AN: Due to a little twist in the end, I must say: I do not own the show FLCL. Now enjoy the end of this little romp!
Chapter Five
Into The Warlock's Lair…And Be It Ever So Crumbled…
The moon was high in the sky when Shippo, tired and worn, found Joey the Scarecrow, the Tin Duke, and Inu-yasha the Lion.
"Guys!" he yelled, jumping down from the rocks.
"Shippo!" they all yelled. "Where's Kagome?" Joey asked.
"She's in the Warlock's castle, and he's gonna kill her!" the kitsune said crying. "Follow me!" he said, turning back up the rocks through the mountains.
"Right!" the other three said, following close behind. It was a long, treacherous climb up the steep, rocky cliff of the Mountains of Despair. It was made worse by the fact that Tin Duke kept loosing his footing and clattering down every time they got a little higher. At last the had to have Tin Duke leave his axe behind, and hang on to Inu-yasha the Lion's tail as they climbed.
"Do you have any idea how heavy you are?" Inu-yasha yelled at Duke. "You'd better hope my strength holds out."
"Strength? I just hope your tail holds out!" Tin Duke said, looking down at the rocks below them.
"Quite clownin around!" Joey the Scarecrow said, "Pick up the pace!" They continued on until at last, they beheld the castle in all it's terror. In front of the castle's gates, many armed guards marched back and fourth, chanting in a dark and horrid language.
"Alright," the Joey scarecrow said, "Now that we're here, we need a good plan."
"You mean you don't have one?" Shippo asked shocked.
"Course not, I ain't got no brain!" Joey replied.
"What about you?" Shippo asked Duke.
"Don't look at me!" the tin man replied.
"What about you?" the fox cub asked Inu-yasha.
"There's no way we're getting in there," he said pointing below, "Look at all those guards!"
"I see them, you idiot!" Shippo shouted. And then, they were ambushed by three large guards who had snuck up behind them. They punched, kicked, and yelled as they fought. Then, Joey, Duke, and Inu-yasha popped back up wearing the guards' uniforms, with Shippo disguised as one of the fuzzy hats. The four rescuers climbed down, and snuck into the line up of guards that were marching back into the castle. As they marched inside, the draw bridge rose up and shut them in.
Meanwhile, Kagome had started crying. "Oh Mom," she whimpered, "Grampa… Sota…I wish I was home!" then, the mirror on the wall started glowing, and Kagome's family appeared.
"Kagome!" her mom yelled, "Where are you?"
"Sis!" called Sota.
"Kagome, where are you?" called her grandfather. Kagome rushed over to the mirror.
"I'm here! I'm right here," Kagome cried, looking into the mirror, " and I'm so scared! Please, Mom, Grampa! Cant you hear me?!" At that, the vision faded and vanished. "NO! Please, Mom, come back! Come back!"
1 Then, the Warlock's laugh filled the room, and his face appeared in the mirror. "Your cries are useless. Soon I'll be rid of you and have the Shikon Jewel!" He continued to laugh horridly as his face disappeared. Kagome fell to her knees, and started to sob as she wished desperately that she were home. All the while, the hour glass lost more and more sand…
When the others had finally made it inside, they discarded their disguises, and followed Shippo to the door of Kagome's prison.
"Kagome?" Joey yelled as he knocked, "Are you there?"
"Yes!" she yelled back, "Get me out, please! The hourglass is almost empty!"
"We need to chop the door open," Joey scarecrow said.
"I could have with my axe," the Tin Duke said, "If you hadn't made me leave it behind!"
"Wait, I don't believe it!" Inu-yasha the Lion said, looking at an old sword on the wall. "That Witch! She had it the whole time!" He grabbed the sword and held it triumphantly in his hands.
"Lion, this ain't the time to be looking some stupid old sword!" Joey said as he put his hands on his head.
"Are you blind? This isn't any old sword!" the animal said as he unsheathed the sword. It was huge! It looked like a fang. "This is The Sword of Courage! This'll get her out!" he yelled as he charged at the door. With one swift strike, the door split in two. Kagome ran out, and hugged them all.
"Oh thank you!" she cried, "I was so scared! I thought I was going to die for sure." All three odd companions blushed as the girl hugged them.
"We gotta get out of here before that Warlock comes back." Shippo said.
"This way!" Joey said, leading them to the doors.
