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The Unchosen Path
Chapter 4: Winds of Change
Firestar: I'm ready! Let me start!
WindEmpress: Okay!
Firestar: (takes a deep breath) Hiei-
WindEmpress: (covers Firestar's mouth) Must you?
Firestar: (nods)
WindEmpress: (hits Firestar)
Firestar: Oww . . . .
"You mean that they can morph?" Tsuki asked Aris.
Aris shook her head. "Not only that, but they are now permanently demons."
"You said they'd just get their blood changed!" Inuyasha said.
"I did say that, apparently they held the blood of a wolf demon and a tiger demon. They cannot change it back to human blood."
The wolf growled at the tiger and the tiger growled back. It took them five minutes to realize what had happened. The wolf stopped growling and it jumped backwards, the tiger leaped straight into the air.
"They just realized it now?" Ryu said, in his human form.
"Reminds me of someone I know," Tsuki said as she looked in Ken'oshi's direction.
"What?"
"Angel you're-"
"And you're-"
"AHHHHHH!" They said at the same time.
Alexia ran in circles. "I have a tail, that wasn't there before, and it won't go away!"
Angel, on the other hand, pawed the sand in her new form. There were new scents, new feelings, and a whole different world through her eyes. She could feel the gentlest of breezes billowing through her fur. "Would you stop running around? Don't you feel different?"
"Yeah, I've got a tail!" she said still running in circles
"No, I can smell everyone's scent and I smell things from miles away."
Alexia stopped running and sniffed the wind. "Yeah, you're right!"
The wind shifted and brought a different scent with it. Angel and Alexia stared at each other. "Uh, oh," they said at the same time.
"Damn! Kagura is here!" Tsuki said.
"What?" Inuyasha said as he looked into the sky.
Blades hit the ground where Inuyasha and everyone stood. Sesshomaru, in his dog form, raced forward to attack the feather, but missed. Inuyasha went to attack the feather when Kagome stopped him.
"Look! Kagura has them both!"
Inuyasha looked at the feather and saw that Kagura had both of the girls on the back of the feather. They were back to their human form, most likely scared into them. "Jump, you idiots!"
Both of them were about to jump when Kagura moved the feather to a higher altitude and flew away.
"Damn!" Inuyasha said.
Tsuki changed to her black wolf form and chased after them, with Sesshomaru and Aris following behind.
"They sure cause a lot of trouble," Sifa said.
"It was our fault, somewhat, because we didn't leave the area fast enough," Kagome said
"Naraku knew about the Shifter's Blood and found it the perfect opportunity to take them," Miroku said.
"But how would he know? Aris is the only one who knows about it," Kagome said.
"Yoru . . ." Ken'oshi said.
"You mean Tsuki's enemy?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes, he's the only one who would know about it."
Angel and Alexia sat there on the feather, trying to think of some way as to escape. Angel had one and looked to Alexia. "I've got an idea," Angel whispered.
"It'd be nice to hear it," Alexia whispered back.
Angel told her the plan and Alexia smiled evilly.
"Are we there yet?" Alexia asked Kagura. (Firestar: YES! The annoying question of travel!)
"No," Kagura said without looking to them.
After a second, Angel asked her question. "How about now?"
"No."
"Now?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No!"
"How about-"
"No!"
Angel and Alexia kept silent for a minute.
"Now?"
Kagura kept silent.
Both look to each other and smile their evilest smile.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" they asked at the same time. Kagura tried to ignore them, but it was distracting her from where she was going.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
"Will you two pipe down?"
They both blinked innocently. "Are we there yeeeeet?" Alexia asked in her sweetish voice.
"No!"
"Are we there yet?"
"I said no! What makes you think I would say yes?"
"Because we're there!" Angel said.
"No, we're not!"
"Oh, I saw something! Are we there yet?"
"No!"
"Are we there yet?" they ask again.
"Wind Scar!"
Angel and Alexia's eyes open up wide. They look at each other. "Uh, oh."
Inuyasha's attack hit the feather, but it missed all three of them. Angel and Alexia fell to the ground screaming. Something with wings grabbed one of them.
Got her! Said a voice in Alexia's mind. She opened her eyes and found that she was caught by Aris' teeth in her Pegacorn form.
Alexia sighed with relief. "Angel! You have to get Angel!" Alexia said as Aris flew towards the ground.
I can't catch her.
This isn't the way I was hoping to die! Angel thought as she fell. She closed her eyes and hoped that it would be painless, but she felt something grab hold of the back of her shirt. She opened her eyes and found that she was close to the ground, but safe from dying. She breathed a sigh of relief. Wait! Who has a hold of me?
