Artemis: Alright, fine. Thalia! Come now, bring the rest of them!
Thalia: yes Lady Artemis. (enters with the other hunters following)
Rin: (gets up and goes over to Lord Sesshomaru)
Artemis: We will dine with them, I wish to inquire this little girl a bit longer.
Sesshomaru: (looks at rin and the tears streaking down her face) the nightmare again?
Rin: (nodds) about the wolves that killed me, had me cornered again in the dream.
Artemis: Wolves?
Sesshomaru: yes. acouple years ago when we first met she nursed me back to health and when the time came to leave. I headed up to meet with Jaken. but then I smelled Rin's blood on the wind and when I found her she was dead attacked by wolves. but with in seconds I brought out the tenseiga and used it to revive her.
Rin: I was about six at the time.
Artemis: I see. Did you hunt the wolves or let them go?
Sesshomaru: I let the wolves go. my only thought was to get Rin out of the general area.
the wolves will not get her again. I myself make sure of it.
Artemis: Hm... I wonder if I would have let them go. I think I would've been focused on the wolves, after taking her as one of my own. We seem to have different ways of thinking.
Jaken: even if he had wanted to the wolves trail was cold. we counted ourselves lucky to find rin at all.
Artemis: Hm... Maybe for you... At least you saved her, she is a pretty one.
Rin: but in the dream the wolves find me and have me cornered again and this time Lord sesshomaru is unable to save me. (starts to cry)
Sesshomaru: Calm down rin that won't happen I promise you I will always be here and will guard you and protect you for as long as I live.
Thalia: Lady Artemis forgive me for asking but what do you make of this creature?
Artemis: Inutaisho's other son. The one that has not found refuge at camp. He means no harm.
Thalia: I see. but he speaks to rin as though she was his child. yet while we were watching she did not adress him as a child adresses a parent but as a servant adresses a master. while he was bathing her you heard how she phrased her questions. how do you read this?
Artemis: They are from Japan, and she had called him 'Lord' as a behavior learned from Jaken. The honorifics are very important to them.
Sesshomaru: your lady is quite wise. yes she learned it from my servant Jaken.
Thalia: yes She is.
Artemis: Thank you, Thalia, you are always too kind to me.
Rin: are all hunters female?
Sesshomaru: Rin your insatiable curiosity will never cease to amaze me.
Artemis: Yes. Part of the oath of my Hunters is to foreswear the romantic love of men. They are not allowed to marry, stay maidens like myself forever. They are unable to die, except for in battle.
Sesshomaru: I see. I wish you and your ladies great success. (notices they have finshed)
I am glad to see that you had good appitites.
Artemis: Thank you, a good appetite is an understatement. Who needs real men when they eat like them?
Sesshomaru: if ever you pass this way again feel free to drop in. If I have good luck fishing or hunting as dog demons do I am more than willing to offer you what I have.
Artemis: Thank you, I'll keep that in mind. Well, we will go. I hope I leave you well, Sesshomaru. Goodbye.*leaves, after hugging Rin once more*
Rin: Goodbye be safe. (waves good bye)
(meanwhile back at camp half-blood)
(gods are arriving)
Kagome: *to her feudal friends* That's Apollo, and that is Poseidon over there, and Demeter... Oh, and Hestia... Oh, no, all the hunters...
Sango: what is wrong with the hunters?
Miroku: uh it might have to do with the fact that Kagome is worried about Inuyasha.
Kagome: Let's just say that we don't get along very well... Er, last time, everyone argued the whole time, and the time before that, they burnt down half the cabins.
Miroku: ugh. are they that violent?
Kagome: We're all that violent. We just choose to use it against each other instead of keeping it hidden like normal.
Miroku: I see. (sees annabeth approaching a woman who looks almost identical to her.) so who is that woman. (turning Kagome's attention away from the direction of the hunters)
Kagome: Athena. Annabeth's mom.
Miroku: yeah and they are heading our direction. I think this monk is going to make like a pea and split.
