InuyashaForever1989: Hey everyone, this chapter was a pain in the ass, I wrote the whole chapter and my computer shut down on me and the recovery thing didn't work :'( and I had to rewrite it all over again and of course I couldn't remember most of what I had written and I just had no desire or drive to rewrite it. Well anyway, this is the last chapter of dragon rider. I might do a sequel if I can think of a good plot line, or something like that, for it. Well, read and enjoy and of course don't forget to review.
Chapter 11: A Disastrous Rescue And Maybe A Happily Ever After
Kagome sighed for the billionth time since she woke up. She was over the whole captive thing and she already had a plan to get out of there if the other two would just come back in the room.
Once she had them all together she would just blast them with her miko powers. They would be dust and everything would be safe when Sesshomaru came to get her.
Kagome suddenly felt very weak. She looked over toward Kana who still hadn't moved. She wondered what was going on when she noticed that the childlike youkai's mirror had started to glow. Suddenly, she could no longer support herself and she fell down to the bed with a soft thud. She tried to struggle but it did no good, she couldn't move a muscle.
What's going on here? Kagome wondered and then she heard an evil laugh from behind her where the doorway was.
"Sorry, but we can't have you putting up a fight at the moment," she heard Naraku explained.
That bastard, Kagome thought.
"Now, now, Kagome it's not nice to call people names," Naraku chastised her in an almost mocking sort of voice.
What?!
"You heard me," Naraku replied.
'You can hear me?' Kagome asked.
"Not just hear you, I can read you mind, even the things that you're not thinking at the moment," he explained as he walked around the bed and into her line of vision.
'But, how?' Kagome asked, now thoroughly confused.
"It's a skill all dragon riders posses, although it is one that is ban by the Council of Five," Naraku said as if he were just brushing it off. (A/N: Yes it sounds cheesy but deal with it.)
'The Council of Five?!' Kagome had heard of them. Her father used to tell her stories when she was little. They were five dragons, very old and there was one of each rare color on the council. They made and enforced the rules for the dragon riders of what they could and couldn't do. It was part of the treaty between the riders and the dragons, as long as the riders followed the rules they allowed the dragons to partner with them. Her father had explained that there were some powers that only dragons could use without becoming corrupt. It would seem her father was right.
"Don't worry girl, I was corrupt long before I came into possession of a dragon."
'How did someone like you get a dragon? They don't hatch for just anyone,' Kagome asked accusingly.
"Oh, no, they don't but it wasn't really that hard and I think we have enough time for me to explain it," he with an evil smirk. "You see I once worked at a hatchery and over time they foolishly came to trust me. At the time many more people would come to the hatchery to parade themselves before the eggs and many more were hatched then these days. With all that work and so few people working there it wasn't long before I was left to work on my own.
"One day I was left to observe a hatching on my own and that was their biggest and last mistake. The young man who was chosen by the egg was absolutely flustered; he couldn't believe what was going on. I'm not even sure he realized my claws were in his neck until he was dead. Anyway the egg hatched and I bonded with it and that's the end of my little tale."
'Even if you did do all that the dragon wouldn't have obeyed you,' Kagome pointed out.
"No, I suppose normally it wouldn't but with enough exposure to a dark aura such as mine it's soul became just as black as mine and, curiously enough, so did it's scales."
'How, how could you do something like that? You, you're a . . .' Kagome stop, her mind clog with tears and sobs for the poor dragon's fate.
"Go on, say it," Naraku goaded.
'You're a monster,' Kagome finished in only a whisper even in her mind. Naraku laughed loudly and looked to the doorway where Kagome could here footsteps.
"Ah, yes, I almost forgot, Sesshomaru will be here soon. When he sees you begging for help he'll do anything to save you."
'I told you I wouldn't do that, and don't think for even a second you'll be able to control me even like this,' Kagome warned.
