Chapter 15!
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Cheyo-Vera: You are welcome. Have another hug ::Hugs:: I just wish I could go back to school. I'm soo bored! Review as often as you want! So long as one person reviews, I will continue this story! And Vera.STOP STEALING THE PIXIE STIX! That's like stealing insanity!
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The last level of this hell was nothing like any of the previous levels. Lush trees densely surrounded us. There were bushes and flowers all around. It was like going back in time. In short, it was beautiful. 'How could someone so evil live in a place that looks so pure?' I wondered. Kikyo, I saw just sort of staggered through the trees. It was almost like she knew where she was going. I glanced back at my Uncle. "You know her don't you?" I asked him. He nodded. "Spill" I commanded of him. For a moment I thought he wasn't going to tell me anything, but then he said; "She was a powerful priestess. Your grandmother was her reincarnation. She was brought to life and clinged to it only because of her hated of my stupid half brother." I almost smacked him for insulting grandpa, but I let it slide. 'Now is not the time to anger the pissed off demon.' "That creature is nothing but dirt, clay and old bones held by that anger." I caught the faintest trance of distaste in his eyes. 'Damn.she must have pissed him off, to be showing that much emotion in his eyes.' "Should we follow her?" I asked. 'If she is an angry spirit now, maybe she knows what's going on here. Maybe she's leading us into a trap. I saw old blood on her clothes, but no signs of any injuries, old or new. She had to have some other purpose.' I glanced back at my Uncle again. "We should not follow her. She will be undoubtedly be leading us into a trap." I grinned. "But, dear Uncle, that is precisely why we should follow her!" Uncle Sesshomaru looked at me like I was insane. "If she's leading us, then it would be very rude of us not to join the party! If we are prepared for a trap, then we won't follow into the trap!" I announced happily. If he could have, my Uncle would have been rolling his eyes at me. As it was, he just looked at me. Unnerving to say the least.
It wasn't very difficult to follow the dead priestess. Her trail was so clear that a baby could have followed it. Which made both of us even more wary. No one could leave this clear of a trail, with out it being on purpose. It was just way too easy to follow. Uncle Sesshie wasn't too happy with the decision, but since he didn't know where he was going he was following behind me. About 50 feet behind me to be exact. He really didn't want to be caught in a trap! Wherever it was that Kikyo was leading us, it was a long ways away! We had been traveling over rocky outcropping, thick forests, and wide rivers, which I had no idea HOW she crossed with out dripping at the other side. It was exhausting to say the least. But that wasn't the worst of it. The most nerve-wracking thing was the silence. When it got quiet when I was with the guys, I started to rib Hiei. That would cause all sorts of noise. But this was different. There was no way in Hell, no pun intended, that I could rib my Uncle. He would gut me even though I was family. No one ribbed the Lord of the Western Lands, or as was the case now, the former Lord of the western lands.
It was clear that she knew where she was going. She was making faster tracks than we were. And we were just following after her! After about three hours of semi tracking, I was getting a little bit annoyed. And I think that Uncle Sesshomaru and I knew that I definitely was pissed at this dead chic. We stopped at a nearby river to rest. I didn't even dare drink from the water. Supposedly if you drink or eat from the underworld, then you become tied to it. I'm not sure if that was true, but now was not the time to test the rumor. So, I took some of the very few provisions left in my pack out. I offered some of it to my Uncle, but he dismissed it with a wave of his hand. He had been here long enough that he was tied at least slightly to this world. So he didn't even have to sweat about eating or drinking from here. I almost envied him. But I liked my home, despite the loneliness, and I wanted to return to it as soon as possible!
It took us nearly 6 more hours to catch up to her. And she was just plodding onward even with both of us standing directly in front of her. She still had the vacant look in her eyes, but occasionally I could see the hatred showing through. Mostly when she saw me though. That is what I couldn't understand. Why would she hate someone who pulled her out of a torture room? I sure didn't know her. It was perplexing, especially since she would not say a single word. So, I let Uncle take care of handling her. He could be very very persuasive when he wished to be. While he was trying to get some information out of her, I sat down on a nearby boulder and thought. I wondered about Yusuke, Hiei, and most of all, Kurama. I wondered how they were, where they were and if I would ever see them again. I didn't think I would after this mission. They were the 'Great Spirit Detectives.' Why would they come and see a partially, human, partially demon priestess? The answer: No reason. And for some reason that bothered me. Why did I want them to stay around? I had been perfectly happy being alone at my shrine. I could be myself with out anyone being mean or rude about my mixed heritage. 'But', I mused, 'These boys accept me for who I am, not my blood like so many others.' I was snapped out of my musings when my uncle tapped on my shoulder and motioned that we were going to follow Kikyo. I don't know what he asked of her, or if she even answered him, but since he was following her already, I figured that he must have his reasons. Shrugging, I followed without complaint.