Kagome: I never thought that could happen. Miroku running from a woman other than Sango when she's mad.
Sango: (approaches Annabeth) hey Annabeth. so I take it this is your mother? (Sango bows Japanese fashion)
Athena: Ah, Japanese. She looks strong, and smart. A good friend. *pulls Sango's face up, looking into her eyes* Good, strong, heart.
Annabeth: yes mother her name is Sango.
Sango: yes I am the last survivor of a village of Demonslayers.
Athena: Ah, a survivor, you are strong!
Sango: yes all the rest of my village was slain by a demon known as Naraku. the only other human survivor is my baby brother Kohaku but he was captured by naraku and his under some kind of mind control
Kirara: (walks over to sango and looks up at Athena) mew?
Athena: Two tails? Ah a demon-slayer's pet.
Sango: yes.
Athena: And your story, that is terrible. I in fact do understand who Naraku is. In my time in Japan, I had heard of him.
Annabeth: from what she told me the last time she saw her brother she had planned to kill him then herself so that her brother would not die alone believing it was the only way to free him from Naraku.
Athena: Wise, but there must be a way of saving him. Mind control is reversible, you know.
Kagome: we believe that Naraku is controlling him via having one of these Jewel shards embedded in his back. (holds up the bottle with the Shikon Jewels in it.)
Athena: Ah, the Shikon jewel... I understand. Hello Kagome. *does the sign to ward off evil as a greeting* I'm assuming the shard is tainted?
Kagome: these are not no but we believe that the one in Kohaku might be.
Athena: Yes, to control a mind, the shard should be tainted, adding to the fact that it is Naraku.
Kagome: but we can't remove the shard because we believe that it may be the only thing keeping him from dying. or so we gathered from one of Naraku's incarnations. Kagura
Sango: (struggles to gain control of her emotions so as not to seem weak infront of Annabeth's mother)
Athena: Quite a predicament. I wonder if you could purify it. As you are a priestess now, am I correct? Sango, you need not hide your tears. Crying is perfectly logical.
Kagome: yeah you could say that.
Athena: Either way, your energy is pure.
Inuyasha: (had followed miroku and is hidding hoping that this strange woman doesn't see him but doesn't know why he is afraid)
(but is still close enough that Kagome can still see him as he had only gone beneath her cabin)
Kagome: Inuyasha, c'mere! You said you'd stay with me!
Inuyasha: (comes out of hiding and walks over to Kagome) I am here Kagome.
Athena: Hm... Inuyasha...
Inuyasha: (hides behind Kagome still uncertain why he fears this woman for he can sense no danger from her)
Kagome: What's wrong?
Inuyasha: I don't know why but I am afraid of her.(nodds towards Athena)
Athena: I will not hurt you. Such gold eyes... where have I seen those?
Inuyasha: from what I know my father had this color eye.
Athena: Yes... Your father... I see. It makes sense to me now.
Inuyasha: why should that make any sense to you? considering my mother was a human woman were you a friend of my mother's?
Athena: Yes, for the most part.
Inuyasha: what do you mean for the most part?
Athena: We were never close, but I knew her.
Inuyasha: O...K would you care to elaborate?
Athena: No, I don't think I do.
Inuyasha: that is fine by me.
Athena: I'd hope so... Annabeth, where are the rest of your siblings?
Annabeth: they are in the around the camp some where. some are playing with Kagome's other little friend Shippo. or at least they were the last time I saw them.
Athena: He's the cute little fox, right?
Annabeth: yep (sees shippo coming fast with a large number of her brothers and sisters chasing him) and here he comes
Athena: I see. Hm, bring them here.
Shippo: (is running towards them but tries to take a detour when he sees Athena and annabeth)
Athena: No, come my little fox. Children, let him up.
Malcolm: of course mother.
Shippo: (gets up and slowly walks toward Annabeth's mother)
Athena: *holding out her hand* Come, I wish to see you.
Shippo: (goes over to her and timidly takes her hand)
Athena: Don't be shy.
