Dea Mariella

Stranded: An Inuyasha Fanfic

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, that honor and glory belongs to the great Rumiko Takahashi-sama. But I do rent them for the sumptuous sum of $.02 a week…

Prologue

It had been a long battle. Even little Shippou had fought hard, but it was to no avail. The black miko they had been tracing for days, vanished.

They had first come across signs of some malignant magic in Musashi's domain the week before. It actually turned up 20 minutes walk outside of the village they call home. Nothing major, just little perversions with the natural harmony of life. Faintly disquieting things, such as a stream running the opposite direction. If you hadn't known that they were wrong, you would have never noticed. So they set out to stop this strange work.

It was Miroku who found her; for all of his hentai-ness, he was still a monk. Kagome, though powerful, was not suited for this kind of subtle work. She was more used to the blazing signal of youkai jyakki.

She had laughed when they came to fight her, for she knew they wouldn't win. She laughed, recited a strange spell, and vanished into thin air. Luckily, Sango threw Hiraikotsu while the miko was attempting to bewitch them, for who knows just what would have happened. Too bad it looked like she was almost done…