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Dragon's Soul


The wolf landed on a mountain near were he was flying, Jess getting off his back and sitting on a stone rather near him.

"What do you mean?" he asked Jess closing her eyes.

"The first wielder was an expert on making swords with spirits of beasts in them, and she meet a Demon she wanted to protect. That's true, but why she made the blade was a lie. She didn't make it so she could protect him, she made it to protect the village from a blood thirsty, fire dragon. She used some kind of special crystal and sealed it inside, using it to create the blade. However, the crystal wasn't broken by it. In fact, it took the form of the beast." she said, the wolf looking at the necklace around her neck.

"Is that a piece of it?" he asked, Jess nodding.
"After the first wielder took her life, it broke into many pieces. And so far, no one has found every piece. Anyway, the dragon didn't like the fact she used her to protect a Demon, seeing how she had just killed one to make it. So, she made her think something else and take her own life. It was the dragon who did it." she said, making the wolf growl a bit.

"Then the same will happen to you?" he asked, Jess closing her eyes and shaking her head.

"Nah, most likely not. Unlike the others, I don't treat like a thing to kill. I knew from the start there was something inside it, so I made sure I treated like a living thing." he said, the wolf lying down on the mountain. "Anyway, the Demons don't know either, only I do. I almost told Sesshomaru, but he told me that he was going to figure it out for himself." she said, the wolf looking at the sky.

"What's the dragon name? And how come the other wielders didn't feel her?" he asked, Jess answering the first question first.

"Her name is Flarenix, and the others were too blind by history to even try to figure out." she said, the wolf looking at her again.
"Flarenix? I thought it was a dragon, not a phoenix." he said, Jess laughing.

"She is a dragon, but has wings similar to a phoenix. And the fact she never dies. She bursts in flame and is reborn, like phoenix." she explained, the wolf smirking.
"You really know everything about that blade, don't you?" he asked, Jess smiling.

"Yeah, just about anyway. I still don't know everything about her." she said, looking at the sun. "But I do know why she was attacking the village in the first place." she said, the wolf getting ready for a long explanation.

"A long time ago, before the first wielder meet the Demon, a small village was protected by a red, fire dragon. The dragon was treated as a sacred beast, and they all worshiped it. Because of this, the dragon felt like a God and was always able to destroy any threat. But, about 2 months after she came to the village, a black aura surrounded the village and nearly killed every person there. She was able to get rid of it, but was bleeding very badly. The people were afraid she wasn't strong enough to keep protecting them and ignored her. In rage of how they were too scared to help her, she healed up quickly and destroyed the village with her own fire. No one who lived there survived, so there wasn't anyone to forgive. It might seem like a stupid reason, but that's not important right now. She kept in that rage for a long time, making sure to burn every village she saw similar to the one she was from. One of the village being the one where she was forced into a crystal. Before that, she had burned down three other villages. The first wielder knew this and decided to put a stop into her pointless destruction. But, she didn't know why she had done it before a day before she killed herself.

The dragons goal was too kill anyone who wielded the sword after, which she succeed in. But, after Kagure, she started feeling her anger slowly going away and starting to forgive the humans again. She has fully forgiven them as well, but she hadn't forgiven Kagure. She went against her Master more then the others did, making her mad. She was created so they could protect a Demon, not go against every word they said and obtain power. So, she decided to kill anyone just using her power for their own good and not taking to job seriously. Although, she wasn't expecting only 30 years between the me and her. And since I'm different then her, she'll most likely won't be the one who kills me if anyone does kill me in the first place." she finished her explanation, the wolf yawning a bit. The sun was going down, making a fire color in the sky. Jess looked up and closed her eyes, feeling the nice breeze through her hair. Also, feeling a odd and weird scent in the air. She concentrated a bit more, opening her eyes and looking to her right. The wolf perked up and looked at her, sniffing the air.