Annabeth: (looks ashamed) he is afraid because of something I did. on the day after Inuyasha and all them arrived Shippo decided to try and get to know some of the campers me included and well I am sorry to say I failed to reason things out and acted on impulse. and I guess you could say I scared him badly. (lowers her eyes)
Athena: Did you apologize, Annabeth?
Annabeth: yes.
Athena: Than nothing more can be done.
Shippo: (looks up at Athena) wow. You are very pretty.
Athena: Thank you. Paris didn't think so, but that is irrelevant.
Sango: (whispers to Annabeth) is your mother fond of animals she seems so kind towards little shippo. you would almost think she understood what he has been through.
Annabeth: Yeah, I guess. I've never really thought about it...
Kagome: well if you will pardon me and inuyasha we are going to go looking for my dad and see where he is. (bows respectfully to Athena)
Inuyasha: (mimics Kagome's movements)
Athena: Yes, good to see you Kagome... Inuyasha.
Annabeth: (lets a sigh of relief come out of her as if she had been holding her breath) that was close.
Myoga: (is sitting on Annabeth's shoulder) you are telling me I thought for a moment you mother would let it slip that she is master inuyasha's grandmother.(has waited for Kagome and Inuyasha to be far out of ear shot but didn't remember to make sure Athena was out of ear shot)
Athena: Of course not, foolish bug.
myoga: you heard me?
Athena: Yes, I did. I'm not an idiot.
Myoga: touchy.
Athena: Well, as I'm two feet in front of you, I'd expect to hear you.
Kagome: (is looking for her father and soon finds him talking with percy and his father)
Inuyasha: (sees percy's father and almost tries to run again )
Kagome: Are you going to run from every god and goddess all week
Inuyasha: no but you have to admit I am not exactly on great terms with Percy since I have trouble not putting myself down and there fore I am going to be alittle nervous about meeting his father. your father I have no problem going up to and possibly starting a conversation with.
Kagome: C'mon, Uncle Poseidon's pretty cool. He's alright.
Inuyasha: as long as your cousin percy didn't tell him of my habit of talking bad about myself. (was still talking with Kagome as they drew closer to the three (percy, Poseidon, and Zeus))
Kagome: Dad, Uncle Poseidon. *bows to each of them*
Zeus: Kagome it is good to see you again my little girl. how have you and your boyfriend Inuyasha been fairing?
Kagome: *blushing* We've been fine, thank you.
Inuyasha: yeah we have been wonderful (smiles nervously after having also bowed to Zeus and Poseidon but though inuyasha tries to hide behind a calm facade he is on the fear scale somewhere between bed wetting and a near death experience)
(is wondering if they can smell his fear)
Zeus: Good, my boy, good. Brother, this is Inuyasha.
Poseidon: My, so this is Inutaisho's baby boy huh.
Zeus: Indeed, he is.
Kagome: though I have to say father that inuyasha does have a self-esteem problem. for which percy had been working to try and put a stop to. he gives himself alot of negative self talk but I understand that comes from his always being told that he was nothing.
Poseidon: Did you give him a bath, Percy?
Percy: yes father. because just a few hours before you arrived he said he was going to stay out of sight and out of mind to avoid being a nuisance.
Poseidon: That's my boy! *laughs, showing his brilliant smile* I'm sorry for the inconvenience though, Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: I guess I deserved it your boy did warn me that if I kept beating up on myself that he would bathe me. but I can't exactly help it I must take what I am given. abuse and hard cruel words were all I got while I was growing up. my life was not charmed like Kagome's or even your son's
Poseidon: Ooh, if you're calling them blessed, it must have been bad.
Inuyasha: as a half Demon I am accepted by neither my human nor my demonic brethren. we are basically outcasts. no one likes us no one accepts us.
Poseidon: Understandable. I guess they are blessed... Sally Jackson is one accepting woman...
Inuyasha: exactly your children if nothing else are accepted by their human brethren.