"Yes, I am quite aware of that. Originally I had intended for Kana to remove your entire soul but it would seem there is something strange and unique about you that won't allow her to do it. I will have to use a substitute but you will still need to be near by for scent purposes so Sesshomaru will not become suspicious and I couldn't have you making a fuss." Naraku motioned for someone to come around from the doorway and as the person came around she saw an exact copy of herself.
"What do you think," the woman said and Kagome knew at once it was Kagura.
'You bitch!' Kagome screamed.
"Settle down little one; she can't hear you," Naraku pointed out and Kagome settled for glaring at the woman who was impersonating her.
'You can't seriously think Sesshomaru will fall for this do you?' Kagome asked the insane youkai.
"Oh, I think he will and I also think we should get ready. He will be here soon." Naraku laughed and threw Kagome over his shoulder. Kagura walked out first, then Naraku, and he was followed by Kana.
Kagome was tossed into a small room and left with Kana as Naraku exited the room. Through cracks in the wall, Kagome could see another room. It was larger, lit dimly with candles and close enough for Sesshomaru to detect her scent without suspecting anything. She watched as Kagome(Kagura) and Naraku entered the room. Naraku chained Kagome(Kagura) to one of the walls and then they waited.
It seemed to take forever, when in reality it wasn't very long at all, before Sesshomaru showed up. He actually smashed right though the wall.
"Lord Sesshomaru, how nice of you to join us," Naraku said in a mocking tone.
"Naraku, give Kagome back to me," Sesshomaru demanded.
"Now, now Lord Sesshomaru you wouldn't want anything to happen to you dear Kagome, would you?" Naraku asked as he pulled on the chains and Kagome(Kagura) let out a yell.
"Sesshomaru, help me," she pleaded with the beginnings of tears in her eyes.
Sesshomaru's eyes bled an eerie red and a loud growl resounded through the room. "Naraku," Sesshomaru growled in warning.
"Don't worry I'll give her back to you safe and sound, but I want something first," he said.
"What?" Sesshomaru asked, his voice still a rough growl.
"Your sword, Tokijin," Naraku stated simply.
Kagome didn't know why Naraku wanted Sesshomaru's sword but she had a bad feeling about this whole thing. 'Sesshomaru don't do it,' Kagome thought, trying to reach out to him, but she felt her power pulled back. She found this curious. Kagome tore her attention away from the other room to investigate this.
Kagome tried to call on her strength and it was snapped back on her like some sort of restraint. She pulled lightly on it again and felt the tension like some sort of thread. Following along the tension, she found an end where she felt all her energy being pent up.
She had to figure something out and she had to do it fast. Kagome tugged at her energy and felt the tension grow. Maybe if she pulled hard enough the tension would become to great and it would snap. The question now became did she have the strength to break it.
Looking back in the room she looked at Sesshomaru, he was griping his sword and his red eyes seemed to waver. She had to try; she had to do something.
She felt for the tension again and she pulled at it. She drew on her powers, every bit that she could find. Kagome felt her strength falter but looking at Sesshomaru and knowing she couldn't let Naraku win she dug deep within herself and even drew on the part of her soul that was trapped in the mirror and the tension snapped like a rope.
Kana looked down at her mirror that was no longer glowing and then up at Kagome who had just gotten to her knees. Kagome was breathing heavily and her body felt weak, but she wasn't done yet and she forced herself to her feet. She heard something slam down on the ground and looked to the other room and saw that Sesshomaru had thrown down his sword at Naraku's feet.
Naraku released Kagome(Kagura) and she stumbled into Sesshomaru's arms. "Sesshomaru," Kagome(Kagura) sobbed.
"Oh, there was one more thing," Naraku said absentmindedly.
"And what would that be?" Sesshomaru asked as he glared and hugged Kagome(Kagura) closer.
"Your life," Naraku whispered and Sesshomaru went still and Kagome(Kagura) started to laugh. She back away and transformed back to her true self and Sesshomaru stood there stabbed with his other sword and he fell to the ground.
"Sesshomaru!" Kagome yelled and caught the attention of the people in the other room and they stared at the wall.