"Leaving already?" the Warlock said, appearing on a balcony above them, his Mokuba Monkey by his side. "Such rude and ungrateful guests. And I still want my Jewel. Guards!" he yelled. They were surrounded by hundreds of guards, their spears pointed at them.
Just then, Kagome noticed a bucket of water hanging next to the window. As the Warlock approached, with his Millennium Rod in his outstretched arm, she grabbed the bucket and tossed it's contents at him.
"What the heck was that?!?" he demanded as he rung out his soaked cape. "What were you trying to do? Melt me?"
"Uh…Yeah," she said nervously.
"Who on earth melts when they have water thrown on them?" he shouted at her, dripping all over the floor. "I take three baths a day!"
"Certainly a clean Warlock ain't he," Joey the scarecrow muttered.
"Now I'm wet as well as angry," the Warlock said. "You will pay!!" he shouted, as his Millennium Rod lit up with fire.
"Keep that away from me!!!!" Joey the Scarecrow screamed as he ducked behind the Tin Duke. Then, he got an idea. He grabbed Inu-yasha's hands, which still held the Sword, and sliced off the Warlock's hand, Millennium Rod and all. The Warlock screamed as he covered is arm with his cape.
Kagome grabbed the Rod, and she and the others ran through a passage way as Inu-yasha swung his Sword at guards. When they had fled, the Warlock walked over to his hand, picked it up, and with a wave reattached it to his arm. He wiggled his fingers, rotated the wrist, and then commanded, "AFTER THEM!!!!!" He raced after the five intruders with half of his guards behind him. The other half went through another door.
Kagome and her friends ran out, and on through a causeway until they came to a high turret. They had begun to climb down from the turret, but they saw the Warlock's legion of guards swarming around them. They turned back the way they had come, but only to be faced with the Warlock and the rest of his guards. They walked backwards as the hundreds of frightening guards an the Warlock boxed them in. They backed up against the wall of the parapet. They were trapped.
"Now," the Warlock said as he stepped up to them. "I'll destroy you all, one by one, and leave that retched girl for last." He lifted up his hands and called forth a ball of fire.
"NO!!!!!!" Kagome shrieked as she hurled herself at the Warlock. She lunged at him, and used a combination of her miko powers, the Jewel, and the Millennium Rod to shoot a beam of purple-pink light at the Warlock. He stared wide eyed as the awesome energy enveloped him. When the light died away, he was gone, and all that remained were his empty clothes, filled with ashes.
"Did…did I do that?" Kagome asked as she caught her breath.
"You did…" said a guard that looked a whole lot like Sesshomaru said. "You actually killed him…"
"I…I…"
"Hail to Kagome!" he cried as the other guards kneeled, "You have freed us from the Warlock at long last."
"Oh, Thank you," she said, "Can we have he Millennium Rod?"
"Take it as far away as you can," said another guard who looked like Kouga.
"We never want to see that thing again!" said a third guard who looked like Tea.
As they five unlikely heroes left, they still heard the echoing cheers and laughter rang through out the Warlock's country.
"Wizard Yami," Kagome said as she and the others stood once again in the Wizard's throne room. "We have the Millennium Rod. We killed the Warlock."
"You mean you killed him." Joey the Scarecrow said, putting his arm around her. "She blew him away with the Rod,"
"And the Jewel," Inu-yasha the Lion said, taking hold of her hand.
"So you vaporized him." the Wizard Yami stated. "Very well…I will grant you what you wish…Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow!!!" they all yelled. "But you promised!" Kagome shouted. "I want to go home!"
"SILENCE!!!" the big head shouted back. "The Great and Powerful Yami has spoken!"
Meanwhile, Shippo had noticed a curtain along the far wall. "What's this for?" he asked, yanking a cord. At that, the curtain swung aside to reveal…
"Yugi!?!!?" Kagome exclaimed as they all turned and looked.
Yugi looked at them terrified, then spoke into a microphone, "Pay no attention to that kid behind the curtain!" both Yugi and the voice of Yami said at once, "The Great and Powerful….Awe forget it!" Yugi said as he slouched over.
"What the heck are you doing here?" she demanded as she stepped up to him.
"Well who did you expect to be behind the curtain?" Yugi replied.
"Whatever!" she cried, throwing up her arms. "You said you could get us home! Now do it!"
"Ok," he grabbed he by the shoulder, pulled her down, and said loudly, "Wake up!"
