Futuristic Warrior From the Past

By: Patriot1776 and Gwydon

Chapter III

Authors' Notes:

HUD - Heads Up Display. Galahad's helmet visor shows his weapon status, health, etc.

"Mama, I'm home!" Kagome yelled as she opened the door to her house and came in.

"Your back sis!" Souta said excitedly as he ran up and hugged her.

"Hello Kagome." Mrs. Higurashi said warmly as she came from the kitchen and hugged her daughter.

"What happened this time?" Souta then asked eagerly.

"Well, running into this strange warrior was the highlight of it. He's wasn't evil, just really, really strange." Kagome then replied.

"Ooh! Was he a samurai?" Souta then asked.

"No, he wasn't one of those. He was the strangest looking warrior, not to mention person, I've ever seen. I'll tell you all more about it later. Right now I need to get to studying!" Kagome then raced up the stairs to her room.

She hadn't been studying long however, when she heard a familiar thump outside her window.

"InuYasha, what are you doing here? You know I can't come back right away." Kagome asked unenthusiastically without looking up as he opened the window and came inside.

"Keh! With Sango, Miroku, and Shippo gone I have nothing to do except maybe try to fight with the metal-clad warrior, and I know you won't let me to do that." InuYasha said gruffly.

"His name is Galahad, and you know absolutely nothing about him. Besides, you could've gone with Sango, Miroku, and Shippo." Kagome then replied.

"And leave you to find us on your own when you return? Woman, what's the matter with you? Don't you remember Muso?" InuYasha reminded her. Muso had been another incarnation of Naraku. He'd attacked while Kagome had been gone. When Kagome had returned and found them, Muso had gone after her. InuYasha continued. "Besides, there's danger on this side of the well too." Kagome rolled her eyes at that.

"Of course I know that. You don't have to remind me a thousand times. Now let me get back to studying, or I'll 'sit' you. Go play video games with Souta or something." she then said as she turned back to her Geometry book, the 'mysterious book of spells' as InuYasha called it.

"Feh." InuYasha said as he got up and sauntered out. Descending the stairs, he started looking for Souta when he passed a table with a telephone on it.

RRRRIIIINNNGGG! The telephone rang, and InuYasha jumped from the assault on his hearing.

"Ouch! What the hell was that?" he then said, flattening his ears to his head. He then heard the ringing again, and this time knew it was coming from the strange contraption Kagome and her family called a telephone. His curiosity then got the better of him. He'd seen how Kagome one time picked up part of it after it ringed and started speaking into that part of it. He reached down and picked up the receiver, holding it the same way he'd seen Kagome hold it. "Hello?" he then asked.

"Hello? Kagome? Are you there?" Ayumi's voice squawked from the other end of the receiver. InuYasha was dumbfounded.

"S-s-she's busy at the moment. Uhh, hold on a second." InuYasha stumbled out. He then dropped the receiver to the floor and raced back up the stairs. "Kagome! Somebody's on the teellleefffone? That's what it's called ain't it?" InuYasha yelled into the door.

"Thanks InuYasha." he heard from the other side. Kagome then opened the door, went down the stairs and picked up the phone. InuYasha meanwhile, opened the door to Souta's room and saw him sitting on the floor in front of one of those 'moving picture boxes' and holding some funny looking rock with sticks poking out of it. A string seemed to run from the rock to another strange rock on the floor. Souta also was wearing a strange set of headgear that InuYasha could easily hear some very weird music coming from. InuYasha walked up and bent down to better hear the sounds coming from the headgear. Souta was moving a stick on the rock, pressing spots on it, and watching intently what was happening in the moving picture box.

"Oi kid. What are you doing?" InuYasha then asked. Souta hit a button on the rock, and the movement on the box stopped. He then took off the headgear and looked up.

"Oh, InuYasha! I've been wanting to show you my Play Station 2! Just sit down here and I'll show you how it works!" Souta then said happily. InuYasha then sat down nervously.

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Galahad finished eating, tearing right through it without a word. He sat the dishes aside and muttered a quiet prayer in thanks. Kaede looked at him oddly when he said the words of his tongue.

"Ye speak more than one tongue?" Kaede asked.

"Yes elder, I speak four." Galahad replied.

"Ye are quite an interesting foreigner, even though ye are of a heritage I have never seen. What art ye called again?"

"I am a albino Caucasian." Galahad said, sipping on a cup of tea. He suddenly set the cup down and stood up. "I sense evil drawing near." He said. Galahad went over to his rifle and picked it up.

"I don't sense anything, what is it?" Kaede asked, standing up, getting her bow and arrows.

"They are what you call oni, and there is about fifteen of them." Galahad said, cocking the rifle. It began to hum and the barrel produced a soft blue light.

"What! Fifteen of them? I must rally the villagers!" Kaede said, but Galahad had already sprinted out the door into the night air.

