Vengeful
AN: Juniper and Frincara are my own characters as are the rest of the crew and the Silver Life Jewel. Don't use any of them without my permission.
It had been about a week since the squid demon's attack. Katia and Niroku were walking down a dirt road beside the woods. It seemed to be a perfectly peaceful morning until.
"Oh shit. GET DOWN!!" Katia screamed and she pulled Niroku down with her. Lucky she did because the energy ball shot over their heads a split second later. Katia stood up, "Come out Juniper, I know you're there!"
A girl of about sixteen stepped out of the woods. "Very good, sister. You've gotten better."
"What do you want?" Katia asked her as a thoroughly baffled Niroku stood up beside her.
"Why I just came to see your current boy, especially since the last one." Juniper was cut off as an arrow whizzed by her right ear. She had barely managed to avoid it. Katia had taken it out of her hip pack and just thrown it without a bow. "Very good. I'll come back and check up on you later." She stepped back into the woods before either traveler could make another move.
"Damn her. Why did she have to show up now of all times?" Katia said to no one in particular.
"Who was that?" Niroku asked, still thoroughly confused.
"She's my sister." Katia sighed at Niroku's confused look. "Let's go a little ways and make camp and I'll explain."
They trekked along for another half an hour before they found a suitable spot to camp. It was a small clearing with trees on all sides, blocking them from the view of anyone on the road.
"Now will you explain who that was? Cause as far as I know you don't have any younger sisters and that girl was definitely younger." Niroku asked, curious.
"Well, that girl isn't really my blood sister in one way but in another she was." Seeing Niroku's baffled look she explained, "That was Juniper. Juniper is a sister of Frincara, the Goddess inside of me. Only she has possessed the mind of another girl's body."
"So, she merged with that girl like Frincara merged with you?" Niroku asked.
"No. Possession and merging are two different things. When we merged we basically became one being though we still communicate because it wasn't a complete merging. She did that so we could each keep our own personalities. Juniper, however, only took control of the girl's body. She takes a different one every time she attacks me. The girls never remember what happened though. They're completely innocent so I've only been able to purge Juniper from their bodies."
"Why does she attack you?"
"A grudge against Frincara from something her father decided. Basically Frincara's father had chosen her fiancée for her. Her fiancée was the god that pretty much every goddess was after. Every goddess except Frincara, that is. Now all her sisters hate her because her father chose her to be that god's fiancée. Juniper had challenged Frincara to a duel for the hand of that god. It was the day that I was attacked. Juniper was late when Frincara heard me scream. She looked down and saw me with demons surrounding me. She transported down instantly, but since she hadn't been down in ages she took a little while and that was when I got hurt. The rest you know."
"Okay, that explains a lot. Also one other thing, what was she about to say right before you threw the arrow at her?" Niroku asked. He then noticed how her eyes clouded, much as they had when she had told him of how she became a half-goddess. It was the same look that she had gotten when she spoke of the emotional pain that had left her without strength enough to even run. He again wondered what had happened that day.
"She.was about to say that especially since the last one betrayed me or made a fool of me or something similar." She said. Katia still had that clouded look in her eyes. 'Why did she have to show up now? Probably because I was finally beginning to forget. That's about the time she always shows up to remind me of how I was played the fool.'
"What does that mean?" Niroku asked. He could tell she was thinking if she should tell him or not. "It might not hurt as much if you tell me about it."
"Okay," Katia finally agreed. "It happened when I was about fourteen and a half. You know that before you I had no friends simply because I was a tomboy. Well, I met a boy then who seemed to accept me for who I was just as you had. He was a new kid in the city, about my age. We became friend easily. Eventually I thought I had developed feeling for him beyond friendship and about a year and a half after I met him we started going out and a year after that he asked me to marry him. The fool I was, I accepted. About a week before our marriage I went out to find him in the woods. I came across a clearing and saw him. I was about to call out to him when I saw he was with someone else. Another girl. The only reason I didn't walk off there and then was because I heard them talking about me." Katia gulped, "He said that the girl should know that he didn't have any real feeling toward me and that the plan was going perfectly. When we were married he would steal all my money and take her off with him and they would elope. Then they kissed. I couldn't take anymore so I ran off into the woods and the rest you know. And it gets worse. When I confronted him about it the next day you know what the bastard told me. He denied everything. Well, that was it for me. I took off the ring he had given to me and threw it at him. It hit him square in the forehead. Thanks to my new strength, it knocked him out. I went to my parent next and told them to cancel the engagement. They refused. Finally I threatened that if they didn't I would run away and they still refused, thinking there was no way for me to escape. I didn't tell them why because I didn't want to talk about it and it wouldn't have mattered because they would have still made me go through with it just to keep their image. Great parent huh? Well, that night I made good on my threat. And with help from the skills I acquired from merging with the goddess I crept out unnoticed. I left a note behind saying that I wouldn't return for quite a while. The note was mainly for my old nurse maid, she would probably be the only one to worry about me and I didn't want to make her worry too much and I also knew she would be the first to see the note since she still woke me up and helped me fix my hair the way mother wished."
