Okay people, I promised a long chapter, and here it is. (well, it's long
for me)
Enjoy!
Kagome felt a slight pain in her leg, and looked down past the muscular arm. The bite mark had grown!
Kagome frowned in confusion. 'What? My leg..it hurts now,"
She was staring at her ankle with narrowed eyes, and then it suddenly turned green and scaly! Kagome's mind reeled. 'AAHH! I'm turning into a monster!' What had been fear faded. 'Will I have superpowers or something now?' She thought lazily to herself.
Her leg moved again, and then she realized that a snakelike tail had wrapped around both of her legs, and was slowly squeezing them. Two main emotions flashed through her head at that moment: shame, for being afraid that she was a monster, and disappointment, because she could really use those superpowers right about now. But odd enough, no fear. She didn't feel any fear at the current instant. All she really felt was boredom, which is ironic because the creature's other hand had pressed a claw up against her throat.
A low, menacing hiss erupted softly next to her ear. "I fouunnd yooouu,"
The hand over her mouth had lifted, but repositioned itself around her arms. Kagome breathed deeply, trying to rid her tongue of that nasty taste. It was the kind that made you gag horribly.
"What?" she asked, her voice almost flat.
"I've beeen sssaaarrrching* for you. I want that jewelll. Give it to meee without trouble and Ayyee might let you die quickleee."
Kagome's brows furrowed in annoyance. 'Oh great! ANOTHER power hungry demon who wants the jewel. How ORIGINAL! Cornering me in my empty home and threatening my life.'
She sighed.
"You aren't ssscared? Yooou should be. I might kill you at any time-" It's claw pressed slightly harder against Kagome's throat "-without warninggg."
"Let me guess, you'd slit my throat, take the jewel, and then devour me. Do I win a prize?"
"Hmm, I would have left you to bleed to death, but you would make a tassssty snack." The demon hissed thoughtfully. But it's tone soon turned angry. "Whyy aren't you afraid, human?" It spat.
Kagome rolled her eyes. "You talk too much."
What?? Kagome was confused. Wouldn't she have said something like, 'please don't kill me'? She actually sounded bored. The creature had a valid point: it COULD just kill her at any second, and take her chunk of the Shikon jewel. Then again, this could work out towards her advantage..
The demon hissed angrily. "Insssolent human! I'll teach you to be frightened!"
..okay, maybe not.
"Ouch!" mumbled the miko. Her leg was stinging terribly! Kagome peered over the stinky arm and spotted her ankle. How strange. It was a dark purple color.
"Weird"
"Thissss ends now!" The demon spun her to face it. Time seemed to slow agonizingly. Kagome took this time to look at her "captor". He looked to be a sort of snake demon, except he had legs, and was obviously larger than your average garter snake.
Starting from the top, Kagome analyzed the demon's weaknesses. Those yellow eyes could be sensitive..she supposed that's why every room downstairs had all the blinds down and shut. It's skin looked extremely tough, so no point trying to pierce it. All of its muscles were tensed and rock-hard. No weakness there..and the long, thick tail with sharp spikes sticking out and the four inch curved claws didn't exactly make the snake demon look like a teddy bear either.
Time speeded back to the present. The demon's hand was pulled back and now it had shot forward, straight towards Kagome's chest, or the Shikon Jewel, to be more specific.
But the demon never had a chance. Just before it's palm had closed around the chunk, the jewel suddenly exploded in..red light? Kagome frowned in confusion. She had only seen it shine in purple or pink light, never red.
She felt an intense heat flow with the burst of red. She looked up at the demon, and saw that it was clutching it's left arm and hissing and spluttering in pain and rage. Kagome did a double take and realized its hand was missing up to the wrist.
Kagome looked down and noticed that the jewel was glowing angrily in its normal purple color. Slowly, Kagome's mind put together the pieces. If the jewel exploded when the snaked palm was over it, and the snake's hand was missing, then that meant..
