The First Battle

AN: The other sisters mentioned in this chapter are mine. They are Alexiel, Kiara, Adial, and Josilian. As are the other character I mentioned earlier and the Silver Life Jewel. Don't use them without permission.

Katia leapt to her feet as soon as Juniper stepped through the trees. Niroku stood up beside her and she tackled him to the ground. It was lucky she did because had he been standing there just a second more, he would have gotten fried.

"Very good. It seems you've gotten much better, especially when protecting him." Juniper mocked.

"Shut your mouth before I have to shut it for you." Katia said. She had stood up while Juniper was talking; Niroku got up behind her and, at an urgent signal from Katia, slowly backed toward the forest. "Juniper you want to know something?" Katia asked her mockingly, "Sometimes you talk way to much."

As soon as Katia stood up Niroku noticed something strange in her eyes. They weren't the eyes he was used to seeing, the merry friendly eyes with a hint of sorrow at the back. The eyes he saw now were ones with timeless wisdom, though you could tell what none of it was. Then he understood, she had let the goddess Frincara take over; those were her eyes.

"Oh, really," Juniper mocked, "How."

She was cut off as Katia pinned her down. "Like that, sister." He slowly saw energy build in her hands, which were attached to Juniper's forearms. The light quickly grew and engulfed them both and when it cleared the only thing Niroku could see that was different was the fact that Juniper was unconscious. Then he noticed that Katia's eyes were back to normal.

"What happened?" Katia looked over at him, looking slightly tired but still happy.

"I forced Juniper from this girl's body. Juniper is gone.for now anyway." Niroku then understood what that light had been.

"So that light was your powers. You used them to force Juniper from that girl's body." He asked as he walked over to her.

"Yeah. Here help me take this girl over here so we can warm her up and she can tell us where she's from. That way I can send her back."

"How?" He asked, curios.

"You'll find out."

It was late afternoon when the girl finally awoke. She was very confused, but something about Katia made her tell them. She was from a near by village and the last thing she remembered was seeing a woman in a long white dress and walking up to ask who she was.

"Well, that answers something. Now what did you say your name was?" Katia asked.

"My name is Alexia," the young woman said.

"Okay, Alexia. We're going to get you back to your village okay? But first let's have some supper." Katia said. She stood up and went out to get some supper. But before she was completely out of sight she called to Niroku, "Oh, and can you take Alexia and gather some fire wood to cook it." Niroku did just that.

They had a nice dinner of cooked berries and nuts with a little of the cooked meat Katia had in her pack. Niroku was still wondering how they were going to get Alexia back to her village but refrained from asking knowing that it would only make the young woman worry. He was still pondering this when Alexia suddenly collapsed. He jumped up, startled, but Katia caught her before her head hit the ground.

"What's happened?" Niroku asked, worried.

"Don't worry, it's just some sleeping powder. I slipped it into her water while she wasn't looking. And don't look at me like that. It's the only way of getting her home without her remembering. She'll just think it was all a dream. And now I'll show you how I'll send her home."

Niroku watched as Katia took some leaves from a nearby oak a placed one on each of Alexia's breasts, her legs, her arms, one on her neck, and on her forehead. She chanted in a low voice and in an instant Alexia was gone.

"There, now she's safe in her own room. She'll think that this was all a dream. Luckily she was only gone a day so no one will have noticed her departure or mention it. I've had worse. Once I had to send a girl back who had been missing for three weeks! I had to modify the whole village's memory to where they thought she had only gone to the next town for a while to stay with a friend. I had to change three weeks of searching into daily activities. That was certainly difficult." Katia said casually.

"You mean you can change people's memories. You can make them forget something." Niroku said. Just the thought of something like that happening to him made him shiver.

"Yeah, and I hate when I have to do it too. The only reason I do so is because if news like that got around to other villages who have also had that happen they might put two and two together and maybe figure out what's going on."

"Just the thought is scary. I don't know how you can do it and still have a normal personality like you do." Niroku asked shaking his head, his dark hair flying about as he gazed at the young woman in front of him.

"Yeah, it's difficult. But I wouldn't give up this life even if it meant a normal life because I don't think I could live that kind of life after all this, even before all this. I just didn't like that kind of thing." Katia said as she thought about how her life was before and decided it definitely wouldn't be worth it.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. You said Frincara had five sisters and I already know Juniper's name. Who are the others?" He asked.

"Let's see here.there's Juniper who you already know. Then there's Alexiel, Kiara, Adial, and Josilian. So we have five jealous sisters to deal with over and over until "father" decides to change Frincara's fiancée to another daughter, like that'll happen."

"So, we'll just have to deal with them as they come and hope for the best." Niroku stated plainly.

"Yep, that's about it. Hey, it's worked so far. Let's hope it continues to work and let us also pray to the heavens that the fiancée doesn't decide to come down and get Frincara cause then we'll have to deal with five jealous sisters and an overprotective, unwanted fiancée."

"You mean he wanted to be engaged to Frincara. Wow, you life just got a lot worse. This just plain sucks." Niroku said.

"Yep, that's one of the reason that her father chose her to be his fiancée. Maybe if we delay the wedding enough it will be canceled. We can hope." Katia said. 'Especially since I don't want to be married to that asshole and until I die Frincara and I can't be separated. And that's until I'm supposed to die.'

AN: If you read this and wish me to continue the series please review this and tell me so.