I-U 2 Revised
Alex, Verie, Soree, Laruda and Shingo had managed to make it out of the forest by night fall only to realize they had gone the wrong way. Soree looked up at the sliver of moon that was showing and then down at the yawing five year old walking beside the tall yokai.
"Hey Al… I think we should make camp." Soree's statement had all of the friend's attention. "It's getting late, and I think Shingo is tired."
Alex looked down at Shingo; he was yawning and tripping over his own black pants. She nodded in agreement. "Let's move to a more secluded area first." She said as she looked around, "This place is far too open and dangerous."
Laruda thought for a second. "Hey I remember a place just a little back, I think it would work out great!" The others nodded and followed her lead, Alex picking up the young kitten before following her friends.
It took only about ten minutes to get to the area that Laruda had spoke of and as soon as they got there they started to get comfortable. Because they had come to Japan to visit Verie's cousin each of the girls had brought along a small pillow and blanket each, but none of them had expected to sleep on the ground, so they opted to use said blankets to lie on instead, since nights were still warm out. After setting up their small camp site and gathering fire wood and some small rations, thanks to Laruda's knowledge of berries and Alex's innate fishing expertise, they ate and got ready for bed.
Alex wore a pair of dark blue velvet pants and tank-top with stars and moons printed on them; and she still showed off her dragon tattoo because the shirt was a mid-drift. Verie had on a pair of loose fitting silky blue night shorts and a matching tank-top with butterflies all over it; a small sliver of her stomach peeking through the bottom of her shirt. Laruda pulled on a pair of long green velvet pants and a matching short sleeved shirt with small flowers on the shirt; her hair braided down her back. While Soree had on a pair of long purple boxer-like shorts and a long white, short sleeved shirt with the words "I am Death" printed in purple on the front. Shingo's nighty was far too big for him and swallowed his little arms and trailed to the ground making him have to hold it up with some difficulty; causing a very adorable scene.
Alex let loose a small content sigh as she slowly unbound her long hair letting it flow freely down her back for a little with before also removing the bandanna from her brow. There on her forehead, clear as day, was an almost glowing sliver eight point star on her forehead with a small black crescent resting in the middle of it. Though the others knew about this birth mark, Shingo couldn't help but stare, mesmerized by it. He slowly climbed into his sitting mothers lap and traced the crescent with his small, chubby finger.
Alex laughed and turned him around; she then reached out for her pack and searched around for a brush. When she found her brush she pulled it out and took one of the brown hair bands from the handle, placing it on her wrist, and started to gently comb through Shingo's hair, being sure to avoid his sensitive ears. After she managed to get all of the tangles from his dirty blond hair she slowly braided it. The braid was small and stubby because of his thick hair, but it would hold until morning. After she finished his hair she ushered him over to her pallet for bed.
"Good night, Shingo." Alex gave him a small kiss on his head and a hug, allowing his tail to wrap around her frame for only a little bit before pulling away. "Sweet dreams."
"Night, night momma" He let out a small kitten-like yawn. "I wuv…you." His sentence trailed as he dozed off.
Soree smiled. "Ok that was just too cute." She laughed out quietly.
Shrugging Alex grabbed her brush again and ran it through her hair, mixing the red and black together; showing off her ears and mark more clearly. She suddenly stopped her actions then stiffened and turned to the right. Jumping up her claws extended and teeth bared she got into a fighting stance in front of her friends and son. The other four watched her reaction and moved closer to the boy, just in case.
Alex had gotten a good whiff of blood and it was heading their way, fast. The sent of the blood, she knew, had to be wolf yokai, and there was another one closing in on the wolf, though this one she couldn't place what it was. Alex watched as the wolf-boy made it through the brush and then collapse at her feet; it took all her will power to stop herself from covering her nose.
She heard a gasp and turned to see Verie start to rush over. "Verie no! Stay back!" Alex voice was slightly panicked as she watched Verie move closer. Luckily Soree and Laruda heard her panicked pleas and grabbed a hold of Verie's arms holding the worried girl back.
Alex turned back to the brush, that other demon was getting closer now. She quickly pulled the bloody boy a little further away from the brush and took a stance in front of him, guarding him and her friends waiting for the second demon to appear. She didn't have to wait long.
From out of the same brush that the boy had come from, came a strange looking demon, covered by a baboon pelt. His pelt was soaked in the boy's blood and sweat, and he seemed to be in a hurry to kill the wolf behind her. But the demon stopped his rushed movements when he saw the deadly looking demon-ness in front of his prey.
