Disclaimer: Oh my-gosh, I actually own all the characters in this chapter!
*falls over* This is a rare occurrence. Just to make sure though, I don't
own any original Fushigi Yuugi!
Author's Notes: Well this update may be shorter than normal and it did take a long time to post, but I've been rather busy with school and such other things. Wow. even the author's notes are short- *gasp* Well enjoy the chapter, and please review!
"It's a shame that we have to leave so soon after finding this place." Kira sat on the hot sand near the cliffs and looked down at BrimHottle and the bamboo forest. "Don't you agree?" She glanced over to the person sitting next to her.
"A shame." Tatara looked up at Kira and then back down at the valley.
"Well, I'm sure we can always come back." Kira smiled, and stood up. "Come on, let's go get some food before everyone finished and decides to leave." She held out her hand, and Tatara took it.
It was nearly five o'clock; the group had left BrimHottle with enough provisions to last nearly two weeks worth of travel across the desert. The group appeared to be growing as they traveled along. Everything had begun with only Kira and Yuki, each lighthearted teenager who wanted to have an adventure. However, it seemed their party was ever growing; first they gained Kagasuki, a mysterious man with a flute, and Tatara, the son of the man that saved Kira's life. Then, as fate would have it, they met Amefuri who began as their enemy and became as their ally and with him came Kage a rather intelligent young man with a love of dark clothes. Together they had met and determined a common enemy worth fighting against.
"Hey, I saved you both some food," Yuki smiled at Kira and Tatara as they came meandering back. "Which was by no means an easy task, with these vultures around." She finished and shot a look at Amefuri, Kage, and Kagasuki who were starting on their second plate, trying to finish off all that they had cooked.
"What can we say, we like food!" Amefuri protested and stuffed a fork- full of food into his mouth.
"Their male, remember?" Kira commented to Yuki quietly as she and Tatara sat down.
"Ah yes," Yuki nodded and they both snickered before eating their food while engaged in a rather quiet conversation about Jaki and Nu-ko (which won't be posted here. for well its lack of importance).
After everyone had finished, they packed up and began their long trek across the desert. They rode at a rather leisurely pace while the moon rose above the desert, casting a blue light over everything. The entire group, with the exception of Tatara was exhausted after a few hours of riding. By the coming of dawn each of them nearly fell from their saddles. They stopped under the shade of a large rock formation and slept for the majority of the day, that is until they were rudely awoken.
"Hut! Hut!" A woman knelt down onto the sands and removed the hood from the hawk clinging to her gloved left hand. She moved her left arm upward in one swift motion and the hawk took flight. "Hut!" She called to it and whistled an even note for a few seconds.
The hawk beat its wings furiously in the desert heat and circled high in the sky while it waited for its master's next command. It called in the air as it circled. The woman dropped her left arm and pointed to the rock formation that laid a length just farther than one hundred meters away. The Hawk turned nearly in a rolling motion and flew off towards the formation at a mediocre speed. It circled around the rock formation and landed on one of the lowest rocks half covered in shade from the hot sun.
The bird turned its head to the side a bit and twittered as it stared at the sleeping group of people and their animals. It hopped down onto the sand and jumped towards them, it searched around them and picked up a piece of blue fabric that fell out of Kira's costume. It held the choker in its beak and flapped its wings lifting it off the ground and into the air. Its flew swiftly back to its master, passing once over her head and dropping the blue choker.
"Hut!" She called as she caught the choker. She pulled it taught and read the name 'Nu Kwa' that was embroidered on it. The hawk flew down and she held out her gloved arm, the hawk attached itself and she stood up. She made a clicking noise and her hawk lifted off her arm again, but this time it flew off in the opposite direction than before.
"It looks like we have some company." She smiled, and held her hand up to shade her eyes while she waited for the rest of her group to arrive.
The sun rose to high noon and the hawk flew over her head once more. It let out a high-pitched call and the woman held up her arm. It landed and she hooded the small creature. She made a few clicking noises to it and turned as a group of men riding atop camels came over a sand dune not fifty feet from her. They rode up and pulled their camels to a halt beside her.
"What is it, Red Army?" The first of the men dismounted his horse. He was dressed in a pair of dusty pants made out of a thin white material with a vest of the same rather than a shirt. He had long dark hair, tied back in a braid, and a rich tan rather than the pale skin of most villagers.
"No, better." The woman stood up from her kneeling position, she was head and shoulders above the man. She tossed the choker up into the air and the man caught it as a reflex.
"Better?" He asked and then took a look at the rather expensive looking piece of jewelry. Behind him a group of men and women riding camels, nearly twenty by the looks of them, massed and one rode forward.
"Orders?" He asked and pulled back the reigns of his beast to prevent it from stepping forward any farther.
"Everyone on foot," The man began and the woman lifted her right arm to point at the rock formation. "The rock formation, just off there."