"Huh?" she said, confused. She turned her head back, and heard the other four behind her shout, "WAKE UP!!!!!"
Kagome gasped as she bolted up in bed. She looked around, and saw everyone of her friends gathered around her.
"Oh Kagome," her mom said, relieved, "I was so scared that you wouldn't wake up. We found you and Shippo in the well shrine. You still have quite a bump on your head," she said, putting a bag of ice on her head.
"Ow! Mom," she said.
"We were real worried about you," Shippo said as he crawled up in her lap.
"I had the freakiest dream," she said. "Yugi was a wizard, Kaiba was a warlock, everyone was just so weird! I'm glad I'm home." she said, flopping back down on her pillows.
"Well, Actually, something weird happened here too," Yugi said. "While your were passed out, those two showed up," he said, pointing to a girl with orange hair who was holding a guitar, and a boy with a blue jacket an short black hair.
"Well you didn't expect us to sit in the rain did you?" the girl asked. "I think we've met some weird people, Tocune" she said to the boy.
"I think your right, Haru," the boy replied. Just then, a red robot popped out of the kid's head, and smashed through the roof!
Kagome screamed as she woke up. She had bolted up from a dead sleep, and knocked Shippo off her lap. This in turn knocked over the cooler of drinks on the floor, and made one of the sodas burst open and spurt sticky cola all over everyone.
"Kagome, what on earth?!" Mai shouted.
"What?" Kagome said. She turned and looked out the window. It was raining, but the storm wasn't as bad as before. "You mean I've been here the whole time?" she asked.
"You fell asleep as the movie started," Shippo said, climbing back in her lap.
"Did you have a nightmare or something?" Bakura asked from his seat n the floor.
"I…I guess I did," she said. "It was all so weird. I even dreamed I woke up from a dream…" she looked around. Nothing weird here. Inu-yasha and Joey were now fighting for the last of the popcorn, Songo, Miroku, Duke, Serenity, and Kaiba were on the floor, watching the part of the movie where the girl says, 'There's no place like home' in her own room.
Kagome sighed. "Well…Be it ever so strange, there's no place like home, I guess." she said.
The End '-P
AN: I hope yall liked this. Please Review! TTFN!
Chapter Five
Into The Warlock's Lair…And Be It Ever So Crumbled…
The moon was high in the sky when Shippo, tired and worn, found Joey the Scarecrow, the Tin Duke, and Inu-yasha the Lion.
"Guys!" he yelled, jumping down from the rocks.
"Shippo!" they all yelled. "Where's Kagome?" Joey asked.
"She's in the Warlock's castle, and he's gonna kill her!" the kitsune said crying. "Follow me!" he said, turning back up the rocks through the mountains.
"Right!" the other three said, following close behind. It was a long, treacherous climb up the steep, rocky cliff of the Mountains of Despair. It was made worse by the fact that Tin Duke kept loosing his footing and clattering down every time they got a little higher. At last the had to have Tin Duke leave his axe behind, and hang on to Inu-yasha the Lion's tail as they climbed.
"Do you have any idea how heavy you are?" Inu-yasha yelled at Duke. "You'd better hope my strength holds out."
"Strength? I just hope your tail holds out!" Tin Duke said, looking down at the rocks below them.
"Quite clownin around!" Joey the Scarecrow said, "Pick up the pace!" They continued on until at last, they beheld the castle in all it's terror. In front of the castle's gates, many armed guards marched back and fourth, chanting in a dark and horrid language.
"Alright," the Joey scarecrow said, "Now that we're here, we need a good plan."
"You mean you don't have one?" Shippo asked shocked.
"Course not, I ain't got no brain!" Joey replied.
"What about you?" Shippo asked Duke.
"Don't look at me!" the tin man replied.
"What about you?" the fox cub asked Inu-yasha.
"There's no way we're getting in there," he said pointing below, "Look at all those guards!"
"I see them, you idiot!" Shippo shouted. And then, they were ambushed by three large guards who had snuck up behind them. They punched, kicked, and yelled as they fought. Then, Joey, Duke, and Inu-yasha popped back up wearing the guards' uniforms, with Shippo disguised as one of the fuzzy hats. The four rescuers climbed down, and snuck into the line up of guards that were marching back into the castle. As they marched inside, the draw bridge rose up and shut them in.