Kagome recoiled in disgust. The red had been the snake's BLOOD! Her breathing accelerated and her head felt suddenly incredibly light and dizzy.
Painful screaming snapped Kagome out of her discovery. She looked at the demon. He was writhing in agony, and his scaly skin had erupted in angry red boils, melting and twisting. "BUURRRNNSSSSS!!" It seemed that the demon's blood was like acid, and when the jewel burned its hand off, it had sprayed the snake's own blood back all over it's entire body.
Kagome winced. "That's gotta hurt.." She muttered nonchalantly.
"NAGA!!" The snake demon hissed loudly. "Naga!!!"
A movement to her right caught Kagome's eye, and she turned her head towards the open back door.
"Yesssss Masstaa?" said a voice. "Come heeya*!" Uttered the demon angrily.
An extremely large cobra slunk into Kagome's kitchen quickly. It had quite an expression filled face for a snake. Its large, green eyes were wide in curiosity, and it had ridges just above its eyes that looked curiously like eyebrows. It had a hood roughly the size of a beach ball, which was raised slightly, and its whole body was covered in scales a color so black they could have been crafted from the shadows of the night.
"Heeya! Right heeya!"
The snake (Kagome had assumed this was Naga) slithered quickly towards his master and raised its head. He opened his enormous mouth, revealing not two, but four long, and very sharp fangs.
"Lefft top!" Shouted Naga's master.
The snake retracted all three fangs except the left foremost one. The fang started to drip in a sort of amber color. He opened his mouth even wider, and sank the fang into the indicated place right into the protruding flesh where the demon's hand used to be.
Hold everything! Now, if your hand had gotten blown off, and your body was covered in flesh-eating acid, why in the world would you want a venomous snake to bite you and make your wounds worse? It would also kill you too.
These confusing thoughts shoved themselves up to the surface of Kagome's brain. Whatever! If the snake demon dud wanted to die, let him!
But it seems Naga's venom had been doing the exact opposite of destroying tissue: it had been rebuilding it!! The larger snake demon's arm had slowly been recreating flesh and muscle. The bones had been also been building. Quite curious. That must have been some miracle venom!
Kagome noticed that the numerous sores and boils were slowly disappearing, being replaced with new flesh and skin.
The demon had stopped its violent screaming, and now had its eyes narrowed angrily at Kagome.
There was a tensed and lethal silence that followed. It seemed the snake demon had thought against a second attack on capturing the Shikon Jewel, not wanting to have its other hand separated from it.
Naga cut the silence with his hiss. "What happened massstaa?"
"Whaat do you thinnnk?" 'masta' shouted vehemently. "The blasssted jewel took my haand!"
Upon hearing this, Naga raised himself up almost four feet in the air, and raised his hood to the fullest.
"Lookssss tassty..may I massta?" Naga looked like he was preparing to strike Kagome.
(Guess what emotion was missing from her mind? You guessed it -_- fear)
"No!" said the snake demon shortly. "Your venom is too preciousss to looosse."
Naga hissed loudly at Kagome.
'Hmm. Reminds me of sandpaper rubbed against treebark..'
"Naga! We're leaving!" The large demon stalked quickly out of Kagome's kitchen, Naga following in step..er..slither. Kagome peered 'round the door to see if the sunlight affected Naga or his master, but they had disappeared.
"Whew!" Kagome staggered over to the couch in the other room and collapsed wearily. "I'm hungry." She announced to the empty house.
Momentarily forgetting about the acid eating through the kitchen tile, she absently wondered where her family currently resided. Scanning the space around her, she spotted a white piece of paper taped to the refrigerator door.
"Now why didn't I notice that before?" She slapped her hand against her forehead. "OH! Because I was almost killed, eaten, and robbed of the shards by a bumbling, power-mad snake demon and his pet Hissy."
With a groan, Kagome pushed herself off the big comfy couch (I couldn't resist ^-^), and lazily headed towards the note on the fridge ALL the way at the OTHER end of the room.
