Chapter 25
WOOT! Much Butt Kickin in this chappie!!
Thanks to:
teenager14
Katsurinia
Disclaimer: I own nothing
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It was one hell of a month for sure. From peaceful forests, to the pits of hell. Healing to killing. Calmness to absolute fury. My life has been flipped upside down. Naraku, in the body of Kuwabara, was laughing manically. Dark puppets that he had called forth surrounded him like body guards. I heard Sango curse softly for her Boomerang Bone. (A/N: I know there's another name, I would like to use it, but I don't have it, so therefore, can't use it. ::Sighs:: Such is life.........) Naraku just laughed at us. "Do you even have a hope of defeating me?" he inquired as he sent forth his mini army of dark puppets. There were 22 of them. Four guarding his back. One on each side, three directly in front of him, and the last ones were ranged out in front of the front three.
We were ranged out in the front side of Naraku, and sort of on the side. Hiei was the closest to Naraku's side. Uncle Sesshomaru remained in the back, stoically standing next to the dead body of Goshinki. Grandma Kagome was standing far enough behind us to be protected as well as close enough to use her/my bow properly. The rest of us were ranged totally in front of the monster. Starting from 5 o'clock and going to 7:30 it was Mom, Miroku, Sango, Myself, Kurama, Grandpa Inu-Yasha, and then Yusuke.
We stood in stalemate for what seemed like eternity. Neither side moved, or breathed it seemed. Then, all hell broke loose. Pun intended. Thirteen of the puppets rushed us. We responded by meeting the forward charge with one of our own. Both sides crashed into each other it seemed. We were outnumbered, but not out powered. I could not see how the others were faring, having to keep my own tail in one piece first. The puppet I was fighting flowed through my attacks like water. When I went to stab the creature, a whole appeared in the exact area I had been aiming for. We 'danced' for who knew how long. I did manage to rip gashes into it's earthen hide, and it managed to score some blunt hits on me. Nothing sharp. But it still felt like I had been hit in the side by a steel pole wielded by Hercules. I knew I was going to be bruised in a bad way come morning. If morning came at all. I took a quick glance around when I had parried past the puppet, to see if anyone was down. Everyone seemed to be fine. There were a few of the puppets missing already.
The lapse in concentration to check on the others was all the puppet needed to wrap an arm around my throat. 'Ouch!' It was bringing me closer to what seemed to be a mouth. 'It's going to EAT me!' I thought in horror. 'Like HELL it is!' I added to the previous thought. I gripped my stilettos more firmly, while also turning one in my hand for better stabbing. The closer I got to the maw, the easier chance I had to destroy the central nexus that controlled this puppet. At almost the last half a moment, I plunged my weapon forward, into the blobby mass. I felt it connect with something solid. The puppet gave a shriek and poofed in to a pile of dirt. The arm it had on my throat disappeared as well, to my relief. Glad to breathe air again, I turned to lend a hand to the others. Miroku was the closest. The puppet he was dealing with had its' back to me. An easy target. Tightening my grip, I half lunged, half jumped at the monstrosity. I sunk my blade into the center. I felt it shudder and collapse. I landed in the pile of dirt that it had made with its death. Miroku grinned at me as we scanned the area to see if anyone else needed help. The rest of the puppets had joined the fight, leaving Naraku unprotected. 'But not invulnerable' I thought angrily.
I could see the rest of them fighting as I was at the far edge of the fighting. Mom had finished off her puppet and had whirled around to help Sango, who wasn't faring as well against hers. Grandpa Inu-Yasha had moved further back to protect Grandma Kagome from any puppets that got to near. Grandma Kagome was aiming her arrows at Naraku himself in hopes, I guessed of stopping all the puppets at once. But her arrows were being reflected off by a barrier of some sort. Uncle Sesshomaru and Yusuke were happily punching away at the puppets. How do I know Uncle Sesshomaru was HAPPILY punching away? Simple. He was smirking. Kurama, wonderful Kurama, had gone to help Hiei to deal with a knot of the puppets. I would have ran over to do more damage to the earthen puppets, but they decided to come to me. Two of them rushed me. Since Miroku was nearby, the two of us switched back and forth between the two puppets. When he was fighting for his life.........or death.........he wasn't such a pervert. Not once did my behind get a rub.
