Chapter 8
"Ye will be fine. I cleaned and bandaged ye stomach wound." Kaede glared at InuYasha through her good eye as she tried to fix her eye patch that laid on her other eye.
"Told ya!" InuYasha smirked at Miroku who sat across from him. Miroku laid his hands onto his lap then calmly replied, "We just wanted to make sure. I, myself, am very worried about your well-being."
"Well, quit worryin' bout me." InuYasha said as he put his white kimono on then his red haori.
"So ye claim that this Goyasanku has Kagome, Kikyo, Fusuri, and Sango now?" Kaede turned back towards Miroku who tried to explain what had happened.
"Yes, he said he was of the Adamant Ward and is using Kagome and Kikyo for their spiritual powers.
"The Adamant Ward?!" Kaede questioned as she rubbed her head.
"Did you say the 'Adamant Wards'?" a voice came from InuYasha's shoulder. There stood an old flea demon that jumped on to InuYasha's face then began to suck blood from him like a leech. The more he sucked the bigger he got until, "Smack!" InuYasha hit the poor flea demon as he fell into InuYasha's hand.
"So Myoga, you finally showed up." InuYasha looked into the palm of his hand. Myoga soon was able to recover from the slap and got up to continue.
"Master InuYasha, did this Goyasanku say he was from the 'Adamant Ward'?"
"Yeah, what's it to ya?"
"Well, the people of that ward have been known to be very powerful because of their ability to do as they please using adamant. Way back to about 200 years ago, people of the adamant ward decided to plague humans and demons, using them to their advantage. They could possess them, absorb their strength or demonic energy, and even use them as protection. Adamant is a very strong mineral of which can not be broken. Only adamant can break adamant." Myoga stopped and cleared his throat until Miroku decided to interrupt.
"But then Myoga, how were they stopped and where are they now?"
"You see back then not all demons wanted to control humans because many just like InuYasha's father, fell in love with humans. So they fought against each other until they all were destroyed."
"Was my old man involved in crap?" InuYasha asked watching Myoga jump down from his hand to the floor. Then crossing his legs, Myoga continued, "Well, no. Your father was of the Western Lands, where this took place in the Southern Lands. I was not there so I only heard of it."
"So you mean to tell us that Goyasanku is the last one." Miroku looked down at the small speck that was the flea demon.
"Well not necessarily. There could be more around but they are too weak to do anything. They would need other demons' demonic energy, just to match up with the pitiful excuses of demons that Master InuYasha tears apart almost every other day."
"Sounds like all, we have to do is hit him in his weak spot." InuYasha smirked then crossed his arms and laid back against the wall.
"Yes, Master InuYasha but it's going to be more complicated then it seems." Myoga replied back.
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Goyasanku opened a hole onto the ceiling of the dwelling. Chanting a little verse, he raised his hands forcefully then the adamant under his feet rose him up onto the top of the tavern.
"Now to continue with the last steps of my plan." He smirked then closed his hands into fists by his sides. He lifted his head up then started chanting another verse. His body started to glimmer with a strong demonic aura and his hair blew wildly as adamant started to surround him. Crossing his arms in front of his chest, Goyasanku then pushed his arms in front of him. The adamant pieces flew out, diving down into trees and soaring into nearby villages. Each individual pieced embedded into demons, draining them of their demonic powers, while the others embedded into humans either sucking their spiritual powers or possessing them. The demons fell to the ground as their bodies pulsed and their eyes glimmered with crimson red. The humans began to destroy their own villages then took all their valuables and marched towards the tavern.
"Yes, you wretch fools. Come to me and bow down, for I am all powerful." The humans demolished anything in their way including people or demons not possessed. The people tried putting up barriers but the adamant shot right through, as if the barrier didn't even phase it.
"All my minions come to me!" Glows of crimson red started retreating towards the tavern where Goyasanku stood. Kikyo sat with her soul collectors, who eventually came back to her, while Fusuri and Sango sat against the wall. Kagome still laid on the adamant platform with adamant across her holding her down. Fusuri and Sango's eyes glimmered red then Goyasanku, drained more of the priestesses' power.
"I can't keep doing this, having to drain their powers. I'll have to perform the ritual and soon. I believe the night is coming up."
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"What's going on out there?" Miroku looked outside of the hut where he and InuYasha stayed in with Shippo and Kirara.
"Something's attacking the village!" Shippo stated looking outside while seeing adamant pieces soared through the sky.
"Mommy, look at the pretty rocks." A little girl pointed at the pieces flying at her.
"Get out of the way!" InuYasha shouted as he leapt by grabbing the girl, just as the pieces made contact with the surface of the position the girl was in. Once InuYasha pulled her out of the way, he unsheathed his tetsuiga as it transformed into its powerful state.
"Get behind me!" the half-demon yelled as he pointed his tetsuiga towards the adamant.
"ADAMANT BARRAGE!" he hollered as the adamant admitted out of his own tetsuiga. Goyasanku's and InuYasha's adamant collided head on then shattered in to the night air.
"InuYasha, what just happened?" Miroku spat out, starring into the sky where the adamant once hovered.
"That bastard, Goyasanku, tried to attack us while we were down. Dammit, he's playing dirty." InuYasha snarled as he tightened his grip on tetsuiga then was about to head towards the tavern when something hit him. Smacking the object against his neck, the flea demon inflated then alerted the half-demon.
"Master InuYasha, Master InuYasha! I forgot to inform you of one thing about the people of the adamant ward."
"Well spit it out, you old fool."
"The people of the adamant ward could become powerful by sucking their spiritual powers…"
"We already know that!"
"InuYasha, let Myoga continue," Miroku glared at the half-demon, "Please resume Myoga."
"Okay then as I was saying…oh yes, they can steal the powers of people with spiritual powers but they can also permanently take their powers."
"NO, that asshole wouldn't!"
"He could but there are two important details. One, it has to be done on a specific night and two, once he does, he won't need the people. He will probably kill them off." InuYasha cringed at the thought but then his thoughts made him remember what Myoga said earlier.
"Myoga…when is that specific night?" he almost stuttered hoping he had enough time.
"Tomorrow night…the night of the new moon."
A/N: Okay, I'm sorry it took so long to write this chapter. I just didn't have time to type it because I write it down and I couldn't get on my internet. Yeah, I've started a second story but the story just suddenly came to me and I didn't want to forget it. Okay (I say that too much) I'll try to update as soon as I can and people please REVIEW!
