A siren like noise pierced through Kagome's skull, the intense pain causing her to cry out as she felt like her brain was beginning to pulse. She covered her ears trying desperately to keep out the noise, it didn't work. Was it a demon? It didn't sound like a demon? The noise was so high pitched, it felt like it was stabbing inside her head!
"MAKE IT STOP!" Kagome cried, curling herself in to a ball.
"Kaa-Kaa-aAaa-go-gome!" Inuyasha whined. Kagome tried to open her eyes to find him, despite the pain. Her eyes were blurry, she could barely make him out, he was in the foetal position trying to cover his ears, the noise hurting his more sensitive ears a lot worse than hers.
"In-inuyasha" Kagome Wailed reaching her hand out towards him. But with how much pain she was in, she withdrew her hand to clutch at her head again.
The siren lasted for what felt like hours, but was only a few seconds. It ended abruptly leaving groans behind.
"That hurt" Miroku grumbled rubbing at his ears as he slowly sat up, searching around him for the cause of the noise.
"What was it?" Shippo added, his tiny hands still covering his ears encase it started again.
"You okay Kagome?" Inuyasha winced, stumbling over to her, still holding his head. Kagome nodded, opening her mouth to reply, but her attention was caught by movement from behind him. She focused her eyes on behind Inuyasha noticing a a few weirdly dressed people, in a glass cell.
'What the?' Kagome blinked standing to her feet with Inuyasha's help, scrutinising her surroundings. They were in a glass cell too and there were glass cells all around them, beneath, above, left and right. Cells just like theirs, each holding something or someone. There were cells with animals, people, giants, demons and creatures Kagome couldn't even guess. Some looked like they were from her time, others looked like they were from the past, some looked like they were from a further future then she.
"Answer me woman! Are you okay?!"
"Inuyasha look" Sango interrupted when Kagome couldn't, halting his fussing over her. Raising an eyebrow in confusion Inuyasha turned to look where they were looking, his body stiffening as he noticed.
"What the hell!?"
"Where are we?" Shippu hiccuped clinging to Songo's leg his small little eyes showing how scared he was. Songo shook her head, though she wanted to comfort the small boy, she herself was unsure and rather terrified. So many glass cells around them, and in the centre of the room, was a huge strange object that flashed the word 'welcome'.
"Did Naraku do this?"
"No, I did not" Naraku's voice made everyone freeze, they all turned in the direction it came from, ready to fight. Naraku was stood at the back of the cell, his minions either side of him.
"You" Inuyasha growled diving towards him before anyone could move, his claws were ready to strike, and he slashed downwards, his hit was direction, and should have sliced Naraku's chest.
Should have.
Naraku didn't even flinch, instead he raised an eyebrow in amusement chuckling as Inuyasha laid hit after hit with no effect. His minions for once didn't even move to try protect him, they just stood their watching Inuyasha.
"We can't kill each other in whatever this is foolish half breed, I've already tried while you were sleeping" Naraku chuckled causing Inuyasha to growl again and swipe at him.
"I'll kill you"
"Yes please hit me again because it's obviously worked well for you the last 12 times" Naraku chuckled, opening his shirt to prove Inuyasha wasn't effecting him.
"Why have you brought us here!" Kagome questioned, giving him her best evil look, Naraku turned to her amusement clear on his face.
"Me? If I had brought you here, I wouldn't be stuck inside with you, also as previously stated you'd already bedead"
"So where are we?"
"Didn't he just state he this wasn't his doing?" Kagura questioned rolling her eyes at Sango's question.
"Well for some reason, We don't believe him" Koga added in, Kagome turned towards his voice, noting he, Ginta, Hakkaku, Ayame and a few other wolf tribe members we're there but they weren't the only ones. Sesshomaru, Jaken and Rin were in the farthest corner watching the scene, Kohaku was there, the band of 7, and so many more, enemies and friends alike. Why were they all here? And where was here?
"Ye best be changing that then child" Kaede interrupted all eyes turned to her as Miroku helped her off the floor.
"You're sticking up for him?" Inuyasha grumbled earning a stare from Kaede, which clearly showed her annoyance.
"Naraku is strong, but even he has not the power to bring us to where this be, look around ye child, it seems to me, there are many world's who have been brought here"
"Many worlds? Since when was their different worlds?" Inuyasha questioned glancing towards Kagome as if she had been keeping a secret.
"I don't know, I mean if I can travel from present to past, I guess other words are possible"
Kagome stared around again, her eyes glancing at each cell that she could see, Giants, people who looked like they were from the future, some from her time, others from the past, demons, creatures. Kaede was right, there was no way Naraku had the power to do this.
