Chapter:2
"Aito, please." She cried clinging to his body tightly. "Brother, please don't leave me."
"Ai." He whispered, blood pouring from his lips. "There had to have been something in the drinks"
"I-I don't understand." She shook her head. She really didn't, from what she knew, her family had been controlling the Southern lands peacefully for over a hundred years, the last Inu Daiyokai of the south, a great and noble race. "Aito, I'm scared. Why is this happening, they're all gone, please, don't leave me too."
He wrapped his arms around her. "My sister, I know you are still just a pup but, I fear I cannot protect you for much longer, I feel my time is coming."
"Don't say that." She cried. "Please, please don't say that." There was a dinner that night, a great feast to celebrate her father and brothers, they had all been merry, drinking and talking happily and suddenly things just changed. "What is in this!?" Someone cried, glasses falling from their hands. Then the building exploded, lesser demons, the kinds that can't even change into human form stormed in, from all directions. There was blood everywhere. Now she was here, she and her brother, staggering across the floor of the main hall, him leaning against her childish frame. Her legs shook as she tried desperately to bare his weight. "I need him to stay with me." She thought to herself. The smell of blood, nauseating, the sound of screams and flesh being devoured,deafening. How could this happen, why did this happen? She kept wondering.
"Aito!" A voice shrieks. "This is for you!"
He pushed her away, sending the young pup sliding across the floor, through a pool of what seemed like, intestines. A flash collided with the young Lord sending him sprawling across the ground. "Who are you?" He slurred.
"You don't recognize me?" The voice asks, it sounds distorted, like there are multiple voices speaking as one. "Is this not what you wanted?" It asked. "I changed for you, I killed your family Aito, so you can only look at me, but now, look at me, I am hideous."
"Samara?" He groaned, he could barely sit up.
Ai raced forward, but he growled a deep low growl that only she could hear, a 'do not come any closer'-growl that, she as a child had to respect.
"You said your family would never approve of us being together and you left, even when I gave you my heart-"
The young Inu pup looked around the room trying to find where the voice was coming from, a dark shadow up high in the ceiling, where two red orbs gleamed. Who was this Samara, was she in love with my brother, did love make her do this? She wondered, eyes flashing black with anger.
"You're delusional, Sam. I thought by telling you that, you would leave well-enough alone-" He screamed out in pain, his body was weak, too weak, whatever it is that which he drank, plus his wounds, he was fading. "You certainly won't get my love this way."
"I was in the woods, planning how I would make you mine, when I found this jewel, as if fate wanted this." Samara spoke from the darkness. "Kill them all and no one will get in the way, but then I turned into this and I realized, you would never want me, you weren't supposed to get hurt Aito." She laughed. "But, now, I don't really mind."
"I never tried to lead you on Samara, we, were friends. This jewel, this isn't you." He tried to reason with her. Slowly Ai, try to get away, hide deep within the walls.
The young pup shook her dark curls from side to side. No. Their voices were low, a frequency only Inu Daiyokai could pick up on.
"You are so wrong, you pitiful dog. This is me. All of me." She came forth from the shadows, a large horribly disfigured creature.
Ai gasped out of horror, quickly trying to cover her mouth, one hand covered in jellied blood, pressed to her face. The creature looked at the child. "Oh, I forgot about the runt." She hissed. "Of course the poison wouldn't work on her, she is too young to drink your merry drinks-s."
"Leave her out of this, kill me. Just, kill me." Aito rolled over onto his side. "Ai, Run!"
"I've decided to kill you all, and since you, my love are almost dead, I'll kill you first, then have my fun with the pup." She laughed maniacally.
"NO!" The child screamed, racing forward. "NO!" Lightning struck the ground, igniting a wildfire. The young pup darted forward, flinging the blood off of her fingers, they flew like daggers at the creature.
Samara reared back in pain. "What is this?" She hissed, stumbling back, skin torn.
The Inuyokai child leapt for her brother, arms outstretched. I will transport us out of here, even if it kills me. I will protect him, he's all I have left. She thought to herself, determined to get them both out.
"Why you little-" Samara's hand turned into a long pointed leg, a spiders leg.
She must have been one of the Spider demons, Aito was sent to help in the forest. The leg shot forward, coming right at the child,
"AI!"
The sound of a blade puncturing flesh, the smell of blood as it is expelled from the body. These are things you never forget. "Aito." Ai whispered, falling to her knee's in one quick motion. Her piercing blue eyes were wide, staring in horror as her brothers body dangled before her, a long black rod wiggling from his abdomen. "AITO!" She screamed, pupils expanding till her eyes were swallowed in black.
"Ai, run." He sputtered.