It was near dusk, or what seemed to pass as dusk in this place, when we arrived at where ever we were going. My uncle hadn't said a single word to me since his talk with the priestess. It was unusual, but not that unusual. So I left it alone. Didn't want to get killed before I did what I came to do now did I? Nope! We entered a rather large clearing that seemed to not be touched by any light. Almost as if light could not touch this area. My sense as a priestess was screaming at me that there was danger here. I wouldn't be alive today if I ignored my senses when they told me of danger. And I wasn't about to start ignoring them now! I jumped a few feet in the air and landed on a low tree branch when a line swept below me. Where my feet would have been. It would have knocked me down if I had stayed still. And as that line passed, a net dropped down from the treetop. Now I was doubly glad that I listened to my senses. We had walked into a trap after all! I was about to shout to Uncle Sesshomaru, but I caught a greenish glint coming towards my right side. It looked almost like my Uncles poison whip, but he was on my side wasn't he?
As I jumped away from that attack, I realized that he never said that he was on my side. He never really said anything to me regarding his actions. And now here I was with an enemy, who was my family, and another enemy who I knew nothing of except her name. Bad! Very bad! I was leaping from tree to tree, avoiding the whip and still trying to look out for any more traps. Where there was one, there would be others! Of this I was sure. I almost made it to the next tree when I felt another power speed towards me. This one wasn't friendly either. I turned aside my jump just in time to see an arrow imbed itself into the tree and explode. The wood shards rained upon me when I heard a low chuckle and a deep voice whispering through the darkness. "That's enough my loyal pets! I think she is done for now. Look how she trembles!" It was true. I was trembling. But it was an angry tremble, not one born of tiredness. I glanced around, trying to find the source of this new voice, but it only laughed at me. "Now I have the entire family!" He laughed maliciously. "How delightful." The only place that he could be hiding was inside the darkness in the center of the clearing, so rather than deal with the 'pets' that he had made out of my Uncle and the priestess, I rushed the darkness.
It might have worked. If I had been faster. But as it was my Uncle was extremely faster than I was. He grabbed me and held fast around my arms as the priestess dragged herself up to me. She had an ofuda (SP?) out and charged. She placed it on my forehead and I froze. I could see, hear, feel, smell, but I could not move at all. 'Lovely' I thought to myself. 'I am well and truly caught now.'
As I stared straight ahead, being unable to turn my head, the darkness thinned and a demon stepped out. He was slightly hunched over and he wore a baboon pelt to hide his identity. This demon I knew from the stories that Dad told me. 'Naraku,' the demon who tried to kill my grandparents many times over along with their friends and my Dad. This was going from bad to worse quicker than the desert heats up! "Now that you are here my dear," he whispered, "I can now proceed with my revenge against the family who destroyed me!" I had never been this afraid in my life. What was he going to do? Why did he mean the whole family? I was afraid that I knew. And now my only hope was Kurama and the others. Where were they?
As if Naraku was reading my mind, he swept his arm to the remaining darkness. "If you wished for a rescue, then my dear, you will be sadly disappointed. The entirety of the dark was blown away by a non-existent wind. Six people were chained, gagged, and unconscious behind him. I knew five of them by sight, and one by description. Grandpa Inu-Yasha, Mom, Dad, Kurama, Yusuke, Hiei, I recognized. The other woman, who looked a lot like Kikyo, I knew had to be my Grandmother. Kagome.
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WOW! My muse must be working over time! Coming up with all these awesome ideas! Or maybe, she's just trying to wheedle some Mountain Dew outta me? Oh, well. So, how did you all like this new chappie? Surprised at all? But is Fluffy really bad, or just being controlled? You'll just have to wait and see! Hopefully it won't take very long to get the next one written. I've been cooped up for an entire week, barring work. All I've had to do is clean my room, and write! So which one do you think I prefer? One guess. Now, my deal is, if I get no reviews for the new chapter, then I won't put another new one out! I don't care if you have reviewed before or not! Review now! That be an order! And a curse on you if you read this and submit no review! I want to know HOW many people like this story! I do accept anonymous reviews! SO there is nothing preventing any one from reviewing! Ok! I'm going to stop ranting now and say good bye! Buh Bye!