Meanwhile, Kagome had started crying. "Oh Mom," she whimpered, "Grampa… Sota…I wish I was home!" then, the mirror on the wall started glowing, and Kagome's family appeared.
"Kagome!" her mom yelled, "Where are you?"
"Sis!" called Sota.
"Kagome, where are you?" called her grandfather. Kagome rushed over to the mirror.
"I'm here! I'm right here," Kagome cried, looking into the mirror, " and I'm so scared! Please, Mom, Grampa! Cant you hear me?!" At that, the vision faded and vanished. "NO! Please, Mom, come back! Come back!"
1 Then, the Warlock's laugh filled the room, and his face appeared in the mirror. "Your cries are useless. Soon I'll be rid of you and have the Shikon Jewel!" He continued to laugh horridly as his face disappeared. Kagome fell to her knees, and started to sob as she wished desperately that she were home. All the while, the hour glass lost more and more sand…
When the others had finally made it inside, they discarded their disguises, and followed Shippo to the door of Kagome's prison.
"Kagome?" Joey yelled as he knocked, "Are you there?"
"Yes!" she yelled back, "Get me out, please! The hourglass is almost empty!"
"We need to chop the door open," Joey scarecrow said.
"I could have with my axe," the Tin Duke said, "If you hadn't made me leave it behind!"
"Wait, I don't believe it!" Inu-yasha the Lion said, looking at an old sword on the wall. "That Witch! She had it the whole time!" He grabbed the sword and held it triumphantly in his hands.
"Lion, this ain't the time to be looking some stupid old sword!" Joey said as he put his hands on his head.
"Are you blind? This isn't any old sword!" the animal said as he unsheathed the sword. It was huge! It looked like a fang. "This is The Sword of Courage! This'll get her out!" he yelled as he charged at the door. With one swift strike, the door split in two. Kagome ran out, and hugged them all.
"Oh thank you!" she cried, "I was so scared! I thought I was going to die for sure." All three odd companions blushed as the girl hugged them.
"We gotta get out of here before that Warlock comes back." Shippo said.
"This way!" Joey said, leading them to the doors.
"Leaving already?" the Warlock said, appearing on a balcony above them, his Mokuba Monkey by his side. "Such rude and ungrateful guests. And I still want my Jewel. Guards!" he yelled. They were surrounded by hundreds of guards, their spears pointed at them.
Just then, Kagome noticed a bucket of water hanging next to the window. As the Warlock approached, with his Millennium Rod in his outstretched arm, she grabbed the bucket and tossed it's contents at him.
"What the heck was that?!?" he demanded as he rung out his soaked cape. "What were you trying to do? Melt me?"
"Uh…Yeah," she said nervously.
"Who on earth melts when they have water thrown on them?" he shouted at her, dripping all over the floor. "I take three baths a day!"
"Certainly a clean Warlock ain't he," Joey the scarecrow muttered.
"Now I'm wet as well as angry," the Warlock said. "You will pay!!" he shouted, as his Millennium Rod lit up with fire.
"Keep that away from me!!!!" Joey the Scarecrow screamed as he ducked behind the Tin Duke. Then, he got an idea. He grabbed Inu-yasha's hands, which still held the Sword, and sliced off the Warlock's hand, Millennium Rod and all. The Warlock screamed as he covered is arm with his cape.
Kagome grabbed the Rod, and she and the others ran through a passage way as Inu-yasha swung his Sword at guards. When they had fled, the Warlock walked over to his hand, picked it up, and with a wave reattached it to his arm. He wiggled his fingers, rotated the wrist, and then commanded, "AFTER THEM!!!!!" He raced after the five intruders with half of his guards behind him. The other half went through another door.
Kagome and her friends ran out, and on through a causeway until they came to a high turret. They had begun to climb down from the turret, but they saw the Warlock's legion of guards swarming around them. They turned back the way they had come, but only to be faced with the Warlock and the rest of his guards. They walked backwards as the hundreds of frightening guards an the Warlock boxed them in. They backed up against the wall of the parapet. They were trapped.
"Now," the Warlock said as he stepped up to them. "I'll destroy you all, one by one, and leave that retched girl for last." He lifted up his hands and called forth a ball of fire.
