~Charmed~
Chapter Three
ChristieLea54
"You bet we are!" Piper said as she jerked her hands out to blow him up, but it didn't work. "Uh-oh."
The black eyed man smiled, he'd feared that his barrier wouldn't hold against those as powerful as the Charmed Ones. He waved his hand absent-mindedly, and they too were thrown harshly against the wall.
'Now for the jewel,' he thought as he turned his attention to the now unprotected Kagome. "Give me the Jewel of Four Souls," he said, his voice light and playful.
"But it's broken in half though! See?" Kagome said simply and cheerfully, as if she were talking about a number two pencil she had planned on lending to a friend.
His eyes narrowed. "Give it to me." His voice was now a deadly order.
"Never!" she hissed back at him, stuffing the jewel protectively back into her shirt, still hanging on the thin black chain.
The man tossed her attitude to the side with a shrug. "Then you'll just have to die." He brought his hand into the air, his palm facing upwards.
"Kagome..." Phoebe breathed, getting up to help her.
A small ball of fire started to grow on his palm.
Inuyasha groaned as he sat up after his fall and looked around. The first thing he saw was Kagome. Who was about to be attacked by the black-eyed demon. He wasn't sure how fire in his hand was that big of a deal, but she was still about to be attacked. 'Kagome!' he thought as he jumped to his feet.
The man raised his hand even further, the fireball now fully formed.
"No!" Inuyasha yelled.
The man released the fireball, throwing it straight at her.
Inuyasha didn't have time to think. He didn't know what this fireball-thing was, or what it did to a person, but he hadn't survived as a child in a world out to get him by under-estimating things. The only thing he knew was that it was headed at Kagome. And that was enough to get him going.
Inuyasha ran towards her, pushing her to the floor underneath of him, covering her from the fireball seconds before it hit her. And then hit him instead.
Kagome didn't have time to dodge the fireball, she didn't even have time to scream. She was going to die. The ironic thing about it was that she had survived the demon filled past without more than a few bad cuts, and now here she was, about to die in the much safer present time. It went against all probability.
But Kagome didn't even process all this information. She just clenched her fists and sadly thought: 'Inuyasha...' But then, in a blur of red and white, he was there, in front of her, pushing her to the ground. The blast meant for her, hit him square on instead.
The impact blew them back a few feet, but instead of blowing up, or exploding into flames, or even starting anything on fire, and leaving them a mere pile of ashes, it simply flared up for a moment, and then died down to a burn spot on his shirt. Inuyasha's fire-rat-fur robes had saved him yet again.
Inuyasha stood up. He dusted off his shirt. He turned his eyes, now practically liquid-gold with anger, upon the one who had dared to try and hurt Kagome, and growled, "That was a mistake!" His sword was out again, this time turned red, and Inuyasha raised Tetsusaiga up and slashed at the protective barrier in front of the black-eyed demon.
The demon took a small silver dagger out of his boot and made to stab at Inuyasha, but before he could, there was an odd clinking noise, like when glass shatters, as the barrier broke. 'My barrier! It's gone! The witch's powers will work on me now! Better make quick work of this! Live today, get the jewel tomorrow.'
The sickening sound of steel ripping into flesh filled Inuyasha's poor ears. The dagger had been thrown at Kagome.
Inuyasha looked back at her: deathly pale, with blood gushing out around the blade still stuck into her arm. Inuyasha turned his gaze back towards the demon that had dared to harm Kagome, with murder written in his eyes.
Before Inuyasha could do anything though, the demon pulled his hand back in a recalling motion, but instead of the small dagger returning to its master, the jewel flew into his waiting hand. Behind him, Inuyasha heard the sisters talking.
"Think our powers will work now?"
"Can't hurt to try."
Apparently this demon wasn't as stupid as they thought, because after hearing that, he decided to get the heck away from them. He spun around a single time, and a black pillar of smoke rose about him, and he vanished.