"NO!" She howled, running at Samara with astonishing speed. "I'll Kill you!" She cried, clawed hand outstretched. "Tear you up from the Inside!" She pierced the disfigured spider demons body, with her own, sending her clawed digits upward, to rip through her layers of skin and bone.
"HOW!" The Jeweled demoness gurgled as Ai's small claws ripped upwards through her skull. Her body peeled in half, still attached at the pelvis.
Ai landed, crouched, behind the carcass, snarling. Something called to her, she turned around, looking at the monster she killed, its tissue began to build up around a shimmering orb . The pup reached in grabbing it, the body of Samara fell into a heap of shredded meat. She looked at it curiously, it was shining dark and pulsating with pure evil, it whispered to her, told her how it could make her more powerful, could help her avenge her brother. "You disgust me." She sneered at the jewel, staring at it, as it pulsated in her palm.
"THE JEWEL!" She could hear roars in the distance, more were coming. She placed the jewel in her obi, shifting her attention to her brother.
"I'm sorry, Ai." He struggled to speak, swallowing heavily, the blood in his throat. "Maybe I should have- been more direct-"
"Sh-h" She whispered, her eyes swirling back to their crystal blue state. "Save you energy, brother, It's not your fault-some people are- deluded."
"You've always been so mature-little-sis-ter."
She held onto him tight. "I'll get you out of here, just survive, please. "
She willed every last ounce of strength she had, to transport them away from the castle, to the west, where her father said there were others like then. The Inu Daiyokai of the Western lands.
"Did you see that?" The Inu no Taisho whispered harshly as he and his team approached the border of the Southern Lands.
"Yes, these are not normal light strikes-" Said Eiji, he sniffed the air. "Blood, Fire"
"Screams." Another one of the soldiers whispered. "There's a frenzy."
There had been an overwhelming demonic presence early in their journey but now as they neared the border they could hear blood curdling screams. "AITO! PLEASE!" The lightning they had witnessed before struck again this time, closer, followed by rain.
"Eiji, Renji, Daisuke, come with me." The Inu no Taisho ordered. "The rest, finish the reconnaissance mission regarding the castle, we'll follow these screams."
"Yes My lord."
"My lord, is the Inu no Taisho of the South, isn't his third son named Aito." Eiji asked.
"Exactly." He leapt forward through the tree's. Does his son have something to do with this? The rain began to fall harder, but the scent of blood was still strong and getting stronger and they neared a small clearing.
"AITO!" The scream echoed out again. "PLEASE." Followed by, guttural sobbing sounds, the disheartening cries of pain produced by a child. The Inu no Taisho raised a fist up, sending his team to a stop, they watched from a safe distance, with narrowed eyes. A girl, of maybe ten years sat in the clearing, a young male yokai infront of her, with his head and shoulders propped on her lap. "You can't leave me, you can't do this to me. There's no one left. Aito. Please. AITO, PLEASE!" She screamed the last part. She looked human at first, long black hair stuck to her bruised and blood smeared face, but her eyes, her eyes and ears gave her away. The demon in her lap was still young by demon standards, and mortally wounded, his handsome face had been blood stained, blackened in parts, his short, soft brown hair stuck to his forehead, it was his blood they could smell. "AITO!" She screamed again, rocking him back and forth in her arms, she would lean forward pressing her forehead to his. "PLEASE." Lightning crackled through the clouds, at this and she looked up into the rain. "Kill me, if you want to kill me." She yelled. "I know you're watching me!"
Eiji, Renji and Daisuke looked at the Inu no Taisho with surprise. "How-" The Silver haired yokai raised his eyebrows and jumped down from the canopy.
As he approached he could pick up her demon energy, it matched the influx they had felt earlier, she managed to hide it well. "Child, I have no intention of killing you." He stepped out of the shadows. "I am the Ruler of these Lands, the Western Lands-"
He watched as her body language changed, from defensive to relief. "It worked." She whispered. "Aito, it worked, I brought us to safety." She leaned forward one more time, pressing her head to his, eyes closed, she slumped over onto her side.
"Poor child." The Inu no Taisho sighed, walking over to the girl, he crouched low and picked her up, she whimpered in his arms, the sound of an injured pup. She was indeed, the daughter and last heir of the Inu Daiyokai's of the South. "Eiji, Daisuke, bring the young lords body, Renji, tell the others to collect the bodies of the slain Daiyokai, we will have a proper ceremony at the castle."
"Yes, my lord." With a curt nod, he was gone.
Eiji helped Daisuke get the body of the young Lord Aito onto his back for transport. "I can smell her blood as well." Eiji commented.
Inu no Taisho nodded. "I know."
A/N: Its been a while since I've attempted any FF. It will be rated T for now. I'll try to keep it so, though may upgrade later, for violence and what not. Just a warning. - T.O.P