Kagome looked to Kana who had raised her mirror in what she guessed was another attempt to capture her soul, but it wouldn't work this time. "I don't think so," Kagome said and sent a waved of her newly regained power at the childlike youkai that sent her crashing into the wall. Scratch that, it sent her crashing through the wall and across the other room and her body disintegrated, purified by the holy energy.
"Sesshomaru," she called again and ran toward where his body lay prone on the floor. She knelt next to him but she couldn't think of anything to do. Her hands hovered helplessly above his body.
Kagome heard an evil laugh from behind her and turned to see Naraku lift Tokijin and she felt a pulse of evil demonic power. This was all just too much she needed help.
Inuyasha drew his sword and Kagome thought it was strange how she hadn't noticed him there before. He charged at Naraku but was easily blown back by the power of the sword that Naraku now had in his possession. No Sesshomaru and no Inuyasha now what was she going to do?
There was a sudden crash behind her and when she turned she saw that the room she had been in had collapsed and a cloud of dust covered the area. What was that? she wondered as she tried to keep herself from breathing in the debris.
'Not what, who,' a voice in her head told her.
'Mamoru!'
'The one and only,' he said in an over confident manner.
'Who have you been hanging around to get that kind of attitude?' Kagome asked.
'Inuyasha,' Mamoru stated simply.
'I see,' Kagome said as she looked over at the unconscious hanyou. Then she heard a groan and the crashing of wood and watched as Naraku started to climb out from under a pile of wooden beams. She had forgotten about him.
She looked over to Mamoru and she forgot once more. 'Mamoru, you're huge.' Mamoru was now at least twice as tall as Kagome was which was huge compared to the knee height he had been when she had last seen him.
'Didn't I tell you young dragons grow fast?(A/N: think of The Waterhorse) Now come on,' Mamoru urged and he knelt down so that Kagome would be able to climb on. Kagome ran over and did just that. By this time Naraku had escaped his wooden prison and his ruby eyes glared at the pair.
There was another crash right next to them that forced Mamoru to take off into the sky. A couple minutes later a black blur rose from the dust and streaked past them. Mamoru turned around in the air but wasn't fast enough and the blur passed them again.
"Naraku I know it's you so stop running already!" Kagome yelled over the wind. Mamoru turned around again and there was Naraku and his black dragon.
'Shall we?' she heard Naraku's voice and he went into a dive heading straight for them.
'Mamoru!' Kagome called.
'On it,' Mamoru replied and dove out of the way. Mamoru and Kagome turned only to be met with a stream of fire. Mamoru met it with his own but couldn't fight the other dragon's flames and only managed to delay it long enough to get out of the way.
'He's too strong,' Mamoru pointed out.
'No, we can do this! We have to,' Kagome all but whispered the last part. Mamoru glanced back at the girl and felt the pain and desperation in those words and nodded his large head to her. 'Just keep us from getting killed while I think of something.'
'Will do,' Mamoru responded and dodged another fire blast. Now what? Kagome didn't know what to do. Naraku's dragon was stronger and faster. It probably didn't think for itself though seeing as he needed the control to keep the dragon from rebelling.
Wait! The dragon was being controlled! If she could break that control then Naraku would be finished. It would break his bond with the dragon and he would lose any powers that it gave him. The new question was how did she do that?
-flashback-
"With enough exposure to a dark aura such as mine its soul became just as black as mine and, curiously enough, so did it's scales."
-flashback-
Maybe if a dark aura could turn him evil then a light aura could reverse it. 'Mamoru, I need to get closer,' Kagome said.
'What?!'
'I think I have an idea. I need to get closer though; do you think you can do it?'
'Let's do this,' Mamoru announced and dived in closer to Naraku. Kagome sought out the power deep inside her and aimed at the black dragon. As they passed Kagome let her miko powers flow from her and into the dragon by touching in with her hand. Her hand was cut by the roughness of the scales but the dragon let out a loud screech and fell a few dozen feet through the air until it regained itself.
