Note: As I have mentioned before, I am not sure if I can drag out these chapters so that they are as long as the last one. But I will try.

Chapter 2: Metroids and meetings.

Inuyasha and the others all looked around them. From what they could tell, they were in an extremely barren dessert. A little to the south was a giant temple. To the north was a great big canyon, to the east was a giant mountain, and to the west was nothing but dessert.

"Well, this is a fine fix." Said Sango, looking off towards the canyon.

Mioku was looking towards the temple. "There may be someone who can help us in that temple over there." He said, pointing towards the temple.

Inuyasha nodded. Even though he would never admit it, that seemed to be the most sensible choice.

Shippo leaped onto Kagome's shoulder as they started walking off toward the temple.

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Samus landed her ship near the Chozo temple in the over-world. She gathered up all of her weapons, made sure that her suit was operating at maximum efficiency, and checking the downloaded map of the planet on the ship's computer, she was ready.

She exited the ship and accessed her suits mini-computer. She locked on to the recent energy flux. She found that it was moving and it was heading for these exact ruins. She would have to stay here and scope out the surroundings.

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Inuyasha and the others were heading for the temple at a steady pace. After about an hour of non-stop walking, they arrived at the front steps of the temple.

"Well, this is. interesting." Said Shippo as he stared at the temple.

The temple was covered in vines and most of the stones were coming loose. It looked like nothing had lived in there for at least fifty years.

Inuyasha scoffed and turned around. "Feh! Well, that was a waste of time. These old ruins aren't going to help us. They look like they've been to hell and back."

Kagome got in front of Inuyasha and said "Inuyasha, these ruins may be old, but they may have something that can help us."

Inuyasha sighed. He just knew that this was going to be a waste of time.

Unknown to them, they were being watched.

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Samus could do nothing but stare at these odd people. She looked at her mini-computer.

"According to this," she said, "the energy is in possession of these people. I'll have to observe them a little more closely before I act. I don't know if they are trustworthy or not."

In her opinion, Samus had right to be suspicious. They all looked like they were from the middle ages. And two of them didn't even look human, but they couldn't be Metroids. They were to intelligent.

But sill, she had never seen anyone like them. One of them had red robes, white hair, and dog ears, a girl with a tight-fitting, black suit, a giant boomerang, and a fiery cat on her shoulder, a boy with a fox tail, a man with old-fashion cloths and a staff, and a modern girl with a bow and arrow before.

As they entered the temple, Samus followed them silently.

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As they traveled down the long corridors of the ruins, Kagome kept feeling like they were being followed. She kept glancing back, only to see nothing.

This behavior did not go unnoticed by some of the group. "Lady Kagome, might I ask what is troubling you?" asked Miroku.

Kagome looked at him and said "It's nothing. I just keep feeling like we're being followed."

Inuyasha looked at her and said "It has to be your imagination, wench. If there was anything following us, I would have heard it."

Aside from the way he said it, Kagome had to admit that Inuyasha had a point.

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Samus looked at the group from behind a corner. She had heard this slight conversation. The girl in the white shirt and green skirt had good senses, she had to admit. But that one with the dog ears, he could take lessons from her.

She could see what they were heading for. They were heading towards a door at the end of the corridor that had a large consentration of cold energy behind it.

Samus could only pray that they knew what they were doing.

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The group stopped at the end of the corridor. There was a big door in front of them. All of them could tell that whatever was behind that door was cold, really cold.

Inuyasha just shrugged off the feeling and kicked the door down. The room inside was completely encased in ice. In the center, was a strange blue rock that was covered in giant ice cicles. Kagome felt an odd life force coming from the rock.

Before she could relay this information to the group, the rock quaked and stood up. It looked like a giant blue stegosaurus. It let out a roar that shook the entire room and started lumbering towards the group, which, in it's opinion, was it's next meal.

Inuyasha wasted no time in drawing the Tetsuiauga. He lunged at the beast and tried to cut off the creature's left foreleg. But when the blade made contact with the skin, nothing happened. The blow just glanced right off.

The creature roared and brought up it's claw and impaled Inuyasha's shoulder. It, then threw Inuyasha into the distant wall. "Dammit!" he cursed as he hit the wall.

Kirara and Sango were next to assault the beast. Sango threw her boomerang bone at the monster. But, just like Inuyasha's sword, it had no effect on the beast.

The beast inhaled and blew out a giant ice beam. The beam did not connect directly, but it did freeze Kirara and Sango to the floor. They were frozen from the waist up.

Miroku was trying to undo the prayer beads from his cursed had, but the creature turned toward him and fired another ice blast. Miroku dodged, but his air rip was frozen shut.

The beast set it's site on Kagome. It started to lumber towards her.

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Samus was watching all of this from the doorway. She decided that now might be a good time to step in and save their asses. She charged up her beam cannon and stepped into the room.

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Kagome could only stare at the beast that was coming towards her. She backed up against the wall and waited for the beast to finish her. Shippo was cowering on her shoulder.

Then, a beam of blue electricity shot out of nowhere and hit the beast from the side. It fell over, dead. Blue blood started to seep out of it's had and soak the ground.

Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Kirara, Shippo, and Kagome looked towards the source of the beam. There, stood a person in a strange orange suit of armor. One of her hands was some sort of "gun" as Kagome called it.

A million questions raced into their minds at once. Who was this person, why did he or she save us, and was she following us?

They decided to go with the first one. "Who are you?" they all asked in unison.

The person made a polite bow and answered, "Greetings. My name is Samus Aran."

_____________________________________________________________ And so, they meet. Pretty good, huh? Tell me what you think! Chapter three, coming soon!