They were silent for a few minutes. The noon sun shone down on them. The first to break the silence was Niroku who said, "Wow. And I thought my life sucked."
"Tell me about it. And now I have to deal with a vengeful sister who always shows up to remind me of that guy who made a fool of me right when I'm forgetting about him. Nice isn't she. And she always fights me as well. Obviously she still considers Frincara and that other god engaged. I know she would give it up if she could."
"Nice sister you got there. By the way, you told me she was a sister of Frincara. How many does she have exactly?" Niroku asked looking nervous.
"Let's see here. She has five sisters all older and all out for revenge for her father arranging her to be that god's fiancée." She said casually. She looked at Niroku's face to see his reaction. He paled.
"Oh shit." He said.
"My sentiments exactly. And did you know that, other than Frincara, that was the youngest. Juniper is also the weakest among them. The only reason Frincara can't kill her when I let her take over to fight is because she's in a human body. Juniper knows that and takes full advantage of the fact that if Frincara were to kill a living human in my body that I would be forced away because I would never kill anything unless I had to and I couldn't kill anyone period. Just great isn't it."
"Wow. And I thought that that story from before could get no worse. I was wrong, it just did." He looked at her in amazement. He was amazed that she could still act so normally with all that on her shoulders. But than again he knew that if anyone could, she could. She was strong enough even before she merged with the goddess Frincara.
The silence hung between them and for once everything seemed peaceful and seemed that it would stay that way. Or so they thought, before Juniper appeared before them and attacked.
AN: Juniper and Frincara are my own characters as are the rest of the crew and the Silver Life Jewel. Don't use any of them without my permission.
It had been about a week since the squid demon's attack. Katia and Niroku were walking down a dirt road beside the woods. It seemed to be a perfectly peaceful morning until.
"Oh shit. GET DOWN!!" Katia screamed and she pulled Niroku down with her. Lucky she did because the energy ball shot over their heads a split second later. Katia stood up, "Come out Juniper, I know you're there!"
A girl of about sixteen stepped out of the woods. "Very good, sister. You've gotten better."
"What do you want?" Katia asked her as a thoroughly baffled Niroku stood up beside her.
"Why I just came to see your current boy, especially since the last one." Juniper was cut off as an arrow whizzed by her right ear. She had barely managed to avoid it. Katia had taken it out of her hip pack and just thrown it without a bow. "Very good. I'll come back and check up on you later." She stepped back into the woods before either traveler could make another move.
"Damn her. Why did she have to show up now of all times?" Katia said to no one in particular.
"Who was that?" Niroku asked, still thoroughly confused.
"She's my sister." Katia sighed at Niroku's confused look. "Let's go a little ways and make camp and I'll explain."
They trekked along for another half an hour before they found a suitable spot to camp. It was a small clearing with trees on all sides, blocking them from the view of anyone on the road.
"Now will you explain who that was? Cause as far as I know you don't have any younger sisters and that girl was definitely younger." Niroku asked, curious.
"Well, that girl isn't really my blood sister in one way but in another she was." Seeing Niroku's baffled look she explained, "That was Juniper. Juniper is a sister of Frincara, the Goddess inside of me. Only she has possessed the mind of another girl's body."
"So, she merged with that girl like Frincara merged with you?" Niroku asked.
"No. Possession and merging are two different things. When we merged we basically became one being though we still communicate because it wasn't a complete merging. She did that so we could each keep our own personalities. Juniper, however, only took control of the girl's body. She takes a different one every time she attacks me. The girls never remember what happened though. They're completely innocent so I've only been able to purge Juniper from their bodies."
"Why does she attack you?"