"That smells like a pack of wolves, not too many of them either. And they stick of stained blood, must have been fighting off a Demon or something to protect their territory. But it also smells like there's Demons right next to them." he said, Jess getting off the rock and looked down from the mountain. She did see a couple of wolves, as well as humans who looked very similar to the wolves with a tail, claws, fangs and sharp ears. The leader of them it seemed was looking around, sniffing the air for any more intruders it seemed.

The wolf came up beside her, making sure the wind was blowing in their favor. He had blue eyes and black hair that was tied up into a ponytail with a brown cord. He wore a brown wolf pelt, which is the same shade of brown as his tail. Though the tail seemed to be a part of his body. He had a brown wolf fur head band and he wears silver and black armor. He also had brown wolf fur as shoulder plates. He carried a sword, which seemed to be just a decoration. But she thought he might use it if he had to. The wolves seemed to be following him, the leader opening his mouth. Jess narrowed her eyes and tried to read his lips.

"Scout the area, there's a odd scent in the air. And don't slack off, you got it?" it seemed he said, the wolves running off.
"What do we do?" the wolf asked, Jess looking a bit closer. She saw a weak shine from his legs and right arm. Isn't that...? She thought, starting to jump down the mountain.
"Stay here, I need to check something." she said, the wolf laying flat on the mountain cliff. She quickly got down to the ground, the leader turning to her.

"Who the hell are you? Get out of here if you don't want to be killed." he quickly said, Jess only walking slowly up to him.

"I'm looking around myself, and I don't follow any others orders unless they're from my Master." she said, the wolf boy looking at her sword and smirking.

"So, you're the new wielder. You seem rather young to be controlling that much power." he said, Jess narrowing her eyes. But before she could say anything, a roar from a Demon was heard to her right. She looked there quickly, trying to figure out what kind of Demon it was. The wolf boy seemed to be doing the same, the normal wolves hurrying back to their leader. "What's wrong, did you find anything?" he asked, Jess sighing and running towards the roar.

The wolf on the cliff saw it as well, jumping off and started running after his new Mistress. The wolf boy saw him, surprised he followed after her for some reason. He shook his head and followed her, seeing a huge scorpion Demon rampaging. Jess didn't hesitate, drawing her sword and sent a tidal wave of fire towards it. It quickly roared in pain, turning to ash in to time at all. She sheathed her sword, seeming very disappointed in how weak it was.

"Let's go, I've been away for too long. My Master will be wondering where I went." she said the wolf nodding, jumping in the air and Jess jumping on his back again and flying away. The wolf boy stood there, smirking and laughing to himself.

"Heh, so she's the new wielder. I wonder, who her Master is. That is, if she wasn't making it up and hasn't found him yet." he said to himself, turning his back to the ashes and went back into the forest.


InuYasha and the rest were sitting by a river, eating some of Kagome's time food. InuYasha was engulfing it in seconds, the others enjoying the taste. But, there was something that made both Sango and Miroku a bit worried about sitting here for too long. There were blood stain of the rocks, rather near the river. As well as blood right next to it. Like someone had a fight, but both surviving with minimal injuries. InuYasha was too focused on his food, he didn't even notice. Kagome didn't seem to care much, but she knew about it at least.
"So, where's out next destination?" Miroku asked, InuYasha finally taking his focus off the food.

"Where ever there's a Jewel Shard, where else?" he said, Sango looking around.

"Well, there should be a village along this river. Maybe they know something." she said, Kagome nodding and eating the last of her rice ball. Shippo jumped on her shoulder and looked around, sniffing a bit.

"I smell humans right over there, maybe they're from the village." he said, pointing to his left. Everyone looked over, seeing two villagers near the river. It looked like they were trying to catch fish. Kagome nodded and Miroku got up to talk to them.

"Excuse me, can I ask you something?" he asked, one of the man looking up at him. He nodded and Miroku bowed in thanks. "Has there been any recent attacks around these parts?" he asked, the man thinking.

