Chapter 1
Hello everyone! Welcome to my new fan fic. I had been stewing over this for awhile now and finally decided to put it together. The meaning of Elish is Irish for of noble kin.
The strap of Elish's backpack was digging in her shoulder blade because for some reason she had decided to bring a small sleeping bag with her during the trip to Japan. It was her gap year between college and the real world and she decided to spend six months visiting her mom's birth place. The Irish beauty was a mixture of lovely cultures. Her mother was Japanese-African American and her father was Irish. This blending of races had the exotic effect of producing a beautiful young lady with soft, almond shaped eyes with honey-kissed skin, and a mass of blonde, tawny hair. But her most prized aspect were here fluid, emerald eyes.
She had just finished a month in Ireland and the UK making friends, memories, and kissing the Blarney stone. Everything was going great and she was now spending a month in Japan before she would hop a plane for short pit stop of two weeks in Seoul. Elish glanced at the guide book and made her way slowly up to the Higurashi shrine. The guide book talked about the history of the shrine and how there was a god tree where a fabled half-demon once lay pinned to it trapped by a miko, or priestess. This stuff was right up Elisa's alley because secretly she was in love with mythology and magic.
Elish made her way up the stairs of the shrine and knocked on the door. Mrs. Higurashi poked her head around the door and eyed the foreign student with a bright smile. The door swung open and Elish immediately bowed and tried her Japanese.
"Hello, my name is Elish."
"Hello dear how are you?" Mrs. Higurashi smiled. "Would you like to come in and have a cup of tea?"
"Oh thank you so much. Yes I would like some tea."
"Well why don't you look around the shrine while I prepared the tea. You should visit the Sacred Tree and my father can give you a tour after tea."
"Thank you. I will look around while I wait."
Elish smiled brightly and bowed again glad that she was able to communicate clearly and understood what the nice lady had said. Her Japanese was coming along well enough that she felt that the trip would be fine and she could make it between her Japanese and English. The map of the shrine was simple and she immediately was able to make out the scared tree and quickly walked across the court yard heading for the graceful ancient.
The tree was massive and had a deep groove in the side of the tree where the guide book stated that the half-demon was sealed for fifty years before he was released by the powerful Shikon Miko. This stuff was cool and Elish rubbed her hand gently over the mark and fingered the groove. For some reason the tree seemed to glow a faint green, and Elish quickly removed and examined her hand. She found nothing and dismissed the idea. Strange, Elish thought, and then she returned to the guide book. After looking over the myth a bit further, she saw the covered well that was suppose to be as ancient as the tree.
The well house was dark, but the legend written in the book said it was the Bone Eater's Well that housed old demon bones. What a rich story Elish thought as she entered the well house and approached the lip of the well. She bent and looked down in the depths and felt the hair on the back of her neck raise. Suddenly, the air around her seemed very cold and the well took on an eerie darkness. Elish stood up and took a step back from the well. Maybe this legend was a bit scarier than she thought as she turned to head back outside.
Just as she turned and eyed the door with welcoming sunlight, a warm body collided with her chest and small claws gripped her chest. Elish let out a scream of terror and fell backwards banging into the lip of the well. She flailed about and frantically batted against the grey cat that hissed at her and jumped to the floor. Elish's eyes went wide as she fell backwards and slid head first into the depths of the old well. Her screams of terror were swallowed in a powerful rush of blue light and powerful magic.