"Told you it wasn't me"
"Shut up"
"So who brought us here?" Shippo blinked staring at Kaede for an answer, but she merely shrugged.
"I am as clueless as ye child. Last I remember is healing one of the village children"
From the looks that crossed everyone's faces, no one else had much memories of their day's either, so who ever had brought them here, had taken their memory of how they were taken? But why? And what did this person, or people or things, want with them?
"I really do not have a good feeling about this" Kagome whispered glancing around at all the cells again.
"So no one remembers anything at all? Nothing?" Ichigo questioned glancing around at his clueless friends, and annoyingly his clueless enemies as well. Stuck in a glass box with people who were trying to kill you, was not a way he had wanted to spend his weekend. But considering none of them could actually harm each other in where ever they were, there was little he could do about it and he had tried…multiple times.
"Once again strawberry no" Renji grunted earning a glare from Ichigo.
"I'm just trying to work out where we are!"
"Well asking us the same questions isn't going to help is it!"
"Let's see you think of a new idea!"
"It looks like a prison" Karin cut in staring at the cells around them. Ichigo paused ripping his eyes from glaring at Renji as he stared down at his sister. Both she and Yuzu were there, even his father. It really set him on edge, were they in danger? It didn't make sense, looking around, there was most who looked like they could fight, and some who barely looked like they could walk, and there was children. What was going on?
"But if it's a prison why does it say welcome?" Yuzu questioned pointing towards the centre of the room. A huge 360 degree screen, kept flashing the word over and over, almost like someone was taunting them.
"What I want to know is, how they got in to soul society " Shunsui commented. "There was no alarm, no break in, they got in without our noticing, and took everyone, and wiped out memories of how" Toshiro added in agreement. All the captains and a lot of squad members, were there, it really did not make sense.
"What ever is going on, I don't think we are going to like it" Uryu muttered his eyes focused on the Hollows that were in a separate cell to them and the Arrancars who ever unfortunately in the cell with them.
"Me either"
"Is this one of your special training techniques reborn?" Tsuna questioned his eyes shifting between very pissed of Vaira members, and a few of their enemies, who looked equally annoyed and confused.
"No" Reborn mused his eyes focused on the screen in the centre of the room, as if waiting for it to change.
"Don't think this is something even Reborn could pull off Kora" Colonello added in folding his arms as he glanced up Tsuna from his place on the ground. Tsuna switched his gaze to the blonde, understanding exactly what he meant. Despite having their pacifiers around their necks still, they….they were adults, and from what Tsuna had heard about the curse, it definitely wasn't something Reborn had the power to do.
"So where are we?"
"Looks like some sort of game" Mukuro cut in tilting his head as he stared at the monsters in the cell next to them, as they tried to bite and claw at the glass to get to them. He grinned laughing his signature laugh as he taunted them.
"A game?" Basil repeated tilting his head at the man waiting for him to answer…but he didn't.
"Well that does make sense, there's a lot of different….people" Dino nodded, his eyes focused on a large giant woman, who seemed to be talking to a small pig and a floating nodded taking another look around him, at all the different cells he could see, there was some he couldn't see inside, but the most he could see where all different. Very very different. . There was cells with people with tails, there were strange creatures, Giants, floating people, people who looked like robots, ones with capes, there were all sorts.
"If this is a game…why are there babies" Kyoko questioned pointing across from them, to a woman holding a small toddler to her.
"Same reason we are?" Byakuran shrugged stretching out comfortably on the ground.
"How are babies and children supposed to play?" Futa questioned holding his book protectively to him.
"Maybe it's not supposed to be a fair game" Reborn answered bringing his eyes away from the screen meeting Tsuna's, though he looked calm, Tsuna could tell he was guarded, ready for anything, he hadn't seen Reborn so on guard, it made him feel nervous, which was something he hadn't really felt since he was a teen.
What was going on!?
"I don't like this, I don't like this one bit" Luffy mused his usual joking self nowhere in sight.
"You aren't the only one" Sanji nodded, his eyes sweeping the room again, cells of strange beings, and their enemies surrounding them. It wasn't a situation he had ever dreamed of.
"Urg what is this glass made out of! No matter what I use, it will not break!" Nami grumbled kicking at the glass in anger.
"I don't think it's actually glass"
"What do you mean? It sure looks like glass to me"
"It looks like it yes, and we have no reason to believe it's not, but we've been captured by something, we have no memories of how, we are stuck in a seemingly never ending room, with rows and rows of people and creatures that seem humanly in possible, with a huge screen in the middle that also doesn't seem to end either, nothing seems possible about the situation, so what's saying the glass isn't glass?" Robin explained staring around at her friends, who stared at her as if she had grown another head.