Inuyasha stared dumbly at the empty spot where his enemy had stood before him not a second before. Then he shook his head, as if to clear it, and ran to Kagome's side. He gently picked her up, worry etched all over his face. He turned to the sisters.
"Can you help her?" he asked quietly, staring out the window, not looking at any of them. He hated asking for help! But Kagome needed it, and that was enough to get him to ask.
Piper nodded. "Of course." Sure she didn't like it when strangers popped into her house, and she liked it even less when those people were demons, but she'd been pleasantly, if not a little suspiciously, surprised to find that this half demon was on the good side.
Phoebe led the way down to the couch, and proceeded to bandage her up, all the while calling "Leo!"
Paige explained. "Leo is our white-lighter. He'll be able to heal her."
"White-lighter? How?"
"In his first life he was a medical doctor who died saving people during a world war, and then became something along the lines of a guardian angel."
Inuyasha looked thoroughly confused. "If he's dead, then what's he doing with your sister?"
Piper gasped and her head shot up to look at Inuyasha, a light blush staining her cheeks. "How did you...? ... How did he...?"
Kagome smiled weakly from her spot on the couch. "He's a half demon. He can smell i-i-it."
"What's wrong?" Paige asked her.
In an extremely quiet voice, she answered. "My arm. It's getting worse."
There was a dead silence for a moment, and then Inuyasha's loud voice boomed through the Manor. "What do you mean it's getting worse?! Where's this Leo guy?! How come you haven't healed her yet?! You're witches! Do something!"
"There must be something wrong. He's never not come before." Worry laced Piper voice.
"Look," said Paige. "We can't just sit here waiting for him to attack again! Piper, when you looked in the Book of Shadows, who did you try to find?"
"Him," she says while pointing at Inuyasha.
"Then we still have to look up the black-eyed dude." She went up to the attic.
"Where could Leo be?" asked Piper.
"I don't know," answered a just as worried Phoebe.
Paige came back downstairs with the Book opened to a page on the 'black-eyed dude.' "It says that his name is Raltz," she read. "His 'lair' is always underground, and that he collects objects of power which give him a wide range of abilities."
"That explains the fireball, the jewel-floating-through-air trick, and the smoky disappearing act," said Piper.
"And," Paige continued excitedly. "Look what I found!" She held up a lock of dirty blond hair. "You must have cut it off with that massive sword of yours dog-boy. Now we can at least scry for him." She looked around. "Leo's still not here?"
"No," two voices said at once. One growling and one worried.
"Hmm. I wonder why. Well, let's go!"
"We can't just leave her here!" Inuyasha yelled.
"I'll stay." Phoebe said. "You go with them Inuyasha. They're gonna need you and your sword."
"But-"
"I'll work on a vanquishing spell, and as soon as Leo gets here, I'll have him heal her, and orb us to you."
"Orb?"
"The blue-white shimmer that transports him in and out of places."
"Go ahead Inuyasha," said a weak voice from the couch. "I'll be fine."
Inuyasha plopped down on the floor next to her, in his usual Indian style position. She looked so weak and hopeless and un-Kagome like. How could he have let this happen to her? He fingered the once white bandages wrapped around her arm. Then he stilled, and looked up at her, really looked, and said in a completely serious voice, "You better still be here when I get back Kagome."
When was the last time he'd looked at her with such warm eyes? She smiled. "Don't worry. You can't get rid of me that easily." Boy was that true. He'd even tried to seal the well off, but she'd come back.
She reached up with her uninjured arm, and gently tweaked one of his sensitive ears. He seemed to instantly relax. It was so worth getting hurt, she decided, just to have him here like this, with her.
Slowly he stood up and turned around, not wanting her to see any more of the emotions threatening to spill over the top of his tough guy act. "Well? Are we going are what?" he roughly asked the sisters, with his usual scowl recovered on his face.
Paige held out her hands, which they grabbed onto, and orbed them out.