"Well hello there." His voice was overly sweet as he addressed the female before him. "Who, and what do we have here?" He looked over her shoulder to see not just his prey, but also three other human girls.
Alex immediately stepped in his line of site. "None of your concern; now leave." Her glare darkened when she was him looking towards her friends; the star on her head giving off an eerie light, as the moon turned darker.
The creature smirked under his hood. "Oh I see. Well I think I should introduce my self, if you won't." He walked up closer to the guarded yokai. "I am Naraku, and you, my lovely, stand between me and my prey."
Alex smirked and stared right back at him. "Does it look like I'm moving?" Her voice was sardonic and sadistic as she spoke in amusement, wanting to see what color his blood was.
"Oh well I think that you should, if you and your little friends want to live to see tomorrow." His voice didn't seem to waver at all.
"You don't seem to get it." The amusement from Alex's voice was gone after he threatened her friends. "I'm going to kill you and watch…" her claws extended even more, "as your bold trickled from every crevice of your hideous body." Suddenly she disappeared from sight.
"What the hell" his voice ended in a gargle as he was slashed from behind, falling to the ground. His head slowly turned to see Alex standing over him darkly, and then he died, turning into a wood like puppet.
Alex kicked the thing and it turned to dust. "That was weird." She turned back to the wolf boy. "Verie grab the first aid kit, Laruda go get some water from the spring. Soree we need a comfortably place for him to lie, hurry." Her commands were swift as she gently picked up the man-boy and brought him to where Soree had indicated her pallet.
Alex and Soree began to quickly remove the shredded armor and fur around the boy, leaving his lower covering for now when Laruda and Verie returned with the water and first aid kit. Soree took the water and a towel from her bag and began to clean off the wounds, while Alex took the first aid kit a got out everything she would need: bandages, disinfectant, a needle, thread, a lighter, some tweezers and some medicine to help with pain when he woke up.
Once Soree finished with cleaning his wounds, she and Alex asked that Laruda and Verie not watch, and go over to lie down with Shingo because this next part would be painful to watch. Soree used the tweezers and pulled out the shards of armor imbedded in his skin, while Alex used the lighter to sterilize the needle and then thread it, after that she put the needle and thread, as well as some extra thread, into some disinfectant to soak for a while.
Alex felt his arms, legs, wrist and ankles for breaks while the needle and thread soaked. She found his left wrist broken in three places and his right arm broken at the forearm. His legs had no breaks, but his ankle was swollen and red indicating that is was sprained. After this she went to his chest, there was a long jagged gash from his right collar to his navel that Soree was cleaning out; Alex was sure she'd need to stitch it up. On both his legs and arms there were deep gashes that would need to be stitched up, and a couple of minor scratches and cuts that would need to be bandaged. With any luck he didn't have any internal damage and he would make it through the night.
The two spent the next three hours working on the wolf's injuries and the rest of the night taking shifts on watching over him. By sunrise Verie, Laruda, and Soree were by Alex's side, because Alex had the last shift that night, wanting to know how he was. Suddenly the patient groaned and slowly tried to sit up.
Verie gasped and rushed over to him, gently pushing him back down. "You're hurt, you should stay down."
The boy winced slightly and looked down at his bandaged body. "Who… who helped me?" His voice was low and pain filled.
Verie smiled. "Alex killed that demon and then she and Soree took care of your injuries." She pointed to the two as she said this letting him know who had helped him. Alex gave a curt nod and went to get fresh water while Soree smiled happily at him on her way over to where he sat. "By the way my name is Verie, and the younger girl there is Laruda; and Shingo is that cutie over there asleep." She smiled and let Soree pass her.
"Alright let's check those injuries." She went through and re-wrapped his bandages while checking to see if there was any area infected or needing re-stitched. After confirming that the stitches would hold and changing the wraps, she set to work on checking his broken bones making sure that the splints were still on tight and that the bone was still set right. By the time she finished this Alex returned with a bucket of water.
Setting it down beside the boy she grabbed two pills of the pain medicine and a ladle of water. "Here take this, swallow it whole using the water to help wash it down, got it?" He nodded and did as he was told, choking on the pills at first, but with a harsh pat on the back from Alex he managed to get them down his throat. "Alright now I have a shirt that should fit you," She went through her bag for a second and brought out a loose grey shirt, "Hurry and put it on." Turning to the other girls. "We need to get dressed as well; if that puppet thing was any indication then we're in grave danger sitting around here. And we should wear the 'Asian' outfits we brought." With that she grabbed another bundle from her pack and Shingo's nicer white outfit and went to wake the small cat hanyou.