Mom and Sango's puppet was the last one to fall. I glanced at Naraku. He merely raised one stupid ugly orange eyebrow. "Not bad" he commented. "But can you handle THIS?" he questioned. Five dark inky blots broke off from him and made a semi circle around him. His five children, the ones we already defeated in his castle, rose out of the dark depths. Kagura, Goshinki, and the small ugly twin started laughing at us. Some one must have been gaping, because Naraku handed out an explanation. Yippie......... "Now Now! If you kill some one in Hell, where do they go?" I grimaced. "You can't kill someone who is already dead. IT just might take a little bit of time for them to get back to me. That is all." I could have screamed in frustration. 'How the bloody HELL DO you get rid of them???' Goshinki grinned horribly at me. "You don't!" I started shaking in anger. Killing them was going to get us nowhere. So, the next best thing to do? Knock them out. Goshinki laughed, as evil a sound as Naraku made. "Just try and get at us. We promise we won't even move till you come and try to 'Knock us out'." I would have run straight at him my blood was boiling so much. But Yusuke beat me to that. And I was very glad that he did. Well. Sort of. He got zapped by that strange barrier that deflected Grandma Kagome's arrows. He went flying.
We stood, gaping at the display of power before us. Beyond the barrier, I saw Kagura smirk and lay a hand on Kanna. Kanna was responsible for deflection barrier. She and her 'be damned' mirror. But could she be keeping up a barrier totally around them. I was willing to bet my life that she wasn't. And I might have to pay up. I glance around to see if any of my friends were looking. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Hiei was looking. I jerked my head to the back of the clearing. Where Naraku had his back turned. He nodded to me as we both made our way around the group of miscreants. Even if Goshinki could read our minds, there wasn't really anything he could do to stop us, as most of the others had caught on to my little 'break the barrier' idea.
"Well played!" Naraku cooed. "Kanna!" He barked. In a flash the barrier was down. We had only halfway surrounded Naraku and his children by the time the barrier fell. The onslaught of the powerful Demons was like the stench of garbage left out to rot in midday of mid summer. I wrinkled my nose in disgust.
All Naraku's children came rushing at us. The one we had to watch out for was Kanna and her mirror. She could easily steal our souls while we were busy fighting with the others. I joined Mom and Grandma Kagome to deal with her. We three surrounded her not 30 feet from Naraku. Yet he did nothing. Maybe he was just wearing us down so it would be easer for him to kill us off later. I mean, he did spend his underlings lives life they were sand slipping through his fingers. Mom was on the side opposite of me, with Grandma and her bow in front of the small child like demon. Grandma let fly an arrow that struck her mirror, it cracked even as Kanna raised it to save herself. Her dismay at her weapons ineffectiveness let both Mom and me slip in on the sides and slash at her. We did not kill her, as she would only come back again, but we did injure her enough so that she would not be able to get up and walk let alone try and kill us again for months. I felt sorry for the child like demon. She looked very much like a broken doll lying there dripping blood on the ground. But we did not have time for pity.
Glancing around at the other fights, I saw that Hiei was battling the smaller, faster twin to Naraku's left side. He was doing well against it, so I glanced around further. Farther back and in between my last fight and Hiei's current fight, Grandpa Inu-Yasha, Sango, and Miroku were battling it out with Goshinki. The looks in their eyes told me not to interfere or else. To their right, Uncle Sesshomaru and my Kurama were whipping Kagura to pieces. The wind sorceress was close to becoming incapacitated. Lastly, to Naraku's right side, Yusuke was pummeling the larger and slower of the twin demons. It was already in a crumpled heap. We were really kicking butt right now. But it remained to be seen what Naraku would send at us next.
Glancing at his face, a flicker of worry flittered across his new face. But it was gone just as fast as it had come. Instead, as the last of his children lay in a broken heap, all of them still 'alive' per say, he growled at us and tried to run. I saw a pink barrier close in around all of us. A glance over to my grandmother showed that it had been both her and my mother who had raised the powerful barrier. No one was going to escape. Not until Naraku was dead, or all of us were dead.
