Hi!!! I just wrote this today, all day. Hey, I was bored. My summer sucks so far. I need to do something or I will go crazy!!!!
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and company belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz and company.
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Chapter Seventeen
We saw Rune run past the doors to the outside, where the Dragon Man supposedly was. I pulled out my sword, ready for the worst. Crimson Blade did the same with her two crimson blades (AN: see why she's named Crimson Blade?) The moment we stepped outside, a bright flash of light flew across our eyes. We covered our eyes quickly. Where was Rune?
"Rune!" I called her.
The light faded away and I uncovered my eyes.
There, standing with her hand up in the air with smoke rising from it, was Rune. Her face was flushed red with anger. Her eyes burned with hatred and almost looked at if they were red. Behind her, stood what was left of InuTaisho's army, bruised and badly beaten. Her hair seemed almost ablaze from the light of the noon sun.
Was this the real Crimson Moon?
I looked to where her eyes were directed. In the air, was he, the Dragon Master. His face was solemn and serious, like Sesshoumaru's always was. He wore black pants and black leather boots. His dark armor had broken to pieces beneath him and all that was left of his shirt were tattered and burnt on the ground from Rune, whatever she did. His hair was barely shoulder length, but dark black and his brown eyes held the same kind of deep darkness in color and feeling.
What kept him aloft in the air though, were wings. They were like a dragon's wings, perhaps almost reptilian skin, but they were feathery. Behind him laid the many slain bodies of InuTaisho's soldiers. In his left hand was a sword, black as the night, but coated with the blood of the many that he had killed. It wasn't just his sword that was coated with blood. His whole body was stained with blood here and there. He was indeed a fearsome sight to behold.
"You! You-you FAKE!!!! You DARE to show up before Crimson Moon in that stupid Dragon Master get-up!?" she practically screamed at him.
He said nothing, but looked at her with the same expression on his face.
"You bastard! Say something!!!!" she yelled at him again, but her voice was more shrill, kind of broken, almost as if she was going to cry.
"... Woman, I have no quarrel with you... but if you have a death wish, I can grant that for you," he finally replied.
She looked at him, tears were now streaming down her eyes, "You're not a Dragon Master. You can't be...you just can't-YOU CAN'T BE OF THE DRAGON CLAN!!!!"
Suddenly, the wind started to swirl around her wildly and she screamed. The soldiers behind her retreated farther back from her as the wind spread farther and farther, blowing dust and other things into the faces of the soldiers. I covered myself from all UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and made my way as fast as I could towards her without being pulled into the air along with the wind.
The Dragon guy though, seemed untouched and not worried from this erratic display of behavior.
"We have to stop her or she may go out of control!" Crimson Blade shouted to me.
She was at my side, covering her face from the UFOs as well.
"I didn't know that she had this kind of power! I thought she was just like me, all skill, but no magical power!" I shouted back to her.
She looked at me, "Well, you're wrong...I didn't know that she had the same power!.. like me..."
I didn't hear the last part, "What was that!?"
"Nothing!" she replied, "hey! He's getting ready to attack her! You go to her, I'll hold him off!"
He had raised his sword and started to charge at her.
I nodded and ran to Rune, but Crimson Blade stopped me, "Wait! I'll go to her! You stop him!"
"Okay!" I shouted and readied my blade for a battle.
"KAGOME!" a masculine voice called to me, but I couldn't identify or see whom it was that called.
Rune's safety was more important at the moment so I couldn't worry about myself.
The Dragon guy was getting closer.
'Oh no you don't!'
I stopped in front of him and deflected his attack. He flew back a few yards. I noticed that the wind had begun to recede from its wild state. Crimson Blade had gotten to her in time.
"You must be Crimson Dream by your style of handling a sword," he said.
I raised my sword to attack position, "You come at her again and I swear on the lives of those you've killed, I will make your death a long and painful one!"
He closed his eyes and inhaled. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open and I gasped, they became dark black, murky and cold.
'What?'
