Ok! here's chapter seven. hope you enjoy as always.

Disclaimer: The only characters I own which are copy righted by me are Isil, Itarilde, Maranwe, Kikai, Rokon, Vijen, Kikente, Lord Maeglin, Lady Inwe, Lord Nekato, Lady Ekokan, the dragon demon queen Lady Eldenare, all of the dragon demons if I happen to give any of them names and of course Ashaina. All the other characters I did not name belong to the wonderful manga artist and the creator of Inu-Yasha, Rumiko Takahashi. :)
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Ch 7
"To The Entrance Of A Hell"

"How much farther away is the mountain, now, do you think?" Kikai asked. A thoughtful look came upon Rokon's face, " Well, the forest is getting thinner so we must be nearing the end of the forest which means we must be pretty close. Since the mountain itself is so titanic I doubt many trees will be near it."

Isil walked on silently with a concerned look. "Is something the matter, Isil?" Maranwe asked seriously. With a short moments pause Isil answered, "I was just think...This mountain where supposedly the dragon demons are will most likely be heavily guarded maybe not on the outside since we've seen no sign of them for decades but most lily once we are fully inside we'll be seen. I was just contemplating on how we are suppose to get past it all."

"You have a point there." Miroku came in, "We have no idea what we will meet once we enter that mountain." "Then how do we get into the mountain?" Rin questioned. "We're just going to have to take our chances." Itarilde said sternly, "Once we reach the mountain, maybe we'll be able to figure out how we can get in. We're going to have to gamble at some time."

"Gamble?" Kohaku said worriedly, "Gamble with what?" "Our lives, baka." snapped Maranwe, "Doesn't matter either way. You're always gambling, you never know when your life is going to end. It could happen right now. Every second of your life is a chance that you could die right where you stand. Anything can happen, so it doesn't matter what you do. Fate decides what happens . Fate decides who lives and who dies and how and when you die. No one can escape it, not even the gods and goddesses can escape it. All you can do is keep walking forwards and willingly take what Fate wishes of you, and never look back."

An awkward silence was left after Maranwe spoke. It was a lot to take in, as well as hit hard on the hearts of everyone. But Maranwe was right. You truly don't know what will happen. You can die at any time and place. Every second is precious, and it's important to treasure every little bit of it, cause Fate can take it all away at any moment.

As the group walked on they finally found themselves standing in aw at the base of the dragon demon's mountain. The mountain was very wide, and it's peak was hidden by dark clouds. The distant sound of thunder could be heard from above, as well as the occasional flashes of lightning.

"They're power has grown greatly." said Isil, "Even I can barely stand with this immense power I'm sensing." "You're telling me!" exclaimed Kikente. "So how the hell do we get in?" asked Vijen. Rin studied the mountain best she could. Rin first looked up at the dark thunder clouds which covered the summit of the mountain and she thought she saw a few dark figures fly around then disappear again into the clouds. Rin then started looking around the bottom of the mountain and as she looked she thought she saw a barely noticeable dark line in the shape of almost a large door right at the base of the mountain.

"What's that?" Rin pointed to what she saw. They all looked and walked up to it. "It must be the entrance, we should try and find a way to open it..." "Well then lets open it!" said Rokon as he lifted his large double sword weapon and slashed it hard down upon the rock wall of the mountain. With a blast of fire there cam an opening in the wall.

"...Um, not exactly what I had in mind...But good enough, I guess.", Rin said a little un easy. "Baka," snapped Maranwe, "I bet that woke up the entire mountain!" Suddenly a distant roar came from inside the mountain. "Eh heh," Rokon laughed uneasily, "Uh, gomen?"

Just as that was said, two dragons and their dragon demons flew out. A gust of wind came after them as the dragons flew right over them. "Whoa!" exclaimed Kohaku as he brought out his own chain weapon. Maranwe raised her bow and aimed an arrow glowing a bright pink at one of the dragons and sent it flying at one. The arrow hit one of the dragon's wings and it fell to the ground.

