Chapter 26: Lover's Light
"Oi! Oi! Wake up!"
Daggerclaw patted the side of Inu Yasha's face.
"He's not unconscious, he's just off in lala land!" Kagome said.
"Shut up! I know he's not unconscious!" Daggerclaw shouted back at her. Finally after numerous attempts, the kidnapper decided to try a more direct approach.
Between chapters, Daggerclaw made a nice little campfire (and was smart enough to put a bucket of water next to it).
(Smokey the Bear: Only you can prevent forest fires!)
(Scorpiogal: - - ;; Only me?)
(Smokey the Bear: Only you.)
(Scorpiogal: And nobody else.)
(Smokey the Bear: That's usually what "only you" means…)
(Scorpiogal: Does that make me a super hero or something?)
(Smokey the Bear: No.)
(Scorpiogal: ………)
Daggerclaw lifted the bucket and tossed a cold wave of stream water into Inu Yasha's face. The hanyo coughed and sputtered in shock and looked at Daggerclaw like the freak was a nut job.
"Morning, Glory!" Daggerclaw replied cockily.
"What the fck is your problem?!" Inu Yasha shouted.
"You're my problem btch!!" Daggerclaw shouted back.
"If I'm your problem then why don't you just fcking let us go btch!"
"Because I'm using you, btch!! I got a schedule to keep up with here!!"
"Ahem, uh, hello there?" Sango interrupted. "We have a plot to be doing."
"Right." Daggerclaw walked over to the campfire and drew a dagger whose blade was resting in the flame. Holding up the glowing blade, Daggerclaw pointed the dagger at Kagome's throat.
She gasped and looked down at the wielder of the weapon in terror.
Daggerclaw simply replied. "Start screaming."
Inu Yasha struggled in his bindings furiously. "You bastard! I'm gonna kill you!"
"Shut up, I haven't done anything – yet." Daggerclaw didn't even look over at him when making this comment. Kagome had to know the seriousness that this was not a request. "Didn't you hear me? I said start screaming."
Kagome felt her throat tighten up. She wanted to scream, she really did. She probably would have screamed whether asked to or not. But for some reason, nothing was coming out. "I – I can't…" she cried.
"Sure you can," Daggerclaw replied with a serious expression. "Just imagine yourself in bed with your little playmate over there." Daggerclaw made a head gesture in Inu Yasha's direction.
Kagome gulped as a bead of cold sweat ran down her neck.
Daggerclaw nodded. "I'll leave you to that." Going over to Sango, the next command was made at knifepoint. "You – will start moaning. Moan like you're living your wildest fantasy."
Sango raised an eyebrow at Daggerclaw, a bit disturbed.
When approaching Inu Yasha, the hanyo appeared as if he wanted to stab his claws into the hostage taker's eyes. Daggerclaw raised a dagger to the dogboy's throat. "You know how a dog demon sounds when it's getting some right? Of course you do. I want you to sound like that."
Inu Yasha shook his head looking down at the assailant murderously. "I swear to fcking god, you'd better god damn hope that I never get free."
"Do what you're told, and that's all." Daggerclaw stated. The kidnapper went over to the fire, prodded it with the dagger, then left the blade in again. "The louder you are, the more you call out someone's name, the more realistic you all are, the less I point my daggers at you once Shio gets here."
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A high pitched scream rang through the forest. Inu Onna leapt out of the foliage, quickly sniffing the air to make sure she was going the right way. She rotated her head and body alertly twitching her ears fearfully. With a frightened scurry in her take off, she dashed off on the trail. Shio burst out of the foliage like a wild dog. His claws extended in an anger reflex and with a vicious growl dashed after the puppy. Hologram Sumiko tried her best to keep up with him while holding Shippou. Her crying pleas wheren't exactly good for her stamina either. "Please, Kitty-chan! She's only a baby! She didn't know you don't like to be bitten there!"
He may have been super quick and stuff, but he was still loaded up on drugs. He zigzagged more then Inu Onna did as she tried to keep him from catching her before she got to the battle site. She made a sharp turn causing the drunk dog to make an even sharper turn and fall down a very steep hill. Inu Onna slumped down in the dirt panting heavily. Too much scampering. Then suddenly she heard a howl. The baby looked up in it's direction.
Sounded like her daddy. There was her mommy and that other person screaming too. Inu Onna patted her hands against the dirt and looked back in time to see Shio clawing over the side of the hill-like cliff. He snarled angrily, "Disrespectful, evil little-"
She pushed off and led him in her parents' direction.
Inu Yasha drooped his head forward breathing heavily. He bared his demonic fangs which looked much longer then usual. Then after a few deep breaths, he through his head back and howled amorously.
