Hello again to everyone! I'm The Goddess, who is currently teamed up with Kracken l.w. And I bring you, yet ANOTHER chapter of Pink Rhinestone Collars Equal Bad Days. Sesshoumaru is about to make a VERY BIG mistake.
Read and review please. I do not own Inu-Yasha, or Athena, or Typhon or Echinda. The last three are Greek Mythology characters and the information on them I found at this site: http://www.pantheon.org
Sesshoumaru's in deep… sh-well you know what it is.
Lazily, Athena waved her arm, hearing Kracken's foot prints walk away. For any normal human, that would be impossible as Kracken is undetectable, but for Athena, she could hear and feel the earth vibrate beneath Kracken; besides, she was a goddess, her senses were better than any humans, demons or warrior. She leaned her head back against the rocks. The hot water sure felt good.
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"Jaken. A shikon shard has revealed itself."
"Where my lord?" asked the frog-like creature.
"In the Valley of Cold Stone."
"Ah, no my lord!" Jaken wailed. "We can't go there! Not even your father would have gone there! No human has gone there that hasn't come back!"
"Human, Jaken. I am not human," Sesshomaru stated coldly.
"There isn't a youkai that's ever come back from that place either my lord."
A youkai had never come back either? That was beyond strange. Demons were extremely hard to kill.
"Nevertheless, Jaken. Come along. We will fight and win against whatever youkai eating demon is there." With that, Sesshoumaru started to walk off with a frightened Jaken following him.
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'I'm going to take Dionysus' goblet and bury it far within Mt. Aetna where Typhon is. Or maybe I'll give it to Typhon's mate, Echidna… One of the two. I'm not too concerned for now. The hot water feels wonderful. I'll have to tell Apollo to sing songs about the hot springs… What am I thinking?' she wondered. She didn't care. The water felt great. Taking a breath, she dunked herself to get the soap out of her hair. She didn't hear or feel the demon that came with his whimpering servant.
Sesshoumaru looked over the dark basalt cliffs into the valley below. It would be tricky, the cliffs were steep. He considered changing to his natural form, but decided against it. The cliffs were smooth, and he would have no footing going down. He decided to just slide down.
"Jaken, follow me," he said sliding down.
Terrified, Jaken did as told.
The valley was beautiful. The shrines and pagoda's were in disrepair, but the valley itself was beautiful. It had been at least six-hundred years since a person or demon last set foot here in this valley, but the growth was neat and not overgrown. The valley had to be enchanted. He stepped forward, towards the heart of the valley and encountered an unpleasant sharpness and crushing beneath his feet. He looked down. What he saw made him stare in horror. Demon bones. Lot's of them. Not too many human bones… bones of a demon were thicker, denser and bigger than a humans. Demons had wandered into the valley and as Jaken had said… never come out.
He looked around. Bones, numerous amounts littered the ground and base of trees, a hot spring with a person inside it bathing, a marble road that he could have walked upon… wait, a bathing person? This valley was supposed to be empty. If there was a person here, then that person could be the demon destroyer. He pulled out the Tensaiga. If this person was the devourer here, then he would destroy him. He walked over to the hot spring.
Athena stood and stretched, ready to go back to Olympus when she heard bones crunching behind her. Too bad her sword had been melted, but, she didn't need it. She turned to face the intruder. A… dog demon? This day couldn't get any worse!!! She hated dog demons since the last one she met tried to kill her owl and tried to eat her. She wondered where that one was, hopefully he was dead and his kids were too (A/N- guess who tried to eat my lovely owl).
'Correction,' Sesshoumaru thought. 'She.'
"Who are you?" she asked clearly, her tone brooking no argument. Many a fools had argued with her and suffered the consequences. The Furies here, Harpies there, the Hydra some place else… nothing major and nothing that a person couldn't get out if they were smart…which, most of them weren't, but that wasn't the point.
"Feh," he said not answering. "A weak human is the almighty demon devourer. I don't believe it."
That was bad. She had one hell of a day and being caught in the nude after a bath and being called a weak mortal didn't help her mood or the person who'd insulted her for that matter.
"Mortal? Did you just call me mortal, child?" she was getting angrier by the minute; Kracken would have been proud.
"A mortal has the shikon shard," he said. "Such an irony."
Sesshoumaru watched her lovely eyes go wider and a storm spark in them. She was well-endowed for a human. He looked at her appreciatively and her eyes got angrier. He gave her a cold smile and continued looking at her.
"Don't even THINK about it," she snarled. The day had just reached an all time low; she was going to get him for that. Closing her eyes she disappeared out of the water in front of him a regal silver toga on with her melted sword sheathed. She watched him step back in surprise.
"I'd send the Furies after you, but they're no longer the Furies so that won't work. Listen to me, dog boy, I am not happy with what you just called me, and I'll make you pay for it too. Thank you for making my day worse. It wasn't enough to fall into a pool of wine, I had to be insulted by you. You will rue the day that you called me 'a weak human'."
Angrily, Athena disappeared to plan her revenge.