"A grudge against Frincara from something her father decided. Basically Frincara's father had chosen her fiancée for her. Her fiancée was the god that pretty much every goddess was after. Every goddess except Frincara, that is. Now all her sisters hate her because her father chose her to be that god's fiancée. Juniper had challenged Frincara to a duel for the hand of that god. It was the day that I was attacked. Juniper was late when Frincara heard me scream. She looked down and saw me with demons surrounding me. She transported down instantly, but since she hadn't been down in ages she took a little while and that was when I got hurt. The rest you know."
"Okay, that explains a lot. Also one other thing, what was she about to say right before you threw the arrow at her?" Niroku asked. He then noticed how her eyes clouded, much as they had when she had told him of how she became a half-goddess. It was the same look that she had gotten when she spoke of the emotional pain that had left her without strength enough to even run. He again wondered what had happened that day.
"She.was about to say that especially since the last one betrayed me or made a fool of me or something similar." She said. Katia still had that clouded look in her eyes. 'Why did she have to show up now? Probably because I was finally beginning to forget. That's about the time she always shows up to remind me of how I was played the fool.'
"What does that mean?" Niroku asked. He could tell she was thinking if she should tell him or not. "It might not hurt as much if you tell me about it."
"Okay," Katia finally agreed. "It happened when I was about fourteen and a half. You know that before you I had no friends simply because I was a tomboy. Well, I met a boy then who seemed to accept me for who I was just as you had. He was a new kid in the city, about my age. We became friend easily. Eventually I thought I had developed feeling for him beyond friendship and about a year and a half after I met him we started going out and a year after that he asked me to marry him. The fool I was, I accepted. About a week before our marriage I went out to find him in the woods. I came across a clearing and saw him. I was about to call out to him when I saw he was with someone else. Another girl. The only reason I didn't walk off there and then was because I heard them talking about me." Katia gulped, "He said that the girl should know that he didn't have any real feeling toward me and that the plan was going perfectly. When we were married he would steal all my money and take her off with him and they would elope. Then they kissed. I couldn't take anymore so I ran off into the woods and the rest you know. And it gets worse. When I confronted him about it the next day you know what the bastard told me. He denied everything. Well, that was it for me. I took off the ring he had given to me and threw it at him. It hit him square in the forehead. Thanks to my new strength, it knocked him out. I went to my parent next and told them to cancel the engagement. They refused. Finally I threatened that if they didn't I would run away and they still refused, thinking there was no way for me to escape. I didn't tell them why because I didn't want to talk about it and it wouldn't have mattered because they would have still made me go through with it just to keep their image. Great parent huh? Well, that night I made good on my threat. And with help from the skills I acquired from merging with the goddess I crept out unnoticed. I left a note behind saying that I wouldn't return for quite a while. The note was mainly for my old nurse maid, she would probably be the only one to worry about me and I didn't want to make her worry too much and I also knew she would be the first to see the note since she still woke me up and helped me fix my hair the way mother wished."
They were silent for a few minutes. The noon sun shone down on them. The first to break the silence was Niroku who said, "Wow. And I thought my life sucked."
"Tell me about it. And now I have to deal with a vengeful sister who always shows up to remind me of that guy who made a fool of me right when I'm forgetting about him. Nice isn't she. And she always fights me as well. Obviously she still considers Frincara and that other god engaged. I know she would give it up if she could."
"Nice sister you got there. By the way, you told me she was a sister of Frincara. How many does she have exactly?" Niroku asked looking nervous.
"Let's see here. She has five sisters all older and all out for revenge for her father arranging her to be that god's fiancée." She said casually. She looked at Niroku's face to see his reaction. He paled.
"Oh shit." He said.
"My sentiments exactly. And did you know that, other than Frincara, that was the youngest. Juniper is also the weakest among them. The only reason Frincara can't kill her when I let her take over to fight is because she's in a human body. Juniper knows that and takes full advantage of the fact that if Frincara were to kill a living human in my body that I would be forced away because I would never kill anything unless I had to and I couldn't kill anyone period. Just great isn't it."
"Wow. And I thought that that story from before could get no worse. I was wrong, it just did." He looked at her in amazement. He was amazed that she could still act so normally with all that on her shoulders. But than again he knew that if anyone could, she could. She was strong enough even before she merged with the goddess Frincara.
The silence hung between them and for once everything seemed peaceful and seemed that it would stay that way. Or so they thought, before Juniper appeared before them and attacked.