When she finally reached the note, she decided she was too lazy to take it off, so she just leaned closer to it.
Dear Kagome, If you're reading this, we're not home. ("well duh!") Grandpa went to visit his sister in North Korea, and I went with him. Souta is spending the night with his friend until we get back. I bought extra ramen for Inuyasha, it's in the pantry. We'll hopefully see you soon-
Mom P.S. I also bought the chocolate you asked for, it's next to the ramen.
"Goodie, the whole house to myself.." she muttered sarcastically. "I wonder if Inuyasha will come and get me?" She shook her head sadly.
'The way he looked at me..I feel so terrible! I wonder how much ramen it'll take this time to get him to forgive me?" she wondered aloud.
'Should I tell him about Naga and his master?' She asked herself. "No. He'll just spout off about how he was right, and about how weak I am, and how I could have gotten killed, and/or the shards could have gotten stolen, and I should have let him come..The whole incident has never happened, so I suppose I don't need to tell him."
Kagome sighed for the umpteenth time that day.
"I think I'll go take a nice long bath.."
Whew!! That was long! Arg! I was almost done with it, but my computer froze!! I was SOOO angry! But luckily I ran a search and I found it again on AutoRecovery..that was a close one! Okay! What do you think about this chapter? Comments? Questions? Reviews? (NOT OPTIONAL!) *smiles *
you guys better review, because I went through a lot of trouble to complete this chapter! PLUS it's literally 5 in the morning! I missed a PARTY for you guys! So review!! Thank you to the *few * people who reviewed! Thank you SNOW skittles, Chiisuta, and the anonymous person!!
*A few things about the story:
Have you seen Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers yet? When Naga's master (I haven't found a name for him yet) talks, he has kind of a hissy British Accent, and sounds kind of like gollum, except his voice is deeper, so I had to type out words that depicted what the word sounded like:
'Saarrching' equals 'searching'
'heeya' is obviously 'here'
that's all I have to say for now..oh! I almost forgot!
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Kagome felt a slight pain in her leg, and looked down past the muscular arm. The bite mark had grown!
Kagome frowned in confusion. 'What? My leg..it hurts now,"
She was staring at her ankle with narrowed eyes, and then it suddenly turned green and scaly! Kagome's mind reeled. 'AAHH! I'm turning into a monster!' What had been fear faded. 'Will I have superpowers or something now?' She thought lazily to herself.
Her leg moved again, and then she realized that a snakelike tail had wrapped around both of her legs, and was slowly squeezing them. Two main emotions flashed through her head at that moment: shame, for being afraid that she was a monster, and disappointment, because she could really use those superpowers right about now. But odd enough, no fear. She didn't feel any fear at the current instant. All she really felt was boredom, which is ironic because the creature's other hand had pressed a claw up against her throat.
A low, menacing hiss erupted softly next to her ear. "I fouunnd yooouu,"
The hand over her mouth had lifted, but repositioned itself around her arms. Kagome breathed deeply, trying to rid her tongue of that nasty taste. It was the kind that made you gag horribly.
"What?" she asked, her voice almost flat.
"I've beeen sssaaarrrching* for you. I want that jewelll. Give it to meee without trouble and Ayyee might let you die quickleee."
Kagome's brows furrowed in annoyance. 'Oh great! ANOTHER power hungry demon who wants the jewel. How ORIGINAL! Cornering me in my empty home and threatening my life.'
She sighed.
"You aren't ssscared? Yooou should be. I might kill you at any time-" It's claw pressed slightly harder against Kagome's throat "-without warninggg."
"Let me guess, you'd slit my throat, take the jewel, and then devour me. Do I win a prize?"
"Hmm, I would have left you to bleed to death, but you would make a tassssty snack." The demon hissed thoughtfully. But it's tone soon turned angry. "Whyy aren't you afraid, human?" It spat.
Kagome rolled her eyes. "You talk too much."