Poseidon: yes, it's easy for people to accept them... Granted no one knows who they are. Doctors have made up conditions that explain traits that are common in demigods.
Inuyasha: at least they have friends in the schools they went to. when I went to school I was beat up by my classmates and my teachers. the only one who loved me and accepted me when I was a child was my mom. but I guess that is a mom's job.
Poseidon: It is indeed. School is rude, huh? Well, in my opinion, bullies are over-rated.
Myoga: (hops over to inuyasha and sees Zeus) Ah Zeus. it has been awhile since we last met.
Zeus: Myoga, quite a while. yes not since the time Inutaisho left us both standing on the hill side as he raced towards the mansion where Izayoi was.
Myoga: Ah, how I remember that day.
Totosei: uh if you will correct me if I am wrong Zeus but if I remember correctly you went down there with Inutaisho and didn't leave his side until he asked you to see to it that Izayoi got out safely.
Zeus: He abandoned me, but I followed.
Myoga: what do you mean he abandoned you?
Zeus: On that hill... He abandoned us on the hill, and then I ran after him.
Myoga: I never would have guessed you would have been so rash.
Zeus: I do have human emotions.
Inuyasha: are you saying you were there when I was born? (looks up at Zeus)
Zeus: I am. Your father and I were the best of friends.
Poseidon: yes they were neigh inseperable. I am almost certain that if Zeus had been permitted he would have stayed to aid in the battle in the hopes of getting your father out alive but he had you and your mother to get to safety.
Zeus: Probably. That's normally how I act.
Kagome: but dad chose to see to it that Izayoi and inuyasha escaped.
Inuyasha: (smiles) from what I can gather it sounds like you and my father did alot together.
Zeus: We did, I hated to see his mortality. Well, what's passed is past.
Inuyasha: yeah.
Poseidon: so how did Kagome meet you Inuyasha? that is a story I would like to hear.
Inuyasha: I don't think you could actually call it a meeting. when she found me I was sealed to a tree. where a woman who I had thought loved me had sealed me. you see I had at one time hoped to use the Shikon Jewel to turn myself into a full demon. so that I would at least be accepted by at least one of my brethren.
Kagome: I was about to ask, did you mean the first time I saw him, or when we actually talked to one another?
but the guardian was a priestess named Kikyo. and at the last time we met she was injured some of the villagers said I have injured her but I had no recollection of it. and then we found out that Naraku had been the one to wound her so fatally and had done it while disguised as me.
Poseidon: oh my Sounds like even as an adult inuyasha had no friends.
Inuyasha: that would indeed be an understatement.
Kagome: I'll say! It took him days for him to even say my name!
Inuyasha: oddly enough the day I actually said her name was just before we dealt with a cruel female demon called Yura. (looks at Kagome) remember that battle when I gave you my robe of the fire rat.
Kagome: Was it before? I thought it was right after I pierced the skull and turned her back into a comb. It's like I'd earned my keep...
Inuyasha: oh yeah your right I had completely gotten the order wrong.
Kagome: You don't even remember? *laughs* Wow that's just sad.
Inuyasha: Oh Come on who ever said Half demons were smart. no one.
Percy: (looks at his father) Dad can I bathe him again? for calling himself stupid?
Kagome: Nope, especially since earlier today you told me you had never thought in your life.
Poseidon: (looks at Zeus) would you mind if my boy bathed Inuyasha again for calling himself dumb? since as far as we know he might end up marrying your daughter. and we can't have someone who thinks poorly of himself married to your child. it would in turn make her feel bad about herself. and would spread.
Zeus: You know, Percy, I think you should get them both.
Percy: Yes sir Zeus. (bows and then uses his ability to drag some water from the lake and douse both Inuyasha and Kagome.)
Kagome: Hey! What was that one for?
Percy: your father said I should do it.
Kagome: Dad! Why?
Zeus: because not only were you giving your boyfriend another weapon to use against himself by affirming that he was stupid. you were not letting up.
Kagome: I was joking! He was seriously telling me that he had never thought in his life! That's impossible!