Each of the girls separated into two groups, Soree and Laruda went behind some trees on the left and changed. Laruda putting on green silk kimono with cherry blossom petals printed all over it and a slit running up her right leg to her knee cherry blossom pink slippers adorning her small feet. Soree put on a Chinese silk black and purple males 'new years' outfit with Chinese characters printed over it a pair of purple slippers placed on her feet.
Alex, Verie and Shingo went into the woods towards the lake to change. Alex wore a red Chinese kimono with a giant yin-yang in the middle with a red-eyed black dragon situated in the yin part and a red-eyed white tiger situated in the yang part, both creatures threaded with silk; a pair of black pats covered her legs while white bands tightened the ends around her ankles and red slippers covered her feet, her tail rounding her waist under the kimono and the end swishing softly just above the ground. Verie dressed in a pure white Japanese kimono with silk threaded deep blood red roses scattered all over the lower part a pair of white slippers coming over her feet. Alex helped Shingo slip into his white and royal blue kimono top and pants; the long sleeves of the top covered his little hands and the pants fell loose to the ankles where blue bands held them comfortably against his small ankles, his pair of black slippers going over his feet last. Alex pulled his dirty blond hair into a high ponytail, two thick strips of hair on either side of his face. She then pulled her hair into her usual style of a low tight ponytail and bangs, but this time she braided her long black hair.
The groups made it back in ten minutes time, Soree and Laruda being first. The wolf looked over each of the girls. "Well don't you guys look like you're wealthy and royal, but I suppose you must be to, willingly, go around in such a strange group." He smiled and slowly stood up. "My name is Minh, and I'm very grateful to you girls for saving my life." He attempted a small bow, only to fall over due to his injuries.
Shaking her head Alex looked over Minh. He had long hair that had fallen out of its small ponytail, the oversized grey t-shirt she had lent him, his furry skirt, legging, shoulder bands and wrist brands were coated in layers of his blood and slightly tattered. Extending the claws on one of her hands she went over the fallen wolf hanyou and grabbed a hold of some of his loose hair. "Hold still." Using her extended claws she swiped it through the hair that she held, cutting it to his lower neck.
Minh ran his hands through his now shortened and un-even hair. "Why did you?"
"I don't know who that guy was, but I don't want a repeat of what happened last night, so we're moving and I don't want us to be recognized." Alex said as she went about clearing out their campsite so it looked like it wasn't there. It didn't take to long before Laruda and Shingo began to help as well. Verie gathered some extra supplies that she managed to find, such as berries and other fruits from the surrounding area.
Soree laughed a little and slapped a hand and the distressed wolf hanyou as he let his claws play through his shortened hair. "Hey don't worry about it. Next town we hit we'll try to find some clothes for ya and until then how about I give some shorts; I highly doubt any of the others have pants that will fit you." Soree helped Minh to stand and brought out a pair of her long, black boy-pants, tossing them to him then proceeded to search for the belt she wore yesterday, just in case the pants were too big like they are on her; she was right.
Minh looked down at himself after he changed; he felt weird in these clothes, but he didn't have much of a choice his old clothing was ruined due to his fight the other day. When he came back Alex nodded towards him then said that it was time they leave.
Though they traveled slower then normal, the group managed to find a fairly large town after only about two days of travel. Their welcome was less warm then they would have hoped for though, what with one yokai, two hanyou and a girl far darker the normal.
Most of the village people were inside their homes, while a few choice men stood out side watching the new comers with un-averted attention, their weapons either held at their sides, though lowered so as to not cause the demons to attack if they weren't going to. Suddenly there was a child's scream and the entire group and villagers still outside looked to where it came from.
"My babe!" The women ran out of her house at the site of her daughter held in the arms of a strange unidentifiable demon.
Verie looked around and spotted a man holding a bow and arrow shakily in his hands. She ran over to him and yanked the bow from his hands, strong the arrow properly aiming and firing; the arrow sliced through the air swiftly and hit the demon right in the middle of its chest. The demon howled in pain, tossing the small child in the air. Taking advantage of this, Alex vanished only to reappeared swiping the girl from the air. At the same time Soree and Laruda grabbed a scythe and sword, respectively, and sliced at the demons head and torso; effectively killing it.