Chapter Three
ChristieLea54
"You bet we are!" Piper said as she jerked her hands out to blow him up, but it didn't work. "Uh-oh."
The black eyed man smiled, he'd feared that his barrier wouldn't hold against those as powerful as the Charmed Ones. He waved his hand absent-mindedly, and they too were thrown harshly against the wall.
'Now for the jewel,' he thought as he turned his attention to the now unprotected Kagome. "Give me the Jewel of Four Souls," he said, his voice light and playful.
"But it's broken in half though! See?" Kagome said simply and cheerfully, as if she were talking about a number two pencil she had planned on lending to a friend.
His eyes narrowed. "Give it to me." His voice was now a deadly order.
"Never!" she hissed back at him, stuffing the jewel protectively back into her shirt, still hanging on the thin black chain.
The man tossed her attitude to the side with a shrug. "Then you'll just have to die." He brought his hand into the air, his palm facing upwards.
"Kagome..." Phoebe breathed, getting up to help her.
A small ball of fire started to grow on his palm.
Inuyasha groaned as he sat up after his fall and looked around. The first thing he saw was Kagome. Who was about to be attacked by the black-eyed demon. He wasn't sure how fire in his hand was that big of a deal, but she was still about to be attacked. 'Kagome!' he thought as he jumped to his feet.
The man raised his hand even further, the fireball now fully formed.
"No!" Inuyasha yelled.
The man released the fireball, throwing it straight at her.
Inuyasha didn't have time to think. He didn't know what this fireball-thing was, or what it did to a person, but he hadn't survived as a child in a world out to get him by under-estimating things. The only thing he knew was that it was headed at Kagome. And that was enough to get him going.
Inuyasha ran towards her, pushing her to the floor underneath of him, covering her from the fireball seconds before it hit her. And then hit him instead.
Kagome didn't have time to dodge the fireball, she didn't even have time to scream. She was going to die. The ironic thing about it was that she had survived the demon filled past without more than a few bad cuts, and now here she was, about to die in the much safer present time. It went against all probability.
But Kagome didn't even process all this information. She just clenched her fists and sadly thought: 'Inuyasha...' But then, in a blur of red and white, he was there, in front of her, pushing her to the ground. The blast meant for her, hit him square on instead.
The impact blew them back a few feet, but instead of blowing up, or exploding into flames, or even starting anything on fire, and leaving them a mere pile of ashes, it simply flared up for a moment, and then died down to a burn spot on his shirt. Inuyasha's fire-rat-fur robes had saved him yet again.
Inuyasha stood up. He dusted off his shirt. He turned his eyes, now practically liquid-gold with anger, upon the one who had dared to try and hurt Kagome, and growled, "That was a mistake!" His sword was out again, this time turned red, and Inuyasha raised Tetsusaiga up and slashed at the protective barrier in front of the black-eyed demon.
The demon took a small silver dagger out of his boot and made to stab at Inuyasha, but before he could, there was an odd clinking noise, like when glass shatters, as the barrier broke. 'My barrier! It's gone! The witch's powers will work on me now! Better make quick work of this! Live today, get the jewel tomorrow.'
The sickening sound of steel ripping into flesh filled Inuyasha's poor ears. The dagger had been thrown at Kagome.
Inuyasha looked back at her: deathly pale, with blood gushing out around the blade still stuck into her arm. Inuyasha turned his gaze back towards the demon that had dared to harm Kagome, with murder written in his eyes.
Before Inuyasha could do anything though, the demon pulled his hand back in a recalling motion, but instead of the small dagger returning to its master, the jewel flew into his waiting hand. Behind him, Inuyasha heard the sisters talking.
"Think our powers will work now?"
"Can't hurt to try."
Apparently this demon wasn't as stupid as they thought, because after hearing that, he decided to get the heck away from them. He spun around a single time, and a black pillar of smoke rose about him, and he vanished.