What?? Kagome was confused. Wouldn't she have said something like, 'please don't kill me'? She actually sounded bored. The creature had a valid point: it COULD just kill her at any second, and take her chunk of the Shikon jewel. Then again, this could work out towards her advantage..
The demon hissed angrily. "Insssolent human! I'll teach you to be frightened!"
..okay, maybe not.
"Ouch!" mumbled the miko. Her leg was stinging terribly! Kagome peered over the stinky arm and spotted her ankle. How strange. It was a dark purple color.
"Weird"
"Thissss ends now!" The demon spun her to face it. Time seemed to slow agonizingly. Kagome took this time to look at her "captor". He looked to be a sort of snake demon, except he had legs, and was obviously larger than your average garter snake.
Starting from the top, Kagome analyzed the demon's weaknesses. Those yellow eyes could be sensitive..she supposed that's why every room downstairs had all the blinds down and shut. It's skin looked extremely tough, so no point trying to pierce it. All of its muscles were tensed and rock-hard. No weakness there..and the long, thick tail with sharp spikes sticking out and the four inch curved claws didn't exactly make the snake demon look like a teddy bear either.
Time speeded back to the present. The demon's hand was pulled back and now it had shot forward, straight towards Kagome's chest, or the Shikon Jewel, to be more specific.
But the demon never had a chance. Just before it's palm had closed around the chunk, the jewel suddenly exploded in..red light? Kagome frowned in confusion. She had only seen it shine in purple or pink light, never red.
She felt an intense heat flow with the burst of red. She looked up at the demon, and saw that it was clutching it's left arm and hissing and spluttering in pain and rage. Kagome did a double take and realized its hand was missing up to the wrist.
Kagome looked down and noticed that the jewel was glowing angrily in its normal purple color. Slowly, Kagome's mind put together the pieces. If the jewel exploded when the snaked palm was over it, and the snake's hand was missing, then that meant..
Kagome recoiled in disgust. The red had been the snake's BLOOD! Her breathing accelerated and her head felt suddenly incredibly light and dizzy.
Painful screaming snapped Kagome out of her discovery. She looked at the demon. He was writhing in agony, and his scaly skin had erupted in angry red boils, melting and twisting. "BUURRRNNSSSSS!!" It seemed that the demon's blood was like acid, and when the jewel burned its hand off, it had sprayed the snake's own blood back all over it's entire body.
Kagome winced. "That's gotta hurt.." She muttered nonchalantly.
"NAGA!!" The snake demon hissed loudly. "Naga!!!"
A movement to her right caught Kagome's eye, and she turned her head towards the open back door.
"Yesssss Masstaa?" said a voice. "Come heeya*!" Uttered the demon angrily.
An extremely large cobra slunk into Kagome's kitchen quickly. It had quite an expression filled face for a snake. Its large, green eyes were wide in curiosity, and it had ridges just above its eyes that looked curiously like eyebrows. It had a hood roughly the size of a beach ball, which was raised slightly, and its whole body was covered in scales a color so black they could have been crafted from the shadows of the night.
"Heeya! Right heeya!"
The snake (Kagome had assumed this was Naga) slithered quickly towards his master and raised its head. He opened his enormous mouth, revealing not two, but four long, and very sharp fangs.
"Lefft top!" Shouted Naga's master.
The snake retracted all three fangs except the left foremost one. The fang started to drip in a sort of amber color. He opened his mouth even wider, and sank the fang into the indicated place right into the protruding flesh where the demon's hand used to be.
Hold everything! Now, if your hand had gotten blown off, and your body was covered in flesh-eating acid, why in the world would you want a venomous snake to bite you and make your wounds worse? It would also kill you too.
These confusing thoughts shoved themselves up to the surface of Kagome's brain. Whatever! If the snake demon dud wanted to die, let him!
But it seems Naga's venom had been doing the exact opposite of destroying tissue: it had been rebuilding it!! The larger snake demon's arm had slowly been recreating flesh and muscle. The bones had been also been building. Quite curious. That must have been some miracle venom!
