Alright.here's chapter 9. I hope you like it. Thank you to those few who
reviewed. ::Glares at those who read but didn't review and hugs those who
did review::
Now, to Mel Mel.Just as I promised I'm mentioning you in Chapter 9! Now read all the other chapters and tell me what you think or I will find a way to kill red and green elf! ::Glares at her before hugging her:: I'm just slap happy right now!
Disclaimer: I'm going through the most intense torture just thinking that I don't own Inu-Yasha and Yu Yu Hakusho and now you want me to SAY it? Do you want me to die? But since I though it, it will stand as the disclaimer!
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The trip through the next portal was boring and uneventful. All we had to do was jump, not hit the edges that were covered by the acidic stuff and POOF; there we were the next level of the underworld. This level was made up of a city. Wall to wall buildings. Some were taller; some were shorter than others were. And it was deserted. No webs like the last one. There was a few newspapers lying on the ground. A few cans here and there; just like a normal city, except that there were no people visible. That if anything made me nervous. I preferred a straight out fight rather than backstabing. I had my honor. Then again.I was the good guy.err. girl.
I wasn't the only one who looked nervous. Yusuke was looking around warily, as were Kurama and Hiei. A faux wind blew, dragging with it some of the debris and another noxious smell. Rotten meat. I wrinkled my noes up in disgust. "Something stinks down here guys!" I told the others. They looked at me as if I was kidding. "Hey! I DO have dog demon blood in me. My sense of smell is WAY beyond normal humans. Ok, so it's not as good as a full dog demons nose, but I still have a sensitive nose!" I was touchy. I knew it. I think they knew it too. I crossed my arms and glared at all of them. Kurama looked as if he wanted to say something, but Yusuke cut him off. "So? What do you smell?" I glared at him for a few more seconds before answering. "Rotting meat." They looked at me, jaws agape. "So you're just saying that you hungry huh?" Hiei snorted. I glared daggers at him. "If I didn't think that you would actually be of any help I would be tearing out your throat and feeding it to you for breakfast!" I growled to him. His eyebrows went as far up on his head as was possible. He didn't say anything more. We just started walking to the perimeter of the city. I hoped that we wouldn't attract anymore attention from creepy monsters. All I wanted right now was to get my dad and leave this horrible place.
We hadn't been walking for very long when the smell intensified. I glanced hurriedly around the group to see if there was anything there, but I couldn't see anything. What I could now hear was different. I heard a low moaning, and a shuffling coming towards us. I hissed at the others that there was something close by and coming closer as I spoke. Within seconds even they could hear the moans of some tortured soul. And shortly after that, we all could see what was moaning. About a dozen humanoid creatures dragged themselves in to our line of vision. They were awful to behold. Bones were sticking out from under some of their skin. There were some that were missing parts of their faces. Others were burned. And others still just looked as if they were falling to pieces. Literally! The whole effect was hurting my eyes. These were damned souls given form. 'And they look a little hungry' I though to myself. "Um? Since they are so slow, can we just run away from them and find the next portal?" Kurama asked. Yusuke looked a little disappointed, Hiei looked neutral as usual, and I was all for it.
We turned and jogged away. It took no time to get away from that group, but we ran into another group. This one was way bigger. We ran away from them too. After running onto a few hundred more, I finally got them to just travel by rooftop. There were absolutely no lost souls up here. But it took some time to get from rooftop to rooftop. When we sat down to rest after hopping the rooftops for a hour, I looked more closely at out surroundings. I only noticed one thing that I hadn't before. A stone column sat square in the center section of the city. I hadn't seen it before because there were a lot of very tall buildings in the way. 'Maybe the where abouts of the next portal would be drawn on it. The way out of the first two places was carved in stone. Then again, they were also in the vicinity of the most dangerous monster of that level' I mused. It couldn't hurt to go take a peak anyway.
We took turns standing guard while the others slept. I was first on guard, followed by Kurama. Right before it was his turn to stand guard, I wrote a note from some of the stuff in my backpack, and left it for them.
HEY! Had a brainstorm on how to get info on where the portal is! Going to check it out! Be back soon!
~ Alex ~
I left it on one of the packs and hopped off towards the column unnoticed. The closer I got to the column, the louder the moans of the souls became. I flattened my ears to my head in an attempt to shut out the noise. It worked a little. But, something sounded slightly different from the pitiful moaning. It sounded like a growl. When I got closer to the column, I saw who was growling. It was human shaped. It had great leathery wings folded behind it and horns. Muscles rippled under his dark red skin. A scythe was held in enormous clawed hands. It grinned at me insanely, showing a lot of sharp pointy teeth. "Why hello pretty thing" It said in a honey coated voice. I wasn't fooled. I pulled my bow out and notched one of me few remaining arrows. I pointed it at him.