"NO!!!!!!" Kagome shrieked as she hurled herself at the Warlock. She lunged at him, and used a combination of her miko powers, the Jewel, and the Millennium Rod to shoot a beam of purple-pink light at the Warlock. He stared wide eyed as the awesome energy enveloped him. When the light died away, he was gone, and all that remained were his empty clothes, filled with ashes.
"Did…did I do that?" Kagome asked as she caught her breath.
"You did…" said a guard that looked a whole lot like Sesshomaru said. "You actually killed him…"
"I…I…"
"Hail to Kagome!" he cried as the other guards kneeled, "You have freed us from the Warlock at long last."
"Oh, Thank you," she said, "Can we have he Millennium Rod?"
"Take it as far away as you can," said another guard who looked like Kouga.
"We never want to see that thing again!" said a third guard who looked like Tea.
As they five unlikely heroes left, they still heard the echoing cheers and laughter rang through out the Warlock's country.
"Wizard Yami," Kagome said as she and the others stood once again in the Wizard's throne room. "We have the Millennium Rod. We killed the Warlock."
"You mean you killed him." Joey the Scarecrow said, putting his arm around her. "She blew him away with the Rod,"
"And the Jewel," Inu-yasha the Lion said, taking hold of her hand.
"So you vaporized him." the Wizard Yami stated. "Very well…I will grant you what you wish…Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow!!!" they all yelled. "But you promised!" Kagome shouted. "I want to go home!"
"SILENCE!!!" the big head shouted back. "The Great and Powerful Yami has spoken!"
Meanwhile, Shippo had noticed a curtain along the far wall. "What's this for?" he asked, yanking a cord. At that, the curtain swung aside to reveal…
"Yugi!?!!?" Kagome exclaimed as they all turned and looked.
Yugi looked at them terrified, then spoke into a microphone, "Pay no attention to that kid behind the curtain!" both Yugi and the voice of Yami said at once, "The Great and Powerful….Awe forget it!" Yugi said as he slouched over.
"What the heck are you doing here?" she demanded as she stepped up to him.
"Well who did you expect to be behind the curtain?" Yugi replied.
"Whatever!" she cried, throwing up her arms. "You said you could get us home! Now do it!"
"Ok," he grabbed he by the shoulder, pulled her down, and said loudly, "Wake up!"
"Huh?" she said, confused. She turned her head back, and heard the other four behind her shout, "WAKE UP!!!!!"
Kagome gasped as she bolted up in bed. She looked around, and saw everyone of her friends gathered around her.
"Oh Kagome," her mom said, relieved, "I was so scared that you wouldn't wake up. We found you and Shippo in the well shrine. You still have quite a bump on your head," she said, putting a bag of ice on her head.
"Ow! Mom," she said.
"We were real worried about you," Shippo said as he crawled up in her lap.
"I had the freakiest dream," she said. "Yugi was a wizard, Kaiba was a warlock, everyone was just so weird! I'm glad I'm home." she said, flopping back down on her pillows.
"Well, Actually, something weird happened here too," Yugi said. "While your were passed out, those two showed up," he said, pointing to a girl with orange hair who was holding a guitar, and a boy with a blue jacket an short black hair.
"Well you didn't expect us to sit in the rain did you?" the girl asked. "I think we've met some weird people, Tocune" she said to the boy.
"I think your right, Haru," the boy replied. Just then, a red robot popped out of the kid's head, and smashed through the roof!
Kagome screamed as she woke up. She had bolted up from a dead sleep, and knocked Shippo off her lap. This in turn knocked over the cooler of drinks on the floor, and made one of the sodas burst open and spurt sticky cola all over everyone.
"Kagome, what on earth?!" Mai shouted.
"What?" Kagome said. She turned and looked out the window. It was raining, but the storm wasn't as bad as before. "You mean I've been here the whole time?" she asked.
"You fell asleep as the movie started," Shippo said, climbing back in her lap.
"Did you have a nightmare or something?" Bakura asked from his seat n the floor.
"I…I guess I did," she said. "It was all so weird. I even dreamed I woke up from a dream…" she looked around. Nothing weird here. Inu-yasha and Joey were now fighting for the last of the popcorn, Songo, Miroku, Duke, Serenity, and Kaiba were on the floor, watching the part of the movie where the girl says, 'There's no place like home' in her own room.
Kagome sighed. "Well…Be it ever so strange, there's no place like home, I guess." she said.
The End '-P
AN: I hope yall liked this. Please Review! TTFN!