Signing out ~ DevilWench ~
No author notes as of now
Cheyo-Vera: You are welcome. Have another hug ::Hugs:: I just wish I could go back to school. I'm soo bored! Review as often as you want! So long as one person reviews, I will continue this story! And Vera.STOP STEALING THE PIXIE STIX! That's like stealing insanity!
Disclaimer: See previous disclaimers from other chapters.
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The last level of this hell was nothing like any of the previous levels. Lush trees densely surrounded us. There were bushes and flowers all around. It was like going back in time. In short, it was beautiful. 'How could someone so evil live in a place that looks so pure?' I wondered. Kikyo, I saw just sort of staggered through the trees. It was almost like she knew where she was going. I glanced back at my Uncle. "You know her don't you?" I asked him. He nodded. "Spill" I commanded of him. For a moment I thought he wasn't going to tell me anything, but then he said; "She was a powerful priestess. Your grandmother was her reincarnation. She was brought to life and clinged to it only because of her hated of my stupid half brother." I almost smacked him for insulting grandpa, but I let it slide. 'Now is not the time to anger the pissed off demon.' "That creature is nothing but dirt, clay and old bones held by that anger." I caught the faintest trance of distaste in his eyes. 'Damn.she must have pissed him off, to be showing that much emotion in his eyes.' "Should we follow her?" I asked. 'If she is an angry spirit now, maybe she knows what's going on here. Maybe she's leading us into a trap. I saw old blood on her clothes, but no signs of any injuries, old or new. She had to have some other purpose.' I glanced back at my Uncle again. "We should not follow her. She will be undoubtedly be leading us into a trap." I grinned. "But, dear Uncle, that is precisely why we should follow her!" Uncle Sesshomaru looked at me like I was insane. "If she's leading us, then it would be very rude of us not to join the party! If we are prepared for a trap, then we won't follow into the trap!" I announced happily. If he could have, my Uncle would have been rolling his eyes at me. As it was, he just looked at me. Unnerving to say the least.
It wasn't very difficult to follow the dead priestess. Her trail was so clear that a baby could have followed it. Which made both of us even more wary. No one could leave this clear of a trail, with out it being on purpose. It was just way too easy to follow. Uncle Sesshie wasn't too happy with the decision, but since he didn't know where he was going he was following behind me. About 50 feet behind me to be exact. He really didn't want to be caught in a trap! Wherever it was that Kikyo was leading us, it was a long ways away! We had been traveling over rocky outcropping, thick forests, and wide rivers, which I had no idea HOW she crossed with out dripping at the other side. It was exhausting to say the least. But that wasn't the worst of it. The most nerve-wracking thing was the silence. When it got quiet when I was with the guys, I started to rib Hiei. That would cause all sorts of noise. But this was different. There was no way in Hell, no pun intended, that I could rib my Uncle. He would gut me even though I was family. No one ribbed the Lord of the Western Lands, or as was the case now, the former Lord of the western lands.
It was clear that she knew where she was going. She was making faster tracks than we were. And we were just following after her! After about three hours of semi tracking, I was getting a little bit annoyed. And I think that Uncle Sesshomaru and I knew that I definitely was pissed at this dead chic. We stopped at a nearby river to rest. I didn't even dare drink from the water. Supposedly if you drink or eat from the underworld, then you become tied to it. I'm not sure if that was true, but now was not the time to test the rumor. So, I took some of the very few provisions left in my pack out. I offered some of it to my Uncle, but he dismissed it with a wave of his hand. He had been here long enough that he was tied at least slightly to this world. So he didn't even have to sweat about eating or drinking from here. I almost envied him. But I liked my home, despite the loneliness, and I wanted to return to it as soon as possible!
It took us nearly 6 more hours to catch up to her. And she was just plodding onward even with both of us standing directly in front of her. She still had the vacant look in her eyes, but occasionally I could see the hatred showing through. Mostly when she saw me though. That is what I couldn't understand. Why would she hate someone who pulled her out of a torture room? I sure didn't know her. It was perplexing, especially since she would not say a single word. So, I let Uncle take care of handling her. He could be very very persuasive when he wished to be. While he was trying to get some information out of her, I sat down on a nearby boulder and thought. I wondered about Yusuke, Hiei, and most of all, Kurama. I wondered how they were, where they were and if I would ever see them again. I didn't think I would after this mission. They were the 'Great Spirit Detectives.' Why would they come and see a partially, human, partially demon priestess? The answer: No reason. And for some reason that bothered me. Why did I want them to stay around? I had been perfectly happy being alone at my shrine. I could be myself with out anyone being mean or rude about my mixed heritage. 'But', I mused, 'These boys accept me for who I am, not my blood like so many others.' I was snapped out of my musings when my uncle tapped on my shoulder and motioned that we were going to follow Kikyo. I don't know what he asked of her, or if she even answered him, but since he was following her already, I figured that he must have his reasons. Shrugging, I followed without complaint.
