A.N.: Thank you guys so much for your great reviews! I love you guys so much! Okay, enjoy the chapter! We're almost done! 0.0Chapter 14: Growing Darkness The rest of the group was soon contacted and they all met at the cabin.
Both Lori and Becca were shaken from the blinding light and scream, and the guys were very curious about what had happened.
"Alright so what's going on?" Koga asked, standing beside Becca, his hand holding hers.
"We're going back." Inuyasha said flatly.
"Back? Why? We just got here!" Lori protested.
"It doesn't matter, we have to go back to be there in time to beat the evil or we're as good as dead!" Inuyasha yelled, clearly very stressed out.
Tara put a soothing hand on his arm, effectively calming him down. She faced her friends.
"A woman came to us when we were out. She said that she could feel a very powerful evil rushing to our Glade, and if we didn't get there first, we would have no chance of winning." she said calmly.
"Now that someone is making sense, the first thing we have to do is call your parents and tell them we're leaving." Sesshomaru said, taking on the leader role.
The girls nodded and silently slipped away from the boys to the bedroom.
Each moved around the room in complete silence, all lost in their own thoughts.
"What did the woman look like?" Becca asked.
Tara paused from putting her hair things into the bags.
"She had silver hair, and even though I could see her face, she looked pretty young. She had gorgeous green eyes and wore forest green clothes. The light was coming from her." she said quietly.
"And who was the scream from?" Lori asked.
Tara grinned a little.
"My own brave half-demon." she giggled.
The girls burst into laughter, breaking the tense mood a little.
Then Becca stood up from the bed and pulled the girls together, pulling them into a group hug.
The girls clung to each other, soaking in the comfort of one another.
They didn't know what would be waiting for them in the Glade.
They didn't know what would happen to each other.
They didn't even know if they would survive to see another day.
The guys walked in and saw them.
They shared a glance before walking in and gently pulling them apart, letting them cling to them instead of each other.
"Are we ready?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I think so. Inuyasha called their parents and they know we're going home." Koga said.
"You guys can just leave your bags here, your parents will pick them up later." Inuyasha said to Tara and the girls.
They nodded.
"So how do we get there?" Tara asked.
Inuyasha turned around and squated.
"Climb on." He said.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and he hoisted her up, holding her legs.
Sesshomaru and Koga did likewise and a minute later the six teenagers were flying across the trees and back towards the Glade.
Even with the speed they were going and the ground they were covering, it took them several hours to get back to town.
Weary with stress, the three girls had fallen asleep, resting on the backs of their demons as they flew through the air.
"Almost there." Sesshomaru called to the other two guys.
They nodded, pushing themselves harder, trying desperately to go faster.
They were all three terrified, not for themselves, but for the girls, even though they showed none of this to them.
They were scared enough as it was, without adding the guys's fear.
Each with the weight of the girl they loved on their backs, they also felt the weight of their lives on their shoulders.
The street that led to the girls school was spotted below as they jumped from spot to spot.
Next stop, the Glade.
The guys decided now was as good a time as ever to wake the girls.
They were groggy, but upon remembering everything that had happened, they were instantly awake.
They grew closer and closer to the Glade and everyone's nerves grew more on edge.
They landed on the street and the boys put the girls down slowly.
All three took the girls small hands in theirs and kept them close.
They walked up to the edge of the trees that led off onto the path.
"I never thought I'd ever dread having to go home." Tara whispered.
"Yeah." The girls whispered back.
"Let's go." Sesshomaru growled softly, tightening his grip on Lori's hand.
They all pushed forward onto the path and through the trees.
Winding their way around the trees, under branches, avoiding holes, it was all like second nature to them.
It was so engrained in them.
The happiness they usually felt when going to their home was miles away, replaced by the fear of the unknown.
They reached the entrance of the Glade and the boys pushed the girls behind them.
The three girls shared a glance and joined hands.
Taking a deep breath, the group pushed through the leaves.
"No one." Sesshomaru said quietly. "We must have beat it here!" Koga said triumphantly.
"No..." Tara whispered.
The guys turned to look at her.
The girls's eyes were wide and alert, their bodies rigid.
"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked.
"Somethings wrong." Becca said.
"There's someone here." Lori added.
"How do you know?" Koga asked nervously.
"The Glade." Tara said, looking around.
Only then did the boys realize what was wrong.
The normally rustling Glade was dead silent.
Not a tree moved, no breeze blew, leaves didn't even twitch.
An aura of darkness was descending on their home.
"Hey Lori! How's my babe?" A voice said from the side.
Everyone whirled around to see Lori's EX-boyfriend, Chris.
"Chris?! What are you doing here?!" Lori cried.
Chris grinned.
"Can't a guy come see his girlfriend?" he asked innocently, taking a step forward.
Sesshomaru was growling furiously as he put himself in front of Lori.
"Not when the girl in question is not his to see." he snarled.
Chris backed away a little, looking slightly frightened by the silver-haired man before him.
Then he tried to cover it up with a sneer.
"And who says she's yours?"
"I do." Sesshomaru said firmly.
"Well I say she's mine!"
"I say both of you shut up!" Tara yelled, stepping in between the rivaling guys.