'Mamoru, it is working! Bring us around again,' Kagome said and Mamoru turned and came in close again. Kagome release another pulse of power receiving more cuts to her hand and the dragon screeched again. Mamoru circled around again and Kagome saw that a few flecks of black had flaked off.
This happened a few more times. Kagome's hands started to drip with blood from the cuts and scratches from having to touch the passing dragon but she had to keep going, she could see large patches of black had disappeared. 'Mamoru one more time, but this time circle around first I need time to gather a lot of energy.'
Mamoru did what Kagome said and when they came in close Kagome delivered a final blow and a bright light engulfed the dragon. Naraku, however, refused to go down without a fight. A tentacle flew from Naraku as he was dissolved in the light and struck Kagome in the shoulder and knocked her from Mamoru.
Kagome felt and searing pain run through her shoulder. The pain was so bad she couldn't even process the fact that she was falling. There was a sudden jerk and a ripping sound, probably her dress tearing as she was caught by something. The jerk had jolted pain through her shoulder but she looked up anyway and saw Mamoru.
'Thank you, Mamoru,' Kagome gritted through the pain.
"No problem, besides who else was going to catch you?" the young dragon asked sarcastically.
Kagome looked down to the quickly approaching ground and then cough at the cloud of dust that arose when Mamoru landed. When the air was clear she looked around while making a mental note that Mamoru wasn't allowed around Inuyasha anymore.
She then saw said hanyou dragging his half-brother from the partially destroyed building. She was just about to run over to them when a glint of something caught her eyes and she looked over to her right. There standing proud and tall was a very large dragon and a golden dragon at that.
"You're?" was all Kagome could ask as she stared up in amazement.
'I am Daichi and you young lady have freed me and for that I thank you,' the large dragon said as he swept his head down to her level in a sort of bow. (A/N: pronunciation is (DAH ee chee) and it means Great wisdom)
"You're welcome," Kagome said still half speechless. She had never thought in all her life she would see a gold dragon, she had always hoped but never actually thought she would. Then again she never really thought she would have a dragon of her own and now she had Mamoru. She looked over at the not so little anymore silver dragon and smiled at him. Mamoru gave a toothy grin back that would have sent some people running.
'You should go to your friend now,' Daichi said, effectively snapping Kagome out of her inner thoughts.
"What about you?" she asked.
'I will be fine, I will go to the land of my ancestors and find a home there,' he explained and for a moment Kagome marveled at the idea of going to the land of dragons but she quickly shook those thoughts and turned around to see Inuyasha sitting down next to Sesshomaru.
She turned back around to say goodbye to Daichi but he was already gone. She hadn't even felt him take off but she could still she him in the distance. 'Goodbye,' Kagome called out from her mind.
'Perhaps we shall meet again,' and with that he was out of sight and Kagome turned her attention to the real problem right now. Sesshomaru had been stabbed with his own sword. She walked over to the two brothers and on her way passed by the sword Tokijin as it lay discarded on the ground. She didn't dare touch it after the demonic pulse she had felt from it.
She finally came up to Sesshomaru's side sitting opposite from Inuyasha. She could feel the tears well up in her eyes as she looked over to Inuyasha who looked unconcerned. Kagome couldn't take it and she just burst tears running down her cheeks, "Why don't you look like you care at all?!"
Inuyasha's ears flattened to his head at the sudden and loud noise. "Calm down will ya?" he said.
"But Sesshomaru--he's been--and--I don't--," Kagome fumbled for words but finally just broke off into sobs.
"That's it! I've had enough of this. You've laid there long enough you bastard, now get your ass up!" Inuyasha yelled at Sesshomaru's prone form. Kagome looked at him like he was nuts but he just rolled his eyes and took hold of the sword that was still lodged in Sesshomaru's gut.
"What are you doing?!" Kagome asked a little panicked and afraid the hanyou had lost his mind.