Inuyasha: and Kagome I was kidding. you don't really think I meant that did you?
Kagome: No, but duh, then Myoga's like, "He goes on impulse, he doesn't think" and I'm like, he goes off into a tree and thinks all day long!
Inuyasha: Myoga you are actually going to believe the word of someone who runs the minute there is danger whether real or imaginary?
Kagome: I didn't believe him, weren't you listening?
Inuyasha: Kagome I was thinking maybe becoming a full fledged demon isn't worth it. maybe we should give the shards of the sacred Jewel to Sesshomaru. so he can turn rin into his full blooded demon daughter.
Kagome: Really? You- You would do that? What do you mean not worth it?
Inuyasha: those times I used to transform after Tetsusaiga broke made me wonder if my feeling for you would change once I became a full blooded demon or if I would even know you or our friends. and I realise now that with out you and Miroku, and sango and even little shippo my life wouldn't be worth living.
Kagome: *tears welling up, runs to hug him* I don't even know what to say.
Inuyasha: let's not say anything yet. we will tell Sesshomaru tomorrow when he comes to ask to speak with me again.
Kagome: No, I mean to you! I can't thank you enough... I'm so selfish, I wasn't going to say anything, but now... You've chosen yourself to stay the same!
Inuyasha: (smiles) I have a reason to. I have friends.
Chiron: (had been down by Fireworks beach and comes running back with a little cloaked girl clinging frightenedly to his back and from behind him a sound that might at first be taken for fireworks)
Kagome: Chiron! What's happened?
Chiron: I was wanding along firework beach and found this little girl washed up on the shore and then this strange beast came out of the water and started firing on us so I picked the child up and carried her back here.
Kagome: Let me see her.
Ai: (Leaps off of Chiron's back and sees inuyasha) Inuyasha he will save us. (runs over to Inuyasha) Inuyasha, Brother.
Kagome: Brother?
Ai: (glombs on to inuyasha)
Inuyasha: What? I'm not anyone's brother, other than Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha: (looks at the girl and surprise goes across his face)
Ai: (her hood falls back) Inuyasha... (looks pleadingly ) I am begging you please save the others before it is to late.
Miroku: oh now I understand.
Inuyasha: What's happening?
Shippo: (walks over with Athena) She's a half demon.
Kagome: Really? He said he was alone.
Inuyasha: (then looks at Ai again) woah yeah that is why I was alittle surprised it has been fifty years since Ai and I last met.
Zeus: (calls the other gods to assemble)
(telling them to bring their children as well)
Everyone: All gather around Zeus
Chiron: (brings Ai somethng to eat)
Miroku: Ai could you please tell us where you ran away from?
Ai: Horai island... The island where the rest of us are.
Hermes: uh Zeus I think the little girl is dazed because when I came over here I was up in the sky I didn't see any island.
Sango: maybe the fog obscured it.
Inuyasha: Horai island is a legendary place. Long ago back before Kikyo sealed me to a tree she and I found that island and we found half demon kids there just like Ai. according to their story they were bound to a group of demons known as the four war gods.
Ares: War gods my ass! Who do they think they are?
Inuyasha: that is what they call themselves don't ask. after a short meeting with one of them there was nothing more Kikyo and I could do as the entire island vanished
Kagome: Vanished? How?
Inuyasha: back into the strange mist from which it reveals it self only once every few decades.
Kagome: Which explains why it's just now returned.
Miroku: I remember hearing how the first emperor of the chin dynasty searched for Horai island in his quest for eternal youth.
Shippo: well at least that explains why Ai hasn't changed over the last fifty years.
Inuyasha: (all of a sudden is hit with a wave of pain that causes him to dig his nails into the dirt and nearly double over but then he straightens himself up again hoping that no one noticed but they did)
Zeus: Inuyasha, what's wrong?
Inuyasha: it is nothing don't worry about it. (is obviously trying to hide something)
Kagome: What? No, what's wrong? You're trying to hide something.