"Just think about it, this room was created by someone or something, if they can make a room that doesn't end, what's saying they didn't create this? Like Nami said no matter what she uses she can't break out, and I've been watching a few other cells try to break out as well, and the things they've used should have freed them, but it hasn't, I mean that guy over there, used explosives"
"It's like the glass is there but isn't there" Zoro nodded touching their class cell.
"So what are we trapped inside of?" Chopper questioned poking the glass himself.
"I don't know, but it seems to be made to make sure nothing can get out"
"Who ever captured us, has made sure we can't escape"
"But why?"
"I don't know, I haven't worked that bit out yet" Robin shrugged folding her arms as she scanned around her again.
"How strange" Armin mused, his eyes still studying the room, they were in.
"What's strange?"
"I've been studying the other cells, the ones I can see, seem to have enemies inside their cells with them, but we are in a separate cell from the titans, does that not strike you as odd?"
"We have enemies inside our cell to" Eren muttered glaring towards the traitors who had tried to capture and kill him multiple times.
"We do, but not the titans, I'm just saying, it's strange, we can't harm each other inside the cell, and we were put in a cell with some of our enemies but we were still put in a separate cell from the titans"
"It is strange" Mikasa nodded staring at the titans that seemed to be trying to eat the glass to get to the people in cells around them. "But I don't see how it helps us?"
"Who ever captured us, probably knew the titans wouldn't stop attempting to eat people, so even though they couldn't harm us put them in their own cell"
"So?" Reiner cut in, earning a few glares for his input.
"The mindless creatures were put in their own cells, because they knew they'd have little control over them" Armin nodded pointing to a few other cells with creatures that just seemed to relentlessly try to get to the people or animals around them.
"So they are controlling us?"
"No Eren, but after a few or a lot of attacks in some cases, we stopped attacking each other it wasn't getting us anywhere, but the mindless ones are still trying, so who ever captured us, I think they know about us, I think they studied us before they captured us"
"But why?"
"That one….that one I don't know"
(Oc's)
Kiyza glanced over at the cell across from them, as a human with a huge sword attempted to break the cell they were in again, it didn't work, but then again she didn't think it would. They had already tried to break out of their own cell, multiple times but no matter how hard they hit or what they used, it wouldn't break. And none of the others who had attempted escape, had managed to get out either.
"Foolish humans" Deanko snorted watching the same human go flying backwards knocking over a few of the others in the cell with him, starting a fight amongst them.
"Let them tire their selves out, it might make winning whatever this is, easier for us" Rakasha added in though his own eyes were watching a few humans in a different cell who were attacking each other, despite they couldn't injure each other. There was a bald human with a cape, who seemed to keep getting knocked around. It was rather amusing, a lot of the cells seemed to be at war.
'wait did he say-'
"Winning? You think whatever this is, is a game?"
"I don't know, but with so many different species here, I'd imagine so"
"I agree, look at them all, there are so many different ones, weak, strong, young, old, even we, we have cubs, we have our elders" One of the elders from the Lion tribe nodded. Kiyza wasn't too sure of his name, they didn't exactly mix, their tribes lived nowhere near each other, it was always a rule to stay out of other tribe's territory to avoid a war, and Kiyza never broke that rule.
"How exactly would my cub be able to fight, he's barely learnt to walk" One of the Wolf tribe snarled as she motioned to the tiny scared cub clinging to her.
"Maybe that's the point, some of us aren't meant to fight" Rakasha added.
"It doesn't make sense!"
"No it doesn't, but for whatever reason we are here, it's not a good one"
"Look" Elizabeth pointed halting the arguments around her. Everyone's attention turned to her, before they followed her finger which pointed towards the giant screen.
It had changed.
The word's 'Time to start' were flashing, everyone stood to attention, each cell silencing, watching as the words were replaced with images of every cell, the tension was something easily felt, what ever reason they were here for…it was about to begin.
'Contestants' flashed across the screen, as the pictures of the cells, flipped through each person or thing inside. As quick as it rolled through everyone a few times, a few of the cells disappeared from the screen, the rest focusing on the image of whom was chosen from each, the ones on the screen evaporating from the cells, as quick as they had been chosen. A course of noise echoed around the room as people's family, friends, love ones, disappeared.
"Not every cell was picked" Hawk noted as no one from their cell had gone, nor a few of the others.
"Where did they go?" Elizabeth questioned staring at a young mother who began slamming against the cell wall in a panic as her baby was taken from her arms.
"I think we might be about to find out" Diane breathed nodding her head towards the screen as it again changed. it was suddenly filled with outside scenery, the people that had disappeared from the cells were on the screen, in what looked like the middle of a forest. A robotic voice, declaring a single word to them.
'Run'.
