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Chapter 2

Inuyasha ran out of Kagome's room and into the antechamber where the royal family was on their feet looking around in fear.

"Sir!" Two of his soilders ran in.

"You, go gather the troops! Launch an immediate counter attack! You, find the princess Kia! Now!" Inuyasha ordered grabbing his sword off the table and securing it to his waist.

"Sir!" They saluted him and ran out again.

"Your Majesties....?"

"Our life is your your hands." The queen said. "You order us as you see fit, we will listen."

Inuyasha nodded.

Kagome walked slowly out of her room as if a loud battle was not going on right outside. Thunder clapped outside followed by a bright flash of lightning. The window shattered and rain and wind started pouring into the room extinguishing the fire in seconds.

Kagome made a face of disgust. "Blood magic." she said looking at the dark purple sky which had been bright blue only minutes before.

"Mama!" Kia and her nursemaid came running in with the soldier Inuyasha sent to fetch them.

"Sweet heart!" Her mama knelt and gathered her trembling daughter into her arms. In her arms was the doll Inuyasha had gotten for her two years ago.

"Kagome, can you get them out of here?" Inuyasha asked.

"Clear me a path and I shall lead them away." Kagome answered calmly.

Inuyasha nodded and turned to the soldier still awaiting instructions. "With me! Help me make a path for them."

The soldier nodded and they both ran out of the room, swords drawn.

"Please, with me." Kagome said to the family before running after them. The hallway was clear and Kagome looked both ways before deciding. "This way!" and they ran left.


Inuyasha left his charges and turned right and ran with his man at his heels. Two corridors down he found the first enemy soldiers.

Six of them, looting a guest room.

Inuyasha ran among them with a yell and took down two with a single sword swipe. Without pause he turned and stabbed the one at his back. He kicked the body of his blade and used the force to elbow the man coming up behind him. He dropped to his feet gasping in pain. In a smooth motion, Inuyasha brought his sword down on his neck. The last two were victims to his claws.

His solier ran down the hallway with blood on his face and tunic. "Sir, they made it inside the castle."

"I noticed! What are our numbers?"

"They out number us at least 3 to 1, Sir! Half of them are mages and our men are falling quickly, sir!" he gasped

"Where are they coming from?"

"It seems all sides, captain!" Another man ran up his left arm in shreds but his blade bloody. "I just came from the back, sir, and they are rolling over us there. Fitz from up front reported that their tearing through the city!"

"Then what are you doing here! Go fight back!"

"Aye, captain!" They both yelled and ran further down the corridor.

Inuyasha heard noises from below him.

"Aaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!" He yelled and brought his fist down hard on the stone below him. With his super hearing he was able to make out the sound of two of his knuckles cracking along with the stone and wood of the floor.

It fell straight down on top of at least ten men, 4 of which had the look of mages.

Three of his soldiers, two of which were female, were fighting back to back against over ten more.

Without a word, he ran among them and took out three as his men started fighting with more vigor.

Inuyasha took down one with his broken hand and he felt the bones move in an unnatural way but ignored the blinding pain it brought.

From behind him one raised his sword. Inuyasha was about to lift his own to fight back when an arrow pierced his back. 5 more of his joined the battle and it was over quickly.

3 of his were dead and one couldn't move their legs. His hand was throbbing in time with his accelerated heart beat and he had a deep gash on his shoulder which burned like fire.

"Anyone know where we stand?" he asked whipping blood from his lip.

"The city is on fire, sir." the women who shot the arrow answered panting. "The people are being slaughtered."

"Go!" he said and they ran off again. The one who couldn't move his legs grabbed his bow and arrows.

"I got this hall, captain!" He said notching the arrow.

Inuyasha nodded knowing there was nothing he could do for him and ran in the opposite direction.


"Hurry!" Kagome yelled leading the family down the servants stairs.

Kia whimpered in distress and buried her face in her father's shoulder as they passed two maids with arrows in their backs.

Kagome suddenly stopped dead as she saw two enemies, one a mage, standing on the stairs.

The mage grinned as he saw her magic. "Mine!" He said and readied a blast of magic power.

Kagome threw up her hands and made a quick but powerful barrier around herself and the family. They all flinched as the power shattered on her shield.

Kagome cursed herself for not putting up an absorption barrier to take the energy into herself instead of just breaking it.