Howling in frustration, Naraku turned on us. Dark miasma (A/N: Did I spell that right?) swirled around him, reaching farther and farther out.
Those who had long range attacks used them to slice openings into the cloud of poisons being created by Naraku. Those with out those long range weapons would run into those openings made by those who do. But, the miasma was very thick. Miroku and Sango only got a few feet inside the dark cloud before I saw them flee, pain etched in thick burrows on their faces. Grandma Kagome was cutting through the poisonous fumes with her arrows with no problem. But even with the opening, Grandpa Inu-Yasha barely got close enough. And even if he DID get close enough, he still had to deal with Naraku himself. Yusuke and Kurama, I could see, were having a difficult time fighting with Naraku, since he was wearing the body of their fallen friend. I could kind of sympathize. Hiei, on the other hand, was having no problems trying to get at Naraku. But he wasn't having much luck either. There had to be a way to get to him. No one was invincible.
I stared as another of my grandmothers arrows cut through the miasma. Miko power sliced through that stuff like it was nothing more than warm butter. If this held true, then if I used some miko power in my hands, and kept them held in front of me, then I should be able to march right into the miasma. It was worth a shot. No one else was having any luck. And we were being pushed back to the edge of the trees. Almost the entire clearing was covered in his poison. With five feet between all of us the edge, I figured, 'What the hell. It's better then standing here.'
I braced myself just outside the miasma and called my power to my hands. Faintly, they began to glow pink. As I extended one hand, I began to tremble. 'Would this work? Will I get burned? How long will my power hold out for? What do I do when I reach the bastard? What if he knows I'm coming and has an attack ready for me?' The questions ran through my mind at an abnormal rate. I knew I was afraid. Turning, I gave my family and friends one last glance. They were desperate; being pushed into the trees. Grandma Kagome couldn't do this. She doesn't know how to fight hand to hand combat. Mom does, but she doesn't have much in the way of miko powers. I gave them all what I hoped would not be my last smile and pushed my way into the miasma.
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That's it for today. This was longer than any of my other chapters.........If ya want to know what happens next; then you have to review! I won't post the next one till I get at least 3! That's not much to ask for!
Signing Out ~DevilWench~
WOOT! Much Butt Kickin in this chappie!!
Thanks to:
teenager14
Katsurinia
Disclaimer: I own nothing
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It was one hell of a month for sure. From peaceful forests, to the pits of hell. Healing to killing. Calmness to absolute fury. My life has been flipped upside down. Naraku, in the body of Kuwabara, was laughing manically. Dark puppets that he had called forth surrounded him like body guards. I heard Sango curse softly for her Boomerang Bone. (A/N: I know there's another name, I would like to use it, but I don't have it, so therefore, can't use it. ::Sighs:: Such is life.........) Naraku just laughed at us. "Do you even have a hope of defeating me?" he inquired as he sent forth his mini army of dark puppets. There were 22 of them. Four guarding his back. One on each side, three directly in front of him, and the last ones were ranged out in front of the front three.
We were ranged out in the front side of Naraku, and sort of on the side. Hiei was the closest to Naraku's side. Uncle Sesshomaru remained in the back, stoically standing next to the dead body of Goshinki. Grandma Kagome was standing far enough behind us to be protected as well as close enough to use her/my bow properly. The rest of us were ranged totally in front of the monster. Starting from 5 o'clock and going to 7:30 it was Mom, Miroku, Sango, Myself, Kurama, Grandpa Inu-Yasha, and then Yusuke.
We stood in stalemate for what seemed like eternity. Neither side moved, or breathed it seemed. Then, all hell broke loose. Pun intended. Thirteen of the puppets rushed us. We responded by meeting the forward charge with one of our own. Both sides crashed into each other it seemed. We were outnumbered, but not out powered. I could not see how the others were faring, having to keep my own tail in one piece first. The puppet I was fighting flowed through my attacks like water. When I went to stab the creature, a whole appeared in the exact area I had been aiming for. We 'danced' for who knew how long. I did manage to rip gashes into it's earthen hide, and it managed to score some blunt hits on me. Nothing sharp. But it still felt like I had been hit in the side by a steel pole wielded by Hercules. I knew I was going to be bruised in a bad way come morning. If morning came at all. I took a quick glance around when I had parried past the puppet, to see if anyone was down. Everyone seemed to be fine. There were a few of the puppets missing already.