He held up his arms, as if in defeat. "I haven't done anything to you" he spat. "Yet" I hissed back at him. His maniacal grin turned into a snarl. "Yes, go ahead. Prove that you are just so pure that anything that looks bad should be shot!" He shouted at me. I frowned. "You're a demon! Who cares what you want!" I shouted right back. 'The heck with this!' I thought angrily as I released the arrow. It plunged deep into his stomach. He cried out in agony, dropped his scythe, and held his hands over the wound. Blood poured into o pool at his feet as I put the bow away and took out my stilettos. 'They are getting a good work out down here' I mused while a crept up to the demon. Along the way I kicked his weapon farther from his reach. He glanced up at me. Anger flared in his eyes, as well as hopelessness. I almost pitied him, but I remembered that his master kidnapped my dad and uncle Fluffy. I killed him by slicing off his head. I threw the parts down to the lost soul below. I could hear them munching on the corpse hungrily. I looked at the remains.
'He didn't really do anything to anyone' I thought. 'But he might have' I reasoned with myself. 'He was a slave to his master. All Demons are. But it looked like he was going to just let me by. But he might have been planning an ambush, or was trying to get in your good graces so that he could kill you in your sleep.' I tried to reason with myself, but after a few minutes, I gave up. I felt terrible. I was a priestess. It wasn't really my right to take a life. Even a demons. A single tear fell from my eyes as I whispered "I'm sorry" and leapt forward to the column. 'It had better be worth it!' I screamed at myself. If it wasn't then there was no reason to have killed him. I encountered no more demons on my way to the column.
Sure enough, there were markings of the portal on it. It showed two levels of the underworld with a path between both of them. It looked as if there was something covering the portal. It looked sort of like a well. 'That makes sense. Who would jump down a well? Umm.Strike that! Grandma Kagome did. That's how she met Grandpa and Dad.' I smiled a little as I remembered the story that Dad and Grandpa had told me. But seriously. A well is a hole and it would be silly and obvious! No one ever notices the obvious anyway!' I looked to see if there were was anymore information that could be useful. There was a mural of the lost souls. They came upon a live person (A/N: If you were wondering how this would look, the lost souls are drawn with out some body parts, and the living person had all body parts.) and then it looked as if they ATE the person. Then the next picture had more lost souls. 'I guess if they take a bite or something, then when you die you become one of them. No wonder why there are so many of them!' I shuddered. 'No way do I want to become one of them!'
I raced back to camp along the rooftops. I hoped that no one missed me except Kurama. 'Please let him have read the note and not wakened the others. I was lucky. Only Kurama was awake. I told him what I found minus the demon. I still felt guilty for killing him. And I told him of the mural. He decided to tell the others when they woke up and told me to get some sleep. I looked gratefully at him and almost sank into blissful oblivion. But then I remembered what happened the last time that I fell asleep and sat back up breathing harshly. The dream city. I shook my head. I fell asleep earlier in Kurama's arms. I wasn't going to be forever lost in a dream if I fell asleep. I sank back to the ground and fell asleep.
I had a pleasant dream. I was sitting near a small, clear blue lake. There was a waterfall at the farthest end. It was sunny and warm and there was a feeling of peace surrounding me. Then there was a pair of warm arms wrapping themselves around my shoulders. I turned my head and looked back at the person. Green eyes; red hair; and a gentle smile. I leaned back into the embrace. He kept one arm around me and held my hand with the other.
I awoke and blinked. 'What was I dreaming about? It felt peaceful, but who was there with me?' I looked around. Hiei was on guard duty. He was standing with his back to me. Yusuke was muttering in his sleep a few feet away and Kurama was asleep about a foot away. His hand was holding onto mine.
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Ok. Here's where I leave you today. I hope you liked it! Please review! I'm very insecure about my story telling skills! ::Looks at readers with puppy dog eyes:: Review please? And as to the next posting.I won't update until I get a few reviews! So if you want to read more review! Thanks! And Mel Mel, if you are actually reading this with out me twisting your arm, click on the little button in the lower left corner of the screen and fill out a review! Or I will never give you another hug! ::Glares, jumps up and smiles while hopping around the room ::
Signing out ~ DevilWench ~
Now, to Mel Mel.Just as I promised I'm mentioning you in Chapter 9! Now read all the other chapters and tell me what you think or I will find a way to kill red and green elf! ::Glares at her before hugging her:: I'm just slap happy right now!