Inuyasha: will you just let it be it is nothing. I am fine.
Kagome: Alright, fine...
Zeus: darling the word
Kagome: SIT!
Inuyasha: (falls flat on his face)
Miroku: (removes the top part of Inuyasha's Kimono revealing four long scratches on his back) Incredible so this is the mark of the four war gods
Inuyasha: I am going to remember this trust me.
Kagome: I know, don't you always? You'll hesitate to save me until I apologize... Like the Noh Mask incident.
Inuyasha: you know dang well that was a one time deal when I waited. I was waiting for other reasons Kagome. the reason I was waiting was I wanted the thing to get over confident and slip up.
Hermes: (looks at Ares) do those scratches look like any mark you have ever seen a god of any kind give?
Ares: Do any of us have claws like that? Nope. So, no I haven't.
Athena: and yet the children claim that they are bound to war gods. we should go and see if we can help liberate them. it would be the wise and prudent thing to do.
Ares: Hell yeah! Frauds.
Annabeth: Are the two of you agreeing?
Athena: my daughter is right you and I just agreed on something Ares.
Ares: It seems we better as hell get it done then.
Miroku: so what now inuyasha will we go and rescue the children?
Inuyasha: Yup, it seems like it.
Sango: it is decided then we are going to Horai island. we should first decide if all of us are going or if some will remain here.
Sango: I would vote to have Poseidon, Hermes, and Apollo remain here and their children stay as well.
I would also suggest that Artemis and her hunters stay here.
Athena: Yes, Poseidon, you can help from afar. Apollo, you do not seem very threatening, and Hermes, you can help from a distance. Artemis, you yourself say that too many will hinder us, so you should stay. Demeter, you stay as well, with Aphrodite, we don't want to mess with that hair of yours.
Apollo: Uh why can't I come with I can fight just as well as you.
Sango: Apollo no one doubts your prowess or your bravery. but we don't want to overwhelm the children. besides how would we all manage to get over there.
Athena: We should match, four on four. The two war gods, Zeus, the king, and one other.
Chiron: (smiles ) why not take Dionysus I am sure he would like the leg stretch
Athena: Yes, it would be interesting to see him work for once.
Inuyasha: four gods are going to accompany me, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Ai to Horai island? ok
Sango: Hey! Arent' I going too?
Inuyasha: I thought I said your name sorry Sango. of course you coming.
Sango: Okay, good. If Shippo's going, then I've gotta go!
Inuyasha: Ok then let's set out.
Kagome: Yeah! Let's go!
Kyora: (sees the little ship containing everyone and sees ai in the boat) Ah they are being kind enough to return the runaway half demon and sweet. we should go greet our guests.
Jura: Nah let's just see how long they managed to stand being here knowing we are about but not knowing where we are before they leave.
(the four war gods remain out of sight)
Athena: I sense them... I can't precisely tell, but there's something here.
Ai: come on I will lead you to where the others are. (leads away from the beach and into a forested area where there are tons of fireflies)
Kagome: It's pretty...
Sango: Fireflies are pretty but their beauty only last a short time.
Kagome: That's so true...
Asagi: (singing at this point from a distance is just barely audible) father once said to me, many moons ago, a demon hand will defend,
(as they continue the song grows louder as they get nearer) mother said one day, there is more that you must know, a mortal hand will sustain,
Kagome: Who's that?
Miroku: I don't know but it seems to be coming from that village.
Asagi: two hands together, incomplete all alone, balance in union, and the gate will open,
(as they walk through the village is becomes even more heart breaking it almost brings tears even to the eyes of Ares)
go my children go, go to crimson flames ,to save our children ,the lights of memory remain.
Sango: It's so beautiful...
Ai: Its my sister, (breaks away from them and runs toward the singer and the other children who had been playing instruments and crying) Sisters, brothers
Asagi: (turns around and realises it is Ai hurries down the stairs and slaps her as soon as they meet) I told you to stay away why did you come back. (you can tell that she herself has been crying)
Ai: I brought help, sister.