"Nice catch, Lord Sesshomaru," Tsuki said as she came into the area.
I should have figured, she thought as Sesshomaru (in his doggie form) put her on the ground.
"That was fun! Let's do it again!" Alexia said.
"No, let's not . . ." Angel said. She put her hand to her forehead, which was turning into a major headache. Not only that, she was also fighting to stay awake. "I've had enough traumas for one day."
"Its still night," Alexia said.
"Like I care . . ."
Alexia suddenly felt sleepiness hit her. (Firestar: Don't forget that they were carrying things twice their weight, then finished the day off with a long swim, then went to bed late and woke up again and did more running. I'm getting tired just thinking about it!) "Good idea . . . A nap would be nice . . ." Alexia's eyes closed and she fell to the ground. Within seconds she was asleep.
Angel looked at the three. "You killed her . . ." She too fell to the ground and fell asleep.
Aris, now in her human form, looked at the two exhausted girls. "Um . . . I'll carry the younger one, Alexia."
"When did you learn their names?" Tsuki asked.
Aris put her hands behind her head. "If you listen to them, that's what they call each other, so that's what we're going to call them."
"And how do you keep yourself from confusing them up with the other?"
"You have a wolf's nose, both their scents are different. I go by spiritual . . . Erm . . . Perkiness." She smiled after her last word. Aris shifted to her Pegacorn form and put Alexia on her back. (Firestar: I'm more loved than you are! WindEmpress: Shut up . . .)
Tsuki went to take the other, but Sesshomaru stopped her. "Don't waste your energy." (WindEmpress: (sticks her tongue out)) He picked Angel up and carried her before Tsuki could ask anymore questions.
With these two around, everything's going to go right side up. Oh, well, it is getting rather boring anyway. Tsuki thought as she followed; Aris was on her right side. "Hey, Aris . . ."
"Hm?"
"Never mind . . ."
"What?"
"Well . . . Do you really think they're the ones who were supposed to pass the boundary?"
Aris nodded.
"I'm sorry . . ."
"You doubt it?"
"Yes."
"Its okay, I was the same when I first saw them in my Sending. I'm wondering if they really are the right ones . . ."
"Why's that?"
"I was told they were powerful, but here were two ordinary human girls with no powers. I started doubting it, but then I was told about the Shifter's Blood. I don't know I still doubt it . . ."
Tsuki smiled. I'm not sure weather to be concerned for the other girl or to be concerned with Sesshomaru. Tsuki told Aris telepathically.
I agree!
Inuyasha found Kagura had left before they had shown up and had left abruptly. Ken'oshi and Sifa were both in their tiger forms and were trying to sniff out where the two went. He had seen one of them caught by Aris, but the other had still been falling.
"Hey, what happens if one dies?" Sifa asked out-of-the-blue.
"Who knows, but it won't be too good if it happens."
"Why's that?"
"Because we need them!" Ken'oshi answered in an irritated voice.
"Who asked you, you ol' rock?"
"Please don't start it," Kagome said as she followed by Sango.
"Over there!" Miroku said as he saw movement in the forest.
Out came the three, two carrying the girls. Everyone's eyes went wide when they saw Sesshomaru carrying the older of the two, but Sesshomaru had also cared for Rin. (WindEmpress: Yeah . . . Is that bad?)
"Did you kill them?" Sifa asked Sesshomaru.
"No, after we saved them from Inuyasha's belligerent attack, they dropped down and fell asleep," Tsuki said as she took Alexia from Aris' back and placed her next to her cousin on the side of a tree.
Aris looked to the sky in thought. "I fear this is where I part." She looked over at her friend and saw that, as she was watching the ground, she had an evil face on her. "Sifa, do I have to put you on a leash?"
Sifa looked up and looked around. "What are you talking about?"
"You're thinking on causing trouble again."
"Am not!"
"We're going to be late . . ."
"I'm coming . . . Good luck with these two!" she said as she hopped onto Aris' back.
"You are coming back, later, right?" Tsuki asked.
"Duh . . . Don't you think Aris would freak out if she found out you killed them?" she asked as Aris leaped into the sky and flew away.
Tsuki shook her head. "She's a nut case . . ."
Angel and Alexia were both peacefully asleep, but both of them were living the nightmare that had taken their family. The first body they had found was Angel's mother and the second was Alexia's mother. They both saw how each one had died . . .
Angel sat up with tears in her eyes as she called for her parents. "Mom! Dad! Matthew . . ."
