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Chapter 5: Let the Games begin
Annabel waited patiently for her master to call her, knowing that once this was over she would be free. She smiled, and then she would kill Naraku with her own hands. He would pay for having enslaved her by tricking her. Curse him! He could slave anyone but her! She would make him wish that he'd never met her!
The phone rang. Annabel forced herself to sound like an evident servant. She picked up the phone. " Yes?" " I see you have done as I told you too. Very good, get ready, come to my office immediately, I will show you my plan, and you will meet those who you will be working with." " Very well, Master." Annabel hangs up the phone. She took her took her sword and left the house. " The first person she would get rid of as soon as she got the chance would be the pitiful halfling, then she would take care of the other two. With them gone she knew it would be easy to get rid of the others.
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Andy opened her eyes and sat up. " She's up!" Shippou said. The others walked to her. " How do you feel?" Kagome asked. Andy rubbed her head. " Like if I was just run over by a truck, but beside that not bad." " I would say something helpful, but I am afraid that I cannot since I do not know what a truck is." Miroku said, frowning. Andy smiled. " You just said something helpful. How's Alex?" she asked. " She hasn't woken up yet." Sango said. Andy looked over at her sister. " Next time I meet Annabel, I'm gonna make her pay for this." " Do not be to hasty when you do meet her again, things sometimes are not as easy as one thinks they are." Miroku said, he turned away from her and went to check on Alex. Sango and Kagome watched him go, with wide eyes. " When did he start acting like that?" Sango asked. " I think it was when he found out they were his descendants." Kagome said. " Well at least he found out about it before he asked them if they could bear his child." Sango said. Both Sango and Kagome started laughing at the thought. Andy looked at them with a puzzled expression. " Sorry but I think I missed the funny part somewhere along the way." She wasn't answered because both girls kept on laughing. Andy sighted, sometimes she couldn't even understand girls, which for her meant she had been doing this job for too long. ' I don't get paid enough for this.' she thought. ' Were some of the best agents the moron who calls himself our Boss, has and I have this nagging feeling others get paid more.' " I've never even had one lousy vacation," she said out loud. Both girls stopped laughing and looked at Andy, while somewhere on a tree branch Inuyasha snorted. Andy's voice went red. " Sorry I was thinking and it sort of slipped out." " She's up!" Shippou said from beside Alex. With help Andy made her way to where her sister now sat. " How you feeling?" Andy asked.
" Not that bad actually, but I won't be running a marathon any time soon." Andy smiled. " I know how you feel, or at least a little, thanks for the help, but next time control your fear." Andy said. Alex shuddered but nodded.
Inuyasha watched from his perch on a tree. He was sure that these girls would bring more trouble than he already had to deal with. ' At least they can fight.' he thought. ' Though its hard to believe that they are descendants from Miroku.' he shook his head. Hopefully this would keep Kagome here.
" What do we do next?" Alex asked. " I think we should go back to our time and rest up, and remember we have to send a report to headquarters. Though I highly doubt they'll give us back up." Andy said. Kagome nodded. " That sounds like a good idea, that'll give me sometime to do some studying." Inuyasha fell from the tree. ' So much for keeping Kagome here.' he thought. He jumped to his feet. " What are talking about?! We should be hunting shikon shards! This is no time to take a break!" Andy rolled her eyes. " Look Dog-face, you may have no responsibilities but we do, unlike you we can't spend a long time here, we have to be seen living in our apartment, and we have to report to our superiors or we get in trouble! We won't be gone long, I just need a bed to sleep in and some aspirin to take away this headache, and then we'll come back." " No way!" Inuyasha said. " Sit." Kagome said. Inuyasha fell to the ground. " I really wish I could do that." Andy said, looking at Inuyasha. " It would come in handy when I feel like hurting some one." Andy said. " Sorry Dog-face, but you're out numbered." Inuyasha got up. " Don't call me that!" Andy looked at him with a blank expression. " Call you what?" she asked, pretending not to know. Inuyasha growled. Andy got up. " What? You want to start another fight?" she asked. " Feh!" Inuyahsa turned away from Andy. " You two can go, but Kagome stays." " Why not ask her?" Andy said. " I'm going, Inuyasha." Kagome said. " You just got back!" Inuyasha said. " So what? If she wants to go you can't stop her." Andy said, smirking. Inuyasha growled and put his hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga. Andy smiled mockingly. " Remember doggy-boy, that pretty sword of yours doesn't work on humans." " My name is Inuyasha and I don't need Tetsusaiga to defeat you!" " Is that a challenge?" Andy glared at Inuyasha. Inuyasha glared back. Alex looked from one to the other. " It looks like they're at it again." " We should try and get as close to Kaede's village as possible." Miroku said. The others nodded, packed up and started moving away, while Andy and Inuyasha were still at the starring contest. Both stopped glaring at each other to look at the group that had moved quite some distance from them. " Aren't you forgetting some one?!" they both yelled, and then glared at each other again. Alex looked back at them. " If you don't hurry you'll be left behind." Both started running towards the group.