'They are searching for me. They want no one else. I must deal with this myself.' Galahad thought as he ran to the eastern side of the village, where the feeling of evil came from. He stopped about twenty five yards from the edge of the forest, where red eyes glowed out of the darkness at him. The villagers amassed behind him as he put on his helmet. A loud bark sounded out, followed by snarls and snorts. 'Bull Demons.' Suddenly a distinct roar ruptured the cacophony of the lesser demons, and silence followed 'And a Knight of Hell.' A green tinted version of a Baron of Hell stepped out of the forest, holding a sword of green flame.

"/Who is the one that is called Galahad/" It spoke in the black speech. The villagers began mumbling in fear.

"Villagers, you have no part in this, leave now, and spare yourselves." Galahad said to back to the villagers. He then addressed the Knight. "/I am the one called Galahad. It is I you seek/" Galahad said in black speech. The demon Knight bared his teeth, showing his incisors and four inch canines.

"/He is the one! Bring him down/" The Knight shouted, pointing his sword at Galahad. Galahad quickly sheathed his sword and pulled his plasma rifle off his back. Fourteen pinkish, horned demons burst out of the forest and began charging at Galahad. The villagers listened and fled from the scene. The demons were hunchbacked, with a large head full of large teeth, and large claws on the paws and hooves. They stood upright on two legs and ran at a blundering lope.

BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM! The area lit up in blue light as five shots flew out of Galahad's plasma rifle, the sun-bright blue bolts ripping through the flesh of the lead demon. It collapsed in a pool of blood as the others tromped over its corpse. Galahad began running backwards, letting loose with his plasma gun. The villagers were screaming and holding their ears at the thunder-like blasts of the gun. Galahad played cat and mouse with the Bull Demons most of the way across the village before the last fell to his weapon. Steaming from the amount of heat it was producing, Galahad swung the instrument of death back over his shoulder and redrew his sword. The demon Knight was in no hurry, he was simply walking toward him, the ground setting afire at his feet. The villagers had forgotten the fighting and now were trying to put out the fire that was raging around a few huts.

"/Now that your plasma gun has been subdued, we can begin./" The Knight said. Galahad simply shrugged and flew at the Knight, his blade a blur in the air. The air crackled as light met darkness in the form of swords. The Knight parried the blows Galahad sent, his skill with a blade nearly matching Galahad's. With sudden force, Galahad knocked the blade of flame out of the demon's hand, the burning magic landing on the ground behind him. The demon immediately responded with a swing of full force, his demonic strength punch sending Galahad flying through the wall of a hut. Galahad no longer saw a HUD, his helmet had been knocked completely off. Wiping the blood from his temple, he got to his feet and ran back out of the hole he had made. The demon had picked his sword up again, and was taunting Galahad.

"/Ha ha ha. Without your plasma gun, you don't stand much of a chance against me. Those underlings were a good diversion for that weapon./" The Knight said. Galahad grinned. The Knight gave him a strange look.

"/You must not remember what I can do. I must remind you/" With one sweeping motion, Galahad pulled the now charged Soul Cube off his belt and flung at it at the oni. The wings on the figure unfolded and flew into the oni's chest. There was a bright flash, as bright as an atomic explosion. The demon didn't even have time to scream before he was little more than a puddle of evaporating blood on the ground. The Soul Cube continued flying, returning to Galahad's hand, and he attached it to his belt.

The villagers looked at Galahad, as he stood there catching his breath. His temple was still bleeding, and his armor was blackened in spots from running through fire. He walked back in the hut he had flown into and retrieved his helmet. He now saw that some of the villagers had been killed by the Bull Demons during their rampage. The corpses of the Bull Demon oni were turning to ash and evaporating into nothing, the spirits nothing more. Parts of the village were still ablaze, the villagers still putting them out. Galahad went back into Kaede's hut to remove his armor, it was difficult to put out fires when your armor heated up like an oven.

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"Game Over again, I win! WOOT!" Souta shouted.

"That's it. I've had enough." InuYasha said as he dropped the video game controller. Souta had been handing his ass to him in a fighting game every time for over two hours now.

"I've got a few more games. Don't you want to try them?" Souta then asked.

"No. They'll all be just as hard as this one! Besides, looking at the box for so long is making my head hurt." He then went out and opened the door to Kagome's room. Kagome jumped up from her desk at the sound of the door opening and quickly looked in the direction of it.

"InuYasha! How rude! Didn't you ever hear of knocking!" She yelled at him.

"Feh! We don't have 'doors' on the other side of the well! Are you done studying?" he then asked gruffly.

"No. Don't you remember I'm staying until after the test. I'm going to be up all night cramming anyway."

"Damn. I can't stand to be here that long. I'll be waiting in Goshinboku on the other side then. Head straight to the well house after your 'test' is over." He then said as he opened the window and jumped out.

'Hmph. For him telling me to not even say goodbye to my family before coming back, I'm not heading back until nightfall then when I do have to come.' Kagome thought as she went back to studying.

