Hello mina-san! I'm actually updated quickly! Yay!
One of my reviewers asked me about what the school assignment was. Well...It was a journal entry where I had to come up with as story where I went to some other country, real or imaginary, and do something heroic that would make us famous back home. It was only suppose to be a page long, but I, as well as one of my friends ((who did a funny one about the CLAMP girls, a magic pin, and random CLAMP characters)), went a little overboard. -; Being a journal entry I didn't get a grade on it. I don't think he even read it ((or my friends)).
Disclaimer: Don't own so don't sue. Yet I do own the plot and Jerrica.
Meeting New People Ch. 3
Three Demons, a Girl, and a Bad Idea
I meet up with the rest of the Sanzo party in the lobby and we head out for breakfast. Everything seems back to normal with Goku and Gojyo fighting over food and Sanzo's paper fan making an appearance every once and a while; also the acausul gun shot. I giggle as Hakkai tries to calm everyone down before they kill someone.
"Those monsters are getting out of hand! That's the third group they've killed this month!" I look at the table beside us where the whispers are coming from and see two men hunched over in conversation. Glancing back I notice Sanzo and Hakkai has also heard the two.
Sanzo stands and moves over to the men, getting a questing look from Goku and Gojyo. Placing a hand on the table he asks, "What's this I hear about something killing groups of people?"
"Why would a Sanzo priest want to know about our problems?"
Sanzo grunts, crossing his arms as he stands up straight. "We came in last night and saw a massacre," he says indicating to the rest of us. "I'd like to know about anything we might run into outside of town."
The five of us listen intently as the men talk, "About three months ago a group of demons showed up and started killing any groups that passed through the forest. They don't seem to care who they kill. It's just whoever happens to pass by them, although it's always been groups. That's all we know."
Sanzo nods and turns to leave; seeing as we've all finished eating. After we get outside Gojyo pipes up, "Doesn't seem like they're assassins after us from Kougaiji, huh?"
"No it doesn't," Hakkai says, "but we should still keep our guard up." We all agreed. Hakkai suggested that we stock up on supplies and then leave tomorrow. After gathering the supplies we headed back to the hotel.
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Back at the hotel Hakkai and Gojyo play cards with Goku watching while Sanzo reads his paper. I sit on the bed reading a book I had bought in town. Suddenly a loud growl sounds throughout the room, breaking the salience. I glance around in shock and notice everybody looking at Goku. "I'm hungry!" he wines.
"But that was an hour ago!" complains Goku. Hakkai lays his hand down; four aces, and Gojyo mumbles about Hakkai's dumb luck. "Come on! Get me something!"
Sanzo tosses his gold card to Goku, "Shut up and go get you some meatbuns." Goku grins and jumps up.
Sanzo catches my eye and I smile, giving a quick nod. "I'll go with you Goku." I mark my place in my book and move over to join Goku at the door.
"Take Hakuryu with you," Hakkai says. "He can come get us if something happens." I nod as Hakuryu flies over and lands on my shoulder. Goku and I head out looking for a place that sells meatbuns.
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Night has fallen by the time Goku and I leave the store with two bags full of meatbuns. I giggle as Goku already starts chowing down. He suddenly stops and glances toward the forest. "What's wrong?" I ask.
"I feel a demon aura," he says.
I look at the forest nervously, "Maybe we should get the others." Just then a loud scream rips through the night. Goku and I quickly take off running toward the sound, dropping the meatbuns in the process; much to Goku's dismay. I quickly send Hakuryu to get the others, hoping they will be able to find us.
I continue to fallow the screams and Goku until we find a clearing where the screams come from. The clearing is covered in blood and body parts much like before.
I quickly try to ignore my stomach, 'This is no time to be queasy', as I scan the clearing. My eyes land on three demons; one with short dark purple hair, one with black hair, and one with long silver hair; stand over a lone survivor; a young girl. Two of them had grabbed the girl by the hair and arms and were holding her in place. The silver haird one, obviously the leader, was standing in fount of her with a malignant grin in his face. He grabbed her face, covering her mouth, and stopping her screaming. He leaned closer to her, his long silver hair falling around his face. "I give you something to really scream about," he says. The two other demons snicker as he moves his hands toward her shirt, or more precisely her breasts.
"OH NO YOU DON'T YOU ASS WIPE!" Goku yells as he takes off toward the demons. He summons up his staff and knocks the demons away from the girl. I rush over to her and help her to get up and run away.
I turn around, reaching for my Naginata. I see Goku be attacked from behind and knocked unconscious. "Gokuh..." is all I can say as I fall into darkness, my rod falling out of my hand.