Alex, Soree and Laruda landed gracefully no more then two seconds later. The little girl was clinging to the demon-ness that held her crying when her mother rushed towards them sputtering her thanks as she grabbed her child and kissed her all over.
The men all gathered around the girls sputtering about how they were amazing and so forth. An old man walked up to the girls.
"Thank you for you assistance in the destruction and safe return of one of our young." The man sounded arrogant and nonchalant, as if he thought that their help was not needed. "Now I will have to ask you demons to leave this village. The humans are welcome to stay of course."
Alex growled at the old man. "Let's get something straight, old man." Her claws extended and black poison dripped from the tips mincingly. "We are the ones that saved this child and your pathetic villages, while all you and your villagers stood shaking in your shoes. You have no right to tell us that we're not welcome here."
The little girl's mother set her young daughter and stormed over to the old man being scolded by the demon-ness. Once she reached the man she roughly twisted him to face her, slapping him as hard as she possibly could. The men winced at the sound of the impact. "You stupid old man, who do you think you are?" She thrust her finger to the left, behind the old man. "Leave! Go home!" Her loud voice echoed over the quite village. The man scuffed and turned in the direction the women indicated; after that she turned back to the small group that saved her child.
"I am terribly sorry about his behavior." She offered an apologetic smile to the group. "My husband is the head of our and as a thank you I would like to extend an invitation to resided in our house until your group is well rested and re-stocked on supplies; my husband, I'm sure, will have no problem with this arrangement."
Laruda, being the more diplomat of the party, stepped forward. "Actually one of ours is injured and in need of proper clothing, if that isn't too much to ask for." The women shook her head in a negative fashion saying that it was no problem, and they could stay as long as possible.
With a nod from the demon-ness the group headed off towards the women's house. The little girl running up to Alex and grabbing her clawed hand; hen Shingo saw this he gave a cute little scold/pout and ran from Verie's side, to his adopted mother's side grabbing her free hand. Alex looked down at her son and smirked, he was jealous how cute.
She looked up to see that they were in front of a rather large estate at the back of the large village.
"This is your house?" She turned to see Minh gawking at the estate. She heard Verie giggle and saw her push his jaw up with two of her fingers. Soree and Laruda laughed out at his reaction.
The little girl looked at him in confusion. "Why are you surprised? My papa is head of the village; our family always has been." After she said this she ran up to her mother and began to talk quietly with her about, from what Alex could tell, showing Shingo all her toys. At the elder women's nod she laughed and ran to Shingo grabbing his hand and pulling him to the door. Alex caught Laruda's eye and nodded towards the disappearing children; Laruda nodded in affirmative and followed quickly after the kids.
"Now that the children are occupied how about we get some of your wounds looked at young man." Minh was about to follow when Soree grabbed his arm, holding him back.
"Actually his wounds are already stitched and cleaned; he just needs some rest and possibly new bandages, nothing more." She offered a smile and the women nodded and headed into the house. She turned her head to Minh, a grim look set on her face. "You shouldn't be so quick to follow."
"Not all are trust worthy, which is why I sent Laruda with Shingo." Alex said as she stepped up to them. "Though I doubt the girl will harm him, there might be others in side."
"But you saved her daughter…" Minh's voice trailed as he watched the other two walk into the house.
This time it was Verie that stepped forward. "That doesn't always matter." Her sad eyes were hidden beneath her bangs. "Please just take our advice; this is why we carry around first aid kits and needles, so that outsiders are not needed." Minh noticed a tear slip from beneath her bangs and felt the urge to wipe it away but resisted it. He merely nodded and walked with her inside.
When the last two entered Soree, Alex and a maid of the house awaited them. "This way please, I will show you your rooms." Alex, Verie and Shingo would share one room, while Soree and Laruda took another beside theirs and Minh settled in the room right across from it.
That night the group slept well, for the most part. Through the night Alex and Soree did not sleep at all. Soree had Laruda go and sleep with Verie and Shingo so that the two elder girls could talk.
"I think that we should get weapons, you can't fight for us all the time, Al." Soree's statement struck a cord.
"I agree. I think I saw a black smith not to far down the road. How about we use tomorrow to go to a black smith and tailor; we need some clothes for this period." Soree nodded at Alex's statement.
"Those things will take at least a week to prepare; I think that wolf boy should be healed by then." Soree looked thoughtful for a second. "How would we pay?"
