Chapter 5: The Inevitable Long, Drawn Out, Giant Final Battle
AN: One more after this! I know I don't have a ton of reviews or anything (sniff), but I hope you liked this. Why am I saying this with two more chapters to go? Yeah, anyway... my brain stopped. Guess I better say I don't own Inuyasha now before it starts up again, huh? I'm sort of new to writing fights, so this might not be the greatest chapter, but I'd really like to know what you think so I can improve on it! (aka REVIEW!)
Once again, I'm responding to reviews! I don't do this very often. Gamja the Wolf's Fang, first off, thank you for reviewing. I seriously feel very special if someone I was reading reads one of my fics, especially because it's what I tend to do. I just want to clear a few things up about my apparently questionable villains. My original goal was to make some new kind of demon because I never want to do what I think everyone else is doing, so I asked people at school randomly about an animal that they thought could secretly be evil and the best one I got (out of the usual stuff) was llamas. I know they've started out a little on the goofy side. In a way, it's intended because they are talking about gaining ultimate power which means (at least in their standards) that they are weak, so I thought that maybe showing a sillier side would help emphasize this. Obviously, my idea was once again a stupid one! However, you may find out shortly that they aren't as weak as you'd think... But enough with spoiling my chapter! And again, I'd like to thank all of my reviewers. It makes me feel good to know that you could have been doing something productive but instead you wasted your time reading the strange thoughts that pour out of my head. Spectrum even commented on my "big scene," and that made me very happy! So keep it up, all of you!
Miroku, Sango, and Kilala stood ready to fend off any attack from the quickly charging llama demons, weapons in hand. Sango wasn't sure about what to expect from the monsters. Although they complained about being weak and did not seem to be as sinister as most demons, she couldn't help but feel that this would not be an easy battle. She looked over her shoulder at Miroku for a moment. His face looked incredibly stern as he watched them approach, and his mind seemed completely focused on fight at hand. His expression more or less lessened her doubts about whether or not this was something to worry about. Any fight with a demon was a serious one, no matter how they appear at first, and she now tried to remind herself about that rule as she readied Hiraikotsu to throw or block any assault that might need it.
The first of the demons had reached them, and they began to attack both of them fiercely. Miroku managed to block the ones around him with his staff, while Sango ducked behind Hiraikotsu, watching the every movement of the demons to judge what sort of a fight this would become. The llamas didn't seem to have much method to their style; they mostly seemed to be driven by their hatred at this moment.
Kilala seemed to notice this as well, and leapt in amongst them to try and get a hit in on one of them. However, they nimbly dodged all of her blows while still seeming completely focused on heading toward Miroku and Sango mindlessly. "Something's not right," Sango thought as she watched this. "They shouldn't be able to dodge Kilala like that."
"Houshi-sama, look out!" she exclaimed. "Something doesn't add up about these demons!"
"I see what you mean," he replied, still holding them off with his staff as he apparently tried to get the upper hand in order to attack back, but was not succeeding.
The leader of the llamas was still standing in the same place that she had been when Sango had broken the spell on Miroku. She (or it could have possibly been "he" for all they knew) didn't seem to be making any effort at all since she commanded them to attack the trio in the first place.
Sango quickly took notice of this and looked toward her. The leader watched as the others charged in their semi chaotic state, and then smiled slightly. "Either they are just acting out of rage, or that one is hiding something, and judging by how things are looking right now, I doubt it's former," she thought.
She once again looked around to see how her friends were faring. A few of demons had finally seemed to take notice of Kilala and were simultaneously making very pathetic looking blows toward her. Kilala was dodging well enough, but appeared to be getting worn down by this.
Miroku was still trying to get an upper hand on them, as well. He seemed to be watching their movements carefully to figure out what their style was. However, he appeared to be just as confused as she was, and continued to block off as many hits as he could with his staff.
"This has to stop," Sango said to herself. "If I can figure out if they're capable of more, this would be going somewhere..." She looked at the leader again.
"Maybe if I attack her, I can figure out what's going on..." she mumbled to herself.
Sango picked up Hiraikotsu and leapt into the air, clearing most of the demons before she landed again. She raced forward toward the leader, who was still focused on how her minions were faring. "Just a little farther..." she thought as she hoisted her weapon behind her in a back swing.
Just then, the head demon turned at looked at the charging taijiya and laughed a little. Sango took no heed of this and stopped running, while throwing Hiraikotsu with all of her might. The leader watched the approaching boomerang for a moment and suddenly vanished before it hit her.
Sango looked around, trying to figure out what had just happened. Hiraikotsu had reached it's peak and flew back. She caught it, but continued to scan the area. Suddenly, Sango heard a noise directly behind her.
"Now, now, my foolish little girl, did you really think that we hadn't gained some power with ninety-three percent of our spell complete?"
She turned around, but all that could be seen was the once again fading figure of the leader of the llamas. "What the..." she thought.
"Look out!" Miroku suddenly shouted, managing to get his sights on her from behind the attacking demons.
She started to turn back, but just then, she felt a sharp pain as the head demon hit her with her previously hidden claws. The attack cut her arm and part of her torso, and she fell to the ground.
"Sango!" Miroku exclaimed, suddenly stabbing one of them in the stomach with his staff and charging forward. However, for the one that he batted away, seven more leapt at him. He was caught off guard, being too concerned about Sango at the time, and felt an unexpected surge of pain. Normally, with a hit of that calabur, he should have been able to take it, but it felt as though he had just been stabbed with several knives as a punch came in contact with him.
"D-dammit," he thought as he fell to the ground. "There really is something else to them. But..." He looked up and saw Sango, still lying where she had been when the demon had hit her. "What can we do? I'm down after only one punch, and I'm sure they'll hit me again any second now..."