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I moan as I regain conscious. I try to move and realize I'm tied up. "Looks like the girls awake." I look up and see the purple haired standing by me.
I see the silver haired demon stand from the tree stump he was sitting on and walk over to me. The purple haired demon pulls me into a sitting position. The leader stops in front of me, but I'm not looking at him. Instead I'm looking past him at Goku, who is still unconscious with the black haired demon standing over him.
My eyes stay trained on him hoping he's all right until a stick of some sort turns my face away from him and to the leader. "Don't worry about your friend," he says with a grin. I then notice that the stick currently holding my chin up is actually my rod. "You helped that girl to escape so I think you should take her place." My eyes widen in fear as his grin spreads.
Before he gets the chance to start anything another soft moan is heard. The leader straitens up and I look to see Goku waking up. He moves over to Goku, and the black haired demon moves him into a sitting position and holds him there, much like the purple haired one did to me. "So I see you've finally woken up," the leader says. Goku glances at me before he settles his glare on the leader. "I don't see why you would fight against demons. You're a demon like us."
Goku lets out a growl, "I'm nothing like you assholes!"
"Why don't we see what he's like without he's limiter," the black haired demon says.
"I like that idea," the leader grins. Goku's eyes widen as the leader reaches for the gold coronet around his head.
Just then Sanzo, Gojyo, and Hakkai run into the clearing. Their eyes land on Goku and the leader. "STOP!" they yell, but it was too late. The coronet was slipped off, dropped on the ground, stepped on, shattering it into pieces. Goku made strangled choking sounds as his ears got longer and pointyer, his hair grew to his waist, his teeth became fangs, and his fingernails became claws. He slumps down after his transformation.
"Ha ha impressive," the leader says grinning.
"Shit," Gojyo says, drawing my attention to him and the others. I notice everyone looks very nervous.
I look back at Goku wondering why they were so nervous, and not really wanting to know. "So how do you feel now," the leader says. That comment was followed by the sound of ropes snapping. I stare at Goku, shocked that he just broke those thick ropes. He looks up, and I start feeling scared as I see the cold look in his eyes. He tuns his eyes to the demon holding him and smiles and evil, bloodthirsty smile. Goku seemed to disappear, and to my horror reappear with his hand through the black haired demon's chest. The body crumpled to the ground as he removed his hand and licked the blood off of it.
The leader just stair with wide eyes until he comes to his sinces and, dropping my rod, he turned and ran. The purple haired demon holding me did the same, following the leader. ((AN: Ouch I did not just write that.)) Goku appears in front of them, and I stair in terror as he kills them, or more like toys with them.
I jump as I feel someone pulling at the ropes binding me. Looking behind me I see Gojyo untying my ropes, with Hakkai and Sanzo behind him. "Are you okay?" Hakkai asks.
"Y-yes," I stammer as Gojyo removes my binds. "What's wrong with Goku?" I ask nervously.
"When he loses his limiter he goes berserk, unable to distinguish between friend and foe," Sanzo answers. "He's even more powerful and faster, as well as bloodthirsty, like this."
"Just stay back until we get Goku's coronet back on him," Gojyo says.
"How?" I ask. "Those demons broke it."
"Sanzo can make a new one," Hakkai states.
We then notice that Goku has finished "playing" with the demons and directed his attention to us. He appears in fount of me and throws a kick at me. I let out a squeak and cover my head, but I don't feel anything. I look up and see that Gojyo has blocked the attack with his staff. "Don't just sit there!" he yells. "Get out of the way!"
I jump up quickly and scurry away. I glance back and see Goku land a hard punch on Gojyo, sending him into a tree. He then turns to Hakkai and Sanzo and attacks them. They manage to get out of the way but Sanzo is caught of guard as Goku turns the missed punch into a kick to the head. Sanzo flies through the air and lands a few feet away from me. I rush over to him, "Sanzo!" Turning him over I realize he's unconscious. "Sanzo, wake up!"
Hearing a groan of pain I look up to see Hakkai on the ground holding a bleeding side. Goku tuns to me, but at that time I notice my rod lying by Sanzo. I quickly grab it and turn it into my Naginata thinking that I can't just run away leaving Sanzo unprotected.
As Goku lunges at me I manage to block his first attack, but he manages to kick me hard in the stomach and send me tumbling to the ground. I stagger back up clutching my stomach and prepare myself for an attack. I succeed in fending off his attack again, but I let out a cry as I feel a shearing pain as his claws slash my right cheek. I try to ignore the pain as I send my one kick at him, only to have him catch my leg and through me ten feet through the air, and bounce off the tree stump. "Jerrica!" I hear Hakkai cry with a painful moan.
