Okay, the first chapter – and the rest of the entire story – sort of came to me at a moments notice. Inspiration visited upon me and I didn't rate the story as well as I should of. It might be a little horrorous (I'm sure that's not a word, but oh well) and such. Rating might go up with chapters. Forgive me, I'm just so desensitized to violence.
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The Horrid Cries of the Nothing Woman
Chapter Two
It was nearly a days walk back to the village, Kilala struggled to carry the injured woman upon her back, blood dripping down her sides from her wounds. Sango held onto her as she walked beside them, her shirt torn from the wrappings she had placed to stop the blood . . . perhaps then the woman would live then.
But Inu-Yasha paid no attention to them. He trotted along ahead about twenty paces with Kagome cradled in his arms, his red kimono fluttering in the wind behind them. Her skin was pale and cold, just like that strange woman's . . . her lips were nearly blue and her body was limp. For some reason he could not keep his eyes from her, she felt so little in his arms . . . like a child . . .
"Hang on, Kagome." He muttered gently, glancing behind him with a slight hint of half hearted worry. "How's that girl?"
Sango looked down at her and put a gentle hand on her forehead. "She's injured badly, I can't say for certain how she's doing."
Inu-Yasha grumbled something nearly inaudible to himself.
"Hey, Inu-Yasha? What do you suppose did this to this woman?" Sango asked in a worried voice, she watched Kagome's legs swinging lifelessly and her dull hair fluttering around Inu-Yasha's firm figure.
It was a long time before the hanyou answered her question. "I don't know. I don't smell demon . . . and I didn't smell any on that girl either."
Sango frowned. "I don't like this."
"Way ahead of ya. I don't like it either." He barely turned his head. "We're almost to the village. Save your strength."
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Athema means cursed, a dead life
Lurking in the bowls of the seven hells.
A virus upon the world void anything real
Whose very life rings in the death bells . . .Miroku raised an eyebrow. Alone in the forest that had once been over lorded by Inu-Yasha he hurried home, back to the village. He sensed an evil presence. Of course, he always seemed to sense an evil presence but this . . . but this his comrades in the Monastery in which he visited felt it as well. They had closed their big doors to the world and all its visitors for there was evil loose upon the world in which the world had never seen.
But Miroku was not about to be shut in and away from his friends.
Away from those who might need his assistance . . . his abyssal wind . . .
Away from Sango . . .
He clutched his staff greedily in his tense hand . . .
Rushing . . .
Athema is the blood that stains the blood on the ground
Deadens the soil to life and turns life to dust
Darkens the skies into pitch to blind all that sees
Whose very fiber of being is for destruction and lust
Miroku had to hurry . . .
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Shippou was the first to greet them, happily bouncing up and down upon their arrival, until his curious eyes fell upon Inu-Yasha's fragile load. The pup gasped, "KAGOME!"
"Where's Kaede?" the hanyou barked, barging into the old Priestesses empty hut with his burden, spinning in circles to find her. "Where in the hells is she?"
Sango approached from behind, leading Kilala to an empty space on the floor. She looked at Inu-Yasha demandingly. "Well? Put her down somewhere."
"Shut up! Where is Kaede?"
"I am here, Inu-Yasha." The soft, elderly voice of the Priestess nearly caused him to leap from his skin in shock, but he only turned to her forcefully, thrusting Kagome towards her.
"What's wrong with Kagome?"
"Patience, Inu-Yasha. Lay her down here." She laid some fresh blankets and skins upon the hardwood floor and knelt next to the girl with grave worry etched across her weary wrinkles. "Oh aye, this is very strange indeed."
"And this girl, Kaede . . . she's been injured." Sango interrupted, reapplying more bandages upon the deep wounds lacerated across her arms and body.
"I will care for her in a moment, Sango. Kagome here has been gravely injured."
"How?" Inu-Yasha fumed, pacing back and forth clenching his fists and twitching his claws close to the hilt of his sword, ready to tear into any who dare approach his Kagome in harm. "I was there the whole time! It wasn't like anything attacked her or nothing because I was there! What the hell did this? What happened to her?"
"I do not know for certain, Inu-Yasha. Please, calm yourself." Kaede spoke slowly, glaring at the hanyou with her one good eye and then glanced back to the girl. "But I have a deep suspicion that the onset of Kagome's illness seems to coincide with that particular girl."
"What do you mean?" Shippou begged, the meaning of the conversation totally going of his head as he clutched Kagome's icy cold hands in his. "Kagome will be alright? Right?"
The Priestess set a bowl of water next to Sango and handed her a rag to clean the wounds of the girl and dipped another clean rag into it before turning back to Kagome. Washing her perspiring brow, she frowned. Never had she looked so old to Inu-Yasha, he couldn't help but feel sorry for her in a way. But, she had to save Kagome. She just had to.
After a few more moments of agonizing silence, Inu-Yasha growled. "Well? What's wrong with her?"
"Inu-Yasha," she began, handing him the cool rag with the indication to continue with what she had been doing. Stepping back, the Priestess allowed the hanyou to kneel down next to his fallen friend and she frowned sadly. "I do not know for certain. But, I can say this. Whatever it is, I do not like the looks of it."
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And with an iron fist and steel clawsWill he rake upon the Earth
Athema the cursed nothing spirit
From whom evil shall be birthed
**Well, what do you think so far? Please read and review!!! I'm sort of making this up as I go along though I have a very very very rough outline here in front of me, though it's more focused on the climax of the story. Thank you for all your input so far!!! I hope this turns out to be a good story. Stay tuned for Chapter Three. Thank you for reading!