It was near dusk, or what seemed to pass as dusk in this place, when we arrived at where ever we were going. My uncle hadn't said a single word to me since his talk with the priestess. It was unusual, but not that unusual. So I left it alone. Didn't want to get killed before I did what I came to do now did I? Nope! We entered a rather large clearing that seemed to not be touched by any light. Almost as if light could not touch this area. My sense as a priestess was screaming at me that there was danger here. I wouldn't be alive today if I ignored my senses when they told me of danger. And I wasn't about to start ignoring them now! I jumped a few feet in the air and landed on a low tree branch when a line swept below me. Where my feet would have been. It would have knocked me down if I had stayed still. And as that line passed, a net dropped down from the treetop. Now I was doubly glad that I listened to my senses. We had walked into a trap after all! I was about to shout to Uncle Sesshomaru, but I caught a greenish glint coming towards my right side. It looked almost like my Uncles poison whip, but he was on my side wasn't he?
As I jumped away from that attack, I realized that he never said that he was on my side. He never really said anything to me regarding his actions. And now here I was with an enemy, who was my family, and another enemy who I knew nothing of except her name. Bad! Very bad! I was leaping from tree to tree, avoiding the whip and still trying to look out for any more traps. Where there was one, there would be others! Of this I was sure. I almost made it to the next tree when I felt another power speed towards me. This one wasn't friendly either. I turned aside my jump just in time to see an arrow imbed itself into the tree and explode. The wood shards rained upon me when I heard a low chuckle and a deep voice whispering through the darkness. "That's enough my loyal pets! I think she is done for now. Look how she trembles!" It was true. I was trembling. But it was an angry tremble, not one born of tiredness. I glanced around, trying to find the source of this new voice, but it only laughed at me. "Now I have the entire family!" He laughed maliciously. "How delightful." The only place that he could be hiding was inside the darkness in the center of the clearing, so rather than deal with the 'pets' that he had made out of my Uncle and the priestess, I rushed the darkness.
It might have worked. If I had been faster. But as it was my Uncle was extremely faster than I was. He grabbed me and held fast around my arms as the priestess dragged herself up to me. She had an ofuda (SP?) out and charged. She placed it on my forehead and I froze. I could see, hear, feel, smell, but I could not move at all. 'Lovely' I thought to myself. 'I am well and truly caught now.'
As I stared straight ahead, being unable to turn my head, the darkness thinned and a demon stepped out. He was slightly hunched over and he wore a baboon pelt to hide his identity. This demon I knew from the stories that Dad told me. 'Naraku,' the demon who tried to kill my grandparents many times over along with their friends and my Dad. This was going from bad to worse quicker than the desert heats up! "Now that you are here my dear," he whispered, "I can now proceed with my revenge against the family who destroyed me!" I had never been this afraid in my life. What was he going to do? Why did he mean the whole family? I was afraid that I knew. And now my only hope was Kurama and the others. Where were they?
As if Naraku was reading my mind, he swept his arm to the remaining darkness. "If you wished for a rescue, then my dear, you will be sadly disappointed. The entirety of the dark was blown away by a non-existent wind. Six people were chained, gagged, and unconscious behind him. I knew five of them by sight, and one by description. Grandpa Inu-Yasha, Mom, Dad, Kurama, Yusuke, Hiei, I recognized. The other woman, who looked a lot like Kikyo, I knew had to be my Grandmother. Kagome.
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WOW! My muse must be working over time! Coming up with all these awesome ideas! Or maybe, she's just trying to wheedle some Mountain Dew outta me? Oh, well. So, how did you all like this new chappie? Surprised at all? But is Fluffy really bad, or just being controlled? You'll just have to wait and see! Hopefully it won't take very long to get the next one written. I've been cooped up for an entire week, barring work. All I've had to do is clean my room, and write! So which one do you think I prefer? One guess. Now, my deal is, if I get no reviews for the new chapter, then I won't put another new one out! I don't care if you have reviewed before or not! Review now! That be an order! And a curse on you if you read this and submit no review! I want to know HOW many people like this story! I do accept anonymous reviews! SO there is nothing preventing any one from reviewing! Ok! I'm going to stop ranting now and say good bye! Buh Bye!
Signing out ~ DevilWench ~