatori grabbed her up and into his chest her face burying into the crook of his neck. "Scary...mn'ster hurt papa!" The pup sobs holding on to Hatori for dear life. "No let get me H'tori! No let get me!"
The injured woman was heaved out and was now sitting observing the scene with her own eyes brimming with forthcoming tears. "The thing that attacked our lord that is what she speaks of. It was a monster, red eyes and smoke spilling from its mouth. A dragon youkai. It is likely what started the fires." The others absorbed that slowly feeling dread weigh relentlessly in their stomachs. "He will come for the heir." The woman said quietly, "I say we just let him have her and spare our own lives." Hatori turned red eyes on the woman; her words had thrown him over the edge.
"How dare you say such things! Our masters protected you from all that is bad and you want to return their kindness with such putrid words. Trade a small pup's life for your own how pathetic!"
The woman looked horrified at what he had said then ashamed and her head bows despondently. "We cannot defeat this creature if even our lord could not."
"Maybe we can go into hiding with the pup?" A woman says menacingly, she had been discreet and detached until now her eyes an obscure purple. "I will take the pup and care for her. I will hide her youkai heritage under a mask and she will grow to potential. When the time comes she will be ready to face what the monsters cruelty has left her."
"And who are you to speak such things?" Hatori sneers outraged by this woman's insolence.
"I am Xana, the sorceress of the Lord Yaki. It is my right to protect the heir who holds my life in her blood."
"I am the protector of this child. Not you." Hatori growls distastefully.
"You care not for her only wish for your own safety." The rumble of rocks tumbling and a great growl sounds and the sorceress frowns. "Decide now or it will be too late and the dragon will have the child." The sorceress demands her purple eyes penetrating.
"I will come with you." Hatori says leaving no room for argument.
"Very well but be warned, you are in no way my debt." At that the trio disappeared.
The others scrambled soon after hearing the enraged roar or the dragon scrambling to escape from the flames that spewed forth from the castle once more. The sky that had been black and swollen finally breaks beneath the pressure of all its rain and fat droplets fall from the sky. This night the sky was feeling the same pain as a shadow Inu youkai pup as they wept in unity.