He came at me at full force, taking me by surprise. Luckily, I blocked in time, barely, and jumped to the side. He was quicker though, and backhanded me with his hand that held the sword. I was pushed back very far by the impact and fell. A trickle of blood flowed down from the corner of my now bruised mouth.
I wiped it off with the back of my hand, but he was, again, too quick for me and flew at me with sword ready to swing to chop my head off.
"I claim your life!" he yelled.
I pushed my sword upwards just in time as he swung. My blade hit his and the sharp end flipped ninety degrees so what came in contact with my bruised cheek was the flat side, which still hurt, a lot. I went rolling several yards very quickly from it until I managed to push my hand into the ground and flip myself to my feet. More blood flowed out.
He suddenly appeared at my side and kicked me VERY hard on my right side and I think a few of my rib bones cracked. I went flying again, but he got in front of me again and upper punched me into the sky before I could react. I was in pain and couldn't even lift a finger. So when he appeared above me with the sword's sharp end pointed at me, I close my eyes and hoped that the pain was quick enough so that I wouldn't feel the full barrage of the hurt in tow...
It never came.
I heard a clank and two strong arms wrapped around me firmly enough to make me scream out in pain. I opened my eyes just as my rescuer landed on the ground next to where my uncle was.
"Kagome! Kagome!" my uncle called my name in desperation when my eyes started to close again.
"Be careful with her. I think her ribs may be broken," said my rescuer.
"S..Sess-" I started to say, but he was gone.
I heard another clank and my eyes snapped open.
Sesshoumaru was fighting with the Dragon guy on the ground and Crimson Blade was helping him fight. The wings were now gone.
Sesshoumaru swiped at his head with his claws, but the guy blocked it with his sword. The two could not overpower the other's weapon.
"Prince Sesshoumaru, I am ordered to kill you," said the man.
"Is that so?" he scoffed in return.
Crimson Blade then came in with her two swords. She brought one sword down in between the two and they both jumped back. She quickly swung the other sword, but he deflected it and flipped backwards as she tried to recover her wits.
"Woman! You are too slow! Retreat now and let me handle this!" Sesshoumaru told her.
"No, I have to do what I am supposed to do," she countered and jumped forward towards the Dragon guy.
She had her swords ready to do a cross-slash, but he fitted his sword with ease between her two swords where the one sword intersected with the other and pulled backwards towards him with great force. The force of that caused her swords to part for a moment, but that was all the time he needed. He stabbed the sword into her left shoulder. She screamed out in pain. Her swords fell from her hands. He pulled the sword out and one of his hands became a fist.
"No!" I shouted.
He then punched her above her chest and sent her flying into Sesshoumaru. He caught her with ease. Blood began pouring out her shoulder. She coughed and blood spilled for her lips.
"Woman, leave this to me. You are in no condition to fight," he scolded her.
"No, I can do this. I-" she started.
He cut her off, "No! For your sake and the one who's life you hold in your hands, I will not allow you to continue on any longer."
She looked up at him with a stunned look, "H-how did you know?"
"I am youkai and prince. I know everything," he grunted out the answer and pushed her to us.
InuTaisho caught her as Sesshoumaru and the Dragon man duked it out.
"Crimson Blade!" my uncle called her.
She coughed and blood spattered all over. My uncle ripped a piece of cloth from his undershirt and wrapped it around her wound.
"Where's Rune?" I asked her.
"Wi-with th-the sol..diers..." she managed to say through the pain.
CLANK!
My attention then turned back to Sesshoumaru. Their weapons had clashed and sparks flew. Sesshoumaru had finally drawn his sword. Sesshoumaru then lunged forward at top speed and tackled the man to the ground. Caught by surprised, he recovered his wits just as Sesshoumaru had the sword at his throat.
"You have a fine blade prince, but you cannot kill me with that," stated the dark opponent.
"What? What does he mean by that my lord?" I choked out.
InuTaisho sighed, "That sword... it does not kill."
"What... What do you mean?" I asked in a clearer voice.