It was at that very moment that good old Kilala finally got her way out of the encirclement of demons that she had been trapped within and pounced upon three of the demons that were about to finish off Miroku. She raised her claw to slice through one of them, but suddenly, they seemed to vanish from beneath her.
Miroku was struggling to get away from the four remaining ones before they could hit him at the same time. However, just as soon as Kilala had realized that her prey was gone, the other llamas in the area began vanishing as well. In a very short amount of time, the clearing was empty except for the two humans lying on the ground, injured, and the cat demon that was looking around and trying to figure out where the demons could be, since their presence could still be felt nearby.
The pain had begun to lessen from the otherwise harmless wound the monk had received. Sango still lay motionless next to Hiraikotsu, and Miroku struggled to stand up and walk over toward her and see if she was okay.
"S-Sango?" he stuttered, kneeling down and turning her on her back to see if she was conscious. Her eyes were closed, but as he touched her, she stirred a little and opened them.
"Houshi-sama?" she said, noticing him leaning above her. Miroku smiled with relief, although Sango was trying to sit up without feeling too much pain. "What happened to...?"
"You simple-minded mortals," the voice of the leader of the demons rang through the clearing. "Did you really think that you could mess with the great llama demons and come away alive? We not be at our highest power, but we are much stronger than you could ever comprehend!"
A blast of demonic energy shot through the clearing. Miroku, Sango, and Kilala all leapt out of the way in three different directions. As the light cleared, a large crevice scarred the ground, although the trees surrounding the clearing were strangely unharmed. They looked toward where the blast had come from, but no signs of movement could be seen.
Suddenly, a sound came from the opposite direction. They turned and saw the hoard of demons, visible once again, standing in a formation of some kind, with their leader toward the front. They appeared to have changed their shape just slightly; the women now had evident fangs and somehow looked more scraggily than before. Their claws were also now visible and it seemed as though their necks had lengthened just slightly.
"Prepare to die," the leader said. They readied their claws, barred their fangs, and seemed to be preparing to charge. "This measly amount of power should be enough to completely annihilate you shortly!"
"Wait a minute," Sango thought as she watched them prepare. "That's it! If only I could get to Hiraikotsu, I could finish this!" She looked over at her weapon, which lay on the opposite side of the mark in the ground from where the demons had blasted them.
"Kilala! Houshi-sama!" she called as the demons began to charge forward. "Try to hold them off! I have an idea!"
Miroku and Kilala stared at her for a moment as she bolted past the demons, who all saw her and began dashing toward her.
"Hold it right, there!" the monk exclaimed, throwing three o-fuda papers at them, sending a blast of some kind of lightening at them.
"Why you no good little..." the leader mumbled once she over came the sutras. A few of the demons kept heading for Sango, but many of them now turned their attention to the priest who grabbed the beads on his right hand.
"I'll probably have to use this," he thought looking at his hand, "but I don't want to risk sucking Sango into this, too. I'll have to time it just right."
The demon slayer had finally made it to her boomerang and picked it up. "All right," she thought. "As long as I throw this the right way..."
Just then, she looked up and saw a group of demon dangerously close to her. She threw Hiraikotsu into the ground in front of her to block their initial attacks, and then began trying to dodge them on her own, while still trying to remain close to her weapon.
"I won't be able to hold this off for long," she thought. "I'm sure they'll figure out a way to hit me eventually. They aren't as stupid as they seemed."
Once again, it was at that moment that Kilala picked the right time to leap in. She pounced upon two of the demons, which sent most of Sango's assailants toward her instead.
The leader of the demons was now moments away from Miroku, who was still trying to decide when would be the best opportunity to use Kazaana. She opened her mouth, and he noticed a faint light that was quickly growing in brightness and size.
"Oh no," he thought. "She's going to attack me. I'll have to do something, fast."
"There's no way you were going to leave this place alive monk!" the demon exclaimed, although its mouth did not move due to the energy forming within.
"Yes he will!" Sango replied. They both stopped in temporarily and turned to look at her, as did everyone in the clearing. She once again held Hiraikotsu and prepared to throw it. "Say goodbye to your power!"
She threw Hiraikotsu toward the edge of the clearing.
"Wh-what are you doing!" the leader of the demons exclaimed in fear as they all watched the boomerang fly.
"Getting rid of you," Sango answered as Hiraikotsu hit one of the trees that contained the body of one of the demon sacrifices and sliced straight through the trunk.
"NO!" the demons exclaimed watching it topple over, followed by the next seven trees in the circle as the boomerang crashed through them. Sango had run over to where it stopped hitting the trees and caught her weapon.
A strange light formed around the demons and shot from their bodies into the sky. They lay on the ground, motionless for a moment, back in the shapes they were when Sango had first seen them.
The leader of the demons was the first to pick herself up. She got to her knees and turned to stare at Sango with only hate in her eyes. "You horrible wench!" she exclaimed. "You've completely ruined our plan! I'll kill you!"
"No, you won't" Miroku replied, seeing that both of his companions were a safe distance away from the demons. "This is the end for all of you!" He tore the beads off of his hand and unleashed Kazaana upon the demons.
"No!" the leader exclaimed as she and her comrades tried to resist being sucked into the void, but did not succeed.
Miroku placed the beads in front of his hand again. The clearing was left empty except for the monk, the slayer, the cat demon, a few fallen trees, and the bodies of thirteen men.
Sango fell to her knees and sighed with relief.
"At least it's over," she said to herself.
AN: Hm... I'm not sure if that was good or not. I'm new at writing fights. Please, tell me what you thought. Please! (Puppy dog eyes go here) I'm sorry I didn't get it finished by the end of June like I wanted to, but it took me a while to get this the way I wanted it to be. I'll have chapter 6 done sometime within the next two weeks, though. I promise!