The lapse in concentration to check on the others was all the puppet needed to wrap an arm around my throat. 'Ouch!' It was bringing me closer to what seemed to be a mouth. 'It's going to EAT me!' I thought in horror. 'Like HELL it is!' I added to the previous thought. I gripped my stilettos more firmly, while also turning one in my hand for better stabbing. The closer I got to the maw, the easier chance I had to destroy the central nexus that controlled this puppet. At almost the last half a moment, I plunged my weapon forward, into the blobby mass. I felt it connect with something solid. The puppet gave a shriek and poofed in to a pile of dirt. The arm it had on my throat disappeared as well, to my relief. Glad to breathe air again, I turned to lend a hand to the others. Miroku was the closest. The puppet he was dealing with had its' back to me. An easy target. Tightening my grip, I half lunged, half jumped at the monstrosity. I sunk my blade into the center. I felt it shudder and collapse. I landed in the pile of dirt that it had made with its death. Miroku grinned at me as we scanned the area to see if anyone else needed help. The rest of the puppets had joined the fight, leaving Naraku unprotected. 'But not invulnerable' I thought angrily.
I could see the rest of them fighting as I was at the far edge of the fighting. Mom had finished off her puppet and had whirled around to help Sango, who wasn't faring as well against hers. Grandpa Inu-Yasha had moved further back to protect Grandma Kagome from any puppets that got to near. Grandma Kagome was aiming her arrows at Naraku himself in hopes, I guessed of stopping all the puppets at once. But her arrows were being reflected off by a barrier of some sort. Uncle Sesshomaru and Yusuke were happily punching away at the puppets. How do I know Uncle Sesshomaru was HAPPILY punching away? Simple. He was smirking. Kurama, wonderful Kurama, had gone to help Hiei to deal with a knot of the puppets. I would have ran over to do more damage to the earthen puppets, but they decided to come to me. Two of them rushed me. Since Miroku was nearby, the two of us switched back and forth between the two puppets. When he was fighting for his life.........or death.........he wasn't such a pervert. Not once did my behind get a rub.
Mom and Sango's puppet was the last one to fall. I glanced at Naraku. He merely raised one stupid ugly orange eyebrow. "Not bad" he commented. "But can you handle THIS?" he questioned. Five dark inky blots broke off from him and made a semi circle around him. His five children, the ones we already defeated in his castle, rose out of the dark depths. Kagura, Goshinki, and the small ugly twin started laughing at us. Some one must have been gaping, because Naraku handed out an explanation. Yippie......... "Now Now! If you kill some one in Hell, where do they go?" I grimaced. "You can't kill someone who is already dead. IT just might take a little bit of time for them to get back to me. That is all." I could have screamed in frustration. 'How the bloody HELL DO you get rid of them???' Goshinki grinned horribly at me. "You don't!" I started shaking in anger. Killing them was going to get us nowhere. So, the next best thing to do? Knock them out. Goshinki laughed, as evil a sound as Naraku made. "Just try and get at us. We promise we won't even move till you come and try to 'Knock us out'." I would have run straight at him my blood was boiling so much. But Yusuke beat me to that. And I was very glad that he did. Well. Sort of. He got zapped by that strange barrier that deflected Grandma Kagome's arrows. He went flying.
We stood, gaping at the display of power before us. Beyond the barrier, I saw Kagura smirk and lay a hand on Kanna. Kanna was responsible for deflection barrier. She and her 'be damned' mirror. But could she be keeping up a barrier totally around them. I was willing to bet my life that she wasn't. And I might have to pay up. I glance around to see if any of my friends were looking. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Hiei was looking. I jerked my head to the back of the clearing. Where Naraku had his back turned. He nodded to me as we both made our way around the group of miscreants. Even if Goshinki could read our minds, there wasn't really anything he could do to stop us, as most of the others had caught on to my little 'break the barrier' idea.
"Well played!" Naraku cooed. "Kanna!" He barked. In a flash the barrier was down. We had only halfway surrounded Naraku and his children by the time the barrier fell. The onslaught of the powerful Demons was like the stench of garbage left out to rot in midday of mid summer. I wrinkled my nose in disgust.
