The demoness destroyed yet another useless troll, their bodies piled haphazardly all around her, their blood dripping from her bloodied claws onto the blood soaked ground. "Damn beasts…" She hissed as she glared at the latest victims on her vastly growing list of deceased. Fifty years and for the most part she had refused to remember the past that plagued her dreams but sometimes it caught up to her at the strangest moments. When that happened she usually went on a killing spree, sparing no one in the process. She growled angrily and kicked one of the dead bodies into the nearest tree. Still her heart was missing; stolen away from the innocent and fun loving creature she had once been all those years ago by a beast of a man she had loved. But, she thought as she walked away from the carnage she had left behind, now she loved nothing. There was no such thing as love for anything in the world she lived in nowadays. Her world was stained with the blood of the innocent and the not so innocent, perhaps to kill the way she had once been herself and what she had become in these past few years. Eternal life of beauty and power were a curse when one had nothing or anyone to spend it with. And it was all thanks to that bastard…She clenched her fists and slammed them against the nearest tree, shattering it into nothing but splinters and leaves with the force of her power. How was it that she couldn't get away from the past? She hadn't seen the bastard since that day and yet he plagued her with every turn with all that he had done she knew that she should have sought her revenge right then and there but at the time she simply couldn't take it. It had been too much for her all at once. His betrayal and the death of her sister by his hands were simply too much for her to handle at the time. And since then she hadn't had the nerve or the inclination to go anywhere near that damned bastard. She didn't know exactly how she would react if she ever saw him again. Would she get her revenge and tear his body to shreds like the trolls she had just massacred or would she turn into stone and simply go numb. She smiled to herself sadistically at the thought. She had been numb for over fifty years now. No pain, no love and certainly nothing more than hatred and a deep pain that could not be healed by anything other than going back in time and never meeting him in the first place. She snarled and continued walking only to stop when she smelled something far too familiar that shouldn't have possibly ever been there anyways.
"Damn!" Umi cried when she yet again lost her grip on the side of the well. How hard could it possibly to climb up a freaking well? Finally she took a deep breath and tried yet again, managing to get about halfway when Kagome's voice from below her scared her into letting go and falling back down on top of the other girl. "How did you get down here?" Kagome asked as they got settled at the base of the well. Kagome had a large yellow backpack on as well as a bow and arrows slung over her shoulder. The two of them stood and faced one another. "Miss Scarlet threw me down here. Speaking of which where the hell are we anyways?" Kagome shuffled her feet nervously and looked away from her. Umi glared at her until finally she lifted her eyes and sighed. "Alright I'll tell you as soon as we get up there. Inuyasha! I know you're up there! I'm throwing my bag over and I brought a friend so behave!" There was some grumbling and swearing when Kagome tossed the impossibly large bag over the edge of the well. "Hey! Watch where you're throwing that thing! We kind of have a visitor of our own up here!" Now the two girls could hear the sounds of battle coming from above them and Kagome quickly rushed her way expertly up the side of the well, Umi following her exact movements. When they reached the top all she saw was a blur of red and black moving from person to person so fast she couldn't tell if it was actually doing any damage. "What is it Inuyasha?" Kagome asked standing defensively in front of Umi who was totally entranced by the movement of the red figure. As she watched the figure's movements seem to slow before her eyes, the woman moving in endless graceful motions, two gleaming daggers glistening with droplets of red blood from the four others she was attacking mercilessly. Her hair was so long it nearly brushed against the ground, in fact Umi was surprised that it wasn't interfering with her attacks. "A damn wolf demon! She just showed up out of thin air! Iron reaver Soul stealer!" The man with silvery white hair and two silver dog ears poking out of his head, she assumed that was Inuyasha. There were others in the clearing though, a dark haired man in blue robes was facing off with a golden Buddhist rod, a tall warrior woman held a large boomerang and stood beside a large two tailed cat with flames on her feet. All of them bore the damage of battle, a bloodied arm, an obvious limp, bruises and cuts all over the place. "But wolf demons don't come this far? Is she one of Koga's?" Kagome said and Umi's heart leapt into her throat as the red woman instantly stopped her attack upon the others and turned her golden gaze fully upon a now shaking Kagome.