Disclaimer: I'm going through the most intense torture just thinking that I don't own Inu-Yasha and Yu Yu Hakusho and now you want me to SAY it? Do you want me to die? But since I though it, it will stand as the disclaimer!
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The trip through the next portal was boring and uneventful. All we had to do was jump, not hit the edges that were covered by the acidic stuff and POOF; there we were the next level of the underworld. This level was made up of a city. Wall to wall buildings. Some were taller; some were shorter than others were. And it was deserted. No webs like the last one. There was a few newspapers lying on the ground. A few cans here and there; just like a normal city, except that there were no people visible. That if anything made me nervous. I preferred a straight out fight rather than backstabing. I had my honor. Then again.I was the good guy.err. girl.
I wasn't the only one who looked nervous. Yusuke was looking around warily, as were Kurama and Hiei. A faux wind blew, dragging with it some of the debris and another noxious smell. Rotten meat. I wrinkled my noes up in disgust. "Something stinks down here guys!" I told the others. They looked at me as if I was kidding. "Hey! I DO have dog demon blood in me. My sense of smell is WAY beyond normal humans. Ok, so it's not as good as a full dog demons nose, but I still have a sensitive nose!" I was touchy. I knew it. I think they knew it too. I crossed my arms and glared at all of them. Kurama looked as if he wanted to say something, but Yusuke cut him off. "So? What do you smell?" I glared at him for a few more seconds before answering. "Rotting meat." They looked at me, jaws agape. "So you're just saying that you hungry huh?" Hiei snorted. I glared daggers at him. "If I didn't think that you would actually be of any help I would be tearing out your throat and feeding it to you for breakfast!" I growled to him. His eyebrows went as far up on his head as was possible. He didn't say anything more. We just started walking to the perimeter of the city. I hoped that we wouldn't attract anymore attention from creepy monsters. All I wanted right now was to get my dad and leave this horrible place.
We hadn't been walking for very long when the smell intensified. I glanced hurriedly around the group to see if there was anything there, but I couldn't see anything. What I could now hear was different. I heard a low moaning, and a shuffling coming towards us. I hissed at the others that there was something close by and coming closer as I spoke. Within seconds even they could hear the moans of some tortured soul. And shortly after that, we all could see what was moaning. About a dozen humanoid creatures dragged themselves in to our line of vision. They were awful to behold. Bones were sticking out from under some of their skin. There were some that were missing parts of their faces. Others were burned. And others still just looked as if they were falling to pieces. Literally! The whole effect was hurting my eyes. These were damned souls given form. 'And they look a little hungry' I though to myself. "Um? Since they are so slow, can we just run away from them and find the next portal?" Kurama asked. Yusuke looked a little disappointed, Hiei looked neutral as usual, and I was all for it.
We turned and jogged away. It took no time to get away from that group, but we ran into another group. This one was way bigger. We ran away from them too. After running onto a few hundred more, I finally got them to just travel by rooftop. There were absolutely no lost souls up here. But it took some time to get from rooftop to rooftop. When we sat down to rest after hopping the rooftops for a hour, I looked more closely at out surroundings. I only noticed one thing that I hadn't before. A stone column sat square in the center section of the city. I hadn't seen it before because there were a lot of very tall buildings in the way. 'Maybe the where abouts of the next portal would be drawn on it. The way out of the first two places was carved in stone. Then again, they were also in the vicinity of the most dangerous monster of that level' I mused. It couldn't hurt to go take a peak anyway.
We took turns standing guard while the others slept. I was first on guard, followed by Kurama. Right before it was his turn to stand guard, I wrote a note from some of the stuff in my backpack, and left it for them.
HEY! Had a brainstorm on how to get info on where the portal is! Going to check it out! Be back soon!
~ Alex ~
I left it on one of the packs and hopped off towards the column unnoticed. The closer I got to the column, the louder the moans of the souls became. I flattened my ears to my head in an attempt to shut out the noise. It worked a little. But, something sounded slightly different from the pitiful moaning. It sounded like a growl. When I got closer to the column, I saw who was growling. It was human shaped. It had great leathery wings folded behind it and horns. Muscles rippled under his dark red skin. A scythe was held in enormous clawed hands. It grinned at me insanely, showing a lot of sharp pointy teeth. "Why hello pretty thing" It said in a honey coated voice. I wasn't fooled. I pulled my bow out and notched one of me few remaining arrows. I pointed it at him.