All Naraku's children came rushing at us. The one we had to watch out for was Kanna and her mirror. She could easily steal our souls while we were busy fighting with the others. I joined Mom and Grandma Kagome to deal with her. We three surrounded her not 30 feet from Naraku. Yet he did nothing. Maybe he was just wearing us down so it would be easer for him to kill us off later. I mean, he did spend his underlings lives life they were sand slipping through his fingers. Mom was on the side opposite of me, with Grandma and her bow in front of the small child like demon. Grandma let fly an arrow that struck her mirror, it cracked even as Kanna raised it to save herself. Her dismay at her weapons ineffectiveness let both Mom and me slip in on the sides and slash at her. We did not kill her, as she would only come back again, but we did injure her enough so that she would not be able to get up and walk let alone try and kill us again for months. I felt sorry for the child like demon. She looked very much like a broken doll lying there dripping blood on the ground. But we did not have time for pity.
Glancing around at the other fights, I saw that Hiei was battling the smaller, faster twin to Naraku's left side. He was doing well against it, so I glanced around further. Farther back and in between my last fight and Hiei's current fight, Grandpa Inu-Yasha, Sango, and Miroku were battling it out with Goshinki. The looks in their eyes told me not to interfere or else. To their right, Uncle Sesshomaru and my Kurama were whipping Kagura to pieces. The wind sorceress was close to becoming incapacitated. Lastly, to Naraku's right side, Yusuke was pummeling the larger and slower of the twin demons. It was already in a crumpled heap. We were really kicking butt right now. But it remained to be seen what Naraku would send at us next.
Glancing at his face, a flicker of worry flittered across his new face. But it was gone just as fast as it had come. Instead, as the last of his children lay in a broken heap, all of them still 'alive' per say, he growled at us and tried to run. I saw a pink barrier close in around all of us. A glance over to my grandmother showed that it had been both her and my mother who had raised the powerful barrier. No one was going to escape. Not until Naraku was dead, or all of us were dead.
Howling in frustration, Naraku turned on us. Dark miasma (A/N: Did I spell that right?) swirled around him, reaching farther and farther out.
Those who had long range attacks used them to slice openings into the cloud of poisons being created by Naraku. Those with out those long range weapons would run into those openings made by those who do. But, the miasma was very thick. Miroku and Sango only got a few feet inside the dark cloud before I saw them flee, pain etched in thick burrows on their faces. Grandma Kagome was cutting through the poisonous fumes with her arrows with no problem. But even with the opening, Grandpa Inu-Yasha barely got close enough. And even if he DID get close enough, he still had to deal with Naraku himself. Yusuke and Kurama, I could see, were having a difficult time fighting with Naraku, since he was wearing the body of their fallen friend. I could kind of sympathize. Hiei, on the other hand, was having no problems trying to get at Naraku. But he wasn't having much luck either. There had to be a way to get to him. No one was invincible.
I stared as another of my grandmothers arrows cut through the miasma. Miko power sliced through that stuff like it was nothing more than warm butter. If this held true, then if I used some miko power in my hands, and kept them held in front of me, then I should be able to march right into the miasma. It was worth a shot. No one else was having any luck. And we were being pushed back to the edge of the trees. Almost the entire clearing was covered in his poison. With five feet between all of us the edge, I figured, 'What the hell. It's better then standing here.'
I braced myself just outside the miasma and called my power to my hands. Faintly, they began to glow pink. As I extended one hand, I began to tremble. 'Would this work? Will I get burned? How long will my power hold out for? What do I do when I reach the bastard? What if he knows I'm coming and has an attack ready for me?' The questions ran through my mind at an abnormal rate. I knew I was afraid. Turning, I gave my family and friends one last glance. They were desperate; being pushed into the trees. Grandma Kagome couldn't do this. She doesn't know how to fight hand to hand combat. Mom does, but she doesn't have much in the way of miko powers. I gave them all what I hoped would not be my last smile and pushed my way into the miasma.
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That's it for today. This was longer than any of my other chapters.........If ya want to know what happens next; then you have to review! I won't post the next one till I get at least 3! That's not much to ask for!
Signing Out ~DevilWench~