Inuyasha: don't be angry at her.
Asagi: Inuyasha it's you.
Inuyasha: I will destroy the four war gods you guys have my word.
Dai: hear that Roku he is going to destroy the four war gods.
Roku: some coward said the same thing fifty years ago but he just ran away instead.
Kagome: Are they talking about you?
Inuyasha: (knowing they are bops the two boys outside their heads)
Shippo: I would remember that if I were you Inuyasha has a short temper and he will pound you even if you are kids.
Inuyasha: same goes for you.
Athena: It seems you've developed a bond with these children.
Asagi: Inuyasha will you please get Ai out of here she has not recieved the mark of the four war gods so she can still escape
Inuyasha: It won't have to come to that. We'll get them this time, Asagi.
Miroku: you mean all you children bear the mark of the four war gods?
Dia and roku: (lift their shirts up to reveal their back showing everyone) see for yourselves
Moegi: (looks first at Ares and Athena as well as everyone else) all who bear the mark are doomed their fates have been sealed by the gods and they can not leave the island.
Ares: Well, no gods should trap anyone anywhere. Kill em, yeah, maim em, yeah. But trap them afraid and cowardly? No. We would know about any real gods.
Athena: you are not helping things Ares. these are not the enemy but prisoners who need us to comfort them.
Kagome: Do you really think he's capable of that?
Miroku: it would seem someone has placed a barrier around the island that is why these children can't escape.
Sango:if that is so then we have to destroy the source of the barrier.
Kagome: Do you think that it's demons, pretending to be gods?
Asagi: it isn't possible it can't be done.
Moegi: but Inuyasha's here now.
Asagi: Stay out of it and be quiet. listen if we do something to anger the four war gods you all might wind up dead too.
Athena: What? And do nothing? No. These "Four war gods" cannot do anything to kill real gods and goddesses.
Roku: (Looks at athena) the song our sister was singing is the song of parting Lady Kanade said originally it was sung for funerals there used to be alot of villagers living here but they are all dead now.
(the cauldron of resonnence calls to the children and every one follows)
Roku: even Lady Kanade is gone now. she fought against the four war gods and died.
Shion: Now the sacrificial offering to the four war gods is to...
Asagi: no Shion don't tell them everything.
Athena: It is best we know... If you all keep things from us, how are we supposed to save you?
Miroku: Sacrificial offering I don't like the sound of that.
Sango: you aren't intending to kill yourself are you? (looks at Asagi)
Asagi: It is the only way. I must protect them, like the other people in our village who've turned into fireflies.
Kagome: Fireflies?
Dai: these fireflies are the souls of the villagers who jumped into the cauldron of Resonance and died they are our mothers, our fathers, Our brothers and sisters everyone we used to know.
(have athena say something)
Athena: So, everyone who jumps, souls are transferred into the fireflies? Hm... I don't think I've encountered anything like that before.
Asagi: yes it is true and now those fireflies watch over us and protect us. (looks sharply at Athena and Ares and the others) I am going to become a firefly and watch over these children too so I am begging you don't try to stop me.
(is on the verge of tears)
Moegi: (as they continue walking towards the Cauldron of Resonance) The cauldron used to be something sacred something that protected the Demons and mortals that lived here and their half demon descendants but the four war gods corrupted it. the four war gods use the tainted cauldron to suck the power from half demons like us. That is how they get their power.
Roku: so many of us have been sacrificed already. once every fifty years when Horai island becomes a part of the out side world the cauldron calls for a sacrifice. after Asagi is gone it will be either me or Dai. (oddly said so calmly as if he was only stating the time of day.) (that would almost come close to frightening Ares.)
Ares: Look, kid. How can you talk of death so calmly? How can you just walk and die? How is that courage, bravery? Self-sacrifice instead of fighting against them? What good would that do, huh?
Roku: you heard Asagi if we do something anything at all that angers them they will kill all six of us. how do you think Lady Kanade died she fought against the four war gods and perished. what can six little kids do?