Inuyasha stared dumbly at the empty spot where his enemy had stood before him not a second before. Then he shook his head, as if to clear it, and ran to Kagome's side. He gently picked her up, worry etched all over his face. He turned to the sisters.
"Can you help her?" he asked quietly, staring out the window, not looking at any of them. He hated asking for help! But Kagome needed it, and that was enough to get him to ask.
Piper nodded. "Of course." Sure she didn't like it when strangers popped into her house, and she liked it even less when those people were demons, but she'd been pleasantly, if not a little suspiciously, surprised to find that this half demon was on the good side.
Phoebe led the way down to the couch, and proceeded to bandage her up, all the while calling "Leo!"
Paige explained. "Leo is our white-lighter. He'll be able to heal her."
"White-lighter? How?"
"In his first life he was a medical doctor who died saving people during a world war, and then became something along the lines of a guardian angel."
Inuyasha looked thoroughly confused. "If he's dead, then what's he doing with your sister?"
Piper gasped and her head shot up to look at Inuyasha, a light blush staining her cheeks. "How did you...? ... How did he...?"
Kagome smiled weakly from her spot on the couch. "He's a half demon. He can smell i-i-it."
"What's wrong?" Paige asked her.
In an extremely quiet voice, she answered. "My arm. It's getting worse."
There was a dead silence for a moment, and then Inuyasha's loud voice boomed through the Manor. "What do you mean it's getting worse?! Where's this Leo guy?! How come you haven't healed her yet?! You're witches! Do something!"
"There must be something wrong. He's never not come before." Worry laced Piper voice.
"Look," said Paige. "We can't just sit here waiting for him to attack again! Piper, when you looked in the Book of Shadows, who did you try to find?"
"Him," she says while pointing at Inuyasha.
"Then we still have to look up the black-eyed dude." She went up to the attic.
"Where could Leo be?" asked Piper.
"I don't know," answered a just as worried Phoebe.
Paige came back downstairs with the Book opened to a page on the 'black-eyed dude.' "It says that his name is Raltz," she read. "His 'lair' is always underground, and that he collects objects of power which give him a wide range of abilities."
"That explains the fireball, the jewel-floating-through-air trick, and the smoky disappearing act," said Piper.
"And," Paige continued excitedly. "Look what I found!" She held up a lock of dirty blond hair. "You must have cut it off with that massive sword of yours dog-boy. Now we can at least scry for him." She looked around. "Leo's still not here?"
"No," two voices said at once. One growling and one worried.
"Hmm. I wonder why. Well, let's go!"
"We can't just leave her here!" Inuyasha yelled.
"I'll stay." Phoebe said. "You go with them Inuyasha. They're gonna need you and your sword."
"But-"
"I'll work on a vanquishing spell, and as soon as Leo gets here, I'll have him heal her, and orb us to you."
"Orb?"
"The blue-white shimmer that transports him in and out of places."
"Go ahead Inuyasha," said a weak voice from the couch. "I'll be fine."
Inuyasha plopped down on the floor next to her, in his usual Indian style position. She looked so weak and hopeless and un-Kagome like. How could he have let this happen to her? He fingered the once white bandages wrapped around her arm. Then he stilled, and looked up at her, really looked, and said in a completely serious voice, "You better still be here when I get back Kagome."
When was the last time he'd looked at her with such warm eyes? She smiled. "Don't worry. You can't get rid of me that easily." Boy was that true. He'd even tried to seal the well off, but she'd come back.
She reached up with her uninjured arm, and gently tweaked one of his sensitive ears. He seemed to instantly relax. It was so worth getting hurt, she decided, just to have him here like this, with her.
Slowly he stood up and turned around, not wanting her to see any more of the emotions threatening to spill over the top of his tough guy act. "Well? Are we going are what?" he roughly asked the sisters, with his usual scowl recovered on his face.
Paige held out her hands, which they grabbed onto, and orbed them out.