I groan as I sit up, having to use my Naginata to support my self. I feel the blood dripping off my face from the wound as I raise my head to look at Goku. He stands over Sanzo's unconscious form and raises a hand ready to attack. "NO!" I cry as a light emits from my Naginata. The Dragon again flies off of my Naginata and toward Goku. My eyes widen thinking it's going to attack Goku, but instead I circles around his head and creates a new coronet. Goku returns to his normal form and fall on Sanzo asleep, as the Dragon returns to my Naginata. I let out a sigh as I allow the darkness to take me.
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I awaken to see Hakkai standing over me. "Ah...I see you're awake," he says. "How are you feeling?""I've been better," I moan out as I sit up.
Hakkai chuckles, "Not surprising seeing as you have two broken ribs and a lot of bruises." He picks up a little hand mirror and looks at me with a sad look. "I healed the claw marks, however, I couldn't get rid of the scars." He hands me the mirror, and I look at myself. Three large lines run across my right cheek, standing out against my skin.
I put the mirror down and look at Hakkai. I smile at him, "It's okay. You did what you could. I don't mind them."
Hakkai smiles. "I wonder though how your Naginata was able to create a coronet for Goku." He shakes his head, "I guess there's a lot we don't know about it." He stands up and walks towards the door. "The others are in the room nextdoor," he says looking back. "I'm going to go get us something to eat." He walks out with Hakuryu on his shoulder.
I grimace as I stagger up. 'Ow, it hurts a lot more when you move,' I think. I leave the room and wonder which room is the right one. There's a loud thump followed by the sound of paper hitting something hard coming from the room to my left. I smile as I move to the door and open it. Goku and Gojyo is in the floor clutching their head , and Sanzo sits on the bed holding his fan and reading the paper.
"Sanzo, that hurt!" Goku wines.
"Damnit Sanzo!" yells Gojyo. "It was that stupid monkeys fault."
I giggle and draw everyone's attention to myself. "Hay Jerrica," Gojyo says. "How ya feeling?"
"Better," I reply. Goku looks at me and his expression changes to nervousness.
Gojyo and Sanzo seems to catch Goku's nervousness and they both stand up. "Where are you going?" Goku asks.
"Just getting some smokes," Gojyo responds. They walk past me and out the door, shutting the door behind them.
I move and sit on the bed where Sanzo had previously been. Goku sits on the ground and seems to find the carpet very interesting. "I...I'm really...s- sorry," he says.
I smile at him. "It's okay," I say. "I was told you can't control yourself when you're like that."
Goku looks up at me. "But...your face," he says. "I...did..." He looks down at his hands with a sad expression.
I move over to him and kneel down in fount of him. Raping my arms around him I pull him into a hug. "It's okay," I tell him. "I don't care about a few scratches. The important thing is everyone is okay." I pull back and give him a smile, which he returns.
"Aw did the little monkey need a hug?" Gojyo teases from the door. He and Sanzo had apparently returned, as well as Hakkai.
"Shut up you cockroach!" Goku yells. They begin to argue, which results in Sanzo's gun going off and his fan flying. I laugh at the boys fighting as I relax and snack on a meatbun.
"All right! Meatbuns!"
The fan connects with Goku's head with a resounding thwap. "Stupid monkey."
So what do you think? Something I realized is that I don't usually put author notes in the middle of the chapters often like some people do. I've only had one in this chapter and another. But I think that's a good thing.
Some of you may notice that I don't use any Japanese in this story ((I'm saying this so no one comments on it hopefully)). It's not that I don't like using bakasaru and ect, I just prefer my stories being all one language. It makes it easier to read for people who don't know much or any Japanese. So I hope the reader who prefer Sanzo yelling "Urasai" and "Bakasaru" will still enjoy this story.
Well that's all. Now on to reviews. Only two this time, but one of them is Goose and I see her in real life, so she doesn't matter. (( - hee hee))
Silver on the Tree - I'm glad you enjoy the fact she was affected. Your right about most OCs being too tough at times. I just think about the fact that Jerrica is a young girl without a lot of fighting experience, so she wouldn't be used to that sort of stuff like the boys are. The Naginata idea actually came from Real Bout Highschool ((did I spell that right?)). One of the character's ((don't remember her name)) had a naginata. It didn't look like mine though ((meaning no dragon on it)).
That's it until next time. Please review. Ja ne.