"It cannot kill. I gave it to Sesshoumaru to mend his cold heart. I did not think that he would need a blade that kills for this moment."
'And it will be his undoing...'
The Dragon guy grabbed the sword suddenly from Sesshoumaru's hands and pulled it away. Sesshoumaru fell forward just as the enemy grabbed his sword and stabbed it through his stomach.
Whatever I felt for him, hit me all at once. Whether it was because he was my comfort or whatever, I screamed.
"SESSHOUMARU!!!!"
He looked dumbfounded at his predicament. He looked at the sword that had run him through and the person who held it and repeated this process for a couple more times as if he didn't believe it.
"..." the enemy was silent.
Sesshoumaru stepped back from the man on the ground and looked at the sword in him once again as if to see if it was real or not.
"Sesshoumaru!!!!" I screamed.
I ignored the pain that now coursed through my whole body that erupted from that.
He looked at me and whispered, "I'm sorry."
He fell to the ground and did not stir.
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Sesshoumaru had fallen. Defeated by the fallen angel...
The wingless man pulled his sword from Sesshoumaru's body and walked several yards away to pray for the dead.
I still couldn't believe it. The almighty Sesshoumaru was down for the count and there was nothing I could do... Well, yes there was something I could do. I could go and kick the other guy's ass!
Despite the pain, I fiddled around in my small pouch for something. Everyone was shocked and paralyzed by what had happened, but I had a drive to kill the guy who killed Sesshoumaru. I finally found it and prayed to the Twin Gods of Shatura that what I was doing wouldn't make me regret it later.
I popped a bunch of the paaj-ua-zoos into my mouth, chewed and swallowed.
'Only a few more seconds until it takes effect...'
"I can't believe this... Sesshoumaru..." said his father.
My uncle turned to the youkai lord and spoke, "My lord, I-KAGOME!"
Everyone soon looked at me. I had gotten up and was walking on my own two feet to where Sesshoumaru laid. I was numb, but hey-at least it didn't hurt... physically anyway.
I knelt down by his lifeless body. A tear suddenly fell on his smooth and perfect skin. Where did that come from? I then noticed that it was from me.
What was supposed to be sadness and heartache fueled into something more dangerous and lethal, at least for the person who I would kill. Hatred and anger spurn me from the girl Kagome to the assassin Crimson Dream.
The Dragon Master finished his prayers for the dead and then turned to look at me.
"I hope you finished your prayers cause it'll take God more than that to accept you into heaven once I send you to hell!!!" I spat at him.
I pulled out my sword and got into attack position.
He only looked at me with his calm, but serious complexion.
"Angel of Destruction indeed..." he mumbled.
'Whom was he talking to?'
I rushed forward madly and blindly. I didn't care about what would happen to me, just as long as I got a hit on him, even a minor flesh wound or a nick. It didn't matter to me anymore...
He didn't even bother to raise his blade. Once I got close enough, his wings sprouted out from his back and he rose to the air as I came to a stop beneath him.
"Your heart blinds your coordination woman. There is no need to shed your blood as well... for now. Your boyfriend lays dead. You should tend to his body before any wandering and mindless youkai comes by to consume it," he said to me.
"He's not my boyfriend!" I countered him.
He just looked at me like I was nothing and started to fly off.
"Oh no you don't!" I said and ran after him, jumping on whatever I came across to get me up higher.
"Kagome! Stop!" my uncle called me.
I ignored him and continued on, but I tripped and fell.
He stopped and gave me a look and continued to fly on.
"No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-NO!" I screamed.
Suddenly, I noticed that one of the soldiers had a bow and one arrow left. I grabbed them from his hands.
"Hey!" he shouted.
I ignored him as I notched the arrow and aimed.
'It's now or never.'
I closed my eyes and let the arrow fly.
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I finished this at 11:00 pm central standard time. My butt hurts a lot from the bike ride earlier today and I'm very tired. I stay up wayyyyyyyyyy too late, I need to get some sleep or I will go crazy. Okies, R & R! (^_^)
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and company belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz and company.
