Ice pierced Kagome's heart. She was doomed… good as dead… InuYasha would never give up the jewel. The jewel was the only real reason he wanted her around… wasn't it?
He wouldn't give it up… just for her.
All the pain, the ache that had been echoing throughout her body. Everything that she had been repressing. It all slipped to the surface.
InuYasha himself back up a few steps, shock written plainly across his face.
He stared into Vadise's cool, smooth grin. Slowly, his eyes narrowed, and his eyebrows arched angrily.
"That's it, isn't it?" He demanded, his voice shaking with rage. "That's what you've wanted all along!"
Vadise put her finger to her mouth, and thought for a minute. She smiled at him, and nodded. "Yep, pretty much!"
A low, deep bass growl started in his chest. Kagome listened in horror as the pain crept over her. This was one of InuYasha's authentic growls, not one he just threw in to accentuate his speech.
The hanyou literally shook with rage. His claws clenching and unclenching.
"And you probably had this all planned out with all you're little dragon friends, didn't ya?" He accused.
Vadise nodded again, smiling at him. "Just about, yeah." She affirmed.
The little dragon was suddenly ceased between two viselike, clawed hands. InuYasha's eyes were flecked with red, and his teeth were barred ferociously. "You little bitch!" InuYasha seethed, his grip tightening.
"Life tends to be that." She agreed, showing no sign of discomfort in the hanyou's crushing grasp. "Deal with it."
Kagome watched in horror as InuYasha flung the girl away like a rag doll, her vision starting to blur from the pain.
"You set all this up!" The hanyou roared.
Vadise stopped herself in midair, and righted herself. "Indeed, you're powers of deduction are dizzying." She said.
Kagome gasped in pain. It ripped at her. It was eating her! No! Please! Make it stop! Please!! Oh, god! Please… just make it go away!
Her arm reached out involuntarily. She was lying on the soft, mossy earth. When had she fallen? It hurt… make it stop…
"Inu… Yasha…" She rasped, her throat dry and parched.
The hanyou whirled on her, his eyes widening in horror as he saw her on the ground.
"InuYasha…" She gasped, tears running down her face. "Help… it hurts…"
InuYasha's eyes widened in horror, and he whipped around. "What the hell's wrong?" He demanded of the floating dragon. "She was fine just a second ago!"
Vadise chuckled slightly, the sound barely audible over Kagome's mews of pain. "Well, you see, she had a very strong will to live." She explained. "This somehow held over to her miko powers, and they preserved her. She should have been dead when she fell of Syldra over the ocean, but her miko powers have literally been holding her together." She shrugged. "Now, something triggered, and they've turned off." She nodded slightly. "Very painful, I'd imagine." Her tone was that of a weather man talking about rain over western Yokohama.
InuYasha whirled around to Kagome, then back to Vadise. "You bitch!" He seethed, rage building in his voice. "Heal her! NOW!"
Vadise shrugged. "First give me your word. I will have the Shikon Jewel."
InuYasha glared from the dragon to the miko.
Kagome struggled as she tried to get up. InuYasha could see her getting paler by the second. Her eyes widened, and she coughed. Blood spilled between her cracked lips, staining the green moss black.
InuYasha whipped his head back around and nodded savagely. "Whatever the hell you want!" He seethed. "Just do it!"
The girl smiled at him, and nodded.
Kagome lifted her head in shock, her ears still barely working. Her eyes had ceased functioning for a while now. He… he said yes? He… he said yes… He did…
Kagome's head dropped back to the ground as she slid back into darkness.
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InuYasha watched in horror as Kagome's head fell down, splashing a puddle of her own blood.
His ears twitched. Her heart no longer was beating. She… she was dead… dead… it was too late.
"Well," Vadise remarked nonchalantly. "That's a minor inconvenience." She turned to InuYasha. "Grab her, would you?"
InuYasha's fist connected with Vadise's face like a brick hitting tissue paper.
The dragon flew back into the trunk of the giant willow, shattering the wood into splinters. Before she could even open her eyes, the hanyou was there. He grabbed her head, and brought it down savagely into his knee, crushing her nose and any other bones in her face. His knee came down, then up again. Then his elbow came down on her neck with a horrifying snap.
Vadise fell back, motionless, her head leaning at an odd angle.
InuYasha jumped back, his claws flexed, breathed hard.
Slowly, the dragon twitched, and got up. With a twitch of her head, it popped back into its proper place, and the blood on her face and on the ground flowed backwards up into her nose and mouth. The odd angle of her nose cracked, and straitened.
She shrugged slightly, and said simply: "Ow"
InuYasha growled, then howled in rage, lunging at her again. There were two blows, and InuYasha couldn't even keep up with them. Vadise appeared behind him, and he fell to the ground, his right Achilles tendon completely severed, his leg shattered in at least three places, and his left shoulder completely wrenched out of its socket. He could barely feel his arm, and wished to al heaven that he couldn't feel his leg.
Slowly the hanyou turned around, to face Vadise.
The girl leaned against a tree, smiling slightly. "That wasn't very smart, InuYasha." She remarked lightly, inspecting her bloody claws. "You are aware aren't you, that a human doesn't actually die until…"
"Shut the hell up!" InuYasha yelled in a screeching voice. Using his one good leg to propel him forward, he fastened his right hand around her throat. "She'd dead! Fucking DEAD!" His voice broke, and tears graced his cheeks. "It's too late."
Vadise shrugged slightly, and sighed. "You are an idiot."
And suddenly, InuYasha was not clutching at the throat of a small, sixteen looking cat-girl. He looked up, strait at thirty feet of very deadly looking white dragon.
Even in his rage, InuYasha was stunned. She was beautiful! She was covered in a soft, white fur from head to tail. Her eyes were the clearest emeralds he had ever seen, and her six feathered wings were tinged blue, and even a darker purple at the edges. Her long claws were like crystal Ivory, long and sharp, but beautiful for all their deadliness.
The cool green eyes burned into his.
Good night, InuYasha. Her voice sounded.
Then, the hanyou suddenly felt all of the dragon's will crashing down on his, and for one instant, truly comprehended how powerful she was.
And then everything went black.
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Don't worry, it'll all turn out good! Just trust me! One more chapter!
…I really don't want this to end… SO THAT'S WHY I'M DDOING A SEQUAL!
*Does happy dance around his computer*
Oh, and I'm aware that there are two different movies out, however, I'm wondering weather there are two versions of the first movie. This would really help me in the sequel, if anyone has any info.
Oh, and you can get the movies at E-bay. I got mine for $15, INCLUDING S&H!