He held up his arms, as if in defeat. "I haven't done anything to you" he spat. "Yet" I hissed back at him. His maniacal grin turned into a snarl. "Yes, go ahead. Prove that you are just so pure that anything that looks bad should be shot!" He shouted at me. I frowned. "You're a demon! Who cares what you want!" I shouted right back. 'The heck with this!' I thought angrily as I released the arrow. It plunged deep into his stomach. He cried out in agony, dropped his scythe, and held his hands over the wound. Blood poured into o pool at his feet as I put the bow away and took out my stilettos. 'They are getting a good work out down here' I mused while a crept up to the demon. Along the way I kicked his weapon farther from his reach. He glanced up at me. Anger flared in his eyes, as well as hopelessness. I almost pitied him, but I remembered that his master kidnapped my dad and uncle Fluffy. I killed him by slicing off his head. I threw the parts down to the lost soul below. I could hear them munching on the corpse hungrily. I looked at the remains.
'He didn't really do anything to anyone' I thought. 'But he might have' I reasoned with myself. 'He was a slave to his master. All Demons are. But it looked like he was going to just let me by. But he might have been planning an ambush, or was trying to get in your good graces so that he could kill you in your sleep.' I tried to reason with myself, but after a few minutes, I gave up. I felt terrible. I was a priestess. It wasn't really my right to take a life. Even a demons. A single tear fell from my eyes as I whispered "I'm sorry" and leapt forward to the column. 'It had better be worth it!' I screamed at myself. If it wasn't then there was no reason to have killed him. I encountered no more demons on my way to the column.
Sure enough, there were markings of the portal on it. It showed two levels of the underworld with a path between both of them. It looked as if there was something covering the portal. It looked sort of like a well. 'That makes sense. Who would jump down a well? Umm.Strike that! Grandma Kagome did. That's how she met Grandpa and Dad.' I smiled a little as I remembered the story that Dad and Grandpa had told me. But seriously. A well is a hole and it would be silly and obvious! No one ever notices the obvious anyway!' I looked to see if there were was anymore information that could be useful. There was a mural of the lost souls. They came upon a live person (A/N: If you were wondering how this would look, the lost souls are drawn with out some body parts, and the living person had all body parts.) and then it looked as if they ATE the person. Then the next picture had more lost souls. 'I guess if they take a bite or something, then when you die you become one of them. No wonder why there are so many of them!' I shuddered. 'No way do I want to become one of them!'
I raced back to camp along the rooftops. I hoped that no one missed me except Kurama. 'Please let him have read the note and not wakened the others. I was lucky. Only Kurama was awake. I told him what I found minus the demon. I still felt guilty for killing him. And I told him of the mural. He decided to tell the others when they woke up and told me to get some sleep. I looked gratefully at him and almost sank into blissful oblivion. But then I remembered what happened the last time that I fell asleep and sat back up breathing harshly. The dream city. I shook my head. I fell asleep earlier in Kurama's arms. I wasn't going to be forever lost in a dream if I fell asleep. I sank back to the ground and fell asleep.
I had a pleasant dream. I was sitting near a small, clear blue lake. There was a waterfall at the farthest end. It was sunny and warm and there was a feeling of peace surrounding me. Then there was a pair of warm arms wrapping themselves around my shoulders. I turned my head and looked back at the person. Green eyes; red hair; and a gentle smile. I leaned back into the embrace. He kept one arm around me and held my hand with the other.
I awoke and blinked. 'What was I dreaming about? It felt peaceful, but who was there with me?' I looked around. Hiei was on guard duty. He was standing with his back to me. Yusuke was muttering in his sleep a few feet away and Kurama was asleep about a foot away. His hand was holding onto mine.
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Ok. Here's where I leave you today. I hope you liked it! Please review! I'm very insecure about my story telling skills! ::Looks at readers with puppy dog eyes:: Review please? And as to the next posting.I won't update until I get a few reviews! So if you want to read more review! Thanks! And Mel Mel, if you are actually reading this with out me twisting your arm, click on the little button in the lower left corner of the screen and fill out a review! Or I will never give you another hug! ::Glares, jumps up and smiles while hopping around the room ::
Signing out ~ DevilWench ~