Kagome answered with ardent cries and soft gasps, almost writhing in her bindings.
Sango moaned and said Miroku's name a couple of times (by accident or for real no one was quite sure).
Daggerclaw stood off to the side scowling in another direction, blushing a bit. The kidnapper thought they were getting way too into it.
Miroku was still knocked out from the punch, though Daggerclaw gagged him just incase he woke up sooner then he should of. Oh if only the perverted priest were awake he'd be in happy land.
Inu Onna burst through a bush like she was being shot out of a cannon. She flew through the air with her arms out like superman. Daggerclaw glanced up at her in confusion. The pup dashed over to Inu Yasha's tree. She slid down the tree trunk on her first hop, but on her second she was able to get a good grip on her father. She crawled up his fire rat suit and climbed inside his shirt, shaking and panting like a hypervenalating little leaf!
Well Inu Yasha and the others had stopped doing their sound effects the moment they realized the minor was present. Inu Yasha looked down his shirt with a sweat drop. "Inu Onna!"
She looked up at him, still scared and hugged his washboard chest. From the same bush came none other then Shio. He took three steps and fell over disoriented.
"Inu Yasha, is she okay?" Kagome asked.
"She's fine, just a bit shook up." Inu Yasha said then glared down at his friend. "Shio!" he shouted.
The dogglefox didn't move.
"Shio!"Inu Yasha shouted even louder, sounding like a drill sergeant. "Get up, you drug induced bastard! What the hell are you doing chasing my puppy?!"
Shio made a suffering sound and moaned. "Too much physical activity…" then he chucked and muttered, "Physical."
Daggerclaw froze wide eyed staring down at him. Kagome looked at the bounty hunter's expression curiously. She expected another arrogant smirk, or an evil leer of some kind. But now Daggerclaw looked shocked and very much horrified!
That expression remained until composure was found and an intensely murderous glare fixed in the kidnapper's eyes. Daggerclaw reached up to the helmet of the suit, and attached a mouth/nose mask piece. The bounty hunter raised armored fists and metallic claws sprang up from their sheaths. "Get up, you sick little whore! Face me like the man that you're not!"
Shio just kind of lay where he fell. The drugs made all of the words that Daggerclaw said sound funny. Shio giggled, "Dude, you're armor is pink!"
Daggerclaw glared dangerously at him.
"Shio, I don't think he's kidding!" Sango warned.
Shio rolled over onto his back and looked up at the bounty hunter lazily. Then after a moment he smiled again and cooed, "Hey sex-say lay-day!"
Daggerclaw's eye's went as wide as they could possibly go.
Inu Yasha burst into laughter.
Sango and Kagome sweatdropped.
Kagome sighed, "We're really screwed aren't we?"
"He is a total idiot." Sango grumbled.
Daggerclaw growled and thrust a claw up close into Shio's face. Shio just stared at it glassy eyed. "Get up, or I'll slice that boy band face of yours up!"
"Hey, hey." Shio reached out and pushed Daggerclaw's hand away. "Now look," he said drunkly from his laying position on the floor. "I didn't want to be drunk in pub – lic. I was drunk in a bar – but "they" threw me out into pub – lic. I wanted to be drunk in a bar…..Arrest them."
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Daggerclaw groaned in confusion. Giving an exasperated sigh, the bounty hunter went over to the camp fire, put it out and began to gather supplies.
"What are you doing now?" Sango asked.
"What does it look like?" Daggerclaw said. "It's obvious that I didn't even need to threaten him with your lives, he practically came to me defeated! I truly expected more."
"Are you still turning him in?" Kagome asked.
"Of course!" Daggerclaw said. "Like I said before, he's worth a tone of clams."
"What would you want clams for?" Shio asked drunkly.
"Shut up." Daggerclaw snapped. The bounty hunter pulled out some rope and walked over to Shio.
"STOP!" A whirlwind of leaves flew in as hologram Sumiko appeared in front of Shio with a hand on her hip and the other hand out in front of the approaching bounty hunter. "Stop in the name of the slaw!"
"Law." Inu Yasha, Kagome, and Sango said at the same time.
"Right, law! What did Sumiko say?" the hologram asked.
Daggerclaw extended claws threateningly at her. "You wanna die, little girl? I am known to kill men, women, and children."
Hologram Sumiko dropped her hands to her side just standing in front of Shio. She stared seriously into the eyes of the predator. "Then go ahead, Sumiko is small and frail. Make her move."
Daggerclaw looked taken aback, as if this response came completely unexpected. After a moment, the bounty hunter grabbed the front of the little girl's kimono and raised a metal claw in the air for strike.
