Chapter 4-The Mysterious Men and the Giant Snake

The next day came quickly. The morning sun rose across the desert. Jet was the first to wake up; followed by Selfina and Kagome.

"There's too much stuff to take with us," said Jet. "That's why I only packed the things that we may need."

Kagome smiled. "Good thinking."

Jet rumbled through his belongings and pulled out four colorful arrows with blue feathers at the bottom. "You can have these Kagome. I have no use for these, seeing how I don't have a bow for them. Here you go."

"Thank you Jet," she said taking the four arrows.

Selfina tapped her foot on the ground. "I'm ready to go now. Lets go before I leave you too behind."

"Okay Sel," said Jet smiling at her. "We can go now."

The three left the safety of the campsite and ventured out onto the unknown desert.

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It was now the afternoon and the desert became hotter. Kagome, Selfina, and Jet decided to take a break and rest near a small oasis.

"I never knew the deserts could be so hot," Selfina said. She grabbed a handful of water and began to drink it.

Kagome smirked. "You wouldn't know seeing how you never been to a desert before. You've only seen them on cartoons and history shows on TV."

"It will get cooler later on when it becomes dark," said Jet splashing the cool water on his face.

Kagome looked up to the clear blue sky. "I hear something Can't you two hear it?"

"Uhh...no," replied Selfina. "Oh wait...I do now. What is it?"

Jet looked up also. "I don't know, but it's getting louder."

The three stood still not taking their eyes off the sky were they assumed they heard the weird noise coming from. Just then a figure appeared in there view. It came closer and closer at a rapid speed until finally it hit the ground with a loud bang. Dust scattered everywhere. Selfina and Kagome put their arms in front of their faces to prevent the flying dirt from hitting them Jet took out his Airget-lamh B/V2 and stood in front of the girls. When the dust cleared; the three were surprised at what they saw.

"It's...a person," said Selfina placing her arms back to her side. "A man to be exact."

What they were staring at was indeed a man. His long sliver like hair was scattered around including on his face as he lay there unconscious. He wore a long black coat the was ripped on one side.

"Is he okay?" asked Kagome.

Jet walked over to him and kneeled down to place on his hands on the man's cheek. "Yeah...he's okay. He's just sleeping . We should watch over him until he wakes up." He put one of the man's hands around his neck and walked him over to the palm tree they were sitting under.

Kagome noticed a long sword lying on the ground where the man with sliver hair laid. "I guess this is his. It looks familiar. I'll give it to him when he wakes up." She stood up and walked over to where Jet and Selfina were with the man.

Jet reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of water. He carefully put drops into the man's mouth. "I think he's waking up."

Kagome and Selfina stood over him to see. The opened his eyes and focused them only to see a two girls looking at him. He jumped casing the girls to be startled as well.

"Don't do that!" shouted Selfina clutching her shirt. "Are you trying to give me an early-age heart attack?!"

He looked over to Kagome. "Who are you people and how did I end up here?"

"I'm Kagome," said replied calmly. "This is Selfina and Jet. We saw you flying from the sky and you hit the ground pretty hard. Are you okay?"

He nodded slowly. "My sword...where's my sword?"

She handed the sword to him. "Here you go...uhh..."

"Sephiroth," he said taking the weapon from her. "My name is Sephiroth." He ran his hands through his long sliver hair and smiled at her.

Kagome smiled back blushing slightly. "Okay Sephiroth. Umm...how did you get here? I mean where did you come from, flying out of the sky like that?."

Selfina sat down next to Jet and waited for Sephiroth's answer.

"Where I come from is none of your concern," he replied. "But I was fighting these huge snake-monsters with my partner Kenshin. We manage to deplete most of there numbers, but the last two we faced were the strongest. Kenshin was able to hold of one for a bit until the two tried to get him also. I went to help, but before I knew it....one of the monsters appeared behind me. And that's the last thing I remember."

"Damn," said Selfina. "That monster knocked you way over here? It must be really powerful."

Sephiroth stood up and started to walk off.

"Hey where are you going?" asked Kagome. "You aren't going back after that monster are you? You are badly hurt you know."

"I'm aware of that," he replied still walking. "I need to see if Kenshin is still alive."

Kagome ran after him and stopped Sephiroth by tugging at his coat. "Let us come and help you then. You aren't going to do this alone."

He turned back and looked at Kagome as she stared into his green eyes. He smiled. "Yeah do what you wish. But I must warn you...these things are powerful."

She nodded and smiled back. "Are you two coming?"

"Yeah okay," said Selfina getting to her feet. "What about you Jet?"

Jet stood up also. "Okay, it's not like we have anything better to do."

"Great," Kagome said. "Lets go then!"

Right before anyone took another step; something came up out of the ground making a huge hole right where they were.

"I guess it decided to come to me rather than me going to it," said Sephiroth holding on tightly to his sword he had in his right hand.

It was a large monster that looked like a snake. It was covered in green slime.

"Where's Kenshin? What did you do you do to him?!"

The slime-covered snake lifted its head back and coughed up a ball of goo. The ball fell to Kagome's feet.

"Eww," she said. "There's someone inside of this stuff." She started to wipe off the slime with her hands until most of it was gone.

It reveled a man with red hair that was tied up in a ponytail and he had a x-shaped scar on his left cheek.

"Kenshin..." Sephiroth said nearly whispering. "Tell me...is he okay?"

Kagome nodded. "Yes, he is. He's taking very slow breaths, but I think he will be okay."

Selfina took out her Cutlass. "Hey Jet. I think it's time we took this thing out. What do you think?"

He nodded. "Oh yeah. I think it overstayed its welcome."

"Can you take care of him while we take of the snake?" asked Sephiroth.

"Yes," Kagome said. "I won't stop you from fighting seeing how you won't listen even if I say it once again. So just watch yourself okay."

"Yeah," he replied. "I will."