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Annabel knelt before Naraku listening to his plan. " And finally they will be helping you." Naraku said. Two demons appeared out of another room. Annabel looked at them. " Master, I highly doubt I will need help once I finish up the twins and Inuyasha." " They will be along, just in case." Naraku said, " Now repeat to me the plan." Annabel nodded. " I will send some of your servants to attack the group, making sure that the group is separated, especially the twins, so that they cannot use any of the techniques they use together. Then I will make sure Inuyasha is also parted from the rest of the group, As soon as he is alone I shall dispose of him, then I will use the binding spell on the twins, so that they will be bounded to you, lastly I will capture the girl that carries the shards and bring her to you." Naraku smiled. " That's right, now put the plan into action." " AS you wish." Annabel stood up and left the room, she was followed by the two demons.
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Molly listened as the phone rang for the hundred time that evening. She hung up the phone again. " Great! What did those two get into this time?" she sighted. This was the only part of her job she didn't like, reporting to Mr. Smith that some of his best's demon hunters were nowhere to be found. She had called all the others that knew the girls; she had called their apartment many times, and even tried calling them on their cell phone. From everything nothing had come out. " Well time to report." She got up with the paper work in hand, and knocked on the door. " Come in." Molly took a deep breath and opened the door. She walked up to the desk and put the papers on his desk.
Mr. Smith was an elderly man, the kind that anyone would like to have as a grandfather, he had a kind face, his eyes were black and his hair had become whiter than the jet-black it had been in his younger days. He wore a black suit and always carried a walking stick with him. He smiled at her and started looking at the reports. Although he was not one too get angry, he was strict with his employees and made sure they knew all the rules. Everyone held him in high esteem and did their best at their jobs, always keeping to protocol. That is everyone but Andy and Alex, perhaps Alex would do as the others did, but under her sister's influence it was highly unlikely. Mr. Smith had assigned them different partners once, when he had gotten tired of the girls misadventures, that, he had learned, was a big mistake. The girl's new partners couldn't handle the twins, both balanced each other out, he had realized, and assigning them to a different partner was devastating. Alex was calm, shy, forgiving, believed in second chances, was easily fooled, liked to think things over, and preferred to keep a low profile. Andy was a hyper get out my way, kick down the doors and run in on your enemy, face danger head on, and don't care about the consequences, kind of person.
On her first mission with her new partner she had left three gas stations in ruins, thankfully no one had been hurt, and had left an unfinished building in ruins, and that building had been a week from being completed, Andy's partner had, had to take two weeks to recover from that experience.
Alex on the other hand had done nothing like that, but had ended up letting the demon go because he had said it had a wife and ten children.
Her partner had screamed from frustration and had, had to get anger management.
Mr. Smith had put them back together because his employees had begged him to do so. Not that he would have put them with different partners even if they hadn't asked.