"We capture and question them and if they work for our enemies we kill them; in that order." The woman lowered her right arm and the people behind her dismounted. She stepped forward and began to slide down the sand dune, the others followed at a much swifter pace.
The band of men and women in light fluttery garb walked up behind the rock formation silently. The woman and man she had spoken with stood back near the camels and watched as the group broke into pieces and moved over, and around the rocks. There was a still moment as the large group surrounded Kira's small band. A few members of the gang drew their blades out with a click and swish as the held it back, the rest waited in silence for the signal.
The tall woman who stood back with the hawk let out a loud long whistle, not a moment after the note ended the group converged on Kira and the others. They grabbed them, waking them rather harshly and tied them before they knew what happened. There was much yelling as the group gagged each of them and carried them back out over the sand. The woman yelled at them as they took the bound captives and laid them onto the camels, two of the men in the back stopped and retrieved the horses.
"Boss." The longhaired man mounted his camel and held out his hand to aid the tall woman in mounting. She waved off his hand and mounted the camel.
"Hut!" She lifted the hood off her hawk and it took off, flying over the sand towards its home. She flicked the camel's reigns and it took off running after the hawk, the entire camel-mounted group followed behind her, Kira and tied up friends as well.
The camels slowed as they climbed up a rather high dune that sheltered a small camp. There were a series of tents and nomadic huts constructed in a circle around what looked like a bonfire pit. The whole camp lay in shadow for most of the day because of its position in the sunken sands.
The group rode down into the camp and Kira's group was taken from the main body of the camp to a large white hut on the north side of the bonfire pit. Their horses were taken off with the camels, and due to his massive resistance Kyuumu was restrained to a pair of wooden stakes.
"Madam Tokaki, the prisoners have been taken to the main tent." A woman dressed in something fashioned similar to armor walked up to the longhaired man and the tall woman as they dismounted. "Isu landed in your hut just before your arrival."
"Right." Tokaki, the tall woman, nodded to her and began to walk towards the bonfire pit where a pair of men were setting up a fire.
"What are we going to do with them?" The longhaired man asked as he walked behind Tokaki. "Shall I assign the guards to question them?"
"Not just yet Jou." Tokaki crossed her arms in front of her chest and watched as a small fire started up in the pit. "I'll question them personally."
Author's Notes (Part Two): Well, I may be introducing quite a few people, but bear with me please. I want to try to get through introducing the main body of characters before I send them off on an important quest!
Read and Review Yall!
Author's Notes: Well this update may be shorter than normal and it did take a long time to post, but I've been rather busy with school and such other things. Wow. even the author's notes are short- *gasp* Well enjoy the chapter, and please review!
"It's a shame that we have to leave so soon after finding this place." Kira sat on the hot sand near the cliffs and looked down at BrimHottle and the bamboo forest. "Don't you agree?" She glanced over to the person sitting next to her.
"A shame." Tatara looked up at Kira and then back down at the valley.
"Well, I'm sure we can always come back." Kira smiled, and stood up. "Come on, let's go get some food before everyone finished and decides to leave." She held out her hand, and Tatara took it.
It was nearly five o'clock; the group had left BrimHottle with enough provisions to last nearly two weeks worth of travel across the desert. The group appeared to be growing as they traveled along. Everything had begun with only Kira and Yuki, each lighthearted teenager who wanted to have an adventure. However, it seemed their party was ever growing; first they gained Kagasuki, a mysterious man with a flute, and Tatara, the son of the man that saved Kira's life. Then, as fate would have it, they met Amefuri who began as their enemy and became as their ally and with him came Kage a rather intelligent young man with a love of dark clothes. Together they had met and determined a common enemy worth fighting against.
"Hey, I saved you both some food," Yuki smiled at Kira and Tatara as they came meandering back. "Which was by no means an easy task, with these vultures around." She finished and shot a look at Amefuri, Kage, and Kagasuki who were starting on their second plate, trying to finish off all that they had cooked.
"What can we say, we like food!" Amefuri protested and stuffed a fork- full of food into his mouth.
"Their male, remember?" Kira commented to Yuki quietly as she and Tatara sat down.
"Ah yes," Yuki nodded and they both snickered before eating their food while engaged in a rather quiet conversation about Jaki and Nu-ko (which won't be posted here. for well its lack of importance).
After everyone had finished, they packed up and began their long trek across the desert. They rode at a rather leisurely pace while the moon rose above the desert, casting a blue light over everything. The entire group, with the exception of Tatara was exhausted after a few hours of riding. By the coming of dawn each of them nearly fell from their saddles. They stopped under the shade of a large rock formation and slept for the majority of the day, that is until they were rudely awoken.
