Title: Starlight

Author: darkling7

Rating: T (may change later)

Warning: Language

Disclaimer: I do not own

Six:

Sides' climbed onto the hood of his car, and rested there, while Sunny leaned back against the passenger door of his car. Neither one of them had spoken yet. They had simply glanced at one another, moving to their respective vehicles, and stared curiously at her, like she was a specimen in a lab that they wanted to dissect.

"Are you human?" Sides' finally asked, his head tilting slightly, his hair brushing against the hood of his car as he reclined.

Kagome glanced down at herself, still wrapped in a towel, and said, "Can you give me your jacket or something? It's a little chilly, as I'm in a freaking towel."

Sunny rolled his eyes, pushing away from the door only to open it and reach inside his car. He tossed an extravagant gold threaded blanket at her, which she gratefully wrapped around her body.

"Answer him now," he snapped.

She rolled her eyes. "Am I human? Yes! What else would I be?"

"Humans do not produce pink energy," Sides' said, eyes scanning her. "At least, no humans we have ever met."

His terminology really struck a cord with her, recalling conversations she had in the past with demons. Human. Like a derogatory word, as if it was beneath them.

"You're demons, aren't you?" she said softly, hope welling in her chest. After all, they were very good looking, and she had learned that most powerful demons were.

She caught the quick flick of Sides' eyes as he zeroed in on Sunny, and while his face expression did not change, she knew that she was wrong before he even opened his mouth to say, "Demons? Like, from human fairy tales?"

"You're human, then," she murmured softly, pulling the blanket tighter against her body, fingers clenching the fabric desperately. She could feel the despair welling up in her throat, and she had to fight the urge to choke on her pain. "I was hoping..."

"Hoping for what?" Sunny snapped, taking a step in her direction. "Hoping that we weren't human?"

She took a step back, eyes flickering between the two. "Never mind. What do you care?"

Sides' leaned up onto his elbows, and tilted his head again, curiosity beaming from his intense blue eyes. "If you are human, why do you have that pink energy?"

Kagome glanced between the two. "What I want to know," she said. "Is if you aren't demons, why my 'pink energy' reacted to you. I can't hurt humans with it."

"Demons," Sides' muttered to himself, his eyes off in dreamland. Then he snapped to focus, slid down off the hood of his car, and approached her, making a wide berth around her, his eyes practically alight with genuine delight. "In human folklore," he said, coming to a stop in front of her. "There are stories of girls who have the ability to purify demons. Is that what you are? A priestess?"

"And if I am?" Kagome said, glaring at him defiantly.

Sunny rolled his eyes. "According to the internet, there is no such thing as priestess' in this day and age, and there is no proof any existed." He turned back to his car, popping open the drivers side door. "This is a waste of time. I'm going back to the club."

Well. That certainly struck a cord within her.

She had been important once. She had saved the world. And then she had been forgotten, her tales all but lost to the stream of time as life continued on for the humans, and dwindled away for the demons.

But she remembered. She held onto her memories, to her precious, precious memories, of her small rag-tag group of friends that traveled the countryside and collected the shards of a shattered jewel, one that she had been born with. She had been born with a destiny greater than she could have ever known, and it hurt to know that not even her part in that story had survived the test of time.

Without stopping to think about what she was doing, she pushed past Sides' to approach Sunny's vehicle. She could feel her powers crawling around inside her, desperately screaming inside of her, trying to claw its way out.

"I am a priestess," she snarled as she approached. "And I'll prove it!"

And she slammed her fists down onto the hood of his sexy yellow car, releasing her powers into the hood.

However, she did not expect the car to visibly jump several feet into the air, all the alarms blaring, the engine letting out a powerful roar, before going deadly silent.

And she watched Sunny literally fade into the air.

"What," she said. "the fuck?"