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Chapter Seventeen
We saw Rune run past the doors to the outside, where the Dragon Man supposedly was. I pulled out my sword, ready for the worst. Crimson Blade did the same with her two crimson blades (AN: see why she's named Crimson Blade?) The moment we stepped outside, a bright flash of light flew across our eyes. We covered our eyes quickly. Where was Rune?
"Rune!" I called her.
The light faded away and I uncovered my eyes.
There, standing with her hand up in the air with smoke rising from it, was Rune. Her face was flushed red with anger. Her eyes burned with hatred and almost looked at if they were red. Behind her, stood what was left of InuTaisho's army, bruised and badly beaten. Her hair seemed almost ablaze from the light of the noon sun.
Was this the real Crimson Moon?
I looked to where her eyes were directed. In the air, was he, the Dragon Master. His face was solemn and serious, like Sesshoumaru's always was. He wore black pants and black leather boots. His dark armor had broken to pieces beneath him and all that was left of his shirt were tattered and burnt on the ground from Rune, whatever she did. His hair was barely shoulder length, but dark black and his brown eyes held the same kind of deep darkness in color and feeling.
What kept him aloft in the air though, were wings. They were like a dragon's wings, perhaps almost reptilian skin, but they were feathery. Behind him laid the many slain bodies of InuTaisho's soldiers. In his left hand was a sword, black as the night, but coated with the blood of the many that he had killed. It wasn't just his sword that was coated with blood. His whole body was stained with blood here and there. He was indeed a fearsome sight to behold.
"You! You-you FAKE!!!! You DARE to show up before Crimson Moon in that stupid Dragon Master get-up!?" she practically screamed at him.
He said nothing, but looked at her with the same expression on his face.
"You bastard! Say something!!!!" she yelled at him again, but her voice was more shrill, kind of broken, almost as if she was going to cry.
"... Woman, I have no quarrel with you... but if you have a death wish, I can grant that for you," he finally replied.
She looked at him, tears were now streaming down her eyes, "You're not a Dragon Master. You can't be...you just can't-YOU CAN'T BE OF THE DRAGON CLAN!!!!"
Suddenly, the wind started to swirl around her wildly and she screamed. The soldiers behind her retreated farther back from her as the wind spread farther and farther, blowing dust and other things into the faces of the soldiers. I covered myself from all UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and made my way as fast as I could towards her without being pulled into the air along with the wind.
The Dragon guy though, seemed untouched and not worried from this erratic display of behavior.
"We have to stop her or she may go out of control!" Crimson Blade shouted to me.
She was at my side, covering her face from the UFOs as well.
"I didn't know that she had this kind of power! I thought she was just like me, all skill, but no magical power!" I shouted back to her.
She looked at me, "Well, you're wrong...I didn't know that she had the same power!.. like me..."
I didn't hear the last part, "What was that!?"
"Nothing!" she replied, "hey! He's getting ready to attack her! You go to her, I'll hold him off!"
He had raised his sword and started to charge at her.
I nodded and ran to Rune, but Crimson Blade stopped me, "Wait! I'll go to her! You stop him!"
"Okay!" I shouted and readied my blade for a battle.
"KAGOME!" a masculine voice called to me, but I couldn't identify or see whom it was that called.
Rune's safety was more important at the moment so I couldn't worry about myself.
The Dragon guy was getting closer.
'Oh no you don't!'
I stopped in front of him and deflected his attack. He flew back a few yards. I noticed that the wind had begun to recede from its wild state. Crimson Blade had gotten to her in time.
"You must be Crimson Dream by your style of handling a sword," he said.
I raised my sword to attack position, "You come at her again and I swear on the lives of those you've killed, I will make your death a long and painful one!"
He closed his eyes and inhaled. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open and I gasped, they became dark black, murky and cold.
'What?'
