Chapter 7 - The Fire Gaurdian


*Flash Back*

Miu turns around and starts to head back when she hears Sesshomaru say

"It's fine."

Mius stops in shock

"You can say what ever you please."

Miu looks back and give Sesshomaru a bright smile replying

"Thank you my Lord."

Sesshomaru starts walking past Miu while saying

"Lets go."

Miu feels happy and glad that she told him and answers alright to Sesshomaru while running up to walk beside him as they both walk back to camp for the night.

*Even though Lord Sesshomaru puts on a cold front, I know deep inside he is kind hearted. Why would he have listened to me talk?, and why would he have Rin travel with him if he wasn't?... I'm very happy here, with them.*

Miu thought herself with a smile on her face as she walks next to Sesshomaru.

*End Of Flash Back*

It was hot, very hot, with a loud crackling noise like something was burning. Miu opens her eyes slowly to find herself inside a burning cabin with everything around her surrounded with flames. Her eyes widen, mouth wide open, sweat dripping from her face as she starts to panic, scared, she feels a sharp pain in her chest like something is suffocating her, she squeezes her eyes shut as she grabs her chest with her right hand. It was hard to breathe so she starts to wheeze, it was very difficult to see anything, Miu feels like her hand is wet so she slowly opens her eyes to look down and freezes while thinking

*Blood... why is my hand covered in blood!?*

She glances at her chest and notices she has a huge wound on her chest and there was blood everywhere. Her face goes pale with a shocked expression. She tries to move but she couldn't, looking around the flames she notices a body laying on the floor burning with everything else. She stops and stares with frightened eyes at the body dripping in sweat

*That's... That's... Sis...ter..*

Jaken hears a noise like someone is suffering so he slowly opens his eyes saying with a sleepy tone

"Wha.. What.. What is that noise?"

Jaken sits up while rubbing his eyes and sees Miu laying up against a tree, her body stiff as a board, sweat dripping from her face, her hands digging at the ground. Jaken stands up and slowly walks over to Miu thinking

*She looks like she's in a lot of pain. Wretched woman how dare she disturb me while I'm sleeping!*

He thinks with an angry expression on his face.

"Jaken."

Jaken jumps up startled by the cold voice of Sesshomaru and turns to face him

"Yes Me Lord?"

Sesshomaru looks at Miu than looks at Jaken

"What's wrong with her?"

Jaken turns and faces Miu answering

"I'm not sure Lord Sesshomaru, I woke up and saw her like this. Jaken walks up to Miu shouting

"Woman wake up! How dare you disturb Master Sesshomaru!"

Jaken grabs Miu's arm but quickly jumps up in pain yelling

"AHHH HOT HOT!"

Jaken runs to the small puddle by Rin and A-Un and shoves his hand in it sighing in relief. Sesshomaru looks at Jaken with his eye brow raised in confusion on what just happened and looks back over at Miu still sitting there with a suffering expression on her face. Sesshomaru stands up and walks towards her and stands in front of her thinking

*Her body temperature's extremely hot, even just standing here I can feel it. But how is her body giving off this much heat?*

Immediately Miu's eyes shoot open as she gasps for air holding her chest and breathing very heavily. While looking at the ground Miu calms down a bit and says

"It was just a dream.."

Rin and A-Un were woken up by the commotion. Sesshomaru kneels down in front of Miu and asks in a calm voice

"Are you alright?"

Miu looks up at Sesshomaru while letting go of her chest. Her breathing is back to normal now and she isn't sweating anymore, she gives a small smile while answering

"Yes, I'm fine. I'm sorry I disturbed you, I just had a nightmare. I haven't had it in so many years so it took me by surprise.. I'm very sorry."

Rin walks over to Miu rubbing her eyes

"Are you sure you're going to be ok Lady Miu?"

Rin asks looking very concerned

"Yes Rin I'll be alright, thank you for your concern. Are you hungry?"

Miu answers with a happy expression

"Yes! Lets go catch some fish over by the pond!"

Rin smiles brightly at Miu while running over towards the pond. Miu stands up and runs off to following Rin

"Wait for me Rin!"

Sesshomaru is standing by now watching Miu and Rin run off to the pond with a straight face. Jaken walks over to Sesshomaru staring at his right hand saying

"My hand felt like it almost burned off, I can't believe how hot she was."

Jaken looks up at Sesshomaru

"What do you think happened there My Lord?"

Sesshomaru still stands there with a emotionless expression on his face staring off to where Miu and Rin had run off too

"Uh Me Lord?"

Jaken asks again, Sesshomaru starts walking off to Miu and Rins directions without saying a word to Jaken. Jaken gets a worried look on his face

*Oohh, what could Lord Sesshomaru be thinking?"

Jaken thinks as he yells out

"Wait for me My Lord!"

Running off after Sesshomaru. Miu and Rin were jumping around in the water trying to catch some fish to eat

"Lady Miu over there!, There it is get it!"

Rin yells out happily and giggling, Miu laughs as Rin jumps face first into the water to try and catch a fish. Rin stands up with the fish in her hand yelling out happily

"I got it! I got it! Did you see Lady Miu!?"