She looked at Sesshomaru.
"You and I both know Lori is yours. Now calm down and use your common sense before someone gets hurt." she said soothingly to him.
Sesshomaru's eyes cleare and he nodded, pulling Lori tighter to him.
Then she turned to Chris.
"You, on the other hand, have no right whatsoever to be here." she said coldly.
"That's my girl!"
"She ceased being yours when you sold her and us to Leon!" Tara yelled, fists balled at her sides.
"Come on! I had to tell him! He threated to hurt me!" Chris stammered.
Suddenly the clawed hand of Sesshomaru was wrapped around his neck.
"And so, like a coward, you put her in danger instead of facing it yourself!" He said coldly, his golden eyes turning red.
Chris was struggling for air, his face turning purple.
Inuyasha and Koga couldn't find it in them to make Sesshomaru stop. They both felt the same.
He may have been Lori's boyfriend, but his actions had hurt all three girls.
"You are nothing more than a filthy coward that never deserved her." Sesshomaru hissed coldly before he flung the choking teen against the tree, knocking him unconcious.
"You needn't worry with trash like that. He's the least of your problems." a silky voice said from behind them.
"Leon? Oh how ironic." Tara muttered grouchily.
The guys were in front of them faster than Leon could blink.
"Didn't Mark take care of you?" Koga demanded.
Leon grinned.
"Oh yeah, he did. And then I "took care" of him." he laughed.
The girls could feel their blood boiling in their veins.
"You horrid monster." Becca whispered.
"So you three have called me before." he sneered. Then he leered at Tara.
"Because of these losers, I lost what I had. But I'm going to get what's mine this time." he said.
Inuyasha's eyes began to glow red.
"You...will...not...TOUCH HER!" he roared and lunged at Leon, sending both of them reeling in the grassy floor.
Koga and Sesshomaru gave each other a look before they dove in as well, joining in the fight.
The four guys rolled around, punching, kicking, pulling, poking, yelling...typical guy stuff.
Tara felt a sudden absence and turned around to look at her friends.
They weren't there.
Turning around completely, she saw in horror that her best friends were being held by two...tenticles?
It was like a black wall had formed, a dark, empty shadow, from which two arm-like tenticles held her friends above the ground.
Their eyes were glazed over and empty, like a dolls.
Identical gashes on their chests that were oozing green puss.
Tara tried to scream for the guys but another tenticle shot out from the shadows and covered her mouth before wrapping itself completely around her.
Then, when it had a firm grip that she could not escape from, it jerked her into the darkness.
The four guys still rolled and tussled, oblivious to the danger the girls and they themselves were in.
"Inuyasha, Koga, Sesshomaru..." a dark voice drawled out.
All four boys stopped and looked towards the voice.
The three demons stood, roughly shoving Leon to the ground, and Inuyasha aiming a real nice kick to his chest.
"Hey...boss. I didn't...think you'd show..." Leon wheezed, breathless and sore.
"Shut up. Don't think yourself special because I allowed you to live." the voice snapped.
Leon looked a little unsure of himself, his arms around his bruised chest.
"Show yourself!" Koga yelled.
"You mean don't know who I am wolf?" the voice asked. They head it laugh and watched horror as Becca and Lori walked forward from the darkness.
Their eyes were completely lifeless, their faces emotionless.
"He's controlling them." Sesshomaru whispered.
"Correct Lord Sesshomaru, I am controlling them." The voice said cheerfully.
Suddenly Becca and Lori lunged at Koga and Sesshomaru, both of whom lept away.
All over the Glade, the girls chased them, trying to get close enough to hit them.
Leon was looking more fearful by the minute, watching as the girls attacked the demons.
"Becca wake up!" Koga cried, dodging a well aimed punch. "Snap out of it!"
Sesshomaru was having no trouble dodging Lori, who was attacking him from every angle, her face blank.
He ducked under her and caught her wrists.
"Fight him Lori! Fight him!" he yelled, watching Lori try to pull away.
He could tell she was in pain, struggling against whoeve held her under his control.
She gave a scream and fell limp into Sesshomaru's arms, unconcious.
He held her gently and looked up to see Koga holding an unconcious Becca, crying softly.
The two girls wounds were weeping blood now, and their skin was quickly paling.
Sesshomaru looked up at Inuyasha.
He still stood where he'd been when the girls attacked them.
He was staring into the wall of darkness, his hands clenched into fists.
"You hear that? They broke through your spell!" He yelled into the black wall.
"It doesn't matter to me." the voice said, sounding more serious now. "The poisin in them won't kill them, but they will soon lose their minds."
Sesshomaru and Koga tightened their grip on their girls.
"Besides. They aren't the ones I came to kill." he said.
"Where is she?" Inuyasha roared into the wall.
"Right here Inuyasha." The voice said.
Then two figures stepped out into the dimming light of the Glade.
One figure, was Tara.
She was bleeding from her cheek and arms, but she was alive and her eyes were clear and frightened.
A pale, slim hand was over her mouth, keeping her quiet, and stepping out fully, they saw it was none other than Naraku.
He smirked widely at Inuyasha and the others.
"Miss me?"
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A.N.:Yes
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