He came at me at full force, taking me by surprise. Luckily, I blocked in time, barely, and jumped to the side. He was quicker though, and backhanded me with his hand that held the sword. I was pushed back very far by the impact and fell. A trickle of blood flowed down from the corner of my now bruised mouth.
I wiped it off with the back of my hand, but he was, again, too quick for me and flew at me with sword ready to swing to chop my head off.
"I claim your life!" he yelled.
I pushed my sword upwards just in time as he swung. My blade hit his and the sharp end flipped ninety degrees so what came in contact with my bruised cheek was the flat side, which still hurt, a lot. I went rolling several yards very quickly from it until I managed to push my hand into the ground and flip myself to my feet. More blood flowed out.
He suddenly appeared at my side and kicked me VERY hard on my right side and I think a few of my rib bones cracked. I went flying again, but he got in front of me again and upper punched me into the sky before I could react. I was in pain and couldn't even lift a finger. So when he appeared above me with the sword's sharp end pointed at me, I close my eyes and hoped that the pain was quick enough so that I wouldn't feel the full barrage of the hurt in tow...
It never came.
I heard a clank and two strong arms wrapped around me firmly enough to make me scream out in pain. I opened my eyes just as my rescuer landed on the ground next to where my uncle was.
"Kagome! Kagome!" my uncle called my name in desperation when my eyes started to close again.
"Be careful with her. I think her ribs may be broken," said my rescuer.
"S..Sess-" I started to say, but he was gone.
I heard another clank and my eyes snapped open.
Sesshoumaru was fighting with the Dragon guy on the ground and Crimson Blade was helping him fight. The wings were now gone.
Sesshoumaru swiped at his head with his claws, but the guy blocked it with his sword. The two could not overpower the other's weapon.
"Prince Sesshoumaru, I am ordered to kill you," said the man.
"Is that so?" he scoffed in return.
Crimson Blade then came in with her two swords. She brought one sword down in between the two and they both jumped back. She quickly swung the other sword, but he deflected it and flipped backwards as she tried to recover her wits.
"Woman! You are too slow! Retreat now and let me handle this!" Sesshoumaru told her.
"No, I have to do what I am supposed to do," she countered and jumped forward towards the Dragon guy.
She had her swords ready to do a cross-slash, but he fitted his sword with ease between her two swords where the one sword intersected with the other and pulled backwards towards him with great force. The force of that caused her swords to part for a moment, but that was all the time he needed. He stabbed the sword into her left shoulder. She screamed out in pain. Her swords fell from her hands. He pulled the sword out and one of his hands became a fist.
"No!" I shouted.
He then punched her above her chest and sent her flying into Sesshoumaru. He caught her with ease. Blood began pouring out her shoulder. She coughed and blood spilled for her lips.
"Woman, leave this to me. You are in no condition to fight," he scolded her.
"No, I can do this. I-" she started.
He cut her off, "No! For your sake and the one who's life you hold in your hands, I will not allow you to continue on any longer."
She looked up at him with a stunned look, "H-how did you know?"
"I am youkai and prince. I know everything," he grunted out the answer and pushed her to us.
InuTaisho caught her as Sesshoumaru and the Dragon man duked it out.
"Crimson Blade!" my uncle called her.
She coughed and blood spattered all over. My uncle ripped a piece of cloth from his undershirt and wrapped it around her wound.
"Where's Rune?" I asked her.
"Wi-with th-the sol..diers..." she managed to say through the pain.
CLANK!
My attention then turned back to Sesshoumaru. Their weapons had clashed and sparks flew. Sesshoumaru had finally drawn his sword. Sesshoumaru then lunged forward at top speed and tackled the man to the ground. Caught by surprised, he recovered his wits just as Sesshoumaru had the sword at his throat.
"You have a fine blade prince, but you cannot kill me with that," stated the dark opponent.
"What? What does he mean by that my lord?" I choked out.
InuTaisho sighed, "That sword... it does not kill."
"What... What do you mean?" I asked in a clearer voice.