It was then that she noticed the two silky red wolf ears atop her head swivel and pinpoint on Kagome's voice, two fangs poking out from lusciously red lips, two thin black stripes on both of her cheeks, as well as the cold cruel look of someone who knew exactly how to kill someone and had done it so many times before. It was the look of a woman who had lost everything she had ever cared about and now simply wanted to make others feel her pain and suffering. Before anyone could react the woman had lunged and grabbed Kagome by her throat, easily holding her with her slender, blood covered claws high above the ground while Kagome struggled to breathe. "I belong to no one human. And certainly not to that fucking bastard of a wolf. Do well to remember that in the afterlife." The dark sultry whisper was full of fully intended malice and hatred for everything in the world. Her grip tightened painfully around Kagome's neck at the end of the sentence, causing the others to cry out and launch an attack at the supposedly unsuspecting woman. With a motion that surpassed any words for grace and speed she threw Kagome's nearly limp body towards the others, effectively surprising them and giving her some room to breathe. Next Umi watched in horror as a dark black aura began radiating all around the red woman, without thinking of the consequences she launched herself at the woman and toppled them to the ground. "Umi! Get away from her! It's dangerous!" Kagome gulped out with a hoarse voice. "Oh gods she's transforming into her beast form! And that beautiful young maiden is caught in the middle of it!" The man in the blue robes cried out sadly but Umi couldn't really pay attention to them as she fought against the strange and way too hot flames that were starting to consume the both of them where they sat on the ground. The flames totally engulfed the two of them but no matter how much Umi fought to free herself she found it impossible to move away from the rapidly changing creature beside her. Golden eyes turned completely black, her pretty face lengthened into a powerful looking snout with fangs gleaming dangerously in the light of the fires. Umi screamed hysterically as she was enveloped in darkness completely.
When the light finally started to return she saw a gory and terrible scene lying before her eyes. Blood was spattered everywhere over the rough stone cave walls, a nearly unrecognizable body lay in a heap towards the middle with a couple of furs from a bed on the other side of the cave. "Ane? Ane…" A voice asked in a terrified whisper. She was calling for her older sister…Umi fought to keep the tears from her eyes as the scent of blood nearly overwhelmed her senses…she knew the truth. Ane was not going to respond…Another black out caught her off guard before it too quickly disappeared leaving her standing in the middle of a large clearing surrounded by mountains and trees. In front of her was a handsome man wearing a fur skirt and chest armor, icy blue eyes begging for forgiveness and understanding. "Yuri will you just listen to me for once? I swear upon my honor as a wolf that I did nothing to harm your sister in any way!" The man begged but she wouldn't, couldn't hear him. She had smelled his scent everywhere, mixed in with the blood and nearly hidden but it was unmistakable. The man took a step forward and she snapped. "Stay away from me! I never want to see you again!" She cried as she fought the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes and show just how much this whole thing was killing her inside. She wanted to kill him but she couldn't do it. Her body screamed two different things at her, to get revenge for her sister and herself or to run away and become lost in her grief alone once again in the world with no pack or family ever again. He stepped for her again and she ran away….her vision blurred as images of blood and darkness swirled across her eyes at a dizzying speed.
All she could feel was a burning consuming hatred for the world. It was by far the most powerful thing Umi had ever felt and she fought against the feelings so that she too would not be overcome by them. The light opened up again in front of her as she felt the body around her move to stand on four large clawed paws, staring down at the small group of misfits. 'DIE! All of you shall pay for this cruel mockery of my past! I shall no longer endure it!' The beast moved all power and grace even down to the movement of her silky smooth fur coating thickly over tight and powerful muscles that held enough force to destroy a small village without any kind of real effort. The wolf stepped forward, great paw springing forth a brilliant display of blue flames, contrasting gorgeously against the bloody red fur as it hit the ground. Umi watched all of this helplessly from what seemed to be inside the crimson woman's own body. 'None of you will survive my wrath! YOU WILL ALL DIE!' The woman opened her great maw and let out a powerful growl full of all her hate and pain towards the group. Umi was terrified as she felt the body begin moving towards the group with the full intention of going through with her threats and she knew that she would win. There was just no way that they could beat the beast. "STOP!" Umi cried out, surprised when the beast stopped mid strike and snarled in annoyance. 'How dare you get in my way of revenge? You damn illusion!' The woman hissed and tossed her great head into the nearest tree in an attempt to remove Umi from herself. Umi knew it wasn't going to be that easy though as she felt what she imagined would be pain ripple through the beast's body. Umi hung on for the ride as the beast tossed herself around and around, succeeding only in causing herself pain in the process. 'GET OUT OF MY HEAD!' The beast cried angrily as she dove for another group of trees and rocks. By this point her body was losing a lot of blood from the multiple scratches and deep cuts all over her too slender body. It was as though she rarely ate as she could feel the ribs and spine pressing against the skin of her body but there was still so much raw power it seemed almost impossible that she could be this thin and carry that kind of muscle. Finally, the beast was totally spent as she stood, drool mixing with blood from a cut lip as she stood panting hard, split tongue lolling out of her mouth, her legs shaking from the sheer weight of her body and eyes heavy with fatigue. 'Stubborn bitch…' The beast snarled before falling to the ground in a heap, the whole time the flames receded back into the woman's slender body.