Molly nervously waited, as he finally came to the empty form that was suppose to be the twins report. He took a long deep breath and let it out. " Where is the twins report?" even after doing that his vice sounded strained. " I couldn't find them anywhere, I even called their cell phone and nothing." His hands started shaking. Molly couldn't tell if it was from anger or something else. He was after all their grandfather on the twin's mother's side. " Are you sure you called their new number?" she nodded, them realized he wasn't looking at her and said, " Yes sir, I'm sure." He put down the papers and rubbed his temples. " We'll wait another day, if by then they haven't called, send three teams to look for them, heaven knows what they've gotten themselves into." " Yes sir." Molly turned around and exited the room. " That wasn't so bad," she told herself, after closing the door.
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Andy raced up the stair to her room, opened it and flopped down on her bed.
" I get to sleep on a bed!" she said to herself.
Alex closed the door behind her. After an argument between Inuyasha against Andy and Kagome, he had given them one day to get everything they needed and return. Of course Kagome had to sit Inuyasha at least twice to make him agree.
She let her backpack fall on the ground and picked up the phone. Dialing up the number to their boss's office, she waited for someone to answer.
Molly let the papers she had in her hand fly and ran to pick up the phone. " Please tell me its one of you." " If you're referring to either my sister or me, then yes its one of us." Alex said. Molly sighted in relief. " I need your report, now." Molly picked up her pen and started filling in the twins report.
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After an actual dinner, Kagome sat down at her desk to study. She couldn't believe she had been able to return to her time after spending so little time in the past. And now she had someone who she could actually talk to that knew about her situation.
It wasn't half an hour later that she heard someone sit on her windowsill. Kagome turned around to find a scowling Inuyasha. " Now what?" she asked. " I have a bad feeling something going to happen." Kagome rolled her eyes. " Inuyasha, nothing's going to happen today." Inuyasha snorted and looked away. ' So much for my nice quiet time.' Kagome thought.
Annabel watched from a distance so as not to be sensed by the girl or smelled out by the halfling. " Time to let the games begin." she watched as Inuyasha looked out into the night.
Inuyasha caught the scent of a demon. " I knew something was going to happen." At the same time Kagome sensed the demon. " Not now." she grumbled. " Stay here." he said, " And don't come running out this time." He jumped from his perch and ran out into the street. " Looking for me?" A ragged by said. Inuyasha drew Tetsusaiga and looked at the demon. It was twice as big as Inuyasha was; it had five bright red eyes, and four arms. He also smelled of old blood. " I come for the Shikon shards, give them to me." " Over my dead body." Inuyasha said. The demon smiled, as much as one could smile with a row of sharp, blood stained, dirty teeth. " That can be arranged."
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Andy and Alex sat in the kitchen eating their dinner when they heard an explosion. Both rushed to the window. " That was no accident." Andy said. A truck that seemed to have been carrying gasoline had crushed into another truck that was supposed to have been behind it. Gasoline started seeping from both trucks and cached fire. " So much for our nice quiet time." Andy said, as she pointed to the four laughing green demons at the side of the road. " Come on we have to stop this." Alex said. They quickly suited up and ran out of their apartment. As soon as the demons saw both of them, they ran different ways. " You go after those two, I'll go after the other two." Andy said. Alex nodded and they both split up.
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Kagome listened to the sounds of fighting until she heard her mother scream. She opened the door and ran down stairs to the kitchen. Another demon was there. Her mother and Sota stood in a corner, while her grandfather lay on the floor unconscious. " You must be the one I'm to bring." " Kagome get out of here!" her mother yelled. Kagome backed away and ran out the door. She heard the demon laugh, and suddenly he was in front of her and in back of her at the same time. " Our mission is complete here, brothers." One of them said. The closest to Kagome grabbed her and put a hand over her mouth before she could scream. With a last laugh they disappeared.
The demon Inuyasha had been fighting suddenly smiled and disappeared. " Something's not right here." he ran to Kagome's home, all he found was Kagome's family but she was gone.
Meanwhile as a shadowed figure jumped from tree to tree behind another figure running though the park, a duck raced her head from the sleep that had been disturbed by the sound of running feet. She got up and waddled towards the water, putting her neck under water she drank, the shadowed figure stepped close to the pond making a rock roll out of place and hit the duck who was send flying into the water, she quaked as she righted herself and got out of the pond, shaking herself she returned to her nest and her eggs. Shaking her head she closed her eyes and drifted into sleep.