Chapter 10: The Deadly Curse Part 2
This is a short chapter cause I don't feel good.
"Jr?' Was this some trick of his mind? A very cruel trick, or was that really Mayumi he had just heard in his head? 'Mayumi?' 'Jr! What's happening? I'm scared, this hurts so much!' Jr felt a tremble of rage run through him but he denied it. 'Mayumi, listen to me. You're under a curse, a very dangerous one. We're doing all that we can to help you.' 'Jr,' she sounded so terrified, 'Don't leave me.' Jr crouched next to Mayumi's face and gently brushed away some loose strands of hair, 'I won't leave you. I'll never leave your side.'
Aiko sat in her carriage, word from the dark priestess made her less homicidal toward her servants. The curse was in progress, she was slowly dying. Aiko smirked evilly. Revenge was sweet. She knew what a risk this was but according to the priestess, Whoever was Mayumi's soul bond, they could not help her. Aiko was enjoying herself, by tomorrow she could return to her kingdom and Mayumi would lay in hell forever. Her reputation would rise again and then no one can be a threat to her throne again.
The dark priestess began to see a problem, the fighters in the girl's group were hunting her. "Damn." She cursed, "This will cause a setback." 'What can I do?' Rushing the curse would only result in a bad surge of demonic energy, the only thing she could do was change the curse into something more useful. She could gain control of the girl's mind and body and make her kill her soul bond which would result in the death of the girl. A narrow chance but without much more to consider as options it would have to do for now. The dark priestess grabbed the sphere, her shikigami wrapped itself around her arm. "Please work." she whispered. She placed all the energy she had into her curse, leaving barely enough to create a shield around the alter. Once her energy was woven into the curse she sent it to Mayumi. However, it was sent back to her, destroyed. "What?" She shrieked, "How can this be?"
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Mayumi felt the curse trying to gain control of her, it gnawed at what control she had left. It felt like an oily black tide washing over her attempting to turn her into its puppet. She was sure everyone around her felt the disturbance too cause the minute she started moving in her attempt to free herself she heard Jr curse and order the pups to move away from her. Kagome must have been outside getting more water because she only heard Jr's voice trying to calm her down. She felt herself thrashing about and if she could have stopped herself she would have. Then the crystal began to shine, it offered her its strength to fight the tide and she eagerly accepted it. The tide cowered away from the light her crystal was emitting and soon it was being torn to pieces and sent back to where ever it came from. Even the pain she was suffering through the whole time was gone, leaving her tired and slightly weak. Sleep was closing on her but she managed to push it away. "Mayumi?" She heard Jr say quietly. 'Jr?' 'Mayumi, what was that?' 'The curse was trying to do something to me. I don't know exactly what happened but whatever it was, it's gone and I feel fine now.' she heard the tiredness in her voice, 'Sleep Mayumi.' Jr instructed. She felt something cover her body, and soon felt the pup curl up on her sides. It was comforting and she soon felt comfortable darkness take over her.
With the spell ruined, the dark priestess knew she needed to leave before anyone came looking for her. Draining her energy for that curse had begun to take it's toll, she was tired and weak. Soon she wasn't even able to keep her shield up, it was wasting her remaining strength that she needed. "Damn it!" she cursed loudly, pain running throughout her body from the lack of energy. Tears began to fall from her dark eyes. There was only one thing left for her to do, it was out of what pride she had left. The dark priestess fell to the ground, the forest created a dark background. With whatever strength she still had left she place a death spell on herself, since she was already weak it would only take a matter of minute for her to die. She stayed there until Inuyasha found her. "You're the dark priestess who cursed Mayumi aren't you?" She glared at him but answered, "Tried. She managed to escape my grasp but that matters little to me now, I am already on the brink of death." Inuyasha felt anger run through him, "You were working for Aiko weren't you?" She laughed, "That Princess? Yes I was." She held an insane smirk on her face then died. Inuyasha glared at the dead body, she managed to escape the death he planned for her but at least Mayumi was going to be okay. Inuyasha headed back to his group. "The dark priestess is dead."
Sorry for the chapter being so short. I'm not feeling good so I didn't want to write too much. The next chapter will be long I promise! er maybe it won't be... XP