With a yell, she pushed the barrier forward and made it slam into her opponents like a brick wall. They both fell down dead.

"Come on!" she yelled and ran past the bodies. She heard them follow her.

"Through the kitchen!" Kagome said taking them through the abandoned room and out into the courtyard.

Kagome stopped dead and held out her hands to stop the family too as she saw the fighting. Bodies littered the ground, mostly theirs, as swords and spears clashed.

"Even here?" the queen gasped in terror.

A soldier saw them and ran towards them with a sick grin.


Inuyasha took down another mage and pivoted just in time to keep a sword from piercing his side.

His skin was stained red as was his sword which sang through the air as he brought it down on the shoulder of the man. His right hand was broken but it was the only hand he could handle his sword with as his left arm had been broken by the mages blast when he sent him flying. He had a scratch on his forehead which was bleeding into his eye obscuring his vision. His muscles quivered in exhaustion but still he fought on.

He only saw two more of his men, both of which were badly injured. They had both died in the last battle he fought.

He leaned against the wall and whipped the blood from his eyes and wondered what had happened to them. He had realized about an hour ago that he had lost them and had been searching fruitlessly since then.

He looked up at a cackle and saw a female mage smiling at his her hands raised glowing sickly red with power.

"Shit." He said running forward to try and stop her.


Kagome pulled back her hands again as if she held a bow and released a pink bolt of energy into the crowd of fighting men.

As if it had life of it's own, the bolt passed through the chests of enemy soldiers in zig-zaged lines finally fading out six men later.

Kagome clutched her side which had been hit by an arrow and was bleeding profusely.

The king and Miroku were at her sides trying to keep enemies away from her and they stood in a protective half circle around the queen and her daughter who were cowering against a wall.

It was mostly mages attacking them now since they found out Kagome was a witch. Her natural power would be a great boost to the power they had stolen from the lives of others.

Kagome panted but threw up another barrier as they threw their power at her en masse. She dropped to her knees as their collective powers overwhelmed her tired body. The barrier started shacking with her and finally shattered throwing every one around it back. Kagome and the royal family hit the wall hard and the mages fighting them flew backwards.

Kagome gasped in pain as stars erupted in front of her eyes.

The mages recovered first and made their way towards her, most limping from the backlash of her power breaking.

She struggled to throw up another barrier not knowing the force of the blow had already stopped the king's heart.

The glass window two stories above her head shattered and Inuyasha flew out of it with a blast of sickly red power.

He landed hard in front of her. He felt some thing inside him tear with the landing not to mention one of his legs breaking from impact.

A large shard of the glass pierced the queen in the back as it rained down and she tried to shelter her child under her. She let out a final scream of pain before her body dropped to the ground.

Limp.

Dead.

"Mama!" Kia called trying to shake her awake getting blood on her tiny hands.

A mage shouted in happiness and through up his hands.

"No!" Kagome shouted with a cracking voice as it went over her and Inuyasha's bodies and hit the tiny princess.

She fell next to her mother and didn't move.

"KIA!" Miroku yelled one his legs also broken.

Inuyasha grunted in pain as he tried to stand.

Kagome heard all too familiar whispering around her and felt a huge boost in her power.

But no matter that it was a tremendous amount of power, it was just enough to transport her and Inuyasha and Miroku away from this place.

She cried out in pain as the magic rushed through her veins and into the world. It was not her magic, it was not her spell. The spirits of the earth guided the spell and used her as a focal point in the physical realm.

Suddenly they were gone and the mages hollered in disappointment as the only thing left was the bodies of the royal family of a kingdom once ruled by peace, where nothing bad ever happened.

A dark figure walked through the blood and gore as if taking a stroll in a garden. The screams of pain and sorrow along with the cracking of the destructive flames was music to his ears. He felt great pleasure seeing the dead royals and the destroyed palace. This land was his now, and he would use it to conquer the lands around it.

He would finally get what he always deserved, what was rightfully his.

But as he inspected the bodies, he found one missing. The crown prince was not among the dead. Nor was the captain of the guard or the witch who lived at the palace.

He grimaced when he heard how they had vanished, but thought nothing of it. They were nearly dead, there was nothing they could do.

He walked through the crumbled palace walls, never noticing how one stone wall refused to be chipped or marred in any way, nor how it pulsed with power.

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