"Angel?" said a voice beside her. Angel looked to the source of the sound and found Alexia. Angel noticed that they were in an odd building and were sleeping on odd beds. She realized that they were in the Feudal Era and they were in one of the village buildings.
"What?"
"You dreamed about . . ."
"Yeah . . ."
Angel looked at the ground and didn't look at her cousin. The sun was coming into the barred windows and Angel heard the birds singing their beautiful songs in the early morning. "How can they sing when you are full of sorrow?" she said out loud.
"Hm?"
"The birds, their songs are so beautiful . . ."
"Hey, don't cry!"
Angel moved her knees to her head and hid her face. She felt two tears fall to the ground and no more. No tear from my brother? What sort of sister am I! "Damn!"
"Angel?"
She kept silent, but she knew crying wouldn't bring them back. She picked her head up and looked at the only one who was left. Angel was still feeling exhausted and lied back down. "I'm sorry, Alexia."
"For what?"
"I'm sorry for my wish I made."
Alexia forced a smile as she looked away from her cousin. "You still think this is your fault? Didn't you hear what Aris said? It wasn't your wish, it's just a coincidence that it was your wish and this happened." She looked back and found that Angel had fallen back to sleep. "Good idea." Alexia fell back to sleep and dreamed peaceful dreams.
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When Alexia woke up again, she found that Angel had disappeared from her bed. She sat up and found a kimono hanging on a hook in the wall. It looked like there had been another one; most likely Angel had taken it.
Alexia changed into it and got rid of her other clothes, which were shredded and tattered from running in the forest. The kimono was white and the obi and the straps were gold. Somehow, Alexia managed to get into the kimono without any trouble.
Now to find Angel, Alexia thought as she walked outside. The rest of the group had disappeared to who knows where and any sign of Angel wasn't noticeable. Alexia looked around and realized no one was there. "They left me . . . How dare they." She started to walk around the village and found people whispering to each other as she walked.
"Is she really the one who the priestess brought back?" she heard a female villager whisper.
I think they mean Kagome . . .
"She and the other who left a time ago," a male villager said
"Where?" Alexia asked.
The man was stunned that she heard him whispering to the woman. "Um . . . Uh . . . Towards the woods was the way I saw her go."
"Thanks!" Alexia said as she raced towards the forest. The forest was well lit compared to ones she'd gone in before. "Angel? Angel, where are you?" Alexia called as she moved through the forest.
Shht . . .
Alexia turned around from where the sound came. Nothing. "Come on Angel, where are you?" She walked around some more with no luck. After five minutes of searching, Alexia stopped and sat down on a fallen log. "Okay, Angel, this isn't funny . . ."
Suddenly, Alexia felt a second presence in the area she sat. She looked around but didn't find anything. Alexia sat as still as she could for nearly . . . Two seconds before she decided to move. "Okay . . . Whoever's there, please come out . . . with your hands up, that is . . ." She makes her hand into a gun. "I'm loaded!"
Shht . . .
"Okay, okay, this is scaring me!" Alexia said looking around.
In a split second, Alexia hit the ground as something hit her shoulders. When she opened her eyes, she found two glowing yellow-gold eyes staring at her. "What . . . ANGEL!"
"Muwahahahahahah! I love this new demon form! Now I can scare the crap out of you!"
"That wasn't funny!"
"I thought it was."
"Well I didn't!"
"Too bad!"
"For you!"
"Why?"
"Because I have a demon form! Muwahahahahahah!"
Angel kept silent and stared at her with no emotion in her face.
"What?"
"That made no sense."
"It wasn't supposed to."
They kept silent for five minutes.
"You wanna go look for the others?" Alexia asked.
Angel was still in her demon form as she scratched the back of her ear. "Hey, I'm not supposed to do that! Anyway, they told me to tell you that they'll be back by noon."
"Where did they go?"
"Like I know. Look, I'm really bored, so can we please find something to do?"
"Sure, but what's there to do and you must know something as to where they went."
Angel shook her head. "Nadda clue," she said. She crouched down like a hunting tiger and walked forward. "All I know is that they'll be back at noon." She sprang forward and scared a rabbit out of its hiding place. "Ha! You can't hide from me!"
"Are you going to kill it?"
"Me? No, I'm not hungry, just bored to death," she said without looking up.
Alexia transformed to her demon form and pounced on Angel. "I've got an idea!"
"First of all . . . GET OFF ME! Second, what the hell is it?"
Alexia moved away from Angel and sat down on the ground. "You want to do a mock battle?"
"Whatever, but I barely know any attacks." Angel shook her body (yes, in her wolf form).
"That's why we're going to do this."
"Alright." Angel slightly crouched down again and circled the tiger. "But how well do you fight?"