Alex thought about that. "The women offered to repay us; I think we should take her up on the offer."
"Alex?" Soree couldn't help but be a little shocked. "Are you suggesting we use extortion?" She lifted a black brow towards her friend.
"She offered, therefore not extortion." It was a simple statement, yet very effective.
They sat in silence for a while just thinking. Then Soree suggested that they also gather some more medical herbs and slaves as well as more thread. Though that conversation, too, slowly died in to a comfortable silence as the two listened for any ominous foot steps towards their small area of the house. As they sat the two slowly regressed into their own memories; of their worst memory.
"You know…" Soree's voice was low, not going over a quite whisper, she continued a little louder. "It wasn't you're fault… about our families… or yours…" A tear escaped her eye.
"Yes it is, Shini…" Alex's voice was soft and shallow. "I saved their damned lives and they repay it by killing our families." She took a slow calming breath. "And I could do nothing to stop it."
Soree's eyes were down cast. "None of us could…" Her eyes narrowed, turning from dark purple/black to dark gold slits. "Damn them." She closed her eyes, calming down. "It still wasn't your fault."
"Get to bed Soree." Alex never looked up from the floor as she spoke. "We have a long day ahead of us." Soree, reluctantly, did as her eldest friend request; knowing she would not do the same at all that night.
Soree watched as Alex walked to the door, only to pause when her fingers touched the cold meddle of the door handle. "I'm going out." She answered her friend's silent question, not turning to face the taller friend. Soree could only nod and watch her friend leave to room before falling into a dreamless sleep.
Alex walked through the house and gardens that night, looking through each door and room, quietly, to be sure that all were sleeping; though she did not. The falling morning had their small group in the market place, with a maid from the house carrying a purse full of money.
The first place the group of six adults and two children went was the black smith.
"Hey smithy!" Laruda's call caught the attention of both the black smith and the neighboring Shoppe keeps. When the smith approached the group and questioned them she was happy to reply. "We need a pretty big order… Let's see I want some kind of very long and light sword."
Soree stepped up after her statement. "Actually we already have designs for all the weapons we need; here." She handed him the sheet of paper.
On it were six weapons: The first was a long black staff with a silver scythe blade on the end; the design was simple with at thick black spike at the bottom and a purple jewel meeting the blade on the top. The next was a fancy and curved bow, with feathered ends, the string hooked to two small parts of the feathers a little further from the ends then the rest; the arrows thin with sharp mettle tips and feathered ends. Under the scythe was a very long sword thin sword with a long jeweled hilt the handles of the hilt were curved so that they were parted, one part went down while the other went up, and was colored in a deep fire red. Beside that one was another sword, though far shorter then its neighbor, the blade was thick and curved and the hilt was about equal size to the blade. The last row held two very similar swords, though one was obviously made for a small child, due to its dagger-like size. The longer sword held the black smith's attention more then any of the others: the blade was black and crystal-like and the hilt was long and Chinese style with a long red tassel hanging from the end. The smaller sword was much like its companion, but for the blade which was a normal silver color.
The muscled man raised an eyebrow in question. "How am I to make such a blade as illustrated?" He pointed to the blade in question
Alex stepped forward with the answer. "That will be made with my fang, and it will be made in private." Alex thought for a second. "You are capable of make a demon's fang sword, right?"
The black smith scuffed. "I am, but you'll need to help for the first part." She had no problem with that and expected it; the man was only a fourth demon, after all.
"Make the others first." She said with a nod. "Those should take a week with the number of men you have here, correct?" At his nod she turned her back. "Then at the end of the week you and I shall make my weapon." The group walked away, the maid paying the cost the black smith set on their way out.
Next they went to the seamstress for clothes. While there they had their measurements taken and ordered three outfits each, five for Shingo, wanting them ready by the end of the week again. After that they gathered plenty of healing herb, slaves and thread from the local doctor, who also gave the group a large jar of jelly used to keep large gashes disinfected. The maid then insisted that they get Shingo some new toys so he isn't so bored' but at the store both Shingo and Minh went around playing and both had to be dragged out of the store in the end after buying some of toys for the small child to play with.
The rest of the week was spent in peace as Shingo played with their hostess' daughter; Minh rested getting to know most of the girls in the group. Finally the end of the week came and a knock sounded at the door. The same maid answered the door and allowed the seamstress in. She handed the clothes to the members of the group that were present: Alex had gone off to the black smith early that morning and planned to be there the entire day, and well into night working on her sword. The present group then spent the day gathering supplies and trying on their new clothes, and that night they would go to the smiths as well to pick up their weapons.