"Well, there have been more and more monsters coming to our village, and the village Leader won't say or do anything about it. Our food supply is going down more and more each day, so we have to start fishing to get food in our bellies. But even that isn't enough now a days." he explained, Miroku nodding as he talked.

"Is there any place in particular they've been seen most or trying to get to in the village?" he asked, the other man answering.

"Yeah, the Leaders house. We think there's something he found on his trip around the place that they're after. But we can't say for sure, seeing how no one has seen him recently." he said, Miroku narrowing his eyes.

"Did you see any weird he brought with him, or weren't you able to see him when he came back?" he asked, both of them shook their heads.

"No, he came back late at night. So no one was up to see what he brought with him, only that he was very quiet and careful not to wake a single soul in the village." the first man said, Miroku bowing again.

"Alright, thank you for your time." he said, walking back to the others.
"Well?" InuYasha asked, Miroku looking at him.

"There has been attacks by Demon there, but they don't know what they're after. They think the village Leader brought something with him which could be a Shard of the Jewel." Miroku said, closing his eyes. "But it could also be a Shard of that necklace that girl is after. And there's a good chance Sesshomaru has gotten interested in the Jewel." he said, Kagome narrowing her eyes.

"So what? We just have to get there and figure out what it is and if it is a Shard of her necklace, we'll leave it alone. But if it's a Shard of the Jewel, we'll take it." she said, Sango nodding.

"Besides, sitting here won't do anything. Why don't we get going and head for the village?" she said, everyone nodding. They all got up and started walking towards the village, Kagome thinking about what she just said. She knew that it was pointless chasing after her, but she wished she would at least give becoming their friend a thought. She shook her head to get the thought out of her head. She knew that she wouldn't think about it, she would do what Sesshomaru told her to do. So if she told her to kill them, she would do so without a second thought. She sighed and kept walking, only thinking about how the village would be and how hard it would be to get their hands on the Jewel Shard. She knew it wouldn't be easy, nothing ever is in this place. If it was, it would most likely be a trap or something. She had learned that from being here.


The arrived at the village, not seeing anything special about it. Other then the people here seemed terrified of strangers. They walked slowly through the streets, everyone keeping their distance. InuYasha looked at some of them, seeing fear in their eyes. Seems like the two of them were telling the truth, this place has been attacked by Demons. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be so scared. He thought, thinking it would be best too not look at them anymore. They made their way to a big temple, which seemed to be the only place the Leader could be staying. But what they didn't expect, was the number of guards there was in front of it. They wore silver armor on the chest, a helmet, shoulder plates and boots. They wore blue leather underneath as well as black gloves.

"Hold it, who are you?" they asked, holding their spears towards them.

"We've heard that this village had been attacked, so we came here to see what we could do to help. We wish to talk to the village Leader." Miroku said, the solders not moving and inch.

"No one is allowed to see him at the moment. Please go down to the village and we'll tell the village Leader about what you said." they said, Miroku nodding and walking down again. The solder turned and walked towards the temple. He went through a couple of rooms and past a few as well, before kneeling down in front of a paper door. "Sir, a monk, a young woman, a Demon Slayer and another man came here. They wanted to talk to you about the recent attacks on the village. We sent them down to the village until you had given them permission to come in." he said, a man moving on the other side.
"They do not have my permission. Did you remember what happened the last time we lat a stranger in? I have no intention of letting that happen again." the man said, the solder bowing and going back to his post. In a tree, right next to the gate, a hooded person was sitting in the tree overlooking the temple. So, they're not planing on letting them in. Seems like he was right. The person thought, making sure no one was looking where he or she was.


"Now what? I doubt he's gonna let us help, seeing how he hasn't cared so far." InuYasha said, Kagome thinking. They had gone to a small field right outside the village, not wanting to draw attention about why they were there.
"And I don't think it'll be a good idea to just storm the place, we would get caught in a second with that many guards. Plus, the villagers won't let us in again if we don't do it quick and make sure we have proof that the demons were after the Shard. And we have to make sure it's really the Shard." Miroku said, Sango nodding and petting Kirara on her head. InuYasha sighed deeply and looked at Kagome, who seemed to be in deep thought.

