Chapter 2: Caleb's Story

"It started before I was killed, I guess it was around 1805,"

"Wait a minute," Kagome interrupted Caleb's story, "How could you-"

"I'll get to that. Anyway, I was walking home from a visit to the bar, got into a bit of a fight, figured I should leave before that pussy ass sheriff got there. On my way home I came across the smoldering shell of a house. I decided to check it out and that was the first time I saw her. She was sitting there yelling at the body of a dead man, yelling at him for being a coward and causing this destruction. I walked over to her and asked her what had happened. She told me all about her husband and his involvement in the Cabal, he tried to leave the cult and they burnt down the house and killed him. I gave her my condolences, she did not accept them, she said that he deserved to die for betraying the Cabal.

Well through some twists of fate we fell in love, I joined the Cabal, and we became two of the four Chosen. We were fierce generals of the Cabal, immensely powerful both physically and as warlords. We killed mindlessly for the will of a madman. He called himself Tchernobog, took the name of our god. He was only half-lying; Tchernobog's powers were incarnated into him, but only that.

One day we were called before him. He said that we had failed him. He took Ophelia from me, I watched as his minion Cheog tore her apart, and then it all went black. Next thing I knew I was in a coffin, I shattered the lid and in the torch-lit tomb, I could see that I was not in my body. I swore that I would avenge Ophelia and kill Tchernobog's incarnate.

After a long journey, I found him. Right where he had killed me. I fought with all my strength, and almost had him beat, but then he pulled out a jewel, the jewel, the Shikon no Tama. He called upon its power and with it, he almost killed me again. With my last ounce of strength, I managed to kill the beast and burn the jewel. If only that could have ended it.

You see Tchernobog keeps time and space in order. The disturbance in the fabric of time caused by the death of the man with his power and the destruction of the jewel is what caused the portal through the Bone-Eater's Well." Caleb turned to Kagome, "The moment you were born I could sense the jewel, but I kept my eye on the Cabal, I had been for almost 200 years. I waited until I got enough information. When I found out they were going through the well to get the jewel, I tried to beat them to it, as you can see, I failed."

"We will help you destroy the Cabal," Kagome said.

"It won't be as easy as it was for me," Caleb said, "This time they will use the jewel's power to increase there armies, as soon as Tchernobog is in Gideon's body they will be ready to take over the world. It will take a lot of force and a hell of a lot of luck to beat them. They have probably already started the first stage."

"The first stage?" Kagome asked, "What's the first stage?"

"They will use the power of the jewel to turn the worlds youth into soldiers, the youngest humans have the freshest blood, they will make powerful soldiers. The power will be broadcast from the center of their base, and spread outward across the world. In the next stage they will begin to take over Japan by blocking the ports they control. From their base in Japan they will take over the world"

"Where is their base, we need to stop them in the first stage." Kagome asked. "Their base," Caleb answered "Is in the center of the Cabalco subway system in Yokohama."

"Yokohama?!" Kagome said, shocked, "That's right near Tokyo. They're going to get Sota!" "Its okay Kagome," Inu-Yasha said, "They might not have gotten to him yet. Caleb, how fast will that energy move?"

"It will gradually gain speed, surely they have spread at least three-hundred miles by now." "Then that means," Kagome said, fighting tears "That means they already have Sota."

"We may still be able to save him but we must move quickly," Caleb said.