When the arrived at the black smiths that night Alex stood leaning against the a wall in the back watching as the head smithy put the finishing touches on her sword; upon seeing his mother Shingo ran over and gave her a hug refusing to leave her side. The demon-ness flicked her tongue over the new fang that was slowly growing in place of the one she had given to her weapon. She looked over and smirked at her friends; nodding her head towards a table covered by a slightly stained piece of clothe. Laruda giggled and ran to the covering, pulling it off quickly. There, under the covering, sat five beautiful weapons.
Sitting along the length of the table held a long black scythe; an image of the grim reaper etched in a deep purple, almost matching the black, along the long staff; its bony fingers encircling the glistening light violet jewel. The blade shone out in its silver color, long and deadly sharp, giving it every appeal of being death's scythe. Beside that was a long sword, almost as long as the scythe itself. The hilt was died in a bright red and was much like the picture, but for the golden phoenix that wound around the entirety of the hilt, its talons grasping a deep red ruby that lay at the bottom. Next in the line was a golden Dao sword, a pack of white wolfs dancing across the curved blade. A small Tai chi sword sat beside the Dao sword, sheathed, with a small white tiger carved into the sheath.
Soree was the first to walk to the table and grab the long scythe. She held it for a bit and swung it above her head, testing it. She smirked and with a nod the others grabbed their weapons as well. Laruda held her long sword just above her head and fingered the phoenix on the hilt. Minh gave a large smile as he held his new sword and merely held it. Verie ran her fingers over the bow and the feathers of the arrows before smiling and looking over at Alex.
Her smile faded when she saw the far off look in her best friend's void-like black eyes, and fingering a small white beaded bracelet. Verie shouldered her quiver and bow and went over to her friend. Alex looked over at Verie from the corner of her eye.
"It's almost done now." She nodded to the black smith. "He's just adding the tassel."
"Oh? How does it look?" Neither one looked each other in the eye.
"I think it looks great…"
"The clothes arrived."
"Sigh just ask Verie."
"Is that hers?"
"Yes."
Shingo was now confused. "Mama, who are you talking about?"
Alex looked down at Shingo and smiled. "No worries, baby, how about we get your little sword alright." She grabbed his hand and went to the table to get his sword.
"Wow! Look mama! Look." He grabbed the small sword waving it around while it was still in the sheath.
"Is that really safe?" Laruda was a little worried that such a small child could carry a weapon.
"Its fine, not sharp and I put safety plastic around the edge." Alex reassured her youngest friend. "I had it melted just for him."
The black smith lightly touched Alex's shoulder to get her attention. When she turned around he bowed his head lightly and held the sword out to her. Alex grabbed the long Tai Chi sword. She ran her finger over the sharp blade drawing extremely dark, almost black, blood from it. She nodded to the black smith in approval and sheathed the black bladed sword, but not before Verie noticed a silver dragon curved around the blade.
"Now that we have weapons and wolf boy here is almost completely healed, we leave first thing tomorrow morn." Alex said as she turned to leave with a nod as a farewell to the smithy that worked on her sword; the others following happily behind her with their prospective weapons sheathed and either on their backs, Soree and Laruda, or their waists, Alex, Minh and Shingo. (Verie already put hers on her back.)
That night they spent gathering up all of their supplies and food for their journey that would happen the next day. They went to bed early that next day and got up early that day before anyone else woke in the house. About two days ago the man of the house and the residence, except for the little girl, started acting strangely towards Alex, Minh and Shingo; starring at their tails and his ears when they thought no one was looking. After making one more round about house quietly, Alex picked up the still sleeping Shingo from their bed and was about to walk out when the husband, the old man from the first day, and a few other village men blocking their path.
"I'm sorry but you're not going anywhere." The leader smirked at them, looking all high and mighty. "Well, actually, I have no use for you humans, but the demons will stay."
Alex's calm look quickly vanished as she studied the men before her and her most precious friends. I knew it…1, 2, 3….about twenty of them… The white of her eyes slowly started to bleed red, slow enough so that no one would notice. "So this is what your little women had planned…" She gave a small grunt. "I knew it was something, far to nice." She mumbled more to her self then to those around her.