"You know we've never fought before."
"I know, that's why we're starting now; for training." Angel leaped at Alexia and bit into her neck and felt warm blood run into her mouth and run down her muzzle. Alexia roared with pain and tried to hit the wolf that hung onto her, but Angel had let go and jumped out of the way before Alexia's paw could hit her. As Angel had tried to leap out of the way, she stumbled and fell to the ground. "I give in! We need real training!"
"You bit me!"
"Hello?"
"You bit me!"
"Alexia!"
"YOU BIT ME!"
"Shut-up!"
"Owwie . . ."
"Some tiger you make."
"At least I didn't trip over my long, skinny legs!"
Angel glared at the tiger and padded out of the forest.
"I didn't mean it like that."
"I know, but I found a lake this morning. Maybe we could try to catch some fish."
"Or go swimming!" Alexia called as she chased after Angel. They trotted to the lake and came to a large lake encircled by trees. Alexia looked at the water.
"Hey, look," Angel said, "Do you see that big fish?"
"Where, where?" she said looking around.
"Right . . . THERE!" Angel said shoving Alexia's head into the water. A tiger head popped back to the surface, gasping for air.
"What'd you do that for?"
"I don't know I just felt like it."
"You idiot!"
"It's your fault for listening."
"Well I trust you."
"Too bad."
"Back to that again!"
"No."
They kept silent for ten minutes. At that point, they both look at each other and smile. They race towards the water and leap into it. Alexia and Angel start splashing water at each other (Firestar: again, they are in their demon forms) and diving below the surface.
Alexia pops back to the surface in her human form with Angel following. They laugh hysterically for a minute then stop when there's nothing more to laugh about.
"This is the most fun I've had in a long time!" Alexia said smiling. Her smile disappeared as fast as it had come. "I miss our family."
"Oh, don't even get me started. I'll start crying . . ."
"Please don't."
"O.k."
A faint scent came to them from the edge of the lake. When they turned, they found Kagome walking towards them.
"AHHHH! Murder, murder!" Alexia said.
"That hurt, you know."
"Don't take offence to it, she's just dull in the brain," Angel said to Kagome.
"I just came to say that Sesshomaru wants to see the both of you." She walked away saying nothing more.
"Come on, let's go."
"So eager to see Mr. Sesshomaru?" Alexia asked.
"That's Lord Sesshomaru to you," said a voice behind them.
"Wahhh! When did you show up?" Alexia said pointing to him.
Sesshomaru set something on the ground and turned. "I'll make my due and leave now, don't try to destroy them," he said walking away.
Once he was gone, they both turned to the spot where Sesshomaru had set something down; something glittered on the ground. They both looked at each other and swam to the items. There on the ground were two necklaces with an orb on each one. The orbs were white and clouds rolled in them like a storm was brewing within its core.
"What is it?" Alexia asked.
"What does it look like, ya dolt?"
"Oh, you're just on the name calling side today, aren't you?" She leaned closer to Angel. "Just tell me, are you PMSing? I won't tell anyone, but I just need to know."
Angel's hand hit the side of Alexia's face. "You idiot!"
"I'll take that as a yes . . ."
"You're in for it!"
"What did I do?"
"You're asking questions you shouldn't."
"Okay, okay, I'll stop."
Angel picked one of the orbs; it glowed and she felt a power surge from it flowing into her body. "A power surge?" Angel whispered as the surge disappeared.
"What?" Alexia said.
"Take the necklace; you'll feel a power surge from it."
Alexia nodded and touched the other. She, too, felt a surge from it, and then it died away. "What was that about?"
"Like I have a clue?" Angel said as she stood up. She felt the wind shift in direction, but no scent came with it.
"Do you think its Kagura?" Alexia asked. Apparently she'd noticed the shift.
Angel shook her head. "You would have known by now." She thought for a minute in silence. "Do you remember that saying about shifting winds?"
"No, I barely remember the last time I went to school."
Angel rolled her eyes. "The Winds' of Change. I have a feeling that things will suddenly shift again. Until then, I guess we just keep going."
Alexia nodded.
"Come on," Angel said smiling, "Let's go."
WindEmpress: Story's done!
Firestar: Yeah!
WindEmpress: Before I start the next story, I want to say this: . . . WRITE SOME REVIEWS! I don't care what they say, but at least let me know that you read it!
Firestar: Yeah!
WindEmpress: I know its short, but the next story will be longer.
Firestar: Yeah!
WindEmpress: And its time for Firestar to get the crap beaten outta her.
Firestar: Yeah-HEY!
WindEmpress-