InuYasha lumbered over to the well house and lazily jumped in. 'No use being in any hurry. I got nothing to do until she or the others return.' he thought as the time slip accepted him. When he jumped out on the other side, the strong odor of smoke stopped him. In a split second he had determined the direction and his thoughts immediately went dark as he then took off as fast as he could toward the village, bounding from treetop to treetop.

The sight that greeted him when he arrived horrified him. Several huts were aflame, with villagers running with buckets of water desperately trying to put out the fires. InuYasha saw the strange warrior, Galahad, without his armor amongst them, assisting. InuYasha dashed toward Kaede's hut, not finding the old miko there. He grabbed a spare bucket from inside and joined in the firefighting as well. He noticed Kaede was directing the villagers. He filled up his bucket from the nearby ponds and started running a loop from the ponds to one hut after another, heaving the water on the fly as he passed them. After about an hour and a half of fighting the fires, they were finally all out. About half of the huts had been badly damaged, but fortunately none had completely burned to the ground. Returning to the old miko's hut with her and Galahad, InuYasha plopped down against the wall.

"Will somebody now tell me what the hell happened while I was gone?" he then asked.

"Some oni came for me." Galahad answered.

"Damn it! I shouldn't have followed Kagome through the well then! I missed a rumble!" InuYasha then said, growling and clenching his fists.

"Oh don't worry. None of them had any of those shards you all are looking for. They only ravaged the village and tried to kill me." Galahad said, closing his eyes and putting a hand to the cut above his right eyebrow.

"Galahad, ye must truly be some kind of Kami to have such spells as those ye used." Kaede said in bewilderment as she thought back to the battle.

"No, I'm not what you call a Kami, I am simply a servant of who you call Kami-sama." Kaede's single eye opened wide at that.

"Uh, what exactly happened?" InuYasha said in a confused voice. Kaede then proceeded to explain in detail how the battle went. She was interrupted when a villager walked in, followed by his daughter.

"Thank you, kind sir for rescuing my daughter. To give you my thanks, I offer you her hand in marriage." He then said with a deep bow to Galahad. Galahad walked up to the girl and looked down at her. She looked up at him with wide rimmed eyes, telling him that she was ready to drop to her knees and worship him at any moment. He knelt in front of her and looked her in the face.

"I thank you for the offer, but I must decline." He then stood up and looked at her father. "Find her someone who would be a better husband than I. I am a soldier of Yahweh, nothing more. It is my choice to live and die alone." He then turned around and sat down.

The villager was agape and speechless. His daughter was one of the most beautiful in the village, having been the object of the amorous monk's affections a lot. He simply motioned for his daughter to follow as he walked out of the hut. His daughter took one last look at Galahad, then left pouting, then breaking out into sobs after they were out of the hut.

"Well, it's good to see the women of this village won't have to worry 'bout you fondling them." InuYasha said with a smug grin. Galahad gave him a razor sharp look, and shook his head. InuYasha continued. "Still, even if you did waste all the oni and didn't need my help, I still would've liked to have been here to see you wield that magic stick Kaede was talking about."

"Oh, the plasma rifle? On the morrow I shall let you try it out. When will Kagome and the others be back?" Galahad then asked.

"Kagome won't be back till dusk tomorrow. The others should be back by noon. If they aren't, we're both going after 'em." InuYasha then said.

"That depends on whether I wish to accompany you or not. You may order the others around, but you shall not and will not order me around." Galahad then said with an edge in his tone.

"Feh!" InuYasha then said as he got up and walked out of the hut. After hearing of Kaede's story of the battle, InuYasha had finally realized it was not a good idea to anger the holy warrior. Galahad and Kaede then heard a thump on the roof as InuYasha lept up there.

"Interesting. I've seen few do that in my lifetime, offer their daughter's hand in marriage to a complete stranger like that, but what really surprises me is that ye declined. Ye really upset her ye know. Explain ye reasoning behind it." Kaede then said, rubbing her chin.

"Well, when she really got to know me, I don't think she'd like what she thought of me, and also the fact I'm probably going to get attacked again and again over the next few days or weeks wouldn't sit well with her or her father either." Galahad answered. He was halfway through the last word when InuYasha came back in through the doorway.

"Did you just say that what happened tonight is probably going to happen again?" He asked, giving Galahad a hard stare.

"Well, I am a solider of Yahweh - Kami-sama - and they are the forces of Hell. We are more than just sworn enemies and they know that I have awakened. What do you think?" Galahad answered.

"You know what? Now that I think about it, I'm starting to think that going into that damn cave to escape that storm wasn't such a good idea." InuYasha said grumpily.

"I would have awakened sooner or later anyway. And it wasn't you who awakened me. It was a power surge."

"Wait a minute? Are you talking about that lightning that arced across your column before it busted?" InuYasha then asked.

"It's called a cryogenic tank, and yes it was. You all just happened to be there at the right time to see it happen." Galahad explained. "Besides, it will be a few days before they notice their entourage didn't return."

InuYasha then "feh'd" and left the hut again.