Kagome noticed that the numerous sores and boils were slowly disappearing, being replaced with new flesh and skin.
The demon had stopped its violent screaming, and now had its eyes narrowed angrily at Kagome.
There was a tensed and lethal silence that followed. It seemed the snake demon had thought against a second attack on capturing the Shikon Jewel, not wanting to have its other hand separated from it.
Naga cut the silence with his hiss. "What happened massstaa?"
"Whaat do you thinnnk?" 'masta' shouted vehemently. "The blasssted jewel took my haand!"
Upon hearing this, Naga raised himself up almost four feet in the air, and raised his hood to the fullest.
"Lookssss tassty..may I massta?" Naga looked like he was preparing to strike Kagome.
(Guess what emotion was missing from her mind? You guessed it -_- fear)
"No!" said the snake demon shortly. "Your venom is too preciousss to looosse."
Naga hissed loudly at Kagome.
'Hmm. Reminds me of sandpaper rubbed against treebark..'
"Naga! We're leaving!" The large demon stalked quickly out of Kagome's kitchen, Naga following in step..er..slither. Kagome peered 'round the door to see if the sunlight affected Naga or his master, but they had disappeared.
"Whew!" Kagome staggered over to the couch in the other room and collapsed wearily. "I'm hungry." She announced to the empty house.
Momentarily forgetting about the acid eating through the kitchen tile, she absently wondered where her family currently resided. Scanning the space around her, she spotted a white piece of paper taped to the refrigerator door.
"Now why didn't I notice that before?" She slapped her hand against her forehead. "OH! Because I was almost killed, eaten, and robbed of the shards by a bumbling, power-mad snake demon and his pet Hissy."
With a groan, Kagome pushed herself off the big comfy couch (I couldn't resist ^-^), and lazily headed towards the note on the fridge ALL the way at the OTHER end of the room.
When she finally reached the note, she decided she was too lazy to take it off, so she just leaned closer to it.
Dear Kagome, If you're reading this, we're not home. ("well duh!") Grandpa went to visit his sister in North Korea, and I went with him. Souta is spending the night with his friend until we get back. I bought extra ramen for Inuyasha, it's in the pantry. We'll hopefully see you soon-
Mom P.S. I also bought the chocolate you asked for, it's next to the ramen.
"Goodie, the whole house to myself.." she muttered sarcastically. "I wonder if Inuyasha will come and get me?" She shook her head sadly.
'The way he looked at me..I feel so terrible! I wonder how much ramen it'll take this time to get him to forgive me?" she wondered aloud.
'Should I tell him about Naga and his master?' She asked herself. "No. He'll just spout off about how he was right, and about how weak I am, and how I could have gotten killed, and/or the shards could have gotten stolen, and I should have let him come..The whole incident has never happened, so I suppose I don't need to tell him."
Kagome sighed for the umpteenth time that day.
"I think I'll go take a nice long bath.."
Whew!! That was long! Arg! I was almost done with it, but my computer froze!! I was SOOO angry! But luckily I ran a search and I found it again on AutoRecovery..that was a close one! Okay! What do you think about this chapter? Comments? Questions? Reviews? (NOT OPTIONAL!) *smiles *
you guys better review, because I went through a lot of trouble to complete this chapter! PLUS it's literally 5 in the morning! I missed a PARTY for you guys! So review!! Thank you to the *few * people who reviewed! Thank you SNOW skittles, Chiisuta, and the anonymous person!!
*A few things about the story:
Have you seen Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers yet? When Naga's master (I haven't found a name for him yet) talks, he has kind of a hissy British Accent, and sounds kind of like gollum, except his voice is deeper, so I had to type out words that depicted what the word sounded like:
'Saarrching' equals 'searching'
'heeya' is obviously 'here'
that's all I have to say for now..oh! I almost forgot!
O0o0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo0Oo HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o00o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o