The Lunar Legend

Arc I: Genesis

Chapter 3: The Reflection or the Reality


Few weeks before Inuyasha was sealed by Kikyo

It was a fine evening with golden rays of the setting sun illuminating the entire land. Sesshomaru had defeated a huge Octopus Yokai recently and now he was passing through a dense forest along with both of his companions i.e. Jaken and the two-headed dragon Yokai. The blood of that Octopus Yokai was actually a sticky black liquid that had dirtied his clothes during the battle. It was getting hard for Jaken to continue walking beside his lord due to the stench which was coming from that Yokai's blood.

"Amm… Lo..Lord Sesshomaru," Jaken spoke hesitatingly upon getting tired of holding his breaths. Sesshomaru continued to walk and responded without even looking at the Toad Demon, "What is it, Jaken?"

Jaken swallowed before he gathered some courage and complained indirectly, "I think… that Octopus Yokai was quite umm… stinky, isn't it, my lord?"

"It doesn't matter… he is no more now," the Daiyokai replied in an emotionless manner.

Disappointed by his lord's response, the little Toad Yokai decided to take the risk of complaining directly, "I..I mean to say… fighting him has made our clothes pretty stinky too… umm… maybe." Now Sesshomaru stopped and stared at him with his cold golden eyes, which was enough to utterly terrorize him. "We will stop as soon as we find a river or a lake," he spoke before he resumed walking while Jaken took a deep breath of relief to know that his complaint didn't turn out to be hazardous for him.

Soon enough they came across a river and just as Sesshomaru decided, all three of them stopped there to take a bath. Sesshomaru placed his clothes and the Tensaiga on top of a nearby rock before he stepped into the water. On the other hand, Jaken and the two-headed dragon Yokai sat down at the place where the water was shallow.

Suddenly all of them noticed a tiny white object which just fell into the river out of nowhere. Sesshomaru sensed a strange kind of spiritual pressure from it and hence he immediately took a dive into the river in order to investigate it. Within a few moments, that tiny object was in his grasp and it seemed to be a piece of bone while the spiritual pressure was extremely weak like that of the remnant energy of a corpse or a detached limb. "This energy neither belongs to a Yokai nor to a human then whose bone is this?" He whispered in his mind while holding it in his hand underwater. However, before he could have arrived at a conclusion, the sound of blasts caught his attention and he immediately rushed towards the surface.

Upon coming out of the river, he witnessed the signs of devastation all around the place. Trees, rocks, and even the ground seemed to be scorched and damaged by some sort of powerful spirit energy while both Jaken and the two-headed dragon Yokai sustained some injuries as well.

"Lord Sesshomaru!... Lord Sesshomaru!… You came… please stop those monsters," Jaken pleaded to him. Sesshomaru moved his sight all around and noticed that his Tensaiga was gone, "Where's my Tensaiga?" he asked the Toad Yokai in a serious tone. Jaken tried to anticipate his lord's anger and hence answered in a low voice, "They stole it My Lord… they were neither Yokais nor Hanyos… all of them had a hole somewhere in their torso and they were also wearing masks and armor made up of bones.

Upon listening to the description, Sesshomaru immediately put on his clothes and decided to pursue them by following the trail of their spiritual pressure, leaving both Jaken and the two-headed Dragon Yokai behind.

It didn't take him long to find those creatures. Though he reached close enough to be able to see them he was still too far to catch anyone of them. "Strange! Their spiritual pressure is almost as violent and powerful as a Yokai's and yet a lot different," He whispered as he was observing their spiritual pressure while pursuing them. Soon enough those creatures reached the Bone Eater's well and jumped inside it one by one due to which Sesshomaru became highly suspicious of them because of the rumors that Bone Eater's well is a gateway to another world.

Now Sesshomaru also jumped inside the well without wasting any moment. By now those creatures had already disappeared inside the well while he started to experience a free fall in an endless space with lots of lights surrounding him. "Is this really some sort of dimensional portal?" He murmured while witnessing that the endless space had started to get darker slowly.

Around 40 years ago (20th Century)

Inside the storeroom of Kagome's house…

Everything inside the Bone Eater's Well turned to normal once again and Sesshomaru found himself standing at the base of it. Now he came out of that well and noticed that he was actually inside the storeroom of a house. After noticing the interiors of that room and the objects kept around, it didn't take him long to connect the dots and conclude that the Bone-eater's well had indeed brought him into another world which was actually the same world but 500 years ahead in time. However, he didn't allow this fact to slow him down and he immediately came out of that storeroom and tried to sense the direction in which those creatures could have left. As soon as he sensed the direction, he immediately adopted his light orb form and rushed in that direction with great speed.

Surveillance Chamber of the Department of Research and Development, Soul Society…

As usual, the chamber was populous with hundreds of the squad members working on their respective panels. Suddenly, one of them got up from his seat and rushed towards Lieutenant Akon's cabin who was also working on a control panel along with his assistants. That squad member was clearly in panic and he whispered something to Lieutenant Akon which shocked him to the great extent. He immediately commanded the radar to focus on the northern outskirts of the Karakura town and the next moment, it displayed Sesshomaru, who was moving towards the town in his light orb form. Now the lieutenant was looking even more shocked than before and he quickly pressed some buttons and soon, the screen of his panel displayed Sesshomaru's approximate power level along with its structure after seeing which everyone present there got utterly nervous and scared.

Lieutenant Akon wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted at his assistants, "Ca..Captain… damn! He is not here… somebody… somebody, report this to Captain Kurotsuchi, immediately!"

Upon receiving the instructions in such a manner, some of the squad members immediately rushed towards the laboratory of Mayuri Kurotsuchi with a short report about it while the environment of the entire surveillance chamber turned chaotic as the news spread.

Laboratory of Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the building of the 12th Division…

Mayuri Kurotsuchi was sitting on his hi-tech chair and was having coffee while Nemu Kurotsuchi was standing right beside him. All of a sudden, some of his squad members came running to him without realizing that they just entered his laboratory without permission. "Did you forget that I can turn all of you into specimens for my experiments as a punishment for entering here without my permission," Kurotsuchi spoke in an intimidating manner as he got up from his seat, "Nemu, capture all of them," he added as he ordered her.

She immediately responded to the order of her Captain but her hands stopped merely a few inches away from the already scared squad members as one of them spoke in a miserable tone, "Wait, wait! Please stop her Captain, we are here because Soul Society is in trouble."

"I see… it better be because if it is not then you all are definitely going to be in the trouble," Mayuri narrowed his eyes as he spoke to them with utter seriousness. And as he did, one of the squad members handed him over the report without wasting any moment. The information seemed to be enough to widen his eyes with immense curiosity and responsibility at the same time.

"Amazing! We have found something so powerful and that too of an unknown race. I would have liked to pay a visit to Karakura town personally but the power level of that light orb is making this entire issue quite critical and hence I am bound to wait for Head Captain's instructions," Mayuri Kurotsuchi murmured with excitement and disappointment at the same time.

"Ca..Captain!" The squad members uttered hesitatingly in a very low voice. "Oh! Yes… Nemu, spare their pathetic lives," Mayuri ordered her after which she backed off immediately. "Thank you, Captain… thank you so, much… you are very kind, "all those Shinigamis said while panting with a great relief before they quickly left the laboratory in fear.


To be continued…