Chapter 4: Where's Rin?
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Jaken could feel the heat rising as he fell closer to the lava. Any minute he would die. Suddenly, he jerked to a stop. He watched as the giant wasps dove after him. As they grew closer to the lava, they beat their wings furiously as they tried to stop, but it was no use. They plunged into the lava, screeching as their bodies disintegrated, becoming part of the melted river of rock. As the last of the wasps scorched and sizzled, Jaken looked at what Sesshomaru had tied around his waist. It was the yellow ribbon he normally wore around his waist. Jaken had been so worried about the wasps that he didn't even know he had tied it on. He felt himself being lifted by the ribbon. Sesshomaru pulled Jaken up over the cliff.
"Lord Sesshomaru! I knew you'd save us!" he chimed. Sesshomaru groaned and looked at his wounds from the giant insects. There was a stinger firmly embedded in his right side. He had more gashes on his back and a fragment of a stinger in his stomach. "Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken asked. "Are you alright?"
"…" Sesshomaru wrenched the stinger out of his side with out flinching. Jaken cringed. Sesshomaru looked at the poison dripping off the stinger.
'That can't be good for my health… or anyone else's I decide to stab this into…' he thought. He took the ribbon off Jaken, and was annoyed to find it blood soaked. Jaken didn't seem to notice the giant stinger lodged in his back, and so as Sesshomaru tied the cloth back around his waist, he decided to make things more amusing for the present time. He stood up and placed the stinger he had extracted from his side into his ribbon, and turned away from Jaken. As he started to walk, he said, "Jaken… are you aware of the giant gash on your back?" This was the best part. Jaken's eyes grew as big as volleyballs, and then he fell backwards, unconscious. Sesshomaru just stood there with a straight face, but he really did find it hilarious. Better still was that he didn't have to hear Jaken whining as he tried to pull the out the stingers out of him.
'It's like amnesia for toads…or whatever he is…' he thought as he carried Jaken off. He had given up on the idea of sleeping in a tree, especially now that it was nearly dawn. He continued walking through the swampy bog, stealing a glance up at the nearly full moon whenever the fog thinned enough to allow him to do so. He saw some large alligator demons as he walked, but he wasn't afraid of them since they were showing no signs of attacking. One of the ugly things poked its beady, glowing eyes from the murky swamp as Sesshomaru walked past. As he wandered through the swamp, we wondered where he was even going. To find Rin, of course, but where was that? She could be on the other side of the world, for all he knew. And without his demon powers, his chances of finding her were dismal, and if he ever did find her, how would he fight off Naraku, the one who had kidnapped her, without his demonic strength? He knew Tokijjin, the powerful sword at his side, wouldn't react to his commands if he was human. It was a sword meant to be wielded by a demon.
That left him again with the gnawing question of how he had been transformed into a human in the first place. That gnawing question was interrupted by the gnawing hunger in his stomach. As a demon, he ate, but not as often as a human would. He had just realized that he hadn't eaten in three days, and the hunger was starting to get to him. He decided to walk a bit farther to see if he could find a way out of the swamp, then he would pull the stinger out of Jaken before he woke up, and then try to sleep for a while. The food, he decided, could wait. He was more tired then hungry, or at least he thought he was. His senses were becoming blurred together between the poison and becoming human.
The dark sky was becoming clearer and gaining a navy blue color as the sun began to show signs of wanting to rise. At least it wasn't raining any more. It was a cold morning, he could see his breath puffing out white mist in front of him. The trees began to thin out, and the squishy mud was becoming replaced with shoots of grass. He was happy to be getting out of the swamp, trudging through mud on an empty stomach gets old fast. The sun was rising over the green hills, which had seemed to appear from nowhere, painting the sky red and orange. Sesshomaru looked for somewhere to stop at least for a little while. He was so hungry and tired that he picked out a tree and plopped down beneath it. Jaken's wasp stings could wait. He hoped that the venom wasn't too potent, and that it wouldn't kill him in his sleep.
Actually, that may not have been so bad right now…
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"LET ME GO!" Rin cried. Her black-brown hair was held back in a pony tail, and the Creature Naraku was pulling her by it. He was a demon creature, hidden beneath the skin of an albino baboon with a blue face.
"Don't worry, little brat" he stated calmly "I'm sure your prince charming will be here to rescue you soon. If not… well, you wont like what will happen to you if not…" Rin knew that when he said "prince charming" he had been talking about Sesshomaru.
"He WILL come, and when he does, he's going to rip your ugly face out of that poor baboon's skin!"
Naraku eyed her with one of his narrowing red eyes.
"Will he really now?" he asked in the same calm, menacing voice. Rin swallowed hard. She wanted to cry and call for Lord Sesshomaru to save her. She wanted to hide herself in his big bushy tail and tell jokes to Jaken and watch him roll his eyes. She wanted to be back home. Wherever that was… "If that mutt was going to save you, don't you think he'd be here by now? Face it, brat. He doesn't care about you. He is probably out killing some humans right now, not even thinking about you"
Rin was choking back tears now. "You're lying!" but even to her own ears, she couldn't make the statement sound less convincing. What if Naraku was right? What if Lord Sesshomaru didn't care about her? What if he had left her with Jaken on purpose, just so that she would get kidnapped?
"There, there now Rin" She shuddered as Naraku used her name. "Don't worry, it will all be over for you either way. If dog breath comes to save you, he will die, and then, I will kill you. I will kill all of you myself. But if he doesn't come to save you, I'll just have to kill you, and then set after him in his weakened state. My giant Venom Wasp attack didn't go quite as I had planned, but the venom will kill him be sun down"
Rin had broken down now and was in tears. "What do you want with Lord Sesshomaru?" she asked between sobs. Naraku threw Rin to the ground in a cage.
"That is not for you to know, brat." With a swipe of his arm, he slammed the door to the cage shut, leaving Rin cold, alone, and crying as smaller venom wasps flew in to guard the imprisoned human. Rin looked up and cried even harder when she couldn't see the moon. She couldn't see anything from her dark cell.
Not the moon
The sun
Or hope.
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Yay! I got another chappy done! I will most likely finish this story first, then go back to writing my other story, since I already have this story planned out, start to finish.
Oh, and I said I'd give you a clip from the inu-yasha manga…
Inu yasha: Yes! The shards of the Jewel of four Souls! Do you KNOW of it?!
Stupid demon turtle 1: jewel of four souls?
Stupid demon turtle 2: you mean the one that increases your magic powers if you possess it?
IY : Then you DO know it!
SDT1: he's asking if we know it?
SDT2: know what?
SDT1: the jewel of four souls.
SDT2: you mean the one that increases your magic powers?
IY: O.o;; …
SDT1: that sure sounds like it'd come in handy
SDT2: sure does. So what about it??
Heh. I think I'm gonna use the stupid turtles in one of my chapters. ^-^