"Hut! Hut!" A woman knelt down onto the sands and removed the hood from the hawk clinging to her gloved left hand. She moved her left arm upward in one swift motion and the hawk took flight. "Hut!" She called to it and whistled an even note for a few seconds.
The hawk beat its wings furiously in the desert heat and circled high in the sky while it waited for its master's next command. It called in the air as it circled. The woman dropped her left arm and pointed to the rock formation that laid a length just farther than one hundred meters away. The Hawk turned nearly in a rolling motion and flew off towards the formation at a mediocre speed. It circled around the rock formation and landed on one of the lowest rocks half covered in shade from the hot sun.
The bird turned its head to the side a bit and twittered as it stared at the sleeping group of people and their animals. It hopped down onto the sand and jumped towards them, it searched around them and picked up a piece of blue fabric that fell out of Kira's costume. It held the choker in its beak and flapped its wings lifting it off the ground and into the air. Its flew swiftly back to its master, passing once over her head and dropping the blue choker.
"Hut!" She called as she caught the choker. She pulled it taught and read the name 'Nu Kwa' that was embroidered on it. The hawk flew down and she held out her gloved arm, the hawk attached itself and she stood up. She made a clicking noise and her hawk lifted off her arm again, but this time it flew off in the opposite direction than before.
"It looks like we have some company." She smiled, and held her hand up to shade her eyes while she waited for the rest of her group to arrive.
The sun rose to high noon and the hawk flew over her head once more. It let out a high-pitched call and the woman held up her arm. It landed and she hooded the small creature. She made a few clicking noises to it and turned as a group of men riding atop camels came over a sand dune not fifty feet from her. They rode up and pulled their camels to a halt beside her.
"What is it, Red Army?" The first of the men dismounted his horse. He was dressed in a pair of dusty pants made out of a thin white material with a vest of the same rather than a shirt. He had long dark hair, tied back in a braid, and a rich tan rather than the pale skin of most villagers.
"No, better." The woman stood up from her kneeling position, she was head and shoulders above the man. She tossed the choker up into the air and the man caught it as a reflex.
"Better?" He asked and then took a look at the rather expensive looking piece of jewelry. Behind him a group of men and women riding camels, nearly twenty by the looks of them, massed and one rode forward.
"Orders?" He asked and pulled back the reigns of his beast to prevent it from stepping forward any farther.
"Everyone on foot," The man began and the woman lifted her right arm to point at the rock formation. "The rock formation, just off there."
"We capture and question them and if they work for our enemies we kill them; in that order." The woman lowered her right arm and the people behind her dismounted. She stepped forward and began to slide down the sand dune, the others followed at a much swifter pace.
The band of men and women in light fluttery garb walked up behind the rock formation silently. The woman and man she had spoken with stood back near the camels and watched as the group broke into pieces and moved over, and around the rocks. There was a still moment as the large group surrounded Kira's small band. A few members of the gang drew their blades out with a click and swish as the held it back, the rest waited in silence for the signal.
The tall woman who stood back with the hawk let out a loud long whistle, not a moment after the note ended the group converged on Kira and the others. They grabbed them, waking them rather harshly and tied them before they knew what happened. There was much yelling as the group gagged each of them and carried them back out over the sand. The woman yelled at them as they took the bound captives and laid them onto the camels, two of the men in the back stopped and retrieved the horses.
"Boss." The longhaired man mounted his camel and held out his hand to aid the tall woman in mounting. She waved off his hand and mounted the camel.
"Hut!" She lifted the hood off her hawk and it took off, flying over the sand towards its home. She flicked the camel's reigns and it took off running after the hawk, the entire camel-mounted group followed behind her, Kira and tied up friends as well.
The camels slowed as they climbed up a rather high dune that sheltered a small camp. There were a series of tents and nomadic huts constructed in a circle around what looked like a bonfire pit. The whole camp lay in shadow for most of the day because of its position in the sunken sands.
The group rode down into the camp and Kira's group was taken from the main body of the camp to a large white hut on the north side of the bonfire pit. Their horses were taken off with the camels, and due to his massive resistance Kyuumu was restrained to a pair of wooden stakes.
"Madam Tokaki, the prisoners have been taken to the main tent." A woman dressed in something fashioned similar to armor walked up to the longhaired man and the tall woman as they dismounted. "Isu landed in your hut just before your arrival."
"Right." Tokaki, the tall woman, nodded to her and began to walk towards the bonfire pit where a pair of men were setting up a fire.
"What are we going to do with them?" The longhaired man asked as he walked behind Tokaki. "Shall I assign the guards to question them?"
"Not just yet Jou." Tokaki crossed her arms in front of her chest and watched as a small fire started up in the pit. "I'll question them personally."
Author's Notes (Part Two): Well, I may be introducing quite a few people, but bear with me please. I want to try to get through introducing the main body of characters before I send them off on an important quest!
Read and Review Yall!