CHAPTER 10: Past
Previously on Last Battle…
Chris and Amar Ma'aruf ran over to A-01's side, only to discover he was unconscious. The vampire hunter rolled his eyes away but his mage friend gave a relieved sigh.
"Guess he was still him alright. Still one piece but blacked out."
"You said." Chris said, crossing his arms behind his head.
Well, for some young children, they can put up a lot of strength. Inu no Taisho thought. That wolf boy was no hanyou either.
"What should we do with him? Drag him away or carry him on our back?"
"How about we drag him?' Chris smiled fiendishly.
"Come on."
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After feeling sore from the duo's drag act, Amar-kun chose to rest. He was quite frustrated regarding the fact that the Age-Deceiving Pills did not wear off after 6 hours like told by Mokona. Even the young fox was baffled on the pills' late wear and tear.
"That's weird. It was supposed to wear off by now." Amar inquired.
"Well, we don't know what happened, but at least he had something to wear. Those L-sized trousers were too big for him, even with a belt."
"Hey, I heard that!"
"It's the truth, you we- mmph!" Chris was cut short because Amar-chan had clasped his hand to the vampire hunter's mouth.
"You'd really want to call him that right here?! Are you crazy?!"
"No I'm not!" Chris replied after shoving the hanyou's hands away from his mouth. "What, is it a type of trigger?"
"In one part… yeah, it is."
"The what the heck those DNA injections do then?"
"Well, that trigger is completely gone by the time he left SMTKT, but since he's back to his younger self – before the DNA treatment – the trigger is back and it's dangerous."
Inuyasha called them from afar.
"Oi! What're you two whispering, huh? I can hear you!"
"That's none of your concern, Inuyasha! We're not talking about you!"
Amar-kun on the other hand had leaned against at tree bark, stuffing his hands into his trousers pocket. He was sighing for a while ago, and later he cast his gaze to the sky. Amar-kun was clearly bored of waiting.
While he was looking out here and there, Amar Ma'aruf walked up to him.
"What are you thinking of, Amar-kun?"
"The good old days. When I'm still a fourth former. You know, sometimes it's good to look back and think of the nostalgic things."
"For example?"
"Did you know back in those days, I was not so tough, like what I was now?"
"No." Amar Ma'aruf replied shortly.
"Well, to tell you the truth, I was really weak. That is until I made a Forced Pactio with the spirit of a long-dead wolf demon, Kurogane."
"What happened then?"
"At first, I gained the power he promised. That offensive power lasts even until this day, and one of them is resistance to fire-based attacks, slowing down time (Bullet Time, BTW), increased speed, agility and of course speedy melee rounds." He said. "However, as I let him stay longer, I started to become really different. Zakuro had poisoned my soul to drag me to the darker side of myself. As a result of that, I transformed into a werewolf every full moon. Later, I transformed every midnight, and then every night – regardless if it's full moon or new moon."
"…"
"In the end, everyone noticed the difference. Most of them planned to pull me back into reality, but when their plan was almost close to fruition, I had lost grip on myself. Kurogane won the first round, turning me into a gigantic wolf demon – which was his true self."
"Then, who returned you back to your former self?"
"My classmates." He answered shortly. "Although all of them were normal humans, I can clearly see their effort. Although they didn't fight through the first round, they did chase me down until the final showdown."
"Wow."
"That's not just it. I could remember that few of my classmates acquired magical weapons. There were five of them who had a mystical keris each, which they claimed were given by the legendary Puteri Gunung Ledang (Princess of Mount Ophir). Another had become a mage in-training, and few others had turned into last-minute marksmen."
"That was so cool!"
Amar-kun smirked. "That was not to cool compared to you. You had even special friends at your class."
"But… Puteri Gunung Ledang? They were so lucky!"
"…"
Inuyasha and the others overheard what the two was talking about, and most of them were quite confused.
"Chris, who's Puteri Gunung Ledang?" Kagome asked.
"A legendary royalty living at the peak of Gunung Ledang (Call it Mount Ophir if you don't know how to say this). In Malaysian legends and myths, she has various magical powers that the fourth Malaccan sultan wanted to marry her."
"…"
"What, you'd think that ends too easily? For the sultan to marry the princess, he had to build a gold bridge from the mountain in Johor to Malacca, a jar of his and his son's blood, etc, etc. In the end, he obviously fails because he can't kill his son for the jar of blood."
"You sure knew a lot of this stuff, though you're not living in your country." Sango said.
"I read them a lot because I want to know everything before I reach form 5. I can't afford to lose to Amar Ma'aruf in SPM. Besides that, literature component (It's KOMSAS or Komponen Sastera. Just reverse the order of words before you translate this.) is my favorite subject."
"Oh."
"Amar, what time is it?"
"It's 9.50 plus one hour."
"10.50 p.m. Thanks."
With that, Chris took off his hunting gear and left his black T-shirt and tan trousers on before he rolled himself into his sleeping bag. Not a minute too soon he was fast asleep.
"I wish could do that." A-01 commented. "Back in those days, it's really hard to get some sleep."
"Okay, that's enough. We'd better rest for tomorrow or else." Kagome said. "That includes you too. Amar-kun."
"Whatever."
As the others went to sleep, only A-01 and Inu no Taisho stay awake, the two of them were unaware that there are a pair of eyes watching them.
A/N: I had to short shift this story because I had no time on making new chapters, so sorry about the progress. (SPM is just 34 days to go! AAAH!) However, here's the new chapter. Hope you like this. R&R!