Carefully she handed Shingo to Minh not taking her eyes from the men in front. Soree stepped forward as well, her eyes having lost their gleam of amusement long ago. "You should leave through the window, and don't look back. We will come for you." Soree's voice held only malice as she spoke. "Leave now!"
Verie and Laruda nodded and started to pull Minh to the window. Laruda roughly swung her sword at the window, breaking it. The three, Minh rather reluctantly, leapt from the shattered window; hearing the men shout for them to stop and come back.
"Don't worry about them!" The village leader shouted at the men who started to go after the retreating people. "The girl is the one we want! Get her!" The men nodded and rushed to attack all at once.
Both girls stood still for a second before Soree smirked darkly. "Shall we, old friend?" Alex nodded and vanished.
"What?" The shout was cut off as Soree and Alex sliced through all of the men quickly, taking only twenty minuets to dissipate the small army before them. When the mayhem ended both girls stood, weapons drawn, and covered in the thick blood of their opponents only the husband left still standing. The two girls walked slowly up to the frozen man letting him see them fully.
There stood two very different girls then the ones that had been guests in his home. Soree's hair had grown out into long spikes of deep violet, her eyes had gone from the brown to dark purple and the white turned a blood red. But her stance was what truly gave it away; she stood as if she were death itself. Next to the girl of death was not the dark demon-ness but a creature of pure chaos. Her black hair and tail now white as fresh snow and waving with a nonexistent wind flowing around her, her once black eye now as red a blood and the white had turned blacker then even that of black whole, across each cheek there were two black marks, one under her eye and the other pointed towards her lips. On her forehead lay a sliver eight point star with a black crescent moon in the very center; directly above the symbol of chaos was a sharp black horn contrasting with her snowy hair.
The two girls stood there holding their bloodied weapons ready for the final attack. "So is this what you wanted to accomplish?" Alex had a sneer on her lips. "To unleash Death and Chaos in one evening… How long has it been since the last time, Shini?" Her deadly eyes never strayed from her pray as she smirked.
Soree smirked. "I do believe three years now, and here I was hoping for more time, to bad." Both of their smirks turned to sneers as they stared at the frightened man. "Was this," She waved a hand over the massacred bodies, "to have your men killed so painfully?"
Alex once again vanished, reappearing with her poisonous claws around the leader's throat, and Soree's smirk returned. "Come now, you really shouldn't piss off a dragon, it's just not smart."
Alex pulled the man closer, causing him to scream. "You threatened the safety of what is mine." She slammed him against the far wall. "You want to know what I did to the last ones who threatened the safety of what is mine."
Soree smirked, fingering one of her sharp long blades of her bangs, leaning on her scythe. "Let's put it this way I had a lot of work that night, and I am Death."
The man gulped and began to scream and struggle, causing one of Alex's claws to break his skin. He began to spasm shortly after that and foam at the mouth. Alex's sneer deepened and she released the disgusting man. Soree walked to the dieing man.
"Ya know… I think he wet him self." She laughed out as she kicked the spamming man.
Alex just looked out the window, both slowly reverting to their normal selves. "I hope the girl isn't the one who finds this mess." When they finally became normal they managed to figure out how long they took.
"Man that took an hour; we better hurry to find the others." Soree said as she led the way to the window. "Unless you want to clean this up?" Alex scuffed and head out the window with Soree.
"Let's just get the others and continue on our way." With that said the two girls rushed towards their friends.
Meanwhile with Kagome and Inuyasha's group...…
Kagome was skipping happily along, thanks to some fast moving on Inuyasha's and Kirrara's parts they managed to get about four months worth of traveling done in less then two and had already found another jewel shard, though the trip exhausted Kirrara. Oh if only Verie could see this. She abruptly halted causing Inuyasha and Shippou to ram into her back sending the two boys to the ground.
"What the hell women! Why the hell did you stop like that?" Inuyasha's shout fell on deaf ears as Kagome stood rooted to her spot.
"Kagome, what's wrong?" Sango's concerned voice broke the trance as she began to cry.
"We forgot my cousin and her friends at Kiedea's village!" Her shout echoed through the woods they were currently standing in. The other members fell over with sweet drops forming, due to their own stupidity and the fact that it took so long for them to even notice. "Oh no!" Her cry sent birds and other wild life scattering to the winds.
Ok that's chap two, hope you like Jenn. Anyway these aren't the actual weapons, but it's a fair rep until I draw the other ones. Enjoy the story thus far. Who they belong to should be obvious.