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Chapter 11: Fire
With a cry, Inuyasha slashed at them with his claws but he only three.
Like a professional baseball player, Sango took a stance and swung her metal bat so hard that the demon's face she hit imploded.
Miroku was faster than everyone but Inuyasha. His homemade spear was flying everywhere, aiming for eyes and between armored plates of the great beasts.
From behind the protection of Inuyasha claws, Kagome would raise her bleach and shoot trying to aim mostly for the face and worm like demons. The demon's without the armored scales or shell were most susceptible to her bleach.
She only saw one ogre but he was cut down by Inuyasha ao the Windex she grabbed was useless. Mostly it was the smaller demons that were able to sneak past the other three to her. The tiny ones that were still very deadly.
Like the five inch tall demon spider that laid its eggs in your still living body and when they hatched they devoured you from the inside out. Plenty of those snuck through. Their hairy bodies were irritated by the bleach but really it only served to make them angry.
Thanking kami that she wasn't afraid of spiders, Kagome began kicking and stepping on the tiny beasts.
Suddenly, a transformed Kirara jumped in front of her and began tearing the spiders to pieces.
"Thanks, Kirara." Kagome said gratefully. She might not be afraid of spiders but she was terrified that one of them would have managed to bite her with their paralyzing venom.
To her left Sango was practicing for the major leagues with her bat. The metal was not easily destroyed like a wooden bat would be and her arms were very strong and when she swung the bat landed painfully. However the dull object was not good for demon slaying and the most she could do was keep them at bay or drive them to Inuyasha's deadly, razor sharp claws.
Miroku was having only a slightly easier time. His spear was sharp but the wood was delicate when faced with a horde of demons. It wasn't long until his carefully sharpened tip snapped and he was left with an almost useless length of wood. At that point he began doing what Sango did. With none of her style, he began driving them to Inuyasha who the demons seems to be trying to avoid the most.
Inuyasha was the only one among them with weapons that could handle a demon attack. His claws were always sharp, nearly unbreakable, and the demons couldn't beat him in speed. However he was the only one able to do it and even though Sango and Miroku were injuring them and Kagome's bleach in their eyes was blinding them he was still slaying them alone.
"How many of these things are there?" Miroku panted. His arms were heavy and for a moment his guard weakened and a demon saw a moment to get revenge. A tenticle shot out and slashed up Miroku's arm, drawing blood.
"Miroku!" Sango said, distracted so an ugly, squat demon had a chance to head butt her in the stomach sending her.
"Don't lose focus!" Inuyasha growled punching the ugly demon in the jaw and sending him flying into the others. He shook his water soaked hair out of his face and glared at the large horde of demons still facing them.
"Inuyasha!" Miroku said trying to fight with only one arm. "Call forth fire!"
Inuyasha sighed and slashed a demon in half. "Miroku, this is no time for your crazy theories!
"Just do it! It's not like we have any better ideas!" Miroku said just as a demon ran forward and sank his fangs into his shoulder.
Behind him Kagome screamed as one of the demon spider bit her. The poison wasn't meant to kill, just incapacitate long enough so the spider could lay his eggs in her belly.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha growled and destroyed the spider with his claws. But the damage had been done and she was paralyzed. Luckily he had seen the spider before it could lay eggs.
While he picked her up and put her over his shoulder Sango got the demon off Miroku with a well placed strike from her back. However her form wasn't as clean as before and there was blood leaking slowly from her lips.
"Just call forth fire!" Miroku said struggling to sit up.
"Even if I could it's not like I know how!" Inuyasha said trying to fight with an unconscious Kagome over one arm.
"Just will it into being!" Miroku said unable to fight now that one arm had been slashed open and the other shoulder had been showed on. "You're the fire god! Will the fire there, it's your right as the god of courage and fire!"
"This is crazy!" Inuyasha growled slicing a demons head clean off as Kirara took over Sango's spot and Sango took over Miroku's.
"Believe you're the god, Inuyasha!" Miroku told his as he winced in pain. "I don't care how stupid it sounds! Believe in your power and call it into reality!"
"And what if I'm not this god? You think about that?"
Inuyasha turned and guarded Kagome's body by taking a claw strike to his back and screamed as four bloody slashes were gouged into his flesh.
"Inuyasha just call the damn fire!" Sango yelled as a demon stole her bat.
"Dammit!" Inuyasha cried turning around. Feeling slightly ridiculous but willing to try anything at that point, he raised his free claw and thought of fire.
"Visualize it, Inuyasha!" Miroku called to him. "The heat, the flames, the smell, the color! See it clearly in your mind!"
Inuyasha did as he was told. He brought up fire in his mind. Imagined it engulfing his hand in flames that didn't burn his flesh.
"Kill him." the albino girl said looking directly at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha couldn't feel fire so he didn't know if it was there, like Miroku said he was trusting in a fools dream and believing in something he didn't believe.
The other demons abondoned their attack on Miroku and Sango and Kirara and converged on him, their fangs and claws outstretched.
"Believe in fire." Inuyasha whispered to himself.
With a cry of rage and desperation, he brought his claw down in a quick and deadly swipe.
But his claws didn't connect with anything.
Instead, red hot flames shot out from his fingers and engulfed the demons coming right for him. Normal fire would have burned out quickly with nothing to really get a hold on but this was not normal fire.
This was a god's fire and it burned whatever he willed it to.
The demon's skin, be it dry or slimy, was suddenly burning. Hissing and screeching and roaring reached his sensitive ears. Even the pouring rain couldn't dim the flame's hot beauty.
"Let's get out of here!" Sango said as Kirara landed in front of her. "This is our chance!"
Inuyasha nodded and bundled Kagome's body more securely in his arms.
Kirara flew out of the ruined house, two injured humans on her back with Inuyasha just a leap behind them.
In mid air, he turned and brought his claws down again, picturing the flames.
Ever loyal, the flames hit the house and the gasoline soaked garage ignited giving the flames a better, stronger hold as the demons bodies below him were charred to a crisp.