"It cannot kill. I gave it to Sesshoumaru to mend his cold heart. I did not think that he would need a blade that kills for this moment."
'And it will be his undoing...'
The Dragon guy grabbed the sword suddenly from Sesshoumaru's hands and pulled it away. Sesshoumaru fell forward just as the enemy grabbed his sword and stabbed it through his stomach.
Whatever I felt for him, hit me all at once. Whether it was because he was my comfort or whatever, I screamed.
"SESSHOUMARU!!!!"
He looked dumbfounded at his predicament. He looked at the sword that had run him through and the person who held it and repeated this process for a couple more times as if he didn't believe it.
"..." the enemy was silent.
Sesshoumaru stepped back from the man on the ground and looked at the sword in him once again as if to see if it was real or not.
"Sesshoumaru!!!!" I screamed.
I ignored the pain that now coursed through my whole body that erupted from that.
He looked at me and whispered, "I'm sorry."
He fell to the ground and did not stir.
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Sesshoumaru had fallen. Defeated by the fallen angel...
The wingless man pulled his sword from Sesshoumaru's body and walked several yards away to pray for the dead.
I still couldn't believe it. The almighty Sesshoumaru was down for the count and there was nothing I could do... Well, yes there was something I could do. I could go and kick the other guy's ass!
Despite the pain, I fiddled around in my small pouch for something. Everyone was shocked and paralyzed by what had happened, but I had a drive to kill the guy who killed Sesshoumaru. I finally found it and prayed to the Twin Gods of Shatura that what I was doing wouldn't make me regret it later.
I popped a bunch of the paaj-ua-zoos into my mouth, chewed and swallowed.
'Only a few more seconds until it takes effect...'
"I can't believe this... Sesshoumaru..." said his father.
My uncle turned to the youkai lord and spoke, "My lord, I-KAGOME!"
Everyone soon looked at me. I had gotten up and was walking on my own two feet to where Sesshoumaru laid. I was numb, but hey-at least it didn't hurt... physically anyway.
I knelt down by his lifeless body. A tear suddenly fell on his smooth and perfect skin. Where did that come from? I then noticed that it was from me.
What was supposed to be sadness and heartache fueled into something more dangerous and lethal, at least for the person who I would kill. Hatred and anger spurn me from the girl Kagome to the assassin Crimson Dream.
The Dragon Master finished his prayers for the dead and then turned to look at me.
"I hope you finished your prayers cause it'll take God more than that to accept you into heaven once I send you to hell!!!" I spat at him.
I pulled out my sword and got into attack position.
He only looked at me with his calm, but serious complexion.
"Angel of Destruction indeed..." he mumbled.
'Whom was he talking to?'
I rushed forward madly and blindly. I didn't care about what would happen to me, just as long as I got a hit on him, even a minor flesh wound or a nick. It didn't matter to me anymore...
He didn't even bother to raise his blade. Once I got close enough, his wings sprouted out from his back and he rose to the air as I came to a stop beneath him.
"Your heart blinds your coordination woman. There is no need to shed your blood as well... for now. Your boyfriend lays dead. You should tend to his body before any wandering and mindless youkai comes by to consume it," he said to me.
"He's not my boyfriend!" I countered him.
He just looked at me like I was nothing and started to fly off.
"Oh no you don't!" I said and ran after him, jumping on whatever I came across to get me up higher.
"Kagome! Stop!" my uncle called me.
I ignored him and continued on, but I tripped and fell.
He stopped and gave me a look and continued to fly on.
"No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-NO!" I screamed.
Suddenly, I noticed that one of the soldiers had a bow and one arrow left. I grabbed them from his hands.
"Hey!" he shouted.
I ignored him as I notched the arrow and aimed.
'It's now or never.'
I closed my eyes and let the arrow fly.
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I finished this at 11:00 pm central standard time. My butt hurts a lot from the bike ride earlier today and I'm very tired. I stay up wayyyyyyyyyy too late, I need to get some sleep or I will go crazy. Okies, R & R! (^_^)