"You'll pay for that wench!" Said the dragon demon. His dragon sent a blast of fire straight towards the group. They all dodged it. Kikente and Vijen un sheathed their swords and charged at the fallen dragon. "Look Out!!" Yelled Miroku. Sango through her boomerang at the other dragon that was coming down upon Kikente and Vijen, "Hiroukutso!" "What?!" Exclaimed the other dragon just as he and his dragon got hit with the boomerang.

Kikente and Vijen attacked the dragon with the broken wing with their swords. The dragon demon himself jumped off his dragon and stood in front of Kikente and Vijen. They both stopped to stare at the mighty dragon demon. He was tall and well muscled. His long black hair was tied up in a high pony tail. His blood red dragon eyes burned like fire as they glowed. His lips curled into an evil grin, showing off his long sharp fangs. His dragon behind him slowly stood up having the same evil grin.

Itarilde slowly began to walk up behind the dragon with her sword raised. "Take this!" She brought her sword up which began to glow with green energy and slashed straight through the dragon. The dragon let out an ear piercing scream as it died and the dragon demon fell to the floor barely alive. "Ngh! Damn you bitch!" He slowly turned around ready to breathe fire from his mouth, "Do us all a favor and keep your mouth shut!" Maranwe bellowed as she had her arrow aimed inches from the back of the dragon demon's head. She let the arrow go and it cut cleanly through the dragon demon's head, and the carcass fell to the ground.

The others began fighting the other dragon demon. "Frozen Death!" bellowed Kikai as her sword began to glow and a great wave of ice filled energy blew from it freezing the dragon demon in mid air. The dragon demon statue fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"Hn, I always love making a bloody entrance." Laughed Kikai. "Next time I hope we can at least make our bloody entrance just a tad quieter." Isil glared at Rokon. "Don't you think so, Rokon?"

Rokon laughed with a little un-ease, "Heh heh, of course, Isil, of course." Isil snorted, "Next time have some patience."

They all turned towards the opening in the mountain and began to walk inside. As they walked in the entire place was dark and only lit by torches that hung on the blackened rock walls. The fire light gave the rock a moist look and the entire place looked more like a cave rather than any sort of home. But of course these were dragons after all.

As they walked on they came to more and more tunnels leading to un-known areas. "We'll never find them with all these different tunnels leading everywhere." groaned Vijen. "Yeah shouldn't we like split up or something?" questioned Kikente.

Isil nodded, "Maybe we should. Itarilde and I shall head off one tunnel. Rokon, you shall go with the monk Miroku and the demon exterminator, Sango. Kikai you can go with the two wolf demons, Kikente and Vijen. "What?! Why in the seven hells do I have to get stuck with the wolves?! And who died and made you the leader?" Isil was at her in a second with her clawed hand holding Kikai's throat. She lifted Kikai up holding her up off the ground.

"There never was a specific so called leader chosen for this damned group and since no one happened to have enough fucking guts to stand up to the plate I did. And that my dear cat is how I became this group's so called leader, and what I say goes. If anyone has a problem with that I'll be glad to take their intestines out of them my self, put it on a fancy dish to my fitting and have it for an after noon dinner. Sounds fair enough, hm?"

"Hn, whatever you say, elf" coughed Kikai. Isil dropped her to the ground. Kikai landed hard, coughing, and quickly put her hand over her throat to rub it.

"Oh and Maranwe you get to go with Rin and Kohaku and their demon beast." Isil said rather hotly to her sister. Maranwe smirked, doing a good job at hiding her aggravation at having to accompany a couple of humans when she'd much rather be with her two sisters, "Once again, Isil, just when I thought I was the cruelest of elves you show me just how much more vile and savage you, yourself are. And of course you are the cruelest of elves, it's no wonder your the head of our little group." Maranwe's laugh sent chills through everyone's spines but Isil and Itarilde.

And so they all spit up into their groups and headed off into their chosen directions. Leading themselves to where ever it is those dark tunnels intend to give them.

A living hell...

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