Lady Death
Summary: Kagome was the only one who knew how it had happened, the others involved had long since died, leaving her to play the Grim Reaper. She never knew that she would be the cause of a series of magically unfortunate events...all because of three brothers, a wand, a stone, and a cloak...
Pairing: Kagome/?
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The days blur together, though a hundred years may not have passed since the young witch was burned at the stake, Kagome had taken so many souls since then…it felt as if a million years had dragged by.
"Ignotus! With thy whimpering against our foulest deeds, cease your mourning!"
"Tis foulest deeds indeed! Byith my whimpering, brother Antioch! It is thou's own deeds, not in slightest Cadmus's or thine own!"
"You art thy brother?"
"I claim such, ai!"
"Then deeds beith parted equally!"
Kagome smiled, she knew those voices, and spreading her aura out among the woods, she felt the owners growing closer. She herself sat above a bridge on a branch.
"Tis not in my nature to do such sins, thou knows well, Cadmus, speakith your thoughts, do you resign and agree?"
"It is in just that we take the lives of those who have shed the blood of our brethren," Cadmus said, "While the act of murder does not bode well, I am inclined to agree with thine brother, Antioch."
Kagome had rarely heard these types of conversation, but she knew it might be best to take a step in intervention, or perhaps the wisdom lay in doing nothing, but she had done nothing for two hundred plus years...she had become bored. She floated down and revealed herself to the brothers in passing, and watched them each take a cautious step back. She hadn't seen the trio since their father departed life three years back, when the brothers had turned seventeen, now each were twenty, and men of their generation, with great power. "Brothers Peverell...how do you fair?"
"Leave us death! Do not make thine cast a curse upon thee!" Antioch called out as he bared his wand.
"Do you find it wise to bear your magic at me? I came with gifts," She smiled, watching as he lowered his wand, her energy trailing around the brothers, touching and caressing each one as she looked without her eyes, but with her energy.
"What gifts do thou bring?!" Cadmus asked in all his curious wonder, nativity laced his words.
She gave a dark chuckle, and bowed, holding her hands out wide by her side in her dramatic show of respect. "Brave, cunning brothers...I grant thee each a prize, whatever you ask, and then I shall let the young brothers pass, speak thine eldest first."
Antioch stepped forward and grinned, "A tool, a wand of great power, make me a wand that will win every fight and every dual I face, the strongest of wands, Death, so that no wand may face it with equal power!"
Staring at the eldest of the three brothers, her smirk widened at his selfish and power hungry wish, gliding forward, she took hold of a branch of the tree she'd been sitting and broke it off. "This tree is an Elder tree, a feminine tree with a feminine energy, the Elder is a sacred tree, often it is used Elder wands are most often used in Faerie Magic, banishment, magical arts, protection from evil, imagination, change, and healing." She allowed some of her energy to flow through the branch and the brothers watched as it formed a wand in her hand, "A wand made of an Elder branch prevents psychic attack, like all wands, there can only be one wielder, but unlike most, you cannot simply win a duel...you must kill to inherit this wand...now go brother, I bid thee farewell, I promise that you will win all your battles and fights, however, your wand will be stolen...and you will be killed...and then you and I shall meet again..." She lay the wand in his hand, and looked to the next in line. "Speak...Cadmus, what is it that you desire?"
Ignotus looked shocked by his elder brothers' greed, unsure of how anyone could receive such a warning of caution, and still take the wand! He watched as Cadmus got down before Death, and cried out to the woman clothed in black.
"MAGIC~!"
She raised a brow at his vagueness. "Care to specify?"
"I wish to have thou's power to bring people back from Death!"
'I do have that power, but it is not to be trifled with, fool...' She thought to herself, and would have rolled her eyes if possible, not even sure if she could remember how to do such a motion anymore, she floated off to the stream below the bridge, and took a stone from the cool water, returning to hover before the middle brother, Kagome held up the stone to reflect the light of the sun, if was at first a black stone, but as she fed her energy to the stone, the color changed from black to a blood red. "I see inside your heart, Cadmus," he stared nervously at her, and then at the stone, "The stone has the magic you desire, and with it shall you bring back the dead and your departed bride..." She held the stone for him to take, but paused his hands actions as she continued to speak, "Go brother, I bid thee farewell, you will see your love soon, but that light in her eyes will have faded, and things will not be right, you will drive yourself mad for she'll not be whole, and then, Cadmus, I will return...to claim your soul..." She laid the stone in his hand and turned to the next brother, the youngest of the three, distrust radiated off of the brother. "Speakith your mind, Ignotus, what does the youngest Peverell desire."
Ignotus shook his head, "Death, I do not trust thy ways; Power and Magic are fine prizes indeed, and beith I were to trust thee, which in fact I do not, I might ask for such foolish prizes, instead, I ask that you please leave me alone till the end of my days, and let me live thine life happily as such."
Reluctantly, Kagome let herself land gracefully before the youngest brother, no longer was she hovering before him, but instead, standing across from him. "You are much wiser than your brothers, not a prize shall bestow you, but a gift..." She pulled from her shoulders a finely sewn silk cloak, "Magic and Power are great in their own, but you needn't worry over such things, here, fashioned out of my own powers, a Cloak of Invisibility, with the ability to hide from Death itself, and shield all who wear it from harm." She held the cloak out, but he waited till she finished speaking, "Go brother, I bid thee farewell, go take your new cloak and go live out your life, happily and healthily, and only when you are ready, will I come for thee, when you take off your Cloak to join me."
Looking to Deaths face, Ignotus bowed his head as he took the Cloak from her hands and bade farewell to the woman.
Kagome watched the three leave and smiled softly at the youngest who soon after parted ways with his brothers.
It was amazing just how different three brothers could be, to so easily separate after twenty years of being with one another, one crossroad takes them down their own paths, some living longer than others, but each leaving behind their own distinct differences.
Power
Magic
Protection
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Me: Here is chapter two, longer than chapter one, this chapter is based off of the song The Peverell Story by The Butterbeer Experience, which...since it inspired this story; I think it's only fitting to have this chapter be fit with the song. I hope you enjoy~ tell me what you think in a review!