Inuyasha suddenly jerked the sword from Sesshomaru and said, "There now get your stupid ass up." Kagome had decided Inuyasha had lost his mind. Great now she was stuck in the middle of nowhere the love of her life dead and a crazy hanyou.
She jerked suddenly when she heard a groan come from beside her and looked down to see Sesshomaru opening his eyes. Kagome jump at least three feet away from the two. Maybe she was the one who was going crazy.
Sesshomaru sat up and Inuyasha looked down on him. "It's about fucking time. You know I don't handle crying women well and she's your woman!" Inuyasha was fuming as he stomped off and Kagome saw a shadow pass overhead and then a large blue dragon landed and Inuyasha took off leaving a dazed Sesshomaru and a half terrified Kagome behind.
Sesshomaru shook his head clear and tried to remember what had happened exactly. Looking over at Kagome his head cleared completely and non of it mattered as he saw the wound on her shoulder. He shot up and rushed over to her. Kagome visible flinched as he crouched down to her sitting form.
"Kagome are you ok?" Sesshomaru asked gently. Kagome looked half overjoyed and half terrified and completely confused.
"Am I ok? What about you, you, you, you just came back to life. I mean how, what--" Kagome's flow of words was stopped when Sesshomaru kissed her. When he pulled away he took up his sword Tenseiga and showed it to her.
"There's no blood on the blade," he started his explanation, "This blade doesn't cut."
"But--but I saw you and I saw you get--"
"Calm down. You just don't understand what this sword is," he said taking a bit of a more serious tone, the slightly harsh and steady words holding down Kagome's instinct to panic. "This sword is one of healing and even brings the dead back to life. It cannot kill anyone. If Naraku had used any other sword in that situation I don't know what would have happened."
Kagome just sat there soaking it all in. So Sesshomaru never died. It was all some sort of trick with this healing sword. Ok, ok, so everything was fine. Kagome jolted in pain as she felt something touch her shoulder. She tried to jerk back but she was held firmly in place.
"Stay still," Sesshomaru commanded, leaving no room for arguments. Kagome did as she was told and sat still while Sesshomaru licked her wound clean. The whole time she blushed and she could hear Mamoru growling. She couldn't tell if it was out loud or not she was too focused on Sesshomaru and how his tongue felt on her skin. Kagome let out a soft unexpected moan. She hadn't meant to and her face turned a nice cherry red color when she did it to.
Sesshomaru stopped cleaning her wound and she was both relieved and disappointed at the same time. Then she felt his tongue again this time on her neck. He went from her collar bone up her neck. Kagome held back another moan but Sesshomaru wouldn't have it. He traced his tongue along her neck until he found her pulse where he started to suck. Kagome couldn't stop herself anymore and Sesshomaru got what he wanted and he heard her low moan again.
Kagome felt funny, but it was a good funny. She leaned her head back for him but suddenly he was gone. When she opened her eyes, which she didn't remember closing in the first place, she didn't see Sesshomaru. She had to blink her eyes a couple times to focus enough to look around. Looking behind her she saw a confused Sesshomaru Sitting about ten feet away next to a pissed off looking Mamoru.
"Mamoru what was that about?" Kagome asked.
'I don't like it,' Mamoru said. 'Besides do you really think this is the place for that kind of thing?' he then asked and Kagome could have sworn he was giving her an attitude.
Kagome looked around at the barren land around them and knew he was right, but he didn't have to be so rude about it.
"We should get going," Sesshomaru announced and Kagome realized that he had stood up and walked back over to her. He had his hand out to help her up. When he pulled her up he whispered into her ear, "We're not done."
Kagome turned red again and Sesshomaru walked over to Akako who was just landing. Mamoru glared at Sesshomaru the whole time as he walked over to Kagome. Kagome pet his head and drew his attention away. She smiled and shook her head. Life was definitely going to be interesting from now on.
-End-
InuyashaForever1989: Well that's it DR fans! It's all over! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Or is it? That's right people, keep a look out 'cause I've got an idea for a sequel : ] Well, 'till then see you all laters and don't forget to review!!