"What's wrong? You felt a Shard up there?" he asked, Kagome looked up at him.

"Not ''felt'', I still feel it. It's a stronger presence then the others and has defiantly been sued by that Leader." she explained, a huge explosion being heard from the temple. They all looked up and saw a huge cloud of smoke raising into the sky.

"What in the hell?" InuYasha asked, jumping up in a tree. He tried to see what was causing it, but all he saw was people panicking and solders getting thrown around. "I can't see anything from here. We need to go and get a front row view of what's going on." he said, Miroku nodding and looked over at the girls.

"Kagome, you come too so we can see if there's a Shard there. Sango, you, Kirara and Shippo try to calm the villagers." he said, the two nodding and they all started running towards the village. Sango hanged behind and Kirara transformed to keep as many people as possible calm and get them away from the temple, while the others ran up to the temple. Miroku went in first, seeing someone kicking the solders away from the gate. He looked closer, seeing a sword on the persons back. InuYasha and Kagome came up to him and looked as well.

"Wait, isn't that...?" she said, InuYasha catching a very familiar scent. Once the smoke was cleared, Jess stood in the middle of fallen soldiers around her.

"Wow, she took them out rather quick." he said, seeing she was looking at them with her hood on.
"Hurry up and get the Shard already. I don't want to keep helping you guys." she said, InuYasha growling.

"Why are you helping us in the first place?" he asked, Jess not showing any emotion.

"Don't know, I just follow my Masters orders. Weather it's just a way to test my trust for him or he has some plan behind it, I just do whatever he says." she said, turning her back to them and jumping through the forest right behind the temple. They looked at each other for a second, running into the temple and quickly finding the room where the Leader usually stays it seemed. They looked around a bit, Kagome feeling a Shard a lot better now. She looked through a few boxes, finding one with millions of jewels in it seemed.

"Wow, that's a lot of jewels." she said, going through the box trying to find the Shard. She knew it was in here, but it would be rather small compered to the other stuff here. InuYasha and Miroku looked elsewhere, while making sure no one came up and trapped them. "Found it!" she said, turning to them and holding it in her fingers. They didn't waste anymore time and made their way out of the temple, seeing a man with very rich and fancy clothes on compered to the other villagers. InuYasha went in the front, catching the scent of a Demon very near them. He looked over at the man, his eyes deep as a sea and very empty. Kagome was about to go forward to talk to him, but InuYasha put his arm in front of her. Miroku looked closer at the man, pointing his staff at him.

"Alright Demon, leave that man's body right now." he said, Kagome gasping.

"Make...me." a very weak but sinister voice said. Miroku held his hands on his beads, InuYasha backing up a bit with Kagome. "I want...the Demon...pet. Give her...to me...and I'll...leave you...be." he said, the man clearly trying to fight against the Demon.

"Demon pet? Does he mean that girl with Sesshomaru?" InuYasha asked, Kagome nodding slightly. She couldn't think of any other people who would be given such a name.

"Sorry pal, you're asking the wrong people for her. We've got nothing to do with her." InuYasha said, the Demon smirking sinister.

"Then hand over the Jewel Shards you've got." he said, the human giving up so he took complete control of him. Kagome narrowed her eyes and got her bow and arrow ready. The man didn't see her bow, since she was hiding behind InuYasha. Miroku was already starting to unwrap his beads around his right arm, InuYasha getting Tessaiga ready.

"Not a chance. We're keeping them with us." he said, the possessed man smirking and laughing crazily.

"Well, we'll just have to wait and see." he said, a dark aura surrounding him.


OK, I'll stop here. Sorry if the ending was a bit...rough, but I don't really have much time left to post it. Anyway, I hope you'll like it, leave a review and I'll see ya all next chapter.