Miu laughs out loud

"Yes Rin good job!"

Rin laughs happily and is about to run over to put the fish down when suddenly what looked like to be a rope of fabric flies and wraps around Rin and carries her off screaming. Miu with a surprised look on her face immediately runs off after Rin followed by Sesshomaru. The rope of fabric flew towards a man who turned around to face the fabric and Rin and shot out a ball of light out of his left hand which wrapped itself around Rin to form a giant ball around her, She passed out from the shock inside the floating ball. Miu and Sesshomaru come to a halt, Miu yells out to the man

"Who are you?!"

The man turns and faces Miu and Sesshomaru. His skin was very pale with ivory eyes and white hair. His hair was short in the back but had two very long thick pieces of hair which were connected to his bands that went down to the ground. He had a black horn on his forehead and was wearing a very beautiful kimono that had many designs and many dark colors in it. He was also carrying a dark blue japanese oil paper umbrella over his shoulder. He smiles and answers

"My name is Ankoku, Does this young girl belong to you?"

Jaken finally caught up to Miu and Sesshomaru with A-Un panting and walking slowly to where they were standing. Miu glares at Ankoku and answers with an angry tone

"Yes! Now return her to us!"

"I'm afraid I can't, you see, I need more energy to be able to take over the lands here so I've been collecting humans and demons for that purpose. The ball I've placed your friend in is slowly sucking the energy right out of her."

Ankoku says with an evil grin on his face. Sesshomaru draws tokijin and immediately dashes for Ankoku, Sesshomaru jumps in the air to attack him but Ankoku opens his umbrella and a huge energy ball forms from it and shoots out at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru blocks the energy ball with tokijin and lands on the ground while being pushed back by the energy, Sesshomaru tightens his grip on tokijin and knocks the energy ball away. Miu dashes for Rin but somehow the energy ball that Sesshomaru knocked away flew back around toward Miu, Miu glances at the ball out of the corner of her eye and jumps out of the way, the ball comes back around to attack Miu again but Sesshomaru runs between Miu and the energy ball and uses his dragon strike attack on it which blows the energy ball up.

Miu and Sesshomaru hear a loud yell and both turn to see Jaken and A-Un being snatched up by one of Ankoku's energy draining balls. Sesshomaru dashes to help Jaken and A-Un but before he gets to them Ankoku's fabric rope comes up from the ground and wrapped itself tightly around Sesshomaru's body draining his energy and making him unable to move. Miu gasps at this and run to Sesshomaru's aid, she is almost there when Ankoku runs like a flash at Miu and appears right in front of her, Miu stops in surprise and before she knew it Ankoku hit her with and energy sucking ball and she was inside of it. It was difficult for her to move, Miu could feel her energy being taken from her, she glanced down at Sesshomaru who was having difficulty moving as well with that tight rope around him, she looks over at Rin, Jaken and A-Un and thinks

*If I don't do something soon.. everyone's going to be killed, or seriously hurt.*

Miu cringes in pain with her energy still being sucked out of her

*But if I do this, I might have to leave them..*

Miu looks down at Sesshomaru who starts glowing red, his eyes turn to a dark red and his face starts to change. Miu now has a serious expression on her face and knows she must do what she has to, to help Sesshomaru.

*I must do this*

She thinks, when all of a sudden she starts to glow a bright fiery red, her hair blowing as if wind was blowing it and a huge fire ball forms around the entire energy sucking ball that held Miu in.

"You'll never escape my energy fabric, no matter how strong of a demon you are it'll suck all the power right out of you."

Ankoku says while chuckling a bit but pauses to the sense of something else. Sesshomaru senses this different power and stops his transformation glancing up at the fire ball in the air. Ankoku turns from Sesshomaru and looks up also with a cold emotionless expression. Suddenly the ball blows up and the fire ball forms like a rocket as it flies to Rin wrapping around the ball than flying to Jaken and A-Un and destroying the balls that held them captive also. The fire rocket than lands on the ground which disappears to reveal Miu holding Rin in one arm and Jaken in the other, A-Un flew themselves to the ground safely.

Sesshomaru's eyes widen a bit in surprise to Miu's new appearance, she looked the same but was wearing a very tight bright red outfit (same outfit as Miu (Pronounced as Me-you) wears only its a full outfit no slits that show her skin and the neckless isn't huge its a very small neck choker with no silver thing in the front its just all small circles on it. Same pink on the arms and instead of yellow flaps on the side there pink, but the rest is red and its only got pink again on the ends of her shoes.) Ankoku's eyes also widen in major surprise as Miu walks over and places Rin and Jaken down safely. Miu than turns to Ankoku and tells him with a stern tone

"You've tried to hurt my friends and for that I will show you no mercy."

Ankoku's expression is still a bit surprised but stares at Miu. Sesshomaru stares at Miu still a bit surprised himself also, Ankoku takes a couple steps over towards Miu saying with an interested tone

"I thought the stories about the legendary gaurdians where just a myth.."