"Sumiko," Shio raised his head and tried to lift his torso off of ground, but the world just spun for him and he helplessly fell flat again.
Daggerclaw didn't move to make the attack, but glared at the little girl who's eyes remained empty of fear. Hologram Sumiko looked back into the bounty hunter's eyes. She saw intense anger at her and someone else, perhaps Shio at the way he'd been yelled at. She also saw confusion and hesitation. There was racing thought taking place within that magenta helmet.
Daggerclaw snorted and lowered the claw. Instead the bounty hunter grabbed her shoulder and shoved her aside harshly.
"Oomf!"Her tushy hit the ground and the hologram shattered creating a large puff of smoke. About fifty or so berries showered the forest floor.
Daggerclaw took the rope and made a loop in the middle for Shio's hands to go through. As the bounty hunter leaned over the dog/fox demon, Shio took that moment to sit up.
BONK!
Shio and Daggerclaw's foreheads rebounded off of each other's and they were both laying on the dirt. Shio clutched at his forehead whining in pain. "OWieE!" he exclaimed. He gritted his fangs together and his tearing eyes remained tightly shut.
Daggerclaw on the other hand, was praying thanks for not having a cracked skull. With eyes closed tightly, Daggerclaw reached up to feel for blood.
There was blood.
Daggerclaw's hand moved farther up and felt a deep crack in the forehead of the helmet. The bounty hunter gasped.
With one hand still grasping his skull, Shio helped himself up, still under the effects of drugs. He posed for combat in his dysfunction anyway.
Daggerclaw right away began to do the same. The collision had made the hunter dizzy and eyesight blurred every few moments. "Damn it," the hunter muttered, "I only let – my guard down for a moment." The hunter flung some of the blood off onto the dirt with a hand then stood ready with claws raised once more. "I'll still take you down."
Shio cracked his knuckles contracting his own claws. "You're making a big mistake, kid….Messing with my friends and such,"
Kagome suddenly couldn't help but
smile. She knew that Shio wouldn't abandon them. And
that sicko Daggerclaw kept
going on about how he would sacrifice them in order to save himself. It made
her feel a little proud, "Yeah! Get 'em, Shio!"
"You can do it, Shio!" Sango called.
Shio glanced at her a bit surprised that she actually cheered for him for once.
"If you die out there, I'll kill you, fox/dog!" Inu Yasha shouted.
Shio winked at 'em all and turned his attention back to Daggerclaw. "Ready to rumble?"
"Have at me, Cure!" Daggerclaw rushed him in a fury of metal swipes. Shio was able to dodge most of them, seeing as how he was demon and even though Daggerclaw had super speed, the hunter was human. But take notice as I say he dodged most of them. A couple gashes striped his arms, legs, and bare chest.
Leaning forward, Daggerclaw felt a vengeful head pain for all of the jumping around and fighting just then.
Shio grimaced in pain. Oxygen did not feel good on open wounds. He looked at his cuts and thought to himself, 'Oh shit! I'll never find a mate at this rate.' The dog/fox demon sighed and raised a hand to his beating heart. "Oh well." He said out loud. Thin lights began to glow inside the knuckles of that hand. 'I'd better end this before that human cuts something else important.'
"You're toast slutboy," Daggerclaw announced, "Just look at you now. It's true what my clients say, 'I always get my man.'" The bounty hunter charged him again, claws raised for a speedy attack.
The lights inside Shio's knuckes became ringlets running through his knuckles between his fingers. He made his hand into a claw shape, drew back his arm and released his ultimate attack.
"Lover's Light Claw!" he cried as he swung his claw. The ringlets grew out and flew at the bounty hunter in sickle shaped flares. A high pitched ringing sound followed as the glided over the forest floor digging up a path of broken earth as they came.
Before Daggerclaw even knew what was happening the light blades struck. The bounty hunter's body shook violently with each hit, as if getting nailed by a shotgun. The magenta armor shattered into thousands of metal shards, scattering across the ground like glass. The bounty hunter hit the ground with a loud plop, laying motionless in a puddle of blood and splintered metal.
After a moment, Shio realized the cheering coming from the ladies off to the side. He smiled at them and waved with a happy little smile like this =
He even waved a little.
"You did it, Shio! You beat him!" Kagome shouted.
"Great! That punk was getting on my nerves!" Sango called excitedly.
"Good work, pal!" Inu Yasha shouted. "Though I wish you coulda saved some for me!"
"Thatza…" Shio stared, then fell forward with the smile still on his face. He lost consciousness and the forest went quiet.
Inu Yasha, Kagome and Sango looked down at him for a few moments.
"Um…."
"Yeah."
Sango looked at her companions with a sweat drop. "So….how are we going to get down from here?"
"……………………….."
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